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In the past 18 months, a league that has been kept whole by dipping into the deep pockets of two soccer-nutty billionaire owners has attracted close to $1 billion in outside investment from new franchises, new team owners, public stadium funding and sponsorship money. Adidas kicked in $150 million...
MLS has stayed around mostly because two of its founders, Lamar Hunt and Phil Anschutz, kept it afloat (unlike the women's professional league, which disappeared last year). Hunt, an oilman who also owns the NFL's Kansas City Chiefs, and Anschutz, an oil and technology entrepreneur who owns too...
If you’re looking for something to do between the beginning of May and Labor Day, you’re obviously way out of the loop—just go to the movies! Does the fact that Natalie Portman and Matt Damon went to Harvard mean nothing to...
THE CHALLENGE The X-Men have a problem. Not the threat of Magneto or the fact that a pharmaceutical company has come up with a "cure" for mutancy (jeez, can't we all just get along?). The issue is the loss of Singer (to Superman), who directed the first two...
Samuel D. Baum ’98 describes himself as “a short-order cook in a diner” when it comes to his current writing career—many different projects are cooking, and he’s serving a number of ravenous customers. Currently, he...