Word: coliseum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Giants, Dodgers and Yankees battled for the Straus Cup of New York baseball have two teams from the largest media market clashed over anything meaningful. Except for the New York Rangers and New York Islanders, that is, who open their third playoff confrontation in seven years at the Nassau Coliseum tomorrow night...
...drama on-field has been tame compared with Davis' off-field actions. He tried to shift his franchise last spring to the more commodious Los Angeles Coliseum, but N.F.L. owners refused to ap prove the move. Angry at being spurned after ten straight years of sell-out crowds, Oakland and then the N.F.L. sued in state court to make the Raiders stay and play by the bay. The Los Angeles Coliseum Commission and the Raiders then sued the N.F.L. in federal court for the right to take flight in the night...
...Puerto Ricans did not want to relinquish their 28-year-old commonwealth status. To guard against election fraud, he issued a "call to the trenches" for his followers. They became so stirred as initial results came in on election night that a large crowd marched on the Roberto Clemente Coliseum, where the ballots were counted. They threw rocks at police and at cars displaying the N.P.P.'s palm tree emblems and burned an effigy of Romero. Riot squads were needed to restore order...
...defeated Dartmouth, 2-1, yesterday. The Crimson is just itching to get another crack at the Tigers, who knocked them off in a monsoon, 4-1, last Saturday in New Jersey. The tournament finals are this afternoon. THE NOTEBOOK: The band Foghat, which appeared at the New Haven Coliseum last night, checked into the hotel right before the team... Wendy Sonnabend and Janet Judge sustained minor injuries but should be fine for today's games... Deja-Vu Department: Harvard gained the fifth seed in the Eastern Regional tournament and will meet Brown, seeded fourth, in Providence on Wednesday. The teams...
...Clash steered clear of the Festival, unlike the Who, whose appearance the year before sold out a Roman coliseum. Perhaps the philosophy embedded in Rude Boy kept the Clash at an ideological distance from Cannes' party-hopping...