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Former NU kicker's dreams come true
Chris Ulinksi was hardly thinking much about football when he returned to the University of Nevada campus in Reno this fall.
The 2005 Nevada Union graduate was too busy hitting the books, the dining hall and, eventually, the rugby field.
"I guess I'd gained my freshman 15," Ulinski said. "I had grown up my whole life playing sports and now I'm not. So rugby gives me something to do three days a week. And it gives me a core group of friends."
Splitting the uprights with the football couldn't have been much further from his mind. He hadn't kicked in a game since NU's 2004 section-runner-up season. And that season was his only year of football, having been recruited from the school's soccer squad.
"I thought my kicking days were over," Ulinski said.
Steep prices await fans heading to national championship game
She kept tabs on the prices as she waited for the Buckeyes' opponent to be selected, and, finally, she purchased three club-level tickets Sunday. The price tag: $9,252, counting the broker's fee and shipping. Jackson, a Phoenix resident, who won't have to pay for airfare or a hotel stay, isn't the only one shelling out big bucks for the big game experience. The game in Glendale, Ariz., between Ohio State (12-0) and No. 2 Florida (12-1) is still three weeks away, but travelers who have yet to make plans likely will have to pay at least $400 just for airfare, more than double that for a ticket and they'll be lucky to find a hotel room in a nearby city - forget about Glendale, it's pretty much booked. Travel agents in Columbus sold most of their deals including ticket, airfare and hotel costs by last week.
Fighting words
Hip Hop Is Dead. That's the title of the impressive new album by the rapper Nas. It is meant to inspire a reaction, and so far it has.
During a recent radio interview, Atlanta rapper Young Jeezy took exception to the notion that hip-hop has expired.
"I don't think hip-hop is dead at all," he said. "It's just a new day and time, it's a new story, it's a new movement." Young Jeezy sounded not just irritated but wounded too, asking, "I'm-a respect his craft, he ain't gon' respect mine?" Somehow a vague album title had come to seem like a personal insult.
So what is Nas talking about exactly? On his classic 1994 debut album, Illmatic, Nas perfected a dense, rat-a-tat rhyme style that built upon the legacy of 1980s pioneers like Rakim and Big Daddy Kane.
Thanks a Million! OC's Scholarship Foundation Gets an Early ...
By Steven Gardner, sgardner@kitsapsun.com
December 15, 2006 Bremerton A man who spent a lot of nights on the dance floor and could charm strangers into thinking about long-term finance is leaving some of his own wealth for Olympic College students. .
4th MLG Marine receives national scholarship award
MARINE FORCES RESERVE, New Orleans - (Dec. 7, 2006) -- Many young people are not sure what path to take in life during their senior year of high school or college. They question what will happen once they cross the stage. One Marine, however, doesn't have to worry about that.
Cpl. Doug J. Schmid, a 21 year-old field radio operator with Company C, 4th Landing Support Battalion, 4th Marine Logistics Group, received the Truman Scholarship Award in May for a paper he wrote on the need to expand civil affairs units in the Marine Corps.
Upon graduating from the Citadel, Schmid plans to attend the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia, where he looks forward to studying for his master's degree.
In Australia, Schmid will study counterinsurgency as well as philosophy and international relations.
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