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...Harvey Goldsmith, organizer of the Zeppelin show, isn't surprised by the O2's success: "It's a state of the art venue." That's not to say it can't accommodate nonmusical events. It's already hosted an NBA basketball exhibition game and the opening games to the NHL season, is currently featuring Disney on Ice, and will be used during the 2012 Olympic games for basketball and gymnastics...
...sports. October brings us all the pageantry, history, and tedium of the baseball playoffs. It’s the month when the NFL and college football really start to heat up, and the contenders separate themselves from the pretenders. Finally, at month’s end, the NBA and NHL return—a friendly reminder that winter is just around the corner. The 10th month is also particularly hectic for Harvard students. Seniors are frantically hunting for jobs, juniors are jockeying for student leadership positions, sophomores are praying for some concrete sign of social acceptance, and freshmen...well, freshmen...
...These same truths apply in the athletic world. The primary goal of professional sports is to make money. Because success is defined in monetary terms, bringing eyes to the sport must be done by any means necessary. Heck, learn from the NHL: They let their players exchange blows every game to keep their fans excited. So, in the case of women athletes, if showing a little skin or promoting the aesthetic pleasures of the game will bring more people to the games and put more money in these women’s pockets, then they should do it?...
...visual and environmental studies concentrator in Currier House. She hails from Vermont, where the natural environment is similar to Massachusetts, except that the squirrels there don’t eat human babies for breakfast. She hopes her brother, TJ, will make it to the NHL so he can support her art career. Check out her cartoon on Wednesdays...
...through Google tells me that, as the film tells us, Winnipeg did have a huge department store, Eaton's, where the locals did most of their shopping, and an iconic hockey venue, the Winnipeg Arena, home of the Maroons in the Senior Hockey League and the Jets of the NHL; both these historic sites have been razed. In 1942 the city really did hold an "If Day," dressing its burghers up as Nazis to show its citizens some of the terrors of life under the Third Reich. There was indeed a paddock fire in the winter of 1926 that sent...