ZZZips Posted March 14, 2007 Report Share Posted March 14, 2007 An nice article in todays (3/14/2007) NY Times.A Star’s Supporting Cast Takes a Bitter Bow By HARVEY ARATONTwo of LeBron James’s former high school teammates, now at the University of Akron, found their season ended earlier than expected.Access via http://www.nytimes.com/pages/sports/index.htmlYou must have at least a trial subscription to view. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZachTheZip Posted March 14, 2007 Report Share Posted March 14, 2007 There are free copies of the NY Times on campus. You should pick one up, it is a pretty good article. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoZips88 Posted March 14, 2007 Report Share Posted March 14, 2007 Why doesn't it surprise me that there are free copies of the NY Times on a college campus ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UAZipster0305 Posted March 14, 2007 Report Share Posted March 14, 2007 Can someone who has viwed the article online copy and paste the text here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNCLZip Posted March 14, 2007 Report Share Posted March 14, 2007 Why doesn't it surprise me that there are free copies of the NY Times on a college campus ... They're not so much free as paid for already. The NYT doesn't donat them--UA buys them in bulk basically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZachTheZip Posted March 14, 2007 Report Share Posted March 14, 2007 Why doesn't it surprise me that there are free copies of the NY Times on a college campus ... They're not so much free as paid for already. The NYT doesn't donat them--UA buys them in bulk basically. They're free for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skip-zip Posted March 14, 2007 Report Share Posted March 14, 2007 Is someone able to post the article here?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exexec Posted March 14, 2007 Report Share Posted March 14, 2007 A Star’s Supporting Cast Takes a Bitter Bow By HARVEY ARATONPublished: March 14, 2007There is no crueler way to lose a basketball season that was all about success than to have a desperation 3-point heave bank into the net, then find out that the clock started late and that there probably should not have been enough time to shoot it.Unforeseen and even inexplicable things happen in frantic sports competitions. Players get lucky. Human beings make mistakes. But how do disconsolate young people countenance life’s bad bounces and breaks when those with the power to provide a measure of compensation have no heart?First the N.C.A.A., not surprisingly, ignored the University of Akron as an undeserving midmajor. Then the N.I.T., in a sobering dismissal, lost the number it used to invite the Zips last year, when they won 23 games, three fewer than this season. By Sunday night, 24 hours after Doug Penno hit what he called “a gift from God” to give Miami of Ohio a 53-52 victory in the Mid-American Conference tournament final last Saturday in Cleveland, Akron had no postseason options and its coach, Keith Dambrot, had no idea what to say to his players.“It’s going to be one of my hardest jobs ever to bring these guys back,” he said in a telephone interview.Two of them, his only seniors, will not be back, at least not to play any more games. They are Romeo Travis and Dru Joyce III, and if they sound familiar, it is because they cut their competitive teeth in the court of the Akron King. They grew up with LeBron James and accompanied him to St. Vincent-St. Mary High School, where they played two years for Dambrot and later on national television for Joyce’s father, Dru II, all of them supporting actors in a production starring the prodigy.Except that James, great as he is, didn’t win three Ohio state championships by himself. While James went straight to the N.B.A. as the first pick of the 2003 draft, Travis, a 6-foot-7 forward, and Joyce, a willowy point guard, were plenty good enough to play in college.“They could have gone a lot of other places, but they chose to stay here and help build something in their hometown,” said Dambrot, another local boy and an Akron alumnus.It all seemed right, the perfect synergy, given the proximity of their good buddy LeBron in nearby Cleveland, his ability to drop in, run his clinics at the Akron gym.The program would prosper from the association, they all figured, and they were right. A year after Travis and Joyce signed, another Akron high school star, Jeremiah Wood, joined them. Dambrot, who had gone to Akron as an assistant, took over the program. The Zips won 19 games, then 23 last season, including a victory at Temple in the National Invitation Tournament.•This regular season, Dambrot’s team lost only six games, by a total of 20 points, and took the Mid-American East, the tougher division, with a victory at Can't State. Travis was the conference’s player of the year. Joyce had his best season running the point. They had won eight of nine games going into the conference tournament final.It wasn’t the King’s life, but LeBron’s boys were on their way to a taste of national acclaim until the surrender of a 10-point lead, the missed free throw on the front end of a one-and-one with 6.6 seconds left by Cedrick Middleton, the clock starting late, as replays revealed, and then the Penno “gift” with six-tenths of a second left.“Probably the greatest season in Akron history,” Dambrot said, “and then the worst 24 hours.”His father, Sid, played college basketball for Duquesne. His uncle Irwin captained the 1950 City College team that won the N.C.A.A. and N.I.T. titles but was tied to the 1951 game-fixing scandal. Keith Dambrot, who previously coached at Central Michigan before leaving the game for several years to sell stocks in Akron, has been around long enough to know the postseason tournament drill. He can give you compelling reasons why his team should be playing while acknowledging that every complaint has been made before.He isn’t the only coach in America feeling victimized this week, but every year there is one team we allow ourselves to bleed a little more for, the team upon which fate committed a foul, and a flagrant one at that.The selectors have their ratings and analyses, their bottom-line preference for the power conferences, but where is the humanity in the process? Didn’t the N.I.T. committee watch the Akron-Miami highlights on ESPN?“I’d like to hear what they would say to our kids,” said Dambrot, who understood the N.C.A.A. squeeze but was furious about the N.I.T. snub. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FearTheRoo Posted March 17, 2007 Report Share Posted March 17, 2007 Why doesn't it surprise me that there are free copies of the NY Times on a college campus ... They're not so much free as paid for already. The NYT doesn't donat them--UA buys them in bulk basically.That's even worse! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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