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...high school and college coaches to deck their players out with the Swoosh, convincing Phil Knight’s then-upstart sneaker company to “just do it” by throwing unheard amounts of cash at a kid from UNC named Michael Jordan after the 1984 draft, and founding the ABCD Camp in New Jersey and the Big Time Tournament in Las Vegas, both Meccas on any high school star’s pilgrimage to the NBA when Vaccaro was still running them.To players, Vaccaro has been a kind of sage, a wise uncle who has advised...
Sanders had microfracture surgery last February—the same surgery that will sideline the first pick in the 2007 NBA Draft, Greg Oden—in order to repair damaged cartilage in his knee, a procedure that can require more than a year of recovery...
Despite the loss of linebacker and Giants draft pick Zak DeOssie, the defense will return eight starters, including three All-Ivy selections. Those players, however, forced a league-low eight turnovers last season. The Bears must improve the running game, which averaged only 3.4 yards per carry last season—sixth in the Ivies. Quarterback Michael Daugherty is in his first year as a starter, and Brown must also replace four starters from the offensive line...
...Bill Belichick, our team's wildly successful head coach, cheats. Turns out that in the first game of the season, one of Belichick's assistants improperly videotaped the defensive coaches of the opposing New York Jets, trying to steal their signs. As punishment, the Pats were stripped of future draft picks and fined, as was Belichick. Across the nation, sports writers wagged their fingers. Editorials called Belichick a disgrace. And us fans? Well, when Belichick's mug appeared on the video screen just before the Pats' second game, the hometown crowd cheered so loudly and so long that Belichick actually...
...emboldened the religiously conservative party. One of its main tasks now is to revise a constitution that was introduced by a military government after a coup in 1980. The government has assigned a team of academics and lawmakers to come up with a new one. Wording of a first draft was recently leaked to the Turkish press, kicking off the debate. A full draft is expected next month...