Word: badminton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Braden has never met a sport he didn't like. He runs a ski college in Aspen, and has made volleyball and badminton instructional videotapes. Using high-speed cameras and computers, he has analyzed and critiqued the techniques of such star athletes as baseball's Reggie Jackson, pro-football quarterback Steve Grogan and Olympic stars Al Oerter (discus throw) and Edwin Moses (hurdles). In tennis, his coaching helped launch the careers of Tracy Austin, Eliot Teltscher and Jim Pugh (a mixed-doubles winner at Wimbledon this year...
They took. That summer he captured his first tournament, and he went on to win the Michigan high school tennis championship. He also excelled in other sports. He was quarterback on the Monroe High football team, captain of the basketball team and city badminton champion to boot...
...world I had never known. I knew my mother would hate this smoke-filled cafe, with dim lighting. None of the people there looked like they had grown up in a fifties-style neighborhood, with a back yard and little leagues and barbeques. None of them had ever played badminton...
Players would be paid like minor leaguers in other sports like baseball and hockey without having to go to class. Their seats would be filled by students more deserving of a college education, and classes like "History of Carbonated Beverages" and "Topics in Badminton" would disappear from college curriculums...
...letter yesterday from a Harvard sports fanatic. Unlike most sports loonies--who like anything from baseball to badminton--my correspondent only relishes Crimson hockey. Men's and women's ice hockey and women's field hockey. Nothing else...