08.03.08
Posted in Yada Yada, Road Stories, College, WTF, Education, Worst Person in the World at 9:00 am by Administrator
what started out as me doing the san francisco marathon ended up being a tour of the northern califiornia’s universities. after i survived the LA marathon, i thought “why not san fran” but after signing up i realized i didnt want to do five hour training walks in the summer heat, so i decided on doing the half instead.
at first i was going to do the trip alone but i ended up taking two oldest sons. we took the coast route up and it was beautiful. saw lovely coastlines, surfers sailing with kites and enjoyed the cool fresh air.
after eating in santa cruz, i decided to visit uc santa cruz. i havent been there since i was in college. my sophomore year, the all uc meet was in santa cruz.
i went to uc san diego, so we got to fly to the meet. sadly, i had never flown in a plane so all summer i trained hard to win my seat to the meet. i remember having to take a physics mid-term and then jumping into a van and barely getting to the airport on time.
my first flight was uneventful and the takeoff and landings just felt like a cheesy carnival ride for the most part. it was nice getting to san jose in so quickly though.
i barely remember the race except that it was hilly and there were a lot trees. the best part of the trip was getting to hang out at stanford with my old high school friends and going to a stanford football game.
now 20 plus years later, i am touring uc santa cruz with my teenage sons. the campus sits on a hill with a nice forest of trees. the campus is in the forest. it looked like a nice place to go despite their banana slug mascot.
then my mind changed forever. to leave campus, one must go down a very steep and long hill. wouldnt you know but santa cruz’s finest sits on the bottom of the hill.
i had my foot on the brake the whole way and i have never received a speeding ticket in my life. but they got me, i dont think i was speeding but they say i was. heck, they could have stopped everyone that goes down that road. when i left they had three of us. Read the rest of this entry »
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05.21.08
Posted in Championships, State, Noise Flash!!!, Worst Person in the World at 4:25 pm by Administrator
The State CIF is in receipt of the media credential application on behalf of
AndyNoise.com for the 2008 CIF State Track and Field Championships, May
30-31, 2008, at Cerritos College.
Unfortunately, your request for credentials has been denied. After spending
some time on your web site, we see no original content, but rather a series
of links to information already existing on the internet.
Your representatives are certainly more than welcome to come and enjoy the
State Meet by purchasing a ticket and sitting in the stands.
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Emmy Zack
Director of Communications
California Interscholastic Federation
510.521.4447
510.521.4449 fax
www.cifstate.org
my reply:
“we see no original content”.
I have taken over 30,000 photos of Kern Athletes in action at meets and that is why I want to get a photo pass for the state meet.
Below is a link to my photos that are also linked from andynoise.com:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andynoise/sets/
When I started my site in the fall of 2006, almost no one covered the Kern area and the results of our meets weren’t even on Dyestatcal for the most part. I started sending them to Dyestat and Dyestat has used some of my photos too.
“but rather a series of links to information already existing on the internet”.
Yes much of my site is that, but i spend hours finding the information and linking it so others dont have too. Plus I doubt anyone will be covering my local athletes except for Ragans and Schwartz.
Also a lot of the Kern information (that is linked from my site) is only on the internet because I went and found it and sent it to others to upload. The folks at Dyestatcal know me well.
Many local athletes and coaches use my site to find out who,what,when, and where. I would hope you would reconsider my application so I can cover my local athletes.
their reply:
The fact that you take photos and post them on flickr does not make the web
site a media outlet.
While I’m sure many in the Kern County area appreciate that you’ve taken the
time to find links that may be of interest to them, that also does not make
the web site a media outlet. And providing the who, what and where for
various track events is, again, a nice service to provide, but not a media
outlet.
When we looked at the link for the 2008 CIF State Meet, we saw only direct
links to pre-existing information.
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Emmy Zack
Director of Communications
State CIF
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05.05.08
Posted in Coaches, Schools, Championships, SEYL, SWYL, Worst Person in the World at 9:54 am by Administrator
the varsity league meet was a good one on thursday but it was tarnished at the end. i left my post by the finishline to work on the drillers area meet entries just before the start of the swyl 4 x 400 event.
i was looking at the results board when i heard the yelling begin. i wish i had turned on my camera but my hands were full and i didnt think to do it. the coach was yelling at the officials because his team had gotten DQed before the race.
his team violated one of the uniform rules and was DQed. it sucks for this to happen, but coaches are warned before every meet. in fact, most of the pre-meet meeting is about uniform rules.
all i heard him yelling was that you guys (the officials) pull this crap all the time and then he actually called one of the officials a “DICK”. this tirade could be heard by everyone at the meet and went on till the coach was deep into the stands.
this kind of behaviour is way out of line and should not be tolerated. the officials were doing their job (btw they do it very well) and only enforcing rules that will be followed at all the meets.
it would be a shame for his team to qualify for valley (upcoming meet) with illegal uniforms and then get DQed at valley. it wouldnt be fair to the his athletes or the team that followed the rules and didnt qualify for valley because his team beat them.
now i know the uniform rules are a pain and the athletes dont like to abide by them. i often have to remind athletes about the rules all the time. but there are rules and they need to be followed.
if you violate them, you need to take your medicine respectfully.
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04.30.08
Posted in Yada Yada, Championships, Sports, Politics, Track Meets, Upcoming, WTF, Education, South Area, Noise Flash!!!, Worst Person in the World at 1:59 pm by Administrator
before the frosh/soph meet, there was a coaches meeting. there was a vote on the whether to have 18 qualifiers or 16 for the south area meet. now this meeting should have been held sooner and shouldnt have been held right before a seven hour plus track meet.
there wouldnt be a need for the vote, if the liberty track had been built correctly in the beginning. someone (not a track person) though it would be a good idea to put a fence right next to lane nine. this was a dangerous situation that shouldnt of ever happen in the first place.
then last year, the track was resurfaced and instead of moving or removing (or using portable fences) the fence. some genius decided to make it an eight lane track. sheer brilliance.
so now all the coaches are given about a minute to decide the fate of the south area meet. the only reason to drop down to 16 was to save time. sadly, some coaches were heard to say that they didnt want to sit through the extra heats.
we could of done what they are doing for valley. three heats, top 8 in one and two heats of 5 (wont need to do this if liberty was a nine lane track). but instead of letting athletes get one last chance to compete, the majority decided they wanted to go home earlier.
an athlete may have been training all four years for a chance to compete at the area meet but wont get the chance now.
SO SAD!
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