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| World's Best Colleges: About the Rankings
Here's an update to our World's Best Colleges and Universities rankings.
Publish Time: Jun 17, 2009 22:29:05 (MDT)
Source: US News & World Report
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| Sports Digest: Socorro in rankings in two other national polls
OMAHA, Neb. -- Andrew Darr doubled in the go-ahead run in the top of the 12th inning and Arkansas, which had been down to its last strike in the ninth, rallied to defeat Virginia 4-3 in the College World Series on Wednesday night.
Publish Time: Jun 17, 2009 23:50:01 (MDT)
Source: El Paso Times
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| Luke Winn: Kansas tops offseason rankings
Taking into account everything that's happened since North Carolina cut down the nets in Detroit -- the coaching carousel, the spring signing period and NBA draft decisions -- these are the four best and worst offseasons in college basketball:
Publish Time: Jun 16, 2009 10:45:05 (MDT)
Source: Sports Illustrated
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| Staff Editorial: Rank disloyalty
College rankings can do more harm than good.
Publish Time: Jun 18, 2009 9:35:02 (MDT)
Source: The Diamondback
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| NCAA Riches to NBA Rags: No. 5, Lionel Simmons
NCAA Riches to NBA Rags is The Dagger's countdown of the best college basketball players who went on to have disappointing NBA careers. For an explanation of the criteria used in compiling this list, check out our introductory entry . Today we reach No. 6: Lionel Simmons of LaSalle. On a list of famous Lionels, former LaSalle star Lionel Simmons would be far down the rankings, below Ritchie, ...
Publish Time: Jun 17, 2009 13:23:45 (MDT)
Source: Yahoo! Canada Sports
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| Rowlett’s top students share secrets of success
Rowlett High School s top two students attribute their success to more than studying. Kristen Miller, valedictorian, and James Legg, salutatorian, owe their high class rankings to working hard and keeping their eyes on the prize.
Publish Time: Jun 18, 2009 23:53:33 (MDT)
Source: The Rowlett Lakeshore Times
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| It takes just weeks for Bedford athlete to leap to the top
BY MATT SCHOOLEY Zach Ibanez hasn t mastered a technique. Imagine when he does. The Trinity High School senior took up track little more than eight weeks ago but, using his natural ability, has already soared to the top of the state rankings and planted himself on the radar screen of several high-level college programs. On May 29, he flew past Class L competition in the long and triple jumps, ...
Publish Time: Jun 17, 2009 16:27:32 (MDT)
Source: The Bedford Bulletin
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| Affirmative action for homosexual students misguided
Some issues are never resolved. Just three years after the Supreme Court ruled in Grutter v. Bollinger that race could be used as a factor in deciding college admissions, it appears another front has opened up.
Publish Time: Jun 19, 2009 0:05:42 (MDT)
Source: Student Life
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| Briefs
Locals win NCAA title COLLEGE PARK, Md. Former local high school standouts Brittany Fullen of Corona del Mar and Anne Belden of Newport Harbor helped UCLA win its fifth straight NCAA championship in women s water polo Sunday.
Publish Time: Jun 18, 2009 22:39:31 (MDT)
Source: Daily Pilot
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| Federal Authorities Looking At Blagojevich College Connections
(WGN-AM)- The U.S. attorney's office wants to know if former Gov. Rod Blagojevich or his power brokers sought a leg-up for applicants to the University of Illinois and at least two other state universities.
Publish Time: Jun 18, 2009 9:34:28 (MDT)
Source: WGN Radio Chicago
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| Graham County students find summer jobs
Summer jobs for high school and college students are said to be scarce in Arizona; however, more than 40 Graham County youths will be put to work thanks to the federal Workforce Investment Act.
Publish Time: Jun 18, 2009 20:06:46 (MDT)
Source: Eastern Arizona Courier
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| Magazine Names KC High School as One of Nation's Best
Lincoln College Preparatory Academy in Kansas City has been named as one of the nation's best, according to a report in Newsweek Magazine.
Publish Time: Jun 18, 2009 15:33:39 (MDT)
Source: FOX 4 Kansas City
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| Rankings of B.C. secondary schools out today; St. Margaret's tops on Vancouver Island
Fraser Institute's annual secondary school report card generates discussion and disagreement
Publish Time: Jun 17, 2009 9:23:16 (MDT)
Source: Victoria Times Colonist
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| Arnold skipper Becker match race champion
After spending 16 years as a college sailing coach, Arnold resident Geoff Becker is making a career change. Formerly director of junior sailing at the Annapolis Yacht Club and most recently head coach at Washington College, Becker is currently studying to become an emergency medical technician.
Publish Time: Jun 18, 2009 10:52:34 (MDT)
Source: The Capital
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| Luke Winn: Butler's Hayward creates buzz at U-19 tryouts
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Butler's Gordon Hayward, who was selected for USA Basketball's 19-and-under national team on Thursday, was first featured in the sporting press four years ago. A story in a regional section of the Indianapolis Star profiled Gordon and his twin sister, Heather, who were playing mixed doubles in the Indiana State Open. They were precocious prep tennis stars. She had ...
Publish Time: Jun 18, 2009 12:15:02 (MDT)
Source: Sports Illustrated
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| Luke Winn: Butler's Hayward creates buzz at U-19 tryouts
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Butler's Gordon Hayward, who was selected for USA Basketball's 19-and-under national team Thursday, was first featured in the sporting press four years ago. A story in a regional section of the Indianapolis Star profiled Gordon and his twin sister, Heather, who were playing mixed doubles in the Indiana State Open. They were precocious prep tennis stars. She had already ...
Publish Time: Jun 18, 2009 11:56:28 (MDT)
Source: Sports Illustrated
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| Elite McKinney QB Commits
Zach Lee has made his college decision, and though it's not a final one, the McKinney senior-to-be has orally committed to LSU.
Publish Time: Jun 18, 2009 6:39:40 (MDT)
Source: NBC Dallas Fort Worth
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| Miseviciute earns second All-America honors
COLLEGE STATION, Texas The University of Arkansas' women's tennis standout, Aurelija Miseviciute, has been named to her second Intercollegiate Tennis Association All-America team. (Northwest Arkansas Times)
Publish Time: Jun 18, 2009 6:38:14 (MDT)
Source: NWAnews.com
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| ETHS tops New Trier on Newsweek list; schools dispute method
A surge in Advanced Placement enrollment at Evanston Township High School has pushed the school higher on Newsweek magazine's rankings of so-called top high schools after five years of erosion in standing.
Publish Time: Jun 18, 2009 3:16:21 (MDT)
Source: Wilmette Life
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| State to try to recoup college-savings losses
LINCOLN Nebraska officials are trying to get a large investment company to pay back people who lost money in a fund that has been called one of the worst college-savings plans in the country.
Publish Time: Jun 15, 2009 23:40:32 (MDT)
Source: Lincoln Journal Star
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| Pratt, Mellergaard bounce back
CASPER, Wyo. One day after roping a no-time in breakaway roping, Ellensburg High graduate Mackenzie Pratt rebounded with a 7.6-second tie in the first round of goat tying in day two of the weeklong College National Finals Rodeo in Casper, Wyo.
Publish Time: Jun 18, 2009 7:58:05 (MDT)
Source: The Daily Record
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| Class of 2010 comparable to Class of 2008
Spring has sprung past. Summer is almost here. That means July 1 is fast approaching, and the start of the contact period between NCAA Division I college coaches and incoming seniors.
Publish Time: Jun 18, 2009 1:33:54 (MDT)
Source: InterMat
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| N. Ky. college briefs
Nine Northern Kentucky Clippers are heading to various colleges, Thomas More grad Tyler Grant has been inducted into the National Football Foundation's Hampshire Honor Society, and more.
Publish Time: Jun 16, 2009 22:55:09 (MDT)
Source: The Cincinnati Enquirer
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| WhatIfSports.com: NFC South preview
Matt Ryan's Falcons and the entire NFC South face a big drop-off this year after WhatIfSports.com crunched the numbers.
Publish Time: Jun 18, 2009 18:36:43 (MDT)
Source: Fox Sports
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| Tennis player dominates the pool
For the first time in Jamie Hunt's college career, he did not experience the pure, child-like bliss of grasping the national championship trophy with both hands. Instead, he and his teammates on the Georgia tennis team boarded a plane, and flew home from College Station, Texas as an unfamiliar sense of defeat sat on their minds as they stared at their empty hands.
Publish Time: Jun 18, 2009 3:17:02 (MDT)
Source: The Red and Black
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