The CLEAR program, a fixture at SeaTac, has come to the Mariners’ stadium, and it’ll get you in faster if you surrender your biometric data. But, is that a good idea?
Inside sports business
My first experience with a metal detector while covering sports was on Oct. 30, 2001, roughly seven weeks after the 9/11 terror attacks. It was Game 3 of the World Series between the New York Yankees and Arizona Diamondbacks at Yankee Stadium and President George W. Bush was throwing out the ceremonial first pitch.
Most of us that day were frightened out of our minds, given anthrax scares in Manhattan’s subway system and the unknowns about what could happen next after the World Trade Center’s collapse.