Word: coliseums
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...last year to the Haas family, proprietors of Levi Strauss & Co., for $12.7 million. It looked like a rotten investment. But the A's, who drew a paltry total of 306,763 for 81 home games in 1979, happily watched 149,873 fans pack Oakland-Alameda Coliseum for the first six dates of the 1981 season...
...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...
...their quarterfinal series, four games to three. The Flames will meet the North Stars at Minnesota on Tuesday in the first game of their semi-final series. The New York Islanders and the New York Rangers will meet in the other semifinal, opening Tuesday at the Nassau Coliseum...
...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...