There has to be a better headline.
Off-topic from the Young Professional-y radio posts you see around these parts, but I had to throw this up somewhere.
See the following screen shot from Sports Illustrated’s home page this morning:
Interesting wording.
The headline reads “Football Losing Fans?”
Now read the excerpt of the story they were referring to:
Tragedy has a way of placing sports in perspective. It feels so meaningless now. The draft, the games, the trophies, the bragging rights … they’re all diversions from our everyday lives until real life wreaks unimaginable devastation on far, far too many people. Your heart aches for those impacted by Wednesday’s tornadoes in Alabama. The accounts keep pouring in of death and destruction. Loved ones are missing. Photos and names get posted on TV and web sites as family members desperately search for them. They’re the kinds of pleas we’re used to seeing elsewhere, not here. This is our 9/11. This is our Katrina. We will get through this — slowly, eventually, together. But it’s brutal to watch, from Cullman to Tuscaloosa, from Pleasant Grove to Pratt City, and from so many other areas, some of which we might not fully know about yet.
I am *fairly* confident the angle of this story was not about college football “losing fans.” Pretty awful wording, SI.
It’s Lucky Bucket Week! It’s Lucky Bucket Week!
Every couple of months, we’re blessed to have the fine folks from Lucky Bucket Brewery and Solas Distillery join us for an hour of AM-radio magic. It goes a little something like this:
1. Show starts at 10:00 am.
2. Zac from Lucky Bucket brings beer into studio at 10:05
3. We drink beer
4. Zac talks about all the awesome stuff going on at Lucky Bucket
5. We drink more beer
6. The show sadly ends
7. We go home and nap
Pretty much the same will go this Saturday. And we’re going to touch on a couple hot topics…like why Lucky Bucket isn’t in the new Werner Park.
We’ll also be previewing two upcoming events:
1. The Final Thursday Tour Throwdown – It’s sad, but Lucky Bucket will no longer be giving tours on Thursdays after May 1. So, we’re going to throw a bash for their Last Thursday tour event. Stay tuned for details.
2. The Inaugural Lucky Bucket Run – A 7k running event, May 14. Yes, there will be beer.
Be sure to tune in!!!!!!!
That was way too many explanation points. Sorry.
A prelude to Big Omaha.
You want more info on one of Omaha’s landmark events? Well here it is. Gift wrapped in our interview with Jeff Slobotski. We also chatted a little about Silicon Prairie News and why everything Jeff and crew are doing is great for Omaha.
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Visit the Big Omaha site for even more information and schedule of events.
The Skinny on Big Omaha
Image by Silicon Prairie News via Flickr
After a few weeks away, Bryan Mohr and I return this morning at 10 on KOIL 1180 AM to talk all things big and small about Big Omaha 2011, happening next month at the creative and spacious KANEKO in Omaha’s historic Old Market district. Jeff Slobotski of Silicon Prairie News, the organizer of the third annual event, will give us a sneak preview of this very exciting conference that has grown year after year.
We will also get caught up on the latest news making headlines for Omaha’s young professionals, and probably tell a joke or two. Join us!
What’s all the hype?
We’ll find out Saturday morning when Will Simons of the new (and highly talked-about) OMAHYPE website joins us in studio. He’ll offer the website’s background story, the design, and how you can get involved.
Sure to also be discussed is our Omaha.net story of the week, local headlines, and more. Tune in at 10 a.m. Saturday on KOIL 1180 AM.
Download Now: Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition
We talked about food and school lunch programs Saturday morning, a passion project for the Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition. Farming was also a topic of conversation for our Omaha.net story of the week, “Meet Your Farmer: Thistles & Clover Farm” by Christy Pooschke.
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On Deck Saturday: Nutrition, Farming, and More
Tune it at 10 a.m. tomorrow on KOIL 1180 AM when we visit with Chelsey Erpelding of the Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition. Chelsey will visit with us about who the center serves, its history, mission, and how you can get involved.
Local farming is also on deck for Saturday morning, as well as the latest news and events impacting young professionals in Omaha.
Also! Want to discuss your event, program, or group on The Weekly Grind? Tell us! Send an email to theweeklygrind@gmail.com.
Hear Nebraska with a side of Omaha Beef.
Saturday’s Guest-o-rama show is now ready for your downloading enjoyment. Listen here. >
First, we chatted with Andy Norman from Hear Nebraska (hearnebraska.org). He talked about how his website is trying change the way people think about Nebraska. Good stuff.
Then we talked with Omaha Beef players Cortney Grixby and Diaz Calbert. We were also joined by the Beef’s gameday operations manager, Travis Johnson. Overall they talked about the fun atmosphere of their games and how home games are the perfect event for anyone. It was a great and lively interview. Oh, their first home game is NEXT SATURDAY and season tickets are on sale now, so be sure to check out the Beef website for all the details.
Thanks again to all of our listeners. Maybe we’ll see you at Beef game in the near future 
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Honey Bunches of Guests.
Tomorrow for breakfast, wake up with the tasty sounds of The Weekly Grind. We have a packed show in-store for you with more guests than you can shake a stick at.
First, we’ll talking with Andy Norman from Hear Nebraska (hearnebraska.org), a non-profit website that’s dedicated to “cultivating the state’s vibrant, fertile music and arts community.”
Then for your your protein, we’ll be talking with the Omaha Beef. Their first home game is Saturday, March 12 and we’ll have a studio full of players, coaches and staff that will be the first to tell you how fun Beef games are.
We hope you tune in tomorrow at 10:00 am. You can find us on the AM dial at 1180 KOIL. Or you can stream us live, right here from the internets.
The Weekly Grind. Part of a complete breakfast.
Tomorrow with the Omaha Symphony
It’s the last show before the YPC Summit (March 3), so tomorrow we’ll be interviewing one of the presenter’s, Thomas Wilkins, the director of the Omaha Symphony. We’ll not only be chatting about the symphony, but we’ll also touch on his presentation about servant leadership. Should be a very insightful show. So you should tune in.
Thomas Wilkins, Director, Omaha Symphony
