Is Microsoft Buying a Basketball Team? The media report that the Sacramento Kings are being sold to Chris Hansen and Microsoft MSFT +0.56% chief executive Steve Ballmer. Ballmer is said to be a devoted pickup basketball player with a reputation for having mean elbows. But, that is not all! St[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Huskies’
December 20th, 2012 - 11:40 am § in Misc.
UW in top 25 … for academic standing of atheletic program!
Go Huskeys? The UW Athletic Program ranked # 11 in academic success of our athletes …. Pretty good! … Harvard only ranked 114! Stanford, UNC, Georgetown,Notre Dame, Penn State, UCLA, Michigan, Oregon, and Princeton* beat us. We easily beat the Air Force Academy and USC at 73 and 23[...]
How to Fund a Major University
A serious challenge faces all of us at the UW. What are we going to be? How do we attract new, young faculty competitive enough to eventually win a federal grants or stimulate their students to greatness? The desperate reaction to Washington state’s cuts to higher education have led, rig[...]
August 1st, 2012 - 9:48 am § in Hypocrisy, Schools & Colleges
THE HUSKIES’ STAND ON CHILD AB– USE
Mark Emmert moves into new territory by cracking down on Penn State at almost the same time the uW Huskies recruited a 14-year-old quarterback. HYPOCRISY[...]
Penn State Gets Off Lightly, How come the UW gets off totally?
Here are the punishments Emmert and the NCAA announced today for Penn State. I have three comments: 1. Why only one year worth of financial penalties and who gets the $60 million? Why didn’t the NCAA require that these moneys go to the victims? Is the NCAA (rightly) afraid it will be sue3d[...]
A CPA Looks at the UW Athletic Department
I attended last Saturday’s Republican caucus to support Rick Santorum. As a follower of Jefferson, I believe wer need two real parties. It time the Republican Party run an hoest candidate. I will write more about this later …now I want to discuss the Huskies. At that SaturdayR[...]
December 1st, 2011 - 11:09 pm § in Hypocrisy, Schools & Colleges
Penn State: Where there is smoke, shouldn’t you look for fire?
Joe Paterno Advocated Special Treatment For Penn State Football Players: Report By SEANNA ADCOX 11/22/11 Huffington Post and AP, excerpts Asked …whether disciplinary cases at Penn State (other than the Sandusky affair)would be reviewed, an NCAA spokeswoman said she had nothing else to say a[...]
Rhodes Scholars from WASTATE and the Udub!
This is a big event for the UW’s new South Lake Union Campus. Cameron Turtle, a student in Mike Regnier’s laboratory at the UW Center for Cardiovascular Regernative Medicine is one of of two UW students to win a 2012 Rhodes Scholarship! Cameron and Byron Gray, another UW senior w[...]
November 19th, 2011 - 2:22 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Phyllis Wise Will Cut Athletic Subsidy at Her New U
from ACADEME BLOG by John Wilson Last month the Chicago Tribune had a lengthy front-page article about how the University of Illinois’ general fund subsidizes the athletic program with $920,000 in free tuition waivers for student athletes. The University plans to reduce this number to $500,000[...]
College Athletics … Wealthy Private, Rockefeller Univeristy Competes Toe to Toe With Big Time NCAA Conference School
Down a goal to No. 2/3 Minnesota (13-2-0, 8-2-0 WCHA) with 2:22 to play in the third period, the No. 9/9 Rockefeller women’s hockey team, The Ladies, (5-3-0, 5-2-0 ECAC) earned a power play opportunity after a checking call landed the Gophers’ senior defenseman Anne Schleper in the pena[...]