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Men's Indoor Volleyball Needs Your Love

4/29/12 2:47pm by Janna Wong
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Men's Volleyball by desmorider via Flickr

Men’s Indoor Volleyball.  Why isn’t it more popular?  It could be the rules.  There are a lot of them and people who don’t know the sport always have a tough time learning it.  But, broken down to its basics, it has the same structure as any other sport: two opponents, one ball, the team that reaches the winning score first (by at least two points), wins.  It could it be the scoring.  It used to have Side Out scoring, which meant that games could last forever before either team reached 15 points.  But, no  Read more >

Saints They Ain't

3/6/12 10:29pm by Janna Wong
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Saints Defensive Coordinator Gregg Williams © Tyler Kaufmann/Cal Sport Media/ZUM

Did you hear about the New Orleans Saints?  The NFL reports that defensive players for the New Orleans Saints have been receiving bounties for hurting players on the opposing team.  At first, I didn’t want to believe this story but when the Saints’ Defensive Coach Gregg Williams admitted it was true, I became incredulous.  What the hell was going on in that locker room?  Was a  Read more >

Let's Learn from the Lin-sanity

2/18/12 1:03pm by Janna Wong
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It’s sweeping the nation – Lin-sanity!  People from all corners of the United States – and even from international nations – are shouting Jeremy Lin’s name from the rooftops and following his every move.  Who is he, you wonder?  He’s the first Chinese-American man to play in the National Basketball Association.  Oh, but, he’s so much more than that.  He’s the personification of determination, hard work, brains and stick-to-it-tiveness.  He’s the sports figure all kids should want to emulate because, as a parent, wouldn’t you want your son to idolize a  Read more >

BCS: Change Your System NOW!

1/12/12 6:07pm by Janna Wong
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Did you watch the BCS “Championship” game between LSU and Alabama?  Or, did you fall asleep in the middle of it from sheer boredom, like I did?  From anybody’s perspective (except, maybe, those myopic folks in the SEC), the game was a yawner.  The “experts” (mostly those who are somehow beholden to the BCS…or naturally, ESPN!) called it a “defensive battle” but I stand by my assertion: it was a major bore.  Read more >

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Janna Wong
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November 2011
About Me: 

Janna Wong was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. Her experiences growing up in LA during the ’60s and ’70s in a traditional Chinese family inform her writing and serve as the basis for many of her characters’ adventures. She attended USC, earning a Bachelor’s degree in English and a Master’s degree in Writing.

She has been a member of several prestigious writing workshops, including the David Henry Hwang Writers Workshop through East West Players and the Playwright’s Kitchen Ensemble through the Coronet Theater. Her play, “Sweet and Sour” was a Top 10 Finalist in the Theatre Mu New Playwrights Competition and her short stories from her collection, “A Life in Yellow-Gold,” were performed by The New Short Fiction Series in its inaugural “Emerging Voices” program.

She has worked in the film industry on such movies as “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” and “The Day After” and spent years as a story analyst for studios and production companies. She has written more than 150 menu decks for movies and television series for Universal Studios and has edited books and written magazine articles on a variety of topics. She is also an Adjunct Professor of Business Communication in USC’s Marshall School of Business.

Her novel, Mariana Wong's Summer of Love, is available on Amazon Kindle (http://www.amazon.com/Mariana-Wongs-Summer-Love-ebook/dp/B005FMB8QI/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1320368883&sr=1-1)

For more information or to contact the author, please go to: www.Janna-Wong.com

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