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Legendary skateboard champ Tony Hawk helped turn a California street sport into a global phenomenon. Now 36, Hawk is also a successful businessman, having built an action-sports empire that encompasses best-selling video games, DVDS, equipment, apparel and an arena tour called Boom Boom HuckJam. Hawk spoke with TIME's Jeffrey Ressner from the Cayman Islands, where he performed at the opening of Black Pearl, the world's largest concrete skate park...
Despite a rise in the quality of league play, Ivy League presidents refuse to allow their schools to partake in playoffs of any sort—the only varsity sport for which they maintain this stance. The sacrifices required, they wrongly claim, would detract from their student-athletes’ studies, and the pressure to hold even with scholarship schools would force the further lowering of admissions requirements for football players, which no one is quite prepared to accept...
Pioneered by shortstop Rabbit “Three-Finger” Waddell in the late 1800s, “walk-up music” first took root in the ancient sport of baseball. But without the technological capacity of today’s state-of-the-art venues, Waddell was forced to hum the latest ditties as he “walked up” to the batter?...
...Well, then, this must be monomania of a certain sort. Chess is a particularly enclosed, self-referential activity. It's not just that it lacks the fresh air of sport, but that it lacks connections to the real world outside--a tether to reality enjoyed by the monomaniacal students of other things, say, volcanic ash or the mating habits of the tsetse fly. As Stefan Zweig put it in his classic novella The Royal Game, chess is "thought that leads nowhere, mathematics that add up to nothing, art without an end product, architecture without substance...
...carefully cultivated image as a wonk, Greenspan has been heard to say that he is a prop in the long-running political theater that is Washington. But he is also clearly an actor--one of Washington's shrewdest power brokers. He plays politics just as he plays his favorite sport, tennis, in which he is known on occasion to switch his racquet from his right hand to his left in the middle of a point to avoid using his weaker backhand. So it was that during the 1990s the onetime adviser to Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan...