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...said that the rink was the brainchild of the hotel’s owner, Richard Friedman...
...Lynch, the owner of Brother Jimmy’s, says “we try to create an environment here where you don’t have to spend a lot of money.” He says that running an establishment in Harvard Square is “an odd dynamic because you have college kids who don’t have a lot of money so we have 3 dollar PBR cans.” But cheap beers are the best bars can do in Cambridge, because, according to Lynch, Massachusetts law forbis drink specials...
...odds had finally shifted in Boston's favor, thanks had to go in part to John Henry, the team's principal owner. Henry, a lifelong St. Louis fan, grew up on an Arkansas farm listening to Cardinals radio broadcasts. He developed a gift for numbers, computing batting averages in his head and eventually making millions trading commodities. He and his partners bought the Sox in 2001 for an estimated $660 million. What Boston fans deemed a curse was, to him, a statistical anomaly at best. Or lousy management. One explanation for Boston's years of failure is that the team...
Blitz was launched last year by Scott Smith, 46, a former Curves franchise owner who wanted to adapt for men that company's quickie regimen. Today Smith counts 86 Blitz locations in the U.S. and Canada. (There's even a franchise in Guatemala.) The gyms, many of them found in strip malls, are set up like mock boxing rings, with members moving between machines and punching bags at the sound of a bell that rings every 30 seconds. "I don't care what your size or strength is," says Smith. "At the end of two 10-minute circuits...
...usual big names. The Yankees are saddled with multiyear, multimillion-dollar deals for pitchers Kevin Brown and Javier Vazquez, two goats of the final league-championship game, and for first baseman Jason Giambi, who is a shell of what he once was. Of course, the Yankees' deep-pocketed owner, George Steinbrenner, can budget through those problems. And Houston's Carlos Beltran, the sexiest free agent on the market, could well be in center field for the Yankees come April, a $100 million asking price be damned. "From where I sit, it's hard to ever say that behemoths like...