Author: Kris

That female placekicker I told you about won her case! The jury found that she was “cut her from the team solely because of her gender” and awarded her $2 million. She’s going to use it fund a scholarship for female placekickers. That’s so great. (Sidenote: I got the school wrong when I reported it earlier. It was actually Duke, not UNC.)

Cappy Gagnon wrote a really good article in the Observer recently filled with mental self-defense tips for women.

Yet another fun quiz. (Hey, it’s Friday! Cut me some slack.) This one asks you to identify songs that aren’t named after their most catchy lyrics. It’s pretty damn funny. I only got 5 out of 8 though.

College girls: How well do you know your chocolate? This site shows you cross-sections of various sweets and candy bars and asks you to identify what they are. Some are harder than you think. (And at least one goes by the British name, but if you can’t recognize that it’s really an M&M, you probably shouldn’t play anyway.)

NBC is developing a new game show titled “On the Cover,” which will quiz contestants on “pop culture trivia and the images featured on the covers of popular magazines, books, CDs, movie posters, TV title sequences and classic albums.” It’s supposed to be a cross between Entertainment Tonight and Jeopardy. KICKASS! The episode to end all episodes: Kristine Howard vs. Kelly McMahon vs. Sal Scherer vs. Liz McKillop.

Big shout outs to Sal Scherer. You made my day with that e-mail! At least somebody is reading this besides me. 🙂

An easy way to do a good deed: use your computer to fight AIDS. Really.

Grrrr. Remember I told you about the female kicker who is suing North Carolina because she claims she was cut from the football team for being female? Predictably, N.C. is claiming that they cut her because she just wasn’t good enough. Which I could understand… except for the fact that she testified that her coach “told her she should give up kicking footballs and perhaps give beauty pageants a try.”

Wow! I didn’t know that Norm from “Cheers” went to Notre Dame! And apparently he lived in Pangborn!

I always thought Charles Rice was a bit of bully and an asshole. Another student agrees with me.