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...game and cheer on the first team in NFL history to finish the season 0-16, as the Lions did last year. So it's no surprise that the Lions are having trouble selling out their 65,000-seat stadium. But should laid-off GM workers, who just want to watch their Lions as a form of Sunday escapism, be punished for these dreadful circumstances? "We get screwed over," says Sean Yuille, a University of Michigan student who runs Pride of Detroit, a Lions fan blog...
...could do some long-term damage to the NFL's business. In Detroit, Yuille believes that after five Lions games were blacked out last year, casual fans completely lost interest in football. "More than anything, television is a mass-market promoter of a sport," says Zimbalist. "You don't want to cut that...
Which is why what many Democrats are hoping to hear from Obama on Wednesday night is, first and foremost, political cover: some indication that he is staking his still formidable political capital on this process. "I'm leaning no, but I really want to get to yes," says Representative Tom Perriello, a Virginia Democrat and top Republican target. "What I think people are looking for and what I heard back home is, they understand that we're trying to do really important things. They want to understand how these things fit together, and I think the President...
...company was ordered to pay $2,857 in legal fees to McCurry. "It is expensive business to go all the way to the highest court," says Mr. Suppiah, who will not disclose how much he and his family have spent on the case. "Now that we have won, we want to put the nightmare behind us and focus on developing a McCurry franchise...
...Cristina on Sept. 11 - includes sessions on everything from the different types of boats used to the traditional uses of unlikely tuna parts (eyes, it seems, contain an excellent oil). "But you can bet the ban will be a major topic of conversation," López says. "These people want to know if they're still going to have a job next year...