Tuesday, July 09, 2002

USC Football
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Pac-10 and 2002 Opponents
Women at CU party 'set up' for sex - Denver Post
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%257E87%257E669659%257E,00.html
...The Dec. 7 party occurred during the height of the college football recruiting season, when universities try to impress top high school prospects. Not everyone agrees on the party's goal, but some witnesses told police it was set up so the recruits could have sex...

A new jersey for LoVecchio - South Bend Tribune
http://www.southbendtribune.com/stories/2002/06/13/sports.20020613-sbt-MARS-B1-A_new_jersey.sto
...he was never the same after OSU crushed ND, 41-9, on Jan. 1, 2001 in Tempe, Ariz. And after the Irish started the 2001 season 0-2, classmate and good friend Carlyle Holiday was elevated to the starting quarterback job for the rest of the season...


NCAA
Coca-Cola Places Big Bet on NCAA Sports - Smart Money
http://www.smartmoney.com/bn/ON/index.cfm?story=ON-20020611-000819-2223
Coca-Cola Co. (KO) will pay CBS more than $500 million over 11 years in a marketing and media program involving the use of NCAA trademarks and the sponsorship of NCAA sports championships...


NFL
Russell: Woman gave consent to sex - OC Register
http://www.ocregister.com/sports/nflno00613cci.shtml
Oakland Raiders defensive tackle Darrell Russell told police that a woman he videotaped allegedly being raped by two of his friends had consented to the sex, though she could have been drugged...


Misc.
Title IX hits Middle America - USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002/06/13/acov-usat.htm
..."In my day, football players dated cheerleaders," says LeighAnn Hubbard, Tricia's mother. "Nowadays it seems like athletes go with athletes."...

Keying into the global computer - The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,736020,00.html
...It will be the way to manage resources of any kind on the net, without you having to think about it." In a multi-vendor networked world, this requires a standards-based architecture, and Carpenter points to the Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA). This is an evolving version of the Globus Toolkit from a project led by the Argonne National Laboratory, the University of Southern California and the University of Chicago's Distributed Systems Laboratory. The Globus Toolkit will also be used in Butterfly.net, announced at the beginning of May, which is being built by IBM's summer students.

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