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Should Nike be worried? Both Nike and Adidas say the Starburys haven't cut into sales, so the big boys have no plans for cheap sneaks. These companies insist their $100-plus kicks offer extra features that help a player's performance. "It would be tough for us to go to that price point because consumers expect so much from our product," says Travis Gonzalez, an Adidas basketball spokesman...
...next two winnable games—the Crimson plays at Columbia and home against Penn, while the Bulldogs host Brown and travel to Princeton—but only a tiny one that either will lose both. That means the league title will be on the line in New Haven. It could be a meeting of 6-0 archrivals for the first time in over 30 years...
...Foul! The ugly details of the Donaghy gambling scandal still haven't come out, and when they do they could spark a debate about "the integrity of the game," or at least they would if basketball had more George Will types writing about it. But some fans may start questioning every call by every ref, a privilege previously reserved for Rasheed Wallace...
...recent presidential elections, the candidate who eventually won had trailed at some point by margins as large as those now facing the likely Republican nominees. This was true of Ronald Reagan in 1980, Bush in 1988 and Clinton in 1992. And in the two most recent elections, Republicans haven't done badly. The GOP candidate made a far closer race of it than expected in a special election in the strongly Democratic 5th Congressional District in Massachusetts, losing by only 6 points despite being outspent about 4 to 1. And 36-year-old Republican Congressman Bobby Jindal won the governorship...
...junior Roberta Steele was skipper with two different crews over the weekend, helping the boat to a strong finish that secured the women a place at the Women’s Atlantic Coast Championships at Yale. Despite the tricks of the Charles, the women will still travel to New Haven in two weeks...