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Saturday Night Live (season 2)
Saturday Night Live Season 2 | |
The Saturday Night Live title card as seen in the opening credits of the second season, before the name change.
Country of origin | United states |
No. of episodes | 22 |
Broadcast | |
Original channel | NBC |
Original run | September 18, 1976 – May 21, 1977 |
Home video release | |
DVD release date | December 4, 2007 |
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Saturday Night Live aired its second season during the 1976–1977 television season on NBC. The second season started on September 18, 1976, and ended on May 21, 1977.
This season saw the first of many SNL cast changes. Chevy Chase, who was pursuing a movie career in California, left the show after the October 30th episode hosted by Buck Henry with musical guest, The Band. Jane Curtin became the first female cast member to become a Weekend Update anchor following Chase's departure. On the January 15, 1977 episode, Bill Murray joined the cast to fill the void left by Chase's departure.
This season also saw another change in the show: its name. Following the cancellation of ABC's Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell, NBC changed the name of the show from NBC's Saturday Night to its current title, Saturday Night Live in the episode hosted by Jack Burns in 1977.
It was the last time that the Muppet sketches (which were unpopular with both fans and writers) would appear on the show. In a 1977 interview with Playboy, O'Donoghue who was head writer/performer, referred to the Muppets as "those fucking Muppets, those little hairy facecloths" and were "made from the refuse after they cleaned up after Woodstock". He also refused to write for them, saying "I don't write for felt". O'Donoghue also had a lynched Big Bird hanging in the writer's office.[1]
Alan Zweibel talked about a meeting with Jim Henson. "So I went over to Jim Henson's townhouse on like Sixty-eighth Street and I remember we're reading the sketch, Jim Henson's reading the pages, and he gets to a line and he says, 'Oh, Skred wouldn't say this.' I look and on a table over there is this cloth thing that is folded over like laundry, and it's Skred. 'Oh, but he wouldn't say this.' Oh, sorry." According to Zweibel, the lynched Big Bird spoke for everyone. "That's how we all felt about the Muppets."[1]
Jerry Juhl stated that "We went through just about every writer on the show." Belushi was also not a fan of the Muppets, saying he "always hated the puppets". In his first interview for SNL, he told Michaels, "My television has spit on it."[1]
bold denotes Weekend Update anchor
Jim Downey joins the writing staff. Downey would go on to become one of the most well known writers and have a lasting impact on the show.
No. | # | Host(s) | Musical guest(s) | Original airdate |
25 | 1 | Lily Tomlin | James Taylor | September 18, 1976 |
The episode marks the final appearance of the characters from "The Land of Gorch." Actor Taylor Mead makes a filmed cameo appearance in Gary Weis's piece. James Taylor performs Shower the People and a cover of (I'm a) Road Runner with a backing band featuring saxophonist David Sanborn, and plays an acoustic performance of Sweet Baby James. Show ends with Paul Shaffer and Lily Tomlin performing the Antler Dance as the entire cast, crew, the characters from "The Land of Gorch," and the audience join in. | ||||
26 | 2 | Norman Lear | Boz Scaggs | September 25, 1976 |
Jane Curtin fills in for Chevy Chase as Weekend Update anchor. Chase's voice and photo are used in a cold open in which Gilda Radner uses a telephone receiver to act out Chase's customary show-opening pratfall as the injured Chase speaks over the line warning her not to attempt such a fall. In his monologue Norman Lear mock interviews a series of stars from his various produced shows of the time including Bea Arthur from Maude, Richard Crenna and Bernadette Peters from All's Fair, Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton from All in the Family, and Isabel Sanford and Sherman Helmsley from The Jeffersons. Boz Scaggs performs "Lowdown" and "What Can I Say", both from the Silk Degrees album. | ||||
27 | 3 | Eric Idle | Joe Cocker & Stuff | October 2, 1976 |
Richard Belzer, the show's warm-up comedian during season 1, makes a cameo appearance during the cold open impersonating the still-injured Chase, who contributes via phone. Recurring joke where Eric Idle tries to sing George Harrison's "Here Comes The Sun" in a gruff, angry voice before getting stopped by various cast members. Harrison himself performed the song with Paul Simon on the show almost 2 months later. Belushi "duets" with Cocker on "Feelin' Alright". First US television appearance of The Rutles. | ||||
28 | 4 | Karen Black | John Prine | October 16, 1976 |
The second appearance of Mr. Bill in response to the show's request for home movies. | ||||
29 | 5 | Steve Martin | Kinky Friedman | October 23, 1976 |
30 | 6 | Buck Henry | The Band | October 30, 1976 |
This is Chevy Chase's final episode as a cast member. Buck Henry was cut on his forehead by John Belushi's sword during Samurai Stockbroker sketch. Henry, as well as cast members, continued the show with bandaged heads. During this sketch Henry refers to Belushi's character as "Mr. Mikuraki." Belushi's character is typically cited as "Samurai Futaba." | ||||
31 | 7 | Dick Cavett | Ry Cooder | November 13, 1976 |
32 | 8 | Paul Simon | Paul Simon & George Harrison | November 20, 1976 |
Chevy Chase appears in the cold open. Paul Simon and George Harrison play Harrison's "Here Comes the Sun" and Simon's "Homeward Bound". Promo videos for Harrison's songs "Crackerbox Palace" and "This Song" air during the show. During the cold open, Harrison and Lorne Michaels can be seen discussing Michaels's Beatles offer from the previous season. Paul Simon sings "Still Crazy After All These Years" in a turkey costume. Harrison's appearances were pre-taped. | ||||
33 | 9 | Jodie Foster | Brian Wilson | November 27, 1976 |
The fourth wall is broken as Jodie Foster addresses the audience in the Bee sketch. Brian Wilson appears solo, though he's promoting the current Beach Boys release 15 Big Ones. | ||||
34 | 10 | Candice Bergen | Frank Zappa with Don Pardo as "The Slime" | December 11, 1976 |
First appearance of Irwin Mainway. During the "Right to Extreme Stupidity" sketch, Bergen slips up and addresses Gilda Radner's character as Fern, which is actually the name of Bergen's character. While Bergen is reduced to spontaneous laughter, Radner responds by inverting the sketch's premise ("We can't all be brainy like Fern here!"). Bergen and the cast perform "Let's kill Gary Gilmore for christmas". Frank Zappa performs "I'm the Slime" (with Don Pardo), "The Purple Lagoon" and "Peaches En Regalia" as well as appearing in "The Killer Trees" sketch. The show ends with Bergen ad-libbing a closing and the cast ice skating around Rockefeller Plaza. | ||||
35 | 11 | Ralph Nader | George Benson | January 15, 1977 |
Bill Murray's first episode as a cast member. Murray replaces an injured John Belushi, who only appears via telephone. First appearance of the Coneheads. Andy Kaufman makes his fifth appearance. | ||||
36 | 12 | Ruth Gordon | Chuck Berry | January 22, 1977 |
37 | 13 | Fran Tarkenton | Leo Sayer Donny Harper |
January 29, 1977 |
38 | 14 | Steve Martin | The Kinks | February 26, 1977 |
Lily Tomlin appears as "special guest." | ||||
39 | 15 | Sissy Spacek | Richard Baskin | March 12, 1977 |
This episode won a Primetime Emmy Award. | ||||
40 | 16 | Broderick Crawford | Levon Helm Dr. John The Meters |
March 19, 1977 |
Linda Ronstadt makes a special appearance in the opening sketch as a back-up singer of the "Rondettes". This episode includes Bill Murray's direct appeal that "I don't think I'm making it on the show." | ||||
41 | 17 | Jack Burns | Santana | March 26, 1977 |
The first episode to carry the title Saturday Night Live. | ||||
42 | 18 | Julian Bond | Tom Waits Brick |
April 9, 1977 |
Tom Waits performs " Eggs & Sausages." Brick performs "Dazz" | ||||
43 | 19 | Elliott Gould | McGarrigle Sisters Roslyn Kind |
April 16, 1977 |
First appearance of Nick The Lounge Singer. | ||||
44 | 20 | Eric Idle | Alan Price Neil Innes |
April 23, 1977 |
"Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth" (played by Jeannette Charles) assists in the telethon to "Save Great Britain" at "555-1066", which is a running sketch throughout the show. | ||||
45 | 21 | Shelley Duvall | Joan Armatrading | May 14, 1977 |
Lorne Michaels appears in the opening sketch, with Shelley Duvall and John Belushi in Bee costumes. The opening montage is only shown on a backstage TV, as the camera follows Shelley, Jane, Laraine, and Gilda onto the stage to sing as the "Video Vixens." Chevy Chase appears in the audience during one of the commercial bumpers, with the caption "USED TO BE ON THE SHOW." Spalding Gray narrates and appears in the video "Brides." | ||||
46 | 22 | Buck Henry | Jennifer Warnes Kenny Vance |
May 21, 1977 |
Bella Abzug is interviewed by Emily Litella during Weekend Update. Home video by William Wegman Chevy Chase makes a cameo appearance as the Landshark in a sketch about Charles Lindbergh. |
# | Special | Original airdate |
1 | "Live from Mardi Gras" | February 20, 1977 |
The cast and crew participate in the annual Mardi Gras festivities in New Orleans. Jane Curtin and Buck Henry try to provide commentary on the parade. Eric Idle and Penny Marshall and Henry Winkler cameo in the special. |
DVD release[edit]
All 22 episodes were released on a DVD set on December 4, 2007.
- ^ a b c "Three Muppet Conflicts & How They Were Resolved". Retrieved 14 January 2013.


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It's a 1:07 game on a Thursday after people had to take off work two straight days. Blame MLB for this fiasco. I had to sell my tickets for yesterday because I cannot just disappear from the office every afternoon this week.
But, you know, it does fit the "blame the fans" narrative that seems to be taking hold, so why not.
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Working in Akron and I can't make any of these games. I would love to go to playoff games but if they don't play on the weekends I just can't make it there. Such a shame that people in Cincy can't even go because they are all day games. It's ridiculous how the MLB is scheduling this postseason.
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This... I work in a small company and they have been very cooperative considering it's been on short notice that I wouldn't be available a lot of hours (leaving 1.5-2 hours before gametime to find a good parking space). I can make the hours up if possible - but some people can't. BTW, I might be selling my extra bleacher seat to a co-worker for parking fee ($15).
this, this and this.
Daugherty today wanted to know why tickets are so easy to get to today's most important game, and not Opening Day, which is of course far less important.
Well, most of us are locked into a work schedule. If you know Opening Day starts at 2pm, for instance, you have months to plan around that.
When MLB gives you 24 hour notice, of and as of last night at 11pm, the game might be even be moved an hour or so from that, well that's your reason right there. Not hard to figure out.
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You have to do the hard things.
I came across this awesome article over on Dan Waldschmidt's blog. Exactly what I needed to hear:
You have to make the call you're afraid to make.
You have to get up earlier than you want to get up.
You have to give more than you get in return right away.
You have to care more about others than they care about you.
You have to fight when you are already injured, bloody, and sore.
You have to feel unsure and insecure when playing it safe seems smarter.
You have to lead when no one else is following you yet.
You have to invest in yourself even though no one else is.
You have to look like a fool while you're looking for answers you don't have.
You have to grind out the details when it's easier to shrug them off.
You have to deliver results when making excuses is an option.
You have to search for your own explanations even when you're told to accept the "facts".
You have to make mistakes and look like an idiot.
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You have to be accountable for your actions even when things go wrong.
You have to keep moving towards where you want to be no matter what's in front of you.
You have to do the hard things.
The things that no one else is doing. The things that scare you. The things that make you wonder how much longer you can hold on.
Those are the things that define you. Those are the things that make the difference between living a life of mediocrity or outrageous success.
The hard things are the easiest things to avoid. To excuse away. To pretend like they don't apply to you.
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Wow, what a night!!!! Well, I didn't meet Oprah in person but I was sitting in Row 6 so no complaints from this girl! I didn't have to look on the big monitor during the interview because she was that close and it was amazing!!!!! This lady is beyond inspiring!
The evening interview started off with Oprah joking around about how receiving the Montecito Award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival for her body of work (in film) - which surmounts to three movies - was a bit of a stretch. She also joked about how she was just getting the award because she's the girl next door.
A columnist from the LA Times interviewed her and throughout the two hour Q & A, she was so casual and light. Well, the guy attempted to interview Oprah. I mean, come on, it's Oprah! He asked a couple of questions and while she answered them they were in her Oprah way with a sophisticated and humanitarian reply that offered glimpses of her life and inner world.
She talked about the backstory of how she got the role of the Color Purple and it was incredible. Essentially, in her oh-so-very-Oprah-way it all came down to surrender. She spoke about how once you give something your ALL and do everything in power to make it happen and then you completely surrender and let it go that it will happen.
She spoke the power of intention and how it fuels the results of your actions and that she does nothing without intention. Intention. Intention. Intention. It's everything.
At this stage of her life (she's 60!), she told us that she only does what matters. That really stuck out for me. Do what matters. It's related to intention and focussing your energy on what matters.
{ What matters? }
The other thing that really touched my heart was when she spoke out to the audience about how gifted we all are. The interview guy from the LA TImes brought up how in 2013 film there was a strong presence African Americans. He mentioned that if Chiwetel Ejiofor (the male actor from 12 Years a Slave) wins he will be the first African American to win that award. Oprah talked about slavery and how her mom and grandmother were maids and her great grandmother was a slave. When she was working on Beloved she asked her crew to blindfold her and take her to a field where the slaves used to work and intended to be there alone for a few days. She only made it over night because she had a spiritual awakening:
It was 1988 and the Oprah Show was going for about 2 years and she was getting tired of doing it. Through that time on the farm she realized that she didn't know what tired was (compared to what slaves had to endure) and she also realized that the Oprah Show was so much bigger than her and that she had to keep doing it for that reason: it was bigger than her. And even though she felt tired, she had to keep going.
It was 1988 and the Oprah Show was going for about 2 years and she was getting tired of doing it. Through that time on the farm she realized that she didn't know what tired was (compared to what slaves had to endure) and she also realized that the Oprah Show was so much bigger than her and that she had to keep doing it for that reason: it was bigger than her. And even though she felt tired, she had to keep going.
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It's Chinese New Year and we welcome the Year of the Horse. Astrologically, something's been in the air for me with fantastic international opportunities coming my way amidst a swirl what felt like an over-caffeinated buzz of busy-ness. I was sent a link on what the Year of the Horse holds and here's what's in store as found over at Mystic Mamma:
"Decisive action, not procrastination, brings victory. But you have to act fast in a Horse year. If you are not 100% secure about a decision, then don't do it. Events move so quickly in a Horse year that you don't want to gallop off in the wrong direction…"
"In Chinese astrology, Horse year is considered a fortunate year that brings luck and good things. Magical Horse has supernatural powers, is heroic, strong, and can even fly! A white celestial cloud Horse is sacred to the Chinese Goddess Kwan Yin. Her white Horse flies through the heavens, bringing peace and blessings…"
"The time for pondering and planning was 2013 Snake year. Horse year is time to act fast, buy that home, launch that business, travel the world, make a big purchase, get a promotion at work, have a breakthrough – take a leap and fly.
"If it's right, then there's nothing to think about. Just follow instincts. Even if you miss the mark, you'll have all of Wood Sheep year 2015 to get cozy and enjoy life's comforts in all their artistic forms.
"…Horse year is about freedom, returning to nature, and enjoying life and life's adventures. You won't always want to focus on work because it's easy to be distracted by fun, good times, and parties in sexy Horse year.
"Because Horse can be impulsive, act now and think later, avoid the mistakes of overspending, enabling others, and denying when there is a problem.
"Overspending is easy in a Horse year because if you feel you deserve something or want a reward, the impulse to buy is strong. Horses often buy what they feel they deserve without realizing how their purchases effect their long-term planning because Horse rarely plans for the future.
"Also in Horse year, it's easy to make a snap decision, especially business decisions that are not planned but 'just feel right' Denial that there is a problem is another Horse trait. It's easier to move on to the next adventure than face reality or clean up a mess. So don't ignore details this year while being an optimist that things will all just work out on their own.
"Horse doesn't care about money and lives large, so in Horse year you might be tempted to overspend on entertainment, going out, fun festivities – anything to keep up with the Horse good times and spirit of live today. Horse year ends in triumph or tragedy, and more businesses will fail than succeed. So learn from what you see around you.
"You don't have to act, but you do have to know. "
"Still, for those like you who are awakening and sensitive to energies, this year may feel more intense. You won't always be able to identify the intensity, either, but you will likely sense it in the background.
"Intensity isn't necessarily bad, of course. You could feel intense joy as a project you have long dreamed of begins to take root. You could be meeting new people, too, including those who you don't immediately connect with anything significant – but they are to be important for your future.
Year of the Horse Energies
"…Horse years like we have in 2014 are associated with fire and action. In these years, there tends to be lots of activity and much on your plate. Not everything needs to be done at once, of course, but it may seem that way!
"On a positive note, you simply may feel more buoyant and able to tackle things that you have been putting on the back burner.
"The key to success is maintaining your balance, sense of timing, and awareness of what is in front of you right when it is in front of you. Many opportunities can come and go in such a year as this – you must be awake to them in order to act with divine timing.
"Being grounded and centered in your heart will be vital to your success, too. The more that you can achieve this, the more you will be able to connect with your inner voice and spirit. Having that connection is essential for what you want to do, be, and have this year.
"…Getting back to the big picture for this year – don't forget the role of the collective, too. Learn to become friends with the idea of unseen outside influences being a part of your creating process. That is the truth anyway – you do not create your life or self-evolve on an isolated island somewhere.
"So hold calm within as you let the creative fires burn and don't forget to be passionate about your freedom and don't be afraid to lead when it's your turn!
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Retirement Party
The 2010 Tour de France came down to just two riders and one mountain.
So Alberto Contador won the Tour de France by a margin slimmer than many said was possible, a margin equal to what he clawed out with the aid of Dennis Menchov and Sammy Sanchez on stage 15. We can argue about all the places each rider gained or lost time, but really, the race comes down to two fateful events: Schleck's mis-shift on 15 and his later 39-second gap in the final time trial. The symmetry of the two events is more difficult to ignore than the economy.
And just to be ultra-clear about this, yes, I'm saying that without help from both Menchov and Sanchez, Contador wouldn't have won the Tour.
I should also point out that even though he twice went for stage wins for himself, Alexander Vinokourov proved to be both valuable and loyal to Contador in the mountain stages. Vinokourov sat on Schleck on stage 15 and never rode for himself by taking a pull at the front of the group. He'll always be an unpredictable element in my mind, but he demonstrated his value to the Astana team repeatedly. He deserves to be recognized.
But individual performances aside, if we back up and look at the 2010 Tour de France as an elaborate chess game involving 22 players, some interesting questions emerge.
First, what the hell has Johan Bruyneel been thinking? He fielded the most experienced team in the Tour de France, sure, but it was also the oldest team by an Egyptian pharaoh. The most youthful element of the team was the management company's formation documents. Even if we accept the possibility that the fight went out of Armstrong following his daily crashes so that by the time the time trial came around, he really wasn't trying—which is why we didn't see the form necessary to win the race overall anywhere in the same time zone as him—we should still ask the question: Why did no one else other than Chris Horner ride like his career was at stake?
Speaking of recognition, let's hope that Horner feels some satisfaction and vindication at his stellar ride. It's one of the best performances by a rider over the age of 35 ever at the Tour, and is his single best performance there. It was his misfortune to sign for a French team when he first went to Europe and his worse fortune to have his career coincide with Armstrong's. Had he hit Europe five years earlier than he did, he could have led Motorola in its quest to do something significant in a Grand Tour. Or not. There have long been reports that Jim Ochowicz (director of Motorola and now one of the powers that be at BMC) had issues with the formerly feisty San Diegan.
Back to Bruyneel. His reputation as a kingmaker able to deliver a worthy rider to a Grand Tour victory has suffered its first setback. Even with the triple-barrel shotgun of Armstrong, Andreas Kloden and Levi Leipheimer he was unable to deliver any one of them to the top 10. Horner's performance was the sort of showing that the French teams generally hope to luck into but can plan no better than a chimp considering retirement.
With that much talent and so little to show for it, the brass at The Shack might be understandably perturbed.
This time last year many of us were beginning to rethink what might be possible age-wise in a Grand Tour. Now, the near complete waterlogging of Radio Shack has most cycling fans thinking that, yes, age really does slow you down. Too much to deliver a win on the world's biggest stage.
And cast in the light of failure, Armstrong seems less ambitious, less hungry, less focused on highlighting the cause of cancer than just gluttonous, a corpulent ego.
But that's how we play it isn't it? When our heroes fall, we pounce.
But even if the Radio Shack board is less than thrilled, imagine what's going on in the boardroom at Sky. Isn't the question there whose head rolls first?
Seemingly a world away, Bjarne Riis has proven that he knows how to bring the race to anyone he wants. He's delivered Tyler Hamilton, Carlos Sastre, Ivan Basso and Andy Schleck all to podium finishes at Grand Tours, though his record of wins (just two) is rather slim despite the obvious strength of his team.
Yvon Sanquer, a name you may not be very familiar with even after his team's success, is the director of Team Astana and has kept a profile nearly as high as that of newly mown grass. His previous best result as a team director was after being brought in to rescue Team Festina (not unlike what he was asked to do with Astana) and his riders (mostly Marcel Wüst) were able to take a stage of the Tour de France along with four stages of the Vuelta plus some stages at lesser stage races. Before 2010, his riders' closest association to the winner of a Grand Tour was if they had chatted with him.
And yet, somehow Sanquer brought together what seemed to be an underpowered team and saw to it that Contador was rarely without help in the mountains.
Despite the Astana team performing as if it were still run by Johan Bruyneel—admit it, it was an impressive performance that very few thought could truly deliver the goods as a cohesive unit this past January—I am surprised by the number of people I hear from who just plain don't like Alberto Contador. To the degree that maybe many cycling fans were less than enthusiastic about him, it seems that even if his counter attack on stage 15 didn't rile people, the fact that he lied about not knowing what was going on with Andy Schleck seems to have sent some fans around the bend. I've not been a fan of some of his tactics, and have thought some of his interviews with the Spanish media were whiny and meant to play the pity card, which strikes me as unseemly—like the Super Bowl winning team sniffling about playing hurt, but it struck me as insulting to fans everywhere for him to claim he couldn't tell there was anything wrong with Schleck.
Which brings me to Jonathan Vaughters. Of the teams bidding for Contador's services last year, Vaughters' Garmin-Transitions formation was one of the teams in the running to sign the diminutive Spaniard. There are reports that after all of his efforts to leave Astana he is now considering a new contract and staying.
Contador would do well to leave, so long as he left for Vaughters. Of the many team directors at the Tour de France, Vaughters is the one that seems to have an uncanny ability to help riders achieve greatness in the GC that he never could reach on his own. In three years of competing in the Tour de France Vaughters has delivered three different riders to top-10 finishes, first with Christian Vande Velde's fourth place, then Bradley Wiggins fourth and now Ryder Hesjedal's seventh place. In each case the riders were uniformly believed to be talented, but no one—other than Vaughters—considered them real GC vehicles on which to pin a team's hopes.
Sanquer's success with Contador suggests competence, nothing more. After all, if you can't guide a previous Tour de France winning to yet another victory, what kind of team director are you?
Bjarne Riis has consistently put together one of the strongest, most cohesive teams on the planet. That he hasn't won more may be a question of formula more than anything else. The question seems to be, 'Why didn't he win?' rather than, 'What's it going to take to secure another win?'
Bruyneel is the great curiosity this year. He's ripe for criticism. How should he deflect the charge that he went with Armstrong less for career than paycheck? If he didn't go to Radio Shack for the paycheck, then why? It's hard for Bruyneel to charge that Vinokourov is a more tarnished rider than some he has worked with. Contador clearly has a greater future than Armstrong does. Maybe the question is just how loyal a guy is Bruyneel. Some folks are loyal to a fault. Could it be so with him?
Even if he didn't go to Radio Shack just for a bigger paycheck that is virtually guaranteed not to dry up mid-way through the season, where does he rank his ambitions as a director? Twelve of the team's 26 riders have had their 30th birthday. Six of them are older than 32. The only rider on the team who is showing talent and is early in his career is Janez Brajkovič. Taylor Phinney doesn't count because he's only a staigiaire.
How else do you wind up with that many riders in need of a retirement party than by selecting a crew that can be depended on being utterly devoted to Armstrong? Now, there's nothing wrong with being committed to supporting your team leader, but it is fair to ask how smart it is to construct a team for a single year's performance. Even if Leipheimer, Klöden, Horner and Rubiera plan to ride Grand Tours next year, how capable will any of them be? Horner is the only guy I'd bet on as a good support rider for the simple reason that he is obviously still proving his value and talent long after most guys have quit.
You want to make the 2011 Tour de France really interesting? Get Vaughters to sign Horner.
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The last ten days have surprised me for one unusual piece of news after another. I'm not normally one to write the grab-bag post, but because so many disparate pieces of news have elicited the same reaction in me, I figured the uniformity of my reaction is enough to include them in the same post.
I've followed discussions about rate of ascent (VAM) on Tour climbs with some interest. While I have found some of the numbers reported troubling, I haven't been willing to place too much faith in those numbers because it's hard to be certain of just where the climb starts and finishes are, which can throw off the math in the calculations. And even if you trust the calculations, I haven't yet seen an argument connecting the dots in a way that lead to an inarguable conclusion that normal biology can't produce a particular performance. That is, I hadn't seen one until I read this post on the Science of Sport blog. It connects the dots in a very convincing way. Because we are getting more and more information about riders as they race, in the future it will be possible to look at a rider's performance on a climb in a very objective manner and the math that Ross Tucker provides will help us sort the fiction from the clean.
Some folks I'd prefer would shut up, have been making headlines. On their own, they don't merit posts, but Michael Ball and Rudy Pevenage both elicited a "You're kidding." from me but for entirely different reasons. One wonders why Pevenage decided it was time to admit his involvement in organizing Ullrich's trips to Spain to see Dr. Eufemiano Fuentes now, yet more curious is why he thought he needed to tell us this little factoid. It's not much of a confession as most everyone was satisfied that Ullrich was involved in Operacion Puerto; who served as travel agent is inconsequential, and Pevenage's moral relativism—"It was normal"—isn't washing.
Michael Ball, ex-pricey jean entrepreneur and director of Rock Racing—the only professional cycling team to model its organization after the Bad News Bears—was served with a search warrant. Presumably, the warrant is as a result of Floyd Landis' confession, as it was filed by investigator Jeff Novitzky, who is remembered for bringing the house of BALCO down. If Novitzky smells smoke, there's a conflagration.
Ball, who briefly employed Pevenage in 2008, congratulated Landis on coming clean, telling the New York Daily News: "Floyd is in a better place. Someone needed to come clean who was on the inside, who had lived it."
However, what made my jaw drop was his crazy claim that, "I was in the sport for three years and I saw what went on. But not on my team, because I wouldn't allow it."
Really? I assume by "what went on" he means doping. Has he already forgotten about Tyler Hamilton's positive test? If there's one thing we've learned about doping it is that those closest to the riders sometimes do not know, so for Ball to suggest he knows something about the use of performance-enhancing drugs by pro riders he didn't sponsor means that he thinks we're dumber than he.
Speaking of Landis, his latest accusation, this one printed in the Wall Street Journal, is that he couldn't get an extra bike to train on because Armstrong was busy selling bikes to—gasp—buy drugs. Here's a newsflash: Teams have sold off bikes at the end of the season for ages. That Landis expects us to believe that just because he couldn't account for the presence of 60 bikes it means they were sold to pay for doping. In addition to claiming that that Johan Bruyneel admitted the bike sales were paying for drugs, he has also claimed he paid for the drugs he took. Unridden team bikes won't carry any sort of multiplier with collectors, so those bikes would have gone for roughly $5k apiece. The only bikes that carry any sort of multiplier would be those ridden by the team stars and having spoken with collectors, I can say Lance's bikes weren't going for $20k, even with the aid of photographic provenance. Even if the accusation is proven true, it really adds nothing significant to his story, which makes us wonder why he's talking.
Speaking of bike sales, a week ago Campagnolo announced it would begin offering industry deals to verified industry employees. For those of you who have never worked in the industry, I can tell you this is the single most surprising piece of news in this post. As a shop employee I remember checking with multiple distributors to see who had the best prices on Campy any time I needed—er—wanted to purchase new gear. The difference in price between different distributors could mean saving as much as five percent which was what passed for a discount for us wrenches. It has been my understanding that Campy USA wanted to do this for ages, but Italy finally listened and came to appreciate that having shop staff riding their components could make a difference in how often they wind up on a custom build. Bravo to Campy.
And while I'm still mystified that anyone would try to defend Mark Renshaw head-butting Julian Dean and then shutting the door hard on Tyler Farrar, we've continued to get other head-scratching moments every day at the Tour de France. Take Alexander Vinokourov. Let's be honest; he has a reputation for being a rogue rider, which is why his declaration that he would dedicate his effort to supporting Astana team leader, Alberto Contador was met with at least a bit of skepticism.
So what does Vino do? He goes off on a breakaway in the final kilometers of the climb to Mende. Let's be clear, if you're sole mission is to support your team leader, then you're not heading out for stage wins—that's a big, big effort and burns more than a few matches. But once gone, why not give the guy some rope, right? But Contador chases down Joaquin Rodriguez, and then proceeds to take a very strong pull.
As I'd been saying all week, I couldn't stifle myself from saying, "Really?"
Was Contador teaching Vinokourov a lesson? Or was he really that nervous about Andy Schleck that he felt compelled to gain every second he could? It's fair to wonder if Rodriguez had enough gas on his own to catch Vinokourov. At the point Contador began his chase of Rodriguez he knew that he couldn't gain all that much time, certainly not enough to gain the yellow jersey. While Vinokourov has never been my favorite rider, but Contador managed to make me feel some sympathy for the win he was denied.
Just when I thought things couldn't get weirder, Vinokourov takes off on yet another flyer. And fortunately for his efforts, he got the win in Revel. However, after taking breakaways two days in a row, does anyone—John Lelangue especially—think that Vinokourov will really have the gas necessary to work for Contador through the Pyrenees?
If he does have the reserves to provide support to Contador, it will be an impressive piece of riding. Impressive, and for this writer, suspicious. If he doesn't, then his pledge to support Contador will have been proven to be BS, and Contador's chase will be hard to criticize.
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buckworks - 8:46 pm on Jun 30, 2013 (gmt 0)
Ted will be missed for his wide-ranging technical knowledge, but even more for his boundless heart.
I learned many things from Ted about how to be a better SEO, but even more important were the things his example taught me about how to be a better person.
The world will be a poorer place without him.
Rest in peace, Ted.


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Where are my GOP attack dogs when these stories break?
"Wise stewardship?" In a speech on April 15, President Bush said: "People ... expect from their public service (sic) a wise stewardship of the taxpayers' money." Well, this is true. Yet we have another example today of the president's waste of taxpayers' money financing his reelection efforts. Why, you might ask did White House "advance" aides order the Pentagon, with one day's notice, to build a $100,000 platform -- with red carpet, a walkway and an artificial island -- over a memorial pool at the U.S. cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer during the D-Day 60th anniversary? So Bush and French President Jacques Chirac could "walk in style to the dais," the New York Daily News reports. "That money will have to come out of some account that otherwise would be spent on soldiers," a source told the newspaper. The Progress Report points out today that "the revelations about the Bush administration's disregard for taxpayer money are not new. Last year, the president had the government spend about $1 million for his aircraft carrier photo-op when he declared major combat over in Iraq. In 2001, the administration spent $34 million to send every taxpayer a letter trumpeting the president's tax cuts for the wealthy. And as AP reports, 'President Bush is using Air Force One for re-election travel more heavily than any predecessor, wringing maximum political mileage from a perk of office paid for by taxpayers.' Air Force One costs roughly $56,800-per-hour to run, and Bush is forcing the government to pick up most of the tab of his 68,000 miles traveled, much of it to swing states where he holds campaign events."
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Alex, perhaps you are forgetting the Armenian Genocide... Oh wait, that didn't happen did it? Face it, all world powers committed atrocities, including the Ottomans. You seem to have an agenda against Christian nations (especially Catholics) but like all Turks, turn a blind eye to the ugly things your own people committed in the past. At least Australians, Britons and Germans acknowledge what their ancestors did.
And perhaps you should re-read some of your history on British settlement in the new world. Sure, Native Americans were subjected to some terrible atrocities, as were Australian Aboriginals, but they weren't "completely wiped out". I should know, I see plenty of Aboriginals in my home town every day...
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Now, thanks to Eureka's Community Development Department, the town is looking even more dismal these days. Instead of requiring, during the permit process, the preservation of the old cypress trees that graced Sunset Road, the City allowed Lost Coast Brewery to cut down those beautiful, historic trees.
Shame on the Lost Coast Brewery for their complete insensitivity to the environment and their impacts to the community and shame on the city of Eureka for allowing this destruction to take place.
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A familiar face was back in Fort Myers on Tuesday.
Former Red Sox shortstop Mike Aviles returned to JetBlue Park as a member of Team Puerto Rico, which dropped a 4-3 decision to the Sox in a World Baseball Classic tune-up. Aviles has had a tumultuous offseason, first being traded to Toronto in exchange for manager John Farrell (a deal that he called "weird") before being shipped to Cleveland, where he now plays for Terry Francona — his former skipper in Boston.
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Global Investing Strategies: A "Lightning-Round" Look at U.S. Stocks, the Dollar, Inflation and China
If you're a regular Money Morning reader, then you know that, d uring my appearances on national television or when I'm doing media interviews around the world, I frequently participate in something called a "lightning round " - a rapid-fire interview technique in which the announcer (and sometimes even audience members) run through a list of questions in rapid-fire order.
It's a technique that really puts you on the proverbial "hot seat." But I actually enjoy it: It forces you to think on your feet - which appeals to the former trader in me - and allows you to run through a bunch of topics in a very short stretch. In one way or another, each of these topics deals with global investing strategies.
I thought you might enjoy - and perhaps even find useful - a "highlight reel" of some of the best lightning-round questions that I've received in recent weeks, both in front of the camera and during the informal discussions that follow the presentations and broadcasts.
And we'll start with the topic that seems to be one of the most popular global investing strategies topics right now - gold.
To see what Money Morning's Fitz-Gerald sees for stocks, the U.S. dollar and inflation, please read on...
BP PLC (NYSE ADR: BP) Attempts Another Venture Into Russian Oil Industry in $16 Billion Deal
BP PLC (NYSE ADR: BP) on Friday announced it was entering a $16 billion share swap deal with Russian oil industry giant NK Rosneft OAO (PINK: RNFTF). The deal will give BP access to areas of the Russian Arctic that were previously off limits to foreign companies, but it will come at a political cost.
The deal involves BP swapping 5% of its shares, valued at $7.8 billion, for 9.5% of state-controlled Rosneft's shares. The British oil company already owns a 1.3% stake in the Russian business. BP Chief Executive Officer Robert Dudley said the deal is the first cross-shareholding between a Russian state-owned national oil company (NOC) and western oil giant, and called the move "a new template for how business can be done in our industry."
The joint venture will make Rosneft the largest single BP shareholder. Their newly formed joint operating company will be two-thirds owned by Rosneft and one-third owned by BP. It will spend up to $2 billion in an initial phase of testing and well-drilling.
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A commodity bull market is happening everywhere you look lately. While the dollar is dying, you cannot say the same about the stock prices of companies with internationally based commodities production.
The reality that the U.S. Federal Reserve will be monetizing all of the government's funding needs for at least the next year has put the market on edge. The U.S. dollar's status as a reserve currency is in question.
Investors are using this opportunity to shift their holdings towards U.S. companies with strong overseas revenue streams. And there is one such company in the oil sector that has been overlooked by mainstream investors: VAALCO Energy Inc. (NYSE: EGY).
VAALCO is a great example of a U.S.-based company that - through its operations off the coast of Africa - will profit from higher oil prices and the dollar's long-term drop in value.
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Usually, a government decision to subsidize clean energy alternatives would be applauded by others.
Not so when the government is Beijing, and Washington politicians halfway around the world are busy looking for votes.
This tiff could be filed away as just another tempest in a teapot... if it were not for the other important projects it could derail along the way. Those projects just happen to have a major impact for American natural gas technology and the companies likely to benefit from its foreign introduction.
If the two countries can get it together, it could mean profitable new opportunities for both.
To find out how the energy sector would benefit from U.S.-China cooperation, read on...
Everything You Need to Know About Tomorrow's OPEC Meeting
Crude dropped for the second straight day yesterday (Tuesday) after Saudi Arabia made it clear that the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) will leave its production targets unchanged at its meeting tomorrow (Thursday).
Crude oil for November delivery fell 54 cents a barrel - or 0.7% - to finish at $81.67 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange yesterday. Even with yesterday's decline, oil prices are up 11% over the past 12 months.
Speaking in advance of tomorrow's OPEC meeting in Vienna, Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi said that prices between $70 and $80 a barrel are "ideal," and noted that the market is "very well-balanced" right now. In a related development, Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. LLC slashed its oil-price forecasts for both next year and 2012, and attributed the new viewpoint to big stockpiles.
But this only provides you with part of the picture. And it'll lead you to the wrong conclusions.
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For a better understanding of the workings of the global oil market, please read on...
CNOOC Creates Biggest China-U.S. Oil Deal For Stake in Shale Gas Industry
China's state-owned energy company China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC) (NYSE ADR: CEO) late Sunday announced it would invest $2.16 billion in U.S.-based Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE:CHK) to increase China's stake in unconventional gas resources like shale gas. It is the largest ever China-U.S. oil and gas deal.
CNOOC initially will pay $1.08 billion for a 33% stake in Chesapeake's Eagle Ford shale acreage in Southern Texas. China's third-largest oil company will invest an additional $1.08 billion by paying 75% of Chesapeake's drilling and completion costs in coming years, allowing Chesapeake to tap hard-to-extract shale gas deposits and boosting its weak balance sheet.
The deal highlights China's need to develop its shale-gas extraction techniques. The country has 26 trillion cubic meters of shale gas reserves that are largely unexplored due to a lack of drilling ability - and Chesapeake is a pioneer in the shale gas industry.
Iraq's Energy Sector Is Moving Forward – With or Without the U.S.
Iraq on Wednesday broke the record - 207 days - for the time between a parliamentary election and the formation of a government. But while Iraq's government is at a standstill, the country's energy sector remains dynamic and U.S. companies can't afford to wait for the political climate to thaw before diving in.
Iraq is slowly retaking the shape of one of the world's most prolific oil producers. Its reserves are actually 25% larger than previously thought.
"Iraq's oil reserves which are extractable are 143.1 billion barrels," Hussein al-Shahristani, Iraq's oil minister, said earlier this week, basing his comments on data provided by Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).
The Secret Indicator That Points to Much Higher Oil Prices
Crude oil has taken on a life of its own. As I have noted on several occasions, oil is both a commodity in wide demand and a financial asset in its own right.
In the former case, as a commodity, the so-called "wet" barrels (the actual oil) will respond to traditional marketplace pressures - particularly supply and demand.
In the asset role, which involves futures contracts (the "paper" barrels), oil becomes something that can be used as a store of value. As we'll see momentarily, oil's role as a financial asset underpins a crucial new development.
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ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) is paying $41,000 a day to keep a storage tanker capable of holding 3 million barrels of oil floating in the Gulf of Mexico, according to international ship- and offshore broking firm RS Platou. And the TI Europe is just one of hundreds of oil tankers sitting idle in waters around the world, as energy companies and investment banks await higher prices for crude.
Oil prices have fallen precipitously since the spring, as optimism about "green shoots" of economic growth gave way to fears of a double-dip recession. Prices have fallen more than 12% to $75.81 a barrel, from a high of $86.54 a barrel in April.
Indeed, with the U.S. economy stuck in the mire, the global outlook for oil demand has diminished - at least in the near-term. Longer-term, however, traders expect prices to surge higher next year as growth solidifies. That's why contracts for crude set to be delivered six months from now are worth more than crude at its current prices - an anomaly known as "contango."


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Carlo Ancelotti accepts that Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich may be running out of patience over the club's slide down the Barclays Premier League.
The champions stretched their winless run in the competition to six matches with Monday night's 3-1 defeat by title rivals Arsenal at Emirates Stadium.
"I don't know (how long owner Roman Abramovich will remain patient). Obviously he won't be happy at this moment," said Ancelotti.
"I will take my responsibility, but this is a question you have to ask him, not me.
"I'm not afraid about my job. Everyone said I did a fantastic job last year. Now people are asking me about my job.
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Hey, that is an outstanding TED talk there. Good to see him talking something besides all google all the time. Nice work Matt. I think Matt does an incredible job at Google with work that is most often thankless and contentious with this crowd. He is the ultimate company man. Whatever he is making - it aint enough.
I remember the first time I met him at pubcon Boston in 2003. [pubcon.com...] At the pub after the conference, he was trying to get to the restroom and about a dozen people followed him out of the bar, down the stairs, and into the restroom. Matt was happily talking Google the whole way. [pubcon.com...]
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We are heading into the second week of the "partial" government shutdown and I think we should change the name , it should be the "selective, special -interest government shutdown", after all even the Republicans proposed and passed all kinds of changes to the shutdown, military, veterans, defense workers, federal workers are now guaranteed back pay, etc… which is all fine by me but don't stand on principle declaring that you will never bend . But worse, the American people are now confused over why? First it was to "defund " Obamacare, then the Republicans said well how about postponing the individual mandate for a year, then it was to get rid of the exemptions. Now Speaker John Boehner says today "we just want the President to talk with us" and is declaring that as Oct 17th approaches they are not budging till the President talks to them about our national debt crisis. So, does that mean the Obamacare demands are gone and now they want to discuss debt issues before voting for a "clean CR" ? As I said last week this is not going to end well for Republicans, standing on principle I am all for, but this is a moving message and the American people are trying to catch up to what the plan is? When you want to rally the hearts of the American people you better state the objective, make it clear , make it simple and then attach the bayonets for battle.


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... In addition to the near-complete erosion of cargoes shipped to Turkey, shipments to South Korea, China and Taiwan were equally bleak. ... View this article
... in nickel pig iron (NPI) production in China. ... the price plunge to "weaker Chinese sentiment, weakness ... lows tomorrow if copper sinks below $7,000 ... View this article
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Will more metals companies discontinue health care coverage for their employees in light of the Affordable Care Act?
June 20-21, 2013 New York
The EPA is using the rule on haze to force cumbersome and expensive federal restrictions on power production, mining and other activities that impact steel manufacturing.
--Thomas J. Gibson, AISI