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This position will report to and work with the President. The Director of Sales & Marketing will run the Sales & Marketing group and oversee all aspects of the department.
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Manage 30 wholesalers
• Complete annual sales plans with each wholesaler
• Complete seasonal programming and oversee pre-orders
• Establish sales objectives and sales execution goals for each wholesaler
• Track performance against objectives
• Maintain constant communication with each wholesaler
• Regular visits to Colorado wholesalers
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• Regular review of PTR pricing in each market
• Manage spending and marketing budgets for each wholesaler
• Review VIP data to identify sales trends, identify opportunities for new distribution, identify lost placements, review wholesaler inventory and to assist with forecasting volume
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• Maintain year round and seasonal beer calendar
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• Oversee in state and out of state wholesaler visits by brewery Salespeople
• Hire new Salespeople as needed
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- 1 large portobello mushroom, stem removed
- 1/2 medium red onion, halved
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- 1/4 cup balsamic vinegar
- 3 tablespoons lemon juice
- 4 garlic cloves, minced
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- 1 cup grape tomatoes, halved
- 1 tablespoon minced fresh parsley
- 1 tablespoon minced fresh basil
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1 cup (4 ounces) crumbled feta cheese
- Cook orzo according to package directions. Place vegetables in a large bowl. In a small bowl, whisk dressing ingredients. Add to vegetables and toss to coat.
- Remove vegetables, reserving dressing. Grill mushroom, pepper and onion, covered, over medium heat 5-10 minutes or until tender, turning occasionally. Grill asparagus and zucchini, uncovered, 3-4 minutes or until desired doneness, turning occasionally.
- When cool enough to handle, cut vegetables into bite-size pieces. In a large bowl, combine cooked orzo, grilled vegetables, tomatoes, parsley, basil, salt, pepper and reserved dressing; toss to combine. Serve at room temperature or refrigerate until cold. Just before serving, stir in cheese. Yield: 8 servings.
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No. 85: Western Kentucky
By Paul Myerberg // Jun 7, 2012
Sometime between questioning Kentucky's manhood and losing by 30 points at home to Indiana State, the Hilltoppers learned how to play a little football. No, that's not right. Western Kentucky's growth didn't occur overnight, all of a sudden, as a result of one momentum-changing win or loss. The program's growth dates back to its first practice under Willie Taggart more than two years ago – exact date: March, 23, 2010 – and last year's torrid finish merely represents the end result of many days and weeks in search of a winning formula. Taggart and the Hilltoppers have found the key. It goes a little something like this: run the football. That's it. Gloriously simple, this, and wonderfully easy to follow. Just run, eroding away at the will of the opposition while keeping your defense off the field. While Sun Belt foes like Arkansas State and Louisiana-Lafayette made noise by reinventing the wheel, W.K.U. took a page out of a decades-old playbook. Beauty points don't matter when you've lost 32 of your last 36 games.
Sun Belt
Bowling Green, Ky.
Returning starters
16 (9 offense, 7 defense)
Last year's ranking
No. 109
2011 record
(7-5, 7-1)
Last year's
No. 65
2012 schedule
- Sept. 1
Austin Peay
- Sept. 8
at Alabama
- Sept. 15
at Kentucky
- Sept. 22
Southern Miss.
- Sept. 29
at Arkansas St.
- Oct. 11
at Troy
- Oct. 20
- Oct. 27
at F.I.U.
- Nov. 1
- Nov. 10
- Nov. 17
at La.-Lafayette
- Nov. 24
North Texas
Last year's prediction
How good can this team be? I think W.K.U. could go 5-7, winning four games in the Sun Belt, though that's on the upper end for victories. It's more likely that the Hilltoppers are good enough to win three games in the Sun Belt, which in addition to a win over Indiana State would leave the team with an F.B.S.-best four wins. Progress? You better believe it. T is without question the program's best team on the F.B.S. ranks, and will exhibit growth in 2011. Bottom line: I wouldn't be surprised to see the Hilltoppers go 2-10 again, as the team still isn't that talented, or deep, or experienced; at the same time, I would be surprised but not altogether shocked to see W.K.U. factor in the Sun Belt race.
2011 recap
In a nutshell The Hilltoppers matched the program's combined win total over the last three years by the end of October, exceeded that total one week into November and, all told, closed the regular season with seven wins in eight games. All that kept Western Kentucky home from bowl play was a pesky tie-in, which left the Sun Belt's second-place team home during the postseason while a team like U.C.L.A., or even a team like Louisiana-Lafayette, went in its stead. That's the only blemish on an otherwise dream season – though there was that home loss to Indiana State, which continues to stand out. The Hilltoppers got it done on the ground, averaging 202.1 rushing yards per game during Sun Belt play and 210.3 yards per game over the season's second half. W.K.U. also averaged 135.0 rushing yards per game against SEC competition, earning 129 tough yards in Baton Rouge; this was the second-highest total that L.S.U. would allow during the regular season. The running game kept an uneven defense off the field, which in turn allowed W.K.U. to weather the storm during Sun Belt play. More often than not, the Hilltoppers simply wore down the opposition.
High point A 43-23 home win over Louisiana-Lafayette on Oct. 22. This was the Hilltoppers' season in a nutshell: W.K.U. couldn't do anything on defense, giving up 540 yards and 22 first downs despite maintaining possession for nearly 36 minutes, but was able to keep the Ragin' Cajuns at bay with a punishing running game. The Hilltoppers scored six touchdowns; five came on scoring plays of five yards or less, each on the ground.
Low point Western Kentucky's 26-22 loss to Arkansas State on Oct. 1 didn't seem big at the time. Two months later, the loss cost W.K.U. the Sun Belt crown – not to mention a bowl bid. The Hilltoppers led by 14-10 heading into the fourth quarter; gave up nine unanswered points to fall behind by 19-14; scored a touchdown to retake the lead, 22-19; but allowed A.S.U. to post the winning score with 42 seconds left.
Tidbit The Hilltoppers' win over Louisiana-Lafayette snapped one of the most ignominious losing streaks in major college football: the victory was W.K.U.'s first at home in 18 tries, a stretch dating back to a 50-9 win over Murray State on Sept. 20, 2008. The win doubled as W.K.U.'s first at home against an F.B.S. foe since the program began its transition up to the F.B.S. level in 2008; after last season, the Hilltoppers home record since the start of the 2008 season stands at 4-18.
Tidbit (Rainey edition) Bobby Rainey, the Hilltoppers' unquestioned star over the last three years, led the nation in carries as a junior (340) and senior (369). In 2010, Rainey's workload exceeded the total of one team, Hawaii. In 2011, his 369 carries were more than the total for eight teams: Hawaii, Oregon State, Arizona, Central Michigan, Troy, S.M.U., San Jose State and Duke. Rainey's carries in 2010 and 2011 would have led the N.F.L., with his 369 carries as a senior 26 more than Jacksonville Jaguars running back Maurice Jones-Drew, who paced the N.F.L. with 343.
Former players in the N.F.L.
1 RB Bobby Rainey (Baltimore).
Arbitrary top five list
Topps baseball sets, 1986-91
1. 1991.
2. 1987.
3. 1989.
4. 1988.
5. 1986.
Willie Taggart (Western Kentucky '98), 9-15 after two seasons. Taggart returned to W.K.U. as a former player – a program great, in fact – and a former assistant. This type of familiarity with a program, its fan base and its yearly expectations placed Taggart well ahead of the curve of the typical first-time head coach on the F.B.S. level. He set a handful of school records as a quarterback at Western Kentucky from 1995-98, playing under W.K.U. coaching legend Jack Harbaugh. He joined Harbaugh's staff immediately after exhausting his eligibility, spending the 1999 season as the wide receivers coach. Over the next seven seasons Taggart coached the quarterbacks (2000-6) and served as both the co-offensive coordinator (2001-2) and assistant head coach (2003-6). The Hilltoppers did not suffer a losing season during Taggart's time as an assistant, winning at least eight games every year from 2000-4 and the F.C.S. national championship in 2002. He was hired away from W.K.U. by Stanford and Jim Harbaugh – Jack's son – in 2007 to be the Cardinal's running backs coach. Taggart was instrumental in orchestrating two of the most prolific rushing attacks in program history from 2008-9, and helped Stanford's Toby Gerhart finish second in the Heisman Trophy voting in 2009. His experience and level of success on the B.C.S. conference level only increased his appeal to the university, which was able to hit upon not only a young, energetic coach with an impressive resume, but one with a built-in comfort level in his new position. Two years later, it's clear that W.K.U. made an inspired hire.
Tidbit (coaching edition) Western Kentucky made one coaching move, with former Michigan quarterback Nick Sheridan, a graduate assistant last fall, moving up to quarterbacks coach and passing game coordinator to replace former offensive coordinator Zach Azzanni, who left to join Bret Bielema's staff at Wisconsin. Taggart will also shuffle the duties of several of his returning offensive assistants. Terry Obee will move to wide receivers coach, a position he held in 2010, with Taggart taking over as the Hilltoppers' running backs coach. Stu Holt will work solely with the tight ends coach after balancing those duties with his work with W.K.U.'s offensive tackles. Holt's move hands the entire offensive line over to Walt Wells, the program's longest-tenured assistant: a decade and counting.
Players to watch
It doesn't make you feel old, but it does make you realize how quickly times goes by: Kawaun Jakes is now a senior. To me, it seems only yesterday that Jakes was entrenched in a four-way position battle for the starting nod – it was 2009, and he won that battle, starting nine games as a freshman and every game but one over the two years since. So he's now a senior, and an experienced senior at that, meaning it's time for Jakes to take on a substantially larger role in this offense.
It's also time for Jakes to play a better brand of football. He's been a caretaker as the Hilltoppers' starter, handing the ball off to Rainey more than 50 percent of the time and simply managing Taggart's offense as the team's secondary option – and, to be honest, Jakes hasn't done a very good job even in a secondary role. After protecting the football well in 2010, tossing 6 picks in 291 attempts, Jakes doubled his turnover total last fall despite making 15 fewer attempts. Without Rainey there to carry the offense on his back, W.K.U. absolutely needs more out of the quarterback position.
And regardless of his starting experience – though that's a major factor behind his candidacy – the coaching staff might have no choice but to go towards another option if Jakes proves unable to carry the load. Taggart will have other options. One is U.C.F. transfer DeMarcus Smith, though he's behind the eight ball in terms of his grasp of the system. A second is sophomore Brandon Doughty, though he needs to recover from the A.C.L. injury that ended his rookie season in September. A third is redshirt freshman James Mauro, a Texas product who remains unpolished but looks the part. Jakes has the edge heading into September. Whether he remains the Hilltoppers' starter depends on his play.
Tight end Jack Doyle is terrific. Consistent: he made at least four receptions in eight games last fall. Productive: his 52 grabs for 614 yards led the team. Potentially dynamic: Doyle had at least 89 receiving yards in four games, cracking the 100-yard mark three times during S.B.C. play – Middle Tennessee, Louisiana-Lafayette and Troy. Doyle is Jakes' favorite target, not to mention W.K.U.'s most steady option in the passing game, so it's certainly possible that he tops last year's output and, with Louisiana-Lafayette's Ladarius Green gone, lands first-team all-Sun Belt honors.
One thing W.K.U. has at receiver is numbers: there are 17 receivers on the roster altogether, with all 17 off the high school ranks. While this fact bodes well for the Hilltoppers' future at the position, all but six of the receivers are freshmen or sophomores – in other words, there's not a ton of experience here. The Hilltoppers will need a full season out of senior Marcus Vasquez, who was leading the team in receptions when he injured his knee in the loss to Indiana State. While Vasquez recovers, W.K.U. is going forward with sophomores Tyler Higbee and Willie McNeal as its two starters. Another pair of second-year players, Rico Brown (13 receptions for 185 yards) and Boe Brand (14 for 140), should see more snaps in 2012.
The offensive line is in great shape, though the Hilltoppers must replace a very strong left tackle in Wes Jeffries, a first-team all-conference pick as a senior. Jeffries will be replaced by sophomore Cameron Clemmons, last year's starter at right tackle; Clemmons will be replaced on the strong side by senior Seth White, who started the first four games of last season before Clemmons moved into the lineup. Nothing changes along the interior: junior Luis Polanco returns at left guard, junior Sean Conway at center and senior Adam Smith, a second-team all-S.B.C. pick last fall, at right guard. Is this the best offensive line in the Sun Belt? Losing Jeffries hurts, but I think that the Hilltoppers' front stands right alongside Florida International's as the best in the league.
One of the beauties of a powerful running game is that it milks the clock, keeping your offense on the field while your defense quotes movie dialogue and cracks jokes from the bench – did you hear the one about Kentucky not being part of the SEC? For example: W.K.U. faced only 762 plays on defense last year, the sixth-fewest of any team in the country. This was a good thing. The Hilltoppers gave up 5.9 yards per play, a total that ranked 86th nationally, so it's safe to say that the Hilltoppers' hard-charging running game did more than just score points; it prevented opponents from doing the same.
This defense should be improved in its second season under coordinator Lance Guidry, who came over from Miami (Ohio) prior to last season, but will the improvement offset the Hilltoppers' projected offensive downturn? It's a great question. One thing that W.K.U. can do to help itself on defense is cut down on the big plays, making opponent work just a little bit harder. The Hilltoppers allowed 121 plays of 20 or more yards last fall, the third-most in the Sun Belt. Bottling up against the big play is a team-wide effort; every level needs to contribute, beginning with the pass rush from the front seven and the pass defense in the secondary.
About the pass rush: it's not terrible. The Hilltoppers return a solid edge rusher in senior Quanterus Smith (38 tackles, 11.0 tackles for loss, 7.5 sacks), the team leader in sacks in each of the last two years. But the defense could use more pressure from the line, especially with the loss of ends Bo Adebayo and Jared Clendenin. With the pair gone, look for junior Cole Tischer to battle for the starting role opposite of Smith. One player to watch is redshirt freshman Gavin Rocker, an undersized speedster who could really help W.K.U. on third down.
The defense did a nice job against the run last fall, especially during conference play – outside of the game against Middle Tennessee, that is. It's natural to expect a step forward with of last year's two-deep back in the fold. The returning contributors include both starters, seniors Jamarcus Allen (39 tackles, 7.0 for loss) and Kenny Martin, as well as leading reserves Rammell Lewis and Jamichael Payne. The latter, a 355-pound sophomore – wink, wink – can blot out the sun. While best used in short bursts, Payne can be a major factor on first down.
The only notable move at linebacker during spring drills saw junior Xavius Boyd (53 tackles) move from the strong side over to the weak side, where he'll replace Ben Duvall. It should be a smooth transition: Boyd started on the weak side in last year's win over F.I.U., making six tackles in the victory. Boyd's move opens up the strong side for either his brother, Bar'ee, a special teams demon, or senior Tye Golden. That leaves the middle.
Remember this name: Andrew Jackson. Shouldn't be hard to remember, right? A 260-pound junior, Jackson (109 tackles, 17.0 for loss, 3.5 sacks) is my pick for Sun Belt Defensive Player of the Year. He's extremely hard for S.B.C. linemen to handle, thanks to his blend of size and speed. Jackson is also the linebacker who questioned Kentucky's bona fides – a game he dominated, by the way – in September; he backed up his confidence that week and several more along the way, though Jackson did falter a bit down the stretch. Already the best linebacker in the S.B.C., Jackson could be one of the best at his position on the non-B.C.S. conference level once he gains a touch more experience.
After sitting out last season as a transfer, Jonathan Dowling will move right into a starting role at free safety. Formerly of Florida, Dowling might be the most electric player – not the best, but the most athletic – of Western Kentucky's F.B.S. existence. Dismissed from Florida for a violation of team rules, Dowling gets a second chance to live up to his potential with the Hilltoppers. With Dowling eligible, W.K.U. moved last year's starting free safety, senior Kareem Peterson (50 tackles, 3 interceptions) over to strong safety. Peterson will battle for the starting role with junior Kiante Young, an off-and-on starter over his first two years with the program; the loser will be a key reserve, and I imagine that Peterson could also take snaps as the Hilltoppers' nickel back.
W.K.U. needs to force more turnovers in the secondary. Dowling can help in this area, if he lives up the hype. At cornerback, the Hilltoppers must replace Derrius Brooks and his team-best four interceptions – with those picks accounting for nearly a third of the Hilltoppers' total as a team. His replacement in the starting lineup will be junior Arius Wright (36 tackles), last year's third cornerback; he joins junior Tyree Robinson (44 tackles), 21-game starter over his first two seasons. I think that Peterson is an option at nickel back, as is sophomore Cam Thomas and senior Jamal Forrest.
Junior Hendrix Brakefield is a solid punter with the potential to be a very good punter. You saw his potential in the tough loss to Kentucky, when Brakefield bailed out the Hilltoppers' impotent offense with the finest game of his sophomore season. The key for Brakefield will be to cobble together steady performance after steady performance. W.K.U. might also call on the junior to handle place-kicking duties, seeing that no team in college football got less from the kicking game in 2011 – the three kickers used by W.K.U. were a combined 5-20 on field goals and 30-34 on extra points. Brakefield can't be any worse. But the questionable kicking game is an issue, especially if the Hilltoppers are involved in another handful of games decided by a touchdown or less.
Position battle(s) to watch
Running back In 2011, Rainey accounted for 77.8 percent of the Hilltoppers' rushing yards and 49.1 percent of the team's total offense. As a junior, Rainey made up 78.7 percent of W.K.U.'s rushing yards and 50.4 percent of its total offense. Few players, if any, meant more to their team's success. Life post-Rainey will send Taggart and W.K.U. back to the drawing board in search of another answer in the running game, which despite the changing of the guard at running back will remain the Hilltoppers' offensive lifeblood. One thing that's important to remember: W.K.U. is not finding another Rainey among the team's returning backs. Perhaps, however, the Hilltoppers can cobble together another solid running game by using two, three or four backs to fill Rainey's shoes.
The Hilltoppers will still have a solid lead blocker and short-yardage back in junior fullback Kadeem Jones (90 yards, 7 touchdowns); while Jones should see his touches rise in 2012, he's not the every-down, big-play back this offense needs. Well, that's not entirely correct: Taggart doesn't need a big-play back as much as a move-the-chains back. While Rainey wasn't necessarily explosive, he was explosively consistent — his ability to gain four or five yards on a steady basis helped keep the defense off the field.
The top two at the position heading into the summer are juniors Antonio Andrews (42 yards) and Keshawn Simpson (134 yards). Andrew is the smaller, shiftier back, while Simpson, at 243 pounds, can team with Jones to form the biggest backfield in the Sun Belt. The Hilltoppers also have two redshirt freshmen, Marquis Sumler and Oliver Head, and take on three incoming freshman over the summer — one, Anthony Wales, chose W.K.U. over offers from Illinois, Kentucky and Louisville, among others. No one back is going to be Rainey, and it might take all five or six to match Rainey's total. They just need to move the chains as a group. One year after starring an all-American in the backfield, the Hilltoppers' running game is going to take a step back.
Game(s) to watch
W.K.U. should again struggle during non-conference play, though I imagine that this fall won't see the Hilltoppers suffer another loss to an F.C.S. opponent. Sun Belt plays opens with a bang, thanks to three road games in four tries, but eases as the calendar turns to November. If the Hilltoppers are going to reach bowl eligibility for a second straight season it will likely take three wins over the year's final month; good thing W.K.U. sandwiches a game at Louisiana-Lafayette with home dates against Middle Tennessee, Florida Atlantic and North Texas. That should allow the Hilltoppers to finish strong, but will three wins in November be enough to lift this team into bowl play?
Season breakdown & prediction
In a nutshell I don't think that Western Kentucky is going to match last season's win total or notch another second-place finish in the Sun Belt. Let's just get that out of the way. And if you're wondering: No, this doesn't in any way, shape or form indicate a lack of program-wide progress. Don't be silly. W.K.U. remains light years removed from its stumbling and bumbling F.B.S. debut; even a slide down to five wins in 2012 wouldn't change the fact that the Hilltoppers are following a Florida International-like path into annual bowl contention. I even think that this year's team could make a run into bowl play – or bowl eligibility, rather – if Taggart and his staff can address two or three significant concerns. The first is the hole at running back. As noted several times above, the Hilltoppers relied on a time-consuming ground game to not only score points but to keep an unsteady defense off the field. Without a sure thing in the backfield, can W.K.U. continue to wear down S.B.C. competition? Another issue is the defense itself, which should take step forward in its second season under Guidry but must do a better job making the opposition work to move the football. The good news is that the back seven has the potential to be superb; in addition, W.K.U. can tout a very strong rotation along the interior of the line. Finally, let's discuss the elephant in the room: this schedule. Three difficult non-conference games, even if Kentucky is eminently beatable. Worse yet, W.K.U. gets its three major contenders for the S.B.C. crown on the road: Arkansas State, Louisiana-Lafayette and Florida International. With a few personnel issues and this schedule, it's going to be very hard for this team to match last season's win total. I'd go as far as to say that W.K.U. will top out at six wins, and might take home only five games should a team like Troy or Louisiana-Monroe take a step forward.
Dream season W.K.U. goes 3-1 in non-conference play, losing only to Alabama, and takes another seven games against the Sun Belt. Thanks to a key late-season win over F.I.U., the Hilltoppers take home the conference title.
Nightmare season Another loss to an F.C.S. teams starts the year off on a terrible note. The Hilltoppers open with six straight losses before righting the ship a bit down the stretch, but finish a disappointing 3-9, 3-5 in S.B.C. play.
In case you were wondering
Where do Western Kentucky fans congregate? The undisputed king of Western Kentucky online chatter is Hilltopper Haven. You should also check out Chad Bishop's W.K.U. sports blog for the Bowling Green Daily News, as well as the Web site of the College Heights Herald, Western Kentucky's wonderful student newspaper.
Western Kentucky's all-name nominee P Hendrix Brakefield.
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Who is No. 84? Tomorrow's program has scored 30 or more points against F.B.S. competition only once over its last 27 games. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the team is 7-20 over this span.
Tags: Adam Smith, Andrew Jackson, Antonio Andrews, Cameron Clemmons, DeMarcus Smith, Hendrix Brakefield, Jack Doyle, Jamarcus Allen, Jamichael Payne, Jonathan Dowling, Kadeem Jones, Kareem Peterson, Kawaun Jakes, Keshawn Simpson, Marcus Vasquez, Quanterus Smith, Sun Belt, Tyree Robinson, Western Kentucky, Willie Taggart, Xavius Boyd
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http://toppertalk.com/ here's a wku fan blog
Very nice write up. Absolutely agree that keeping the running game going will be key. And Jakes needs to step it up.
I like that you use WKU and not "W. Kentucky" or "WKY" like the idiots at ESPN. But why the use of the periods?
I noticed you did it to WKU, UAB and UNLV… but not for UTEP. I don't think you need the periods for any of them. That will save you some key stokes in the future.
Enjoyed the article but disagreed with some of your conclusions. Jakes has improved greatly at QB, but if DaMarcus Smith is eligible he will rise to the top. The biggest newsmaker of the season will be a victory at Kentucky! I think the win total will match or exceed last season.
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Bryggman, McGrath And More Lead ATC's THE COLLECTION & A KIND OF ALASKA
Atlantic Theater Company members Larry Bryggman and Matt McGrath and guest artists Lisa Emery, Rebecca Henderson and Darren Pettie star in its first main stage production of the 2010-2011 season, THE COLLECTION & A KIND OF ALASKA: TWO PLAYS BY Harold Pinter, directed by Atlantic founding member Karen Kohlhaas.
THE COLLECTION AND A KIND OF ALASKA began previews Wednesday, November 3; officially open Monday, November 22; and play a limited engagement through Sunday, December 12 Off-Broadway at Classic Stage Company (136 East 13th Street) while its main stage Linda Gross Theater undergoes renovation.
Atlantic returns to the work of Tony Award® and Nobel Prize winning playwright Harold Pinter, (the first major production of his work to be done in NYC since his death in 2008) following its critically hailed 2005 production of his first and last plays The Room and Celebration. Here again, the plays are separated chronologically by many years; both, however, are steeped in the author's signature humor, mystery and psychological tension. In The Collection (1961), a 4:00am phone call and a surprise visitor set off a series of conversations about potential infidelities among two couples. And a middle-aged woman who has been asleep in a hospital room awakens after thirty years and must reorient herself to a greatly changed world in A Kind of Alaska (1982), which was inspired by the work of Oliver Sacks in his seminal book, Awakenings.
Director Karen Kohlhaas is a founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company who returns to staging the work of Harold Pinter following her acclaimed production of The Hothouse at Atlantic. Karen most recently directed the world premiere of Annie Baker's Body Awareness at Atlantic. She also recently staged Clare Bayley's At Sea for Cambridge UK's Menagerie Theatre and 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother by Kate Moira Ryan starring Judy Gold at the Montreal Comedy Festival, Ars Nova, Off-Broadway at the St. Luke's Theatre, and national tour.
Larry Brygmann returns to Atlantic following appearing in Tom Donaghy's world premiere adaptation of The Cherry Orchard and his critically acclaimed performance in the world premiere of David Mamet's comedy Romance. Lisa Emery returns to Atlantic following starring in the American premiere of Moira Buffini's Gabriel. Rebecca Henderson was most recently seen Off-Broadway in Sheila Callaghan's Roadkill Confidential. Matt McGrath starred in the musical The Black Rider at Center Theater Group's Ahmanson Theater in Los Angeles, the Barbican Theatre in London, San Francisco's ACT and in Sydney, Australia; and also starred on Broadway in Cabaret as "The Emcee." Darren Pettie has appeared at Atlantic in Hobson's Choice on Broadway in Butley and Off-Broadway in This and in Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams.
The creative team for THE COLLECTION & A KIND OF ALASKA: TWO PLAYS BY Harold Pinter will feature scenic design by Walt Spangler, costume design by Bobby Frederick Tilley II, lighting design by Jason Lyons and sound design by Obadiah Eaves.
Karen Kohlhaas (Director) is a founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company where she most recently directed the world premiere of Annie Baker's Body Awareness. Other credits include Clare Bayley's At Sea for Cambridge UK's Menagerie Theatre; 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother by Kate Moira Ryan (with Judy Gold), at the Montreal Comedy Festival, Ars Nova, Off-Broadway at the St. Luke's Theatre, and national tour. Other Off-Broadway and regional productions include Harold Pinter's The Hothouse (Atlantic), Keith Reddin's Synergy (Alley Theatre, world premiere) and Frame 312 (Atlantic, New York premiere); David Mamet's Boston Marriage (Public Theater, New York premiere) and The Water Engine (Atlantic); three productions of An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein in New York and Sydney, Kate Moira Ryan's OTMA (U.S. premiere), short plays by Jerome Hairston (Naked Angels), Hilary Bell (Atlantic), Joe Penhall (Atlantic), Wendy MacLeod (Ensemble Studio Theatre) and Jeff Whitty (Atlantic). Her short films include The Palace of the End and If You See Something Say Something with playwright/performer Taylor Mac; the award-winning short documentary The Babies Got the Blues (co-directed with Rachel Hamilton), and have been featured at the Silverlake, Galway, Crossroads, Tupelo, and Lincoln Center's Drag Show Video Vérité film festivals. Karen is a senior teacher at the Atlantic Acting School and teaches her own classes in directing, monologue, and audition technique. She has authored/created three books and a DVD for actors and teachers.
Harold Pinter (Playwright) was born in London in 1930 and died on Christmas Eve, 2008. He was married to Antonia Fraser. He wrote twenty-nine plays including The Birthday Party, The Caretaker, The Homecoming, and Betrayal, twenty-one screenplays including The Servant, The Go-Between, The French Lieutenant's Woman and Sleuth, and directed twenty-seven theatre productions, including James Joyce's Exiles, David Mamet's Oleanna, seven plays by Simon Gray and many of his own plays including his last, Celebration, paired with his first, The Room at The Almeida Theatre, London in the spring of 2000. In 2005 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. Other awards include the Companion of Honour for services to Literature, the Legion D'Honneur, the Laurence Olivier Award and the Moliere D'Honneur for lifetime achievement. In 1999 he was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature. He received honorary degrees from eighteen universities.
Larry Bryggman returns to Atlantic following appearing in Tom Donaghy's world premiere adaptation of The Cherry Orchard and his critically acclaimed performance in the world premiere of David Mamet's comedy Romance, a role he reprised in the Los Angeles run at the Mark Taper Forum. He most recently appeared on Broadway in Festen and Off Broadway in Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers. Broadway: Proof (Tony Award® nomination), Picnic (Tony Award® nomination), Twelve Angry Men, Prelude to a Kiss, Richard III, The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel, Ulysses in Nighttown. Off-Broadway: Groundswell (The New Group), Edward Albee's Occupant (Signature Theatre), King Lear (Public), Henry IV, Parts I and II, Coriolanus, Macbeth, etc. (NYSF/Public Theater and Delacorte Theater in Central Park); Hothouse, Once in a Lifetime (Atlantic); Proof, New England (MTC); Prelude and Liebestod (MCC); A Bad Friend and Bodies, Rest and Motion (LCT); Roulette. Film: Spy Game, Die Hard With a Vengeance, And Justice for All, Looking for Richard, My Side of the Story. TV: "As the World Turns," "Law & Order," two Daytime Emmy Awards® for Best Actor. He is a member of Atlantic Theater Company.
Lisa Emery (Deborah) returns to Atlantic following her critically acclaimed performance in the American premiere of Moira Buffini's Gabriel. Broadway: The Women, Present Laughter, The Smell of the Kill, Jackie, Rumors, Burn This. Off Broadway: Distracted (Lortel nomination) at Roundabout, Mouth to Mouth, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Abigail's Party (Drama Desk and Lortel nominations), What The Butler Saw and Curtains (ensemble Obie) all at The New Group. Lucy at EST, The Maddening Truth at The Keen Company, Iron at MTC (Obie Award, Lortel Nomination), Dinner With Friends, Far East at LCT, The Monogamist and Marvin's Room (Drama Desk nomination) at Playwrights Horizons, Talley and Sons and Dalton's Back at Circle Rep. Film: The Night Listener, People I Know, Roger Dodger, A Map of the World, Cold Souls. Television: "Law & Order" (including CI and SVU), "Third Watch", "Sex and the City," "Ed," "The Fringe," "Damages," "Canterbury's Law" and "Far East" and "The Women" on PBS's Stage to Screen.
Rebecca Henderson (Stella/Pauline) was most recently seen in Sheila Callaghan's Roadkill Confidential (Clubbed Thumb). Off-Broadway: The Retributionists (Playwrights Horizons), Spin, U.S. Drag, Vengeance (stageFARM), Canary (Rattlestick),Three Sisters (Nature Theater of Oklahoma), Scapin, The Misanthrope (Classic Stage Company). Regional: Bobrauschenbergamerica, (American Repertory Theatre). Television: CBS's "The Good Wife" (recurring). Film: Loss Control, Little Horses, Meskada, A Lone Star State. MFA, Columbia University.
Matt McGrath (Bill) starred in the musical The Black Rider at Center Theater Group's Ahmanson Theater in Los Angeles, the Barbican Theatre in London, San Francisco's ACT and in Sydney, Australia where he was nominated for a Helpmann Award. Broadway: Cabaret ("Emcee"), A Streetcar Named Desire. Off Broadway: Graceland (Lincoln Center), Top Secret (NYTW), Hedwig and the Angry Inch, A Fair Country (Lincoln Center), What Didn't Happen, Minutes from the Blue Route, Nothing Sacred, The Dadshuttle, Escape from Happiness, Fat Men in Skirts, The Old Boy, Life During Wartime and Amulets Against the Dragon Forces. Regional theater credits include Romance (Bay Street); Caroline in Jersey (Williamstown); Bell, Book and Candle (Bay Street); Beyond Therapy (Williamstown Theatre Festival/Bay Street Theatre); The Evildoers (Yale Rep); The Lady in Question and Japes at Bay Street Theatre; Ridiculous Fraud and Raised in Captivity at South Coast Repertory; Mother of Invention (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Loot at Williamstown Theatre Festival and at La Jolla Playhouse; Distant Fires (LA Weekly Award) and Pete Townshend Concert and Snakebit (New York Stage and Film).Film credits include Colin Fitz Lives!, Full Grown Men, The Notorious Bettie Page, The Anniversary Party, The Broken Hearts Club, Boys Don't Cry, The Impostors, Story of a Bad Boy, 1999, The Substance of Fire, Bob Roberts, The Dadshuttle and Desperate Hours. Television: "Little Britain USA," "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," "Frasier," "Now and Again," "Chicago Hope," "New York Undercover," "Winnetka Road," "Andersonville," "The Member of the Wedding" and "Cruel Doubt." Matt developed a one man show about the Tony Award® winning Director Jack Hofsiss that was recently performed at The Kennedy Center, for which Matt also serves as the assistant director and dramaturg.
Darren Pettie (James). New York credits: This (Playwrights Horizons), Hillary, a Greek Tragedy with a Somewhat Happy Ending (New Georges), Butley (Broadway), Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams (Primary Stages), Hobson's Choice (Atlantic), 99 Histories (Cherry Lane), Unwrap Your Candy (Vineyard), Measure for Measure (Delacorte). Regional: How the Other Half Loves (Westport), Don't Dress for Dinner (Royal George), The Cry of the Reed (Huntington), The Taming of the Shrew (Commonwealth Shakespeare Co.), Dedication or the Stuff of Dreams (WTF), The Shatter Hand Massacre (Berliner Festspiele). Film/Television: Taking Woodstock, The international, Ghost Town, Approaching Union Square, Four Single Fathers, "Mad Men," "Gossip Girl," "Cashmere Mafia," "New Amsterdam," " Without a Trace," "CSI," "Crossing Jordan," "Numbers," "Charmed," "Law & Order: SVU".


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Big Daddy's Complete Rejuvenating Community Garden sits astride the Emeryville line just north of 580 on Peralta Street at Macarthur. It's a nice spot to look at the harmony between Oakland's land and its history. There are the hills; here are the works of the city; beneath all is the same old soil, ready to bloom for us under the care and energy of visionaries.
Reclaiming dead land is the same work as reclaiming dead metal—making waste into wealth. There are many lessons and a lot of pleasure to be had at this urban garden. Click both photos for larger versions.
I probably will not blog here next week while the big annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union goes on across the bay. Look for activity on my About.com blog


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With a stay at Holiday Inn Ponce & Tropical Casino in Ponce, you'll be close to Vicens Coliseum and Montaner Stadium.
This casino hotel is within the vicinity of La Guancha and Museo de Arte de Ponce.
Make yourself at home in one of the 116 air-conditioned guestrooms. Rooms have private balconies. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and satellite programming is available for your entertainment. Bathrooms have bathtubs and hair dryers.
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MTC Announces Lineup for Ernst C. Stiefel '7@7' Reading Series: Theresa Rebeck, Stephen Adly Guirgis and More
Manhattan Theatre Club has announced the lineup for this spring's Ernst C. Stiefel "7@7" Reading Series.
The readings kick off Monday, March 4 at 7 PM and will be held on consecutive Mondays through April 15. The readings will take place at New York City Center - Stage I (131 West 55th Street). All readings are free and open to the public, but space is limited and RSVPs are required. To RSVP, please visit http://www.manhattantheatreclub.com/events/77-reading-series or call (212) 399-3000 x 4163.
Now in its 15th year, this rehearsed reading series is dedicated to the support and development of innovative new work. The Ernst C. Stiefel Foundation has supported Manhattan Theatre Club's reading series since 2006.
Several plays developed in 7@7 have gone on to full productions at MTC, including David Auburn's Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning Proof, Joe Hortua's Between Us, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's Based on a Totally True Story, and Molly Smith Metzler's Close Up Space (Susan Smith Blackburn finalist).
7@7 plays that have been produced elsewhere in New York and around the world include Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's Good Boys And True, Heidi Schreck's There Are No More Big Secrets, Stephen Adly Guirgis' The Little Flower of East Orange, Julia Cho's Durango, David Adjmi's Stunning, Naomi Iizuka's Strike-Slip, Adam Rapp's Red Light Winter, Theresa Rebeck's The Scene, Eric Simonson's Fake, Jonathan Caren's The Recommendation, The Civilians' The Great Immensity, and Rona Munro's Donny's Brain.
Below is the schedule for the Ernst C. Stiefel "7@7" Reading Series. Please note, each reading starts at 7 PM.
March 4: THE WHO & THE WHAT by Ayad Akhtar, directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch
Zarina has a bone to pick with the place of women in her Muslim faith, and she's been writing a book about the Prophet Muhammad that aims to set the record straight. When her traditional father and sister discover the manuscript, it threatens to tear her family apart. With humor and ferocity, Akhtar's incisive new drama about love, academia, and religion examines the chasm between our traditions and our contemporary lives.
Ayad Akhtar's play Disgraced played at Lincoln Center's Claire Tow Theater (LCT3) in 2012, and will premiere at the Bush Theater in London in May 2013. Disgraced won the Jeff Equity Award for Best New Play in 2012.
March 11: ODYSSEY ROOM by Greg Pierce, directed by Daniel Aukin
Three estranged friends meet at their condemned middle school on the day before its demolition. A little more than memories come out of the woodwork in this vivid, honest and haunting tale.
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People without diabetes completely miss the real difficulties of being diabetic. For one thing, it's not so much about what I can't eat as what I have to eat.
Allow me to outline a situation in which I have found myself more than once. I am out and about, I have again forgotten my wallet, and signs of a low blood sugar are beginning to approach. A quick search of my pockets reveals thirteen lifesavers that have gone through the washer along with my cargo shorts. They are fuzzy with lint, and dryer heat has welded them into a rainbow-colored blob. In fact, they are not readily identifiable as candies.
So here's my choice: Assume that pocket lint will cause no lasting damage when digested (it was washed, so it's clean, right?), or pick a direction and hope to reach one of my numerous emergency sugar stores. The choice is obvious: do both. Don't they call them lifesavers with diabetics in mind?
I have a squirrel-like tendency to collect and store various forms of quick sugar. If a promotional event is handing out free cans of soda pop, two or three will find their way into my gym bag, book bag, under the car seat, under the pillow, etc. However, secreting root beer into all manner of crevices can lead to difficulties. For one, you'd think an aluminum can filled with carbonated syrup has a half-life comparable to plutonium, but it ain't so. That pop and the hissing noise that emits after you've sat on your bag can ruin your day.
Generally I'm not too fussy about what I eat. (I watch what I eat, but only from the plate to the fork to the mouth.) Thankfully, this dietetic leniency has saved me from many a close call. While attending a high school competition, a shaky feeling found me with my pockets empty of lint-covered lifesavers. The refreshment supplies were dwindling, but fate was smiling on me: there were two cookies and a cup of juice left over. I started to make my shaky way to the 34 carbs like a lost desert wanderer toward an oasis.
Then, like that same wanderer discovering a mirage, I watched my lifeline disappear as a rotund fellow student grabbed my prey. I doubt that Chubby ever realized that his very life was in peril at that moment. It's a good thing I wasn't feeling better, or I might have bit him. Thankfully, my pottery teacher had a stale onion bagel in her pocket. Carbs are carbs. It took a long time to get working (clay probably slows digestion), but it did work. I still harbor resentment against the kid who stole my cookies, though.
During high school, I discovered that chugging a whole quart of juice right before running drills made a miserable experience into something downright agonizing. I clearly needed to cut down on the volume, so I switched to pure juice concentrate. Once again, my training in consuming gross stuff came in handy. And when someone asked to partake of my "juice," I would happily hand him the bottle and watch as he gagged and choked. Misery loves company.
In college, I joined the crew team and began buying concentrated juice in bulk. In typical student style, however, I quickly lost track of which bottles contained fresh concentrate and which had been sitting around awhile. One fine morning, sitting in the rowboat, I needed some sugar and grabbed my bottle of concentrate. When I opened it, it exploded. Thus did I discover the basic process of fermentation. But what choice did I have? Bottoms up. It made for some interesting rowing.
I've gotten much better about monitoring my sugar sources, and most of what I eat now would be considered edible by even a fussy personality. Recently I discovered that Fruit Leathers contain a reasonable amount of quick-acting sugar, can withstand storage (measured in years), and are slim enough to fit anywhere. So I am quite efficiently stocked up. Oh sure, on occasion you'll find me inspecting my pocket contents with a hungry glint in my eye, but on the whole, I have to tap into my emergency supplies with less frequency. Of course, this could pose a problem: When the time comes…what will I find?
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Mike Casazza: Patterson wants to flip script on offenses
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- Keith Patterson's resume is long enough that even a simple imagination can run wild thinking about all the coaches who have influenced the West Virginia defensive coordinator's career.
We are, after all, 10 schools and 26 seasons into this now for a guy who's been hired as a graduate assistant at a NAIA school, a head coach and assistant coach at high schools in Texas and Oklahoma, a defensive coordinator at four Division I schools and even an interim head coach for a bowl game.
So many rungs on that ladder, so much time spent taking notes from clinics, videos and books. There's no way the man asked to reinvent WVU's defense this season after serving as co-coordinator last season hasn't mirrored men he's admired most. This is one of the things people want to know about as Patterson installs his version of a 3-4 defense in closed practices.
He prefers to maintain that privacy when he's away from practice, thank you very much.
"There are some people," he said. "I'd rather not say who, but there are people I study. I'll put it like that. They're similar to what we do in some ways."
So we know there are some major college program's he's mimicked. We know through idle conversation he's a fan of Dick LeBeau and everything he's done with the Pittsburgh Steelers, particularly the way defensive backs combat vertical passes by challenging receivers.
We know he's always kept an eye on Dana Holgorsen and what he did to offenses before and after Holgorsen moved to Houston and Conference USA, where Patterson was working with Tulsa.
Holgorsen, though, is an offensive guy. The WVU coach is not like the peers Patterson has imitated or like LeBeau, who made the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a defensive player and coach.
There's value in that, and sure enough Patterson learned it long ago when he was reaching for that next rung. The year was 2000 and he was an assistant coach at Allen High in Texas when the Eagles welcomed a special guest, one of the hot names in coaching: Clemson offensive coordinator Rich Rodriguez.
"He absolutely changed the way I coached," Patterson said. "He changed the way I played defense."
Patterson believed what others still do, that what Rodriguez got going at Glenville State and brought to Tulane and Clemson revolutionized college football offenses. This was option football with wing-T principles and just enough misdirection to screw up every defense.
"We brought him in for three days and I just listened to him," Patterson said. "I sat there and just took notes."
If Rodriguez was going to change offense, he was going to make a defensive coach's life miserable. Right there, Patterson began to understand that to flip the script he needed to know what made Rodriguez miserable.
Three years later, Patterson moved to Tulsa and was settled in as co-defensive coordinator in 2007 when the Golden Hurricane hired Gus Malzahn as the co-offensive coordinator. The coaching staff would get together and share overviews of the entire offense and defense.
Patterson paid the most attention to what Malzahn didn't like.
Soon the offensive coordinator for the Auburn team that won the 2010 national title and now the Tigers head coach, Malzahn liked quick throws and single coverage to the short side of the field.
To this day, Patterson won't give an opponent that and will have his cornerback thump that receiver to take away that quick throw and the easy yards. He prefers to bring pressure from the other side of the field.
Malzahn was also very good with the zone read, which wasn't much different from what Rodriguez had done, though Malzahn might use a fullback to lead. Patterson again wouldn't let that happen and would scoot a cornerback up and give him up to the fullback. In the 3-4, there was still an inside and an outside linebacker to make the tackle against one blocker.
Chad Morris would come to Tulsa two years after Malzahn left and Patterson would apply the same study habits, confident again that Tulsa's offensive coordinator was on the cutting edge -- and proven correct again by what Morris is doing at Clemson and how it shares the principles of other spread offenses throughout the country and the Big 12.
"When I studied spread offenses and Dana and Malzahn and Chad, I said, 'I've got to put somebody in the B gap,' " Patterson said.
The B gap is the alley between an offensive guard and tackle. Patterson saw it to be the throwing lane most quarterbacks exploited in the spread offense. He now tries to close that opening by positioning defenders there.
"If there's going to be a window, it's going to be a small window," he said. "So I play tight, hard coverage into the boundary and I try to get people into the throwing lanes and make people be precise."
The rest of Patterson's playbook reads much the same, written by the offensive minds WVU's defensive coordinator has studied most.
"I'd sit there and listen to those guys and listen to them talk about what they tell their quarterback," Patterson said. "Whatever they'd tell their quarterback, I'd say, 'OK, I'm going to do the opposite.' Over the course of time, a long period of time, I've tried to develop everything they don't want."
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Besides, what Demon said: The hands should be as big as the face (don't confuse the head with the face, though ). Also, the wrist should be a little thicker. In fact, if you made the whole arm a tad bit thicker, it'd look nice. Other than that good job! keep up the good work!
Improved on one of my past drawings according to cc + added a little more detail...
Looking good I would say watch out for the folds on the trousers at the leg bottoms and the knee area also you could put some folds around the top of the trousers as well, I suggest looking at some real life references and from Manga/Anime to help you you could also extend the ears up a bit so they're level with the top of the eye
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This is looking good so far You could move the eyes more towards to center of the face, though. Remember, eyes only have a eye length between them. Also, the ears should be at eye height. Keep up the good work!
A little work on eyes bring them towards eachother (towards nose) try it.
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New Orleans in Little Rock – Great place to hang out before a night out on the town. Food is excellent and beer is cold what more could you ask for.
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We've teamed up with Wisden, the world's most famous sports book, to celebrate the 150th edition of the Almanack, published on Thursday April 11.
Since 1864 cricket's iconic book of record has carried reports on over 22,000 County Championship games, covered more than 2,000 Test matches and honoured 570 Wisden Cricketers of the Year.
Editor Lawrence Booth's Five Cricketers of the Year for 2013, are Nick Compton of Somerset and England, who joins his grandfather Denis, honoured in 1939, to become the first grandfather and grandson to win the coveted award. South Africa's Hashim Amla, Jacques Kallis and Dale Steyn, and Marlon Samuels of the West Indies are also recognised.
Australia captain Michael Clarke is named as the Leading Cricketer in the World.
And to celebrate its unique anniversary, Wisden has named the ten most seminal moments in cricket during the 150 years covered by the Almanack. The ten Moments in Time are:
• 1871: W. G. Grace rewrites the record books
• 1882: The Ashes are born
• 1932-33: Bodyline divides two nations
• 1963: The Gillette Cup is launched
• 1968: The D'Oliveira Affair exposes apartheid
• 1975-76: Defeat in Australia sparks West Indies' pace revolution
• 1977-78: World Series Cricket shakes the foundations
• 1992-93: Technology takes its bow
• 2000: Hansie Cronje admits to match-fixing
• 2008: The first IPL auction puts a price on everything
Your chance to win
We have 3 copies of the 150th anniversary Almanack, valued at £50, to give away. To enter our great competition, simply answer the following question:
Who was the last Lancashire Player to be named as one of Wisden's Five Cricketers of the Year?
E-mail your answer to: email@example.com by 24th April 2013.
Visit www.wisden.com for full details of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2013, including the Shorter Wisden eBook and Robert Winder's compelling new history of Wisden, The Little Wonder.


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