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Tiger Woods, Ken Griffey, And Tom Landry - Charles Schultz And Sport, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

Three men, three stories, three sports, one early in his career, one at mid-career and one at the end of his life: Tiger Woods, Ken Griffey Jr., and Tom Landry. All three were in the news this week, and all three have made a heavy impact on their sports. On Saturday a fourth man joined the list.

The Xfl: Raslin Come To Football - Drug Testing High School Athletes, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

Just when you think you've had all the good news you can stand at any one time, Vince McMahon sees his shadow and promises at least six more weeks of football.

Super Bowl Vs. Virtual Super Bowl, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

It is time for the mid-winter festival of commercial excess. It is time for the holiday commemorating Thorstein Veblen. It is the time of conspicuous consumption, conspicuous leisure, and conspicuous waste. It is a time without restraints and without limits. It is Super Bowl Weekend in America.

The Changing Geography Of Sport In America Since Wwii, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

The heavy presence of the National Football League in Florida on Saturday, three Florida teams involved in two playoff games in the state, may or may not be a record. It is however an indication of how much the geography of sport has changed since the end of World War II. These changes are seen not just in Florida but all across the American landscape and are a reminder of how much sport has changed over the past half-century.

Losing Money Going To Bowl Games, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

With the barrage of bowl games these past several days one can only marvel at the willingness of sponsors and cities to pay out millions of dollars to universities to provide a few hours of entertainment during the holidays. Last year the University of Wisconsin took away $12.5M for the Big Ten from the Badger's Rose Bowl appearance. The participants at this year's Sugar Bowl, allegedly the national championship game, will take away between $11M and $13M each. Moving down the pecking order to near the bottom the payouts run to about a million dollars.

Bowls Everywhere But None To Match The Poulan Weed Eater Bowl, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

I entered a state of deep depression recently when I learned that the folks at Poulan are no longer sponsoring the Independence Bowl. The Poulan Weed Eater Bowl is no more. The irritating, loud and stupid relative of all the bowl games is gone. The Poulan Weed Eater Bowl has whacked its last weed.

John Rocker's Si Interview, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

It wasn't all that long ago that John Rocker was complaining about being stereotyped by Met fans and New Yorkers. He said that New Yorkers seemed to think that everyone from Georgia had one tooth and married their cousin. The self-styled good old boy resented this sort of sweeping generalization about Georgians and Southerners.

Notre Dame On Probation: The Cost Of Selling Your Soul And The Ncaa As Judge, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

Can we say that the final blow to the concept of intercollegiate athletic integrity has now been delivered? With the announcement Friday that Notre Dame has been placed on two years probation and lost two football scholarships, seemingly the last bastion of intercollegiate athletics has been tarnished. A sense of shame walks the campus beneath the Golden Dome.

Fay Vincent, Pete Rose, And Reinstatement, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

Pete Rose just won't go away. He just doesn't seem to understand, and probably never will. His ban from baseball was not about his popularity, whatever that might have been, or is. His ban from baseball is the result of the Commissioner of Baseball concluding that there was sufficient evidence that he had been gambling on baseball. He did not contest the finding, but then he also refuses to acknowledge the finding.

Hollins Columns (1999 Dec 6), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of contents:

• Calkins replaces Romano
• Microsoft declared a monopoly
• New Briefs
• Dana renovations planned for 2000
• Dining hall changes are a popular topic of discussion
• Varsity athletics move causes controversy
• Short term jam-packed with activities
• Opportunities
• SHAB Hits Home for World AIDS Day
• Students share exam advice
• Stressed...?
• "Fight Club" packs a psychological punch
• Women's studies students "celebrate goddess"
• Basketball team playing hard
• Fencing team meets challenges
• A response to our readers
• Letters to the Editor
• High Anxiety
• Cecily soapbox: Women in the media
• Healthy women make better college students

Thanksgiving, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

The History of Thanksgiving and of Football both go back into the Middle Ages, and so it may not be so strange that the two would become intertwined in modern America.

Ex-Athletes As Politicians, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

In recent days and weeks there has been considerable discussion in the national press of Bill Bradley's presidential run and its relationship to his professional basketball career. Such questions as: Should he exploit his NBA fame for political purposes? Should he be using this fame to raise money as he did in the big fund-raiser in Madison Square Garden last week? Why after years of disconnecting himself from his basketball career does he now seek to reconnect? Does this negate his claims that he much more than a basketball player?

Hollins Columns (1999 Nov 15), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Faculty, staff and students Take Back the Night
• Four distinct artists
• Egyptian studies focus of fall symposium
• Nova discusses women's reproductive choices
• News Briefs
• Circle K and BSA team up to help local park
• The Outside World
• Campus Scenes
• New bill undermines abortion rights
• "Random Hearts" is just random
• Creed molds some "Human Clay"
• Benedict's wait is almost over
• Hardly trash, it's Garbage
• SHAB reaches out to campus
• High Anxiety
• A Random Thought
• Letter to the Editor
• Hollins swim team has a bright outlook

Sport And The Denial Of Death, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

References to death are frequent in the language of sport. "Sudden death," ends the overtime period. Winning teams often "kill," "wipe out," or "bury" their opponents. In baseball you are a "dead duck" when thrown out at the plate.

On Sport And Society 11-03-1999, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

There are several items to note in this potpourri of sports which has been delayed while I try to recover from the pain of watching the Atlanta Braves get turned every which way but loose by the New York Yankees. Realistically I did not think the Braves would beat the Yankees but I did expect to see a competitive six or seven game World Series.

Hollins Columns (1999 Nov 1), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Pat Schroeder takes on politics and women
• A woman's quest for freedom
• Women unite to take back the night
• Tinker Cafe under new management
• News Briefs
• ADA announces new spuds
• Campus Scenes
• Paule Constant to speak at Hollins
• Ring Night claims Juniors
• Visiting professors love Hollins
• "Bringing Out The Dead" does just that
• They might rock
• Writers fight hunger with words
• High Anxiety
• Agony, Agony, Heartbreak
• On the Left
• On the Right
• A Random Thought
• Letters to the Editor
• Fall sports wrap-up

Pete Rose And Jim Gray Damage The All Century Team, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

The release of "The Blair Witch Project" on video has once again brought the attention of the Orlando community and film fans everywhere to the blockbuster surprise of the summer. It has also focused local attention on the University of Central Florida film program where the filmmakers began their work.

The Beauty And Appeal Of Baseball Shines Again In Playoffs, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

If you have been watching baseball the last few weeks, and you didn't get it before, you should now fully understand the beauty and appeal of this intricate and always surprising game.

Hollins Columns (1999 Oct 18), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Moody to get a face lift
• Hollins welcomes Dean of Admissions
• Library coffee house a controversial topic
• Students show off talents at Family Weekend
• After the Hype: A Return to "The Blair Witch Project"
• Science a WISE choice for these students
• A Munich tradition reborn at Hollins
• Barkett regroups SHAB
• A Random Thought
• High Anxiety
• Soccer team moves toward championship goal
• Volleyball team pushes hard to reach ODAC tournament

Shoplifting And Shop Forgetting In Tallahassee: Fsu One More Time, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

It may be something in the air or perhaps the water but whatever the cause illegal shopping for wearing apparel seems endemic to Tallahassee, Florida. Or perhaps it is just the fact that two of the more corrupt institutions of our time are located there: government and a major college football program.

Hollins Columns (1999 Oct 4), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Romano to leave Hollins
• Religious Studies Major restructured
• Art Annex Gallery exhibits Martha Armstrong's paintings
• Student Conduct Council cases
• Cultural celebration at Hollins
• Broadway comes to Blacksburg
• News Briefs
• "Run Lola Run" presents a different kind of action
• New professor has high hopes for physics department
• Not a fan of Bill Gates?
• Breast Cancer: What you should know
• Tinker Day a sign of fall...for all?
• Campus Scenes
• Hollins riding off to a good start
• Tennis is on the ball
• Fencing team welcomes new coach
• A Random Thought
• High Anxiety
• Horoscopes
• Vexation upon vexation

Bud Lite's Bloodless Coup - No Nfl In La, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

Two sparsely reported and remarkable events from Sportsworld in the past week caught my eye and have gotten me thinking that we may be witnessing some fundamental shifts in the two sports that claim to be our national game. As one would expect these developments did not take place on the playing fields, but rather in the boardrooms. In baseball the positions of League President have been abolished, and in football it seems likely that the NFL will remain shut out of the Los Angeles market.

Hollins Columns (1999 Sept 20), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Hollins welcomes new Director of Residence Life
• Opening Exhibit Transforms Gallery
• Blues Women play it uppity at Hollins
• Campus scenes
• Big Brothers/Big Sisters off to a good start
• "The Sixth Sense" thrills audiences and critics alike
• Opera Roanoke Hits Center Stage
• Johnson's Hollins connections bring success
• Women's Center Spotlight
• Students make most of abroad opportunities
• Soccer team gets a vote of confidence
• Field Hockey Shows Promise
• A Random Thought
• Horoscopes
• Agony, Agony, Heartbreak
• High Anxiety

Serena And Venus Williams, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

Every now and then the Sport of the Seventies can still rear up and produce intense excitement. At the U.S. Open this past weekend several of those moments jumped off the TV screen and into our living rooms.

Espn's 20th Anniversary, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

"Anniversary of everything these days. Enough to give a guy the creeps." This line from Robert Coover's brilliant baseball novel "The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop." speaks to our excessive penchant for celebrations of milestones and anniversaries.

Killing The Umpires Union, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

Kill the Umpire! Kill the Umpire! It's one of the oldest cliches in American sport. And in the early days of baseball sometimes they tried, and on the rare occasion they succeeded.

Raising Standards And Beating The System: Forget Reform, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

The beauty of intercollegiate athletics and the NCAA attempt to control them is that whatever is done, something else follows that will corrupt the solution. In a perfect world it would also produce new and more elaborate levels of corruption. The current case in point revolves around the attempt by the NCAA to mandate minimum SAT and ACT scores and thus guarantee some modicum of brain wave activity in the recruited student athlete.

Pee Wee Reese And Stefi Graf And Us, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

One of those inevitabilities of human existence struck twice over the past few days in the world of sport, reminding us that the ultimate failure of the human body remains the fate of us all. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why we put such a high value on sport, representing as it does the transcendence of the body over reality, often driven by the mind and heart.

Sport And Education In Osceola County: A Question Of Priorities, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

Tip O'Neill is generally credited with having said, "All politics are local." There is a certain truth to that not just in politics but on all the stages of human activity. In Central Florida over the past two weeks a number of things have happened to reinforce that notion in sport and other venues. At the confluence of local sport and education the last few weeks have been rich in both the ludicrous and the ironic.

Wimbledon, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

Every now and again there are sports weekends during which one can see the very best qualities of sport on display in multiple venues. When this happens it is a clear reminder why we still watch the games despite all the other nonsense surrounding sport these days.