SAN FRANCISCO — After Sunday night's game, the modest Mets All-Star contingent of Carlos Beltran, the injured Jose Reyes and Jay Horwitz, the team's vice president for media relations, were planning to fly to Phoenix on a charter plane with the more expansive Giants contingent of five players, Manager Bruce Bochy and several coaches.
The addition of an all-star contingent of the all-woman big band Maiden Voyage playing a post-movie set is a great bit of historic connective tissue.
But with a large contingent of All-Star talent like Tracy McGrady, Allen Iverson and Vince Carter available for trade, and the likes of Kobe Bryant and Rasheed Wallace on the free-agent market, Isiah Thomas will most likely be trying to woo them.
Dallas had a contingent of owner Mark Cuban, All-Star forward Dirk Nowitzi, Coach Rick Carlisle and President Donnie Nelson, said two people who were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter.
Such was the case as recently as January 6, when a post on the all-star website noted that Scott "leads the veteran contingent" of Pacific players.
When Stern announced that the Knicks had selected Michigan's Tim Hardaway Jr, son of former NBA All-Star Tim Hardaway Sr, with the 24th overall pick, the large contingent of Knicks fans present actually cheered their team's selection.
Matthaus, who was part of the MetroStars' six-man contingent at today's Major League Soccer All-Star Game, played the entire first half as a central defender for the East.
With the Hall of Famers Hakeem Olajuwon and Clyde Drexler joining its contingent, Houston pitched Howard on joining James Harden, who was an All-Star last season, his first year with the Rockets.
Now, brought to this country by NBC for two half-hour specials, the "Spitting Image" puppets focus their refreshingly unfettered satire on a host of American notables, with Ronald and Nancy Reagan at the head of a contingent that includes both Republican and Democratic luminaries, supported by an all-star cast of this year's ensconced celebrities.
That year's game was played at Yankee Stadium, which was fitting because six of the Yankees' contingent started, as designated by their manager, Joe McCarthy, who was also the All-Star team's manager.
Suzuki, the rookie right fielder from Japan, led a contingent of four Mariners to election to the American League team for the All-Star Game that will be played next Tuesday night in -- where else? -- Seattle.
