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Millions of NFL fans are again devoting a few hours each Sunday to watching their favorite teams, and one of the key players in those TV broadcasts is Drew Esocoff '79, who is in his fourth season as director of NBC's Sunday Night Football.

Esocoff started this NFL season without one of the icons of the broadcasting industry, John Madden, who Esocoff worked closely with on the NBC telecasts.

G. Bruce Knecht '80 recalls researching a story in 1994 for The Wall Street Journal about a soon-to-be launched company called Amazon.com

Knecht went to the Amazon website, which was the first Internet site he had ever visited, on the only computer in the Journal newsroom that allowed access to the web.

Harold Ramis's latest comedy - Year One - will be in a theater near you on June 19.

One of his most successful films, Ghostbusters, celebrates its 25th anniversary this summer, and a video game based on the film is to be released June 16. There also is much buzz about a potential third installment of the comedy blockbuster.

MTV has been a major influence on pop culture for more than 25 years, and Carole Robinson '83 has been there for nearly its entire lifetime, having joined the cable TV network just three years after its founding in 1981.

Legions of naysayers had greeted the all-music network when it launched Aug. 1, 1981, with a music video by The Buggles called "Video Killed the Radio Star."

The twists and turns and trials and tribulations of the economic crisis are forcing government officials to reshape policies on a day-by-day basis in ways that have not been seen in decades, says economics professor Nicole Simpson.

While there now seems to be agreement that new regulations are needed to address the crisis, government officials must walk a fine line in determining what will do the most good over the long term, she says.

"It's going to be a very tricky balance because you want the markets to work efficiently," Simpson says in the latest episode of Colgate Conversations, a podcast series that highlights members of the campus community.

You won't see Marjorie Bradley Kellogg on stage, but you may have seen her stage work.

Kellogg talks about the creative process that occurs before the curtain opens in the latest episode of Colgate Conversations, the podcast series that highlights members of the Colgate community.

Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign and potential victory Nov. 4 represent a major shift in how the political system is going to reflect the U.S. populace, according to Colgate professor Pete Banner-Haley.

Haley talks about the historic nature of the Illinois senator's campaign in the latest episode of Colgate Conversations, a series of podcast interviews that highlights members of the Colgate community.

Sports Illustrated senior writer Austin Murphy '83 covered the National Football League for six years and is in his 15th year of covering college football.

In the most recent episode of Colgate Conversations, the podcast series highlighting members of the campus community, Murphy had this to say:

-- The NFL is run by pinched, unsmiling bureaucrats who have sucked the joy from the game and have built Plasticine stadiums that are merely life support systems for luxury boxes.

-- Division I college football is played in secular cathedrals steeped in quirky traditions that evoke unflagging passion from fans and create fun atmospheres that can't be beat.

Alumna Chi Chi Obichere-Roxo's interest in international development - sparked by a Colgate extended study course and a Watson fellowship - can be seen through her work involving refugees in Kenya, religious leaders in Nigeria, and a host of others around the world.

Obichere-Roxo '00 is a program officer with Management Sciences for Health, a nonprofit global health organization based at The Extending Service Delivery Project, a consortium of six international organizations funded by the United States Agency for International Development.

Besides Kenya and Nigeria, Obichere-Roxo also has worked in England, India, Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Mali. She focuses mainly on reproductive health and family planning issues.

The U.S. health-care system must move from an emphasis on intervention to one of prevention and early diagnosis if it is to provide real value to American consumers.

That is one of the topics Dr. Michael J. Wolk '60 discusses in the latest episode of Colgate Conversations, a podcast series that highlights members of the campus community.

The noted cardiologist was on campus recently for the Michael J. Wolk '60 Conference on Medical Education. More than 100 students met with physicians from around the Northeast and dissected the medical profession, how to join it, and what to expect from life as a clinician.