Story Ideas

Who: Coach Tomey, players of the San Jose State Football Team, fans, Coaches and Trainers, and new recruits.

What: How the Spring and Summer Training as well as the addition of new players will affect the Fall 08 season.

When: Spring/Summer/Fall the story could be an ongoing chronicle until the end of the 08 season.

Where: San Jose, Spartan Stadium, Simpkins Center.

Why: Since last season was so horrible and embarrassing, and the season before we won a bowl game, i feel it is important for fans as well as the players to have the confidence that the 06 season was not a fluke.

How: Going to find out how this training as well as recruits will affect the outcome of the Spartan Football team.

Leads Exercise 5-Immediate and Delayed Identification Leads

Immediate:

Duane La Chance, 55, suffered third-degree burns and was listed in serious condition Wednesday night after he was installing new pipes at the Springfield Municipal Power Plant and accidentally touched a power line carrying 15,000 volts.

Delayed:

After suffering third-degree burns Duane La Chance, was listed in serious condition Wednesday night in the intensive care unit at Springfield Hospital. Chance, 55 was installing new pipes at the Springfield Municipal Power Plant when accidentally touched a power line carrying 15,000 volts.

Immediate:

James W. Cunning, 20, and Wayne Clay, 19 had a head on collision when Clay apparently crossed the center line onto U.S. 63 South and struck Cunnings' 2005 Ford Focus. Cunning is in satisfactory condition at Springfield Hospital.

Delayed:

At 11:45 a.m. today on U.S. 63, one-tenth of a mile north of Blue Ridge Road, James W. Cunning, 20, and Wayne Clay, 19 had a head on collision when Clay apparently crossed the center line onto U.S. 63 South and struck Cunnings' 2005 Ford Focus.

Fairy Tale Leads

The Little Mermaid

Direct Lead:
.Mermaid Princess Ariel in exchange for legs and lungs, surrendered her voice to the evil sea witch Ursula, in order to find her true love Prince Eric Charming.


Delayed Lead:

Sea Witch Ursula so badly desired to become Queen of Mer-People, she used Princess Ariel’s passion for human Prince Eric Charming and tricked her into gambling her freedom as well as sacrificing her voice to temporarily become human.

Ursula nearly succeeded when she impersonated a human and hypnotized Prince Eric into falling in love with her, luckily for Ariel true love conquered all and although she had a few minor set backs, she left her family, regained her voice and married the Prince of her dreams.

AP Style

Rule #1: The rule is nowadays NOT nowdays

Rule #2: you may round centimeters and feet, when there is a decimal after the first numeral.
example: 30.48 rounds to 30.

Rule #3: When refering to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the term IRS is only acceptable after the second reference.

Rule#4: Tokyo stands alone in datelines

2 News Articles

Abandoned anchor cut Gulf Internet cable

By KATARINA KRATOVAC, Associated Press Writer Fri Feb 8, 2:24 PM ET

CAIRO, Egypt - An abandoned anchor was responsible for cutting one of the undersea Internet cables severed last week, causing disruptions across the Middle East and parts of Asia, the cable's owner said Friday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080208/ap_on_hi_te/mideast_internet_outage

Who: an owner
What: an abandoned anchor severed internet cable
When: last week
Where: Under the sea (effected the Middle East and parts of Asia)
Why: it was abandoned
How: it severed the internet cables

Should we change the playoff structure?

By MJD

Wednesday, Feb 6, 2008 5:08 pm EST

Roger Goodell wants to make it so that in the first round of the playoffs, division winners wouldn't automatically have a home game. If they played a wildcard team that had a better record, the wild card team would get the game in their own crib.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/nfl_experts/post/Should-we-change-the-playoff-structure-?urn=nfl,65500

Who: Roger Goodell
What: wants to change the field advantage of playoff division winners,
When: Wednesday(doesn't say in article, but does in the byline)
Where: doesn't say
Why: so that the wildcard team that goes up against division winner has a fair shot,
How: doesn't say

Smoking Wheels/ Missing Boy

Smoking Wheels

Forty passengers evacuated a Northwest Airlines Jet Wednesday at the LaCrosse, WI, Municipal Airport, when a landing tower employee spotted smoke near the wheels. The aircraft was returning from Minneapolis, MN.

Missing Boy

A 7-year-old boy who has been missing for the past three years, was found Monday night in Brick Township, N.J. after a neighbor recognized the boy from a photograph he saw at the end of a movie.

The boys mother Ellen Lynn Conner, 27, was arrested and faces charges of kidnapping and interface with a custody warrant.

Chevy Chase

Actor/Comedian and Alumni of Bard College, Chevy Chase was appointed to the Board of Trustees Sunday in Annandale, NY.

Air Crash

All 131 passengers aboard a US airplane were killed Sunday, when the airplane crashed while preparing its descent just outside of Pittsburg.

This is the worst air crash in the United States has seen in 3 years.