Word: smarts
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Along the way, the intrepid columnist brings up an economic study that found, get this, that smart schools with less intelligent athletes do better in sports than smart schools with smart athletes. And, despite the simplicity of the result, Kuhls still gets the analysis wrong. It’s not that smarter students are worse athletes than “dumb” students as he says, rather it’s that the recruiting pool for more intelligent prospects is much smaller than that of less intelligent athletes, making it harder to build a strong team with the former...
...film that dares to incorporate the association of airplanes and terrorism in a post 9/11 world—has some underlying agenda of social commentary? After an entire summer of allegory-laced big-budget action features with socio-political subtext, it’s refreshing to find a smart movie with no aspirations to social relevancy...
...being the street-smart guy that I am, I shrieked. Suddenly I was faced with a glowing image of a guy who was so excited about student checking that he looked like he’d been strung out on speed for at least a week...
Both of Altchek’s scores—number five and six on the young season for the standout forward—came with a quick and smart decision in order to surprise Fairfield’s goalie, Andrew Frankel. Frankel had been named the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Week three times so far this season, but Altchek beat him with surprise tactics...
Harvard needed solid, consistent, and smart play throughout the game to compete, but lacked the ability to stop Bucknell’s starters...