Issues at Nutopia Sports?

In January, I told you that there were issues regarding my status on Utopia College Sports. That site has since been scrapped. Well, now in the new forum, Nutopia Sports, I am getting this message:

One of the things about Nutopia Sports is that is has this feature called discouraging users, since it uses the XenForo feature. Check it out here. Now I am hoping that I am not being discouraged, because most of my posts have been focused on my offline dynasty writing. Currently I'm working on the 2021 Pony Conference season. But if there really is an issue with the site and it doesn't have to do with me being discouraged (i.e., maintenance work, actual server attack, etc.), that's a totally different story.

EDIT: I just got a message from my buddy Travis Rounsaville about this. He says:

It is down for routine maintenance this evening for a couple of hours. CMQ
made a news forum post about it, but I don't hink everyone saw it.

All right, well that makes a whole lot more sense. Maintenance work it is.

Okay, who wrote our university’s women’s soccer media guide? Fess up.

Today, in a effort to kill some time before attacking my assignments (I will go ahead and do some MGMT 425 work after I post this blog), I went over to George Allen Field to see our ladies face the Baylor Bears. Finally, our ladies are able to actually win at home IN REGULATION. Hallelujah. We defeated those grues from Waco by the score of 3-0. Only one save needed for Liz Ramos, 12 for the Baylor keeper. That was how one-sided this match was.

Next up: a trip to Norman to face not the Sooners, but a couple of teams in Middle Tennessee State and North Texas, the latter who we have faced a couple of times. Note: some revenge is in order; in our last meeting with the Mean Green (in 1999, an ignominious season to forget), we lost to them 1-0.

Before the game, though, I bought the media guide for our team, and it was not until page 15 (the media guide, $5.00 [I had to sell some bottles the day before to muster enough to buy it, as well as a Rockstar, Trident, and this Sunday’s Press-Telegram) that I saw some errors in the guide. (As if Evan Longoria returning to play women’s soccer for Long Beach State was bad enough…good God…) For example, in Rachel Whiteaker’s section, it says “…at the Long Beach State,” and “…at the Central Florida”. It was the same for Mariko Stirckland’s section. Here’s an idea, guys: drop the “THE” in the statement.

Some more errors:

Page 22: in the record, they spell Sahar Haghdan’s last name wrong. (Haghan? Haghand? Who are they? I don’t remember anyone with that last name on our team; what’s up?)

Page 25: Poor Dr. F. King Alexander, they cut off his section early, and didn’t complete everything. How to fix it? Simple: resize the text to something smaller!

Page 29: Misspelled Brianna Truelove’s last name in the Academic All-Stars section. (Who is Turelove? That’s a questionable last name, along the lines of Texas Tech kicker Keith Toogood.)

This is why we have proofreading and editing tools, guys. Apparently, whoever wrote this forgot to use it. No offense, but these errors can make a negative impression on the professionalism of people up top. It’s the truth. If I was Dr. Deborah Gaut, I would give the person who wrote this a D, if not an F, for making the mechanics errors all that apparent.

A side note: Murray State defeated Lambuth yesterday, 48-13. You can breathe a sigh of relief now, Dr. Alexander.