Admit it, it is an amazing clip. Knowshon Moreno hurdles a defender. And ESPN didn’t show the clip, and still hasn’t to my knowledge.
The problem is, ESPN should have shown the clip. One, it was of the #2 ranked Georgia Bulldogs on a day when the #1 (USC) didn’t play. Two, it was of someone that ESPN analysts have listed as a potential Heisman candidate. Three, it was awesome. It was the kind of clip that sports people drool over. It was the biggest play of the game.
Someone asked Mark Richt about this today (reported by David Hale):
Anyway, having said all of that, Richt was asked what he thought about Knowshon’s hurdle not making it onto “SportsCenter.” Here’s what he said:
“I think they missed the boat or didn’t do their homework or whatever. I don’t know how they couldn’t have noticed that. It’s going to make our highlights for a long time.”
At that point, an ESPN reporter chimed in to say that FOX controlled the broadcast for the game and did not send that highlight to ESPN as part of their satellite package.
Then, not surprisingly, a FOX reporter said ESPN could easily have gotten the highlight if they wanted it.
So Richt’s conclusion: “I guess they’re both under the bus, then.”
I’ve had it out for ESPN since the end of last season. They decided Georgia shouldn’t be in the title game and that Hawaii would dominate Georgia in the Sugar Bowl. Remember how that one turned out? I know that ESPN doesn’t decide who should be in the title game, but the analysts said it should be Ohio State against LSU, and that was all that people heard for a week. And the voters voted that way.
ESPN (and the media, in general) decides too much, especially in college football. It is time for a revolution.
And ESPN didn’t show any of it. I watched a good bit of Sports Center last night, and they showed two plays from the game, neither of which included this hurdling. Here’s what David Hale of the Ledger-Enquirer had to say about this bias:
It’s hard to explain, however, how the No. 2 team in the country got a five second highlight that didn’t include one of the best players in the country hurdling a defender. Or running for a 50+ yard touchdown. Or either of his other two touchdowns.
Jesse Palmer, you can’t talk football when you are wearing a pink shirt and your tie is way too short.
And last, why does College GameDay like Florida so much? Notice that GameDay has been at Williams College (once) as many times as they have been at Georgia.
In addition to Oregon’s laws, citizens are forbidden from downloading and saving California’s laws:
California’s building codes, plumbing standards and criminal laws can be found online.
But if you want to download and save those laws to your computer, forget it.
The state claims copyright to those laws. It dictates how you can access and distribute them — and therefore how much you’ll have to pay for print or digital copies.
It forbids people from storing or distributing its laws without consent.
This passage comes from an article in a Santa Rosa paper about Carl Malamud, an activist for citizen access to government information. He has previously fought and won public access to the SEC corporate filings database (called EDGAR), U.S. Patent Office filings, Smithsonian records, the freedom to share CSPAN videos, court records, and in June got the State of Oregon to release copyright on its code. Information about all of these projects, and their full text, can be found at http://public.resource.org.
Washington Post looks into edits on on Sarah Palin’s Wikipedia page in the hours before John McCain picked her to be the Republican Vice Presidential nominee. The edits showed that she would be picked, as the editors were also working on John McCain’s page.
There has been a lot of Nascar news breaking this week, and I have lots of thoughts, so I want to hit some of the highlights quickly.
Everyone knew that Joey Logano was going to take over the Joe Gibb’s Racing #20 Toyota that Tony Stewart is leaving at this season’s end. But, it is absolutely amazing that an 18 year old is going to take over a Spring Cup ride for a full season with no Cup experience. And now Home Depot (one of the biggest sponsors in Nascar) has announced that they are going to sponsor Logano. Amazing. And he is going to rock next season - just look at what he’s done in the Nationwide Series this year.
Nascar and Budweiser are changing the format of the Budweiser Shootout for next season. The Budweiser Shootout marks the start of the season, and it is a non-points paying race that traditionally fields former winners and the previous year’s pole winners. Now the field will include the top 6 cars (decided by owner’s points) from each manufacturer (a total of 24 drivers). I think it is BS, and I’m not the only one. Anheiser Busch is making this marketing move because they will no longer be the sponsor of the pole award (that was picked up by Coor’s, who is now the “official beer” of Nascar). I don’t like this format because it biases the field against Chevrolet. Chevy fields a majority of the cars in the Sprint Cup Series, while Ford, Dodge, and Toyota have few more than 6 cars each. So there will be 6 good drivers from Chevy, while Dodge and Toyota will be fielding some cars with drivers like David Reutimann and Michael Waltrip, who are currently ranked 26th and 30th in driver points in Cup. See the issue?
Last issue, the Carl Edwards vs. Kyle Busch episode last Saturday night at Bristol:
“He hit me getting into Turn 1,” Busch said. “Whatever. Carl’s going to say he’s sorry, that he didn’t want to race that way, but he always does. We’ll take it, we’ll go on and we’ll race him that way in the Chase if that’s the way he wants to race.”
Seriously? Kyle Busch? Did you just whine because someone bumped you out of the way to win a race?
And then Edwards says what everyone is thinking (quoted here with my emphasis added):
“It’s one of those deals where I couldn’t get by him, I couldn’t get by him, and I just had to ask myself, ‘Would he do that to me?’ Edwards said after doing his trademark backflip off the car in Victory Lane. “And he has before, so that’s the way it goes.”
And there’s no remorse in the offing, Edwards said.
“Let’s make it real clear - I’m not apologizing for it,” Edwards said, citing several instances where he felt like Busch took him out of races to gain positions. “We’re even.”
Kyle Busch has bumped numerous drivers numerous times this year on his way to all his victories. I’ve been waiting all year for someone to put him in his place (namely the wall, but I was hoping it would be done by Stewart or Gordon) and finally my wishes have come true.
I have issues with Kyle Busch, but this season has been boring. Who wants to turn on any Nascar race, any series, and watch him win a race? Because the odds show that he is the odds on favorite to win any race in any of the 3 Nascar national series. I’ve seen it enough this year.
Oh, and the reason for this diatribe was both Busch and Edwards received a 6 race “probation” for rough driving after the race was over. Nascar shouldn’t penalize these guys, they should applaud the fact that there was an exciting race at least once this season.
After returning home to Boise, Idaho, I exported the GPS data to several different formats, one of which I was able to launch with Google Earth. I was then able to trace the entire course from the comfort of my home half a world away and find a similar route to train on back in Boise. This capability along with having the elevation profile proved invaluable in my preparation for my Gold Medal race. It was also very nice to be able to show family members and friends the course from the excellent satellite views presented by Google Earth.
Post on Google Map team’s blog from Kristin Armstrong, 2008 Olympic Gold Medalist.
6 reasons we love football - Macon.com. This awesome article by Joe Kovac describes the 6 reasons to love football (especially college football) - tradition, schedule, theater, characters, passion, and party. Hopefully my classmates out here at KU will read this and understand my excitement over college football a little more.
