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News Nuggets, 05.07.04
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Purple-clad crowd goal of radio station promotion
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Greenville radio station WGHB-AM 1250 plans a mass
giveaway of purple threads at next Wednesday's baseball game between East
Carolina and N.C. State at Kinston's Grainger Stadium.
The station, which broadcasts many of ECU's baseball
games and bills itself as
Pirate Radio 1250, plans to carry the
game live and will be handing out purple T-shirts to the first 1,250 fans
who show up for the renewal of the heated series between the Conference
USA-leading Pirates and their Atlantic Coast Conference neighbor.
“The ECU-NC State rivalry is huge and with the game
being played in Kinston we want to be sure that the home field advantage is
still intact for the Pirates," Pirate Radio 1250 co-owner Troy Dreyfus said
in a press release issued by the station. "This will be another opportunity
to unite the Pirate Nation and show our support for this exciting team.”
The station will begin it’s pre-game coverage on its
'Live @ 5 with Troy D. & Ellerbe' drive-time show two hours prior to the
game's 7 p.m. first pitch.
Bonesville.net, which partners with Pirate Radio
1250, will stream the
live feed of the station's pre-game
show as well as the play-by-play call of the game itself over the Internet.
Perp gets jail time for Fiesta ticket scam
SALT LAKE CITY — A former Utah ticket broker has
been sentenced to prison for charges in an online ticket scam during last
year's college football championship game.
Mark Beaver, of Salt Lake City, was sentenced to one
to 15 years in prison for each of eight counts of communications fraud and
two counts of theft. Under a plea deal, prosecutors dropped eight additional
theft charges, two communications fraud charges and one count of unlawful
activity.
Judge Sheila McCleve ordered the sentences to run
concurrently and for Beaver to pay more than $200,000 in restitution to the
86 victims.
Beaver was accused of taking money from hopeful
football fans wanting to attend the Jan. 3, 2003, Fiesta Bowl between Ohio
State and Miami.
According to court documents, Beaver offered the
tickets on the Internet auction site eBay. Fans paid half the ticket price
in advance, sending him payment through an Internet pay service.
Prosecutors allege he told buyers he would meet them
at a hotel or restaurant in Tempe, Ariz., before the game with the tickets.
Many fans who bought into the scam traveled to the
Phoenix area, believing up until game time that they would meet Beaver for
their tickets, but he never showed.
Beaver was arrested last June.
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