1.   But what ultimately brought New York its marathon identity were the story lines and spectator interest.

2.   Spectator interest and corporate support shriveled.

3.   Spectator interest in the classics varies greatly.

4.   The fact is, while soccer has become popular with some moms and a ton of tots, it seems to lose spectator interest when the kids reach adulthood.

5.   There is no quicker way to kill spectator interest than to have a game played and the outcome decided a month later by lawyers.

6.   What this has done, to a degree, is wipe out sports with limited spectator interest, like track and field, by eliminating scholarships and cutting budgets.

7.   Another inevitable change in the game, he said, is that day-and-night tests will have to be played to keep spectator interest alive.

8.   But some of the empty seats, he said, were simply a result of lack of spectator interest.

9.   But some of the empty seats, he said, resulted simply from lack of spectator interest.

10.   Cricket is booming in Bangladesh and the spectator interest has almost caught on with the national sport, football.