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...compare Al Gore's relentlessly piddling and Mitty-esque self-dramatizations to some of Bill Clinton's efforts is to put a Tenderfoot scout in the ring with Mike Tyson...
DIED. CLYDE SUKEFORTH, 98, Brooklyn Dodgers catcher, coach and scout who brought Jackie Robinson to the majors in 1947; in Waldoboro, Maine. Dodgers president Branch Rickey dispatched Sukeforth to scout Negro League shortstop Robinson despite an unwritten rule against black players. Sukeforth was also known to Brooklyn fans as the coach who in 1951 sent pitcher Ralph Branca rather than Carl Erskine in to face the New York Giants' Bobby Thomson in the ninth inning of the pennant play-off. On the second pitch, Thomson launched the "shot heard 'round the world," winning the pennant for the Giants...
...Rose has a little more experience," Murphy said. "But that's a little skewed because Wahlberg, as a freshman last year, was on scout team and [Rose] wasn't even on scout team because he broke his foot two weeks into camp and couldn't play...
That's where talent-scout websites come in. A growing number of sites on the Web specialize in finding unsigned bands. Among the best such sites are Riffage, iCAST and Jimmy and Doug's Farmclub.com They all feature more than just new music. iCAST, for example, has news stories, chat rooms and other services. Most important, however, they offer guidance in locating low-profile, high-quality performers (also, the downloads these sites serve up are done so with the artists' permission). For fans exhausted by the frat rock/tot pop dominating the charts, these online destinations are an exciting alternative...
...Talent-scout sites are exerting a small but growing influence off-line. Farm club.com has a weekly TV series on USA Network. The site (which also has a record label) has signed three artists it discovered online to recording deals. "The Internet has made more people interested in music," says Jimmy Iovine, CEO of Farmclub.com and co-chairman of Interscope Geffen A&M Records. "With more people getting into music, you'll find that there are more people capable of becoming great artists and having great ideas." The Web hasn't produced the new Kurt Cobain yet, but--who knows...