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Another complaint that has been lodged against the varsity program was its failure to offer Puchtel a tryout for the varsity squad. Tryouts for the varsity basketball squad are invitation only and are usually doled out to fill needs...
...more than a million dollars out of high school; three international players who cannot speak a word of English; and my roommate, Zach, who dropped out of high school and took a three-year hiatus that eventually ended with him signing with his hometown team after a rare open tryout...
...Rockefeller Fellowship to research religion in Northern India for a year. He has planned trips to Dharamsala and Benares. The batch of letters that he recently received from the Yankees, the Reds, and the Phillies poses an intriguing, if trying, dilemma.Not bad for a one-time Ivy League tryout.“You know, he’s just one of those guys,” Walsh says. “He’s not a lazy kid. He goes after everything. Wakes up in the morning, he’s got his day planned. He just goes hard...
...crisis, Google has spent months trying to find a successor, or maybe two, to replace departing head chef Charlie Ayers, who once cooked for members of the Grateful Dead. A search committee has been meeting with candidates. We're not talking meat loaf and bug juice. In a recent tryout, the executive chef from an acclaimed area restaurant prepared sugar-pie pumpkin lasagna and cedar spring lamb chops...
...What's next? Before the 2002 Games, Team U.S.A. leaned on veterans from Nagano, and the squad spent five months playing together. This time around, Smith, no sentimentalist, cut vets Shelley Looney and Granato after the 2005 tryout camp. "In the past six or eight years, we had the same faces," says Smith. "The team now is the future...