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How to stage modern sports experience in nontraditional setting05 / 20 / 13T oday’s venues for sporting events are pushing the boundaries of traditional risk management for event organizers. From college basketball on aircraft carriers to regular-season football games abroad, event risk paradigms often depend on th... Tags: Opinion |
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Virginia's MLB pitch wild, outside
Northern Virginia has been working for years to land a Major League Baseball team, and to no effect. Perhaps it's understandable that the region's advocates are frustrated at their lack of progress. But that's no excuse for the local congressional delegation ...
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Learning the new 3 R's
I was flipping through John Helyar's wonderful book "Lords of the Realm" the other day and was struck by the following line about the 1968 season: "The game's profound slump was underscored by the retirement of one of its greatest legends and box ...
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WUSA's good, could be better
WUSA has the players, needs to find more sponsorship partners in second year. T he measurement statistics we use, television ratings and attendance, seem to support a successful start for the Women's United Soccer Association ...
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San Jose wants more
O K, don't anyone start overturning cars, but San Jose has earned its third championship title this year, with the Earthquakes bringing back the Major League Soccer trophy from Columbus. Now San Jose can place a "City of Champions" designation next ...
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(Dis)order on the court
T he women's professional tennis tour stages its championship this week in Munich, Germany, and while several top players will be among the missing, no absence will be noted more than that of Monica Seles. In what remains sports' most shocking incid ...
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It's OK to cheer again
P oor Barry Bonds. He breaks the single-season home run record, and it hardly registers a blip on the screen. What a difference from the coast-to-coast euphoria that greeted Mark McGwire three years ago. He wasn't just the big sports story, he was ...
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Football Saturdays last all week
T o the eternal question of "What's on TV tonight?" there's a consistent answer, at least during these fall months. It's that clash of beefy scholars that goes by the name of college football. College football isn't on every night, but it's beginnin ...
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College athletes are exploited
M ichigan State's fabulous Flintstones — Mateen Cleaves, Charlie Bell, Morris Peterson and Antonio Smith — are the human interest part of this story. The four young black men from Flint, Mich. — the city made famous by Michael Moor ...
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