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...Long So Wrong ought to be Krauss's sellout album--the one where she signs with a big label, paddles in the pop mainstream, does a Streisand duet, maybe has a few cuts produced by Babyface. But Krauss is a constant lass: she's been with Union Station and Rounder Records since she was a 14-year-old fiddle phenom (she's now 25). The new set has no guest shots or power-pop charts. It's just 48 minutes of beautiful music...
...embarrassed to say that you're Republican because you get bad reactions and weird looks. I've been called sellout and worse and some people stop talking to you," Padilla says...
...which is launching its own women's league, the WNBA, next summer. But the ABL faces formidable challenges, with no national television exposure, no national ad campaign, and just one major sponsor, Reebok. Still, the success of the U.S. women's Olympic basketball team, which drew sellout crowds in Atlanta, and continually improving television ratings for college games like the NCAA Women's Final Four, have a number of people betting that a league can succeed. "What we saw at the Olympics was the U.S. Women's Dream Team drawing the largest crowds in the history of women's basketball...
Quick! can you name the five sports constituting the modern pentathlon? That's O.K. Even die-hard sports fans probably don't know that shooting, fencing, swimming, horseback riding and running make up this unique event--which, like just about everything else in Atlanta, is a sellout. French nobleman Pierre de Coubertin, who revived the Olympics in 1896, designed the pentathlon as a Napoleonic, soldierly evocation of the ancient game (which included discus, javelin or spear throw, jumping, running and wrestling...
...Deep South, male and working class. "Our biggest weakness in the past was that we were a regional sport, not like baseball or basketball," says Wheeler. But with close to 1 million fans vying for more than 270,000 tickets to a recent NASCAR race in Indianapolis, Indiana, and sellout crowds from Brooklyn, Michigan, to Loudon, New Hampshire, the sport has clearly moved beyond regionalism...