Word: amateurness
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Feinstein praised the Ivy League model of athletics for putting the interests of student-athletes first and staving off the forces of corruption he said have hurt much of the NCAA. He pointed to corporate greed as the driving force behind the for-profit professionalization of amateur athletics and cited declining academic standards and low graduation rates as its fallout...
Feinstein is the author of the book “The Last Amateurs,” which hailed the Patriot League—a small conference which grants few athletic scholarships—as one of the last remaining bastions of amateur athletics. In contrast, Feinstein pointed to the University of Maryland’s decision to retire the jersey number of former star Steve Francis—who declared for the NBA draft after just one year in college and never graduated—as representative of many schools’ misplaced priorities. “Harvard doesn?...
...likable Kimmel is learning to make the amateur-hour feel work for the show. On the best nights, it's like a party on the verge of going out of control, as when Kimmel, Carolla and rapper Snoop Dogg - all drinking vodka on camera - deep-fried a ventriloquist's dummy and an audience member's watch during a cooking segment. And what Kimmel lacks in smoothness, he makes up for in audacity. It's unlikely another late-night host would casually ask Snoop if O.J. was innocent or guilty, or ask rap mogul Master...
Even as searchers scoured much of the southern tier of the country for remains of the ship (and a smaller, more sacred swatch for remains of the crew), fresh theories and new clues abounded. Images of Columbia's demise were sent in by amateur videotapers, and reports of evidence were phoned in by freelance debris hunters. Part of the leading edge of one wing turned up near Fort Worth, Texas, while a rear wing section was examined in the eastern part of the state, near Nacogdoches. Researchers dug up old NASA memos warning of just the kind of accident that...
Originally, Columbia's wreckage was thought not to have fallen west of Texas. Then an astronomer from the California Institute of Technology reported that he saw what looked like debris trailing the ship as it passed overhead. An amateur videotape shot in Arizona seemed to show the same thing. Most tellingly, NASA released a photograph taken by a high-powered Air Force telescope as Columbia soared over New Mexico. It had been widely reported that damage to the left wing was visible in the picture, but the resolution turned out to be too poor to reveal anything conclusive. The agency...