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Here is the box score. Maybe Obama can now spend his time drilling for our own energy.

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It's a gloriously sunny afternoon, and Eddie Sutton has slipped away from his tomblike office at the University of San Francisco to return a phone call from the relative quiet of the lobby inside the aging War Memorial Gymnasium. The hoopla over Sutton has masked deep discontent among influential alumni and donors of the athletics program, unhappy over the manner and timing of Evans being jettisoned, and its potential effect on important efforts to recruit top-quality basketball players to a program that is clearly faltering. Much of that discontent centers on USF's new athletics director, Debra Gore-Mann, whose inconsistent explanations...

SPOKANE, WA--According to a recent survey, every white person in America is secretly rooting for the Gonzaga Bulldogs, a predominantly white NCAA basketball team. In the past few years, the Bulldogs have overcome tremendous odds to become a nationally ranked team. Their surprising success has earned them a devoted following of every white person in America. “There are a lot of closet Gonzaga fans out there,” said Gonzaga coach Mark Few, who has been with the team seven years. “Many of them care very little about NCAA basketball but they still have a soft spot in their heart for the...

I always notice on program grids that CBS and ESPN block out a mere two hours for college basketball games. Yet they seem to invariably run over. Does television truly believe that two 20 minute halves of hoops will be finished in less that 2 hours, including telecast wrap up?foreverfree