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Harvard point guard Elliott Prasse-Freeman, for quoting him as saying he’s “one of the worst Division I athletes to play basketball?? (Nov. 20, 2002). Elliott, if I really thought the quote would have cost you a shot with that hot chick from Brazil, I never would have published...
...Feinstein insisted that the rise in college basketball??s popularity and its huge revenue stream has caused schools to stray from what should be their top priority—the athletes...
...simply, people here want to win. Coaches want to win. They want to win under a different set of rules than the ACC does, a nobler set, but they want to win nonetheless. Players want to win. They want more moments like women’s basketball??s upset of Stanford in the first round in ’98. They want baseball to make the College World Series one day and football to be able to prove itself beyond Harvard-Yale if its season has warranted it. They want basketball to make the NCAAs and win longer...
...been a decline in the number of collegiate men’s wrestling teams, the decline is not primarily due to Title IX. The simple truth is that those athletic departments are often putting more money into popular and more profitable men’s sports including football and basketball??not into women’s sports. As the National Women’s Law Center points out, 53 universities dropped their wrestling teams from 1984 to 1988, a period in which Title IX was not enforced for intercollegiate athletics...
Senior forward Becky Gottstein is another mark to be wary of, after sitting out last year because of multiple stress fractures. Though Gottstein, with starting experience all the way back to freshman year, and her teammates are formidable foes, the Crimson’s experience with basketball??s elite has helped prepare for such threats, even if it hasn’t helped Harvard’s record. Vanderbilt’s Chantelle Anderson and Minnesota’s Lindsay Whalen are both candidates for the Naismith Player of the Year Award, along with BC point guard Brianne...