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The Slytherin Quidditch Team is a team of seven students from Slytherin House in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry put together each year to compete against the other three teams from the school for the Quidditch Cup. The other three teams are the Gryffindor Quidditch Team, the Hufflepuff Quidditch Team and the Ravenclaw Quidditch Team. A captain is also chosen from the team's House to conduct trials to pick his or her fellow teammates, organise the training sessions and plan their team's tactics. The Slytherin team wear green robes.
[edit] Hogwarts League
[edit] Known teams and results
[edit] 1991/1992
The first Quidditch match of the season was against Gryffindor. Their new Seeker, Harry Potter was blocked by Captain Marcus Flint, allowing Gryffindor a penalty. The match was complicated by an attempt on Harry's life by Defence Against the Dark Arts professor, Quirinus Quirrell. Flint took advantage of this distraction to score five goals, however despite the attack Harry still managed to catch the Snitch, albeit with his mouth.[1]
The second game of the season against Gryffindor was refereed not by Madam Hooch as was usual, but by head of Slytherin House, Severus Snape who was biased in Hufflepuff's favour. Despite this, Harry Potter was able to catch the Snitch in an incredibly fast time.
Line up:
Chasers: Captain Marcus Flint, Adrian Pucey
Seeker: Terence Higgs
Other players unknown
Slytherin vs Gryffindor: 60 - 170[1]
Slytherin vs Ravenclaw: Unknown
Slytherin vs Hufflepuff: Unknown
Slytherin won the Quidditch Cup.
[edit] 1992/1993
In this season the Slytherin team caused a stir by using superior broomsticks, the Nimbus 2001. These were given to the team by Lucius Malfoy whose son Draco was the new Seeker. During their first match against Gryffindor a Bludger had been fixed to attack the Gryffindor Seeker by Dobby the house elf The other games were cancelled thanks to a series of attacks after the Chamber of Secrets was opened.[2]
Line up:
Chasers: Captain Marcus Flint, Adrian Pucey
Seeker: Draco Malfoy
Other players unknown
Slytherin vs Gryffindor: 60 - 150[3]
Slytherin vs Ravenclaw: Cancelled[2]
Slytherin vs Hufflepuff: Cancelled
Slytherin kept the Quidditch Cup.
[edit] 1993/1994
The first match Gryffindor vs Slytherin was rescheduled as Malfoy was injured, instead Gryffindor played Hufflepuff. During the game, the pitch was invaded by Dementors, which affected Seeker Harry Potter, who fainted and fell off his broom, resulting in his team lossing the game.[4] During the Gryffindor vs Ravenclaw match, Slytherins Draco Malfoy, Vincent Crabbe, Gregory Goyle and Marcus Flint attempt to fool Harry into believing the Dementors have done the same again, not knowing that Harry could now cast a Patronus Charm, which he did.
Line up:
Keeper: Miles Bletchley
Chasers: Captain Marcus Flint, Montague and Warrington
Seeker: Draco Malfoy
Slytherin vs Ravenclaw: Slytherin win, though narrowly[5]
Slytherin vs Hufflepuff: Unknown, though Slytherin probably won as they were in the lead overall by 200 points afterwards[6]
Slytherin vs Gryffindor: 20 - 230[6]
Gryffindor won the Quidditch Cup.
[edit] 1994/1995
The Quidditch league was cancelled this year thanks to the Triwizard Tournament.
[edit] 1995/1996
Montague replaced Flint as Captain during this year and brought back Chaser Adrian Pucey. During the first match the Slytherin supporters made up a song attacking new Gryffindor Keeper, Ron Weasley. After the match, which Gryffindor won, Seeker Draco Malfoy managed to antagonise the team's Seeker and Beaters to the point where they tried to attack him. For the rest of the season the Gryffindor team was largely using substitutes thanks to Professor Dolores Umbridge banning the Beaters and Seeker.[7]
Line up:
Keeper: Miles Bletchley
Chasers: Captain Montague, Adrian Pucey and Warrington
Beaters: Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle
Seeker: Draco Malfoy
Slytherin vs Gryffindor: 40 - 160[7]
Slytherin vs Ravenclaw: Unknown
Slytherin vs Hufflepuff: Hufflepuff win, by a narrow margin[8]
Gryffindor won the Quidditch Cup.
[edit] 1996/1997
Urquhart took over as the new captain for Slytherin. He brought in a new Chaser, Vaisey, who was hit in the head by a Bludger the day before their first match against Gryffindor and couldn't play. Also Draco Malfoy skipped the match and paid Harper to replace him, in order to concentrate on fixing a Vanishing Cabinet for Voldemort.[9]
Line up:
Keeper: Miles Bletchley
Chasers: Captain Urquhart, Vaisey
Beaters: Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle
Seeker: Draco Malfoy (reserve Seeker: Harper)
The third Chaser is unknown
Slytherin vs Gryffindor: Gryffindor won, by an unknown but probably fairly large margin.[9]
Slytherin vs Ravenclaw: Unknown
Slytherin vs Hufflepuff: Unknown
Gryffindor won the Quidditch Cup


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Garza, who hasn't pitched in a big league game since July 21, gave up three hits, struck out two and walked two against Birmingham in the Southern League game. He also made a diving catch of a bunt attempt.
Garza said he threw each of his different pitches and that "everything felt good."
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There comes a key sequence of plays in every rivalry game that ultimately decides the outcome.
Such a sequence happened midway through the fourth quarter Friday night in the Stars' 32-21 win against Lebanon.
The Tigers trailed by just five at 26-21 and Zac Bradley had just intercepted Western Boone quarterback C.J. McMann at the Lebanon 12.
Lebanon got a first down and called a reverse for Caleb Brannon, who made one of the more athletic plays you will ever see in high school football and hurdled Gage Veach. Unfortunately, leaping over a defender is not allowed in high school football and he was called for a 15-yard penalty and the Tigers were forced to punt.
A short punt gave the Stars the ball on the Tigers' 39, but it appeared like the Tigers' were going to force a stop when they had Western Boone at third and 11.
But McMann found L.V. Bowden for a 40-yard touchdown on a wheel route and the Tigers' never threatened the lead again. Bowden had only eight receptions for 78 yards on the season, but had 3 for 58 and two scores Friday.
"We had practiced the play a lot so I knew it was coming," Bowden said. "I dropped one on the same play last week so I wanted to make up for it."
Western Boone head coach Jed Richman said he was excited for Bowden to contribute in the receiving game.
"That is just a competitor out there," Richman said. "It is exciting to see kids making plays. I don't know if we have ever beaten Lebanon three times in a row, and if we have, it hasn't been since the late 1980s."
Lebanon never threatened the lead after that.
There were plenty of other big plays Friday night.
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Western Boone also forced four turnovers on the night to overcome a couple of big Lebanon plays (a 49-yard pass from Isaac Harker to Jake Marshall and a 53-yard run by Collin Campbell) that led to scores.
Garrett Alexander picked off Isaac Harker's first pass of the game and returned it to the Tigers' five yard line, from where C.J. McMann scored from five yards out.
After the Tigers cut the lead to 12-7 and forced a Stars' punt, Lebanon drove down to the Western Boone 44, but a fumble gave the ball back to Western Boone and the Stars went on a 10-play drive to go up 20-7.
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The President and CEO of Baptist Health Systems, Madison City officials and local businesses are breaking the ice.
"Are yall cold? I think yall brought a little sleet," said Madison Mayor, Mary Hawkins-Butler.
"Christmas on ice is a fantastic event that will bring people from all over to Madison and the Madison campus here at Baptist to celebrate Christ and the Christian healing ministry," Mark Slyter, President and CEO of Baptist Health Systems said.
In just a few weeks instead of rain there will be lots of ice here. An open field will be transformed into a winter wonderland. The director says it truly will be one of the coolest events in the south.
"We've got 51 days starting November 17, a 7200 square foot ice rink, but we know in the south our ankles hurt after 20 minutes on the ice, so we've got a 125 foot long ice slide. We've got the Trustmark Stage, 51 concerts in 51 nights, church choirs, school choirs, and then we've got the Pepsi Pavilion where people can have corporate parties, birthday parties. Its gonna be a blast," said Steve Hutton, Director of Christmas On Ice.
In addition to ice skating, there will be a cafe, and families can pick out their Christmas tree. There will also be a Christmas story trail.
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Its secretive and elusive owners promise the building will be rehabilitated and put to good use, but they have dodged detection as dried weeds and litter have overtaken the grounds. The only apparent work conducted since the building was purchased in August 2012 is a green, 6-foot tall tarp-like fence. The barrier reportedly was intended to keep transients out but instead functions as a privacy screen for homeless people who frequent a nearby pocket park.
On Friday, the owners issued an email response to Press Democrat inquiries in which they said they had a plan to clean up and secure the property. The statement, issued through a spokesman, also stated the building eventually will serve as a live/work space for sustainable design and development. A timeline for improvements was not provided by the spokesman, Ukiah attorney Barry Vogel.
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Marlins Park, home to the Miami Marlins, was built on the historic Orange Bowl site in Miami�s Little Havana just west of Downtown Miami and is a beautiful state-of-the-art stadium complete with a retractable roof. The cost to build Marlins Park was $515 million, and many of those millions were spent to ensure that fans have the best stadium experience possible. The stadium is the only Gold LEED-Certified facility in the world with a retractable roof.
The FANFARE scale is our metric device for rating each stadium experience. It covers the following:
Each area is rated from 0 to 5 stars with 5 being the best. The overall composite score is the "FANFARE Score".
If you go to the ballpark hungry, Marlins Park will not disappoint. And you won't have to travel too far from your seat, since food and drink venues are abundant. They have all the ballpark standards: hot dogs, popcorn, peanuts, and yes, cracker jacks. You can find BBQ Pork Sandwiches ($10) and BBQ Pork Nachos ($9.50).
Sir Pizza can also be found. An individual pizza (cheese or pepperoni) costs $10. There is a Kids Shack, where you can get a Kids Meal for $7 that includes a hot dog or peanut butter and jelly, applesauce and juice. At Burger 305, you can get chicken tenders, french fries, hot dogs, chicken sandwiches and, of course, burgers. Have a need for kosher or gluten-free fare? The ballpark has those covered, as well.
Want to try a little of the local cuisine? The park offers a variety of Latin American flavors. At the Goya Latin Caf�, you can feast on Cuban fare, rice and beans, and assorted sandwiches. Marlins Park has an area called the Taste of Miami. You can get a Cuban sandwich or a Midnight sandwich, both served with mariquitas ($12) at Latin American Grill. Panna Caf� offers cachitos ($7), tequenos ($4), mini empanadas ($10) and other Latin delights. At Papo Llega y Pon, you can feast on a pork sandwich ($7) and pork rinds ($6). To wrap up the Taste of Miami area, you'll find Don Cameron Seafood Grill and Market. They serve ceviche ($10), a half-dozen oysters ($9), a Don Cameron fritter ($9) and a snapper minuta sandwich ($12).
And if none of that interests you, perhaps you might like some sushi instead ($9-$20).
In case you're thirsty for something a little stronger than soda, the ballpark has two bars to accommodate you (three if you count the Clevelander - see the Extras section below). The Budweiser Bowtie Bar is located on the Promenade Level in left field and, in right-center field, you will find the Bacardi Oakheart bar. At both bars, you can get a mixed drink or a beer ($8-$10). The Bowtie Bar is a popular meeting and gathering place that also provides a great view of the Miami skyline.
Marlins Park is definitely Miami. It oozes Miami - the artwork, the aquariums, the "nightclub". The colors around the ballpark, the food and the air conditioning make for a nice atmosphere to see a game. Marlins Park has three high-quality video boards. The main video board is in center field, with another located in left field, giving every fan a decent video board view. The third video board is located in the West Plaza outside the ballpark. The outside video board carries the game.
The Marlins ownership and the designers of the ballpark really worked on giving fans a great ballpark experience. When the roof is closed, it really does get loud when there is something to cheer about, and the Marlins use that to their advantage.
Marlins Park is nestled inside of Miami's famed Little Havana community. Unfortunately, there is not a lot around the stadium, except for houses and businesses. Across the street, you will find a Wendy's, and another block away, there are two sports bars, the Batting Cage Sports Bar and the Bowl Bar. There are street vendors set up across the street from the stadium selling hot dogs, sausages and drinks at a reasonable price.
The Marlins fans do come out and support the team. You will also find a good amount of fans cheering for the other team. Those fans are either tourists or are transplanted residents from the city of the visiting club. This makes for a fun environment to see a game.
The fans are knowledgeable and have a certain love for the game that comes from being a baseball fan all their lives. They may have become Marlins fans just years ago, but the love of the game does come through.
Getting to Marlins Park has gradually become easier. Marlins Park is off of SR 836, also called the Dolphin Expressway. If you are going westbound on the 836, take the NW 12th Avenue exit. If you are headed eastbound on the 836, take the 17th Avenue exit. You can also get to the stadium via I-95 by taking the NW 8th Street exit.
There are four parking garages and a few surface lots at the park. Parking in the garages costs $15- $25, depending on the game. Parking vouchers can be purchased in advance on the Marlins website. Depending on availability, some garages may accept cash. If you don't want to mess around with looking for parking, the best bet is to buy your parking voucher in advance.
The residents around the stadium open their front yards to allow you to park there. Most are cheaper than parking at the stadium garages.
Public transportation to the games is also available. There are eight bus routes that will get you within a few blocks of the ballpark. If you are taking the Metrorail, make your way to Culmer Station, where the Marlins Shuttle will take you to Marlins Park.
The stadium concourses are wide. The bathrooms are clean. All the seats have a cup holder and decent legroom.
This ballpark is definitely worth a visit. The Marlins have a ticket special every day of the week, so you can go to a game on the cheap. Plus, the cheapest ticket is $9. The money you save on the tickets can be put toward eating at the ballpark.
Nothing says Miami more than outrageous nightclubs. So it only makes sense that Marlins Park is home to The Clevelander, a nightclub located behind the left field fence. In addition to the food and drinks you would expect to find at any bar, the Clevelander has DJs, dancers and a swimming pool. Seating is available on the field level and is next to the visiting team's bullpen. Who knows - maybe you will catch a homerun ball while taking a dip in the pool. This is a definite hot spot after the game. Game tickets are available to sit in the Clevelander.
If the nightclub scene isn't your thing, perhaps you would be interested in what this writer thinks is the coolest thing at the park - The Bobblehead Museum. Located on the Promenade Level, the Museum has approximately 600 bobbleheads of former and current players. Some mascot bobbleheads are included, as well. The entire structure moves slightly to cause the heads to bobble. A computer is available so you can search your favorite player to see if he has a bobblehead in the collection.
Marlins Park has a very cool backstop - the aquariums. These two 450-gallon saltwater fish tanks are made of fiberglass and 1.5 inches of crystal clear acrylic panels. A special material has been applied to the front of the tanks to protect it from foul balls and errant pitches.
Marlins Park has some incredible artwork. There is the Home Run Sculpture by Red Grooms. The West Plaza was designed by Carlos Cruz-Diez. The Orange Bowl tribute on the East Plaza was designed by Daniel Arsham, who took ten-foot-high reproductions of the letters that spelled out "Miami Orange Bowl" and scattered them throughout the plaza. Art can also be found on the four parking garages around the stadium. Christian Moeller took the four main entryways and created murals that cover the sides of the ballpark that face the stadium.
Marlins Park is truly a stadium worth a visit. It's like a piece of art. I believe it was built with that in mind. Of course, that makes sense, since the owner of the Marlins is an art dealer. You can go see the art of baseball while looking at art and sitting in a piece of art. And don't forget - it's air conditioned, too!
No Eats?
I'm really surprised that there aren't any good places to eat in the area. Anything is an upgrade after the set-up at Sun Life Stadium, but I would have hoped for a place to grab a mojito and a Cuban-style sandwich...
by paul | Apr 16, 2012 09:26 AM
I don't think anyone can give Marlins' fans a 4 with a straight face. Certainly there is a honeymoon period with a new stadium opening, but the fans in Miami have a lot to prove before handing them anything beyond a 2. I understand that they were in an awful facility, but they were in the bottom 3 of attendance figures each of the past 7 years. I have no doubt that the Fans and Atmosphere were perfect scores on opening night, but I think we need to be honest with ourselves in fairness to the other 29 franchises. Of course, I have not visited and could be completely out of line with these comments
by DrewCieszynski | Apr 17, 2012 01:34 AM
While I do agree that the fans of the Marlins have been dismal the past few season, I credit that to he park more than anything. For a Sunday afternoon game in Miami against the Astros, a team that Miami has no real connection with unlike a divisional rival, the fans were there and were electric. Based on the experience I had that particular game they deserved a 4. Judging by past seasons, they probably don't deserve anything at all.
by jackson.wolek | Apr 17, 2012 06:57 PM
Cool place...but
There are two MAJOR problems with this place. As much as I enjoyed my trip there, these two things somewhat killed it.
1. The ushers seriously need to get over themselves. They were rather rude to people in getting them to move back behind the railings in the standing room only sections, and how DARE one try to go into a section for which they were not ticketed. For all the standing room they offer in the park, the ushers are total jerks to anyone wanting to experience an actual seat in a different part of the park -- or to even stand behind one of their precious railings. Because of this, I would strongly recommend buying tickets from an outside ticket vendor instead of the team.
2. The Marlins Shuttle is a great idea, but there are some serious flaws in the execution that the city needs to rectify. I stayed at the Earlington Heights station for 40-plus minutes because the city was only running trains on a single track (on a Saturday? what?), and it almost made me late for the game. After the game, the shuttle was delayed getting back to the Culmer station because of having to sit in traffic. The Braves shuttle system, for instance, has a dedicated lane with police presence to get them out of there. There's very little benefit to the shuttle service if you're just going to make everyone wait.
Nice place, and to address the above comments on fans, it was pretty freaking loud most of the night, and the crowd was supportive. We may want to check back in year two or three, but it's a pretty interesting experience at this stage of the game.
by brian | Apr 29, 2012 07:32 PM
Too bad no one wants to go....
Just read that they are going to close the entire upper section of the ball park because not enough people are attending the games... doesnt matter how nice the park is if the owner doesn't care about the ball club, the city or the fans.
by miamigirl | May 08, 2013 12:53 PM
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Traffic, parking, directions and food will all need to improve. Park is different but fun, has a taste of disney and South Florida, while bringing the excitement of the Majors.
The brand new ballpark built specifically for the Miami Marlins has a unique Miami flavor to it, one that you might not see at any other Major League stadium. With the new park built near downtown Miami, the Marlins franchise made major changes to how the team looked. With a new logo and colors, new players, and a new location, the Marlins clearly decided to appeal as much as they could to the Hispanic fan base in Miami. The biggest difference between where they play now and Sun Life Stadium is the benefit of playing indoors. The retractable roof allows fans to come watch a game whenever they want now and not have to worry about sitting in 90˚ heat during day games, or risk 1-2 hour rain delays that frequently occurred in the past. In fact, they are planning on opening up the roof just 11 times out of the 81 home games this season.
On the outside of the stadium there is very little to do or see, as the surrounding neighborhood is nothing but residential. When you walk into the stadium, however, you are awestruck. There are two walkways that wrap around the entire stadium. On the lower section, you can find food vendors and merchandise any which way you turn. You can also find the Bobble Head Museum, which consists of over one hundred different bobble heads of baseball players and is interesting to look at. Something else that sticks out right away is the huge sculpture in the outfield. At a height between 65 and 75 feet, it can�t be missed. It consists of palm trees, marlins, flamingos, water, and a rainbow. I see it as resembling something that the Mets have at Citi Field with the huge apple, but even crazier. Every time a home run is hit by a Marlin player, it is activated and lights up, with the marlins going around in circles and water spurting out. I had the pleasure of seeing the very first time it went off, when Omar Infante hit the very first home run for a Marlin in the park.
There really isn�t much of a bad view in the park, as every angle offers a good look at the game.
What I noticed many fans doing was standing along the walkway viewing the game rather than sitting, which is best done behind home plate or in the outfield near one of the many bars. On the upper level, which you can get to via escalator, you get perhaps the best view of downtown Miami looking toward the outfield. Since the stadium looking toward the outfield is glass, you can find terrific views of downtown Miami. Other than that, though, the upper section does not have anything too unique. One more unique thing is the aquarium as the backstop behind home plate. It is built so that no ball can penetrate it, and it houses live fish inside. Also, in left field there is a section called the Clevelander which is basically a club scene with a pool you can swim in, a DJ, and a bar, all on the lowest section of the park. It can hold up to 240 guests, and you must be 21 or older to go in. It is only open to guests who have a specific ticket to get in during the game, but afterwards it is open to anyone of age, and is said that it will stay open much later on weekends.
I spent two games at new Marlins Park, one with the roof and left field panels wid eoopen and one with it shut tight. Without a doubt, this is the best new ballpark to be opened in the majors in years. I did not feel that way at first glance, but the more accepting I became of the contemporary architecture style, the innovative design elements and the integrating of a strong and vibrant Latin culture to the venue, the more it became clear who magnificent Marlins Park is. But keep in mind, you will not be able to enter the ballpark with expectations similar to what you have enjoyed at other ballparks. This one is so different. However, knowing all new ballparks are going to have many of these design elements moving forward (you hear this Oakland and Tampa?), enter Marlins Park with an open mind and submit to the new world in baseball venues.
Four great things about this new ballpark:
1) Free street parking within two blocks.
2) The bakery out front and Taste of Miami inside
3) Tickets available from fans at very reduced prices
4) The Clevelander
Well worth a weekend series!
I have to say I was pretty disappointed by the new Marlins Park. The dimensions are pretty rough and everything seems way to spread out. The atmosphere was decent at best but the fans I spoke with were very friendly. Parking is an ease we found some ten dollar parking pretty close to the ballpark. Ticket prices were at the cheapest 10 bucks which is definitely worth it, just have to say wasn't blown away.
The park is really a nice and unique place to go and see a baseball game. There is an atmosphere I get walking around this park that you rarely feel anywhere else, it's refreshing! However, for those who like to hang by the park and do stuff around town before the game, you will be out of luck as this is not the best part of town. A really old neighborhood surrounds the stadium with virtually no places to eat. Food in the park is actually quite good though!
The fans to me are great, but nothing beyond your typical fan base for a pro baseball game. Access to the park is not easy, but not hard either. There isn't much designated parking, but there are so many people letting you park on their lawns for $10 right in front of the stadium it isn't that hard to find a place. In fact, the time I've had a parking pass it took me longer to get to the right lot because of how traffic was being directed.
If you like to enjoy a good baseball venue without necessarily making an outing around town part of the experience this is one the best parks in the league. Drive a little into better parts of Miami for a nice dining experience if you so desire!
For the fact no one shows up, traffic was horrendous enough to back up all the way onto I-95, over a mile away from the main parking areas. Once you manage your way through the traffic jams and sketchy neighborhood, you get shocked by the price of going; thankfully, I got my ticket through work, but there's no way I'd pay $88 to sit along the first base line on my own.
Inside, it's actually a really cool park, even if it does come off as trendy and even a bit tacky. Being able to see the downtown skyline through the left-field glass wall is cool, and watching baseball in 72˚F comfort is always welcomed.
Food is a bit overpriced, but nothing out of the ordinary for a MLB park. Sir Pizza provides pizza in numerous stalls, which is really good, and everything from tacos and burgers are all available. The Cuban sandwiches are wet, though (and how that happens on a hot press is beyond me), and toward the 7th inning, hot dogs, pizzas, and burgers were all SOLD OUT THROUGHOUT THE PARK! How the heck does that happen?! Are they that non-used to 20,000 people they plan on food for only 12k?! That's pathetic.
And that "thing" in the outfield that signifies home runs is so gaudy and absurd, only Miami would be expected to try to pull it off. Somehow it works, but I still have no idea why.
Bright points are the retractable roof and glass wall, which I had the pleasure of seeing in action after the game ended when they started watering the grass and needed the sun in there, and the Clevelander, which is probably the coolest and trendiest bar in any MLB park.
It's not a bad park. As a park, it's better than Tropicana Field, but only marginally. Its neighborhood, access, food, and pricing, however, fail in making a turnaround from their old home in the sizzling South Florida sun. The fact that no one shows up underscores that point.
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Last week's report that Johnny Damon would be added to the Indians' roster when they opened a three-game series against the White Sox in Chicago has been confirmed:
#Indians drop infielder Jose Lopez from roster to make room for Johnny Damon.
— paul hoynes (@hoynsie) May 1, 2012
Lopez, who had a 25-homer, 96-RBI season for the Mariners just three years ago, had been used sparingly by the Indians, playing in just five games and hitting .190/.190/.381 in 21 plate appearances.
For tonight, at least, Damon will serve as a pinch-hitter; according to baseballpress.com's lineup page, he is not in Cleveland's starting lineup, possibly because the White Sox are going with lefthander Chris Sale.
Shelley Duncan, Michael Brantley and Aaron Cunningham are the starting outfielders for the Tribe Tuesday night. Though Damon is 38 and played just 16 games in the outfield last year for the Rays, that's where he'll have to get most of his playing time, as Travis Hafner is their everyday DH.
For more on the Indians, please visit Let's Go Tribe and SB Nation Cleveland.


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my bro loved this book he could not stop laughing!!!
Brilliant! The author plays off the original tale in playful and very funny ways, and all to end up with a very clever twist at the end!
A bear wanders into a busy, noisy city and seeks refuge ... in a towering apartment building. But the bear, who only wants some porridge and a place to rest, has trouble finding accommodations that are just right. One chair that he tries (actually a cactus) is "too ouchy," another (a cat) "too noisy," but he finally finds a place for a nap. And then the owners of the apartment return home, putting the poor bear face-to-face with a certain blonde someone from his childhood. This fun and clever addition to the fractured-fairy-tale genre has illustrations that are just as bright and busy as the city they depict
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After more than 30 years of working at Penn State Beaver, Donna Kuga has many favorite moments, from winning volleyball championships when she was a coach to having a scholarship named after her to seeing former students return to campus to tell of their success.
"You enjoy what you do, and before you know it, 20 to 30 years have passed," she said.
After growing up just a few miles from campus, Kuga decided to attend Penn State Beaver as a student "because of the size and the upward movement to University Park," she said.
While a student here, she was both a commuter and a resident and understands why students would want to live on campus even though their own home isn't far away. Kuga spent her sophomore year living in the dorms.
Kuga earned a degree in health and physical education at Penn State, and once she had her degree in hand, she became the women's volleyball coach at Penn State Beaver. She had heard about the job from her Penn State Beaver mentor, an example of why it's great to go to a small campus, she said.
Kuga soon became a full-time faculty member and spent the next 18 years as a professor teaching health and physical education classes and enjoying the opportunity to interact with the students.
For the past 12 years Kuga has served as the director of academic affairs. As an administrator, she works with faculty members to help them offer the best academic programs possible. "It's nice that I wasn't teaching forever," she said, referring to her many positions on campus. "Having different jobs keeps things new."
Kuga's main goals for the future are to ensure that majors offered at Penn State Beaver are of the highest quality, to provide a positive experience for students, and to provide academic services that are helpful to students. "In terms of 2+2, I want to ensure that our students who are going to transfer have a solid strong academic experience here," she said.
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September 1, 2004, 4:00 AM
By Chris Jones
SAM HOLMAN WAS IN A HOTEL ROOM IN BOSTON when Barry called. It was August 2001, by Sam's best recollection, which even on the clearest mornings can be a little murky. Doesn't matter much. They were dog days anyhow.
He'd been killing an idle afternoon by watching Barry on TV, watching, in fact, Barry bounce three liners off the wall in nine innings. Already, Sam had done the math. He'd been telling Barry for some time that the bat he was usingSam's bat, kiln-dried rock maple from Quebec, hand turned in Sam's garage in Ottawa and stained black and cherry by a former minor league catcher named Bill, whose right hand is now permanently cramped into a painter's fistwas too light. Not by much. Maybe a tenth of an ouncea sheet of newsprint, a few leaves of grass. That was the difference between doubles off the wall and home runs, between a man in scoring position and immortality.
In some ways, they'd failed. Sam and Barry, together, had been working to make true this one thing since 1999, not long after Barry was introduced to Sam's homemade bats by Joe Carter, the first big leaguer to use one in a game (illegally, but successfully, hitting a first-at-bat home run against either Milwaukee or Kansas City, depending on which legend you're inclined to believe).
"No way I'm swinging a thirty-five-inch bat," Barry told Joe at the time, which Joe reported to Sam, who didn't offer the widest selection out of that garage of his. But Barry deigned to swing one the next spring in Arizona, accepting a bag of thirty-four-inch lumber that Sam had carried three thousand miles to give him. Barry nodded and headed out to the cage, and Sam had butterflies in his gut, and Barry promptly sent all sorts of kids chasing all sorts of balls over the fence, which sent Sam's butterflies into his throat. Then Barry sat down with Sam in the dugout, and they spoke for an hournot like old friends, nothing like that, but like professionals, like two men who figured out early in their acquaintance that each had something to take from the other. They talked about bats and craft and home runs, and Sam believes that Barry knew then, in the cool of the spring desert shade, that he was going to make history with Sam's bat.
Knew until August 2001 or thereabouts, when Sam was sitting in a hotel room in Bostonor was it New York?and Barry was bouncing liners off the wall. That's when the doubt began creeping in. And that's when they talked again, and Barry agreed to let Sam add that tenth of an ounce to Barry's bat, lifting the chisel off the round a half second earlier than Sam had been instructed to before, a half second that would make all the difference in the world, only a little too late.
"People always ask me about Barry's seventy-three home runs and whether the record will stand the test of time," Sam says today, sitting on a pub patio in his dusted overalls and wearing the number, literally, on his sleeve. "I tell 'em, Nope. Because Barry could have hit seventy-six."
Open flame scares him, and so does sawdust fine enough to spark. So do hitting slumps and fickle equipment managers and pitches hard and in on the hands. And future record snappers, too.All of those things conspire against him, waking him up at night, running high against the hope that every one of us harbors, that he's built something to last, first in the fists of that one great player who comes along once in a generation and then in some museum somewhere, under glass, unbreakable.
Sam's bats are in the Smithsonian and they are in the Hall of Fame, and because his bats are made out of maple, the ones still in circulation have a good chance of lasting as long as they did as trees. He reminds himself of that whenever he misreads the wood in his lathe and it lashes out at him as if a current ran through it.
For the most part, the maple has been good to him, giving him an edge on all the big sporting-goods companies that rested on hokum like "Powerized," and baseball's old matchstick world. But the maple has also tested Sam, nipping hard at his patience and fingers. (It flat-out ate a couple belonging to his brother-in-law, who now keeps his distance from the unfinished product, instead stamping the names of the players on their shiny new bats.) If wood could be said to have a personality, maple'd be petulant. Hellion petulant.
Its relative density is the difference. On a hardness scale of one to five, with one being yellow pine and five being as close as wood gets to steel, maple is just about the only thing shipped in board feet that'd be worth a five. That's better than ash (a four, say, along with oak and walnut), which is what Louisville Sluggers have always been made out of, and which is why the average player will go through them by the dozen, while Sam ships out his orders in boxes of six. And it's better than elm, which is diseased, and hemlock, which is bowed, and birch, which is so pliable that even the thinnest sheets of ice weigh it down in winter.
But maple, for all its powers, is demanding, and it's expensive, and yeah, it's petulant, especially if you look at it wrong.
Not a lot of difference, then, in how Sam sees maple and how we see Barry and how the future, ultimately, might have seen them both.
Sam keeps two bats opposite the big stone fireplace in his living room. One is a Mizuno Pro, one of the few soulless things the Japanese will make out of wood. This particular Mizuno Pro was churned out for Eric Davis; it's conventional in shape, natural in finish, with Davis's number written in black marker inside the cup. There's not one thing remarkable about it, apart from the obscure incantations running down its length, also written in black marker but in a surer hand, in big, dramatic block letters, like an architect's handwriting on blueprints. FLARE HANDLE, it reads in one spot; 34-32 in another. It's meaningless stuff, until Sam holds up the other bat, with a familiar black-and-cherry finish and different inscriptions written in the same hand: TO SAM. NO. 548. 8-18-01. BARRY BONDS. "This," Sam says, holding up his bat, "came from this," now holding up the Mizuno. "This is what we did."
Sam's bat, Barry's battheir bathas been fine-tuned like a harp. The handle is something like an inch thick, on the thick end of the handle spectrum; the knob is more than two inches across, almost twice what's normal. The barrel is fat, too, but the maple is the best of the best, good enough that Sam can carve its thirty-four-inch length down to just less than thirty-two ounces despite its volume. The handle is further bolstered with white tape, first in circles that erase any kind of seam between the handle and the knob, and then in a crisscross pattern, the way Barry tapes every one of his bats, because he leaves nothing to accident.
The date above the signature, August 18, 2001, is also telltale, dating the bat to sometime after that dog day spent in a Boston hotel and after a phone conversation that changed baseball history. Barry hit the 548th home run of his career with this bat, one of those seventy-three home runs he hit over the course of that record season. This bat's been places.
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"Let's do this."
That's what a very brave 24-year-old Aimee Copeland said to her father, Andy Copeland, '83, when faced with the prospect of losing her hands and feet in order to save her life while battling a rare flesh-decaying virus. Now, "Let's do this" is a challenge posed to alumni and fans of the University of South Carolina and the University of Georgia to give blood.
My Carolina Alumni Association and the University of Georgia Alumni Association are hosting a "Border Bash" blood drive in the name of graduate student Aimee Copeland, who remains in critical condition at Doctors Hospital of Augusta after contracting a rare flesh-decaying infection following a fall from a homemade zip-line along the Little Tallapoosa River near Carrollton, Georgia, in early May.
The blood drive in Columbia will be held on Monday, June 11, from 11 a.m. until 7 p.m. in the house owned by Sigma Phi Epsilon National Housing corporation at 509 Lincoln Street in the Greek Village. The house is located off Blossom Street next to the Strom Thurmond Fitness and Wellness facility. The first 100 donors to the campus donation site will receive a gift courtesy of My Carolina and The State newspaper.
If you are unable to get to the site on campus, the Red Cross Columbia Donor Center is open Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from 11 a.m. until 7 p.m., and on Thursday and Friday from 7 a.m. until 2 p.m. at 2751 Bull Street.
This is a nationwide challenge, so anyone not living in or near Columbia, SC, or Athens, GA, is encouraged to go to any blood donation center to contribute and if so inclined, declare that the donation is in honor of Aimee Copeland. The University of Georgia will hold its blood drive at Memorial Hall on campus on June 13 from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. and at Reed hall from 2 p.m. until 7 p.m. View a list of South Carolina blood-donation centers.
Aimee Copeland's story has made national headlines in recent weeks as the 24-year-old Georgia alumna and daughter of Carolina alumnus Andy Copeland fights for her life after having already lost her leg, both hands and remaining foot. For most, the bacteria that infected her are not life-threatening, but for Aimee, it created an infection that has been literally destroying flesh and endangering organs.
"It takes no courage to give blood; it only takes time," says Andy Copeland. "When you think it's too much trouble to give blood, think about that 24-year old gal lying in that hospital bed without a leg, foot and two hands. Think about her stout bravery in the face of fire. Think about the wounded veterans who come home every day missing limbs. Think about the day when you might face your own family tragedy. Don't be the person who says, 'I wish I had given blood;' be the person who says, 'I'm so glad I gave.'"
Doctors have said it was "a perfect storm" of bad luck that set things in motion for Aimee, who is currently a graduate student at the University of West Georgia. The bacteria, known as Aeromonas hydrophila, are believed to have entered her body through the leg injury from the fall that required nearly two dozen staples to close.
While the blood drives are in honor of Aimee, the donations could help countless others.
"Burn and wound patients go through more units of blood than any other patients at Doctors Hospital," Andy Copeland says. "As of Monday (May 21), Aimee had been through over 200 units of blood products, including red blood cells, fresh frozen plasma, platelets and cryo. These units are slow to be replaced, and keep in mind that there are over 70 beds in the burn unit alone. While Aimee has been at Doctors for about four weeks, some patients have been there for six months. After each surgery, these patients require additional units of blood."
Andy Copeland appealed to My Carolina and the UGA Alumni Association because he knew both alumni bases believe in reaching out and making an impact on the lives of others.
"I believe we share a special fellowship of love and compassion and we need to prove to the world that life transcends sports," Copeland says. "We should face the world with an effort toward making it a better place for everyone. Now is the time for us to assert leadership in all things, whether it is our baseball team winning national titles back to back or our football team beating our Upstate rivals and winning bowl games. We are willing to give our money to support our sports programs, but are we willing to give our blood to support life? The answer to that should be a resounding, 'Yes!'"
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Looking to clinch the number three seed in the NCHA playoffs, the UWSP mens hockey team took on St. Norbert tonight at the K.B. Willett Arena.
Late in the first period goalie Brandon Jaeger looked to have the save clearly in hand when the net got dislodged, but the referee said the puck crossed the line, and Cody Keefer was awarded the goal at the 18:52 mark.
Then again in the second it was St. Norbert putting the puck in the net, as Derek Donahue fired wide, but Chris Rial was there for the rebound and the putback as he put the Green Knights up two.
Point tried to make a comeback in the third as Kyle Heck put in the power play goal to reduce the St. Norbert lead to one. But, with time winding down, Point pulled their goalie, and St. Norbert capitalized as they scored the empty net goal with only one second remaining to down the Pointers three to one.
However, Point did capture the number three seed because of a St. Scholastica loss.
UW-Stevens Point will host UW-River Falls February 15-16.
After dropping game one of its weekend series, the UWSP womens hockey team looked to rebound today as they hosted UW-Superior for senior night.
But, the Pointers found themselves in a hole early as Superior scored two goals just over five minutes in to the game. But midway through the first period Josie Johnson cut the deficit in half as she scored off the assist from Michelle Lunneborg.
Then midway through the second, Brooke Hanson knotted the game at two a piece, off the assist from Johnson.
However, that tie would be short-lived, as UW-Superior took advantage of a UWSP penalty to take a three to two advantage in to the third period.
After the Yellowjackets scored their fourth goal of the contest in the third, Point pulled their goalie to skate an extra attacker, and UW-Superior would capitalize on the empty net and put in the goal to seal their victory five to two.
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Offensively, there's little not to like about the Eagles' potential. QB Kevin Kolb has great talent and is coming off a strong offseason. The wide receivers are strong at the top with DeSean Jackson, Jeremy Maclin and Jason Avant, and the tight ends are deep, young and talented. The offensive line has its share of questions, mostly because of injuries, but the depth at the position is an Andy Reid hallmark, and the thinking is that some young players might be willing to step up if injured starters are not ready.
But the offensive backfield is an area with some unknowns. All signs are that LeSean McCoy could be a special player one day. New short-yardage RB Mike Bell played a nice role on the Super Bowl-champion Saints and should have similar responsibilities. And FB Leonard Weaver proved to be a reliable and polished performer in his first season in Philadelphia.
But can this be a position of strength this season? Much of it will hinge on how much McCoy can handle in this offense.
"Well, that halfback spot, as you know, is critical in our offense," offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg said. "I do think LeSean has proven himself to some extent. He carried the load quite a little bit last year. That experience that he built up as a rookie will pay off this year.
"Many times you'll make a pretty good jump between your rookie and your second year. Sometimes it's between your second and third year, but I would expect him to make a pretty good jump this year. That great experience that he got is going to pay off."
Right now, McCoy is not strong enough in pass protection to be counted on as a third-down back. And although he has some flashy offensive moves as a runner, he also must prove his stamina and ability to run through contact.
Mornhinweg said McCoy doesn't necessarily have anything major to prove to him, but it's clear the Eagles will throw more responsibility at the second-year back and see what he can handle in an expanded role. Bell, Weaver and Eldra Buckley are capable alternatives, but none of them has the playmaking potential of McCoy.
There also are other options to consider. Rookie Charles Scott and Canadian import Martell Mallett could stick with the team as fourth or fifth options, depending on how many backs the Eagles keep on their 53-man roster. Scott is more of a tough, inside runner, and Mallett appears more shifty and skilled in the passing game.
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State-Level Trends in Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance
A State-by-State Analysis
Recent analysis of ESI coverage provides a baseline to facilitate monitoring Affordable Care Act expansions of public and private coverage in 2014.
This study from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) found that health insurance coverage from employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) "eroded substantially" from 1999/2000 to 2010/2011 (study period).
Key Findings:
- The percentage of nonelderly people with ESI declined 10.2 percentage points (PPs) from 69.7 percent to 59.5 percent over the study period while public coverage increased 3.1 PPs.
- While most states saw "significant declines" in ESI coverage, the range was wide—from New Hampshire (73.8% coverage) to New Mexico (48.0% coverage).
- ESI coverage varied by income. It fell less (2.8 PPs) for high-income groups (400% federal poverty level [FLP] or above) than for those with lower incomes (200 FPL or below) where the fall was 10.1 PPs.
- Nationally, the percentage of private-sector firms offering ESI fell from 58.9 percent to 52.4 percent (although the percentage of workers eligible for coverage at firms that offered ESI held steady). The take-up rate also fell from 81.8 percent to 76.3 percent. Small firms offering coverage declined (67.7% to 56.3%) while at large firms it remained essentially unchanged.
- Single-person premium costs doubled ($2,490 to $5,081); family premiums rose 125 percent ($6,415 to $14,447); employee contributions increased (17.5% to 20.8% of the total premium).
"There is wide variation across states in the ESI measures analyzed here," the authors conclude. "This variation points to the importance of monitoring and evaluating the impacts of the ACA on ESI at the state level."
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---- — I am a big fan of the Opinion pages of the Carriage Towne News. When I receive my copy each week, I immediately turn to these pages to read the letters to the editor. I usually read them all. Some letters make me laugh, some make me happy, and some make me angry. Everybody has an opinion. In this land we enjoy the right to express those opinions openly. This is one of the hallmarks of a free society.
But in this week's edition (February 21), I found something disturbing. A frequent contributor, Robert Grier, revealed that he had received an anonymous letter in the mail that threatened him and his family. Some reader who disagreed with Mr. Grier's opinion lacked the decency to express those objections in this open forum of the opinion pages. Since it is apparent that this anonymous character is reading these pages, let me address him or her directly.
Dear Anonymous: "Coward" is only one of many words that fit your character. Others would be "bully" and "thug." You do not understand freedom. Whatever your opinions may be, they are worthless because you are afraid to put your name to them. You are the opposite of a patriot.
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WASHINGTON — There were no sports channel highlight shows the last time the Golden State Warriors won nine in a row in the same season. Even if there were, the top-10 compilers surely would have been hard-pressed to find a Gus Williams-to-Rick Barry moment that looked anything like the off-the-backboard play executed Sunday night by Stephen Curry and Andrew Bogut.
Klay Thompson scored 26 points, Curry and Bogut connected on a play worthy of the NBA's slam dunk contest, and the Warriors won their ninth in row, beating the Washington Wizards, 112-96.
The Warriors pulled away by turning a tie game at halftime into a laugher in the third quarter, opening the period with a 30-5 run that included a sequence in which Curry drove into the paint and sent the ball flying out of his hand and off the glass. The carom went right to a leaping Bogut, who timed the play perfectly for a dunk, then stared at his right hand with mouth agape as he ran down court.
"I didn't know what was going on," Bogut said. "I didn't know if he was shooting or throwing a lob, but I kind of knew it was a bad shot if it was a shot. I just tried to get where the ball was coming."
Curry had a got-away-with-it smile after the play. He described it as something that happened, well, accidentally on purpose.
"I made a decision to pick my dribble up and look for Bogut. Whoever was guarding him made a decision to stay with him, and my only option was to stick my hand out at the last second to redirect it," Curry said. "Thankfully it hit the right spot on the backboard, and Bogue made a quick reaction to go up. We've never done that before, so it was nice that it worked out."
The Warriors hadn't won nine consecutive games in the same season since a 10-game run from Dec. 6-23, 1975. They also had a nine-game regular season winning streak that overlapped the 1990-91 and 1991-92 seasons.