| Bottum: McCain and the Hoyas
I'd missed it earlier in the week, but over at Salon on Tuesday, Mike Madden noted that after the Georgetown-West Virginia game on January 26, John McCain called Mark Salter, his "longtime speechwriter/Senate chief of staff/intellectual alter ego," to describe the goaltend (er, block, I mean; yes, block) by which Patrick Ewing Jr. had won the game. "A Georgetown alum," Madden notes, "Salter has season tickets in the front row at the Verizon Center; about the only thing that gets him more fired up than Mitt Romney is Big East basketball. (At the bar after the Super Bowl Sunday night, he cursed at the TV when the Boston Fox affiliate compared the Giants' win to Villanova's 1985 NCAA tournament upset win over Georgetown)." Seems pretty newsworthy to me, but Madden pushes it into the mystical territory of the true Georgetown fanatic where my daughter and I dwell when he adds: "The Hoyas have been a near-perfect predictor of McCain's fortunes this year.
Pettini Begins Another Season
If things go right for him, he is going to have a good career,'' Pettini predicted. On the subject of steroids, Joe believes it is time that Congress gets out of the business of baseball. ‘‘I'm really tired of all these hearings in Washington. I also think that Congress has a lot more important things to worry about than to get into baseball's problems,'' Pettini bristled. Joe admits that baseball was guilty of dragging its foot at the beginning but stressed that things have changed. ‘‘We are taking the right steps to try and eliminate steroid abuse,'' he insisted. ‘‘We're being singled out over the other sports and that irritates me. But I also understand it. Baseball is a statistics sport. People judge careers by the numbers individuals put up. It is important that we clean up this mess so that the fans and everybody else won't have to question the integrity of our game.'' Our luncheon conversation last week then turned back to the field and his thoughts about the upcoming season.
Disney Movies
Two developers, Kevin Rafferty and Robert Coltrin, had devised an idea for a new California Adventure ride that would juxtapose the old-fashioned romance of a carnival midway with high-tech video game elements. They had a hunch that "Toy Story" and "Toy Story 2," the Pixar films about toys coming to life, would provide a good theme. But they didn't know much about carnival games. "We looked at each other and said, 'Are the games we remember from our childhoods even relevant anymore?' " Mr. Coltrin said. At the fair, the two were thrilled as they walked through rows of game booths wooden structures that carnival operators call "stick joints" to find crowds enjoying classic games like the ring toss and water guns. "We were like, 'Score!' and gave each other a high-five," Mr. Coltrin recalled.
Interview : Michael Bay
I know my colleagues are going to have Transformers'' questions, but I wanted to know your reaction to 'Hot Fuzz' which was so inspired by 'Bad Boys 2', and that you said that you were offered 'Die Hard 4' and I was wondering if this hadn't come together would you have considered doing that? MB: Die Hard 4, no, I don't think so. Hot Fuzz, I haven't seen it yet, because I was finishing this movie. It's really hard, the end of your post schedule is such a grind, seeing a movie is like the last thing you want to do when you go home. I thought this would be an easy post, on our budget we had a hiatus scheduled in here, because I said, "Oh, my God, I have the longest post schedule," I didn't think the robots would be that hard, but I was directing them all the way to the very end.
Scouts pack for Cub-O-Ree
RAPID RIVER — The Cub Scouts and Webelos of the Redbuck District will hold their annual Cub-O-Ree Saturday at the Rapid River stockyards. The Rapid River stockyards are located just north of Rapid River, and the location entrance will be signed on US 2 & 41. The day will be full of outdoor winter fun activities. Each Redbuck pack attending will host an event, so there will be numerous fun activities. Event stations: Snowshoeing, Relay Race, Walk the Line, Tied in Knots, Ski Team, Maze, Peanut Walk, and Atomic Bomb. In addition events which are just for Webelos are the Catapult and Webelos Tracking. Each Pack in the Red Buck District helps out by running a station. The Boy Scouts in the area will also be helping out. The cost is $4 for each registered Cub Scout (the cost includes the award plaques and a portable restroom).
SATURDAY CLOCKWATCH
1649: Hargreaves shoots wide from distance for Manchester United, who still trail Bolton 1-0 at the Reebok. 1648: Watford still trail Barnsley 3-2 at Oakwell. 1647: Leon Osman glides through the Sunderland defence to slot home Everton's seventh at Goodison. Bad dat for the north east, with Newcastle, Sunderland and Middlesbrough conceding 13 goals between them. At least Sunderland have managed to score one. 1646: Goals like London buses at the Emirates, where Tomas Rosicky has doubled the lead for Arsenal against Wigan. 1646: Forster has scored his second of the afternoon to bring Brighton back on level terms with Carlisle at the Withdean. 1645: Arsenal have finally broken Wigan's resistance, captain William Gallas sparing the Gunners' blushes by scoring seven minutes from time.
Dade schools eye advertising revenue
At the urging of the School Board, Superintendent Rudy Crew and his staff are exploring the possibility of allowing advertising in schools as a possible stream of revenue for the cash-strapped district. While ads abound in other South Florida school districts, the move by the Miami-Dade School Board is nonetheless controversial. Critics say children are already inundated with advertising, and that a captive audience of students shouldn't be bombarded with the wiles of Madison Avenue. ''The perception is that advertising in schools is a free source of money,'' said Robert Weissman, managing director of Commercial Alert, a Washington-based consumer group. ``That isn't true. There are huge costs involuntarily being taken out on the kids.'' Advocates say allowing advertising encourages partnerships between local businesses and schools.
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