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Boston Globe: Sports
 * __ Quarter 3 __**


 * __Thursday:__**
 * Celtics beat Sonics
 * Red Sox Spring Training *
 * Celtics did not get 1st round pick last year, like expected
 * Etienne Browser’s last year at UMass, wants to make tournament
 * Golf Notes
 * Tiger Woods is slightly injured *
 * 6 game Bruin’s losing streak
 * NE Revolution have many consecutive away games
 * College scouting report
 * Feature on Durant (player)
 * Patriots let Troy Brown go
 * Steroid penalties won’t happen before season start
 * ACC Men’s tournament feature
 * Big East Men’s tournament feature
 * Atlantic 10 men’s tournament feature
 * Women’s NCAA basketball Holy Cross vs. Bucknell
 * High School hockey reading beats Xaverian
 * Skiing Championship in Italy, woman from America won


 * We could have an article similar to the Red Sox Spring Training article which talks about how the pitchers warm up for the season, and how new people are adapting to the environment of the baseball team. We could do this or any sport, but because the article was about the Red Sox, I used baseball as the main example.
 * An injury report at the high school. Patty keeps a log of all the hurt people that have visited her; also we could see what major players have injuries taking them out of the game, and how this affects the team.


 * __Friday:__**
 * Bruins lose to Lightning
 * Why the Celtics are so good
 * Doug Maribelli released from Red Sox
 * BC Basketball beats Maryland
 * Gerbe is the best player on BC hockey, but is only 5’5”
 * Fred Couples does well in golf tournament *
 * Patriots interested in recruiting Sanders *
 * Kevin Cash to replace Doug Maribelli
 * Colon pitching well in spring training
 * Pitcher Rick Sutcliffe has colon cancer
 * Bond’s 762nd home run ball to be sold
 * College Basketball tournament news
 * Hondurans beat Cubans-soccer after Cubans lose many players
 * Kentucky Derby coming up
 * NCAA March Madness preview


 * A lot of Tennis players at the school enter in outside-of-school tournaments, as do many wrestlers. We could talk about this in an article. Individual tournaments.
 * Although not many colleges recruit Wellesley High football players, often times the less thought about sports, such as crew, softball, track, and volleyball do get recruited. We should have an article acknowledging these people.


 * __Saturday:__**
 * Jazz beat Celtics
 * Matsuzaki wants to go on Japan trip, while other players are boycotting it
 * Eagles out of tournament by Clemson-Basketball
 * BU beats UMass out of tournament-Hockey
 * Patriots resign Wright
 * Rockets have 21 game winning streak- 2nd in all-time NBA
 * NHL Sharks win 11 in a row
 * Due to fight between Yankees and Rays, Yankees fined and players suspended. *
 * High School Basketball States Preview
 * Kyle Bush Feature-NASCAR *
 * Revolution vs. Honduras Preview
 * Mostly Seniors on the UNH team.
 * It is very interesting to hear about 3 Yankees getting suspended, and the coach and the same players fined. In the article they talked about how the game today between the Yankees and Rays will have more umpires to prevent a possible fight. Jeter backlashed and said they didn’t hold grudges. Being a Red Sox fan, it makes me feel good to know while the Yankees are fighting, we are boycotting going to Japan due to the coaching staff not getting paid. An article about our rival’s (Needham) mishaps may boost the spirits of players and fans.
 * I know someone is already writing an article about sports that the high school doesn’t have, but if we could focus on one person that does a sport not offered at the high school, like we did with Karin Oye and figure skating. This article helped me understand more about NASCAR (which I knew very little about). So if we do it in the Bradford, someone might read the article and decide that they want to do that sport.
 * __Sunday:__**
 * Bruins beat Flyers
 * Red Sox spring training
 * Wellesley Girls State Champs
 * Northampton and Abp. Williams are also state champs
 * Celtics beat Bucks by 20
 * Tiger Woods pulls on top of Arnold Palmer Invitational
 * Revolution preparing for an upcoming game
 * Ray Allen slightly injured foot
 * Celtics coming together teamwise *
 * Challenging Schedule coming up for the Celtics *
 * Tampa Bay and Mets are expected to have great years with their new players
 * Patriots debating whether to sign Moss back
 * NHL, what’s Going On?
 * UNH beats UMass
 * Providence coach fired
 * Boy’s High school state champs
 * We haven’t had that many sports editorials, if we have had any. I think we should have some more, talking about teams that may not be the best, but are fun, and have a strong feeling as a team.
 * What is upcoming for the teams at the school? A look at the upcoming schedules. Who has the hardest schedule? Easiest? Who has the most compact schedule? Who has a spread out schedule?


 * __Monday__**
 * March Madness Bracketology *
 * Needham (stole it from us), Reading, Sandwich, and Westfield win states
 * Okajima learning new pitches
 * Lowell trying really hard, in great shape
 * Trip to Japan-Red Sox
 * Becket not going due to hurt back
 * Francour takes another pitch to the head, first got him a metal plate in the head, second a concussion and a busted jaw/lip
 * Woods in third for tournament
 * Bruins lose in shootout
 * Celtics winning streak *
 * Revolution busy preparing and recuperating from injuries
 * Bracket Announced. Who plays who?
 * NCAA Hockey tournaments are progressing


 * Many people at the high school fill out brackets for March Madness. Who are the favorites that most people have picked as the Champions? We could make a joint bracket and publish it and see how we do, and write an article about why we picked certain teams.
 * Momentum is a huge part of sports. Usually wins follow wins and losses follow losses. Which team has the longest winning streak? How long is it? Which teams this year have had good streaks?

Bradford Critique for Quarter 2 Portfolio Assignment.__** Anthony DiBiase Bradford Critique 1/11/08
 * __ Quarter 2

From critiquing the Bradford using the CSPA Judge Book, I noticed a lot of things that are good about the Bradford and many things that we need work on. In the article I critiqued, the first thing I noticed was that the longest, dullest articles were on the front page. The front page is supposed to capture the reader’s attention so that he/she will read on further into the paper. Also the pictures are supposed to be interesting and gain the reader’s attention, yet most of our pictures were of people standing in front of the camera and the pictures were pixilated. That means instead of seeing the picture as one thing you see all the different spots or pixels that make it up. One major downfall of the Bradford is that we only come out every 1 1/2 months. This makes our articles not timely. Unexpected events our covered but by the time the Bradford comes out people already know about them and don’t need to read the article. We don’t preview upcoming events enough because by the time the issue comes out they have already happened. We do a pretty good job with length of the articles and the headlines are always catchy and don’t “butt-heads”. There isn’t bias in any article that I can see. We should get student opinions through letters to the editor. We need to double-check the captions and citations. Even though the judges won’t know, we screwed up a lot of captions. Also the Opinion and News sections are a lot smaller than the Features, Sports, and Arts. We should work on that. It may be hard, but I think we could manage to do story ideas while in layout so that the issues come out within 3 weeks of each other. I remember someone saying when I suggested this before that the editor-in-chiefs would be too busy. By the time the articles get to the EICs, they will be done with the other work. People always give articles to EICs pretty late anyway. From taking notes while I circled the correct dots, I realized that we have improved a lot since last year. We are improving in our writing styles and in the production all together. I used to hear people say that they take the school newspaper as a joke, but since the beginning of this year, I have seen a lot of readers and people have even asked me where they can get a copy. People are starting to see us as a good source of news and updates from around the school.


 * __ Quarter 1 __**

Anthony DiBiase Letter 1

So far in the book King of the World by David Remnick, Patterson has lost his world heavyweight champion title to Liston. He then tried fighting him again with a similar outcome. I have noticed that up to this point Remnick hasn’t talked much about Muhammad Ali. Instead he has been talking about other boxers like Patterson and Liston. He is using those people to express themes in boxing like the mafia’s involvement and how most boxers started out in poor families. “All of Clay’s most prominent opponents- Liston, Patterson, Joe Frazier, George Foreman- were all born poor...” (pg. 81) As a journalist Remnick must do a lot of research for his articles because this book has quotes from so many different people. Most of those quotes are from journalists like Red Smith and Gay Talese. I found it interesting how much he talks about the mob in depth. He has all the details about the mobsters that manage all the boxers. Most of those mobsters were very secretive and would have made sure that they didn’t get ratted out. The time he’s writing about is the 60s. Those mobsters could still be around today. Back to my point about Remnick not talking about Ali, he has talked about a young wannabe boxer named Cassius Clay that has a “big mouth”. On page 84 he reveals that Clay converts to Islam and becomes Muhammad Ali. The way he says it makes you think that he expects you to already know that they are the same person. I can tell from this book that Remnick is a very detailed writer that quotes really often and knows a lost, and researches a lot about what he is writing about. Most books that have this much detail are extremely dull. This book is an exception. It is interesting at every part. Even the parts that go into extreme detail listing what the fighter had for dinner on a certain night. “Liston generally ate the same dinner every night: shrimp cocktail, at least one big steak, baked potatoes, and cheesecake.” (72) So far the author hasn’t taken a side. He list both sides of everyone. I find this interesting because you get to feel bad for a boxer, but at the same time feel ashamed of him. Also, this technique does not apply to the mobsters. They are portrayed as bad all over. I found a lot of Remnick’s writing styles very interesting especially how he uses quotes from people that were in other people’s interview. One example of this is when he’s talking about Ali’s deceased parents he quotes the mom and says she said in an interview with ...

Anthony DiBiase Letter 2

In this part of the book Remnick starts out talking about the Ali’s life other than boxing. His autobiography (which was actually written by other people but because Ali helped write it, Remnick calls it an autobiography) called Greatest, his brothers and family life, etc. He then moves onto specifics about boxing. How he was taught boxing, how he slowly made his way up the totem pole ( first winning the Olympics, then being trained by a famous boxer, Archie Moore). It also talks a lot about his Islamic faith and why he converted. It doesn’t go into specifics about how Ali won the title until later. All it says is that he beat Liston. It says he taunted Liston into accepting the fight. Finally after talking about the hype and preparation they get into the match on page 190. There it goes into a ton of detail. I was surprised it took that long to talk about it. I found it interesting that Liston said before that Clay was a joke yet Clay won a gold medal at the Olympics for boxing. Liston wouldn’t battle Clay because he didn’t take his offer to fight seriously yet Ali won the Olympics! I really don’t get this part. After he wins the gold he goes professional. I would expect people to start professional and then win the gold. This book makes the Olympics look like tryouts to become professional. A huge theme that Remnick has is race. Race plays a part in Muhammad’s life as well as Patterson’s, and Liston’s. “Clay was already mightily aware that his gold medal changed nothing about Louisville. The same old Jim Crow attributes still prevailed.” (106) Ali’s manager, Dundee wanted him to start out slow so he did battleing a lot of not-so-good fighters. Remnick describes all these fights with great detail which makes me think he was their, but it was actually from interviews with Dundee. I don’t understand how you can get that much detail from an interview, expecially because this book was written about twenty to thirty years after these matches. “he started hitting him with low blows” (119) Remnick does not stick with one name for Ali. He uses his many different names such as Cassius, Clay, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali, Ali, etc. It gets kind of confusing. From what I have learned about journalism I know you are supposed to have a consistent name that you use, not a bunch of names for one guy that can confuse your readers. I found it interesting how Remnick talks about all the famous people Ali has met, Elijah Muhammad, the leader of the black Muslims, and the Beatles are two examples.

Anthony DiBiase Letter 3

A lot happens in this part of the book that affects Ali in a non-direct way. The death of Malcolm X is one of those events. Liston asks for a rematch and Ali agrees. Also Ali fights Patterson. Because he is now the world champion, he gains the respect that he deserves. Although this book took place in the 60s and 70s, I was surprised how much Remnick talked about race, especially because he himself is white. That was probably the biggest them in the book, prejudice against race and religion. Ali did not want to tell the public about him being Muslim because he though they would strip him of his title match. After the match he made a public announcement. “Clay’s conversation was a shock, not least to his family. He continues to quote reporters, but more often in this section he quotes the actual people such as Ali’s father, Elijah Muhammad, and Liston are examples of that. I liked how Remnick got into the head of Ali and explained why he disliked Patterson. He thought Patterson was what people wanted black people to be, someone who can get bossed around and does not fight back. He had “old style Negro politics.” The Epilogue was not about Ali, but about his affect on people such as Patterson who went on to be the Boxing head. Ali went into exile but when he came back he was honored as a hero. He inspired the government to look into the managers and take out the mobsters who where interfering with boxing. The real point of this book was not to talk about Muhammad Ali, but to talk about the racism and stereotypes that the 60s had. Also the point of the book was to talk about what it was like to be a black person at that time that deserved respect, but did not receive it.