Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...East, according to the West, plays a tamer brand of hockey. In the West, according to the West, hockey is played at blistering speeds with big men who are unafraid of slamming into each other. The West, according to the West, is the best...
...other big loser was the U.S., which has given its public support and $1.5 million a day in aid to Duarte since 1984, when his election inspired hope that the war might end. Washington desperately wanted to build the Christian Democrats into El Salvador's bulwark against the political extremes, both the Communist insurgents and ARENA, the paramilitary organization turned political party that has been closely linked to death squads responsible for thousands of political murders. But the well-intended Duarte failed either to negotiate a peace or restore his country's shattered economy; his government was widely despised...
...ongoing Chicago trial of sports agents Norby Walters and Lloyd Bloom shows, it is often the integrity of the university that sustains the most serious injuries in big-time sports -- football as well as basketball. Two former University of Iowa football players testified that they took such puff courses as billiards, watercolor painting and recreational leisure...
...otherwise respectable institutions of higher learning put up with all this? Because big-time sports, whose popularity is fueled by ever increasing TV coverage, are major moneymakers. For one thing, a winning team attracts alumni donations. Far more lucrative, however, are the direct revenues generated by sporting events. Last year's NCAA basketball tournament was worth $68.2 million in gross receipts; the four schools advancing to the final round got $1.2 million each. Virtually all those funds go to athletic departments rather than academic budgets. Top coaches share in the wealth, often making several times as much as university presidents...
...expects all big-time student athletes to make the dean's list, but grades should not be the least of their concerns. An internal study at the University of Houston found that the cumulative academic average of the basketball team in the spring of 1986 was a dismal 1.35. (By spring of 1988, . that average was up to 2.5.) Good basketball and good grades can go together: the University of Arizona sent a team whose cumulative average was above 3.0 to the Final Four in 1988, and the University of Mississippi put players who had a 3.0 average or above...