Re:  Alphabet Soup
Ryan Robbins Writes:
>I was wondering if those who post game stories or results could
>do away with the alphabet soup on first references to teams. I
>don't know all schools' initials and I'm sure there are others
>who are lost when they see "OSU beaten by WD" as a subject and
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Right on!  The problem is compounded when ambiguous abbreviations are
used.  For instance I frequently see CU (Clarkson?  Colgate?  Cornell?),
UM (Michigan?  Minnesota?) or ND (Notre Dame?  North Dakota?), etc..
When I hear Clarkson students refer to our school as CU, I wonder if
they really believe we are the only CU around.  In almost all cases I can
figure it out from the context of the note, but many times I'm just
interested in knowing who beat whom and I actually don't want to have
to read the entire posting to determine what teams are being referred to.
 
>Ryan Robbins
 
Thanks,
-Glenn