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In recent years Asian women have dominated the sport, with China, Taiwan and India holding world championships in six of the seven weight divisions. So it was no surprise when pre-competition favorites China produced the goods and took three of the gold medals on offer, with Yang Xia taking...
The BCS has fallen under a great deal of controversy since its inception, since people have a natural aversion to using computers to determine their fate. Most arguments against the BCS have focused on the computer rankings which favor teams that run up the score. But the biggest problem with...
So, in other words, under the current BCS system, playing an extra game against a bad team will always hurt a team's BCS ranking. Yes, the BCS rankings would have looked more favorably upon the Michigan football players if they had chosen to spend their weekend in Hawaii binge...
Maybe "good teams" just shouldn't play "mediocre teams" like Hawaii. But how fair is that? The aforementioned Hawaii team went from 0-12 to 9-4 in one season, under the tutelage of former Atlanta Falcons coach June Jones. Not every bad team is mired in perpetual mediocrity.
The main question, then, is whether we want to give power back to parties by allowing them to choose candidates and fund them (hopefully under new, stricter campaign finance laws), or whether we want to continue in the current descent towards candidate-driven elections where personality means more than policy...