UMass fencing team scores big

[Craig]

UMass fencing team scores big

By MARGOT CLEARY, Staff Writer

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Thursday, April 3, 2003 -- "It's considered a bit of an unusual sport."

Michael Eskin says this - incredibly - with a straight face.

In the background, pairs of his fellow students at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst are lunging, noisily, around a large practice room at Totman Gym. They are dressed entirely in white, with barely a hint of skin showing. A few sport silver tops that make them look like baked potatoes wrapped in foil, as one of them will later joke. They are wearing slightly creepy-looking wire-mesh masks that obscure their faces. And they are wielding weapons - 35-inch swords.

The sport, of course, is fencing.

More: http://www.gazettenet.com/04032003/sports/4820.htm

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I love reading anything to do with fencing. But, her article was a little weak, the thing about how fencers look is starting to get old, there's no discussion about the action of the bout. Hey! I like the endrocrine article next to it, it's sort of like me a little. Right next to a sports article, there's the 'cafeteria lady' with important information about amino acids - I understand why the field of nutrition has never gained in popularity.