Word: draft
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...conclusion of his first minor league season, Baseball America predicted that Crockett would be the first Rockie in his draft class to crack into the big leagues...
...Anyway, guys, I don’t know what to do. What did y’all do to pass the time during these ‘dead-zone’ weeks? My fantasy baseball draft doesn’t happen until mid-March and there’s only so many times I can make Kobe Bryant score 40 points before I get bored with his silky-smooth style and extreme arrogance. Plus, March Madness is still three weeks away! Is Dr. Kevorkian dead yet? Maybe he can help...
Suits surrounding the Vietnam War also failed to stop military action because courts ruled that, by appropriating funds and granting extensions to the draft, Congress had implicitly agreed to the action...
Politicians may flirt with reviving the draft, but they are too late; it's already happened. Some citizens willingly enlisted, some were conscripted, some gathered on Saturday to conscientiously object--but when Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge put the country on heightened alert, he began our basic training. Watch for men with nicks on their faces; they may be freshly shaved jihadists. Report suspicious bags. The soda bottle in the subway could be cyanide. France says it wants more weapons inspectors? We now have millions of them...
...small conference which grants few athletic scholarships—as one of the last remaining bastions of amateur athletics. In contrast, Feinstein pointed to the University of Maryland’s decision to retire the jersey number of former star Steve Francis—who declared for the NBA draft after just one year in college and never graduated—as representative of many schools’ misplaced priorities. “Harvard doesn’t want that. Harvard shouldn’t want that,” he said...