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...Gonzaga is also Exhibit A for those who charge that the committee favors college basketball's elite programs like Duke, Kansas and Arizona over deserving smaller schools. They point to schools like Ball State, which earlier this year beat Kansas but didn't make the tournament, or Butler, a team that won 25 games while losing just five and was not invited. Gonzaga, meanwhile, was rated the number 6 team in the country by the sportwriters, but Fowler's committee said the Bulldogs were at best number 21. They ranked them 6th in their region, which set off a storm...
...Butler was beside himself when Moscvina agreed to use Butler’s choice, which Olympic commentators said suited the Russian pair well. “It is an incredible selection, and it will be remembered forever because they won the gold medal to it,” Butler says...
...Butler disagrees with this decision. “I think that the Russians turned in a more complex program. There were two faults but I think they deserved the gold medal because of the difficulty of the program, Awarding two gold medals sets a bad precedent,” Butler says. “The Russians deserve it outright. I realize this is not the popular position to be taking, but people who know about skating understand why the Russians won. Without a more educated eye, you can’t understand things like edging and speed that the Russians...
...Butler is continuing to educate his eyes. He communicates with Moscvina once every one or two weeks and she takes him out to dinner whenever she is in Boston...
...Though Butler has been a figure skating fanatic since 1994, he did not even start to learn to skate until last fall. He took lessons through the Harvard Figure Skating Club and practiced every day at 7 a.m. at the Brighton Hockey Center. He is now a teacher with “Learn to Skate,” a volunteer organization that gives Cambridge children instruction time...