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Sports

Wafer Saxa

Before I die, I hope to be wealthy enough to found a university. With a relatively small amount of money?say, a few million dollars?I could easily start a small institution focused on training students for a specific range of careers. But that wouldn’t be any fun, because trade schools don’t usually have real sports teams.

By the September 12, 2002

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By the September 12, 2002

Sports

Beirut 101

Some call it beer pong; others refer to it as “beirizzy in the hizzy.” You can call it whatever you want, as long as you acknowledge that Beirut is the best game, ever. we ex-high school jocks can’t get enough of it. If we go one night without the feeling of that ping-pong ball on our fingertips, we get the jitters.

By the September 12, 2002

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By the September 12, 2002

Voices

Letter to the Editor

Last week’s editorial on the upcoming World Bank/IMF protests, (“Wanted: Police protection,” Sept. 5), while supporting the easily defendable sentiment that safety is important and that everyone should feel secure, nevertheless completely misses the essential issues, relying upon the faulty premise that spending more money to provide more police officers and more riot gear is the best way to ensure safety and security for the city.

By the September 12, 2002

Sports

The Sports Sermon

By the time you read this, the Oakland A’s may have won their 20th straight game, an American League record and the first streak of its kind since the 1947 New York Yankees. After a tumultuous offseason that featured the A’s losing their star and leader Jason Giambi, leadoff hitter Johnny Damon, closer Jason Isringhausen and rookie of the year candidate Eric Hinske, the A’s were given up for dead.

By the September 5, 2002

Leisure

Indie label offers its young

We’ve all seen them: Fluorescent bubble letters explode onto our television screen, followed by snippets of videos, catching impassioned artists shooting sultry looks. Brittany, Kylie, Hanson, even K-Ci & JoJo. An announcer shouts that this $20 disc is the key to a sweet party.

By the September 5, 2002

Sports

I’m like a bird

The sign on the wall said, “Why gamble with your money, when you can gamble with your life?” At first it seemed a bit absurd to me, but then again I was in Vegas, a few hundred dollars in the hole. At 3 a.m., standing on the floor of the Venetian Hotel, what once was a crazy idea that I had shrugged off several times before suddenly started to seem a lot more plausible.

By the September 5, 2002

Leisure

Q&A: this is for U

As I cruised down the streets of Gainesville, Fla. during a summer road-trip with John, my long-time best friend, one question plagued us. We’d roll down the windows, hang out of them and blare either the Yeah Yeah Yeahs or the Faint while we checked out the people walking to and from the University of Florida campus.

By the September 5, 2002

Sports

What’s your f-f-fantasy

There are 45 seconds left on the clock and the Philadelphia Eagles are up 52-14 on the New York Giants. The G-men have the ball at their 20-yard line. The offense steps onto the field against the Eagles third-string defense. Why am I so intrigued? Why do I refuse to change the channel to a more competitive game? Because I have Jeremy Shockey, the Giants tight end, on my fantasy football team and he needs only 10 more yards to put him over 100 yards receiving for the day: 100-plus yards means big points for my fantasy football team.

By the September 5, 2002