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Just three months ago, boxing was preparing for its version of the Super Bowl. Fresh from his mega-fight win over Miguel Cotto, Pacquiao had begun negotiations with Floyd Mayweather Jr., a brash welterweight whom non-sports fans know best from his appearance on Dancing with the Stars. The proposed battle was being compared to some of the greatest matchups in boxing history. Even people who had given up on boxing or hadn't really thought about it much were talking about the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight, which would probably earn each boxer $40 million, the most lucrative match ever...
...programming heap]," said CBS president and CEO Leslie Moonves at a conference in early March. "If we're spending millions of dollars on NFL [games] or CSI, we should get paid as much as a cable network showing repeats." (See the best and worst Super Bowl commercials...
Despite her team’s loss, No. 84 Cao had something to prove in the No. 1 court against No. 35 Irene Rehberger. In a hard fought match, Cao took the first set 6-3, but lost the second 6-2. In the deciding super tie-break, Cao battled to a 10-5 win to earn the Crimson’s second point of the afternoon...
...close the contest, Rosekrans battled back from an opening set 6-3 loss to take the second set 6-4. But in her super tie-break, feeling tired on the burning tennis court, she succumbed to a 10-6 loss...
This distance is ameliorated in part by the super convenient shuttle. When you have a 10 a.m. class in Northwest Labs during the nastiest sleet-rain-blizzard in February, you’ll thank the River Gods that you don’t live in some of the other River Houses, which are roughly equidistant to the Yard but sadly shuttle-less...