Sporting Madness: headlines

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Tuesday, December 09, 2008

An odd mistake

Note to headline writers: there are two English Premier League teams that play in Manchester. Darius Vassell plays for Manchester City, not Manchester United, so a story about him being robbed should not be entitled "Manchester United striker robbed." It's particularly bad when the article itself mentions that he plays for City. Please don't confuse the two teams, or myself and Duane might have to form an unholy alliance and gang up on you. That is all.

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Sporting Madness

Madness definitions from WordNet:

n 1: obsolete terms for legal insanity
[syn: lunacy, madness, insaneness]
2: an acute viral disease of the
nervous system of warm-blooded animals
(usually transmitted by the bite of a
rabid animal); rabies is fatal if the
virus reaches the brain [syn:rabies,
hydrophobia, lyssa, madness]
3: a feeling of intense anger; "hell
hath no fury like a woman scorned";
"his face turned red with rage"
[syn: fury,rage, madness]
4: the quality of being rash and
foolish; "trying to drive through
a blizzard is the height of folly";
"adjusting to an insane society is
total foolishness" [syn: folly,
foolishness, craziness, madness]
5: unrestrained excitement or
enthusiasm; "poetry is a sort of
divine madness" [syn: madness,
rabidity, rabidness]

Seems to me that following sports as obsessively as I do can cause all of these definitions, sometimes simultaneously.