Word: sellouts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...Cocteau Twins built their reputation on being a gothic-ambient, primarily electronic band. Their incomprehensible but passionate vocals struck a chord in the hearts of an unexpectedly large contingent of despairing Britons. Hence the cries of "Sellout!" when the group switched from the obscure 4AD to main-stream Capitol Records, and the winces of fans when 1993's lovely and melodic Four-Calendar Cafe attracted comparisons to the Sundays and the Cranberries. The Cocteau Twins' two latest EPs, released within weeks of each other, take the Twins' unique, subtly emotive sound in a new direction altogether, with uneven results...