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As some seniors are preparing for jobs and planning their lives after school, some students are experiencing a different scenario: the end of college panic.
Wiechman spent his two years in Saint Lucia doing community development. He helped a farmers' cooperative develop a grant proposal to get funding for a composting project from the United Nations and also taught reading and music at a school.
The Peace Corps was an attrac-
er. One opportunity that enables students to make that happen is through Teach for America. Teach For America is a program that allows recent college graduates to teach in public schools in low-income communities. The assignment lasts for two years.
--a way to prolong having to find a job, but rather look at it as a way to find new opportunities and new ways for students to use their passions. She said a lot of politicians who now work in Congress were in the program and are now fighting for education rights.
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The self-described "Dodgers diehard, news addict and law nerd" has written more than 200 blog posts investigating, explicating and commenting on the case — or, cases of 2000
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ment” was when he realized that sports columnist Peter Gammon s was following him on Twitter.
Gammons is now just one of 2,296 people following Fisher as he tweets regular updates on the Dodgers drama. He said he is in contact with the Dodgers front office, and speaks with Frank McCourt often, along with attorneys on all sides and Dodgers public relations.
beginning in October of 2009. when he obtained Jamie McCourt's divorce application. He was in law school at the University of Minnesota then, having graduated from the University of Kansas as an English major with a minor in business.
"It was the money," Fisher said, explaining his particular interest in the case. Fisher grew up in Los Angeles a Dodgers fan and came to the University of Kansas partly in order to be near his brother Chris, who
was living in Lenexa at the time. Like his brother, he joined Delta Upsilon Fraternity, where he made his fraternity brothers watch the Dodgers play the St. Louis Cardinals in the 2009 playoffs and flew to L.A. for the National League Championship Series when the Dodgers went down in five games against Philadelphia. His passion as a fan combined with an interest in business when he learned the Dodgers franchise was about to explode in 2009, and all the controversial business dealings of its owners were to
Kansas. But he decided as a sophomore English major that he was best served by taking the shortest route out of school and looking for a job. He was responsible for the cost of his tuition, and had "hated school ever since I was two."
"Everything that could go wrong with the Dodgers did go wrong and I'm really looking forward to the stories that I can tell in a few years once this has all cooled down."
be made a matter of public record. The spark that ignited it all was Jamie McCourt's divorce application, which someone sent to Fisher before it hit the news. As a law student he "knew the words," and called his purchase of the website the best 10 dollars anyone will ever spend.
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In retrospect, Fisher said, he should have studied finance as an undergraduate at the University of
Fisher graduated in 2008, with a business minor that focused on credit financing at a time when credit short amid the global financial crisis. He worked at a bank for a short time before entering law school in Minnesota, and it was then that he took
more than an amateur interest in following the Dodgers.
In Fisher's view, the fall of Dodgers ownership is a three stage failure that contains echoes of a national economic collapse of housing and credit. First, the McCourts' purchase of the Dodgers was "leveraged to the hit", partly supported by investments in real estate that evaporated in 2008. Second, Fisher
said, the McCourts had the opportunity to fix their financial problems without making their bookkeeping public.
public.
He suspects dramas such as the McCourts' play out behind the scenes at many baseball franchises, but don't become public unless a court case opens the books.
Speaking of the fallout from the divorce, Fisher says, "They had the opportunity to make sure I was never relevant, that nobody in this field was ever relevant. But they didn't. Any success I've had is entirely related to their decisions not to fix this." The third stage of failure Fisher describes as an ongoing disaster where the worst possible seems always to happen, from bankruptcy to Selig's takeover of the team to the looming conflict between the McCourts and major league baseball, which Fisher said he expects to be "bitter and contentious."
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"Everything that could go wrong with the Dodgers, did go wrong. I'm really looking forward to the stories that I can tell in a few years, once this is all cooled down," Fisher
said. "I'm an accidental journalist - I didn't mean to. I got a break on a big story before anybody else did. Who am I? I'm a 25-year-old nobody."
Meanwhile, Fisher has recently moved to Kanasas City and is preparing to start a job at the downtown law firm of Bryan Cave LLP, where he will work in corporate transactions. His brother, Chris, lives nearby in Parkville, Mo., and his mom is now the house mother at Delta Upsilon in Lawrence. He said he will continue to report on the Dodgers cases.
Dodgers cases:
"You don't throw something like this away," Fisher said. He will continue operating the site as long as there's a use for it. He has acquired skills and credibility as a sportswriter and a wealth of contacts, which he feels will be valuable to him in the long run, even if he isn't sure exactly how.
But at the same time, covering the Dodgers is a lot of work, and Fisher will soon need to focus on his new job at the law firm.
"I can't have these people filing for bankruptcy every week," he said. "I didn't buy Tigerdivorce.com."
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Pitcher Paulino shines in Royals' win over Sox
(Chicago) After ending a long winless drought, Felipe Paulino reflected on his journey.
Paulino struck out nine in six innings for his first victory in more than a year and the Kansas City Royals defeated the Chicago White Sox 5-3 on Tuesday night.
"I've worked so hard for this opportunity that Kansas City gave me," Paulino said.
Alcides Escobar hit a two-run triple and Matt Treanor had a tiebreaking single for the Royals, who beat Jake Peavy to win for the fifth time in 19 games.
Paulino (1-2) was acquired from Colorado for cash on May 26 after starting
the season 0-5. He allowed three runs and scattered nine hits while walking two on 120 pitches.
It was Paulino's first win since June 4, 2010, against the Chicago Cubs. He finished last season 1-9.
"It's been a while, I think," Royals manager Ned Yost said.
Paulino pitched in and out of trouble all night as the White Sox left 13 on base.
"He's a big beast out there." Treanor said about the 6-foot-2, 270-pound pitcher.
For the second time in a week, the White Sox failed to break the .500 barrier. They have not been above .500 since April 15, when they were 7-6.
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