Word: boying
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...swimming future. How could this have been? His life since he'd been six had centered around a pool. Oleg, who worked as a coffee-shop manager in the U.S.S.R., had enrolled Lenny in a class at the Army Sports Club in Odessa, just something to do until the boy was a year older, ready for soccer. That was the start. The coaches spotted a talent for the backstroke and nurtured it. When he was put into a special school for swimmers at age nine, he practiced for 51*2 hours every day. There were 25- and 50-meter pools...
...sportsmen such as local tennis brat Lleyton Hewitt. Thorpe's impact on Australian youth has been compared with the Tiger Woods phenomenon in golf. "He's become a similar figure of hope, an ultimate role model," argues 1988 Olympic 200-m champion Duncan Armstrong. Thorpe has been a cover boy on magazines ranging from the frivolous to the prestigious, and many Australians feel they know a lot about him--from his shoe size (17) to his taste in music (grunge) to the girls he gets mushy about (Britney Spears, Aussie pop star Kylie Minogue...
...rumor whispered over a cubicle divider. The Velvet Rope, a music-industry insiders' site, traffics in scuttlebutt about which acts reputedly lip-synch. And as with off-line gossip, sex talk is encouraged. Vault.com recently had a series of postings about a purported call-girl and call-boy ring at a large New York City investment firm that features celebrity look-alikes, including a ringer for the late John F. Kennedy...
Dancing has its risks. We're not talking about shin splints and cuboid-bone displacements. We're talking about something really serious: public humiliation. Earlier this year, when R.-and-B. star Sisqo was on tour with the boy band 'N Sync, he would regularly attend after-parties in area clubs. Invariably, a local hotshot would slide up to him for a dance-floor face-off. "I would pretty much get challenged every night," says Sisqo, who is known for the impishly kinetic footwork in his videos. "Someone would go in the middle and start spinning on their head...
Most Cubans adore Felix--one reason that Fidel Castro tapped him to carry the Cuban flag at Sydney. Savon, from the rural town of San Vicente, is regarded by Cubans as a ninote (big boy), a gentle giant with a fierce family loyalty and a punishing work ethic. Savon's address is kept secret to thwart money-waving promoters like Don King. On flights, at hotels and around Havana, though, they find him. Yet he echoes Stevenson (and many Americans, for that matter) when he calls pro boxing "dirty and exploitive." "He is a real asset to Cuba," says Vice...