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Fans dialing wrong number when calling from games

By Gene Wojciechowski
ESPN.com

Tuesday, July 5, 2005

The No. 1 menace in sports isn't steroids, Kenny Rogers, $7 ballpark beers, Ian Poulter's pants, the BCS, "Bring Your Handgun Night," George Steinbrenner's mood swings, a Super Bowl in Detroit, Hootie Johnson or negotiating seminars by the NHLPA. It's the cellphone. Been to a ball game lately? Watched one on the plasma? It's as if stadium personnel are distributing Nokias to the first 30,000 fans who pass through the turnstiles. Everyone has a cellphone and everyone is determined to call someb ...

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