Saturday, February 05, 2005

"The Shot" Update

This was in the News and Record today.

"There came a point Friday when Jordan Snipes' amazing shot at Randolph-Macon had evolved into a minor nuisance for Guilford College. The college's Web site included a link to a high-resolution video of the long distance shot, which made CNN, ESPN and various other worldwide media outlets and gave the Quakers a 91-89 overtime victory Tuesday night. At a hit every 12 seconds, the page with the video was overloading the server capacity for www.guilford.edu, and early Friday afternoon, the school's Webmaster called sports information director Dave Walters and asked him to take the thing off the athletics department's segment of the site. Hits to the page in question were taking an estimated 80 percent of network capacity. That's the price of fame."

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