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Questionable Sports Team Name Truncations? by DuetsBlog on Mar 20, 2010 in Articles Athletic Team Names Branding Internet March Madness Marketing NCAA Ole Miss Squirrelly Thoughts Television Trademarks Truncation Vanderbilt Vandy Villanova I suppose these questions and remarks may be perceived by some as rubbing salt in the wound, particularly fans of Vanderbilt University Men's Basketball, and especially following Vandy's buz...
Is the Big Ten Network fair to Gophers basketball student-athletes? by The Blotter on Mar 3, 2010 in Sports University of Minnesota basketball bigtenconference bigtennetwork juddspicer minnesotagoldengophers ncaa schedule studentathletes williamsarena A once reliable hoops schedule for the Conference is now all over the damn place.
Communist White House at it again by Lake Minnetonka Liberty on Jan 31, 2010 in Posts Communism Football Hatch Marxism NCAA Obama Government takeover of health care, almost a check. Government takeover of the auto industry, check. Government takeover of Wall Street, check. Government takeover of banks, check. Government takeover of energy, check. Government takeover of what you...
Adventures In Journalism, Lubbock Style by Wolves Watch on Dec 30, 2009 in Journalism ncaa texas tech CNN is running a highly skeptical story on Mike Leach’s firing at Texas Tech, featuring Leach’s lawyer giving a reporter a tour of the rooms where Leach had isolated Craig James’ son. The story originated with Lubbock NBC affiliate...
Surface Level Branding Runs Deep on This Athletic Field by DuetsBlog on Dec 13, 2009 in 3M Acquired Distinctiveness Articles Artificial Turf AstroPlay Astroturf Athletic Fields BCS Boise State University Branding Bronco Field Color Trademarks Colored Artificial Turf Common Law Rights FieldTurf Fiesta Bowl Humanitarian Bowl Iowa Hawkeyes Kinnick Stadium Marketing NCAA Non-Traditional Trademarks Post-It Prior Common Law Rights Secondary Meaning Sight Single Color Trademark The Blue Tostitos Trademark Enforcement Trademark Policing Trademarks Turf University of Iowa WAC To sports fans of this university, December has been a big month because their beloved team finished the 2009 regular football season undefeated (13-0) once again, winning yet another post-season BCS bowl game bid. Next month...
Renewing the Keystone State Rivalry by Wolves Watch on Oct 30, 2009 in College Football ncaa NCAA Football penn state Penn State Nittany Lions Pennsylvania State University Pitt Panthers Pittsburgh Panthers University of Pittsburgh For those readers who don't know, that's one of the names given to the Pitt-Penn State rivalry. The football portion of said rivalry began in 1896. Ninety-six games took place between 1896 and the final year of the rivalry in 2000 when Pitt won 12-0.
Stafon Johnson involved in terrible accident by The Purple Trojan on Sep 28, 2009 in College Football MVN Outsider NCAA Stafon Johnson Tragedy USC USC Trojans In a very tragic incident yesterday morning, USC running back Stafon Johnson required throat surgery yesterday afteroon. After a heavy dumbbell used for bench-pressing slipped out of Johnson's grasp, it landed on his throat. He was immediately cared...
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