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...Band. It's been like that at every stop on Allen's 14-city, 23-day European tour, which ends in London on March 18. In Madrid he needed a police escort to get in from the airport amid what El Mundo called Woodymania. In Barcelona more than 300 autograph seekers mobbed him at the stage entrance. "Woody's having a ball," says his banjo player and musical guru, Eddie Davis. "He's kind of stunned by the reaction. They're treating him like Elvis...
NASCAR's expansion has been fueled in part by shrewd salesmanship. The league markets itself as a slice of the American heartland, with "fan-friendly" drivers who keep up a hectic schedule of autograph signings and charity events. And NASCAR has flooded the market with races. "A lot of it is quantity," says Joyce Julius Cotman, a sports-marketing analyst based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. "They have the Winston Cup Series, the Busch Series, the SuperTruck Series--every weekend, there's some kind of NASCAR event going...
...Dole decided that he would rather be to the right than be president. He backed off from his lifetime of positions on affirmative action, rejected a donation from gay Republicans and signed the same nefarious New Hampshire anti-tax pledge that he had forthrightly and courageously refused to autograph eight years ago. Now, knowing that the 2004 campaign is something of a longshot for him, Bob Dole is seeing his last chance for the job he knows he deserves slip away. At this point, he'll be anyone to be president...
...crowded news conference on Thursday, Phillips said, "I don't think people will ever look at me the same." And Nebraska center Aaron Graham defended his teammate, saying, "It cost the guy a million bucks [in future endorsements] ... it cost him the kids coming up and asking for his autograph...
...COMMISSIONER, A THOUGHTFUL, decent man, has a lot to worry about, what with the Balkanization of his league, Dallas owner Jerry Jones' cutting his own marketing deals, a salary-cap system that pleases nobody and one of his referees' asking a star quarterback for his autograph before a game. An early-season prediction by Minnesota Vikings owner Roger Headrick seems to have come true. Responding to Jones' ambush marketing scheme, Headrick said, "You've got chaos; you've got bedlam; you've got...baseball." But there is one aspect of baseball that Tagliabue would love to have: its antitrust exemption...