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...pace to throw 60 touchdown passes, obliterating the record 49 that Manning threw in 2004. He's always been a selfless player; a few years ago Brady took a below-market paycheck so the Pats could surround him with above-market talent. While Manning's contract is much richer - $98 million, with a whopping $34.5 million signing bonus - he restructured it this off-season to save the Colts salary cap space. Manning's work ethic is universally admired, and he makes everyone around him a better player. And face it: though all those commercials overexpose...
...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...
...focus on and fully appreciate his athletic prowess. Here's a guy who might have won five or more titles by now if he could just share the spotlight - and the ball. But back in 2004, he pushed Shaquille O'Neal out of Tinseltown and got a max money contract, $136.4 million over seven years. And now that the Lakers haven't won squat since then, Kobe (surprise, surprise) wants to be traded...
...scouting boat - "the ghost ships." Once part of the James River Reserve Fleet standing ready to respond to a national emergency, the 12,000-ton behemoths were decommissioned in the 1980s and 1990s and tugged across the Atlantic after a Hartlepool ship-breaking firm, Able UK, won the contract to recycle their steel, promising to create 1,500 jobs...
...March this year encouraging ship recycling in the UK - citing concerns that the work would otherwise go to unregulated docks in the developing world - that the council relented. In late October, it granted Able UK permission to recycle the ships, but the delay has cost the firm a contract for a further nine James River Fleet vessels, and Friends of the Earth is considering appealing the decision on the remaining four...