Hmm, "buzz" they call it? My brother-in-law, a casual sports fan, read the Slate article recently and asked me over the holiday what I thought of the new mascot. He basically seemed to think if we were going to use a borrowed mascot, it should at least be a good one. Jorma
----- Original Message ----- > Name Game continues for USATF mascot > > INDIANAPOLIS - USA Track & Field's new mascot, the subject of a great deal > of buzz on the Internet and in print, soon will have a name. . More than 3,000 suggestions for a mascot name have > been made thus far on USATF's Web site, though not all suggestions can be > reproduced in a family-friendly press release. All the name suggestions - > good, bad and "creative" - have helped make the mascot naming contest the > biggest Internet success in USATF's history. > > Rob Walker of the online magazine Slate.com in December wrote an article on > the mascot, instantly making it news in non-sports media. At the same time, > Track & Field News - whose editor, E. Garry Hill, was quoted by Walker in > Slate - conducted an online survey (www.trackandfieldnews.com) to determine > what the track public thinks of the mascot, and numerous newspapers and > magazines have carried news of the mascot as well.
