Twice in my career, I have interviewed for the top communications position at my alma mater, Texas Tech University. (The first time, several years ago, somehow I came in #2. Incidentally and sadly, that is the same high mark in the national rankings achieved by former Red Raider Coach Mike Leach.)
I have been [...]

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People ask me what PingWi-Fi.com is all about.  Well, I guess we’re about breaking all the rules.  EVERYONE says that rule #Uno of blogging is to stay concentrated on one area of interest.  LOL.  Can’t do it.  Too much tickles our fancy.
I mean … Wi-Fi is our holy grail.  Literally, when people ask me “What [...]

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After giving up the lead just minutes into the third quarter, Tech finally finished off Michigan State in a game that saw several lead changes in the second half.  Final score, Texas Tech 41, Michigan State, 31.

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So … standing there on the sidelines of the Texas Tech, Michigan State game, tweeting my own business when someone rifles a pass over the sidelines.  Thank goodness it skipped before it hit me. LOL … I was like all trying to be cool and not jump or pass out or whatever.  I tried to [...]

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It’s game day, just before noon. I strolled through the parking lot of the Alamodome in anticipation of the Valero Alamo Bowl which features the Michigan State Spartans vs. the Texas Tech Red Raiders tonight on ESPN, 8 p.m. Central.
(The PingWi-Fi team will be reporting and tweeting live from the sidelines and blogging from the [...]

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So, when was the last time you saw a football game with back to back kickoff returns for touchdowns, to start the second half of a bowl game? We just did in Fort Worth in the 40-degree Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl.
The PingWi-Fi team is scattered around the sidelines and the pressbox … tweeting [...]

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Yesterday was one of the strangest football days ever.
Topping headlines, my alma mater fired Mike Leach — a coach that took Texas Tech University football to #2 in the nation with about one-fifth the talent that most Big 12 schools recruit to their beautiful cities. If there is no secret “smoking gun” in this [...]

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This just in on the Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl, from press release …
Double Duty Luncheon Speaker:
It is not often that a featured speaker at a meeting, conference and/or event will get to display his skills before a bigger setting, but Retired Sgt. First Class Dana Bowman will be handling those tasks this month at [...]

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Dating back to the time when I first began to interview celebrities, I always stuck with one rule. No autographs. I mean, if you are trying to get a celebrity to interact on a human level during an interview, why would you lower yourself and put them on a pedestal? Pretty much [...]

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The commercial launch for PingWi-Fi.com was in November, a press conference hosted by San Francisco International Airport, but we have been up and running the blog for one year now.
How we doin?
Well, at the get-go, I said that I would consider the first year a success if we attended one and only one event … [...]

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