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Author:  "Paul Unwin  (Grantham College)" <punwin@grantham.ac.uk>
>Spin Docs
>
>A college is offering a course in how to throw a frisbee. Grantham
>College, Lincs, is set to produce Britains first qualified coaches in
>the sport. Students will spend two hours a week learning the game.
>Frisbee Ultimate is played on a 110 yrd pitch and spread from a US
>High School in 1968 to most beaches around the world.
>Sports science lecturer Paul Unwin said "its attractive to people
>turned off by traditional sports because there is no contact and no
>aggression.
>
>I dont know what to say?!

Stick with the cliche: "All publicity is good publicity"
If this looks shaky, qualify with: "It could be worse"

(semi-serious) I wonder if they'd be interested in a sponsorship deal for 
Worlds... they pay the tournament some cash (?), and we allow them to put a 
double page spread with some nice colour photos, results and short interviews in
the paper every day and guarantee them a certain distribution - like 5 copies 
per team, per day... [I have to assume that this has beem tried with other 
papers before, and I've never seen it happen yet, so I assume they're not 
interested...]

(not-so-serious) then they could come sit on the "beach" in St.Andrews and watch
the all those people who were turned off by traditional sports, and see all that
lack of aggression... do you think that they might cotton-on that at two hours a
week, there's quite a few years learning on pitch...

Wayne Retter

PS: Please excuse the royal "we"...