Thursday, May 13, 2004
E.K.N. Notes
• Hey, maybe pitching to Barry Bonds is a good idea after all. What is that now, 0-for-the-last-19?
I know how to break him out of his slump. I'm going to bench him from my Yahoo! fantasy baseball team. That will get him going for this afternoon's tilt with the Phillies. (Worked with Derek Jeter. First at-bat: Home run.)
• So the University of Iowa won't have its sports teams play colleges with Indian mascots.
Interesting, since the nickname of the University of Iowa's sports teams is...the Hawkeyes.
According to this Quick Takes column from the Chicago Sun-Times...
By the way, why does the University of Iowa consider the Bradley University mascot, the Brave, offensive? Do they know what "brave" means?
• Our local fishwrap, the Oregonian, doesn't print the names of the Atlanta and Cleveland baseball teams or Washington's NFL team. Maybe I can understand the omission of the name "Redskins", even though doing so denies the fact that they are indeed named the Redskins, but Atlanta's mascot is of course the aforementioned Brave, and Cleveland's name is the Indians, a name given to the team in tribute to the first Indian to play professional baseball, Chief Sockalexis. How offensive could that be?
And if you're thinking that they're not Indians at all but "Native Americans", well, fine. Keep in mind that I, a white man, am a native American. I was born in Canada (North America) and raised in the United States of America. I am a native American. Yes, I am. (Dave Matthews and Charlize Theron, by the way, could be considered African-American. So these labels are stupid anyway.)
• LaToya was voted off American Idol before Jasmine. In a related story, dogs and cats are now living together, causing mass hysteria.
They might as well bring John Stevens back.
In a related story, John Stevens has his own publicist. I can not put into words a clear, coherent thought on this matter.
I know how to break him out of his slump. I'm going to bench him from my Yahoo! fantasy baseball team. That will get him going for this afternoon's tilt with the Phillies. (Worked with Derek Jeter. First at-bat: Home run.)
• So the University of Iowa won't have its sports teams play colleges with Indian mascots.
Interesting, since the nickname of the University of Iowa's sports teams is...the Hawkeyes.
According to this Quick Takes column from the Chicago Sun-Times...
It seems that two men in Burlington promoted the name. One derived it from the scout Hawkeye in James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans. The other proposed it as a tribute to Chief Black Hawk...It was Judge David Rorer of Burlington, in fact, who, in 1838, proposed the Hawkeye nickname "to rescue from oblivion a memento, at least the name of the old chief."Okay, then.
By the way, why does the University of Iowa consider the Bradley University mascot, the Brave, offensive? Do they know what "brave" means?
• Our local fishwrap, the Oregonian, doesn't print the names of the Atlanta and Cleveland baseball teams or Washington's NFL team. Maybe I can understand the omission of the name "Redskins", even though doing so denies the fact that they are indeed named the Redskins, but Atlanta's mascot is of course the aforementioned Brave, and Cleveland's name is the Indians, a name given to the team in tribute to the first Indian to play professional baseball, Chief Sockalexis. How offensive could that be?
And if you're thinking that they're not Indians at all but "Native Americans", well, fine. Keep in mind that I, a white man, am a native American. I was born in Canada (North America) and raised in the United States of America. I am a native American. Yes, I am. (Dave Matthews and Charlize Theron, by the way, could be considered African-American. So these labels are stupid anyway.)
• LaToya was voted off American Idol before Jasmine. In a related story, dogs and cats are now living together, causing mass hysteria.
They might as well bring John Stevens back.
In a related story, John Stevens has his own publicist. I can not put into words a clear, coherent thought on this matter.
