Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Next Wednesday afternoon in Bergisel Stadium in Innsbruck, Austria, 1,500 athletes from some 40 nations and 70,000 spectators will watch as Josef Feistmantl, a former luge-sled gold medalist, lights the Olympic flame opening the twelfth Winter Games. That flame will burn for twelve days of competition in the dangerous, exciting, magically graceful world of winter sports. More than half a billion people around the world will follow the action on TV, including millions in the U.S. who can tune in 39½ hours of coverage on ABC, most of it in prime time...
...Boston Minutemen, the Hub's entry in the North American Professional Soccer League, has found a new home, Harvard Stadium, according to an announcement made Wednesday by John C. Sterge, president of the club...
Harvard Director of Athletics, Robert B. Watson said yesterday that the contract with the club allows the team to use the stadium for up to ten games, but that only eight will probably be played here. The team's other four home games will be played at Brown University in Providence...
...club has a one-year contract for the use of the stadium and is working on an option for a second year. The team will not be allowed to practice at the stadium, but will have an eight-hour block of time reserved for them on each playing date (noon until 8 p.m.) during which the team can take warm-up practice and hold the game...
...stuck, sometimes. Like the buses: "Ask any player--the worst thing is thing is the buses." Even though the Red Sox are a "class organization" like the Phillies and the Dodgers, teams that take care of their own, life in the minor leagues can be lackluster. The big stadium is there--the hint of what could come in a wild dream--but the stands are usually near-empty; loudspeakers play "Knock Three Times" between innings and the "bullpen" is likely to be a bench near the left field line. The Eastern League has a grueling schedule, too: 40 games...