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...Boston Red Sox were about to clinch their second World Series championship in 89 years, the agent for Alex Rodriguez, who may go down as the best baseball player of all time, announced that his client was opting out of the final three years of his New York Yankee contract to become a free agent. After the game, the Sox couldn't sip their champagne without answering questions about A-Rod. It was the coronation of an eight-month march: spring training, a 162-game regular season, seven straight post-season victories. And there was A-Rod crashing the party...
...president Dana White went on the counterattack following Couture's statements. White, an ex-boxing manager, accused Couture of having a "puke Hollywood agent" giving him bad advice. At a press conference Tuesday in which he disputed Couture's claims, White said the fighter was paid $2.9 million last year, including a $500,000 signing bonus - even brandishing a canceled check to prove...
...following a junior season in which he went 1-for-9. Meanwhile, Zachary U. Farkes, the all-time Harvard home run leader, and Frank J. Herrmann, the ace of the pitching staff, both members of the Class of 2006, went undrafted that spring and were forced to sign free-agent contracts...
...officer should use in any given situation. Yet these standards vary from city to city, and no universal code applies to the country's law enforcement force as a whole. "If a guy has a stick, you don't pull a shotgun out," says John Ryan, a former CIA agent and assistant director of the special investigations group of the Government Accountability Office, who oversaw a 2005 study on the use-of-force policies regarding Tasers. Beyond those basics, however, individual police departments have the freedom to create their own policies - regarding Tasers as well as other weapons. "Law enforcement...
...More Than Zero "I'm sorry," as Arenas likes to write, but I'm not done with his score-settling, trash-talking, philosophical-waxing Agent Zero Blog, which is not only the best sports blog on the Web, but the best blog, period. Here, for your enjoyment, is more recent Gilbertology: "Can you please take the hockey teams out of basketball arenas? Basketball is not supposed to be played on ice. I'm sorry. I don't know if it's just me, but I hate going to arenas where it's 60 degrees outside and 50 degrees inside. That...