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...really, really cool.” Ko has also come to terms with her situation. She now values her parents’ decision to send her to Harvard. She realizes an education is far more stable than tennis, where one small injury can effectively end a player??s career. This year she is back playing on the Harvard team and dreams of playing in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.Most importantly, she’s discovered that there is, in fact, life after tennis.For now, Norberg is in Cambridge working for Athletes in Action, an international Christian organization which...
Certain Japanese players who want to play in the United States must go through a process dubbed “posting” before signing with a Major League team. Teams submit blind bids to the player??s Japanese club, and, if it is accepted, the highest bid awards a team the rights to sign him. This ante can only be refunded should the American team and the Japanese player fail to agree on a contract. Unsure of what they are getting, teams usually keep their bids conservative—until Boston’s binge...
...Harvard educations that could buy, or even how that is almost four times the previous record posting of $13.1 million. It is higher than the 2006 payrolls of five Major League teams. It is nearly half of Boston’s own 2006 payroll—all for one player??s ear! This doesn’t even factor in Matsuzaka’s salary, which Boston brass and the pitcher’s agent, Scott Boras, have reportedly agreed will be a hefty $52 million over six years...
Harvard also handed out five team awards during the banquet. Senior tailback Clifton Dawson received the team’s Frederick Greeley Crocker “Most Valuable Player?? award for the second consecutive year, while senior defensive tackle Mike Berg was awarded the Joseph E. Wolf Award for most outstanding interior lineman. Senior center Frank Fernandez came away with the William Paine LaCroix Trophy given for enthusiasm, sportsmanship, loyalty, and team spirit, and the Robert F. Kennedy Award for desire, determination, and willingness to work went to Tully. Tight end Mark Higgins won the Henry N. Lamar...
...drive in its premium version and commanding a top price of $599. The $249 Nintendo Wii will follow on Sunday morning, bringing with it a revolutionary remote control-sized game controller whose three-axis motion sensor will allow on-screen action to respond directly to the movements of a player??s hand. “We’re going to go out to Best Buy...eight hours or so before it opens—about midnight,” said Kevin P. Bartley ’10 of Mower A-21, describing the Sunday morning camping excursion...