Sunday, December 26, 2010

Well this is interesting (part II)

The second thing I noticed is the receiver statline: Look at the receivers with catches... there's Jermaine Gresham, Andre Caldwell, even Jerome Simpson (who?).
But do you notice who's not on the stat sheet for the first half?
Chad Ochocinco
T.O.
Jordan Shipley
Reggie Kelly
TJ Houshmandzadeh
Peter Warrick
Carl Pickens
Chris Collinsworth
...none of the household names that we expect to get receptions on a week in, week out basis. And i wouldn't be surprised if this was a foreshadowing of next year.

Well this is interesting

Im sitting at a stoplight. No, this isn't an interesting anecdote. It's just the way things are.
The Bengal's game is once again blacked out (I mean c'mon Cincinnatians, who doesn't want to watch a 3-11 team in the freezing snow?) so I can't see the game, but I can follow the statline.
It's halftime, and Carson Palmer is 8-for-8 with two touchdowns. Maybe that will silence the critics for a day... but there's still the second half.

Monday, December 13, 2010

My First Big Story...

I had no idea it would be this big...
A little over a month ago, I took on a story for Indiana Wesleyan University's student newspaper, The Sojourn about a seemingly innocent change in an IWU-run convenience store. They pulled a drink from store shelves. They rejected two others. But the story here comes from why they rejected the drinks.
You can read the story here to get the full picture.
After the article was published, IWU's campus erupted with student reaction, and recently, a letter to the editor was published on The Sojourn's website, and has generated as much student response on our website as anything I have ever seen.
Next, the Pepsi Cola Company (which owns one of the banned drinks) found out about the story and has been hounding the university with phone calls about why the drinks are not on shelves.
Finally, a couple of larger media outlets (MSNBC?) have heard about the story and might even run it themselves.
This could get interesting...