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Boston Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein said last week his squad defeated their rivals "for all the great Red Sox players who never found a way to beat the Yankees." Among those greats was TED WILLIAMS, who never won a World Series in his Sox career...
...high school athletics didn’t exactly have a cult following at Brookline, I quickly found that all of the professional teams did in a way that I never thought possible. After all, Brookline was in the center of the Boston sports world. Red Sox General Manager Theo Epstein went to my high school; Patriots owner Robert Kraft and Sox president Larry Lucchino both call the town home; and the neighborhood is so close to Fenway Park, that I could hear Bruce Springsteen from my house when he played there last summer...
...irony, though, is that while Ivy League alums like Red Sox GM Theo Epstein (who didn’t play sports at Yale, but did write about them for the Yale Daily News) and Los Angeles GM Paul DePodesta ’95 (who only played JV baseball at Harvard) have embraced sabermetrics as a valuable tool, current Ivy League ball players are much more likely to get drafted by front offices that still rely heavily on tools-based scouting...
...website called asmallworld.net?but the Stockholm-based service is by invitation only. If you know the right people, an e-mail arrives saying "Welcome to a SmallWorld," and you're ushered into a rarefied club with 21,000 members?including supermodel Naomi Campbell, mysterious New York City financier Jeffrey Epstein and a chunk of European aristocracy?who swap jet-set travel tips and chat online. The site was founded in March of this year by Erik Wachtmeister, 49, the son of a former Swedish ambassador to the U.S., who dreams of creating the world's "leading global social-networking community...
...last week, is already a veteran of four professions. After switching from university in New Delhi to Harvard at 18, she had ideas of being an avant-garde actor, "but when I got there, it was all Oklahoma!" She became a photographer's assistant (to first husband Mitch Epstein), then an award-winning documentary filmmaker before turning feature-film director at 30. Today she's also a producer, a film professor at Columbia University and a horticulturist so fanatical that it's beginning to affect her day job. "They've rewritten the script for [author Nick Hornby's] Fever Pitch...