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...hour and a half before the tip-off last Wednesday, the doors of the Charlotte Coliseum swung open, and America came pouring in. Families, senior citizens, teenage girls and boys--still damp from the rains that had pelted the Carolinas--entered the arena popularly known as the Hive and began buzzing around the souvenir stands and the floor on which the players practiced. Charlotte was about to play New York, and the excitement was as palpable as it would be before any game between the Hornets and the Knicks...
Some of the plot lines are also creative. In Los Angeles, Snake is captured by the brutal South American revolutionary Cuervo Jones (George Corraface), who puts his prisoners to a deadly test. He brings them to the (ruins of the) Los Angeles Coliseum and has them play an unusual game of basketball, in which they 24 seconds to run the full length of the court and score a point. If they miss a shot before scoring six points, the thousands of cheering armed citizens fire away. If they fail to shoot before 24 seconds have expired, the thousands of cheering...
Still, in Olympic City you can get a chill from something other than a giant Coke bottle. In the Coliseum Tent there is an exhibit of "priceless artifacts" from the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland. Whether it be Baron Pierre de Coubertin's saber or Jesse Owens' track shoe or a medal from the first Games in Athens, the artifacts can do a better job of transporting you to the Olympics than, say, the mountain-biking simulation. The museum pieces are not only keepsakes of the Games' history, but also reminders that this city has been handed a glorious legacy...
With 12:06 left in the first half, Ham grabbed a rebound and dunked to tie it 16-16. His weight collapsed the rim and shattered the backboard glass, which cascaded on him and down to the floor of the Richmond Coliseum...
...club suite, call it what you will--is such a primary temptation that both National Football League franchises in the Los Angeles area, the Raiders and the Rams, are leaving the second-largest TV market. Raiders' owner Al Davis, who abandoned Oakland, California, in 1982 after the Los Angeles Coliseum promised sky boxes but never delivered them, will be returning to the Bay Area now that the Oakland Coliseum is increasing its luxury-suite total from 58 to 175. With the Raiders getting 100% of the revenue from the sale of those suites, which fetch between...