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With the win, Ottawa (21-13-5) extended its unbeaten streak to eight games (6-0-2) and moved eight games above .500 for the first time in franchise history.
JOHN TRAVOLTA last week finalized plans to bring Scientology founder L. RON HUBBARD's sci-fi novel Battlefield Earth to the big screen. Travolta's longtime manager-producer JONATHAN KRANE says the new deal calls for small indie Franchise Pictures, run by L.A. club owner and actress Tia Carrere's...
10. Congress to make moving a sports franchise punishable by anything the spurned fans can come up with short of death. Any kind of beating, whipping, electrical stimulation, or painful and possibly humiliating medical procedure (we are talking about old men in most cases) would be fair game.
The result, as we now know, was wonderful new bargaining power. The new revenues went into promoting the game and grabbing an ever greater slice of the entertainment business. "When the networks put up as much money as they did for the rights, they felt they had to promote the...
He understood, somewhat ironically, that the key to attracting fans was fierce competition on the field, and that the key to fierce competition was every team's having roughly the same amount of money to spend on players. To that end Rozelle persuaded NFL owners--two dozen raving megalomaniacs--to...