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...game before half-time, and Liverpool, Milan's opponents, were out of sorts. But the second half was a different story. The English team fought their way back into the game, and Liverpool eventually snatched Europe's top club competition in a dramatic penalty shoot-out. For Liverpool fans, celebrating their club's first European Cup for 21 years, the game was one for the ages. Reliving the spectacle at 35,000 feet, Hicks was entitled to think that he had even more invested in it. Hours earlier, the owner of the Dallas Stars ice hockey team and baseball...
...have in common? If you answered that they all involve highly competitive athletes, well, you’d be right, but then you’d be missing the whole point. However, if you answered Jenny Brine and Nicole Finelli, respectively, feel free to fill out your Harvard Sports Fan Club membership.It’s rare in this highly specialized era of collegiate sports to find athletes who would be motivated enough to take up more than one sport. It’s especially difficult to find athletes who cannot only compete at such a high level...
...Being a fan helps with the tricky business of winning over fanboys of established franchises, who tend to be a protective bunch. When Chris Weitz was tapped to direct this fall's His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass, an adaptation of the first book in Philip Pullman's fantasy series, starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig, the About a Boy director made the mistake of going online and reading a poll of fan reaction. "I had just barely beaten 'nobody' as the person who would be the best director for the series," says Weitz, who eventually invited some fans onto...
There are two kinds of Tolkien fan: the day-trippers, who have read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings and let it go at that, and the hard core--the mighty Uruk-hai of Tolkien fans--who have delved into The Silmarillion and grok the deep history of Middle-earth. The latter group will snap up The Children of Húrin, a "new" tale of Middle-earth cobbled together by Christopher Tolkien out of manuscripts left behind by his dad J.R.R. But there's a lot there for the weekend warrior...
...never achieves the towering operatic grandeur of the trilogy. But it's still a huge pleasure to be back in Middle-earth and see it in a younger, wilder era. There's plenty of lore for scholars, and plenty of dwarves and balrogs and mighty smiting for the casual fan. Just one warning: it's a dark tale with a flawed hero, full of ruinous accidents and bitter betrayals. You'll have to wait till the Third Age for a happy ending...