The NCAA just released figures showing graduation rates for Division I athletes holding steady at 62 percent — which is 2 percent higher than the general student population. It then broke it down by gender and race. For example, 70 percent of female athletes graduated — as opposed to 55 percent of men. In addition, [...]
When Tom Brokaw finally signed off on election night, it was, in effect, the veteran NBC anchor’s last hurrah. The 64 year old, who has anchored the “Nightly News” for more than two decades, officially steps down Dec. 1. Unlike Dan Rather, or other mass communication-mass culture notables, Brokaw didn’t linger past his prime. He [...]
There are gated communities — and then there are “enclaves.” The Bay Area is dotted with the former. The latter — the kind of high-end, environmentally sensitive living that Thoreau might have pined over — are more singular. They’re residential hybrids. They combine the yesteryear ambience of nature, a strong conservation ethic, lots big enough [...]
There are gated communities — and then there are “enclaves.” The Bay Area is dotted with the former. The latter — the kind of high-end, environmentally sensitive living that Thoreau might have pined over — are more singular. They’re residential hybrids. They combine the yesteryear ambience of nature, a strong conservation ethic, lots big enough [...]
When Jimmie Overton garages his car — and it’s a red Viper — for the weekend, he’s ready to kick back and enjoy. What now beckons is what he likes best about his loft lifestyle.He and his wife Toni will still revel in the minimum of household maintenance. And they periodically pause to ogle their [...]
As if the National Hockey League needed another reminder of the stupidity of its labor-management ways. Witness the sell-out crowd that recently packed the Forum for that pre-season, National Basketball Association game between the Miami Heat and The Orlando Magic. That’s right, more than 20,000 turned out for a lounge act EXHIBITION. Some tickets cost [...]
Don’t count Teddy Roque among Ybor City’s hand wringers and naysayers. He’s the general manager of the new, $12-million Hampton Inn & Suites at the corner of 13th Street and East 7th Avenue, and he’s thrilled to be opening the red-brick property with 138 rooms (including 50 suites) by Thanksgiving. “You have to look on [...]
Tampa has those eight, yellow, barely broken in retro streetcars. They are reminiscent of a bygone, pre-bus era, one that ended in 1946. By January there should be a ninth ready for delivery. But as of last week there was another — especially notable — addition to the mini fleet. It is a newly restored [...]
Part of John Kerry’s campaign mantra has been the characterizing of America’s Iraqi policy as “the wrong war, at the wrong time, in the wrong place.” It’s a hot-button line that actually harkens back to another war, the Korean, and another adversary, China. The source can be found in Niall Ferguson’s “Colossus: The Price of [...]
The deeper Gov. Bush gets into his lame duck years, and the closer it gets to his brother’s presidential show-down, the more speculation picks up about Jeb’s future plans. A persistent query concerns a presumed run for the presidency. Most recently the governor had to deny such interest on ABC’s “This Week.” “I’m not going [...]
