Word: georgetown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the type of year they will have in the NBA, the Clippers might be better off facing Georgetown...
First, college basketball teams, except for a few big-time clubs such as North Carolina and Georgetown, do not expect to draw more than 10,000 fans to each game. College teams also have a natural audience--the schools' students. Ticket prices to college games are usually not high. And college basketball does not have to be a money-maker. Breaking even is not cause for panic...
...Thompson was the perfect coach to try to defeat a world-class team with a team that was only together for two months," Heinsohn says. "That Big East defense (which Thompson uses as coach of Georgetown University) is such that whenever Georgetown would play out of conference, no one would know what to do with...
...large, required retreats and classroom crucifixes have gone the way of the Latin Mass. Mixed-sex dorms and university-sponsored advice on birth control and abortion are still officially proscribed, but in practice most Catholic schools do not actively police personal behavior. Nor do they turn a blind eye: Georgetown tried unsuccessfully to refuse funding for a gay student group...
...three years ago, when the Vatican proposed a policy that would allow a bishop to strip a school of its Catholic status if it did not meet standards of orthodoxy. The policy, which is expected to be released in final form sometime next year, has drawn fire from Georgetown president Timothy Healy and other prominent U.S. Catholic educators, who say it would destroy academic freedom...