SOME LESS SHINING MOMENTS.Byline: TOM HOFFARTH MEDIA We're on the bubble about whether you need to know about these stories that often slip through the mayhem of March and end up in the busboy's tray next to the plate of Dick Vitale's chicken-wing bones at the Bristol, Conn., Hooters This article is about the two restaurant chains collectively using the shared Hooters brand. For other uses, see Hooters (disambiguation). Hooters is the trade name of two privately held American restaurant chains: Hooters of America, Inc based in Atlanta, Georgia, and . Noting the possession arrow points to the reader, we've decided to continue: What's the story What's the Story was an American television program broadcast on the now defunct DuMont Television Network from 1951 to 1955. It was a game show originally hosted by Walt Raney. : After losing to Cal in the play-in game to the Pacific-10 Tournament on Wednesday, officials at the University of Washington were asked if they'd be interested in getting their 16-16 team that lost four of its past five games into the postseason. Not the NCAA Tournament, of course. Maybe not even the second-option NIT A measurement of luminance. One nit is equal to one candela per square meter (1cd/m2). Ten thousand nits are equal to one stilb. See candela. . Wanna come over and play with the other warmed-up leftovers in the College Basketball Invitational? "I think what we've done this year and the teams we've beat and how we've shown we can play, I think is deserving of postseason play," Huskies injured star Jon Brockman told the (Tacoma) News Tribune. Not everyone's on the same bracket page. After Oklahoma State lost in the Big 12 tournament, athletic director Mike Holder and coach Sean Sutton said that, with a 17-15 record and losing three of their past four, they would accept a bid to the NIT, but not the College Basketball Invitational. Officials at Missouri (16-16, losers in seven of their past 10) said the same. What's the spin: For those who have understandably pushed this off their radar, this spiffy spiffy - /spi'fee/ 1. Said of programs having a pretty, clever, or exceptionally well-designed interface. "Have you seen the spiffy X version of empire yet?" This was common mainstream slang during the 1940s. 2. new College Basketball Invitational -- not a video game or mail-in contest -- has standing-room only for 16teams, half of whom could deservedly be from the Big Ten. The finals are decided by a best-of-three meeting in early April. It means that, in addition to the 65 who are invited to play in the NCAA Tournament and the 32 more (down from 40 last year) who'll sit at the NIT kid's table, 113 of the 293 Division I men's hoop teams get to keep the lights on after things go dark today. So who'll decide who's CBI CBI abbr. cumulative book index CBI Confederation of British Industry CBI n abbr (= Confederation of British Industry) → C.E.O.E. worthy? "The RPI RPI - Rockwell Protocol Interface is meaningless to us," said Rick Giles, president of the Gazelle gazelle, name for the many species of delicate, graceful antelopes of the genus Gazella, inhabiting arid, open country. Most gazelles are found only in Africa, but several species range over N Africa and SW Asia; the Persian, or goitered, gazelle ( Group marketing company that is putting on the event, to the Indianapolis Star. "So is 20 wins or being .500. We look at teams that have beaten good teams and shown they can play at a high level." CBI, CSUN CSUN California State University Northridge ? See how that fits into your week ahead. What's the story: A Chicago outplacement out·place·ment n. The process of facilitating a terminated employee's search for a new job by provision of professional services, such as counseling, paid for by the former employer. consulting firm has guestimated there will be $1.7 billion in lost productivity over the 16 business days of the NCAA Tournament because of employees across the country who Xerox brackets, watch games on TV or their computers, or do water cooler trash talking. That's a 42 percent increase from the $1.2 billion that company said nation's employers lost in 2007. The firm, Challenger Gray, says it comes to that figure by multiplying the number of basketball fans who say they compete in pools (37 million) by the average hourly wage ($17.50). What's the spin: Factoring in the latest round of downsizing (1) Converting mainframe and mini-based systems to client/server LANs. (2) To reduce equipment and associated costs by switching to a less-expensive system. (jargon) downsizing , a sagging housing market and economic indicators of another recession storming ahead, do these Chi-town sausage counters take into account all the wasted man-hours that a filmmaker named John Scheinfeld and his crew will amass as its follows around this year's Cubs to make a documentary called "We Believe," in the hope the team wins the World Series exactly 100 years after it last accomplished the feat? There's a skewed-up business model right there. What's the story: Oral Roberts qualified for the NCAA Tournament by winning the Summit League on Tuesday in Tulsa, Okla. But its mascot, Eli the Eagle, won't be accompanying the team in the postseason. During a timeout in that title game, the ORU ORU Oral Roberts University (Tulsa, Oklahoma) ORU Organized Research Unit(s) ORU Orbital Replacement Unit ORu Old Russian (linguistics) ORU Orbital Replaceable Unit giant-headed Golden Eagle and the IUPUI's equally big-noggin Jawz the Jaguar were invited to compete in a dance-off. It started as a shoving match and ended in a brawl that two IUPUI IUPUI Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (Indianapolis, IN, USA) male cheerleaders Notable cheerleaders
An ORU spokesperson said the student in the Golden Eagle suit would not suit up for the rest of the year. What's the spin: Spike TV has negotiated the rights for the rematch, pending verification that neither are an endangered species nor will Tripp Isenhour be nearby with a golf club. CAPTION(S): 4 photos, 2 boxes Photo: (1) Eli the Eagle, Oral Roberts' mascot, center, is taken down by IUPUI mascot Jawz the Jaguar on Tuesday during the Summit League title game. Stephen Holman/The Associated Press (2) KEVIN LOVE (3) BILLY CRYSTAL (4) JOHN DALY Box: (1) sunday punch - Tom Hoffarth (2) The Pop Quiz |
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