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...Number of hits in a game the Kansas City Royals must get for fans at Kauffman Stadium to win a dozen free doughnuts, in a Krispy Kreme promotion...
...Lauderhill, the crown jewel of which will be the nation's first professional-grade cricket grounds. The United States of America Cricket Association says that about a third of its 10,000 members live in South Florida. Credit the area's large, cricket-loving Caribbean population. But the stadium plan goes well beyond recreational play. With Lauderhill, the county has set up a committee--which includes Windies cricket legend Lance Gibbs--to lobby the International Cricket Council to name the county as host to some of the 2007 Cricket World Cup matches, which will be based in the West Indies...
...Europe's glamour teams, including Glasgow Celtic from Scotland (a 4-0 win), and Juventus from Italy (4-1). According to promoters, it took only one hour for Man U to sell out its Aug. 3 game against Barcelona at Philadelphia's Lincoln Financial Field. Likewise for its Giants Stadium appearance against Juventus. All this without the flamboyantly blond David Beckham, auctioned off to Real Madrid earlier this summer for $40 million. How to explain this phenomenon in a country where the resident pro league often struggles for attention? "Man U has a huge draw from [Americans] who have only...
...were to leave this country before the peacekeeping troops arrive in this city, I see disaster, I see mayhem, I see rape, I see total destruction." CHARLES TAYLOR, President of Liberia, at a prayer meeting in a stadium housing those made homeless by his country's civil...
...them. It's just one more way that Paris - alas - is becoming more like other places. Another threat comes from multiplex chains like UGC, Gaumont and MK2, where patrons pay a yearly fee of just over €200 to attend any film, anytime, at cinemas with refreshments and often stadium-style seating in auditorium-size theaters. It's a great bargain for those who see more than a few films per month, but it fosters an allegiance to participating cinemas. Some independents have found it necessary to take part in the joint Gaumont-MK2-Pathé program to stay...