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Yesterday's Wisconsin vs. Ohio State matchup promised to leave an indelible mark on the college B-ball rankings. I tuned in hoping to catch a great game, instead I left with one bracket-question answered: neither of these teams will make it to the Final Four.
Ohio State starts off this week by being ranked number one unanimously, (almost). However, they played so ugly on Sunday, that I'd take lots of teams ahead of them; e.g. Florida (who beat them by 26) and any team that's beaten Florida (Kansas, Vandy, Florida St and LSU, half of whom might not even make the tourney).
Seriously, it's not like this was a defensive battle - it was just ugly. For example, the highlight of this game was when a coach dropped his chewing gum on the floor, only to pick it up and return it to his mouth.
Monday, February 26, 2007
Goodnight, Big Ten
posted by BiCoastal Bias
Yesterday's Wisconsin vs. Ohio State matchup promised to leave an indelible mark on the college B-ball rankings. I tuned in hoping to catch a great game, instead I left with one bracket-question answered: neither of these teams will make it to the Final Four.
Posted by BiCoastal Bias at 2:41 PM 0 comments
Labels: NCAA basketball
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Has March Madness Gone the Way of the Super Bowl?
posted by BiCoastal Bias
At what point does a game/tournament become bigger than the actual athletic achievement? We all know that the Super Bowl has become more of an event than the game; meaning that it doesn't actually matter who is playing or whether or not you have a personal stake in the game, the Super Bowl is hyped because of the event itself.
Is March Madness getting to this place as well? I don't know if you've noticed, but ESPN2 has been regularly showing games of those "mid-majors" that have become so crucial to anyone filling out a bracket. This season, the teams of Xavier, Wichita State, and George Washington are getting national audiences on a regular basis.
This seems downright odd, except when put into context. A little over two weeks from now, every sports fan and his mother will be filling out their brackets. In the olden days, when it came to choosing the winner of first round match up George Washington vs. UNC-Wilmington; you could only compare their respective records in what my father calls "the newspaper," and then flip a coin.
So now, ESPN is doing you a favor, if you spend every weekend on the couch, (which occasionally we all do) you can actually see these teams play first hand. Then when that fateful March day arrives, you can make an educated (albeit wrong) decision in filling out your bracket.
The catastrophic effect is that March Madness is now mad for a completely different reason. It has less to do with rooting on your hometown team, or just your favorite cinderella; and more to do with rooting for yourself in the office-pool. And I'm not blaming this on ESPN2, I think their lineup selections is a result of a trend that's been going on for quite sometime.
Of course, the beauty of March Madness is that it's a huge tournament, which means something surprising will always happen. And if you're like me, your bracket is screwed after the first weekend, (regardless of how many Shockers games I watched throughout the winter). Thus I become free to just enjoy good basketball down the homestretch . . . at least that's what I tell myself in consolation.
Posted by BiCoastal Bias at 11:59 AM 3 comments
Labels: March Madness
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
A Molotov Mix Of Volatility
posted by IntrinsicBent
If there's two things that don't mix, those two things are 1) Soccer and 2) Karaoke.
Seems like soccer player A got into an argument with teammate soccer B over karaoke, drew a golf club, and then wacked him in the leg with said golf club.
Posted by IntrinsicBent at 12:23 AM 5 comments
Monday, February 19, 2007
This Is How You Do It
posted by IntrinsicBent
This story will warm your heart. We mostly see and hear tales about the underbelly and dark side of professional athletes in this day and age. Much of the time, stories that seem to be uplifting are staged to play that way. This one seems to be very pure in intent and form. It seems that golfer Phil Mickelson is paying for ex NFL player Conrad Dobler's daughter Holli to attend college. This act of service gets more honorable the deeper you dig.
This story will warm your heart. We mostly see and hear tales about the underbelly and dark side of professional athletes in this day and age. Much of the time, stories that seem to be uplifting are staged to play that way.
This one seems to be very pure in intent and form.
It seems that golfer Phil Mickelson is paying for ex NFL player Conrad Dobler's daughter Holli to attend college. This act of service gets more honorable the deeper you dig.
"Mickelson is paying the four-year tuition and expenses at Miami University of Ohio for Holli Dobler, the daughter of former NFL player Conrad Dobler. Mickelson has written checks of $20,000 and $22,000 for her first two years of college.
Mickelson has never met any member of the Dobler family and wasn't happy when the word of his generous gift leaked out. There are plans for him to see Holli and her parents at the Memorial Tournament in May, but he said it won't happen if any media people are involved. He recently refused to discuss the topic with Paul Daugherty of The Cincinnati Enquirer.
Mickelson, an avid fan of all sports, saw a TV piece about the plight of the Dobler family. Conrad's knees are shot. His wife, Joy, is a quadriplegic after a fluke fall from a hammock on July 4, 2001. The family savings were drained. The Doblers needed a boost and Mickelson provided it."
I feel like a jerk for even publicizing this further, but it's a story that needs to be told. The fact that he acted selflessly in response to a TV piece with zero pub or recognition is the way it should be done.
An unbelievable number of NFL veterans struggle financially and are not able to make ends meet, especially when dealing with huge healthcare costs for issues that are a result of their playing days.
Many of these struggling vets played before the big payday era and played hard and played hurt. They are the foundation that football built on to be able to produce the fan base and money for today's millionaire player.
Gridiron Greats Assistance Fund is a non-profit organization created recently to assist professional football players who have fallen upon hard times. More information can be found at www.jerrykramer.com.
Nice job Phil.
Posted by IntrinsicBent at 10:41 PM 0 comments
Post All Star Thoughts
posted by BiCoastal Bias
I don't normally make a habit of watching the NBA All-Star game, but as I checked in on it after halftime, and found out that Kobe Bryant was the most likely MVP candidate, I suddenly had a new reason to tune in: rooting against Kobe.
Unfortunately, this only lead to disappointment, but the game was relatively fun to watch otherwise. You've got to give to basketball for making exhibition games much more interesting than the other sports. In the MLB All Star game, strikeouts are three times as likely as homeruns; in the Pro Bowl, "don't hurt anybody" is the cardinal rule; and in hockey, well . . . do they even have an all star game in hockey?
So while the NBA All Star game is "not real basketball," that doesn't make it any less entertaining to watch. And while I'm at it, here's some entertaining thoughts of my own:
- Is it just me, or does Chris Bosh (pictured) actually look like a Raptor?
- Shawn Marion is the Vladimir Guerrero of the NBA. (I really hope I am the first person in the history of the universe to even think of this sentence.)
- Shaq had a moment when he could have made the highlight of the night. He waved everyone up court as he took it up himself, getting the crowd's attention by doing a little showboat ball-handling. But when he finally got isolated with Mehmet Okur at the top of the key, he ended up settling for a 17 footer, which he bricked. This reminded me of a youth game when the biggest, most uncoordinated kid on the team also thinks he should run the point. Unfortunately for Shaq, his turn didn't turn out much better.
Posted by BiCoastal Bias at 10:40 AM 1 comments
Labels: NBA All Stars
Sunday, February 18, 2007
Helping Hardaway
posted by IntrinsicBent
Using a mixture of the Michael Richards racism and Eminem gay foot in mouth extravaganzas, here is Tim Hardaway's course back to semi redemption:
1) Call your friend Jerry Seinfeld and get on David Letterman ASAP. Getting Seinfeld to accompany you on a meeting with David Stern a plus.
2) Meet with Gay Rights organization and dedicate some time and money (if you don't have time, leave more money). Mix in a rambling half rationalization half apology for your misstep.
3) Drop a hit rap cd.
4) Meet with Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. This is a multi issue remedy. I would also suggest this for Schickney Spears, but that's a different blog entry.
5) Sing a duet with Elton John and make sure to hug him sincerely.
6) Beg Ahmad Rashad to take your calls.
7) Start a grass roots misdirection campaign telling people it was actually Penny Hardaway that made the bonehead remarks. Or even Little Penny.
Posted by IntrinsicBent at 10:37 PM 0 comments
Labels: Ahmad Rashad, Al Sharpton, Elton John, Gays In The NBA, Jesse Jackson, Little Penny, Michael Richards, Penny Hardaway, Schickney Spears, Tim Hardaway
Your Baller Rapper Actor Policeman On The One
posted by IntrinsicBent
Here's more All Star Weekend frivolous goodness for your enjoyment. If you listen closely, I think you can hear LeBron's marketing team yelling NOOO!!! in unison.
We now officially end our NBA All Star Weekend coverage.............
Here's more All Star Weekend frivolous goodness for your enjoyment.
If you listen closely, I think you can hear LeBron's marketing team yelling NOOO!!! in unison.
Posted by IntrinsicBent at 10:22 PM 0 comments
Labels: All Star Weekend, LeBron, Poppin', Shaq
Another Lame Dunk Contest
posted by MoneyMouth
If IntrinsicBent's last post is any hint to how exciting Saturday's NBA All Star events were then you can easily understand why this Frappe writer spent his night at a NAIA college basketball game instead of watching the slam dunk contest. Truth be told, I'll take two unknown schools duking it out in front of a crowd of 500 fans over enduring this child's play any day.
Before I left for this little match up between Point Loma Nazarene and Westmont (told you they were unknown), I sat and watched the skills challenge, the Barkley-Bavetta race, and the three-point shootout. The highlight up to that point was definitely the footrace between these two smooching men, although watching it again makes me wonder if I was really that far away from the remote to change channels. Once I returned from a Point Loma over Westmont victory, I was intrigued to see how the dunk competition turned out.
To sum it up for you, it was lame to say the least. Your recap goes something like this: Dwight Howard stuck a sticker on the backboard, Nate Robinson took 9 attempts to pull of his final dunk, Gerald Green dunked over a table (which seemed similar to his earlier dunk over Nate), and finally, Tyrus Thomas was completely left out of the highlight real (but at least he gets his check). After watching these pathetic dunks, I've decided that TNT and the NBA should have gone with the lovebirds last instead of this trash.
Which brings me to this: Why wouldn't you let Dwight Howard and Nate Robinson have the option of raising the hoop for their respective dunk attempts? If you don't know what I'm talking about, Howard had requested the option to raise the hoop to 12 feet before the competition in order to pull out at 360 slam-a-jamma. He also had in mind a between the legs at around 11'6". Finally, some creativity. If all the dunks have been used up—which I now suspect that they have—shouldn't we allow for some new elements to come into play? And since I'm totally against the use of children or knife-balls, this is about as good as it gets.
I give Saturday's All Star Challenge at D+. I think this thing has about two more years left in it before it's pronounced dead, unless some real stars like Kobe, Lebron, and Carter decide to get involved again. The unfortunate thing is that I know I'll end up glued to the television next year only to be disappointed once again.
Posted by MoneyMouth at 1:58 AM 3 comments
Labels: All Star Weekend, Dwight Howard, Gerald Green, Nate Robinson, NBA All Stars, Slam Dunk Competition
Saturday, February 17, 2007
Tim Hardaway Is Rolling Over In His Grave
posted by IntrinsicBent
The title for this entry barely aced out:
The title for this entry barely aced out:
"What Happens In Vegas........"
If you are an NBA and or TNT fan, you'll know that Charles Barkley age 44 began running smack about the age and fitness of longtime NBA referee Dick Bavetta age 67 earlier this season.
This good spirited back and forth built to the point where there had to be a race to see if Chuck could back up his words.
Check out the video
At the end of the race which somehow ended with both participants lying on the floor, Chuck and Bavetta got up, dusted themselves off, hugged and then bussed each other on the lips like a couple on a prom date.
The NBA removed Tim Hardaway from promoting the NBA at various events this weekend in Vegas after he shared his strong anti-homosexual opinions in an interview asking his thoughts on gays playing in the NBA. This line of questioning was brought on news of a book written by ex-NBA player John Amaeche revealing he's gay.
I can visualize Hardaway shooting out his TV Elvis style after seeing these two guys lock onto each other.
Here's the reason Hardaway never played for the Nets or Bulls.
Posted by IntrinsicBent at 11:48 PM 0 comments
Labels: All Star Weekend, Charles Barkley, Dick Bavetta, Gays In The NBA, Tim Hardaway
The Pippen Coinkidink
posted by IntrinsicBent
Scottie Pippen announced this week that he's looking to return to the NBA.
You'll remember Pippen's best days spent as Robin to Michael Jordan's Batman as they scored six championships in two separate 3 in a row runs with the Chicago Bulls.
Today he tried out for any willing suitors via nationwide television while competing in the 2007 NBA All Stars Skill Competition.
He competed in the Shooting Stars portion where selected franchises are represented by a current WNBA and NBA player, along with a player from the past. They alternate making shots on different areas of the court then convene at half court and cycle until someone hits that shot as well. This all is timed and the team able to accomplish it in the shortest amount of time wins.
Scottie looked fabulous in this tryout,........err exhibition. That is, he looked fabulous when being compared to the other old timers on the other teams, namely George Gervin, Michael Cooper, and Bill Laimbeer. Each of which have been out of the league much longer than he has.
I'm the last one to fault an older dude for wanting to lace 'em back up. But Pippen is 41 years old. He's been out of NBA level competition for 2 1/2 years. He suffered from back and knee ailments post MJ at Chicago, Houston, Portland, and then back at Chicago before he retired.
The reality is that someone will most likely give him the opportunity and it probably will be someone in the East Conference.
After finding this article, I'm betting that contract will be for about $5 million dollars. It seems Scottie and his wife started a company and purchased a plane, but never got around to paying for it. An appeals court upheld the judgement, so maybe it was as good a time for a comeback as any.
The Frappe sees you working Scottie.
Posted by IntrinsicBent at 9:18 PM 0 comments
Labels: Chicago Bulls, Coming Out Of Retirement, NBA All Stars, Scottie Pippen
Monday, February 12, 2007
posted by IntrinsicBent
San Diego Chargers management showed their Head Coach, Marty Schottenheimer the door today after only recently offering him a whopping 1 year extension.
Schottenheimer's results are a mixed bag at best. Often while at Cleveland, Kansas City and San Diego his teams performed well in(200-126-1 including a brief stint at Washington) the regular season only to tank like the Titanic in the postseason. He owns a dismal 5-13 playoff record and a .278 playoff winning percentage.
The latest turn of events are strange as his relationship with Chargers' GM A.J. Smith deteriorated to the point where Smith obviously won favor with owners Alex and Dean Spanos to show Marty the door.
The odd thing is the way the cards were played. Schottenheimer barely spoke to Smith reportedly due to disagreeing with his handling of some player personnel decisions including allowing free agent quarterback Drew Brees to walk and go to the New Orleans Saints.
Last month Schottenheimer was offered a measly one year extension through 2008 after losing in the first round against the New England Patriots, which he declined, exacerbating the toxic environment.
Dean Spanos seems to have used the fact that two of their coordinators left the team to be Head Coaches, and two assistant coaches left to become coordinators as the reasoning to end what he termed "a dysfunctional situation here."
Due to Schottenheimer's known short remaining tenure, they had difficulties attracting assistants and coordinators, knowing they may be swept out after the coach's exodus.
San Diego is a team that should have a very bright future with young superstar talent and strong odds to make a Superbowl soon. I'm not sure why they would wait to make this decision after every other team with a Head Coach need has filled their positions. Maybe they just want to hear the Pete Carroll rumors begin to make themselves feel good.
Working schlubs like you and me shouldn't waste too much time feeling bad for The Schott though. The Chargers will have to pay him more than $3 million for the year he has left on his contract.
Posted by IntrinsicBent at 11:18 PM 0 comments
Thursday, February 08, 2007
posted by MoneyMouth
The week after the Super Bowl is a hard one. Most everyone watched the game and most everyone is now sick of hearing about it. Two weeks of preparation for 60 minutes of football means every storyline has been exhausted, and as BiCoastal points out, every ending has already been written and explored. I personally made the mistake of watching an hour of the pregame show in which they talked about Walter Payton and Brian Piccolo and the bond they share in Chicago history, followed by a compelling segment about how both coaches are indeed African American. It was still two hours till kickoff and I was already sick of a game that hadn't started yet.
So now we hit the in between time in which the sporting year hits a small drought known by the Romans as Februarius. It's the small amount of time in which we are enduring the bore of mid-season in the NBA, our brackets lack teams and thus our picks cannot be completed, and pitchers and catchers have yet to report let alone play. So that leaves us with one option: soccer.
If there was one thing that might prick some interest in my sporting veins, it was going to be last night's "friendly" between the United States and Mexico, because we all know the NHL is not capable of filling the void. And so, I stand before you today with the feeling that I can last for a few more days, maybe even a week because last night's 2 – 0 victory over Mexico was exactly what I needed for a quick fix. For those unfamiliar, that makes the current streak 8 games against Mexico at home without a loss (7-0-1). In that stretch, the United States have outplayed and outscored Mexico, 13 goals to 0. Now that's dominance.
The scary thing is, the more I watch soccer, the more I start to see why it's such a good and entertaining game. There is something about having to endure the majority of a game in hope of one single amazing athletic maneuver that I seem to be a sucker for. In this particular case, I was fortunate to see two amazing goals. The first was a deep header by Conrad off a corner kick, and the second was Donovan out-sprinting the defense and juking the goalie for an easy tap in to seal the game.
As with every national match for the United States, this one tells us a lot about the future of soccer in the United States. This new coach, Bob Bradley (who is currently the interim, but probably soon to be the permanent) combined with new and young talent could spell a better run at the Cup in 2010 in South Africa, and thus a larger interest by an apathetic country. Until then, we'll have to settle for David Beckham as our source for turning the tide of soccer in the States. Personally, I'll put my money on 2010.
Posted by MoneyMouth at 1:15 PM 3 comments
Labels: David Beckham, Landon Donovan, Mexico, Soccer, United States, World Cup
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Photo Opp
posted by IntrinsicBent
Very Interesting. I was surfing a local sportstalk website when I found an L.A. Kings promotion which centered around retired King Luc Robitaille. I see tickets to two games, hats, an opportunity to win dinner with Luc, blah, blah, blah. Then I read a line, do a double take, and read it again. Sure 'nuff it says what I thought it did: "Photo opportunity with Luc's retirement jersey." What?!? Is that a modern day version of catching
Very Interesting.
I was surfing a local sportstalk website when I found an L.A. Kings promotion which centered around retired King Luc Robitaille.
I see tickets to two games, hats, an opportunity to win dinner with Luc, blah, blah, blah.
Then I read a line, do a double take, and read it again.
Sure 'nuff it says what I thought it did: "Photo opportunity with Luc's retirement jersey."
Is that a modern day version of catchingKing Tutankhamun's world tour? If you think about it, all you get with that is some rags that you have to trust has the young King inside. But at least you have the King inside.
Talk about empty benefits.
I'll be keeping an eye out for retired Angels player Tim Salmon's cleats to go on tour. That's another shutterbug opp.Site Link
Posted by IntrinsicBent at 10:21 PM 0 comments
Labels: Jersey, King Tut, LA Kings, Luc Robitaille
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
Are New Jersey And Chicago NBA Beard Cities?
posted by IntrinsicBent
This article about an ex NBA player planning to come out of the closet this Valentine's Day (That's one gift I've yet to give Mrs. Bent) made me laugh with disbelief.
It wasn't because the guy is gay, or that his publicist was hyping it at a Superbowl party, or that he is using the NBA and Valentine's Day as patsies to punch sales for his book.
See if you can get it from this excerpt (and this post title):
"Publicist Howard Bragman, from a Los Angeles-based company called Fifteen Minutes, was spreading the word at the Leigh Steinberg Super Bowl party Saturday that a former NBA player he represents will be announcing publicly that he is gay on Valentine's Day. Bragman would say only that the player has been retired for about three years and was not a member of the Bulls or the Nets. He added that the player was not a prominent name in the NBA. The player also has a book that will be released in conjunction with his public disclosure."
Shades of Mike Piazza's "I'm not gay" press conference when someone alleged a big leaguer in New York was gay.
How does that make members of the Bulls and Nets feel to have to be disclaimed like that? It's almost like you can hear the numb nut say "Yeah he was in the NBA three years ago, but it's not on the obvious teams you'd think of."
I don't know about stranger, but truth can definitely be funnier than fiction.
Posted by IntrinsicBent at 11:24 PM 2 comments
Labels: Bulls, Gay, Mike Piazza, NBA, Nets, Superbowl Party, Valentine's Day
Monday, February 05, 2007
Super Bowl XLI in One Sentence
posted by BiCoastal Bias
So a buddy at work came up to me today and said, "Want to go get some coffee?" to which I replied, "I already got some," which prompted him to say, "Any thoughts about the game?" I think my reply summed up Super Bowl XLI perfectly: "Pretty much what I expected."
Now obviously, judging by my statement, I expected the Colts to win. There's even some fellows who may or may not vouch for my predicted final score of 27-21; which wasn't far off. But I'd have to be a pretty self-absorbed person to think that the fact that the game ended about the way I thought it would sums up the experience for everyone; so I want you to hear me out because I'm really not saying that.
This Super Bowl seemed unique to me because regardless of the outcome, the storyline was already prepared. If the Colts won, as they did, Peyton/Dungy finally got the monkey off of their collective back, and Grossman blew it; leading to the debates of whether Grossman should start for Chicago next year, and Brady-vs.-Petyon who's-better-now-that-they-both-have-rings. If the Bears won, we'd be inundated with 1985 comparisons, and thoughtful pieces about complex players who just can't win the games that history has decided are important.
Granted, last year's outcome was scripted as well, with Jerome Bettis winning it all in his hometown, and then announcing his retirement; but had Seattle won, the media would have had to do their own writing without a script, and you can imagine the utter chaos that would have occurred had that scenario played out. So there was still some suspense.
Even still, the first half was actually quite surprising; featuring an opening kickoff return for a touchdown, five fumbles, and a botched PAT. All that stuff that happened between the whistles was surprising and riveting. It's just too bad that the outcome was already written, so none of it could really impress any of us.
Posted by BiCoastal Bias at 2:39 PM 0 comments
Labels: Super Bowl
Sunday, February 04, 2007
Ex Grossman Ruins The Day
posted by IntrinsicBent
Mrs. Bent gave me permission to use that hilarious title that she created with about 4 minutes left in today's Superbowl contest. You never know what she's going to say during the course of an NFL game. She's a huge fan of football. Today she outed me in front of our game guests for having seen a Purple Rain cd in my car. I'm sure it was planted.
The blogosphere seems to be treating today's game between the Chicago Bears and Indianapolis Colts as a big snorefest.
I don't see it that way. It was a close game between the NFL's 2006 #1 Defense (Bears) and #1 Offense (Colts) which is highly preferable to those that are basically decided by halftime.
The Bears started out looking like they'd crush Indy. For the first time in Superbowl history, an opening kickoff was returned for a touchdown. Devin Hester took it to the house for the first time on an opening kickoff in 41 years. This forced the Colts to kick squibbs from that point forward.
Then, Manning threw a quick interception in their first series that made it seem that Mr. Momentum was in the Bears' pocket.
There was wet inclement weather, turnovers aplenty, and even a miss by the clutch leg himself, Adam Vinatieri.
Good guy Tony Dungy got a ring, and Peyton Manning can go forward building his inevitable Hall of Fame career without the question of whether he'll ever win the big one or not. The guy is a surgeon and coach on the field.
The score was tight into the 4th quarter when the Bears had to go away from their gameplan of keeping the game out of Rex Grossman's hands. He threw two back breaking interceptions that had the arcs like balls you used to throw to yourself high in the air allowing enough time to get under it and catch it. No kidding.
The Bears will have a solid future as long as they do one thing before next season.
Change their quarterback and send him to the Arena League as quickly as time allows. Do it on the plane home.
Seriously, you have to do it.
Posted by IntrinsicBent at 10:27 PM 1 comments
Labels: Chicago Bears, Indianapolis Colts, Rex Grossman, Superbowl, Superbowl Record, Tony Dungy
Saturday, February 03, 2007
Intrinsic's Stone Cold Lock Superbowl Pick
posted by IntrinsicBent
Posted by IntrinsicBent at 8:27 PM 1 comments
The Superbowl Is On Notice
posted by IntrinsicBent
It is the eve of the mother of all sports contests. No other sport (yes, even soccer) can boast of a bigger game that is played in their sport. The Superbowl is the pinnacle event of professional sports.
There are some things about this spectacle that are taxing though. For this reason, I've put the Superbowl on notice.
1) 2 Week Layoff - This is number one because it is the main contributing factor to the Superbowl Fatigue Phenomenon (SFP). There are only so many story lines and even fewer interesting ones. This creates a heavy regurge cycle.
2) 1985 Bear Comparisons - This is something you'd do with your boys once, argue about it, and then leave it alone. You've heard this solid for the past two weeks.
3) Peyton Manning As A Skilled Loser - Manning has never won the big one on any level, yada, yada, yada. This leads up to the whether Manning is a great quarterback that more resembles Elway.....or Marino discussion. The real question is, can we handle even more Peyton commercials should he win the big one? Discuss amongst yourselves.
4) Head Coaches' Skin Color - Sorry Jesse (Jackson), these guys are great coaches. 'Nuff Said.
5) Good Rex Vs. Bad Rex - I wish Rex would figure it out so we didn't have to wonder. It's draining.
6) Wack Statistical Comparisons - The AFC teams that have had 7 lefthanded players and had 3 points in the 1st 3 minutes have won every time. Statisticians get geeked over the Superbowl. And probably Deal or No Deal.
7) Champs $73k Losers $38k - These are the amounts that last year's combatants reportedly pulled down each. This is chump change to these guys. How about having this money go to a charitable cause. You could create a competition within a competition. And more story lines in the process.
8) Softball Media Day Questions - This is fine journalism here. "If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?" or "Do you think you can win?"KnowledgeDroppings, get on your job and get us into this event next year.
Posted by IntrinsicBent at 7:04 PM 0 comments


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Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Oregon) changed out of his usual bow-tie this morning for a complete nerd ensemble for Current TV's "Full Court Press."
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Congratulations Colette! Last year Colette won Best in Show in the fine art youth division at the Oregon State Fair with her "La Vallie d' Italia" painting and this year she won an equivalent award, "Outstanding" in addition to her blue ribbon at the Clackamas County Fair! This 10 year old is amazing. She is interested in doing a good job, deliberates over her painting decisions and then takes action on what she thinks will work best to create lovely paintings that add tremendously to her family's collection. Be sure and look for her "Purple Mountains Majesty" painting in the collection of recent works here on the website. She was influenced by John Gamble and Maurice Braun, California Impressionist painters for that lovely painting. I can't wait to see what you paint this fall Colette!
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In my last post, "A closer look at the MySQL ibdata1 disk space issue and big tables," I looked at the growing ibdata1 problem under the perspective of having big tables residing inside the so-called shared tablespace. In the particular case that motivated that post, we had a customer running out of disk space in his […]
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InnoDB performance optimization basics (redux)
I recently stumbled upon a post that Peter Zaitsev published back in 2007 titled "Innodb Performance Optimization Basics." It's a great post and reading it inspired me to examine what's changed in the nearly six years that have followed in terms of MySQL, Percona Server – as well as in all of the other now-available […]
TokuDB vs InnoDB in timeseries INSERT benchmark
This post is a continuation of my research of TokuDB's storage engine to understand if it is suitable for timeseries workloads. While inserting LOAD DATA INFILE into an empty table shows great results for TokuDB, what's more interesting is seeing some realistic workloads. So this time let's take a look at the INSERT benchmark.
MySQL and the SSB – Part 2 – MyISAM vs InnoDB low concurrency
This blog post is part two in what is now a continuing series on the Star Schema Benchmark. In my previous blog post I compared MySQL 5.5.30 to MySQL 5.6.10, both with default settings using only the InnoDB storage engine. In my testing I discovered that innodb_old_blocks_time had an effect on performance of the benchmark. There was […]
Benchmarking Percona Server TokuDB vs InnoDB
After compiling Percona Server with TokuDB, of course I wanted to compare InnoDB performance vs TokuDB. I have a particular workload I'm interested in testing – it is an insert-intensive workload (which is TokuDB's strong suit) with some roll-up aggregation, which should produce updates in-place (I will use INSERT .. ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE statements […]
A case for MariaDB's Hash Joins
MariaDB 5.3/5.5 has introduced a new join type "Hash Joins" which is an implementation of a Classic Block-based Hash Join Algorithm. In this post we will see what the Hash Join is, how it works and for what types of queries would it be the right choice. I will show the results of executing benchmarks […]
Join Optimizations in MySQL 5.6 and MariaDB 5.5
This is the third blog post in the series of blog posts leading up to the talk comparing the optimizer enhancements in MySQL 5.6 and MariaDB 5.5. This blog post is targeted at the join related optimizations introduced in the optimizer. These optimizations are available in both MySQL 5.6 and MariaDB 5.5, and MariaDB 5.5 […]
Helgrinding MySQL with InnoDB for Synchronisation Errors, Fun and Profit
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How well does your table fits in innodb buffer pool ?
Understanding how well your tables and indexes fit to buffer pool are often very helpful to understand why some queries are IO bound and others not – it may be because the tables and indexes they are accessing are not in cache, for example being washed away by other queries. MySQL Server does not provide […]
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| db | table1 | 1699133 | 13296 | 385841 | 87.49 |
| db | table2 | 1173272 | 17399 | 11099 | 98.42 |
| db | table3 | 916641 | 7849 | 15316 | 94.77 |
| db | table4 | 86999 | 1555 | 75554 | 87.42 |
| db | table5 | 32701 | 7997 | 30082 | 91.61 |
| db | table6 | 31990 | 4495 | 25681 | 102.97 |
| db | table7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 |
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Magic Restroom Cafe, Los Angeles
The idea of sitting on a toilet in public is the stuff of nightmares but that hasn't stopped the Magic Restroom making loos the focus of its new themed restaurant in LA. In fact toilet-themed restaurants are nothing new – Taiwans' Modern Toilet where chocolate ice-cream is served in toilet-shaped dishes is well-documented. Inspired by its success Magic Restroom owner YoYo Li has introduced toilets as seats and a mix of Asian and western food – like zha jiang mian, named "constipation" on the menu, braised pork over rice, ("smells-like-poop"), and sundaes (choose from chocolate "black poop" or the vanilla-strawberry sundae "bloody number two") served, of course, in miniature toilet bowls. Revolting and distrubing in equal measure. Freud would have a field day. Isabel Choat
Twin Stars Diner, Moscow
It's hard to stand out in a city that loves extreme dining, whether it involves vines and amphorae, (Tiflis, the Russian word for the Georgian capital, Tbilisi), moving trams (Annushka), live goats (Shinok), or waterfalls (Blue Elephant) – but Alexei Khodorkovsky has managed to find a new niche, with the opening of his twin-themed restaurant. At the Twin Stars diner in Moscow, all the staff – from waiters to bartenders and even the chefs – are identically-dressed twins. The creepy concept is inspired by a 1964 Soviet film in which a girl winds up in an alternate reality and confronts her twin. Khodorkovsky says it's been hard to find suitably qualifed twins but the concept is paying off – the 24-hour restaurant is a hit with locals who don't seem bothered about the issue of whether or not to tip twice.
If Twin Stars represents the new Russia with its modern, funky design, the Expedicia is more traditional Russia – appealing, one imagines, to chest-beating Putin types with a love of the outdoors. In the pricey, survival-themed Expeditsia ("expedition") restaurant you eat between an orange helicopter parked in the pine trees and a stuffed polar bear scratching itself by a stream.
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Le Refuge des Fondues, Paris
Why, when in Paris, a city full of great restaurants, you would choose to go for a fondue is anyone's guess but tucking into the Swiss dish is not the oddest thing about Le Refuge des Fondues in Monmatre. The real weirdness begins when you order your wine – and it's brought to you in a baby's bottle, apparently a ruse to avoid French tax on wine served in proper glasses. Gooey cheese and drinking out of a teat – it's not somewhere you'd want to go on a first date, but it's been pulling in the tourist crowds for decades. • 17 Rue des 3 Frères IC
Carton King, Taichung City, Taiwan
Taiwan has a penchant for themed absurdity when it comes to eating out. Whether for Japanese assassins lurking in the rafters at Ninja or the drinks served in specimen bottles to wash down one's turd-shaped bread at the aforementioned Modern Toilet, the food is rarely the primary draw. And so it is with Carton King, a restaurant whose owner was so depressed by the preponderance of plastic in modern life he built an eatery which, instead, promotes the virtues of corrugated cardboard. From the chairs to the plates and even the walls – the whole place is bedecked in the brown stuff. The food, although not fine dining, was more than edible and all that remained of our stewed pork ribs and herb-roasted chicken was the odd greasy smear on our cardboard table. Definitely worth a visit … just remember to leave your lighter at home. Mark Pygott
Barbie restaurant, Taipei, Taiwan
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Residents of St. Joseph, Missouri who received a notice on April 1st informing them they had been selected for jury duty thought the notices were a joke and none of them showed up. Deputy sheriffs had to make a special trip to their homes to inform them that the summons were real. The Sheriff's Department later made a special plea to the circuit judges: "Please don't draw a panel of jurors on April Fool's Day again." [The Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune, Apr 3, 1959.]
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When confronted by the broad array of ethical controversies that have arisen and intensified in the postmodern age, most people are forced to acknowledge that easy answers are in short supply.
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K-12 schools need to do more to teach students the critical skills needed to work with big data, says EDC's Ruth Krumhansl, who heads the Oceans of Data Institute.
EDC has selected 10 new recipients for its highly competitive annual CADRE Fellows Program. Recipients receive a one-year fellowship to work with the Community for Advancing Discovery Research in Education (CADRE), a resource network for STEM education researchers supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
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EDC and a technical committee of computer scientists and thought leaders in computational thinking (CT) will develop and validate a common core of CT skill sets used by scientists, technicians, technologists, engineers, and mathematicians in U.S. STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) workplaces.
The Garissa Youth Project (G-Youth Project) aims to empower youth in Kenya make sound career and life decisions as they transition from high school to the next phase of their lives. The project is also building the capacity of local institutions and networks to sustain the much-needed services that G-Youth will provide.
The Akazi Kanoze Youth Livelihoods Project, an EQUIP3 Associate Award, aims to develop a thriving youth livelihood support system in Rwanda to increase the prosperity of not only youth, but also the public and private institutions that support and benefit from youths' productive engagement in Rwandan society. To achieve this goal, Akazi Kanoze will provide youth in Kigali with market-relevant life and work readiness training and support, hands-on training opportunities, and links into the employment and self-employment job market.
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Fresno State News reports that Michael Gorman will be doing more than picking on bloggers, laughing at the PATRIOT ACT and dismissing technology over the next year. Last week's Lehrer News Hour was first – but won't be the last – media spotlight on Gorman. He also has met with journalists and editors of Governing magazine, the McClatchy Group of newspapers, the Washington Post, the Chronicle of Higher Education, USA Today and Cox newspapers to discuss, among other things, the USA Patriot Act, reading and literacy, the library as space, and digitization projects.
They say as president he's very concerned about the situation of school libraries. Another priority is improving librarian education, specifically "whether there will be an adequate supply of new librarians to replace those of my generation as we retire."
Note To Boomers: The world will continue to spin when you're gone. We'll miss your stories about Woodstock, J.F.K., and what it was like when you went to library school, but we'll somehow manage to keep those libraries open without you.
My, my, aren't we snarky.
Not every "Boomer" deserves to be dismissed with such scorn. There are plenty of librarians over 40 who embrace technology, who creatively and enthusiastically pursue their calling. Don't let your dislike of Gorman blind you to the merits of an entire generation of people. It's as foolish as when over-40's assuming that everyone under 30 is a naiive idiot with multiple body-piercings and a cell phone permanently clamped to one ear.
LISNews: Now with extra snarkiness! -1 Troll on me for that.I don't really dismiss every boomer with such scorn, just the generation in general.That being said, I'm just tired of hearing people say when the boomers retire the world will end, or at least libraries will be short of people. Boomers seem to have generational blindness, "Boomer Blindness," where they only see themselves, and usually then in the 1960's. I'm just bitter, don't listen to me.And I don't dislike Gorman, I've never even met him. I don't like somethings I've read from him lately, that's about it.And everyone under 30 does have a cellphone clamped to one ear, actually that probably more like under 50 these days.
It's silly to lump together everyone born in the 1946-1964 period as though they shared a common viewpoint. The cultural and economic experiences of the oldest boomers are very different from those of the youngest cohort.
I don't really dismiss every boomer with such scorn, just the generation in general.
You'd better not mofo! I'm watching you! Even though I'm all youthful(tip: fat hides wrinkles) and unbearably hip (despite lack of body modfications), and all that crap, I'm a boomer. But, a little extra snarkiness is okay, and sometimes necessary, from time to time.
Just so ya know: I've got my eye on you, Carver, you barely un-boomer, you.
"Note To Boomers: The world will continue to spin when you're gone. We'll miss your stories about Woodstock, J.F.K., and what it was like when youwent to library school, but we'll somehow manage to keep those libraries open without you."Blake -- You should know better than to lump us all in together that way! Who created the technology that the younger generations are using? Who created the Internet and the WWW? I may be a boomer but I am also up on the latest technology.


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Winery says Hitler-themed bottles aren't propaganda, 'it's history'on August 26, 2013 @ 12:56 pm (Updated: 4:36 pm - 8/26/13 )
It certainly has always faced its share of criticism, but with a rise in anti-semitism in Europe, many are calling for the winery to change its ways.
The winery contends it's not propaganda "it's history" and treats the marketing as black humor, since Hitler was actually a teetotaler.
KIRO Radio host Tom Tangney said at the heart of the matter, it is not an interest in history or fascist dictators that keeps the winery labeling their bottles with Hitler's face.
It's capitalism. "I think if I ran across it, I would think of it as a novelty item," said Tom. He said if he were to buy a bottle, it certainly wouldn't be to support the Nazi cause.
Tom asked his co-host Ken Schram how he felt about another fascist on display, the Vladimir Lenin statue in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood.
"First of all, Lenin is still revered in Russia," said Schram, but only by some, he admitted after prompting from Tom. "The point here is that there is a certainly level of irony and it's not the same as equating Hitler with the Nazi salute on a wine bottle."
Do you agree with Ken Schram that the Hitler bottle of wine is much worse than the Lenin statue in Seattle?
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Friday, September 19, 2014 - 9:00 am to 3:15 pm
Topic: EBM/EBP Beyond the Basics - Systematic Reviews and Qualitative Studies
Instructor: Connie Schardt
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Course Description
This course is taught in journal club format and is designed to give learners additional practice with critical appraisal skills through an understanding of validity issues related to reducing bias in clinical studies. Using an interactive journal club format, learners will review and discuss the criteria for determining internal validity of systematic reviews and qualitative research. After completing this course, learners will be better able to identify the criteria for a good study; to recognize how this impacts searching for the evidence; and to understand how this knowledge helps the library support evidence-based practice within their own institutions. Teaching methods will include discussion, case studies, group exercises, and practice in appraising articles.
Educational Objectives
- Understand the key validity criteria for systematic reviews
- Identify strong and weak search strategies
- Understand they key features and methodology for qualitative research
- Identify appropriate search strategies for qualitative research
- Identify ways to use this information to help support evidence based practice within hospitals and academic medical centers
- Introductions, student goals, course objectives (15 min)
- Validity criteria for systematic reviews [discussion and group case study exercise] (60 min)
- Peer review of search strategies (30 min)
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1) What's the risk of weight loss surgery?
Every surgical procedure, from heart bypass to knee replacement, has risk. Therefore, the decision to have weight loss surgery needs to be evaluated against your overall risk. Weight Loss Institute of Arizona completes an extensive and comprehensive patient screening process to ensure the medical eligibility of each patient and the appropriateness of the surgery.
2) What real chance do obese patients have to lose and keep the weight off?
On average, our patients lose as much as 75 percent of their excess weight within 1 to 2 years after surgery. Furthermore, studies show that more than 92% of patients in the U.S. who have weight loss surgery maintain long-term weight loss.
3) Can anyone who is overweight have weight loss surgery?
Patients at our Tucson and Phoenix area offices all undergo a thorough screening process to identify whether they are appropriate candidates for weight loss surgery. The easiest way to determine if you are a candidate is by calculating your Body Mass Index or BMI. Weight loss surgery candidates need to have a BMI above 30 with other obesity-related conditions such as heart disease and diabetes. If your BMI is over 40, co-morbidities are not required. In addition, appropriate candidates are those who have tried and failed other weight loss options, including diet and exercise modification.
4) How experienced is the Weight Loss institute of Arizona treatment team?
The Weight Loss Institute of Arizona surgeons are board-certified by the American College of Surgeons and are members of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery. Our registered dietitian and exercise physiologist have more than 10 years of experience in developing individualized weight-loss regimens. The licensed clinical psychologists we use have extensive experience in the area of eating disorders and obesity. Weight Loss Institute of Arizona typically performs over 50 surgical procedures a month. Our Phoenix, Scottsdale, Tempe, Arrowhead, and Tucson bariatric surgery patients benefit from this combined expertise.
5) What bariatric procedures does the Weight Loss Institute of Arizona perform?
We perform laparoscopic banding (LAP-BAND®), gastric bypass, and the newer, sleeve gastrectomy procedure as well as revision surgery. Most procedures are done laparoscopically, with state-of-the-art equipment that allows our compassionate surgeons to operate without making a large incision.
6) What should I look for in a bariatric practice?
Surgery is not a quick fix. Successful long-term maintenance of weight loss requires physical and psychological adjustments to a healthier lifestyle. Anyone who is considering weight loss surgery should ask these basic questions of the practice they are considering using:
- How thorough is the screening process?
- Will a psychological evaluation be part of the program to support you before and after surgery?
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- Is there a program in place for long-term diet counseling?
- How many surgeries are being performed monthly?
- How experienced are the surgeons? Is bariatric surgery the core of their practice?
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Each case is different, but on the average, laparoscopic banding surgery takes about 35 – 40 minutes, and you go home that same day (outpatient procedure). Recovery is approximately 7 days. Traditional (open) gastric bypass in Arizona averages 1.5 – 3 hours, and the laparoscopic procedure take 2 – 3.5 hours. The hospital stay averages 2 to 3.5 days for the bypass procedure.
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During your initial visit to the any of our offices (Tempe, Arrowhead, Scottsdale, Phoenix, Tucson), you will meet with one of our Finance Counselors. They will go over the specifics of YOUR insurance plan: deductibles, co-pays, coverage levels, etc. Our surgeons and billing department then send each insurance carrier a comprehensive evaluation of the patient's health. The insurance company almost always grants appropriate candidates the surgery on a case-by-case basis. Be aware that the insurance approval process can be difficult, and you should work with an experienced team.
9) Are there any limitations after surgery?
Limitations will vary on a per patient basis. Your surgeon will discuss with you in detail prior to and after your procedure.
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Yes, we exchange information with your primary care physician on a regular basis as you are going through the Weight Loss Institute of Arizona program. Of course, you can elect not to notify your physician for privacy reasons.
11) Are the surgeons members of a bariatric society?
Dr. DeBarros and Dr. Orris are both members of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.
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Our program offers an unparalleled combination of expertise, counseling and support, all key factors in achieving weight loss success. Ours is one of the most comprehensive programs in Tucson and the Phoenix-Scottsdale-Tempe-Arrowhead area because we provide extensive teaching and support for our patients, both before and after surgery. Combine that with our well-rounded, experienced team of surgeons and our commitment to patient satisfaction it is clear that Weight Loss Institute of Arizona provides real options for those considering weight loss surgery.
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At Weight Loss Institute of Arizona, our highly trained surgeons and staff are dedicated to your well-being. With us, you have a partner on your journey to better health. We are here for you around the clock, offering support before, during and after your procedure. We share your goal of a healthier, more fulfilling life, and your success is our top priority.
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The National Historical Museum in Tirana, Albania, is the country's largest museum. It was opened on 28 October 1981 and is 27,000 square metres in size, while 18,000 square metres are available for expositions. The museum was designed by Albanian architect, Enver Faja.
The construction of the museum required the demolition of the former Tirana Municipal Building. The gigantic mosaic appearing at the main entrance is entitled The Albanians.
The National Historical Museum includes the following pavilions: Antiquity, Medieval, Rilindja Kombetare, Iconography, Culture of Albania, Albanian Resistance of World War II, and Communist genocide.
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looks like a silpat liner :-) question: what do you use in your molds to make things actually come out? You know, something like Pam spray,only for resin molds? obviously a noob, am I, but interested:-)ReplyDelete
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Japanese paper I get in Toronto at The Japanese Paper Place and we have a store downtown that sells the most beautiful sheets.
When I work in a soft silicone mold I don't use any spray release. Things mold and pop out easily. Remember though, the molds can't be used for baking food again after I use them with resin.
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