Mid-season…Bobby Knight has retired as the Head Coach of Texas Tech University mens basketball. His son, Pat Knight, will be named the Head Coach and finish out the season for his dad. That’s all the info I have.

I’ve always been a member of Newsvine since it started a couple years ago. I thought it was a brilliant idea and wished I could have done something like that. Now look at them! They’ve grown to an outstanding size at a pace that blows most other news sites out of the water. You want up to the minute news on just about anything, you can go there, sign up, customize your own news area, and watch it all come streaming into your browser. Not only that, you can seed (get it? newsvine) any articles you want. And to top it all off, you can write your own columns/articles! How sweet is that! Now just about anybody can publish. Wait, is that a good or bad thing? I’ll let you decide, go check out what I have done over there so far. Nothing of my own, but I’ve created an area for Texas Tech (Newsvine) that’s so far just been mainly sports.

I’ve also taken out the Categories list below, and switched it to something I am toying with. I am mixing the newsvine site with my site, creating an always updated area for Texas Tech. I’ll eventually move this to my Texas Tech link, but for now this is a good way to test for future reuse. Just take a look below and you’ll see a list of items that you’ll see on the Texas Tech Newsvine site.

Campaign is a combined effort on behalf of Texas Tech and the Lubbock community

July 26, 2007

Raider Power Spirit and Sportsmanship Campaign

LUBBOCK, Texas. - Texas Tech Athletics unveiled its Raider Power Spirit and Sportsmanship Campaign today designed to enhance school spirit and promote healthy sportsmanship across the university campus and the city of Lubbock.

The Raider Power Campaign is a joint effort on behalf of athletics, the university, the City of Lubbock, the Lubbock Chamber of Commerce and various community leaders. This is the first official organized spirit/sportsmanship campaign done through athletics and has been officially adopted by Mayor David Miller on behalf of the city of Lubbock.

Sportsmanship across the landscape of sport is increasingly becoming an issue that numerous organizations at the high school, collegiate and professional ranks are being forced to address. The Big 12 Conference has adopted a spectator code of conduct and Texas Tech’s campaign will follow closely along the guidelines set forth by the league.

“Sportsmanship and the spirit in which we support our teams are important to us,” said Gerald Myers, Director of Athletics. “We have a loyal and outstanding fan base, but there are areas of spirit and sportsmanship that can be improved.

The objective of the campaign is to promote spirit and sportsmanship by defining a popular Red Raider cheer “Raider Power” as: Honor, Respect, Pride and Tradition. Through these four simple words, Texas Tech hopes to maintain a distinct home field advantage yet unify Red Raider fans through this objective.

“Texas Tech teams are tough to play against at home,” said Myers. “That reputation must be maintained and developed for all sports, and it can be done with class and respect for opposing fans, teams and officials. Be loud and stay late and let the opponents experience a Raider Power crowd that is 100% partisan for Texas Tech. Do it with class by eliminating profanity directed toward opponents, throwing objects on the fields and courts, and other disparaging remarks toward opponents and officials.”

This comprehensive campaign will set forth to educate our fan base on the importance of being a good sportsman and raising the bar in regards to school spirit. Passion and rivalry both play major roles in the excitement of college sports but that energy should be used in a positive manner that celebrates the accomplishment and sacrifices of all student-athletes.

Through this effort, Texas Tech will bring together its student-athletes, coaches and fans to rally under one common ground and make Lubbock, Texas the home of the best fans in college athletics. Raider Power.

This time it’s not from LogoMaid.

For those of you that follow this blog, you know that I am also an avid sports fan. I follow mostly Texas Tech University sports, but sometimes keep up with my old HS since I have moved back to my old stomping grounds. So here’s what I found. I frequent several recruiting sites. One of them being the Scout.com network, specifically Texas Tech. While thumbing through some articles I saw something that I knew I had seen some place else. I’ll quit typing and just show you:

So, I was surfin through that site above, reading about my sports and I see this:

and look close at his chest, at the B.

Yep, I’d seen that before, but first I did a search for Badger Sport to see what it was all about…and to prove what I had seen. I came to this:

And for the logo that I am ashamed to call out for lifting/ripping off the above logo, my old HS, my old stomping grounds, that I have just lost a ton of respect for:

You know, with this trend…I am really tiring of this…and maybe it’s time for a job change? Nah! It’s getting kind of fun calling these people out. I hope I get a response from someone in the Admin offices of my old HS. Heck, their site is horrible…maybe I can offer a redesign of the entire ISD system sites! Hahaha…