This paper also illustrates that alumni giving to non-athletic aspects of the universities increases.

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Maryland cut seven sports programs earlier this year just to get under budget, and Rutgers recently outspent its revenue to the point that it required non-athletic funding from student fees and tuition to cover its losses.

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Conditions which produce severe and unusual emotional conditions which, in turn created a debilitating personal non-athletic hardship which would have prevented a reasonable student under similar circumstances from satisfactorily completing a school year or would have prevented a reasonable student under similar circumstances from remaining at the sending school.

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The absolute limits of non-enhanced human athletic performance may well be set in stone.

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"Dividend" money is what's left for the team's university (for academic purposes, including scholarship payments for players) and athletic department (to support non-revenue sports) after the cost of running the basketball operation in question.

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It is, however, included under non-sport specific revenue, so the overall athletic department profit numbers do not change for the Big Ten.

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Wright, 20, was signed from non-league Hampton and Richmond last January and Mclean sees parallels with his career, having moved from Grays Athletic in 2007.

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