| Fusco: Football fans get their fix from signing day
When I tried tracking down some further info on ESPNU's recruiting info, its Web site read, “This site is temporarily too busy to process your request. Please try again later." Can't log on over at ESPNU.com? No worries. Web destinations such as Rivals.com and Scout.com are devoted almost entirely to recruiting news – at this time of the year, mainly football. Rivals.com boasts message boards, national team recruiting rankings, lists of the top prospects at each position projected through 2011 and individual biographies of countless high school players. This would all be great if the whole process wasn't an educated guessing game at best and a crapshoot at worst. Recruiting services can't possibly watch in person each and every high school player they “evaluate." Web sites are notorious for granting players better rankings on the basis of which schools are interested.
Clever ads transform DIA into getaway
This is the question that somehow wound up as an award-winning advertising campaign for the Detroit Institute of Arts. You may have noticed the quirky commercials for the DIA, because they're striking and simple. They've been running since last fall and somehow cutting through commercial clutter with few words, animated line-drawings and a jazzy cello soundtrack. .
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