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...AI Caramba! The implosion-in-waiting is the Denver Nuggets. Carmelo Anthony is upset he's the third-best player in his draft class. Allen Iverson is upset he's the second-best player on his team. George Karl is upset he's the worst big-name coach in the league. Nene and Chuckie Atkins are upset because they're hurt. Kenyon Martin upset for the sake of being upset. Your 2007-08 Nuggets - combustible, but balanced...
...even better at producing poverty-stricken retired athletes. Last year, China's national news agency Xinhua reported that almost half of 6,000 professional athletes retiring from competition each year end up jobless or without further schooling plans. Among them, the winner of the 1999 Beijing International Marathon Ai Dongmei, 26, who announced last year that she had no choice but to sell off her medals so that she could feed her family. Former Asian weightlifting champion Cai Li died of pneumonia at age 33 after he couldn't afford to pay his medical bills. Liu Fei, a seven-time...
...AI is just a “guideline,” Walsh says. And at the end of the day, the Admissions Office—which has rejected at least one baseball recruit with perfect SAT’s, and likewise made exceptions for students below that presumptive floor—ultimately has the final...
...knows why. The Dean of Harvard College from 1995 to 2003, he spends the last chapter of his book, “Excellence Without a Soul,” defending the value of college sports in the university setting. He recognizes the need for an AI while acknowledging coaches’ dissatisfaction and warning against the potential of a “race to the bottom” in its absence...
...When I was on the Ivy Policy committee I used to be the guy who would explain some of the highly technical problems [the AI] has as a statistical instrument,” Lewis says. “But the basic idea of using it to ensure representativeness is exactly right. The Ivy presidents were smart to adopt it and to keep using it. It’s one of the things that keeps the Ivy League with an athletic program of which we can be proud...