Eris Reddoch wrote:

>  Before long everyone has left the ship, except Woof. He sets the
>  alarms, locks the hatches and leaves himself. It won't take long to
>  get up to the North Stadium where the game is going to be held, only
>  about an hour, but he plans to grab a bite to eat before the game and
>  still get there early enough to get a good seat.
>
>  Woof takes public transit, light rail from a station near the
>  Starport, across the city to the suburbs north of the metropolitan
>  area. On the way he reads a local paper he has picked up.
>
>  The football tournament is a major one. There will be professional
>  and semi-pro teams here from more than 20 cities, and/or planets. The
>  teams are divided into four groups with the top team in each of the
>  brackets moving on to a medal round.
>
>  The Sequi Sea Dragons are in a tough bracket. They are matched up
>  with two top Mark City teams, a well known team from Nafa lavia on
>  the southern continent, and a semi-pro team from Serbia (a system 1
>  parsec coreward of here). The Sea Dragons have drawn the Serbian
>  team, The Ponies is their nickname, for their first opponent, and the
>  odds on this game is 52 to 48 with The Ponies the favorite.

Woof goes around to the player's entrance and waves at one of the Sea 
Dragons who waves him over and gets the gate guard to let him in.

"You can sit on the bench and cheer us on." he says.

It is an exciting game, the Sea Dragons play hard and win on a late 
goal, 3-2. Woof is invited to "Party!" with the winners after the game, 
but he has to get back to the ship to meet Lessa, so he takes a rain 
check.  Before leaving, Woof finds out that the Sea Dragon's next 
opponent in the draw is the Mark City Swans, one of the best teams on 
Mark...by rights it should be a blow out...scheduled for tomorrow afternoon.

Eris
AKU