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CLISE: Logo Legal Wedgie
By now, you’ve probably seen the pun-tastic headlines: “Car Company Rams Florida High School,” read one on the Web site of Miami’s NBC affiliate. If you haven’t, the gist of the story is this: Lake Mary High School agreed Feb. 9 to discontinue use of its ram’s head logo, after Chrysler threatened a trademark... »
CLISE: Olympic Education
We’re pumped for the Winter Olympics. We really are. The problems is we don’t know much about ‘em—the events, the athletes, the whole shebang. To an extent, we feel this way every Olympiad, don’t we? The wonder of the Olympics is that for two weeks, we are enthralled by people we’ve never heard of... »
CLISE: Access Compromises Ethics
On Jan. 7, Pete Carroll was ESPN’s guest analyst at the BCS national championship game, on the company payroll, chumming around with the College Gameday crew and helping to break down No. 1 Alabama vs. No. 2 Texas. The very next day, he was The Worldwide Leader in Sports’ top story, rumored to be... »
CLISE: Communication Hierarchy
We need to talk … or e-mail. That’s fine too. But this is much too important for a Facebook wall post, and I’m afraid these first three sentences have already obliterated Twitter’s 140-character limit. It seems some of you (mainly the 35-and-older contingent) have over-extended the bounds of what you believe to be boundless social... »
Football playoffs expand, season extends
The path to Connecticut high school football playoffs—the most exclusive postseason in the state—will get a little wider next fall. The CIAC has unveiled a new playoff format and divisional alignment that will increase from 24 to 32 the total number of teams that participate in the state tournament. Until now, four teams from each... »
The best TV shows this decade had to offer
5. The Colbert Report (Comedy Central, 2005 – present) When I first saw some of this show’s pre-launch advertisements, it seemed like nothing more than a “Daily Show” spin-off. I tried to reserve my judgment for the debut itself, and I remember being pleasantly surprised by a veritable circus of riotous satire, laugh-a-minute sight gags,... »
The top video games of 2000-2009
As the end of the first decade of the new millenium draws to a close, I am more and more asking myself, “What the hell happened to the past ten years?” The simple answer, of course, is that they were wheedled away in the wee hours of the morning, sore thumbs mashing plastic buttons, trigger... »
Decade’s top five albums you might’ve missed
Well, it’s here, folks: The end of the decade. Some say 2012 will be the year our species is annhilated, whether we’re decimated by a hostile alien race, killed off by a meteor collision, thrust underground by a nuclear holocaust to die slowly of radiation poisoning, and so on and so forth. At any rate,... »
CLISE: Linda’s Beautiful Mind
She calls almost every day, my “old friend from Oak Terrace.” I can tell by the tenor of her voice, as soon as she greets me, what kind of day she’s having: Sometimes it’s a joyful chirp, quoting scripture and gushing about choir rehearsal; others it’s a smoker’s croak, bitter and depressed and “just... »
CLISE: Time for an athletic intervention
I’ve got it: A way to block the verbal haymakers being launched back and forth between Town Hall and Tuttle House. Maybe even a way to help fund the Board of Education’s more-than-$2 million budget shortfall, which rang the bell of this fight in the first place. Take it to court—the basketball court, that is. In... »