Word: sporting
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Though McGwire's fears are understandable, surely baseball can grow into an international sport without losing its historical place in American culture. Already baseball is played across the Caribbean and South America and in parts of Asia; even a few European countries, including Italy and Germany, have fledgling leagues. Growth is good for the game; the talent pool today is getting deeper, and more people across the world are following the major leagues that ever before. And through it all, there's no evidence that the sport's "American-ness" has suffered. America has invented a great game, a national...
...globalization of baseball is a blessing, not a threat, to America's national pastime. Players from dozens of nations will take the field today in major league cities across America, and the sport is better...
...diminutive--today he is only 5 ft. 9 in.--a small, diligent boy who compensated for his size by learning martial arts. He quickly mastered sambo, a Russian style of self-defense, and later switched to judo, which he practices at black-belt status. "It's not just a sport, you know," he told interviewers in the official biography that appeared in Russia last week. "It's a philosophy. It's respect for your elders, for your opponent; there are no weak ones there." And something else: "You must hit first and hit so hard that your opponent will...
...baseball is back, why did it sue ESPN for bumping late-September Sunday-night games--pennant-race baseball, the most exciting there is--in favor of early season NFL games? It says something about a sport that it has to use the courts to force TV to show...
...Saturn Dealers: Sales had plummeted over the past few years as customers fell for sport-utility vehicles. But dealers now report increased interest in the fleet's fuel efficiency...