But Rodriguez sealed his departure when, after being benched during Game 1 of an eventual four-game sweep at the hands of the Detroit Tigers, he opted to spend the final innings of a heart-breaking loss having a baseball delivered to the aforementioned Aussie in the hopes of getting her phone number.

FORBES: Move up http://i.forbesimg.com t Move down

See one of my previous columns on breaking weight loss plateaus through exercise.

CNN: How can I maintain my energy level for sports while on a diet?

And they defied the late first-half loss of injured record-breaking points machine Pat Richards in doing it.

BBC: St Helens 10-22 Wigan

When Breaking Bad begins, Walt is bitter over his loss of wealth in Grey Matter.

FORBES: Masculinity for the Modern Male

Selling over the past couple of trading sessions has been violent and panicky, as steep declines in the price of bullion were accompanied by the breaking of key technical levels, sparking stop-loss selling, margin calls, and then risk managers and asset allocators offloading commodity holdings to build cash levels.

FORBES: Violent And Panicky Gold Selling Collapse Bullion And Commodity Markets

If instead, we go and see a bankruptcy or simply an auctioning off and breaking up, you could easily see that be double the loss in the direct jobs.

NPR: Expert Examines Impact Of Big Three's Collapse

By that definition, when Rajaratnam traded Goldman Sachs (GS) shares after getting word from a Goldman director that it would report a loss instead of a profit, as investors had expected, he was clearly breaking the law.

FORBES: Does Rajaratnam Conviction Level The Investment Playing Field?

Months and years of pain, anxiety, confusion as well as loss of relationships and lack of effectiveness in the classroom or workplace is tolerated until "breaking points" are reached.

CNN: Aurora shooting like reliving the Virginia Tech ordeal

The loss of Canada means the F1 calendar will stay at 18 races rather than the record-breaking 19 that had been expected for 2009.

BBC: Canada dropped from F1 calendar