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...never more than this weekend, as the Sox and Yanks met at Fenway Park in the postseason for the first time ever. (I'm not even going to attempt to describe the intensity of the rivalry here. If you're curious, wear a Red Sox hat into Yankee Stadium sometime and find out for yourself...
...Hurricanes will bring a very young squad with an even younger history to Cobb Stadium, as last season was the inaugural year for the Hurricane's women's soccer team...
...This year, by August she knew who Pedro and Nomar were, of course, and by Labor Day she knew that some rookie ??"Doobie?"?"It's Daubach, Mom" ? was having a fine campaign. Shortly thereafter the Sox went into Yankee Stadium near the tail end of a tremendous late-season road trip and swept the reigning world champions three straight, finishing by beating Roger Clemens. (He's a player in this saga, too. Is he ever.) I was vacationing on Nantucket with my wife and daughter, listening to the Clemens game on my mother-in-law's 30-year-old transistor...
...said. Result? Two groups (one led by Hollywood power broker Mike Ovitz) that wanted to bring a team back to oft-abandoned Los Angeles are going home unhappy. And the price of a sports team ? which these days comes with the additional cost of the kind of snazzy stadium that McNair is promising in Houston ?- has just been bid further up into the stratosphere. (By comparison, Carolina and Jacksonville both won teams for $140 million just six years ago.) "The $700 million shocked the league," Ovitz said. "I couldn't compete with that...
...recent years ? the Oilers left Houston in 1996, and both the Rams (in 1995) and Raiders (in 1994) have found it too hard to make a go of it in L.A. But it was McNair that came up with $195 million in public financing for his $310 million new stadium. It?s a sign of community interest that neither of the L.A. groups could come up with in blas? La-La Land, and to NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue, it?s a sign that football isn?t dead in Houston. Of course, don?t be too surprised...