Posted on 05/15/2004 4:10:40 PM PDT by Pokey78
Moran is a native of Omaha and graduated in 1960 from Omaha's Westside High School and in 1966 from the University of Nebraska at Omaha, then known as Omaha University, with a Bachelor of Sciences Degree in Journalism.
Moran is a member of Westside High's Hall of Fame, inducted in 1994 along with former Nebraska and Washington Redskins football star Pat Fischer and Broadway and Hollywood actor Terry Kiser. At Westside, Moran was a forward on three varsity basketball teams and a 1958-59 teammate of actor Nick Nolte for the Warriors.
UNO has honored Moran with its Distinguished Journalism Alumni Award in 1980 and with its Distinguished Alumni Award in 1988. He was named as one of the University's 40 most notable graduates in the first 100 years of the institution in 1998 in a university publication entitled "Profiles."
Before joining the USOC in 1979, Moran served as the Sports Information Director at the University of Colorado from 1968-78 and in the same capacity at his collegiate alma mater from 1966 to 1968. He was named to the CoSIDA (College Sports Information Directors of America) Hall of Fame on May 23, 2002.
Between 1963 and 1966, Moran was a sports reporter and photographer at KMTV, Omaha's NBC affiliate, where he worked with veteran NBC Nightly News icon Tom Brokaw.
Our dear allies in Sydney?
As soon as I saw journalist, and journalism, I figured that pretty much explained it. Nothing excuses this attitude though.
Prairie
The Old Media will make something out of this I'll bet. Play up the athletes being warned, how bad our reputation is amoung the rest of the world (no matter how disreputable they are).
I hope that most of the athletes decide to tell the rest of the world to go suck eggs and proudly show our flag. The country will remember those that do for a long time. Those that don't won't be remembered past the next week.
Prairie
I would not watch the Olympics, even if you positioned nude women holding beers in their hands and balancing a third one on their heads in front of my plasma screen. No way.
I think the American athletes should not participate in the opening ceremony and the closing ceremony. Just kick a$$ and bring home a load of gold medals....we can have a huge celebration here when our athletes return. Flags and all!!
"....since I am Kenyan-born and American..."
Just that short sentence gave me an idea....wouldn't it be wonderful if the athletes from Iraq held up American flags whenever we win a gold medal. Perhaps it could be there way of showing the world that they are grateful to us for getting rid of Saddam.....I won't hold my breath....but wouldn't it be nice.
But...
Despite the extra burden being placed on American athletes, officials still predict a US medal haul of more than 100, and have made it their target to finish top of the medals table. The irony is that finishing the Games as the most powerful nation is unlikely to endear them to the rest of the world.
I hope our athletes show the rest of the world what they're made of and take the US to the top of the medals table. The best revenge is to win. Who the h*** cares if it "endears" us to the rest of the world?
That would be a great idea ......especially in the opening ceremony when the athletes walk around the stadium. Good one. Who knows, one can always pray.
"...even if you positioned nude women holding beers in their hands and balancing a third one on their heads in front of my plasma screen."
My husband would and I would if Mike Piazza stood in front of my television trying to teach me how to get to third base....nope wait....I'd rather learn how to make a home run!
Hey....if men can go "ga ga" over naked women....women can go "ga ga" over really cute guys! ;-}
LOL! I never got into Olympics much until one year I was recuperating from surgery and got into watching the Winters. I became interested in some of those sports like biathlon and curling because I wasn't familiar with them.
The Games are always political, this year sounds to be particularly bad.
Prairie
Better yet: We don't show up, frustrating their chances to either boo us or blow us up.
Let's wait for Beijing.
We can pass up Athens and Greece: An insecure, leftist hellhole whose people hate us to no end, and will allow Muslim extremists to attack us.
No, thanks.
"Better yet: We don't show up,..."
Then they would think that they got the best of us....I wouldn't give them that kind of satisfaction! The best revenge is kick some serious butt.
Show the crowd they are #1. LOL
And I'm being realistic:
1) Greece is a leftist hellhole: Over there, if you're not a Socialist, you're a Communist, and that country is still capitalist in spite of herself. 90% of Greeks hate us, and they're set on making the lives of our athletes a living hell: Booed, heckled, jeered, being yelled at on the street, and being general assholes towards the US athletes. Conversely, many of the Games spectators will come from the assorted European Socialist reichs, so it will compound to the general misery our athletes would have to endure.
2) Greece hasn't got its act together in regards of security. All the construction workers are ratting on security flaws in the athletic and residential facilites. Thus, the Athens games would become a prime target for terrorist attacks or kidnapping episodes like Black September. And we all know American and British targets will be very coveted by every terrorist group and their mother.
3) When it comes to politics, count on several countries boycotting these games due to our participation. Although I wouldn't care less if these countries stay home, their absence will be ultimately blamed on us, just like every evil in the world.
4) I'd rather have the US kick ass in a real adversary's turf, like Beijing, than a piss-ant country like Greece, which if it wasn't for tourism, they'd be quite a third-world $#!+hole. Besides, the Chinese would provide better security for the athletes.
We can live without going to Athens. It ain't a life-or-death situation.
Now that's a great thought - maybe our athletes will have more nerve and patriotism than the weenies who recommended they NOT wave the flag.
"It ain't a life-and-death situation."
The hell it isn't....if we tell the world that we are afraid to participate in the Olympics, we will be seen as weak in mind and spirit and embolden those who wish us death and destruction.
Of course this is easy for me to say because I am not participating in the Olympics as an athlete or a fan who will have to endure taunts, threats and possible attacks. I do believe that the decision to participate in these games should be left up to the athletes.
F#$K the world.......AMERICA!
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