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The Giants have said they will charge from $1,000 to $20,000 a seat for their personal seat licenses; once fans buy the seat licenses, they will still have to pay from $85 to $700 a ticket.

These seats must be priced at a charitable rate. Dallas Cowboy seat licenses are $16,000 to $150,000 each for their new statium, and then $340 per game ticket. As a Dallas area resident but not a Cowboy fan, I only hope that they fail to sell out. But there probably are enough idiots willing to spend these enormous sums on what is essentially entertainment that they will sell out.

posted at 12:50 PM on August 26

What do the Olympics teach our children? That cheating is OK if you get away with it? That's the Olympic spirit?

posted at 12:45 PM on August 23

Interesting or ironic that Upshaw led players strike in 1987, the same year he was voted into the Hall of Fame. Heard on the radio that someone said he was one of the most five influential persons in history in creation and growth of the NFL. True? And who would be the other four? Hunt, Halas, Rozelle, ???

posted at 05:09 PM on August 21

Shouldn't gymnastics be striving for as objective a system as possible

I don't think there is any way that you get ever get an objective system. Gymnastics, like certain other competitions (skating, diving, some skiing events), has too much subjectivity built in. They can assign certain points to certain skills, which is one component of the score. But the other component, execution of the skills, is almost entirely subjective.

And politics, as well as other factors, do influence the judges. This is probably true even more on the international stage such as the Olympics, but also in lower levels. In the past I have seen it at local competitions where some gymnasts with a "reputation" (a girl can apparently get a reputation as young as 12) can fall off the bars or the beam and still make a higher score than other gymnasts who appear to do their set without error.

I am just happy that the Americans won since, from the portions I saw, they appeared to be the best. After seeing some of the scores for the Chinese girls after shoddy or shaky performances on events, I was afraid the fix was in.

posted at 02:48 PM on August 15

Two points:

1. Gonzalez should have fessed up. Tennis like golf requires some honesty by the players in calling shots against themselves. However, giving him the benefit of the doubt, maybe he did not feel the tick. Haven't seen the replay, so I assume that could be the case.

2. Blake should have sucked it up and gone ahead and won. He had plenty of chances to win and did not. He cannot blame that one call on his blowing the match.

posted at 02:35 PM on August 15

Boston - Manny, Moss and Hansen for Bay LA - Morris and LaRoche for Manny Pitt - Bay for Morris, Hansen, Morris and LaRoche Looking at this, I can only think that Boston was either really hot for Bay or really hot to get rid of Manny. Probably both.

posted at 05:09 PM on July 31

Unless something comes out now that some deal happened before the deadline and was just not reported, this trade deadline was a big yawn.

posted at 03:29 PM on July 31

Does anybody know what a "heightened degree of questioned calls" means? Apparently, that is what tipped the officials off, but I don't even know what it means.

posted at 10:01 AM on July 25

The Stadium does sell 1-ounce bottles of Arizona Sun SPF 15 for $5 - a huge markup that makes its beer seem cheap. I think this sentence from article revealed the real reason for the ban.

posted at 02:10 PM on July 24

Anyone who thinks that governments and politics are not involved in Olympic committees is an idiot (U.S. boycotting Olympics, USSR boycotting Olympics, etc., etc.). I would be interested in knowing which athletes have been allotted the places taken away from the Iraqi athletes.

posted at 12:54 PM on July 24

Hmmm, she signed the scorecard. The tournament director did not know about the delay. Then, after she teed off the next day, the director found out. Sounds like someone squealed on Wie to get her out of the tournament. Why else would it have even come up?

posted at 07:24 PM on July 20

Bottom line. Rules are rules. If they don't play, then they should get the same punishment as anyone else who does not play. If that means a fine, then they should pay it. If that means suspension for two tournaments, then they should serve it. I can understand why they are pissed, but it was seven years ago. And I assume that, if they are standing up for their beliefs, then they probably are willing to endure whatever punishment comes with standing up.

posted at 05:29 PM on July 17

I am a Stars fan. Whether the signing pays off or not remains to be seen, as is the case with all free agent signings. Some players fit and others don't. But as far as Avery's on-ice antics, primarily getting on the nerves of the other team's players, I see no problem. Dallas already had at least one such player, Steve Ott. In the past, it has had others, Craig Ludwig and Pat Verbeek (The Little Ball of Hate) come to mind. Most teams seem to have at least one similar player. After all, it's not really a gentlemen's game. And as for his actions that led to the Avery Rule, I'm surprised nobody thought of it and tried it before. It certainly must not have been an illegal move, since they had to come up with a rule concerning it the next day.

posted at 12:44 PM on July 03

Curse or blessing? Just consider what women's athletics would probably be like without it. Virtually non-existent, because without prodding it is likely that most universities would never have committed resources. Overall, it has to be considered a blessing. In fact, I can't even figure out a potential curse.

posted at 12:34 PM on June 30

Chacon, Wade, Cuban, Clemens...what is it about Houston that brings out the best in people? Hey, leave Cuban out of this. Good or bad, Dallas still claims him.

posted at 01:47 PM on June 26