His knowledge of college football history is encyclopedic.
But in the parlance of coaches with far more experience and knowledge of college basketball, those teams, alas, were unlucky.
And this is true even for viewers — the majority, I'd guess — whose knowledge of college football in the early 1960s is hazy or nonexistent.
PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Gilvydas Biruta, a 6-foot-8 Lithuanian with exceptional leaping ability, landed in the United States two years ago with little knowledge of college basketball.
"The breadth of Ned's knowledge of college basketball and sports in general is amazing," said Masin, 55, the president of a company in Oyster Bay, N.Y., that supplies communications equipment to the military.
I was aghast to read a July 6 letter offering "there is simply too much to know" as a reason for the sobering lack of knowledge of college seniors on an American history quiz.
In Mr. Brooks's version of events, "Trouble With the Curve" was actually written by Don Handfield, a former character actor, whom Mr. Brooks hired to write a script called "Omaha," based heavily on Mr. Brooks's knowledge of college baseball.
As for mine — well, if you think my bracket looks like something put together by a ten-year-old working with a person who has a sentimental attachment to New York and Western Pennsylvania but less knowledge of college basketball than she should, then you have very sharp eyes.
We study Bryanʼs effect for a non-ideal resonator gyroscope, using the computer algebra system (CAS) Mathematica to do the analysis involved, rendering this work accessible to undergraduate students with a working knowledge of college calculus and basic physics or mechanics (such as senior Engineering Mathematics students).
