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Texting Students Force Professor to Walk Out of Class {Switched.com}
Apr 7th 2008 2:53PM The logic behind this is that peer pressure from those not texting who are losing out on the education will force those who are being disrespectful to stop texting. Same thing happens on tour buses. You get 50 people together on a bus, and two or three insist on talking, keeping the rest of the people from hearing what the narrator is saying. I am one of those narrators who just stops talking until the disrespectful ones quiet down. Usually it is the folks around them who show their displeasure at not being able to learn what they have paid good money to get out of tour experience. I am totally on the professor's side here. It is a community problem and the community has to take the initiative to impose order on those who are disrespectful.
NBA Finals: Four Reasons Why the Spurs Will Sweep the Cavaliers {Fanhouse NBA Blog}
Jun 7th 2007 2:30PM You DO have blinders on, don't you. I have to laugh at your naivety. Oh, well. A week or so from now you, like all the pundits who were saying the same things about what the Pistons were going to do with these inept Cavs, will find that things aren't like you project.
Maybe Stephen Jackson Just Needs a Few Coats of Paint {Fanhouse NBA Blog}
May 2nd 2007 9:20AM I don't think it is as much against people who "look like themselves" as it is people who ACT like themselves. There are significant cultural differences in behaviors between black and white cultures, with many of the prevailing black cultural differences tending to make whites uncomfortable. I think research looking into behaviors rather than looks will prove to be more useful and significant.
CTNBAA: LeBron James Is the Biggest Disappointment {Fanhouse NBA Blog}
Apr 17th 2007 2:19PM LeBron and the Cavs are a work in progress. A psychological gimmick for getting a bunch of guys to stop standing around and watching you play is to back off and let them rise to your level--to develop into a supporting cast. For whatever reason, that seems to be what LeBron was doing in the first half of the season, and it seems to have worked, because guys like Sasha and Andy, and Gibson, HAVE developed, and Hughes has come into his own as a point guard. If you are going to make your team better, you have to figure out what is holding them back, and then get at the root causes of that. Standing around with your mouth open watching LeBron's acrobatics does NOT make a team better. Easing them into the team play by backing down and letting them come to you DOES. Bully for LeBron, if that is what he was doing. If not, it still seems to have worked. They ARE moving in the direction of becoming the second best team in the Eastern Conference, even if they aren't there yet. As for Shoals, "angle" is what makes journalism. This is my angle. His clearly is focused on LeBron being a Kobe look-alike if he wants to prove his value. I don't buy that angle.
Garnett Has LeBron's Back in the USA Basketball Controversy {Fanhouse NBA Blog}
Apr 11th 2007 8:57AM Seems everyone is forgetting that LeBron has one of some 30 roster spots, all of whom made the same commitment. Not playing one summer doesn't mean you have to give up your roster spot. Last year some 18 were held in reserve. This year, one of those may well be LeBron and another guy gets a chance. All 30 are committed through the 2008 Olympics Why have 30 if you are only going to play 12? Especially when it was said all along that the "tryouts" were not an audition, but that ultimatley everyone was interchangable. I suppose if someone got injured last summer, one of the "reserves" would have been called up to take his place, wouldn't they?
Come on folks. Go back to the beginning and review the structure of the team-- It was brilliant. It recognized that everyone wasn't going to be ready to go all the time, and gave the coaches and organizers flexibility to choose from among all of them at any time during the 3 year period. Just by being chosen as one of the 12, and even captain, for the first year, didn't mean that the roster couldn't be shuffled during another year.
Garnett Has LeBron's Back in the USA Basketball Controversy {Fanhouse NBA Blog}
Apr 11th 2007 8:49AM Somewhere in the back of my head I seem to remember that Team USA started out with something like 30 co-equal players, any of whom could have been selected to play last year. All 30 or so made the same commitment. What happened to the 15 that didn't make the trip last year? Aren't they still on the team and available for this year-- like Kobe, for instance? There are plenty of All-Star quality people sitting in the wings waiting to do their part. Nothing was said that this year's team would be the same as last years, or that the Olympic team in 2008 would have the same 15 guys that started out in 2006. Seems Colangelo should go back and listen to his earlier hype. The purpose of having so many to choose from seems logical-- some, like Arenas and Kobe last year, may have some kind of body problems. Some might have different needs from year to year. I don't suppose Wade will be playing this summer--got a bad shoulder, probably will be operated on. Do all injuries or needs have to be so drastic. I think the design of the Team USA is exactly for the kinds of issues LeBron is raising-- He gave his all last year, needs a year off, and maybe that will make him more ready and effective to play in the Olympics next year. Maybe not--they still have a large number of really good alternatives to choose from, and I think what he is saying is that "the NBA is full of good people. You guys can win the Olympics just fine without me." My respect for him grows with practically every mature thing he does, and this is one of them. Colangelo is playing the control freak here, and overlooking the whole purpose of having 30 guys on the team to start with. Maturity score: LeBron 1, Colangelo 0
