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...Squadron says that early sales for the consumer product, which hit the market two weeks ago, have been strong. The rest of March, however, will be crucial as this is the peak season for fantasy-baseball drafts. If baseball is a home run, expect similar products for football, which has an even more rabid following among fantasy players, and soccer, which would give Bloomberg Sports a more global reach - and make workplaces even less productive...
Tied at 35, the Crimson made a crucial error. Thinking the ball was going out of bounds, the team’s passers watched as the ball landed on the line to give the Pride set point. Springfield took the first set, 37-35, when sophomore Nikola Ivica hit the ball out of bounds...
...just cable companies that are being hit with higher programming costs. "We're getting a lot of pressure to increase rates at extraordinary levels," DirecTV executive Derek Chang told a trade magazine. As a satellite provider, DirecTV competes with cable companies and telcos to be the business that provides the signal to consumers' homes. It faces similar fees for carrying cable programming. "There are limitations on what we can do on rates with customers," Chang said. (See the top 10 memorable moments of the 2010 Academy Awards...
...this makes the new release of “Quarantine the Past”—Pavement’s first greatest hits album—so baffling. The very existence of a greatest hits album for this band—whose closest approximation of a hit was 1994’s “Cut Your Hair,” which peaked at the giddy height of 10 on the Billboard Alternative Chart—seems more or less unnecessary, but even when one accepts the notion, this particular collection of songs proves frustratingly off. Many classics make...
...matter, nor should it. Senator Brown’s ability to make nice for the camera bears little on his ability to make policy. However, when the story first came to light, I couldn’t help recall Lisa Edelstein’s character Laurie from the hit TV show The West Wing, who was also trying to pay her way through law school by working as an escort. The point Aaron Sorkin, the show’s creator and main writer, was making with this plotline was that Laurie’s chosen method of financing her education...