Word: sporting
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...fabulous (ahem) sport if you like that sort of thing, but American baseball fans must surely admit that apart from a few stray Japanese and Cuban teams, baseball is something of a bust in export terms. So to drape the grandiose "World" in front of the word "Series" is a bit of a cheat. Up there with Ross Perot's pathetic use of the term "world-class" (whatever that meant) and the patronizing term "world music" - which loosely translated means anything not in English...
...eluded most Americans. But you are a young nation, and I'm sure that as you continue to master the simple art of slugging an oversize ball as far as you can; eventually you will hunger for the more sophisticated skills and erudite nuances of a Gentleman's sport. A game that blends the cerebral with the athletic. A fusion of brain with the brawn you have already mastered...
...decathlon, the triathlon and the mathlon, not to mention the pommel horse, the high horse, the gift horse and the pole vault with horse? By the time I got to the 50,000-m, trans-Sydney long jump, I was wiped. The Games take their toll on an old sport...
...sport. Jay Gatsby used to call everyone an old sport, including the son-of-a-bitch Tom Buchanan, who did not like it. Fitzgerald borrowed the term from a bootlegger friend, Max Gerlach, who shot himself in 1939. Who could blame him? It's terrible to be an old sport, a creaky, achy, fatty over-the-hill athlete--even when one was a fair athlete at best--and to watch those long-muscled, wrinkle-free kids on TV, and to be borne back ceaselessly into the past...
...appeal for me. I thought about throwing myself off the roof of the Harris County courthouse in despair over the direction of postmillennial American culture. But there are social considerations, peculiar to Texas, that make it difficult for an outsider to pass judgment here. Gold digging is a popular sport in Houston, says Ray Hill, a radio talk-show host. "There's a great tradition of marrying women off to rich...