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...executive investing half a billion dollars in the next five years." That's the amount of money each coach will have to spend on players over that period, and the salary cap prevents any team from buying its way out of bad choices. Just ask the Washington Redskins, whose owner, Snyder, has been driven to distraction by his team's lack of success on the field, even though his franchise is now worth an estimated $1 billion...
...Winning bid on eBay for a 10-year-old grilled-cheese sandwich said to bear the image of the Virgin Mary. Its new owner, an online casino called GoldenPalace.com plans to take the sandwich on a cross-country tour to raise money for charity...
Brady Keys Jr. has always been a playmaker--on and off the field. In 1964, when he was a member of the Pittsburgh Steelers, he ran a punt back 90 yds., a play that's still a team record. In the '70s, as the owner of several franchises, he was an African-American pioneer in the fast-food industry, and his policy of custom-making orders inspired Burger King's famous "Have It Your Way" campaign. Now the former football star is tackling his most difficult challenge yet: failing inner-city schools...
...participate in documentaries and cable movies because he felt they wouldn't find a large enough audience. (This year being the 10th anniversary of the massacre, there are already several documentaries on the subject on the festival circuit.) The genial hotel manager of the past is no more. Now owner of a trucking concern and living in Belgium, Rusesabagina says the horrors he witnessed in Rwanda "made me a different man. I used to be friendly, to trust people, to trust in my friends, but that has changed...
With his sad brown eyes and soft, floppy ears, Marley, a 2-year-old Boxer, is the kind of dog that's hard to resist. Just ask his co-owner Ashley Wilson, a music director at a Seattle rock station. After splitting up with her live-in boyfriend, Todd Templeton, just before Christmas last year, Wilson and Templeton exchanged Marley informally every week. Then, last August, according to a lawsuit filed by Wilson, Templeton abruptly ended the arrangement and kept Marley...