Get out the activator and let your "Soul-Glo".
From Michael Jackson to Ice Cube, the Jheri Curl played an important role in pop-culture dating back to the '70s on into '90s. It was invented by and named after hair innovator Jheri Redding.
Shortly after the spitball was banned in baseball, Dock Ellis resorted to wearing curlers before game and unleashed his Jheri proudly during his days with the Kansas City Royals. He would drip activator on the ball for that extra touch he was missing.
The shiny spiral look started to give way to the high-top fade and has slipped into ...
A Call to Action: Sports and Mathematics Initiative is needed in America
There are so many reports that cite problems in mathematics classrooms. One of the problems is related to motivation and student’s ability to apply what they learn.
Several years ago, I was introduced to Calculus Reform. In those workshops and conferences, educators and mathematicians combined the content of textbooks with graphing calculators and computer algebra systems. Eventually, professors who authored textbooks began to integrate information on the use of technology in the classroom. This movement has now spread to culturally diverse communities, although initially it was started in other academic ...
The recent twitters of athletes have brought into question the ability of a person to intelligently and strategically think for his or her own best interest. The results have made the importance of employing a publicist or press agent to speak for them to prevent these P.R. disasters very evident.An up and coming athlete, actor, or musician needs a publicist to get the word out about their talents. They need a figure that the public trusts to say that this person is worth investing time and money in.But once an athlete or artist reaches the level of household star status, ...
It is often said that an imaginary line runs from north to south, cutting the state of Pennsylvania into two very different halves.
Those who fall on the western side of this invisible boundary often do not have much of an affection for anything, or anyone, that comes from the opposite side.
The same can generally be said for the easterners.
If you’re feeling adventurous, visit the city of Pittsburgh, or one of its nearby western Pennsylvanian towns, then head east on Interstate 80 toward the erroneous metropolis of the Commonwealth, more commonly referred to as Philadelphia.
What you will experience in each location ...
On Sunday, Sept. 20, at around 2:30 in the morning, a green Ford Mustang crashed into a silver Chevrolet Impala on the corner of Brighton Avenue and Capisic Street in Portland, Maine. The car was driven by 21-year-old Yannick Mulongo, who was suspected of being under the influence of alcohol.
Eighteen-year-old high school senior Guy Kitoko was killed.
Guy ran with the tough crowd during his earlier years at Lincoln Middle School and Deering High School, both in Portland. But Kitoko made the honor roll at Deering last school year, and he wanted to join the Marines after he graduated from college.
At the corner ...
At 3:00 am on Sunday morning, Pittsburgh native Joseph Dado was seen leaving a local fraternity house en route to his dorm.
He wasn't seen or heard from after.
Monday afternoon, helicopters and policemen searched the Penn State campus for the missing freshman. By 6:00 pm on Monday evening, Dado was found dead in an exterior stairwell on campus.
Dado had died of severe head trauma. His death was ruled an accident from an autopsy performed on Tuesday.
Dado's death has critically impacted the student community in many ways. It not only opened our eyes to the seriousness that can come from drinking, ...
Ok is it me or is this Twitter thing, especially when it comes to athletics, getting a little creepy?
Call me old fashioned, but when adult men or women start following the musings of a 17 to 18 year-old-kid, I find that a bit disturbing.
Twitter has, like My Space and Facebook before it, blown up on the pop culture scene and thus found its way into college athletics and recruiting.
Coaches tweet, or twit or whatever they call it. So do players current and potentially future players.
This is where I see the most problems with the Twitter craze.
Professional athletes were the first ones I heard ...
This sort of post always exists—the post on a message board criticising people for using the pronoun "we."
The posts are usually about the same: An angry English junkie is telling people that they aren't on the team, and therefore, he can't use "we" when referring to his team.
The authors of these posts want a difference to be shown between people that are actually members of the program, and people that want the program to succeed. So is it correct to use the "we" term? It is debatable, but the answer is "yes."
There are certain rules that should be followed when ...
People coming to and from their seat at any sporting event are just part of going to a game. Yet, we have all been to games when people abuse the good nature of the fans sitting around them by leaving and coming to their seats at random. These fans have forgotten the basic common courtesy that should be shown for the fans they are sitting next to at games. Likewise, many fans become overly critical of fans leaving their seats at all.
If you have ever been to any BYU sporting event you know the favorite saying of the older fans ...
Whether you bring them yourself or you're just sitting next to them, kids come to sporting events. It is a great thing, for the most part, to sit next to young kids at a sporting event. Usually, there is a little more work (putting up with a more movement in the seats, more cheering, and entering/leaving of the seat) you have to put forth while watching the game.
Yet, seeing the happiness of victory or the disappointment of defeat in the attitudes of these young fans really makes it fun. Lately though the family friendliness of sporting events have taken hits. ...
