Sizemore Insights readers know that I have been a Big Tobacco fan for a long time.
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There's nothing like adding a Muppet character to a sporting event to hook a young fan for life.
"Candlestick is dated and uncomfortable and has inconvenient parking, " says Ms. Baran, a 49ers fan for more than 30 years.
"I've been a fan for 30 years, " Elfon told BBC Radio Wales.
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"I've been a cricket fan for a long time but I have never seen such excitement surround a cricket tournament before, " he said.
My missing suitcase housed my overnight essentials, without which I am lost: Egyptian cotton pajamas and a small electric fan for white noise.
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"I've been a Kings fan for 40 years and had a season's seat for 25 years, " said Cheryl Baggs, holding a plastic cup of white wine.
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Because as many hockey enthusiasts know, sometimes you make a casual sports fan a hockey fan for life once you simply introduce them to the speed, grace, and physicality one time .
While I love football, I really am just a fan for the every man, and understand that there are many of you out there with far more knowledge and insight than myself.
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"Now if he had played for Chelsea from a 15-year-old and been a Chelsea fan for many years, I could maybe understand why, " said former Liverpool manager Phil Thompson, now a television analyst.
"I am looking forward to the challenges of the future and not least the opportunity to return to the stadium, occupy a seat and watch a game as a Welsh fan for the first time, " he said.
Jack Nicholson, recently rated the No. 1 fan for his rabid following of the LA Lakers by t he Bleacher Report, is to Spike Lee and the NY Knicks what Courtney Cox and the Lakers is to Carrie Underwood and the Dallas Cowboys.
The result is new players for the sport, an increased fan base for professional tennis and new sources of revenue for community businesses and municipal governments.
Deprived of its right to assert facts, Christianity, for example, is reduced to the status of a fan club for the sayings of Jesus.
In the movie, a researcher details how the average radio listener listens for 18 minutes a day, but the average Stern fan listens for an hour and twenty minutes.
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Co-founder Tom Leathes, 32, came up with the idea for Top10.com 18 months ago when he was looking at a fan page for the band, The White Stripes on Facebook.
For a new digital generation Cull.tv is aiming to create a new experience and fan base for music videos.
The answer here is in a program designed specifically to map fan spending for the business.
If the Knicks let Jeremy Lin go, it will alienate the fan base for a generation.
Fan support for the manager is at an all-time low but the players are still behind him.
Not only that, "I got my first fan letters for that design, " Matsunaga recalls, clearly still delighted.
Wind Waker is one of those games that has remained a critical and fan favorite for years.
Check out the Facebook fan pages for Super C-A-S-H to see how unhappy this policy made customers.
Facebook itself is not setting up a fan page for the law.
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Then, one afternoon, I noticed myself wasting an hour watching my Twitter feed and Facebook fan page for positive feedback.
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It might not have had an existing fan base for its launch today, but it had a whole lot of hype.
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Unlike basketball or hockey--sports that have a major, consistent fan following for both live and television events--snowboarding usually has a small audience.
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