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...director of the Football Industry Group at the University of Liverpool. "[They] are not just businesses but much more important cultural and social assets for individual places ... This isn't the way these grand institutions should be traded." But with Liverpool among the Premier League's foreign-owned teams - Tom Hicks, owner of baseball's Texas Rangers, and George Gillett, owner of the Montreal Canadians hockey franchise, snapped up the club in February 2007 - Taylor's trying to bring the merry-go-round to a halt. His message to the team's fans: "If [they] care enough about that, there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Fans Buy Their Team? | 2/1/2008 | See Source »

...laws and regulations over the past few years, none of which seem to have to do with restaurant prices. The law states that you can wager only on statistically verifiable sports events, thus eliminating my bet on whether the first cheerleader shown on television would be prettier than Tom Brady. My second plan, however, seemed promising. While I don't know anything about football, I do, as a Jew with pushy parents, know an awful lot about the importance of a good college education. So I asked Manteris to post this proposition bet: Will the first person to score...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Stupid Bowl | 1/31/2008 | See Source »

...that's the trouble. "The big problem remains that you've got a central government that is dysfunctional and disorganized, and that's being kind," says Representative Tom Cole, an Oklahoma Republican and a member of the House Armed Services Committee, who has been to Iraq seven times. Cole believes that the only thing that will compel Iraq's various factions to work together is the threat of U.S. withdrawal?something the Iraq Study Group proposed more than a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Surge At Year One | 1/31/2008 | See Source »

...Emperor Palpatine-Richard Nixon hybrid of Bill Belichick, sporting a hoodie that could easily pass as the robe of a Sith lord as he resorts to any means to fulfill his quest for domination. Carrying out Belichick’s cunning plans are his very own Darth Vader (Tom Brady) and Boba Fett (Randy Moss). Brady, too perfect and too efficient, is more robot than man. Moss is a hired gun brought in by the Empire to ruthlessly eliminate its enemies, leaving destruction in his wake in the form of broken touchdown records. Coach Tom Coughlin leads the Rebellion, otherwise...

Author: By Loren Amor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AMOR PERFECT UNION: Giants Believe In Power of "Maybe" | 1/31/2008 | See Source »

...make it fun). The season has been “perfect,” from the fan perspective, because we have been able to watch the way a team comes together from its separate parts. The three players who have contributed most obviously to the Patriots success—Tom Brady, Randy Moss, and Wes Welker—have all had their best seasons as pros. It’s certainly been fun to see Welker elevate his status from relative unknown to the league’s leading receiver,. More rewarding has been watching two of the NFL?...

Author: By Emily W. Cunningham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CUNNING COMMENTARY:Brady's Bunch a Perfect Family | 1/31/2008 | See Source »

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