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Another Collegiate Athletic Scandal: Caltech facing NCAA sanctions
Associated Press ^ | July 12, 2012 | AP

Posted on 07/14/2012 8:15:59 PM PDT by chrisinoc

The California Institute of Technology has been given a reprimand and penalties for fielding players who were academically ineligible, the NCAA announced Thursday, putting a school whose losing streaks can run into the decades in the company of athletic powerhouses like USC and Oklahoma.

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1 posted on 07/14/2012 8:16:11 PM PDT by chrisinoc
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To: chrisinoc

The “violation” is absurd. But, then, having “CalTech” and “sports” in the same sentence is mildly absurd...


2 posted on 07/14/2012 8:25:25 PM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: chrisinoc

The “violation” is absurd. But, then, having “CalTech” and “sports” in the same sentence is mildly absurd...


3 posted on 07/14/2012 8:26:38 PM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: achilles2000
Leave it to Beavers. Those rescally varmints!


4 posted on 07/14/2012 8:30:29 PM PDT by Boiler Plate ("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
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To: Boiler Plate

Copyright problem with Goldy Gopher?

5 posted on 07/14/2012 8:37:00 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: jjotto
Speaking of perenially losing teams.

And no wonder: Goldie was metrosexual when metrosexual wasn't cool...

Cheers!

6 posted on 07/14/2012 8:49:49 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: achilles2000
But Caltech has been represented at the Rose Bowl in front of a national audience.

http://today.caltech.edu/today/story-display.tcl?story_id=11423

7 posted on 07/14/2012 9:07:10 PM PDT by chrisinoc
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To: chrisinoc

How many scholarships are they going to lose off their physics team?


8 posted on 07/14/2012 10:07:03 PM PDT by Francis McClobber
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To: chrisinoc

Not merely represented, but represented in a way appropriate for the institution ;-)


9 posted on 07/15/2012 7:29:44 AM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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