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    Going to Beijing: Got Brains?

    According to today's Sports Illustrated magazine, the brainiest team in the US Olympic pantheon this quad?

    "Fencing. Jason Rogers was a finalist for a Rhodes Scholarship. Emily Cross won the world junior title in '05 and then passed up senior worlds to finish her sophomore year at Harvard. Sada Jacobson has a history degree from Yale. Tim Morehouse is a Brandeis grad and former teacher. It's no wonder the siblings on the team, who work in finance in New York City, are named Keeth and Erinn Smart."
    "Sometimes we, as coaches, get into that dictator mode where you just tell and you don't listen and you don't try to understand them." Tom Izzo, Mich. St.
    "Fraud is the creation of trust. And then: its betrayal."
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    How did they select them, and was there a list of runners up?
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    The team, or the individuals to represent "braininess?"

    No idea. This issue has about 4 pages of cutesy, one paragraph categories like "most tattooed", "family affair", "smallest home town", "secret talents" and the like.
    "Sometimes we, as coaches, get into that dictator mode where you just tell and you don't listen and you don't try to understand them." Tom Izzo, Mich. St.
    "Fraud is the creation of trust. And then: its betrayal."
    William Black, Ph.D.

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    It's like those things they give out at prom... Most likely to succeed, best couple, etc. The fencers got the bookworm one. Course, I wouldn't be complaining. I would say it's better than "most tattooed".
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    That would be the men's basketball team.
    =)=///

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    Dennis Rodman is playing again?
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    Quote Originally Posted by telkanuru View Post
    Dennis Rodman is playing again?
    Then it would be most crossdressed + pierced.
    Randal : [after the fire at the Quick Stop] Terrorists?
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    Quote Originally Posted by edew View Post
    That would be the men's basketball team.
    Don't count out Equestrian. Apparently they are primarily made up of some gang called the Blue Bloods.

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    Rodman can join a women's field hockey team and make that the most tattooed team.
    =)=///

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