Word: athleticism
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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It was a year of impossible dreams fulfilled and operatic passions played out, of fantastic athletic achievement stunning for what it was and stunning for what it meant. When Ben Hogan won three of golf's four major tournaments in 1953, some said it would never be done again. Had...
Not since African American Jesse Owens ran upside Hitler at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin has a footrace been freighted with so much extra-athletic significance. Modern Australia is in debate over the nation's poor-to-horrid treatment of the island's original settlers, the Aborigines. Now here was...
No names have as yet surfaced as potential candidates. However, talk in the athletic office is that the person will most likely come from within the Harvard athletic community--all previous directors have been College alums. Without a doubt, sources say, Cleary will have a strong hand in choosing his...
At Nike, workers are paid as little as 16 cents an hour, the protesters said in signs they held as they stood outside the athletic store's doors.
The athletic glories of the year were all but buried by news from beyond the bleachers. Performance-enhancing drugs tarred the Sydney Olympics; free-agent baseball player Alex Rodriguez became the poster boy for greed when he reportedly demanded private jets and personal flacks in negotiations with the New York...