Word: sporting
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...sport provokes as much hackneyed philosophy as baseball. Today is Opening Day in North America, and as we celebrate the return of the National Pastime from its four-month hibernation, the game's romantics are busy again, telling us how the sport is a parable for life in too many ways to count. Baseball is also supposed to be something uniquely American, right up there with apple pie in the pantheon of the national iconography. Stadiums will be draped with patriotic red, white and blue bunting today; state leaders and mayors will throw out the first pitch; country music stars...
Last week the Dow's blue chips soared, the tech-heavy NASDAQ followed its 5000-point close with a three-day fizzle, and the S&P 500 rose nearly 70 points. Market watching can be a harrowing sport, so we asked designers John Ryan ('96 Olympics' Izzy), Cookie Gluck (Chicago Bulls' Benny), Wong Doody (Seattle Sonics logo) and Street Characters (Arizona Cardinals' Big Red) to give the indexes their own mascots...
RETURNED. SEAN ELLIOTT, 32, two-time NBA All-Star and the first pro athlete competing in a major sport with a kidney transplant; to the court, seven months after the operation; in San Antonio, Texas...
...field, the unbelievable became real. Playing against him, you knew the game wasn't over until the clock showed all zeroes, because there he was on the other sideline, waiting. People may say Dan never won a Super Bowl, but they're forgetting that football is the ultimate team sport. And Dan was a great team player. I'm going to miss the excitement of seeing No. 13 on the field...
...College basketball players run about 6'3, which of course is way too small in a sport dominated by mini-Goliaths. They make up for this by having "mad ups", which means they can jump really high. But don't expect to hear Billy Packer of CBS Sports using this slang on TV: he's busy telling his female co-workers to "go find a WNBA game...