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...governing board of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) last week recommended several changes regarding financial rules affecting amateur athletes...
...fact, the junior righthander was staring down the barrel of a gun all day long. A projected first round draft pick in this June's amateur draft, Crockett attracted a throng of scouts who stood in the bleachers Friday-radar guns in hand-charting his every pitch...
...folk art that comprises a broadly categorized melange of everything from cabinets to hunting decoys. About a hundred and twenty years ago, the founders of the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) would have laughed at the idea of curating something so banal as what could be made by an amateur in the home, whose creation was intended not for display but for utility. The MFA, founded as a institution for the cultural elite, focused its early collection on ancient Egypt and the Middle East, Greece and Rome. Art was strictly European and American painting. Folk Art trickled into...
...third track, “V.I. (The Last Words She Said Before Leaving)” is that it is dull and repetitive. This effort (in that it’s an effort to listen to) falls far short of the bar set by the first two tracks; amateur Internet remix geeks have come up with far better. It’s one thing to find something good and to stick with it, but there is no logical justification for Mirwais’ almost obsessive repetition of the same, horrible samples. Skip this track. Your eardrums will thank...
...career as well. The righthander's fastball improved from 88-89 MPH to a blistering 92, catching the attention of major league scouts. The premier scouting magazine in the country, Baseball America, has predicted that Crockett could be selected as high as the late first round in June's amateur draft...