Word: deluca
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...dominant promoter, secured over $200 million in pay-per-view revenues, up from some $40 million in 2005. Still, scoring a prime-time network audience will expose the sport to a whole new universe of potential fans, and scrutiny. "This is hugely important for the sport," says Doug DeLuca, chairman of ProElite Inc., the company that is staging the CBS bouts. "MMA has done a great job reaching a hard-core, niche audience. Now, it's time to take it to the next level. All eyes will...
...Well maybe not all eyes. Saturday night prime-time TV, after all, has for years been a relative dead zone full of reruns, so DeLuca shouldn't expect knockout ratings, at least not right away. But there's no doubt that Kimbo Slice will draw a crowd. Once a promising Miami high school football player, Kimbo, now 34, flunked out of college and for a time lived in his car. He worked odd jobs - strip-club bouncer, porn company bodyguard - until he started street fighting about seven years ago for money in Miami backyards. "It kept me away from dealing...
...pretty big deal,” she said. One student said that St. Patrick’s Day one among several holidays that has lost its original meaning to celebrations of heritage. Referring to how some Italian-Americans observe Columbus Day as a celebration of their ethnicity, Raffael P. Deluca ’08 said, “It’s probably the only response like this you’ll get at Harvard, but I’m Italian, so I’m pretending it’s Columbus...
...Raffael P. Deluca '08 likened the scene to a "riot." "There were groups of people getting out of hand," Deluca said...
...draws. The Crimson won only five of 12 draws in the first half, but won 10 of 13 in the second and the extra possessions paid off. Brown refused to give up, as Biros notched her fourth goal of the game and fifth of the season. Midfielder Krystina DeLuca scored as well to tie the game at ten. Free position shots meant everything to Harvard in the final minutes. Schoen scored her fifth of the game off a free position shot, before the Bears’ DeTolla tied the game for the last time. Finally, Simmons drew a foul with...