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Kevdog's Ballers has most of its eggs in one basket: the blue and white one marked Yale. Reyes' team has relied on the contributions of the upstart Bulldogs' three best players--swingmen Casey Hughes and Caleb Holmes and speedy junior guard Eric Flato--to challenge for the league lead. That trio is aided by the Big Red's outstanding freshman Ryan Wittman, who leads the Ancient Eight in three-point conversions, and Brown guard Marcus Becker, with solid Princeton forward Luke Owings on reserve as insurance or possible trade bait...
Eric Flato, G, Yale Ryan Wittman, F, Cornell Casey Hughes, G-F, Yale Marcus Becker, G, Brown Luke Owings, F, Princeton Caleb Holmes, G-F, Yale
...casualty of this maneuvering will be Gen. George Casey, the president's nominee to be Army Chief of Staff. Casey doesn't look like a great chief in the making - he is no Edward "Shy" Meyer or Eric Shinseki - and his performance in his confirmation hearing last week was at times underwhelming. But Casey isn't in trouble with Democrats for his lack of finesse; he's in trouble for having too much. Some Democrats think he should have stood up months ago and proclaimed Iraq policy a disaster. They say he should have stepped out of the chain...
...Republicans, for their part, are mad at Casey because they have no one else to be mad at. Rumsfeld is gone, Abizaid and Schoonmaker are leaving; Cheney is lodged, limpet-like, in the West Wing, awaiting his turn in the Libby trial. But taking down Casey for the conduct of a war that a bunch of guys in ties ordered the Army to prosecute under now-infamous limitations is certainly as perverse as what the Democrats are up to here. And it fits with the growing neoconservative critique of the war at the moment: it was not the idea that...
...here is where the two panic attacks come together: if the Republicans block any consideration of the no-confidence-in-the-surge-resolutions this week, Casey will be finished. Democrats will vote against Casey because his nomination will become the de facto no confidence vote, the only way to express disapproval...