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    Palm Beach doings

    D'Angelo can't be happy, but I bet Nelson isn't either. That guy worked his way up from preps to cover FAU from the beginning of that program. Now he's bumped back to preps based solely on buyout roulette.
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    Seriously, what if newspapers did this?

    I have long advocated partnership with cable companies. The major newspaper chains should be banding together and striking deals with the major cable companies. Newspapers have to find a way to get a subscription price for Internet access hidden into a cable bill. The cable companies would get...
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    Sporting News Today thread (what do you think?)

    Hate to say this but I think it's too traditional. Also, they needed a cover story today with the launch that would have had all of America talking. I didn't see it. But I am rooting for them to succeed. Some good people on that staff.
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    'Newspapers should stop slumming as blogs and disallow comments.'

    Reader comments on newspaper sites are the No. 1 indicator that this nation is doomed. If we are that desperate for clicks, we should stop wasting time on news stories that appeal to the lowest-common denominator and instead put photo galleries of girls [cheerleaders] in shorts, bikinis...
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    Thinking out loud ...

    I say again, partner with the cable companies and other ISPs. Get a flat fee built into the cable bill, similar to the current tiers or premium services. The (ISPs) get a cut and access to exclusive news content to bolster their own sites. Everyone gets better advertising reach. And...
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    Thinking out loud ...

    I've always wondered why the major newspaper companies didn't tackle pay-for-content by cutting deals with the internet service providers such as the major cable or telephone companies.
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    Help on college sports revenues/expenses

    Yes, when the dollars match exactly, it's a pretty good sign that discretionary funds were transferred to cover a deficit.
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    Help on college sports revenues/expenses

    EADA. http://ope.ed.gov/athletics/ The numbers can be very misleading. They are good for getting total budget numbers and the breakdown of how money is spent, but the revenues are tricky. There is no uniform policy for how the schools report; for this, they can count subsidy as "revenue" if...
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    A theory on the trouble at metros

    If the price of oil continues to climb, that day is coming faster than anyone realizes.
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    It's gonna get worse.

    If gas rises to $9 or $10 a gallon, you won't have to worry about newspapers because there will be none. Not printed newspapers, anyway. It would no longer be cost effective to print and, in particular, to distribute. Forget the internet killing off the print product. The gas pumps will do it...
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    It's gonna get worse.

    Hot housing market.
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    Best Movie Ending of All-Time?

    I like the end of Glory, where they storm the fort and you think they're going to win until they run into the cannon ... And I second the last scene from Pulp Fiction and the very underrated True Romance -- though the best scene in that movie is in the middle (Dennis Hopper).
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    10 Most Annoying Things People Do on the Golf Course.

    1) People who quote lines from or do impersonations from Caddyshack. 2) Ditto from Tin Cup. 3) Or Happy Gilmore. Godawful annoying. Stopped being funny about the third time. And someone should beat the crap out of the next Mr. "Get in the Hole!" asshole who screams that on a drive off a...
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    Post-Dispatch SE (big surprise, right?)

    The position has been open since the end of October.
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    PM vs. AM

    We all work for PM papers. Our Web sites are our AM papers. All of us just haven't realized this yet. :)
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    LSU Fires Brady

    Andy Kennedy probably would get some attention. Davis isn't likely.
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    LSU Fires Brady

    Tim Floyd has more than "ties" to Brady. He was the head coach at UNO and Brady was his assistant and lead recruiter. Brady is a good coach but his inability to get a decent point guard has been a problem for a while. But this isn't surprising. He was probably going to get pushed out in 2006...
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    Covering recruiting

    The RC of the school I covered used to let me come in the coaches' office and copy all the info off their big board. That way I'd know the kids they were recruiting at each position and the order of priority. Helped a lot as I'd know the kids not to waste time on and the kids to contact and know...
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    The Paper of 2018

    Agree with some of Frank's points but not the Webcast. People don't like watching those on the Internet, and they especially don't like them from newspapers because we don't do them very well. That is unlikely to change. We'll do more of them, of course, because we don't have a clue what we're...
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    Over vs. More than

    When the managing editor sends out that memo chastising the staff for the increase in corrections and decrease in deadline efficiency resulting from the new 9:45 first-edition deadline while operating with two less copy editors because of buyouts or departures, I will be sure to use the "but we...
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