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...first place. In baseball jargon, it’s a hose, a rocket, a gun—clocked as high as 93 MPH, it’s one of five professional-grade “tools” that the right fielder employs in his impressive repertoire.The other four (speed, fielding, hitting for average, and hitting for power) are nothing to sneeze at either. But when the Detroit Free Press named him the top high school player in the state, and when Baseball America twice named him a first-team All-American—he would be the only...
...pouring in six points and adding a steal and an assist to jumpstart the stalling Harvard offense. That surge to end the first half was but the harbinger of more bad news for the Big Red, whose defense could never quite keep up with the Crimson’s speed on the perimeter and muscle in the paint. Harvard, which at best has been inconsistent on the glass this year, dominated an athletic Cornell team on the boards. The Big Red, with a high-flying low-post rebounder in Maduka and a corps of guards that has rebounded well from...
...indicative of unimaginable sums of money that Indian cricket, with its vast and ever more affluent fan base, is able to attract. "The passion that India has for the game is greater than any other country has for any sport," says International Cricket Council (ICC) chief executive Malcolm Speed. "Factor in the billion-plus population and an economy growing by 7 to 8%?and what that means for the value of TV rights, advertising and sponsorship?and you understand the commercial power of India...
...Partly because of that "aggressive" international push, says Speed, the ICC chief, cricket is increasingly being viewed by broadcasters as a truly global sport, like soccer. Even in the U.S., cricket is catching on. There, pay-per-view cable subscribers forked out roughly $50 million to watch the 2005 Test series between India and Pakistan, making the U.S. the third-biggest revenue source for that tournament. (The ICC says those statistics are partly explained by 2 million ethnic South Asians living...
...play each other three times since 2004. Technology has played a part, too. Stump-mounted mini-cameras, computer graphics to predict a ball's trajectory and touch screens that allow commentators to write their analysis across the picture have made cricket one of the flashier sports on TV. Speed says even the length of the games?Test matches between national sides can take five days and a series one month or more?is appealing to broadcasters and advertisers. "It's a lot of content," Speed says, "enough to fill a channel for days, and is a very valuable commodity...