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...National Basketball Association or the NFL. And AFL games are promoted with the kind of stunts minor league baseball has used to build a fan-friendly image. Before a recent game between the AFL's Avengers and the San Jose Sabercats, more than 15,000 of the Sabercats faithful shook cowbells and, like Larry Bird-era Boston Celtics fans, chanted "Beat L.A.!" as 16 bikers carrying cheerleaders stormed the field on Harleys. San Jose quarterback Mark Grieb, perhaps the league's best player, signed autographs for a full hour after the game. "I love that my kids can just chat...
...Studio One the island's hottest hit factory. In 1968, keen to make his own mark, Perry established the Upsetter label, and one evening heard the drum beat he wanted emanating from a Pocomania Church - a Revivalist Christian sect with West African roots. The resulting single, People Funny, Boy, "shook up the entire Jamaican music scene and gave birth to the form known as reggae," says David Katz, Lee Perry's biographer and author of Solid Foundation: An Oral History of Reggae (Bloomsbury). At Studio One Perry had helped break the Wailers, a Ska-beat vocal trio...
Where Vietnam shook student confidence in their government, Sept. 11 taught them to distrust their own convictions. Many who might have protested war in Iraq before Sept. 11 became paralyzed by fear, haunted by the prospect that unnamed terrorist foes might find an armed ally in Baghdad. Students ignored their own misgivings until the first full day of the invasion, when 1,500 students, faculty and members of the community finally came together in the second-largest campus protest in Harvard history, larger than any during Vietnam. But that confident opposition was an exception. In the months before...
...felt really bad for the guy,” Rose said. “He ended up having to just borrow someone else’s sword, and I think it really shook him up. But it was probably a mismatch to begin with...
...don’t think it shook us very much since historically we’ve been a really strong back-half team,” freshman Emily Stapleton said. “We knew that we had more firepower coming later...