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PLEADED GUILTY. CARLTON DOTSON, 23, ex-basketball player for Baylor University; to the 2003 shooting murder of his former teammate, friend and sometime roommate, star center PATRICK DENNEHY; in Waco, Texas. Dotson, who claimed to have been hearing voices at the time of the shooting and who was initially ruled mentally incompetent to stand trial, surprised prosecutors by pleading guilty--without any deals for leniency--a few days before jury selection was to begin. He faces up to life in prison...
Whatever your age, spice up your routines with variety, both to keep from getting bored and to avoid injury. "If you get tired of running, go swim," says Michael Dawdy, a trainer at the Baylor Tom Landry Fitness Center in Dallas. "If you get tired of swimming, get on the cycle." Change sports with the seasons--and make time to enjoy life. "When I turned 50, I made a list of 50 things that I wanted to accomplish," says Franzen, the former triathlete. "There were some sports things, like rowing and trying to snowboard. But there were other things, like...
...football and basketball, say, Gale Sayers' and Elgin Baylor's full splendor may be inferred from a single move. But a rooftop homer might have sprung from anyone who ever hit a home run, or from Henry Aaron, who hit 755; and while making one swan dive in the outfield, even Tommie Agee or Ron Swoboda of the Mets is the equivalent of the Giants' Willie Mays. Baseball players plainly cannot be known at a glance. "Every player, good or bad, at one time or other has played like a Hall of Famer and a Hall of Shamer." This...
...match for them on the court too? Low achievement is plaguing not just revenue-generating sports like men's basketball and football. Softball and golf teams have also lagged. Add classroom woes to the cheating, sex and even murder scandals that have rocked campuses like Ohio State, Colorado and Baylor over the past few years, and it's clear that college sports need to get sent back to school...
...reporter for the Boston Herald, said she couldn’t think of any recent campus news stories that had garnered such extensive national media attention. But Rob Tomsho of the Wall Street Journal noted that comparably acrimonious spats between college presidents and faculty members had erupted recently at Baylor University—where President Robert B. Sloan Jr. resigned last month after two faculty votes of “no confidence”—and University of Southern Mississippi, where President Shelby Thames’ effort to fire two tenured professors touched off protests last spring...