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That much was definitely true Sunday, as Ronz peaked with a seventh-inning fireworks display, striking out the side to close out the game. Two of those outs came on called third strikes, no small feat given the miniscule and inconsistent strike zone in effect most...
...girl performs a coquettish version of Swingin' on a Star, shaking her hips and interjecting "Ooh la la!" Child-pageant culture has long been with us, but--like marriage between cousins--it rarely bursts so prominently into the mainstream. And yet there is something fascinating about this raw display of kids' and/or their parents' preternatural ambition: 10-year-old Brityn Martin, for instance, performed a high-impact dance routine with a hairline fracture in her foot...
...entire sports stadiums. Taking this trend to the micro level, they can now sponsor individual holes on a golf course. ProLink, a company based in Tempe, Ariz., has mounted screens in 21,960 golf carts on 305 public and private courses around the country. Using GPS technology, the screens display static ads for the sponsoring company as a golfer approaches the tee box of a particular hole, as well as distances and tips on how to play the hole. One hopes that a clothing company will soon provide style tips...
...World Series could have much value? Brian Bedol did. As a developer of Nickelodeon's all-rerun Nick at Nite sitcom programming in the early 1980s, he had proved, as he puts it, that "once you take something out of the attic, polish it and put it on display, it becomes an antique." So in 1995 Bedol created the Classic Sports Network and showed that the allure of sports TV is more powerful than most people imagined. ESPN bought Classic Sports in 1997 for $180 million, with Bedol making millions (he won't be more specific...
...dividend he really wants-a?$726 billion tax cut centered around an elimination of the tax on dividends? Well, the moderates, despite approving of Bush's handling of the war, don't support his plan for reviving the economy and despite the political benefit Bush won from his carrier display, moderates worry there are no coat-tails on a flight suit. "The Moderates are emboldened," says a White House adviser. "They're from states where there are cutbacks and where the politics have always been close and where people are hurting. This is going to be a constant problem...