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Any old business? New business? Adjourned!
Who says Lake Geneva City Council meetings are long and contentious? The Wisconsin city’s council whizzed through 18 agenda items last Monday in 30 minutes.
“I should make a resolution that all Packers games be played on Monday nights when there’s a council meeting,” mayor Chuck Platts joked. “Do you think the NFL would go along with that?”
Both the council meeting and the nationally televised game between the Packers and Eagles began precisely at 8 p.m. CDT. It was the first Monday night game at Lambeau Field in 10 years.
Lake Geneva meetings often last for hours and include drawn-out debate, if not pointed accusations. The meetings frequently draw large, spirited crowds. But only 15 people attended Monday night.
Rumor has it the King County Council may meet opposite Seahawks games to increase attendance.
You’re not my type
The daughter of the Arkansas chancellor has resigned as academic coordinator for Razorbacks basketball after admitting she knowingly violated an NCAA rule and lied about it to investigators, a newspaper reports.
Kim Wood, daughter of chancellor Dan Ferritor, said she typed correspondence course papers for former Arkansas guard Jesse Pate. She said she never did Pate’s lessons for him, only typed them.
“Jesse had come to the university without a scholarship, without support, without help,” Wood said. “He didn’t know how to type, and I was happy to help him, even knowing it was against the rules.”
Typing the work violated the NCAA’s rule on extra benefits.
Arkansas athletic director Frank Broyles declined to comment on the situation.
Wood said she did not admit doing the work originally “because I thought it would hurt Jesse, and I had personal reasons as well.”
The University of Idaho, incidentally, briefly recruited Pate, who played for new Vandals coach Kermit Davis at Chipola JC in Florida, but backed off when he ran into academic problems.
Say what?
Tom Asbury signed a contract extension through 2002 with Kansas State this summer after taking the Wildcats to the NCAA Basketball Tournament and finishing with a 17-12 record. Yet he was briefly, uh, a non-candidate candidate for the Cal job vacated by Todd Bozeman.
“I have agreed to interview (at Cal),” Asbury said in a statement released by Kansas State. “I’m very happy at K-State. However, in any profession, sometimes it’s healthy to explore your opportunities. … The interview doesn’t in any way reflect my level of interest in the job.”
Of course not. It merely reflects your perverse enjoyment of irrelevent job interviews?
You may either yell ‘Fore!’ or ‘Incoming!’
Golf Journal reported recently on a bulletin posted in 1940 by the Richmond Golf Club in Sudbrook, England. Some temporary wartime rules were listed: - Players are asked to collect bomb and shrapnel splinters to avoid damaging grass-cutting machines.
- In competition, during gunfire or while bombs are falling, players may take shelter without penalty for ceasing play.
The last word …
“They sell them in the pro shop. Go buy one.”
- Scott Hoch, to kids asking for golf balls at the PGA Championship
, DataTimes