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Twenty-five years after the Ivy League was expelled from big-time college football in a dispute over television revenue, the debate over athletics and academics continues on elite campuses.
Attendance at Ivy League football games has shrunk considerably since being demoted to Division I-AA in 1981; photos (M)
The mother and her 5-year-old daughter were overcome by smoke and were listed in serious condition after a fire tore through a second-story apartment in Brooklyn.
Manohla Dargis reviews film Casino Royale, directed by Martin Campbell and starring Daniel Craig; photo (M)
The governor-elect is reportedly inclined to ask the N.Y. State Senate to remove the comptroller.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 15, 2006, covering November 17, 2006.
Soundtrack
Barry Manilow
Birdman & Lil Wayne
John Legend
Justin Timberlake
2006Ruth Brown, American singer-songwriter and actress (born 1928)[†]
Ruth Alston Brown was an American singer-songwriter and actress, sometimes referred to as the "Queen of R&B". She was noted for bringing a pop music style to R&B music in a series of hit songs for Atlantic Records in the 1950s, such as "So Long", "Teardrops from My Eyes" and "(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean". For these contributions, Atlantic became known as "the house that Ruth built". Brown was a 1993 inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
2006Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer and manager (born 1927)[†]
Ferenc Puskás was a Hungarian footballer and manager, widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time and the sport's first international superstar. A forward and an attacking midfielder, he scored 84 goals in 85 international matches for Hungary and later played four international matches for Spain as well. He became an Olympic champion in 1952 and led his nation to the final of the 1954 World Cup. He won three European Cups, ten national championships and eight top individual scoring honors. Known as the "Galloping Major", in 1995, he was recognized as the greatest top division scorer of the 20th century by the IFFHS. Scoring 802 goals in 792 official games during his career, he is the seventh top goal scorer of all time by the RSSSF.
2006Bo Schembechler, American football player and coach (born 1929)[†]
Glenn Edward "Bo" Schembechler Jr. was an American college football player, coach, and athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Miami University from 1963 to 1968 and at the University of Michigan from 1969 to 1989, compiling a career record of 234 wins, 65 losses and 8 ties. Only Nick Saban, Joe Paterno and Tom Osborne have recorded 200 victories in fewer games as a coach in major college football. In his 21 seasons as the head coach of the Michigan Wolverines, Schembechler's teams amassed a record of 194–48–5 and won or shared 13 Big Ten Conference titles. Though his Michigan teams never won a national championship, in all but one season they finished ranked, and 16 times they placed in the final top ten of both major polls.
In 2006, the world population was approximately 6,671,452,015 people[†]