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...strength of schedule factor alone that put UCLA at No. 2 in the BCS rankings for most of 1998. That year the Bruins had one of the worst defenses statistically in Div 1-A, and they struggled to beat both Stanford and Oregon St., the two cellar teams in the Pac-10 that year. For those and other reasons, both major polls had UCLA ranked below the other two undefeated teams at the time, Kansas St. and Tennessee. But the BCS enabled UCLA to be No. 2 in the country, and only a few hundredths of a point away from...
...certain some BCS-lovers believe that the polls and the computer rankings underemphasize strength of schedule, that the BCS rankings are merely the righteous compensation, and that anyone who disagrees suffers from some anti-Nebraska or anti-UCLA bias. Even if this opinion is remotely accurate, none of these followers can possibly justify the inherently flawed way that the strength of schedule rankings are calculated...
Krayzelburg enrolled at Santa Monica City College and played water polo. He soon became Blumkin's best swimmer. But Blumkin knew Krayzelburg would be better off in a big-time environment. UCLA would have been the first choice, but the Bruins had recently dropped men's swimming. The University of Southern California was an easy second choice. Blumkin contacted Trojans coach Mark Schubert. "In all the time I've been coaching, this might have been the most unselfish act I've ever seen," Schubert says. "Lenny had another year of eligibility at Santa Monica, but Stu was looking for what...
...companies' responses to them were very revealing. We all recognize that in the end, there is significant subjectivity to the user's perception of success. Charles Revson, the legendary founder of Revlon, was probably quite right when he proclaimed, "We sell hope in a jar." ROBERT KOTLER, M.D. UCLA Medical Center West Los Angeles...
...There isn't an alcoholic around who doesn't wish he could drink moderately," says Dr. Ernest Noble, director of UCLA's Alcohol Research Center. He adds that similar attempts at moderation, such as Controlled Drinking, Drink Watchers and Rational Recovery, have a long history of failure. Dr. Nicholas Pace, co-founder of the Alcoholism Council of New York, agrees that such experiments are doomed because alcoholism, as abstinence advocates have drummed into the public's consciousness, is a disease. People who drink heavily over a long period of time permanently alter their livers, which means that they...