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What is the cost of winning? Every now and then there are a few sports teams that put this question to the test. The Yankees do this annually when they spend lavishly on new players in the off season, despite the fact that the return on this investment has been only two World Series championships in the last decade. Two weekends ago, a soccer game of the highest caliber tested the spend-happy habits of another blockbuster team, and the results were, unsurprisingly, the same...
...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...
Despite the significance of the task at hand, the Crimson finds nothing particularly different about the season-ending tournament, which kicks off this morning. Harvard sees itself as facing the same opponent it faces every week: the course...
...We’ve actually had a pretty phenomenal season, but that doesn’t change anything for us,” Sheldon said...