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What I’m Reading I’m looking over the list of the dozen or so rules changes passed at last week’s NCAA Convention in Texas, and some of them are interesting. Two of them directly impact athletic media relations, a subject near and dear to my heart: 13-5-A, which will eliminate restrictions on sending printed recruiting materials [...]
What I am studying I started my final semester of graduate school tonight; I am taking two courses this spring, but one is going to require me to write a short paper and nothing else, so it doesn’t count. The one that counts is called Common Good, in the educational leadership core. I don’t have [...]
What I’m Pre-Ordering Amazon has pre-orders listed for two more hardcover reprints of Andrew Loomis’ art instruction books that were originally published in the 1940s – Creative Illustration coming next week, and Fun with a Pencil coming in April of 2013. I’ve picked up the first three Loomis reprints so far – Figure Drawing for All It’s [...]
Conversations with an almost-two-year old Millie, looking at my phone’s lock-screen picture of Helen: “Sissy?” Me: “Yes! That’s your sissy.” Millie: “Megan?” Me: “You want to see pictures of Megan? OK.” (I find a picture of her on my phone) Millie: “Megan!” Me: “Honey, Megan is your sissy, too. Can you say Sissy Megan?” Millie: [...]
I’m watching Kansas State play Arkansas in the Cotton Bowl tonight. I have great memories of the Cotton Bowl, having been fortunate enough to have attended two of them in person while I was working in K-State’s sports information office in the late 1990s, before I moved to Bemidji in 2001. I went as a [...]
“In chaos, there is opportunity.” Those were the words of Minnesota State University, Moorhead President Edna Szymanski earlier today in a press conference where the Dragons became the first school to pounce on this week’s college hockey apocalypse as an opportunity to make a name for itself (Moorhead’s official release is here). Moorhead first announced [...]
Last night, Boise State beat Louisiana Tech, 49-20. At one point during the highlights on the 11 p.m. SportsCenter, one of the talking heads reminded the audience that Kirk Herbstreit had said during pregame analysis of this contest that Boise State needed to “win with style.” In College Football Speak, this means “blow them out.” [...]
A great day for college football yesterday. My alma mater, Kansas State, scored two touchdowns in the fourth quarter to beat UCLA, 30-22, and North Dakota State, from just a couple of hours down the road, shocked Kansas, 6-3, in Lawrence. I actually got to watch the K-State game; ABC was showing the Michigan-UConn game [...]
Day 1 of college football is in the books. I got a chance to watch the Minnesota/Middle Tennessee State game, the first half of USC/Hawaii and did some channel flipping to watch Utah upset Pitt. I would’ve toughed it out with the USC/Hawaii game, but I just couldn’t do it. I quit on it at [...]
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