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...distinctive green sweater jacket and long black trenchcoat, Stepak was more than willing to talk. First, he wanted to set the record straight. There is a major fork in the ideologies of the Au Bon Pain (ABP) chess masters—there are those who play chess as a sport, and those who see chess as something far more. Stepak asserts that, unlike the former “chess hustlers,” he himself was a “chess professional...
These guys all became family. And as different as they were from each other, their love for this sport in a world where their football is the other football, united them. After years of scoffing at my Harvard roommate’s stories of the bond he shared with his high school teammates, I had to eat my words in Scotland. I was out with my football boyz every day and night, and my American roommates got annoyed when I announced that I was “chilling with my football buddies” or when...
...resort supplies the board, and apart from a good pair of sunglasses, nothing is required except strong nerves: you can get up to 60 km/h over the fine, undisturbed sand. The sport itself is easy to master, although you'll be finding grains of sand in your pockets (and even up your nose) for days afterward. And you can leave your parka and long johns at home...
...country's performance at these Olympics; we came home with only one medal. I hope we Indians learned something from it. That most of the celebrities involved in the Olympic-torch relay in New Delhi were not athletes is proof enough of the Indian government's attitude toward sports. There is very little promotion of any sport in India other than cricket, which does not help us win Olympic medals. Just participating in the Games is all that counts for many of us, including the Indian Sports Ministry. But as tennis great Martina Navratilova once remarked, "Whoever said...
...Water polo is a really demanding sport physically as well as mentally, so I think we just need to continue to work on making the right decisions and executing when we are tired,” said junior goaltender Robbie Burmeister...