Letters to the Editor
jajasoon
Published Letters: 14 Editor's Choice: 6
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Losing payoffs
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Heather - don't assume because we haven't seen a moment on Lost occur in "real time" that we won't see it. I was a bit frustrated in the season 2 premiere that we didn't see Locke's journey into the hatch - but we got that in the following episodes. The show clearly is willing to present story info out of order to suit dramatic tension & payoffs - I assume that next week's Michael-centered episode will give us enough of the dramatic tour-de-force that is sitting at an antique computer chatting with someone who may or may not be your son. My bigger question is how does Michael know it's really Walt - or is he flying off the handle based on emotional desperation to believe that Walt's safe and rescuable? I trust the show's creators to deliver the payoff... eventually.
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Women's Hockey Play Level
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yes, the US Women's Hockey Team played an exhibition against the Green Mountain Glades, a boys junior hockey team in Vermont last month, with the boys winning 8-6. See http://www.nescac.com/Releases/2005-06/Middlebury_USAH_011606.htm
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Prime-time hockey
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]One of the many nice things about living in Vermont is that our local cable includes three Canadian channels. That means two more channels to watch the Olympics - one in French (if we feel like not understanding anything being said) and the CBC. All Olympic fans should have a chance to watch Olympic coverage on the CBC, just to appreciate what a bad job NBC does with its coverage. CBC has much more ongoing live coverage, ignores human interest stories, only uses elaborate graphics if they help understand the event, and has a dandy-dressed Don Cherry ranting about how the European-cartel of the IOC wants to eliminate hockey from the games!
How does the CBC deal with hockey being played in the morning/afternoon in North America? They show the games live in the day, and then offer really nice summary broadcasts in the evening. More than highlight reels, they compress a game to around 35-45 minutes, stringing together the most interesting & exciting 2-3 minute stretches of a game. You can get a feel for the game, without needing to dedicate two hours of prime-time to one game. Then, being Canada, they replay the whole game in late-night. Why can't NBC offer such compressed hockey coverage in prime-time? Because they need to feed their imagined female audience a steady stream of tales of woe & redemption, catfights between athletes, and wall-to-wall badly-dressed skaters. It boggles my mind that NBC would rather show bobsledding (which the Canadians call "bobsleigh") than hockey.
If only CBC had Dick Button, I'd never watch any NBC coverage at all!
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Another hopeless cause?
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's been a great tournament - UConn looked like an NBA team by coasting until they need to turn it on. It finally came back to bite them against a team that's played hard on every second.
I disagree that the problem with the ends of games is the rampant timeout calling. Can you add something to your list of hopeless sports causes: eliminating the incentive for breaking the rules at the end of basketball games. In what other sport do you actively try to violate a rule strategically? In basketball, the end of any game slows down because the trailing team stops trying to play defense & just tries to foul. And if you've played a clean game up to that point & aren't in the penalty, it actually hurts you! The end of close games are exciting, but in theory much more than actual gameplay - forcing the trailing team to actually play defense would be much more exciting.
The solution that will never happen (because it would speed up the end of games and thus reduce the number of commercials to be run): a team that is fouled while not in the act of shooting has a choice of either taking the shots (if opponents are in the penalty) or inbounding the ball. Being the victim of a foul should not force you to turn the ball over, even if it does give you a chance at "free points." The "penalty" actually helps the fouler more than the fouled! King - right this injustice!
And hail Big Baby for the return of the sublime nickname!