Word: stadiumitis
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After decades of impotent loathing, I finally found myself in a position to take action. I was gifted a $325 ticket to the new Yankee Stadium to see Satan's pinstriped nine play my beloved Baltimore Orioles. It turns out that $325 buys not just an excellent seat but access to the all-you-can-eat buffet in the superswanky Legends Suite. My plan was simple: eat enough so that at the end of the season, the accountants would say, "What happened on May 19? We lost so much on concessions that night that we can no longer afford...
...revelation. So I ordered another box ($10). I also remembered that I had brought a friend with me, so we talked a little between bites. But I needed to say focused. When a waitress came by with a tray of pasta plates - remember, this is technically a baseball stadium - I asked if the pasta was any good. Turns out no one had tried any: "Everybody just looks at me like I'm crazy." So: pasta ($15)! And while it was terrible pasta, I felt very good eating...
...atrium are pretty compelling. The long aisle just about siphons you into the museum. But the high expanses of bare white wall, a Modernist fetish, are a little bland. You wonder what might have been done in this space by Herzog and de Meuron, the designers of the Olympic Stadium in Beijing, who don't mind jolting their surfaces...
...biggest sticking point in any bid to avoid bankruptcy is the complexity of GM's debts. Chrysler's 40-odd creditors could fit into a large conference room. GM's creditors, however, could fill up most of the seats in the University of Michigan's football stadium. The bondholders include an estimated 127 major financial institutions, including banks, hedge funds and mutual funds, as well as 100,000 or so small holders that represent a cross section of American savers...
...owner Peter Pocklington sold a country's pride and legacy to a U.S. team, Wayne Gretzky - Canada's living national treasure, whose face will undoubtedly grace currency one day - could be returned to the province of his birth, where a rabid fan base would perpetually pack his team's stadium and the resulting furor would inspire new passion for the game ... and maybe bring home a Stanley Cup (Gretzky's fifth...