Recent content by SharpTusk

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    Arkansas Razorbacks Football Games in Fayetteville or Little Rock

    I appreciate your remark and agree that the singular is appropriate. Media in Arkansas regularly refer to Arkansas Razorback football as opposed to the formal Arkansas Razorbacks football without much worry, and I've seen similar with Tulsa...
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    Arkansas Razorbacks Football Games in Fayetteville or Little Rock

    In exchange for media credentials, I'll provide written article or radio guest summary for either side of the ball for these games. I will pay my own expenses, provide my own equipment and will agree in writing to be an independent contractor. I covered the Tulsa Golden Hurricane in...
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    Arkansas - LSU Game; Nov. 23; Fayetteville, Arkansas

    For written or radio outlets, I'll cover either the Arkansas or LSU sides and pay my own expenses to the game in exchange for media/photo credentials. Having been a guest several times for a media outlet out of Tulsa, they gave me their credentials in exchange for a 5 minute radio report for...
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    Sports reporter, The Courier-Journal

    $15,000 is $130 below the federal government's poverty line for a family of 2.
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    Creating a Sportsjournalists.com Twitter list

    A follow back would be cool. @sharptusk
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    Read and Destroy, please. Feature:

    I have not destroyed your piece, but I've made a few suggestions between the ***** and could have made much more, but I don't have time. Grammar, usage, and attention to detail are more primary tools to master than using a computer to send a piece to an editor or publisher. Not having those...
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    In-Depth Feature or Investigative Articles

    "The Razorbacks" Came Before Bezdek began to re-write Arkansas Razorback mascot history this past week. We had 30 minute guest segment on the Ched "Ugly Uncle" Carpenter Show statewide and statewide television coverage though Arkansas Sports Nation.
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    Do you carry

    I know that there are tons of whys and why nots for a Taser Cane. But it might split the difference between a gun and useless pepper spray.
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    How to handle a high-school transfer story

    I think it gives you more credibility for any kid in high school, even if technically 18 years old, if you call the parents and ask if one or both would meet with you and their son. Your chances of getting a measured response out of both the parent and child are good, but people will take their...
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    What's "good" in this transition

    From an outsider's point of view and based just upon business and experience, diversity is great but I would suggest that you be an expert in the area(s) that editors need the most because if you're not that, then diversity won't help. Secondly, be an innovator because innovators are...
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    Do you shoot?

    I wasn't meaning to imply that you were staging the photo as supposedly the flag raising on Iwo Jima was done. Almost all athletic events have some theater to them which is what the running out of the tunnel or through the "A" is. It's staged. That's all I meant. Your photos are better than...
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    Credentials for Online Only Media

    Here's what I've dug up so far, in addition to Arkansas above... Nice readable law: http://works.bepress.com/christian_keeney/2/ Click download to get the pdf. Cite for NBA v. Motorola...
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    Sports injury project

    Not to douse the fire you're trying to light, but I've never heard of anyone treating a sports injury with a holistic approach, particularly because holistic approaches don't stretch back ACLs or repair cartilage. To me, and I'm a technical person by nature, game forces impacting players in a...
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    Do you shoot?

    I think your photos are fine and look like the vast majority of photos out there. I agree with a couple of folks that most readers are not likely to be moved greatly one way or the other with most pics because we see so much really good sports photography that we're desensitized to it. I don't...
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    Credentials for Online Only Media

    There is no distinction between the two, at least in Arkansas and I can't imagine that there would be a distinction elsewhere at a public university. Here, athletic department employees are employed by the University of Arkansas which is chartered and funded by the State of Arkansas...
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