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...That's how Gore's campaign chose to ignore possible opportunities in Georgia and North Carolina and make a stand in Florida - a move the Bush campaign initially dismissed as a fake-out. When efforts in Orlando, Tampa and West Palm Beach began bearing fruit, the Gore campaign expanded its assault to the Panhandle and finally statewide. Now Bush has been forced to spend more than $8 million - better than twice as much as Gore - to try to hold on to a state where his own brother is Governor. Gore continues to press hard in Florida, but a top campaign...
...stations that she switched to a satellite provider - but that didn't stop the flyers that are pouring through her Laingsburg, Mich., mailbox or the pollsters who keep calling to plumb her latest thoughts. George W. Bush and Al Gore have been spending so much time in the Tampa?St. Petersburg area of Florida that they are beginning to seem like neighbors. "In the past, if they came once, it was a momentous occasion," says Hillsborough County commissioner Jan Platt. "Now it's, 'Oh, here they are again.'" The presidential race is so close that every vote matters...
...While some are complaining of neglect, the airwaves in other areas are being deluged. At Tampa's WLFA, the advertising department asked station management to start its weekend newscast 30 seconds later so it could slip in one more spot after Meet the Press. (Management declined.) But with competing ads sometimes coming back to back, assistant news director Deb Halpern says, "I've actually had calls from viewers asking me to explain commercials. The viewers will say, 'Which one is true...
AILING. DARRYL STRAWBERRY, 38, suspended New York Yankees slugger, after a CAT scan revealed that his colon cancer, diagnosed and treated in 1998, might have spread to lymph nodes near the original tumor; in Tampa, Fla. He will undergo more tests this week. Strawberry is also battling accusations that he violated terms of his probation after an April 1999 arrest on drug charges...
...years to come, like Toronto's Tony Bautista and Anaheim's Troy Glaus. You'll also see some veterans who are no doubt as surprised as you are that they're playing in the big game; in this group count Baltimore's Mike Bordick, Milwaukee's Bob Wickman and Tampa's Fred McGriff. The result is a game that's long on fresh faces: It will be the first or second time for 36 of the 66 players on the All-Star roster. That means that more than half the guys playing in the game will be able...