... True. But the salient point I would like to draw from Hayden's post is the question, Is it right for Coors, or any other public entity, to extoll the ...
adam kittle
adamkittle@...
Aug 1, 2000 7:27 am
1049
... What are you people talking about. Coors is a beer company, not a "public entity". They are trying to get viewers to buy Coors beer, not "struggle to...
David Goodman
dlgood@...
Aug 1, 2000 12:00 pm
1050
... Well, yes and no. I agree that calling a private company a "public entity" is a misnomer. However, just like any other "text" (in the broadest sense of any...
The Margarine of Evil
jwright@...
Aug 1, 2000 5:54 pm
1051
Well, surprisingly no one has asked this, so I guess I will: what did you think of Dennis Miller as football commentator? Specifically, what did you think...
Andrew Peter Goss
apg@...
Aug 1, 2000 6:03 pm
1052
I have absolutely no problem with the Montana Coors Ad. My beef is with that AWFUL John Elway ad where John exclaims, "Coors..what else would you expect me to...
shabistari@...
Aug 1, 2000 6:10 pm
1053
I don't care to read much into commercials or their cultural significance. By and large content in a TV commercial is irrelevant - pick resonating images and...
David Goodman
dlgood@...
Aug 1, 2000 7:56 pm
1054
I gave Dennis a C in the ESPN.com poll. I only watched the first quarter of the game, and most of his comments seemed to be stuff he just read from his notes....
Arthur J. Fleming
ajflemi@...
Aug 1, 2000 9:21 pm
1055
All right, here's my take. I thought Dennis would do an OK to good job with the first few games and get better as things went along. And so far, I seem to be...
Craig D. Barker
cdbarker@...
Aug 1, 2000 9:38 pm
1056
... along. ... flying the ... Likewise, I gave Miller a B, although Fouts seemed to improve after a bad quarter (or at least what I was able to catch). As for...
Brian M. Hight
brio99@...
Aug 2, 2000 1:57 am
1057
... tell. Tell what? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/...
Erik Nielsen
walter_shandy@...
Aug 2, 2000 3:02 am
1058
I also liked Dennis Miller, although I thought that he sometimes forced the humor a bit. I assume that that will settle down with time, as he becomes less...
adam kittle
adamkittle@...
Aug 2, 2000 3:47 am
1059
Had a chance to see a picture of the official XFL football (a Spalding creation) - and all I have to say is...yeesh! The black-and- red design make it look...
James Dinan
jdinan8271@...
Aug 3, 2000 9:18 pm
1060
Ooh, everyone acted shocked again, look who's topping the leaderboard again this week, it's Cornell's own Kenny Peskin. Kenny Peskin 2 Tim...
Craig D. Barker
cdbarker@...
Aug 3, 2000 11:04 pm
1061
Here is the CART-style points Race after 11 weeks. Kenny Peskin 41.5 Craig Barker 34 Haggai Elitzur 23.5 Eric Owens 14.5 Dave Wallace 14 Arthur Fleming...
Craig D. Barker
cdbarker@...
Aug 3, 2000 11:21 pm
1062
... Then why does this website purport to list all Eclipse award winners all the way back to 1944, including these two? http://horseworlddata.com/tchamps.html ...
The Margarine of Evil
jwright@...
Aug 4, 2000 6:54 am
1063
... According to my ESPN Information Please Sports Almanac (paraphrasing): In 1971, the Eclipse awards were created by the Thoroughbred Racing Associations of...
Kenny Peskin
kmp12@...
Aug 4, 2000 7:09 am
1064
... Excuse me, sorry to bother people, but... huh? WHICH Memorial Cup? Something uniquely identifying a sport would be nice. Okay, so the phrase "Major...
Andrew Peter Goss
apg@...
Aug 4, 2000 1:33 pm
1065
... Although that wasn't the question writer's intent, (namely _mine_) I guess it is allowable. I was implying that the conference had to be in say football...
Jason Keller
jak52@...
Aug 4, 2000 1:54 pm
1066
Andy, to some of us, mostly that live north of the M-D, there is but one Memorial Cup, and it is the one played for by the top Junior hockey teams in Canada,...
Craig D. Barker
cdbarker@...
Aug 4, 2000 2:10 pm
1067
01) Dennis Miller was fine except when he went off football. For example, I thought that the comments that he made about the Brickyard 400 were funny but they...
Delano Barnes
ghostjam@...
Aug 4, 2000 11:15 pm
1068
... They're both better than Ahmad Rashad. ... At Andy Richter's high school. I miss him. ... "Halfway smart" is very generous to Syd Thrift, considering the ...
Arthur J. Fleming
ajflemi@...
Aug 5, 2000 5:33 pm
1069
... Jim Gray, because he has had years of practice to get rid of his worse habits, and he still hasn't done it. At some point, some interview subject is going...
adam kittle
adamkittle@...
Aug 7, 2000 3:27 am
1070
Heck, if it's good enough for Delano... 1) It was reported down here that no team will move anywhere until after there's a new contract in place. So, no...
Andrew Peter Goss
apg@...
Aug 7, 2000 8:59 pm
1071
... Simple, they all read SI's article on the Clips and Donald Sterling, the Ebeneezer Scrooge of pro sports. It's very simple. If he wanted the Clips to be...
Craig D. Barker
cdbarker@...
Aug 7, 2000 9:42 pm
1072
... Would you want to deal with the headache of giving out playing time on a team that will be bad? PG Maggette? I don't think so. Try PG Dooling. ... In a...
Delano Barnes
ghostjam@...
Aug 7, 2000 10:03 pm
1073
... Because no one wants to be associated with a franchise that is a second class citizen in its own city. Los Angeles basketball revolves around the Lakers....
adam kittle
adamkittle@...
Aug 8, 2000 7:51 am
1074
... to ... Odom, ... Richardson ... SG ... I heard that Bob Huggins was actually getting paid more to stay at U of C... I'd like to see John Thompson get the...
Jason Keller
jak52@...
Aug 8, 2000 1:54 pm
1075
... What are the odds he switches sides. I can see it already at the DNC: "Do you smell what Al Gore is cooking!" David Goodman http://www.umich.edu/~dlgood U...
David Goodman
dlgood@...
Aug 8, 2000 2:16 pm
1076
... Better yet, instead of Presidential debates, tag team wrestling matches...I could see one where Gore is about pin Bush, but Nader comes out of nowhere and...
Noel Erinjeri
nerinjer@...
Aug 8, 2000 5:48 pm
1077
... So you think the entire city of Montreal be moved to a new location? What the heck; it worked for Springfield. ... Dook has a football team? ... So it...
