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Beyond bobbleheads: sports-related patents have yielded the creative detritus of our athletics-crazed age
So, you're sitting on the couch--brew in one hand and pretzels in the other; Dallas versus Washington is on the tube. Stephen Davis scores a...
Insight on the News, 07/01/02 by Patrick Hruby · More from publication -
Dissing online is De Rigueur: almost anyone with an athletic ax to grind can do it on the World Wide Web
As a long-suffering Cincinnati Bengals fan, Dave Young holds certain truths to be self-evident. Among them: The 1990s were a wash, the immediate...
Insight on the News, 05/20/02 by Patrick Hruby · More from publication -
Requiem for Hockey's goons: the sport has evolved, and fist-first Neanderthals are a relic of a distant Ice Age
Once the happy hunting ground of brawlers such as Dave Semenko, the National Hockey League (NHL) is morphing into a kinder, gentler place. The...
Insight on the News, 05/13/02 by Patrick Hruby · More from publication -
An Olympic price tag: Salt Lake City's tab for the 2002 Winter Games will reach nearly $2 billion
Mitt Romney, president of the Salt Lake Olympic Committee (SLOC), made reducing the size and cost of the Games a priority during his tenure. Of...
Insight on the News, 03/04/02 by Patrick Hruby · More from publication -
Third Time Is the Charm?
Michael Jordan thinks otherwise, but sports comebacks often lead to dead ends. Nevertheless, great athletes almost always consider themselves the...
Insight on the News, 10/29/01 by Patrick Hruby · More from publication -
Decades of Bad Hair Daze
Sports hairdos are often don'ts. Athletes, like rock stars, express their larger-than-life personas by adopting outrageous hairstyles ranging from...
Insight on the News, 09/24/01 by Patrick Hruby · More from publication -
Coming Out
Once hesitant to court gay fans, the WNBA now openly welcomes lesbians courtside. Once hesitant to court gay fans, the WNBA now openly welcomes...
Insight on the News, 08/20/01 by Patrick Hruby · More from publication -
Fast track.(B)(Sports)
Byline: Patrick Hruby MASON, OHIO - When it comes to the whip-like art of serving a tennis ball, Andy Roddick moves at three speeds: fast,...
Washington Times, The, 08/13/01 by Hruby, Patrick · More from publication -
Endangered Species
In the world of professional sports, animal nicknames are going the way of the dodo. In the world of professional sports, animal nicknames are...
Insight on the News, 07/30/01 by Patrick Hruby · More from publication -
Leave `Em Smilin'
In sports, parting is such sweet nonsense. An athletic divorce just isn't complete without a slew of strained superlatives and a tiresome round of...
Insight on the News, 07/02/01 by Patrick Hruby · More from publication
