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...it’s also sitting in the bleachers in Yankee Stadium on an unbelievably humid June night, yelling out the Yankee roll call, calling out to Mariano Rivera, and mocking Oakland A’s outfielder Eric Byrnes. It could also be, for some of you, taking part in some ostensibly inferior equivalent tradition in Fenway Park...
...Muqimyar's concerns. She has four months to improve her technique and cut down her time. After a week training on Islamabad's rubberized track, she rolls her eyes and clutches her shins in mock pain at the thought of returning to the broken concrete track of Kabul stadium. Then she pauses, and a shadow crosses over her face. "They did terrible things there, you know. They killed people and cut them up." The Taliban used the stadium as a public execution ground. "With my success, and the success of others," she says, "I think we will make those memories...
This year, it was the Crimson’s turn to turn a neutral stadium into a home-ice atmosphere...
Rodriguez had always dreamed of someday returning to New York, the city where he was born, and playing in the stadium he has always considered his favorite. "I've given you a few political answers today," he says, admitting that he has Ari Fleischered some of his responses. "But Yankee Stadium has the history, the fans, the ghosts, the Bronx." The road back has been a long one. He moved to the Dominican Republic when he was 4. When he was 9, his father left the family, and Rodriguez settled with his mother and two siblings near Miami...
...secured Rodriguez's services this winter. But negotiations stalled, and Yankees owner George Steinbrenner stole A-Rod as if he were a tire on a Volvo with Massachusetts plates sitting in the wrong part of the South Bronx. And while he's assured of being hated in every other stadium, success in the Bronx isn't a given. "New York is scary," says Rodriguez. "It's an enormous challenge." He's not just tempering expectations. High-caliber athletes such as Kenny Rogers, Ed Whitson and Jeff Weaver have floundered under the pressure of New York City. "A lot of players...