Word: armato
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...While most significant roles and arias are performed by semi-professionals, Harvard student Noah Van Niel ’08 gives an incredibly impressive performance in his role as the Italian Tenor. Van Niel sings the aria “Di rigori armato il seno” almost flawlessly, making it impossible to distinguish him from his more professional counterparts...
Despite the rivalry, Olajuwon and O'Neal maintain a mutual-admiration society that has almost nothing to do with the fact that they share the same agent (Leonard Armato). "Hakeem is the best center in the league," says O'Neal. "Shaquille is in a league by himself," says Olajuwon. As far as endorsements are concerned, O'Neal is in a league with only Michael Jordan. Olajuwon, on the other hand, is still waiting to be discovered. Shaq does Pepsi; Hakeem does Oshman's Sporting Goods in Houston...
...players who believed in the game's potential formed the Association of Volleyball Professionals to fight for bigger purses and better promotions. The group, which numbers 250 members, went on strike during the 1984 World Championships in California's Hermosa Beach to protest conditions. Since then, A.V.P. organizer Leonard Armato, a former player and an attorney with a Los Angeles law firm that represents such athletes as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Ronnie Lott of the San Francisco 49ers, has helped the players win control of tournament profits, concession sales, TV contracts and endorsement fees...
...A.V.P. tournaments. All matches are arranged by the association in cities that express an interest and have suitable facilities. Between them, ESPN and Prime Ticket, cable sports networks, air 25 tournaments on the tour, and they reputedly pay the A.V.P. handsomely for the rights to do so. Armato thinks volleyball does well on the small screen because it features "a lot of action, the beach and a lot of tanned, great-looking people." Formerly a big hit only between San Diego and Sorrento Beach, north of Los Angeles, the tournaments are currently attracting crowds that average 25,000 at waterside...
...some of the younger guys, it's like a sailor going into port." Male fans around the U.S. may soon have the chance to swoon over sweaty women. Thanks to the success of the A.V.P., some members of the fledgling Women's Beach Volleyball Association have asked attorney Armato to help them kick up their heels...