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...single “Leaving New York” paints a sepulchral image with a sweeping chorus that uses Stipe’s vocals to the fullest. It, alongside the oppressively peppy “Electron Blue,” which comes off somewhere between Radiohead and a Celtic James Taylor, makes up the album’s creative peak. But their striving for innovation leads them astray on “The Outsiders,” a bizarre didactic tale featuring some weird, tangentially connected rap performed by Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest...
Europe's most famous soccer teams are having a busy summer wooing fans in that perennial soccer wasteland, the U.S. Scottish champion Glasgow Celtic, English powerhouses Manchester United and Chelsea, and Italian champ AC Milan are among nine teams on tour, playing in such cities as Seattle, Cleveland and Philadelphia, often to packed stadiums...
...afford the star players who ensure winning results year after year. Man U was the first to launch a U.S. strategy, teaming with the New York Yankees in a joint marketing deal. It even issues an American Man U Master Card. Another team reaching into the U.S. is Celtic, long the home club of Ireland's diaspora. "We've got a million fans in North America," says David McNally, the club's sales director. This summer fans can see the Hoops in action and send their kids to Celtic soccer camps. But Celtic has its eye on an even bigger...
Europe's most famous soccer teams are having a busy summer wooing fans in that longtime soccer wasteland, the United States. Scottish champion Glasgow Celtic, English powerhouses Manchester United and Chelsea, and Italian champ AC Milan are among nine teams on tour, playing in such cities as Seattle, Cleveland and Philadelphia, often to packed stadiums. For the players, it's a chance for a preseason tune-up in the perfect environment - away from their rabid fans. "The facilities are second to none," says Chelsea Football Club CEO Peter Kenyon. But more important, the big clubs...
...While the fans of Rangers and Celtic will continue to treat the Glasgow derby match as a sectarian fetish for clashes ranging from the Battle of the Boyne to Belfast's Falls Road "troubles", those concerns are increasingly remote for the men who don the blue shirts of Rangers and Celtic's green-and-white hoops. What could it possibly mean to Rangers' Georgian striker Shota Arveladze when those cheering his team on against Celtic are singing "We're up to our knees in Fenian blood!" ? And what passions does an IRA anthem stir in the heart of Celtic...