1. As is often the case in Canadian hockey, the game is all about memory, pride, regional rivalry, winter and a national sense of self. 2. Baseball officials had the daunting task of enhancing regional rivalries, preserving pennant-race excitement and making sure all of it meshed equitably. 3. Baseball went for the no-brainer regional rivalries. 4. But since fostering regional rivalries is supposed to be the whole point of interleague play, it has put a premium on creating a rivalry here at long last. 5. By providing an internationally recognized, verifiable means for states to forswear weapons forever, the treaty helps prevent regional rivalries from evolving into regional arms races. 6. Enlarging NATO would oblige the U.S. to defend countries mainly threatened by internal disunity and their own regional rivalries, not Russian resurgence. 7. Fans may be disappointed to learn that, at least for now, potential realignment ideas are not focusing on regional rivalries. 8. For the first time in three meetings this season it had the smell and feel of a real regional rivalry. 9. Fraser is exactly the old hand you want reffing a regional rivalry like this. 10. In the end, a family feud intervened in this regional rivalry. |