Back to School
By Andrew Knoblauch
Last Updated:1:14 AM EST 9/17/09 Section: Blogs
Welcome back to school Fisher students. I hope all of you survived the summer of tweets, Facebook posts and lots and lots of baseball. More importantly, I hope you are looking forward to enjoying some Cardinal Courier this semester not only in the form of paper but also online.
After a week or so in school, I was brainstorming on what topics I should cover for you in my first column of this 2009-10 school year. Like most of you are probably used to, college is a bundle of jumbled ideas. And that is exactly what this column is as well.
Twitter- Switter. Yes, that is my abbreviation for the "Summer of Twitter." I am as guilty as anyone for falling into this trend. Like my brother said at lunch in D.C. one afternoon, "it really makes you feel like you are important. Or that your best friends are the big time stars." Yes, that is the great part about twitter- you as a fan can follow Shaq, Ochocinco, Steve Nash and even SportsCenter.
Talk about convenience, all it takes is 140 characters or lessfor you to get the news. It took 140 characters for me to find out Michael Jackson died. It took the same amount to state how unlucky Farah Fawcett was because she shared her passing day with the King of Pop. And oh yes, sports? This was the tweet that broke the largest news story in the NFL in quite some time.
"Vick is an Eagle."
How many characters is that? 16 characters, and I knew everything I needed to know. To follow my tweets, which the majority of the time will relate to sports-twitter.com/ButlerKid47…I know, guilty as sin.
Football- St. John Fisher College at this point of the season is 1-1, with two very non-competitive games. The first game, a 52-10 drubbing of the Cardinals by Mt. Union, displayed just how efficient one team can be. What were the positives?
Normally, there are no positives from a loss, no moral victories in football, but it shows that more work needs to be done.
The second game was the complete opposite, as the Cardinals blew past Buffalo State, scoring 52 unanswered points on their way to a 55-7 victory. Tim Bailey, who has three touchdown passes this season, is 43 yards away from becoming the third player in Fisher history to surpass 3,000 throwing yards.
After a week or so in school, I was brainstorming on what topics I should cover for you in my first column of this 2009-10 school year. Like most of you are probably used to, college is a bundle of jumbled ideas. And that is exactly what this column is as well.
Twitter- Switter. Yes, that is my abbreviation for the "Summer of Twitter." I am as guilty as anyone for falling into this trend. Like my brother said at lunch in D.C. one afternoon, "it really makes you feel like you are important. Or that your best friends are the big time stars." Yes, that is the great part about twitter- you as a fan can follow Shaq, Ochocinco, Steve Nash and even SportsCenter.
Talk about convenience, all it takes is 140 characters or lessfor you to get the news. It took 140 characters for me to find out Michael Jackson died. It took the same amount to state how unlucky Farah Fawcett was because she shared her passing day with the King of Pop. And oh yes, sports? This was the tweet that broke the largest news story in the NFL in quite some time.
"Vick is an Eagle."
How many characters is that? 16 characters, and I knew everything I needed to know. To follow my tweets, which the majority of the time will relate to sports-twitter.com/ButlerKid47…I know, guilty as sin.
Football- St. John Fisher College at this point of the season is 1-1, with two very non-competitive games. The first game, a 52-10 drubbing of the Cardinals by Mt. Union, displayed just how efficient one team can be. What were the positives?
Normally, there are no positives from a loss, no moral victories in football, but it shows that more work needs to be done.
The second game was the complete opposite, as the Cardinals blew past Buffalo State, scoring 52 unanswered points on their way to a 55-7 victory. Tim Bailey, who has three touchdown passes this season, is 43 yards away from becoming the third player in Fisher history to surpass 3,000 throwing yards.
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