Word: sports
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Originally an equestrian, Robinson is a newcomer to the sport of fencing. Already, however, she is beginning to show enough promise to draw rave reviews from her coach...
...shift in the rankings sets up an interesting match-up this Saturday, when Northeastern travels to St. Lawrence. Both teams are flying high after upsetting Harvard and UNH, which have won the sport's first two national championships...
Whew! Any incoming? Taking on Lynch and Buffett at their own game is perilous sport. They're the nearest thing to omniscience Wall Street has to offer. But I've been thinking a lot about both men's no-tech dogma since last spring. That's when Buffett told thousands at Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting cum Buffettfest that he won't buy tech stocks because he doesn't know how to value them, and Lynch glibly confessed to thousands more at a fund-industry conference that he doesn't know how to turn on a computer. Lynch's point...
SELF-A-THON Raising money is a competitive sport. The following people have demonstrated industry and ingenuity to increase the coffers of a needy cause: themselves...
...unwieldy as boxing. Critics say that the gaggle of international sanctioning bodies (IBF, WBC, WBO, WBA) that have arisen in the past few decades have created an environment where fighters and promoters can bribe their way up the rankings ladders and accountability has disappeared. While some believe that the sport's powers have become too big and decentralized to regulate, prosecutors hope they can prove another old boxing adage: The bigger they...