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...grown ever more romantic. During the era of the Franco dictatorship, Barça was the lone place where the Catalans could shout in their own language and denounce the authoritarian regime. No government would dare challenge 100,000 men in the throes of fandom. Franco understood that the Catalan people needed a place to vent their frustration, and Barça provided just that. No soccer team is going to be a perfect reflection of your politics - and it may even be perverse to think of the game that way. But Barça represents a liberal nationalist spirit...
...more famously, perhaps, you’re familiar with junior Jarred Brown, the paragon of Harvard fandom for the past three years. Since his freshman year, the men’s hockey enthusiast has been a fixture at Bright and other venues, noticeably attending games while sporting a shirt with...
While Laurie's meanspirited, scraggly, stray-cat appeal has its charms, some of that female fandom can be chalked up to House's coveted time slot last season behind TV's No. 1 show American Idol, a luxury the House cast and crew won't enjoy this year. If they wanted to overlook that fact, their lead actor reminds them of it constantly. "Hugh is uncomfortable with everything," says Leonard. "He'll dismiss the Emmys, the ratings...
...Nationals? I had forsworn baseball fandom when Bill Buckner let the ball roll through his legs and the Red Sox blew Game 6. When my son did his mandatory second-grade family essay, he called his one-pager "My Dad and Baseball" and wrote, "But after the 1986 World Series he decided he'd had enough...
...gave it up. Not baseball. Fandom. I watched Baseball Tonight, read the sports section, of course. But no rooting. Didn't care about anybody. Fandom never made sense to me in the first place. The whole idea is absurd. It's one thing to admire sport and watch it for its beauty and elegance. That makes sense. But to care and cheer and stomp for other grown men to win? That's bizarre. These brutes throw chairs at fans. They take steroids and pretend it mysteriously got into their cereal. They curse and spit and scratch their groins and then...