Word: jock
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...cash, their shares have soared in the past year. XM is up 379%; Sirius, 491%. Analyst April Horace of Janco Partners in Denver predicts that within five years 16 million Americans will be listening to satellite radio. She says the market would explode if a popular shock jock like Howard Stern were to defect with his 15 million listeners, a prospect that looked more likely last week after six traditional stations dropped his show following an FCC proposal to fine their corporate parent, Clear Channel Communications, $495,000 for airing his "indecent" content...
...like his role models, Farkes is not all jock. Not surprisingly, the English and American Literature concentrator lists reading and writing among his interests, which accounts for the presence of Hemingway, Thoreau and even W.P. Kinsella on that list...
...it’s the jock side—or, more accurately, the baseball side—that makes Zak Farkes so important to Harvard baseball. They don’t hand out Rookie of the Year awards to just any Boston-area kid who makes a splash in college, even if coming in that kid was a four-year starter who won a total of 108 games in his high school career...
...stood out for their juicy barroom-vignette style. Full of violence, sex and drugs, nearly all of them could begin, "I remember one time ?" Put into rough chronological order, starting from his childhood, the collection slowly adds up to a portrait of a rebellious baby boomer - from angry gridiron jock to drugged-out longhair, and into mellowed middle...
ESPN employees are counting on Comcast to be less synergy minded than the Mouse. They bristle at promoting Disney movies on their jock network, even though cross promotion is standard operating procedure at media conglomerates (and ESPN certainly isn't shy about endlessly pushing its programs, such as the X Games). But there is one part of Disney they want to retain, says an ESPN worker: "I just hope they keep our free theme-park passes...