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...intense competition. With only the top four teams in the nation qualifying for the Frozen Four, three teams are in a tight race for the next two spots. Only one point separates the Big Green (18-5-2), No. 4 St. Lawrence (20-7-1) and No. 5 Wisconsin...
...election year, but a self-fulfilling prophecy when many people believe whatever their TV anchor tells them. In one glaring example of an obituary published before death, the CBS affiliate in Jacksonville, Fla. posted on its website a Knight-Ridder wire story announcing Dean’s Wisconsin loss, comparing his campaign to a “plummeting comet,” at 8:42 in the morning on Feb. 17, just hours after the Wisconsin polls had opened and long before even preliminary results were available. Knight-Ridder is widely regarded as a high-level, professional news organization?...
...look around college athletics shows several prominent cases of redemption-gone-right. In November 2002—the weekend after Morris was fired, in fact—first-year Wisconsin coach Mike Eaves had a physical confrontation at a hotel with one of his players, Alex Leavitt. The incident was reported to the athletic director. A letter of reprimand was put in Eaves’s personnel file, one of several low points for the Badgers in a 13-23-4 season...
...administration stuck behind Eaves—and is undoubtedly satisfied with his performance since. Wisconsin is 17-9-6 this season and is a good bet to make the NCAA tournament, while Eaves won a Gold Medal last month as head coach of Team USA at the World Junior Championships...
...space exploration has an English accent? Feilin A. Zhu '06 wryly suggests that the moon is, in fact, a big ball of American cheese, while Hannah E. Wright '06 finds herself at a loss: “Ask somebody from Wisconsin...