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This off-season will test that claim. After all, what would be more Yankee-esque than buying the best player in baseball? During the late innings of Game 4, the agent for Alex Rodriguez, Scott Boras, leaked word that his client was opting out of the last three years of this $252 million contract. A-Rod is now a free agent, and if Yankee management keeps its promise not to pursue him, his pinstripe career is curtains. (Leave it to Boras, a man whose ego has no peer, to hijack the Sox win with A-Rod's news...
Where could Rodriguez land another Ruthian payday? Mike Lowell, the Red Sox third baseman and World Series MVP, is a free agent, and the team may not guarantee the 33-year-old a long-term deal. If Lowell leaves, the Sox would need a third baseman, the position A-Rod plays...
Indeed, the high-altitude, low-achieving franchise had finished an average of 18 games out of first place each season since its National League debut in 1993. Awful field play, lousy free-agent signings, stupid trades and ownership bumbling had sapped the lifeblood of an organization that had launched with so much promise...
...year deal, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, would include the rights to sell three studio albums, promote Madonna's concerts and sell licensing name rights and merchandise, meaning a company that has never represented an artist before would suddenly be overall talent agent to one of the world's biggest music acts. If it is consummated - and both Warner Music and Live Nation refused requests to comment on the deal - it would be just the latest example of the increasingly prevalent so-called 360-degree deals that have concert promoters, record labels, ticketing agencies and management firms...
...mostly set in Vietnam from 1963 to 1970, “Tree of Smoke” is the name of a covert operation, the brainchild of a powerful, charismatic CIA operative known simply as the Colonel. It is the Colonel’s obsession to use a double agent, a philosophically disillusioned North Vietnamese man, to trick the Vietcong into thinking that some crazed commandos have stolen an atomic bomb and are trying to detonate it in Hanoi.Skip, the self-loathing, introverted CIA underling who acts as our protagonist, serves as the Colonel’s point man for this...