Word: coliseums
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...Davis is bringing the Raiders home. The move comes only a few months after the Los Angeles Rams left for St. Louis, and leaves the country's second largest city without a pro football team. Davis, who had been unhappy with the decrepit condition of the Los Angeles Coliseum, become more concerned after the structure was damaged in the 1993 earthquake. In stepped Davis' former landlord, the Oakland Coliseum, with a $85 million stadium modernization to sweeten the pot. Fans can only hope that a return to the Bay Area may help to revive the flagging team's once fearsome...
Quite simply, Rome wasn't built in a day, Harvard Stadium's architectural resemblance to a Roman coliseum notwithstanding...
...humanistic principles and complex philosophy of American justice to blood sport. Television does its part, contributing instant replay, analysis and gladiatorial theme music. The print media join in, all of them reduced to tabloids in their feeding frenzy. This trial should be taking place in the Los Angeles Coliseum, where the resemblance to a Roman circus would be unmistakable and the masses could seal O.J.'s fate with a simple thumbs-up or thumbs-down...
...Monday, during the third quarter of the Portland Trailblazer's 120-82 thrashing of the Houston Rockets, Rockets guard Vernon Maxwell charged up a dozen rows into the Portland Memorial Coliseum crowd and cold-cocked a 35-year-old fan, Atlanta home products salesman Steve George...
...there is an unquantifiable loss. The pastoral joys of baseball, joys that no other sport can match, have dissipated. That final prestrike game at Oakland Coliseum last Thursday night can serve as a parable. A balmy summer night, small children with oversize mitts dreaming of foul balls, peanuts, Cracker Jack and the familiar Take Me Out to the Ball Game played during the seventh-inning stretch. But then it came time for the refrain "It's one! two! three strikes, you're out!" A chorus of boos rose from the stands...