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...raft before. There's some uncertain laughter about our fitness levels. We decide to calm our nerves with egg-and-bacon rolls at the last shop on our five-hour drive west through hop fields and farming towns. By the time we push our rafts cautiously into the Collingwood River a few hours later, any fantasy of an easy ride is long gone. A lurid sign warning of the risks of rafting had confronted us as the bus pulled off the Lyell Highway, and our outfits have added to the feeling of uneasy excitement. We clip bright life jackets over...
...with the Melbourne Cricket Club, which manages the game's grandest stage. It's a Friday morning and Josh is bent over in the middle of the Melbourne Cricket Ground, using a paint-dipped broom to embellish one of the 50-m arcs for tomorrow night's Brisbane vs. Collingwood game. The stands are empty, the wind is numbing and this is painstaking work - not normally the boy's forte. But Josh is content. This place thrills him. Bruce Church has nearly 60 years on Josh, but his feelings for the ground are much the same. Eighteen months ago, adhering...
...crowd will be for upcoming matches," Walshe says. But he offers more than just a number. He makes projections about patrons' likely arrival times and whether they'll have pre-purchased tickets. Take Richmond, for example, one of the M.C.G.'s four tenant clubs (the others are Hawthorn, Collingwood and Melbourne): they don't have a huge membership, Walshe explains, but when the Tigers start winning their fans turn up in droves to queue for tickets...
Atlantic dropped Fountains of Wayne in 2000, and the band had to figure out whether it still wanted to exist. Collingwood spent a year tending his garden, while Schlesinger turned to a lucrative career producing albums and writing songs for movies and television. (Schlesinger got an Oscar nomination for the song That Thing You Do. He also writes occasional sketch music for Saturday Night Live.) Eventually the band regrouped and signed with tiny SCurve records. They wrote more great, weird songs for their third album, Welcome Interstate Managers, including All Kinds of Time, about a high school quarterback...
...Collingwood is still worried about that decision. On the band's recent tour, opening for Matchbox Twenty, he says, "the hard-core fans were there, but there's a large contingent that just wants the single, or holds up the sign that says, I'M STACY'S MOM." He sighs. "I hope it doesn't haunt us." Schlesinger couldn't be happier. With the momentum from Stacy's Mom, the band has persuaded its label to do a video for its second single, Mexican Wine, in Brazil. There will be several yachts in the video and a helicopter too. "Actually...