Word: good
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...were on good terms. We spoke the same language, the language of pilots...
...list, but grades should not be the least of their concerns. An internal study at the University of Houston found that the 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...
Such reforms could help end the exploitation and hypocrisy that now sully the game of college basketball, as well as other sports. That would be good for the schools and good for sport. If colleges and universities assumed their responsibility as institutions of higher learning and if sports programs were kept in perspective, more student athletes might turn out like Fred Brown. Fred grew up on the gritty streets of the South Bronx. His father was taken off to prison when the boy was in third grade. His mother worked in a grocery and tended...
...academic par with the general population of the school, but if you as an individual can sit there and learn something and better yourself, that's an education," he says. Stroking the lapel of a well-cut gray suit, Fred reflects on his rise from the ghetto to the good life. "I always ask my mother, 'If I hadn't played basketball, what would have happened?' " he says. "Ninety percent of the people I grew up with are dead or in jail, and I would have been the same way. Without basketball, I wouldn't have had an outlet...
...that Hightower is pursuing political ambitions instead of looking after the state's farmers. But supporters of small-farm interests rallied just as staunchly to his defense. Said Joe Rankin, president of the Texas Farmers Union: "The entrenched powers feel alienated. Jim won't get into bed with the good ole boys...