By The Beachwood Ann Marie Affairs Desk

This just in.
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From: “Robert J. Zimmer”<president@uchicago.edu> Date: September 8, 2008 9:31:50 AM CDT
To: “‘university-community@bulkmail.uchicago.edu'”
Subject: Vice President for Civic Engagement
Reply-To: president@uchicago.edu
To: University Community
From: Robert J. Zimmer
Date: September 8, 2008
Re: Vice President for Civic Engagement
I am very pleased to announce that Ann Marie Lipinski, former editor of the Chicago Tribune, has accepted the position of Vice President for Civic Engagement at the University. She will begin her new position on October 1.</president@uchicago.edu>

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Posted on September 8, 2008

By Dan Simon

Non-football fans here are running the sports bars, there are only a few of them and they are usually focused on Rugby and European footie.
Japanese Olympic coverage was an ominous preview of what may be a sparse and unexciting football viewing season for yours truly. Coverage was limited only to sports in which Japanese athletes excelled (Judo, badminton, women’s freestyle wrestling, table tennis, swimming, baseball, softball and a bit of gymnastics). Many of the track and field events and almost all of the basketball, cycling and volleyball were not shown in favor of broadcasting replays of events with Japanese players or TV “celebrity” commentary on Japanese athletic performances.
It also should be noted that almost without exception, all Olympic recap commentators had little to no sporting experience and even less knowledge. One clip that was played over and over again featured a Japanese female wrestler executing the “butt-drag” technique and a brisk dialogue between commentators about the positioning of her fingers while executing said technique, no joke.

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Posted on September 2, 2008