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...They can be bought, bartered and sold, and once they are, they go from heroes to enemies. They're valued only when they wear the uniform. And once they hang it up for good, we stop caring about them, except when they take us on a stroll down memory lane. The press rarely reports on what happens to ex-players--the injuries that intensify as the athletes approach middle age, the financial woes that afflict players who make too much money too fast and then see it disappear. And there's a reason for that: fans don't want...
...They can be bought, bartered and sold, and once they are, they go from heroes to enemies. They're valued only when they wear the uniform. And once they hang it up for good, we stop caring about them, except when they take us on a stroll down memory lane. The press rarely reports on what happens to ex-players - the injuries that intensify as the athletes approach middle age, the financial woes that afflict players who make too much money too fast and then see it disappear. And there's a reason for that: fans don't want...
...Beatles songs onto this storyline makes no more sense than scoring every Western set in the 1870s with the arias Verdi was composing at the time. At least the Cirque du Soleil's Las Vegas Beatles show, Love, was set in Liverpool and found recognizably English equivalents for Penny Lane and Eleanor Rigby's cemetery. The NBC TV drama American Dreams, also set in the '60s, wove a greater range of period music through its characters' lives, as did American Graffiti and lots of other I-love-the-'60s jukebox movies...
...August nights, stars fall out of the sky in meteor showers while young people are gunned down at random on the playground, on the stoop or on U.S. 26 in Portland, Ore., where a 29-year-old man was shot on Aug. 11 after merging into another driver's lane. Tempers blister; discipline runs thin. We've had summers of riots, of stalkers and serial killers, of orange alerts and Amber alerts, West Nile and wildfires. This August brings familiar fears and fresh ones, the storms now pacing offshore with disarming names like Flossie and Erin; we know...
...Scotland Yard confirmed on July 18 that a man was arrested last month on suspicion of conspiracy to murder and deported to Russia. Berezovsky said he was the target; according to the Sun newspaper, the hit man planned to shoot Berezovsky at the Hilton hotel in London's Park Lane...