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...City of Ruins On my trip to Detroit, I took a long drive around my hometown. Downtown, I visited a lovely new esplanade along the riverfront, two state-of-the-sport stadiums and a classic old hotel restored to modern luxury. In leafy Grosse Pointe, I saw handsome houses anyone would want to live in (and, thanks to the crash of the auto business, available at prices most Americans haven't seen in decades). At the General Motors Technical Center, in the industrial suburb Warren, the parking lots were mostly empty - an awful lot of engineers have been thrown...
...have always had a JV program,” Walsh said. “Recently JV moved to a club sport, which we think will be a good thing. JV had a coach, and we were always one man down. Now we are able to have a fourth spot. This is the first time we can add a third assistant...
...long as games have been played: U.S. runner Fred Lorz hitched a ride in a car to win the 1904 Olympic marathon in St Louis; it's 90 years since a handful of Chicago White Sox players threw baseball's World Series. But in hard times, many sports have a history of showing the way. One of the reasons we follow teams is for the neat shot at resolution it can provide. Whatever else you may be struggling with in your life, watching your team fight another fairly and by the same set of rules offers a welcome victory over...
...Professional sports have changed a lot since the dark days of the Depression. Downturn or not, it's no longer cheap to follow a team first hand. Gentrified soccer stadiums and ballparks lean more heavily on corporate dollars than the wallet of the average fan. What's more, figuring out who's a real star, when so many top athletes are marketed as one, has never been trickier. But millions of fans still crave the distraction sport can offer: witness the frenzy that followed Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt's electrifying performances at this summer's World Championship in Athletics. (Read...
WORCESTER, Mass.—The sport of football is a funny thing. On any given Saturday, it can giveth and it can taketh away. That was certainly the case for Harvard football this weekend, as it witnessed highs and lows before ultimately falling to Holy Cross (3-0), 27-20.“The bottom line is that we played hard, but they made a few more plays, and we made a few more mistakes,” Crimson coach Tim Murphy said. “And that makes the difference in the game.”Harvard...