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...world's richest and most popular soccer league announced Thursday that it's pursuing plans to play 10 competitive games abroad beginning in the 2010/11 season. The matches - staged over a single weekend, and involving all 20 of the League's teams playing in cities overseas who bid to host games - would add to the existing 38-game fixture list. "The clubs," Premier League chief exec Richard Scudamore beamed Thursday, "are excited...
...plan is still in its infancy, however, and has not yet been adopted. The League would pick five host cities from bidders around the globe, each one staging two games over a January weekend. And it's expecting a scramble among would-be hosts, given the universal TV popularity of the English league. "The world's most pervasive game is the game that's going to benefit most from globalization," Scudamore told reporters at a central London hotel. "The Premier League is in a prime position to take advantage of this. The 'international round' is a response to that ever...
...gave us the mantra "The personal is political." And that can cut two ways. Hillary has relied on a connection with women as an electoral base. She's had her cleavage and her tears pored over by the media and benefited from the backlash. She's had Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC'S Hardball--is there a more male title in all of TV?--claim that "the reason she may be a front runner is her husband messed around," had Rush Limbaugh asking whether America wants to watch a woman aging in the Oval Office and faced a young...
...what really worries Clinton loyalists is that Obama lacks their, well, loyalty. Running her campaign are a host of aides who have worked for the Clintons before, been fired or been kicked aside and yet keep coming back, decade after decade, to help. That's how the Clintons define loyalty. That pattern may explain why there are those in Clintonland who think Obama has wronged her over the course of the campaign simply because he took...
...much better, surrendering a power-play score as well as a backbreaking shorthanded goal in the second period that ran the score to 3-1. WHAT CAN BROWN DO FOR YOU? The Bears may currently rank as one of the two worst teams in the ECAC, but when they host the Crimson, the games are never lacking in excitement. Last February, Brown and Harvard skated to a 6-6 tie at Meehan Auditorium in a contest that featured 23 penalties, five ties, three lead changes, and several fights between the two teams. One year later (and, for the record, under...