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Except this was July, the teams were called the Sting and the Liberty, and the players that the fans were beseeching for autographs were not Ewing and Rice but Lobo and Bullett. One of the hottest items at the souvenir stands was a T shirt that read INVENTED BY MAN, PERFECTED BY WOMAN. "This is phenomenal," said a woman who drove 65 miles from South Carolina to bring her daughter to the game. "My daughter thinks I'm the best mama in the world." Following the laser lights and loud music required of every N.B.A. pregame show, the announcer thundered...
...gotta beat 'em, we gotta beat 'em' is the mentality that comes down from headquarters." Reporters who regularly cover the W.N.B.A. suspect the attendance figures are slightly inflated. But there's no doubting the marketing acumen of the league, which uses regular N.B.A. staff members--not when Liberty (or Sting or Mercury) merchandise flies off the shelves and sports sections devote considerably more space to the summer league than they did to the A.B.L. Even Cavalli is sanguine about the promo power of the W.N.B.A. "When they ran those ads in May and June," he says, "I was getting...
...there's another quality that the W.N.B.A. has and the N.B.A. hasn't: accessibility. After the loss to New York, Sting star Vicky Bullett signed everything put in front of her and then asked, "Have I missed anyone?" The women, grateful for a league of their own even if the N.B.A. runs it, sign autographs early, often and late. Indeed, the give-and-take between players and fans is positively refreshing. The other night in Madison Square Garden, the Liberty held a fan-appreciation night that an usher named Pete certainly appreciated. "At one point," recalled Pete, "a girl told...
Generally, one of three things happens when a member of a megasuccessful musical group decides to go solo: 1) the performer demonstrates that he is, like Sting, a brilliant individual talent; 2) he turns out, like David Byrne, to be good but not great on his own and is constantly asked when he's going to get back with his old band; or 3) he is revealed to be so profoundly inept that his fans wonder just what they saw in this clown to begin with. Think David Lee Roth...
...debate's core is the question of fairness: Is affirmative action state-sponsored discrimination or a still necessary step toward equality? The answer depends on one's experience of discrimination. Those who feel racism's sting and recall the country's systematic denial of black rights believe it's too soon to abandon the remedy. To remove all race- and gender-based affirmative action, says California assembly member Kevin Murray, chairman of the state's legislative black caucus, "is to tacitly authorize a system of preferences that benefits white males." This view is not confined to the left. "'Color-blind...