L.A. CONFIDENTIAL.Byline: -- Kevin Modesti Three signs of the Apocalypse: 1. The lighting of the Coliseum flame at the start of the fourth quarter of USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. games has a commercial sponsor. Knowing that, I'll try not to get those goosebumps anymore. 2. Every time I click over to the ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network Classic channel, there's a poker tournament A poker tournament is a tournament in which the winners are decided by playing poker, usually a particular style of poker. Contrast this to a ring game, where the game is ongoing with no formal structure to determine a single winner in a certain length of time. on. I'm looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. ``down goes Frazier,'' they're giving me ``Scotty Nguyen flopped a flush.'' At least, if it's going to be poker, it ought to be classic poker -- sawdust on the floor, pistols on the table, no dot-com logos on the cowboy hats. 3. Sports Illustrated, once devoted to high-toned writing, now fills the entire first half of the magazine with quick-read gimmicks and crass junk. Oh, and SI's most worn-out front-of-the-book feature -- the weekly ``Sign of the Apocalypse.'' |
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