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Back in July, nearly 7,000 players gathered in Las Vegas for the 2008 World Series of Poker's championship event - a $10,000 buy-in elimination tournament known as the most lucrative and prestigious event in professional poker. Last week, after a 117-day recess, 22-year-old Danish pro Peter Eastgate captured the title, defeating 27-year-old Russian Ivan Demidov by turning a straight on the final hand to beat Demidov's two pairs. Eastgate, the youngest main event champion in history, earned $9.1 million for his efforts-the second largest prize the tournament has ever doled...
...These results are disheartening. Mara, who voted "yes" both times, has seen the potential harm of sudden death up close. In last year's NFC championship game, the Green Bay Packers won the overtime toss against the Giants. Although Favre threw an interception that led to a game-winning field goal for New York, Mara sweated it out. If the Packers had won without a New York possession, "I know how I would have felt," he says...
...Unfortunately, Mara doesn't sense any groundswell for change. "I think it will take something dramatic to happen in the championship game, or God forbid, the Super Bowl [which has never gone into overtime] for enough people to get concerned," Mara says. But why is the most decorated sports league in the land refusing to use some common sense? Mara's telling reply: "That's a fair question...
...they can’t win the whole thing by themselves. To get their younger teammates ready to contend for the championship, the three seniors have been working hard to set positive examples and get their teammates up to speed on all things team-related...
...different states, and each player will bring a unique skill set to a team that was picked to finish fourth in the Ivy League in the preseason media poll. The players are not focused on the ranking, though.“We were brought here to win an Ivy championship and that’s our goal,” freshman forward Andrew Van Nest says.Van Nest was one of the Crimson’s top recruits, but the 6’10” forward, who hails from nearby Weston, Mass., will not set foot on the court this...