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...MyFC) will get this year when they take possession of their very own team, Ebbsfleet United, following the completion of due diligence on the purchase of the non-league side. For around $70, "owners" will take control of all aspects of running the club - both on and off the field - by voting in online polls for player transfers, team selection and tactics. Starting line-ups are decided and passed to the coach in good time for match day but not revealed on the website till an hour before kick...
...reduce traffic fatalities, it's the military that's really driving this research. The appeal is obvious: How many lives will be saved once the convoys in Iraq are unmanned? It's not as unrealistic as it sounds. Remote-controlled robot soldiers toting M249 rifles are already in the field there...
...elitism won out in 1875 in the first Harvard-Yale match-up. Yale was forced to concede to Harvard’s superior athletic authority and have been paying ever since. That inaugural game resulted in the first of many humiliating defeats for Yale...on and off the field. Over at the first ever tailgate, seven Harvard students were arrested for public drunkenness. Hell yeah. A few years later, the traditional game took a violent turn. This game, held in Springfield, Massachusetts, prior to the construction of Harvard Stadium, resulted in more than one casualty. Dubbed...
...field of exception to this unseemly prejudice is sport, the real religion of Down Under. The idea of nonelitist sport is, of course, an absurdity. No Australian would waste time watching a football match in which nobody was better than anyone else, or a horse race in which every nag plunked along at exactly the same speed. And (of course) Australians find no contradiction in that. Ours is the meritocracy that dare not speak its name...
...reserved for the King or Queen of England, by definition a foreigner, and not even an elected foreigner: the office of the Australian head of state remains purely hereditary, open only to a small clan of Anglo-German squillionaires known as the Windsor family. This appreciably narrows the field of talent...