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Szymanski—who entered the year completely off the scouting radar—is currently projected to be taken in the first round of June’s amateur draft, probably ahead of fellow Tiger top prospect Ross Ohlendorf, a 6’5 fireballer who may also go in the first round...
...division of the island. The plan is to be put to a vote on April 24. Rejection by either side would likely be final, said U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. "It is a choice between this or no settlement at all," he said in Switzerland after presenting his latest draft. Greek Cypriot President Tassos Papadopoulos claimed in a TV address that the plan violates E.U. principles by preventing thousands of Greek Cypriots from returning to homes in the north and "legitimizing the illegal presence of Turkish settlers." Rauf Denktash, the Turkish Cypriot leader, also told supporters to vote against...
Needless to say, McDavid went undrafted, but the story didn’t end there. Anderson (S.C.) College petitioned the NCAA to restore McDavid’s eligibility—something which he had waived upon making himself eligible for the draft. But McDavid didn’t even have the talent to compete on that level, dropping out of school and returning home to escape the constant inquiries into his gigantic “mistake...
...McDavid was the first of the high-school busts—the mysterious third high-schooler to enter the 1996 draft along with Kobe Bryant and Jermaine O’Neal. He submitted his NBA Draft application without telling his coach, who immediately referred to his early-entry as a “mistake.” No NBA team even requested film of the 6’4 guard from Palmetto High...
There was the talent-laden Leon Smith, who went from a second-round draft pick to a Dallas hospital’s psychiatric ward for an attempted suicide, before he played even one NBA game...