Word: stadiumitis
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...defend it 21 times straight. His victory over the hitherto undefeated American Jeff Lacy in March 2006 was hailed as career-defining, but Calzaghe has always maintained that his triumph over the Danish WBC and WBA champion Mikkel Kessler in front of 50,000 fans at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium was his finest night. While critics may sneer that his recent back-to-back defeats of American legends Jones and Bernard Hopkins only occurred because they were getting on in years, fans reply that the bouts were delayed by the American fighters' astronomical purse demands. And ultimately, it would...
...brisk fall night when the teams of Quincy and Winthrop assembled under the lights of Harvard Stadium, prepared to carry on the hallowed tradition of football. But this was not just any football—this was flag football, the real sport of champions, a sport that requires agility, speed, and razor-sharp hand-eye coordination. You can’t just will the flags off a person’s waist; you must grab them with the precision of a karate master snatching a fly from the air, to achieve the greatness of Jared’s pants before...
With all the attention the Arizona Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Steelers will be getting at this Sunday's Super Bowl, it's not likely anyone will pay much attention to the third team in the stadium. That's hard to figure, since there will be more than 72,000 players on its roster - though they're better known as fans. Whatever else you may say about the hordes of folks whose fannies fill stadium seats, sports fans are in a very real sense a team - one that is in some ways in better synchrony than the athletes on the field...
...stadium, Wiltermuth explains, this can be more powerful than it seems. The closeness that comes from cheering and rooting together often stays with you when you leave the stadium. "These fans might act more kindly to one another," he says, "and they might be more likely to engage in pro-social behavior such as volunteer tasks, aimed at benefitting the community represented by the team." When Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl playfully changed his name to "Steelerstahl" the week the Steelers met the Baltimore Ravens in the playoffs, he may have had more on his mind than just the Super Bowl...
...Lowdown: St. John's narrative is laced with intimate portraits and fresh figures - did you know the resale value of a stadium's worth of tickets exceeds $500 million, or that Americans consume eight million pounds of guacamole on game day? - that enliven the organizational challenge of carrying off the world's biggest bash without a hitch. The choice to ignore the superstars on the field in favor of the game's unsung laborers is a refreshing angle, even if he seems half-ready to douse them in Gatorade. Readers' reactions will likely hinge on whether they consider the Super...