2008-2009 SCHEDULE ( Click on an event for complete event information ) |
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| 02/25/09 | at Sacred Heart | Fairfield, CT | W, 10-6 |
| 02/28/09 | vs. HOFSTRA | Providence, RI | L, 11-7 |
| 03/07/09 | vs. ALBANY | Providence, RI | W, 13-12 |
| 03/11/09 | at Boston College | Chestnut Hill, MA | L, 13-5 |
| 03/14/09 | vs. HARVARD | Providence, RI | W, 12-8 |
| 03/21/09 | at Connecticut | Storrs, CT | W, 14-13 (2ot) |
| 03/24/09 | vs. OREGON | Providence, RI | L, 10-9 |
| 03/28/09 | at Dartmouth | Hanover, NH | L, 16-1 |
| 04/04/09 | vs. COLUMBIA | Providence, RI | W, 15-10 |
| 04/07/09 | vs. BRYANT | Providence, RI | W, 21-6 |
| 04/11/09 | at Cornell | Ithaca, NY | L, 12-9 |
| 04/14/09 | at Quinnipiac | Hamden, CT | L, 11-6 |
| 04/18/09 | vs. PENN | Providence, RI | L, 14-4 |
| 04/25/09 | at Princeton | Princeton, NJ | L, 8-7 |
| 04/29/09 | vs. YALE | Providence, RI | W, 7-5 |
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1 | Penn | 7 | 0 | 1.000 | 89 | 39 | 13 | 1 | .929 | 162 | 74 |
2 | Princeton | 6 | 1 | .857 | 89 | 45 | 13 | 2 | .867 | 179 | 111 |
3 | Dartmouth | 5 | 2 | .714 | 71 | 51 | 8 | 7 | .533 | 164 | 146 |
4 | Cornell | 3 | 4 | .429 | 55 | 75 | 9 | 6 | .600 | 120 | 131 |
4 | Brown | 3 | 4 | .429 | 56 | 73 | 7 | 8 | .538 | 140 | 154 |
6 | Harvard | 2 | 5 | .286 | 57 | 83 | 5 | 10 | .333 | 156 | 188 |
7 | Yale | 1 | 6 | .143 | 42 | 61 | 5 | 10 | .333 | 115 | 123 |
8 | Columbia | 1 | 6 | .143 | 60 | 91 | 9 | 7 | .563 | 183 | 186 |
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Detroit pitcher Justin Verlander threw the first no-hitter in Comerica Park as the Tigers defeated the Brewers. Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Clemens Signs Contract With Yankees
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: May 6, 2007 Filed at 3:51 p.m. ET NEW YORK
(AP) -- Roger Clemens returned to the New York Yankees, making a dramatic
announcement to fans from the owner's box during Sunday's game against the
Seattle Mariners.
At the end of the seventh-inning stretch, Yankees public
address announcer Bob Sheppard told fans to turn their attention to the box,
where Clemens was standing with a microphone. As the video scoreboard in
right-center televised Clemens, the seven-time Cy Young Award winner made the
announcement himself. ''It's a privilege to be back,'' he said. Clemens agreed to a minor-league contract, and most likely
will join the Yankees after several weeks getting into shape.
Oct. 26 (Bloomberg) -- When New York Giants defensive end Michael Strahan lines up against the Miami Dolphins at Sunday's game in London, he may be battling a new opponent: jet lag.
The seven-time Pro Bowl selection and his teammates will play the Dolphins before a sellout crowd of 86,000 at Wembley Stadium, the National Football League's first regular-season game held outside North America and part of its effort to expand overseas. Strahan, who graduated high school in Mannheim, Germany, said trips to San Francisco or San Diego, a three-hour time difference from New York, don't produce the jet lag he expects when his team arrives in London -- a five-hour change. ``We're leaving Thursday and getting there Friday morning,'' Strahan, 35, said in an interview. ``It's extremely upsetting to your body.'' NFL team owners voted last October to schedule as many as two regular-season games abroad each season between 2008 and 2011 in a bid to win international fans. The NFL folded its European developmental league in June as part of the new strategy of taking its best product to markets worldwide.
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She may have cost Team USA the gold medal in the women's gymnastics team competition, but Olympian Alicia Sacramone's can still stake claim on top honors ...
 Los Angeles Times | Internet has the hots for Olympic gymnast Alicia Sacramone Los Angeles Times, CA - August 15 2008 The eldest US Olympic gymnast, Alicia Sacramone, may have taken most of the blame for Tuesday night's loss to China after two notable screw-ups. ... Alicia Sacramone Is The Hottest Olympic Star NewsBlaze Alicia Sacramone Answers Terrible Questions By NBC's Andrea Joyce ... FanIQ Alicia Sacramone Falls US Women's Gymnastics To Silver Medal ... FanIQ FanIQ all 5 news articles » |
 Los Angeles Times | Bad air day Boston Globe, United States - Aug 14, 2008 Alicia Sacramone didn't know how she fell off the beam, didn't know how her feet came out from under her on the floor. All she knew was that she'd made two ... Sacramone falls cost US women in gym final Arizona Republic Ill-timed delay has Karolyi flipping out Houston Chronicle Sloan pleased with silver Indianapolis Star Kansas City Star - IvyLeagueSports.com all 158 news articles » |
 Seattle Post Intelligencer | Are Gymnasts Pushed Too Far? TIME - Aug 13, 2008 But that's where Alicia Sacramone, a Brown University undergrad, found herself after her second tumbling pass on the floor exercise. ... Olympics: Chinese women win gold in gym Salt Lake Tribune Errors, gripes cloud US finish Milwaukee Journal Sentinel US gymnasts settle for silver Game Face Minneapolis Star Tribune - Chicago Tribune all 412 news articles » |
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She may be small, but Olympic gymnast Alicia Sacramone packs a punch.
A YouTube video of the gymnast, who’s been garnering loads of media attention for being “hot,” has surfaced of Sacramone delivering a knock out of left hook to a fellow Brown University student, who appears to have asked for it.
The 20-year-old burgeoning sex symbol helped lead the United States women’s gymnastics team to a team silver medal in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, for better or worse.
Team USA lost the gold medal to China, following a few missteps, including Sacramone’s disappointing balance beam performance and a tumble on her backside during her floor exercise.
With all of the attention being paid to Sacramone as an athlete and as a sex symbol, the YouTube video of her packing a wallop on a beefy male Brown student is burning up the Web.
A gymnast for more than half her life, Sacramone won seven world championship medals before winning the team silver at the 2008 Beijing Olympics Tuesday night.
Her first Olympics, Sacramone narrowly missed making the team in 2004 but has since dominated as one of the world’s greatest gymnasts on floor and vault.
During the 2006-07 academic year, Sacramone competed for Brown’s gymnastics’ team while maintaining a position on the U.S. National team.
A sociology major, Sacramone’s currently taking a year-long break from her studies.
Internet has the hots for Olympic gymnast Alicia Sacramone
The eldest U.S. Olympic gymnast, Alicia Sacramone, may have taken most of the blame for Tuesday night's loss to China after two notable screw-ups.
Yet Sacramone has gained a legion of new fans, apparently not for her athletic talents but for her looks. Call it the Anna Kournikova effect.
The flexible athlete spent much of Tuesday's NBC broadcast in the spotlight, though not for the proudest reasons, and viewers took notice.
Immediately after the women's gymnastics competition, the phrase "Alicia Sacramone is hot" shot to No. 1 on Google's hot trends list. Hordes of web surfers scoured the depths of Google for information on and photos of the athlete. (Psst! Right over here.)
Facebook groups sprang up overnight for fans ogling the Olympian. One was created Wednesday morning around 10 a.m. and has already netted 400 members. Group creator Tyler Herrick, a student at the University of Maryland, wrote on the message board: "Dont worry fellas ill put some pictures of her up when i get home from work. So you can imagine whatever dream youve got going there." Later, he made good on his promise.
Existing Facebook groups saw increased activity as well. The Alicia Sacramone Fan Club has more than 5,300 members, gaining 1,000 recruits since Wednesday, and experienced a jolt of activity on its message board. A similar effect took place on her official fan page. And there's hope for those who may have written off gymnasts as potential mates after seeing the baby-faced Chinese competitors. The description for "Guys (or Gals) with the hots for Alicia Sacramone," a clear competitor to Herrick's Facebook group, reads: "SHE'S 20, so she's not jailbait!"
Outside the social networking realm, the Alicia Sacramone's Fan Site servers seem to be getting hit pretty hard. Pages were taking considerably longer to load Wednesday than they did Tuesday night when some of us were looking for pictures of ... uh, never mind.
-- Mark Milian
Bad air day
It just didn't fall into place for team captain Sacramone
By John Powers, Globe Staff | August 14, 2008
BEIJING - She just kept apologizing because there was nothing else to do. Alicia Sacramone didn't know how she fell off the beam, didn't know how her feet came out from under her on the floor. All she knew was that she'd made two big boo-boos with an Olympic gold medal on the line and there was no way to turn back time and change the scoreboard.
"No one else made mistakes, so it's kind of my fault," the Winchester, Mass., gymnast said after she and her teammates had to settle for the silver medal behind China in yesterday's team final.
Sacramone wasn't the only American to make mistakes. Both Shawn Johnson and Nastia Liukin stepped out of bounds on floor after she did. But hers were the most obvious and they came at the worst times, at the beginning of the last two routines with the United States behind but within striking distance.
"She kept telling us she was sorry," said Liukin. "It's hard to know what to say."
It was harder still because Sacramone is the captain, the team's high-voltage spark plug and social director, the 20-year-old big sister who'd rallied them at last year's world meet in Germany and clinched the gold medal herself with a stirring floor performance.
"People do fall and we've all been through it," said Johnson.
This time, though, it happened on the world's biggest stage. "I think everything just got the best of my head," said Sacramone, who still has a good chance for a gold medal in Sunday's vault final. "I got nerves on the beam and I carried it to the floor, too."
The week hadn't gone well for the Americans from the start. Just before they marched out to the podium for Sunday's qualifying round, Samantha Peszek, their steady table-setter and Sacramone's best buddy, had rolled an ankle in the warm-up gym and had to be scratched from all but one event.
Her rattled teammates finished second to the Chinese and Sacramone missed making the event final on floor, where she had a good chance to win a gold medal. "We all tried to pretend Sam didn't get hurt," Sacramone said. "Obviously, it didn't work."
It would be different yesterday, team coordinator Martha Karolyi predicted, when the team's top three gymnasts would go up on each event with all three scores counting. Most often, that would be Johnson, Liukin, and Sacramone, who'd won 14 world medals among them. Sacramone would be up on three, and two of them - vault and floor - were her specialties.
Her vault, a solid 15.675, was the third best of the day behind Johnson and Chinese world champion Cheng Fei. Then, Sacramone had to wait nearly 45 minutes while she sat out uneven bars and the Chinese performed on beam. The last thing she needed was a delay before she went up, but she got one. Waiting for the board to flash her name, Sacramone felt herself getting antsy.
"I was eager to do my routine and get the show on the road," she said. "The judges held me up and I let my nerves get the best of me. I snapped pretty crooked on the [spring] board. I had one foot on the beam and I stepped back, but there was nothing for my foot to stand on."
Sacramone struggled mightily to stay atop the 4-inch-wide length of wood, but gravity took her down. Though she finished the rest of the routine solidly, the damage was done, since a fall carries a mandatory deduction of eight-10ths of a point.
"She lost concentration," Karolyi shrugged. "It never should happen, but it happened."
Sacramone, blinking back tears, tried to gather herself on the bench. "I told her, 'Alicia, turn the page and go to the floor,' " said Karolyi. The fall wasn't fatal. Cheng, the Chinese captain, also had fallen and the US team actually won the rotation when Liukin and Johnson hit rock-solid routines.
When they moved to the floor, the Americans trailed by only a point and they had the two best performers in the world, Johnson and Sacramone, going up. But Sacramone couldn't turn the page, couldn't forget her fall.
"It was hard to get out of that funk," she said. "It definitely affected me on floor."
Floor is Sacramone's best event, the one where she'd won her world title and that shows off her speed, power, and personality. So she was more shocked than anybody when she went down on her second tumbling pass.
"I remember thinking, 'I can't believe I'm on the floor right now,' " she said. Her sitdown, plus her subsequent step-out, hung Sacramone with a 14.125. With that, the gold definitely was out of reach.
This time, Sacramone sat down, buried her face in her hands, and shook her head in bewilderment. How could this have happened twice?
"It's heart-wrenching when you know you're representing your country and you gave your heart and soul," empathized Johnson. "She's overcome so much. No matter what, she's our team leader and team mom."
It wasn't the end of the world, her teammates told her. They still had silver medals, matching the best US effort at an overseas Games. Johnson and Liukin could go 1-2 in tomorrow's all-around and their captain may yet find her gold medal at the end of a vaulting runway. It just wasn't there yesterday.
"I think everybody knows you always have good days and bad days," Sacramone said. "I just wish today was a good day." http://www.boston.com/sports/articles/2008/08/14/bad_air_day?mode=PF
Jelimo has provided Kenyan women with their first gold. 19 August 2008
Jelimo has provided Kenyan women (Nandi-Lumbwa tribe) with their first gold. 19 August 2008
LONDON, 28 Oct. 2007 — To introduce the N.F.L.’s overseas arrival, The Giants won their sixth game in a row by beating the Dolphins, 13-10 in London's mud and rain at Wembley Stadium.
MAY 2007: "The board said it was clear that a number of people had erred in reviewing the pay package."
APRIL 2007: Wolfowitz’s new Counsel is a judge on the International Court of Arbitration for Sport, yet, oddly, none of the articles on Wolfowitz specify which sport he is entered to compete in on behalf of the World Bank:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a_dJm4Cj8qlc&refer=home
In an interview today, Jorge Familiar, the director representing Mexico,
said the board was ``moving forward,'' and he hoped ``the process would advance
soon.'' Wolfowitz last week hired
Robert Bennett, who defended former President Bill Clinton … Bennett said the board refused to let him make a
presentation when Wolfowitz appears at a hearing before directors.
neither did this mysterious report on the World Bank specify to whom or with what or whom Jorge was Familiar. Does anyone from ACTL know whether Jorge is supposed to be signed up for soccer or football or baseball or what, exactly, is the story with this Familiar guy?
http://www.tas-cas.org/en/membres/frmmemb.htm
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=677103
Is Jorge perhaps related to Thad Familiar of Club Habana or Juan Familiar of Club Cienfuegos?
PLAYER TRADE OF THE WEEK
Saturday April 28 - While we are awaiting the exciting results of the exciting NFL football draft in exciting New York City,this one just in from Munich: a possible player trade notice.
Our Munich correspondent recommends the World Bank trade Paul Wolfowitz to Siemens in exchange forKlaus Kleinfeld and two wild card Marathon qualifier draft selections. What an offer package! On the Siemens side, this trade could meet with Siemens director Ackermann’s “clean hands” requirements and, if Citigroup releases Klaus from his Director contract, for the World Bank this could be an ideal candidate as a non-US chief with US management credentials who is actually married to his first wife.
As of press time, no offers by either team’s contract counsel have been confirmed, but Debevoise sources (separate and free from any conflict with Debevoise’s investigative team on Siemens) report there may be potential conflict of interest if Skadden representatives are in laboring away in Tokyo and New York offices on due diligence qualifications for Riza attorney Victoria Toensing (DiGevonva & Toensing law firm) and a slot for Toensing as judge at next year’s Tokyo Womens’ Marathon (see subscription Finance section, "Yen Carry Trade" ... or, if you don't have a subscription, for some decent wisecracks and rough estimates, see SeekingAlpha). Our sources report that when asked why she would not attend next week’s World Bank session with Wolfowitz, Riza, and Bennett, Toensing shouted "I'm just as big as he is!" and “They never consider my expertise on global security and international athletics. I've had to deal with this all my life as a woman"in apparent reference to Wolfowitz counsel Bennett's high profile role as honored judge on theInternational Court of Arbitration for Sport. Hopefully any lobbying for a Toensing role as Tokyo Womens’ Marathon official to create a fair and equitable career result for Riza will not affect the proposed Wolfowitz-Kleinfeld player swap. One reputable turf agent in UK attempted to reach investigative expert Terry Lenzer by telephone this morning, but Lenzer could not make himself available for comment on the prospects of any Wolfowitz-Kleinfeldtrade, therefore this story remains unconfirmed by any reliable investigators while we look forward to the NFL draft. Read more stories from the World Bank Sports league. --- with Che-Hwan Familiar in Washington, Lucas Vertraut in Munich, and Sofia Vertraut in Berlin
errata: WaPo links to UTAH Senator Bennett and not Skadden attorney Bennett, very funny. Skadden must be thrilled to have a Senator from UTAH new to its rolls?
May 18 - BBC chimes in with nomination prospect for the World Bank: "US to replace Wolfowitz 'swiftly' "
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The act of
hitting a baseball is an energy transfer: from the body to the bat to the ball.
Just before Hudsonrocks into his wind-up, Howard, a lefty, uses his right hand to point his
34-ounce bat at a 45-degree angle directly over the pitcher’s head. This is a
timing device, although, as Howard has become one of the game’s most prodigious
home-run hitters, it can easily be taken as a boast. Follow the angle of the
bat and it suggests a trajectory straight out over the center-field fence. … there
was a lack of actual physical sensation, ...“You feel a lot more in your hands if the
pitch gets in on you and busts you in the handle,” Howard says. “It stings. But
when you catch it square, it doesn’t seem like you feel it as much.” Physicists
who have studied hitting toss around terms like “bat speed,” “torque” and
“rotational mechanics.” It is fair to say that strength generally promotes bat
speed and home-run power. Howard comes from a family of big people and, by
appearance, is what used to be called “country strong.” Howard is
cordial with the press, well liked in the clubhouse ... He gets high marks for
his “demeanor.” .... As his
parents describe it, their household was a mix of old-time Southern values and
middle-class aspiration. “All our kids were taught to say ‘Yes, sir,’ ‘Yes,
ma’am’ and so on,” Ron Howard says. “We valued hard work and taught them:
believe in oneself, believe in each other and believe in the Almighty.” FULL STORY
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"Venus hoped for equal prize money for female players. So she fought. She won. This year marks the first time that all four grand slams agreed to pay its male and female champions the same amount after the folks at the All-England Lawn & Tennis Club, which runs Wimbledon, relented."
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Williams Sisters Extend Court Awareness to Life: Scott Soshnick
By Scott Soshnick
Sept. 4 (Bloomberg) -- You're probably familiar with the notion of court awareness, even if you don't follow tennis and can't tell Venus Williams from Venus Flytrap.
Whatever the sport, the theory is the same. It's an innate understanding of where you are in relation to whatever shares that particular space, whether it be opponents, an out-of-bounds line or a disaster-waiting-to-happen hill in center field (are you listening Houston Astros).
The better players have it. The rest, well, don't.
The real trick in pro sports is to uncover the athletes whose court awareness extends beyond the white lines. Beyond the game. Great on the field. Great off the field.
Take Michael Vick. Great awareness on the football field. An impeccable sense of where he stands in relation to the really big guys trying to knock his head off. You have to wonder how that awareness will serve him in prison.
And then you get the pleasure of spending time with Venus and Serena Williams. They are, in no particular order, tennis stars, activists, businesswomen, fashion designers, models, actors and more.
The Williams sisters are strong. Physically and mentally. They're confident. They're smart. They aren't afraid to ask questions. Or try new things. Or challenge your assertions and conclusions.
``I'd be a special person even if I had a desk job,'' Venus says, reminding the assembled masses that tennis won't define her.
Training for Life
Ask Venus Williams about her upbringing, about trading ground strokes with Serena on the Compton, California, courts their father kept free of drug dealers. Ask her about brushing aside the empty crack vials. Ask her about what tennis workouts meant in the Williams household.
``We've always been training together for life,'' Venus, seeded a meaningless 12th at the U.S. Open, says, alluding to her kid sister, who is seeded eighth.
Notice that she said life, not tennis.
Venus and Serena look you in the eye while speaking. Plenty of athletes don't. To say they employ a firm handshake is an understatement.
The Williams sisters, along with Maria Sharapova (who was eliminated in an upset Saturday), are the best the women's tennis tour has to offer. To the fans. And to sponsors like Sony Ericsson, which covets their talent and charisma.
Proud papa Richard Williams recalls with a chuckle teaching his daughters, at the age of four, about no-money-down financing and how to create spreadsheets on their computer.
Venus grins when asked to recall those lessons.
``I forgot all that,'' she says. ``But I use PowerPoint.''
That's the businesswoman talking.
Fashion Sense
Around the National Tennis Center much has been made of who's wearing what. Roger Federer, with a little help from Vogue magazine chief Anna Wintour, has day and evening attire (black must be the new black). Sharapova's red getup has the place buzzing.
The Williams sisters have for years flaunted their fashion sense, and Venus earlier this month introduced her own clothing line. The sisters don't view their outfits as a way to generate publicity. That's what forehand winners are for. Rather, what they wear is an extension of two women with an interest in fashion whose education background includes courses in manufacturing concepts.
After all, as Venus points out, a girl's gotta do something after tennis.
``Whatever you envision for your future -- go for it now,'' she says. ``There are a lot of people who can help you make your other dreams come true.''
End of Disparity
Speaking of dreams, Venus hoped for equal prize money for female players. So she fought. She won. This year marks the first time that all four grand slams agreed to pay its male and female champions the same amount after the folks at the All-England Lawn & Tennis Club, which runs Wimbledon, relented.
There was a ceremony on opening night of the tournament to honor Althea Gibson, the first black person to win the U.S. Nationals, the precursor to the U.S. Open. Fittingly, the Williams sisters were the feature attractions on the court that night.
Here's what Serena said after winning her match:
``I play for all the other little African-American kids out there who have a dream and who might not have the means, like myself and my sisters didn't growing up,'' she said. ``I let them know if they fight hard and if they work hard, more than anything, your dreams can come true, whether you want to be a tennis player or a singer. If they have a positive role model, they can do it.''
Court awareness.
The Williams sisters got it, all right.
To contact the writer of this column: Scott Soshnick in New York at ssoshnick@bloomberg.net
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Yeah, But Can Michael Phelps Handle LIBOR?
Chris Jacobs swam with Dara Torres and Matt Biondi as a member of the U.S. Olympic team in 1988. Now he swims with the sharks as a buyer of distressed debt.
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Jacobs, 43, works at J.P. Morgan Chase buying distressed debt; Brian Marchiony, a J.P. Morgan spokesman, cracked during our conversation, “he’s seen a lot of assets that are underwater.” His experience as a medal-winning Olympian swimmer has made him popular at J.P. Morgan. Two years ago, Jacobs raced his boss, for charity, literally using just one arm to swim. (He won the race and raised $5000 for Swim Across America). One honcho at the firm–a regular swimming partner of Jacobs–called Jacobs on vacation at the height of the Phelps mania to ask, “If I get into the pool and I swim 50 meters can I beat Phelps’ time on the 100 meters?” Jacobs notes, “Everyone is focused on benchmarking themselves against Phelps.”
Jacobs holds two gold medals as part of the U.S. relay teams in Seoul and held the world record in those events for four and six years. He overcame personal hurdles as young teen to do so. He started training at age 13. By age 24 he had competed in the ‘88 Olympics and held the Olympic record in the 100 meter men’s freestyle–for five minutes, until Biondi won the gold. Jacobs won the silver. He was disappointed at the time, but “the older I get, the more I appreciate it,” he says.
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| The United States’ 4 x 100-meter medley team (from left) of Matt Biondi, David Berkoff, Richard Schroeder and Christopher Jacobs (in water), celebrate their world-record gold medal performance September 25, 1988 at the summer Olympics in Seoul. The team shattered the old record with their time of 3:36.93. |
Swimming still is a part of his life, but there were some Olympian habits he had to break. First, to prepare for competition he ate in a manner much like the famous Phelps Diet. “When I worked at my first job downtown, I quickly realized that does not work at all,” he says.
After competing, Jacobs finished school and traveled, then followed his interest in finance; while competing, he read voraciously about such corporate raiders and distressed-debt “vultures” as Leon Black. He was at Merrill Lynch and at other institutions for another four years before joining J.P. Morgan. In his first few years as a salesman he focused on higher-quality debt and then moved onto the side of the business where he buys & sells distressed debt. And yes, the lessons he learned from Olympic training did help prepare him for Wall Street. It gave him “intestinal fortitude,” he said, to get through bad days and “keep on coming back and enjoy the little victories.” His competitive experience taught him to “not get flipped out when someone screams at you and run off and never come back.”
As a former swimmer, Jacobs has watched the Phelps phenomenon closely — the two are connected through a former coach. While he praised Phelps’s strong work ethic– “he’s obviously physically gifted, but he also hasn’t missed a workout in five years”–he also laments that the media focused all of its attention on Phelps with less credit to the teammates that helped him win three gold medals in relays.
In his day job, Jacobs says the distressed market is becoming more active. “In the past five years we’ve had one sector or another when it’s in distress,” he says. “Now we have five or six, including homebuilders, autos, airlines, and retailers. It’s starting to heat up.”