Sporting News 02.29.12

How will MMA fans react to a fighter with a gay porn past?

• New ground: A UFC fighter who's done gay porn Bloody Elbow
• Back for its fourth games: Olympic trampolining North West Evening Mail
• Bluffton University baseball team shave heads in support of BaseBald for the Cure Lima News
• Not going anywhere: Kings strike deal to stay in Sacramento ESPN
• Concussions worse for teens NPR
• ESPN's selects talented young athletes to watch in its "18 Under 18" list ESPN

Week 06: Mia Hamm, Soccer

Hamm has scored more int'l goals than any other player, male or female

Mo 2.27
Read: eR—“I Believe that Sports Truly Saved My Life …” (This I Believe), “I Hated Gym Class and Other Stories” (Runner’s World)
Class: Reading discussion; Lecture—“On Wordiness: Exercises”
Due: PERSUASIVE ESSAY (FINAL DRAFT—ATTACH: A. ONE COPY OF DRAFT 1 AND B. A ONE PARAGRAPH RATIONALE FOR YOUR REVISIONS)

We 2.29
Read: eR—“One Man’s Love for Basketball: First, Baseball” (Owen Strachan), “Gym Class Horrors” (110 Pounds and Counting); FEVER—“1968 – 1975”
Class: Reading discussion; Presentations
Due: REFLECTION 3

Upcoming:

Week 07: Michelle Kwan, Figure Skating
Mo 3.5
Read” FEVER—“1976 – 1986”
Class: AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY

We 3.7
Read: FEVER—“1986 – 1992”
Class: Reading discussion; Presentations; Preview—Literary Analysis / Short Answer Responses