The summer sports jacket he wore, a grubby beige with swollen pockets, also looked too big for him, and hung loosely on his shoulders.
On its own merits, the sport has the speed, strength, intensity and sex appeal to drive solid TV ratings, especially against soft competition during the summer sports calendar that really only features baseball.
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Though streaming this year on ESPN3, I would not be surprised in the least to see ESPN, Fox, or Comcast-NBC add the Reebok CrossFit Games as part of their primary summer sports inventory by the 2012 Games.
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Five athletes - all in summer sports - have competed in the Paralympics and Olympics - South African swimmer Natalie du Toit, American runner Marla Runyan, Polish table tennis player Natalia Partyka, Italian archer Paola Fantato and New Zealand archer Neroli Fairhall.
Next summer, sports enthusiasts from all over the world will flock to London for the 2012 Olympic Games.
Take swimming, that most telegenic and Golden of all summer Olympic sports.
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In the midst of the doggiest days of the waning summer, sports fans bore witness to one of the wildest and wackiest sports days in recent memory yesterday.
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The PA previously named a street, a dormitory, a summer camp and a sports tournament after her.
Still, the death of British Olympic champion Andrew "Bart" Simpson during a training session on San Francisco Bay gives fresh urgency as they chase the oldest trophy in international sports this summer.
For example, kids who play videogames for a few weeks each summer before shifting to competitive sports when the school year starts can run into trouble.
Now 16, Jake attends a regular high school, has many friends, plays on the school football team and was voted team captain at sports camp last summer, she said.
Now, a growing chorus of middle-class parents say they're bringing that sensibility to family life, cutting back on all the music lessons, sports practices and summer camps and trying to enjoy life more by doing less.
According to the study, which my colleague Susan Adams wrote up for FORBES, the careers of 840 American and British medal winners from seven different sports at the summer games (rowing, swimming, sailing, basketball, boxing, gymnastics, and track and field) were analyzed.
This is not like the Summer Olympics - these are unpredictable sports.
Now it is up to wrestling's international federation to persuade the IOC to add the sport to the 2020 Summer Games instead of the other seven sports.
In an earlier SportsMoney piece this summer regarding the most and least efficient sports franchises of the last five years, only the NY Mets and Seattle Mariners were worse than the Giants in terms of cost efficiency in MLB.
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They found a solution: The studio asked Mr. McKay to spend his summer re-shooting those scenes with international sports stars, and it went after soccer stars David Beckham of England and Cristiano Ronaldo of Portugal.
Twenty-six sports will be played in London this summer, with medals awarded in three hundred and two events.
This summer has seen its share of labor disputes in the sports world.
One of the best Australian sports books that I have read is The Summer Game by the peerless Gideon Haigh.
Chemmy Alcott is one of the London torchbearers for the Summer Olympics in 2012 and has started working as a sports commentator and adventurer in between training for her comeback at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
The year in sports will be dominated by China and the Beijing Summer Olympics, which take place in August.
After its mid-summer reveal, JVC's entry into the booming action sports camera market is now shipping and we got to spend some time with the questionably-named GC-XA1 ADIXXION at the company's CEDIA booth.
It'll likely be ready in time for BT's own sports channel, although YouView mentioned a loosely-defined summer launch.
The case has brought increased scrutiny to the X Games, the combination of quirky, hair-raising events that were once pushed to the distant margins of televised sports but have in recent years been added to both Summer and Winter Olympic slates.
In the summer of 2010 it acquired TheBigLead.com, a general-interest sports blog with a particular focus on media.
The ultraconservative kingdom fielded its first female athletes at the London Olympics last summer, and discussions under way could lead to women's private sports clubs being allowed to formally register with the Ministry of Sport.
Sports lawyer and fellow Forbes contributor, Darren Heitner, opined this summer that the NFL could see tobacco-like damages if retired players successfully sue the NFL for past negligence.
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The two behemoths in the sports apparel and footwear category, Nike and Adidas, competed this summer in the London Olympics to see whose athletes would take the gold.
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