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By Mike Indri, Retired Boxers Foundation - April 13, 2008 -- Atlantic City, NJ - With the Boardwalk Hall filled, and HBO broadcasting to millions at home, Miguel Cotto tore into Alfonso Gomez and in the same ring where the "Contender" fighter enjoyed his greatest win (TKO 7 vs. Arturo Gatti, 7/14/07), punished the likable and big willed fighter, sending Gomez to his most demoralizing defeat.. While the bout actually lasted until the ring doctor advised referee Randy Neuman not to let the one-sided debacle continue after round five, the fight was realistically over in the first round; when the first few exchanges proved this twelve round title match was simply a mismatch. Barely escaping in round one, a collection of Cotto body shots towards the end of round two sent a devastated Gomez to the canvas for his first of three knockdowns. More nasty body shots by Cotto dropped Gomez again in the third and a vicious debilitating barrage sent the overwhelmed fighter to the deck late in round five. Badly bruised and totally finished, a demoralized and defeated Gomez managed to slowly amble back to his stool where he dropped, and rightfully was not allowed to get back up from. At times Cotto seemed to be toying with Gomez, dropping his hands and pounding on the lesser fighter, all to the delight of the largely partisan Puerto Rican crowd. When it was all over Cotto had out landed Gomez 188 to 63 in total punches, and a staggering 125 to 46 in power shots (according to Compu-Box) basically every shot from Cotto is a power shot! Gomez - a contender, with a heart of a champion, slips to 18-4-2 (8 KO's), while Miguel Cotto improved to 32-0; the dominating stoppage being the 26th victory by way of knockout for the humble and classy hero of Puerto Rico. In the co-feature bout Kermit Cintron was defending his International Boxing Federation welterweight world championship title, but even more importantly he was defending his legitimacy and honor against former champion Antonio Margarito. Back in 2005 Cintron, then the hot 24-0 undefeated prospect was rushed into challenging the dangerous Mexican fighter, who was defending his World Boxing Organization belt. Cintron was not ready for the big step and paid dearly with a torturous beating which resulted in his first loss - a crushing fifth round TKO drubing, which hurt just as much, if not more, mentally as it did physically. Tonight Cintron was a much better fighter then he was on that never-to-be forgotten April night in Las Vegas (04/23/2005), but he still was not ready for Antonio Margarito. While appearing ferocious as he entered the ring and surprisingly calm once the bell rang, it was soon apparent that Cintron still had no answer for Margarito's power and resilience. Nothing but credit though can be given to Cintron as he went toe-to-toe, and gave as much as he got for as long as this savage battle was to last. After a good first round Cintron had his head snapped back by several Margarito uppercuts in round two and the message was sent. While tagging Margarito often, he never did hurt the California resident while Cintron was obviously affected by the pop in Margarito's punches. While both fighter's only defense is there offense, and this approach provided for an action packed dream of a fight, it was not a good move for the soon to be ex-champion. As Margarito, bleeding over his left eye since a round two headbutt, landed an average of 34 power shots a round, and out-totaled Cintron 207-89 in the bomb department (according to Compu-Box), Cintron must be applauded as he went out as a true champion. Totally beaten by the end of round five, Cintron hurting and desperate came out in round six and proudly fought to defend his title. Absorbing much punishment, a big Margarito right to the head followed by a Micky Ward-like left hook to the body sent a crippled Cintron to the canvas where he would not be able to get up and was counted out by referee Earl Brown at 1:56 of round six. Cintron, now 29-2 (27 KO's) and always a champion, suffers only his second professional loss (both at the hands of Margarito), while the A level Margarito (36-5 with 26 KO's) becomes a two-time world champion and seems to be headed to a mega fight against Miguel Cotto this July. On the Top Rank Boxing promoted undercard: Paterson native Richard Pierson and Puerto Rican Angel David Gonzalez opened the show with a six round middleweight slugfest. Using his superior reach, Pierson pounded Gonzalez early and looked impressive using both hands and stinging his foe with several bristling uppercuts. The resilient Gonzalez reached down and took advantage of Pierson's bad habit of dropping his hands, catching the talented Pierson too often and making for an extremely exciting fight Pierson, best known as the main sparring partner for middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik, has the skills and is a real prospect. Judges Luis Rivera and Joe Pasquale had it for Pierson 59-56, while Judge John Stewart somehow scored it 59-55 for Gonzalez. While the split decision victory Pierson improves to 7-1 (4 KO's), while the gutsy Gonzalez slips to 6-5-1, 3 KO's). Slick featherweight Luis Cruz withstood some early power from Olvin Mejia and effectively broke down the knockout-minded Mexican fighter, who missed much more than he hit after the first three minutes. Cruz, boxing much more relaxed and seasoned than a young fighter in his fifth pro bout, hurt his stronger opponent in round three and out-boxed Mejia over the six rounds, earning the smartly fought unanimous decision, as all three judges scored it 58-56 for the still undefeated (5-0, 3 KO's) Las Piedras, P.R. resident. Mejia fell to 3-2-1 (3 KO's). Highly touted middleweight Ronny Vargas, fighting out of the Bronx, looked good for the short while his scheduled six round bout lasted. Displaying a crisp jab and solid right hand the former amateur standout beat up on his overmatched opponent, fellow New Yorker Roberto Irrizarry, before the corner threw in the towel at the 2:51 mark of the third round. The technical knockout win pushed the Venezuelan to 5-0 (4 KO's), while the light hitting Irrizarry is now 2-4. In a four round super middleweight bout Omar Coffi, making his pro debut, survived with a draw against Houston, Texan Don Mouton, who appeared to be the busier and more effective fighter. Judge John Stewart scored it 40-36 for Mouton, now 3-2-1 (3 KO's), while Joe Pasquale had it 39-37 for Coffi, who now calls New Hampshire home, and Luis Rivera saw it even, 38-38. Star-in-the-making Jesus Rojas continued his destructive ascent in the super bantamweight division as the prospect with dynamite in his gloves crushed the game Andres Ledesma, forcing referee David Fields to save the nearly unconscious Colombian at the 2:14 mark of round four. Finding his mark late in the second round, the mighty Rojas hurt the Cartagena native often and took command of the scheduled eight round contest. Driving his banged up opponent onto the ropes midway through round four, Rojas unleashed a brutal barrage that forced the damaged Ledesma, now 14-9-1 (9 KO's), to crumble to the canvas. As a true fighter, Ledesma rose to his feet and continued; only to be met by more punishment from the heavy, as well as fast-handed Caguas, P.R. native, until referee Fields wisely halted the action. The good-looking bona-fide prospect remains undefeated, 11-0 with 9 knockouts Recently retired NJ boxing legend Arturo Gatti on hand for the championship boxing only added to an already spectacular night. Local boxing fans have a lot to cheer about as Omar Sheika gets back in action vs. Elvir Muriqi May 5th, on a Mike Arnaoutis headlined Atlantic City fightcard and middleweight world champion Kelly Pavlik puts his WBA and WBO titles on the line against Gary Lockett June 6th right back here at the Boardwalk Hall. Mike Indri can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com
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Marisnick, the Blue Jays' No. 3 prospect, homered for the second time in three games, going 3-for-4 with a pair of RBIs in Class A Advanced Dunedin's 9-6 loss at Lakeland on Thursday night.
Toronto's third round pick in the 2009 Draft was in an 0-for-13 slide in a three-game stretch entering Tuesday's game, when he smacked a two-run homer against Tampa. He kept the turnaround going with two hits Wednesday and a leadoff homer in the second inning on Thursday, his second of the season, before adding an RBI single in the fourth and a one-out single in the sixth.
Before Tuesday, Marisnick had seven hits and two RBIs in his previous eight games. He entered Thursday's game batting .212 against left-handers with 15 strikeouts in 18 games.
Toronto has high hopes for the 21-year-old native of Riverside, Calif., who is ranked just behind fellow outfielder Anthony Gose and catcher Travis d'Arnaud on the Jays' prospect list.
He spent the 2011 season at Class A Lansing, where he hit .320 with 14 homers, 77 RBIs and 37 steals en route to being named a MiLB.com organizational All-Star and Midwest League All-Star.
Marisnick's homer wasn't quite enough for Dunedin on Thursday, though, as Wade Gaynor homered and drove in four runs and Bruce Rondon picked up the save for Lakeland.
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Seth "Mayhem" Mitchell Is Ready for Johnathon Banks
VIBE caught up with Undefeated Heavyweight Contender, Seth Mitchell last week as he prepped for his Oct. 17th fight in Atlantic City against Johnathon Banks. This will be Mitchell's first fight since injuring his right hand 12 weeks ago.
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Unverified Voracity Lives On As A Hat
Tim Hardaway's hat lives!
Erm, okay. ESPN's Paul Biancardi was tasked with finding sleepers outside of ESPN's top 25 players who would outperform the rankings, and struck upon Derrick Walton:
1. Derrick Walton, PG, Michigan
Final ESPN 100 rank: No. 30
… Walton, who will replace Burke and take the mantle as Michigan's point guard, has some similar traits to Burke as he is small, tough and competitive. Although we have Walton ranked No. 30, which is relatively high, he still has to fight for everything he earns -- which is what makes him special. Walton will lead the Wolverines and will have a wealth of talent around him with a mixture of scorers, size and a strong incoming freshman class coming in with him. Look for him to push the pace with a high-speed dribble and find teammates off penetration with his peripheral vision. Walton is battle tested and has played on the travel team circuit against some of the nation's best point guards and had his way. Don't be surprised to see him get more assists than points in any given game, yet he can also make big shots when his team needs them most. He is a clutch performer with the perfect mindset for his position. The opportunity is there for Walton; look for him to capitalize on it.
Then Reggie Rankin was tasked with doing so with recruiting classes outside the top ten and picked three of the next four, one of which happens to be M:
2. Michigan (No. 12 class)
The Wolverines have added three ESPN 100 prospects who are not only talented and will excel in John Beilein's system, but also who address some of the team's needs after losing Trey Burke and Tim Hardaway Jr. to the NBA. Derrick Walton is an excellent point guard who pushes the pace and can deliver the rock at high speeds or execute when the defense is set. Zak Irvin is a quick fix on the wing because of his size, athleticism and ability to flat-out get buckets with his aggressive approach on the offensive end of the floor. Power forward Mark Donnal is skilled and can finish in the paint or stretch the defense with his range to about 18 feet. This class will excel in Beilein's system because all three have the IQ and skills to make high-level plays. Expect this Michigan class to be an NCAA tournament mainstay as long as it is together.
These are not bold forays onto the limb, but they do say nice things about Michigan, and from two different people. I might have gone with Donnal as more of a sleeper than the #30 player in the class, since Donnal's headed for a perfect fit for Beilein's offense and could blow up into a huge matchup issue down the road.
BTW, ESPN moved Zak Irvin up to #22, their last five-star spot, and Walton rose 10-20 spots as well, IIRC. I told Seth this and he was bored, because this is always what Beilein recruits do.
Now do it with your arms behind your back. Devin Gardner hits Jeremy Gallon with his eyes closed:
No, Jeremy Gallon did not change his hair and severely reduce his resemblance to Snoop from the Wire. No he did not. Shush.
In other news, this bodes well for throws made when Gardner is sneezing next fall. You'll have to think up something other than a field made of cat hair, Mr. Dantonio, if you're going to boringly cackle your way to victory this fall.
He may be biased, but the numbers are going his way. Netflix's CEO talks up the future of TV and includes some numbers:
The number of consumers turning to Netflix and other online entertainment providers has taken even Wall Street by surprise. Netflix has 30 million U.S. subscribers, a bit more than HBO and about 9 million more than the nation's biggest cable company, Comcast. Hastings audaciously projected Netflix's audience to grow to as many as 90 million as it expands globally. Its revenue, which exceeded $1 billion for the first three months of 2013, was a record. Minutes after the figures were announced Monday, Netflix stock soared more than 23 percent.
Eventually this will turn into various streaming buckets of content you can take or leave as you please, thus undermining the Big Ten's desire to expand into areas that have a lot of people who don't really care to watch Rutgers and Maryland play.
You might have to turn in your card. Brandon on the ticket hike:
"We raised the ticket prices, but we wanted to make sure the ticket price increase was not at all perceived to be an opportunity for us to make more money off of the students," Brandon said. "The incremental revenue that comes from the student ticket price increase, we're going to contribute (that) to the rec sports program up on campus -- which has nothing to do with Michigan athletics, but it's a way that we can take those revenues and support something that will benefit all the students."
So… instead of letting the students who play rec sports pay for rec sports, everyone who wants a football ticket pays for rec sports? That doesn't seem particularly Repub—[POLITICAL CONTENT REDACTED].
He does make an assertion that maybe if the tickets are more expensive students will be more inclined to use them that seems plausible. As previously mentioned, I don't think that'll move the needle with many out-of-state students with money to burn. Meanwhile, any student will be able to buy tickets no matter how disinclined he or she is to use them:
Michigan has no plans to cut the size of its student section inside Michigan Stadium -- which is roughly 22,000 seats.
"Every student who wants to buy a ticket will have the opportunity to buy a ticket," Brandon said. "That hasn't changed, and that's the way it's always been."
That's the way it's always been? Dave Brandon used this as an argument in favor of something? I am going to go lie down and panic at the possibility I have fallen into the mirror universe.
On the other hand, the angle of the sun will be right. Thumbs up to this:
OSU's Gene Smith says he has also spoken to Michigan's David Brandon and there is a consensus that "The Game" should be played at noon.
That's the way it's always been? I guess?
Sometimes the burden of proof should be on you. Remember that Duke player who put down 30k in cash and got a 70k loan for some jewelry in 2009? This is how the investigation went:
NCAA: Jeweler guy. Do you want to talk to us?
Jeweler: No.
NCAA: What about you, Lance Thomas?
Thomas: No.
NCAA: Okay we're done here.
As a result, no violations, but much eyerolling. Just dump the amateurism business so no one has to care about Lance Thomas buying some jewelry. Not only is it immoral; it's also unenforceable. This is not a winner.
Speaking of, Patrick Hruby won't stop bombing the NCAA, and it's beautiful.
Between 1985 and 2010, they report, the average salary of head football coaches at 44 Division I schools increased by 750 percent, from $273,300 to $2,054,700. During the same period, the average salary of university presidents rose by 90 percent, while the average salary of full professors rose just 30 percent.
Which group is more essential to the collegiate educational mission?
The OBC is on board with paying guys. Go OBC.
Etc.: Talking with Derrick Walton. Penn State @ 5PM is good news for people making the trip. Brady Hoke : Charlie Weis : Lincoln : Kennedy. False. True.
Go O'Bannon, Go
Yesterday, the NFL settled with a group of former players who had sued them for using their identities without permission. What's more, the NFL had an insane-seeming clause barring those same players from using their own identifies:
Hall of Famer Elvin Bethea and five other retired players filed the federal class-action lawsuit in Minneapolis in 2009 accusing the NFL of blatantly exploiting retired players' identities in films, highlight reels and memorabilia to market the league's "glory days."
"The retired players who created these glory days, however, have gone almost completely uncompensated for this use of their identities," the plaintiffs said. "Notably, while exploiting the identities of retired players for commercial gain, the NFL prohibits retired NFL players from using their own identities as players to promote themselves commercially."
Instead of facing down a court case, the NFL settled to the tune of 42 million dollars. Because they were going to lose, hard. Yesterday was a good day for Ed O'Bannon.
O'Bannon, of course, is the former UCLA basketball player irritated enough that he was in an EA Sports game to launch a class-action suit against the NCAA for almost the same issue the NFL just settled on, down to the insane-seeming cause. In the NCAA, those athletes sign away their publicity rights in perpetuity as a condition of the scholarship they get. But as anyone who's followed discussion about a coach's multimillion dollar buyout clause knows, just because it's in a contract doesn't mean its enforceable. Thus the pending class action.
O'Bannon and company have shifted tack from the relatively paltry amount of money provided by video game publishers to the Big Kahuna, amending their complaint to target game broadcasts. The NCAA's last response is to prevent the class from being certified thanks to a precedent they earned in a different breathtakingly cynical fight:
The NCAA relies heavily on its victory in a case regarding scholarship limits. Walk-on football players filed a class action against the NCAA arguing that in the absence of the 85 scholarship limit, they would have received full athletic scholarships. The court in that case refused to certify the class, because each player would have to prove individually that he would have received a football scholarship.
Yesterday, a bunch of motions in that case were made public, and everyone seized on this Jim Delany statement to laugh at the most hollow threat not made by a Jong-Il in the past 50 years:
Rather, it has been my longstanding belief that The Big Ten's schools would forgo the revenues in those circumstances and instead take steps to downsize the scope, breadth, and activity of their athletic programs. Several alternatives to a "pay for play" model exist, such as the Division III model, which does not offer any athletics-based grants-in-aid, and, among others, a need-based financial aid model. These alternatives would, in my view, be more consistent with The Big Ten's philosophy that the educational and lifetime economic benefits associated with a university education are the appropriate quid pro quo for its student-athletes.
Stupid or deceitful? I think the latter given Jim Delany's extremely malleable opinion on playoffs, but then again he is the man who gave us "Leaders and Legends" and wrote an open letter about how the SEC is poopy pants in 2007, thus dooming us to ALL THE SEC since. We may never know.
This is an organization that feels a university education is a sufficient quid pro quo for work that earns various people seven-figure salaries to play glorified secretary, and then fights lawsuits that would open up those university educations to more people because that might impinge on those seven figure salaries.
And this, of course, is a man who has spent the last twenty years thinking about nothing but money. He created a television network for money. He added Nebraska for money. He split Michigan and Ohio State in the vague hope of getting more money if they played twice. He added Rutgers and Maryland for money despite the fact that 11 of the 12 fanbases in the Big Ten would rather boil themselves in oil than play those teams in anything. Once he is presented with the idea he might have to share some of his money, he threatens to take the whole damn thing out of the system, into another system that will be exposed to the same legal precedent that prevents you from outrageously sharecropping athletes. The answer is probably "both." As Michael of Braves and Birds put it on twitter:
Delany's declaration is one step removed from threatening to attack Fort Sumter. "Our whole economic system is built on exploitation, so if you require that we pay our labor, we'll secede!" - Delany as Jefferson Davis.
As it becomes increasingly clear that the value of a university degree is coming unhinged from how much it costs, athletic departments continue to pile up more and more money that has to go somewhere. Increasingly, that is to the Jim Delanys of the world:
Michigan Budget, 2006
- Revenue of 68 million dollars
- 21 million spent on "salaries, wages, and benefits"
- 11 million spent on "financial aid to students"
Michigan Budget, 2013
- Revenue of 130 million dollars (a 91% increase)
- 44 million spent on "salaries, wages, and benefits" (a 109% increase)
- 18 million spent on "financial aid to students" (a 64% increase)
Despite the increase in athlete outlays, really there is no increased value there for the folks actually making the money. Instead the athletic department adds sports (lacrosse) and the University continues its unsustainable tuition spiral. The net for the athlete is the degree, then and now. When Texas A&M offered Bo a million dollars and he was reduced to tears because he had to choose between securing his family and staying at Michigan, that was maybe plausible. Today? Bitch, please.
According to a recent report in USA Today Sports, athletic directors at FBS schools are paid an average of $515,000 annually, an increase of more than 14 percent since … 2011. At the low end of the scale, Louisiana-Monroe AD Bobby Staub took home $109,923; at the high end, Louisville's Tom Jurich pocketed $1,401,915. Over the last two years, the number of athletic directors making $1 million or more has jumped from six to nine, while the number making $800,000 or more has risen from nine to 15. None of this is entirely new. Back in 2010 -- that is, when unemployment was at 9.9 percent and the nation was still reeling from the worst financial crisis since 1929 -- at least 10 public schools gave their athletic directors pay raises of $75,000 or more.
But you feel that a university education is the same bonus it's always been. You feel that it's fair that every extra dollar the players on the field make is destined for someplace other than their pockets. I feel that if every athletic director in the country disappeared tomorrow, no one outside their families would notice, and that if you took the best player off of every BCS football team the country would collapse into riots and chaos by Thursday. Useless vampires of college sports, I hope the courts annihilate your business model so thoroughly you end up shining Denard Robinson's shoes.
"People who have talent and bring something significant to the party expect to be paid fairly. I have no problem stepping up and paying talent for what they deserve."
Unverified Voracity Would Settle Everything at Trafalgar
- dennis norfleet
- i am irrationally excited about short guys
- i am very proud not to have taken unnecessary shots at the south in this post
- lsu is michigan's evil twin from the dark universe
- miami (that miami)
- ncaa: the game
- ncaa: the hypocrisy and how to fix it
- ncaa: the scandals
- tempo
- unverified voracity
Legolas is cooler than Treebeard. Brian's taking a short vacation and left me to write UV today. That's too bad because he's missing the party after Spath heard from Norfleet's mentor/7-on-7 coach ($) that the MGoFavorite little bugger's defensive foray was a temporary thing:
"He's supposedly going back to offense," Blackwell said. "They will use him in the slot and in the return game, and some as a running back. Coach [Greg] Mattison is saying he can still use him on defense and is making an argument to keep him there, but Dennis' passion is for the offense. That's where he wants to play, and from talking to Dennis it appears that's where he's going to play.
Putting him with the other elves made some sense when the cornerback two-deep was the starters, and what carries he could siphon last year from Toussaint, Rawls and Hayes would now have to be defended from Drake Johnson and three highly rated incoming freshman. The rooting for Norfleet to take over Smith's role comes from simple fan interest: it's way more fun to hold your breath and watch this guy scamper around like a maniac than to plunge a tree into the enemy lines and watch him fall forward for the same result.
Contempt for compliance, not photos of Donna Shalala. The Miami (of course THAT Miami) case was to be the Austerlitz of the new and improved NCAA enforcement empire; instead it's going to be a summer of Waterloo metaphors and Shalala vs. Emmert lead images. SBNation's Robert Wheel's afore-linked take calls for Emmert's resignation, while admitting that won't do anything to fix the underlying problem:
If the NCAA were enforcing rules that didn't require a lot of investigation, then this lack of power would not be a problem. But as long as college sports remain a big time moneymaker with rich guys who want to circumvent the rulebook to see their teams win, said rich guys will find ways to try to outfox the rules. Unless we want to give the NCAA subpoena power (we really don't) then this will always be a losing battle. The NCAA will never have the ability or the resources to catch up to people breaking its rules.
In a real legal system the Canes could discredit the prosecution's only witness and get the case thrown out. This isn't a real legal system: schools don't get in trouble for breaking NCAA rules, they get in trouble by publicly reminding everybody that the NCAA can't really enforce them. USC tried this and got slapped down despite the evidence in hand being too weak for any court. Meanwhile investigators with bees up their butts couldn't prove what every 4-year-old knows in re: Ohio State gives players cars, or really much of anything in the original Tatgate story until the NFL forced Pryor to talk. For stonewalling so politely the extent of the Buckeyes' punishment was to end a 12-0 season with Meyer on their sidelines and Tressel on their shoulders. The dumbest thing Shalala could do is comply.* The second-dumbest thing she could do is say na-na-na-boo-boo to an organization that only slightly cares if it turned up doo doo.
The obvious answer is pay the players (FoxSports in re: Clowney and the risk of injury) and end the shadow ring where guys like Shapiro are the only people who can perform the otherwise perfectly legal function of paying adult U.S. citizens for the services they provide.
* There are a select few schools like Michigan who don't have a choice because our whole thing is being the good guys, and because we're among those who would benefit the most if tradition, competitiveness and the quality of education were the only factors in recruiting and retaining college football talent. Kind of like how Great Britain would prefer to settle everything with a sea battle.
Basketball on verge of spread revolution. Weinreb dug up a budding Mike Leach from a D-II school in West Virginia to highlight a story about how pacing in basketball has slowed way down while the smart guys beating up the lower ranks are going the other way. That coach's motto is "Don't do it unless you can rationalize why you're doing it." He's too old to end up in Ann Arbor, but apparently the Yost alleles for engineering-minded coaches are still going strong in Appalachia. Beilein small ball isn't speed ball, but this…
When Crutchfield recruits, he looks for kids who react quickly — "You can make up for a lot of quickness and speed if you react mentally," he says — and play with high intensity: If they get beat on defense and they don't D up even harder the next time down the floor, he starts to wonder if they might not fit into his system.
… is similar to Beilein. HT and board discussion itauditbill. While we're on Grantland's court Shane Ryan has updated his chart of the Big Ten's "Big Six" versus each other on the road:
That's part of a discussion on how road game success can be a strong predictor of postseason performance. I've used it for predicting NBA and NHL playoff results, and March Madness would be right there with them if it wasn't such a crapshoot in general. HT again from the board: SoFlaWolverine.
Assistant Coaches like money too. There's a rumor that Oklahoma may be going after Jerry Montgomery (Meinke via Footballscoop). Cam Cameron you may have heard just joined Les Miles's staff, further evidence to my theory that LSU is the In a Mirror, Darkly evil twin of Michigan from another dimension.
Dark universe Les Miles is in his 5th season as head coach at Michigan, where he's been slowly rebuilding the school's reputation shredded by win-at-all-costs Evil Lloyd Carr
Cameron will be making $3.4 million over 3 years, and this has made internet people start buzzing about top assistants commanding the kind of salary you give the school president. /mind blown. /thinks about the difference between GERG and Greg. /mind unblown.
It's right because the internet said so. The NCAA cover vote on Facebook has moved to a semifinals where the S-E-C!!! vote has been split (to Eddie Lacy's doom and random A&M guy's benefit) and Denard now leads. Every time this appears on the board cynical-me goes to erase it because it's playing to somebody's marketing ploy, and enchanted-me says "But Denard on the cover would be a wonderful thing!" I wish Denard would be on the cover because he is the living symbol of what is singularly spectacular about NCAA football; I also wish they could have come to that conclusion without somebody "developing an engaging social media campaign" that might only settle on Robinson because a cat playing guitar hero wasn't allowed in the race. #AIRBHG2014
Etc. People of the East Coast, check your DVR schedule or wind up recording a Virginia-BC game. UMHoops takes on Michigan's defense, scores a bazillion points (ha!). Zoltan's foundation update. FAU's marketing department derps stadium sponsor, double-derps wikipedia entry. MGoAndroid App is updated, report bugs here. NFL logos if they were designed by British people.
Unverified Voracity Wants Craig James Back
come back so I can mute you
WANT. Ace points out that this is a thing that exists:
The technology exists to remove commentary from live sporting events via your home sound system.
There's only one downside.
You may have to move to England to get the sound system as the Sony BDV-N7100W hits UK stores in May and contains technology initially developed by NASA. The new state of the art home system is able to differentiate commentary from background noise and remove the announcers' voices to allow you to enjoy the ambient atmosphere of the stadium with its "football mode"...
"Sony says that its speakers are able to recognise what is the natural ambient sound of a sporting event, and what is somebody nattering on top. …
The benefit is that fans can watch sport as if they're at the game, and not sitting next to a relentlessly unimpressive summariser with a booklet of cliches."
Goodbye, Craig James. Dick Vitale. Etc.
Meanwhile, I am off to patent a system that turns all color commentary into Dan Dakich hitting on Doris Burke. I'll see you from my space palace on Moon II.
Erp? As I type this Miami is housing Duke and Michigan is ticketed for #1 in the polls as long as they hold serve against Purdue. That's one thing. But being the odds-on favorite in Vegas?
VegasInsider.com moved Michigan to a 5-1 favorite to win the NCAA tournament on Tuesday, the best odds of anyone in America at the moment.
I feel that this is irrational exuberance. Surely, like, Florida or something.
Derrick Walton: pretty pretty good. Via UMHoops:
He seems a lot like a guy named Trey Burke, except he never misses shots.
You did what? The NCAA just announced they were going to investigate their investigation of Miami because of… stuff. This bit I didn't understand:
Former NCAA enforcement staff members worked with the criminal defense attorney for Nevin Shapiro to improperly obtain information for the purposes of the NCAA investigation through a bankruptcy proceeding that did not involve the NCAA.
As it does not have subpoena power, the NCAA does not have the authority to compel testimony through procedures outside of its enforcement program. Through bankruptcy proceedings, enforcement staff gained information for the investigation that would not have been accessible otherwise.
If this seems like whatever, as it did to me, the problem is that people not named Nevin Shapiro who have not signed off on this are suddenly getting asked questions under oath about things that are not laws.
This has served as another opportunity for people to shout that there's little reason for the rules the NCAA is enforcing here to exist. They just push activity under the table and hurt organizations who try to stop it. Wetzel:
Whatever. At the end of the day it's a rich person sending money to a young – often poor – person. We are supposed to be outraged by this? This is how the country works, this is how the force of a capitalistic economy will always make it work. Only the NCAA thinks it can stop it.
The goal of the NCAA is to create the illusion of amateurism because it allows the NCAA to avoid paying taxes – billions and billions of dollars in taxes. Which means billions and billion in taxes have to come from somewhere else – like the rest of us.
I'm down with this. I'm not down with crapping on Mark Emmert constantly, since he inherited this crap and is understandably focused on bigger things than any individual investigation. He just hacked out 25 pages from the rulebook, he added multi-year scholarships, he tried to get the cost-of-living increase through before being shot down by Indiana State, and next year they're going to have a knock-down, drag-out fight about agents and transfer rules and whatnot. All of that is due in no small part to the fact that anyone under 60 with a platform is tearing the NCAA apart on amateurism issues, and this is good.
Crapping on Emmert himself seems counterproductive. The guy is ramming reform down a thousand-headed-hydra throat collective as fast as he can. The root of all NCAA evil is the precious idea that the playing field can be level—and Emmert's working group just inserted language into the bylaws specifically repudiating that. Yeah, enforcement's screwed up. Emmert's busy with more important things.
Pretty good. From Luke Winn's latest power rankings:
Winn also mentions that Michigan's leap in offensive efficiency is ninth in the country, which is all the more impressive because Michigan is coming from a place of strength (22nd last year) and most of the other teams on that list are coming around from awful—the best 2012 offense on the list other than M is Butler, 223rd last year. The rest are 284th or worse.
Show us the game! Here's an early candidate for rant of the year at Troy Nunes Is An Absolute Magician. It is dropping the bomb on the guy producing Syracuse's nail-biting win over Cincinnati:
2.5 -- And here we come to ESPN's coup de grace. Their fucking Starchild shot of the whole broadcast. With an incredibly important front-end one-and-one foul shot in a 2-point game, this is the camera angle ESPN goes with from the time Brandon Triche recieves the ball from the official all the way through as he shoots, misses it, Cincinnati rebounds it, and then calls time out:
I always want to watch important plays from the worst seat in the house! In fact, it's why I usually watch games on TV instead of heading to the arena...because you can just never get those worst-seat-in-the-house tickets.
Any live shot that is not the traditional sideline view is fist-clenchingly bad. You are not Stanley Kubrick, director guy. Just push the button.
Grraaagh. There's always a chance Penn State loses a game 19-16; outside of that Michigan State's 49-47 win over Wisconsin is assured of being the ugliest game of the year in the Big Ten. Consider this sentence:
This one was a double shutout until Wisconsin hit a 3 four minutes into the game.
And then this one:
A layup by Dawson with 6:58 to go to give MSU a 47-43 lead would be MSU's last field goal of the game.
They scored two points in the final seven minutes! And won! Wisconsin shot 30% from 2 and 3 and 39% from the line, and lost by two!
Neither of these teams will play a game this bad again this year, so prepare to be frustrated when they score in the, like, 50s.
File under Everyone Hates Wisconsin. Possessions in Wisconsin's Big Ten games so far: 59, 57, 59, 59, 64 (Iowa), 55. Prepare for a grim, grim game. Given Wisconsin's free-throw shooting woes—61% on the season, 331st, and 52% in Big Ten play—Michigan's low-foul ways might actually work against them in this one.
If they find themselves down, hack-an-Evans should be a real option. He's 33 of 84 from the line (39%) and a team with Michigan's offense should be more inclined to exchange points at the line for extra possessions than normal.
Denard at WR. As you might expect, he's inexperienced.
Gilmore said Robinson has some tangible and intangible qualities that should allow him to make up ground quickly. "The language I'm talking right now to him is foreign," Gilmore said. "It's Chinese. But the one thing I appreciate, he's asking questions." On Monday and Tuesday, Robinson stuck close to Gilmore when he wasn't taking reps. When Robinson saw something he either didn't understand or wanted to clarify, he asked Gilmore. "He's very coachable," Gilmore said. "He's a very humble kid. He asks some great questions. Not good questions. Great questions." That willingness to learn combined with Robinson's superior athleticism should help him close the gap with more experienced receivers. "Because of the athleticism he possesses, it will be a shorter learning curve than most," Gilmore said. "Once again, the God-given ability will take over. He's just got to get the reps."
But we want to visit the empty cathedrals of college football. Talkin' up neutral sites is one Gene Smith:
Big Ten athletic directors have a lot of decisions to make for the future, including the possibility of playing nine or even 10 conference home games per season starting in 2014. If the league does go that route, Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith has an idea.
"I would like to see more neutral sites in those scenarios," Smith told ESPN.com. "We've got a great stadium in Chicago, one in Detroit, one in Indianapolis, and now we have the East Coast. So I can see more neutral sites for conference games."
I find myself strangely unoffended by this because it seems like Smith is talking about moving games from Rutgers and Maryland to somewhere other than Rutgers and Maryland. And… yeah, I don't care. No one's ever going to move a Michigan home game away from Ann Arbor, so I don't care. I do have a problem with Penn State essentially buying an Indiana home game and moving it to Philly, as that upsets competitive balance. Moving a Rutgers game to the Meadowlands doesn't, so I don't care.
I probably should care, but I've already done my YOU BLEW IT UP YOU MANIACS bit and am now settling in to my new reality in the dystopian future I thought couldn't happen to us. Vat-grown protein for all.
Etc.: Denard's getting mixed reviews as a wide receiver at the Senior Bowl. Ain't no gentlemen 'round here. Mitch McGary profiled and profiled. Devin Booker scores points in front of Michigan coaches. Irvin, Kennard also score points. Mark Donnal scouted. Winning by lots is good. Purdue braces for impact. ADIDAS SCREWED UP 1928.
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Hey folks. Hope you had a pleasant holiday. I did except for my hard drive dying, then beeping alarmingly, then resurrecting itself. Either I need a new computer or I should hand over this hard drive to SCIENCE so all can benefit from this discovery. Probably the former. Anyway…
Merry Christmas. Stauskas attempts to hit 90% from three, does:
I like to have this man on a basketball team I like.
A non-ringing non-endorsement. Hoke on the Big Ten expanding:
Michigan coach Brady Hoke suspects it won't end there.
"It's probably not finished," he said Thursday in Tampa during a segment with Michigan Radio.
Although Hoke offered no dissension toward expansion, he also didn't endorse it.
"Is it a positive? I think it's the world we live in right now," he said. "As coaches, we have no say in anything, I want you to know. The presidents make those decisions -- people way up in the food chain. But I doubt it's done."
Bo is spinning in his grave right now. As I've mentioned before, at this point I'm all for further expansion since Big Ten Old and Big Ten New (And Purdue Or Something) is a much better setup than seeing Iowa and Wisconsin and whoever else once every million years.
Meanwhile, Michigan's moving to a third hotel Monday for some reason.
Hoke quote, epic variety. Is here:
Hoke on Denard & Kovacs: "So we have a distant cousin of Bob Marley and an accountant as our captains."
Cumong man. Very frustrating to hear Will Campbell speak of his laziness early in his career:
"When I was younger, I was lazy," Campbell said. "I didn't listen as much, I didn't take everything in like I should of. There were people around me telling me, too -- it was just me not doing it."
That's one thing recruiting rankings will always struggle to encompass. Jonathan Hankins couldn't get through three consecutive reps when he hit Michigan's camp as a rising senior, but got it together and turned into a beast. Campbell had that famous picture where he's all throwing guys all over the place…
…and then he doesn't really do much until he's a senior and by then we're just happy when he's okay. Meanwhile, repetition of theme about redshirting: RR threw Campbell on the field as a true freshman despite the fact he was patently unready, and now both Michigan and Campbell probably wish they'd have one more year together in which Campbell improved on his 2012 and maybe moved into the middle rounds of the draft. The redshirt forever.
On the other hand. Will Campbell on his beach day:
It's hard out here. I done fought two sharks, wrassled a sting ray, ate two crabs--had butter out there. It's hard out here but you know how we do it, I'm from Detroit. You know, it was nothing. Two great whites, punched a whale in the face... easy day. Go Blue.
He has never lacked for entertainment. The entire segment is pretty fantastic:
Also in this category. Brendan Gibbons on pirates:
Michigan placekicker Brendan Gibbons grew up a big Tampa Bay Buccaneers fan, and has always dreamed of playing at Raymond James Stadium.
Of course, he has a perfectly logical reason for loving the Bucs.
"I like pirates," he said.
Unfortunately, we are doomed since Gibbons no longer looks like Keith Stone.
Made with weed and torn ACLs. A reader sends along a shot of a micorbrewery in Coralville, Iowa, with a very special Extra Special Bitter:
Other than the relatively low alcohol content, perfect.
Exit bizarre decision guy. MSU wing forward Brandan Kearney announced he was leaving a few days ago, leaving Izzo to grasp his hair alarmingly($) and dance on the edge of calling Kearney a danger to society:
One of the more bizarre things I've been involved with in coaching. Came back from Christmas and (he) just informed me he thinks he's better off going somewhere else. Not really happy with his role, you know. Wants more role, wants to score more, wants to do this more, wants to do that more. I gotta admit, it was a little strange for me and the players when a guy's playing 17 minutes a game, but at the same time it's gonna open it up maybe for another guy.
Thus ends what was, in retrospect, one of the most overblown recruiting controversies in Michigan basketball history: Carlton Brundidge vs Brandan Kearney. Answer: neither, and nobody in state. Unless I missed a guy from outside the Rivals 150 who is blowing up Amir Williams is the only guy from that instate recruiting class doing anything at a major school at the moment. Michigan did get a guy named Trey Burke that year, so that recruiting class something less than a total loss.
As for the departure's impact, Kearney was playing about 40% of MSU's minutes but when the going got tough those dwindled to 6-9 per game. He was a quality defender with little offensive game; MSU will probably revert to the twin towers lineup they had scrapped earlier in the year in an apparently futile effort to cut down on turnovers. I'm not sure Kearney's departure is worth much—maybe a game—but in a brutal big ten every little bit helps, or hurts as the case may be.
Oh for pants' sake. One side of the story and all that but a former Louisville player has sued UL for cancelling his scholarship mid-year after
- two teammates attacked him in the locker room and broke bones around one of his eyes (they were later charged with assault and kicked off the team)
- he was told not to tell the doctor and other folks how he sustained those injuries
- a doctor told him to stop playing football after problems with his eyes
Cancelling a scholarship mid-year is against NCAA regulations, FWIW…
Mid-year cancellations must be for specific reasons in the NCAA bylaws or for violating a term of the scholarship agreement. Any cancellation or non-renewal requires the student-athlete to be provided written notice from the financial aid office and a hearing opportunity.
…and it seems like they could easily have medicaled the guy. I'm sure Strong and Louisville have their side of the story. Looks ugly.
As more money flows into the top echelons of the sport it's time to ask why the NCAA has such strict limits on scholarships issued. If a team wants to carry 100 scholarship players, why not let them? All of this oversigning business would be done tomorrow if the NCAA would restructure revenue sports in such a way as to encourage retention instead of attrition, as a hard cap does.
In the barn. The following six true freshman have enrolled early:
- OT Logan Tuley-Tillman
- OG Kyle Bosch
- CB Ross Douglas
- S Dymonte Thomas
- DE Taco Charlton
- TE Jake Butt
For Douglas, Bosch, and Butt the early enrollment should give them a better shot at early playing time. With the thin interior OL it's not out of the question that Bosch is in the mix to play from day one despite being an OL. Douglas will probably have to wait a year with Countess/Avery/Taylor in front of him but the fourth guy will get PT and the race is on for that spot. Thomas may play some as well; Charlton and LTT seem like obvious redshirt candidates.
All but out of the barn. Taylor Lewan:
"I have an idea what I'm doing. I'm almost positive what I'm doing. But at the end of the day, this bowl game doesn't have to do with what I'm going through. ... I'm playing football on Tuesday, Jan. 1, and I'll make my decision, and I'll talk to the coaches about it, and then we'll obviously go from there and what they want to do to get it out.
Is there something that could change his mind?
"No," Lewan said. "No."
So long and thanks for all the fish.
It all worked out. Followup on "how to schedule nonconference games": Michigan did pretty well this year despite the Binghamton game. They approach the finish line of their nonconference slate 15th nationally after playing 5 major teams and avoiding the very bottom of D-I with the exception of the Bearcats. Their peripheral numbers should be good come tourney time after slogging through the brutal Big Ten, and that'll give them a leg up on anyone with around the same record not named Duke when S-curves are plotted.
Fight. James Young vs. Derrick Walton, go:
Walton is ripping opponents for 30-40 points a game these days to go along with the point guard stuff. There will necessarily be a dip when Burke is gone next year; it may not be a huge one.
Etc.: Elliott Mealer reminisces about the bad thing. Tony Dungy drops in on Michigan. Chad Ford declares Trey Burke "firmly planted in the first round"($), so godspeed Mr. Burke. Going I-A: Why? Stop. Don't. Joe Lundardi has Iowa the last team in, Iowa fans excited. Craig Roh is about to break the Michigan record for consecutive starts.


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You know what I admire most about the creators of Jersey Shore? They dared to look at Snooki and say, "What if we had two drunk, slutty Ewoks?" And yet no Emmy nom. God, I hate this country.
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You know what I admire most about the creators of Jersey Shore? They dared to look at Snooki and say, "What if we had two drunk, slutty Ewoks?" And yet no Emmy nom. God, I hate this country.
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Ewoks eat pizza?
The kid laughing in the background about sums it up perfectly. It's like a monkey fucking a football in how they decide what to wear.
That's the jeans fraying. Apparently, you have never cut the legs off of a pair of jeans to use as shorts.
And I just noticed Crotch-gobbler in the background.. Holy smokes, this picture is full of fail.
don't forget the her missed belt-loop.
Has anyone ever noticed if you were to put a wig, some fake, ugly tits and a skirt on that Ronnie guy from Jersey Shore he would practically look identical to deanna? Seriously, she looks like dude. Someone should look into it, maybe she had a sex change op. I'm pretty sure she used to be a dude.
Come to mamma. That's it, eat the taint.
How many times was the phrase, "I think the fat one is Snooki" uttered today?
I'm uttering it right now. I think I don't recognize her without the huge sunglasses. Is that really her/it?
I thought that was her.
yup. I did. haha. That first pic had me convinced it was her.
I can't stand Jwowws stomach. The liposuction is so obvious and her belly button looks weird. Just do some sit-ups already
TOTALLY. AGREE. She didn't even need the lipo. Moron.
In every picture . . . guy named Paco serving fried food . . . wishing he called in sick today.
Emmy nom?
Call me a pig, but I think J-wow looks hot. The sluttier the outfit, the better.
If I want to jerk off to Ms. Susie Homemaker, I'll drive to the grocery store and watch some miserable housewife decide which jar of pickles to buy while her rugrat wails like a siren in the shopping cart.
DJ, I hate to say it but I have to reluctantly agree.
I say j-woww is not hot. Her tits were purchased on discount and her face looks like she fell out of her trailer and subsequently got run over by it, again and again. Bitch can't even afford a decent grade wig/weave or whatever the hell is attached to her ugly head. The only pretty one is that Sammi character, who evidently paid premium for her rack.
No one has ever said J-Woww does not look hot.
It is the two little trolls there that are the problem.
J-Woww is highly fuckable.
The rest of the cast can get hit by a Mack truck and I could care less.
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I really thought that was Snooki from behind. That is crazy.
JWow looks nice but trashy as always.
It ages fast because she lives pretty hard.
Someone please explain the attraction to these women… i really don't get it.
My anaconda still don't want none
Where's Dexter when you need him!
I'd better roll up the bottoms of these sweet ass cut-off shorts half an inch. Ah perfect.
How do the short one's inner thighs not burst into flames when she walks? Does she carry her own fire supression system? I see no bottle of beer here.
The wookies around here are getting SO trashy.
WTF AM I LOOKING AT HERE!!?? Rememeber when they used to burn women because they suspected them of being witches, well that wasn't such a bad idea…..
Wow, Dan Cortese certainly let himself go. Wait… who's Deena?
her ass and thighs are surprisingly free of cellulite. i am surprised.
that is the grossest ass ever, short women always have gross asses 90 percent of the time, sorry…wow, yeah that fricken distgusting…
dudes right you know!
and alcohol of course
Why dear god? WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!
I am sick to my stomach.
I am so fucking glad I don't live in Jersey!
She looks like she just walked off the set of "Clueless" …for more than one reason.
OK, put up a new post already. I'm so sick of coming back here seeing that disgusting pig's ass on my screen.
it's ookla the mok!
seriously though, i'd totally fuck her, i'd totally fuck snooki too. you guys are haters. at least they are like 22. when you're fucking a chunky 22 year old it looks a lot different than fucking a fucking less chunky 32 year old. i'd go for the younger girl anyday… unless the older one takes it in the ass. i could be turning into a black man as i type this.
+1 for the honesty. (and you're right).
Comments that are almost always made by guys who can't any women to look at them – much less a 32 year old or 22 year old.
The thing about the older gals – immune to how y'all roll…that is, no longer young and dumb.
And FYI dope – If those "girls" are a day under 29, I'm Demi Moore! The biggest clue – Britney Spears called and wants her wardrobe from the 90's back. If they're not at least in they're mid 30's then they've both seen more miles than a Michelin tire…
sorry i offended you and your grey hair. btw, kudos on at least one correct use of "they're," the second should have read "their mid 30's." it took me a minute to make sure i was right, and i am. kisses!
Have fun with the 20 somethings – the 30 somethings know how to use their shit.
No offense. Just being the master of the obvious. I realized a long time ago men seem to have an extra bone that makes them think they are highly attractive to every woman. This revelation came after working with a guy who was sincerely upset that his favorite model had gotten married. Because THAT is supposedly what would ruin his chances with her!!! And I'm being kind about looks, height and attitude. But, who knows, huh? See, when I describe HIM —> "What a tool! Right?"
Of course, we women all love how the older guys (often sporting man boobs and looking seven months pregnant are such authorities on the "young stuff." Especially since Viagra. Y'all aim really high (or pay for it).
As for grammar and spelling, physician heal thy self. I think much faster than I type, hence the dropped word (that you missed in your proof reading). But I won't subject readers to some lame spelling and grammar lesson just because I need to find any come back like you did.
And FYI my "gray hair" is with twat below – please feel free to spend all your money, time and energy on 20 somethings that don't really enjoy sex yet or have a clue as to what their doing. Viagra won't fix that. But it saves us a lot of time in weeding you out while you condemn yourself to a very mediocre sex life.
That's a win, win by some accounting…
hey BE! i think we are the only ones still looking at this. anyway, i could argue with some of the things you said, but i won't. i'm in the wrong. i first posted because i got sick of everybody saying how gross those girls were. and they might not have great personalities but they aren't ugly. and for the record, i like thicker women. i also think there is a double standard, chubby dudes call those women "fat" and they aren't. but i got carried away and brought age into it… so i became a hater. and i'm not.
btw, in my second retort i'm fairly sure i didn't omit any words or have any grammatical errors.
Hey Miles- Hey this made it over to "So Freakin' Hot" – people seem to love a good go round..
And no problem, it's not exactly keeping me up nights.
As for my sad character output – I apologize to those who have to decode my poorly spun out grammar and spelling. I flip between computers/keyboards and since I don't code anymore, it's definitely degenerated into mess especially since I've been sleep deprived lately.
I just do what everyone else does. Log on and throw my opinion out.
This site needs more fat ass dudes to scrutinize it's always the women. Why can fat ugly guys get away from criticism so much?
JWoww: "Why does my finger smell like fish and Vagisil?"
Deena: "Don't worry about it."
I know she's a total mess ALL OVER, but can we seriously talk about her makeup for a second? WTF.
"What's wrong with it? It's look fookin' GREAT!" says only people that live in New Jersey.
Hey Im from Jersey you assclown…don't lump me in with these heteromorphic freaks of nature. Freakin miscreants should be locked up in a cage and fed raw meat like the creatures they are.
lol'd irl.
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As I write, I'm lifting a mug o' coffee and toast to Jane and the entire Firedoglake team who have done so much this election cycle to spotlight the perfidities of the McCain-Palin disaster and otherwise move forward a progressive vision our nation so desperately needs.
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