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New drilling techniques for ancient shale rock formations have opened up vast opportunities.
As a result, farmers in places such as North Dakota and Texas have become overnight millionaires, the United States has an abundance of natural gas, and energy industry analyst Hsulin Peng favors oil.
Peng, a senior research analyst at Robert W. Baird & Co., covers exploration and production companies whose business is driven by commodity prices.
Natural gas supply has soared in the last three years or so, which means prices should stay in the $4 to $5 per 1,000 cubic feet range for the next few years, when demand is expected to pick up as power companies switch from coal to gas and as more natural gas-fueled cars come to market, Peng said.
"The gas producers are victims of their own success. They discovered all this gas, but now because of oversupply, gas prices are depressed," Peng said.
Oil is a different story.
Demand is expected to pick up as the global economy continues its recovery and the appetite for oil grows in developing countries, Peng said. Meanwhile, supplies will likely stay tight amid unrest in the Middle East and North Africa, and because most of the easy-to-drill oil has already been extracted, she said.
Peng estimates a long-term price of $95 a barrel for oil.
"Based on that, the stocks I'm recommending are generally more weighted toward exploration and production companies with higher oil production," she said.
Here are two of the stocks Peng rates "Outperform."
GeoResources Inc. (GEOI, $32.22), Houston, is an independent company that acquires, explores and develops oil and gas reserves in the U.S.
Peng estimates this small company will increase production at an average annual rate of 20% over the next three years. Oil represents about 56% of GeoResources' production, but is expected to rise to 64% by 2012, she said.
The company recently acquired land in the Bakken formation area of North Dakota and the Eagle Ford area of Texas, and has just started drilling. Peng says that makes this a more speculative, but potentially more lucrative, investment.
"If the results are good, the stock has a lot of upside," Peng said.
The biggest risks Peng sees with GeoResources are the possibility of a disappointing result after a six-month rise in the company's stock price, or the chance the Bakken land might not meet production expectations.
The shares have traded in a 52-week range of $13.01 to $32.94, and Peng said they could trade as high as $36 in the next 12 months.
Whiting Petroleum Corp. (WLL, $68.62), Denver, acquires, explores and develops oil and gas in the U.S.
Oil represents about 80% of Whiting's production, Peng said. Fourth-quarter results were modestly below expectations, but production is expected to rise about 10% this year and cash flow will cover capital expenditures, she said.
"Whiting has attractive oil projects and a reasonable valuation," said Peng, who estimates the company can increase production by 10% a year.
The biggest risk Peng sees is the possibility that oil prices could drop to $50 a barrel. Whiting's oil projects break even around $50, Peng said.
The shares are trading in a 52-week range of $35.61 to $68.93, and Peng says they could trade as high as $77 in the next 12 months.
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Is that helpful or is it overly interfering? We spend an enormous amount of time at work already and to expand that into singing the company song and living your life by the company's ideals could be seen as taking things several steps too far. Smokers already get a pretty bad press, and now even those who are managing to avoid the greater evils associated with it and who are doing so in a manner that, let's face it, isn't really irritating to others are being stigmatised too. Okay, if you blow your water vapour (which is what is being exhaled) into someone's face then I agree: don't. Likewise, though, don't cough on people or stand too close to them: that's just manners…
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Tracy Morgan, who last month was critically injured in a deadly car accident on the New Jersey Turnpike, returned to his home in Cresskill, NJ yesterday following a month of hospitalization and rehab.
In a video obtained exclusively by Entertainment Tonight, the comedian was all smiles as he greeted the press outside his home, making his first public comments since the horrific accident.
"I feel strong. Love you. Thank you very much. I appreciate it," commented Morgan when asked by reporters how he was doing. Watch the video below!
The June 7th fatal crash occured when Morgan and his fellow passengers were returning from a comedy gig in Delaware. Morgan suffered several Cracked ribs and a broken leg, while his friend and fellow comedian James 'Jimmy Mack' McNair was killed. Other passengers in the limousine bus were also seriously injured. The limo was slammed into by a Walmart tractor-trailer driven by 35-year-old Kevin Roper.
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Good customer service is vitally important for small businesses. It gives them a way to differentiate themselves from bigger competitors and carve out their own market niches. What are your tips for better customer service?
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- The worth of a customer cannot be told by just a singular purchase. Hence, I concur that the best salesperson should also think of convincing this customer over and over again. That way, every stakeholder goes away happy. Organizations should turn around and take customer service seriously; otherwise, many of them may face the consequences direly.
- —Guest Aderogba Adewusi
Offering your opinion
- I love helping my customers in the fitting room. I ask them if they would like to show me their outfit and they often come in regularly to make other clothes purchases. It is great having trust in each other and builds a sound honest sales foundation. It is super when they come back and ask for you by name and express their satisfaction to you.
- —Guest Angie
Make It Personal
- Try remembering some things about your customers. Listen to their stories about where they've been or something interesting they have done and told you about. Remembering names is great, but some people aren't good at that. But most of us can put a face with a story. Then the next time they come in, and you ask them about the trip to see the grandkids, they'll just glow and they will make a connection to you too. I like hearing about why people decided to move into this area. This gives me an idea of what kind of things they like, and enables me to serve them better. I hardly ever see a customer more than twice before they come in the door and can't wait to share more of their life stories or heart breaks with me, and usually it ends with a hug, and suggestions of other things in the area they might like to do. You have to really care about them...its pretty simple.
- —WendyHenkel
Customer Service
- I work in an area where most gift shops carry similar items. I have always thought it to be good customer service if my store doesn't have what the customer is looking for to call around until you find it. Yes, my store might lose the sale but at least the customer is satisfied. In this particular situation, all the money essentially goes in ONE pot, so who cares where the money came from. It is not a competition to see which store makes the most money!
- —Guest HM
Excellent customer service
- Providing excellent customer service - providing service beyond what is expected by the client from your company. Not only that, GlobalLink BPO provides quality service from quality people.
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Great article
- I enjoyed this very much, especially the part about it being a relationship. This is exactly what I like to stress. Every customer service experience is part of building a relationship and takes more than the employee to pull off.
- —Guest Tanya Reimer
Customs in Customer Service
- 7) Take the extra step. I like this step a lot. This could mean much more I believe. In my book Excellence in Customer Service I describe an extra step as finding out the customs of the customers that you serve. Each custom that can be used for you to relate to the customer the better customer. I have always found that taking that extra step has improved customer service scores dramatically.
- —Guest Matthew Collinson
Excellent Customer Service
- Customer service is about giving your clients warm welcoming, positive impact before the business and after the business.
- —Guest ireti
- Sometimes a customer will be in a bad mood before coming for your service so any little action which seems unpleasant to him he overreacts so we the service provider must be ready for anything and keep it at the back of our mind. We need the customer's money and not the customer's anger.
- —Guest DOREEN
The 5 Step Guide to Empowering Consumers
- First, we all need to realize that when we are not working, we are the customer. Read the book #The 5 Step Guide to Empowering Consumers. This will help you understand what you expect as a consumer so that you can live up to the expectations as a worker.
- —Guest Ray Chubb
For the Best Customer Service
- Leave your home life at home. No guest needs to know you are having a bad day or have issues at home. Once you step into the business... smile, and carry on.
- —guestspecial
Good Customer Service Means You...
- Always wear a smile; this makes the customers relaxed and also eases their stress. Try and be calm, even when the customer is rude, and wear a smile and explain things.
- —Guest moimo
Answering Service
- As the owner of Communication Business Services, Inc. (CBSI), an answering service, I was very pleased to see that point number one is "Answer your phone", and you even suggest that one should consider utilizing an answering service. Thanks for the plug! It amazes me that so many small businesses and start-ups are focused on attracting customers, particularly with latest fads and buzzwords like "social media", but then, they pay so little attention to what matters most and have their potential customers, not to mention existing customers, talk to a machine. For a small business, it can cost as little as $25 per month to have a trained, professional operator available to answer your calls 24/7. If you're serious about your business, why would you forego such a small cost and have your customers talk to a machine? Bravo on a great article! Jeff Anderson President/Owner CBSI 404-913-1393
Avoiding stock replies
- Natalie commented above- "What I find is the most annoying is when they don't read the complete email and make suggestions that you have already tried." Yes, this can be very frustrating. Rather than use pre-written email responses to your customer questions, we would suggest trying a new customer service technique. We wrote our own app "FAQ", now available on the App Store for iPhone and iPad for others to use. This lets you combine predefined elements in your reply to uniquely match the tone and specific needs of your customer. Using FAQ you can often reply to a customer question with a detailed, but customized email in under a minute, even when mobile. Disclosure: I am the developer of this app, and may benefit from its sale - but then so may you :)
- —solublepeter
8 Tips for customer service
- I found this to be very helpful. I am trying to train my Resident Assistants on the finer points of good costumer service and this is an excellent start!
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A buskers festival is any festival in which street-shows or street-performers (also known as buskers) of music, theater, dance, juggling, etc., play a prominent role.
Some of the world's more prominent Buskers Festivals are held in Ferrara, Italy,[1] and various cities in Canada (Halifax, Toronto, Waterloo, Ontario, and Ottawa), but also in New Zealand, Australia and other countries.
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The best goaltender to ever don a Columbus Blue Jacket jersey has secured his near-term future (by today's contract standards) by signing a four-year extension. Sergei Bobrovsky agreed to add another few years to stay put by agreeing to a contract worth $29.7-million. The 26-year old will become the second highest paid netminder in the NHL with his $7.425 million cap hit for the next four seasons.
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Earlier this morning, the Columbus Blue Jackets announced that goalie Sergei Bobrovsky would miss the coming two weeks with a broken finger. The 26-year-old Novokuznetsk native sustained the injury in practice on basic shooting drills according to head coach Todd Richards.
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Geno and Bob Come Off the Shelf
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For the second consecutive night in the NHL, two teams welcomed back their respective Russian stars from injury for an immediate impact. Sunday night saw the return of Evgeni Malkin in Pittsburgh, as the Penguins star forward returned after a nine game absence with a leg injury. By watching the game you would've never known the 27-year-old center missed any action based on how he slid back into the action notching two goals and an assist to help his team see of Winnipeg.
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Bob & Ovi Snag Top Awards
A glamor-less award show saw two of Russia's biggest stars shine brightest ahead of game 2 for the Stanley Cup final. Due to the lockout and upcoming draft, the NHL opted out of their regular Vegas spectacle and simply announced the winners via telecast.
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Comrade of the Week-Sergei Bobrovsky
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Having led the league in victories this past week, Columbus Blue Jackets netminder Sergei Bobrovsky has helped backstop his team to playoff contention. Few picked Columbus to make the post-season having lost their heart and sole in Rick Nash last summer, yet thanks to a hot goalie they not only find themselves on a five-game win streak but also just four points shy of the last spot in the west.
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'Because I am a man, the men in the community are more likely to listen to me.'
One way to bring about change to cultural practices: Nazir Afzal, the first Muslim chief prosecutor ever appointed in Britain and the nation's most senior Muslim lawyer, is one of 13 chief crown prosecutors in the country. He oversees more than 100,000 prosecutions a year and manages 800 lawyers and paralegals in England's Northwest, the […] [Read More]
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Was it fair to her that she was fired for wearing clothing she considered part of her modest attire? Is it fair that the chain retailer can have a dress code (albeit unwritten) for employees? Hani Khan, 18 years old in 2010, was let go after four months on the job at Abercrombie & Fitch's […] [Read More]
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Most people associate college fraternities with young men who party hearty (translation: they drink a lot.), but here's a new image: celebate young Muslim men working to promote fairness and justice! America's first Muslim fraternity was established at the University of Texas at Dallas: Alpha Lambda Mu (or Alif Laam Meem). Based on the principles […] [Read More]


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The media yesterday got a taste of the violence in some parts of Nigeria. Eight people died and 14 others were injured in a suicide bomb explosion at THISDAY office in Abuja and Kaduna where a building housing the newspaper as well as The Sun and Moments was attacked.
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The imposing gate leading to the devastated Press Hall that houses the company's Goss Community printing machine was destroyed.
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The wreckage of the suicide bomb vehicle was buried inside the devastated Press Hall. Policemen and aid workers were battling to retrieve it.
The newsroom was in tatters – upturned tables, smashed seats and crushed computers.
All the glasses in the building, including doors, were shattered. Parts of the roof were blown off with no ceiling left hanging.
The premises was strewn with pieces of shrapnel from the bomb laden vehicle and broken glasses.
A crater, which must have resulted from the impact of the blast, was seen about two meters from where the SUV was lodged. Parts of the wall of the building from where the car entered the premises caved in.
The huge loss drew tears from many workers and sympathisers. For about six hours, business was brought to a halt at Jabi Motor Park , the bustling transit station opposite the THISDAY office.
Islamist sect Boko Haram last night claimed respionsibility for the bombings. It threatened to target other journalists.
In a statement published by the Premium Times website, a spokesman for Boko Haram said the sect would attack media again over what the group felt was inaccurate coverage.
The sect is blamed for killing more than 440 people this year alone in its growing sectarian fight against the government.
"This is a war between us and the government of Nigeria," the website quoted a sect spokesman as saying. "Unfortunately the media have not been objective and fair in their report of the ongoing war. They chose to take sides."
A journalist with long-standing ties to the sect told the AP that the statement came from the group. The journalist spoke on condition of anonymity over concerns about his safety.
The sect's spokesman particularly blamed ThisDay for publishing stories the group found inaccurate.
A probe of the incident has started, with two foreign bomb experts visiting the scene in an unmarked Ford Expedition Sport Utility Vehicle.
Some samples of the wreckage were retrieved for forensic analysis.
A source spoke of how the lone suicide bomber, who drove an SUV, entered the premises in Jabi District through the back gate (a.ka. Staff Gate).
There were indications that the suicide bomber pretended to have come for business transactions to beat the security guards on duty.
None of the two security guards, who opened the gate for him, lived to tell the story.
But as soon as the bomber passed through the brick wall, he stepped on the accelerator, sending the vehicle into a furious race and ramming into the Press Hall.
There was an explosion, the impact of which shattered the newsroom and shook all the adjoining buildings, including a four-storey structure under construction and a shopping complex.
An official of the newspaper, who pleaded for anonymity said: "The black SUV was allowed entry, unsuspectingly and suddenly it accelerated towards the Press Hall, instead of going to the parking lot.
"I was going towards the Press Hall when suddenly I heard a loud explosion, which made me to stagger here and there.
"Before I could regain consciousness, the Press Hall was already in flame and about 10 vehicles parked within the premises had been damaged."
Another eye-witness, Mr. Bulus Momoh, who was in transit from Adamawa to Abuja , said no one opened the gate for the SUV.
He said: "When I was coming to deposit my money into a micro-finance bank, I saw a black jeep parked beside the THISDAY office.
"My instinct was telling me that something was about to happen. So, as I stepped into the bank and came out, I saw the jeep rushing in, though the gate was locked; he used speed to get inside by force before it exploded. Then we began to call people around."
The Deputy Head of Disaster Management, Nigerian Red Cross, National Headquarters, Mr. Adeyemo Andronicus, said: "We have taken stock of the situation. I can confirm to you that four people died, including the suicide bomber, and seven were injured.
"Two minutes after the blast, we received a distress call at our national headquarters. So, we moved in and Red Cross deployed its official team down here. We picked the four dead persons, including the suicide bomber himself. He rammed into the complex with a vehicle.
"From the way we retrieved the body of the suicide bomber, he was about escaping from the door when the bomb went off.
"Another dead person at the entrance, then the third person at the newspaper house junk area, the fourth person at the back. Then, one person got injured. All the bodies have been taken to the National Hospital.
"You can see about 10 vehicles were damaged. The adjacent buildings surrounding THISDAY were also affected."
Chairman of THISDAY Editorial Board Mr. Olusegun Adeniyi said: "Two hours ago and two of the security men died. The suicide bomber, of course, died and then five of our support staff were injured. They have been taken to the hospital.
"You can see that the front gate has been locked. The gate at the back was also locked and security men were there. The suicide bomber came in a jeep. They opened for him, but we cannot find out why they opened the gate for him now because they are dead. The guy entered with the vehicle, then rammed the vehicle into the building and it exploded.
"This is a newspaper house, we'd just printed and there were a lot of support staff and advert executives in the newsroom.
"Fortunately, the newsroom is a bit far from the back. So, all the people that were in the newsroom, especially the advert people, were safe."
Asked if the newspaper got any security report on a likely attack on its premises, Adeniyi said: "I don't know about security report. I mean we are all in the media, we know there are threats against the media generally. There are some instances of warnings, but I think we will get into all that later.
"I don't believe in speculations. The security men are here, they will get to the root of the matter. It has been confirmed that there is an attack on our office in Kaduna ."
The FCT Commissioner of Police, Mr. Aderenle Shinaba , said: "It is too early to tell you the exact number of casualty now, but all I can tell you is that our main purpose of being here is to save lives and be on a rescue mission and that we have been able to do.
"I want to say that there are some injured people that have been taken to hospitals and that is the much I can say as regards the casualty.
"In a situation like this, all you need do first is not to count the number of people that are injured; it is to take the injured to the hospital to save their lives first and that is what we have done.
"At the end of the day, once we have stabilised this place, we will be able to go and get the exact number of casualties. We have our men in the hospitals and they said the ones they have taken to the hospitals are being attended to and they are responding to treatment.
"If I tell you the number I have, I don't know the number other sister agencies have. So, I am not in a position to give something that you will come to discover that it is not correct."
The Acting Sector Commandant, Federal Capital Territory , Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Mr. Ajayi Michael, said: "It's unfortunate that it has happened but we are trying to see that people who are rescued are taken to the hospital and those who have passed away taken to the morgue so that people do not further get into injury.
"We are still working because we can not just give out a number now."
The Managing Director of Save Life Foundation, Dr. Adesola Fernadez, who spoke with reporters, said the casualty figure was higher than given.
As at press time, FCT Police Commissioner, the FCT Director of SSS, Mr. Joseph Okojie, and top security officers were co-ordinating investigation into the incident.
At about 1.15pm, one of the two foreign experts inspected the scene of the blast before going back to the SUV.
The two experts later invited the FCT Police Commissioner into the SUV.
Barely a few hours after the blast, many eminent Nigerians and media chiefs visited the scene.
Early callers at THISDAY office were former FCT Minister Mallam Nasir el-Rufai; ex-Ogun Governor Gbenga Daniel; Media Trust Limited, Managing Director Mr. Isiaq Ajibola; LEADERSHIP Newspaper Group Managing Director Azubuike Ishiekwene; Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) National President, Mohammed Garba and FCT Minister Bala Mohammed.
Garba said: "I think I am here basically to sympathise with my colleagues. It is really unfortunate that such incident is happening to the media.
"This has further confirmed our fear that journalists are not safe; media houses are not safe. There is need for the security agencies to be more proactive.
"The owners of the media must intensify security in their premises. Our members, as journalists, must also be security conscious.
"The Nigeria Union of Journalists is assessing the situation and at the end of it all, we are going to address a press conference and then our position will be known.
"It is the same incident in Kaduna, which affected about three media houses. I have asked the chairman of the Kaduna State council of the NUJ to write a formal report to the NUJ secretariat. With what happened today in THISDAY and what happened in Kaduna, the NUJ will analyse the situation and come out with our position very early tomorrow morning."
el- Rufai said: "It is quite unfortunate. May the souls of those affected rest in peace."
Daniel said: "I have seen what happened. It is regrettable and the only thing we can do is to plead with the people behind this action, for the sake of our country. Now that a media house is being torched, it has even greater consequences."
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Yeah, Brad Pitt is still hot. He's still one of the biggest movie stars in the world. However, when you compare what he looks like now to what he looked like in Thelma and Louise, it's like he's a whole different, older, doughier person.
Then you've got Val Kilmer who maybe isn't so hot anymore. Back in the 1980s he could pass as a young warrior in fantasy epics like Willow. Now he can pass for Marlon Brando, and we're not talking hot Marlon Brando.
Though it saddens us to admit it, these 10 former heartthrobs are past their prime. It's not their fault they grew up! But admitting to ourselves that they no longer look as glowing and gorgeous as they did in their youth is a sign that we, too, are growing up…and growing old.
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Possible Disruption In Service
A friend is getting married in New York, so I will be out thataway the next few days. Should be a post per day, as there are a couple items mostly completed, but there's a small chance I'll be super busy or something. Just FYI.
Give Money To Someone Else
I meant to link this earlier, but forgot. Other Michigan blogs have picked up the slack; let this be Kevin Newsome on the anchor leg.
Tornadoes just ripped up Oklahoma and Georgia, half of the Irrawaddy river delta's underwater, and Sichuan province just got rocked by a 7.9 earthquake. Pony up and make some primo deposits in the karma bank today.
If you learn anything from the totals, it's this: don't mess with Michigan in a fundraising war.
Team Donation Standings:
1. Michigan - $2,985.00
2. Ohio State - $2,305.00
3. Florida - $1,570.00
4. Texas - $480.00
5. Auburn - $355.00
6. Florida State - $350.00
7t. Case Western Reserve - $300.00
7t. Virginia - $300.00
8. Alabama - $230.00
9t. South Carolina - $200.00
9t. Georgia Tech - $200.00
9t. SMU - $200.00
10. Oklahoma - $185.00
Lurking: Tennessee, Nebraska, Va Tech, LSU, Notre Dame
At the moment it looks like this blog will be sporting Maize and Blue on Thursday, but that's not a done deal. Because you are ready to donate and support your school of course, here are the particulars:
1) Make a donation online to the American Red Cross, CARE, or the International Rescue Committee.
2) Email the donation confirmation to firstname.lastname@example.com and state your team affiliation by 8pm EDT on Wednesday, May 14th. BE SURE TO STATE WHETHER YOUR DONATION GOES FOR YOUR TEAM OR AGAINST ANOTHER. Either way it counts, but we want you to have some fun with it, too.
3) Results will be displayed at Every Day Should Be Saturday and Fanblogs throughout the week, with the final results shown by Thursday, May 15th.
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Donate early, donate often, and remember to specify your team donation. We're at around $11K right now and expected to get a few thousand; getting to $20K would be beyond all but the wildest expectations.
I-A Is Not A Right
One of the safest bets in the sports opinion world is to take whatever the NCAA has just done and call it stupid. The AP could run a story like so...
SOMEWHERE (AP) -- The NCAA has decided to do something. No details are available.
...and fifty bloggers would link to it. There would be a 50% chance of "NC$$" and "lol" in each post. And 90% of the time, they would be right.
This is the only explanation I can muster for what appears to be a universally negative reaction to the NCAA's newly toothy APR penalties, which knocked on the doors of hundreds of programs at dozens of schools in a wide variety of sports, just not at, like, USC. Except in basketball, where it did. A sampling:
[Orson at TSN.] The NCAA has its own No Child Left Behind Act, and it is called the Academic Progress Rate. It's the NCAA's own road to hell, paved with good intentions. It is on the way to thinning the ranks of Division I college football, and little but common sense seems to stand in the way of it happening.
[Salon's King Kaufman] Schools have always pushed their athletes into taking easy classes and avoiding challenging majors. The APR creates more incentive to push more of them that way. More kids graduating doesn't necessarily mean more kids are getting more education. But that's OK, the NCAA isn't about education. It's about profits from a multibillion-dollar entertainment industry with a mostly unpaid labor force.
[Wizard of Odds] Not exactly sure what Myles Brand has accomplished in his tenure as Grand Poobah of the NCAA outside of collecting a fat paycheck. He likely would point to his fraudulent Academic Progress Report, which was released Tuesday.
(That last is from the Wizard of Odds, who is excellent at digging up stories and was an awesome resource during last year's clock fiasco but is always outraged when given the slightest opportunity and usually wrong in the process of doing so. I have such a love-hate relationship with that site; you go from daily compendiums of interesting things to outrage factories like "the cheapest shot of the year.")
Orson's analogy to No Child Left Behind is inapt. NCLB, oddly, takes money from failing schools. The APR takes students, leaving behind a smaller corps of kids the Idahos (Idahoes? In your area codes?) of the world can fail. If this makes Dick Tomey complain about "class warfare" in the same article he says San Jose State had "no academic support to speak of," he can suck it up. What are the chances San Jose State would have an academic support program now if not for the looming threat of the APR? Zero. Small schools are complaining that they have to spend money educating students.
Both of the latter pieces attack the validity of the APR by speculating that it's the big money-flush schools that have the most incentive to bring in low-achieving students. Kaufman:
The more time you spend studying, the less you have for practicing or working out. The more road trips and tournaments and nationally televised midweek games you have, the less time you have to go to class. The more a school requires its athletes to be good students, the more good athletes it loses out on.
I really like King Kaufman -- most underrated sportswriter on the planet -- but he's wrong here. It's commonplace for academically at-risk recruits to fall to the Troy Trojans (We're From Troy!) or Akron or whatever. Bigger schools have the luxury of passing on some of the severe academic risks* and the guidance structures in place to keep their academic risks on path to a quasi-degree. Players with a potential NFL carrot at the end of the rainbow are also more likely to preserve their precious eligibility.
*(or oversigning by like six and taking the ones who hack it best. Whatever, we're the SEC! We do what we want!)
The Wiz:
This annual report regularly punishes the smaller schools and rewards the larger institutions, which are able to prop up their so-called "student-athletes" with an endless supply of tutors, favorable professors and state-of-the-art academic centers.
Yes, that "favorable professors" link goes to what you think it does. Of course, favorable professors are all they have at Florida International -- that's why it's Florida International -- and Panther athletes still fail like whoah. Oh, and they're cheating. The slam on "state of the art academic centers" is weird, too: God forbid schools are forced to spend some of their filthy lucre on the students that actually rake it in.
Of course, the issue here is that many schools do not rake in filthy lucre, and instead blow millions of dollars attempting to keep up with the Space Joneses in a futile attempt to... what, exactly? Let everyone know that Florida has run out of real names for its universities? Remind folks of the existence of schools in north Texas? The NCAA, as of yet, has no real safeguards against the Florida Internationals of the world wasting their money and everyone's time with a foray into I-A that's destructive to their students, their opponents' fans, and Lamar Thomas' broadcasting career.
SMQB recently laid into the very existence of the program, and I co-sign wholeheartedly:
FIU is not the only bad team, nor the only team that falls short of its various extracurricular benchmarks; most of the SBC and a dozen or so other perennially feeble programs probably aren't worth the ink that sets them apart from the lower divisions. It is, for now, the worst on both fronts, and easily taken advantage of, like a sick, feeble herd that keeps on giving to the bigger, quicker predators in the bush. Is there any reason at all Florida International's continued existence in I-A does not constitute a diluting of the sport's gene pool and a waste of its time?
I would expand that to include the entire wretched Sun Belt outside of the aforementioned Troy Trojans (We're From Troy!) and two or three teams each in the MAC, WAC, and Mountain West that are, like Florida International, failing everywhere there is somewhere to fail.
Orson's dire threat above sounds like a positive to me. There is no reason D-I should be forced to suffer the presence of San Jose State or Florida International and if sustained bludgeoning from the APR forces them to drop down to a level more appropriate for their resources, more power to it. There is ample evidence very Saturday in September that I-A is 20 programs too fat.
There are real criticisms of the APR to be levied. They appear to be thus:
- This waiver business is arbitrary and ripe for exploitation. Bruce Feldman points out this article in the State that breaks down the 492 programs that fell short of the APR minimum but did not get dinged. 315 programs avoided penalties because they have no money or did better than their student body at large; 253 of these avoided penalties because no one left ineligible. But then there are the 6
6 programs, including those from Ohio State, Purdue, Indiana, South Florida, Oregon, and South Carolina, that got waivers because they promised to do better, ie: spend more. This can't be done by smaller programs and we should have little sympathy for the pleas of big schools that fall below the minimum. Oregon was at 921 with all of Phil Knight's money: dock them the two or three scholarships. And how the hell did Arizona (APR 902, worst in the BCS) get off this year after getting hit last year?
- The schools themselves set minimums for academic progress and the APR gives them a strong incentive to give students the most remedial classes they can find. End result: the numbers go up but the amount of education does not. The NCAA should institute an exit exam for revenue sports that tests basic reading comprehension and math skills and the like.
Misc.: Protesters have remarked that only two of 37 penalized programs were BCS schools as if the fate of Howard University has any relevance to the landed gentry. Your D-I offenders: *
- Big 12: Kansas
- Pac 10: Washington State
- MAC: Central Michigan, Akron, Temple, Toledo
- Sun Belt: Florida International, Florida Atlantic, North Texas
- WAC: Hawaii, New Mexico State, San Jose State, Idaho
- Mountain West: UNLV, San Diego State.
Sixteen offenders, two in the BCS, FWIW.
Get the Picture has a good take on the situation, as well.
It's Contest Time Again
Last year, MGoBlog had a highly successful contest to create a new banner for the site. Unfortunately, Baxter Allen's winning banner...
... lasted all of three hours into the season before You Know What. It was replaced with
- the happy kitten forever blog,
hastily pressed into service after a cadre of superstition experts concluded that a restoration to normal service simply could not be risked.
Despite all this, we're going to have another contest, and if we lose to Utah we can blame the whole freshman-quarterback no-seniors-on-offense thing, mkay?
So: dust off your photoshop and whip up something killer. Mail it to firstname.lastname@example.com with the subject "banner"; in about two weeks I'll collect the candidates and put a poll on the site so readers can vote for their favorites.
The winner receives this fabulous prize package:
- An MGoShirt of their choosing.
- A copy of Hail To The Victors 2008 (2007 book link).
- A single MGoWish that can be redeemed for anything reasonable of the winner's choosing: a post that addresses a specific topic, increased coverage of something or another, or increased emphasis on a particular technical task.
Go, and capture the zeitgeist.
Unverified Voracity Remembers Wolverine Great Chris Carter
In the latest edition of "this ain't your father's Michigan football program," ESPN did their all-access thingy with a spring practice:
The segment goes downhill once Captain Platitude Kirk Herbstreit declares that Michigan is adopting an "us versus them" mentality, instead of, like, the "some of us versus them and the rest of us" adopted by Notre Dame last year.
(Via the Diag.)
Speaking of, nobody cares about Charlie Weis using H E double hockey sticks to describe where Michigan can go; we have heard the word deployed and, yes, do know that Bo basically said the same thing about ND. We're just laughing at Weis E Coyote preemptively mocking Michigan's "excuses" mere days after muttering about thugs and hooligans. Unlike Notre Dame fans, we do not think a not-for-public-consumption statement that expresses disdain for an institution via bad words is particularly noteworthy or horrible.
There is funny news about the basketball program. It is not bad news, nor indifferent news. It is an entirely new basketball-related sort of news. I think it is called "good"?
The NCAA has granted Arizona transfer Laval Lucas-Perry's appeal to be granted an extra year of eligibility, meaning the guard will be eligible to play three and a half seasons at Michigan
Lucas-Perry still has to sit out until the winter semester, but will be considered a freshman by the NCAA instead of a sophomore.
Hostybits. The baseball season is winding to its end, and the newly renovated Fish is likely going to see a heavy dose of postseason action. Michigan has won the Big Ten for the third straight year and will host the conference tournament, and with a few smaller schools who will not bid for regionals poised for #1 seeds, the general opinion is the committee will attempt to provide Michigan a regional. Baseball America:
San Diego and Coastal Carolina look like strong contenders to earn No. 1 seeds for the second straight year, but neither team is likely to submit a bid to host a regional as they did a year ago. USD coach Rich Hill said San Diego State's Tony Gwynn Stadium played like a neutral site a year ago, rather than a home environment, so the Toreros don't plan to bid again. And the Myrtle Beach Pelicans have said their stadium is unlikely to be available again for Coastal, meaning the Chanticleers would have to bring in temporary seating to Charles L. Watson Stadium—a scenario that also seems unlikely. So USD gets shipped to Michigan as the top seed, and Coastal is the No. 1 seed at East Carolina, which is 10th in the RPI and would give Conference USA a second host.
Michigan is a #2 seed in San Diego's regional; #3 LSU and #4 Wright State are the other teams. Michigan, by the way, is the only Big Ten team in the field.
This could be a significant advantage for Michigan going forward. With the fancy new stadium and college baseball's desire to have hosts in the midwest more often than not, Michigan is in line to host more than their fair share of regionals.
History! I haven't actually embedded a WolverineHistorian video in a while:
West Virginia newspaper columnists are awesome. This contretemps about the #1 jersey and Braylon being ticked is highly likely to be resolved satisfactorily in the near future, but don't tell that to West Virginians:
For a sports writer in this neck of the woods, Rich Rodriguez has become the gift that keeps on giving.
This is the slow time of the year around here, finals week, graduation, a time when a sports columnist has to wrack his brain — or what's left of it after dealing with the likes of Pacman Jones and Chris Henry — to come up with a story idea.
This is Bob Hertzel, and he is correct to warn the reader that he is brain dead.
The No. 1 uniform meant a lot to Edwards. It has belonged exclusively to a wide receiver since 1979, dating back to Chris Carter.
There's something wrong with this sentence: his name is "Cris Carter." Oh, and uh... here's a photo of Wolverine legend Cris Carter in his precious #1 jersey:
Little known fact: in 1979, Michigan and Ohio State were sent the wrong jerseys. With the nation at war with Cuba, all horses were diverted to Teddy Roosevelt's unit so they could be heroically and futilely shot. The two rivals had no choice but to don the other's silks.
Also, one equaled two for a brief period in the fall.
Please. You'd think Penn State fans' righteous indignation about Rich Rodriguez's recruiting would be severely blunted by the fact that PSU just yoinked Maryland cornerback Darrell Givens out from underneath Ohio State's nose. Not so much. Black Shoe Diaries:
I'm sure that certain people who swear there is no gentleman's agreement between Big Ten coaches will claim that we just violated it. Whatever. It's pretty obvious since Rodriguez joined the conference that anything goes, so when in Rome...
Weak, man. A little rhetorical flourish to preemptively dismiss the obvious: there never was any "gentleman's agreement" and Penn State fans are full of crap. Yeah, "anything goes" since Rodriguez showed up, which is why the very post BSD linked has no fewer than four examples of intraconference poaching the year before Rodriguez showed up.
Give it up, guys. This, like JayPa's efforts to recruit skill position players, is getting pathetic.
Etc.: Alumni organization podcast w/ Rodriguez; Yost Built looks at the hockey recruiting class of 2008.
Monday Recrutin'
Update 5/12: Linked to articles on TN OL Alex Bullard (downgrade to red), TN OL Alex Bullard (upgrade to yellow... woo conflicting info), MD RB Tavon Austin (second, downgrade to red), GA S Darren Myles (second), MI WR Dion Sims, FL RB Mike Gillislee, LA WR Willie Haulstead, PA DE Tyrone Ezell, header on MN WR Bryce McNeal, NC OL Xavier Nixon, OH S Isaiah Bell.
Roundup article from Kornblut has news on SC DE Chris Bonds, claim of offers for SC ATH David Sims and SC WR Alshon Jeffery. (Via Big House Blog.) Added Sims, Jeffery, FL WR Rantavious Wooten (video), MD DE Sean Stanley, OK CB David Gordon, GA LB DeDe Lattimore, MI QB Keith Nichol(?... I guess... more).
Removed FL WR Nu'Keese Richardson (very probably dropped us), MS S Rod Woodson (owie it's cold hold me). Bumped CA QB Jason Forcier to yellow.
Stuff via Varsity Blue: fluff on MN WR Bryce McNeal, IL WR Kraig Appleton. Clemson leads for NC WR Jheranie Boyd.
Editorial Opinion: Full board is here.
I bet you thought we were done talking about quarterbacks until February. No, not so much, and it's not just one.
First: I've upgraded CA QB Jason Forcier from red to yellow after persistent efforts from Forcier to reassure everyone that Michigan is still under consideration. Also, a reader provides this tip:
My buddy who worked for the team last year has also been saying that there's still a pretty good chance we could land Forcier even with 2 in the fold. I kind of had the same reaction you did. This tidbit doesn't really mean much, but it adds a little bit more credence to what GBW is saying...
So... if the guy's got the confidence to come in and take a shot, hey, I'm all for that. We might have an ND-esque transfer party in two years, but at least the winner will be as awesome as Jimmy Clausen. Er. Scratch that.
Speaking of transfer parties, Oklahoma freshman Keith Nichol is fleeing from the presence of ninja freshman starter Sam Bradford. A top-100 sort last year, Nichol originally committed to Michigan State in the hopes of being the next Drew Stanton. When John L Smith slapped himself out of a job and Mark Dantonio brought his paleolithic offense to State, he decommitted for the greener pastures of Rhett Bomar-less Oklahoma.
Now he's on the open market again and likely to end up somewhere close to home, as transfers often do. Michigan suddenly has a crowded depth chart in '09 -- sophomores Steven Threet and Justin Feagin, freshmen-to-be Kevin Newsome and Shavodrick Beaver -- but none of those guys exactly projects to have a Bradford deathlock on the job. There is a consistent undercurrent of speculation, much of it based from Lowell -- where he went to HS -- locals scurrying to the internet to assure people Nichol will be at Michigan in the fall.
At first glance, it seems like an excellent fit. Nichol ran for over 1,000 yards in both his junior and senior years of high school; he also completed 63% of his passes. I mean... his senior stats are preposterous:
As a senior, Nichol, a three-year starter at quarterback, threw for 2,225 yards, 31 TDs and six INTs (118 for 185); and he rushed for 1,075 yards and 19 TDs on 121 carries. he was named to the Detroit News "Dream Team". Keith Nichol is one of the very best quarterback prospects in the Midwest. He threw for 2,200 yards and 28 touchdowns as a junior. Also rushed for 900 yards and 14 touchdowns as a sophomore. committed to Michigan State before his junior season.
In '09 Nichol would presumably have a leg up on any incoming freshman, with a year and a half years at Oklahoma (he enrolled early) and a year of getting Barwisized and learning the offense at Michigan, but it's risky: if he doesn't get the starting job he's either got to give up the dream of playing in college or head to a I-AA school.
A Free Press article makes it sound like Nichol is just looking for options at this point and will consider anyone who wants to offer him:
"People assume it's a Michigan State-Michigan deal," Nichol said, adding he's open to all options. "But they're the same as any other program in the country, just more attractive because they're closer to home."
The popular perception is that Michigan is QB depth chart heaven, but though State moved away from Nichol's preferred offense they graduate Brian Hoyer after this year and two low-rated redshirt freshmen are the only other quarterbacks on the roster. (State does have a commit from instater Andrew Maxwell.)
Would State have interest in a kid who stiffed them? Would Michigan take his transfer and risk spooking Newsome and/or Beaver? I dunno. A caller to the "Huge" show claimed that Nichol was a done deal to Michigan, FWIW. The same caller apparently predicted Nichol's transfer three months ago, but that bit of prognostication was obvious to anyone who picked up Oklahoma's depth chart and saw the "Fr" next to Bradford's name. There's also been considerable internet buzz to the same effect, but nothing from a reputable source.
Offensive linemen are starting to shake out. The best news from Michigan is what appears to be strong interest from NC OL Xavier Nixon:
Offensive tackle Xavier Nixon, an ESPN 150 Watch List talent, is holding about 40 scholarship offers, according to affiliate Web site GatorCountry.com. Despite the long list of suitors, Nixon already knows that he'd like to visit Notre Dame and Michigan. "Those are the only two that are set in stone, but I don't know beyond that."
Nixon also expressed what he's seeking in a school, "I'm looking at education, how comfortable I feel at a school - if it's a place that reminds me of home, if my playing style fit the program, if I can take what I've learned in high school and ap
ply it there instead of having to chance everything I've learned."
Nixon is one of those super-elite sorts (#27 overall to Rivals and the #1 OT, period, to Scout) who defies the conventional wisdom that offensive line rankings should be taken with a grain of salt; landing him would be a coup.
Michigan has an offer out to TN OL Alex Bullard, but he seems likely to stay in state. There is this hilariously biased article from "Vols Extra" to consider wherein he names a top three of ND, Tennessee, and Florida; more neutral is an Allen Wallace piece:
Although Bullard says he's still open, he admits he favors Tennessee slightly over Alabama, Notre Dame, Michigan, Florida and South Carolina. All of his favorites have offered.
"I like them all, but Tennessee is close and they are recruiting me the most right now," Bullard said. "Just the prestige and tradition there is amazing. That's a place I know a lot of people at and feel at home. I really like coach Phillip Fulmer. He's a very good man and very kind. He's easy to talk too."
Tentatively yellow but it's not looking good here.
The recent subject of a Scout-Rivals tiff, instate WR/TE Dion Sims plainly likes basketball more than football despite having a far higher ceiling as a 6'5", 230 pound wide receiver than a as tweener basketball wing. Scout analyst Dave Telep:
"I think he's a college hoops prospect on the mid-level. His body is a huge asset and his mid-range game is a help. So far this year in the limited times I have seen him, he's had moments where his shot has looked very good and he can pass the ball. I would think MAC programs would love to get their hands on him. To be higher, you would like to see him round out his game — maybe add a post-up element to take advantage of size mismatches."
Sims' father says Michigan State leads slightly:
"It is real close," Donald Sims said. "I wouldn't say one or the other, but if I had to really put down where I think his heart is at this point as far as in-state, I think Michigan State has a little bit of an advantage."
Hopefully that's because of the basketball programs' relative strength; if so that might change after a reassessment of which sport is the wiser one to pursue in college. One other note: Rodriguez is recruiting Sims as a tight end, not a wide receiver.
Some new names at defensive end: PA's Tyrone Ezell and MD's Sean Stanley. SC's Chris Bonds also has us in a leading group of about seven. Not much free on the new guys yet, but a few more names on the board is reassuring.
A couple of Nike Camps went down over the weekend. OH S Isaiah Bell was singled out for praise by ESPN:
Under Armour All-American safety Bell could have passed for a weakside linebacker and actually looked bigger than his listed measurables. When you look at his rangy, long-limbed frame, particularly the length of his arms, it's not out of the realm this kid has another inch or two of growth left. He looked far from frail though and was defined with good muscle tone and lean bulk. We joked with the recruited safety that linebacker could be in his future at Michigan, and he smiled like he had heard that comment before. It's hard not to see a potential 6-foot-3, 225-pound frame in two or three years, and he did look better at times playing the ball in front of him Friday as opposed to backpedalling.
Reports vary on how Bell did in drills but safeties always get the shaft at these things because they're essentially forced to play corner. Fitzgerald Toussaint did not show in Columbus because of an injury; in State College commit Will Campbell crushed all opponents and Teric Jones had an impressive day. Campbell still insists he's going to visit places like Miami, FWIW.
Update: ESPN's just posted their recap of the State College Nike camp. This is their opinion of Will Campbell:
Word. Jones was "exciting to watch and showed excellent quickness, balance and ball skills."
Kevin Newsome got gently panned, though:
He showed some flashes of becoming a solid passer but has a lot of mechanical and technical glitches to work through. He is very inconsistent with his accuracy, but when he is fundamentally sound, he delivers the ball with nice zip and good power on the deep ball. With his frame and athleticism, he is definitely a candidate to be moved to tailback, safety, linebacker or wide receiver.


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Marital Meltdown Rumors Hit Eric Dane and Rebecca Gayheart
By Kat Giantis
Is Dr. McSteamy's marriage on life support? So claims Life & Style, which says Eric Dane and Rebecca Gayheart, who are awaiting the arrival of baby No. 2, have hit a rough patch following the "Grey's Anatomy" actor's June rehab check-in to treat an addiction to prescription painkillers.
"He went to rehab to try to get it all straight before the birth of their second kid," alleges a source. "They are trying, but the marriage is not working out."
According to the tab, Dane is doing better after seeking treatment. But he and Gayheart purportedly "aren't talking much," and he "wants to make sure his problems are behind him before moving back into the house."
Last month, he was twice photographed on solo playdates with 18-month-old daughter Billie.
"Rebecca is trying to hold it all together as she deals with her pregnancy," says the spy, "but she thinks right now it's better if she's alone."
Adding fuel to the rift rumors: Gayheart has been spotted without her wedding ring, although it's possible that her bare finger could simply be the result of stork-related swelling.
Dane's rep did not respond to our request for comment on the once uninhibited pair's rumored relationship problems. Let's hope for the best as we take a quick look back at their romance ...
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