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...action. TV deals that put even the smaller Premier League sides on screens from Shanghai to Chicago are "a fantastic impetus to all clubs," reckons Dan Jones, a partner at Deloitte's Sports Business Group. Foreign channels covering more than 200 countries together stumped up $1.23 billion to air the league for the three seasons beginning 2007-08, paying just shy of double the current amount and contributing a quarter of the Premier League's central income. Scudamore told Time that he thinks overseas rights will soon be worth half of that collective pot. Such figures make American sports tycoons...
...Blue Angels, the Navy's flashy flight-exhibition team, have thrilled spectators since 1946. Their high-speed, tight-formation flying routines, however, can exact a dear price. Some two dozen Blue Angel pilots have died in air shows or training accidents. The latest casualty is Lieut. Commander Kevin Davis, whose F/A-18 Hornet clipped a stand of pine trees before crashing into a Beaufort, S.C., residential neighborhood. The cause of the crash is unknown, but as former Blue Angels pilots have noted, such aerial acrobatics leave no room for human or mechanical error. Davis...
...like a splintered oar. He was a stocky, sawed-off stub of a man; a seasoned war fighter with a valiant past he seldom tired of highlighting; an unconscionable braggart of modest means who resented the blue bloods among the group; a bigmouthed know-it-all with a sanctimonious air and little or no regard for decorum. His name was John Smith...
...board. Japan's objective is to craft a middle way that can bridge the gap between those who signed on to Kyoto and those who didn't. So, don't expect Prime Minister Abe to tell Bush that he needs to start hanging the White House laundry out to air...
...showed up on TV, and for the first time in years, Russians heard a lively political discussion broadcast live as speaker after speaker invoked memories of "free speech and the free media as Yeltsin' uppermost historical achievement," drawing waves of applause from the studio audience. This breath of fresh air in the long stagnant Russian TV atmosphere was the best tribute to Yeltsin - and the most bitter reminder of his worst failure...