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...Cricket is on a roll. The economic center of the sport is now in neither Australia nor England, its birthplace, but in India, which last year hosted the first season of a loud, lurid and big-bucks league that features a short and furious version of the game. South Africa is on a roll, too, at least when it comes to sport. After the country won the Rugby World Cup in 2007, its cricketers have proved themselves world beaters. And for once, the description "rainbow nation" genuinely applies; South Africa's cricketers are white, black, mixed race and ethnically Indian...
...Whatever; it's worked. The approach ultimately produced an unorthodox, physical and devastatingly effective game that has taken Nadal, 22, to the top of men's tennis. In 2008, he recorded one of the sport's most successful seasons, becoming the first player since Bjorn Borg in 1980 to win on the slow clay of Roland Garros in Paris and the slick grass of Wimbledon in the same year, while also picking up an Olympic gold and the ATP's top ranking. Given all that, you might expect Nadal to stick with what's working. But he and, most especially...
...overall, passenger cars outsold trucks, sport-utility vehicles and minivans for the first time since 2000, according to George Pipas, sales analyst for Ford Motor Co., as consumers reacted to last year's spike in gasoline prices. Truck sales made a modest comeback during the fourth quarter, in part because fuel prices had dropped and truck buyers (a group that includes many small-business owners) had better access to credit than buyers of more fuel-efficient passenger vehicles, automakers...
...only in the past decade, and ultra-thin-faced clubs even more recently (it can take several years of exposure to impulse noise to produce a noticeable hearing impairment). It's also possible that golfers have suffered slight hearing loss without even realizing it. There's precedent in another sport: in 2002 a study of 150 competitive tennis players over the age of 35 found that nearly half had developed rotator-cuff injuries, but many never knew it because the damage did not cause any symptoms...
...without enough compelling programming, those 50 million households won't keep watching. Baseball's daily rhythms do give the MLB Network an inherent advantage over other single-sport channels. During the season, every team plays almost every night, so fantasy players, stat geeks and casual fans will have a reason to keep tuning in. "Baseball really has so much more going on, day in and day out, than the other sports, especially football," says David Carter, director of the Sports Business Institute at the University of Southern California...