Re: t-and-f: a Title IX thought

2002-03-20 Thread Donald McFarlin
A couple obvious answers: 1) Football is expensive. Lots of equipment, large rosters, high insurance costs, etc. Not many schools will foot that bill without the possibility of offsetting revenue. Add in the cost of needing duplicate football facilities for men and women. Doesn't seem

t-and-f: Ever wonder what ever happened to ...? -- Liz Mueller

2001-06-09 Thread Donald Mcfarlin
http://www.womenboxing.com/mueller.htm

Re: t-and-f: Penn Relays

2001-04-29 Thread Donald Mcfarlin
Joshua Seeherman wrote: Villanova had some serious Tuppeny Magic in the DMR when an injury to a Stanford athlete left the field wide open, and anchor man Adrian Blincoe raced to a 3:58.4 split in the 1600 The injury to the Stanford athlete in the DMR was pretty memorable. Stanford was well

Re: t-and-f: featured athletes at Mt SAC, KU Relays

2001-04-23 Thread Donald Mcfarlin
Kebba, Let me make sure I have this correct. 1) You are trying to promote a track meet in the U.S. 2) You know that U.S. people get excited about a certain class (those who make the finals in major meets) of distance athletes. 3) There are members of that class of athletes entered in the

Re: t-and-f: Articles on Webb from Washington Post

2001-04-16 Thread Donald Mcfarlin
FWIW, Alan Webb receives more ink in the Washington Post than any other individual athlete, on any level. Saturday's article comprised about 1/5 of page 1 (front page, not sports page) and the entirety of page 4, a total of about 55 column inches of text and 5 photos. Interesting tidbits

Re: t-and-f: Articles on Webb from Washington Post

2001-04-16 Thread Donald Mcfarlin
FWIW, Alan Webb receives more ink in the Washington Post than any other individual athlete, on any level. Saturday's article comprised about 1/5 of page 1 (front page, not sports page) and the entirety of page 4, a total of about 55 column inches of text and 5 photos. Interesting tidbits

Re: t-and-f: This list is ridiculous! [note:TF Question After Rant}

2001-04-14 Thread Donald Mcfarlin
I apologize in advance for responding to such an obvious troll, but ... SD Cap'n wrote: I wonder if the U of Oregon would be interested in knowing that its servers are being used to distribute porn. First, the message in question did NOT distribute anything except a sequence of letters

Re: t-and-f: Rios

2001-04-07 Thread Donald Mcfarlin
I am deeply, deeply offended by this. You have to join to see the photos. Please, if you're going to post such URLs, ensure that they are not members-only sights, I mean sites. Naked Don (no photos available at this time) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was told by a friend that Rios has a pictorial

Re: t-and-f: Record duration

2001-04-05 Thread Donald Mcfarlin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2:08 was always a soft time for a world best. Huh?!? It has never surprised me that it is now commonplace It is? and second rate. WHAT?!? News flash - even in the year 2001, 2:08 is pretty flinkin' fast, and not terribly common. Clayton did it, legit, MHO

Re: t-and-f: Record duration

2001-04-05 Thread Donald Mcfarlin
I do realize that 2:08 has been bettered ~50 times, so I guess it depends on your concept of "common." My definition of "common" means not quite world class. If you can run 2:08, you're a world class marathoner and can race with anyone. Donald Mcfarlin wrote: News flas

Re: t-and-f: Fullerton humor

2001-04-04 Thread Donald Mcfarlin
Do Hash House Harriers count? Lots of them! Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 4/4/01 11:41:07 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ps--does anybody but a an over-40 sportswriter actually use the term "thinclad" anymore? How about "harrier"? If it wasn't for Marc Bloom, I

Re: t-and-f: What's next?

2001-03-23 Thread Donald Mcfarlin
Ha ha ha ha ha. If sprints got equal time with distance races on TV, they would get a huge CUT in coverage. Be careful what you ask for. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well...we all know that this is not on the elite level...but..i did not hear any of you distance freaks mention that maybe the longer