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As of Friday afternoon, everyone is at 0-0 (almost, sorry Baylor, you got hammered). With the openning day kick-off less than 24 hours away, let us put Obama/McCain on hold and turn our attention to young men being given free educations in exchange for engaging in the controlled violence that we in the U.S. call NCAA College Football.
Check out College Football’s Week-One Top 25: Cheerleader Edition after the jump! Read More »
If you’re anything like us, you’ve been sitting around on the couch, watching the best athletes in the world compete for international greatness while you stuff your face with Funyuns and refill your beer helmet thinking, “Where the hell do all these amazing athletes come from?”
Well, if they’re from the United States, they probably come from these nine schools, where some of the best athletes in the 2008 Beijing Summer Games developed their medal-winning talent. No place provides for top-notch coaching like college. And these nine schools have provided more Olympians than any others in the country. So get ready to find out where you should have gone to school. Read More »
UCLA Sends 37 Athletes To The Olympics
Looking to add to its rich Olympic history yet again in 2008, UCLA will send a total of 37 athletes and coaches to this summer’s Olympic Games, which will be held Aug. 8-24 in Beijing, China. Of the 37 Bruins traveling to Beijing, 31 are athletes (27 former, 3 current, 1 incoming), and six are coaches.
UCLA was one of the nation’s most successful universities at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece, ranking No. 1 among all universities in number of different medalists (19) and number of Olympians (57 representing the United States and 13 foreign countries). Of the 19 medals UCLA took home in 2004, eight were gold, eight were bronze and three were silver. If UCLA were a country, it would have placed 14th overall in the medal count. [UCLA]
Ten Things I Miss Most About Being in a Fraternity
College is clearly one of, if not the best time in one’s life. And if you had the chance to join a fraternity, at least for me, it clearly accentuated that life to a very large extent.
Assuming you take out the homo erotic tendencies and relative abuse factor, I can honestly say (without sounding too corny) that joining a fraternity was one of the best decisions I ever made.
Here are 10 reason why… [Uncoached]
Congress May Make It Harder For Credit Card Companies To Target College Students
Credit card companies beware: Congress is watching.
A flurry of bills is in the works in the House of Representatives and the Senate that would rein in how those companies do business. One proposed change that’s triggered interest among lawmakers, particularly as the economy sours, would make it harder for college students to qualify for credit cards.
“It really is just too easy,” said Christine Lindstrom, the director of the Higher Education Project at the nonpartisan Public Interest Research Group. “They will do anything to be the first card in college students’ wallets. They don’t do credit checks. They don’t even know if students have income.” [Huffington Post]
#1 Stanford University
Number of 2008 Olympians: 31
This place is more an Olympian-making machine than a school. If you’re good enough to get into Standford, and good enough to play on their teams, chances are you have a good shot at getting to the Olympics. Topping off the list with a whopping 31 Olympians, Stanford earned their first medals of the 2008 Olympic Games with exceptional swimming performances in the preliminary rounds of the men’s and women’s 4 x100m freestyle relays. Ben Wildman-Tobriner brought in gold and junior Julia Smit won a silver, bringing Stanford’s all-time Olympic medal count to 199.
Men (15)
Women (16)
Source: NBCOlympics.com
#6 University of North Carolina
Number of 2008 Olympians: 14
Sunny North Carolina owns the U.S. women’s field hockey team, with six of their olympians in Beijing for that sport alone. In fact, every single Olympian from UNC is female. This is the first Olympics since 1996 in Atlanta that the U.S. has had a qualifying field hockey team. And they snagged the 11th spot out of 12 teams chosen. But don’t fret, field hockey players are sometimes super hot, so now we can oogle over those ladies, instead of just the volleyball players.
Women (14)
#5 The University of California - Berkeley
Number of 2008 Olympians: (15)
Sneaking in the fifth place spot, UC Berkeley arrived in Beijing with gold(?), sliver and bronze medal winners. And in 2008, swimmer Natalie Coughlin already has three medals under her swimsuit, winning bronze in the 200-meter individual medley, silver in the 400 free, and gold in the 100-meter backstroke, bring her total medal count, for ‘o4 and ‘08, to eight. And that’s just what one of these Golden Bears can do.
Men (4)
Women (11)
#4 The University of Texas - Austin
Number of Olympians (16)
With seven repeat olympians, look out for Texas to dominate–or at least make a splash–in swimming, and hauling-ass in track and field. Former Longhorn Garrett Weber-Gale already helped the US team bring in gold and set world records in the nail-bitting men’s 400-meter relay. And Texas-Ex Cat Osterman continues to help the US softball team blaze their way through the competition, on their way to total world domination.
Men (11)
Women (5)
Source: NBCOlympics.com
#3 The University of California - Los Angeles
Number of Olympians: 17
In addition to providing 17 members of Team USA, UCLA has students or alumni competing for countries across the globe, from Canada to Belize to the Bahamas. UCLA comes into Beijing with multiple gold medal winners and eight return Olympians. How do they get so many, you ask? Well, if it’s summer all the time, training for the Summer Games is made a little bit easier.
Men (5)
Women (12)
#2 The University of Southern California
Number of Olympians: 19
If you want to win gold, go to USC. Former Trojans Erik Vendt and Klete Keller, two powerhouses of the U.S. swimming team, brought USC Olympic gold in the 4×200-meter relay this year in Beijing, continuing the school’s gold-winning streak, having secured that medal in every Summer Games since 1912. That’s since before television…
Men (5)
Women (14)
Source: NBCOlympics.com
Coming To The Big East In 2010 - Men’s Lacrosse
The Big East conference is forming a new men’s lacrosse league that will include national champion Syracuse.
The league will start competition in the spring of 2010 and will include Syracuse, Providence, Rutgers, St. John’s, Villanova, Notre Dame and Georgetown.
The schools will play each other once.
The conference’s 16 athletic directors unanimously approved the new league during recent meetings. The conference will apply for an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.
Syracuse, which won its 10th NCAA title last month, had played as an independent, while the other schools were scattered in other leagues. [AP]
Former President Clinton Backs Out Of UCLA’s Commencement Ceremony
Former President Bill Clinton won’t be addressing graduates at the UCLA College of Letters and Science commencement ceremony on Friday, June 13, as previously scheduled.
UCLA Chancellor Gene Block will deliver keynote remarks to approximately 4,000 graduating seniors and their guests at the event, which is scheduled for 5 p.m. at Pauley Pavilion.
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) asked Clinton and others not to speak at UCLA while its union members are working without a contract and negotiating with the University of California system.
“It’s unfortunate that union activities are affecting a UCLA event intended to celebrate student achievement,” said Judith L. Smith, dean and vice provost of undergraduate education at the UCLA College of Letters and Science. “While we’re disappointed for students and their family members looking forward to hearing a former president speak, we anticipate a joyful mood as we send off graduating seniors with a ceremony filled with colorful traditions.” [UCLA.NewsRoom]
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High School B-Ball Phenom Lance Stephenson’s Choice Down to Three Schools
Lance Stephenson, the only junior on USA TODAY’s All-USA Boys Basketball Team, has narrowed his college choices to three schools, according to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette via Zag’s Blog.
A 6-foot 5-inch star from Brooklyn, N.Y., Lincoln will decide between USC, UCLA and Kansas.
Check out the entire 2007-08 USA TODAY’s All-USA boys team. [USA Today]
Student Loans Start to Bypass 2-Year Colleges
Some of the nation’s biggest banks have closed their doors to students at community colleges, for-profit universities and other less competitive institutions, even as they continue to extend federally backed loans to students at the nation’s top universities.
Citibank has been among the most aggressive in paring the list of colleges it serves. JPMorgan Chase, PNC and SunTrust say they have not dropped whole categories, but are cutting colleges as well. Some less-selective four-year colleges, like Eastern Oregon University and William Jessup University in Rocklin, Calif., say they have been summarily dropped by some lenders.
The practice suggests that if the credit crisis and the ensuing turmoil in the student loan business persist, some of the nation’s neediest students will be hurt the most. The difficulty borrowing may deter them from attending school or prompt them to take a semester off. When they get student loans, they will wind up with less attractive terms and may run a greater risk of default if they have to switch lenders in the middle of their college years. [New York Times]
College Baseball World Series 20 Team Preview
With two-time defending champion Oregon State sitting on the bench, the College World Series is wide open. No. 1 Miami and the other seven seeded teams own 11 of the past 20 titles, but the road to Omaha is always full of upsets and drama. As the tournament gets under way across the nation, UWIRE has the inside pitch from the reporters who have been covering the teams all season – who’s hot, who’s not, players to watch and more. [UWire's Inside Pitch]
The most boring class I took in college was Statistics I.
It was boring and hard, which meant that no matter what I tried, I constantly fell asleep next to my computer and woke up completely lost.
If only I could have taken one of these classes compiled by Mental Floss Magazine, I’m sure my GPA would have looked much better. Instead of dozing off to the lulling sound of a professor droning on about ratios, I could have been studying muppets and watching Sesame Street.
All of these, at one time, actually existed.
The Horror Film in Context – Bowdoin – Watch people get their heads smashed in and then talk about why society likes to watch people get their heads smashed in.
Simpsons and Philosophy – Cal-Berkeley – How much does this popular show reflect society? Apparently enough to warrant a semester’s worth of lectures.
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