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RB Matt Forté — The Bears apparently are not convinced that Forté is an elite back, but, in his contract year, he's determined to be one of the league's most productive. One week after being held to two yards on nine carries, Forté ran for a career-high 205 yards against a Carolina defense weakened by injuries at linebacker. He has 634 yards from scrimmage through four games, putting him on pace for 2,536 yards this season. At this point, he can have a few quieter games and still be in the hunt for 2,000 yards by the end of the season.
Devin Hester (the returner) — Ron Rivera thought he had a strategy to stop the all-time leader in kicks returned for a touchdown, but it failed Sunday, as Hester moved into sole possession of the lead in punts returned for a TD, making the 11th of his career on a 69-yard jaunt to the endzone. He also returned a kickoff 73 yards early in the second quarter to help set up Chicago's second touchdown. Hester doesn't appear to be slowing down or losing his spark in the return game.
ORG Lance Louis — Louis might have a starting job again after playing well at multiple spots vs. the Panthers. Chris Spencer started for Louis at right guard again Sunday, but suffered a hand injury in the first quarter and was replaced by Louis. Spencer returned to open the second half, and Louis moved into a rotation at right tackle, a position he had not played in the pros, with Frank Omiyale. O-line coach Mike Tice has been singing Louis' praises this season and might be ready to get him back in the starting lineup somewhere on the right side of the line. Spencer has a small fracture in his right hand, but the Bears are optimistic he will play in Week Five. ORT Gabe Carimi (knee) is likely more of a long shot to play.
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The Best Sport in the World – FootballJun 11
Now, before you get ready to fire off a nasty email on account of mine thinking Football (soccer) is the best sport in the world, take a breath of calm. Nobody is making you read this and you're free to roll your mouse cursor to the northeast corner of your screen and just close this window out now if you're just going to complain about what's written here. I hear lots of people go on about how their favorite sport is the best game in the world. Those are matters of opinion, and this is just my own opinion, along with a few good facts to back up the claim that Football is the best sport in the world.
Like most articles about a person's favorite sport, mine is going to begin with a recount of my first game. I was young; a lot younger than I am now, let me tell you. The world was my oyster, so to speak, and I thought I could do anything if I had the will for it. Maybe it had more to do with me being in the prime of my life than Football itself, but I loved the game.
It didn't matter that I haven't scored on my first real game – some of the best players in the world go through an entire match without a goal to their credit. However, I did set up a couple other players to score, entrenching in my mind the idea that teamwork can make or break a sports team. That's truer in Football than in any other game, I'd say.
At present, there are five solid reasons I can come up with, each of which supports my claim that Football really is the best sport in the world. You may disagree with my ultimate synopsis, but it would be difficult even for die-hard fans of other sports to argue with the following points:
The Skills Required Are Not Commonplace
For instance, and this is an immediately apparent point even to those watching their first soccer game; Football requires a ridiculous amount of coordination and a high level of physical fitness for players who want to be successful. Anyone can grab a ball and run around while holding it, or even toss it to another person, but Football isn't like that (except for the keepers who can use their hands, of course). Have you ever even tried dribbling a soccer ball? It's hard enough to do while stationary, but major and minor league Football players all need to be able to move their bodies while moving the ball.
I have to say, that was one of the hardest things for me to get right. It's also a point with which many of my younger players struggle, especially if they're just getting into the game of Football and don't have previous experience playing outside of our team. While American Football focuses on individuals passing, kicking or carrying a ball, soccer demands that every player be proficient in all of these actions, so the skill required to play the game well is higher, hands down.
The Whole World Knows Football
Speaking of American Football, that's pretty popular in the States, Canada and a couple other places. However, it doesn't have the worldwide appeal of which traditional Football is possessed. My favorite sport in the world is actually played throughout the world, which is a big help in maintaining its humongous fan base. Just look at the World Cup and all the buzz surrounding it this year – the Superbowl can't come close to comparing, and I'm not even mentioning other end of seasons sports events like the World Series of baseball, the Stanley Cup of hockey or other "big" games.
Players and Fans Are Passionate
There's another word for the buzz surrounding Football: Passion. I know I'm passionate about the game. I know other people get really into it too – just look at all the protests in Brazil about the games held in the country and you'll quickly see that tempers can flare up into full-blown fires with very little help. This is just the passion of viewers, mind you. The players take Football even more seriously.
For us, it's something to watch after work or during off time, but for the players? Football is their livelihood. While I'm out coaching young people on how to play the game properly, those who play Football at a professional level are literally risking their lives and limbs out on that field.
Memorable Athletes
That passion which goes into each player's game makes for some truly memorable moments. Now I know, I know, there are scoring plays in every sport that get fans talking and make for some nice conversation with friends and family after the game. However, how often is it that a scoring drive is remembered – and talked about – decades after the game it happened in has been decided?
Famous players like Pele, Messi and others still get fans talking today, which is more than can be said for bygone athletes from other sports. If you don't believe it, go ahead and ask a grandparent about their favorite Football player. You'll probably be surprised at the answer you get.
The Scoring
Naturally, one of the most exciting parts of Football is the scoring of goals, just like scoring plays in pretty much every sport. There's just such an amazing feeling that comes with scoring a goal and bringing your team that much closer to beating your opponents; it's hard for me to describe. One thing that's easy to describe, though, is the most exciting goal a person has ever seen.
Those major scoring plays really stick with a person. Most soccer fans will be able to come up with the time, the place, the players and other facts surrounding a goal, in addition to the scoring play itself. They might even go back to an old game and watch that play over and over, memorizing it like a film fan memorizes their favorite scene from a movie. While this isn't exclusive to Football, I'm positive there are more memories like this dedicated to Football, simply due to the great number of Football fans in the world.
Top 10 Reasons for Active LifestyleJun 19
There are really too many reasons to list them all here, but getting physically fit and embracing an active lifestyle has always been good for people. I tell that my students and players all the time, but finding a fitness regimen and sticking to it isn't just good for improving your performance in the football matches – it's absolutely vital to maintaining positive health and being comfortable with your own body. So I've decided to list out top 10 reasons on how living active lifestyle can benefit your everyday life:
Increased Energy
This is kind of a no-brainer for me, but I've got plenty of athletic training experience and kind of have an edge when it comes to physical fitness. For everyone else, it's important to know that increased physical activity actually leads to more energy, not less.
Faster Metabolism
I mentioned it above, but an increased metabolic rate is a kind of double benefit to getting active. While it will help your body's cells to get more oxygen, heightened metabolism helps to break down sugars, fats and proteins faster, getting all that extra energy into your blood at a quicker rate than if you were just sitting around.
Improved Appearance
Men and women everywhere are looking for attractive and healthy mates. Giving your body a bit of muscle tone could do more than just improve your perception of yourself – it could also improve the way others perceive you. Naturally, there's no beating genetics, so if you're from a family of short and stocky people, don't expect to change that.
Handling Stress Better
When some people get stressed out, they reach for calorie-rich foods that are typically high in fat, cholesterol and other things which aren't necessarily good for the eater. If only those people would reach for some free weights instead! There is paramount research that physical activity helps to reduce stress levels and improve the moods of people.
Strengthened Immune System
An active lifestyle won't just make you physically stronger – it will also make your immune system stronger. This, in turn, will lead to an increased ability to fight off infections and get over illnesses quickly.
Faster Physical Recovery
From small scrapes and cuts to serious physical injuries, recovery times can be cut considerably by getting active. Although it might be more difficult following an invasive surgery or other event, staying active will maintain muscle tissue and boost white blood cell counts.
Improved Focus
There's a certain sharpening of the senses that goes along with increased physical activity. That is thanks to improved circulation and increased oxygen levels in the brain. If you want to increase your focus, increase your level of physical activity.
Increased Endurance
This benefit is easy to spot, even for amateurs. The more you do, the more you will be able to do.
Greater Flexibility
This particular benefit could be garnered just by stretching every day, but there's no denying how helpful increased flexibility can be. Avoiding injuries that plague stiffer people is a great perk to exercise.
Greater Lean Body Mass
No, I don't mean a greater weight, not necessarily. Did you know that 5 kg of fat takes up about 5 times as much space as 5 kg of muscle? Converting the former to the latter will help to improve your overall health, since muscle tissue burns through calories faster than fat tissue.
So here you go! Are you ready now to go outside and take a nice run? Or maybe do some squats? All in all it's up to you to choose on how you want to feel now and years late. As for me, my everyday training routine is football – the best game in the world – it gives me strength and power to live a better and fulfilling life. Stay healthy!
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Practical Steps into Becoming the Peaceful WarriorJun 19
Anger is generally a destructive force. While it could be used toward some good by building something up rather than breaking something down, anger often comes on too suddenly and hormones are rushing through a person's brain when the time to make a decision comes. That state of mind can make it difficult even for level-headed people to make the right choice – it's effectively like acting under duress.
Because of this, I recommend trying to keep calm throughout the day, rather than succumbing to those small, annoying things which can so quickly pile up at work, at home and elsewhere. It isn't necessarily an easy thing to do, but learning how to better deal with those small annoyances will help a lot later on, when something more serious happens. Think of it as a kind of training for the mind rather than the body.
There is no panacea for anger or a short temper. Like improving yourself in many other ways, getting a better handle on your anger is going to take some time and practice. If you follow these practical steps when you feel rage building, you can help abate it and not get so worked up.
Breathe Deeply
You've probably heard something about taking deep breaths to settle down before, but it's still a step many angry people ignore or fail to recall when they get mad. More oxygen in your blood means more oxygen in your brain, which is what's behind your decision making process. That one sharp breath could give you the little bit of clarity you need to prevent yourself from overreacting to a tense situation.
Consider Perspective
Getting angry isn't an excuse to go crazy and do something violent or obscene. You have to consider your perspective before you let anger get the better of your higher thought processes. You're not someone who has no control, and you know the difference between right and wrong. Don't forget about that just because you get mad at something – or somebody.
Remember Some Anger is Justified
While actions people perform in anger may be hard to condone, the act of getting angry itself is nothing to be ashamed about. It's a perfectly natural response to being slighted, hurt, lied to or otherwise cheated in some way. Attaching a stigma to getting angry can cause some conflicting feelings when it does happen, which might make it harder to do the right thing when upset. You may not be able to control getting angry, but you do have control over how you act out those negative feelings.
Should You Be Angry?
If you're facing a situation and you aren't sure if you should be mad or not, the odds are very good you shouldn't be. Every little thing that happens shouldn't get a reaction out of you as if it were something serious or major. Not only does this go over poorly with others, but it can lead to many sharp spikes in your blood pressure and pulse throughout the day.
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Virtual Sports vs Real SportsJul 02
Nowadays, without any doubt, virtual sport is becoming more than ever popular due to progressively more advanced technology. However, I believe that virtual sports might bring us joy but it can never replace the real sport.
First and foremost, in real sport there is more interaction between the people which lacks in virtual sports. In games like football or tennis, you can look at the actions and expressions of the other players in real time. The main fun of real sports is responding to the opponent's moves by finding their weaknesses through their expressions. That is what makes sports so entertaining. Whereas, in virtual sports, the opponents are usually computer-generated characters, whose actions are imitated on the screen by a virtual figure. This results in detachment among people, taking the human factor out of sports.
Moreover, the feeling of interaction with the environment in real sports has no comparison with virtual sports. The beauty and touch of nature can be felt while playing a real sport. You can feel the scorching sun or the winds or hear the chirping of birds. But when you are playing a virtual game, all you do is sit in your house and wave a plastic remote while staring at the screen.
I have lots of friends all around the world, which I contact time to time. Recently, my good friend send my an email, showing off his son's skills and progress in competitive virtual sport. My friend is a good lad and a tech trendy person - having a job as a project manager at Citrus Solutions defines your inner character and way of thinking. But, nevertheless the technological advancement and it's influence on our daily life, I still think, that virtuality won't be able to replace the adrenaline rush – at least any time soon - while playing REAL sport.
The main cliché in virtual sport is that it only has adverse effects on people. Addiction to virtual games is one of the adverse effects. Virtual games can be played by sitting on a couch in your room but that is exactly what keeps the children at home and keep them away from physical activities. It causes health problems like obesity and becoming antisocial.
The exercise concerned regarding the virtual sports is not as much of that in real sports. For example, in virtual sports, a short sprint to reach a tennis ball means a slight leaning of body just due to the space limitations. Hence, the physical movement involved in virtual sports is little and so are the health benefits – on the contrary of active lifestyle – playing real sports.
Nevertheless, it cannot be denied that there are few benefits of virtual gaming. Rather than nothing at all, the virtual alternative is beneficial for the people who can truly not participate in real sports. It is better than sitting on a couch as at least the person would be moving physically. Besides this, virtual sports are easy to set up and can be an origin of entertainment. There are some sports like skiing or rock climbing which you might not be able to practice in real life but can have the joy and fun by the means of virtual sports available.
Therefore, I consider that virtual sport has it's cons and advantages. Although they cannot be replaced by real sports in terms of interaction with human and environment, touch with nature and the amount of exercise, at times it can surely be entertaining. At very least, rather than staying at home; we should make an effort to play real sports to be benefitted from its natural gifts once in a while!


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Amy Hemenway scored three goals to pace Charlottesville, as the Knights rolled past Louisa, 12-1, in girls soccer action. Kelley Parrish of Louisa scored the first goal of the game to give the Lions a 1-0 lead, but it was all Charlottesville after that.
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Reviews by CoolJosh:
4.63/5 rDev +6.9%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Wow, didn't expect treyrab to pull this one out tonight. Poured into a beautiful unlabeled tulip courtesy Trey.
Gorgeous. Pure black body. Very simple and elegant in appearance. Pours a 2 and half finger head, light khaki in color and very low foaminess.
The smell is overwhelming with so many refined scents flourishing out of the glass. Great smoothed out bourbon, licorice, sweet red cherries, lots of vanilla, some oak, slight fresh coffee. Very creamy, milky scent. There is so much to the scent and it really insinuates that a great taste is to come.
Oh wow. I'm left speechless after my first sip. I expected a good beer, but this beer is easily in my top 5 favorite beers. Incredibly sweet and creamy texture. Really nice bourbon flavors that come out just right and inoffensive. Lots of sweet licorice, cocoa, vanilla. Delicious red cherry flavoring hits the tongue towards the end, right before the porter characteristics set in with some really nice charred coffee and chocolate malts.
This beer is so well blended and put together. Another awesome Deschutes product.
Review Edit: Had another bottle recently. The smoothness of this beer really fell apart. The roasted malts really took on a much more harsh tone, which affected both the taste and mouthfeel.
Serving type: bottle
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look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
22oz. bomber poured into an oversize (25 oz.) crystal brandy snifter. Served at 50F
A: Black as tar. Even held up to direct light, only the faintest ruby red-tawny brown highlights show at the edges of this beer. Thick mocha brown head approximately 1" high is well carbonated with large bubbles. Rich, but dissipates quickly to a thin cover on the surface of the beer. Gentle swirling revives e head to about half height. Light lacing rings the glass.
S: Bourbon, chocolate and molasses dominate with notes of brewer's licorice, caramel, coffee and malt. Hints of residual hop bitterness underlie this aroma bomb.
T: Healthy doses of licorice and chocolate integrated with bourbon and vanialla from the barrel. Caramel edging towards the burnt sugar on creme brulee and some mild hop bitterness on the back end...surprising for a bottle nearly six years old. Although the flavors are well integrated, notes of soft alcoholic heat linger on the finish.
M: Still well carbonated, this has a surprisingly medium heavy body. It's rich, but not overly so. No residual slickness, this bee coates he palate ever so lightly for the style. Sweetness fades quickly to avoid a sense of cloying. Slight astringency keeps the tongue animated.
O: A ral style bender. The base Back Butte Porter is nearly unrecognizable, but then again, I think that was the goal. While I can't speak tp how this beer was fresh, it has aged well...no hints pf oxidation and a bounty of flavors that fans of Deschutes and barrel aged beers will love.
Serving type: bottle
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look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Reviewing a vertical of Black Butte XX, Black Butte XXI, Black Butte XXIII and Black Butte XXIV from the Deschutes Brewery from Bend, Oregon to commemorate my 400th written review (per BeerAdvocate)! A major thanks and shout out to Edgar Chavez for making this vertical tasting possible. Each vintage of the Barrel Aged Black Butte release is a different formulation.
Black Butte XX is Deschutes' Black Butte porter brewed with chocolate beans and coffee added with 20% aged in bourbon barrel.
Black Butte XX Score: 90
2008, 2009, 2011 and 2012 vintage bottles served side-by-side and enjoyed on 02/10/13 with a few friends.
Appearance: The appearance is strikingly similar on all vintages -- this brew is similar to a dark molasses in appearance/color. The XXIII pour is a little lighter, faintly orange-ish in color in comparison to the other three. Each vintage pours a thin layer of light mocha head that settles to a ring around the glass on all of them. Average lacing and retention using the worst glassware possible. 4/5
Smell: Fruity oxidation and chocolate. I get a faint smokey malt character in the nose that is similar to, but in lesser quantum than, the XXI vintage. 4/5
Taste: Fruity oxidation and chocolate. This vintage has the least amount of dark fruit presence. It is also the least complex vintage. Nonetheless, it drinks pleasantly. 4/5
Mouthfeel: Each of the vintages' mouthfeels are a little heavier than medium bodied, but far from full bodied (and not quite medium-full bodied either). Low carbonation as well. Each of the vintages has a real nice, drinkable balance (none is too sweet or acidic (well the XXI has a little acidity, but in a good way) or whatever). Oily slick feel on the tongue. Only the freshest vintage (XIV) has a little "alcohol heat" to it. 4/5
Overall: I feel like verticals are often "reserved" for rarer and bigger beers like Dark Lord and Bourbon County (Brand) Stout, or even barleywines dating back to the 90's (i.e., Bigfoot), but this was a really fun vertical to do. Nothing was really can't miss here, but nothing had "fallen off," and nothing here was undrinkable by any stretch of the imagination. My favorite vintage in the end was the XXI, but each vintage struck me in a unique way at different points in the vertical as it warmed up. Cold, the XX and XXIII were my favorite.
Cost: $12.99 for a 22 oz (bomber) bottle that can cost as much as $19.99.
Serving type: bottle
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This should be interesting. I've got a list of scrimmages and a plan mapped out, and that list has already gotten rained on.
Oh well -- the umbrella is in the trunk as we head off to Cleveland Hill first to see the Golden Eagles and Cardinal O'Hara in action.
9:52 a.m. Hard-hitting football season has officially begun.
It turns out that Grover Cleveland and Hutch-Tech also scrimmaged at Cleve Hill, so I got more action than I thought in my first stop.
A steady drizzle met me as I stood behind a Cleveland Hill coach doing his own video from a ladder set up behind an end-zone area. A big hit by a defender on a run brought an "OOHHHHHHH!" from the blue-and-yellow helmeted players on the Cleve Hill sideline. On the next play, a Grover quarterback rolled out, prompting the Cleve Hill sideline to yell, "PASS!" Oh yeah, it sure sounds like football season.
Cleveland Hill coach Glen Graham was in midseason form, urging players to assemble quickly after plays. "Everybody runs back to the huddle!"
I stepped over to an adjacent field, where O'Hara -- which looked like they were ready for gameday in the familiar white jerseys with black numbers and gold helmets -- set up against Hutch-Tech and its maroon practice gear. I spotted Jerry Falgiano for Hutch-Tech as well as O'Hara coach Angelo Sciandra as I captured my first highlight of the day.
We're in a bit of unchartered video territory as we try out our iPhone -- I can do videos with the phone, then upload them to the blog via YouTube. It's like the future.
But it's with my old-school notebook and pen that I capture a gem. Standing on the sideline of the O'Hara-Tech field, a big hit was audible from the Grover-Cleve Hill field. That prompted one mom to say, "Ohhh they doin' some hitting over there."
I returned to the Cleve Hill-Grover field, where Tony Alessi was coaching Grover and longtime Cleve Hill coach Denny Mason was also on hand.
Cleve Hill had a big run gain as I headed to the parking lot. The rain has seemed to let up. Excellent.
10:19 a.m. We're hitting the road to Clarence next since it's close by and we can shoot up to Lockport right after. But uh-oh -- the rain has picked up big-time.
10:37 a.m. OK. We've made an executive decision. We made this decision as we were driving down Main Street towards Clarence, analyzing on the way if I should just go right up to Lockport. Then I passed Williamsville South on the left, and I said, "Duh -- there's like seven teams practicing there."
Originally I thought I'd be able to get Clarence in, but the writing and posting does take a little time. We'll check out the action here, then head to Lockport, then North Tonawanda, then hopefully Canisius will still be going when we get there.
11:18 a.m. The stop at Will South was a good one -- I just posted videos to the PrepTalkTV channel on YouTube featuring Bishop Timon-St. Jude and Tonawanda, St. Mary's and Maryvale and Williamsville South and Eden. South Park was also on hand. The rain has been hit and miss, and right now it has held off.
On the main Will South field, Timon and Tonawanda were on one half and Maryvale and St. Mary's on the other.
Some nice defense by Timon here ...
... and a good -- and quick -- play here by a St. Mary's lineman.
Here's my best highlight of the day, thanks to a reverse by South that came right at me. Gotta have quick feet and your head on a swivel when you're taping on the sidelines.
South had a few nice plays in addition to this scoring play, some on the ground and a few close calls in the air.
11:28 a.m. We're heading up to Lockport with hopes that scrimmages go longer than three hours.
11:59 a.m. Whoops. Swing and a miss. No sign of anything going on at Lockport. Empty parking lot, empty field. So much for my idea that teams scrimmaged all day. We're headed to North Tonawanda, where hopefully I won't be too late.
12:22 p.m. Argh. As I'm pulling into NT, buses from Grand Island and Riverside are pulling out. Argh. Note to self: Scrimmages don't go much over two hours. That's probably a state guideline that I should have known before I started this adventure.
I still got some good bang for the buck in my two stops, seeing a total of 10 teams.
I'll see some more this evening -- I'll start at Iroquois at 5 p.m. and spend a decent amount of time there since they're hosting Frontier and Lackawanna.
5:20 p.m. I arrive at Iroquois' scrimmage, but it wasn't exactly easy to find. The Chiefs, Lackawanna and Frontier were set up on a backfield, accessible via a dirt road that went well behind the high school building. There was a "Field of Dreams" feeling to it as you made your way down a hill, and all of a sudden in a clearing there was some high school football.
One thing that onlookers couldn't help but notice was the wording on a trailer behind the practice field's near end zone.
"EA All the way" was how the duct tape lettering spelled out.
Apparently it was a prank by some Blue Devil backers from neighboring East Aurora who snuck onto the field one night.
Iroquois coach Frank Payne said the message is staying up until the Chiefs' Week One game -- which is against East Aurora.
On the field, the action was the best I saw all day -- which I suppose I shouldn't be surprised about since Iroquois and Lackawanna are two of the area's best programs, while Frontier has been a ranked large school in recent years while they've slugged it out in AA South.
The gathering of quality teams brought out plenty of fans in folding chairs, despite the remote location.
One of the first plays I saw upon my arrival was a Lackawanna run in which the ball carrier hesitated before being swarmed by Frontier defenders. "Don't stop!" yelled Steelers coach Bruce Lakso.
Frontier had a number of quality defensive plays in back-to-back series against Lackawanna and Iroquois, including two straight batted down passes by -- I believe -- the same lineman on Iroquois rollouts.
Above is a pass play by Iroquois finished off with some good hits by Frontier (it makes for a much better highlight when they come to my side of the field).
Here's a big interception and a nice runback -- check out the blocks -- by Lackawanna against Frontier.
A big sack here by Lackawanna against Iroquois.
I headed over to the other side of the field for a few plays and tried to get a photo to show how isolated the location was. It turned into a beautiful night for football after the rainy start to the morning.
6:57 p.m. I pulled in to Amherst, where the Tigers are paired up with Lake Shore on one half of the field while Kenmore East is knocking heads with West Seneca West on the other.
Check out West Seneca West's line pushing through for a touchdown.
A nice finish of a TD run up the middle by Lake Shore.
Amherst with a nice over-the-middle pass play for a score.
Amherst passes right at me (thank you) and the receiver makes a great catch-and-dodge before going down the sideline for a TD.
Kenmore East goes in for a touchdown on a nice keeper through traffic by their quarterback.
8:17 p.m. Back in the car for a ride home, where we'll do some editing and post some cool stuff from the evening scrimmages.
Scrimmage Saturday is officially over.
Overall, it was a great way to get a taste of football before the season gets rolling next weekend.
It's hard to make any great proclamations based on what I saw today -- it is, after all, a scrimmage. The coaches are looking for specific things from their respective units, and they'll be poring over the videos of their day to how their guys did.
As Lake Shore coach Bill Moore said to his team at the close of their evening at Amherst, "the film never lies."
To sum up the evening, here's Kenmore East coach Matt Chimera talking about how nice it was to take his guys up against another team after training camp.
Our apologies about the audio at the end -- he finishes saying he was pleased with his team's physical play: "That's what we asked, to go out there and be physical."
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SUTTONS BAY — A Maple City man died after falling from a tree stand in Leelanau County's Kasson Township.
Authorities said Donald Joseph Peplinski, 59, was hunting off Coleman Road the evening of Oct. 26 when he apparently fell from his tree stand.
Emergency workers tried to treat Peplinski and transported him to Munson Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
A master mechanic and fabricator, the former U.S. Marine was known for the many military vehicles he restored.
He retired from CenturyTel in 2009 after 30 years as a utility lineman and service technician.
Family members described Peplinski as a natural prankster who always looked for an opportunity to share a smile and find a way to create a laugh.
He is survived by his wife of 35 years, Debra Peplinski, two sons, and one grandchild.
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Firefighters, police officers and citizens from around Anne Arundel County stood in the shadow of the 9/11 memorial in Millersville to pay their respects on Tuesday morning.
Fire Division Chief Michael Cox's radio crackled at 8:50 a.m. and a woman's voice asked for a moment of silence to honor all those who gave their lives on September 11.
The crowd of about 80 people bowed their heads.
Rev. Linda Schlicht, the fire department's chaplain, lead the crowd in prayer and asked for blessings upon "the families who have been left behind" and "all of those who are our first responders in fire and law enforcement."
County Executive John R. Leopold reminded those gathered that Maryland lost 68 of its own people on that tragic day 11 years ago, and he thanked local first responders for their continued service.
Leopold pushed to build the county memorial at the Police and Fire Department Headquarters in Millersville three years ago after he read a Wall Street Journal article about steel beams from the being made available for memorials around the country.
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Sharon Devault came to observe the moment of silence because her family has a long history of being first responders. Her father was a Baltimore City police officer and her uncle was a Baltimore City firefighter.
She remembered hearing about the attacks over the radio while driving into work on Defense Highway.
"When the second plane hit my first thought was that's not an accident," Devault said. "By the time I got to my office it was a mess, everyone seemed to be crying."
Bernard, who asked that his last name be withheld for security purposes, brought his 5-month-old daughter to the memorial. He said he hopes to make it an annual tradition.
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Real tennis is believed to have originated in 12th century France. Henry VIII was an avid player; a court built in the 1620s on the site of his older court built in 1528 still survives at Hampton Court Palace. Real tennis is still played today; there are 27 surviving courts in Britain, but unfortunately none are in Nottinghamshire.
This article is part of the Truman family collection, mainly papers of Nevil Percy Truman of 'Langdale', Grove Avenue, Nottingham. He was noted for his wide interests, particularly churches and stained glass. Nevil Truman wrote another article about tennis, 'What the Public Never Sees: Henry VIII's Tennis court' (reference: DD/1392/77/1).
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Postcards from a long-distance grandmother
Far and Away
by Stephanie Piper
It's three months since I last saw him, and now he turns his head from me and buries his face in his father's chest. It will take hours of careful wooing to win him back, to regain his trust and be granted one of his incomparable smiles. We'll rock and sing and play with his blocks and read his books and watch at the window for seagulls. And then we'll be gone again.
Our 11-month-old grandson lives in a yellow house with a red door in a little town by the sea. It's an idyllic spot with everything to recommend it: friendly neighbors, pretty walks, the bay just across the road. Its only drawback is its location. It is a thousand miles and two plane rides away from us.
We go to him whenever we can, scrimping and saving our dollars and vacation days to patch together another visit. The intervening time seems to belong to a separate life, suspended somehow between flights to New England. Every few months, we drop out of the sky and into this child's world and believe that he will know us, will welcome us as his own people. Eventually, he always does. But each time, it takes a little longer. Each time, it pulls a little harder at my heart.
When I was a child, both my widowed grandmothers lived an hour away. One was very old and very deaf and, though kind, seemed permanently detached. She and my mother were not close, and we didn't see her often. Our conversations at Christmas and Easter consisted of shouted pleasantries; I often wondered if she actually remembered my name.
My other grandmother was young and full of life, a frequent, joyful presence in our house. She brought a sense of peace and order with her as subtle and pervasive as the scent of her Antilope perfume. When she stepped off the train at our suburban station on a Friday evening, the world seemed to grow lighter. Her small overnight case always held tissue-wrapped presents along with her embroidered nightgown and matching robe, but the best gift was waking up on Saturday morning and knowing she was there. The house felt safer when she was in it.
Because I saw her so often, there was no distance between us. Her face was as familiar as the faces of my parents, and her love even more certain than theirs. In the shifting emotional landscape of my childhood, she was the fixed point: steady, glowing, close.
Struggling now with long separations from our grandchild, I wonder if it's possible to crowd the breadth and depth of my love for him into a weekend, to fill his memory bank with enough stored images to last until the next trip. Kin knows kin, my grandmother used to say, and she was never wrong. But she also never had to ask a baby: Remember me?
I pull up his latest pictures on my computer screen. He'll be a year old next month, and every day he seems to grow, stretch, learn more. I think of his new sounds, the "ma-ma-ma" he shouts indiscriminately, the word that sounds like dozo , Japanese for "please." Does he remember how we danced to the Beatles' "I Will" when he was a week old, and how we pulled him in a toboggan through the snow last Monday? Will the scent of Chanel's "Une Fleur" remind him of the grandmother from Tennessee who drops out of the sky to see him?
I send him all the light I have. I plan for the next time. I hold him in my heart, close. For now, it has to do.
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When stories surfaced in December 2011 and January 2012 about Trustee John Duncan III awarding unearned bonuses to himself and his employees, Craig Leuthold began calling on various people in the courthouse to solicit their support for his candidacy "should the position come open."
His efforts paid off last week when the Knox County Commission gave him the job. Leuthold now is an incumbent positioned to run for the job next year.
But his inside track from being a former county commissioner may be an issue if he has a strong challenge to keep the job.
It also didn't help Commissioner Richard Briggs' campaign against state Sen. Stacey Campfield for him to have to explain on the News Sentinel's front page that his vote for Leuthold wasn't a conflict of interest, though Craig's father Frank is his campaign treasurer.
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- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a large baking sheet.
- Roll pizza crust dough into an approximately 10x14 inch rectangle on the baking sheet. Layer with Genoa salami, pepperoni and provolone cheese. Sprinkle with mozzarella cheese to within 1/2 inch from edges of the dough. Roll jelly roll style. Seal the edge with a fork.
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HELPFUL TIPS THAT WORK: 1st, this recipe is the only one that my husband doesn't just LOVE, but brags to all his friends about coming over to try. lol It's so simple! I always find that I have to bake it for 28 min, flipping it the last 5 minutes to help the dough cook inside (basically I cook until both sides are golden). I've made this 50+ times & anything less.. the dough in the middle sometimes comes out uncooked which is embarrassing. Also, it's best to not try to stretch out the pizza dough. Just open it, stretch to only flatten it & use. Making it too thin only breaks the dough & the pepperoni juices will leak out. I'm always about adding MORE to things, but remember "less is perfection" in this case. The more you stuff into this dough, the less appetizing it tastes. Trust me, I've tried several times & it's the reason only "I" make it right in my family! Just sprinkle the ingredients, roll it, and bake. Adding some sort of italian seasoning really adds a nice touch. We use ranch or marinara sauce to dip, and people are begging for the recipe! UPDATE: The frozen philsbury french loaf works wonderful w/this recipe too! Another poster recommended microwaving the pepperoni for 30-40 sec before cooking, and what a great idea! I then bake until brown on each side (as I mentioned above).
Great recipe. To cut down on the grease, spread your pepperoni in a single layer on several paper towels. Place in microwave for 45 seconds on high. This really gets rid of a lot of the fat.
This was sooo easy and such a big hit at our poker party last night (along with "bacon roll-ups II", also found on this site). These two appetizers were the first to dissapear! In fact, many postponed their games just to get up and grab more! I had pizza sauce for dipping but hardly anyone used it! These are similar to pizza pinwheels, but less greasy and more taste due to the different cheeses & meats! Will make these puppies again! It looks like your creativity has paid off Julie...thank you for sharing it with the rest of us!
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- 456 cal
- 23%
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- 42%
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- 9%
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- 47%
- Cholesterol
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- 23%
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By BRIAN WOODSON
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Justin Gilbert is ready to get his Bluefield Beavers' baseball team out the state. So are a bunch of other high school baseball teams in West Virginia.
Looking for a high school baseball game to attend this week in the Mountain State?
You might have a better opportunity in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
"Actually, it is 35," said Capital baseball coach Robert Massey, when I took a wild guess at how many teams will be making the trip to the beach. "You take (teams) like Bridgeport, they haven't even played a game yet so they are going down there and get to play.
"The weather up here has got terrible. You go down there and you have a chance to play. It is going to be at least 50 or 55 and sunny hopefully."
Among the schools heading to Myrtle Beach are Mercer County schools Bluefield, PikeView and Princeton, all of whom will be in Myrtle Beach to compete in the Mingo Bay Classic in the week ahead.
Hey, these guys are even looking forward to practice ... yes, practice. So far most of the preparation for spring sports has been done inside, which isn't ideal for baseball, softball, soccer, tennis or track.
"I am excited about this trip we go on," Gilbert said. "I am not making excuses, but it will be nice to practice outdoors on Monday.
"We look forward to next week. We checked the weather. It is supposed to be nice. We will go down and practice on Monday and then we play Tuesday through Saturday."
West Virginia is not the ideal climate for baseball. Myrtle Beach is.
Not to make anyone jealous, but the high temperature at the bench today is slated to be 71. The 'lowest' high temp over the next seven days is 57. There is a small chance to rain, but at least snow won't be an issue.
What are we expecting over the next week? How about 41 degrees and a possibility of rain or even snow on Tuesday. The mercury 'might' stretch as high as 50 once after Monday until the weekend.
That is not ideal weather for baseball, or many other outdoor activities.
The cancellations have been coming fast as the start of spring sports have been met with rain, snow and cold temperatures, none of which is favorable for outdoor games.
Bluefield, PikeView and Princeton have played a combined 16 games. They have canceled or postponed 19, with little room on the schedule to make them up.
Capital (3-4), which lost to Princeton 5-4 on Saturday, has also lost six games and looking forward to Myrtle Beach.
"We have lost about six games, but we are making them up," said Massey, whose Cougars have been to the Region III finals in two of the last three years. "A lot of (teams) are heading down right now."
It isn't just the weather that sends teams to the Palmetto State.
"We are excited," Gilbert said. "We need to improve, we need to get better, but that is what the trip is for."
Princeton (4-2) head coach Josh Wilburn used this trip in the previous two years to help develop a team that won the Class AAA state championship in 2012.
With much of the roster from that team now playing college baseball, Wilburn needs to get his team outside, not only to practice, but to play games and prepare for another run at Charleston.
"It seems like every time we go to Myrtle Beach and come back we are a different baseball team," Wilburn said. "We play good competition down there and (face) quality pitchers.
"I think every night we are seeing a quality pitcher and we will get a lot of playing in and lot of at-bats and our pitchers will see a lot of innings."
The same goes for PikeView, which, like Princeton, is making its third straight trip to Myrtle Beach. Josh Wyatt credited the experience gained there for the Panthers' sectional crown in 2011.
"In the two years previous I have went I have always gone down there trying to grow team unity and bonding and trying to learn a little bit more about the game," Wyatt said.
Not this year. Wyatt has a close-knit squad, as evidenced by their reaction after wins over the last two days against Westside and Bluefield. He actually wants his Panthers to improve on their 5-1 record on the season.
"This year we get to go in and we are looking forward to winning some ball games," Wyatt said. "It is not just about a beach trip to learn baseball, we are going down there to win games.
"I don't have to worry about these guys getting closer. It was phenomenal coming back last night (from Westside) the way they bonded together."
Bluefield (2-2) is making its second straight visit to Myrtle Beach, something that Gilbert initiated after seeing how it helped the Tigers and Panthers on the diamond.
"A couple of years ago a couple of the other teams in Mercer County started going," Gilbert said. "We looked at it as pretty much a guaranteed week of 4 or 5 games, and you can bank on the weather being nice."
It isn't just West Virginia schools that will be involved. The weather has been unseasonably cold and un-baseball-like all across the east coast and many of those teams are flocking to the beach.
"In the tournament that we are in there are 92 teams," Gilbert said.
Not only is the weather expected to be beach-like in Myrtle Beach, but the competition will be a definite upgrade over what they see on a regular basis closer to home.
"When I looked at the weather next week for here, I still see 40 degrees, and I still see rain," Gilbert said. "You just hope you can go down there and see competition that when you come home you can say 'You know what, we have seen a lot of competition.'"
Gilbert, much like Wilburn, Wyatt and Massey, want to be tested to be prepared when the postseason begins in early-May, when hopefully the weather in the Mountain State will actually resemble spring.
"When we come back home the teams that we played, you looked at and say, 'Well, we feel like there is nobody that we have seen here better than we saw down south,'" Gilbert said. "You hope playing that different level of competition will help you when you come home."
It's not just the coaches that want that trip to the beach. The players are just as tired of wet, cold, snow or rain, and are ready to play ball and leave the unpredictable weather of West Virginia behind for a few days.
Just ask Princeton junior Addison Wood.
"It definitely hasn't gone our way this year, but I think we are working through it and we are going to bounce back really good," Wood said. "We are looking forward to the beach, just focus on baseball and warm weather."
Not a bad way to spend spring break.
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Following his team's Super Bowl victory, Saints punter and kickoff specialist Thomas Morstead recalled his emotions when New Orleans coach Sean Payton notified him during the long halftime break that he'd be kicking onside at the start of the second half.
"I wasn't worried," Morstead said. "I was just terrified."
Based on the importance of the game, Morstead had a right to be a bit nervous. But had the rookie taken a moment to look at the statistics of unexpected onside kicks — not counting the kicks that take place at the end of the game with the kicking team trailing — he'd have realized that there wasn't as much to be terrified about as he initially feared.
Brian Burke, the founder of AdvancedNFLstats.com, said his research has determined that the better chance a team has of winning the game, the better chance they have of recovering an onside kick. Using his formula for win probability (WP), Burke examined past games and evaluates the chance of a team coming out with a win based on previous results. When a team has a 10 percent or lower WP, they recover less than 20 percent of their onside kicks. But when the WP is between 40 and 50 percent — meaning the game hasn't been decided to either side — the success rate for recovering onside kicks is more than 60 percent.
"The success rate is much, much higher when it's not obvious that a team is going to do an onside kick. So, I measured how obvious a kick would be based on how far behind a team was and how unlikely it was they were going to win," Burke explained. "(The Saints' onside kick) was definitely a good move, not only because it was successful, but the numbers work out where having the ball is so important."
At the time Morstead lined up and prepared to kick, with the Colts winning 10-6 and 30 minutes of game time remaining, the Saints had a 40 percent WP. After safety Chris Reis recovered the kick and Drew Brees drove New Orleans down the field for the go-ahead touchdown at 11:41 in the third, the Saints' WP had jumped to 62 percent.
"Having the ball is so much more valuable, while field position isn't so valuable anymore," Burke said. "Exactly where you are on the field isn't as important as just having the ball. It works out so that it's a good gamble to try the unexpected onside kick."
Using a play the Saints call "Ambush," Morstead ran up to the ball as if he were going to boot it deep, but instead tapped it to his left. The ball flew 15 yards before bouncing off the hands of Colts backup WR Hank Baskett. Reis, a gunner lined up on the left side, dove on the loose ball and bobbled it before finally maintaining control from the bottom of a 10-player pile.
The Saints declined Pro Football Weekly's request to talk about the onside kick, but it is safe to assume they saw something in their film preparation that led them to believe the Colts would be vulnerable to the surprise play. It is likely they expected Baskett to run downfield to block when the ball was kicked, as would normally occur on a deep kickoff. The reserve didn't bail, instead holding his ground as the ball approached. The only problem — he didn't catch it. Instead he deflected it toward the Saints' oncoming recovery team, allowing Reis to capture possession.
Longtime college and NFL special-teams coordinator Gary Zauner said that the decision of a kicking team to try an onside kick or not try one at all depends on the opponent's front-line players. If these blockers are staying home and waiting to see if the kick is over their heads, it is smart to kick deep. But if they are sneaking back and trying to get a head start on blocking, they are opening up a gap that would allow for the trick play to succeed.
"When you're scouting it, the first thing you look at is their front-line guys. They have to be 10 yards off, but some teams start to cheat and the center man might be two, three yards off the line. And then you start seeing some guy who's anticipating the approach of the kick and he starts bailing," explained Zauner, who now runs kicking camps.
The coach said that the combination of the receiving team's alignment and personnel dictate if it's smart to attempt the surprise kick.
"If you get a defensive player playing on special teams or an offensive guy who just got done with his reps, now all of a sudden he's got to go back out there on kickoffs," Zauner said. "So their mind isn't right sometimes, they get a little lax, they try to cheat a couple yards so they have to do less running. And that's the guy you take advantage of."
The NFL is a copy-cat league, so when one team has success with a certain play call, it's not rare to see other teams follow. New Orleans' use of an unexpected onside kick in such a big game might lead to more "Ambush"-like plays in 2010. Burke equated the play to a poker bluff, explaining that not only does it have a short-term benefit when successful, but it provides a long-term reminder to opponents as well.
"It does a couple of things. One, in the situation like the Super Bowl, it can directly help you win if you're successful," Burke said. "But in general, the other teams have to respect that possibility at any time, and that's going to make your regular kickoffs that much more successful. The receiving team is going to have to put men up on the line, they'll put in 'hands' guys perhaps instead of their usual blockers, and that's going to make your kickoffs that much deeper."
Bears special-teams coordinator Dave Toub agrees with Burke that unexpected kicks will be more common, but for a different reason. He had both his kicking and coverage units preparing for the surprise during Bears minicamp last week because he believes that with the new overtime rules, where a recovered onside kick allows a team to win with a field goal, more teams might try kicking short.
"I do think the new rules, the overtime rule, will have some impact," Toub said. "I think you will see more onside kicks because if a team kicks a field goal and then the other team kicks a surprise onside kick and gets the ball, the game's over.
Morstead's unexpected onside kick might have taken only one second off the game clock but the legacy of that game-changing play could be felt for years to come.
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More than 100,000 homes on Cape Cod in Massachusetts use onsite septic systems to treat wastewater. In Cape Cod's sandy soil, those systems accomplish little treatment of the effluent — instead, the bulk of the nitrogen flushed into them streams quickly through groundwater flows into the nearby estuaries, the bay, or the ocean, where it helps to cause algae blooms and fish kills. In July, for example, residents reported foul odors in Little Pond, an estuary near Falmouth, Mass., then discovered the carcasses of mature striped bass washed up on shore that had died in the oxygen-depleted water ("Falmouth official: Fish kills a 'wake-up call'," by Sean Teehan).
But is that a federal matter? According to Boston-based Conservation Law Foundation (www.clf.org), it is — and the foundation is suing the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to force the agency to throw some paperwork at the problem of septic system emissions, and to hold back federal funds from towns and state agencies until they act to correct it.
The lawsuit is moving ahead this fall, reports the Barnstable Patriot ("WASTEWATER: Key arguments made in federal suit," by Patriot Staff). One key legal point is whether the thousands of independent in-ground septics should be classified as point sources of pollution under the Clean Water Act of 1972. The Construction Law Foundation says yes, arguing in their legal brief, "In effect, these sources are discharging nitrogen directly into the bays through an intermediary (i.e., the highly permeable and fast-moving groundwater) – the equivalent of an underground pipe."
But the EPA says no. "EPA argues that the Clean Water Act is clear that it covers the navigable waters of the United States, and groundwater cannot be considered navigable waters," the Patriot reports. "The one exception is for groundwater that is hydrologically connected to surface waters. EPA said that CLF could make such claims on an individual basis for each septic system or treatment plant, but cannot make a blanket re-categorization of all such systems on Cape Cod." From the EPA court filing: "Plaintiffs are free to file citizen suits against sources to try and establish that they should be subject to federal permitting requirements, but they may not, through the back door of these TMDLs [Total Maximum Daily Loads], seek to apply a whole new regime of federal permitting requirements to virtually every homeowner and business on Cape Cod, 130,000 at a time."
If the suit were to succeed, what would that mean for the 100,000-plus septic systems on the Cape, and the property owners responsible for them? That's not clear. But according to a report in the Cape Cod Times ("Group amends Cape Cod wastewater suit," by Patrick Cassidy), any publicly provided solution will not be cheap. Writes the Times, "Local planners estimate that fixing the problem through the construction of sewers or the use of other technologies and strategies will cost between $4 billion and $8 billion over the next several decades."
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