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...strengths on offense are her perimeter shooting and her uncanny ability to throw crowd-stunning backdoor passes to teammates breaking towards the basket. Brandt finished the season atop the Ivy League in threepoint shooting percentage, dropping 46.8 percent of her shots from beyond the arc in conference games...
...weeks ago, University of Connecticut Women's Basketball Coach Gino Auriemma arranged to give his injured star player Nykesha Sales the chance to break the UConn scoring record. He and Villanova Coach Harry Perretta created a two-play game-within-the-game in which Sales was allowed an uncontested basket to let her break the record, and Villanova was allowed a reciprocal freebie. (In an ironic twist, ESPN Magazine reported yesterday that a mistake in the record-keeping of an earlier game led to an incorrect point total for Sales, and she has not technically broken the record...
...there are still has some issues to deal with before women's sports can complete the journey from cute to compelling. They'll figure it out. Even Sales, a superb, unselfish athlete, instinctively knows that her basket was empty because in lacking truth, it lacked beauty. "I think it would have been a lot better if I was playing," she says. "I wasn't sure at first. But Coach said it was a gift from him to me." Maybe women's sports don't need gifts from men. After all, the last time a basketball story made the front page...
...change last week, though, was a real haircut. For the first time in 11 years, the BLS compiled a new "market basket" of goods to track, adding things like cellular phones and auto leases and making personal computers more prominent. The BLS, which monitors some 80,000 items, added one major category, education and communication, catapulting the CPI into the information age. All the latest revisions will shave about .1 of a percentage point off the annual rate, bringing the four-year cumulative effect on the CPI to .6 of a percentage point. The White House predicts that turning...
Officials say accuracy, not parsimony, is the goal. "Consumption patterns change," notes BLS commissioner Katharine Abraham. "New products enter the market. Old ones are modified or disappear. The market basket of today is totally different from that of a generation ago." There is a gold lining of sorts. The overstated inflation rate has kept interest rates unduly high because lenders account for inflation in setting rates. Allen Sinai of Primark Decision Economics believes that even with the changes, the CPI may be a full point too high. "Effectively, there is no inflation," he says. Now the government is making...