Batting Stance Guy

Still cool.

An amazing story

From ESPN The Magazine:

[Eric Frimpong] left his native Ghana in 2005 to play soccer for UC Santa Barbara; a year later he became a campus hero while leading the Gauchos to their first-ever national championship. If the immigrant experience can have a sound, Frimpong's sound was a raucous stadium. But in 2007, just weeks after being selected by the Kansas City Wizards in the MLS draft, he was accused of raping another student on the beach near his house. Now he's a convicted felon.

Read the story.

Deep thought

Journalists have been trained for many years to take their own voice out of their stories. But in blogging, it is a definite advantage to keep your voice in your posts, as it helps create a connection (when there were just newspapers, there was no need for a connection -- their authority as being Journalists in a newspaper).

This could be one reason why there are still some journalists who moan about 'those damned bloggers.'