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Here's a warning sign for House managers that the show has gone on too long: When an impeachment hawk like Pat Robertson tells you to get off the stage. Robertson told the audience of his "700 Club" TV show that President Clinton "hit a home run" with the State of the Union Speech -- and that as far as he was concerned, Republicans should take their gavel and go home. As conversions go, it was as if the Pope had suddenly begun reciting the Koran at mass. And it provided even more cover to the growing list of Republicans...
...wonderful and glorious it was, we seem to have glossed over the fact that on that beautiful Thursday morning we sent the same man on the same trip he made 36 years ago. It is as if we had a great big back-slapping national jamboree at Kitty Hawk in 1939 to watch the Wright brothers skim the sand in a new biplane...
...high school, scoring a luxurious home in San Diego and becoming no-worries wealthy through the sport he loves. He has appeared in commercials for Mountain Dew, Gap, AT&T, Gatorade and milk, taking his place beside the white-mustached Pete Sampras and Cal Ripken Jr. But Tony Hawk isn't a tennis or baseball player. He's a professional skateboarder who spends his time in swimming pools. Empty swimming pools. Preferably lefthanded, kidney-shaped pools with lips of grindable concrete coping, perfect for landing nollie backside 180s, pulling fakie 540 kick-flip indies or even busting his phat...
...understand that skateboard speak, then you're probably outside the 12-to-34 age demographic that advertisers and programmers covet--and that alternative-sports stars like Hawk can deliver. He's one of a new band of athletes who are helping drive the fast-growing world of nontraditional sports to an ever increasing share of the TV-ad dollar. Emerging sports such as surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding, mountain biking, rock climbing, NASCAR racing and even bass fishing are gaining increasing TV exposure, providing greater choice for sports fans and advertisers...
...they will tell you about someone who has captured their imagination--gotten hold of them emotionally and intellectually," says Fred Ginocchio, principal of Madison Middle School in Appleton, Wis. He remembers his own third-grade teacher making this kind of breakthrough for him, by reading the autobiography of Black Hawk to the class. "I can picture her still," he recalls. "I was totally taken in. I was a kid who was on the playground all the time. After she read it, I checked it out, and it was the first book I read...