hoopla

Because, for all this week's haka hoopla, for all the tourists' dominant history, this is a New Zealand team that creak when their predecessors - with 34 wins from 45 previous meetings - didn't.

In a few weeks, the hoopla and the tally of gold, silver and bronze medals at the Summer Games will give way to a much more consequential reckoning: Paris’ winners and losers.

As Plaschke predicted, I would have watched to see if the Clark hoopla is warranted.

Brewers outfielder Christian Yelich downplayed the hoopla surrounding the manager’s return to Milwaukee.

In the middle of all that basketball and hockey hoopla, Texas hosts the Arizona Diamondbacks this week in a rematch of the World Series.