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...clouds burst, the crowds gather. It's an hour before the kick-off of Kolkata's biggest sporting event and the rain keeps pouring. The pitch at the cavernous Salt Lake Stadium is now little better than a mud pit, pockmarked by spreading pools of brackish water and streaks of brown slush. Were this a cricket match, officials would have canceled proceedings and sent fans home. But this is football in the most football-crazy city in India: over 100,000 boisterous Calcuttans fill the divided sides of the stadium, one half festooned in the maroon and green of Mohun...
...remains hooked. The average fan attending the match in mid-August would have paid not more than $0.25 for the outing. It ended in a 4-3 Mohun Bagan victory, as mistake followed mistake. When the final whistle blew, a bellow the sound of fighter jets echoed around the stadium...
...couple of Radioheads away from a musical New Orleans. Many record-company lifers were stung by the rejection of a band on a decade-long run of excellence, but the real damage could stem less from Radiohead's determination to go it alone than from its "stadium sound at museum pricing" scheme. "That's the interesting part of all this," says an American hip-hop producer. "Radiohead is the best band in the world. If you can pay whatever you want for music by the best band in the world, why would you pay $13 or 99? for music...
...ridiculously successful New York Yankees? Or should I persist in my loyalty, stay up late listening to Giants games re-created on the radio by Les Keiter, who would simulate hits by making a thwok sound with, I think, his mouth? I persisted, and more: I went to Yankee Stadium and rooted against the home team. Indeed, the fanly highlight of my tween years was attending a doubleheader in which the mythically awful Washington Senators flushed the Yanks day and night...
...Lehigh press conference was, also not surprisingly, a joyous affair. When Paul Bode, the Mountain Hawks lineman who returned a fumble 27 yards for the game-winning touchdown, entered the room, he was still holding onto the ball, a scene that was repeated when Bode was seen outside the stadium, laughing and celebrating with friends about a half hour later...