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The apparent good tidings, however, mask a host of troubles as the fall season gets under way. Fox has thrown a fresh scare into the other networks, stealing several major-market affiliates as well as CBS's Sunday-afternoon pro-football franchise. The number of alternatives, on both cable and...
Ballplayers are star performers in a $1.8 billion entertainment industry. When movie stars get $10 million to $15 million per picture, Barry Bonds' $7 million a year doesn't seem unreasonable, especially for a player who last year helped save the San Francisco franchise, which had been headed for Florida...
The Arab as Exotic Lover. Immortalized as The Sheik (1921), Rudolph Valentino once owned the franchise on faux Semitic Romeos. The nobly savage Italian actor and a host of imitators swept a generation of European love interests into their arms -- the ladies' honor often preserved by eleventh- hour plot devices...
James is right that the Hall of Fame, like the Miss America Pageant or the Mount Rushmore sculptures, was essentially a Chamber of Commerce inspiration to lure tourists. But when the Hall opened in 1939, it became a secular shrine, the Lourdes of baseball. It still is. The place evokes...
It's got to be a conspiracy. As millions held their collective breath, the New York Rangers finally broke the curse and ended 54 years of suffering. At long last, they claimed the Stanley Cup earlier this month. Simultaneously, their counterparts at the Madison Square Garden, the New York Knicks...