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...sport's most talented fighter, Floyd Mayweather Jr., 30, a self-described "hustler" who was nearly gunned down as a baby and is, kindly, referred to by one promoter as "a huge pain in the ass." Pit him against the sport's last glamour boy, Oscar De La Hoya, 34, bred tough in East L.A. but now a clean-cut corporate sweetheart whose broad, boyish smile has made millions swoon into his corner. Naturally, his charm has also turned off others who would love a guy like Mayweather to coldcock that grin off his face. De La Hoya, an Olympic...
...boxing is back, at least for a night. De La Hoya, who has won 38 bouts and lost only four, and Mayweather, undefeated in his 37 times in the ring, will square off on May 5 in Las Vegas for the super welterweight (no more than 154 lbs.) championship. The fight will be shown in a record 176 countries and may become the most watched pay-per-view matchup ever--at $55 a pop in the U.S.--perhaps topping the 1.99 million buys to see Mike Tyson bite off a chunk of Evander Holyfield's ear in 1997. Arena tickets...
...rabid Hoya fans affectionately call Thompson, struggled with his decision to take the Georgetown job in 2004. He loved his alma mater, and most members of the '04 Tigers, fresh off a league title, were returning. It wasn't certain that Georgetown could compete against the bulked-up budgets of the Big East. Even today Georgetown's hoop team fights the volleyball squad for practice time at the school's campus...
...Hall of Famer John Jr. isn't the only looming legend. Hall of Famer Carril, 76, has been carefully following his basketball progeny's stunning three-year turnaround at Georgetown. And though Carril calls JT3's Hoya players "darn levelheaded Joes," they admit to not immediately buying into a system that demands total team discipline. "When you're coming from high school and you're the superstar of your team, you can sometimes ask, ?Why are we doing this?'" says Green. "But we soon realized that nobody could guard us." Thompson never considered scrapping the Princeton...
...that “trying to catch [plagiarism] mechanically through websites like TurnItIn.com is demeaning to everyone involved.” “We should see plagiarism as a signal of the overall health of academia and act to solve the problem fundamentally,” he added.A HOYA HURRAHOn the other hand, the student-faculty Honor Council at Georgetown University, which has been using TurnItIn on a trial basis since the spring semester of 2002, gives a thumbs up to the software.The graduate assistant to the Honor Council, Kyle Stedman, described the program...