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...group of 20 riders broke away from the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association and formed their own tour (rodeo also includes events like steer wrestling). Today it's a $46 million business, and revenue has grown 150% over the past five years. From 2003 to '05, the tour's adult fan base soared 48%, to 18 million, far outpacing the growth of nascar or any other major sport, according to Scarborough Research. Sponsorship revenue has nearly tripled since 2000, to $22.5 million. Advertisers like Yamaha seem to be betting that bull riding will hit the big time. They like the demographics...
...work keep closer ties elsewhere than they do in Washington. Hill aides can vote in their home states - as anyone who's seen out-of-state license plates around town knows, many even keep their cars registered elsewhere, to avoid D.C.'s high car taxes and insurance rates. Fan clubs from just about city in the country gather on fall weekends at bars around town to root for their football teams, ignoring the local favorites. Career operatives who clear out every two years to work on campaigns just register to vote wherever they wind up living in November - the better...
...average sports fan, tennis doesn’t really land on their radar. Even ESPN.com has the sport tucked away in the “Other” section of its homepage.Last Thursday night, with the NFL season kicking off and division races in the Major Leagues intensifying, this reality was no different.But it should have been, especially here in Cambridge.One of our own, James Blake, was competing at the highest level of this unknown but beautiful game.Blake faced off against the No. 1 tennis player in the world, the incomparable Roger Federer, at the most significant stage in American...
...stays in Leverett dining hall until 1 or 2 a.m. the night before problem sets are due to answer questions. He boosts attendance at these “physics nights” by making the problem sets impossible to complete alone. Georgi is, after all, a fan of challenges. He has been known to sign study cards permitting students to take everything from Physics 15b to Physics 210, “General Relativity” without their having taken the prerequisites. (Nota bene: this is an awful idea. Rather than figure that out for yourself three months into the term...
...decadence through de-cadence”?) to cheesy flicks (try analyzing “Kung-Fu Hustle” in a classroom).There’s something for everyone: sentimentalists can wallow in the perennially doe-eyed expressions of actresses whose roles were so depressing they committed suicide; action fans can get a hai(-ya!) from Jet Li’s fighting antics; and brooding emo-types will enjoy plenty of angst-ridden stories in the ridiculously long two-volume coursepack.Don’t worry if the only thing you know (and ever care to know) about Chinese culture...