Missing Out On History
by Cheval John
When NBC showed the bronze medal game between the Brazilian duo of Julianna/Larissa and China’s duo of Zhang Xi and Xue Chen, I believed that they were going to show the gold medal match between Americans Kerry Walsh-Jennings/ Misty May-Treanor and Jennifer Kessy/April Ross right after that match.
Instead, they showed track and field at 3 p.m., which I didn’t care for at the time and then the men’s water polo match between the USA and Serbia, by which the men’s team got destroyed by Serbia .
Not that I didn’t like track and field, but I wanted to witness history.
I wanted to see if May-Treanor/Walsh would win their third consecutive gold medal at the London Olympics or get defeated by an up and coming duo of Kessy/Ross.
May/Walsh eventually defeated Kessy/Ross by the score of 21-16, 21-16 to claim their third straight Olympic gold.
It was the first time that competitors from the same country were playing for a gold medal since the inception of beach volleyball in the Olympics in 1996 when competitors from Brazil faced off for the coveted gold.
Walsh/May have excelled in tournaments and Olympic competition since they became partners in 2001.
They have been the face of beach volleyball and have grown the sport with their enthusiasm and domination.
Everyone expected them to be in the gold medal game.
However, no one expected Kessy/Ross to be there.
The duo have competed in AVP and FIVA tours since 2007.
They even knocked off the Walsh/May on September 7, 2008 to advance to the final of the AVP tournament in Cincinnati, Ohio.
They earned it the hard way by defeating Brazilian duo and No.1 Julianna/Larissa in three sets to make it to the gold medal match.
But NBC decided to show the game in prime time, which ruined everything and once again cheated the audience out of history.
I was bound to find out the results before it aired one way or another through the internet.
Many people complained that MSN should not have showned the results of the match before the actual event aired.
In reality, they did what they are suppose to do: get the information out there as soon as it happened.
Some even suggested that NBC should have shown the event live and then show it again in replay for those who missed it.
That way, those that missed it, can at least see how they got to that result.
I wonder if the executives of NBC ever thought of that.
Time Out Is Not Good Enough
By Cheval John
Classes resumed at the North Harris campus of Lone Star College System today after a shooting took place yesterday that left three people injured.
According to a report from CBSNews.com, investigators said that it all started from a fight before it escalated to gun fire.
Harris County police, North Harris campus police, etc. arrived at the scene within minutes and evacuated everyone from campus.
Carlton Berry, who were involved in the shooting, suffered gun shot wounds and is in stable condition.
He was later charged with aggreviated assault and is still in stable condition.
With the heated debate of gun control, the shooting received national attention from major media outlets from NBC to CBS.
Many would use this as an example to say that if teachers were armed with a guns, they would not be this wide spread shooting.
Some legislators in Texas and Arkansas are even trying to get a bill passed in their respective states that would allow those who have a license to carry a concealed weapon on universities.
They believe that it will solve everything and keep the campus safe.
Personally, I believe that the reason why we have all of these shootings at schools across the nation is
because these same people that are causing these massacres having received discipline at their home while they were children.
It seems like if a child does something wrong, the parents put them in “time out” to think about what they had done wrong instead of spanking them.
What they don’t realize is that they are allowing their child to get away with stuff that by the time they grow up, they believe that they can get away with anything and continue to be a menace to society.
On the other hand, the police are doing their best to control the crime and in a way are doing the job that the parents should have been doing in the first place.
I really think that this nation needs to get back to the good ole days of spanking their child while they are young because if they don’t, the schools will continue to be a war zone.
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