A Case Of Mistaken Identity

With a school named Pacific, we are commonly mistaken for many other schools. In a recent study done by the consulting firm that has spearheaded the University's new integrated marketing initative, there are at least 26 other colleges with Pacific in their name. And this Pacific University of Oregon gets mistaken for all of them every so often.

We often times get mistaken for our Division I brethren located down in the Sacramento Delta. Switch one word here and you can get the name of both schools. It happens to the best, as illustrated by this wrap-up on women's college basketball games that appeared in Saturday's online edition of the Boston Globe.

North Carolina 98, Pacific 62 - Italee Lucas scored 25 points to help the No. 2-ranked Tar Heels (7-0) rout the Boxers (1-2) in the Junkanoo Jam in Freeport, Bahamas.

I am sure that Head Coach Sharon Rissmiller would love to take the Boxers down to the Bahamas, but not if they have to play North Carolina. They'll settle for a matchup with Carleton College of Minnesota in Forest Grove on Sunday.

Proof, though, that even some of the top papers in all of journalism get confused as to which Pacific is which. That or they just aren't paying attention. (I will give them bonus points, however, if our nickname "Boxers" got into the print edition.)