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...beloved football division. Because when Appalachian State beat the University of Massachusetts last weekend to claim the school’s second straight Division I-AA title, it wasn’t really a repeat effort. In fact, according to those in charge in college sports’ highest governing body, it was really the Mountaineers’ first NCAA Division I Football Championship.What’s an NCAA Division I Football Championship, you ask? That’s the new championship trophy for the Football Championship Subdivision, the name chosen to replace the I-AA label that...
REVERSE LAYUPS WHILE WEDGED between defenders. Fadeaway jumpers in traffic. Three-pointers shot from Catalina. Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant hit them all one Hollywood night in January, scoring 81 points, the second highest total in NBA history (Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 in 1962), in the Lakers' 122-104 win over the Toronto Raptors. In the second half alone, Bryant outscored the entire Toronto team...
...Well, of course there was, as there is every four years. There was a World Cup, stupid. There was a monthlong celebration of the global game, played to the highest levels, with the usual mixture of sublime skill (the early performances by Argentina and Spain), promise unfulfilled (England's hapless, overpaid team), bad luck (Australia's exit), bad behavior (Portugal) and a controversy for the ages (Zin?dine Zidane's head butt?which, by the way, was the moment when YouTube made it into the consciousness of a whole collection of fogies who had hitherto been blithely unaware of its existence...
...black. That's good. We should not rule out candidates categorically. (Except, no more doctors. I think we can agree on that, now that Dr. Bill Frist of Tennessee is shuffling off the political coil. It's one thing for a lawyer to prove reprehensible in aspiring to the highest office in the land, but when it's a healer, it hurts. Surely no one will vote for another cardiologist, now that we've had Frist - that's a pun, son - in the hearts of his countrymen...
...some new investment in education, it argues that most of its proposals can be accomplished simply by reallocating the huge amount of money we're already spending on public schools - about $9,000 a year per K-12 pupil on average, according to the report, the world's second highest figure...