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Piniella, 65, is more balanced and composed now than in his younger days. He no longer tosses bases or crushes watercoolers - except on the TV ads that play on his feisty image. "With his reputation, you're expecting this guy to be yelling and screaming every day," says Chicago first baseman Derrek Lee, a Cub since 2004 (Piniella joined the team last season). "It's not really like that." McCarver, a longtime friend of Piniella's, has seen a new Lou too. "His transformation has been more than subtle," he says. Yes, he's still brutally honest with his players...
What is the difference between Wall Street and a casino? (Not meant as a joke) On Wall Street, the dealers get paid a lot more and are often allowed to bet alongside the customers. Oh, and much of the money raised on Wall Street actually goes to productive purposes. Except when markets are in bubble mode...
...also (except in, say, Detroit and Cleveland) not the result of external economic factors like Texas in the 1980s or Southern California in the 1990s. It's a crash caused by the twisted dynamics of real estate finance in recent years...
...playoffs due to Ivy League rules, and Ivy contests are a far cry from the gauntlet that typifies a season in the Southeastern Conference, LSU’s league, which includes traditional powerhouses Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, Georgia, and Auburn.These are two worlds of college football, worlds that never meet. Except, of course, in the case of Hatch, who has become something of a sensational story in his second year on the LSU squad. His story has been repeated countless times and is usually met with amazement: Hatch was invited to join the Tigers after spending a season in Cambridge, where...
That double-overtime Crimson victory two years ago kicked off Brown’s last Ivy title season, so all is not lost for Harvard, nor for Yale, nor for any team for that matter—except perhaps for Dartmouth, who gave up 367 rushing (yes, rushing) yards to first-week opponent Colgate and more recently fell 42-6 against No. 7 New Hampshire...