Word: sporting
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...actions within the realm of sports ought to stay subject only to the laws of sports. Marty McSorley did not go up to Brashear in a bar and smack him over the head with an empty Bud Light bottle--he did it in the context of a violent game. More importantly, he did it in a game where both of these individuals were known as brawlers. Canada wanting to prosecute its national pastime for doing what made the sport famous in the first place is even dumber than the Canadian health care system...
...with the crown of one's head) become a criminal offense? Should professional boxer Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini get the death penalty for delivering fatal blows to opponent Duk Koo Kim in their Nov. 13, 1982 title bout? No. These events are part of what comes along with the sport. People may cheat or even flagrantly violate the rules of their sport, but they are doing so within its context. Athletic contests like football, hockey, boxing and others are ones of controlled aggression. It is only natural for this aggression to occasionally become uncontrolled...
...made the conscious decision to condone fighting at some level--much more so than any other professional league. It faces the consequences of this decision in its day-to-day operations. Hockey has a stigma like no other sport. It is the only sport that does not receive a major network broadcast of its championship games. Incidents like this do not help its reputation. But it has made the decision to allow this behavior at some level, and should deal with the consequences independently...
...yuppie respectability to scumminess. But Moth Smoke never gets cumbersome, and even at its most heavy, the narrators are a sympathetic and colorful bunch. They are all, by Pakistani standards, moneyed and elite. (Even Daru, the novel's hard-luck case, has a servant boy.) Most everyone has a sport-utility vehicle to negotiate the rotting streets of Lahore, a city without enough public works to take care of its roads. Indeed, the novel at times seems like a huge smear campaign against Range Rovers and Pajeros--the characters who drive them are spoiled, corrupt, evil, stoned, sometimes...
...hockey, just like any other sport, is composed of one part skill, one part effort, and one part luck. Harvard definitely has its fair share of the first two components, but is sorely lacking in the last...