Word: coliseums
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...sweet sound heard around football since. To complete the N.F.L.'s funk, there is even another pro league, a spring league, mustering on the horizon. What does a football fan have to look forward to? On Aug. 29 the Los Angeles Raiders might debut in the Los Angeles Coliseum. On Sept. 12 the 1982 season might begin. On Aug. 30 Mike Strachan, the Saints Most Valuable Player of 1975, will stand trial on a cocaine-trafficking charge. The number of other New Orleans players called to court may amount to a procession, led by George Rogers, the top rusher...
...people need is something to take their minds off the Depression. Charles C. Flanagan, a flamboyant character composed of equal parts of FT. Barnum, Texas Guinan and unadulterated chutzpah, conceives of a marathon to end all marathons, a 3,000-mile foot race that begins in the Los Angeles Coliseum and ends, months later, in New York's Central Park. To make it interesting, he offers $300,000 in prize money...
There I was standing in this funny time zone outside the Dane County Memorial Coliseum all excited about the Harvard-Wisconsin series that's about to begin, and the other guys are already on their way to Providence...
Once inside the Coliseum, I was surrounded by a bunch of red-cloaked clones, complete with red cowboy hats decorated with red Badger buttons. They filled up the Coliseum seats to form one big red bowl around the rink...
Through the first 10 minutes of the second period, the two goaltenders traded pretty saves. A Pat Ethier blast from the point did get past Lau but clanged off the right post much to the chagrin of the Coliseum crowd...