Word: stadiumitis
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...chase: “Harvard Jerks Stalked Emma.” The New York Post article, which was published yesterday, accuses the Voice of trying to "draw as much attention to [Watson] as possible" with its live blog updates and its blurry photograph of her leaving the Harvard stadium. Watson was supposedly "quite shaken," as security guards tried to protect her from a crowd of stalkers, the Post reported in a brief on Tuesday...
...what actually happened? Did the Voice unleash its staffers onto Harvard stadium in vigilant search of Watson? Well, Alisha D. Ramos ’12, editor-in-chief of The Voice, posted an official response to the situation on the Voice blog yesterday afternoon, denying accusations that the publication planned to harrass Watson. Find out more about the conflict in today's article in The Crimson...
...class, “about the business and law of sports,” covers how to acquire a franchise, how to value players, how to deal with sports agents, the role of antitrust law, and how to get a stadium built. Thus far, the class has met twice—the second time in Lucchino’s box seats at Fenway...
...terms of sheer financial disaster, however, it would be hard to match Montreal's 1976 Games. It has taken the city more than 30 years to pay off its extravaganza, the cost of which is still not entirely known, according to Humphreys. The Olympic stadium was a particular disaster; originally budgeted for C$156 million, it ended up costing the city C$2 billion, including numerous fixes to the roof and years of interest payments. The Quebec government had to introduce a special tobacco tax to help pay down its Olympic investment...
...construction boom in the city's downtown core and, according to the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, generated $5 billion in economic activity, including $1.8 billion in hotel, residential and commercial construction. What's more, the city found long-term uses for its Olympic venues, transferring the Olympic stadium and village to the Atlanta Braves and Georgia State University, respectively. "The Olympics gave Atlanta a tremendous boost in commerce," says Sam Williams, president of the Metro Atlanta Chamber. "We become a global city, not just the capital of the South." However, critics say Atlanta got too caught...