BEACON SPORTS
Scavengers on the hunt
By Jerry B. Pohl
Humor Page Editor
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Spring is here, and it's scavenger hunt
season once again. Across America and
around the world, teams will be compet
ing to win points and prizes in this
quirky sport that grows in popularity
every year. The first scavenger hunt was
probably thousands of years ago and had
food as the only item on the list. Since
then, the tradition has grown into a sport
rivaling curling in its legitimacy.
Though most of the bigger and more
popular scavenger hunts started small,
only including areas local to their
respective regions, they now include
participants from many foreign coun
tries.
The first of these is "The Great
Scavenger Hunt", which will begin April
8, Noon CST, (1 p.m. EST). The hunt
will give competing teams of four 24
hours to tackle a 500 item list. The hunt
is based on digital cameras, with the
teams taking pictures of things to find
and do on the list. "The Great Scavenger
Hunt" was started by Dan Tieken and
Shawn Wilson at Western Illinois
University. When it began, it only took
five hours and was open to only 14 invit
ed guests. Now the hunt is drawing glob
al attention. For more information see:
www.thegreatscavengerhunt.com.
Another famous hunt, called, simply,
Tricadecathlonomania, was created in
Minnesota by Alex Robbins and Tad
Johnson in 2001. It has also grown in
popularity, riding the wave of attention
scavenger hunts have been getting. This
hunt will be April 15, the week after The
HOUSING AND FOOD SERVICES
ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
NAME:
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CLASS
DATE:
Gabe Stephenson (State College/State College) has been named the Housing and
Food Services Athlete of the Week.
The junior catcher led the Behrend baseball team to a 3-1 week to open up confer
ence play. He was outstanding at the plate batting .500 during the week and wording
seven RBIs. Stephenson belted homeruns in three of four AMCC games and two of
them proved to be game winners.
"Gabe had several clutch at-bats this week and is starting to get hot," said head
baseball coach Paul Benim. "We need him to continue to produce from the middle of
the lineup."
The Behrend Lions next play Thursday, April 6 when AMCC rival Hilbert comes to
town for a conference doubleheader at 1 PM. Behrend then hosts Frostburg on
Saturday, April 8 for another doubleheader. Saturday's game against Frostburg vvill be
aired live on the Image Sports Network at 1 PM.
Housing and Food Services Athlete of the Week is selected by the Spot*
Great Scavenger Hunt. Teams of four
will have 24 hours to complete as much
as they can of a 288 item list, which will
include items, performances and trivia.
For more information see:
http://www.trica.org/home.htm.
At the forefront of the scavenger hunt
trend are the universities; most promi
nent among these being the University
of Chicago. Student Chris Straus estab
lished the University of Chicago
Scavenger Hunt in 1987, and it has since
become the largest scavenger hunt in the
world, according to Wikipedia.
It's an annual event, spanning four
days and including 300 items including
performance, construction, innovation,
competition and travel. Most of the list
can be completed at or near the
University of Chicago, but trips to
points around the globe could and have
been worth plenty of points. A trademark
of this hunt is that much of the list must
be solved like a riddle to find out what
needs to be done. In this hunt at the top
of the heap, a rivalry has developed
between two historically successful
teams, Max Palevsky and Snell-
Hitchcock. This hunt comes closer to the
end of the season, starting on May 11.
For more information see:
http://scavhunt 1 .uchicago.edu/.
Most of these lists are just about
impossible to complete, so the team with
the most points wins. With most profes
sional scavenger hunts, the judges will
determine nearly everything, such as the
point value of list items and the legiti
macy of entries.
With the rampant success of scavenger
hunts around the world, how long will it
be before Penn State joins in?
Gabe Stephenson
Baseball
Junior
April 3, 2006
Babe Ruth Trade
1920, the Boston Red Sox sold George Herman "Babe" Ruth to the Yankees for
00,000 and a ballpark loan. In an attempt to finance his girlfriend's theatrical play
iston owner Harry Frazee sold Ruth, initiating the Curse of the Bambino, which
ted until 2004.
With 11 seconds left in t
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO 1993 NCAA finals,
Webber, in fear of being called for an obvious travel, called a timeout that the
Wolverines did not have. North Carolina capitalized on the Technical Foul and
took advantage to claim the Title.
4. Picking Sam Bowie over MJ
The Portland Trailblazers selected Sam Bowie with the second overall pick in the
1984 NBA Draft. With the third pick, the
Chicago Bulls selected Michael Jordan.
Given the third pick, it's easy to see how
big this mistake is. Jordan went on to soar
into the record books, while Sam Bowie
soared onto this list.
Steve Bartman, the 26 year-old Chicago
Cub fan caught the foul ball that could have sealed the victory for the World
Series-deprived Cubs. Outfielder Moises Alou was robbed of a pop-fly as
Bartman approached the end of the bench. The catch left the Cubs without a
title and Bartman without any friends.
7. 1994 MLB strike
For the first time in professional sports history, a league fails to have a post sea
son. For the first time in 90 years, MLB did not hold the World Series. As the
owners demanded a salary cap, the players opposed. After all the hostility set
tled, the games resumed after 232 days with 920 games lost.
8. NHL money dispute
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and the NHLPA collectively decided to cancel the entire 2004-2005 season because the
two sides could not agree on financial terms. Since neither side could agree, no games were played for the entire season,
causing franchises to miss out on a large amount of revenue.
9. MJ playing baseball
Michael Jordan is a certain selection for the NBA Hall of Fame. As he tried to follow in the footsteps of Bo Jackson and
Deion Sanders, Jordan attempted to become a Major League Baseball player. While struggling in the minors and barely
batting over .200, Jordan made almost the same impression in
baseball as his movie "Space Jam" did in Hollywood.
Sports Trivia 101
Penn State Behrend has had an immensely successful sports program.
Many athletes have gone on to have lucrative careers in the world of
sports. One Behrend alum had an especially famous career in Major
League Baseball. During the fourth inning of Game Four of the 1987
World Series, what Behrend alum slugged a three-run homerun to help
the St. Louis Cardinals?
Last Week's answer: San Diego Padres
(Answered by Kara Hesch, Patrick Webster, and Jeff Wemmell)
The answer will be posted in next week's Beacon issue. Email your answers to
cslsoos@psu.edu. The first person to answer correctly will have their name
printed next week. Good Luck!
By Chris LaFuria
Sports Editor
cslsoosCa'psti.edu
2. Bill Buckner grounder
5. Scott Norwood's miss
Two words- Wide Right. This is the most notorious mistake in the NFL, one that
has written the name of the professional onto many death threat-lists. In Super
Bowl XXV, Norwood missed a field goal with 20 seconds left to give the New
York Giants the game. The Giants went on to a 20-19 victory.
6. Cubs fan who caught potential out
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The Red Sox saw another
World Championship go
through their legs (literally)
as first baseman Bill Bucker
committed the most infa-
mous error in Major League Baseball history. The Sox had a
two-run lead with two outs as Buckner's blunder caused a rally
by the New York Mets
3. Chris Webber
timeout
10. Canseco's Cranium
On May 26, 1992, the Indians' Carlos Martinez blasted a shot into
the outfield that ricocheted off of the cranium of Jose Canseco. As
Canseco ran towards the wall, the ball bounced off of his head and
sailed over the fence for a homerun. Canseco, and his look of
complete confusion, will forever be recorded in baseball's photo
albums.
The Behrend Beacon I
Friday, April 7, 2006
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