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...Dan-ni-er! Dan-ni-er!" the dealers shout, rushing toward McClintock and his 1.83-meter, green-eyed blonde wife, Alisha, holding up satchels of compact discs and videos and fake Cartier timepieces as high as their arms can stretch and barely reaching the big man's kidneys. "CD! DVD!" they...
...half-hour later Dan and Alisha and their new DVDs are compressed into a Volkswagen Santana taxi, bound for the condo that the Sharks have leased for them in a complex of rococo pink high-rises that look like the Leaning Tower of Pisa dipped in grenadine syrup. "You!" Dan commands, using Mandarin for "turn right." Then, after passing through the gates, he says, "Ting!" which means "halt." The driver lets them out in front of a fountain topped by a plaster nymph with breasts the size of cantaloupes...
...expected pure Third World," her husband says with a shrug, but Alisha needn't have troubled. In Shanghai there are a dozen Western-style supermarkets?and a Starbucks on nearly every corner, plus Tony Roma's and T.G.I. Friday's and Hard Rock Cafe. On this day, however, Dan walks to a sidewalk noodle stand on Diligent Study Road. This is his training meal: a 40? bowl of steaming pasta in broth, topped with slivers of beef. Chinese street food is more likely to repeat than the Los Angeles Lakers, but it suits the big man, as does the comfort...
Only co-captain backstroker Dan Shevchik captured the top spot in multiple individual events. Shevchik took first in the 100-yard backstroke by 1.26 seconds and swam away with the 200-yard event, touching the wall 7.36 seconds ahead of the pack and leading a Harvard sweep of the top three positions...
...ticket contest. Now that's inflation... Eight of the top 15 rated television shows of all-time are Super Bowls, as are all of the top 20 sporting events. Super Bowl XVI between the 49ers and Bengals drew a 49.1 rating, the highest ever for a live event... Dan Reeves holds the record for most Super Bowl appearances, nine, as a player and coach... Matt Millen is the only player to win championship rings with three different teams ? the Raiders in XV, the 49ers in XXIV and the Redskins in XXVI... No active U.S. President ever saw the Super Bowl...