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But, as sports fans know all too well, home-team advantage can be a game-changer.

Japanese Fans Score Seats in Pyongyang Yoree Koh 2011

There has been more than a bit of unquestioning, rah-rah, home-team nationalism to some of the media coverage of this car.

Gene and the Machine: The shocking truth about the electric Volt Gene Weingarten 2011

Major League Baseball already supplies out-of-market games to online viewers this way, though seeks to preserve its local TV deals by holding back live home-team games.

Cable, Innovative? You Don't Say! Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011

Lawmakers slammed police inaction they said had allowed home-team fans at the soccer game in the northern coastal city of Port Said to attack spectators in visiting bleachers with knives, sticks and firecrackers, as other people were asphyxiated in the crush of bodies trying to escape the stadium.

Egypt's Police Face Fallout From Riot Matt Bradley 2012

Hey, let's have our home-team players pay for the referees at the next Philadelphia Eagles football game.

We'd All Like to Have Referees on Payroll 2011

For starters, there's a perceived advantage to teams from France — even the U.S. has failed to crack the home-team bias, never placing higher than the sixth-place in 2009 by Timothy Hollingsworth from the French Laundry restaurant in Napa, California.

Continental Cuisine Amy Ma 2011

With its proximity to Verizon Center, Redline is being positioned as a natural home-team watering hole for Capitals and Wizards fans.

New gastropub and restaurant to take over old Indebleu location Justin Rude 2010

As this year's three-day tournament progressed, the fighters, as familiar to the crowd as home-team NFL quarterbacks, began to thin out.

How Do You Dress a Turkish Wrestler? In Olive Oil and Leather Britches Marc Champion 2011

Of the many years of Super Bowl home-team mishaps, the 2011 Colts are eclipsed on the misery index only by the 1973 Houston Oilers who went 1-13 the year Space City hosted Super Bowl VIII.

No Fans Were Left Out in the Cold 2012

The steadily rising cost of the production values (Alex Rodriguez paid $33 million for the season, $2.8 million for a 30-second commercial in attendance at the Super Bowl) speaks to the steadily mounting fear of imminent defeat -- if not for the New York Yankees or the Dallas Cowboys, then for the home-team American promise of a democratic republic, which, for the last 40 years, has been on a losing streak.

Lewis Lapham: Field of Dreams: The CIA and Me and Other Adventures in American Sports Lewis Lapham 2010