Recent content by bigblueman

I would guess that tweets by their nature of being 140 characters or less wouldn't be eligible for copyright. They really aren't long enough. They are not necessarily classified as a product. Also, facts are not subject to copyright, which is what I would guess most tweets are. "I played golf...

Companies aren't allowed to dictate personal twitter accounts, yet. But it doesn't stop them from asking to do so. Personally, I keep a personal twitter account and a newspaper twitter account. I try not to mix them, but occasionally I do retweet items on my personal account that appear on the...

What does being an "at will" employee have to do with twitter postings?

Let's bump this thread with a shout out to American Needle, Inc. v. National Football League where the court rules it's okay for a group to sew itself together for the sake of profit...Until the Supreme Court gets involved overturns the decision, remanding it to the lower court and saying that...

It's a story. Definitely a cautionary tale. The paper should follow up with this kid in July to see if he graduates and write about that. Then follow him through junior college and his D-I college. If the story stops here, then that is not very fair. We had a kid who couldn't pass the TAAS...

That's the way cliche go.

I've made the jump from sports to news and news to sports, and now I am back in news again. I found my writing became better each time I switched departments because I was forced to think about it again. In this business, if you have worked sports at any point in your career, you will have an...

My favorite memory of Pittsburg was the Jim Jones Memorial Rugby Tournament. Great party. Even had a song and some sort of Kool Aid cooked up for the festivities.

OK, I'll fall on the grenade. They work just as hard as the football kids do.

Refreshing coke. That's one way to make it through the Texas heat.

Weren't some of those names like Scott Champion in the initial group that became CNHI?

I've been looking at this all wrong. The major record Tiger was going after wasn't Jack's. It was Wilt Chamberlain's. Tiger only has about 19,970 to go.

I didn't think sports writers could afford tattoos anymore?

Liquidrugby.com has one of my personal favorites http://www.liquidrugby.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=PR127&Category_Code=Rugby

There really wasn't much to the eastern front. The Germans managed that by helping Lenin get through Germany and into Russia. One of the interesting facts I remember about World War I is that the war never made it to German soil like World War II did, so the Germans weren't affected like the...