Word: finall
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hours of sleep each night to be the charming, intelligent, thoughtful boy my mother loves. Over the last month, I've been irritable, grouchy, insensitive and mean. I've been ostracized by my friends in dining halls and spurned in the classroom. I did get punched by three final clubs, however...
Lake Superior State Coach Frank Anzalone, whose team fell to the Crimson in the quarterfinals, said Harvard would do all right in the Final Four only if it got favorable calls from the referees...
...NCAA final summarized Cleary's hockey philosophy. With less than a minute left in regulation, Cleary put his fourth line on the ice. Most coaches would not trust their last line in a situation like that. But early in his coaching career, Cleary made a point of skating all four lines--even at crucial points in the game. So with the game on the line, the Crimson's green line...
...fueled by ever increasing TV coverage, are major moneymakers. For one thing, a winning team attracts alumni donations. Far more lucrative, however, are the direct revenues generated by sporting events. Last year's NCAA basketball tournament was worth $68.2 million in gross receipts; the four schools advancing to the final round got $1.2 million each. Virtually all those funds go to athletic departments rather than academic budgets. Top coaches share in the wealth, often making several times as much as university presidents. Some earn more than $500,000 a year from salary, endorsements, speaking fees, television programs and summer camps...
...cumulative academic average of the basketball team in the spring of 1986 was a dismal 1.35. (By spring of 1988, . that average was up to 2.5.) Good basketball and good grades can go together: the University of Arizona sent a team whose cumulative average was above 3.0 to the Final Four in 1988, and the University of Mississippi put players who had a 3.0 average or above n the cover of the school's media guide...