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Show DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE Monday, February 4, 2013 7 BULLINGER WOMEN'S BASKETBALL Continued from page 6 The Super Bowl is the most obvious reminder that sports are nothing but commercial entertainment, yet few pick up on it. People glorify athletes tremendously — they're often immortalized as heroes and warriors — but what they really do is sell tickets and ads. Ray Lewis is no differ- ent from Johnny Depp. He's just more beat up at the end of the workday. Football fans, if you're ashamed to admit you watch, and love, Super Bowl ads, let it go. You might not realize it, but that's the main reason you watch the game. It's all about commercialization. Just as I marveled at the play making of Colin Kaepernick and Joe Flacco, I'll marvel at the cool POV shot of the baby wearing a GoPro camera. The lasting effect of the Super Bowl won't be that the Ravens won. Instead, it will be that baby Clydesdales failed once again to convince me to drink Budweiser, that Doritos still shouldn't be morphed into a taco shell, and that, yes, these Calvin Klein underoos do make my abs look more defined. j.bullinger@chronicle.utah.edu Twitter: @jakebullinger The only letter you actually want to write... Share your opinion with The Daily Utah Chronicle! Send a Letter to the Editor to letters@chronicle.utah.edu You can save lives! Donate blood-plasma. GRIFOLS Biomat USA Locations in Taylorsville & Salt Lake City Social Security card, photo ID, and proof of address are required. • r. Earn up to $220 every month! PHOTO COURTESY THE DAILY BRUIN Despite Michelle Plouffe's third double-double of the season with 14 points and 12 rebounds, Utah lost to UCLA 42-70. www.BiomatUSA.Grifols.com Utes take split in Southern California ■ Michael Smith STAFF WRITER MEDIA SALES GROUP THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH HAIR BEVELS GPS AL OE OL IV IA ROM GINGERSNAPS APE IAN ENOS VAL GETS ET OVERT ASH TOASTPOINTS GPA CHIANTI ANTS ATALL AMPS TEETIME AAA HEESECURLS GIG ROAST SAUCERS EAR EDI E URL ERS F IN ERFOODS P S I ACTONE DUNK YET NELSON STAY ,,,, (-. facet:ool( .(:(-)t-r1/1317' S 71catilic s Doug 1:it'attori 2013 NEED FUNDING FOR A STUDENT PUBLICATION? Student publications are eligible to receive funding from the Student Media Council for the 2012-2013 academic year. Contact Jake Sorensen, Director of Business, at jake.sorensen@utah.edu to receive an application. Completed applications are due Thursday, March 7, 2013 before 4:00 pm. .0 PIG 1,4(S) 44' STUDENT MEDIA COUNCIL THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH Aft ANSWER TO TODAY'S PUZZLE L__1) 1 2 8 9 3 5 6 7 6 4 5 7 8 2 2 6 5 3 5 2 1 3 2 8 9 8 5 7 1 6 3 5 0) Charles Dickens might have called Utah's weekend trip to Southern California a tale of two games. The Utes split their two contests in the Golden State, beating USC 63-6o Friday night before losing to UCLA 70-42 Sunday afternoon. They couldn't have played any differently in the two matchups, as a hard-fought win was followed by an embarrassing blowout. On Friday, Utah beat the Trojans after being down by four at halftime. Iwalani Rodrigues led the Utes with a season high of 23 points and Paige Crozon hit two crucial free throws with four seconds left to give Utah a three-point lead. UCLA's desperation heave at the buzzer didn't go and the Utes won on the ESPN 700 Postgame their second Pac-12 game of Show. "They're a very talthe season. Crozon tied her ented basketball team. We career high with 13 points played as hard as we could, and led the team with six re- but sometimes that happens bounds. on the road, especially if you The victory against the don't have all of your playTrojans was especially sweet ers." for Danielle Rodriguez. UCLA (17-4, 8-2 Pac-12) Utah's point guard had many came out in full attack mode friends and family in atten- and led Utah 14-1 with II mindance, as she grew up only a utes 4o seconds left in the first half. That trend continfew miles away from the USC campus. There were so many ued for the rest of the first Utah supporters that they frame as the Bruins headed outnumbered Trojan fans. into the locker room with In their second game of a 34-16 edge. The Utes only the weekend, the Utes took had three players score in the on the No. 19 UCLA Bruins first half, as Rodrigues put up at Pauley Pavilion. Utah was eight and Michelle Plouffe down from the start and nev- six. Crozon was the only er managed to make a serious other Utah player to make a threat in getting crushed by basket in the first 20 minutes 28 points — its worst loss of on John Wooden Court. the season. The second half was more "We got blitzed," said head coach Anthony Levrets See WOMEN'S page 8 University Ironic Man CONSOLIDATE YOUR CREDIT CARD DEBT AND EARN REWARDS 1 REWARD POINT FOR EVERY DOLLAR TRANSFERRED University FEDERAL CREDIT UNION =r- |
