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...restore that lost credibility, without which no professional sport can thrive, the NBA surprised everyone by going way outside the sports world to tap Johnson, who commanded the Army Corps of Engineer's reconstruction efforts in Iraq from 2003 to '04. Johnson, who spent the past 32 years as a combat engineer, has no experience in sports administration and has refereed only the occasional youth game. When asked for his reaction to Johnson's hiring, Hue Hollins, a 27-year NBA official who retired in 2003, says, "I passed out. You'd think you'd hire someone who knows something...
...change our direction every two days.” Their project is still in the process of recruiting users. Christina J. Kelly ’09 was another attendee who had already accrued some entrepreneurial experience through a company she started in order to promote computer gaming as a sport. Wenger also discussed the impact of the current economic crisis on start-ups but told the students not to let the current market turbulence deter them. “If the financial crisis has proven anything,” he said, “it’s that working...
...Fencing is a great combination of being physically demanding and mentally demanding—it’s often likened to physical chess,” Benji Ungar, co-captain for the men’s fencing team added. This would make fencing seem like the ideal Harvard sport. Weakness in athleticism can be atoned for with a brilliant strategy, a sort of physical chess. But, out of the 41 Division I sports that Harvard offers, fencing seems to take a backseat. Yet, it is one of the best teamS on Harvard’s campus. The team is consistently...
...like "Palestine News," "Jerusalem 4ever," and "Palestine4ever," all popular venues for Palestinian youth around the world to discuss ideas, news and share photos and videos from their own corner of the globe. "In the beginning it was just casual chatting and discussion, the themes were arts and culture and sport," says Abukeshek of the chat rooms he frequented before getting involved with Pal-youth.org. "But then I noticed more and more political chat rooms appearing over time - the Palestinians in Palestine had to express what was happening inside, and the Palestinians outside of Palestine had a need to learn about...
...ballot Question 3—which would ban gambling on dog races across the state —presents a number of arguments against the initiative. It reminds readers of the thousand jobs tied to dog racing within state borders, disputes the claim that dogs are mistreated under current sport regulations and cites a rate of fatality below one percent for the state’s 2066 racing greyhounds in the past calendar year. With a few exceptions, the many arguments advanced by MAIC against Question 3 are compelling ones. More convincing, though, is the argument they don?...