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After Haviland went all seven innings in the opener, Walsh used an arsenal of hurlers in the nightcap. When freshman Eric Eadington seemed to lack his customary sharpness—Dartmouth loaded the bases in the top of the second on two hit batsmen and a walk—Walsh turned to sophomore Adam Cole, a converted reliever whose power fastball had worked the Crimson out of some late-inning jams in recent weeks...
...past year - Liverpool, Portsmouth, Aston Villa and West Ham United - to add to the three which already had non-British owners. The rush isn't over; in April, Stan Kroenke, owner of the Denver Nuggets basketball team and ice hockey's Colorado Avalanche, increased his stake in Arsenal, of London, to more than 12%. The flood of money is paying dividends; three of the four semifinalists in this year's Champions League are Premier League clubs. With interest swelling among faraway fans in Asia and beyond, backers of the Premier League can look forward to "a much brighter future...
...face of it, there's still a stark difference in financial power the lower down the Premier League table you go. According to Deloitte's 2006 Annual Review of Football Finance, the top five earners in the 2004-05 season - Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal and Newcastle United - accounted for almost half of both revenue and salary costs. And though average club revenue hit $124 million in 2004-05, the ratio of revenue at the richest club to that of the poorest is 4.7:1, well over twice the NFL's rate and almost double the NBA's. While income...
...supercop in a placid English village. But the local detectives warn Sgt. Nicholas Angel that Sandford is an arsenal waiting to explode...
...That was closer to a standard American revenge scenario, where the hero takes violent action against those he thinks wronged him. (Death Wish, anyone?) And don't forget that the weapon of choice in Oldboy was a hammer, which no one planning a mass murder would pack in his arsenal...