Why?

Oh, how it poetic and exalted sounds! “Baseball is about history, its poets tell us. It is about continuity and about heirloom emotions. It's a golden thread that binds the generations together, one after another, in the face of an increasingly centrifugal and atomized world. So say baseball's poets, and because this is a baseball story, let's begin nearly a century ago”. It was written by CHARLES P. PIERCE several months ago in his article titled “Why Scott Boras is the best (and worst) thing to happen to baseball”. Really, why?

Today CNN reports that Alex Rodriguez has opted out of the final three years of his contract with the Yankees and will become a free agent, likely ending his four-year stay in New York.
Rodriguez's decision was first reported by Sports Illustrated's Web site on Sunday evening. According to the report, agent Scott Boras sent word of the opt-out in writing and left phone and text messages for general manager Brian Cashman on Sunday.

Acie Law IV

Acie Law IV was born January 25, 1985 in Dallas, Texas. His father Acie III, who used to play as a point guard at Navarro Junior Colleage, is a mechanic. His mother Dolores works as an office clerk. Acie has an elder brother, Lamont and two younger sisters: Vivien and Frances.
He wears "Law IV" on his jersey instead of his last name only.
He has two tattoos: the one on his left arm quotes Psalm 91 and 93, and the other on his right arm says "Lord's Favorite Lawman".
During one of his workouts he broke his right arm. Then he started to practice shooting with his left hand. When he healed his injury, he was able to shoot with both hands. However, most of his shots have been taken with his left hand, which is specific because they almost don't have any spin.
Ray Allen has been Acie Law’s favorite NBA player and Sacramento Kings - his favorite team. When he was growing up he admired Magic Johnson.
In 1997 his grandfather died of a heart attach when he and his grandson were watching a boxing match together.

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On the photo forward Italian "Torino" Nicola Ventola is trying to run down his partner Eugenio Corini to thanks him for the scored goal into " Sampdoria", that in the 88th minute gave Torino their first triumph of the campaign.

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