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...video-game circuit operates much like pro tennis'. Gamers qualify for top-tier events by competing in smaller tourneys either individually or as part of a team. Organizers prefer teams because they draw more fans--crucial for an event trying to sell itself as a spectator sport. Purses are relatively modest, at least by pro-baseball standards. A World Cyber Games winner might get $20,000--less than what the Texas Rangers pay shortstop Alex Rodriguez for two innings...
Still, it's a start. And the $10 billion-a-year gaming industry hopes the sport will catch on as a way to spark more interest and sell even more titles. Can overbearing parents reliving their Donkey Kong glory days through their kids be far behind...
DIED. ALTHEA GIBSON, 76, tennis trailblazer; of respiratory failure; in East Orange, N.J. Before the Civil Rights Act, she spoke volumes by playing an unapologetically fierce serve-and-volley game that dominated the women's side of the sport in the late '50s. As the first African American to compete in a Grand Slam, win titles at Wimbledon and the U.S. Nationals and join the L.P.G.A. golf tour, she cleared a path for Arthur Ashe, Tiger Woods and the Williams sisters. (Her advice to Venus before she became the first black woman since Gibson to win Wimbledon, in 2000: "Move...
While recruiting is a full-time occupation for coaches in any sport, it is especially demanding in football, where rosters are the biggest and most specialized. Harvard’s team database starts with the names of some 7,000 high school football players, which they get from subscription services and correspondence with coaches. Because of Harvard’s sky-high admissions standards, coaches leave most on the cutting room floor as soon as their SAT scores come in. “A lot of those kids are not going to be recruitable due to academics...
...most highly regulated sport is football. Rather than centering around a median, every Ivy League football team is capped at 30 recruits and broken down into four “bands,” ranges of AI scores determined by standard deviations from the median for the class. Each team is allowed no more than two recruits in the first band, no more than nine in the first and second band combined, no more than 22 in the first, second and third bands combined, and no more than 30 recruits total. Last year, the bands at Harvard, Yale and Princeton...