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After trading its second- and third-round selections in the 2005 draft to the Kansas City Wizards for their third-round selection in this year’s draft, United chose Ara. With its initial pick, the first one of the draft, United took 14-year old sensation Freddy Adu, who is now both the league’s youngest player and highest paid with a reported $500,000-a-year contract...
...very good core of players here, and we feel that Kevin has some qualities that we think will fit well into the way we play,” said United’s technical director Dave Kasper, who was also in charge of the team’s draft selections...
...first of five Ivy League players chosen, the most ever taken in the MLS draft since its debut in 1996. The previous high had been three in 1997, 2001 and 2002. The Ancient Eight was also the only conference to have at least one player taken from at least half of its member schools...
...famous Revolutionary War tract. "We face a growing threat to our liberty and justice in America today," he writes. "Thomas Jefferson and James Madison spoke of the fear that economic power would one day seize political power. That fear is now being realized. Under the Bush Administration, pharmaceutical companies draft our Medicare laws. Oil executives sit in the Vice President's office and write energy bills...
...people talk about the draft picks in relation to our team. You can use it to make good points, and you can use it to make bad points, but we don’t focus on that at all,” Smith said. “We very rarely talk about the teams we’ve been drafted by, or who’s drafted. It’s really a non-issue...