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Article: Nashville hot with sports fever.(Sports City USA)
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- Insight on the News
- Article date:
- August 3, 1998
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Though best known as the center of country music, Nashville is sharpening its cultural acuity as it prepares to give the big leagues the keys to the city. So who's crazy here?
Coy Shultz, a 40-year-old boat mechanic, is a Nashville native -- a dwindling species in this booming Southern city that draws more Rust Belt transplants to its neighborhoods than it does aspiring singers to Music Row. With its country charm and newfound cosmopolitan bustle, Nashville supports a lifestyle residents such as Shultz hold dearly.
But as an avid professional-sports fan, Shultz's options in Nashville always were limited to the region's college athletic programs at ...