MORGANTOWN - Having been in the business of covering sports and athletics for well over 35 years now, I can recall only once when I felt it prudent or at all necessary to drop what I was doing and fly off to some distant outpost to chronicle the doings of conference presidents and athletic directors. It was mid-May of 2003 and the Big East seemed on the verge of if not collapse, then at least drastic reconfiguration. With John Swofford and the ACC ready to pluck Miami and any of a handful of others who felt the need to follow, I went to Ponte Vedra Beach for the Big East's annual spring meetings.
DESTIN, Fla. - Southeastern Conference presidents approved a series of proposals Friday on the final day of the league's annual spring business meetings that eliminate league football coaches oversigning past the NCAA limit of 25 scholarships per year. They also eliminated a transfer exception for graduate students, meaning a situation like last season's transfer of Oregon quarterback Jeremiah Masoli to Ole Miss won't be repeated.
Discussing efforts by such groups as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and the Conference of Presidents to enforce what they view as a pro-Israel position in the current presidential campaign-particularly with regard to Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), who is feared as one whose Middle East views are largely unknown-Goldberg writes that ...by the standards of rhetorical correctness maintained by such groups...Mr. Obama is actually more pro-Israel than either Ehud Olmert or Ehud Barak (to say nothing of John McCain and President George W. Bush, who spoke to the Knesset about external threats to Israel's safety but made no mention of the country's missteps). " "A More Nuanced Approach" Seymour D. Reich, president of the Israel Policy Forum and a former chairman of the Confere...
Ben-Ami does not rehearse his role in the 2000 negotiations but places the Clinton peace effort in a longer historical perspective, offering what he calls an "interpretive overview...ut the pendulous move of Jews and Arabs between war and peace." Michael Massing in the New York Review of Books (June 8, 2006), after criticizing some of the authors' facts and an inadequate analysis, goes them one better and lays out in even greater detail how AIPAC and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations influence policy not only about Israel but the Middle East (Iraq, Iran, and Syria).
Inside TCU formally accepts invitation to Big 12 / 4B The Big East Conference will approach expansion with designs on 12 football members, the league announced Monday following a conference call of university presidents and chancellors.
Now more than ever, true friendship requires strong American leadership and engagement to move the sides toward a comprehensive two-state solution," the Israeli leaders wrote in a letter to J Street's founders. "With time running out, business-as-usual will not do. Indeed, earlier this month, Eric Yoffie, the president of the influential Union of Reform Judaism, called on Jews to disassociate themselves from [John Hagee] and his organization, Christians United for Israel (CUFI). Several days later, seven past chairmen of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, another major national group whose leadership has moved increasingly to the right, defended Hagee as a "true friend of Israel" and CUFI as "among the strongest supporters of Israel in the United Stat...
By Robert Gagliardi rgagliardi@wyosports.net
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