Word: sporting
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...combat. Of course, when Rob lost a bout at the U.S. Fencing Association's national championships, she would have been upset if he hadn't calmly taken off his mask and shaken his partner's hand. After all, Rob has been trained in the etiquette of the ancient sport since he started fencing...
...ended there, the incident might only be notable for its absurdity: adult men fighting over a kids' version of a thuggish sport. But when Costin, 40, emerged from the locker room, Junta was there. The men started brawling. At six foot one and 275 pounds, Junta overwhelmed Costin, 100 pounds lighter, and allegedly beat him into a coma. Two days later, Costin - a part-time carpenter and single father of four - was dead...
Silicon Valley, meanwhile, was loving it all. Larry watching is a big-time sport in Northern California. And Ellison's latest escapade incorporated all the traits that make him so compulsively watchable: ruthless competitiveness ("It's not enough that we win; all others must lose," he has said, paraphrasing Genghis Khan); love of the spotlight (a biography of him by Mike Wilson is titled The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison: God Doesn't Think He's Larry Ellison); a preternatural obsession with Microsoft and Gates; and a management style that sometimes has an inmates-running-the-asylum feel. "This...
...this cynical age of corruption in sports and politics, it renews one's hope to have someone like basketball's Shaquille O'Neal for youngsters to emulate [SPORT, June 19]. As you noted, Shaq has dipped into some serious treatises. What a wonderful world it would be if a kid should say, "When I grow up, I want to be just like Shaq," and then proceed to pester his parents to buy a copy of Aristotle's classic work Nichomachean Ethics. FRANK DOOLEY Whitesboro...
...stir, they're barely draping the likes of Tyra Banks. But the latest poolside controversy centers on a garment that can cover a swimmer from neck to ankle. The suits, made by Speedo, Nike, Adidas and Tyr, are believed to improve speed. That didn't stop USA Swimming, the sport's national governing body, from banning them last week from the U.S. Olympic trials in August. It was concerned that the 1,200 or so competitors did not have equal access to the suits...