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Florida State to sue NCAA over mascot-nickname rule
AP via Tampa Bay channel 10 ^ | August 6, 2005 | staff

Posted on 08/06/2005 7:42:33 AM PDT by cloud8

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To: dfwgator

I love the mascot. Really made my day.


41 posted on 08/06/2005 8:20:05 AM PDT by teacherwoes (If you can read this...thank a caring teacher)
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To: cloud8
The NCAA decided today to ban schools using Native American names and symbols from hosting championship events

All schools???

42 posted on 08/06/2005 8:20:25 AM PDT by Mo1
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To: Swanks

No, they don't play in 2005. I believe Iowa tate is waiting for the Seminoles to changes their name to the Semen Holes before adding them to their schedule....


43 posted on 08/06/2005 8:20:31 AM PDT by freebilly (Go Manitowoc Bandits!)
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To: cloud8

NCAA = STUPID!


44 posted on 08/06/2005 8:21:31 AM PDT by RAY ( Heroes not, the U.S. Supreme Court!!)
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To: The South Texan
...this Longhorn ...

We need to look into that team name. Sounds like you are promoting the evil cattle industry that is causing heart attacks and enviromental rape of pristine areas where buffalo should be roaming...

45 posted on 08/06/2005 8:22:52 AM PDT by LRS
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To: Shaka

>> "B.S. in Journalism" <<

That kind of sums it all up, doesn't it.


46 posted on 08/06/2005 8:25:25 AM PDT by sd-joe
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To: cloud8
Wonder how much longer this guy has?


47 posted on 08/06/2005 8:27:07 AM PDT by JOE6PAK (Make somebody happy. Mind your own business.)
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To: RatRipper

Yep...Eagles and Tigers are endangered in some places, so they're gonna have to protect their namesake. They will cancel all teams using endangered or near-endangered species to honor their contribution to society.


48 posted on 08/06/2005 8:30:27 AM PDT by Shaka
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To: Shaka

Washington NATIONALS: that's fascist!

Philadelphia Phillies: sounds sexist!


49 posted on 08/06/2005 8:36:20 AM PDT by LRS
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To: cloud8
If one of these teams gets to an NCAA-sanctioned tornament, they should just place black patches over their uniform names/logos with the word "CENSORED" written on it. Or for the tournament, change their names to the "Orwells", "Censors", "Power-Mad Bureaucrats", "Word Police," etc. That would really piss off the PC crowd.

Someone else mentioned the "Utes" could just change the spelling to "Yoots"... Just draw attention to the NCAA's complete idiocy.

50 posted on 08/06/2005 8:41:40 AM PDT by inkling
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To: LRS
How about naming teams the Gays?

LOL.. Hawaii already did that.

51 posted on 08/06/2005 8:43:18 AM PDT by JamesWilson
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To: Shaka

This is the first decent thing that TK Wetherell has done in his lefty-lovin' life. I once had a telephone conversation with this slimeball in which he tried everything, including yelling at me like I was his boy, to stop me from busting him for publicly supporting Clinton in a campus newspaper. I had his sorry butt squealing like a rat trapped in a corner. He would not admit his guilt, even when I read him the words in which he was quoted, in a paper over which he exerted COMPLETE editorial control. I have full faith that he will bend to the PC powers on this.


52 posted on 08/06/2005 8:43:47 AM PDT by ExpatGator (Progressivism: A polyp on the colon politic.)
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To: cloud8

Hopefully this case will lead to the dismantling of the NCAA organization, which has used as a tool of the Left for decades.


53 posted on 08/06/2005 8:48:24 AM PDT by montag813
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To: cloud8
Does Troy still exist? My USC Trojans can't be forced to give up a mascot from 2,500 years ago, can they? What next, the USC Helens? That'll strike fear into the hearts of the bRuins and Domers, for sure!
54 posted on 08/06/2005 8:51:27 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Look it up!)
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To: cloud8

I seem to remember that the UMass teams used to be called the "Redmen" back when I was at UNH ('60s). They were among the first to jump on the PC bandwagon (big surprise there, eh?) and have been the "Minutemen" for decades.


55 posted on 08/06/2005 8:56:10 AM PDT by Past Your Eyes (Suffering fools reluctantly since 1947.)
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To: cloud8

What really should happen is Syracuse and
Stanford ought to go back to their original names.


56 posted on 08/06/2005 8:58:33 AM PDT by gumboyaya
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To: ExpatGator

Not if he wants a paycheck. Alumnus has it's benefits. This has been all over the golf course down here in NW Fla. Coach Bowden is livid. He is the university, not dikwad Wetherell. Hopefully you Gators and those Canes will line up and support..my wife is a Gator and she thinks this is ridiculous. The state of Florida needs to be united in this fight. One falls, we all fall imo.


57 posted on 08/06/2005 8:58:39 AM PDT by Shaka
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To: Shaka; Swanks; cloud8
I am sorry, Shaka, swanks, cloud8; and other fossils, but Charlotte thinks we will need to have our old mind-sets challenged.

... "[Charlotte F. Westerhaus] brings a multitude of skills to this position, which is needed to challenge old mind-sets and ensure the value of diversity and inclusion is fully leveraged,"

Uttered by Floyd Keith, executive director of the Black Coaches Association and a member of the search committee.

http://www2.ncaa.org/media_and_events/association_news/ncaa_news_online/2005/05_23_05/front_page_news/4211n02.html

58 posted on 08/06/2005 8:58:44 AM PDT by bwteim (Begin With The End In Mind)
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To: JamesWilson

Salon actually has an article that got a good laugh from me, at:

http://archive.salon.com/people/satire/2001/04/04/team_names/

59 posted on 08/06/2005 8:59:30 AM PDT by LRS
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To: teacherwoes

Reminds me of the South Park episode where PETA made the school get rid of its mascot (the noble Cows). The kids rigged the vote as a prank and came up with two alternatives -- Giant Douche or Sh*t Sandwich.


60 posted on 08/06/2005 9:02:36 AM PDT by cincinnati65 (Just up the road a piece.......)
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