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Global Games make global fans

By Jim Caple
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Monday, August 30, 2004

ATHENS, Greece -- Apart from peaceful competition, international brotherhood and alarming t-shirt prices, what stands out most from the Olympics is the way that watching a game is remarkably the same no matter where you go in the world. Consider the basketball venues. They played loud music ("Hey Ya" was getting good air time Saturday). They had volunteers shooting t-shirts into the stands. And they had dance teams performing during timeouts. All that was missing was a gorilla leaping off a tra ...

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