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...don’t get the funding or the access to facilities that varsity sports do, and that can be a bummer. But we are in control of our own destiny,” Marsh says. Ryan John, media and communications director at the Ultimate Player??s Association (UPA), the governing body for Ultimate Frisbee in the United States, says the overall membership in the UPA has grown between 15 and 20 percent in the past five years. As the game rises in popularity, college teams are becoming increasingly competitive. According to John, the “Spirit...
Every time an announcer or commentator spouts off on your TV or in your newspaper about a player??s “intangibles,” or calls attention to his grit, scrappiness, or heart as attributes that somehow act to will his team to victory, a blow is struck against the diffusion of quantifiable knowledge that is raising the game to the level of efficiency its fans deserve. It was such a blow that knocked Paul DePodesta ‘95, one of the protagonists in Michael Lewis’s 2003 book “Moneyball...
...application looked “very good” and told that he should turn down an offer from Notre Dame. “Tell them you have committed to Dartmouth,” the coach advised in early October. In December, Dartmouth sent a rejection letter. Stunned, the player??s family sought an explanation from admissions and the coach. Each party blamed the other for “miscommunication.” Such a lack of accountability is built into the current Ivy system. The student was lucky; he scrambled to revive interest from other coaches...
...collect offers before making a final decision. This would reduce the pressure on athletes to make a quid pro quo verbal commitment to a coach, alleviate the amount of lying from all parties, and put an end to the tampering that occurs when coaches do not honor a player??s verbal commitment to attend another Ivy institution...
...linger in the corner. The diners at Tommy Doyle’s treat it like any other background music. One middle-aged couple watches from the bar with great enjoyment, but they are already familiar with this music and are simply waiting for their daughter—a banjo player??to arrive...