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...reach and continuing relevance of network TV. For a brief, blissful week - at least in the words of the marketing executives - it will be 1973 again, when the broadcast networks delivered vast hordes of obedient consumers to advertisers, and cable was just something you found coiled up on the deck of a boat...
Phil South relaxes on the deck as twilight descends on the French Riviera. The 22-year-old technician from Chelmsford, England, and his girlfriend, Gillian Fell, 26, are aboard easyCruiseOne, a no-frills, budget liner on its maiden voyage from Nice, the start of a tour of the French and Italian coasts that stretches between St. Tropez and Portofino. "There's no way we could have gone on a cruise [before easyCruise]," says South. "This has opened barriers for people like us." Great; just as long as nobody expects luxury at low prices. Forget deck quoits, pink gins and white...
...million, the Angels are soaring. Soon after buying the team, which was a surprise winner of the 2002 World Series but finished under .500 the next year, Moreno did the unthinkable for a sports owner: he lowered the cost of family-ticket packages and upper-deck seating, cut the price of premium draft beer from $8.50 to $6.75 and increased payroll to field a competitive team. The Angels have the 22nd lowest (out of 30) average-ticket price in baseball and the fourth highest payroll. Result: the team won a division title last season and drew a record 3.4 million...
...definitely hit me that it was my last game ever in the last inning, at my last at-bat,” she said. “I was on deck with a runner on third, and I just thought to myself how much I would like to cap it all off with a hit and an RBI, and it happened...
...Princeton visited O’Donnell Field on the April 10 weekend, the only music to be heard was the rumble of controversy. It seems that Matt Vance, the team’s freshman centerfielder and leader in stolen bases (with 12), danced an Irish jig in the on-deck circle to the violin theme from “Boondock Saints,” which serenaded Drew Casey, the batter at the time. Harvard’s coaching staff didn’t take kindly to the gesture...