FLORHAM PARK, N.J. – I’m at the NBA’s Rookie Transition Program today, which is day two of the four-day orientation session.
“I’m learning new things every day,” said Andre Drummond, as we were walking into an hour-long session on the business side of the league. “It’s a whole new life.”
Kathy Behrens, a UHart grad and teh NBA’s executive VP for social responsibilty and player programs, hosted this particular session, in which Drummond, Jeremy Lamb, Anthony Davis and othe rookies learned about the league’s revenue streams and business goals, about NBA Entertainment and the D-League.
“Be a pro,” Behrens admonisted the players at the end ”Be engaging with teammates, with fans and the media and your career will be long.”
Players will be learning about how to handle their money, the dangers to avoid off the court. Tonight, a session called “professional etiquette” sounds rather interesting. On Sunday, they will here from legends, including Bill Russell.
This is a preview. I’m here working on a long piece for The Courant on this week.
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Mr. Amore,
Thanks for sharing this article, but can you tell me why it wasn’t proof-read? It is not my intention to be publicly critical of you, but these four errors should never appear in any publication, much less the Hartford Courant.
Paragraph 3 — “teh” should be “the”, “othe” should be “other”.
Paragraph 4 — “admonisted” should be “admonished”. Also, a full stop/period should follow the word “end”, and an open quotation mark goes before the word “Be”. Or you could have placed a comma there and continue your sentence with lower case letters.
Paragraph 5 — The word “here” doesn’t fit well in this sentence, and I believe the players would prefer to “hear” from legends.
I know that we live in a very fast-paced, electronic world, but an error-free article makes an enjoyable reading experience. I am looking forward to reading your “long piece” publication, so please proof-read it for me.
Thanks, and have a beautiful Sunday.
It’s been a long time since newspapers have paid for “proof readers” it saves money. But mostly because the population of the USA are ignorant of proper English Grammar or composition. So why bother if no one really cares? The internet is full of people like me who can’t put two words together. But I applaud your corrections and knowledge. If it were not for my wife, and her proof reading, you’d think I was writing chinese.
Well, thank you for those kind words, but I am disappointed with the Courant for publishing articles with so many grammatical errors. And unfortunately, Mr. Amore is not the only person guilty of this charge. In his column about the New Haven Open tennis match, Mr. Richard Messina’s opening statement reads “Come-backing American Melanie Oudin …..”. I am still trying to figure out what that means. Should it have read “Come-back American ….”? Please reporters, proof-read the articles before they’re published. Thanks.
And I thought admonisted was a word that I need to add to my vocabulary. Thank you Newgirl2. Do you proof read? Your grammar is phenomenal.
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Editors should be reviewing Dom’s work since he’s a C minus student at best and it’s not like he writes that often.
Mrs. Dom is always telling me that Dom is a lot like a restaurant with bad food and serves small portions. The number of errors in that one blog post makes me wonder if our boy Dom is a little dim witted.
UconnFan1 and Sven, you’re both comical and I am impressed with your high sense of humor. But most importantly, I am comforted knowing that I’m not the only reader who enjoys reading an error-free article.
Right on, Newgirl2. It drives me crazy when I see end punctuation outside the quotation mark. It is also troubling when I see work that has not been proofread. My current pet peeve is the use of lead instead of led for the past tense of lead. I didn’t see that in the current article, but I see it all the time in supposedly quality publications. . . . And who really needs proofreading these days. Spellcheck catches everything, doesn’t it? (Laughing Out Loud)
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it looks like your web page ate my 1st comment (it was very long) so I think I’ll just sum it up what I uploaded and say, I’m totally enjoying your site. I too am an aspiring web site blogger but I’m still brand-new to every little thing. Do you have any handy hints for inexperienced blog creators? I’d surely appreciate it.I heard somebody talking about this on the radio yesterday, but I can’t remember what station it was.
4 days have passed and the Courant still hasn’t fixed this post. Have you no pride Dom? Are you OK with an article with your byline having so many errors?
I’m going recommend to Mrs. Dom that for the next week she has you sleep on the couch with a dictionary for a pillow. I don’t expect it will do any good. Oh she’ll follow my recommendation, I just don’t think that anything will help you in your sloth like ways.
Could there really be somewhere else I can get knowledge about this? I’m thinking I will probably write my term paper on it.
Hi Everyone, let us all be patient with Mr. Amore as the above article was a “preview”. Remember that he’s in New Jersey “working on a long piece for The Courant this week”, and therefore we should be hopeful that the errors will be corrected. If no changes are made by then, I’ll be forced to join with Sven Svenson and speak to Mrs. Dom.
Sven waits and waits yet in his heart of hearts, Sven knows that Dom will always be a day late and dollar short. Sven knows it like he’s knows that the sun is coming up tomorrow and like he knows that Newgirl2′s patience in Dom is soon to be shattered.
Dom’s being in New Jersey doesn’t preclude correction by either Dom or preferably by a semi literate editor. Why should Sven have to wait for a newspaper to correct an article that bludgeons our language because the idiot reporter is in New Jersey. Sven’s heard many fine things about the state of New Jersey including that they allow telecommunications with other states for the purpose of fixing badly written blog posts.
Sven also heard they used to play women’s basketball in NJ a long time ago. Maybe that can be Dom’s next beat.
Besides the name calling, I agree with the above posts. Maybe Mr. Amore’s heart is just not in covering the UCONN men. My issue is that we have had very little information about the team and past players during the off season. I’ll assume Mr. Amore has another beat to cover, but Mike Anthony seemed to update us a lot more. I have had to find out from other sources about guys like Thabeet, Dyson and others may play in the big league this year. I have not even lived in CT in forever, but I grew up with the team and find a way to watch almost every game. I hope the powers that be at the Courant have not forgot that we love the team and want to know what they are up to in good times and bad.
T-bone, what has become of Mr. Mike Anthony?
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Anthony writes the State of the State blog for the Courant which is about local Connecticut college sports – Central, Hartford, etc.
Unlike Dom, Anthony doesn’t seem to have any trouble generating multiple bylines a week.
Mrs. Dom and Sven liked Anthony’s coverage of the Huskies for his 6 years. He was energetic and provided consistent coverage. If we have 6 years of Dom coming, the Courant should just turn in their press ID’s now.
Sven, can you please encourage Mrs. Dom to speak to Mr. Dom about the grammatical errors found in this article? It is currently Friday afternoon, and I’ve not seen the “long piece” that was promised to us. Oh, forgive me Mr. Dom. You still have until tomorrow to submit an error-free article. I believe in you, and am therefore counting on you to do what’s right. Go ahead, you can do it!!!!!
I’m wondering, are the articles posted here on the blog identical to those which appear in print? It could be that the web-only content is not given the same level of scrutiny.
Could there be somewhere else We can get knowledge about this? I’m thinking I might write my term paper on it.
This is a preview. I’m here working on a long piece for The Courant on this week.
“on this week” That last sentence makes no sense. It seems to me the week has passed and once again, Dom’s given us nothing – roughly 10 sentences on the Huskies in one blog post. Poorly written sentences at that. 10 sentences with 4 grammatical errors and a last sentence that defies the English language.
What’s Sven to do about you Dom? Maybe Mrs. Dom is right, you aren’t cut out to be the Husky’s beat reporter. Mop boy / wash room attendant really is more your speed.
Your writing makes Sven sad.
Sven, once again you’ve caused me to smile. I’ve just arrived home from work and I anxiously checked to see if Mr. Dom had published the “long piece” with the necessary corrections, but I was disappointed. I was really hoping that he would’ve impressed us with a beautifully written article, published at the end of the week. But instead, we are all left wondering if he is okay. I believe that Mr. Dom became victim to something bad while he was visiting New Jersey, and that’s why the promised article was not published. Sven, please keep me posted if Mrs. Dom says otherwise.
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Sven doesn’t think Newgirl2 should worry when Dom doesn’t write or when he visits New Jersey. As Dom has consistently shown us, he’s really not a man of letters. (or at least letters strung together in a coherent manner)
Sven has always found the Garden State to be bucolic this time of the year. NJ reminds Sven of the summers in his youth Sven spent in Mollösund, berating lazy journalists by day and working at the Laugh Du Room in the Mollösund Holiday Inn at night. Sven brought down the house even as a child. Sven’s people always love jokes that start with “Why did Mrs. Dom sleep at Sven’s house again last night and why is Dom OK with doing such a crappy job as the Husky Beat reporter?”
BTW, Mrs. Dom slept just fine this week with Dom gone. Sven took care of that personally.
Though, like Sven, Mrs. Dom is also made very sad by Dom apathetic coverage of the Huskies.
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Although, sadly, I can’t say that I’m surprised when Dom writes poor articles that are rife with spelling and grammatical errors, it is still disappointing nonetheless. It makes me wonder where his sense of professional pride is. Perhaps Mrs. Dom has borrowed it and accidentally left it at Sven’s house. Maybe you should check under the bed, Sven. Sometimes things get kicked under there. And you’re absolutely right. If we have to look forward to this inept hack for the next five years, well, I don’t even want to consider such a dreadful possibility.
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Mr. Dom, I’m truly disappointed in you. I had desparately hoped and prayed that you would’ve surprised me by publishing your “long piece” on Saturday, but you did not. Figuring that you needed extra time to do back-to-school shopping for the kids, I was willing to accept it today. But it’s now 9:15PM, and I’m convinced that it won’t be done. I really didn’t want to give you a bad report card, but you gave me no choice. You’ve earned an “E” for a poorly written article, and an “F” for failure to keep a promise. I therefore recommend that you attend the free three-hour writing class at the library every Wednesday, and please sit in the front row. It starts at 10AM so don’t be late. I’ve also signed you up for Boys’ Scouts meeting on Thursday afternoons at church, because that’s when they emphasize the importance of honesty and promise keeping. This meeting starts at 4PM and finishes at 5:30PM, and therefore you should get home in time for dinner at 6PM. I will be checking up on you, so don’t be tardy, and remember to complete all your assignments on time.
Newgirl2, now that Dom’s has shattered your faith in humanity by never writing the promised longer piece or making any corrections to the many, many errors in his last piece, perhaps you want to join Mrs. Dom and Sven for fondue night and start rebuilding your trust inthe goodness of mankind. Sven’s fondue is very good. And Mrs. Dom has a lot of funny stories about how she sometimes hides Dom’s pens and notepads under his work shoes and how weeks goes by with Dom just sitting around twiddling his thumbs and not writing a word about the Huskies. Mrs. Dom stories of life with thw worst beat reporter in Husky history go well with Sven’s fondue. Sven has the touch with fondue.
Thanks Sven, that’s very kind of you. Say “hi” to Mrs. Dom for me, and please save some fondue for later.
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Sven’s been told (via email) by Jeff Otterbien, the Courant’s sports editor, that Dom is on a well deserved vacation.
Since Sven likes vacation as much as the next hard working Swede, Sven’s going to play nice until Monday.
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I know a few things to be true here. Sven is hilarious and I am on board with his campaign. Dom is a terrible beat writer. He needs to go.
Glad to hear that Drummond already knew how to shake hands. Sven wonders if that counts as a low post game?
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