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Meanwhile, Kathy Jager, 56, from Phoenix, Ariz., who won two gold medals this week at the World Veterans Athletics championships in England, was publicly vindicated after rival competitors accused her of being a man.
Columbine evidently overflowed with this sort of school spirit, most of which revolves around student athletics.
But the contemporary meaning of athletics was reiterated on every Bob Hope TV special, when he trotted out a herd of college football stars to boost the war in Vietnam.
The Kansas City Athletics, for example, were essentially a farm team for the Yankees during the 1950s and early 1960s, and not coincidentally the Yankees won pennant after pennant.
It's easy to overstate the new athletics as a force for social change, but don't count on surfers opposing the president's ludicrous, Reagan-revival anti-missile plan.