His Longhorns finished 25-10 and were ousted in the second round of the N.C.A.A. tournament.
Sharapova missed the 2009 tournament because of a shoulder injury and was ousted in the first round last year by her fellow Russian Maria Kirilenko.
The coup was preceded by a pay mutiny and months of ethnic tension, whipped up in part by President Henri Konan Bedie, who was trying to turn the country against Mr. Ouattara and was ousted in the coup.
Though he's never taken home the top trophy, the 28-year-old Russian has made the semis in four Grand Slam events (twice at both the French and U.S. Opens) and was just ousted in the quarterfinals of this year's French Open.
In such an erratic season, does a late-season rally that takes them to the playoffs make them more dangerous compared with last season when the club coasted to the Eastern Conference title and then were ousted in the first round of the playoffs?
Two former presidents -- Corazon C. Aquino, who led the "people power" uprising that toppled Ferdinand E. Marcos in 1986, and Joseph Estrada, who was ousted in the second one in 2001 -- joined thousands of priests, nuns, farmers, leftists and students in a march through Manila's financial district to press for President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's resignation over corruption allegations.
The same thing happened with the next two age divisions until, finally, he was placed in the 27-and-over division, where he was ousted in the first round.
It is perhaps not a coincidence that one did not make the playoffs and the other three were ousted in the first round.
Another former agent, Jack Cloonan, likened the case to that of Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, the former Panamanian leader who was flown to Miami and tried after he was ousted in the invasion of Panama in 1989.
Nicknamed the Steel Butterfly — Thatcher with bling — Marcos called herself "my little people's star and slave," a burden that ended in 1986, when she and her husband, Ferdinand Marcos, were ousted in the People Power Revolution, amid accusations that they had looted the national coffers and conspired to kill a political rival.
He was close to former president Viktor Yanukovych, who was ousted in the revolution, and critics have described him as a Russian puppet.
