Tweets of Week
UPDATE, Dec. 14, 2012: Superstar actress/producer Vivica A. Fox has words for the girls basketball team members at her alma mater, Arlington High School, and shared them via Twitter last night: “Wow! My assnt told me about this yesterday! Come Golden Knights gurls! Time 4 more practice!! U can do it ;-)”
Indy’s own touring professional tennis player, Rajeev Ram, ranked as high as No. 90 in 2012 on the ATP Tour that includes the likes of Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, staged his third annual charity tennis exhibition on Saturday, Dec. 8. Joining him: his friendly foe and sometimes-partner Brian Baker, a childhood chum currently ranked No. 61, two promising junior stars (Bloomington South’s Ronnie Schneider and Carmel’s Sameer Kumar) and a revolving lineup of local club pros.
Lin Dunn is a feisty one. The native Southerner, who became a WNBA-champion coach on Oct. 21, has been at the helm of the Indiana Fever team for five years now. On Monday, she also shared in the good pleasure of listening to one Billie Jean King, one of the most decorated sportswomen ever and (barely arguably) the most influential female athlete of the past 100 years, as King addressed all comers at the downtown Indiana Repertory Theatre at the invitation of the Women’s Fund of Central Indiana. Her featured remarks came on the heels of Dunn’s own introduction, which was vintage, noting gamely that King was the first female athlete to ever earn more than $100,000 in one year and had purchased her first tennis racquet for just $8.20 decades ago.
NFL referee Ed Hochuli harbors both prestige and popularity in his biceps that are the talk of the sport. But when he opens his mouth, sometimes a special line comes out. That was the case again on Sunday, when the lawyer-by-day ruled that the Indianapolis Colts wide receiver T.Y. Hilton’s “buttocks was down” before he appeared to fumble the football. As a refresher, that clip here:
Never trust a wordsmith—that seems a moral of the story in Seminar. A writer, especially of fiction, works to persuade and to engross, and what’s most dangerous is when that scribe himself starts believing the words coming from his own pen or mouth. Or from the heart.
