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...bands hitting the road this summer include the perennially popular Dave Matthews Band (left), with multi-city U.S. tour including stadium appearances and two-day ampitheater stands. Blues Traveler plans a small tour leading up to a July 4 appearance at Red Rocks Amphitheatre near Denver, resuming a seven-year tradition that was interrupted in 1999 by the health problems of frontman John Popper. The band is currently working on its first album since the death of bassist Bobby Sheehan. Phish will tour the country, and the Allman Brothers Band and Steve Miller are also on tap at venues nationwide...
...crowning achievement of Bush's baseball tenure was the construction of a new Rangers stadium in the early 1990s. Bush made sure the park would reflect the game's traditions. The field must have real turf, because in a world where so much changes for the worse, the game should stay the same. As Governor, Bush said as much in commencement speeches, citing "fixed stars" to live by. Star No. 4 paraphrased the film Bull Durham: "Baseball should always be played outdoors, on grass, with wooden bats...
...stadium, completed just as Bush was launching his gubernatorial run, gave a lift to the team and Bush too. When he left in 1994, his $606,000 investment paid him almost $15 million. The Rangers' success provided a launching pad for his campaign. Perhaps, too, his stint also taught him a lesson about politics. In his office is a novelty baseball inscribed simply: "Sometimes you just have to play hardball...
...working conditions in Nike's overseas factories. Knight, who's given $50 million to the school, said in a statement, "The bonds of trust [that] allow me to give at a high level have been shredded." Apparently, so have plans for an $80 million expansion of the school's stadium, a project for which Knight was a primary benefactor and which university officials say they may now be forced to delay. "It's never a good thing to lose the support of a graduate," said university president Dave Frohnmayer. Particularly when he's the richest graduate you have...
...this other pre-frosh, a girl, and we walked across the river and broke into the football stadium and then we hooked up in the basement of Straus [Hall]," he says...