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...opposing supporters are known to intimidate team owners into giving them preferential treatment. While some politicians initially spoke of shutting down the league, a more honest, though distasteful assessment was given by the soccer league president: "We are pained, but the show must go on," said lega president Antonio Matarrese. "Soccer must never shut down. Deaths in the soccer system unfortunately are part of this enormous [hooligan] movement...
...Austin's upscale grocery store, Central Market, beams out recordings of predatory bird screeches. But the city of San Antonio is considering going one step further, hiring California-based Ronin Air Falconry Services, to send African Augur hawks and Faker falcons into the skies over the city's popular Riverwalk area. The plan is that the predator birds will scare the grackle flocks away from the tourists, allowing them to focus on margaritas, not Mother Nature...
...player on almost any other team, LT showers constant praise on his teammates, and the endless accolades he receives cause him consternation. When the best player in football suppresses his ego, how can anyone else call attention to himself? "It's learned behavior," says Chargers tight end Antonio Gates...
...region where "government is the economy," Hernandez said, Bonilla had been able to parlay his seat on the appropriations committee into a sizable campaign war chest and a powerful platform. The district stretches from El Paso east to San Antonio and south to the Mexican border, embracing several cities with large military bases and poor, rural counties where federal programs are vital. But once the power shifted away from Republicans in the House, in Hernandez's view, independent voters pragmatically voted for Rodriguez...
...focus was back on us Democrats, and for two or three weeks we were the top of the news every day." Republicans, meanwhile, may have been demoralized and failed to show up at the polls. Rodriguez defeated Bonilla more than two to one in early voting in San Antonio, evidence that the vaunted Republican get-out-the-vote effort fell short, Masset said. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee pumped "about a million dollars into the race," according to Hernandez. Labor unions and grassroots volunteers also worked the campaign...