This is a post from a blog done by Mike Ricordati, one of the hosts of a sports talk show "Common Man and the Torg" on the local ESPN affiliate 97.1 THE FAN, ranting about some of the alumni that kill the mood at OSU basketball games.
This is a link to St. John Arena's Website.
This is a link to the Schott's website, with cool facts and everything you'd want to know about it.
This should be a link the the Schott's Facebook page, (if it doesn't work, just search "Schottensteins Center" in facebook, and click the "pages" tab on the right)
This is a really cool video of the Schott, where it fast forwards from a bunch of different transformations it goes under for things like hockey, bball, and concerts.
This is a link to a video, of AC/DC (the greatest band in the history of music), doing a concert in the Schott in the fall of 2008. Thunderstruck is the song of choice.
This is a cool video of the Marching band's cool little entrance into St. Johns before a Skull session, definitely a good watch.
This is a video of a skull session taking place inside St. Johns earlier this year
This is a column done by Bob Hunter, of the columbus dispatch, and this particular one was written on virtually the exact same topic that I chose to do my feature on.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Some Ideas I have for multimedia for my final project on the Schottenstein Center. I guess first off would be The Schott's facebook page. I also think that videos like this youtube video of the Marching Band entering St.John's Arena might be a cool visual to gauge the kind of environment that St. Johns can still provide.
This Story by the washington post is a great example of multimedia. I liked it because of all the links they provided for things like other articles, information on other people, and audio links to excerpts of Kornheiser's show where he criticized Storm. It also was interesting I thought because of the fact that Kornheiser, has worked for the Post for just about 30 years, and the post goes at some length to at least try and explain his actions and note that this is not the first time he's made remarks like this, and that ESPN might be a little sensitive to these kinds of things because of the recent affair an employee of theirs had with an intern.
This Story done by USA Today, is a story on former Oklahoma University quarterback Sam Bradford and how he projects to the NFL. I like it as well for a lot of the same reasons. It's never a bad thing to be reading a story online and see lots of links in my opinion. These are all branches, stemming from this story to provide you with even more detail on the topic, and this story is chalked full of them. Just about every source, and name mentioned in this story has a link to find out about that person. In the middle of the article, there is a link to a similar article about former University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow's process of enhancing his throwing motion. I like how it provides reader comments, and related stories as well.
This Story from SI.com as I said in my homework assignment, was really bad in most facets because it was brief and had hardly no multimedia in it whatsoever, aside from noting its availability on things like buzz, twitter, and facebook. There are no links, no pictures, no audio or anything, which is why I think that this article pails in comparison to the Washington Post's coverage of it.
This Story by the washington post is a great example of multimedia. I liked it because of all the links they provided for things like other articles, information on other people, and audio links to excerpts of Kornheiser's show where he criticized Storm. It also was interesting I thought because of the fact that Kornheiser, has worked for the Post for just about 30 years, and the post goes at some length to at least try and explain his actions and note that this is not the first time he's made remarks like this, and that ESPN might be a little sensitive to these kinds of things because of the recent affair an employee of theirs had with an intern.
This Story done by USA Today, is a story on former Oklahoma University quarterback Sam Bradford and how he projects to the NFL. I like it as well for a lot of the same reasons. It's never a bad thing to be reading a story online and see lots of links in my opinion. These are all branches, stemming from this story to provide you with even more detail on the topic, and this story is chalked full of them. Just about every source, and name mentioned in this story has a link to find out about that person. In the middle of the article, there is a link to a similar article about former University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow's process of enhancing his throwing motion. I like how it provides reader comments, and related stories as well.
This Story from SI.com as I said in my homework assignment, was really bad in most facets because it was brief and had hardly no multimedia in it whatsoever, aside from noting its availability on things like buzz, twitter, and facebook. There are no links, no pictures, no audio or anything, which is why I think that this article pails in comparison to the Washington Post's coverage of it.
Homework Assignment
After reading through two entire articles on the new potential NCAA violations, wondering why they were very similar, and then finding out they were just the AP story posted in both papers as well as every other major publication I looked through, I decided to find two articles on the recent suspension of Tony Kornheiser from ESPN's PTI for two week over comments he made about Hannah Storm, a Sportscenter anchor.
The first story was one done by the Washington Post, and the next one was one done by the Associated Press, that I found in Sports Illustrated. This is interesting, because The Post is the paper that Kornheiser has written for for over 30 years. I thought The Post's article was better in just about every facet. It's lead was far more catchy, where the AP's was really dull and didn't really draw me in as much. The Post's story had more quotes as to what exactly Kornheiser said about Storm, and posted entire excerpts about Storm from his radio show as well as the reaction it got from his fellow radio co-hosts. The SI story really only had quotes from Kornheiser and a vice president at ESPN, which were far less thorough. The Post also went on to define things like Kornheiser's age, as well as Storm's (which is part of what she was being criticized for about her outfit on ESPN being the age that she was). I don't feel that news judgment is really that big of an issue, because I guess I don't feel this to be too sensitive a subject. With my sensitive cap on however, I guess The Post was more relentless in there reporting just because they displayed everything about the hurtful comments Kornheiser said, whereas SI seemed to be a little hesitant to just lay it all out there. The Post also commented on how fragile ESPN is after one of it's employees was caught having an affair with an intern a few months ago, something the SI article failed to include.
Both publications suggested you follow the story on all things from facebook, twitter, buzz etc. And I feel the post did a lot more in terms of the extensive packaging of things such as photo's and video etc. SI's article has no pictures in it, whereas the Post has pictures of both Kornheiser and Storm. The SI article also has no links to any other media about the subject, where the Post's article has audio of the radio show where he made his comments, audio of his apology, audio of other hurtful remarks he's made towards other celebrities, and links to articles talking about the affair Steve Phillips (the ESPN employee mentioned earlier) had with the intern. The Post article also has a comments section underneath where hundreds of fans reactions to the news is displayed, whereas SI did not bother to include the same.
The first story was one done by the Washington Post, and the next one was one done by the Associated Press, that I found in Sports Illustrated. This is interesting, because The Post is the paper that Kornheiser has written for for over 30 years. I thought The Post's article was better in just about every facet. It's lead was far more catchy, where the AP's was really dull and didn't really draw me in as much. The Post's story had more quotes as to what exactly Kornheiser said about Storm, and posted entire excerpts about Storm from his radio show as well as the reaction it got from his fellow radio co-hosts. The SI story really only had quotes from Kornheiser and a vice president at ESPN, which were far less thorough. The Post also went on to define things like Kornheiser's age, as well as Storm's (which is part of what she was being criticized for about her outfit on ESPN being the age that she was). I don't feel that news judgment is really that big of an issue, because I guess I don't feel this to be too sensitive a subject. With my sensitive cap on however, I guess The Post was more relentless in there reporting just because they displayed everything about the hurtful comments Kornheiser said, whereas SI seemed to be a little hesitant to just lay it all out there. The Post also commented on how fragile ESPN is after one of it's employees was caught having an affair with an intern a few months ago, something the SI article failed to include.
Both publications suggested you follow the story on all things from facebook, twitter, buzz etc. And I feel the post did a lot more in terms of the extensive packaging of things such as photo's and video etc. SI's article has no pictures in it, whereas the Post has pictures of both Kornheiser and Storm. The SI article also has no links to any other media about the subject, where the Post's article has audio of the radio show where he made his comments, audio of his apology, audio of other hurtful remarks he's made towards other celebrities, and links to articles talking about the affair Steve Phillips (the ESPN employee mentioned earlier) had with the intern. The Post article also has a comments section underneath where hundreds of fans reactions to the news is displayed, whereas SI did not bother to include the same.
Monday, February 22, 2010
Ocho Cinco's connection with his fans
This article is an ESPN article written about 3 weeks ago about a Dayton native, who died and his friends ability to get in touch with his favorite athlete Chad Ochocinco of the Cincinnati Bengals through twitter and facebook.
For those of you who do not know, Ochocinco is an avid twitter to the point in which he allegedly never drinks or enjoys much of a night life and instead just tweets all the time.
This story was about Chris Kernich, a former Kent State wide receiver who had died in late November of 2009. Chris was an avid fan of Ochocinco's, and followed his twitter account religiously through his own, conveniently named OGOchoCinco.
Late in November, when out celebrating his 23rd birthday with his friends. Kernich and a few others were attacked during their walk home at about 2:23 a.m. leaving Kernich on life support for a couple weeks until he had eventually died.
The story talks about Kernich's friends attempts to get a hold of Ochocinco through the various social mediums we have today that weren't present ten years ago.
Friends barraged Ochocinco's twitter account asking him if he could visit Kernich in the hospital or give their family a call with little or no success. Then they searched facebook and asked everyone they knew if they had any way of getting a hold of Ochocinco, and found someone who knew one of the assistant coaches of the Bengals. They eventually got in contact with him and asked if he could talk to Ochocinco for them and he eventually did, and Ochocinco ended up calling them eventually but unfortunately it was less than a day after Kernich had died.
It was a really powerful article I think, that really captivated the massive pull that social media sites have on our society today, and I think it was really cool to see that Ochocinco had tweeted before his next game after Kernich's death that he was dedicating his performance to Kernich, one of his biggest fans.
For those of you who do not know, Ochocinco is an avid twitter to the point in which he allegedly never drinks or enjoys much of a night life and instead just tweets all the time.
This story was about Chris Kernich, a former Kent State wide receiver who had died in late November of 2009. Chris was an avid fan of Ochocinco's, and followed his twitter account religiously through his own, conveniently named OGOchoCinco.
Late in November, when out celebrating his 23rd birthday with his friends. Kernich and a few others were attacked during their walk home at about 2:23 a.m. leaving Kernich on life support for a couple weeks until he had eventually died.
The story talks about Kernich's friends attempts to get a hold of Ochocinco through the various social mediums we have today that weren't present ten years ago.
Friends barraged Ochocinco's twitter account asking him if he could visit Kernich in the hospital or give their family a call with little or no success. Then they searched facebook and asked everyone they knew if they had any way of getting a hold of Ochocinco, and found someone who knew one of the assistant coaches of the Bengals. They eventually got in contact with him and asked if he could talk to Ochocinco for them and he eventually did, and Ochocinco ended up calling them eventually but unfortunately it was less than a day after Kernich had died.
It was a really powerful article I think, that really captivated the massive pull that social media sites have on our society today, and I think it was really cool to see that Ochocinco had tweeted before his next game after Kernich's death that he was dedicating his performance to Kernich, one of his biggest fans.
Schott Outline
Nick Hiltbrand
Dan Caterinicchia
Final Paper Outline
As was discussed on Wednesday, I plan to do my article on the Ohio State Athletic Dept.’s decision to build the Jerome Schottenstein center, when they already had St. John’s arena, and how the “Schott” has come under fire in recent years for being a very dull college basketball environment.
While not really comparable to that of North Carolina, Duke or UCLA, Ohio State has a basketball tradition to be proud of. With a National Championship over the University of California in the 60's and countless All’Americans and future NBA Stars (John Havlicek, and Michael Redd just to name a few), Ohio State should still be a perennial threat to make some noise in the world of college basketball.
At the time, the University didn’t have enough to pay for the construction of the new arena, so numerous Alumni pitched in money in return for the best season tickets in Schott. The arena was then built in the late 90's, but the method in which they have gotten the money has come back to bite them. Unlike most universities, Students cannot get tickets on either side of the court, and the only tickets moderately close to the floor that students can get are behind either basket, which seat only a few hundred at most, and most other schools already have. Those students who are not fortunate enough to get seats behind the baskets, are forced to sit up in the upper bowl, which has proven to be a reason that many do not even show up. When The Dukes, and the Michigan States have students screaming within 50 feet of the players from all sides, Ohio State has mostly older alumni who tend to remain seated even when the game is on the line.
The arena has lost a lot of money over the past few years, and is really struggling to get its attendance up. For a team ranked in the top 25 most of this season, it had it’s first sellout last Wednesday against Purdue, which was only accomplished because they managed to sell the rest of their tickets 24 hours before the game started thanks to a buy-one-get-one-free deal.
I have contacted the athletic office about speaking to both Thad Matta, and Gene Smith about the subject. I have a friend who has said that PJ Hill, a player on the team would be happy to talk to me about it, and a classmate who thinks he can set me up with William Buford, another star on the team. I have an interview set up with a long time season ticket holder later this evening, and another meeting with yet another season ticket holder awaiting. If I can, I might also try and get Mark Titus, a player on the team and a more national sensation as he is author of ClubTrillion, one of the most read sports blogs in the country.
... you asked us in class today to use social media websites to see if we couldn't use any of them to potentiall add to our articles.
When I first check facebook and search "Jerome Schottenstein Center," a few groups come up that relate to it. Some of them, like the group for kids who were at the 2005 basketball game versus Illinois when we were their only loss of that regular season, were more or less meaningless. However there was one group called "Schottenstein Center Student Team Members," that came up, and it seems like it might provide some use. The site seems to be for the students who work at the Schott and could potentially have some strong opinions as to the Schotts lackluster college basketball environment.
searching for it on twitter provides tweets about ticket sales to upcoming games, and tweets about the games from people like Lori Schmidt who works for the local ESPN Radio affiliate 97.1 The Fan.
Myspace does not seem to have turned up anything of use to help with my article, as the only thing it links me to are Schottenstein Center Websites where I can just go to buy tickets.
Dan Caterinicchia
Final Paper Outline
As was discussed on Wednesday, I plan to do my article on the Ohio State Athletic Dept.’s decision to build the Jerome Schottenstein center, when they already had St. John’s arena, and how the “Schott” has come under fire in recent years for being a very dull college basketball environment.
While not really comparable to that of North Carolina, Duke or UCLA, Ohio State has a basketball tradition to be proud of. With a National Championship over the University of California in the 60's and countless All’Americans and future NBA Stars (John Havlicek, and Michael Redd just to name a few), Ohio State should still be a perennial threat to make some noise in the world of college basketball.
At the time, the University didn’t have enough to pay for the construction of the new arena, so numerous Alumni pitched in money in return for the best season tickets in Schott. The arena was then built in the late 90's, but the method in which they have gotten the money has come back to bite them. Unlike most universities, Students cannot get tickets on either side of the court, and the only tickets moderately close to the floor that students can get are behind either basket, which seat only a few hundred at most, and most other schools already have. Those students who are not fortunate enough to get seats behind the baskets, are forced to sit up in the upper bowl, which has proven to be a reason that many do not even show up. When The Dukes, and the Michigan States have students screaming within 50 feet of the players from all sides, Ohio State has mostly older alumni who tend to remain seated even when the game is on the line.
The arena has lost a lot of money over the past few years, and is really struggling to get its attendance up. For a team ranked in the top 25 most of this season, it had it’s first sellout last Wednesday against Purdue, which was only accomplished because they managed to sell the rest of their tickets 24 hours before the game started thanks to a buy-one-get-one-free deal.
I have contacted the athletic office about speaking to both Thad Matta, and Gene Smith about the subject. I have a friend who has said that PJ Hill, a player on the team would be happy to talk to me about it, and a classmate who thinks he can set me up with William Buford, another star on the team. I have an interview set up with a long time season ticket holder later this evening, and another meeting with yet another season ticket holder awaiting. If I can, I might also try and get Mark Titus, a player on the team and a more national sensation as he is author of ClubTrillion, one of the most read sports blogs in the country.
... you asked us in class today to use social media websites to see if we couldn't use any of them to potentiall add to our articles.
When I first check facebook and search "Jerome Schottenstein Center," a few groups come up that relate to it. Some of them, like the group for kids who were at the 2005 basketball game versus Illinois when we were their only loss of that regular season, were more or less meaningless. However there was one group called "Schottenstein Center Student Team Members," that came up, and it seems like it might provide some use. The site seems to be for the students who work at the Schott and could potentially have some strong opinions as to the Schotts lackluster college basketball environment.
searching for it on twitter provides tweets about ticket sales to upcoming games, and tweets about the games from people like Lori Schmidt who works for the local ESPN Radio affiliate 97.1 The Fan.
Myspace does not seem to have turned up anything of use to help with my article, as the only thing it links me to are Schottenstein Center Websites where I can just go to buy tickets.
Monday, February 8, 2010
Broadcast 422
In Ashland, Ohio an eight year-old girl has died after falling into a hole she had dug while playing in the snow in front of her house. Ashland police said that Emily Kramer was alone when she had fallen into the hole and could not escape. Kramer’s father was outside with her when she had first started playing and had returned to find her unconscious. She was taken to Samaritan Regional Health System where she was later pronounced dead.
Just after enduring several inches of snow and icy road conditions over the weekend, Franklin County residents can expect to see up to eight more inches of snow in the next few days as the National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning from 4 am Tuesday through 6 pm Wednesday according to the Columbus Dispatch.
In warmer news, over 106 million Americans watched as the Indianapolis Colts fell to the New Orleans Saints in Super Bowl 44 Sunday night in Miami by a score of 31-17, just beating out the 1983 finale of "M*A*S*H" as the most watched television program of all time. The Colts jumped out to a 10-0 lead in the first quarter, but the Saints, led by Super Bowl MVP Drew Brees, rallied to go on a 31-7 run to finish the game capped off by Tracy Porter’s 74-yard interception return for a touchdown.
Before the big game, dog lovers treated themselves to the Animal Planet’s sixth annual Puppy Bowl which aired Sunday at 3 pm. The game featured 20 rescued puppies playing around on a miniature football field, while bunnies cheered, hamsters filmed from an overhead blimp, and kittens took care of the halftime show.
While it was cute I guess, I could only really watch about five minutes of puppies running around tackling each other before I needed to switch the channel. The bunnies and hamsters might have gotten a cheap laugh, but the best was the halftime show. About a dozen, likely cat-nip induced kittens, trapped in a room with little fuzzy toys whizzing about while every vibrant colored spotlight imaginable was shining across the room, probably had them in a trance that would make even Hunter S. Thompson (of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) jealous.
Just after enduring several inches of snow and icy road conditions over the weekend, Franklin County residents can expect to see up to eight more inches of snow in the next few days as the National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning from 4 am Tuesday through 6 pm Wednesday according to the Columbus Dispatch.
In warmer news, over 106 million Americans watched as the Indianapolis Colts fell to the New Orleans Saints in Super Bowl 44 Sunday night in Miami by a score of 31-17, just beating out the 1983 finale of "M*A*S*H" as the most watched television program of all time. The Colts jumped out to a 10-0 lead in the first quarter, but the Saints, led by Super Bowl MVP Drew Brees, rallied to go on a 31-7 run to finish the game capped off by Tracy Porter’s 74-yard interception return for a touchdown.
Before the big game, dog lovers treated themselves to the Animal Planet’s sixth annual Puppy Bowl which aired Sunday at 3 pm. The game featured 20 rescued puppies playing around on a miniature football field, while bunnies cheered, hamsters filmed from an overhead blimp, and kittens took care of the halftime show.
While it was cute I guess, I could only really watch about five minutes of puppies running around tackling each other before I needed to switch the channel. The bunnies and hamsters might have gotten a cheap laugh, but the best was the halftime show. About a dozen, likely cat-nip induced kittens, trapped in a room with little fuzzy toys whizzing about while every vibrant colored spotlight imaginable was shining across the room, probably had them in a trance that would make even Hunter S. Thompson (of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) jealous.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Live Nation
Nick Hiltbrand
Dan Caterinicchia
Live Nation Entertainment opens new office in Dallas, headed by Danny Caterinicchia
Live Nation Entertainment, the world's premier live entertainment company, announced Wednesday the opening of a new office in Dallas, Texas The fifth largest market in the nation.
The office appointed Danny Caterinnichia (Cat-er-knee-key-uh), as Senior Vice President to help the company promote concerts in Live Nation venues such as the House of Blues, and Cowboys Stadium.
(Cat-er-knee-key-uh) has worked as a promoter in the Dallas area since the 1960s, and brings knowledge, and experience to and already successful company.
(Cat-er-knee-key-uh) is no stranger to bringing big names to Dallas, having already been responsible for bringing the likes of Guns N' Roses, the Police and the Eagles to the area.
With the best concert promotion company, and the best promoter in the area, Dallas natives have something to be excited about.
Ohio State Recruiting Class
It's national signing day in the world of college football recruiting, and across the country the top high school seniors in the nation are signing their letters of intent to play football at their respective universities. With some prospects still undecided, Ohio State's relatively small recruiting class of only 18 players is ranked as the 13th, and 23rd class in the country by ESPN.com and Rivals.com respectfully. This class headlined by running back Roderick Smith out of Fort Wayne, Indiana, and quarterback Taylor Graham out of Wheaton, Illinois is a weak class by Ohio State's standards, whose class is usually perennially ranked in the top 5-10 in the country every year.
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