Researchers are developing a specialized skin "printing" system that could be used in the future to treat soldiers wounded on the battlefield.
BALTIMORE -- The University of Akron's romp to the NCAA men's soccer national championship was just the first chapter in the legacy for coach Caleb Porter's 2010 squad. With a record seven players taken in the MLS SuperDraft on Thursday, the 2010 Zips could potentially supply the strongest haul of talent by one college program in a single draft.
You've probably heard eating more fish is good for you. But if selecting and preparing fish feels like entering uncharted waters, you're not alone: Most Americans eat very little fish compared to chicken and beef (just under 7 pounds a year vs. more than 100 pounds, according to the United States Department of Agriculture).
As high school seniors across the country are hard at work polishing their college applications, let's take a look at some of the stranger questions those wacky admissions officers have asked.
The stars seem to be getting more accurate.
"Metabolism" is the name of the bodily system that converts food calories to energy needed to perform various tasks, like pumping oxygen to muscles during a long walk. Many variables contribute to your metabolism, including heredity, gender and age. But you can quicken yours; here's how.
SI.com caught up with Seth Davis, who's serving as a CBS studio analyst during the tournament, to get his impressions of Sunday's first-round action.
As a walkup to the NFL draft on April 25, SI.com writer Ted Keith has arranged to get diary entries from Aaron Curry, an All-America linebacker at Wake Forest who is projected to go high in the first round. You can read his first entry here, his second entry here and his third entry here.
SI.com caught up with Seth Davis, who's serving as a CBS studio analyst during the tournament, to get his impressions of the bracket.
With the bracket announcement only hours away away, SI.com's Andy Glockner projects the field.
Well, we're here. Almost. There's still that sticky "Mississippi State hijacking a bid" problem looming for the final few teams in the bracket, but a Tennessee win in the SEC final should finalize the picture below.
ATLANTA -- Dave Odom was sitting at courtside, enjoying his first ACC Tournament since leaving Wake Forest after a 12-year run in 2001. He was watching his friend and former foe from Maryland work the sidelines, and he said, "No one is better with his back against the wall than Gary Williams."
On Wednesday, coach Keno Davis was pushing the position that Providence (19-13, 10-8; RPI: 71; SOS: 60) didn't have to beat Louisville to get an at-large. That was unlikely to begin with, but even Davis probably realizes that an 18-point loss to the Cardinals doesn't even qualify as a moral victory for consideration. The defeat leaves the Friars just 2-8 against the RPI Top 50 and 6-13 against the Top 100. As bubble peers like Minnesota (21-9, 9-9, RPI: 41; SOS: 41) continue to advance in other tournaments, it looks like the NIT for Provy.
As a walkup to the NFL draft on April 25, SI.com writer Ted Keith has arranged to get diary entries from Aaron Curry, an All-America linebacker at Wake Forest who is projected to go high in the first round. You can read his first entry here and his second entry here.
As a walkup to the NFL draft on April 25, SI.com writer Ted Keith has arranged to get diary entries from Aaron Curry, an All-America linebacker at Wake Forest who is projected to go high in the first round. In them, Curry will talk about his preparation for the combine, his workouts for NFL teams and his hopes and fears leading to and including draft day. You can read his first entry here.
Now that we're halfway through the conference season, here's a look at the top 10 lessons we've learned so far:
1. Will anyone beat UConn again? The Huskies, whose only loss was on Dec. 29 against Georgetown, officially established themselves as TTTB (The Team To Beat) with their pasting of Louisville this week. Of their final five regular season games, they have two games against Pittsburgh and a road date at Marquette.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- The University of Connecticut should consider itself forewarned: This number one stuff ain't all it's cracked up to be.
James Johnson last entered the cage on May 13, 2006. Since then the Wake Forest sophomore has competed exclusively on a basketball court, but just pose the question -- "When you were a fighter... " -- and he's visibly offended by the verb tense. He slides forward in his seat at the Demon Deacons' practice facility. "I'm not done fighting," he says, throwing a few air jabs while exhaling sharply for effect. "I think about fighting all the time." His last fight seems as fresh in his mind as the previous night's 92-89 home court upset of North Carolina, an outcome that had fans storming the court and, for one week anyway, made Wake Forest the No. 1 team in the nation.
As a walkup to the NFL draft on April 25, SI.com writer Ted Keith has arranged to get diary entries from Aaron Curry, an All-America linebacker at Wake Forest who is projected to go high in the first round. In them he'll talk about his preparation for the combine, his workouts for NFL teams and his hopes and fears leading to and including draft day.
The MLS SuperDraft annually reveals games within the game, moves that may interlock or interfere with others, perhaps logically, perhaps not.
During the summer of 2006, Dino Gaudio, who was then an assistant coach at Wake Forest, watched Jeff Teague, a point guard from Indianapolis, play AAU ball more than a dozen times. On the occasions when Gaudio's boss, Skip Prosser, wasn't with him, he would call Gaudio to ask how the prospect performed.
After providing their original forecasts back in August, SI.com's college football writers Stewart Mandel, Andy Staples, Cory McCartney, Luke Winn, Arash Markazi, Bill Trocchi and Gennaro Filice regroup at the halfway point and offer their predictions for the rest of the season.
Jen Wang of Short Hills, New Jersey, took her first SAT when she was in sixth grade, long before she would start filling out college applications.
Wake Forest University will no longer require applicants to take the SAT and ACT exams, boosting a movement to lessen the importance of standardized tests in college admissions
I reluctantly confess that last week's first bracket of the season was a little ... off. I'm blaming it on rustiness. I made a few errors in judgment, which I came to regret, primarily failing to give Tennessee a No. 1 seed and giving Arizona far too high a seed.
SI.com's Cory McCartney analyzes the matchups.
For Anjirlic Aminu, the mother of highly recruited Norcross (Ga.) forward Al- Farouq Aminu, the cutthroat, win-at-all costs nature of the recruiting game had finally reached laughable proportions last July.
Appalachian State's upset victory over Michigan notwithstanding, most of last weekend's games looked like scrimmages between varsity and JV squads rather than competitive NCAA teams. Yet, there were a number of outstanding performances by NFL prospects that must be mentioned.
More than a thousand mourners were on the campus of Wake Forest Tuesday for the funeral of Skip Prosser, whose legacy, above all, will be the example he set for fellow coaches to be not merely basketball men but well-read, well-spoken and well-meaning men, too. All 11 of his fellow ACC coaches were there on the last day of the summer recruiting period, as were legions of fans and former players. The 56-year-old Prosser was remembered, albeit less so, for tangible things too: elevating Xavier to powerhouse status in the Atlantic 10, or winning a league title with the Demon Deacons in 2003, or inspiring the tie-dyed army that filled Wake's student section, or shepherding players such as Josh Howard and Chris Paul into the NBA.
When I heard the shocking news that Wake Forest coach Skip Prosser had died of a heart attack on campus Thursday morning, for some reason my mind flashed back to the day I spent at Wake two years ago previewing the Deacs for SI's college hoops issue. It was one of those perfect North Carolina fall afternoons, and Skip and I were headed out to lunch. As we walked to his car, Prosser said hello to a pack of students who were passing by.
NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. -- Virginia Tech's Seth Greenberg was walking down a hallway in the Riverview Park Activities Center on Thursday evening when he spotted Wake Forest's Skip Prosser a few paces ahead. Unable to catch up by foot, Greenberg chose to shout a question at Prosser, who less than 18 hours earlier had received verbal commitments from two top-20 recruits in the class of 2008.
Based on the arrival of offensive coordinator Jimbo Fisher, other changes to the offensive staff and the return of 15 starters, Florida State expects to be significantly improved.
A few years ago Big 12 Commissioner Kevin Weiberg urged league schools to upgrade their nonconference football schedules, which were typically infested with mid-majors and dotted with Division I-AA teams.
1. No room at the inn: Maybe there's one reason that's been overlooked to explain the dearth of big first-round upsets in this year's tournament -- a lousy breakfast buffet. According to the Washington Post, the NCAA assigns teams to hotels based on their seedings. The top-seeded teams get the best digs, typically downtown Marriotts, while lower-seeded squads might end up at an airport Holiday Inn or a rundown "historic" hotel. I wish I'd known that, say, Butler was finally loving life in a luxury hotel as a No. 5 seed rather than its usual No. 11 or 12 before I picked them to lose against Maryland. Maybe the scouting reports should include the thread count of the sheets at the team's hotel.
SI.com: Devil of a teamupdated: Mon Feb 12 2007 10:16:00
There's no question now. Duke is the best team in the nation. The Blue Devils have taken on a slew of contenders and have come out on top every time. After knocking off rival North Carolina last Thursday and Wake Forest on Sunday, they stand alone atop the ACC standings. As the only unbeaten team remaining, Duke also keeps its spot at the top of our rankings.
SI.com: Orange squeezeupdated: Tue Jan 02 2007 13:05:00
Wake Forest coach Jim Grobe is either a realist or a man who enjoys playing the role of coy Cinderella. On New Year's Day, in his last news conference before facing Louisville's high-powered attack in the Orange Bowl, he said, "You'd just like to see yourself heading into the fourth quarter with a chance."
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