Apr 30th, 2008
Story of sportsmanship gaining national attention
CWU softball players Liz Wallace, left, and Mallory Holtman carry Western Oregon outfielder Sara Tucholsky around the bases after an unfortunate injury kept Tucholsky from running the bases under her own power. The story has gained national attention. Blake Wolf/special to the Daily Record
For the Daily Record
ELLENSBURG – The story of the Central Washington University softball team and its act of sportsmanship this past Saturday is receiving national attention.
The story of how Wildcat first baseman Mallory Holtman and shortstop Liz Wallace helped Western Oregon outfielder Sara Tucholsky around the bases after an unfortunate injury during her home run trot was first told on ESPN.com on Monday. Since the story broke on ESPN’s Web site, phone calls and e-mails from numerous media outlets have poured in, as have generic e-mails from across the country complimenting the Wildcat student-athletes on their act of sportsmanship.
Jonathan Gordon, director of Athletic Media Relations at Central, said the story has grown into the biggest news event he’s dealt with at the school — surprisingly so. It was mentioned in the seventh paragraph of CWU’s 11-paragraph press release on the game.
Gordon did not contact ESPN, but by Sunday morning he’d received his first call from an online columnist with ESPN.com. And the calls have just kept on coming. This morning Gordon started fielding calls at 7 a.m. — an hour before he regularly reports to work — and didn’t event get a chance to catch his breath until 9 a.m.
“The attention is awesome for the university,” he said.
When asked why the story had taken off Gordon said he thought that the CWU players’ act of kindness and sportsmanship struck a chord with a nation hungering for good news.
“My opinion is that the way society is these days, you don’t see a lot of positive stories like this,” he said. “Even at a small school like this, it’s kind of justice, so to speak, that something positive can get the media attention.
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11 Responses to “Story of sportsmanship gaining national attention”
I do.
At this point it would be hard for America to take an “us and them” approach because all of our economies are tied together. We have more foreign investment than ever before and nearly one third of our national debt is held by foreign nations. He may sound like an isolationist, but surely that’s not what he means.It would be very refreshing to have a Libertarian in office and if he can get over the legalized drug stigma from past campaigns, he nay get somewhere.
Not many, I imagine. Maybe if the headline included the word “snark” or something.
Every dictionary I used said that’s a non-word. Speaking of silly, emotional BS, how’s making up words to push an agenda?Historically, English has not had (and does not have) a singular, gender-neutral pronoun for people (there’s “it” for non-people). Thus, English words and phrases use the masculine when the subject is of unknown gender. Most other languages (excepting German, which has such a word) do something similar. It’s been like this for quite a while and works well. There’s no need to mess with it just because the gender is known in this specific case.
You can yell at me for generalizing all you want, because I am, but looking around my college campus at the folks who really care about Darfur, I’m not sure how many of them could disengage a safety let alone actually fire a damn rifle effectively. Waste of ammo. You got the right idea, though.
Reminds me of Ross Perot reclone.
Indeed. L’état n’est pas moi.
By definition, a proponent of free trade cannot be an isolationist.The cause of free trade is the cause of peace.
I have as well. I changed voter registrations from Dem to Pub just to vote for Ron Paul in the primaries.