"The Colosseum. Oh, you should see the Colosseum, Spaniard. Fifty-thousand Romans. Watching every movement of your sword. Willing you to make that killer blow. The silence before you strike. And the noise afterwards. It rises. It rises up like ... like a storm. As if you were the thunder god himself."
-- Proximo to Maximus, Rome (from "Gladiator")
"A baseball field. They raced on a baseball field. You should have seen that baseball field. My daddy crashed into a dugout."
-- Richard Petty to Ryan McGee, Randleman, North Carolina
There has been, will be and should be much buzz about this weekend's Busch Light Clash at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.