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SECONDARY RIGHTS Today, even high school facilities get branded. When Vernon Hills High near Chicago needed a new stadium, a local paintmaker donated $100,000. Teams now play at the gratefully named Rust-Oleum Field...
NICKNAMES ARE FREE For $100 million plus, the Houston Astros' stadium will officially be called Minute Maid Park until 2030. To fans, it's the Juice Box. Another case: the New England Patriots' Gillette Stadium is nicknamed the Razor...
ARIZONA CAN'T GRADUATE The Cardinals long bore the stigma of being the only NFL team to play on a college field (Sun Devil Stadium). Now it has its own turf, sporting the ironic name of a sponsor that paid $155 million: University of Phoenix Stadium...
...core of such groups are the "ultras" - hundreds of racism-spewing thugs who regularly provoke violence both home and away, with rival club fans and even with black and Arab supporters of PSG. Though that neo-fascist clique is small compared with the 48,500 people who fill the stadium on match days, its influence is often evident when thousands of "normal" fans take up the ultras' chants of racial obscenities directed at opposing black players, and at PSG's own black players when the team plays badly. In 1995, Liberian soccer legend George Weah played his last game...
...Club officials responded to Quemener's death by holding the police responsible for events outside the stadium. Pundits appear to be taking some strange comfort in the fact that France's hooligan problem is limited to Paris. Under pressure from a public outcry, PSG said it was closing a 2,000-seat section where ultras gather. That's certainly preferable to its previous policies of appeasement that granted salaried usher and security jobs to notorious hooligans in the hopes they'd keep their chums in order during games. But it's far from the decisive eradication the situation merits. Indeed...