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Our favorite chocolate cutie GIRL6 has a report about the NFL’s big game in Miami, Florida.
This month’s Super Bowl 2007 in Miami Florida marks the first time two black coaches (I don’t use the label “African-American” y’all because I don’t see black folk in America just African and American in this country) to take NFL teams to this great game and no matter the outcome—one will be the winning coach. The first ever!!! This is something to shout about (and during Black History Month at that!) This is something to be proud of!

Tony Dungy, head coach of the Indianapolis Colts

and Lovie Smith, the head coach of the Chicago Bears

both men have excelled in the NFL for some time. They are not new names in the league. Both have a more than 20 year career history in the league; and part of that history is together in Tampa Florida with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Both have many times, often in interviews, expressed a great fondness and admiration for one another. Both men are adept at fielding all the questions coming at them in regard to how they feel about the various issues they find them selves involved in during sucha major event.

I have watched them more closely than ever during the lead up to this game. To me they exemplify the true meaning of great men with nothing but pure class about themselves in everything.

What I love most is they award their young players so much honor and tend to speak modestly about themselves; they put the focus to their teams and what getting to this fantastic moment of their playing careers should mean for the players.

I applaud them for that. I also applaud them for not letting the media put a negative twist, turn and spin on everything leading up to game day.

It is a great legacy and precedent to represent, to be the first black coaches to lead their teams and participate in the great game but more importantly I feel it can open up anyone’s mind that with hard work, perseverance, class, sacrifice and a style of one’s own you can do just about anything in life, reach a pentacle and achieve the utmost of goals.

Now on to some other great Super Bowl news….the one and only PRINCE was the half time entertainment featured artist for this year’s game and he was exciting as h**!!(Sorry, but this GIRL is all too familiar with this man and I am just too thrilled to have witnessed another awesome performance by His Purpleness!) This was the best half time show in 10 years, even rated better than the Tittie-gate show.

PRINCE is more than just one of the world’s most popular and influential musicians –he is an international icon. One of the greatest living performers of our time, he has sold nearly 100 million albums and is a member of The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. He has won six Grammy Awards (he’s one of the leading nominees this year with five Grammy nominations) and five American Music Awards. He has one of the most recognizable and successful bodies of work of any musician, consisting of 20 Top 10 hits which include “Purple Rain,” “Little Red Corvette,” “1999,” “Kiss,” “When Doves Cry,” “Cream,” “Diamonds and Pearls” and countless others. There is no question that when it comes to his achievements, Prince has made an indelible mark on rock ‘n roll history.

Word on the skreet, that’s right I said, “skreet”, according to Las Vegas reporter Alicia Jacobs, of tv station KVBC-TV in Las Vegas, PRINCE is due to cut ties with the Rio Hotel on March 31st, in order to begin touring to promote his latest album “3121.” A spokesman for the Rio Hotel, the club has been dubbed Club 3121, told the Las Vegas Review Journal that no end date has been confirmed as of yet. Stay tuned for tour dates ….

So on that note, y’all—hope you had a fabulously historic February
This GIRL is out!

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Again, a blogger has nailed the news industry where it hurts. Ryan Sholin at Invisible Inkling lists the 10 obvious things about the future of newspapers you need to get through your head. The posting is a few days old, and several bloggers have already linked it, including Jeff Jarvis, who quoted the whole thing.

There is a generational component to this debate, but lots of us old journalists are trying to make these points, too. Sholin’s list is right on the money, though, with points like these:
2. It’s not Craig’s fault. Newspaper classifieds suck and they have for years. Either develop simple database applications with photos and maps to let your users actually find what they’re looking for, or partner with a good third-party vertical who can. Anything less is a waste of your time.
And the one I like best, of course:
5. You don’t get to charge people for archives and you certainly don’t want to charge people for daily news content. Pulling your copy behind walls where it can’t be seen by readers on the wider Web. Search rules(my emphasis). Don’t hide from it.
Here’s a great example of why news needs to be available online: The New Yorker is taking a beating from several bloggers about a Paul McCartney story that isn’t on their website, only in print. Here’s Rachel Sklar at The Huffington Post:
The point is, the New Yorker is doing the same thing with this McCartney article as it did with Remnick’s massive piece on Bill Clinton last fall: Rendered it effectively non-existent online. Sure, people may write about it (that’s how I found out about it, via my excellent and insightful mesh colleague Cynthia Brumfield), but that doesn’t translate into pageviews or, less cynically, the chance to read an excellent article about Paul McCartney.

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