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HARD CASE TO CRACK...
DEAD MAN BALKING Bloggers crack wise after imperiled House Speaker Dennis Hastert gives a press conference on the congressional-page scandal with a cemetery visible in the background. Two days later, images of Hastert's Jabba the Hut--like visage, at a fund-raising event in the company of President Bush, are splashed across papers. With Bush's approval rating hovering around 40%, we have a suggestion: bring back the boneyard...
With a final card of 625, the Crimson could not quite crack the top of the conference at the ECAC Division I Championships. The tournament, which was held at the Shelter Harbor Golf Club in Charleston, R.I., was won by Rhode Island. The Rams stole the show with a card of 602—a number that won them the overall event by a full 11 strokes. The Crimson’s two round scores break down to 312 on the first day, which was followed by a consistent 313 on the second. Two freshmen, Greg Shuman and Danny Mayer...
...actually was a drug rep for a little while so it’s a nice crack on the industry...
...loss slides a team down, a quality win bumps a team up. Therefore, a stinky squad that had the good fortune to be ranked in the preseason lingers in the Top 25 for far too long, while an unheralded dynamo is forced to wait weeks to crack the list.This inertia mainly plagues the national rankings, but many of the same problems attend to conference polls. In the Ivy League above all, where there is no possibility of qualifying for the playoffs, where the only relevant title is the Ancient Eight crown, and strength of schedule and margin of victory...