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...This off-season will test that claim. After all, what would be more Yankee-esque than buying the best player in baseball? During the late innings of Game 4, the agent for Alex Rodriguez, Scott Boras, leaked word that his client was opting out of the last three years of this $252 million contract. A-Rod is now a free agent, and if Yankee management keeps its promise not to pursue him, his pinstripe career is curtains. (Leave it to Boras, a man whose ego has no peer, to hijack the Sox win with A-Rod's news...
...Boston Red Sox have swept the last two World Series in which they've appeared. The last team to achieve that feat was the New York Yankees, who won eight straight in the 1998 and '99 Fall Classics. Last off-season, the Sox overpaid for two free agents, outfielder J.D. Drew (five years, $70 million) and Japanese pitching phenom Daisuke Matsuzaka (six years, $52 million), just like the damn Yankees usually do. These players, however, did produce in the post-season: Drew's grand slam against the Cleveland Indians in Game 6 of the American League Championship Series helped propel...
...economics concentrator maintains a style that is a subtle blend of classic East Coast and sixty-year-old man. Alternating occasionally between polos and button down shirts, the ec concentrator rarely deviates from khaki pants–though he allows himself the occasional foray into denim during the recruiting off-season. English The fashion mavens of the Harvard world, English concentrators always have time to dress for success between their six hours of class a week. Leggings are an essential component to any outfit, allowing female concentrators to go without pants (frequently leading to the display of something resembling...
Recruiting hasn’t been the only challenge for the rookie Crimson coach. He has had to quickly learn that Harvard isn’t like most other Division I universities. While many institutions keep their basketball teams on campus in summer school during the off-season, many Harvard student-athletes are off training on their own. “This is a little bit new for us as a coaching staff because the majority of our kids weren’t here [over the summer],” Amaker explains. “All our guys kind...
Addressing the shortfall won't be easy. Ultimately, it will be up to individual schools to provide family-friendly benefits like off-season flex time. But will the athletic directors spend that last dollar on day care for a female coach or a shiny new locker for the football team? Will they actively recruit a woman coach as hard as they do a man? "The most important thing to my athletic director is the Directors' Cup," Yoculan says of the award given to the school with the best overall athletic performance in both men's and women's sports...