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...extra-session wins gave the Ivies a split of their four games against the Patriot League on the weekend and left the season record at .500 (6-6) with just three games left between the two conferences—all coming this weekend...

Author: By Michael R. James, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Around the Ivy League | 10/15/2004 | See Source »

Dartboard wants his generation to recognize its responsibility to end this nominative madness. Split up your kids—half get dad’s name, half get mom’s. Or condense the hyphenated names into some sort of acronym (in the second example above, Mary’s last name could be Elbo). Or flip a coin ‘fer crissakes.’ There’s no easy solution other than marrying a family member, but a solution has to be found. Just don’t saddle your young’uns with...

Author: By The Editors, | Title: DARTBOARD | 10/15/2004 | See Source »

Instead of entering from the endzone at the open end of the stadium, the body would be split into two groups with one entering from the closed end as well...

Author: By Michael R. James, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Loud and Proud, Band is Back for 85th Reunion | 10/12/2004 | See Source »

...teams split the first four games, setting up a thrilling finish...

Author: By Karan Lodha, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Volleyball Sits Alone Atop Ivy League | 10/12/2004 | See Source »

...model is the change from a single-entity league to a franchise operation. In the old WUSA, each investor operated a team or two--Time Warner Cable, for example, ran the Carolina Courage and New York Power, and Hendricks ran the San Jose CyberRays and Washington Freedom. The owners split losses equally. Under the franchise model, danger does loom: one team can acquire more riches, creating competitive imbalance that bankrupts other teams and adds instability (see Yankees, New York, and Expos, Montreal, in baseball). But single-team ownership builds incentives to leverage local sponsors, a strategy the WUSA missed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPORT: League in Limbo | 10/11/2004 | See Source »

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