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Paul Harding: No one called me. I found out on the website and within 30 seconds of finding out the Associated Press was on the phone. It was astonishing. It’s strange—I have not yet experienced my own reaction to this...
...Real Madrid’s turn to host FC Barcelona for their second meeting of the season. The rivalry between the two teams is one of the oldest in the world, only a year younger than the rivalry between the Yankees and the Red Sox but just as fierce, if not more...
Barcelona came into the season with largely the same lineup that won it every accolade it vied for in the previous one, including the prestigious European Champions League trophy and the Spanish league title. On the other hand, during the off-season, Real, furious with its failure to compete with its archrival, spent an unheard of $345 million on six players—one of whom was Cristiano Ronaldo, the 2008 Fédération Internationale de Football Association World Player of the Year. With such talent bought at such an exorbitant price, Real expected good results...
...one hand, this seems intuitive. A solid team dynamic, superior coaching, a raucous home crowd, or a host of other auxiliary factors on one side can overcome an immense collection of pure talent on the other. Nevertheless, this doesn’t stop monied teams in professional sports leagues around the world, from Real Madrid to the Yankees, from making more of an effort to recruit and satisfy expensive star athletes instead of focusing on more foundational efforts. The failures of these efforts are often blamed on the once-touted athletes themselves, but instead, the overall strategy should be questioned...
...It’s always interesting at Harvard to say this, but we’re one of the poorer schools,” Cahill says...