This One is for Chuck

Get well Charlie.

No school work or ramblings this time.  If you have not heard by now U.S. national team 23-year-old forward, Charlie Davies was in a terrible auto accident early Tuesday morning.  Driving along George Washington Memorial Parkway at about 3:15 a.m., the vehicle containing Davies and two other people crashed, tearing the SUV in half. 

The name of the driver has yet to be released.  One passenger, a 22-year-old female was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident.  Davies was flown by helicopter to the hospital due to the severity of his injuries. 

Davies is still in the hospital and will likely be for atleast another week.  The U.S. will try to regain focus as they face Costa Rica in D.C. tonight.  For those who are attending you are encouraged to go here and print out the no.9 sign and hold it up during the entire ninth minute of the match.

It’s a terrible thing to happen to such a promising young man, let alone athlete.  My thoughts and prayers go out to Davies, the driver, and the girl who was killed as well as thier families.

Get well Chuck…

Following the USMNT to the Gold Cup Finals

Older match recap that I did when the U.S. defeated Honduras on its way to the 2009 Gold Cup final. 

For the second time during the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup, the U.S. men’s national soccer team played Honduras, this time it was in the tournament’s semi-final match, July 23, 2009.  Below is a live blog via my twitter account: Topper18 recapping the highlights and some of my thoughts on the match.  The hash tag used for this match is #USMNT, meaning U.S. men’s national team.

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Senate Calls in the Bigwhigs to Talk Journalism Future

In an effort to stabilize the suffering journalism industry, the U.S. Senate met with several prominent journalists.  These people included: David Simon, former Baltimore Sun writer and creator of the The Wire, Arianna Huffington, founder of The Huffington Post, and Steve Coll, Pulitzer Prize winner and President of the New America Foundation.

Coll opened his statement by saying journalism has entered a stage of “creative destruction”, a term used by economist Joseph Schumpeter, it’s kind of an oxymoron.

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And you thought I couldn’t be serious and discuss non-footy topics…

Talking Advice with the SportzBiz

Washington Times sports business reporter, Tim Lemke, took some time to answer some questions for aspiring journalists as well as share his thoughts on the future of journalism.

Looking at business as work and sports as a hobby or interest, Lemke now comfortably handles both topics.  He also has his own blog at the Times called the SportsBiz blog.

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What the Readers Are Saying About the Newspapers

After discussing the the lay offs and shrinking size of the newspaper at the Baltimore Sun; residents of near by Annapolis, Md., have contributed to the discussion of the struggling newspapers.

Journalists are skeptical of the print edition of newspapers, but how do the readers feel?

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Baltimore-Washington area journalists discuss the newspaper situation

A once proud and plentiful paper, the Baltimore Sun, now finds itself releasing a newspaper consisting of a mere two, maybe three sections for its daily print edition.

For more than a decade the print edition of newspapers worldwide has gradually been suffering.  This decline has been evident in some papers more so than others.

“What happened at the Sun was awful, especially the way it was handled,” said John Eisenberg, a former Sun sports staff writer.

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