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...next year (for you non-bracketheads out there, 65 teams play in the current field). Within basketball circles and among cubicle dwellers who relish filling out their brackets for the ubiquitous office pools, chatter about a broader tournament is dominating the discussion. "Absolutely, it's hot," says Phil Martelli, head basketball coach at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia, of the expansion issue. "Very hot." (See a brief history of bracketology...
...money if an expanded tournament devalues the regular season to the point that they sell fewer tickets to those games, or if television networks don't pony up as much dough to broadcast battles in January and February. "I don't think it's good for the game," says Martelli, one of the few coaches who have come out against the expansion plan. "The beauty of college basketball is that Wisconsin vs. Indiana, on a Tuesday night in January, is full of vim and vigor...
...million yearly paycheck. "Look at the rising salaries, the firings, the arms race for facilities development," says Rick Boyages, an associate commissioner of the Mid-American Conference and a former college coach. "The competition and marketplace for kids is really no different from the stock market." Notes Phil Martelli, coach of St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia: "If Michigan does it, then Michigan State has to do it. In Philadelphia, if Temple does it, then St. Joe's has to do it. There's certainly a herd mentality...
...ONLY WAS CLAUDIO MARTELLI ITALY'S MINISter of Justice, he was also one of the last hopes as a leader who might restore respect to the Italian Socialist Party, badly weakened by an 18-month investigation of corruption and kickbacks known as Operation Clean Hands. That hope vanished when Martelli learned that he too has been fingered in the probe. Though he insists he is innocent, Martelli resigned from both the Cabinet and the party. When the Socialists met to choose a successor to disgraced leader Bettino Craxi, charged with six counts of corruption, they turned instead to Giorgio Benvenuto...
...long. Following an emergency Cabinet session in Rome, Deputy Prime Minister Claudio Martelli declared that "this exodus cannot continue." The vast majority of Albania's visitors are "not political refugees but economic refugees," he said, and as such they fail to qualify for asylum under Italian law and will be returned home within a few days by Italian ships. That decision, doubtless influenced by Italy's 11% unemployment rate, was the most dramatic display to date of Western Europe's growing reluctance to receive waves of immigrants from the East...