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...swiping one another's ball clubs. Just this spring the Cincinnati Reds have moved from Tampa to Plant City, the New York Mets from St. Petersburg to Port St. Lucie and the Kansas City Royals from Fort Myers to an amusement park in Haines City once known as Circus World and now identified as Boardwalk & Baseball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Place for Bright Starts | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

...next year's Final Four featured the Motown sound of the Hrkae circus of North Dakota. I remember the Hobey Baker Award winner controlling the play as precisely as Magic Johnson runs a Laker fast break...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: Ice is Nice | 3/11/1988 | See Source »

...thru" cocaine marts, the scene of violent competition. Crack dealers, some as young as 13, are making up to $2,000 a day. Between sales, they smoke "fry daddies" (crack-laced cigarettes), drink "swamp juice" (gin and fruit punch) and then lash out at the buses. "It's a circus atmosphere out on those street corners," says Police Sergeant Roger Liljedahl. "They're getting high on this incredible stimulant and feeding off each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Savage Ride: Buses in a crack zone | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

...Barnum and Mr. Bailey could hardly provide a better circus than Lynah Rink...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: In the ECAC, Rinks to Rile You Up | 3/1/1988 | See Source »

...glorious Sarajevo Games, when Debbie Armstrong and Christin Cooper won their gold and silver in the giant slalom, Phil and Steve Mahre a gold and a silver in slalom, and Bill Johnson, to expert eyes more scamster than skier, pulled his lovely downhill win. Now in the small traveling circus of ski racing it was being said that young skiers in the U.S. were too regimented, ran too many drills and never learned to free-ski, then were packed off to ski academies where obscure bad things were done to them. Ski resorts in the U.S., unlike those in Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Downhill Skiing: Three, Two, One . . . Airborne! | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

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