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Lance Armstrong was the story on dry land this summer, but on water nothing topped ESPN's Bassmaster Classic in Pittsburgh, Pa., where 47 anglers raced across a Y-shaped "playing field" covering the Ohio, Allegheny and Monongahela rivers. ESPN crews produced several live shows that captured the, um, thrill of watching grown men struggling to catch fish. It can take hours to get a bite, but cool editing tricks, Pixar-type animation and dizzying camera work keep the action moving at breakneck speeds. ESPN had 35 cameras, two helicopters and a blimp at the classic, while the FLW uses...
Prestige counts. But in all likelihood, the success of TV fishing will be based on the cult of personality. Maybe that's why this year's classic winner, soft-spoken Kevin VanDam, got cheers as he entered Pittsburgh's Mellon Arena, while Iaconelli--who finished fifth--received deafening roars. "I've been criticized for being excitable," Iaconelli says. "It's driven by burning desire. But it's also great...
...help win back the eyeballs of a younger generation of gadget-oriented entertainment buffs who are spending more time with the Web, mobiles and MP3 players than they are in front of a living-room set. The O2 trial is one of dozens around the world, from Helsinki to Pittsburgh to Seoul, to test the feasibility of broadcasting TV programs to mobile phones. Lots of companies would like to see the trials succeed. Handset firms like Nokia stand to sell more - and more expensive - gadgets, after seeing sales of more ordinary phones slow recently; broadcasters could enjoy a spike...
...situation could change if researchers develop a less toxic method of tricking the immune system into accepting foreign tissue grafts-something that Dr. Andrew Lee and his colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine are trying to do. Dr. Lee prefers to think of face and hand transplants as "composite tissue transplants" because several kinds of tissue-fat, skin, muscle and possibly even bone-may be involved. (He didn't say this but maybe it's also a way to tone down some of the more ghoulish reporting on the topic.) "Composite tissue transplants have the potential...
...Dukes, however, have yet to venture beyond the friendly confines of Pittsburgh, Pa., and have yet to see a team of Penn’s caliber. Duquesne’s attempt to shake the mid-major stigma will have to wait another week—Columbia looms on the horizon—as the Quakers should remind the Dukes to which of I-AA’s two sub-divisions they belong...