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Q: This week Houston, which lost its National Football League team two years ago, was awarded a new NFL franchise for 2002. This year Cleveland, Ohio, which lost the Browns in 1996, fielded its new expansion team, called the Browns. And Los Angeles, which had a team until 1995, continues...
To put it cynically, a movie sequel is just an attempt to extend the franchise created by a hit. And in this case, a franchise that sold millions of toys. When Buzz says dewily, "Life's only worth livin' if you've been loved by a kid," he is voicing...
What?s another few hundred million when you?re talking about Texas football? Energy billionaire Robert McNair was oilman-frank about how he brought the NFL back to Houston ?- by going "higher than any reasonable person would go" with a negotiations-ending $700 million bid for a franchise. "We knew...
Ovitz's real problem may have been his city?s fans. L.A. certainly had plenty going for it, namely television. With broadcast deals skyrocketing at least as fast as franchise fees, TV is the best source of the league?s long-term revenues, and Los Angeles is the nation?s...
Lesser Today would be more apt for this retrograde expansion of NBC's franchise morning show. The easy-listening fare--dating younger men, how to "test-drive" a dog--isn't really the problem so much as the tone. The ingratiating host trio makes Rosie O'Donnell sound like a...