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Well, what did they expect?
Two high school communities in California that allowed ESPN to show their football game this weekend are upset with how ESPN ran things.
The TV guys requested that on-campus pep rallies were to be held early in the day, so there could be cameras ready. And they got players out of class to conduct interviews during the week. The coaches were told which water bottles they could use on their own sidelines. And on and on and on it went.
Oh no! A few players were taken out of class on the first week of school. Hope they can recover!
Oh no! Not one, but two pep rallies?
The funny thing is, reportedly, the schools received a grand total of $3,000 from the TV folks, $2,000 for the home team and $1,000 for the visitors. They sold their souls for $3,000, lost control of their own game, then complained. They knew they were dealing with ESPN, right?
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Tweet! Tweet!
Mike Wise of the Washington Post decided to conduct a little experiment Monday morning.
Using his Twitter account, he posted some bogus information regarding the NFL’s suspension of Ben Roethlisberger.
How do we know it was bogus? He said so, on his radio show later in the day. Turns out, he was trying to see how many other news outlets would “go with the story” without checking their own sources.
Well, actually, a lot of news outlets did just that. It wasn’t huge news, but for the NFL during preseason, any news is news.
By the way, Wise’s employer, the Post, was not thrilled with the idea of one of its reporters faked some news.
Wise later apologized and called himself an idiot on Twitter. Twitter, by the way, did not mind the traffic at all.
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Things have gotten hairy in the St. Louis Cardinals’ clubhouse.
Most of the players got their heads shaved before Monday’s game at Houston as a way to break the monotony of their longest road trip of the season. The players took turns doing the cutting and a large pile of multicolored locks covered the floor.
It didn’t work as the Cardinals lost for the sixth time in seven games.
