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...miss the camaraderie? Laura Wolf, VAIL, COLO. I do. The sport is really individual when you're competing, but outside of the competition you definitely rely on your teammates for support. But it's not gone. We're all still friends. I see those guys all the time...
...cents a subscriber and make the NFL Network part of the basic programming tier. That would in turn prompt the cable companies to raise rates by at least as much. The cable guys have refused that price, leaving the NFL Network either without a channel or relegated to the sports tier by Comcast for a monthly fee, potentially depriving the league of hundreds of millions in revenue. "The only channel devoted 24/7 to America's favorite sport is not programming that should be relegated to a poorly promoted, pay-extra sports tier that takes advantage of our fans' passion...
...Mitchell Report’s depiction of Major League Baseball’s performace-enhancing drug problem confirmed all our worst fears about the sport, its players, and their records. Not only have some of baseball’s best players turned out to be its worst role models, but some of the sport’s greatest records have been forever tarnished. Baseball has been the scrutinized for years, much like professional cycling, but evidence of drug-related misconduct only came in smatterings. Jose Canseco, for example, the first professional baseball player to hit 40 home runs and steal...
...exhausting feat of acting. She throws herself into a bevvy of characters: The high-strung principal Mrs. Kennedy, concerned only with the school’s statewide Regents scores and the federal grants that depend on them; the abrasive security guard, who sends students home if they dare sport so much as a metal belt buckle; Sun’s landlord, who believes that sending all students to Catholic school would solve the problems of the American educational system; and Sun herself, the dedicated teacher who, after attending Catholic school for twelve years, “didn?...
...million, which was paid to the artist in cash (straight up). Luda, you might have what “feels like a midget hanging from my necklace,” but the members of the mystery investment firm that purchased this (revolting) display of conspicuous consumption can now sport an entire human skull worth of bling-a-ling if they so choose. —Sanders I. Bernstein ’10 is the incoming Books editor. In addition to contemporary concept art, he hates candy, children, and Christmas...