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...favorite is the Dave Kingman award, which is given to the player who, through the formula you created, is shown to "best exemplify the idea of hitting home runs without doing anything else positive as a hitter." It was my favorite award despite the fact I was a huge Dave Kingman fan growing up. He was a famously prickly guy - has he sent you any angry letters or anything for naming this award in his honor. Or more like his dishonor...
...suggestions to the contrary, this is a good thing.None of this, however, means that Harvard is planning to slip below the lofty codified “standards” for admitting basketball players. It can’t. The Ivy League has a strict system based on a formula known as the Academic Index to govern the admission of athletes. An individual’s AI score is computed on a 240-point scale, with 80 points apiece based on SAT I scores, SAT II scores, and class rank, the most malleable of the categories. The guidelines of the Academic...
...this year’s recruits had fewer points on the Academic Index—the Ivy League’s measure for determining if recruited athletes meet the academic standards of member institutions—than would have been allowed in previous years. The Academic Index formula relies on an athlete’s GPA, standardized test scores, and class rank to determine a “score” that is weighed in the recruiting process.The Times reported that, according to two former Harvard assistant coaches, last year’s team had an average...
...Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani, the world's 14th richest man, with an estimated net worth of $20.1 billion. Not quite as wealthy but rather more flamboyant is Vijay Mallya, known for throwing lavish parties in his home city of Bangalore and for his co-ownership of the Force India Formula One team. The enterprise's big guns aren't fooling: "We want the IPL to be one of the icon brands in the world," says IPL chairman Lalit Modi, "and we are going to push everything that is required to achieve that...
...made," says curator Patrizia Pietrogrande. "Ferrari and Alfa Romeo are representative of Italian elegance and style." Fittingly, then, a spectacular array of cars greets visitors as they arrive at the neoclassical Palazzo. Contemporary models include the Ferrari driven by Michael Schumacher when he clinched the company's fifth consecutive Formula One Championship in 2003, and the Ducati Desmosedici motorbike that bore Australian Casey Stoner to victory at the 2007 MotoGP World Championship. But television has acquainted us with these streamlined, postmodern missiles; more precious is the chance to see the Fiat that won the 1907 French Grand Prix. Its frame...