As mentioned earlier, we spent part of this morning educating the young sports media minds at the University of Minnesota. Former Strib colleague Jay Weiner teaches a class over there, and for the second consecutive year he was able to woo us with free parking and the promise of bright-eyed youngsters eager to learn. We had a good discussion about the evolution of blogs (came from primordial ooze, morphed into dinosaurs which might or might not have existed, and now here they are), the Buzz Bissinger vs. Will Leitch incident (Buzz is old-school scared but made some good points that should help blogs grow, while Will, god love him, played the role of terrified penguin to perfection), and many other things. Everyone asked good questions, and they are all subsequently supposed to write 600-word pieces on blogging, us or both (and if any of them follow through and read this blog, they are welcome to send their entries to us for possible publication and/or excerpting). The class has its own blog, which sadly cannot be shared because of privacy issues. Nonetheless, they are doing good work and hopeful of landing jobs someday. We told them to learn how to do as many things as possible (news writing, feature writing, video, audio, blogging, tapdancing, squirrel-taming, whatever it takes). At the end, as you see, enough respect had been earned as to garner some good old-fashioned bunny ears. Kids!

Also, it should be noted that for obvious reasons, the class was held in a basement.

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