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Indeed, far from killing record companies, the Internet is spawning even more of them. "I don't believe that having 30,000 songs by any number of unknown artists is what the average consumer is excited about," says Al Teller, the former head of CBS Records and MCA Music Entertainment Group. Last year Teller founded an Internet record label based in Santa Monica, Calif., called Atomic Pop, which has released albums by Chuck D and Ice-T; they can be purchased from Atomic Pop's website in the form of a CD or a downloaded file. The musicians keep half...
Last Friday, in a fit of desperation over our malfunctioning television--CBS was the only channel we didn't get--we went to Radio Shack to buy an antenna. Talking with the guy at the counter, we casually mentioned that we needed the antenna for the NCAA tournament. Then he mentioned that he went to school with a guy who eventually became a pretty famous basketball coach--Mike Jarvis, of St. John...
Last year over Spring Break, the men's volleyball paid a visit to the classic CBS game show "The Price is Right" on its annual California road trip. In addition to the laughs and merriment provided by the show, junior co-captain Justin Micomonaco was "called on down" to be a contestant by Rod Roddy and won a parrot armoire, a bar set, and a riding lawn mower...
...College basketball players run about 6'3, which of course is way too small in a sport dominated by mini-Goliaths. They make up for this by having "mad ups", which means they can jump really high. But don't expect to hear Billy Packer of CBS Sports using this slang on TV: he's busy telling his female co-workers to "go find a WNBA game...
...that many have trouble making ends meet on campus. Hence the idea of a stipend. And these kids know they have leverage. "They're not naive," says James Haney, director of the National Association of Basketball Coaches and the architect behind the SBC. "They recognize that the $6 billion CBS contract with the NCAA is the result of what they're doing on the court...