The Miners are gearing up for another season of college football at the Sun Bowl.
The first game is on August 30 against New Mexico. The first home game is against Texas Tech at the Sun Bowl. The Vavel website has the Miners winning a total of four games this season against New Mexico State, Southern Miss and Western Kentucky. In order to win another game it is considered an upset. This is the second year for Sean Kugler. Check out the full preview here:
Miners 2014 Prediction
The Miner Rush Blog discusses the history of the Miners in Conference USA. Of the current members, the Miners are second to last only ahead of Tulane for worst record during the past decade. The articles discusses the need to produce a winner in order to provide an edge to possibly move up to a stronger conference.
Miners Football future
Monday, July 21, 2014
Army Football Update
The watch list for the Rotary Lombardi Award came out yesterday. Steve Shumaker, Army senior offensive lineman, made the list. This is an award for the best lineman (offensive or defensive) in the nation, which has been given out since 1970. Shumaker has made a total of 26 starts in his Army football career. Last year the winner of the award was Aaron Donald, a defensive tackle from the University of Pittsburgh. He currently plays for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League.
Steve Shumaker makes Rotary Lombardi Award watch list
From the Hudson Valley Blog, there is an article about 2013 co-captain Momo Kime. Kime is now a student coach and he discusses the departure of Ryan Powis, a three-year starter on the offensive line. He was a senior last year.
Momo Kime discusses the updates to the offensive line
The verbal commits for the 2015 season is up to seven, according to the Inside Army Football Blog on the Hudson Valley Blog. The latest commit was this past weekend by Tanner Sheffield. He is a defensive tackling standing 6 feet 3 inches tall and weighs 245 pounds from Dallas, Ga.
Verbal commits for 2015
Steve Shumaker makes Rotary Lombardi Award watch list
From the Hudson Valley Blog, there is an article about 2013 co-captain Momo Kime. Kime is now a student coach and he discusses the departure of Ryan Powis, a three-year starter on the offensive line. He was a senior last year.
Momo Kime discusses the updates to the offensive line
The verbal commits for the 2015 season is up to seven, according to the Inside Army Football Blog on the Hudson Valley Blog. The latest commit was this past weekend by Tanner Sheffield. He is a defensive tackling standing 6 feet 3 inches tall and weighs 245 pounds from Dallas, Ga.
Verbal commits for 2015
Army Football Update 21 July 2014
Good morning, I know it has been about five days since my last post.
Here is the latest on Army Football as the season inches closer and closer.
The nominees for the Doak Walker Award were announced on 17 July. This is the award given to the top running back in the nation. For Army, Raymond Maples and Terry Baggett made the list of 53 running backs.
According to the Army Black Knights football website, Maples ran for 1,000 yards in his sophomore and junior seasons, but his 2013 season was cut short due to an injury. He is the third Army back to run for more than 1,000 yards in consecutive seasons. He has ten games with 100 yards or more.
Baggett filled the void left by the Maples' injury by rushing for more than 1,304 yards during the 2013 campaign. This past season included an Army record of 304 yards rushing against Eastern Michigan and six games of at least 100 yards.
Doak Walker Candidtates
The Army football team is featured in an article on the Vavel website as teams to improve for the 2014 season. There are a total of six teams discussed in the article along with the Black Knights, to include Air Force, Central Michigan, Northwestern, Texas Christian and Washington State. The Black Knights finished the 2013 season with a 3-9 record, but according to Vavel the team will improve due to their winnable schedule.
Army to improve according to Vavel
Here is the latest on Army Football as the season inches closer and closer.
The nominees for the Doak Walker Award were announced on 17 July. This is the award given to the top running back in the nation. For Army, Raymond Maples and Terry Baggett made the list of 53 running backs.
According to the Army Black Knights football website, Maples ran for 1,000 yards in his sophomore and junior seasons, but his 2013 season was cut short due to an injury. He is the third Army back to run for more than 1,000 yards in consecutive seasons. He has ten games with 100 yards or more.
Baggett filled the void left by the Maples' injury by rushing for more than 1,304 yards during the 2013 campaign. This past season included an Army record of 304 yards rushing against Eastern Michigan and six games of at least 100 yards.
Doak Walker Candidtates
The Army football team is featured in an article on the Vavel website as teams to improve for the 2014 season. There are a total of six teams discussed in the article along with the Black Knights, to include Air Force, Central Michigan, Northwestern, Texas Christian and Washington State. The Black Knights finished the 2013 season with a 3-9 record, but according to Vavel the team will improve due to their winnable schedule.
Army to improve according to Vavel
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Extra Credit Blog from Mass Comm Week
I attended the presentation by Mark Ethridge during Mass Communications Week. The week brought in many people in the communications industry for speeches, presentations and forums. The week gave students insight into the communications industry. The week was a good alternative for students to listen to someone other than their teachers. To be honest, I am sure students were happy to have class cancelled because of the week. This week also gave professors the excuse to not have class. 
According to the Virginia Commonwealth University Mass Communications Web site, Ethridge is the current president of Carolina Parenting Inc. The company prints Charlotte Parent magazine and parent magazines in other major regions in North Carolina.
The presentation concluded with a book signing by Ethridge. His book is called Grievances and chronicles his reporting experiences.
In the podcast below, Ethridge talked about the advantages local newspapers hold over other news sources. The first point he made and stressed is the ability to cover local news. He stated there are many ways to get international, sports, stocks and movies. He also said there were usually more reporters with the newspaper than with the local television station.
The second point was that newspapers can report in depth, with detail and authority. He stressed authority because there are so many ways of getting news by way of traditional outlets and new age outlets. He used blogs and Twitter as examples and he said we are "overwhelmed" by news in this new age.
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According to the Virginia Commonwealth University Mass Communications Web site, Ethridge is the current president of Carolina Parenting Inc. The company prints Charlotte Parent magazine and parent magazines in other major regions in North Carolina.
The presentation concluded with a book signing by Ethridge. His book is called Grievances and chronicles his reporting experiences.
In the podcast below, Ethridge talked about the advantages local newspapers hold over other news sources. The first point he made and stressed is the ability to cover local news. He stated there are many ways to get international, sports, stocks and movies. He also said there were usually more reporters with the newspaper than with the local television station.
The second point was that newspapers can report in depth, with detail and authority. He stressed authority because there are so many ways of getting news by way of traditional outlets and new age outlets. He used blogs and Twitter as examples and he said we are "overwhelmed" by news in this new age.
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Sportscenter.com
Sportscenter is probably the longest running program on ESPN and probably the longest running sports program on any network. This is the best sports show and it never seems to get old. Now they have finally caught on to the multimedia wave with the launching of their site.
The main page is simple and easy to navigate. The top half of the page begins with top headlines in sports. The site is heavy with video coverage. Nowadays, video is a good way to draw viewers on the Web.
Having a time stamp is a popular method with news organizations. The site has their update at the top of the page. Currently, the last update was at 3:05 a.m.
Everyday, there is a new Sportscenter anchor featured. The feature is at the bottom of the front page. For Sportscenter fanatics (like me), I am able to learn more information about the people I watch everyday. Today, the featured anchor is Scott Van Pelt.
Next to the feature sports anchor are the featured Sportcenter anchor blogs. I find this interesting because like normal anchors they are supposed to stay neutral when reporting on television. It is hard to get a feel for their personalities when they are reporting on the air. The blogs of course let readers know what they are really thinking on certain issues.
The main page has the ESPN television lineup. The best part of this site is the archives of ESPN commercials. They are all entertaining and having this up is smart to draw fan interest to the site. Also, there is a discussion forum for fans about these commercials.
Here is one of my favorite commercials. This includes current professional football players Peyton and Eli Manning. They are quarterbacks in the National Football League. They are taking a tour in the ESPN studios. The funny part is they are acting like two little kids by messing around with each other when their parents are not paying attention. Their father, retired professional football player, Archie Manning also appears in the commercial.
The main page is simple and easy to navigate. The top half of the page begins with top headlines in sports. The site is heavy with video coverage. Nowadays, video is a good way to draw viewers on the Web.
Having a time stamp is a popular method with news organizations. The site has their update at the top of the page. Currently, the last update was at 3:05 a.m.
Everyday, there is a new Sportscenter anchor featured. The feature is at the bottom of the front page. For Sportscenter fanatics (like me), I am able to learn more information about the people I watch everyday. Today, the featured anchor is Scott Van Pelt.
Next to the feature sports anchor are the featured Sportcenter anchor blogs. I find this interesting because like normal anchors they are supposed to stay neutral when reporting on television. It is hard to get a feel for their personalities when they are reporting on the air. The blogs of course let readers know what they are really thinking on certain issues.
The main page has the ESPN television lineup. The best part of this site is the archives of ESPN commercials. They are all entertaining and having this up is smart to draw fan interest to the site. Also, there is a discussion forum for fans about these commercials.
Here is one of my favorite commercials. This includes current professional football players Peyton and Eli Manning. They are quarterbacks in the National Football League. They are taking a tour in the ESPN studios. The funny part is they are acting like two little kids by messing around with each other when their parents are not paying attention. Their father, retired professional football player, Archie Manning also appears in the commercial.
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Post Visit
Friday night my graduate class for multimedia journalism visited the Washington Post. In actuality it was only half of the newspaper. We visited the Internet side of the newspaper, which is located in Arlington, Va. I ended up taking the metro because there is a station located approximately two blocks from the company. 
Overall, the visit was very informative and I enjoyed the tour
of the Internet side. I expected the paper to have its own building or some type of sign indicating where they were located.
Chet Rhodes was kind enough to stay into the night and talk about what The Post.com is all about. He mentioned that his day on Friday started around five or six that morning. So he was very
generous to us, plus he ordered pizza! He is the Assistant Managing Editor for news video at Washingtonpost.com. So, he is kind of a big deal. Actually, he is very much a big deal around the .com side of The Post.
He talked about the importance of story telling in news nowadays. He touched on in the next two years The Post will be converging the newspaper and .com sides into one building. Here is a video from Beet.tv, which has Rhodes talking about video training. The points he touched on during our visit are a lot of the same answers he provided to Beet.
During the visit, he talked about shooting video. It seemed that he just wants his reporters and videographers to implement the basics of shooting for their storytelling. He said he is more concerned with them building their video skills. He presented the process of shooting video:
1. The single most important part of the process is communication; he also said this is the hardest part for staff.
2. Shoot the video.
3. Watch the video and prepare a shot sheet.
4. My favorite part: send the tape and e-mail the shot sheet and names of people in the video.
The last part means letting someone else edit your video, which is what I wish I had right now for my final project. As I said before, I took a lot of valuable information from Rhodes. I think I might apply for an internship with The Post for the spring semester. I think working for them will be a valuable experience.
Overall, the visit was very informative and I enjoyed the tour
of the Internet side. I expected the paper to have its own building or some type of sign indicating where they were located.Chet Rhodes was kind enough to stay into the night and talk about what The Post.com is all about. He mentioned that his day on Friday started around five or six that morning. So he was very
generous to us, plus he ordered pizza! He is the Assistant Managing Editor for news video at Washingtonpost.com. So, he is kind of a big deal. Actually, he is very much a big deal around the .com side of The Post.He talked about the importance of story telling in news nowadays. He touched on in the next two years The Post will be converging the newspaper and .com sides into one building. Here is a video from Beet.tv, which has Rhodes talking about video training. The points he touched on during our visit are a lot of the same answers he provided to Beet.
During the visit, he talked about shooting video. It seemed that he just wants his reporters and videographers to implement the basics of shooting for their storytelling. He said he is more concerned with them building their video skills. He presented the process of shooting video:
1. The single most important part of the process is communication; he also said this is the hardest part for staff.
2. Shoot the video.
3. Watch the video and prepare a shot sheet.
4. My favorite part: send the tape and e-mail the shot sheet and names of people in the video.
The last part means letting someone else edit your video, which is what I wish I had right now for my final project. As I said before, I took a lot of valuable information from Rhodes. I think I might apply for an internship with The Post for the spring semester. I think working for them will be a valuable experience.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Journalism Ethics
Adam Reilly of The Boston Phoenix wrote an article about the recent conflicts of interest in journalism for the upcoming election. He raises the question, why some journalistic conflicts of interests gain more coverage than others?
The big news is about Gwen Ifill, she was the moderator for the recent vice presidential debate. Ifill has a book coming out about Barack Obama and his breakthrough into politics. The assumption by Republicans was Ifill would not be fair to Sarah Palin, vice presidential candidate.
Also, other big news during the financial crisis is about NBC correspondent Andrea Mitchell. She reports on financial matters and is married to Alan Greenspan, who is the former head of the Federal Reserve. She made a statement on NBC programming that financial troubles started in some financial institutions in 2006 and 2007. This was after Greenspan stepped down as head of the Federal Reserve. Some media outlets believe she was trying to save her husband by pointing out that he was not apart of the financial troubles.
So the real question is how can journalist stand clear from being exposed to conflicts of interests and reporting bias?
A journalist needs to figure out...
1. What is their affiliation with a news event, story or person? (If the story involves a person.)
-If a journalist has a personal relationship with a person, there is going to be some type of bias.
2. Can I cover another news event?
3. Have I ever written anything in support of a person, outside of my profession?
4. Do I have a strong support or dislike of the subject matter?
5. Is it possible for me to stay objective on the topic?
6. Can I let the public know my affiliation with a subject matter before providing a report?
7. Will the public think any less of my credibility if I am in strong support or dislike of a certain subject matter?
8. Will I be able to answer questions from the media regarding my conflicts of interest on a subject matter?
The big news is about Gwen Ifill, she was the moderator for the recent vice presidential debate. Ifill has a book coming out about Barack Obama and his breakthrough into politics. The assumption by Republicans was Ifill would not be fair to Sarah Palin, vice presidential candidate.
Also, other big news during the financial crisis is about NBC correspondent Andrea Mitchell. She reports on financial matters and is married to Alan Greenspan, who is the former head of the Federal Reserve. She made a statement on NBC programming that financial troubles started in some financial institutions in 2006 and 2007. This was after Greenspan stepped down as head of the Federal Reserve. Some media outlets believe she was trying to save her husband by pointing out that he was not apart of the financial troubles.
So the real question is how can journalist stand clear from being exposed to conflicts of interests and reporting bias?
A journalist needs to figure out...
1. What is their affiliation with a news event, story or person? (If the story involves a person.)
-If a journalist has a personal relationship with a person, there is going to be some type of bias.
2. Can I cover another news event?
3. Have I ever written anything in support of a person, outside of my profession?
4. Do I have a strong support or dislike of the subject matter?
5. Is it possible for me to stay objective on the topic?
6. Can I let the public know my affiliation with a subject matter before providing a report?
7. Will the public think any less of my credibility if I am in strong support or dislike of a certain subject matter?
8. Will I be able to answer questions from the media regarding my conflicts of interest on a subject matter?
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