It called for a merger of the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports and for realignment of the city's election schedule so that votes coincide with the presidential and gubernatorial cycles instead of being held in off-years.
Not so fast, Colangelo keeps saying, reluctant to relinquish the Diamondbacks' home in the N.L. Colangelo said he called Selig after seeing a newspaper report this week about the realignment plan that had Arizona changing leagues.
They split this season because of realignment, but that will not sap their passion to tangle.
Healing in a poor position, or malunion, may occur when realignment has been improper or when injuries have destroyed large portions of the bone so that deformity must be accepted to salvage it.
It would end a debilitating relationship that benefits neither -- so that both can, together, endure the impact of future regional realignments.
Realignment has so thoroughly upset the conference that, by 2014, only one of its founding colleges, Connecticut, will be left — unless it relocates by then.
This includes adopting a common methodology, frameworks and tools so that everyone speaks the same "language," for example using the STARS model (for Startup, Turnaround, Accelerated Growth, Realignment and Sustaining Success) to align on the challenges leaders are facing.
These everyday glimpses of world rulers sneak under the radar of audience expectation, so that unexpected revelations about Mao's taste for women, Hitler's flatulence or Stalin's stature (5 feet 4 inches) provoke a realignment of sensibility.
Given the countless scandals and the financially driven conference realignment that has occurred since then, one would think those in charge of the B.C.S. would not be so skittish as to avoid using the word playoff.
