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- Tenn. high school defends letter before Supreme Court – High School…
- … Daily News Rich Hofmann column: Rich Hofmann / In time……
- Can we talk? The Imus story is helping
Tenn. high school defends letter before Supreme Court – High School…
ESPN – Apr 17, 2007
Supreme Court gets the case again Wednesday: Did a Tennessee high school football power violate recruiting rules or simply exercise free speech?The 10-year-old dispute pits Brentwood Academy a wealthy private school in suburban Nashville against the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association the state body governing high school sports. Brentwood Academy sent a letter inviting 12 eighth-graders to attend spring football practice in 1997. The students’ parents already had signed contracts and paid deposits to attend the high school. But the athletic association said the letter violated rules against recruiting high school players and it penalized the school with a $3000 fine and four years’ probation. School officials unsuccessfully appealed twice before suing.
… Daily News Rich Hofmann column: Rich Hofmann / In time……
Free with registration – Philadelphia Daily News – AccessMyLibrary.com – Apr 17, 2007
com dutifully did what we dutifully do gathering the quotes from football coach Frank Beamer and basketball coach Seth Greenberg. They were simple and eloquent in their disbelief just what you would expect. We all know that sports means nothing in The Big Picture. Whenever tragedy touches at.
Can we talk? The Imus story is helping
ESPN – Apr 17, 2007
For a week now CNN has been airing comments comparing rap lyrics with what Imus said. p-ed pages in newspapers around the country have carried many commentaries. There have been debates on the issue in our classrooms in the DeVos Sport Business Management Graduate Program at the University of Central Florida and I imagine that is happening on many other campuses as well. Some hip-hop artists create music that is eloquent and empowering. Some manage that even while they also use lyrics that might be objectionable. Ludacris for example has recorded a touching positive song called “Runaway Love” that deals with the lost children of troubled parents but also lists among his credits a song called “Hoes in My Room. ” And it should also be pointed out that lyrics in other popular musical genres don’t always point listeners in directions that society in general might deem productive.
