over-age

The pressure for “ringers” of whatever kind (over-age, straight, male, professional, what have you) is due to a desire to win at all cost (and by whatever means seem expedient ... leaving aside whether bringing in straights really helps) is in (perceived) conflict with the desire for a “safe place for gays to socialize”.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Enough with the Ridiculous Hyperbole!

Scandal of the week Bolivia say claims that half their U15 Youth Olympic Games winning side was over-age are "outrageous".

Said & Done

The Netherlands almost immediately brought on Roy Makaay and Gerald Sibon, two of the three over-age players allowed in this tournament for players under 23.

American men's soccer team settles for 2-2 draw with Dutch

A June 2005 report by the Drum Major Institute found that impact schools were among the most overcrowded and underfunded in the city and serve a student body that is disproportionately poor, Black and over-age for their grade.

Marian Wright Edelman: The Growing Problem of Over-Policing Our Schools

Camelot Schools has contracts worth $13.1 million to run the Excel Academy, an alternative school for "over-age" high school students on Bustleton Avenue, near Harbison, in the Northeast; and two disciplinary schools, Daniel Boone, at 26th and Jefferson streets, Strawberry Mansion, and Shallcross, at Woodhaven Road near Knights, in the Far Northeast.

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After all, they are just a bunch of over-age kids, right?

Al Seckel: Five Top Reasons Why You Need Background in Today's Foreign Policy

New Delhi PTI: In an embarrassing revelation, the under-7 girls' national champion -- along with five others -- has been found over-age in the ongoing under-9 National Chess Competition here.

Archive 2008-05-01

National champion found over-age in under-9 chess tourney

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National under-7 champion N Madhumita, Akhila S, H Tejaswini, Sagarika ILVK -- all from Andhra Pradesh -- and Orissa's Shovna and Sonali Jena were declared over-age after the Delhi Chess Association DCA conducted medical examination of 14 players on Saturday suspecting the correctness of their submitted birth certificates.

Archive 2008-05-01

She has also admitted barriers aimed at preventing children from accessing over-age material on the internet are not just porous but leak like a sieve.

Archive 2008-11-01