Word: pros
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...redoubtable St. John's University basketball coach Joe Lapchick). Under U.D.C.P., 27 Boston-area professional players finished credit courses given by Northeastern professors. This year the program has expanded to a consortium that includes ten other schools and extends to ex-collegians who never made it to the pros...
Though such steps are heartening, concerned academics like Harry Edwards remain impatient at the slow pace of fundamental change. Berkeley, which has joined the Lapchick consortium, has not yet enrolled any local pros. Neighboring University of San Francisco has enlisted just one. Meanwhile, the majority of major sports colleges go on shuffling their players through, mainly to the limbo of underqualified, often marginally employed ex-jocks. "It's a plantation system," growls Edwards. "They use up (the athletes), and when they're finished, there's no place...
...talent to make it big in the pros," said Fish. "Perhaps his only weakness is in his mental discipline. The difference between the top pros and mediocre players is strong mental control...
After the pros came the amateurs, for hours and hours. "I can't explain the high," said one. "It's almost religious...
Just ask your old high school chum how many of his classmates were first-round National Hockey League draft choices who are passing up the pros to spend four years on the ice for their schools. The Class of '89's Chris Biotti was the first American player chosen in the June draft (17th overall, by the Calgary Flames), but he'll be settling in Cambridge, rather than Calgary, in September...