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...signed to pro teams in Europe once they've done enough to attract the attention of foreign scouts. And David Beckham clearly wasn't ready for oblivion. The 33-year-old England wide man, who in 2007 joined the Los Angeles Galaxy on a $250 million five-year contract, looks set to return to Europe, next January, and join glamor club AC Milan on loan. If the deal is finalized in the wake of Milan's premature announcement Wednesday, it would mark an essential step in Beckham's bid to reclaim his place in the England squad ahead...
...European winter by training with a top club, and keeping his England prospects alive. (He spent last year's MLS off-season training with England's Arsenal.) But Milan is hyping the arrival of its new recruit, and suggests it could buy out the remainder of Beckham's contract with L.A. The chance of that happening, however, if highly improbable, given the money required and Beckham's own declining play. Galaxy coach Bruce Arena opposes even a loan deal, noting it would both fatigue one of his best (and oldest) players, and keep him away from L.A. well after...
...Sports do benefit from a buffer against recession. Leagues are in the midst of long-term television-rights deals whose terms are already locked in (baseball, for example, has a contract with Fox, TBS and ESPN that expires in 2013). And there are some positive economic indicators. New York Mets vice president David Howard says the 49 luxury boxes for the team's new stadium, which are priced between $250,000 and $500,000, have already sold out. That's an impressive achievement, given the bad economy and the team's second straight horrific collapse down the stretch...
...House Committees, and Harvard University Dining Services, ended due to a dearth of funding. An earlier trial period failed to muster enough UC support for permanent financing when legislation was introduced in March 2007. The Crimson took part in the the fall 2007 pilot, benefiting financially from a distribution contract. Usui said USA Today’s program is particularly attractive because the company would run a four-week trial that would include student surveys to gauge interest. With that data, Usui said, the UC could make a stronger case for asking the College for funding, or for funding...
...sustainability and the food literacy project is great but most people on campus are not aware of it,” he said. For example, he said students may have noticed the wide variety of squash in dining halls this fall, but might not know about HUDS’ contract with a local farm that grows 40,000 pounds of squash specifically for Harvard. “We help students on campus learn what’s going and get students more involved with the food literacy project when a lot of them don’t know it exits...