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...fourth largest U.S. city in 1900 today doesn't make the top 50, ranking somewhere between Wichita, Kans., and Bakersfield, Calif. No city in American history has slid so far - nor with such dignity. But just as St. Louis thought it had touched bottom (the city posted a tiny population gain in 2006, the first in half a century, up to 353,537), along comes another blow...
...arrive on campus—in between awkward theatrical performances about contraception and date-rape, and ultimately futile, furtive searches for beer—they begin to feign an interest in baseball just as the local team wraps up its season. No matter if they are from Baltimore or Bakersfield, Bucharest or Beirut, many Harvard students—for a month at least in early autumn—are rabid Red Sox fans...
...Harvard will start off its five-game weekend Friday taking on Oregon (9-7) and San Diego State (11-4). Saturday brings back-to-back clashes against host San Diego (3-7) followed by Fresno State (10-3). The Crimson wraps up the weekend on Sunday evening against CSU Bakersfield (6-6).Harvard is the only East Coast team in the tournament and the only one that will be starting its season this weekend. The other four teams have been playing in tournaments every weekend since Feb. 8 and are likely to be in mid-season form...
...Country Music Hall of Fame producer Ken Nelson, the orchestral, slickly produced Nashville sound of the '50s needed an update. As the understated, hands-off country guru at Capitol Records for 20 years, the California-based Nelson defined the raw, twangy style that became known as the Bakersfield sound, first with the 1952 Hank Thompson hit The Wild Side of Life and later by discovering Merle Haggard (above, at left) and Buck Owens...
...hayseed variety show Hee Haw; in Los Angeles. Although 16 years in Hee Haw's Kornfield Kounty made Owens appear part of the Nashville establishment, his music career was spent in defiance of what he considered country music's slick, string-heavy arrangements. As a popularizer of the Bakersfield sound, named for the California town that was a destination for Dust Bowl refugees like himself, Owens used honky-tonk vocals and rock-'n'-roll guitars to add edge to his songs. His 1988 duet with Dwight Yoakam, Streets of Bakersfield, was his last...