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News - Ouch! Michigan slaps its basketball program up the side of the head: http://www.detnews.com/2002/um/0211/07/um-4497.htm Comment - It must be humiliating to have to haul down the NCAA Finalist banners, and more painfully, have to return nearly half-a-million dollars in tournament money. I guess the Fab Five are not so Fab anymore. The ban on post season play next year is no big deal. This year's team wasn't likely to make the NCAA tournament, anyway. Still to speak is the NCAA, which may impose more sanctions. What will really hurt U of M basketball is if the NCAA cuts their scholarships for future years, or bans future post season participation. This whole mess could have happened at MSU, if things had been a little bit different. I remember that Chris Webber came within an eyelash of signing with the Spartans, then changed his mind the last minute (or did Ed Martin change his mind?) and went with the Wolverines. Well, at least the sports pages have something to write about now instead of the Spartan football woes. News - The Army announces that it shot down an artillery shell with a laser: http://www.msnbc.com/news/831012.asp "The Army and TRW, which developed the weapon, said in a joint statement that the laser tracked, locked onto and fired a burst of concentrated light energy at the speeding shell over the White Sands test range in New Mexico. 'Seconds later, at a point well short of its intended destination, the projectile was destroyed,' the Army's Space and Missile Defense Command said." Lt. Gen. Joseph Cosumano, head of the missile defense command, says that "tactical high-energy lasers have the capacity to change the face of the battlefield." Before WWII the U.S. had probably the worst military technology in the world. The Germans certainly had better planes, tanks and small arms. Of course, the U.S. rapidly caught up. But it's still startling, from a historical perspective, to see that our technology is now light years ahead of any potential foe. Click here to see current comments and add your own. 2:30:13 PM 
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