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...Three years after making its first U.S. appearance, in New York, it has spread to 33 other states. This year, after being largely confined to a thick band of East Coast states, the virus has swept rapidly west, reaching as far as South Dakota and Texas. Last week it struck with a vengeance in Louisiana, infecting at least 58 residents and killing four--prompting Governor Mike Foster to declare a statewide emergency...
When Nicky Summerbee and Billy McKinlay appeared in the colors of the English Football League's Leicester City for its first game of the 2002-03 season against Watford last weekend, the two did more than merely suit up for a match. They also struck a dubious blow for the future of the sport - by becoming the first "amateurs" in the competition since the category was abolished in the 1970s. That's right. Summerbee and McKinlay - both footballers by trade but both currently without permanent contracts - played for free. "Obviously it's not ideal," Summerbee told the Guardian...
...BOXING Lewis Weighs His Options The days of legendary heavyweight title fights seem like a rumble from the past, and the current champion, Lennox Lewis, appears to have been struck by the same apathy that has taken hold of the public in recent years. With Mike Tyson reduced to the sideshow ranks - decisively beaten by Lewis in June - there are few characters or worthy challengers to fire the imagination enough to justify those hefty pay-per-view fees. In fact, Lewis is so bored he may retire - unless of course the price is right. He told the London Observer: "What...
...will say about Sam's period of genius that ... it is the same period of time as his alcoholism, and it's also right after his shock treatment therapy" in 1951. Dickinson recalls a time when Sam took a screwdriver to a fuse box. "It looked like lightning struck the thing. And Sam has yet even to recoil. He says, 'A little one-ten doesn't hurt you. You need a two-twenty every now and then just to know you're alive...
...stool away with violence, and broke into 'Great Balls of Fire.' As the screaming chaos grew suddenly and sublimely greater, he drew from his jacket a Coke bottle full of gasoline, and he doused the piano with one hand as the other hand banged out the song; and he struck a wooden match and he set the piano aflame, and his hands, like the hands of a madman, did not quit the blazing keys, but kept pounding, until all became unknown tongues and holiness and fire, and the kids went utterly, magically berserk with the frenzy...