Driven, fast-paced, and always on the edge, Max Tedford now lies at rest. The nineteen year old, born in Franklin, NH who grew up in Northfield, NH, was a sophomore and Journalism student at the University of New Hampshire.
His plans to travel to Europe were cut short but his love of travel still brought him all over North America and to England.
A sports fan his entire life he started reading the sports page of the newspaper at age four. He was a lifelong Philadelphia Eagles fan with a lifelong dream of seeing the Eagles play a home game.
It was rare to catch him watching TV without ESPN or some sports game on and he was named Sports Broadcaster of the Year as a freshman at the Curry College radio station, WMLN.
Growing up as a single child Max played soccer, basketball, skied, and ran track.
"I think Max knows more about sports and sports trivia than anyone I've ever met, and I've met a lot of people in my days," said family friend and lawyer Stanley Robinson.
If not mulling over different sports columns, Max was often reading box scores of any sports event from the night before or checking stats.
The passing of Max comes just days before the NCAA Final Four, an event he never would of missed and an event that would decide if he won his Bracket Pool.
Always a feisty competitor and gambler, nothing got the blood pumping in his veins like gambling on sports. Perhaps a win by West Virginia will actually get the blood pumping in his veins again.
His father, Scott Tedford, had this to say about his son, "Max might not always be the biggest, fastest, or strongest kid but he'll always try his hardest and that's what sets him apart. He gives his all."
His mother, Sheryl, said, "I don't think Max always used his brain to do what he should have been doing but he was surprisingly smart if he put his mind to something."
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Biddeford City Airport Faces Vote to Close Down
The fate of the Biddeford City Airport(BAC) will be decided on June 4th at the Biddeford general election.
At what cost though is a major concern that is running through the minds of the Biddeford citizens.
Money is an important issue when it comes to the airport, according to Paul Archambault, Chairman of Shut Our Little Airport(SOLA).
Archambault, who has lived at the end of a runway for twenty-four years said, "Once we started looking at the airport, we came to the conclusion that there is no financial benefit at its existing size and capacity. It continues to be a tax burden."
Their is truth to Archambault's argument, the cost of running the airport from 2006 to 2008 was $179,000 while the airport was only able to make $168,000.
Roland Pelletier who has lived next to the airport for twenty-five years supported Archambault saying, "The money is the biggest thing. If it was self-supporting, fine. Let it go on."
People in Saco are also getting behind the words of the SOLA chairman and hope that the people of Biddeford agree with Archambault and Pelletier.
Saco resident Josiah Calef said, "We entrepreneurs in Saco would be happy to start an airport. Problem is, the Federal Aviation Administration (AFF) would not allow it because there is an existing airport in Biddo. Adding an outsiders view on Biddeford's issue.
Not everyone in Biddeford would like to see the airport go though. Phyllis Landry, a pilot who keeps a jet at BAC, stressed the convenience of BAC saying, "If I couldn't fly out of here I'd have to go to Sanford or Portland."
Another issue facing the airport is how it's being used. Not by pilots, but by the Biddeford community.
Airport manager Tom Bryand said, "We have pedestrians, motorcycles, four-wheelers (and) ATVs all using it. They just use it as a backyard and that's against regulations."
Landry was more specific when speaking about violations when he said, "Once about five years ago I had to abort a takeoff because a bunch of neighborhood kids ran onto the runway right in front of my plane. That's very dangerous."
The Biddeford City Council can't decide if convenience or money is more important though, according to city manager John Bubier, "The City Council really hasn't come down on one side of the issue or the other. I think they'd prefer to have the voters settle this one."
Perhaps what the voters need to settle on is how much they are willing to shell out to close the airport.
While the airport might have cost taxpayers $11,000 in the last three years alone that's nothing compared to the $3 million that will be taken from general operation funds to close down the airport.
Looking at ways to make more money off the airport might be a better use of time than deciding to close it down or not.
Half of 47 planes based at BAC are owned by corporations and Landry has also noticed, "It's a great resource. I know business people who fly in here all the time."
If business people are flying in all the time and figuring half the jets at the airport are owned by corporations than their could be a way to turn BAC into a self-sustaining business after all.
At what cost though is a major concern that is running through the minds of the Biddeford citizens.
Money is an important issue when it comes to the airport, according to Paul Archambault, Chairman of Shut Our Little Airport(SOLA).
Archambault, who has lived at the end of a runway for twenty-four years said, "Once we started looking at the airport, we came to the conclusion that there is no financial benefit at its existing size and capacity. It continues to be a tax burden."
Their is truth to Archambault's argument, the cost of running the airport from 2006 to 2008 was $179,000 while the airport was only able to make $168,000.
Roland Pelletier who has lived next to the airport for twenty-five years supported Archambault saying, "The money is the biggest thing. If it was self-supporting, fine. Let it go on."
People in Saco are also getting behind the words of the SOLA chairman and hope that the people of Biddeford agree with Archambault and Pelletier.
Saco resident Josiah Calef said, "We entrepreneurs in Saco would be happy to start an airport. Problem is, the Federal Aviation Administration (AFF) would not allow it because there is an existing airport in Biddo. Adding an outsiders view on Biddeford's issue.
Not everyone in Biddeford would like to see the airport go though. Phyllis Landry, a pilot who keeps a jet at BAC, stressed the convenience of BAC saying, "If I couldn't fly out of here I'd have to go to Sanford or Portland."
Another issue facing the airport is how it's being used. Not by pilots, but by the Biddeford community.
Airport manager Tom Bryand said, "We have pedestrians, motorcycles, four-wheelers (and) ATVs all using it. They just use it as a backyard and that's against regulations."
Landry was more specific when speaking about violations when he said, "Once about five years ago I had to abort a takeoff because a bunch of neighborhood kids ran onto the runway right in front of my plane. That's very dangerous."
The Biddeford City Council can't decide if convenience or money is more important though, according to city manager John Bubier, "The City Council really hasn't come down on one side of the issue or the other. I think they'd prefer to have the voters settle this one."
Perhaps what the voters need to settle on is how much they are willing to shell out to close the airport.
While the airport might have cost taxpayers $11,000 in the last three years alone that's nothing compared to the $3 million that will be taken from general operation funds to close down the airport.
Looking at ways to make more money off the airport might be a better use of time than deciding to close it down or not.
Half of 47 planes based at BAC are owned by corporations and Landry has also noticed, "It's a great resource. I know business people who fly in here all the time."
If business people are flying in all the time and figuring half the jets at the airport are owned by corporations than their could be a way to turn BAC into a self-sustaining business after all.
Diminishing Access To Players Has Left the Media Feeling Left Out
Max Tedford
ESPN Correspondent Discusses
ESPN correspondent Jackie MacMullan sat down at the Portsmouth Public Library to answer questions and talk about the future of how the media will cover sports.
MacMullan, who worked at the Boston Globe for eighteen years recently released her new book “When the Game Was Ours: The Larry Bird – ‘Magic’ Johnson Dynamic” to a crowd of two hundred in the Levenson Community Room.
While MacMullan was answering questions at the Portsmouth Library she naturally drifted off to a hot subject that is clouded in mystery to all sports reporters, that is the future of how they will cover sports.
“It’s completely diminished, when I started out in the seventies I travelled with the teams, I lived with them. We shared the same hotels, airplanes, everything,” said Dan Shaughnessy, long-time Boston Globe columnist.
MacMullan used similar words saying, “Oh it’s not the same at all. You know back in the eighties the team didn’t have its own private plane. The team flied commercial. And we (the press) were on the same plane and the players knew it and they knew we were putting in the same commitment.”
Not only has the press been squeezed out more and more from the daily routine of athletes but now athletes themselves are taking it upon themselves to do reporting. It seems every athlete now days has a Twitter and is constantly only tweeting information about their personal lives about everything from their injury statuses to postgame quotes.
Since University of Texas quarterback Colt McCoy was injured in the BCS National Championship game it’s been his father who has been reporting all status updates on the highly coveted quarterback. Making the reporter obsolete in the process.
“Kevin Garnett doesn’t even know my name, but I knew Larry Bird’s favorite beer,” Shaughnessy said. It wasn’t through Q and A sessions that reporters of what is becoming the “old guard of sports reporting” found out information but from sitting down for a drink with the athletes.
ESPN columnist Bill Simmons further pinpoints the reason saying, “Today's technology means athletes don't need a middleman anymore. I see a day when the following sequence will be routine: Player demands trade on blog; team obliges and announces deal on Twitter; player thanks old fans, takes shots at old team and gushes about new team on Facebook. We will not need anyone to report this, just someone to recap it. Preferably with links.”
While Simmons might be thinking far down the road, his idea doesn’t seem that far off.
MacMullan said, “In my first years at the Globe I basically lived at the Garden, literally, I spent more time there than I did at my house. I would just creep around all day from the time players were at shoot-around till after most of them had left.”
It’s a different age now though, while reporters used to be able to mingle with players at the area, Shaughnessy says its different now, “If you have press credentials you can pretty much go wherever you want but security is tighter and in general you can’t roam around as much.”
This is making access to both players and coaches far more difficult for reporters and increasing the gap between reporter and the team they’re covering.
Of course the newspaper industry is hurting but this is just a whole other ballgame. This isn’t about people not buying a product but this is reporters being withheld information and withheld from places they need to be to get a full insight on a story.
Journalists used to be closer to athletes than anyone else, but now that their role is changing so is the way that sports are covered.
ESPN Correspondent Discusses
ESPN correspondent Jackie MacMullan sat down at the Portsmouth Public Library to answer questions and talk about the future of how the media will cover sports.
MacMullan, who worked at the Boston Globe for eighteen years recently released her new book “When the Game Was Ours: The Larry Bird – ‘Magic’ Johnson Dynamic” to a crowd of two hundred in the Levenson Community Room.
While MacMullan was answering questions at the Portsmouth Library she naturally drifted off to a hot subject that is clouded in mystery to all sports reporters, that is the future of how they will cover sports.
“It’s completely diminished, when I started out in the seventies I travelled with the teams, I lived with them. We shared the same hotels, airplanes, everything,” said Dan Shaughnessy, long-time Boston Globe columnist.
MacMullan used similar words saying, “Oh it’s not the same at all. You know back in the eighties the team didn’t have its own private plane. The team flied commercial. And we (the press) were on the same plane and the players knew it and they knew we were putting in the same commitment.”
Not only has the press been squeezed out more and more from the daily routine of athletes but now athletes themselves are taking it upon themselves to do reporting. It seems every athlete now days has a Twitter and is constantly only tweeting information about their personal lives about everything from their injury statuses to postgame quotes.
Since University of Texas quarterback Colt McCoy was injured in the BCS National Championship game it’s been his father who has been reporting all status updates on the highly coveted quarterback. Making the reporter obsolete in the process.
“Kevin Garnett doesn’t even know my name, but I knew Larry Bird’s favorite beer,” Shaughnessy said. It wasn’t through Q and A sessions that reporters of what is becoming the “old guard of sports reporting” found out information but from sitting down for a drink with the athletes.
ESPN columnist Bill Simmons further pinpoints the reason saying, “Today's technology means athletes don't need a middleman anymore. I see a day when the following sequence will be routine: Player demands trade on blog; team obliges and announces deal on Twitter; player thanks old fans, takes shots at old team and gushes about new team on Facebook. We will not need anyone to report this, just someone to recap it. Preferably with links.”
While Simmons might be thinking far down the road, his idea doesn’t seem that far off.
MacMullan said, “In my first years at the Globe I basically lived at the Garden, literally, I spent more time there than I did at my house. I would just creep around all day from the time players were at shoot-around till after most of them had left.”
It’s a different age now though, while reporters used to be able to mingle with players at the area, Shaughnessy says its different now, “If you have press credentials you can pretty much go wherever you want but security is tighter and in general you can’t roam around as much.”
This is making access to both players and coaches far more difficult for reporters and increasing the gap between reporter and the team they’re covering.
Of course the newspaper industry is hurting but this is just a whole other ballgame. This isn’t about people not buying a product but this is reporters being withheld information and withheld from places they need to be to get a full insight on a story.
Journalists used to be closer to athletes than anyone else, but now that their role is changing so is the way that sports are covered.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Anne Lambert and Shelia Lawning debate the problem of underage alcohol consumption on college campuses
Is underage drinking a serious problem on New Hampshire college campuses? Annually, 1,700 college students die from alcohol related deaths in the United States and over 600,000 assaults are reported stemming from alcohol abuse.
But Shelia Lambert, Coordinator of Well Education at Southern New Hampshire University, doesn't think that binge drinking on college campuses is as big of a problem as people think.
Lambert says that while college students are drinking, it's not in an abusive pattern. Citing, surveys from last Spring, most students have, "four or less drinks per week."
Lambert believes that alcohol education is one of the best ways of preventing binge drinking and that a reason for the positive statistics is that, "we aren't scared about talking about drinking anymore. In the 70's everyone knew that college students drank but no one talked about."
It's true, "students have been drinking since theirs been students," says Anne Lawning, the Senior Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs at the University of New Hampshire. Lawning is "increasingly worried" about the problems schools face regarding drinking.
For example, Hanover police were considering sting operations by sending in undercover cops to underage drinking parties and than busting them. This idea didn't go over well with Dartmouth students, community, or president, Jim Yong Kim.
Undercover cops at parties wouldn't be a new tactic used by police but a sting operation would cross the line and force underage drinkers into the dark and would make them consider calling an ambulance if a friend was in trouble.
Lawning is worried about the future of underage drinking saying, "We are concerned with a frightening amount of problems," that include "missing classes and dropping out of school." Problems that school officials like Lawning and Lambert are facing.
But Shelia Lambert, Coordinator of Well Education at Southern New Hampshire University, doesn't think that binge drinking on college campuses is as big of a problem as people think.
Lambert says that while college students are drinking, it's not in an abusive pattern. Citing, surveys from last Spring, most students have, "four or less drinks per week."
Lambert believes that alcohol education is one of the best ways of preventing binge drinking and that a reason for the positive statistics is that, "we aren't scared about talking about drinking anymore. In the 70's everyone knew that college students drank but no one talked about."
It's true, "students have been drinking since theirs been students," says Anne Lawning, the Senior Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs at the University of New Hampshire. Lawning is "increasingly worried" about the problems schools face regarding drinking.
For example, Hanover police were considering sting operations by sending in undercover cops to underage drinking parties and than busting them. This idea didn't go over well with Dartmouth students, community, or president, Jim Yong Kim.
Undercover cops at parties wouldn't be a new tactic used by police but a sting operation would cross the line and force underage drinkers into the dark and would make them consider calling an ambulance if a friend was in trouble.
Lawning is worried about the future of underage drinking saying, "We are concerned with a frightening amount of problems," that include "missing classes and dropping out of school." Problems that school officials like Lawning and Lambert are facing.
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