Word: sporting
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Collectors, hunters and sport shooters are used to dealing with restrictions and complying with regulations. A waiting period for assault rifles and handguns is only reasonable. No convicted felon should be allowed to own a gun for any reason. But all of these arguments are already old tunes and well on their way to being enacted in legislation...
...sporting event is better suited to this intense national sympathy with the disadvantaged and unfavored than the NCAA tournament. In no other sport's championship does one find such a clear system of ranks. In each game there is always an underdog--the five-seed is supposed to be better than the four-seed. And because several of the 64 spots in the tournament are filled by the winners of small and athletically unendowed conferences (the Ivy League, for instance), the presence of uncompetitive teams against which all odds are stacked is guaranteed. All of which makes the NCAA tournament...
...very much the same team, a bit more mature perhaps, and Shaq is healthy, but the big difference is that the Lakers are winning. Under Jackson, the Lakers sport the glossiest record in the NBA (51-11), and O'Neal is having an MVP season. "We've had a good first half," says the massive 315-lb., 7-ft. 1-in. O'Neal, who is averaging almost 30 points a game. "Now we have to maintain." Adds Jackson: "To be quite frank, I didn't think they'd be this far along...
...bank stocks now trade below the panic levels reached during the Asia crisis in 1998. Many sport price-to-earnings ratios below 7, a low mark not widely seen in the bank sector since tough times in 1990. Simply put: Bank stocks are discounting a severe recession when it's not clear that...
...wrestling is a business; it's an art; it's a pain. "The more you hurt each other," says veteran Terry Funk, "the more money you make." Funk is one of the stars of this straightforward documentary about a multibillion-dollar, sado-spectacular "sport." Blaustein, co-writer of Eddie Murphy's Coming to America and The Nutty Professor, puts no comic spin on his love of wrestling, but he does get his beefy athlete-artistes to reveal themselves as dedicated, complicated, twisted souls--like any other actors. They know that their punishment is our pleasure...