I guess I should document the error, just in case.

"Their's was a typical small New England dairy farm – 12, maybe 15 head of cattle, a few acres of corn and string beans, an old pickup truck and some horses for plowing."

Unless there is some "their is" contraction I'm not aware of, this is just not a word.

Quote from: ILive4This on May 29, 2008, 01:36:59 PM
Now I am going to preface this by saying I know I make a number of spelling and grammatical errors in my daily life, but it gets me when a school such as Williams does so. Proof read people, proof read.

That's funny -- I was just reading a feature story on Amherst's site in which the VERY FIRST WORD is misspelled.

I didn't read any further. No credibility, still.

https://cms.amherst.edu/athletics/teams/spring/baseball/articles/2008/0528_thurston

So I can't mention that Virginia Wesleyan isn't hyphenated and set up is two words?

Funny that Amherst fans get on people if you dare to pronounce the school as it's spelled but Amherst's official documents misspell the names of opponents.

I can't believe this is still a topic for discussion. I felt like I had to register to provide some reality for this group.

The SID role exists for us to promote our schools, athletic departments and the student-athletes on the field/court/rink/pitch/in the pool/etc. We do this by sending press releases to media outlets such as the Boston Globe, the Hartford Courant, D3Hoops.com, D3Football.com, local radio stations, as well as outlets far across the country that serve the hometowns of our student-athletes. We call and pitch story ideas.

We send releases expressly in the hope that they get used in the way D3 did here. Professional SIDs don't ask for bylines, they don't post on message boards complaining about a byline not being used and they don't get their buddies to do it either. Getting a writing credit is not what being an SID is about. If you want that, go to a newspaper or try to work at a magazine. I can't count the number of times, for example, that a couple paragraphs of my press release have run word for word in a newspaper in this region. Multiple times I've heard parts of my release read over the air on radio stations and, if we're lucky, on TV with a nightly scoreboard.

To La Verdad: If Alex Kantor threatened legal action, I hope to heck that Pat Coleman laughed in his face (if by phone) or brushed him off (if by e-mail). The fact of the matter is Alex Kantor cannot threaten legal action on behalf of Amherst College, unless he has gotten a rather substantial promotion to the college's General Counsel position.

I have met Alex. I know he is new to the SID world. But this should be painfully clear to anyone else reading this by now. SIDs don't demand credit, certainly when they can't be bothered to credit themselves.

When I send out a press release, I hope and expect for it to be used. My name isn't relevant to the article. The names of the kids are what's important. For an SID to raise a stink that overshadows the student-athletes is childish and unprofessional, and I hope that this SID learns a lesson from this. My press releases, or parts of them, have run all over the place uncredited--including in previous years on Amherst's athletics Web site. That's the name of the game.

I'll get off my soapbox now.