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...Florida Marlins, Tampa Bay Devil Rays and Oakland A's, the other bleeding candidate for "contraction" is the Minnesota Twins. Unlike the Expos, the Twins have loyal fans and a competitive if inexperienced team. But the state's flinty taxpayers have refused to chip in for a new stadium to replace the charmless Metrodome, meaning that the Twins can't enhance revenues from skyboxes and naming rights and such. The Twins also have an owner, billionaire banker Carl Pohlad, who has been unwilling to invest in big salaries. "It makes no sense for Major League Baseball to be in markets...
...fill those few moments when Rudy Giuliani isn't on television, the New York City mayor's office released tourism commercials for him to appear in. Supporting cast includes Barbara Walters and Woody Allen. In one spot, a man runs the bases in an empty Yankee Stadium, sliding headfirst into home. Why, it's Henry Kissinger! He brushes the dirt off his face and says something that's supposed to sound like "Derek who?" In another, ROBERT DE NIRO, on a Thanksgiving parade float with BILLY CRYSTAL, yells, "Are you gobblin' at me?" In yet another, Yogi Berra conducts...
...Decked out in his ceremonial orange robe, Yan Ming is standing impossibly erect on a dusty road outside the city of Dengfeng in China's central Henan province, preparing to usher 40 of his students into the stadium that's hosting the nation's most important martial arts festival. Behind a bright red banner, they're attired in matching uniforms like other delegations?but they don't blend in. The group is as eclectic a collection of kung fu students as New York City's five boroughs could produce: a freckled Miramax exec, a black Hollywood action star, a bodybuilder...
...week earlier, Murphy had written a letter to Harvard’s fans thanking them for their support in the previous week’s competition against Penn. He likened the stadium presence to having a “twelfth...
...season, when it went just 2-4. But its defense kept the team in the game long enough to finally get the golden goal. Including its 1-0 overtime loss to UConn on Oct. 24, the Crimson had clocked over four hours of playing time at Morrone Stadium before finally scoring...