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...rivalry of Oxford and Cambridge in sport therefore is a thing apart, a matter between themselves, something to be settled by 'young 'varsity gentlemen' without the pother and popular clamor which are the inevitable concomitants of intercollegiate contests in the United States...
...Council also instituted admission standards—banding students by their Academic Index number—for every recruited athlete entering a school. This set up a bizarre incentive system where, theoretically, you could sacrifice one sport by only recruiting students in the top band, allowing you more flexibility in terms of recruiting for other sports...
...owner out of respect for the owner’s wish for anonymity. But a few tiles in one of the panels, which Gogel calls a “community quilt” because the panel is divvied up into many small tiles to allow for individual expression, already sport a mixture of art and politics...
...sport's country-club partner, golf, is also on the downswing. Participation is flat: annual rounds played have fallen 4.5%, to 494 million, since 2000. In the five-year period from 1997 to 2002, according to the NSGA, spending on golf clubs, balls and apparel shrank from $5.33 billion to $4.6 billion, a 14% drop. Equipment sales fell again last year. Golf has even taken down a Wall Street firm. Gotham Partners, a hedge fund with $300 million in assets, shut down last year because of losses on golf-course investments: too many new courses have been built...
Some experts contend that no amount of marketing can boost golf and tennis. Like basketball in the late 1970s, they say, the sports need a rivalry like Larry Bird vs. Magic Johnson to capture fans' imagination. After all, tennis peaked in the 1970s, when John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors and Bjorn Borg played epic matches. That's why tennis recently revamped the pro tour to create the U.S. Open Series, which will try to build rivalries by forging a six-week summer "season" that links tournaments. Golf sales hit a 15-year high in 1997, when Tiger Woods arrived...