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Eddie and Chris, who is now 26, still love the game and realize that it is a collision sport. But their efforts to increase awareness of the dangers have gotten a mixed reception. A suggestion that 25 cents of every ticket sold at high school games in Texas be set aside to help defray the cost of caring for paralyzed players went nowhere. During the off-season, the Canaleses go to clinics, and coaches listen intently. During the season, the coaches turn deaf in favor of winning at any cost. (See the year in health...
Because crew is such an exhausting sport, it’s easy to forget what a luxury it is. Everything about it—the travel, the boats, the oars, even the ergs—costs money. Even the best rowers in the world don’t turn a profit from it. Perhaps for these reasons, rowing has earned the reputation as a prep-school sport, one where the rich succeed...
Those more familiar with the sport know that’s not true—certainly not at the collegiate level, where anyone can walk on to an elite program such as Harvard, as I did last year...
...both Akpan and Nyamekye, I’m guessing the disappointment in waiting to hear their names called pales in comparison to the jubilation of beginning a professional career in the sport they love...
...sector of the U.K. banking business is 55%. Those cost savings translate into lower lending rates, which has allowed Abbey to regain its share of the mortgage market and then some. It now makes 1 in 7 new mortgages in the U.K. and Abbey's 1,300 branches will sport red Santander logos next year...