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According to the PGA West website, “the name Nicklaus has long been associated with greatness on a golf course. The 18 major championships. The electrifying finishes.” This certainly was the case on Thursday, as the Harvard men’s golf team was narrowly edged out by University of California at Riverside, 305-307, at the Nicklaus Tournament Course of the Club at PGA West in La Quinta, Calif. “I was the first one in, so I didn’t see how the other guys behind me were doing...
...crowded as ever, so it's hard for any new entity, no matter what the sport, to carve out its place. Second, soccer in the U.S. has waged an epic losing struggle for market share as a spectator sport. The male pro counterpart, the 13-year old Major League Soccer, is growing steadily, but as a niche player. Third, women's pro leagues such as the WNBA have really struggled to sustain themselves. In fact, soccer tried a women's league earlier this decade, and it shut down. (See pictures of women's World Cup soccer...
...cable - is where most people see most of their films, and where Hollywood makes much more money than it gets from theaters. Where's the inevitability factor in a format that can't yet be duplicated at home? Even Jeffrey Katzenberg acknowledges that 3-D won't be a major factor in home viewing for quite some time. And he's talking only about DVDs. What about pay-cable? How would HBO show the 3-D version of Monsters vs Aliens - on a separate, 3-D-only channel, with glasses that came with your cable bill...
...There are two major arguments against the level of regulation that the Administration would like. The first is that regulations do not prevent people from acting rashly or dishonestly. Rogue traders can still lose hundreds of millions of dollars on an investment bank trading floor with a PC and access to their firm's capital. Inside trading and naked shorting of stocks happen all the time, although both are illegal. Fighting regulation because some people refuse to be regulated turns out to be indefensible because the alternative is chaos...
...Despite the poor results, there was at least one major positive that came from the week in the south. Facing some of the best pitching in the country, the Harvard bats showed that they could produce runs against even the most difficult of opponents...