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...nearly 20 million homes with access to its sports fare - which this week includes three opening-day Major League Baseball games. The channel's strategy is to gain a foothold as part of a basic digital service. Baseball is played in leagues from France to Russia - and with considerable skill by the Dutch, Spanish and Italians. The popularity of televised NBA games, and transplanted NFL Europe football league, demonstrate a European appetite for U.S. sports. So it's perhaps not surprising that NASN co-founder and CEO Amory Schwartz says it's local fans, rather than U.S. expats, who make...
...Sanders calls it, is like attaining physical fitness. There are four qualities to practice. The most important is friendliness. This may seem obvious, but "if you are not friendly," he says, "you will have to work exponentially harder to be likeable." The second is relevance: "If you possess a skill that will help someone complete a task, you are relevant to that person. If you appeal to someone's need to laugh, your relevance is your sense of humor." Third comes empathy: Slow down and walk a mile in your colleagues' wing tips. Finally, keep it real. Your colleagues...
Koons' passion for leafy produce began when he was a boy. While he was growing up on a self-sustaining farm in Oregon, his chores included saladmaking. Not long after he turned 18, he parlayed that skill into a several-year stint as a chef at the famed Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, Calif., before moving into the produce industry...
When glancing at Vaillancourt campaigning down the ice on an offensive drive, it almost seemed like a field commander leading the cavalry into battle—and winning. The real significance of her performance and the numbers she tallied Friday night is not simply in the raw skill and ability she displayed, however, but in what the Crimson has been searching for throughout the season: an alternative means of offense to Corriero...
Determined to pursue skaters with character to complement their skill, Leaman and fellow assistant Ron Rolston hinged their pitch on the legacy they hoped their recruits would leave...