The Ram Report March. 3
Gold medal game pulls huge numbers
Sunday’s gold medal hockey game between Canada and the United States wasn’t just huge on the ice, but on the airwaves as well. The game, which is being called one of the most exciting and intense ever played by some pundits, was watched by 27.6 million people in the United States and another 16.6 million people in Canada. According to Steve Lepore’s Puck The Media, a blog dedicated to examining the media’s hockey coverage, the game was the most-viewed in Canadian history. Lepore also cited a report by Truth & Rumors’ William Houston, which said that 80 percent of Canadians watched at least some of the game, which was won by Canada, 3-2 in overtime. In America, only two hockey games have ever had more viewers: the 1980 “Miracle on Ice” game between the United States and the Soviet Union, and the gold medal game between the United States and Finland that same year. The game received high ratings locally as well. The Boston area had the sixth-highest market ratings for the game, pulling a 24.1/46 rating on the Nielsen scale. Buffalo came in at number one, with a 32.6/51 rating.
This reader is writing in response to Alex Mellion’s article, “Opinion: R.I.P. NBA Slam Dunk contest” (Feb. 17). It has been edited for style and content.
You are obviously entitled to your opinion and are free to write whatever you want, but I feel like I should respond to some of the things you were saying. First of all, the dunk contest most definitely isn’t dead. This year’s definitely lacked the variety and creativity of years past but definitely isn’t a sign that it will never be able to recover… I really think you took a lot away from Shannon Brown and DeMar DeRozan. Both of them are outstanding players and Shannon Brown is just a freak athlete to say the least, so while people may not have heard of them, they are incredible.
Article by: Alex Pearlman
“You have to understand that if you don’t do what you say, we’ll all be killed.” These are ominous words to anyone, but to General Stanley McChrystal, it’s nothing more than the truth. One of 450 tribal elders and scholars from the Helmand Province who gathered in Kabul earlier this month, readying [...]
Article by: Angela Bray
“Share a one-minute video that says something about you. Upload it to YouTube or another easily accessible Web site, and give us the URL. What you do or say is totally up to you.” One can only do so much in a minute.
This year for the prospective Class of 2014, Tufts University [...]
The Suffolk Journal’s office walls are peppered with awards. In the 1970s, apparently, this paper was really, really good. However, we haven’t won a big award since 1999 and we haven’t won an Associated Collegiate Press annual National College Journalism Convention award since 1979.
Well, we finally brought one home. Last Sunday, at the ACP’s annual [...]
Tuesday, February 23
7:25AM
NESAD
American Alarm called regarding the front doors of NESAD. Unit 22 and 17 responding. Nothing found. No report.
7:57 PM
Ridgeway Building
Unit 6 reports 2 makes arguing in front of 148 Cambridge Street possibly intoxicated. Units 41 and 39 responding. Unit 41 reports the individuals moved along without incident. No report.
Wednesday, February 24
18:38 AM
10 Somerset
Report of [...]
Article by: Cait O’Callaghan
Martin Scorsese teams up with Leonardo DiCaprio a fourth time in his new film Shutter Island (Paramount Pictures, 2010), the story of a Bostonian U.S Marshal’s investigation into the disappearance of a patient on an island that holds a mental hospital.
Taking place in 1954, DiCaprio plays U.S Marshal Teddy Daniels, who arrives [...]
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