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General Category => Other Sports => Topic started by: Beeeej on March 20, 2008, 12:14:04 AM

Title: Cornell Makes Slate's "Teams We Hate"
Post by: Beeeej on March 20, 2008, 12:14:04 AM
"Duke, USC, Cornell, and Eight More Odious Schools in This Year's NCAA Tournament"

http://www.slate.com/id/2186858/
Title: Re: Cornell Makes Slate's "Teams We Hate"
Post by: RichH on March 20, 2008, 01:00:32 AM
Now I see what the difference is between playing Ivy & Patriot teams and getting national exposure.  Nationally, they hate us because our players aren't in the hotel school.
Title: Re: Cornell Makes Slate's "Teams We Hate"
Post by: French Rage on March 20, 2008, 04:04:38 AM
Wow, I somehow actually remember that gum commercial from 1990.

And you gotta like any article that mentions the Anheuser Busch Seminar in Quality Brewing and Fine Beer.
Title: Re: Cornell Makes Slate's "Teams We Hate"
Post by: CU at Stanford on March 20, 2008, 04:40:17 AM
No offense, Beeeej, but that Slate.com article was lame.  ::smashfreak::
Title: Re: Cornell Makes Slate's "Teams We Hate"
Post by: Beeeej on March 20, 2008, 07:53:11 AM
[quote CU at Stanford]No offense, Beeeej, but that Slate.com article was lame.  ::smashfreak::[/quote]

I neither wrote it nor forced you to read it, so why would I take offense?  :-D
Title: Re: Cornell Makes Slate's "Teams We Hate"
Post by: Jim Hyla on March 20, 2008, 11:34:48 AM
As long as we're talking about hate, why does everyone hate Greg Paulus? (http://www.charlotte.com/sports/story/537692.html)
Title: Re: Cornell Makes Slate's "Teams We Hate"
Post by: Josh '99 on March 20, 2008, 11:47:45 AM
[quote Jim Hyla]As long as we're talking about hate, why does everyone hate Greg Paulus? (http://www.charlotte.com/sports/story/537692.html)[/quote]I hate Greg Paulus because I hate all white people.
Title: Re: Cornell Makes Slate's "Teams We Hate" - they sucked us in
Post by: billhoward on March 20, 2008, 08:29:49 PM
The headline writer's craft at worked - they sucked us in to read a story that was just some whiny guy who did the bare minimum of research (more likely Googling) to put together a story.

Hey, I should talk. I wrote a two-paragraph tosser that got picked up by Yahoo Wednesday and drew a half-million hits in one day. Plus a bunch of angry letters from Prius fans who couldn't abide the idea their beloved ride might lose an economy test to a diesel luxury sedan. I was thinking: If I got a penny of the ad revenue per hit ... pretty soon it'd be real money.