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...When you cut down a forest, chips fly.” I personally would leave the forest alone, but, as I’m sure Mr. Usmani will learn, there is no way of talking the trees into falling. MARK A. ADOMANIS ’07 Philadelphia, PA October...
...many ways, of course, they had. On Sept. 12, with 17 games left in the regular season, the New York Mets led the Philadelphia Phillies by seven games in the National League's Eastern Division. No team in baseball history had ever blown that big a lead, that late in the season. Until now. After the Florida Marlins whipped the listless Mets 8-1 on Sunday, and the Phillies finished off the Washington Nationals 6-1, the team's faithful were on the verge of a collective meltdown...
...post-season will make fans even more bitter. "Today, a bunch of Mets fans should turn their attention to the [New York] Giants," says Christian End, a psychology professor at Xavier University in Cincinnati. "Pick up the paper, and read about the 12 sacks they had against the [Philadelphia] Eagles on Sunday. Unpack the Giants memorabilia from your drawers." Problem is, I like the New York Jets, who are 1-3 and lost to Buffalo on Sunday...
...Basically, make yourself feel better by comparing your team to one which, historically, has been much worse off than yours. Take the Phillies. They've been around for 125 years, and won just one World Series, in 1980. The Mets have won a couple since their birth in 1962. Philadelphia lost its 10,000th game this season, the most in professional sports. The franchise is also famous for a choke of its own, the 1964 team that lost the pennant after leading by 6 1/2 games with 12 left to play. They may have topped us this time, but thank...
...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...