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This upcoming weekend is the most exciting time for college football players finishing their senior years. The NFL draft will tell them which team they will play for, or if they will even play professionally at all.April of junior year is supposed to be different.Those players are preparing for spring ball and practicing for the upcoming season. Professional football is never far from these players’ minds, but the draft, except for the rare cases of exceptional talents foregoing eligibility, is not for a year, and they can start by focusing on winning next season.All this is true unless...
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...Ryan Fitzpatrick is the exception, not the rule) and could possibly resurface next year (when RB Clifton Dawson is at least guaranteed to be playing professionally somewhere, even if not in this country), the Ivy League doesn’t get a lot of love from teams at the draft. Not that we really deserve it—we play Division I-AA football, in a conference without a postseason that does not give out athletic scholarships—but the sprinkles of Fitzpatrick and Dawson here and there make us (read: me) yearn for personal excitement on draft morning...
...Maoists, who uses the nom-de-guerre Prachanda (the fierce one), said that the political parties had committed an "historic blunder" by ending the protests. He also announced that the Maoists would immediately blockade Kathmandu and other major towns until a special assembly, with the power to draft a new constitution for Nepal, was formed...
...Strafford, Vermont. The United Church of Christ minister, known for having been arrested in the South during civil-rights protests in the early '60s, rankled Washington politicians with his voluble attacks on the Vietnam War. In 1968, he was convicted with Dr. Benjamin Spock for conspiracy to encourage draft evasion, after Coffin delivered to the Justice Department more than 100 draft cards they had collected at antiwar rallies. (The conviction was later overturned.) An early supporter of gay rights and the basis for the "thoroughly modern" minister Scot Sloan in the comic strip Doonesbury, Coffin said part...