The dog guys, in their parking area behind the arena, sat on folding chairs beside their pickups.
Because Gardner, 28, defeated Ghaffari at the national championships he received a bye and sat in the arena the past two days.
Minutes later, nearly the entire Russian team was in tears as it sat against the arena wall and watched the Americans step onto the floor to perform.
On Tuesday, Kovalchuk, wearing a red hooded sweatshirt and a thick black beard, sat in the arena and talked about playing in his first Stanley Cup finals.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — While N.H.L. arenas sat empty and a bitter labor dispute played out in New York conference rooms in mid-December, four rising stars for the Edmonton Oilers continued to compete.
The NHL still has some work left to do to get its financial house in order, but it is in much better shape than two years ago, when 30 arenas sat dark during a lost season.
Niall Sloane, ITV's head of sport, sat ringside as the arena convulsed around him.
Saturday night, the rest of the school sat in the basketball arena, deliriously watching a movie.
David Beckham sat ringside in the arena down the street from where his wife was performing at the Mandalay Bay on the Spice Girls reunion tour.
Today, he and Marbury sat in America West Arena after the team's light practice, both adorned with ice bags on their ankles, but ready to start as usual Wednesday against the Phoenix Suns.
I pass two "private cabins"—little cave-like rooms with low wooden benches and a flatscreen TV screwed to the wall, each with a furtive looking punter sat within into the main arena.
