The morning of July 31st I was feeling at loose ends because it was one of the first days of the summer that I did not have to get up for swim practice at 6 AM. No more practices, no more Saturday morning meets, and no more chlorine soaked towels. Normally this is a good feeling. I get to sleep a little later each morning, but this year was different. I was feeling ambivalent. Other years I have known that the routine would begin all over again in the spring, but no longer. This was my last year, next year I would be too old to swim in the League.
When I came downstairs my parents handed me a copy of that days Style Section of the Washington Post. There was an article in the Kid's Post that morning, a "Sports Round-Up," brief paragraphs about various sporting events around the world that week and the author's feelings about them. One of those paragraphs was about the World Swimming Championships being held in Spain. As a swim family we had been following the World Championships pretty closely. We knew how remarkable the accomplishments of the swimmers had been. As a swimmer I could only dream, but never achieve, that level of expertise. However, the author certainly did not think very much of those.
accomplishments. His comment was that you could walk those distances faster than the world record setting swimmer's butterfly time, what kind of comment was that? He seemed to think it a waste of time and column inches even to write about swimming.
How rude! I have been swimming for the past nine years and I know the pressures put on swimmers at my level, the intensity of those pressures in the World Championships are immeasurably greater. And I know the feeling of disappointment when athletes can not prove to others that what they are doing is good enough, or even worthwhile. In the four years I swam on my high school team our principal never came to a meet, but he never missed a football game.
Billy's father was three-quarters Lakota and died when Billy was twelve and left him orphaned. ... He once said, "I was a mixed blood and an orphan. ... The Marine Corps and sports were the only places I felt like I belonged, like I had a home ." ...
For this report I have researched the Stock Market Crash of 1929, the economics, employment,, entertainment, sports and leadership. ... Shows included sports, news, drama, and comedy. ... Little Orphan Annie, the popular musical and movie, took place during the Great Depression. ... Sports became more popular during the depression. ... Professional sports also gained a lot of popularity during the Depression. ...
Jane vs. the Men in Her Life Imagine being a poor orphan girl in a society where men dominate everything. ... He says to the entire school, "You must be on your guard against her shun her example avoid her company, exclude her from your sports shut her out from your converse."" (66). ... Jane Eyre proved to each male, through her actions or speech, that she is more than just a poor, orphaned child. ...
The novel Jasper Jones written by Craig Silvey and published in 2009, was set in a country town of Western Australia in the summer of 1965. The setting was influenced by novels that Silvey had read as a youth. This is why many features of the novel have similarities to novels such as TKAMB and TAOH...
Milton S. Hershey Milton Snavely Hershey was born on September 13, 1857 in Derry Township, Pennsylvania. Raised as a Mennonite, he attended school only through the forth grade. His father was a schemer and a dreamer, but never followed through on his own ideas to make them a success. In contrast,...
The former three-time heavyweight champion plans to be in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky for the presentation of the first-ever Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Awards on October, 3rd 2013 The award winners were not immediately identified but include people who have fought for gender equity in Afghanistan, started a school for orphaned children in Uganda and has provided shoes for the homeless in the U.S., the Muhammad Ali Center said Tuesday. ... He is one of the most recognized sports figures of the past 100 years, crowned "Sportsman of the Century" by Sports Illustrated and "Sports Personal...
Arrain once said, "for I myself believe that there was at that time no race of mankind, no city, no single individual, to which the name of Alexander had not reached." Alexander III contributed greatly to our history. In an amazing eleven-year journey of conquest, young Alexander of Macedonia conque...
Athletes grace the sports pages and evening news with their accomplishments in the game and sometimes their charity off field. ... Ruth's love for baseball, generosity, and dramatic rise from humble beginnings endeared him to fans, and he is one of the greatest sports heroes of American culture. ... And even at the height of fame and fortune, Ruth never forgot his beginnings as a purposely-orphaned child or his friends at Saint Mary's Industrial School for Boys. ...
