Word: sluggers
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...more than Americans for the same goods. On Nov. 7, the day the loonie reached $1.10 U.S., the currency's value swerved and swung over a three-cent range in a single day - a difference that for the Blue Jays, at least, means most of the annual salary for slugger Alex Rios. "Volatile," Bank of Canada governor-to-be Mark Carney calls the dollar fluctuations. No kidding...
Entering this off-season, Bonds, 43, faced a daunting challenge. The San Francisco Giants finally cut ties with him, and what other team would sign an aging, surly slugger who also breaks records for bad publicity? That should barely stress Bonds now. After all, he faces up to 30 years in prison if he's convicted on all four counts of perjury, plus the obstruction charge. For years, Bonds has pointed out that he has never tested positive for steroids. Yet the indictment states that investigators have found "positive tests for the presence of anabolic steroids and other performance-enhancing...
...baseball club and the Ivy have also each realized that community members sometimes cheat and deceive in the face of such pressure. Neither steroids-tainted Yankees slugger Jason Giambi nor infamous “author” Kaavya Viswanathan ’08 would likely be where they are today without an illicit...
While the rest of Europe gazed at televised action of recently resumed pro soccer leagues, millions of European sports fans last month tuned in to a decidedly more alien event: Major League Baseball slugger Barry Bonds' surpassing Hank Aaron's home-run record in far-off San Francisco. But viewers who caught the No.756 coup de circuit from Toulouse weren't squinting at a blurry feed from mlb.com Instead, many Europeans watched Bonds' blast on the North American Sports Network (NASN)--a channel that is spreading that particular strain of U.S. sports mania to Europe...
...this summer, when my wife changed our 1-year-old and decried her "big poopy," our 2-year-old said from the next room: "Mom, it's Big Papi." Which is when I began trying, for the sake of the children, to embrace the Red Sox, whose clutch-hitting slugger, Big Papi, is impossible to dislike...