The Buckeyes were pretty much the overwhelming choice to be the dominant team in the Big Ten Conference this season.
We begin our weekly mailbag with an East Coast native who pledges fealty to a West Coast team.
A suspect is in custody about an hour after one person was shot late Monday morning on the campus of Middle Tennessee State University, a school spokesman said.
Baseball America annually polls major league scouting directors to vote on the team and make their selections based on performance, talent and professional potential. In the past, the preseason All-America team has been a predictor both of the first round of the draft and of team success. For example, 11 of the 15 college players drafted in the first round last June appeared on Baseball America's preseason All-America list -- eight of them on the first team. Among this year's All-Americans, Middle Tennessee State outfielder Bryce Brentz is the only player who appeared on every scouting director's ballot.
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If you want to know how a kid with a fantasy-league baseball team realizes a baseball fantasy-come-true, you could do worse than the story of Tjerk Smeets, a backup catcher on the Dutch Olympic team.
When Diane Dobry incorporated Kristof Wines in May 2006 to import brands from Hungary, she did what many first-time entrepreneurs do - she scrounged for capital wherever she could find it, including in her home's equity. She took a $10,000 personal loan, got $13,000 from micro-lender Acción International and tapped a relative for $10,000. But she counted on getting the biggest chunk - $50,000 - from selling the Bethpage, N.Y. house she had bought for $43,000 in 1980.
Finals are over, families have arrived, and May flowers are blooming on campuses across the country (and by blooming I mean schools are planting fully bloomed flowers the day before parents arrive). That's right, it's graduation time again. It's a time for students to reflect on the end of a long journey, a time for parents to revel in the accomplishments of their children, and above all, it's a time for colleges to show off the spoils from their hunt to find the most prestigious graduation speaker. Some schools had more success than others, and I'm here to let you know which schools made the five best and five worst speaker selections this spring.
This game was ugly and low-scoring, but beyond that, it hardly went according to script. For starters, the Scarlet Knights, not known for their three-point shooting (unjustifiably, it turns out) started the game hitting three-pointers like they were channeling the guards of Vanderbilt or Middle Tennessee State. Before the first half was over, three players had connected on eight of 10 three-pointers, with junior guard Matee Ajavon leading the way with a perfect 4-for-4.
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