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...need them read aloud?) were barely audible. But when Cedarbaum asked for a plea, Stewart's response--"Not. Guilty."--rang out like a bell, with the first t enunciated in the clipped diction familiar to anyone who has ever followed her instructions to plunge blanched green beans into a bowl of "ice water...
...hasn't taken off until this spring when NBC--having lost big bucks on overpriced major sports--turned over a prime weekend slot to the AFL. The network has broadcast 56 AFL games over the past four months and will showcase the semifinals and the championship, Arena Bowl XVII, for most of June. And both the AFL and NBC are turning a profit on the deal...
...epitome of dramatic irony in sports this year fell on Miami freshman Glenn Sharpe—the cornerback whistled for pass interference on fourth down in the first overtime of Ohio State’s victory in the Fiesta Bowl. It’s one of those great moments of human frailty that sportswriters like me love to exploit...
Eight years ago, how many people thought that tapes of old games like the 1979 Rose Bowl or the 1968 World Series could have much value? Brian Bedol did. As a developer of Nickelodeon's all-rerun Nick at Nite sitcom programming in the early 1980s, he had proved, as he puts it, that "once you take something out of the attic, polish it and put it on display, it becomes an antique." So in 1995 Bedol created the Classic Sports Network and showed that the allure of sports TV is more powerful than most people imagined. ESPN bought Classic...
...years later, Adoor has evolved from fiery-eyed New Wave revolutionary to wise old cineast. When I first meet him at his home outside Trivandrum, he's wearing a traditional white dhoti, blue plaid shirt and square glasses that make his black eyes look like marbles in a bowl. He has cocoa-colored skin and wavy white hair that seems to uncoil as the humid Kerala day wears on. The architecture that surrounds him is classically Keralite: the roof is low-slung and pyramidal, and the tiles are red terra-cotta. Egyptian hieroglyphics hang near a miniature print...