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More than 20,000 fans huddled in Arthur Ashe Stadium Court until past 1 a.m. this morning because they wanted something. They wanted to see the 35-year-old Agassi win (he did, capping off an improbable 3-6, 3-6, 6-3, 6-3, 7-6 (8) comeback with a blistering forehand that kissed the corner). They wanted to see Agassi fight the good fight (he did, falling down two sets and a break before chipping away at Blake’s lead). And perhaps most of all, they wanted to see for themselves that Agassi, the recent subject...
Since biblical times,moneylenders have mixed markets with ministry, and Skow, 57, wanted to do so long before he had Bush's endorsement. A 1991 Promise Keepers stadium revival inspired him to begin Bible-study groups at the bank he ran in Minnesota. When the bank was sold in 1998, Skow decided to open a Christian bank. He and his wife researched 122 high-growth markets and came down to Las Vegas and Alpharetta, Ga. They chose Georgia. "I didn't want to go to Sin City, but it's too bad now when I think of it," says Skow...
...China last week. The team's big attraction? Veteran Chinese star Hao Haidong. "We're looking at [China] as a long-term enterprise," says Terry Robinson, Sheffield United's vice chairman. The perception has been that Chinese fans are easily pleased, but expectations are rising. Beijing's Workers' Stadium was two-thirds empty for Man U's game; fans in the same arena jeered Real Madrid's halfhearted showing. Players will only "do what they have to do to drive the interest," suggests Rob Mason, managing director of London-based sponsorship consultant firm SBI. "There are signs fans are getting...
...people, with everyday concerns that are mostly no different from those of any other city in the developed world. One day in mid-July, Hiroshima's mayor, the M.I.T.-educated, English-speaking Tadatoshi Akiba, confesses that he is consumed at the moment with efforts to build a new baseball stadium for the city's baseball team, the Hiroshima Toyo Carp. But the Bomb is the backdrop for everything that has been built here in the past six decades, from stadiums to automobile factories to shipyards. A city wiped off the map had to be rebuilt in every sense-not just...
...floor in Lavietes Pavilion has been replaced with a state-of-the-art Robbins Bio-Channel Classic floor system, the same floor beneath the Blue Devils at Duke’s Cameron Indoor Stadium...