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Avril Lavigne Losing Grip Lyrics
Last updated: 09/02/2013 07:24:31 AM
Are you aware of what you make me feel, baby
Right now I feel invisible to you, like I'm not real
Didn't you feel me lock my arms around you
Why'd you turn away?
Here's what I have to say I was left to cry there,
waiting outside there grinning with a lost stare
That's when I decided
Why should I care
Cuz you weren't there when I was scared I was so alone
You, you need to listen I'm starting to trip,
I'm losing my grip and I'm in this thing alone
Am I just some chick you place beside you to take somebody's place
when you turn around can you recognize my face you used to love me,
you used to hug me
But that wasn't the case
Everything wasn't ok I was left to cry there
waiting outside there grinning with a lost stare
That's when I decided
Crying out loud I'm crying out loud
Crying out loud I'm crying out loud
Open your eyes
Open up wide
Why should I care
Cuz you weren't there
when I was scared I was so alone Why should I care
Cuz you weren't there when I was scared I was so alone
Why should I care
If you don't care then I don't care were not going anywhere
Why should I care cuz you weren't there when I was scared I was so alone
Why should I care If you don't care then I don't care were not going anywhere
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this song is the best!!!!!! | Reviewer: sereena washington | 9/2/13
Oh my god I love this song I have her cds and to me this is the best song of them all there's not a day that I don't think of this song because I have so.e problems with my bf and he's like that guy on the song that's why her songs are so meaningful to me because I'm a rock punk fan my school talent show is coming up soon and I'm going to sing this song Avril Lavinge you rock and I love your new song here's to never growing up ;)
Fan of avril | Reviewer: Mokoto | 1/12/12
Avril yo songs aint just bwt singing bt thy bring important msg, awareness n advice in pipo's relationship....yo song hav built many relationship n marriedge..keep it up...wish to be on one of yo concert
I love this song | Reviewer: Aty | 4/26/11
i love this song, yesterday i had a date but my bf he didn't come and i was so alone there.that was our first date after 1 year oh god i can't just take it... and i listened to this song and cried out loud... and that song helped me ... thank u AVRIL.
Stevens Girl | Reviewer: Anonymous | 3/13/11
Ok I loooooooooooooooooooooooooooove avril lavigne her songs really speak 2 me this 1 I really helpn me rite now since my bf *steven* is actn d same way the song Is..... Her songs have helped me with my last break up my social awkwardness with girlfriend and my world I love u avril !!!!!
the best singer=avril | Reviewer: sara | 7/9/10
i love u avriiiiiiiiil.ur lyrics are brilliant and its very good that u write them by urself.i live in iran and unfortunatly its a religion contry that is...so u cant have a concert here.its one of my big wish to come to another contry 4 being in ur concert.continue rocking avril
i love him!! | Reviewer: nadz | 3/22/10
...this song doesn't really relate to my issue. But it just happened that I like this song and this song was playing when I was with my LOVE earlier... so..
..huhu!! he's leaving tomorrow!!
I wanna confess cause I know he loves me too!!!
AVRIL`S BIGGEST FAN | Reviewer: Anonymous | 3/14/10
I LOVE YOUR MUSIC!!!!!!!!!!!! I HAVE TONS OF YOUR MUSIC ON MY MP3 I LOVE IT!!!!!!! EVEN MY 4 MONTH OLD BABY BROTHER LOVES YOUR MUSIC BECAUSE I PUT MY EARPHONES ON HIS EARS AND HE WAS REALLY SMILING YOU WERE SINGING LOSING GRIP I HOPE HE LISTENS TO IT WHEN HE GROWS UP I KNOW I WILL im 10
Avril Lavigne is awesome!!!!! | Reviewer: RockMusicRox | 12/24/09
Avril Lavigne's the best singer ever! I love this song! It is so awesome! I'm obsessed with her but I'm still searching for the Avril song that describes my situation perfectly! Found nothing even close! Anyway, love the chorus the most in all the song 'n' the 'open ur eyes' bit rox 2!!!!!!
Love Her | Reviewer: Ali | 9/20/09
Hi, Avril Rocks, She's The Best Pop-rock Singer in the world, I love all of her songs & albums they are awsome, she's my best favorite singer and she will be, I love Her So Much and this song is one of her best and i love it
Avril ROCKS!!!!!! | Reviewer: Lisa | 7/8/09
Avril defines rock music. She absolutely ROCKS. If anyone wants to second me, go ahead, but this song rocks. I LOVE all of her songs and albums, but this is one of my favorites by her. And one of my favorites of all time.
no title ;p | Reviewer: Anaa | 4/22/09
hey guys..im 13 years old and Avril Lavigne she is my favourite singer! she is amaaiizin and the best thing about her is that she writes her feelings and her lyrics are soo great and full of feelings..when i first heard this song i didnt like it much but when i looked at the lyrics..its AMAIZIIIN! <3
a big fun of avril lavigne!!!!! | Reviewer: Anonymous | 4/21/09
that song is awesome!!! i first heard it a week ago, but i didn't know its lyrics!! avril has something that appeals to teenagers like me!!! she rocks!!! i love all of her songs and they are all brilliant!!! avril come to greece again plzzzzzzzz!!!!!!!!!!!!
Luv U avril...duh..! =D | Reviewer: RaZzOn | 4/8/09
Hiiii 4 evry 1 who luv avril lavigne...this gurl z so damn hot..duh...how much iluv her..her sngz r amazing and more than that...anyway im 15 yearz old and shez expriss all my feelin secialy her sng losin grip....duh how mush ihate my boyfrnd.....luv u avril <3 <3 <3
I LOVE YOU Avril! | Reviewer: Avril's biggest fan! | 1/21/09
Avril rocks I am 13 now and I have known her songs off by heart since I was 4! Also apparently my boyfriend has a secret crush on my best friend! Seems like he reeeealllly loves me! I hate him so much! Anyway I could really relate to this song because of this!
this girl can rock | Reviewer: Anonymous | 12/24/08
avril is so cool. we r just alike..well when she was a teenager.im more of a tomboy and like to hang around guys alot.i plan to be in the rock music business so i hope to see u avril and maybe do a song together.i can sing too see u when im 16 (im 13)


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More often than not, baseball brawls are lame. A pitcher plunks a batter, the batter charges the mound, the pitcher readies himself for the fight and then the players start aimlessly swinging like two preteen girls fighting over a Justin Bieber t-shirt at the mall. Arms flailing, hands flapping, ... More >>
Wikimedia Commons via user Djh57. If Hanley Ramirez does some amazing shit but nobody's there to see it... it's still amazing.They live, as quietly as cloistered monks, among us. They wash our dogs, write our blogs, prepare our taxes, and, you know, do other things people do for a living. ... More >>
Hanley has been a one-man band and without protection, teams will pitch around him.The Marlins' three game sweep of the Padres couldn't have come at a better time. The Fish had lost three devastating games to the Phillies at home and trailed last year's champions by seven games ... More >>
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The Florida Marlins kicked off their AL East six-game gauntlet by losing to the Red Sox 8-2 in a brisk game that lasted just two and a half hours, but was over long before that. Starter Chris Volstad, who took the loss and fell to 4-7, threw well for three innings but was greeted in the fourth ... More >>
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The Florida Marlins now have the best record in baseball and lead their division. New speedster Emilio Bonifacio just might be the hottest player in baseball. And that giant Chris Volstad has made us forget Scott Olson. Could it be this team is for real? Yesterday's 5-1 defeat over the pr ... More >>
With all the hullaballo and hubbub over the giant tax-pit ... um ... new Marlins Stadium proposal, it's easy to forget that the Fish are still a baseball team and the new season is almost upon us. It's a shame, really. For true baseball fans, Spring Training is the best time of the year. Everyone's ... More >>

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Return dates for 'Masters of Sex,' 'Ray Donovan'
And now this: Showtime has announced return dates for "Ray Donovan" and "Masters of Sex:" July 13. That's a Sunday and airtimes are 9 and 10, respectively. Both are sophomores and both are acclaimed - "Masters of Sex" in particular, based on definitive biography of Williams Masters and Virginia Johnson by Newsday's Tom Maier. Both series are twelve episodes each.
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The Green App Machine, claims that anyone can build their own personalized app and expect to earn a reasonable amount of money from it. How efficient is this toolkit? Does it really help to build a mobile app and will it actually benefit it you financially? Read on to find out…
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With the ever advancing technology, Smartphones have grown to be a daily use device with many taking advantage of the apps available in the market.
Different developers come up with apps that perform various functions. Some develop apps that market their product, others build apps for entertainment, yet others build educational apps.
What Is The Green App Machine?
First things first, the Green App Machine is a simple toolkit which can be used to build a mobile app by any person in just 12 minutes. It was developed by a Malaysian, Peng Li, who came up with the idea as a result of scrambling into the Mobile Marketing by various app developers in struggling to get the most clients to download their apps. This toolkit allows you to develop a simple, resourceful app in the shortest time possible.
How it works
You don't need to have big bucks to develop your app.
Choose the Niche:
Once you have been granted access into the platform, you will then select the niche of your desired app. This is also known as the "keyword machine" which is Very important. It's the difference between a successful app with lots of downloads and an app with none. Think of it like buying a location for your business, you would want to select a location (keyword) that has a significant amount of traffic so you can maximize your profits.
Check the boxes:
Fill in the required information by checking a few boxes that's related to your app category. Some boxes are already checked, which simplifies the task.
By ticking these boxes you're actually programing your app, the software takes care of all the programing code automatically.
Find a Cover Photo:
This is a unique picture that will be used as your app's cover photo. Think of this as an advert for your app, picking an eye caching one will improve your downloads.
Click Go:
Once your niche is targeted, it is fully programed by ticking the boxes and has a eye catching relevant Cover photo; you will then click on "Go" and it will then make it available in the interface. Your app is now fully completed and ready to rock and roll.
Features of the Product
Green app Machine
This is the major component of the software that allows you to develop apps that are personalized in relation to different categories in a few minutes.
Keyword Machine
The software helps a user to get the best results of Android apps niche. This feature helps to reduce time by giving you a detailed result of top keywords in an efficient manner.
Premium Theme
This feature includes a WordPress theme which coverts your WordPress blog into a machine for mobile promotion.
The Four-Hour Cash Machine
It features a basic guide that will help you to get started quickly in your online business working effectively within 4 hours.
Tier 1 Training
This is a set of 6 various books in PDF form, which assists the user to design their applications in a more profitable way.
Ben Davies, a customer of the product says that he has no programming and coding background, yet he has been able to create his own app in just 24 minutes.
Advantages of the Green App Machine
Comprehensive Explanation on how to use it: The tutorial explains in detail how you can use the software in the most effective way.
Multiple Applications available: The software features multiple applications of different categories. These range from social media apps, business based apps, entertainment apps, notification apps to educative apps.
Like one client, Sally Underwood said that she used the software to make an app for her dog grooming service.
Huge Profit Making Opportunities: The software helps to promote your business and is said to maximize your profits.
Tammy Sook Yee, a customer, says that she recommends it to pop businesses that require an extra push on marketing and branding their business.
Fully integrated ad networks: Its has 10 fully integrated mobile ad networks (yes even Google AdMob) which helps you make money from your apps.
Unlimited apps: The program actually gives you unlimited app's with no per app charge or maintenance fee's (according to research most services charge a fee for each app they build for you), they charge a monthly fee of $47 to access the members area, however the apps you create during your membership is yours for life.
Video Training: In the members area there are video tutorials detailing how to effectively use the green app machine software. For those that prefer reading there are also PDF's with details instructions.
You don't need an office, website, or even a mobile phone. You also do not have to know how to program.
Disadvantages of the product
Limited time: The time available in making, designing and generally building your app is limited and the time available in the interface is also restricted.
Need to invest time in this product: It is not as easy as it made out to be and it will require some time to go through the training provided. It is important to remember that implementing it is a major factor when is comes to your success in make money.
Google Fee: You will be required to pay a one-time fee of $25 to Google Play Store in order to upload your apps on the platform.
Angry Birds? You will not be able to make a game like angry birds (research would suggest building a similar game this complex would cost at least $7,000), instead the green app machine focuses on a business model with a more predictable income stream by creating lots of apps to meet the demand of the market.
We see that the green app machine gives you everything you need, the all-important niche/keyword research, the ability to build your app's by simply checking a few boxes, finding a cover photo, integration with various ad networks and the ability to make it available in the market place. If you invest some time in the training videos and PDF's provided you will have an All In One business solution.
It also comes with a 60 day money back guarantee.
The creator has designed this product for an online business that focuses on multiple long term predictable income streams via multiple niches and apps.
Whether you're after a full online business or want quick marketing tool for your existing business, then the Green App Machine is defiantly work a look at!
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for a goal completely against the run of play with the game entering the final 15 minutes.
The chance to take the points came with six minutes remaining as Lingard and substitute Tom Lawrence opened up the defence but Cole shot wastefully wide when a winner seemed certain. Lawrence and Powell had later efforts but, despite another clean sheet, this was a disappointing night for Warren Joyce's side.
United: Johnstone; Vermijl, Thorpe, Smalling, Buttner; Cole, Veseli, Anderson, Lingard; Januzaj (Lawrence 60); Powell. Subs not used: McGinty, Gollini, Blackett, Ekangamene.
Under-21 reports: United 2 West Ham 0 | West Ham 0 United 0


text: Week Ahead in Finance: Europe Slides into Deflation and Ukraine Burns Through Foreign Currency Reserves Print article Send a Tip by Luke Springthorpe 1 Apr 2014 post a comment Another week in which European inflation data dominated the headlines, following an unexpected slip by Spain in to deflation (down 0.2 percent), saw pressure mount on the ECB to undertake some kind of intervention- and fast- to avoid the region stumbling in to deflation. For the highly indebted nations, deflation would be an absolute disaster given the extra pressure it would place on their burgeoning debt servicing costs. Crucially, the week saw Jens Weidmann, the head of the German Bundesbank say that quantitative easing was not "out of the question". Given that the Bundesbank has previously been the biggest critic of monetary easing by the central bank, this is potentially a significant change in stance by Germany. Monday 31st March (09:30GMT): UK Mortgage lending - Forecast increase of 75,250 mortgages approved against a previous approval rate of 76,750. As it was, this figure came in well short of expectations at 70,310. This may be indicative of one of two things - either that November's cessation of 'funding for lending' for household lending (including mortgages) is impacting the supply of mortgages that banks are able to approve, as well as pending changes that will require banks to test that customers can still afford mortgages in the event of a rate rise from April. Alternatively, it may be indicative that 2013's 8.4 percent rise in house prices is stretching borrowers' incomes too far. Also, Eurozone inflation: Forecast rise of 0.6 percent and came in at 0.5 percent for the year. Above: A Clear trend- The Eurozone is careering towards deflation, particularly if energy prices continue to fall. Tuesday 1st April (01:00GMT): Ukraine gross Forex reserves. This isn't a new problem, but Ukraine has been burning through its Foreign exchange reserves for the last year now, having gone from having $25 billion in its coffers during April last year to $15.5 billion now - a decline of 38 percent. A further decline will heighten the risk of a run on the Ukrainian currency, the hryvnia. The importance of an IMF aid package being dispersed as soon as possible shouldn't be underestimated and a shortfall of the reserves announced on Tuesday could accelerate the process. Above: A picture of dwindling reserves in the Ukraine Wednesday 2nd April (15:00 GMT) US Factory orders: The US isn't looking quite so resilient following the commencement of tapering and it remains to be seen if this third effort to wean the US Economy off of life support via Quantitative Easing will be any more successful than the previous attempts. US factory orders will be one indicator as to how buoyant the market is as well as how confident business are, or if confidence is starting to take a knock following a slowdown in housing starts. Thursday 3rd April (10:00 GMT) ECB rate decision: There is speculation that the deposit rate of the European Central Bank could be cut to negative rates from its current 0.25 percent. This would effectively charge banks to keep money at the ECB in a desperate bid to get Eurozone banks lending to the real economy, or at least not just sitting on reserves at the Central Bank. Furthermore, it may be employed as a means of devaluing the Euro, which would mean a cut in the rates would be a boost for European exporters. This may add froth to the price of those engaged in exports of goods, but it would also potentially provide a knock for banks who would have to take on additional risk in order to maintain their levels of return. Friday 4th April (13:30 GMT) US non-farm payrolls: Some may well remember the months prior to tapering when this would send the market bananas as everyone attempted to second guess the figure that the announcement on the commencement of tapering was tied to. Although not quite as much scrutiny is attached to this announcement in months gone by, it is still an important barometer for the pace at which the Federal Reserve will ease the US financial system off quantitative easing. This month's figure is forecast show an absolute increase of 200,000. Last month was the first time forecasts were exceeded in the previous three months, which could indicate a bit of momentum coming back to the jobs market following tapering and a cold winter. One to keep a close eye on though.


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In Response to Re: Reality check to bigbaby.:
[QUOTE]The goal for the Celtics here is to win one of two in Miami.
Posted by cshashaty[/QUOTE]
And the goal of miami is to steal 1 game at boston.
Re: Reality check to bigbaby.
posted at 5/3/2011 2:43 PM EDT
Re: Reality check to bigbaby.
posted at 5/4/2011 9:34 AM EDTIn Response to Re: Reality check to bigbaby.:
"Hey this is a free forum. You'll see me here until the series end"No one wants you here, bullytroll. Just another Internet tough guy bragging about a team you had nothing to do with assembling. Win or lose the series, you'll still be a bad sport who gets off mocking other fans.I'm glad I don't have to root for your spoiled celebrity team.By the way JON played well in that first game (and he has been playing well since coming back from injury). But you don't know that because you haven't been watching the games.Don't bother waiting until the end of this series, go on back to the Heat forum.
Well im not a tough guy at all. Just discussing the heat and celtics since they are playing in the second round...
And i had nothing to do as far as assembling the heat team.....true,,,,
And you had nothing to do assemling the celtics team and their big3 either since """"WE ARE JUST FANS""""
I said before the heat in 7......But if we win a game at boston which is going to be really hard.
I say the heat in 5.
Re: Reality check to bigbaby.
posted at 5/7/2011 11:46 AM EDTMaybe big baby can back up his talk tonight. He hasn't so far.


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Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Latest Tea Shop Mystery
Just received a review copy of the new Laura Childs Tea Shop Mystery, "Dragonwell Dead," the eighth in the series. This was my out-on-the-deck reading last night, and so far, so good. These books are set at a tea shop in Charleston, S.C., so I love the descriptions of events in Charleston as well as the lovely descriptions of the tea parties and happenings at the Indigo Tea Shop. I always have so many books and magazines I *should* be reading for work, but these books are pure pleasure to me. (I had some Pomegranate Pizzazz tea from Bigelow, chilled, while I was reading. There's no Dragonwell at my house!)
Posted by Angela McRae at 11:47 AM
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Glad you are enjoying your Bigelow Tea! Perfect iced tea for iced tea month (June)!
Valorie for Bigelow Tea
- June 15, 2007 at 6:19 AM
- Angela McRae said...
Yes, Bigelow is always a fave! Thanks for reading!
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People vs. corporations
Keeping private profits from getting in the way of the public good.
Unlikely Alliances in Fight for Sacred Lands
by Tess Thackaraposted Aug 12, 2010
- Major shareholders are joining the Dongria Kondh tribe's fight to protect their homeland from mining by Vedanta Resources.
Tribes Unite to Fight BP
by Sue Sturgisposted Jul 07, 2010
- Indigenous leaders from Ecuador visited Louisiana to share what they learned in a decades-long battle with Texaco.
New Heroes in the Fight Against Big Oil
by Madeline Ostranderposted Jun 25, 2010
- How one Florida restaurant owner has organized a force against offshore drilling.
Six Things To Do About the BP Gulf Disaster
by Sarah van Gelderposted Jun 01, 2010
- Instead of sitting helplessly on the sidelines, here are six things every American can do.
David Korten: Why We Must Declare Our Independence from Wall Street
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- David Korten introduces his Agenda for a New Economy at the 2009 Seattle Green Festival.
Lighting the Way to a New Economy
by David Kortenposted May 31, 2010
- All across the United States and Canada people are rebuilding their local economies to restore community and regain control of their economic lives. How do these local efforts add up to global economic transformation? I delivered this keynote address to the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) in Charleston, NC on May 22, 2010 on the theme "Lighting the Way to a New Economy."
Real People v. Corporate "People": The Fight Is On
by Doug Pibelposted May 27, 2010
- The Supreme Court says corporations can spend as much money as they want on political advertising. Millions of Americans say they've had it.
How Felton, Calif., Achieved Water Independence
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- A tiny Californian town took back its water supply—and your town can too.
3 World Water Wins
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- Around the world, people are taking control of their water supply.
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- A coalition of peasant farmers is standing up for food sovereignty.
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- To curb Wall Street's power, we need to get our own government back on our side.
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- YES! Magazine executive editor Sarah van Gelder spoke to Rep. Donna Edwards about the constitutional amendment Edwards introduced in response to the Citizens United decision.
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- Would-be Wall Street regulators aren't asking the right question: How do we create a financial services sector that directs money where it is actually needed?
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November 28, 2014
Dozens of renters at a Grand Junction storage facility are dealing with their losses following a fire that damaged or destroyed 50 units, Wednesday night. The investigation into what caused the fire at the Guardian Storage facility on 28 1/2 Road is underway, and authorities say arson is suspected.
The fire at wiped out several units and left many people's belongings in ruins. The unit Jennifer Cornish was renting
was right next to where the fire reportedly started just before 9:00 PM. She found out about the incident by her mother, who saw television news reports on it. She, like many others who arrived at the facility Thursday, found her belongings were completely destroyed.
The owners of the storage unit were out of town Wednesday night, but were expected to arrive back in Grand Junction late Thursday evening. Renters were being shown their units, but details concerning reimbursement for lost belongings is not quite clear to some of the victims who talked to 11 News.
Grand Junction Police Sergeant Paul Quimby said the fire may have been started by careless smoking. Fire officials say the man who was burned in the fire is at St. Mary's Hospital and was in stable condition.
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London fire brigade outsources 999 control centre to Capita
0118 999 881 999 119 7253
Catchy number though.
'Intelligent systems' poised to outsell PCs, smartphones
'Telling the people that pay our bills what they want to hear'
More 'retina' display piccies spied within Mac OS X
Sorry, but no.
But they're not going to quadruple the graphics on the mac range, "Retina" means the pixels are smaller than one arc minute at normal viewing distance, so a lot of mac kit is already very close to being "retina" displays, just a small bump of 10% will take some of them over the threshold.
The iPad and iPhone quadrupled for scaling reasons, because the apps and OS are designed for a fixed pixel resolution, mac apps on the other hand have been coded for a wide variety of resolutions and aspect ratios so the scaling issue doesn't apply.
Retina macs are coming, but they're not going to have ridiculous resolutions, these graphics are simply to make everything more legible.
BOFH: Dawn raid on Fort BOFH
Ah, the old box of IT shite
Could there be any gold in that mass of tangled cables and dusty obsoletia? No, even the patch cables are shorted. What's that you say? Would I like to browse your vintage computer collection? Perhaps take some of it away? No Ta.
Medieval warming WAS global – new science contradicts IPCC
El Reg Scepticism
I believe this is an age thing, where the older you get the more you recognise the pattern of "we're all going to die unless we spend billions on x" as a repeating meme that in retrospect, just seems to fuck over the common man whilst making obscenely rich folk considerably richer.
Of course this doesnt preclude that Human activity really is causing global warming, but extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof and should be met with a healthy amount of sceptisism, If the current climate models are based on the assumption that prior warming was local to Europe yet the facts show this wasn't the case, that strikes me as newsworthy whatever your bias.
Musk muses on middle-class Mars colony
Fascinating chap
Apparently Elon is a billionaire living in California in a château that was imported from France. He owns Musk Industries, which constructs space shuttles. In addition, Musk supposedly owns the Eiffel Tower, but apparently couldn't export it from France because they wouldn't issue him an export permit. Musk is an accomplished pianist, as evidenced by his recital of Chopin's "Raindrop" Prelude in D flat major (op. 28) on his grand piano (which he plays in the key of D).
This quote seems a bit worrying though:
"First there was the dream, now there is reality. Here in the untainted cradle of the heavens will be created a new super race, a race of perfect physical specimens. You have been selected as its progenitors, like gods your offspring will return to Earth and shape it in their image. You have all served in public capacities in my terrestrial empire. Your seed like yourselves will pay deference to the ultimate dynasty which I alone have created. From their first day on Earth they will be able to look up and know that there is law and order in the heavens."
Man FLIES with Android-powered homemade bird wings
How could you not notice those pixels?
To be fair, I have seen a lot of 'shops in my time but there are schoolboy errors in this viral, they stand out like quad tracks in the grass.
Hong Kong scientists claim 'self-charging' graphene battery
IANAC but...
Isn't the fact that it stops working after 25 days a bit of a giveaway that it's a chemical reaction?
Report: Feeble spam filters catch less junk mail
Maildistiller eats ours
Cant remember the last bit of spam that made it through, and users get quarantine reports for looks like spam but isn't sort of stuff, mailers from the Reg for example.
Confirmed: iPad 3 runs hotter than iPad 2
Just another example of Apple's amazing attention to detail
The new iPad runs just a tad over body temperature to keep your fingers toasty warm.
Sent from my frosty old iPad.
Pirate Bay plans sky-high flying proxy servers
All sounds a bit Heath Robinson
What's the problem with simply sticking the magnet links on a tor site or releasing a bt client that automatically distributes them mesh style? Oh, right, the business plan.
So, what IS the worst film ever made?
The Happening
Mother nature fights back, releasing fragrences designed to drive those pesky humans to overly elaborate suicides, our only hope is a cardboard cut out of Marky Mark, a science teacher that doesn't believe in science, will you survive a sledgehammer to your suspension of disbelief? No.
Just Switch Off Your Television Set And Go Out And Do Something Less Boring Instead.
Everything Everywhere's 4G party bus could run Three off a cliff
Wouldn't it all be easier
If all this investment was thrown into one big network, and operators just sold packages on it, like they do with electricity, gas, rail and to a large extent, broadband? Seems ridiculous that we're going to pay for four sets of redundant cell towers, backhaul etc blanketing the country.
EC researchers demo multi-gigabit fibre-to-the-home
HD Videoconferencing?
Pft, symetrical gigabit connections to the home represent the beginning of the end for company offices, with knock on effects for transport networks, real estate and IT as teleworking becomes the norm for a lot of employees, cities will empty and 'rush hour' will become just another olden days thing you will try to explain to your disinterested kids.
Roll on the future.
Hands on with the Apple iPad 3
Re: Ports?
Dear Sir,
Allow me to assist you with your easily googled queries.
The back of the new iPad is encased in aluminium, sculpted into two cheeks for a comfortable and slightly arousing grip, unbroken by ports it sports a recessed apple logo where the goatse would lie.
There are no USB sockets on the new iPad, it is therefore unpossible to connect any sort of peripheral, charging is accomplished by shaking the device in a rhythmic fashion to activate the self winding mechanisms within.
Headphones may be attached to the new iPad via the industry standard quarter inch socket.
Finally, please be assured that in these enlightened times using an iPad is no more an indicator of your sexuality than sporting a moustache or joining the priesthood.
Yours Sincerely,
Jubtastic One
Sent from my iPad.
'The new iPad' revealed: Full specs, rumor scorecard
So, it has come to this.
Also iPad2, still on sale, it's the 16GB version you mentioned for $399, This is of course in accordance with prophesy.
No surprises the commentards don't like it, but they're going to sell bazillions of them all the same, at least ten to a fanboy, it's all smoke and marketing.
Apple's App Store parades surprise new Catalog model
My dear Watson
They would hardly stick random apps in this section without talking to the devs if it's going to be a new branch of in app sales, ergo it's simply organisational.
Awesome game
Company I was working for back then printed the manuals and our prepress room often hosted LAN partys, great memories of cruising the city murdering peds with the music switched to the Bullet soundtrack.
Google's privacy policy: Incoherent and confusing
News International vs Google
Not really comparable, NI isnt too big to fall, they're on a downward spiral to oblivion, as the Internet, and let's not be coy, Google makes paper, presses and reporters a little less valuable every day, The news of the world shutting down barely registers economically.
Google OTOH, really is too big to fall, their fingers are in so many pies: search, apps, DNS, maps, voice, advertising etc that should they go offline there would be worldwide disruption, serious money would be lost and that's essentially why none of this is going to get much further than wrist slapping.
It doesn't matter how broken or annoying a thing is, only a fool throws it away before they have a replacement.
Some may think I'm exagerating, but just considering the implications of google and its newly combined services breaking down for a day, and the sort of people that would be ringing my phone gives me a headache.
Warp drives are PLANET KILLERS, Sydney Uni students find
Obvious solution
Don't aim for the place you're going, just nearby, then use boring old Impulse engines for the last leg. Even better, build a great big array to collect all the waste energy from incoming ships, like an orbital power station, and no, 'that's unpossible" isn't a reasonable response to that given we're talking about warp drive.
Metro breakdown! Windows 8 UI is little gain for lots of pain
Hate to do this
But it's just a preview, still riddled with fairly obvious bugs and halfassedness, I expect a lot of these grievances will get ironed out before release.
Or maybe not, never can tell with MS, but I can't fault them for trying something new and visually interesting, as a Mac fanboy since '91 this is the first time I've seen anything from MS that I'm actually looking forward to playing with, rather than dreading having to use.
Here's hoping they get it right.
China churns out homemade aircraft for global travel DOMINATION
Build quality
They'll swallow the domestic market first, and planes falling out of the sky usually make the news so the rest off the world will get a heads up on the safety issues.
Seems to me that I'll live to see China dominate, well pretty much everything, their tech lag seems to drop exponentially, won't be too long untill Chinese stuff isn't just copying but actually superior to western designed (Chinese built) products.
I for one etc
US shuts down Canadian gambling site with Verisign's help
Another nail in the root DNS coffin
They'll be right sorry when it inevitably fragments and they lose control of it.
iPad 3 launch news pushes Apple shares to $500bn high
Re: So...
They're notorious for not announcing anything before its ready for sale, with caveats, like when they're entering a new market and announcing it 6 months early allows devs to get on board, disrupts the market they're entering and obviously isn't going to impact their own sales.
Media rumours on the other hand could potentially create such an effect, if an expected product doesn't live up to the hype, yet the 4S not being a 5 would seem to fit that bill and it doesn't seem to have suffered any for it.
TL;DR, don't bet on it.
These forums
These forums
Bespoke, or off the shelf? They look custom made, if so can you tell us anything about them, the front and back end choices, how many people are on the dev team etc.
Why HTML for formatting over bbcode or similar? And what code is acceptable? Just curious, have knocked up a few of these myself.
Drew's Cookie Jar - psst. want a forum upgrade
Spare some change guv?
Room for one more?
Death to Office or to Windows - choose wisely, Microsoft
Re: Hmmm
Woa! Strike through text? When did we get that? Also how?
HP caught with SIX Windows 8 PC packages up its sleeve
They should just copy that other company
One version, anything extra (Media Center, bitlocker, saving network passwords), you buy as an upgrade in the AppStore, installs, done, nice and easy.
Spitzer spots first solid buckyballs in stellar disc
Re: Hmm- the sign says-
I was thinking grey goo, but I like your optimism.
India seeks new supplier for $35 Android tablet
$35 tablet is a steaming turd?
They could treble the price and it'd still only be fit for recycling, they'd be better off aiming for something akin to a kindle than an iPad.
Will Windows 8 sticker shock leave Microsoft unstuck?
Re: Apple's transition wasn't as radical.
Nope, it wasn't about the UI, with Apples transitions the new kit could run the old stuff and the new stuff, it was the old kit that got slowly locked out as apps moved to the new platforms, but before you say "aha, planned obselecence" bear in mind that some apps didn't transition for a decade, *cough*Adobe, Microsoft*cough*.
What MS is doing is pretty much a line in the sand for WOA, new kit which only runs new apps.
As an aside, anyone know why it's called Office 2015 and not Office 2012? It is supposed to come out this year right?
NASA sniffs little black hole's 20-million-MPH wind
Re: Anal fixation
And a tendency to illustrate anything with "hard" in the title with a buxom lass, not that I'm complaining, it's just that to a casual observer the home page of the reg can look like the adult classified ads some days.
Apple slaps mega-solar panel field on new ENORMO data centre
Nice tribute
Keeping Jobs parking spot just by the door like that.
LOHAN's flying truss: One orb or two?
One balloon
.......................(............) balloon
..............................| single wire
......../\............../............\ dual wires
........|.|____/___________\__________OOO counterweight
........|V|V|V|V|V|V|V|V|V|V|V|V|V|V|V|V|V|V|V|. Truss
Stick the rocket on one end of the truss so it's as far away from the centre of the ballon as possible, use the rest of the equipment as a counterweight thats extended further out the other side to account for the disparity between the weight of the rocket and the equipment.
Jubs your uncle
Mobile telcos bleed $13.9bn as IM apps chomp on SMS
Note to commenters
Unless you regularly send thousands of messages a month from a feature phone on PAYG or a low rent contract, you don't factor into this story at all.
It's about teenagers, who used to run up honking great SMS bills but increasingly tend to message each other using other means for free.
My heart bleads for the poor Telcos.
How Google and Apple exposed their Achilles heels this week
Widespread NFC take up
Isnt a year away, it's an iPhone5 away, it will of course be chorused with the usual cries of "Apple didn't invent it", nevertheless they will be the ones to make it ubiquitous as usual.
Hey Commentards! This pre-populated 'reply to' is for you
Very good, now do it properly
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Ultra-high resolution laptop, tablet screens to revive display biz
Offset dpi
1200 & 2400 dpi only applies to line art, like solid colour text, everything else is screened to a range between 75 and 200, so images on a retina display are substantially higher res than even fine art quality print.
300dpi text on a laptop doesn't sound very good compared to thousands of dpi but I think it will be welcome all the same and won't require a barnacle of a graphics card grafted onto the laptop, or a two inch battery to feed said barnacle.
Eolas claims royalties for browser apps and plug-ins
The article seems to imply
That the EDT courtroom is selling favourable rulings in exchange for businesses investing in the state, that surely can't be the case can it?
New driver-snooping satnav could push down UK insurance premiums
A claim you say? I'm sorry, it seems your policy has been voided.
"a week ago, due to [petty offence] you would have been notified when our system got round to it"
Funny story, my sister brings her fella, an insurance broker, around for dinner and he tells a tale; a distraught woman has phoned him, squirrel has got into her lounge and torn the place up while the family has tried to get it out, curtains and sofa are ruined, so he's making sympathetic noises to her and offhandly asks what colour it was, "grey" says she, "vermin" says he, "you're not covered" LOLs from him, silence from the rest of us. Wanker.
Laser boffins blast bits onto hard drive at 200Gb/sec
And the read speed?
Does that get a boost as well or are we looking at drives that write 100 times faster than they read?
iPhone 4 incapable of handling Siri, says chip chap
@ Benjamin 4
Nope, It's processed in realtime, so by the time you've stopped speaking there's a clean and well compressed voice file ready to saunter across t'internet to Apple's servers, which can get right to work on that nice clean audio and send a message back pronto, its better all round doing it this way, reduced bandwidth & server loads, and most importantly, less lag.
Apple vs Amazon in ereader format smackdown
IBook format
Good explanation here: http://blog.booki.sh/blog/post/a-favour-from-goliath/
Basically it's ePub with tagged content, leaving the reader software to implement its own slideshows, movie controls etc, which in the long run is probably going to be easier to support than adding JavaScript to the ePub format and expecting it to work flawlessly, and securely, on all platforms, which is what ePub 3 is attempting.
Jackpot: astronomers tag Goldilocks planet
Yes but no
The force of gravity drops off to the square of the distance, so unless the planet is exactly the same size as the Earth, which seems unlikely, you won't weigh 4.5 times as much.
F = (Mm / rr)
* can't type symbol for squared.
iPads propel Apple to PC market top slot
Are you sure?
I mean netbooks don't do that either and they're still PC's, in fact there's loads of PC's on the shelves that are never going to do high end video editing or run photoshop, perhaps you should have another go at defining a PC.
Ex-staffer: Apple assigns new workers to made up projects
Everything was copacetic until Mac OS 10.2, when the Reg staffers noticed and mocked Steve's Jagwire pronunciation.
Do not mock happy fun ball.
Untangling the question of antimatter mass
If I understand this correctly*
The universe is missing a whole load of antimatter, and yet contains a whole load of extra 'dark' matter, perhaps these things are related?
* fat chance.
WD's MyBook takes a Thunderbolt to the chest
Still waiting for a drive to tell me its going bad, usually they pass SMART right upto the moment they start clicking.
All right, theyve all been consumer drives, in raid sets so cheap was the order of the day but the article is about WD externals so I'm on topic.
Dual drive
Most likely striped, enough to saturate a channel if you don't mind losing everything when it drops a disk.
Russia and NASA plan to COLONISE the Moon
Moonbase Alpha?
Strikes me that the far side of the moon would be an ideal place to dump spent nuclear fuel as well.
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Re-Conferencing College Football – The Dubsism Approach
With all the talk out there regarding the BCS vs. a playoff system, one of the things nobody takes into account is the conference system. It's the conferences that keep the bowl system alive, which means any serious change will mean a change to the current conference configurations. Naturally, I have solved this problem, in a way that only a serious chemical imbalance I can.
The Shark Eating the Gorilla Conference
The apex predator from which other apex predators get apex predator envy. I'm not naïve enough to believe you can right all the wrongs, level the playing field, or (insert whatever other bullshit loser cliché tickles your fancy here). So, there's going to have to be one uber-conference, one comprised of those colossal athletic departments. You know, the ones where the even the most mundane transactions involve old men and bags of cash flying about, and where conversations about real money can go like this.
Member Schools: Texas, Ohio State, Michigan, Oklahoma, Penn State, Florida State, Florida, Wisconsin, Georgia, Alabama
The God Conference
If God is on their side, then all of the football teams in this conference must smite their enemies with Euell Gibbons-type regularity, right? See, the reason why nobody in this conference is ever any good is Yeshiva has no football team, and Christians are just no good without some Jews on whom to blame everything.
Member Schools: BYU, SMU, TCU, Baylor, Rice, Wake Forest, Boston College, and Notre Dame
The Non-God Acronym Conference
From the previous conference, you would think only the Charlie-Church types can get their letters on. Well, fuggiddaboudit, because not only does this conference have more letters than the post office has ammo, it also has three places known for non-Church type fun: L.A., Louisiana, and Vegas, baby, Vegas.
Member Schools: USC, UCLA, UNLV, UTEP, UAB, LSU, Texas A&M, UL-Lafayette, UL-Monroe, and possibly UL Washington.
The Rosie Ruiz Conference
The usual readers of these rants are not unfamiliar to the obscure reference, and this is one of my favorites. The ultimate poser, Ruiz was busted for faking winning the Boston Marathon in 1980. The teams in this conference are all fakers in their own right, but in two distinct sub-types.
The first type of fakery involves a rose by any other name still being a state school awash in cheap beer and baseball caps. This is done by slapping a good-sounding name on your institution, and voilá, instant fake prestige. Just ask Alabama State Cow College and Tires Plus outlet Auburn. The second involves more traditional on-the-field deception by teams that always seem much better than they really are.
Faux Effete Division
Auburn, Clemson (South Carolina A&M), Rutgers (New Jersey State), and Purdue (West Lafayette Vo-Tech).
Faux Football Division
Oregon, Virginia Tech, Missouri, Texas Tech, Utah, Hawaii
The GPA Conference
Sure, the football isn't going to be that exciting, but let's be honest; that calculus ain't gonna do itself. This is the one conference in which ALL members will still be able to field a full team when the NCAA becomes even more ridiculous with its "student-athlete" pretense.
Member Schools: Stanford, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Army, Navy, Air Force
The "State" Conference
It would seem this one is pretty obvious…all your "State" teams from a BCS conference coupled with teams from "States" that are not states. But since some in this country seem to have trouble with the whole "state" concept, here it is in the oh-so-popular Red/Blue format.
States That Are Actually States Division
Michigan State, Iowa State, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, Mississippi State, Arizona State, Oregon State, Washington State
States That Are Not Actually States Division
Fresno State, San Jose State, San Diego State, Boise State, Kent State, and Ball State
Imagine holding the schedule for this conference in your very hands. Imagine the kind of fans you're going to see at that Oklahoma State-Arizona State tilt in Stillwater. You can already smell the Milwaukee's Best, can't you?
The Directional Conference
Another obvious rationale, but bonus points to Florida, Michigan, and Tennessee for being blissfully unaware that "Central" and "Middle" are not directions. It's no accident the first two can't even figure out the intricacies of a single-party election, and while Tennessee can certainly speak for itself, it's much funnier to let a barely-articulate Bammer do it.
Member Schools: Southern Mississippi, East Carolina, North Texas, West Virginia*, South Carolina*, Central Florida, South Florida, Northern Illinois, Central Michigan, Western Michigan, Eastern Michigan, Western Kentucky, and Middle Tennessee State.
* – Yeah, I know South Carolina and West Virginia are states, and technically don't fit the motif, but they aren't much as far as states go, and frankly, we already have enough Virginia and Carolina for everybody.
The "Who? Where?" Conference
All college football fans wait for that early-spring moment when the schedules are published. Under the existing conference system, all eyes would first look to the conference schedule; all a-twitter with questions such as "Is this the year we don't have to play Ohio State?"
Then the eyes scan up to the non-conference schedule, and this league is aptly named for the utterance that passes your lips when you see one of these teams on your schedule. And since I can't really help you with those two questions, the least I can do is tell you when.
Sucks Now Division (Eastern and Central Time Zones)
Arkansas State, Tulane, Louisiana Tech, Ohio, Temple, Marshall, Troy, and the two Florida schools that sound like those daytime-TV adult-education places.
Sucks Two or More Hours From Now Division (Mountain and Pacific Time Zones)
Utah State, New Mexico State, Colorado State, Nevada, Wyoming
Actually, the real entertainment you might get from one of these teams is to wait for the day one of them makes it to a decent bowl game, and then follow them to the bank when they deposit the check. I suspect it might look something like this.
The Tanya Tucker Conference
Now, you've got to be asking yourself "Why the Tanya Tucker Conference?" It's quite simple, actually. Each one of these teams wears Delta Dawn's "faded rose of days gone by." Whether it's Red Grange, a bowl game over 40 years ago, or the precipitous drop to mediocrity from somewhat recent prestige, each one of these teams is clinging to something that is already over.
Member Schools: Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Mississippi, Arkansas, Nebraska, Tennessee, Georgia Tech, California, and Washington
The City Conference
You've all seen it…that urban psuedo-bravado that makes lesser men want to check their balls. It can only describe a conference deserving so much respeck that it doesn't need any of you cracker-ass "State" mofos…
But there's a code in the City Conference; it has three simple tenets:
1) Bros before hos
2) Never dime out anybody
3) Don't win
But we do want people to pay attention to this conference; that's why one of them has South Beach.
Member Schools: Houston, Tulsa, Louisville, Pittsburgh, Toledo, Akron, Memphis, Syracuse, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Bowling Green, and both Miamis.
The Make No Mistake, You Are Here for Basketball Conference
Somebody just pointed out to me that there is another college sport people will pay money to see. And since it isn't practical to make football season eight months long, this concept will need a home for those places that historically have drawn more dough from the hard court.
Member Schools: Indiana, North Carolina, North Carolina State, Kentucky, Arizona, Duke, Maryland, Kansas, Connecticut
Your Jamie Moyer Update 4/28/10
As you know, Dubsism is now the home of the Jamie Moyer for the Hall of Fame Campaign. As such, we will be running the Jamie Moyer Update so we can all track the left-handers trek to Cooperstown.
Moyer went six innings against San Francisco last night, giving up 10 hits and four earned runs. He was the losing pitcher, but he did collect two strikeouts, putting the Moyer-o-meter at:
Moyer's Next Scheduled Start: Monday, May 3rd vs. St.Louis
The Ten Biggest Fallacies in Sports
10) Michael Jordan Was the Greatest Athlete of the 20th Century
You can thank ESPN for this exercise in the power of the present. Back at the turn of the century, the World Wide Leader published its list of the greatest athletes of the 20th century and placed Jordan at the top of that list.
One can make a credible argument that the next four athletes on the list had a greater impact on their sports than did Jordan; singularly Babe Ruth is largely responsible for the popularity of professional sports in this country, not just baseball. After all, "the House that Ruth Built" was also the inspiration for the founding of other sports leagues largely because entrepreneurs saw that people will fill a stadium to see a star player in action.
9) A Player Can't Be Considered Truly Great Until They've Won a Championship
This attitude runs most prevalent in the NBA, but fans of the NFL are hopping onto this idiocy as well. First of all, there is the issue that individual greatness can't really be measured in terms of a team accomplishment. Then there's the inverse of this argument (brace yourself, you may want to wrap duct tape around your head to keep your skull from exploding when you read this...) By following this logic, Stacy King would be one of the great players in the last 20 years based on his three NBA championships as a member of the Michael Jordan-led Chicago Bulls. To see really how ludicrous this is, look at the following list of notable players to have never won a title in their respective sports; you tell me which ones weren't great.
NBA: Elgin Baylor, Karl Malone, Charles Barkley, John Stockton, Patrick Ewing, Pete Maravich, Reggie Miller, Dominique Wilkins, George Gervin, Bernard King
NFL: Dan Marino, Barry Sanders, Warren Moon, Anthony Munoz, Jim Kelly, Cris Carter, Dick Butkus, Earl Campbell, Fran Tarkenton, Dan Fouts
MLB: Ted Williams, Ty Cobb, Napoleon Lajoie, Barry Bonds, Willie McCovey, Ernie Banks, Carl Yastremski, Rod Carew, Harmon Killebrew, George Sisler
8 ) Athletes Don't Deserve What They Get Paid
This fallacy actually might the one that gets me the most juiced up when I hear somebody say it. The best example came out of the mouth of the wife of a good friend of mine who said in a sneering manner "that teachers should make the money that athletes make because teachers are so important." Well, the problem with that theory is the market isn't really interested in what anyone of us may believe is important; it's all about supply and demand.
For example, there are about 6500 neurosurgeons in the U.S. Neurosurgeons make big dough because there are only a handful of people who have the talent and the wherewithal to survive the training process and do the job without routinely killing people. In contrast, there are only 750 people in the world with the talent to be a major league baseball player, and they do a job which people will pay to watch them perform. Until you can set up stadium seating at the local school and get folks to pop $40 to watch one of the 3,000,000 teachers in this country do their thing, stop saying stupid things like this.
7) "The Student Athlete"
This is the line the NCAA trots out whenever it wants to kill anything it doesn't want to do, like getting a playoff in FBS football. One of the popular counter-arguments to having a playoff is "the student-athlete would miss too much time in class by adding that many more games."
If you ever wondered what pure, uncut bullshit looked like, that last sentence just showed it to you. The NCAA is one of the only organizations left still pretending that people who can perform at what is essentially the semi-professional level don't spend professional-level time preparing themselves for competition. The NCAA would have you believe that it wouldn't dirty its hands with money; and that the athletes competing in the "big" sports aren't plying their trades in what is essentially a feeder league for professional sports. Of course, this is just massive hypocrisy on the part of the NCAA since they have no problem taking in revenues measuring in the billions for "amateur" athletics.
Even the holier-than-thou "purists" at the International Olympic Committee realized the professional status of athletes years ago.
6) College Football Will Get a Playoff
More wizardry from those who would like to see college football become merely a Saturday clone of the NFL. One of the great things about FBS college football is the regular season actually means something. College football is now free of those train wrecks where a team rolls through the regular season only to be defeated by a team who got into the post-season thanks to a monstrously bloated playoff system.
College sports contains the classic example of how a playoff system can destroy the meaning of the season. The NCAA Basketball Tournament, while being one of the great events in all of sport also makes the regular season pointless. All a team from a "power conference" has to do is win enough games to qualify for the post-season. Usually, this means all they have to do is win a majority of their non-conference games and maybe play .500 ball in the conference schedule, and it March Madness here we come.
I'm not saying the BCS is an acceptable alternative, in fact it is far from it. Yet, as long as there are "power conferences" that have contractual obligations to certain bowl games, there is too much money at stake in the current system to expect a real change.
5) Revenue Sharing and Salary Caps Promote Competition
The redistributionist theory of economics didn't work when Marx first espoused it, and it doesn't work now. The fundamental problem as far as sports are concerned is all leagues need at least one team anybody gives a damn about. In other words, as much as you want to hate them, the New York Yankees are good for baseball. Baseball uses a "luxury tax" to funnel money from financially successful franchise to those that struggle. Where this classic "steal from the rich and give to the poor" philosophy falls apart is that the recipients don't necessarily put that money as intended into improving the quality of the product they put on the field. Case in point: this past off-season, the Florida Marlins literally had to be forced by the MLB Players Union to spend at least the required league minimum on player salaries.
4) Athletes Have a Duty to be Role Models
Two quotes from Charles Barkley sum this point rather succinctly:
"I'm not a role model… Just because I dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids."
"I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models…. It's not like it was when I was growing up. My mom and my grandmother told me how it was going to be. If I didn't like it, they said, 'Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out.' Parents have to take better control."
Barkley is absolutely right, and for one major reason: People aren't always who they seem to be. In fact, most people who live in the public eye have people who are dedicated to managing their image. This is exactly how Tiger Woods maintained a public persona that belied the truth. Choosing somebody as a role model based strictly on a managed public persona is a recipe for disaster.
3) Racism Is The Reason Why There Aren't More Minority Coaches and Managers
You can thank the NFL and it's exceptionally stupid "Rooney Rule" for this bit of twaddle. The underpinning of why the rule exists can be found in the "quota" mentality present in Affirmative Action. The "Rooney Rule" states that teams must include a minority candidate in the interview process for selecting head coaches. The idea behind the rule comes from the belief that since a majority of NFL players are black, the majority of coaches should be as well. You can find story after story that espouses this sort of quota-ism.
What this mentality ignores is being a player doesn't necessarily qualify one to be a coach. Comb through the history of the NFL, and you will find very few great players who succeeded in the coaching ranks. This is because the two disciplines have two completely different competencies. The NFL's approach ignores merit in a coaching candidate; rather it creates two classes of candidates, those who are honestly qualified and those who get considered only because they fill a requirement. It also ignores the fact that until recently, the NFL was doing little or nothing to develop candidates.
2) People Watch Women's Basketball
ABC and ESPN would have you believe there is as much interest in women's basketball as there is in the men's game. The coverage they afford it is far out of proportion to the number of viewers these games garner. Why? Could it be those networks have contracts to broadcast women's basketball?
Granted, we have a nation full of parents who will gladly watch their daughters engage in high-school sports, but the simply reality is that nobody cares beyond that. If you doubt that, ask yourself this question: When's the last time you filled out an office pool bracket for the women's college basketball tournament? While the men's tournament has become one of the great sporting events in this country, the women's tournament barely draws attention in markets that contain contending teams.
It doesn't get any better in the professional ranks. A lot of people want to believe that the WNBA was founded because there was a demand for professional women's basketball. They couldn't be more mistaken. The real reason the WNBA was founded was to give arena owners dates to put something in their arenas that normally aren't used much during the summer months. The WNBA is financially supported by the NBA, which is why its franchises have similar team colors and team names to the NBA franchises with which they share arenas.
1) The Steroid Scandal Tainted the Integrity of Baseball
Tainting the integrity of baseball under Bud Selig is like shooting out all your lightbulbs so the sun will go down. The sanctimonious hand-wringing on the part of baseball writers that is still happening over this is almost too much to bear. Where were all these scribing Dudley Do-Rights when Mark McGwire suddenly gained 50 pounds of muscle and transformed home plate at Busch Stadium into a bigger launching pad than Cape Kennedy? They were conveniently were sitting on their pencils because the offensive explosion that occurred in the national past time in the late 1990's and early 2000's was exactly what they wanted.
Flash the clock back to 1995 when baseball was trying to resurrect itself from the fiasco of the previous year's labor stoppage that killed a World Series. The writers were bemoaning the fact that baseball is boring, there isn't enough scoring, and the fans won't come back to the game after the strike. So, when the moon-shots started flying out of ballparks across the league, the writers could barely contain their overt giddyness. This led to fans flocking back to the ballparks, and Bud Selig couldn't have been happier.
The part nobody wants to admit is that the whole steroid issue began as attempt by writers to disgrace Barry Bonds. Writers have a problem with players who won't kiss their collective asses, and Bonds was notorious for treating scribes with utter contempt. When it became clear that Bonds would be the holder of the two sexiest records in all of sports (the single-season and the career home run marks), the press began its delving into Bonds' connection with BALCO. But much like Dr. Frankenstein, they created a monster they couldn't control. Next thing you know, we have Congressional hearings and the resultant "outrage" at the "cheaters."
Now for the fun part…baseball has a long and storied history of cheating. Since day one, players have been stealing signs, corking bats, scuffing or greasing balls, and generally doing anything else they could to win. Steroids are no different. It is far too easy to "blame" the aforementioned offensive explosion on the hypodermic needle, but doing so ignores some key facts.
- In the 90's, Major League Baseball expanded by four teams, meaning 50 pitchers who otherwise would have been in the minors now were plying their trade in "The Show."
- Several new stadia were constructed in the 90's, and the vast majority of them have outfield fences and small foul territory making them very "hitter-friendly."
- Of all the players caught using "performance-enhancing drugs," half were pitchers.
In other words, the increase in offense has several possible contributing factors. The emptiness of the steroid argument become clear when one stops to consider that from the list of players named in the Mitchell Report, there wasn't a case of a player who suddenly became a star due to his use of "performance-enhancing drugs." Players who were stars before the needle were stars after the needle, and "role players" remained just that.
Shakespeare penned the correct thought on this scandal 350 years before baseball even existed: Much ado about nothing.
Best Wishes, Bob Uecker
Hopes for a speedy and complete recovery go out to former major league catcher, current real-life announcer for the Milwaukee Brewers, and greatest movie play-by-play man ever Bob Uecker.
Uecker announced today that he will be having heart surgery on Friday. Doctors say his prognosis is good and we can expect to see Uecker back in front of the microphone in 10 to 12 weeks. Which is good, because that means Norm MacDonald can keep telling this story. God speed, Harry Doyle (although I will always remember Uecker as "Mr. Baseball).
Oh, the first person who makes a "Mr. Belvedere" joke…I will come to your house and hit you in the face with a shovel.
Dubsism: Your Home of the Jamie Moyer for the Hall of Fame Campaign
Tomorrow night, ageless wonder Phillies southpaw Jamie Moyer will be attempting to win his 261st major league game. Moyer notched win #260 last Thursday against Atlanta. I have to admit, it shocked me as well when I read that. In case you were wondering, this is his 24th major league season. Moyer made his major league debut on June 16, 1986, more than three years before Atlanta's 20-year-old rookie right fielder savior of the franchise Jason Heyward, was born.
Actually, at age 47, the veteran left-hander is old enough to be father to a big chunk of major leaguers. For the vast majority of his career, Moyer has been a middle-of-the-rotation starter. He's never really been known as a dominating pitcher; a career 4.22 ERA tells that story. Like I said, 260 wins shocked the shit out of me; don't look now, but Moyer has quitely put himself amongst some pretty notable names in the record books.
260 career wins puts Moyer in front of Hall-of-Famers such as:
- Jack Morris 254
- Carl Hubbell 253
- Bob Gibson 251
- Juan Marichal 243
- Mordecai "Three-Finger" Brown 239
- Whitey Ford 236
- Jim Bunning & Jim "Catfish" Hunter 224
- Don Drysdale 209
- Hal Newhouser 207
- Dennis Eckersley 197 (although Eckersley also had 390 saves)
- Sandy Koufax 165
Moyer doesn't have far to go to pass a few other baseball immortals:
- Bob Feller 266
- Jim Palmer 268
- Burleigh Grimes 270
- Red Ruffing 273
- Ferguson Jenkins 284
- Robin Roberts 286
- *Bert Blyleven 287
Moyer has also piled up 2353 career strikeouts, which puts him in front of:
- Early Wynn 2334
- Rube Waddell 2316
- Juan Marichal 2303
- Lefty Grove 2266
- Jim Palmer 2212
- Catfish Hunter 2012
The Hall-of-Famers that can see Moyer in their rear-view mirrors:
- Robin Roberts 2357
- Sandy Koufax 2396
- Dennis Eckersley 2401
- Jack Morris 2478
- Don Drydale 2486
- Christy Mathewson 2507
Those are just the headers on Moyer's Hall of Fame resume. Check out some of the bullet points:
- He's won 20 games in a season.
- He's a World Series champion and All-Star.
- He won a World Series game with severe gastrointestinal distress
- He's a role model for America's youth.
Let the arguing begin.
* Yeah, I know Blyleven isn't in the Hall of Fame, but he damn well should be. If you agree, talk to these folks…
UPDATED 4/28/10: Track Moyer's Progress on the Moyer-O-Meter.
Oxford-alypse Now
Spring games…just another reminder that we are mired in the doldrums of the college football off-season. Sure, it has been another off-season with its usual carousel of coaches, but none with the drama of what happened in the Southeastern Conference in 2007; the year that my favorite completely insane sideline leader finally fell victim.
That December marked the time Houston Nutt went down the river from Arkansas to Mississippi. But it was more than just a leader going to the other side of the river; the ripple effect could be felt throughout the conference. The angst of the Arkansas athletic department led by former director and Hawg legend Frank Broyles combined with the need of the other coaches in the league to reign in the Rebellion Nutt had established in Oxford led to the remake of a classic Coppola film. After all, even the river wanted Nutt dead.
The scene: Fayettte-nam, 2008
ACT I – The Mission
Bobby Petrino is in his room, both slowly regaining conciousness and descending into madness, somewhere in Southeast Asia the Southeastern Conference.
Fayetteville…Shit; I'm still only in Fayetteville…Every time I think I'm gonna wake up back in the jungle. When I was home after my first tour, it was worse. I'd wake up and there'd be nothing. I hardly said a word to my wife, until I said "yes" to a divorce. When I was here, I wanted to be there; when I was there, all I could think of was getting back into college football.
I'm here a week now…Waiting for a mission…Getting softer; every minute I stay in this room, I get weaker, and every minute Charlie squats in the bush, he gets stronger. Each time I looked around, the walls moved in a little tighter.
Everyone gets everything he wants. I wanted a mission, and for my sins, they gave me one. Brought it up to me like room service. It was a real choice mission, and when it was over, I never wanted another.
I was going to the worst place in the world, only I didn't know it yet. Weeks away, and hundreds of miles down a river that snakes it's way through the SEC and straight into Colonel Nutt. It was no accident that I got to be the caretaker of Colonel Houston D. Nutt's memory; no more than my being in Fayetteville was an accident. There is really no way to tell his story without telling mine; so if his story is a confession, then I guess so is mine.
"Play the tape for Captain Petrino."
"I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor; throwing a forward pass. That's my dream; it's my nightmare, crawling, slithering along the edge of the razor and surviving, throwing forward passes. But we must kill them. We must incinerate them. Pig after pig, cow after cow, village after village, army after army. And they call me an improper recruiter. What do you call it when the improper recruiter is recruited?
"Houston Nutt was one of the finest coaches this country ever produced. He was brilliant; he was outstanding. He was a good man, a good humanitarian man. Then he joined the Razorbacks; his ideas, his methods became unsound. Now, he's crossed into Mississippi with this Rebel army of his that worship him as a god, and run every play, no matter how ridiculous. Well, you see, Petrino… in this game, things get confused out there; power, ideals, the old morality, and practical football necessity. Out there with these kids it must be a temptation to be God. Because there's a conflict in every human heart between the rational and the irrational, between good and evil, between running and passing. The good does not always triumph. Sometimes the dark side overcomes what Lincoln called the better angels of our nature. Every man has got a breaking point. You and I have. Colonel Nutt has reached his. And very obviously, he has gone insane. Your mission is to proceed down the river in a Navy patrol boat. Pick up Colonel Nutt's path at Oxford, follow it and learn what you can along the way. When you find the Colonel, infiltrate his team by whatever means available and terminate the Colonel's command."
Terminate?… the Colonel?
"He's out there operating without any decent restraint, totally beyond the pale of any acceptable human conduct. And he is still on the field getting recruits. Terminate…with extreme prejudice. You understand, Captain, that this mission does not exist, nor will it ever exist."
ACT II – On the River
How many people had I already killed? There were those six that I knew about for sure; close enough to blow their last breath in my face. But this time it was a Razorback, and a coach. That wasn't supposed to make any difference to me, but it did. Shit, charging a man with improper recruiting in the SEC is like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500. I took the mission; what the hell else was I going to do? But I really didn't know wha I'd do when I found him.
The crew of the patrol boat were mostly just kids; rock 'n' rollers with one foot in their graves. The machinist, the one they called Miles was from Baton Rouge. He was wrapped too tight for 'Nam; probably wrapped too tight for Baton Rouge.
Richt on the forward .50s was a surfer from the beaches. To look at him, you wouldn't believe he ever called a play in his life.
Then there was Saban…"Mr. Clean" was from some NFL shithole, and I think the speed and the money of the SEC really put the zap on his head. And the Chief…It might have been my mission, but it sure as shit was the Chief's boat.
Then there were the Gators; our escorts to the mouth of the river. They'd cashed in their tailbacks for choppers and gone tear-assing around the SEC looking for the shit. And their C.O., Colonel Meyer…He was one of those guys that had that weird light around him. You just knew he wasn't going to get so much as a scratch here.
If that's how Meyer ran an offense, being completely dependent on one superstar, I really wondered what they had against Nutt. It wasn't just insanity and improper recruiting; there was enough of that to go around for everyone.
Never get out of the boat. Absolutely goddamn right; unless you were going all the way. Nutt got off the boat. He split from the whole fuckin' program. How does that happen? What did he see on that first tour? 40 fucking years old; if he joined the Razorbacks, there was no way he would ever get above Colonel. Nutt knew what he was giving up.
The more I read and began to understand, the more I admired him. His family and friends couldn't understand it, and they couldn't talk him out of it. He had to apply three times, and he put up with a ton of shit, but when he threatened to resign, they gave it to him. He could have gone for General, but he went for himself instead.
October 2007; on special assignment in Ar Kan Sau province, Nutt staged "Operation Wildcat"and paraded a major success. He received no official clearance; he just thought it up and did it. What balls! They were going to nail his ass to the floorboards for that one, but when the press got a hold of it, they let him start calling the plays again.
Man, the bullshit piled up so fast in 'Nam, you needed wings to stay above it. No wonder Nutt put a weed up Broyle's ass. This whole offense was being run by a bunch of four-star clowns who were going to end up giving the whole circus away.
Late autumn, 2006. Nutt's teams started coming under frequent ambush; the camp started falling apart. November, Nutt orders the assassination of four leaders of the "Springdale Parents Revolt." Enemy activity in that recruiting sector dropped off to nothing. Guess he must have hit the right four people.
Broyles tried one last time to bring him back into the fold, and if he'd pulled over, it all would've been forgotten. But he kept going; he kept wanting it his way. Then, they called me in. They lost him; he was gone. Now even rumors and random intelligence – mostly from captured Rebels; the Rebels knew his name by now, and they were scared of him – said Nutt and his men were playing "single-wing" all the way into Mississippi.
"My orders say I'm not supposed to know where I'm taking this boat, so I don't. But one look at you, and I know it's gonna be hot, where ever it is."
We're going down river about 75 klicks past the Oxford bridge.
"That's Mississippi, Captain."
That's classified. We're not supposed to be in Mississippi, but that's where I'm going. You just get me close to my destination, and I'll cut you and the crew loose. My mission is to make it down the river into Mississippi. There's a Rebel colonel there who's gone insane. I'm supposed to terminate the colonel's command.
Charlie didn't get much USO…
ACT III – Oxford
He was close, he was real close. I couldn't see him yet, but I could feel him. As if the boat were being sucked upriver and the water was flowing back into the jungle. Whatever was going to happen, it wasn't going to be the play they called back in Fayetteville. Part of me was afraid of what I would find, and what I would do when I got there. I knew the risks, or imagined I knew. But the thing I felt the most, much stronger than fear, was the desire to confront him.
"Just hit your siren, man. And, watch out; I mean, those monkeys bite, man. I'm a Plainsman, an American civilian. I'm a photojournalist. I've been covering the SEC since '64. I've been in 'Nam, Mississippi, 'Bama…Shit, in a few years I could end up stuck in some damn place like Texas Tech."
Who are all these people?
"Yeah, well, they think you've come to take him away."
Take who away?
"Him! Colonel Nutt! These are all his recruits, man, as far as you can see. Hell, man, out here, we are all his recruits."
Could we, uh, talk to Colonel Nutt?
"Hey, man, you don't talk to the Colonel. You listen to him. The man's enlarged my mind. He's a poet-coach in the classic sense. I mean, sometimes he'll, uh, well, you'll say hello to him, right? And he'll just walk right by you, and he won't even notice you. And suddenly he'll grab you, and he'll throw you in a corner, and he'll say 'Do you know that 'ing' is in both words in 'single wing?'"
"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you. I mean, I'm no, I can't – I'm a little man, I'm a little man, he's, he's a great man. I'm just a pair of ears scuttling across the SEC. I mean, look at me. I'm not going to be the one who sets him straight. It's you."
I wondered if the generals back in Fayetteville could see what I saw, would they still want me to kill him? Probably more than ever. Even the river wanted him dead. He broke from them; then he broke from himself.
"I've seen horrors… horrors that you've seen. But you have no right to call me an improper recruiter. You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that…But you have no right to judge me."
"It's impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror…Horror has a face…and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies. I remember when I was with the Razorbacks; seems a thousand centuries ago. We went into Springdale to recruit some kids; one of 'em a big-throwin' quarterback they had up there. We left after we had given out a bunch of those Hawg rubber-bandy type bracelets."
"This old man came running after us and he was crying. He couldn't see. We went back there and they had come and hacked off every braceleted arm. There they were in a pile; a pile of arms. And I remember…I…I…I cried. I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my tusks out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized…like I was shot…like I was shot with a pass…a forward pass right through my forehead. And I thought…my God, the genius of that, the genius. The will to do that; perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure."
"Then I realized they were stronger than we, because they could stand that these were not monsters. They were coaches, old-school, ground-game ball-control coaches. These men who coached with their hearts, who had families, who had children, who were filled with love…but they had the strength…the strength…to do that."
"If I had ten coaches like that, our troubles here would be over very quickly. You have to have coaches who are moral, and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to run a warmed-over single-wing offense without feeling…without passion…I mean, without passing…Because it's passing that defeats us."
And after all that, there is only one choice to play Bobby Petrino in the movie…Winnie the Pooh.
Expect Drew Brees To Be Eaten By Giant Cockroaches
It's official…New Orleans Saints quarterback and Super Bowl MVP Drew Brees is the cover athlete for Madden NFL 11.
Brees won out over Minnesota Vikings' serial drunk-driver defensive end Jared Allen and Indianapolis Colts wide receiver Reggie Wayne in EA Sports' first fan voting campaign to choose the cover athlete. Of course, this means Brees is likely to be the next to suffer the "Madden Curse:"
- 2010 – Troy Polamalu: Played only five games due to knee injuries
- 2007 – Shaun Alexander: Fractured foot, missed six games
- 2006 – Donovan McNabb: Sports hernia, missed seven games; feuded with Terrell Owens all year; had been to five straight Pro Bowls, hasn't been since
- 2005 – Ray Lewis: Broke wrist, missed one game; first season without interception; missed 10 games next year with thigh injury
- 2004 – Michael Vick: Fractured fibula one day after video game was released, missed 11 games; Pro Bowl next 2 seasons; obvious issues since then
- 2003 – Marshall Faulk: Ankle injury, missed two games, never rushed for 1,000 yards again
- 2001 – Daunte Culpepper: 4-7 record before season-ending knee injury
- 2000 – Barry Sanders: Retired one week before training camp
- 1999- Garrison Hearst – Shatters an ankle so badly it takes two years to heal. Hearst is never really an effective NFL player again
So, enjoy it while you can, Saints' fans, because the odds are soon your quarterback will suffer some sort of disabling injury. Or, he might just plain suck. Either way, this is what you get for not voting for Jared Allen a few more times.
The M-Bomb Goes Off Again
If you are the Chicago Cubs, you thought you'd heard the last of the Milton Bradley drama having sent his ass off to Oakland. Maybe that's true in Wrigley Field, but a Chicago-area property owner may not see it that way.
The latest M-Bomb episode involves a Gold Coast landlord; it seems that during his time in Chicago, Bradley was racking up Boardwalk rent and writing Baltic Avenue checks. Pantelis Kotsiopoulos, a Chicago landlord, has filed a suit for nearly $60,000 seeking money for damages as well as unpaid rent from the former Cub.
Kotsiopoulos claims Bradley owes him for $44,000 worth of unpaid rent, as well as alleging Bradley caused $13,900 in damages to his condo. Bradley contends that he gave ample notice before leaving the apartment and argues that Kotsiopoulos never returned Bradley's $15,000 security deposit.
There is no word as to whether Kotsiopoulos will counter-sue on behalf of the Cubs for Bradley's failure to look and act like a major league outfielder while he was renting a space at Wrigley Field.
Guest Column: Joe McGrath on Target Field
Editor's Note: Mr. McGrath has long and storied history in the management of professional sports franchises, most notably as the general manager of the Charlestown Chiefs of the now-defunct Federal League.
Facilities are important for a sports franchise. You've got to have a good building in order to gets fans to buy tickets. Now, if there is anybody who understands the need to be wise with your pennies, it's me. With all the stuff I had to deal with back in the Federal League, one thing that was a constant was we never had any money. That means you learn how to be cheap when you need to be. It also means you learn where not to shave the dime.
Up in Minnesota, the Twins finally got out of that god-awful Metrodome. While everybody so far seems to think the new ballpark is quite a step up, there is one crucial area where Minnesota may have dropped the ball…the bathrooms.
I'll be honest. Now that players have unions and such so you can't force them into modeling at fashion shows, you've got to sell beer to make any money anymore. And if you are selling beer, your bathrooms better not cause any problems. Nobody buys a lot of beer if they know they are going to have to stand in line to pee.
The problem is really simple. They got cute on the budget and didn't build enough men's rooms. Target Field contains 401 "fixtures" for women, and only 266 for men. I understand that a common criticism of the Metrodome was a lack of female facilities. But building over 400 of them at the expense of the men's rooms is insane. A urinal takes up half as space as a stall, so probably three-quarters of the floor space alloted to bathrooms is taken up by women's rooms.
That's just the first place the numbers don't add up. Target Field seats 39,500 fans, and the vast majority of those are men. Men also drink more beer at the ballpark than do women. This is exactly why the men's bathroom should be like the Express lane at the supermarket; You're in, you're out, you're done. This is also exactly why you cater to the men in a sports venue.
The bottom line is that despite all the efforts to make women like sports, Twins games are pretty much a sausage-fest. There are no lines for the women's room because there are just not that many women at the ballpark.
Apparently, The NFL Doesn't Like Smart Guys
It took until the 6th round until somebody drafted Florida State safety Myron Rolle. Really, this is only about three rounds behind where he should have been selected. Normally, one sees a Seminole dropping in the draft and wonders what is on his rap sheet. Strangely enough, we finally found a Seminole with a brain; naturally Rolle needed to be punished for this.
For those of you unfamiliar, Myron Rolle is a jet-screaming genius. As a guy who aspires to both the National Football League and medical school, while playing saftey for FSU Rolle completed all necessary requirements to earn his bachelor's degree in Exercise Science in just 2.5 years with a 3.75 grade point average. Then he was only one of 32 Americans to win Rhodes Scholarship. Back in January of 2009, Rolle announced that he will first study at the University of Oxford for the 2009–10 academic year, earning an M.A. in medical anthropology and then enter the 2010 NFL Draft.
Naturally, the NFL being knee-deep in thugs, has no need for such intelligence.
This really is just another example of how the process of grading players going into the draft has become the definition of absurd; a complete convolution caused by the fact NFL draft picks now get guaranteed money despite the fact they often don't guarantee performance and we have sports networks that have 24 hours of cable TV time to fill.
This is how we get the latest example of NFL stupidity. It seems that Myron Rolle, drafted 207th by the Tennessee Titans, committed a huge affront in the eyes of NFL scouts and executives by spending the 2009 season at Oxford rather than Florida State. If you doubt that, take a peek at what Tampa Bay Buccaneer staffers treated him to during the scouting process:
During a 45-minute interview before the Senior Bowl in January with seven members of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers staff, including head coach Raheem Morris and general manager Mark Dominik, one member of the staff asked Rolle what it felt like to desert his team this season.
Don't think the stupidity stops there. The league itself had to chime in via its website to offer an assessment of Rolle's time in England:
Rolle missed entire 2009 collegiate season studying in Oxford (Rhodes scholarship), raising questions about his long-term desire to play football.
So, what we have here is a league that now is trying to clean up its image as far as off-field behavior is concerned by completely messing with a guy who should be its poster child. What ever would the NFL do if headlines about its players quit implying one of them raped an entire sorority? Would they get upset over a headline like "NFL Player Wins Nobel Prize?"
You would think so being as NFL scouts clearly treat intelligence as a detriment.


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Batista won Royal Rumble 2014 by eliminating Roman Reigns in the end. Other contestants during the match were Alberto Del Rio, Alexander Rusev, Antonio Cesaro, Big E Langston, CM Punk, Cody Rhodes, Damien Sandow, Dean Ambrose, Dolph Ziggler, El Torito, Erick Rowan, Fandango, Goldust, Great Khali, Jack Swagger, JBL, Jey Uso, Jimmy Uso, Kane, Kevin Nash, Kofi Kingston, Luke Harper, R Truth, Rey Mysterio, Ryback, Seth Rollins, Sheamus and the Miz.
Randy Orton was able to retain the WWE championship at Royal Rumble 2014 by using an RKO to pin John Cena, who was distracted by the arrival of Bray Wyatt, Luke Harper and Erick Rowan. The trio might have been going after Orton due to comments he made earlier in the night.
Rumor has it that John Cena will be removed from the main event scene following Royal Rumble 2014. Randy Orton is expected to be moved into a program with a new challenger, most likely to be Batista, while Cena is rumored to be joining Daniel Bryan in his battle against Bray Wyatt, Luke Harper and Erick Rowan.
While we still do not have a definite answer as to how long he has been upset with the company, we do know now that CM Punk was already contemplating a departure from WWE as early as Royal Rumble 2014. He vented to Mick Foley at the time about not being happy within the company and having trouble dealing with injuries.
After he was pulled from Royal Rumble 2014 at the last minute, Evan Bourne told fans on Twitter that he was still working on making his return to WWE, but as of right now, it does not appear that management is making that a priority backsage.
Since the company wanted to sell the brutality of Brock Lesnar for his match against Big Show at Royal Rumble 2014, they had Mark Henry work an injury angle and take a couple of weeks off. It looks the former world champion is returning to WWE, possibly as soon as Monday Night Raw this week.
After what took place at Royal Rumble 2014, WWE officials were concerned that the audience at Monday Night Raw was going to hijack the event by voicing their opinions, so in order to help squash some of that and control the crowd, management had Daniel Bryan cutting a promo to open up the show.
Long known backstage as someone with a short fuse, Randy Orton was said to be irate with the fans at Royal Rumble 2014 because he feels that they interrupted his performance against John Cena by openly rooting for Daniel Bryan. Orton does have a history of being upset with audiences.
When Alexander Rusev made his debut at Royal Rumble 2014, many were under the impression that it was a permanent call up to the main roster. However, it appears that management wants the developmental wrestler to have a little more seasoning by working in WWE NXT for a few more weeks.


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