The Knicks have the rich history, the deep roots and the broad fan base.
Without the support of network television or a broad fan base, fight cards now rely heavily on demographic research.
Like Mr. Simmons, Ms. Villec, 51, has a broad fan base, many living along her postal delivery route in Riverton and Cinnaminson.
"And everything we're doing this year will be about showing baseball's connections with its broad fan base," said Jacqueline Parkes, senior director for advertising at Major League Baseball.
Here and there, kelp stems poke up through the sand, some like broken sticks, others with their broad fan of fronds still intact but drooping like sodden flags.
The only hold-up might be that he's still very early in his career, and featherweights are currently below the Maginot Line of broad fan appeal.
Shaved steak is often marketed under the name of one of the dishes it's traditionally used in, which gives an idea of its versatility and broad fan base.
In these tales of Morpheus, the King of Dreams, and his siblings — Death, Desire, Despair, Delirium, Destruction and Destiny — Mr. Gaiman forged a broad fan base that faithfully followed him to his novels, as Sandman won 19 Eisner and six Harvey industry awards, and the tale "A Midsummer Night's Dream" snagged the World Fantasy Award for short fiction, a first for a comic-book story.
Some are designed as a broad fan of panels canting slightly upward and supported by a single pole; more often they are an ode to rectilinearity, parallel to the asphalt and supported by a line of poles between the rows of parking spaces.
With her layered performance, Ms. de Matteo has attracted a broad fan base, some drawn to Adriana as bimbo and others as representation of "what Milton called 'cloistered innocence,' " in the words of Regina Barreca, an English professor at the University of Connecticut and editor of "A Sitdown With the Sopranos" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2002).
