The World Awaits By John Conroy When Brazil and Croatia kick off the 2014 World Cup on June 12, the loudest sound inside Arena de São Paolo may not be the delighted screams of the fans but the relieved sighs of FIFA and Brazilian officials. Given the fraught nature of the preparation for the 20th […]
Continue ReadingCrowd Pleasers By John Conroy Tim Mayer and his crew will take about 20 days to transform the streets around Miami’s AmericanAirlines Arena next year into a track for the seventh race of the Formula E series, the first circuit ever to feature all-electric cars. Mayer, director of the Indianapolis-based Andretti Sports Marketing, called the […]
Continue ReadingHome of Their Own By John Conroy The faithful arrived by the thousands that Sunday morning. Greeting them were some 6,000 shovels, their blue blades thrust in the waiting earth. Over the course of two minutes in the early hours of October 21, 2012, San Jose Earthquakes fans, team executives and local government officials used […]
Continue ReadingWORLD POWER By John Conroy The buzz of vuvuzelas and the beat of the hit “Ya’alili” blasting from the speakers at Roger Dean Stadium in Jupiter, Florida, last September were audible proof that the World Baseball Classic may be rounding third base in terms of worldwide popularity. Fans of South Africa were blowing the […]
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