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Setting the Stage
• Navy and San Jose State will meet for the third time on the gridiron when the two square off on Friday night at Spartan Stadium (30,456) in San Jose. Kickoff is set for 6:30 pm local time, 9:30 pm in Annapolis.
• Friday's game will be televised nationally by ESPN2 with Carter Blackburn (play-by-play), Danny Kanell (color) and Allison Willliams (sideline) on the call.
Navy Tops South Alabama 42-14 To Become Bowl Eligible
• (AP) – Darius Staten made his final home appearance a memorable one with a career-high 127 yards on seven carries with a touchdown to lead Navy to a 42-14 victory over South Alabama.
• The Mids, who scored 22 consecutive points in the second half, finished undefeated at home for the first time since 2004.
• South Alabama's Ross Metheny completed 18 of 27 passes for 160 yards with two touchdown passes to Shavarez Smith, who had five receptions for 65 yards.
• Brandon Bridge replaced Metheny at quarterback and put together a 20-play, 89-yard drive that was stalled at the Navy 4 when Kendall Houston was stuffed by Cody Peterson on fourth-and-2 with 11:12 left in the game. Navy then put the game away on the next possession on a 45-yard touchdown pass from Keenan Reynolds to Matt Aiken.
• Navy backup quarterback Tago Smith added another 24-yard scoring run with 2:17 left for the 42-14 lead. The Mids racked up 519 total yards, with 351 coming from the rushing attack.
• Navy opened an early 3-0 lead on its first possession with a 37-yard field goal by Nick Sloan. The Jaguars then responded with a 14-play, 78-yard scoring drive, capped by a 4-yard pass from Metheny to Smith.
• Staten then gave Navy a 10-7 lead with 13:24 left in the half with a 17-yard touchdown run. After being helped by a roughing the passer penalty on Navy'sChris Johnson, South Alabama went ahead again when Metheny and Smith teamed up for a 22-yard touchdown.
• The shootout continued on the next possession as Navy scored again on a 7-yard run by Shawn White, who carried three defenders into the end zone. The Mids increased the lead to 20-14 with 34 seconds remaining in the half on a 21-yard field goal by Sloan.
Navy Qualifies For Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl
• Naval Academy Director of Athletics Chet Gladchuk announced after Saturday's victory over South Alabama that the Naval Academy has qualified to play in the Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl on Monday, Dec. 30 at Amon G. Carter Stadium in Fort Worth, Texas against a projected opponent from the Mountain West. Kickoff is set for 10:45 am in Fort Worth (11:45 am in Annapolis) and will be televised nationally by ESPN. This will be Navy's 10th bowl game in the last 11 seasons.
• This will be Navy's fifth trip to Texas for a bowl game and the first since Navy's 35-13 rout of Missouri in the 2009 Texas Bowl in Houston. Navy also played in the 2003 EV1.net Houston Bowl (lost to Texas Tech, 38-14), the 1964 Cotton Bowl in Dallas (lost to Texas, 28-6) and the 1958 Cotton Bowl in Dallas (beat Rice, 20-7).
• Tickets for the Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl are on sale now at: http://bit.ly/17zldT1
• Tickets can also be purchased starting Monday morning at 9 a.m. by calling 1-800-US4-NAVY or at the Ricketts Hall Ticket Office.
• Ticket prices are $30 (Lower Level & Upper Level End Zone), $40 (Upper Level Sideline), and $50 (Lower Level Sideline). The only way to sit with the Navy contingent is to buy your tickets through the Navy Ticket Office.
• Fans can also purchase tickets to sponsor midshipmen and enlisted personnel and their families for $50 per ticket. Donated tickets are 100% tax deductible.
• The Naval Academy class that donates the most tickets receives a 30% discount on football season tickets for 2014 for every member that donates four or more tickets. Any individual that donates 10 tickets or more will receive a 30% discount on the 2014 season ticket package regardless of class affiliation. Be sure to donate in your correct ticket account that signifies you as a USNA Alumni.
• "We strongly encourage Navy fans to buy their bowl tickets directly from the Naval Academy Athletic Association," said Gladchuk. "It is very important for this game and for future Navy bowl considerations for our fans to purchase tickets through the NAAA. If you can't make it to the game, we ask that Navy fans buy tickets for our midshipmen and enlisted personnel which will allow us to create the usual pageantry of Navy football."
• Anthony Travel is the official Naval Academy Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl travel agency. Travel packages include hotel accommodations at the Omni Fort Worth Hotel (Navy team hotel). Visit http://bit.ly/1csCTT5 and search Navy Bowl or call (888) 632-6951 to make your reservations.
Scouting San Jose State
• The Spartans enter Friday's game with a 5-5 record and in need of one victory in the next two games to become bowl eligible. San Jose State owns victories over Sacramento State (24-0), Hawai'i (37-27), Colorado State (34-27), Wyoming (51-44) and UNLV (34-24). Its losses have come at the hands of Stanford (34-13), Minnesota (43-24), Utah State (40-12), San Diego State (34-30) and Nevada (38-16).
• San Jose State is led by senior quarterback David Fales, who is a probable first-round draft pick. Fales has completed 60 percent of his passes (233-386) for 3,202 yards with 22 touchdowns and 12 interceptions. Fales is 12th in the country in completions per game (23.3), eighth in passing yards per game (320.2) and 14th in total offense per game (317.6).
• The Spartans are 11th in the country in passing offense, averaging 325.4 yards per game and are 22nd in the country in passing yards per completion, averaging 13.7.
• Senior wide receiver Chandler Jones has been Fales' favorite target as he has caught 64 passes for 1,109 yards and 11 touchdowns. Jones is fifth in the nation in touchdown catches (11) and seventh in receiving yards per game (110.9). His 6.4 catches per game ranks 25th best in the country.
• Freshman running back Jarrod Lawson has carried the ball 124 times for 646 yards with three touchdowns.
• Senior linebacker Keith Smith is one of the top linebackers in the country. He has recorded 137 tackles and eight tackles for a loss on the year and his 13.7 tackles per game is No. 1 in the country. Smith is averaging 6.9 solo tackles per game, which stands third in the country (just behind Navy's Cody Peterson). Freshman linebacker Christian Tago has recorded 74 tackles, 7.5 tackles for a loss and three sacks.
• Senior corner Bene Benwikere has picked off five passes and broken up 10 more passes on the year. He is ranked seventh in the country in interceptions per game (0.6) and fourth in the country in passes broken up per game (1.7).
• Sophomore kicker Austin Lopez is one of the top kickers in the country, making 19 of his 23 field goal attempts and all 28 of his extra-point attempts. Lopez is second in the country in field goals per game, averaging 1.9 per contest.
• San Jose State has lost just five fumbles on the year, which ranks 18th in the country.
Navy vs. The Mountain West
• Navy is 22-34 (.393) all-time against teams currently residing in the Mountain West Conference and is 2-0 this year with victories over Air Force and Hawai'i. Navy will play a fourth Mountain West Conference team on Dec. 30 in the Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl.
• The Mids have played six – Air Force, Colorado State, Hawai'i, New Mexico, San Diego State, San Jose State – of the 12 teams that make up the Mountain West.
Niumatalolo Passes Paul Johnson For Third At Navy In Career Wins
• Ken Niumatalolo has led the Midshipmen to a 46-30 (.605) record in his six seasons as the head coach. He is third all-time at Navy in career wins.
• Niumatalolo holds Navy coaching records for most wins in the first two seasons (18), three seasons (27), four seasons (32), five seasons (40) and sixth seasons (46) of a career.
• Niumatalolo is the first Samoan head football coach on the collegiate level and the second Polynesian head coach in FBS history (Larry Price, who was the head coach at Hawai'i from 1974-76, was the first).
• Niumatalolo was recently selected as a member of the inaugural class for the Polynesian Football Hall of Fame.
Celebrating Navy's Seniors
• The Class of 2014 has compiled a 28-20 (.583) record over four seasons in Annapolis, qualified for three bowl games and won two Commander-In-Chief's Trophies.
• With a victory over Army on Dec. 14, the senior class would win its third Commander-In-Chief's Trophy in four years.
• Navy's 22 seniors include: wide receiver and co-captain Matt Aiken, wide receiver Casey Bolena, nose guard Travis Bridges, nose guard Barry Dabney, corner Albrey Felder, punter Justin Haan, wide receiver Brantley Horton, defensive end Michael Huf, wide receiver Shawn Lynch, guard Eric Mahler, wide receiver Hayden Maples, defensive end Evan Palelei, linebacker and co-captain Cody Peterson, safety Wave Ryder, outside linebacker DJ Sargenti, slot back Darius Staten, offensive guard Thomas Stone, slot back Marcus Thomas, linebacker Michael Tuimavave, offensive tackle Matthew Van Halanger, offensive tackle Graham Vickers and offensive tackle Sam Womack.
The Red Zone
• Navy has scored on 40 of its 45 possessions (.889) in the red zone this year, scoring 33 touchdowns (.733), kicking seven field goals, missing two field goals, taking a knee to end the game in Navy's 51-7 victory over Delaware and losing it on downs. The Mids are ranked 25th in the country in red zone offense.
• The opposition has scored on 27 of its 35 red zone opportunities (.771), scoring 25 touchdowns (.714), kicking two field goals, throwing two interceptions, stopped on downs tweice, took a knee once (Duke) and missed three field goals. Navy is ranked 30th in the country in red zone defense.
Inside Linebackers Cleaning Up On Tackles
• Navy senior inside linebackers Cody Peterson and DJ Sargenti have been all over the field for the Navy defense this season.
• Peterson, the Mids' defensive captain, is No. 2 in the country in solo tackles per game, averaging 7.4 per contest, and is tied for eighth nationally in total tackles, averaging 10.6 per contest.
• Sargenti, who had never even recorded a tackle prior to this year and wasn't moved to inside linebacker (was a QB as a freshman and OLB as a sophomore and junior) until the start of fall practice, is 39th in the country in solo tackles, averaging 5.3 per game, and 95th in total tackles averaging 7.9 per contest.


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A vintage gumball machine for 12 bucks.. and it works!! :)
Vintage Magazine "Ladies Home Journal" 1957
Here are some items I have been collecting over the past few months!! :)
Adorable wind up clock... another etsy.com find
I found this beauty at Salvation Army last weekend .. they were having a 50% off sale... 23 bucks!! And she works!! Dad is gonna give her a tune up!

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I have really slacked on posting lately. I am trying to do too much these days, but one thing I can't pass up is Lilia's birthday. She is such an amazing kid. I just love her to pieces! It amazes me that she has grown up so much. I look at the pictures of her first days of school and she just keeps getting bigger and more beautiful. She is truly fantastic and I am proud to be her mom.
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2nd Grade (a week ago)
Today she got to take treats to her class as well as a bag of her favorite things that she got to share with them all. Then her classmates wrote her letters for her birthday. I just have to share a few of them for posterity's sake...
Dear Lilia,
Being are (our) friend and cepeing (keeping) me happi. And have a grat (great) brethday.
From Lexi
Dear Lilia,
Yoo ar so nies (nice) I luv you. Vare (very) nis (nice).
From Sequoia
Dear Lilia,
Nise (nice) Fanny.
Dear Lilia,
You are coot (cute). I op (hope) you have a good time at yor birthday.
From Donovan
Dear Lilia,
I hope you have a good brithday to day. I wish I can come ovre to your house.
From Madison
There were plenty more like these, but these were the one's that I thought were the best. I especially got a kick out of lilia's nice fanny and her being cute... I think Lilia liked that Donovan thinks she is cute. She really likes him too! :)


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We often take for granted the freedom we are continuously given on a daily basis. In the production of Home/Land, Director David Feiner does a magnificent job in portraying the lives of immigrants and the struggles their families encounter while attempting to come to America. The show runs from July 18th until July 28th at the Goodman Theatre located in downtown Chicago.
The Albany Park Theatre Project (APTP) is comprised of young, ethnically diverse, and very talented group of adolescent actors and actresses across the Chicagoland area. The cast does an outstanding job in covering all the aspects of writing, the playing of instruments, and choreography. As you are instantly mesmerized by their performance, you can truly feel the heart breaking and grueling disappointments that immigrants are faced with when attempting to come to America.
As each character tells their story, you cannot help but put yourself in their shoes and feel the pain and disappointment each person encounters. Individuals from the APTP interviewed community members and families in order to capture the real life experiences so many immigrants have been faced with and will continue to face in the years to come.
Right from the start, you are drawn into the lives of young immigrant families and how each person attempts to create a better life in the United States. We are shown the cruelty and the disrespect each person must go through and the struggles families must endure in order to become American citizens. We see the lives of families and their loved ones as they fear deportation every second of everyday.
We get a chance to feel the heart-wrenching pain a father must go through while trying to work job after job to support his wife and two children in order to stay in the country. There are many obstacles he has to overcome including having to see his son in an unfortunate situation. He continues to face deportation time after time and risks the chance of losing his family.
As we can continue to meet each character, we come across a young woman who fears boarding a plane to Arizona. She feels as though she is being constantly watched and fears the worse may happen at any moment.
One cannot help but want to reach out a hand to each character and comfort them. Although we are unable to do such an act, two brave women take on the challenge of assisting those who end up being deported. They do not give up and continue to find out the names of each individual being deported in order to properly notify their loved ones.
The young actors depicted the lives of the struggling families to perfection. There was not a dry eye in the house after this outstanding production concluded. You can truly feel yourself cheering for each family as they long for a better life and a better future for their families. For more information on how to attend Home/Land, please visit GoodmanTheatre.org.
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Obama Demands Court Uphold His "Right" To Ignore Constitution
August 15, 2012 By Doug Book 60 Comments
Obama's Department of Justice is demanding a federal judge dismiss the injunction with which she sought to uphold the constitutional rights of the American people.
On May 16th, federal judge Kathleen Forrest granted a preliminary injunction to plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed against Barack Obama and the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 (NDAA), striking down those sections of the Act that provide the president the power to indefinitely detain American citizens without benefit of their 5th and 6th Amendment rights.
Under the terms of the Act, Obama had been given exclusive authority to direct members of the US military to arrest and imprison anyone he believed to have "substantially supported" al Qaeda, the Taliban, or "associated forces." When pressed by plaintiff's attorneys about the practical extent of this authority, government lawyers admitted "…the NDAA does give the president the power to lock up people like journalist Chris Hedges and peaceful activists," admitting that "…even war correspondents could be locked up indefinitely under the NDAA."
And when asked by the judge what it meant to be an "associated force", Obama's lawyers "…claimed the right to refrain from offering any clear definition of [the] term, or clear boundaries of the president's power under [the] law." In short, it is the federal government's scheme that the Act remain so vague that a corrupt and power-hungry Administration may imprison virtually anyone it considers a threat to its pursuit of absolute power.
On July 25th, Administration lawyers filed papers demanding Judge Forrest's preliminary injunction NOT be made permanent. In the filing, Obama made it clear his Administration would ignore the court and its injunction regardless of what the judge may decide, claiming incorrectly that "…[the] injunction would have 'nil' effect, for the government would continue to possess the identical detention authority under the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force…" Of course, that is a lie, as the AUMF applies only to known members of al Qaeda or the Taliban.
Most indicative of the Obama Administration's contempt for Judge Forrest, the law, and the American people was government attorney Benjamin Torrance's claim that it was "the Obama Administration's position" NDAA detention provisions do not apply to American citizens living in the US. Judge Forrest responded by quoting Chief Justice Roberts, who wrote in a 2010 case that the Supreme Court "…would not uphold an unconstitutional statute merely because the government promised to use it reasonably." So much for Judge Forrest's faith in the validity and value of Obama's signing statement promise to not employ his Section 1021 authority to indefinitely detain the American public!
Yet incredibly, when pressed on the issue, this Obama mouthpiece suggested to Forrest that concerns about the president's detention powers were excessive as American citizens would, after all, have the ability to file a writ of habeas corpus should they be illegally or improperly jailed! "How long does [such a] petition take," asked Forrest? When Torrance refused to answer, the Judge continued, "Several years, right"?
So not only did Obama's attorney lie about his Marxist boss's corrupt intentions; he actually claimed that the abuse of American citizens was somehow acceptable because those unconstitutionally imprisoned might ask that the charges against them be produced after ONLY a few years behind bars!
Judge Forrest will soon decide whether to make the injunction permanent. Every citizen must watch very carefully for that ruling, as the "mainstream" media has ignored the story completely. We must all hope the Judge will not be intimidated by this corrupt Regime as so many of her colleagues have been before her.
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Nexon Buys Gloops for $486 Million in Cash to Push Into Mobile Gaming
Nexon, a Tokyo-based games company that raised $1.2 billion the day before Zynga went public, continues using that cash to make acquisitions.
Today, it has acquired Gloops, a mobile game developer also based in Japan, for $486 million in cash. Gloops, which is known for the titles JapanPro Baseball Card Battle and Warriors of Odin, reported a profit of $38.5 million on revenues of $305 million for the year ended June 30.
Nexon, a distributor of MapleStory and other free-to-play games online, has experimented with both Facebook and mobile gaming, but this acquisition will help it push into mobile even more.
Gloops is currently expanding from Asia into the U.S. and Europe with the release of five titles this year and another five in 2013 through a partnership with DeNA's social games platform. DeNA is pledging to help Gloops — and other game companies it works with — get users and distribute the game internationally.
This summer, Nexon bought a $685 million stake in NCsoft, a South Korean maker of online games, including Lineage and Guild Wars. Nexon was also rumored to be sniffing around Bellevue, Wash.-based Valve, an online distribution platform, and while that jibed with Nexon's aggressive acquisitiveness, the rumors were subsequently shot down by Valve.


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CIO… the Summit LeaguePosted by Brian Goodman on January 24th, 2013
Eli Linton is the RTC correspondent for the Summit League.
Top Storylines
- All Eyes On Wolters: Nate Wolters is still on pace for the improbable back-to-back 20-5-5 season. Wolters (as of 1/23) is averaging 20.7 points, 5.8 rebounds and 5.8 assists per game this seaon. It's only happened five times in NCAA history, and he already owns one of those five seasons. If he keeps the pace, Wolters will be the only player in Division I history to average those numbers twice. Although there are questions about his ability to play at the next level, Wolters is having a historic college career, and it's mostly gone unnoticed in the mainstream. Wolters is also one of 20 finalists for the Naismith Trophy, and he became the first player in SDSU history to reach the 2,000 point mark in a win over Western Illinois on January 17.
- The Summit League Rising: The Summit League has reached #16 in conference RPI as of January 22. With North Dakota State, Western Illinois and South Dakota State all reaching the mid-major Top 25 rankings, the Summit League seems to have been able to preserve the mid-major clout they had worked so hard to build in recent years despite realignment. We're still looking for that Cinderella team to break through and get a win in March. This conference has had a strong candidate every season, and now it looks like the Summit has three strong contenders emerging from the ranks.
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- North Dakota State (16-4, 7-1): Taylor Braun is having a fantastic season, averaging 15.2 points and five rebounds per contest while shooting 50 percent from beyond the arc, but it is the Bison defense that has improved drastically to propel them to the top of the Summit League. NDSU is holding opponents to 56.2 points per game and under 38 percent shooting on the season. Their last loss was against Minnesota on December 11 before falling on Saturday to a very good Western Illinois team on the road. This team is doing its best to ruin the repeat party for South Dakota State. Read the rest of this entry »


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US newspapers are in a state "perilously close to free fall" and time is running short for them to find a business model and reinvent themselves, according to a study released on Monday.
by Chris Lefkow
The Pew Research Center?s Project for Excellence in Journalism said its 2009 report on the State of the News Media was the "bleakest" it has issued since it began doing the annual studies six years ago.
The report examined newspapers, online media, network, cable and local television news as well as news magazines, radio and the ethnic press.
As the study was released, Hearst Corp., publisher of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, announced it was ending the print edition of the money-losing 146-year-old newspaper on Tuesday and going online only.
The Pew report found that US weekly news magazines and daily newspapers are particularly troubled. "The newspaper industry exited a harrowing 2008 and entered 2009 in something perilously close to free fall," its authors said.
Nevertheless, they said, "we still do not subscribe to the theory that the death of the industry is imminent," noting that the industry overall "in 2008 remained profitable."
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SEATTLE – Once they got word, UCLA players stopped with the hugs and handshakes on the court and raced into the locker room, huddling around cellphones and computers to get whatever updates they could on what was happening in Salt Lake City.
When Utah's upset of Oregon became final, the Bruins' locker room erupted with cheers; the Pac-12 Conference regular-season title was theirs alone.
"To go through all the adversity we've gone through this season, to be able to win it here is really special," UCLA coach Ben Howland said. "To beat a really good team on their home floor is difficult to do, and that was done today."
Shabazz Muhammad scored 21 points, Larry Drew II came up with another huge shot against Washington, and No. 23 UCLA clinched the Pac-12 Conference regular-season title with a 61-54 win over the Huskies on Saturday.
The day began with four teams still alive for a piece of the Pac-12 title, thanks mostly to the Bruins opening the door by losing at Washington State on Wednesday night, their first loss in Pullman in 20 years. They slammed shut the hopes for anyone other than Oregon by suffocating the Huskies for the final 5 minutes, holding Washington to just two points.
That closing surge by the Bruins gave them their first win in Seattle since 2004 and at least a share of the regular-season title. When they got help from Utah, the title belonged exclusively to the Bruins for the third time in Howland's tenure. They will be the No. 1 seed for the conference tournament next week in Las Vegas.
"That was our main goal at the beginning of the season," UCLA's Travis Wear said. "We fought through some adversity during the season and to end in this environment and come into Washington and get the win it feels awesome."
Muhammad scored 14 in the second half and helped UCLA (23-8, 13-5 Pac-12) rally from a four-point deficit with 5 minutes remaining. He took over when the Bruins needed their freshman to be a star. Howland believes Muhammad's performance in the final regular-season game of the season – and likely his career – should earn him the Pac-12 Player of the Year award.
"I thought Shabazz was great today. Shabazz is the player of the year in the conference," Howland said. "This win hopefully hammers that home. He was phenomenal."
Jordan Adams added 17 points and Travis Wear had 10 for the Bruins, who avoided being swept in the state of Washington for the first time since 1993. Drew hit the winning shot at the buzzer against Washington in early February at Pauley Pavilion and came up with another huge basket in the final minute again.
Drew finished with seven points and became UCLA's single-season assists leader, passing Pooh Richardson. UCLA also took advantage of Washington's 19 turnovers, turning them into 29 points.
Scott Suggs had 14 points, but Washington (17-14, 9-9 leading scorer C.J. Wilcox was just 3 of 13 shooting for eight points.
Down by one at the half, UCLA started the second half on a roll, hitting five of its first six shots. Adams and Muhammad combined for the first 10 points of the half as the Bruins took their largest lead at 40-33 with 16:20 left.
Washington eventually worked its way back and pulled even at 45 with 8:56 left after a jumper from Abdul Gaddy and steal and layup from Andrew Andrews. Norman Powell had an open baseline drive, but 7-footer Aziz N'Diaye quickly rotated and smothered the shot, leading to Suggs' jumper in the lane that gave Washington a 47-45 lead with 7:56 left.
Muhammad briefly pulled UCLA even before N'Diaye's three-point play and Gaddy scoring on an inbound pass for a 52-47 lead. N'Diaye added another huge block, this time on Adams, and did a few pushups while lying on the ground, but the Huskies missed three good opportunities to extend the lead – including Wilcox's open 3 rimming out – before Kyle Anderson and Muhammad both scored to draw even at 52-all.
Washington would remain stuck on 52 for the next four minutes while UCLA took the lead on free throws from Adams and Muhammad. Wilcox had another 3-pointer rim out before Washington's scoring skid ended on Shawn Kemp Jr.'s lob dunk with 1:03 left – the Huskies only points over the final 5:59 – to cut the deficit to 57-54.
UCLA drained the shot clock and Drew beat Suggs off the dribble for a driving layup with 32.6 left that proved to be the clinching basket.
"We made an effort to play defense from the start," Muhammad said. "I think in the second half we really tightened it up and they had trouble scoring."
Kemp finished with 10 points for Washington, but eight of those came early. He was the only other Washington player in double figures.
"I don't have a lot to say. It was pretty obvious to our team and me where the difference in that game was. UCLA did a great job of forcing us into 19 turnovers, which they converted into 29 points," Washington coach Lorenzo Romar said. "They scored 61, so that's right at half of their points. It's similar to what happened at their place."


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As the government shutdown enters its third week, "Saturday Night Live" joked federal furloughs would have left the "Gravity" astronauts reliant on janitors in Houston to keep them alive.
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Imperfect Pitch
Charlie Zink was supposed to be the next Tim Wakefield, maybe even a star. But if the Sox' minor league knuckleballer doesn't make it this season, his Hollywood-like tale may go down as Fenway's greatest story that almost was.
It's a long way from Tokyo.
On a drizzly Saturday morning in late March in Fort Myers, Florida, the minor league players in Red Sox uniforms are still slogging away at their baseball dreams. The big boys left three days earlier, following Daisuke Matsuzaka and Hideki Okajima back to their homeland, to open defense of their 2007 World Series title.
Charlie Zink, whose Japanese-American grandparents were taken from their California farm and sent to an internment camp during World War II, is perched on the far left of the pitching rubber. It is the first inning of a Triple A spring-training game played before 28 fans. Zink has a 1-2 count on the leadoff hitter, Alexi Casilla. Zink goes into his compact windup and delivers the ball with a locked wrist and a short stride, like he's throwing a dart. The pitch comes in without spin at a speed that wouldn't warrant a ticket on the highway. At the last second, it drops sharply. Casilla swings feebly and misses. The ball caroms off the glove of PawSox catcher George Kottaras, who sprints after it and flips to first for the out. Hard to hit, hard to catch; things are looking good for Zink today. He has what his teammates call his "filthy" stuff. His knuckleball is on.
Almost every pitcher has experimented with the knuckler, a pitch that is subject to the laws of physics and the whims of God. When it's going well, the knuckleball can make Barry Bonds look like Barry Manilow. When it's not, it can make Fat Albert look like Albert Pujols. It is a pitch whose success is predicated on its unpredictable journey.
The knuckler is famously hard to master. Hoyt Wilhelm and Phil Niekro have taken the pitch to the Hall of Fame. More recently, it made Tim Wakefield a Fenway favorite. Wakefield, the only knuckleballer on Opening Day Major League rosters, is in his 14th season with the Red Sox. Zink began the season as one of three knuckleball pitchers at the Triple A minor league level.
Back in 2003, he seemed destined to join Wakefield. After just one season throwing the knuckler, he became the Sox' lone top-50 prospect in Baseball Prospectus rankings. In an ESPN.com article that November, Rob Neyer dubbed him "easily the best young knuckleball pitcher in the world," saying he was "likely to have a career something like Tim Wakefield's. And he might be Phil Niekro." Then came the crash. Zink produced a 1-10 record in 2004 with an embarrassingly high ERA. He tumbled backward in the Red Sox minor league system. Early in 2005, the struggles continued: walks by the bushel, flat knucklers soaring over minor league fences.
Zink wanted to ditch the pitch, but the Sox wouldn't let him. The knuckleball was his way to the big leagues. The only way. The maddening way. "When I throw it without spin and it doesn't move, I don't know what to do," he admitted in June 2005. "I just don't feel that confident with it. I never really did. Even when I was having all that success, I wondered how people were missing the ball."
But in 2008, after two solid minor league seasons, Zink has come to grips with the vagaries of knuckleball life. And now he's aiming for the outside corner - the one at Fenway Park.
ZINK, 28, ARRIVED AT SPRING TRAINING this year with his thick black hair shaved to the scalp. The look accentuated both his part-Japanese heritage (his maternal grandfather was born in Japan) and his prominent features: dark, contemplative eyes, a mole at the center of his chin, perfect white teeth he gave up coffee to preserve. He sports an elongated nail on the middle finger of his right hand. That nail is the source of considerable attention. For years, he treated it with nail hardener purchased, rather awkwardly, from a California salon. These days he fortifies it by taking gelatin pills and, to the dismay of roommates, rarely washing the dishes.
On the mound, he plunges that nail into the hide of the ball alongside his index knuckle in a unique hybrid grip. (Almost a century ago, knuckleballers gripped the ball with their knuckles; ever since, pitchers have relied on fingernails to keep the ball from spinning.) When he came to the organization in 2002, Zink didn't use the knuckler. Relying on a fastball, curve, and change-up, he was a conventional pitcher.
Zink grew up in California. His father Ted Zink was the associate warden of Folsom State Prison, the one made famous by Johnny Cash. At 6-3 and 260 pounds, Ted was a commanding presence, towering over Charlie's petite mother, Joyce, who also worked in corrections at Folsom. Charlie spent his first 18 months in a little house on prison property, a place Joyce jokingly calls "a gated community." Later, the Zinks and their only child moved to nearby El Dorado Hills, about 20 miles east of Sacramento, where Charlie earned a second-degree black belt in tae kwon do, and with Ted's encouragement, broke par playing golf at age 12.
In high school, Zink was a fine pitcher, but no prodigy. He wasn't drafted, and he didn't earn a Division 1 scholarship offer. After a year at a local junior college, he transferred to a school in Georgia, the Savannah College of Art and Design. He was not drawn by the school's renowned programs in furniture design or jewelry making. Rather, he was intrigued by SCAD's baseball coach, a free-spirited Cuban fellow who knew his way around a pitching mound.
Over 19 big-league seasons, Luis Tiant pitched with rare panache. With his corkscrew delivery, he would turn his back to the plate, then pivot to release an array of pitches from every conceivable angle. In Boston, where he played for eight years, he was beloved as "Loo-ie," and helped lead the Sox to the 1975 World Series. After retiring in 1982, Tiant toiled for years as a scout and a minor league coach. In 1997, he took the coaching job at SCAD.
For three years, Zink pitched for Tiant, becoming the SCAD Bees' all-time strikeout leader, despite winning only nine of 26 decisions on a bad Division 3 team. After his college eligibility ran out in 2001, he signed with Arizona's independent Yuma Bullfrogs and pitched five innings that summer without distinction. He hated the whole experience. "It wasn't anything I wanted to do, ever again," he says.
Returning to classes his senior year, he didn't pick up a baseball for eight months. He bought an LSAT study guide. Then he got a call from Tiant, who left that year to take a minor league coaching job with the Red Sox. He told Zink there might be a roster spot in the low minors if he wanted to come down to Fort Myers and try out. The Red Sox signed him for $850 a month on April 1, 2002.
ZINK'S FIRST SEASON with the Single A Augusta GreenJackets of Georgia, then a Red Sox affiliate, proved tumultuous. Late on Father's Day, Zink flew home to Sacramento, making it to Folsom Mercy Hospital just hours before his father died of lung cancer. With his biggest fan gone, Zink still managed to pitch well in Augusta (his 1.68 ERA led the staff), but he was used as a middle reliever, a lowly assignment that reflected his standing as a non-prospect within the Red Sox organization. The player development staff thought he lacked "projectability," pitches that could dominate high-level hitters. But that changed late in the season. Before a game, the team's strength and conditioning coach, Darren Wheeler, suggested Zink throw a couple of knuckleballs, a pitch he had never used on the mound. The first few pitches sank. The next one soared at the last moment, glancing off the top of Wheeler's glove and slamming into his Oakley sunglasses, sending the lenses flying and the frame smashing into his head just above the left eye.
"Dude," Zink said, "you're bleeding." Wheeler needed three stitches to close the wound.
Sox minor league pitching coordinator Glenn "Goose" Gregson was in Augusta at the time. Then 52, Gregson had spent much of his life in minor league baseball, never getting to the majors as a pitcher but working steadfastly to give others the chance. One of the people he most admired was Charlie Hough, who had spent 25 years in the big leagues as a knuckleballer. Hough once told Gregson that any pitcher who could throw even one good knuckleball in 10 deserved a chance. Gregson thought of Zink. "When he opened this poor kid's face up," Gregson recalls, "I figured we had to at least give this a try."
Gregson and Ben Cherington, then the Sox director of player development, met with Zink at spring training in 2003 and told him his odds of making it to the majors as a conventional pitcher were overwhelmingly small. With the knuckleball, he had a chance. They wanted Zink to throw the pitch 95 percent of the time. They'd send Wakefield out to train him. Zink was stunned. "I had to go with it," Zink later said. "I didn't have any leverage."
Wakefield told Zink he'd have to relearn his pitching motion entirely: Develop a short stride, use a stiff wrist, lead with the palm. The key, Wakefield told him, is being able to repeat the fine movements of your delivery again and again. Wakefield gave one last piece of advice: "Don't get too high. Don't get too low."
While that is time-honored baseball wisdom, it has special significance for knuckleballers, and no one knew that better than Wakefield. Four years after he was drafted as an infielder by the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1988, Wakefield became a dominant pitcher in the bigs, going 8-1 with a 2.15 ERA and winning two games in the playoffs. Then he lost his touch. By the spring of 1995, he was released. The Pirates concluded that his brief mastery had been an aberration. Manager Jim Leyland later said: "It's just a freak pitch. It's the darnedest thing I've ever seen. We couldn't help him." Wakefield was salvaged from the scrapheap by the Red Sox in a move that would prove one of the great steals of the modern game. His first year started with a stretch of 14-1 with a 1.65 ERA, followed by a 2-7 descent with an ERA over 7.
Zink began the 2003 season with the Red Sox High A affiliate in Sarasota, Florida. After a few rough starts, he hit his stride. Some of the swings against him looked absurd, sending his teammates into fits of laughter on the bench. In late July, he was promoted to the Double A Portland (Maine) Sea Dogs. Two weeks later, he took a no-hitter into the eighth inning. In late August, Zink made his final start of the year against the New Haven Ravens, then the Double A affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays. His knuckleball that night lived up to Hall of Famer Willie Stargell's famous description of the pitch: "a butterfly with hiccups." The Ravens finally broke up the no-hitter with two outs in the ninth.
"It was unbelievable," recalled Ron Johnson, then the manager of the Sea Dogs and currently Zink's skipper at the Triple A Pawtucket Red Sox. "Maybe it was too good to be true. It was guys looking stupid for nine innings."
Zink's performance attracted notice. One night in September, he sat next to first-year general manager Theo Epstein at Fenway to watch Wakefield up close. Then came the attention from ESPN, and the startling place among the top 50 up-and-comers in Baseball Prospectus. Several would go on to become big-league stars: David Wright, Alex Rios, Joe Mauer, Justin Morneau, and Grady Sizemore. There, on that list was Charlie Zink, so close he could taste it.
2004, A YEAR OF UNFORGETTABLE SUCCESS for the Red Sox, was an unmitigated disaster for Zink. Beginning the year in Portland, he didn't think he was doing anything different, but his control was erratic and hitters were teeing off . After one disaster in Trenton, New Jersey, Zink opened up the newspaper to see the headline "Zink stinks." He couldn't disagree. After going 1-8 with a 5.79 ERA at Portland, he was demoted to Single A Sarasota and fared no better (0-2, 5.65). At instructional league in October, his arm was tired, his spirit shaken. When the staff rolled televisions into the clubhouse to watch the Red Sox in the postseason, Zink just wanted to go home. "I was lost," he says.
In 2005, he continued to struggle. In one galling start, he lasted just one inning, surrendering five runs on two hits and four walks. But with his ERA at 6.65, he received some startling news. He was getting called up for the first time to Triple A. Boston had sustained some injuries and required reinforcements from Pawtucket, giving Zink an opening to shake the funk at a higher level. He pitched one game in relief, allowing seven of 11 batters to reach base. Then he got a start against the Toledo (Ohio) Mud Hens. He was knocked out after two innings, surrendering eight runs. "I just remember going out there and feeling like I was overmatched," said Zink. He referred to the knuckleball as "a pitch that has just driven me crazy for the last three years."
His agent, Jim Masteralexis, was at the game and brought his 5-year-old son to see Zink afterward. Outside of the locker room, in a corridor lined with photos of former Paw Sox and Triple A opponents who went on to the big leagues, Masteralexis tried to console his client, who was fighting back tears.
Zink was sent back to join Portland on the road. Ben Cherington called Zink at the airport and told him that the organization was trying to be patient, but that he was running out of time.
MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL IS A RUTHLESS BUSINESS. Approximately 90 percent of minor leaguers - a highly elite crew of athletes - will never play a single game in the majors. By the end of the 2005 season, 11 of the 19 pitchers from Zink's 2002 team in Augusta were already out of professional baseball, none voluntarily.
Patience is particularly hard to summon with knuckleballers. But it can pay off. Tim Wakefield has been the most versatile and enduring member of the Sox staff, having helped the team as a starter, in long relief, and as a closer. At 41, he is the third-winningest pitcher in Red Sox history, and given the slow tick of the knuckleball clock, he stands a chance to eclipse the two guys in front of him: Cy Young and Roger Clemens.
Despite Zink's extended periods of poor performance, the Sox hung on. "The path of the knuckleballer," Cherington explains, "is rarely linear."
To a significant degree, Zink steadied over the past few years, shuttling back and forth between Double A and Triple A. He was the top winner for Pawtucket in 2006. Last year he spent most of the season in Portland, where he made the Eastern League All-Star team. His success has not been like the wild spree of '03. It's more measured, more sustained.
Zink says that late in 2005 he got better command after seeing a picture of Phil Niekro throwing the knuckler, which inspired him to shift the way he held the ball. He adopted a more rigorous conditioning program and fine-tuned his delivery with Wakefield in spring training. Most of all, he committed to the knuckler: "Now I know I have to be what I am. And I'm comfortable with that."
Over the past few years, Boston has stockpiled pitchers, perhaps the biggest reason for the two World Series titles after the 86-year hiatus. Zink's path to the top is blocked every time free agents like Daisuke Matsuzaka are signed, each time prospects like Clay Buchholz break through. He believes his performance would warrant a big-league call-up if he were with some other organizations. He also believes other teams would have cut him loose long ago.
This is Zink's seventh season, his last year under Boston's control. If he is not added to the team's 40-man roster, he will become a minor league free agent at year's end, meaning he will be free to sign with anyone. Goose Gregson, who still works in the Sox minor league system, believes Zink is poised to break through: "He's right there on the cusp of being able to say that every piece of this hard work and struggle has been worth it."
Cherington is noncommittal, but adds that for the first time in Zink's minor league career he'll be in Triple A as a "solidified member of the rotation from Opening Day. He's got that opportunity. We certainly hope he runs with it. We expect he will."
As for Zink, he looks back and ahead with candor, speaking, as he pitches, without spin. He says that the meteoric rise and precipitous fall were a blessing, "a great learning experience, seeing how easily it can be taken away."
He knows that the mastery of this pitch is endlessly elusive, but it remains his quest: "When I think about how few guys in the history of baseball could ever throw a knuckleball, it's just mind-blowing to me that I could be that close."
Marty Dobrow teaches journalism at Springfield College. He is working on a book about minor league baseball. Send comments to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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[photopress:images_1_2_3_4_5.jpg,thumb,alignright]The Sippy Cups, who were featured in the pre-Baby Beats eye cover story in late 2006 that planted the seeds for the column, will be appearing at the very cool Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts at 1 and 4 p.m. this Sunday, September 28. Tickets are $16 for adults and $10 for children 12 and under.
The Sippy Cups have always matched the musical side of their concerts by presenting other visual performance aspects, and Sundays concerts are no different. More on that after the jump…
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The entire collection is scanned and online.
What's in the entire collection?
The University of Pittsburgh's Nōgaku zue comprises five bound Meiji period printed albums, protected by a silk wrap-around chitsu (chemise) and stored in a modern archival box. Each volume is of equal size and thickness and bound in the manner of traditional Japanese orihon, or folding scrolls. Each volume contains fifty-two or fifty-three full-page, multi-colored woodblock prints of noh (also spelled: nō, nô) theatre subjects.
About Tsukioka Kōgyo and Nōgaku zue
Nōgaku zue 能 樂 圖 繪, or Pictures of Noh, is a spectacular series of Japanese color woodblock prints by the artist Tsukioka Kōgyo (1869-1927). The University of Pittsburgh owns a rare, complete set of this series, published at Tokyo between the Meiji years 30-35, or 1897-1902. Bound in traditional folding-album format, the series comprises five volumes of 261 prints inspired by the plays of classical Japanese noh theatre. The complete set of prints, held by the ULS Special Collections Department, is digitally reproduced here along with a descriptive catalog and contextual essays.
In addition to Nōgaku zue, Kōgyo made several other series of prints about noh, including Kyōgen gojūban 狂言五十番, an album of 50 prints inspired by kyōgen plays, recently purchased by the University of Pittsburgh, and Nōga taikan 能画大鑑, another five-volume set of prints about noh theatre, owned by Professors Richard and Mae Smethurst. With the anticipated digitization of these sets by the University Library System (ULS), this website will eventually provide unprecedented online access to three of the four intact series of noh prints. The fourth, Kōgyo's Nōgaku hyakuban 能楽百番, is digitized and held by Scripps College.


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I got a notice recently from Mozilla FireFox that Version 26 was available for download. Google's Chrome is up to Version 31.0.1650.63. I can't get Internet Explorer on my Macs so I don't keep up with that browser quite as much as the others, but the latest version is Internet Explorer 10. I also have Safari on my computers and the latest is Version 7.0.1 (9537.73.11). I also check out Opera from time to time, especially when I think I have a browser issue. The latest Opera version is 18.0.1284.68.
The latest statistics on browser use, depending on which statistics you believe, show that Chrome is the most used followed by Firefox and then Internet Explorer. Safari and Opera have never had a significant percentage of usage. Some compilations show Internet Explorer slightly ahead of Firefox. To see an analysis of the various methods of compiling statistics go to Wikipedia "Usage share of web browsers."
One of the things I do from time to time in my classes is explain the difference between a browser, a search engine and the other computer functions. For example, Chrome refers to a browser but it also refers to an operating system. It is always a little surprising to me to see the class reaction and the questions that arise. There are a significant number of people using computers who are unaware of the distinction between the different products. When I am asked to work on someone's computer, I frequently find that they are using the default browser set to the default startup page. A significant number of users are entirely unaware of the fact that they can customize the browser or even change browsers from the one that came with their computer.
One of the first suspected problems when a website does not operate properly is a browser error. I keep copies of different browsers available so that I can switch easily from one to the other and quickly determine whether or not any error comes from a specific browser's inability to display a website. For this reason, I seldom make recommendations about which browser to use.
From time to time, I find websites that produce an error message when I use a specific browser. Usually, the error message indicates that some version of Internet Explorer is required to view the website. The problem that this creates depends on the operating system you happen to be using. On my Windows-based computer I am using Windows 8.1 and Internet Explorer 10. Because of the operating system it is inconvenient to try to use an earlier browser. One program that I use frequently is the Boy Scouts of America Online Advancement Program. This program is incompatible with any browser version other than Internet Explorer 9 and older. I'm not sure how the Boy Scouts of America think they can operate with older browsers.
I have noticed some browser errors when working with online genealogy programs. If these errors are significant, I try switching from browser to browser to give me a perspective as to whether or not any of the anomalies I am viewing originate with the browser.
During the past couple of years it has been interesting to watch the introduction of the Chrome browser and its dramatic increase in market share. It is interesting that both Firefox and Chrome when installed have a Google search as the default. This of course, is not the case with Internet Explorer. I could speculate that the decline of Internet Explorer is related to this issue.
When dealing with genealogists, I am extremely conservative in suggesting any changes be made to the settings of their computers. I spend a considerable amount of time trying to help patrons and friends working on genealogy to understand their computer's basic operating system, any changes from what they already have usually turn out to be a disaster.
For my own part, I have no browser loyalty whatsoever. If I perceive an advantage of one browser over another I will change instantly. Because browsers, with computer operating systems preinstalled the percentage of usage of any one browser somewhat meaningless. This is especially true when you add in the fact as I mentioned above, of the conservative nature of the computer user.


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When Mother Lena Younger (Greta Oglesby) implores her daughter (Mildred Marie Langford) with her plaintive "You were my harvest!", we so want daughter Berneatha to see her mother as we do—a font of loving wisdom.
She is trying to teach that you give your love when those around you have disappointed you and are at their lowest, and not when all is well. Our hearts somersault --yet again.
We have been living in the Younger's family's apartment going through one after another painful moment born of a time-- a moment still alive in many quarters-- when every day is a fight to get past racism's chains .
We smell their bacon cooking on the stove. Our bladders begin to burst when neighbors get to the bathroom first. If we are in the front row we have urges to help young Travis make up his bed, which is the couch. We hate the apartment's roaches.
We have seen husband (Jerod Haynes) and wife (Toni Martin) declare their love dead and then later find it alive.
We've met two of intellectual daughter Berneatha's suitors – well-heeled George Murchison (Justin James Farley)
and the fiercely idealistic Nigerian Joseph Asagai (Daryl Satcher)
and we throb with her desire to live an authentic and important life.
We have endured son Walter Lee Younger's mortal wound of betrayal by friends he trusted
and how he has railed against a world that would leave him a chauffeur with nothing to pass on to his children.
We have been shocked by the despicable representative of the all-white Clybourn Park where the family is slated to move to try to buy them out.
We have lived every one of the family fights and yet we never could take sides because we love each and every member of the Younger family. Mother Lena Younger would have it no other way.
Jerod Haynes' performance is about ferocity-contained and breaking through. You can't help but love him because you get to know him first and foremost as his loving mother and wife do. When you see Toni Martin fall out and into love with her man you relive any and all days when you felt the same about those you have loved. Anyone who has ever dreamed at all knows Berneatha Younger's soul, but Mildred Marie Langford never failed in her portrayal of this character to help us feel that craving anew.
Many of us read Lorraine Hansberry's historic play in school. But thanks to this stellar cast and especially the nuanced performance of Greta Oglesby as Lena Younger, we more than know but now also feel every moment of this classic story. Not just feel- we suffer the passions of each and every character in this thoroughly well-acted performance. Thank you TimeLine for bringing a play that should define Chicago in the world's eye more than Michael Jordan's jumpshot or Al Capone's escapades, but were it better known.
How stirring to know that opening night was concurrent with many thousands marching in Washington D.C. to commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Had a Dream" speech. What is Walter Lee Younger saying if not "judge me by my character and not the color of my skin".
TimeLine has given us a production worthy of the classic that "Raisin in the Sun" is. If you think you already know the story and that you've already seen it—think again. Like many TimeLine productions of classics, this production defines WHY it is a classic in all senses of the word.
TimeLine Theatre Company
615 West Wellington
August 28 – November 17, 2013
Wednesdays and Thursdays 7:30 PM
Fridays 8:00 PM
Saturdays 3:00 and 8:00 PM
Sundays 2:00 PM
For tickets visit www.timelinetheatre.com or call 773 281 8463 x6
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Florida coach Billy Donovan calls it "media drama."
Everyone else, including his players, see the 14th-ranked Gators as having something to prove as they head onto college basketball's biggest stage.
Florida, the No. 3 seed in the NCAA tournament's South Region, can't seem to close out close games. The Gators are 0-6 in games decided by six points or less this season, including 0-4 the last month.
The list includes three losses in which Florida led by at least seven points in the second half.
Missouri overcame a 13-point deficit to beat the Gators 63-60 on Feb. 19. Kentucky held Florida scoreless for the final 7-plus minutes en route to a 61-57 victory on March 9. And Mississippi battled back from 12-point halftime hole to knock off Donovan's team in the Southeastern Conference championship game Sunday in Nashville, Tenn.
And those are just the recent ones. The Gators (26-7) had another late collapse at Arizona in mid-December. They also ended the last two seasons in similar fashion: blowing double-digit leads against Louisville (2012) and Butler (2011) in NCAA tournament regional finals.
"There's plenty of games where we've had reasonable leads and there just seemed like a point where we went dead or allowed the team to come back with no resistance," center Patric Young said Monday. "It is fair to say that. It's probably a problem with the team, something that we've been trying to get fixed. I'll say we did a better job last game of fighting and trying to persevere through. We just didn't finish plays."
Donovan understands the perception, but he insists his team has created its own problems with poor defense and costly turnovers down the stretch. He believes his guys are confident and taking good shots with the game on the line.
Nonetheless, the misses are adding up as Florida prepares to play 14th-seeded Northwestern State in the opening round Friday in Austin, Texas.
"We need someone to step up and be a leader," Young said. "Just to make sure that when we come back out that we're focused on doing our jobs, making sure that we're locked in and we're not going to give in no matter what the other team throws at us, that we're still going to keep fighting and doing our jobs defensively."
It would be easy to argue that Florida shouldn't have these issues.
After all, Donovan has three seniors and two juniors in his starting lineup — including guards Kenny Boynton and Mike Rosario. Boynton has started 138 games over the last four years, including nine in the NCAA tournament, and probably should be the team's go-to guy.
But Boynton is averaging a career-low 12.3 points this season and shooting just 27 percent from 3-point range over the last nine games.
As for his teammates? Well, it's tough to hand the ball to Young or forward Will Yeguete in crunch time since neither is a good free-throw shooter. Young, hitting 49.6 percent this season, missed 11 of 17 from the charity stripe in the SEC tournament. Yeguete has been slightly better, connecting on 58.8 percent.
And Donovan doesn't seem to trust point guard Scottie Wilbekin or Rosario. They ranked first and second on the team in turnovers, and although both can create their own shots, Donovan acknowledges that they usually won't be good ones.
That leaves Murphy, who got the call against the Rebels. Trailing 65-63 with about 20 seconds to play, Donovan drew up a play for Murphy in the post. He missed, and the SEC regular-season champs failed to claim the tournament title.
"If that happens again, I have to try to make the play again, whether it's for me or one of my teammates," said Murphy, a first-team All-SEC selection by The Associated Press. "I want to be in that situation, and it's something I've accepted."
Still, tightening up in the next tight game could happen. And if the Gators don't find a way to win a close one, a team with its sights set on making the Final Four could be exciting the NCAA tournament earlier than expected.
"Yeah, it's going to happen again," Donovan said. "They're going to have to make the plays they need to make. Do I see our guys petrified? Scared? Uptight? Nervous? No. They have to make those plays."
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Since the release of Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs biography, the notion that the late CEO "finally cracked" how to revolutionize the TV industry has resurfaced.
The Apple TV/iTV rumors are stronger than ever, backed by powerful sources such as The New York Times.
Apple rumormongers aren't expecting a Siri-powered iTV until at least 2013, but that doesn't mean artists can't start drawing up concept renders in advance to start the drool machines. Clearly drawing on inspiration from the Thunderbolt Displays, Guilherme Schasiepen's iTV concept is so Apple-like that it almost looks like a real product.
Static 2D computer renders not enough for ya? Schasiepen has you covered. Check out this 360-degree video view of his iTV concept.
So, for the sake of discussion, let's say Apple does release a revolutionary iTV, how much would you pay for one?
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A Sandwich a Day: Chicken Dip at Crosby's Kitchen
Reviews of Chicago sandwiches.
I am sure Crosby's Kitchen is not the first restaurant to attempt to serve something called a chicken dip ($10)—a variant, I suppose, of the original beef-laden French dip. Still, I doubt any version looks quite like this one. Instead of trying to replicate the thinly sliced beef of the original, this one is basically just a chicken sandwich with a side of chicken jus. This initially worried me. No matter of sauce can save a massive hunk of dry breast meat.
Luckily, the white meat is the opposite of dry. In fact, it's astoundingly tender, and the chicken jus just adds to the juiciness. Sure, you shouldn't expect any fireworks with this one, and I would have loved to see something assertive to wake some of these flavors up. But it's about as successful a chicken sandwich as I can remember having recently.
Crosby's Kitchen
3455 North Southport Avenue, Chicago, IL 60657 (map)