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Dildo Dory Grill is a fine dining establishment situated right on the waterfront of the picturesque community of Dildo Newfoundland. Our goal is to present our patrons with a excellent meal and a great view. Whether you are from just around the bay or you come from abroad, please come and experience all the beauty and serenity of rural Newfoundland.
A Newfoundland favorite that will leave both you and "the cod" speechless. Lightly dusted in seasoned flour, served golden brown with crispy scrunchions and lemon
Harvested from the depths of the local bays and pan seared to plump perfection in a mouth-watering balsamic reduction.
On the deck or in the dining room, fresh local mussels are always a favorite! Perfectly steamed in either a WHITE WINE & GARLIC, or a TANGY TOMATOE WINE sauce. Served with an oven-baked biscuit.
Straight from "the squid jigging' ground", fresh squid tossed in a seasoned flour and served with a choice of dipping sauces. Choose from: homemade tartar or traditional seafood cocktail.
Crisp corn chips, tomatoes, olives, bell peppers, and jalapenos smothered with melted Cheddar and Mozzarella, and finished with a sprinkle of green onions. Tomato Salsa and Sour Cream come on the side.
Add Grilled Chicken 3.50
Add Spicy Beed 3.50
Large beefeater style onion rings deep fried to crispy perfection and served piping hot. Another deck favorite!
A-peeling ....literally! The ever popular finger food combines the tender skin of a new potato with melted cheeses and bacon bits prepared from real bacon. Sour cream on the side makes a perfect dip.
A hearty soup for all to enjoy! Totally vegetarian, our Newfoundland Pea Soup offers all the flavor of its traditional recipe and features fresh local root vegetables for added flavor. A perfect option for the health conscious and vegans! Served with an oven-baked biscuit.
Cup 6.50
Bowl 8.50
Thick and creamy, our famous seafood chowder is loaded with chunks of fresh cod, salmon, and local root vegetables. Served with an oven-baked biscuit.
Cup 9.50
Bowl 12.50
Our spicy tomato based chowder offers a zesty blend of fresh seafood and shellfish for a tangy hearty serving. Served with an oven-baked biscuit.
Cup 9.50
Bowl 12.50
CREAMY AND SPICY! Expect a Pefect Explosion of Flavour when our 2 Chowders meet and come together as one spectacular taste sensation. A little bit cream and a little bit tomato...the perfect duo. Served with an oven-baked biscuit.
Cup 9.50
Bowl 12.50
Mixed leafy greens, cherry tomatoes, red onion, crunchy walnuts, and dried cranberries are gently tossed in our tongue tingling Dildo dressing. Laced with garlic, the faint at heart may want to substitute our Dildo dressing for a more simple Balsamic or Honey Curry dressing.
Side 6.50
Main 8.50
Mouthwatering and difficult to resist, it is hard to believe that we are talking about the old reliable, Caesar Salad. It never caesars (sorry, we could not resist) to amaze how a single salad remains so popular after all these years but, like a favourite toy, the Caesar Salad will always reign supreme.
Side 6.50
Main 8.50
Add Grilled Chicken 4.00
Freshly plucked from the icy cold North Atlantic and pan fried to perfection. Served with our homemade tartar sauce, scrunchions, your choice of a side and a stack of fresh local root vegetables. A total luxury.
5oz 16.50
10oz 21.50
Try a DILDO dory exclusive. Open up to new experiences in dining. Fresh and steamy, our COD is lightly poached and drizzled in an Asian inspired reduction finished with soy, fresh ginger, garlic, and cilantro. Accompanied by brown rice pilaf and a stack of fresh local root vegetables...exciting and satisfying...a new craving possibly?
5oz 18.50
10oz 23.50
WILD AND FRESH NORTH ATLANTIC COD! Hand dipped in our Signature batter and lightly fried to mouth watering perfection. Served with only the best HANDCUT HOMEMADE FRIES and our very own tangy tartar sauce. From now on, when you think DILDO, you'll think Best Fish & Chips!
5oz 14.50
10oz 19.50
Perfect for the DECK! Bite size pieces of cod prepared in the same manner as our famous traditional style fish. Lightly battered and served with our very own tangy tartar sauce or your choice of selected dipping sauces.
One as an appetizer, two for lighter fare, or three as a main entree, our fishcakes are ready to please any appetite at any time of the day. Whipped potatoes with fresh cod and savory are served as golden brown cakes accompanied by our very own tartar sauce. Ask for scrunchions for a more local experience. Great choice if you only have time for a quickie!
one 6.50
two 10.50
three 14.50
You'll "find yer' sea legs" with this generous helping of fresh crab. Steamed
in the shell and served with warm butter, it won't be long before this Dildo delight
claws its way to the top of your guilty pleasures!
Served with your choice of: handcut fries, sweet potato fries, mashed potato, rice pilaf or salad.
Served by the 1lb Market Price
A Dildo experience that will leave you feeling all warm inside and totally satisfied. Prepared with a rich savory chicken baked in a flaky pie crust.
Tickle your fancy with our tender strips of chicken that have been lightly breaded and prepared for your dining pleasure. Served with a delicious plum sauce.
Add a side of homemade fries: 6.50
Enjoy this deck favorite with an ice cold local ICEBERG beer!: 6.50
Take a WOK on the DOCK. Fresh veggies are stir fried to crisp perfection in a flavor filled sauce. TOSSED over rice on a BED of lettuce, our stir fry may become known as a toss in the sack!
Add Chicken: 4.00
Experience Dildo with full abandon! This is a perfect time to satisfy your craving for something wild. A massive beast, just the sight of it will send shivers up your spine. Once you get a taste of it, you will go wild for more. Cave in to your craving and let loose with a "Bit of Moose"!
Or Double D Burger. Try to get your mouth around this DILDO favorite. A half pound of thick juicy 100% beef sandwiched between a toasted rustic bun. Smothered in toppings of your choice, this could get messy. 10.50
A Huge HIT that is nowhere near accidental. Wild and local, this 1/4 lb of meat has a flavor all it's own which will leave you both intrigued by its uniqueness and wanting more! Your HUNT for the perfect self indulgence is over...you "gotta get your moose by'!"...and what better way than for somebody to serve it to you?
A heaving plump and juicy breast of chicken beckons you with its temptatious aromas and mouthwatering tenderness. Beautifully centered on a fresh rustic bun, this perfectly grilled chicken will make land lovers out of the biggest seamen around!
Give peas a chance...plus a few other grains and vegetables. This Dildo alternative is the perfect meat substitute!
Homemade Fries
Sweet Potato Fries
Onion Rings
Insalata Mista
Cole Slaw
Fish Cake
Ice Cream Scoop
This pudding gets 2 F's....Famous and Favourite! Created in our very own kitchen, our Dildo signature pudding lives up to its name. Dark, Sticky, Moist....this Dildo exclusive will put a smile on your face and a warm feeling in your soul. Baked fresh and filled with dates. Topped with a Newfoundland Rum Sauce and fresh cream.
Cup 6.75
Comfort food redefined. Warm and yummy, fresh Ginger gives this dark moist cake an explosive flavour and a mouth watering scent that will give you memories of going to grandma's
A Dildo favourite that will leave your lips blue...temporarily. Another dessert from a collection of favorites featuring wild Newfoundland blueberries, served warm but topped with an artful scoop of vanilla ice cream.
Click Here to download a copy of our menu
Please use the form below to contact Dildo Dory Grill. We will get back to you as soon as possible addressing any concerns or requests you might have.


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With 20 minutes having gone by in the first half and his team leading 2-0, Richlands soccer coach Mike Roed just about went with wholesale substitutions, putting nine new players onto the pitch.
The move was by design, he said, following the Wildcats' 7-0 nonconference victory at Northside on Wednesday night.
"The starters last night played pretty hard minutes against Laney and so we only wanted to get them about a 15- to 20-minute workout tonight," Roed said. "We let them (reserves) play a little bit more."
Just one of the several things Roed and the Wildcats (3-1) wanted to accomplish against the Monarchs (2-3) following Richlands' 1-0 loss at 4-A Laney on Tuesday.
Of course, the first thing was to get a win, which became obvious after Tolson Jeffrey and Ransom Stone each scored in the first 11 minutes to give Richlands a 2-0 lead. But Roed was also looking for other things.
"We wanted to get some team camaraderie, wanted to make sure the defense worked and were organized and we wanted to get everybody in the game," he said. "And we wanted to enjoy the game."
Meanwhile, Jeffrey, a senior who later scored his second goal on a penalty kick, wanted his team not to take Northside for granted.
"We knew we had to work hard," he said. "We couldn't just come out here."
Richlands more than just showed up. The Wildcats jumped on the Monarchs early as Jeffrey scored just 6:50 into the match.
But as the Wildcats continued to increase their lead, Northside first-year coach Brian Akers was looking to see if his team continued to fight.
"I just wanted to see 100 percent of their effort," he said. "I know they (Northside players) will have some bad touches, but I didn't want to see them give up."
The Wildcats showed their quickness from the start. Attacking players made good runs toward the goal and Richlands passed quickly to find them. Elijah Jinks, Kendrick Pascoe, Roman Eddleman and Caleb Schmitt also scored a goal.
"We are fast and we are looking to counterattack really quickly against teams," Roed said. "We should be able to get out real quickly on the outside. We are a fast team and we look to play as fast as we can."
And the Wildcats are a close team, Roed indicated, saying all his players get along and work hard and well with each other.
That's particularly true in the defensive backfield, Jeffrey said.
"I think our defense is real solid," he said. "We got four good guys in the back and two good midfielders playing defense."
Still, Jeffrey and Roed know there's work that needs to be done if the Wildcats are to contend for a Coastal 3-A Conference title, although Richlands has perhaps proven to be a formable squad with wins already against 4-A Ashley and New Bern.
"I think we have to put some more goals in the back of the net," Jeffrey said. "Once we start scoring more, we will be real good."
Roed, meanwhile, is looking for added depth.
"We just have to find four to five subs who can come in and give our starters a good rest," he said. "It's good when we can get everyone to play in games like this."
Akers also believes the match did his team good in terms of being able to play different players. However one drawback, besides the score, came when Northside senior Christian Bousquet suffered a first-half injury to his right knee and needed to be carried off the field.
This injury came after goalkeeper Jordan Fisher was taken off the field Monday in a 2-1 victory over Lejeune on a stretcher and body board after he suffered a stinger.
"It definitely took the guys a few minutes to overcome it," Akers said of Bousquet's injury.
Richlands 4 3 – 7
Northside 0 0 – 0
GOALS–R: Jeffrey 2, Stone, Jinks, Ken. Pascoe, Eddleman, Schmitt. ASSISTS –R: Kev. Pascoe, Jinks, Smith . IN GOAL–R: Pierce (1 save), McAdams (1 save). N: Nguyen (7 saves). SHOTS ON GOAL–R 15, N 2. CORNER KICKS–R 8, N 1. RECORDS–R: 3-1, hosts East Duplin on Tuesday. N: 2-3, at East Carteret on Wednesday.

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Here's what we did in a day at Disneyland:
Haunted Mansion (Nightmare Before Christmas version)
Jungle Cruise (my youngest's favorite)
It's a Small World
Honey I Shrunk the Audience
Star Tours x3 (my oldest's second favorite)
Buzz Lightyear x5 (my oldest's favorite) (if only the same interactivity could be applied to It's a Small World)
We also learned that Disneyland is not remotely equipped for rain. Many rides were knocked out of commission for extended periods due to "power surges" and other unexplained malfunctions. Every ride that was even briefly exposed to the elements filled up with water like a bathtub. And huge shoe-soaking puddles lurked everywhere.
Still, fun trip. First time my boys were old enough to really enjoy the rides.
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The wettest, happiest place on Earth
Here's what we did in a day at Disneyland:
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- AnonymousDecember 8, 2009 at 7:51 AM
Just an FYI, it is possible to ride every ride in Disneyland in one day, depending on conditions.ReplyDelete
Also, if you have the dream of having the whole park to yourself, try Eurodisney in January. There were times there were no other guests in my field of vision, while I was standing in central places in the park.
I was there the same day! Luckily we had ponchos, and the cold wasn't too bad. We went over to California Adventure and the wait time on Toy Story Midway Mania was 5 minutes! It's a Small World had boats FULL of water, so we sat crossed legged on the seats.ReplyDelete
Yes, It's a Small World was the worst. I keep hearing that the new Toy Story ride is the best attraction.ReplyDelete


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So what type do you think Ninfia is?
I'm calling Bug-type, too.
I have a feeling it's official spelling is going to be "Nymphia" in Japanese (and Nympheon in English). And a "nymph" is a term to refer to the immature form of particular insects. Plus, the antennae-like streamers and the bug-shaped eyes.
That being said, the fact there's blue on it makes me think of Flying-type, but the "nymph" thing is really calling to me.
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divinepanda posted...A bug ... type would surely be heavier or around the the same weight as the others which is from 53-64lbs.
Because the evolutions that take away the collar are some of the heaviest and a bug type would most certainly have to add some kind of extra body piece to discern its bug type and make it heavier. And Mothim's lightness can be attributed to its secondary Flying Type. Both final stage pure Bug Types (Kricketune and Accelgor) are heavier than Ninfia. Kricketune is the same height and Accelgor is a foot shorter.
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For it to be Flying or Bug would be so out of left field because of how hard they've stuck to only Special typings for the evolutions. Game Freak isn't the type to intentionally break such a pattern this late in the game. And since it doesn't look dragonly at all (unless you compare it to maybe Altaria) I'm sticking by my claim of it being a new light type. Besides we're well overdue for a light type anyway.
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No we are not.
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divinepanda posted...(I'm on mobile and didn't know how to edit I apologize for the double post)
Why aren't we? Light would fill some decent holes in type advantages and disadvantages. It would combat Dark, Ghost, and Fighting, all types that signify malice. It would be weak to Rock (physically busting lights), Dark (an interesting dynamic like Dragon vs. Dragon), and Grass (absorbing natural light to grow, photosynthesis).
heart/ love type? I dunno. It certainly doesn't look like an existing type..other than maybe normal.
I wish theyd hurry up and make my gravity type :p
Also "Nin" in Japanese is either used as a counter for people (San-Nin, Yo-nin, Go-Nin) or as the beginning of Ninjutsu/Ninpo which means stealth, secrecy, endurance, perseverance, and patience, the latter three being debatable characteristics of something that would be considered "light."
Taking possible meaning even further, with Nin being a counter for people one could argue that it's meaning in Ninfia's name could be one that provides light to people, or people being of light and not dark, a theme black and white 2 touched on a little bit. It's a stretch but it points a lot more toward a light type than it does a flying, bug, or dragon.
I'm getting a huge Skyla vibe from it's design, so I'm thinking Flying
Its flying, just look here at the in game screens where its using a move with feathers
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NEW YORK ( MainStreet) Now that April 15 is behind us, taxes are probably the last thing you want to think about. Yes, you're sick of crunching numbers, talking to accountants and gathering receipts, but smart taxpayers won't wait to start preparing their taxes for 2014.
Ask yourself: What could I have done in 2013 to better prepare for tax day? Chances are there are a few steps you can take now to ensure next year is easier than ever. Our experts weigh in on the top three things you can do now and throughout 2014 to ensure there are no surprises this time next year.
1. Get organized
"You just finished filling out that return and you discovered what was hard for you and what was easy for you," says Kay Bell, tax expert at Bankrate.com. "No one knows better than you where you need to get organized."
Most people can look back at their most recent filing and see where the problems were: with receipts that were hard to track down, with stray 1099s from contract work or with statements on mortgage interest or child care.
"A lot of people don't realize what they need until they start filing, and at that point in the game they go crazy. They've got a deadline looming, and in many cases they have to get an extension. Don't put yourself in that situation," Bell says.
Keep an eye out for the same problems that hung you up last year to appear during the year this year, Bell suggests.
"If you aren't moving or changing jobs, you know already that you'll have the same mortgage and property tax, and roughly the same income, so you don't have to be surprised by any of that."
If you're not the type of person that likes to file hard copies of documents, Jeff Pickard, CEO and president of Lucion Technologies suggests going paperless.
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With an electronic system, you don't have to worry about files getting lost or misplaced, and you can check in easily on your tax situation at any point during the year, Pickard says.
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2. Adjust your withholdings
When you were filing your 2013 taxes, did you get a big refund? Did you owe a lot of money? In either case, it's time to go to your HR department or payroll office and ask for a new W4 form to adjust your withholdings, Bell says.


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NYC Parks Events Calendar
Get up, get out, and do something! Just about any day of the year, you can find something fun, informative, and healthy to enjoy at an area park. Feel free to browse the listings below, or use the search tools to find an event that matches your interests and location.
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Saturday, May 17, 2014
It's My Park Day at Graniteville Quarry Park
at Graniteville Quarry Park, Staten Island
11:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
The Friends of Graniteville Quarry along with Mariner's Harbor Civic Association will be cleaning, raking, and weeding at Graniteville Quarry.
Category: Volunteer, It's My Park
It's My Park Day at Tappen Park
at Village Hall (in Tappen Park), Staten Island
11:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
Join the Historic Tappen Park Community Partnerships in our spring cleaning and planting at Tappen Park.
Category: Volunteer, It's My Park
Amazing Bronx River Flotilla & 5K Canoe Challenge
at Starlight Park, Bronx
11:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
Come cheer on the racers and enjoy an afternoon of free music, canoe trips, learn-to-ride bicycle clinics and more.
Category: Fitness, Kids, Sports, Waterfront
Bryant Park Juggling
at Bryant Park, Manhattan
12:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
Test your coordination and dexterity with free juggling lessons. All skills are welcome and equipment is provided.
Category: Kids
Hands-on History: Reading with Rufus
at King Manor Museum (in Rufus King Park), Queens
12:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
Rufus King loved to read and owned over 3,500 books! Take a tour of the museum and create your own book using paper marbleizing.
Category: Arts & Crafts, Education, Art, History, Kids, Tours, Seniors
Pop-Up Audubon: Wonderful Warblers
at Binnen Bridge (in Prospect Park), Brooklyn
12:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
The Prospect Park Alliance presents Pop-Up Audubon, now in its second season, which invites families to directly engage with nature through outdoor learning in locations around the Park.
Category: Birding, Nature, Games, Kids, Tours
Introduction to Bird Watching
at Audubon Center at the Boathouse (in Prospect Park), Brooklyn
12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m.
Join the Alliance to learn about the 250 species of birds that call Prospect Park home.
Category: Birding, Education, Nature, Kids, Talks
Bronx Week at Bartow-Pell
at Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum (in Pelham Bay Park), Bronx
12:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
Celebrate beauty in the Bronx with free guided tours on Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday afternoons, 12 to 4 p.m. Tours start at quarter past the hour
Category: History, Tours
Central Park Tour: Mid-Park Welcome Tour
at Alexander von Humboldt statue (in Central Park), Manhattan
12:00 p.m.–12:45 p.m.
Explore the Park's central features, including the Lake and Ramble woodland, then marvel at the views from Belvedere Castle.
Category: Education, Nature, History, Tours
CANCELLED: It's My Park Day at Linden Park (JHS 166)
at Stanley Avenue and Van Siclen (in Linden Park), Brooklyn
12:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
Please join us for It's My Park Day at Linden Park! Brite Leadership Coalition and volunteers will perform a general clean up, host a green initiative, and celebrate civic engagement.
Category: Volunteer, It's My Park
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Parents Take Greater Risks Because of Fears About Vaccinations
January 7, 2008
A new study linking a once widely used vaccine preservative to behavioral problems in mice could renew parents' fears that vaccinations increase the risk of autism. Unfortunately, those fears can lead parents to take a much bigger risk with their childrens' health.
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Chreod, is a portmanteau term coined by 20th century biologist Conrad Hal Waddington that combines the Greek word for "determined" or "necessary" and the word for "pathway." The term was used along with homeorhesis, which describes a system that returns to a steady trajectory in contrast to homeostasis which describes a system which returns to a steady state. Architectural Theorist Sanford Kwinter described the concept of the chreod as "the most important concept of the 20th century."[1]
The word "chreod" also closely describes paths of decision within what Christopher Alexander has called configuration space, his term for what he notes that Stuart Kaufmann calls "fitness landscape."[2] Configuration space is a conceptual landscape which contains all possible outcomes and points of decision within the design of a structure or the growth of an organism or system. Because so very few of the possible outcomes will be good ones, paths to the infinitesimally rare possible and good solutions must be followed to get good results. These paths or, "chreods" appear to be followed automatically in the biological world (see the cited Kwinter excerpt).
By Alexander's theory, because conscious human design decisions do not need to follow these chreods, conscious human design can lead to mixed results. Therefore, he proposes that discovering ways to allow architecture to follow these paths is the best way to get good results in the built environment. Alexander sees his theories of "The Fundamental Process," "structure preserving transformations" and "15 fundamental properties" which he outlines in his four volume work, The Nature of Order as instrumentally shaping paths through configuration space.
- ^ Sandford Kwinter, "Lecture Excerpt: What Is Life?," GSD 08 Platform, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, page 40.
- ^ Christopher Alexander, New Concepts in Complexity Theory Arising from Studies in the Field of Architecture, page 17.


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Pensacola fishing in July
Hello my southern friends. Bringing the family to Perdido Key in mid July. Looking for a fishing adventure on a somewhat limited budget. Would like to have the boys get hold of a shark or a barracuda or a big ol grouper...you know, stuff we don't catch in ponds here in Ohio. Any suggestions/references would be appreciated! Thanks!
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Welcome to the Grays Harbor Country Club website. We hope you will find the information contained in these pages to be helpful and that we may have the pleasure of seeing you in the near future.
If you are a golfer and enjoy meeting interesting people, this is the place for you. Grays Harbor Country Club has something to offer for the entire family. The amenities include a beautiful private nine hole golf course with a driving range and putting green, seasonal outdoor swimming pool, pro shop, and a spacious club house.


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3 beauty discoveries perfect for the gloomy weather
Last Tuesday, I and five others had the privilege to preview and experience MAC's Fall Indulge collection. The tables were set lavishly with gold-trimmed glasses and china that had to be flown in.
The collection is all about luxury, opulence and layering. The rich jewel tones of the eye shadows and royal plum shades made me forget the gloomy weather—in fact these shades provide a contrast, making the weather quite acceptable.
I went crazy at the counter and gladly welcomed a makeover. After all, we all do get into a beauty rut and sometimes forget we need to spice up our look a little.
I brought home quite a lot, but my ultimate fave from this collection would be Sweet Succulence. It's a deep, glossy plum that looks quite intimidating at first, but once it has been applied, it glides on the lips smoothly and is sheer with a lustrous finish. This is the type of shade that will fit any skin tone.
When it comes to candles, I have become quite the hoarder. My fave scent from Diptyque would be Baies. But just recently I received Jonquille. This scent is great because it has been
raining and it reminds me of a garden in spring. And I do love the smell that spring evokes, so I like this candle.
I use it in my office, which is a small room with hardly any natural light. This scent lights and "opens" up the room.
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I was at Adora getting a Rimowa as a birthday present for my mother-in-law. If you are familiar with Adora, then you'll know that before getting to Rimowa you'll have to pass a sea of scents. And I simply love scents.
After buying the luggage, I was given an Adora gift check as rebate. So that day, after buying my mother-in-law a gift, I gifted myself with a scent!
I went home with Maison Francis Kurkdjian's Aqua Universalis.
Aqua Universalis is Kurkdjian's take on laundry-clean fragrance. I know it is easy to think there are a million and one scents that draw inspiration from this, but Aqua Universalis is not your average fragrance. It is an intelligent and natural take on "clean."
Now even my husband uses it. Yes, it is unisex, composed of bergamot, Sicilian lemon, lily of the valley, sweet orange and blond musky wood.
I find this scent to be sparkling and not your typical clean citrus scent.
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Head Coach Elias with Sam Diaz, Demerey Kirsch, and Assistant Coach Collier Lawrence after the race
Nov. 21, 2013
Reno, Nev - Senior Samantha Diaz and junior Demerey Kirsch were named Division I All-Region Honorees by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association after standout performances at the NCAA Mountain Regional Championship.
The distinction is awarded to individuals who finish within the top 25 at one of the nine regional championship competitions. Kirsch and Diaz earned the honor by finishing in 17th and 24th places respectively. In all, 450 student-athletes from across the country received the distinction, with nine student-athletes from schools in the Mountain West receiving the honor.
Kirsch and Diaz are the first student-athletes from the Nevada cross country team to finish in the Top-25 of a Regional Championship race since Abby McAllister turned in a time of 21:43 for a 14th place finish in the 2003 Mountain Regional, also held in Ogden, Utah.
The team's end of the season performance capped off a strong season for the Wolf Pack. The 2013 season saw new school records in both 4,000 meter and 6,000 meter races as Samantha Diaz broke her own school record with a time of 14:27 in the 4k at the Nature's Bakery Nevada Twilight Classic, and Demerey Kirsch set a school record in the 6k at the NCAA Mountain Regional Championship with a time of 21:04.
Nevada graduates two seniors from the record setting Mountain Regional team. The five student-athletes who will be returning all saw vast improvements in their racing over the last year, and all five set new personal records of more than 15 seconds in the final meet of the season.
A letter from Doug Knuth: Much to be proud of for Wolf Pack fans
Thursday, May 28, 2015 - General
Pack women's golf signee Collom wins state tournament
Thursday, May 21, 2015 - Golf
Letter from Doug Knuth: Questions and answers about our 2015 football schedule
Monday, March 9, 2015 - Football
Pack puts on clinic for local children in Puerto Vallarta
Friday, March 6, 2015
Former Nevada coach headlines Boys and Girls Club Dinner
Friday, January 30, 2015 - General
Christenson earns spot in World Cup rifle competition
Wednesday, January 14, 2015 - Rifle
Pack freshman Surin races against her Olympic medalist father
Tuesday, January 6, 2015 - Track and Field
A letter to Wolf Pack fans from Doug Knuth: Successes on the field and in the classroom.
Monday, January 5, 2015 - General
Former Nevada track & field standout Hanson passes away
Tuesday, December 23, 2014 - Track and Field
Tonight's Wolf Pack basketball game will feature "Kindness Minute"
Saturday, December 13, 2014 - General
A letter to Wolf Pack fans from Doug Knuth: Mackay Stadium renovation approved
Friday, December 5, 2014 - Football
Wolf Pack Fans, Reward Yourself and the Team
Monday, November 17, 2014 - Football
Wolf Pack women's basketball hosts free skills clinic
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Puck Preview: Gophers Part 2
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Year-in, year-out the Minnesota roster is littered with NHL draft picks. 2014-15 is no exception, as it's quicker to run down the guys who have played in more than half of Minnesota's games who haven't had their name called. A whopping 15 Gophers have been drafted, including eight(!!!) defensemen.
But of late Minnesota fails to turn this surfeit into a hockey team worthy of it surprisingly often. They're coming off three excellent years; the four before that saw one tournament bid, that from a 19-17-9 outfit that got run by BC 5-2 in the first round.
This year the Gophers are just okay at 14-9-3. They've gone 1-3 against Duluth* and lost to RPI #1 Minnesota State; they did beat BC authoritatively. Despite the sweep at Michigan's hands in January, they've been making their hay against the rest of the league. They're undefeated against the rest the Big Ten (in pairwise terms at least) at 5-0-3. You'd think that and a bag of donuts would get you no pairwise traction and some donuts, but 3-0-1 against Wisconsin and Ohio State was sufficient to lift the Gophers from 20th to 14th in the Pairwise.
Minnesota is the exact opposite of Michigan State, philosophically. They are a free-wheeling, attacking hockey team that activates their defensemen more than any team in college hockey. If anyone's going to have a D leading their team in scoring, it's the Gophers, and junior Mike Reilly does in fact do so with a 4-24-28 line. He's one of two D with a PPG nationally.
But he's not Jordan Leopold. That Reilly leads with that line speaks to a lack of out-and-out stars in the forward corps. They've got a few guys hovering around a PPG, but those guys lean heavily on Minnesota's killer power play. The three leading Gopher scorers have 17 PPGs and 14 even strength goals. Minnesota is not a big, physical outfit that generates a lot of opportunities in the zone. Rushes and power plays are where they thrive.
*[Minnesota managed four nonconference games against the same team by playing them in the season-opening Ice Breaker tournament plus a new Minnesota version of the GLI in addition to a regularly-scheduled home and home.]
Kind of everyone. As mentioned, talent out the ears.
F Kyle Rau. Senior Panthers draftee led Gophers with 40 points last year and is top scoring forward this year. He's a little quick bugger effective in tight spaces.
F Hudson Fasching. Hasn't translated massive hype to production just yet but is Minnesota's top even strength scorer with eight goals. Combines elite size with skating and hands.
F Sam Warning. Warning doesn't get PP time but scores anyway. Excellent PK guy, fast as hell, probably the Gophers' best two way forward. Undrafted(!).
Adam Wilcox is struggling much like Michigan's platoon is. After starting his career with .920 and .930 save percentages, he's bottomed out as junior. He is currently 60th of 78 qualifying goalies with a .901. Whether that's on Wilcox or his team's defense is difficult to determine—sample sizes need to be super large for you to say anything about save percentages confidently. Those samples are hard to get in a short college season.
FWIW, Nagelvoort's recent run here has him up at .914 for the season. That's not great, but it is approaching middling.
Michigan needs to stay out of the box. I know, everyone always says that. I mean it, yo: the Gopher power play is currently connecting at 29% rate! That is by far tops nationally. Michigan is #3; both teams are killing at a crappy 80% rate.
Two awesome power plays going up against two bad PK units means that penalties take on an even larger share of importance.
Michigan announced their intention to make a run at the tournament with a stirring comeback after Andrew Copp took a major penalty and Minnesota scored twice on it to take the lead. Zach Hyman powered past a Gopher defender, flipping the puck to Justin Selman; Selman shoved it in the net. A whistling Cutler Martin snap shot in overtime finished the comeback.
The next night was the 7-5 barn burner featuring zero defense from anyone. So… yeah, should be entertaining at the very least.
Massive. Both these teams are barely on the right side of the NCAA bubble. A sweep by either would solidify a bid and leave the loser in a precarious position. A split helps Michigan more than Minnesota thanks to the way college hockey calculates RPI*; that would be equivalent to going… uh… 1.2-0.8 this weekend.
The road weighting plus the bonus from beating a top 20 team, which Minnesota will remain, would keep Michigan where they are. It might even move them up a little if the teams in front of them have a bad weekend.
These two teams are also competing for the Big Ten title. Michigan is in first with 24 points; Penn State trails by two; Minnesota is six back. A Gopher sweep would put them right in the thick of things. Michigan doing the same would just about eliminate Minnesota and make it a two-horse race.
*[Dumbly. The way they have it set up means that two teams playing four games, two at home and two on the road, can split and have those games weighted as 4.8 games (if the road team wins all) or 3.6 games (home teams win all). Same results, different outcomes. Not good eats.]
A split seems reasonable.
De Laudes Atque Carmina
via MVictors
So this week a group of a certain kind of idiot students tried to get the student body to fund a Frankenstein-ian effort to
replace compete with the best fight song ever composed. Once the entirety of the soul-possessing Michigan fanbase wanted to slap them in the face, they withdrew this petition to make way for an amended version that makes it clear they'll keep The Victors alongside their proposed abomination.
Today they're still fighting—one made a radio appearance to complain that his talking points were getting all scrambled in the mad rush to explain to him just what a bad idea this is. In the show he clarified a number of things, like that they've gone to "many" student groups to get more spoons into the kitchen, and addressed important things like the song's branding and a documentary film about how it was made, but haven't actually, you know, written any song. He also emphasized that they don't want to get rid of the The Victors (just have it compete with their self-aggrandizing golem), and expressed hope that it would get picked up around the country, like how Jay-Z's Empire State of Mind became a sort of anthem for the Yankees.
Ace and Brian already addressed how the thing and the guy proposing the thing are ridiculous (and Brian had to explain his tongue was in his cheek afterwards). Since the offseason generates user content at a slower pace, in lieu of Dear Diary* this morning I wanted to talk about what's so irreplaceable about The Victors, and provide a little deeper discussion on the topic than the prima facie "ungh that's horrible."
Change? Michigan has, in fact, changed its fight song several times in its history. Most notably, they replaced The Victors with Varsity for a time, because once Michigan had rage-quit the Western Conference, "Champions of the West" no longer made any sense.
An early favorite, and still the opening of any glee club concert, was Laudes Atque Carmina (Praises and Songs), written by Charles M. Gayley, class of 1878, and arranged by Albert Stanley. Here's the line I love:
ooooooohhhhh Gloria-Victoria!
Oohhh decus omnium
O salve Universitas Michiganesium
What a perfect description of the Michigan zeitgeist: "Glory and Victory—oh, and be virtuous in everything while you're at it please kthx."
|Apparently we have to explain why this is worth keeping around.
This is probably a more applicable sentiment today than hailing long-dead heroes for conquering Maroons and Fighting Methodists.** But it's also in Latin, and dated, and pedantic, and most importantly nobody knows the words unless they've done glee.
The anthems of Michigan's songbook† range in tenor from bawdy drinking songs to, well, pretentious drinking songs. The majority of them come from before World War II, and for a very good reason: that's when people used to sing a lot.
In the time before recording/playback devices, the way a hit song spread was by printing the sheet music. The way they got music into a bar was to get everyone in the bar to sing it. Michigan students would bring their songbooks to dinner, or dorm meetings, and certainly the game. As many students knew the verses to The Victors as could name the quarterback. The most typical extra-curricular activity was to cross Division‡ to their favorite pubs, fill a mug, and join the chorus.#
For thousands of years, getting drunk and singing together was one of the best parts of a human existence. Psychologists even found that most peoples' brains are wired to fire off the same happy feelings you get from love or a massive success when belting out a song surrounded by friendly people doing the same (no matter how it comes out). Biologically, we sing our fight song for the same reason we gather with 113,000-odd people to watch college football: The Natural High.
These things are not manufacturable; they are eruptions from abnormally articulate ids that by astronomical odds came out both cogent and catchy. The chance of finding one is the same likelihood that whatever just escaped from this guy…
…just happened to be organized into a comprehensible language that both rhymes and fits a Souza meter. Mankind's best effort to R&D this phenomenon resulted in heroin.
This stuff has to come from a random and deep subconscious because the brain cannot devise its own distraction.‖ Football came out of some students with a field and a ball who wanted to get their rrraaaarrrgh out. The Victors came out of Louis Elbel in the following state:
My spirits were so uplifted that I was clear off the earth, and that is when "The Victors" was inspired. To my thinking, Michigan Spirit needed a fitting paean, a clarion call — something simple but grand and heroic, something to let out on. Very shortly the strain of "Hail to the Victors" came to mind, and gradually the entire march. I am interested in the psychology of composing, but never have been able to answer satisfactorily just how a "tune" originates in my head. It is easy enough to make tunes, but sweeping, inspiring strains are not made — they flash unawares. And so it was with "The Victors."
The Victors, like college football, is a weird configuration that happened to bring out a mass, biological, positive feel. Finding a thing like that is like capturing a moon: if it's a little un-genuine it'll crash, and if it's a little unpopular it'll shoot off into space, and if it's not awesome nobody will notice it.
Hail and Unite, then, is the equivalent of Disney suggesting we add a 1,000-mile radius Mickey Mouse (or maybe a Jar Jar Binks—we don't know—but we are talking to lots of interest groups and might have it designed by Bill Watterson and Matt Groening, and our marketing program uses lots of power words) to Earth's orbit, then saying it's okay because you still plan to leave good ol' Luna in the sky for the sake of the traditionalists.§ Even suggesting this shows a staggering misunderstanding of where moons come from, the physics involved, or why people like the one we have. You should not be involved in anything having to do with moons.
Could there ever be another song added to the pantheon? Yes, absolutely! It's a very big bowl; there is room for more than The Victors, and Varsity, and the alma mater, and Let's Go Blue, and the cowbell, and Hawaiian War Chant, and Temptation, and the shortened version of Temptation we sing to rub in the fact they have to give us the ball back now. Most of the glee club's lineup is pre-1940 for the reason above, but every half century or so one of the many new arrangements is canonized.¶ There could be a young savant sitting in the Music School right now who, in the course of a jubilant, all-maize bus ride from Columbus to Ann Arbor late next fall, will gurgitate a timeless thing that'll trick all future generations of Michigan fanbrains into releasing their jealously guarded serotonin.
There's a reason only a handful of schools have found their "Hail!", their "Ramblin' Wreck", their "Rocky Top" or their "Echoes." If you need Eminem (or the version of him you can get for $1,000) to make it cool, you're doing it this way:
the internet never forgets.
And if you're ever talking about how to market a work of art before it's even created, you are doing it exactly wrong.
* Dear Diary in Latin is "Carus Commentarius" and I am highly tempted to change the name of the column to that.
** Chicago and Northwestern
† One claims Ann Arbor should rank with Socratic Greece and Newton's Oxford. There's another called "Michigan Men" that begins with the line "Rum pum pum pum! Rum pum pum pum! Yiddy yiddy iddy yiddy Um pum, Um, pum, Um pum um." Another you might have heard is I Want to Go Back to Michigan.
‡ Division Street is named such because it was literally the division between the city and campus, which was dry.
# Little Brown Jug was one of the most popular bar songs of the early 20th century, if you ever wondered how an oversized, half-blue/half-maroon cask that used to be white got termed as such. If some local bar wants to start a 1910s-style drink-and-sing night I am so there.
‖ You can't hypnotize yourself, for example.
§ And the Michigan Alumni Association on it.
¶ The last was Michigan Remember, a poem from 1963 and set to music in 1993.
Illinois 64, Michigan 52 (OT)
Those moving pictures are the thousands of words you very much don't want to read about Michigan giving up a 21-2 run to close out yet another overtime loss. Worst of all, perhaps, is I couldn't lead off this post with Aubrey Dawkins taking Nnanna Ewgu for a ride on the BOFA Express.
This is apparently what happens when your only trusted inbounder is 5'10". I don't much like it.
Preview: Illinois
Michigan (13-11, 6-6 B1G) vs.
Illinois (16-8, 6-5)
State Farm Center,
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|Illinois -5 (KenPom)
PBP: Rich Hollenberg
Analyst: Dan Dakich
Right: The last time out, Illinois learned they should probably guard Aubrey Dawkins. [Eric Upchurch/MGoBlog]
While Derrick Walton won't be in uniform tonight, there's hope he'll get back out there before the season is out:
"We fully expect to have him back," Beilein said. "We just don't know (when). When he can run pain-free, he's going to get back out there. Now obviously there's some rehab involved to just get his cardio back up. He can't do that yet. But when he can, two or three days later we'll put him in a game."
Beilein added that "he's been getting better every day, but certainly not ready yet." Unless he makes a very quick turnaround, it seems like the earliest he'd be available would be for the Feb. 22 game against Ohio State.
Michigan took on Illinois at Crisler in the Big Ten opener, a game that feels like it took place decades ago. A torrent of threes from Aubrey Dawkins and a surprise changeup to the 2-3 zone led to a comeback, overtime victory on the day Jim Harbaugh was introduced as head coach.
The Wolverines need a most unlikely run to have a shot at the NCAA tournament; they'd most likely need to win five of their last six regular season games and take at least one in the B1G tourney to earn an at-large bid. Maize n Brew's Drew Hallett took a look the odds using KenPom:
NIT eligibility is based on the assumption Michigan would need to finish with a winning record to make it—no team with a losing record has qualified even after the NIT eliminated that as a set-in-stone requirement. Per KenPom, this is the second-toughest game remaining on the schedule, so a win tonight would swing those odds more in Michigan's favor.
Projected starters are in bold. Hover over headers for stat explanations; I've switched over to conference-only stats for %Min and %Poss now. The "Should I Be Mad If He Hits A Three" methodology: we're mad if a guy who's not good at shooting somehow hits one. Yes, you're still allowed to be unhappy if a proven shooter is left open. It's a free country.
|Jaylon Tate
|6'3, 170
|High assist and turnover rates. Almost never shoots. Gets to line a ton.
|Kendrick Nunn
|6'3, 190
|Very good outside shooter, less efficient inside arc, solid defender
|Malcolm Hill
|6'6, 230
|Having a breakout season. Close to the rare 50/40/90 (2P/3P/FT%) club.
|Leron Black
|6'7, 220
|Very good rebounder. Not a great finisher. Foul-prone.
|Nnanna Egwu
|6'11, 250
|Not really
|Good shot-blocker, offensive rebounder. Can score in post or step out.
|Ahmad Starks
|5'9, 170
|Not really
|Nice assist:turnover, middling shooter, not a threat inside the arc.
|Rayvonte Rice*
|6'4, 230
|Stocky, high-usage slasher now hits threes. Solid defensive rebounder.
|Aaron Cosby*
|6'3, 205
|Lost starting job to Nunn with eFG% hanging around 40.
*Rice and Cosby have been serving an indefinite suspension and it's unclear when they'll return. Both have been practicing with the team. Recent reports say Rice is expected to play while Cosby is not.
Illinois got off to a rocky 2-4 start in Big Ten play, hampered by a road-heavy schedule and Rayvonte Rice suffering a broken hand that's sidelined him since early January. The Illini have bounced back with wins in four of their last five, including Saturday's upset in East Lansing.
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A mea culpa. A couple things on the fight song kerfuffle from yesterday. One: apparently there are people who have escaped Taken memery. (They probably "take walks" and "go outside.") No part of the threat-type substance offered yesterday was serious. I'm not going to poison anyone's search results.
I was just referencing this famous Liam Neeson thing:
As for Weiss, I hopped aboard the outrage express in the manner that the generally loathsome Gawker and Jezebel do for most of their clicks. If I'd thought about this Daily article more I would have realized that this proposal was in no way going anywhere, but I took the cheap, easy route. While the goal of preventing a Michigan version of We Are ND is a laudable one, firing up the internet outragemobile is likely to get out of control and I should know better.
Seriously, though: just stop. Nothing good can come of this quest.
Now, like, call it. One of my top eleven subjects to rant about in recent times has been offenses flinging ineligible guys downfield on pass plays with impunity. Boy does that put a bee up my bonnet. Spielman, too.
It appears the hue and cry has made it to the lawmakers of our sport:
The ineligible downfield rule was shifted from three yards to one yard past the line of scrimmage. National officiating coordinator Rogers Redding said defenses were beginning to read run more frequently because offensive linemen were 3 yards downfield and then the quarterback would pass. "It's going to be easier to officiate," he said.
Or, like, six yards downfield blocking the people who were supposed to be covering passes. One or three doesn't help much if you're just forgetting to enforce it either way; hopefully this will come with an increased emphasis on calling illegal men downfield.
(One exception: if you're engaged with a guy and just kicking his ass enough to end up downfield that should be let go. Taylor Lewan got a penalty a couple years ago because his pass blocking was too effective.)
Approximate top eleven rant subjects in recent times. Give or take:
- Dave Brandon
- excessive basketball timeouts
- block/charge calls
- Big Ten expansion
- bubble screens
- "but the spread won't work in the Big Ten"
- piped in music
- ineligible men downfield
- waggles
- Tom Izzo press conferences
- when my wife puts the cheese grater in with the food manipulation devices (tongs, spoons, spatulas, etc) instead of the food reconfiguration devices (juicers, graters, mallets, zesters, etc)
This is not 'Nam, MGoWife.
Nyet. Roquan Smith will announce his decision on Friday, whereupon he won't sign an letter of intent. He'll just sign scholarship papers. Well done, sir. (It seems like it's a foregone conclusion that it's not Michigan, unfortunately.)
Add another to the list? If Justice Hayes goes and rips off 1,500 yards I'm gonna be all like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Sleeper to keep an eye on: #CMU RB Thomas Rawls. Michigan transfer w/ off-field flags. But quick and physical on the field. Mid-round talent
— Dane Brugler (@dpbrugler) February 10, 2015
I'm looking forward to a running backs coach with aspirations.
We would like less football, I guess. It's time once again for a college football person to mutter about changing clock rules For The Fans. Larry Scott's turn, as he advocate running the clock after first downs:
"You'll always get traditionalists who won't change it," Scott said. "I don't find it concerning or daunting that there are some that would oppose it. I think the job for commissioners is to take a step back and look at it holistically. The health and welfare of student-athletes is first and fans are a close second in terms of keeping games appealing. Three-and-a-half hours, to me, is too long."
There will always be traditionalists who are your core customers who know you're not seeing increased costs but still soaking fans with higher prices and ever-longer commercial breaks.
Why might games be longer?
The high-pressure, commercialized world of FBS is playing a much longer game than other NCAA divisions. While FBS games averaged 3:23 in 2014, the Football Championship Subdivision was 2:55, Division II was 2:45 and Division III was 2:41.
I mean:
Sun Belt commissioner Karl Benson also favors a running clock after first downs, citing declining attendance. FBS home attendance dropped 4 percent in 2014 for the sport's lowest average since 2000.
"I think our fans are expecting shorter games, and I think when you see attendance is down, we need to address it," Benson said.
Changing the ratio of game to red-hat-on-field the wrong way isn't going to help your attendance, but you don't actually care about that anyway. Just be honest about it. At this point it might be worth looking at some soccer models, which have to deal with an un-interruptible flow of gameplay. I'd rather have a logo next to the score chryon instead of ever-expanding ad time.
Early signing is dumb. Andy Staples addresses it:
I don't mind an early signing period in theory because the vast majority of recruits know where they want to go, are happy with their decisions and shouldn't have to wait. But cutting a month off of the process isn't going to change much. It might be nice if the players who make up their minds really early had a chance to sign before their senior seasons begin, but that isn't going to happen, either. Athletic directors would hate that since it would make it more difficult to fire a coach if he underperformed. The coach would have the leverage of half a signing class in the barn, and the AD might have to wrestle with double-digit players asking to be released from their National Letters of Intent. This happens all the time in basketball, but it's different when the coach has 15 players signed instead of three.
Staples advocates a change to the LOI that says "the LOI is a bad thing to sign," so that's not… likely. To reiterate my excellent plan:
The MGo Recruitin' Plan
You can sign a pre-NLI any time.
The pre-NLI guarantees you a scholarship at the school you sign with, allows them to contact you whenever and prohibits other coaches from doing so. You can only take an official visit to the school you sign with.
You can withdraw the pre-NLI at any time.
On Signing Day everyone makes it official.
(Optional but highly desirable) NCAA does away with 85-player cap and allows everyone to sign up to 22-25 players a year, no exceptions. Transfers and JUCOs count.
Changing the cap from a roster limit to a yearly limit instantly does away with any oversigning mutterings since your motivation is to keep players instead of cut them.
(Via Get The Picture.)
Karan Higdon will help you with your homework. Unless you're a fellow athlete, I think that's a violation. Randos welcome though:
"Football comes second to academics and my future after it."
Higdon's a 4.0 student at Riverview. He wants to be an occupational therapist. He's involved in several academic leadership groups at his school, and has been invited to various academic summits, from Washington D.C. to Paris.
If Higdon couldn't run, catch, block or score a touchdown, he'd probably still be headed to college next year with a scholarship in tow.
Academics aren't just part of the deal for Higdon. They're the deal.
I guess he doesn't want an MFA, or he'd be at Iowa. If Fred Jackson was still here he could be a grad transfer and get drafted, maybe.
Etc.: Orson is so fascinated with Tom Crean that he wrote about him. Michigan was the 12th most-watched team in college football last year, which really says something since… uh… you know. NTDP camp thoughts featuring comments on a few Michigan recruits. SBNation has a "Jim Harbaugh is weird" page. Tom Leyden on Bo's passing.
LeVert still projected 15th by DX. Noted Michigan columnist Ramzy Nasrallah on Harbaugh as nemesis.
Why We Watch B1G Hoops: Part I
So, I guess at this point we can admit that Michigan isn't very good this year. And that's okay! We can't be super awesome and really good every year, after all.
I figured that my writing's been too obsessed with numbers and data lately – and to be perfectly honest, it bores me after a while too – and I thought I'd do something different from what I normally do with the conference weekly recaps, because why the hell not?
After a while, I decided to focus on ten of the most intriguing, good, talented, enigmatic, compelling, or otherwise notable players in the Big Ten and write about, well, what I think of them, what I think when I watch them play, and (to a certain extent) what they mean to me and the conference at-large. Basketball can be boiled down to numbers, but it should be an affective experience as well. So here's that side of things. Don't read it if you're blinded by hatred for the enemy; don't read it if you're just gonna skim for Michigan players because there aren't any (though Caris would be on here if he wasn't hurt and oh, the sadness, it's back).
Anyways, here we go. In no particular order (five today, five tomorrow):
Sparta's Spartan
The discourse surrounding Tom Izzo's Michigan State is easily definable: national broadcasters and pundits wax poetically about the – for lack of a better term – blue-collar identity of the program; State has fully actualized this aesthetic in a way that plays to the mythology of their nickname's namesake.
With most narratives, there's a kernel of truth to this characterization of State basketball – Spartan teams are characteristically strong on the boards, content to try pounding the ball inside with strong big men, and generally physical defensively. Though State has strayed away from this style somewhat this year (with a backcourt of Travis Trice and Bryn Forbes for most of the game, it's hard for MSU to play their preferred bully-ball), there's still an artifact of that idealized version of Big Ten basketball: senior forward Branden Dawson, out of Gary, Indiana.*
A former five star, Dawson is probably not destined for the NBA. His game is still often maddeningly simple – he doesn't have any range on his jumper; he can't create from the perimeter (and, in general, can't dribble productively in the half-court much at all). Between those two things and his lack of size at the four spot, he'd have to reinvent himself as a defensive stopper to even have an outside chance at the next level.
But man, Dawson stays in his lane and he does what he does as well as anyone. Even at 6'6, he's the best rebounder in the conference, capable of cleaning the defensive glass and attacking missed MSU shots with reckless abandon. He can protect the rim from the weak-side; he jumps passing lanes seemingly out of nowhere (to trigger one-man fast-breaks, which he enjoys finishing with thunderous windmill dunks); and, though he lacks the lateral quickness to be a true lockdown perimeter defender, he's as much of a menace on that end as anyone in the conference. In my opinion, he's the easy choice for the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year. He has a rudimentary post game – not that college players need much more than that – and often scores at the rim off of basket cuts or offensive boards. Aside from the highlight-reel dunks, he's as workmanlike as they come.
East Lansing's Sparta was built on the cornerstones of defense, rebounding, and tough interior play – over the past several years, it has been the most "Big Ten" program in the Big Ten, more or less. Branden Dawson won't go down as one of the best players to suit up in the green and white during Izzo's tenure, but there's perhaps no better archetype for the ethos surrounding Izzo's program.
*Of course Dawson is from a famously hardscrabble Rust Belt town. It fits his game perfectly.
Mini-Harden, The New Boss
Behold: Maryland's first Big Ten star, freshman point guard Melo Trimble.
He might not be a star quite yet, but based off of his promising sample of games thus far – plus the expected improvement that he'll experience over the course of his college career, Melo Trimble will – in all likelihood – be the first face of Maryland Hoops in the new era. Right now, he might not even be the best player on his own team (that could be senior combo guard Dez Wells), but he's probably been the second-best freshman in the Big Ten behind Ohio State's D'Angelo Russell.
Here's a brief primer on Melo's game, from Trimble himself:
"It's just something I've been practicing, knowing how to draw the contact. I've just been learning since I've been watching NBA players like James Harden. When he gets to the basket, he knows how to draw the foul," Trimble said. "I watch how he does it, and I put it into my game."
Trimble's game is positively Hardenesque, though he's probably a four-year player and will never draw qualitative comparisons to one of the NBA's MVP frontrunners. Still, stylistically, there are several points where Trimble's film study pays dividends: like Harden, he gets to the free throw line at an absurd rate (and converts from the line); he attacks the rim well for a smaller player, though he's not a great finisher yet; he eschews low-value mid-range shots; he can shoot well from behind the arc, off the dribble or off the catch; and, most of all, he can create for himself and others – a true combo guard, equal parts distributor and scorer.
My fear is that, like many other players who rely on drawing contact and heading to the free throw line, Trimble will develop a reputation – fair or unfair – for flopping. Harden's flops are well-chronicled, and I'm hoping that Trimble doesn't head in that direction – or worse, face criticism for imagined dives. He'll be around for a while, so the Big Ten will have to get used to it.
The Terrapins are – and will be – the new guys for quite a while (though they do benefit from the conference-wide disdain of fellow newcomer Rutgers) and though they've had an illustrious basketball history with successes on par with many of their new conference rivals, they have to forge a new identity in the Big Ten. Melo Trimble will lead the charge, two free throws at a time.
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Why: Matt Damon bowed out of the series after three films, and although Jeremy Renner gave it the ol' college try in the lackluster "Bourne Legacy," the magic seems to be gone. There's still a chance that Damon and acclaimed director Paul Greengrass will return to the series, but "Ultimatum" was already a satisfying conclusion to the Jason Bourne story, and at this point they'd simply be chasing past glories.
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At the age of 1 I campaigned with my father for Henry Wallace who was the Progressive Party candidate and I am been politically active ever since participating in the civil rights and the anti-Vietnam war movements as well as being involved in many political campaigns on all levels.
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Location: 3725 Alexandria Pike Cold Springs KY 41076 USA
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Do not donate to these bums....CEO Arthur Wilson has never seen a free drink or golf course he didn't like. So called disabled has made a career out of tripping on a flight-line. Go to www.loispope.com and see what this scum-bag is part of. I would rate it a -1star if the system would let me. Go to www.loispope.com and find out about the American Veterans Disabled for LIFE Memorial Foundation is involved with along with the Lib Lois Pope. www.loispope.com
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Fire Arthur Wilson......these scumbags have 100 million in the bank I would spend it all on disabled veterans and stay off the golf courses.