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...owned the Los Angeles Rams, got the Colts in a 1972 franchise swap with Rams owner Carroll Rosenbloom. By taking his team to Indianapolis in March of 1984, Irsay kicked off the modern wave of NFL team relocations, which has seen teams from Cleveland, St. Louis, Los Angeles and Oakland jump to other cities for more money. In a desperate attempt to prevent the Colts from leaving, the Maryland House voted to give Baltimore the power to take over the team through eminent domain. But by the time the city sent Irsay a telegram offering $40 million for the franchise...
...Williams and Joe Deter. I would never have watched the Kansas City Chiefs/Detroit Lions game on Thanksgiving if a girl in my dorm didn't live in Kansas and wasn't always talking about the mighty Chiefs. Though I still have to draw the line at rooting for the Oakland Raiders, the Dallas Cowboys and the Yankees (most of the time), I have discovered in the last three months that there are many more teams I feel good about supporting. Behind each team is a town or city, and now that I know people from so many more towns...
...YORK CITY: Mike White joined the coaches' casualty club on Tuesday, with Wayne Fontes in the on-deck circle. White was let go by Oakland after a 7-9 season, the fifth NFL head coach to go in the last five days. Fontes got a Christmas reprieve, but almost surely will learn Thursday that his 81/2-year tenure in Detroit will come to an end, which will bring to eight the coaching changes in the NFL since the start of the 1996 season. White joins Rich Kotite of the Jets, Dan Reeves of the Giants, Rich Brooks of St. Louis...
...Rather than having Hollywood judge the content that is appropriate for children of the same age across the country," says Vicky Rideout of Children Now, an advocacy group based in Oakland, California, "tell parents what's in the show and let them decide what is appropriate for their kids to see." Dr. Marjorie Hogan of the American Academy of Pediatrics, which was a consultant to the Valenti panel but opposes the new system, says, "I'm a parent of four, and what I really want when I look at a movie or a television program is to know what...
...Huang and the Lippo Group done that is so bad? They hired American expertise to build the much needed infrastructure for new towns in Indonesia. Do Americans say thank you for your business? No, they paste up photographs of Huang as if he were a convicted criminal. CARMEN HARTONO Oakland, California...