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A rip on all things athletic…
New York TImes posted an interesting montage of Olympic icons through the ages…
Add comment March 1, 2010
Lots for V-day in Big D, Little a double l, a,s!
NBA All Star Weekend this weekend at Reunion Arena. American Chronicle states that
Nets Dunking Divas Jessica Goldstone, Siobhan St. John, Melody Mills, Danielle Stern, and Kayte Philson will join Nets Team Hype members Ekow Nunoo-Brown and Derek “DJ” Meyer and Nets mascot Sly in representing the team at All-Star weekend.
The Dunking Divas, Team Hype and Sly will perform one of their high-flying, athletic dunk routines at the NBA Celebrity Game to be held at the Dallas Convention Center on Friday. In addition, they will perform a dunk routine together with mascots from across the league at next Sunday’s All-Star Game.
Looks like it’s worth a looky loo!
Add comment February 11, 2010
Meet the Mascots, Vancouver 2010
Miga, Mukmuk, Quatchi, Sumi will be hitting the snow and slopes in the next few days. Looking forward to seeing the games and the spirit of competition.Take a look at the featured link on the mascots.
Add comment February 10, 2010
Last Chance to vote in the Mascot Challenge
Last chance to get in your vote! Voting closes on the 14th so as they say in Chicago, vote early and vote often! and if that doesn’t interest, you can always opt just to play the game on your iphone…app here…
Add comment December 12, 2009
In defense of the Banana Slug or Dress your pets
William and Mary, I guess gearing up for basketball or just a little publicity, announced its finalists in a search for a new mascot on Wednesday. As this blog has seen in the past, the choices make few happy. (I guess Colbert didn’t make his fans active on this one!) Tamara Dietrich of the Daily Press writes of the woes in her column. I say why not pick a pet and dress em up! That’s what went down at this house today!
Add comment December 11, 2009
Redskins can continue to use its name
CNN reports that the Washington Redskins on Monday got a glimmer of a win contrary to the team’s performance on the field. (3-6) The U.S. Supreme Court, refused to intervene in an appeal first initiated in 1992, where a group of Native Americans state the team’s mascot “has been historically a disparaging racial epithet”. The NFL franchise argues that they have spent millions in promotion and advertising as well as “protecting its (trade)mark”.
The team has had a formal trademark since 1967 and the organization has been the Redskins since 1933. Prior to that they were known as the Braves.
This debate and argument has been ongoing in college sports where the NCAA in 1995 advised some schools to remove “hostile or abusive” nicknames or mascots. Hence the search for a new mascot for the College of William and Mary and the saga of Chief Illiniwek. Currently Florida State’s Seminoles have little problem in its mascot use, since there is an agreement with the Seminole Native American Tribe. CNN continues in its article, that a state judge last week temporarily blocked efforts for a mascot change for University of North Dakota’s Fighting Sioux, and like FSU, Central Michigan University Chippewas will be allowed to continue to use their name.
Add comment November 18, 2009
