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Paul Daugherty
Paul Daugherty has been an Enquirer sports columnist since 1994 and has been chronicling Cincinnati sports since 1988. He has covered almost every major sporting event in America, as well as five Summer Olympics. Along the way, he has been named one of the country's top-5 sports columnists four times, and Ohio columnist of the year on seven different occasions. Last year, he was voted 2nd-best sports columnist in the country, by the Associated Press Sports Editors.

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Sunday, June 04, 2006

ursprache

This is one I meant to do the other day, and forgot. Was anyone else damned near riveted by that spelling bee the other night? I watched maybe the last hour, and I knew exactly one word -- hukilau -- and that was only because we'd sung some hokey song about it in, I don't know, 3rd grade. I was amazed at the intelligence and poise of these kids. And I thought it was cool that, for once, we've chosen to highlight kids' brains on TV, instead of how fast they run, how hard they throw or what they look like in a bikini. Maybe if we spent more time god-ding up smart kids, we'd have more kids dreaming of being smart. Live big. BTW, "ursprache'' was the winning word.


1 Comments:

at 7:43 AM Anonymous Anonymous said...

I wouldn't classify these kids as being intelligent, just good at memorization and drilled by their parents. Even the girl who won didn't know what the word she spelled meant. I would like to see them know the meanings. B/C what good is a word if you don't know what it means?

 
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