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...fencing, handball, hockey and softball - gather dust. Posses of stray dogs roam across the expanses of untended grounds, loose electrical cables hang over dented fences and garbage mounds pile up behind chained gates. Greece's military is keeping watch over some of the 22 venues - including the main Olympic stadium - for which the state is trying to find a permanent use. Maintenance and upkeep are estimated at about $100 million a year. "Who knows what they're planning to do with this," huffs a soldier guarding the main entrance to the Helliniko complex. Flyblown, empty arenas are not the only...
...plays Police Detective Hunter on television. "When all the over-coaching, overpreparing and overwriting is done, the Super Bowl is a goddam game. We played well. I let the event in completely and enjoyed the whole thing tremendously. The loss was gone the second I walked out of the stadium." Vacating football was more complicated, like dropping a longstanding character. "To put it aside," says Dryer, "you almost have to give up the fact of who you were. I couldn't be an athlete in my mind the rest of my life, so I left the football player behind. Within...
...music. Cranes cannot be said to sing. Rather, they are a whole orchestra that can reproduce at one and the same time the sound of geese honking, frogs croaking, cats purring, whistles blowing, castanets clicking, trumpets blaring, flutes trilling and even the roaring cheers of a fully packed football stadium. "As soon as you hear it," nods Don Howell, a retired telephone company man from nearby Grand Island, "you just know they're cranes...
...planned along the route in Texas. Members of the feuding Navajo and Hopi Indian tribes have got together to endorse the event. Along a ten-mile stretch in New Mexico, thousands of hot-air balloons will ascend simultaneously. The chain will snake through the Pittsburgh Pirates' Three Rivers Stadium, where Pete Rose's Cincinnati Reds will be playing, so that fans and players can join hand to glove...
...became the phantom of the Royals Stadium training room. Whenever the team was gone, he was there tormenting his patellar tendon, the worst "ball of spaghetti" his doctors had ever restrung. "Occasionally he'd call me up and say, 'I didn't go to the park today,'" smiles Mickey Cobb, the trainer, "but I knew by looking at the room that he went every day." A small, bald man of 44, Cobb began life at 2 lbs. in rural Georgia, polio-ridden and without benefit of physician. He started limping at four. "I couldn't play when my friends were...