Word: postseason
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...basketball and football for violating dozens of association rules. Among the Long Beach transgressions: moving one prospect's family to a home near the college, offering another money and jobs for his relatives, even repairing one candidate's wrecked car. For Long Beach, probation means no postseason competition or any participation in lucrative TV contracts. The only comfort was that the N.C.A.A. did not prohibit all further recruiting...
Clever people, those Orientals. Consider baseboru. For nearly three decades after the professional game was introduced to Japan in 1936, the native teams politely and honorably lost to visiting U.S. clubs in a series of postseason exhibition games. All along, of course, the Japanese players were learning while losing. Just how much they learned became shockingly clear to the San Francisco Giants last year. When they went to Japan to take on such supposed pushovers as the Taiyo Whales, Nankai Hawks and Chunichi Dragons, the Giants were clobbered in six out of nine games. Now, anxious to pick up more...
...usually with voting power. In 1968, Hesburgh proclaimed that he would expel 1,000 students before permitting girls to visit in the dorms; a year later, he accepted a student-faculty committee recommendation to allow limited visits. Paradoxically, he pleased old grads by letting the football team play in postseason bowl games -but chiefly because the $200,000 income could be used to finance scholarships for blacks and Spanish-speaking students. In the past six months, he has shed five of his off-campus jobs. Last year the A.A.U.P. reconsidered and gave him that academic freedom award...