Ok, for most people out there, this is not the biggest story....or even a big story. BUT, for me, this is a neat thing. As much as I cant stand Rolling Stone, they finally acknowledged Rush for the first time since May of 1981. in retrospect, that is really hard to believe. This magazine does not like this group and for whatever reason, has basically refused to even mention Rush in their publication.
Rush never sleeps
Under bright houselights, the 17,000-capacity venue is quickly filling with fans of the Canadian rock trio Rush — many resembling the two young men I find sitting 10 rows from the stage: brow-fringing hair, utilitarian glasses, sprouts of chin whisker. They look straight out of an '82 yearbook photo of the after-school D&D club — a suggestion neither finds insulting.
I've never thought of us as particularly cool," says Lifeson, now 54 but still in possession of much of his thick blond hair. Within Rush, Lifeson is known as "Lerxst" — a band in-joke from years ago, when the three members entertained themselves by inserting extra syllables and accents into proper nouns. But, "We were filling these places, and I noticed everybody knew all the lyrics, knew the drum fills and had that mentality like, 'This is my band. I found these guys,' " says Lifeson.
What follows is difficult to describe. It involves hysteria. It involves tears. It involves air-drumming of a brio rarely witnessed — not just the standard cymbal-snare pantomime, mind you, but a dizzying recital of tom, bell, cymbal, wind chime, all in perfect sync with the onstage movements of Peart, Rush's drum god and lyricist. It's a kinetic genuflection, variations of it occurring all around me. To my right an unaccompanied woman in camp shorts raises a thumbs-up sign every eight bars. A few rows up, a man is air-drumming, guitaring and bass-playing simultaneously (a spectacle resembling full-contact hacky sack). From behind, a fortysomething man yanks my shoulder during a solo to yell, "That's an ES-355 guitar he's got there!" And for the next three hours, during songs about religion, suburbia, tidal pools and trees, most of this crowd will sing along with every word.
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On-deck hitter David Murphy tossed his bat and helmet into the air. Ron Washington leaped onto the back of coach Art Howe, almost knocking him to the ground. Ian Kinsler tried to hurdle the dugout railing and instead ended up eating dirt.
And they could not have looked more graceful doing it.
Such are scenes from a pennant race. Whether they remain in the hunt all summer or not even until the end of July, the Rangers, with a most improbable 5-4 win over AL-West leading Los Angeles on Wednesday night, served notice they aren't going anywhere for now.
Josh Hamilton clinched the win with the first walk-off homer of his career. It came off primo closer Francisco Rodriguez with two outs in the ninth of a game in which the Rangers started reliever Warner Madrigal and a game they never led until the final pitch.
The Rangers have won two of the first three games of the series to inch within 6½ games of Los Angeles. A series-clinching win tonight would put them 5½ games out heading into the final weekend before the All-Star break
The Mavs make a huge splash by signing Diop and JJ. Wow, thank goodness those two are locked up for the next few years. The Mavs paid Diop 2x what he is worth...and for 5 years. Positively insane.
Why?
Diop's contract will start at $5,585,000. With the maximum eight percent raises, The five-year deal will be worth $32.393 million.
"It's great signing a five-year deal," Diop said. "Knowing you're back where you want to be is important to me. There were three or four teams that offered me the mid-level. But it wasn't a hard decision. The only way I would have ended up somewhere else is if it was for a lot more money, not a little."
Barea, meanwhile, signed for $1.5 million next season. Two years of the three-year contract are guaranteed, with the third at the team's option.
The Onion takes on Mark Cuban
Billionaire Mark Cuban, tired of the opposition he has encountered from NBA management in his role as owner of the Dallas Mavericks and frustrated with opposition from the MLB owners' association in his attempt to buy the Chicago Cubs, liquidated almost all his personal wealth and holdings and purchased the entirety of sports for an undisclosed but undoubtedly large sum on Monday.
"I'm pleased and excited to announce to fans of—well, of everything, really—that a new era has begun in the game, activity, contest, race, national pastime, world championship tournament, sport, or sports that you love so much," a cheerful Cuban said Tuesday morning in a press conference held to announce his acquisition. "So many of the things that have frustrated me about sports—the officiating, the ivory-tower attitude of the powers-that-be, the fact that I am not in control of every single aspect of them—all of that is about to change."
Another reason why Dallas is failing
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