Word: bowles
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...this activity is in preparation for World Cup USA94, which begins in Chicago on Friday. Forget the Super Bowl, World Series and Olympic Games. The World Cup is the most eagerly anticipated event on the sporting calendar for most people on earth. Held every four years, the tournament decides the world championship of football -- the kind of football actually played with the feet. Like America's Dream Team in Olympic basketball, the teams are made up of a country's best players. Some may play professionally in a league on a foreign continent, but they play for their national teams...
...major cities routinely carry classified ads for top tickets, many of them placed by illegal operators. New York is investigating allegations of collusion between brokers and box-office employees as part of a wide-ranging probe of ticket-selling practices. Georgia, trying to prevent a replay of the Super Bowl scalping last January that drove ticket prices from $175 to as much as $1,200 apiece, has passed a new law making it illegal to scalp tickets for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Even such a law, however, does not mean that fans will have access...
...Cocky, But . . . : More than a year before the final, the Germans, ever self-assured, booked themselves a 300-room hotel in Los Angeles to be near the Rose Bowl, the site of the championship game...
Still, come midnight I'll most likely be sitting in one of those cheesy booths--the ones with duct tape patching tears in the red vinyl--and the sad thing is, I probably won't even be having a scorpion bowl...
Congress, of course, realizes that the public is enraged that the likes of the American Widget Association has a lot better chance of getting heard than the unorganized masses who buy widgets but are unable to produce a pair of Super Bowl tickets. And so last week the Senate voted 95-4 for tough gift restrictions -- no more trips to luxury resorts, no more gifts worth more than $20. During the debate, members couched their feelings about the pending deprivation in high-minded terms. However, Bennett Johnston of Louisiana couldn't help whining that he wouldn't even be able...