Word: sporting
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...just what is too far in the context of hockey - a sport in which many fans feel cheated when they pay to see a game and no fights break out? The case represents only the fourth time charges have been brought against an NHL player for an on-ice incident. Only one, the most recent, resulted in a conviction - Minnesota's Dino Ciccarelli had to spend a night in jail in 1988 for sticking a player. McSorley, who will stand trail April 4, faces up to 18 months in jail if convicted, in addition to the record 23-game...
...sport utility vehicle involved in a two car accident struck an undergraduate on the sidewalk outside Quincy House Friday night at about...
...sport speaks as a metaphor for the American idyll. Professor of History William E. Gienapp teaches a course on the subject and surely has more to say about it than me, but it seems to me the American story in miniature. Mixing the dust of the base-paths with the grass of the outfield might just conjure up some sort of urban farm, where instead of rotten apples hit with a stick we have formalized it to a cork-and-rubber ball and perfectly-honed bats...
...course, baseball is not perfect. The sport has been tarnished by money worries of men who play a game for a living and those who make money on these men's talents. It has languished without the voice of an independent commissioner; it still lacks representative numbers of minorities in management positions. I do not deny that these issues mar the game as we know...
Whether served as raw sushi, grilled steak or in thin smoked slices, most of the salmon you eat these days is not the sleek sport fish that has been a favorite of anglers since Izaak Walton but rather a chunky, sluggish creature raised in captivity. Indeed, salmon caught in the wild accounts for less than half of all salmon sold...