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Last summer I made an opposite pilgrimage, to the "Tell It Goodbye" celebration at 3COM (ne Candlestick) Park in San Francisco. The folks who brought sushi to the ballpark spent a year praising the faults of their park. They spoke lovingly of the winds that could turn a pop fly into a home run and a homer into a grounder, the need for wool blankets in the stands, the same sort of all-purpose sins of design that stain ballparks in San Diego, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh and beyond...
...Mail regresses to old tech, can e-commerce really be that easy? With Case onboard, and TIME's Person of the Year issue to dangle before guests, I pursued a Noah's Ark theory of who else to invite: two members of Congress, two teachers, two candlestick makers. I warned everyone they would be TIME's guinea pigs. But when you're having Alan Greenspan to dinner, you realize the repercussions of a dyspeptic entree. Who wants to serve the meal that ends the longest economic expansion in peacetime history...
Traditionally, stadium names range from the banal (Memorial Stadium) to the picturesque (Candlestick Park) to the fall-down-weeping-in-the-face-of-true-nomenclatural-greatness (the Polo Grounds). What stadium names haven't been is brand names. But that's changed. San Diego's Jack Murphy Stadium has become Qualcomm Stadium, which is either a communications company or a powerful nighttime cold medicine, depending on whom you ask. The Hoosier Dome in Indianapolis is now the RCA Dome, which no doubt annoyed the city's pilfered Baltimore Colts, who had already changed their letterhead once and would probably prefer...
...must have been the cook in the billiards room with the candlestick...
...Elway Against Favre (CNNSI) -- Pro football's postseason tournament is down to two after Green Bay dominated the Niners in a 23-10 win in the Candlestick ? er, 3Com ? mud. The Broncos outlasted the Steelers...