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Start:16 April 2013
Time:19.30 - 21.30
LocationYHA, 14 Narrow Quay, Bristol, BS1 4QA (just a few doors down from the Arnolfini)
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The next branch meeting of the Bristol & West General Branch of Equity will be at 7.30pm on TUESDAY 16th APRIL 2013 in the conference room at the YHA, 14 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA (just a few doors down from the Arnolfini - information on the venue can be found here).
We are pleased to welcome the President of Equity Malcolm Sinclair as our guest speaker.
Malcolm Sinclair has been voted Equity President for the last two elections.
As an actor he is perhaps best known for his work on the BBC TV Series Pie in the Sky with the late Richard Griffiths. He has also recently received critical acclaim for his role in Simon Gray's "Quartermaine's Terms" at the Wyndham's Theatre, described as "The Best Play in the West End". Malcolm is a graduate of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
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There is a purity, a simplicity, about the voting-rights fight that is sadly absent from many modern civil-rights battles. This is not about special privileges, or quotas, or even complex mathematical formulae.Why be sad? The straightforward civil-rights battles have been won. Those that are left are questionable. That's good. Unless you define the good in terms of opportunities for Eric Holder to define his legacy.
It's about a basic right of American citizenship, which is being taken from large numbers of people for the most cynical of reasons. [Voter ID] laws are, quite literally, indefensible...Ridiculous! They're completely defensible. The case law is clear that requiring an ID doesn't violate the Constitution. The Supreme Court said so in 2008, in a 6-3 case. Holder still has a chance to use statutory law against the states that are covered by the Voting Rights Act, but to do that he'll have to argue for a broad interpretation of congressional powers, and what's pure and simple about that?

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The Lamp wing is for logistical pilots, handling internal transport for crew members without combat ships, refueling, and acquiring goods. "Think of Lamp Squad as supply lines in modern military terms," ejectorpod said. "Without Lamp, we could find ourselves out of fuel, out of ammo, and up to our necks in enemy without any way of defending ourselves." The Sand wing is the fleet's primary source of revenue outside of combat operations, made up of miners, refiners, and explorers. "Sand Squad will be a mix of folks, because it will be a lot of people who just want to search out the best asteroid to carve up as well folks who simply have a fast ship with a low signature and want to explore the galaxy," ejectorpod explained. "Sand members will be our discoverers, providing intel on new systems and routes through space, as well as sources of revenue for us to exploit." For those more interested in fighting, the Lime wing will fit their needs. 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Reposted with permission from the May 12, 2014, Janesville Gazette.
By Catherine W. Idzerda
May 12, 2014
DELAVAN—It's a school district that's suffused with music.
Beethoven permeates the second floor of a rural elementary school.
Jazz syncopates and bends in the hallways of the high school.
Voices intone, modulate and oscillate around the edges of doorways, through their glass panes and into the corridors in all of the district's five buildings.
In April, the Delavan-Darien School District was recognized as on of the best communities in for music education by the National Association of Music Merchants, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the "pleasures and benefits of making music."
More than 2,000 U.S. schools and school districts were considered for the award. Delavan-Darien was one of 376 schools nationwide and one of 13 districts in Wisconsin to receive the award.
To qualify for the award, schools submit information about their programs. The National Association of Music Merchants Foundation along with the University of Kansas Institute for Educational Research and Public Service review all the applications.
A number of factors are considered, including the number and variety of programs and classes, the qualifications of teachers, access to instruments and programs, and the support the program receives from the district, said Lora Bodmer, spokesperson for the foundation.
Evaluators are looking for "comprehensive music education," Bodmer said.
They look at how many students participate in voluntary performance classes such as band or orchestra. They count the number of teachers committed to the music program and if all are certified.
At Delavan-Darien, general music classes start in kindergarten and go through Advanced Placement music theory, said Mike Heine, coordinator of school community relationships.
It's also one of only two districts in Walworth County with a string orchestra. The district offers string instruction starting in fourth grade, something that's fallen by the wayside in larger districts.
In addition, the district is home to an eighth-grade jazz band and three orchestras at the middle school level. Wind ensembles, concert bands, jazz bands, string orchestra and string choirs and a variety of other instrumental choices are offered at the high school. High school level choirs include the Lydian choir, a cappella choir, treble choir and chamber choir.
Music technology and African drumming are offered as courses, and the district has three musical theater events each year.
So what makes the Delavan-Darien musical programs rise above others?
Jennifer Bayerl, high school orchestra director, said one of the reasons the program works is the relationship between the music staff and the classroom teachers.
"We just have a really open relationship with the teachers," Bayerl said. "We communicate. We share information. There's a mutual respect there."
Bayerl said teachers understand that the learning done in music classes supports other academics.
Research shows a correlation between participation in music education and student achievement overall, according to Kansas University researcher and professor Christopher Johnson.
Johnson looked at the link between academic achievement and the quality of the music program. His research considered schools from in a variety of demographic groups and discovered that even schools with "lower quality" music programs consistently scored better on state test scores.
Bayerl said the Delavan-Darien program also excels because the music teachers get along with each other.
"We don't fight over the kids to get them into our groups," Bayerl said.
What do the district's students think about the musical offerings?
For most, their musical experience is intimately tied to their affection for their teachers.
Memories from musicals, classes they took when they "were little," a concert or recital survived despite nervousness—almost all those stories involved their teachers.
Simeon Poleger, 17, a junior, started playing violin in fourth grade with teacher Tom May.
He remembers how excited May was about music and how that translated to a pack of unruly fourth graders.
"I remember before I got my instrument, I was so excited," Poleger said. "Every day, us kids would go up to Mr. May and say, 'Mr. May, Mr. May, are our instruments here yet?'"
"I really like playing," Poleger said.
"Because I had Miss Bayerl in middle school, and I have her now," Poleger said. "It's nice to still have her as a teacher because I really like her."
Eliah Nelson–a first-team, all-conference defense lineman–started playing double bass in fourth grade.
"When you pick an instrument, Mr. May just put them all out and lets you play with them," Nelson said. "I chose the cello, but then I realized this was bigger and asked Mr. May if I could change."
"I enjoy playing music, but it's not like the center of my focus," Nelson said.
Why does he play?
"It's a fun environment, I really look forward to it," Nelson said. "The music teachers in the district are great. They know when to let things be fun, and they know when to get strict and stay focused."
Other local schools that won a best communities award include the Whitewater School District, School District of Fort Atkinson and the Kettle Moraine School District. Randall Consolidated School in Burlington won a Support Music merit award from the organization.


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Here's a poll showing Americans trust the military commanders much more than either the President or Congress to deal with the war:
Only 5 percent of Americans — a strikingly low number for a sitting president's handling of such a dominant issue — said they most trusted the Bush administration to resolve the war, the poll found. Asked to choose among the administration, Congress and military commanders, 21 percent said they would most trust Congress and 68 percent expressed most trust in military commanders.I don't think that disparity between the President and Congress means people side more with Congress than the President, because those who side with the President are probably much more likely to put the military first when given those three choices. The President himself continually expresses trust in the military commanders.
Some Democrats took issue with the characterization of General Petraeus as operating free of influence from the administration, suggesting that they would like to diminish his credibility heading into days of intense sparring over how much more time Mr. Bush's strategy for Iraq should be given.If so, then the poll demonstrates extremely strong public trust in the President. (Note: I said if.)
"I don't think he's an independent evaluator," Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, said on "Fox News Sunday."
Read on in the linked article, and you'll see that Americans also support troop withdrawals and think the war isn't worth fighting. That's what they say when they are asked what they would do if they had to trust themselves with the war. But do people have a confidence in those opinions about military strategy that displaces the 68% trust in the military leadership?
UPDATE: Mike Nizza offers these bullet points on the opening statement:
- Overall Assessment: "The military objectives of the surge are in large measure being met."
- Most Important Development: The rejection of Al Qaeda by Sunni tribes in Anbar province. Other areas are following suit, he adds.
- End of Surge: The troop levels in Iraq can return to pre-surge levels by the Summer of 2008, he said. "However, in my professional judgment, it would be premature to make recommendations on the pace of such reductions at this time," he added.
- Violence: A slew of charts reports that violence is dropping in Baghdad and other parts of Iraq. The general says the number of attacks and deaths would be lower without Al Qaeda in Iraq's attacks. One chart shows that two provinces have seen increasing violence during the surge.
- Al Qaeda in Iraq: The deals with Sunnis in Anbar province and operations against leaders of Al Qaeda in Iraq have left the group "off balance," but not defeated, he asserted.
- Iran: The general said there is evidence that the Iranian government is using its Al Quds force to help spur the insurgency in Iraq, a charge that the U.S. military has leveled before. The aim, he said, was to create a friendly organization in Iraq as Iran has in Lebanon with Hezbollah.


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Friday, June 22, 2007
Event Equality for Big Ten Network: Good Idea or Just PC?
Politically correct? You bet. Good for sports fans? Nope.
The fact of the matter is - in general - most men are bigger sports fans than most women. Are there exceptions? Absolutely. Are there women who are not only bigger fans than most men and know more about sports? Absolutely.
But they are in the minority. And most men - and even most women who are sports fans - don't care about the sports that will be shown in order to have this "event equality" on the Big 10 Network.
Look, when the women's softball team made their run at the NCAA title a few years ago, I not only watched but was glued to the set. In fact, I'll watch any U-M team playing for a title. Hell, if we had a women's hopscotch team and they were in the NCAA tournament, I'm setting my TiVo.
But that doesn't mean there is "watch equality" that justifies "event equality" for the Big 10 Network.
Hey, is there an important women's basketball game being played? Put it on! Is some female tennis player in the conference shooting for some record? Air the damn thing! But for the Big 10 Network to arbitrarily say that they're going to put on an equal number of men's and women's sports is silly. It's a PC solution that ignores reality. Which is:
Men and women aren't equal in their lust for sports. And, for those of each gender that are equally passionate about sports, the agreement comes in the college sports they watch more regularly - and those happen to be sports played by men.
Suppose the BTN proposed that they were going to have "event equality" of a different sort: instead of it being based on gender, they said that there had to be "event equality" between college football and men's basketball (the two most popular collegiate sports) on one side and all other collegiate sports, male and female, on the other. Folks would laugh and say, "How silly." Why? Because those other sports aren't as popular. The fan bases aren't equal.
Or what if we were talking about something called the Big 10 College Basketball Network and they said they were going to show a 50/50 split of men's and women's college basketball games. Would that make sense? Of course not. More sports fans - male and female - follow men's college basketball. It's not sexist, it's just a fact.
Look, I personally don't care about men's gymnastics or women's gymnastics. I, along with most people, don't follow the sport, male or female. It's not about gender, it's about the sports people watch.
Now, I'm sure those that disagree with me are going to not only disagree strongly but, as is the way "debate" occurs in this day and age when someone offers a differing viewpoint, probably call me names. C'est la vie...in 21st century America.
Then again, maybe I'm preaching to the choir. Because while we have some fantastic, smart, female sports nuts who regularly read the MZone, the overwhelming majority of our readers are male.
And leave your thoughts in the comments section. Would love to know what people think on this one.
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- TitleIX said...
I'm confused. The photos you posted would argue FOR televising female sports....
Here's a question for the PC-haters: if your daughter played organized sports would you want her to have equipment, playing fields, court time, ice time, pool availability just like the boys? Or would you tell her that most people ( ie men )don't like girls' sports anyway so don't be a baby about crappy facilities, no uniforms, and no fan support?
Actually, not televising women's sports would save everyone a whole bunch of trouble....little girls wouldn't have the opportunity to see strong female role models whom they wanted to emulate. They wouldn't be interested in learning the fabulous lessons that sports provides regarding teamwork, effort, success, hardship, committment, coming up short but trying again none-the-less.
Yep, providing a wider venue for girlie sports is a stupid idea. We wouldn't have all this attention on soccer if those darned girls didn't win the world cup...
Ok, back to the kitchen with me. ;-)
- June 22, 2007 6:59 AM
- TitleIX said...
Ok, MULLIGAN....
Truthfully, I don't think it's about being PC but really about programming. ESPN did the same thing when it started---NASCAR races around the clock. (and LOOK what happened!)
No way a women's event will pre-empt a men's event. But they've got to fill the air time. It actually is a great programming and marketing idea. Female sports viewers are an untapped (pardon the entendre) market and if you can get soccer moms and their kids watching college athletics...well, you do the math.
One could argue that ALL non-revenue sports need the exposure to increase revenue for the teams. Although it is strange to me that Men's LAX is now televised by ESPN. I'm sure a salacious rape case had nothing to do with it? right!?
So, it's unfortunate that this tactic by the Big Ten Network is seen by some thru the warped lens of PC-hating. No one will make you sit in front of the TV to watch Women's Volleyball, or Women's Swimming and Diving, or Women's Crew. Hell, Comcast may not even put the dang network on so the discussion may be moot.
- June 22, 2007 7:36 AM
- god of the whoppers said...
Not completely related, but seems important enough
Big Ten, Comcast battle over new network's costs
- June 22, 2007 8:01 AM
- Out of Conference said...
Without airing 12 hours of infomercials (which I bet they will have to anyway) and 8 hours of history of the Big 10-type shows (where are they now, old Mich-OSU games, etc.), I don't see how they will be able to not air women's sporting events just to come up with programming each day.
T9 is right - while I voted that this is PC run amok, the facts are the BTN will need women viewership, and Big 10 schools could certainly do worse than try to lure better women atrhletes and students. Now if they could carry a show that stresses that ladies wearing sweats to football games are a definite NO-NO, we'd be better off!
- June 22, 2007 8:12 AM
- Blue (and White) Fan said...
You make great point T9. However, women have the Lifetime and Oxygen networks. Yet I don't see them making any efforts to broadcast sporting events. Maybe that's not their format so to speak. My feeling though is if women's sports were profitable they would find a way to broadcast them. Just like stations like TNT broadcasts NASCAR. I think that station also airs NBA games.
Hey, I am all in favor of equality. But this is a PC move, hands down.
- June 22, 2007 8:37 AM
- Blue (and White) Fan said...
Off Topic -
Even though this is a Michigan site I read it often. I must admit this is the funniest blog I have ever seen! You guys always make me laugh.
And I promise you this. Penn State WILL beat Michigan again. Notice I didn't what century that would be, but it will happen.
Thanks again!
- June 22, 2007 8:40 AM
- 25 said...
The Big ten is just trying to look proactive because in all actuality they will have to show women's sports just to fill programing. The major networks already have contracts to broadcast the college football and men's basketball games so what else is there in the way of men sports to show besides baseball.
- June 22, 2007 9:02 AM
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- June 22, 2007 9:02 AM
- MGoBlue93 said...
I'm sure a salacious rape case had nothing to do with it? right!?
T9... don't you think it's a bit disingenuous to start your rant out with "Here's a question for the PC-haters" and then use a incident where rumor and innuendo ruled the day and the prosecuting attorney got himself disbarred?
Quite frankly, I have no opinion one way or another regarding the telecast of women's sports... but it appears that you call people out for being PC and you make a PC comment yourself.
BTW, I coach girls soccer; your more cogent points are not lost on this poster.
- June 22, 2007 9:33 AM
- CrimeNotes said...
I rarely (okay, never) watch women's sports but I don't think this is a PC move. This network is going to be desperate for content. They'll need to broadcast a lot of women's sports in order to fill dead air. My guess is that they're trying to make it sound like a programming choice and not what it is: filler. This channel will feature second-tier games in major sports and a bunch of junk nobody cares about.
- June 22, 2007 10:11 AM
- Devil said...
We're talking about Jim Delaney, so, definitionally, this is about the money. As others have noted, this network will be crying out for content. If they can produce women's games on the cheap and try to build an audience for women's sports (i.e., turn them into less of a net revenue drain on ADs) and meanwhile claim to be good people for doing so, it's worth a shot.
- June 22, 2007 10:31 AM
- BaggyPantsDevil said...
I'm going to go with "great idea" if only for the prurient interest angle demonstrated so well by the pictures accompanying this post. As a heterosexual male, if I have to watch a sport I otherwise have no interest in, I'd rather it be played by fit, young women.
I think TitleIX nails it and this is a case of the network trying to kill two birds with one stone. Since they've got to find some way to fill all that air time, why not sound enlightened by proclaiming themselves the first network ever committed to equal time for women's sports. Hopefully, the most attractive games in any sport will be on a more available networks.
My biggest worry with the Big Ten Network isn't that the Michigan-Ohio State game won't be shown in lieu of women's synchronized swimming but that a game like Michigan-Wisconsin will be shown on the BTN, which--since I live in the heart of ACC basketball country--I won't ever get, instead of ESPN or ESPN2, both of which I do get. I can see the BTN--and the chance that it won't be available in many parts of the country--actually decreasing the number of Michigan football games available to fans outside of the state of Michigan.
As far as I'm concerned, the less Michigan football games shown on the BTN the better. Last season, in spite of living in a desert wasteland that's kind of, sort of PAC-10 country--yeah, I move around a lot--I was able to watch nine out of thirteen Michigan football games on NBC, ABC, or ESPN. To me, that isn't bad and if it's not broke, don't fix it. I don't want to see every Michigan game except those against Notre Dame and Ohio State banished to a cable network that is not even available to me.
- June 22, 2007 10:58 AM
- harry hasselhoff said...
So a network that already seems destined to fail given it will not be carried by the country's largest cable operator and will probably be a pay channel on most others is now further sinking itself by pledging to broadcast not the most popular sports, but the sports that suit the political motivations of the Big Ten powers-that-be????
- June 22, 2007 12:14 PM
- Yost said...
Was hoping you'd offer comments and your POV on this subject due to your blogger handle.
While we're on opposite sides here, as stated in the original post, this isn't about giving women second-hand gear for their sports. Wasn't advocating that.
Most importantly, this also wasn't an either or thing as stated in your first comment -- as in televising half women's sports on the BTN or none at all. Again, wasn't advocating that, either.
My issue is with arbitrarily mandating that there will be an even split of male/female sports. That, imho, is silly.
As so many people have said, they're going to be starved - especially outside of football/b.ball season for content. There is - and should be - plenty of air time for ALL the non-rev sports, male and female.
Finally, yeah, you're right about the pic. But when I was searching for something to put up w/ the post, that was just too good to pass up even if it muddles the point.
- June 22, 2007 12:30 PM
- CrimeNotes said...
The link from God of Whoppers is great -- it puts into relief the hubris and retardedness of Jim Delaney and this entire dumb idea.
Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany said cable TV giant Comcast should apologize for remarks that he claimed were "intended to denigrate institutions and teams" in his conference.
And the company responded emphatically: Forget it.
The conference and Comcast are at odds over the price of the new Big Ten Network and whether it should be offered on basic cable. And they're also feuding over the wording of a press release in which Comcast said the Big Ten network will show "second and third-tier sporting events," called it "a niche sports channel" and added: "Indiana basketball fans don't want to watch Iowa volleyball, but the Big Ten wants everyone to pay for their new network."
"In the Midwest, when you're talking about a women's sports team, you talk about them with respect," Delany said. "They're not second tier. ..."
Delany, a Comcast subscriber, remains hopeful a deal can be reached.
"But if I read again about the second-rate, second-tier women's volleyball team from Iowa as the centerpiece of our programming, I'm going to say the same thing I'm saying now," Delany said. "That is, I think it's inappropriate."
Shades of Fox Sports Detroit precuror PASS, only without the excitement of Live from Ladbroke DRC.
- June 22, 2007 12:57 PM
- John said...
in the eyes of the NCAA, aren't all college sports created equal? shouldn't the big X(+1) reflect that? I hear your argument yost, but this is the same body that uses the term "student athletes." if the network broadcast grabbed all the events that would get the most viewers (i.e. most big X football games) and had football analysis shows, classic games, etc., you'd be making a post on how the big X is making even more money off the football players.
For a league and sanctioning body that prides itself about being about "student athletes" and their accomplishments, I think this move is the best. You've seen the commercial: "hundreds of student athletes are going professional in something other than sports." So what if you lose money on broadcasting womens field hockey, the NCAA and big X is about providing a forum for these sports. Its not necessarily being PC, its not being hypocritical.
- June 22, 2007 1:01 PM
- Yost said...
If you think this network is anything but a money making venture, you're sadly mistaken. It's not about showcasing the downtrodden "student athlete" to the world. If it was, Jim Delany would be giving it to Comcast for free and not locked in a bitter dispute over pricing.
It's about putting on things people want to watch. People - especially if the BTN is not on basic cable - who will be charged. And if they don't watch, it fails.
The Big 10 provides the sports - equally - for men and women, to participate in. Now they're supposed to provide a "forum" on TV as well? Even if nobody watches? It's one thing to provide equal opportunities for men and women to play sports. It's another to also try to mandate to the viewer they have to watch in equal doses as well, even if they have no interest.
- June 22, 2007 1:20 PM
- Brad Coe said...
Here is my point. If you want Big 10 Network to last, they have to make their money. If they are not getting enough viewers, then the network will not last long. So I think the bigger games and sports should have priority over other events so the viewer ratings are much higher. To keep the viewer ratings high, it would most likey be male sports and also the dominating sports such as football and baketball that would be showing. Those are facts that those sports are viewed the most. It is also fact that it is the male sports that are viewed more often than female sports. I see it both ways just as the article said. Politicaly its correct. To sport viewers it stinks. Sorry I rather watch Football over soccer, or tennis. I would also rather watch male basketball over female basketball. Im not sexest either, I just find the games more interesting and I think the facts show that most people agree. Now if I was the owner of the Big 10 Network station, my priorities would be how to make the channel successful and how to bring in the money to be able to help out all big 10 teams to be able to support them. In my view I would be trying to capture as many viewers as possible. That isn't going to happen if the network is showing tennis while another network is showing NCAA basketball championships. That is my view and im sticking to it.
- June 22, 2007 1:35 PM
- John said...
i agree its a business and they want to make money, but you'll never here delay say that. broadcasting a disproportionate amount of fball and bball would do everything but validate what college critics have been saying for years, its about the $$$. Imagine what the WWL would say. of course, they are as hypocritical (using OSU and UM games to whore their ESPNU network).
I'm just saying, if you go as far as making ads and coming down hard on players who get some benefits, protecting the sanctity of the "student athlete," isn't this the move you have to make with your network?
we know there is a unspoken hierarchy among college sports, are you expecting the big X to acknowledge it by how they program their network?
- June 22, 2007 1:56 PM
- zen wizard said...
I am thinking that we should take activities which are truly a sport--like map folding, Macy's sale shopping cart navigation, cake decoration, and Bedazzler T-shirt creation--that women tend to be more proficient at, and make them into sports, then broadcast the women's events for equal time.
This would boost women's collective self-esteem, as some misguided man would try to compete, in drag, in the Women's Division of, say, "Competitive Speed Bedazzling"--and summarily get his ass kicked. Especially when he models his resultant baby doll Bedazzler shirt that says, "Foxey Lady" and the letters are all uneven.
- June 22, 2007 3:15 PM
- Erik said...
I like it. I'd much rather watch real actual sports (even if it's women's tennis or something) than watch some lame-ass bullshit "insider" program on some team or another in which I want to punch the host in the throat for giving me such profoundly worthless insight.
Consider the sad crap that regional FSN's have to do, and then make that into half of an entire network. It doesn't sound like much fun to me.
- June 22, 2007 8:03 PM
- TitleIX said...
What I meant is that the 'attractiveness' of a salacious rape case: ie, rich white Duke men accused of raping black female strippers is what got LAX on the nation's radar screen. Obviously there was no rape and Nifong completely abused his authority etc etc etc.
Guilty or innocent, the publicity around the whole thing is what now has LAX on ESPN in my humble opinion. Otherwise, who would be watching???
It's the great american redemption story.....
- June 22, 2007 8:20 PM
- Ram61 said...
Ive been watching ESPN for a while, and way before the Duke case I remember them having Lacrosse games on ESPN and ESPN2. The rape case gave it some publicity yeah, and probably a few extra viewers for 10 minutes or so, but people arent going to become Lacrosse fans just because of the case. For you to say that the only reason Lacrosse is on ESPN is because of this Duke case is moronic. I never watched lacrosse in my life, but i know teams like Syracuse and Duke because ESPN has advertised it before. Get your shit straight before talking.
- June 23, 2007 1:22 PM
- TitleIX said...
I'll be sure to straighten out my moronic shit before I engage in an enlightened public discussion with MZone regulars.
Thanks for the heads up.
- June 23, 2007 3:15 PM
- lane said...
most everyone's hit the nail - hard - on the head.
too much air time - not nearly enough programing to justify itself to these big cable companies for the $ they're asking for - great ploy to pass it off as 'PC'.
hey, i've got directv and it's bundled with its basic service - i'll flip by it to see what's on.
- June 24, 2007 8:13 AM
- lljbone4 said...
this is ridiculous. i've only ran across no more than 10 girls in my life that absolutely LOVE to sit down and watch ANY type of game. the count for guys that i've met is countless. this shouldnt be an argument and that's it.
- June 24, 2007 9:17 AM
- TitleIX said...
you should get out more and meet some real women....
when I was a little girl, my MOTHER and I watched Wide World of Sports religiously. I'm a huge Muhammed Ali fan as a result. In addition, we were ALL about the Steelers in the 70s. In fact, I wanted to be Lynn Swann when I grew up. Dad would come into the TV room looking all morose wondering, "what's for dinner?" and my mom would say, "I don't know, we are watching the game, what are you making???"
Girls RULE! :-)
- June 25, 2007 8:44 AM
- Out of Conference said...
Ram61 - wtf dude?
T9 is on the mark. The Duke rape case put men's LAX in the spotlight. Sure, the women's LAX postseason always made ESPN year and after year, and I remember always seeing Duke, UNC, 'Cuse, etc always in the championship games, but men's college LAX didn't get much airtime- maybe the Mothership carried the men's championship game, but I seemed to recall it being relegated to the Deuce. They never carried men's playoff matches that I recall, just the championship game. To say that the Duke rape case didn't bring the men's sport to people's minds everywhere is simply not correct.
- June 25, 2007 9:48 AM
- Yost said...
Easy, tiger. Differences of opinions are not only fine, but what make a good comments section interesting. No need to get ugly.
- June 25, 2007 12:14 PM
- shawn said...
As a fan I'm tired of getting screwed.
It started with the NFL network then ESPNU. Why should we have to pay extra for games that were previously on over-the-air free stations?
I think as a fanbase we should voice our concerns.
A link to the Big Ten Network is listed below.
http://www.bigtennetwork.com/ man...ticleSource=420
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CLEMSON — Lifelong Clemson fan George Hamilton eyed the damage done and swapped through the overriding emotions Thursday — from shock to disgust, from reflection to sadness.
It's not just a rock. It's The Rock. The rock of Clemson's football game-day spirit and time-honored tradition.
With youth sports camps continuing as scheduled on a toasty Thursday under clear skies, a mythical dark cloud wafted over campus as fans and officials — all the way up to the head football coach — bemoaned the stunning sabotage of Howard's Rock, which has proudly presided over Memorial Stadium for 47 years.
The Clemson University Police Department is 10 days deep into an investigation after a fist-size portion of the rock was chipped off and stolen either the night of June 2 or the morning of June 3. The vandalism wasn't made known to the public until Wednesday night.
"It's pretty low. Extremely low," said the 25-year-old Hamilton, a Charleston native and graduate of James Island Charter High studying forestry as a Clemson graduate student. "They allow a lot of freedoms with it. My cousin, for their wedding portrait, they got dressed up in their tuxedo and dress, and they took the cover off and everything to take the picture. It's fairly easy to get in there and get a picture or something like that, especially this time of year."
It's hard to tell anything's changed to an unknowing passerby. The marble mount hoisting Howard's Rock is unblemished while the famed fixture rests normally upon its pedestal with its usual glass encasing, after officials cleaned up the mess.
About 15 percent of the rock's total mass is missing — not nearly enough to deter Clemson's famed pregame ritual.
"Thankfully, most of Howard's Rock is still intact and we will do what is necessary to protect it going forward," football head coach Dabo Swinney said, issuing a statement Thursday afternoon. "I know our coaches and players look forward to rubbing Howard's Rock, running down the hill, and furthering one of the great traditions of college football when we open the season against Georgia on August 31."
However, Swinney expressed his displeasure at the situation, matching the fan base's sentiments.
"It is very disappointing that someone would disrespect our unique tradition to this extent. It is one of the iconic images of the game," Swinney said. "I am sure Clemson police will investigate this thoroughly and hold the person accountable for this behavior."
The incident report obtained Thursday morning from Clemson's police department indicated facts are few and there are no suspects.
The report was filed at 2:30 p.m. June 3, when Clemson assistant athletic director for facilities and grounds Gary Wade reported trespassers removed a large piece of the white flint rock along with its Plexiglas cover.
Pieces of the rock, a plastic cover and part of the lock protecting the rock were on the ground near the gate. Campus officers Gary Leslie and James Graham were on site to collect pictures and a statement from Wade and university employees Jeff Kallin and William Lewis, who discovered the damage.
The pedestal was not dented or scratched, but it was found with a partial fingerprint, which was checked by officers. The plexiglass case was turned over to police officer Zach Owen for further inspection of possible prints, though wrongdoers wouldn't necessarily have been the only ones touching the artifact.
A source within the department said surveillance cameras, stationed around Memorial Stadium, had yet to turn up many clues.
The incident types reported are petit larceny (theft of low-value items) and malicious injury to state property.
Damage was estimated initially at $500 and stolen property at $200, though Leslie indicated the actual amounts are pending investigation.
Three undergraduate students working for the university's housing staff this summer stopped by to review the rock for themselves. Patrick Canterbury, a fifth-year senior and a third-generation Clemson student from Pittsburgh, couldn't believe it.
"It's a symbol. It's been here for decades. You've heard of attempts in the past that people have tried to vandalize it and it's always been foiled," said Canterbury, recalling a 1992 incident when fans attempted to remove the rock prior to the game against South Carolina.
"I guess naively, I always thought it was somewhat invincible. I mean, it's a rock, so how much damage can you really do to it? Then you see this."
Hamilton sorrowfully observed the damage, standing outside the gates where the Tigers always roar their way onto Frank Howard Field to kick off home games. He was comforted knowing that particular ritual can't be crushed.
"Across the country, people know when Clemson has a home game, they know what that is. They've titled it the most exciting 25 seconds in college football," Hamilton said. "And it is. It's huge.
"But it's going to be a big deal – bigger than it is now."