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Oops.Instead the NCAA wants to make high school basketball players go to college for not just one year, but two! What is Miles Brand thinking? If a kid doesn't want to be in college, then don't make him If he wants to go right to the NBA then let him. But apparently the NCAA doesn't want to stop the agent problem in college athletics, they want to make it worse.Can you imagine OJ Mayo in college for two years? By his sophomore year he would be loaning money out to kids on campus. He wouldn't just have a plasma TV in his dorm room, he'd have half of Best Buy in there. Bottom line is the NCAA is once again not doing their job, they are letting other people do theirs, all the while not doing anything about it. Only thing I can gather is that the NCAA just doesn't really care. If they did, then USC would be put on probation in both football and basketball. And any other school, whether they are big time or not would get the same if they broke the rules.
I'd say there's a much better chance USC's basketball program gets hit than their football program. I mean the NCAA wouldn't want to destroy a dynasty would they?Anyone think that either happens anytime soon? Yea, me neither.. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States hopes to take the reins of international efforts to battle global warming next week with a meeting of major economies aimed at facilitating a U.N pact to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Barack Obama | Green Business | China | Russia | Brazil | France | Indonesia | Japan | MexicoPresident Barack Obama, a Democrat who took office in January, called the meeting last month to relaunch a process that began under his Republican predecessor, George W. Bush, whose commitment to curbing climate change was viewed with skepticism by much of the world.The stakes are higher now. The Kyoto Protocol, which caps greenhouse gas emissions, runs out in 2012 and leaders from around the globe will gather in Copenhagen in December to forge a successor treaty.
Environmentalists hope renewed engagement by the United States and Obama's push for U.S. leadership on the issue will result in a deal.The White House views next week's meeting in Washington, which groups 16 major economies including the European Union and the United Nations, as an avenue toward securing a broader pact -- a goal that many believed Bush did not share."The Bush administration obviously had a completely different approach to this issue than we do," Todd Stern, the U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change, told Reuters, adding Obama wanted to invigorate the forum with more substance."They were not fundamentally looking for an international agreement," he said of the Bush administration. "We are looking for an international agreement and we're looking for cooperation at a significant, we hope, transformative level."Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is scheduled to make opening remarks on Monday. Officials said participants would discuss cooperation on technology and other issues.Bush began the major economies forum in 2007, but the initiative was marred by concern among participating countries that he was trying to circumvent wider United Nations talks."Nobody took him seriously because he spent eight years pretending climate change didn't exist," said David Bookbinder, chief climate counsel for environmental group Sierra Club, referring to Bush."Obama, on the other hand, obviously is taking climate change very, very seriously and wants, reasonably enough, to talk to everyone about what to do ahead of Copenhagen."FACILITATING U.N. TALKSJames Connaughton, a former top environmental adviser to Bush, said the former president's motives were also focused on facilitating a U.N. pact."The point of this was to be able to inform and help accelerate progress in the UN," he told Reuters.Obama hopes to cut U.S.
emissions by roughly 15 percent by 2020 -- back to 1990 levels -- tougher than Bush, who saw U.S. The Sharks lost the first three games of their playoff series to the Stars and finally lost in four OT in the sixth game.In a surprising move, the San Jose Sharks fired their coach Ron Wilson after he failed to take his team to the cup after five seasons behind the bench. This, however, looked like the year when the team would have made their best run. One must question though whether the Flames in your face, hard hitting, bone crushing style of hockey affected another great team's inability to make it to the big dance.. Attorney General Eric Holder Honors Washington Woman and Announces $1.8Million in Recovery Act Funds for StateWASHINGTON, April 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Attorney General Eric H.Holder, Jr. announced today that the Department of Justice is awarding morethan $1.8 million in Recovery Act formula grants for Washington state victimassistance and victim compensation programs. The Attorney General made theannouncement in his remarks at the National Crime Victims' Rights Week AwardsCeremony where he also recognized Barbara Ann Skudlarick of Blaine, Wash., forher efforts on behalf of crime victims.