handballer
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It’s a lifestyle that has evolved from dreams of a post-Navy career as a professional handballer and features side gigs that range from putting ads on magnets to installing a roof on a farmhouse.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 16, 2017
The next stop, not much farther east, was a KFC in the town of Selfoss, home to the team handballer Þórir Ólafsson and the grave of Bobby Fischer.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 9, 2015
“But in the winter,” said Raymond Soriano, 32, a devoted handballer, “the best players all run into each other here, so they have to play each other.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2010
The modern forms of handball come from Ireland where a Tipperary handballer named William Baggs really showed the possibilities of the garrite 80 years ago by developing spins, curves and drop-shots.
From Time Magazine Archive
"It's water polo without the water, or soccer but you use your hands," says handballer Thomas Fitzgerald.
From Time Magazine Archive
A team of native handballers would have been overmatched against the Europeans, and Qatar didn’t have time to try to develop its own world-class players.
From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2015
On Saturday our women handballers made their 2012 debut against Montenegro.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 28, 2012
Sweat | Cold Weather, Hot Handball At Guz Indoor Sports Club in Ridgewood, Queens, the best handballers in the city meet when weather cools.
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2010
Kendler bristles at the imputation that his game is a lowbrow cousin of squash, can point to such distinguished handballers as Literary Critic Lionel Trilling and television's Art Linkletter.
From Time Magazine Archive
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