So I have made it to Texas. Abilene, Texas to be exact. It is definatly a different world here than what I am used to. I am working in the Media Relations Dept for Athletics at Abilene Christian University. All the coaches are so extremely nice and everything is going well. I do find it odd or different right now that for a town this size there is little activities or stuff to do. The town does have 2 ro 3 movie theaters and a few golf courses; however, the rest of the town dosent have much in way of entertainment. I drove downtown back and forth down streets this evening looking for different things and everything was closed by 7. Different type of town to get used too. Most of my time will be consumed however with the athletic teams. We have a game on CBS College Sports TV on Thursday night and also on Fox Sports South which is pretty exciting to be a part of that. Its also fun to be a part of the athletics as I am going to be the contact for the women’s soccer team and keep that part of the website updated along with a new part on the site where i interview a few atheltes each week. I thought on a name for a long time and i think I came up with a decent one: On Record With The Wildcats. Not sure but guess it will do. thats all for now
The Art of Tailgating Monday, Sep 15 2008
Uncategorized 3:08 pm
Even though this hasn’t become anything “Official” yet it has still created a lot of hype and is even a major reason why people love sports. Looking through Mizzou Football I have found a lot of “Official/Unofficial” place for tailgating. Obviously the University of Missouri isn’t the only place to have tailgating, so I have looked and found a bunch of places where people are promoting tailgating for thier teams. There are also a big number of websites that post games that are played and certain kinds of food that is consumed. Most of the colleges do have a student organization that usually heads part of the more “formal” tailgating such as at Springfield’s Missouri State, the BearFest Village. While there is a lot of roudiness, beer drinking and such going on there are parts of the tailgate that accomadate the family fans. Anyways to the point of PR I think that this has taken off and become something big such as if you live in Springfield the Bear Fest Village is all over the TVs during football season. And this is even amazing because thier football team is bad, really bad!
Fakes Monday, Sep 1 2008
Uncategorized 6:47 pm
So the Summer Olympics have finally ended and we have learned that there were numerous “miscues” that actually never happened. For example the girl who sang during the opening ceremony wasn’t really singing. It was another girl who had been picked to sing, but wasn’t pretty enough to be the face. With all this we have also learned that during the Syndey Olympics the orcestra wasn’t really playing either. Thier performance was a taped performance that had combined themselves, and the Melbourne Orcestra for the opening ceremonies. This really bothers me and mainly being a sports fan and what the Olympics is all about. Competition under pressure. What if we learned the Michael Phelps wsn’t really swimming his hardest and the other athletes “let him win” all those gold medals. Or even worse what if there was a stunt double? As outlandish as this sounds, i think it is really tacky and individuals should strive under the spotlights and let their ability carry them. Being a huge sports fan and music fan it makes me sick to think that stuff like this is going on. If I am to ever watch another game or concert and to think that whoever is playing or on stage is not giving their all, but is “going through the motions” would break my heart. If the musician or athlete is having an off night, well I guess that’s just the beauty of showing up. You never know what will happen.
