[QUOTE=Chipper;280901]No answer to my question? :sad:[/QUOTE]
Tomorrow. DiJuan Harris.
Tomorrow. DiJuan Harris.Good choice of subject. :clap:
Sorensen first to report [B][I]they're MAKING Flair retire[/I][/B], so in that sense it was both timely and newsworthy on this particular day. Still not a sport, even though they're all athletes. And again, I hate professional wrestling. But I had no problem with it, as we do it only occassionally.RE: The standings mentioned by Run. They come that way directly from the AP, so there’s your gripe. Can’t guarantee that the part-time, 12-hour-a-week clerks who put those together can remember to change them every time, for every edition, etc. Get AP to fix it and it’ll be right every time. But I’ll mention it to them.
See… I dont get it because of that. If its all staged, then why does it matter that he has to lose a match to retire from wrestling? In the article it said the first match he loses, he’s done. But if its all predetermined…
Rick Flair, refuse to lose!
[QUOTE=Mike_Persinger;280842]I hate wrestling more than anyone… That it’s not a sport? I can’t argue they aren’t athletes, but I can argue that because the outcome is predetermined it’s not a sport.[/QUOTE] I have to admit I agree with you on this one. I remember back in the mid-80s when they had to admit it was fixed to prevent paying some high dollar insurance premiums.
Ironically, all the wrestling fans I knew back then that thought it was real were also tarhole fans. Go figure.
[QUOTE=Mike_Persinger;280873]Sorensen first to report they’re MAKING Flair retire, so in that sense it was both timely and newsworthy on this particular day. Still not a sport, even though they’re all athletes. And again, I hate professional wrestling. But I had no problem with it, as we do it only occassionally. [/QUOTE]
I for one enjoyed the story on Flair, he’s a local icon!! I know it’s not a sport but I think the sports section would be the most appropriate place. I wish you would post more MMA results personally, especially after big UFC PPV.
On another note, Mike why didn’t Jerry Richardson talk to the local media about Fox before we told Chris Collinsworth on the NFL network? Is it because he was on the “NFL” network and he’s an NFL guy, i.e, the stupid logo on the field?
[QUOTE=CPA_Niner;282089]I for one enjoyed the story on Flair, he’s a local icon!! I know it’s not a sport but I think the sports section would be the most appropriate place. I wish you would post more MMA results personally, especially after big UFC PPV.
On another note, Mike why didn’t Jerry Richardson talk to the local media about Fox before we told Chris Collinsworth on the NFL network? Is it because he was on the “NFL” network and he’s an NFL guy, i.e, the stupid logo on the field?[/QUOTE]
MMA/UFC results not always available on the wire, and sometimes when they are they’re too late for our deadlines because most fights are in Vegas. This is something we’re watching, thought. UFC folks hound sports editors to publish their results.
As for Jerry Richardson, I can’t speculate on his motivation. I don’t think he owes it to us to talk to the local media. I do think he owes it to the fans to let them know how he feels, at least at appropriate times. He has always said he doesn’t talk during the season, so that the voice you hear is that of the coach and the GM, but the comment to Collinsworth, if he meant what Collinsworth said he meant at that point, seems to fly in the face of that.
Jerry, certainly, is an NFL guy. Whether that played a role in his comments coming on the NFL network, I don’t know. I do know owners want to monetize everything, that network included. At some point, I can see the league trying to scoop everyone on that network, with their spin of course. We’ll see.
[URL=http://www.charlotte.com]www.charlotte.com[/URL] why are panthers scores on the front page, and now Tarheels/NC State scores, but I don’t remember seeing Charlotte scores on there?
I’d say the person who does the layout for charlotte.com is a UNCC grad who loves UNC-Chapel Hill and wears light blue shirts.
[URL]http://www.charlotte.com/[/URL]
my complaint worked!
Mike, this seems like something the O should be taking a look at. No one has a solid answer as to how this moratorium will affect our football efforts? Seems a good two paragraphs in the back of the sports pages or atleast someone with press credentials could call the NCAA and ask how it would affect us?
I posted in the shoutbox earlier, my guy says moratorium ends in 2011, team not supposed to start until 2012. He says it’s all good.
[QUOTE=Mike_Persinger;286145]I posted in the shoutbox earlier, my guy says moratorium ends in 2011, team not supposed to start until 2012. He says it’s all good.[/QUOTE]
You would think so, but Dubois seems to want to use it as an anchor on the football process. Just curious and wondering if you know, what is involved, from a NCAA paperwork standpoint, in adding a football program?
[QUOTE=49RFootballNow;286168]You would think so, but Dubois seems to want to use it as an anchor on the football process. Just curious and wondering if you know, what is involved, from a NCAA paperwork standpoint, in adding a football program?[/QUOTE]
I have no idea what’s involved. That’s not something worth investigating until Dubois says go. I don’t know if there’s a faction out there pushing him to go faster or not, but he seemed to be trying to slow that. The moratorium does not affect the timeline laid out by the committee. It also makes a decision quicker than his summer to fall timeline unnecessary, and gives him time to do what he considers due diligence. There comes a point at which you’ll just have to let it play out a little. I think you’re at that point, given that we know what the committee’s recommendation will be. And I know patience can be difficult to find.
[QUOTE=Mike_Persinger;286177]I have no idea what’s involved. That’s not something worth investigating until Dubois says go. I don’t know if there’s a faction out there pushing him to go faster or not, but he seemed to be trying to slow that. The moratorium does not affect the timeline laid out by the committee. It also makes a decision quicker than his summer to fall timeline unnecessary, and gives him time to do what he considers due diligence. There comes a point at which you’ll just have to let it play out a little. I think you’re at that point, given that we know what the committee’s recommendation will be. [B]And I know patience can be difficult to find[/B].[/QUOTE]
Especially when conflicting statements are made by the same man within a 2 week period. Had he not intentionally thrown a wet blanket on football in the Alumni News Letter this would not be an issue right now. There’s such a thing as too much information and he likes to word things as luke-warmly as possible. Perhaps he has spent too much time around the Raleigh politicians because he has mastered the act of double-speak.
What’s even more disturbing is that he seems to have no grasp of the issues surrounding this moratorium and picks and chooses portions he skims over to support his position-of-the-day on the topic. Its easy to see how he got himself neck deep in the Light Rail controversy.
Mike, I keep reading that we’re 8-0 at home (Wertz’s piece on Lutz this morning being the latest example). Last I checked, we are 9-1 at home this season: 8-0 at Halton and 1-1 at Bobcats.
Also, another thing that bothers me in the paper, of which there is an example in Wertz piece: “I spoke to an N.C. high school principal Tuesday who has one of the state’s top recruits at his school.” Do people really talk that way – “I spoke to an N.C. high school principal” instead of “I spoke with a North Carolina high school principal”? Just curious.
Anyway, good coverage on Charlotte 49ers.
Run, I’m no English major or journalist, but here’s my take on your a/an question.
If he had spelled out North Carolina it would have been “a” but since he used the letters “N.C.” it was “an” since the sound of the letter “N” begins with a vowel sound.
Not sure if that makes sense or is correct, but as a grammar dork, I think that might be how it works. Mike P., please correct me if I’m wrong.
[QUOTE=run49er;287314]Mike, I keep reading that we’re 8-0 at home (Wertz’s piece on Lutz this morning being the latest example). Last I checked, we are 9-1 at home this season: 8-0 at Halton and 1-1 at Bobcats.
Also, another thing that bothers me in the paper, of which there is an example in Wertz piece: “I spoke to an N.C. high school principal Tuesday who has one of the state’s top recruits at his school.” Do people really talk that way – “I spoke to an N.C. high school principal” instead of “I spoke with a North Carolina high school principal”? Just curious.
Anyway, good coverage on Charlotte 49ers.[/QUOTE]
Run,
We have to consider Bobcats Arena a neutral court. It was a home game in terms of tickets, etc., but Halton is your home court, and there’s a distinction between your home court and all others.
As for the N.C. thing, it’s a quirk of our newspaper style that I don’t like, but it’s been around for as long as I’ve been here (going on 20 years). We use N.C. and S.C. as adjectives, and when you read them out loud, they sound like they start with vowels, thus the “an.” “He’s an N.C. State player” is the way you’d say that in conversation, and it’s a little more clear there. I read sentences like the one you cited as the state name, where I don’t with N.C. State because of the familiarity. It’s awkward, I agree. But not my call on changing it.
[QUOTE=spartyniner;287316]Run, I’m no English major or journalist, but here’s my take on your a/an question.
If he had spelled out North Carolina it would have been “a” but since he used the letters “N.C.” it was “an” since the sound of the letter “N” begins with a vowel sound.
Not sure if that makes sense or is correct, but as a grammar dork, I think that might be how it works. Mike P., please correct me if I’m wrong.[/QUOTE]
Sparty’s right. And count me in favor of grammar dorks.
[QUOTE=Mike_Persinger;287323]Run,
We have to consider Bobcats Arena a neutral court. It was a home game in terms of tickets, etc., but Halton is your home court, and there’s a distinction between your home court and all others.
As for the N.C. thing, it’s a quirk of our newspaper style that I don’t like, but it’s been around for as long as I’ve been here (going on 20 years). We use N.C. and S.C. as adjectives, and when you read them out loud, they sound like they start with vowels, thus the “an.” “He’s an N.C. State player” is the way you’d say that in conversation, and it’s a little more clear there. I read sentences like the one you cited as the state name, where I don’t with N.C. State because of the familiarity. It’s awkward, I agree. But not my call on changing it.[/QUOTE]
Thanks! I was reading something about how the NCAA determines home court versus neutral when those venues are in the same city such as Halton and Bobcats in Charlotte and Cintas and US Bank in Cincinnati. I know in the latter that the NCAA ruled that Xaiver games played off-campus at US Bank are considered neutral. Just seems odd, I guess.
As one of the old-timers, I was used to a period when the Niners played home games at both the Mine Shaft (Belk Gym) on campus and at the original Coliseum (aka Independence/Cricket Arena). Ditto for Davidson back in the 1960s and 1970s when the Cats would play some its high profile games at the Coliseum, one of the best being Davidson versus a top 25 South Carolina team that had a couple of guys named English and Winters!