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SPORTSCENTER MARCH 30th, 2008
Every time I turn on ESPN there is some story (small or big) about steroids in baseball. The latest victim: Alex Rodriguez. Jose Canseco is on a mission to destroy the game and make some money along the way. his book mentions 3 or 4 names, but the ONLY name we ever hear about is A-Rod's. When the Mitchell report came out it mentioned 27 players who apparently used steroids. How many of those names did we hear besides Roger Clemens? Two, maybe three others? The media wants us to believe it is on a mission to "help" the game get rid of steroids, but it never points out anyone, but the big names. In my opinion this not fair to the game or the big name players. To my understanding it is ok to take steroids as long as you suck, but if you are good then you cannot take them. Don't get me wrong, I am against them all together, but if we are going to start pointing the finger it needs to be pointed at everyone not just the great players in the game.

Who Is Hanging Onto Racism? The Media or Society?

A few months ago, while broadcasting a PGA tour event, Kelly Tilghman, the Golf Channel’s main play-by-play anchor commented nonchalantly to co-anchor Nick Faldo when discussing Tiger Woods’ dominance on the Professional Golf Tour that his competitors should “lynch Tiger Woods in a back alley.” Tilghman stated on live television that today’s young players should “lynch Tiger Woods.”!?! Of course the media took this and ran. Every sports outlet in the world was all over this. It was a stupid comment, but did it deserve the media attention it got? Should it have been blown up like it has been? Then came this cover… Now not only sports outlets are involved, but every news outlet is covering this story. Did the media make too much of this situation or are they doing good by bring it to the forefront of the news?

http://sports.espn.go.com/golf/news/story?id=3186158

What's Wrong Here?

The site below is the national coalalition on racism in sports. It has some really intersting information so go there and look around before taking in my comments. This is also a good topic becuase it directly affects our University. We now have a hawk as our mascot as opposed to a Ute indian. Before I read the mission statement of this colaliton I have always been against the idea of banning the use of indian images and names for logos. But after doing some research I began to quickly realize how off these depictions above are. That is why I ask you. Is there anything wrong with the picture above? I beleive it dehumanizes the native american community. Can you image if there was a major league baseball team named the clevland whites? I don't think so. Its a controversial topic that absolutly needs to be looked into.

http://www.aics.org/NCRSM/index.htm