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SPORTS 10 Can We Get a Little Cable...Please? By Corey Brown /nJc Sports Columnist To my dismay this weekend I lumcd on the lube to watch the usual anay of National Football League games and who did they have playing? The Falcons and the Buccaneers. That’s right folks. A battle where can’t meets won’t, a battle of teams that had a combined 3-10 rccord going in to this matchup. Why, then I a.sk, is this game being televised? Da da da... da da da. I know that the region wc live in is cither considered the Atlanta or the Washington market, but that should only be used when the game is going to be beneficial to the fans. My roommate and I sport two televisions for the sole purpose of watching two games simultaneuosly. With sub par pairings like the Falcons and Bucs playing, it would almost lemptustoput both televisions on the same game. Primetime. Primetime. Sad to say, but this is not the first time a weak game has been shown in lieu of a better match up because of regional coverage. It should be done away with, if for no other reason, campus dwellers cannot get ESPN and therefore can’t get in-depth coverage of what we miss due to this regional garbage. What I would give lo hear the sounds of the Sunday Reporters arguing with their irritating northern accents. Or the theme to SportsCenter, the best show on television every year. And even makes me want to go home every weekend just to watch television. The coverage from my dorm room stinks. I try watching our imitation detrimental to my health, seeing as though sports to me is like the stock market. I must have up-to- date information all the time to stay ahead of the competition. Speaking of Sports the crew of NFL Gamedayasthey skillfully predict games. Just the thoughtofRobin Roberts talking 10 Dick Schaap about the games or Chris Berman and Tom version of SportsCenter on Sunday nights, the George Michael Sports Machine. But it is in no way the same. This Sunday he didn’t even tell the victor in one of the games that he highlighted. Jackson going back and forth | Reporting like that can be Anything short of this would make for an uninformed individual who might as well be watching soccer than talking football. Someone who would, let’s say, pick the Bucs to make the playoffs. BSM FROM PAGE 7 Members of a campus aetheist group discovered that choir members were praying and testifying prior lo all of the rehearsals. Because the organization received money from the University, the aetheist members tried to say that the gospel choir was a religious, and not a cultural group, and should not receive any University funds. Watson, who was head of the BSM at that time, told choir members to stop the praying and testifying during rehearsals. "I told them that it was not relevant to the organization,” Watson recalled. “The choir was acting like they were the BSM. They had become very arrogant.” The only way lo resolve the problem was to restructure. For the first time sirice the organization was founded in 1967, a BSM leader dared to change the original stuciure, which was modeled after the Black Panther Party. “I was try ing to keep us from dividing amongourselves,”said Watson, who replaced the term chairman with president. This gave the head of the BSM more power and the central conunittee less. The centeral committee is the BSM’s governing board, and the number of the members varies with each president. Central Committee members come from the various sub-groups. Wallace said the term chairman made it seem as if the organization was operating as a united front and that noone person made the decision. “That philosophy was no longer in existence here,” said Watson, referring to when she look office. “People were taking words for granted." But while Watson was restructuring the way the BSM would run and the amount of power the sub-groups would have, choir members were going door to door trying to get BSM members to sign a petition for Watson’s impeachment The measure failed before it got anywhere, Watson said. Both Lucas and Watson say it is these types of problems they hope ihe organization and its leaders will learn from and avoid in the future. “It’s a matter of knowing what your role is,” Watson said. “If you are president of the BS M you do not have the luxury of playing politics. BSM leaders have to deal with real-live human issues and struggles.”
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