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Scenes from an Ongoing Tour of Training Camps
Saints doing some hitting. E.J. Manuel taking shots downfield. RGIII getting his swagger back. The NFL's first week back was full of memorable sights, but the most impressive was a second-year coach making his 10-6 team even better
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — This is what a real training-camp practice sounds like, via the verbal stylings of New Orleans defensive coordinator Rob Ryan and his defensive coach, Bill Johnson.
The scene: First padded Saints practice of camp … Sunday morning, 9:19 a.m. … defensive line group in the southwestern end of the brand-new field at The Greenbrier … grass like an Augusta fairway (and I'm not kidding) … cool morning, about 71 … storm clouds rolling in from the west, white cumulus ones interrupted by the Allegheny Mountains—in fact clouding the view of the homes of Nick Faldo and Jerry West … the nine-man defensive-line group stretching and warming up before hitting someone else for the first time since January.
Ryan, moving from man to man:
"Hit today. Hit. Hit. Be physical. Be physical. Get the ball out! Lotta life. Let's go. Let's go, D. C'mon now. First practice in pads. F—in' pads!! Let's go!"
The linebacker group joined the defensive linemen. One by one, the players lined up and attacked the individual sled. One after one, all of them plowed into it with their hands and upper bodies, lifted it up and tossed it aside.
"All right!" Ryan said. "Now this is football."
The group finished. Johnson began hustling to the next drill.
"Come on, Bill!" said Pro Bowl defensive end Cameron Jordan. "We always do two!"
"All right, baby!" Johnson said. "Let's go!"
A second shot for everyone at the sled ensued. A few minutes later players lined up on either side of the ball for an inside-running drill. No tackle, but the defense could stand up the ball-carrier with a hard thud and try to strip the ball. Lots of hype and excitement here, followed by a couple of runners shaking loose and getting outside.
Ryan: "F—in' lettin' them run through you like paper! Awful!"
Next play: Running back Khiry Robinson got eaten alive inside. Never made it out of the mugging throng.
And so it ebbed and flowed, the first padded practice of a promising season. It was a fun scene, but the most impressive 20 minutes I spent in Week 1 on the Training Camp Tour goes to…
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Philadelphia Eagles
Saturday, July 26
Eagles facility, Philadelphia
Chip Kelly, unplugged
I've had only two extended conversations with Kelly since he was named coach of the Eagles 19 months ago. To say I know him well would be folly. But I'm starting to get a feel for him. Before his first training camp practice of the season on Saturday, we spent time in his office, and when we parted, I thought how much he reminded me of Jimmy Johnson when Johnson entered the league 25 years ago. Respectful of the other coaches and teams, but they aren't going to dictate what he's going to do. Totally confident that his style will work in the NFL. Unlike Johnson, Kelly's not brash on the outside. Like Johnson, he knows deep down his way will win. Johnson brought a small, fast defense into a league that was going bigger and bigger. It worked. Kelly brings a fast-break offense from Oregon, and in the second half of the season, with different personnel groupings and a quarterback who could keep it all straight, the team went 7-1.
He also is the kind of guy who … I'll put it this way. Imagine Ford was getting stale making cars (imagine that!), and execs there pursued a Honda VP to rejuvenate the company, and in the interview the Honda guy said five or six things that made the Ford team think, "Why didn't we think of that?" That's Kelly.
The five or six things he said Saturday that made me think:
The biggest surprise of his first year and a half on the job. "The hype. [Director of public relations] Derek [Boyko] asked me the question and said I couldn't say it … What's the worst thing about the league? I said the draft. I mean, the hype that goes into the draft is insane. Totally insane. The biggest thing for me is that everybody thinks whoever you drafted or whoever you signed is now gonna be a savior. They come in just like me and you come in as freshmen in high school or freshmen in college, or your first year on the job at Sports Illustrated—you're not telling people what to do, you're just trying to figure out what room to go to. I think a lot of times the hype turns into really, really hard times for the individual who got picked, because there's so many expectations of everyone building them up to be Superman because they had three months to write about them and talk about them. Then when they get picked, they're a very, very good prospect, but there's a learning curve when you go from any job out of college into a company. If you take a job at Wells Fargo when you get out of college, your first day of the job they don't say, 'He's our first-round draft pick, he's the savior to the company!'
"I think the byproduct to the hype that bothers me, is that to some guys it's overwhelming for them. The NFL has their Rookie Premiere and they're out there getting all these pictures taken and they're missing practice time to go out to California and they're treated like gods, and I'm like, I don't know if he's going to start. That's not fair. And the analysis … We drafted [pass-rusher] Marcus Smith in the first round, and Jordan Matthews in the second round. Then you listen to people around here that say, 'Well, we don't like their draft. If they had taken Matthews first and Smith second, we would give them an A.' Who cares who went one and who went two? It's almost like there's a lot of scrutiny on Marcus Smith because he went one, but Jordan gets a pass because he fell to the second round. If you ask both those individuals, they have the same goals and aspirations and they're training exactly the same way. It's just how people perceive things, and I think a lot of that has to do with the hype.
"Jerry Rice dropped a lot of balls when he was a rookie. He was a strong kid. He took it. But now, for some of these guys, it crushes them. It's no different than bringing a pitcher up before you should and he gets racked. He's a stiff. Send him back to the minors. There's a maturation process for everybody. There's no other profession like it. The hype part is just constant."
On not seeming emotional—ever. "Oh, I get pissed off. Yeah. I have a lot of friends who are Navy SEALs, and I respect what they do. Part of their ethos is 'I don't advertise the nature of my work, nor do I seek recognition for my actions.' We all have jobs to do. We're not in this to see our names in the paper or have people say good things about you. Or we shouldn't be. I love practice. I love being out on the field. I love game day. The sound bytes and ESPN and all those other things, that's not of any interest to me."
On players buying into Kelly's advanced nutrition program. (Note from me here. I asked LeSean McCoy about Kelly's emphasis on nutrition. "I eat better than I ever have,'' McCoy said. "Chip says things like, 'Think back to your greatest games. How was your preparation that week? Did you get your rest? Did you eat right? And think of games you weren't great. How were your habits that week?' I got lighter last year. I'm maybe 209 now. I was about 10 pounds heavier the year before. And there's no question I make people miss better now. I just feel better.")
Kelly: "I believe nutrition ideas have helped. I think that obviously our job is to be educators. So we're educating them on what's gonna make them the best football player that they can possibly be. We have to find people that are gonna use that information. That's the key ingredient. We have a lot of guys here that are thirsty for knowledge. They eat up what we're teaching. We're not babysitting them. We don't go home and watch what they eat. Nor should we. I want a bunch of guys that … We're gonna provide you with everything we possibly can for you to be successful, but you have to do it. You have to work. You have to be the one that adopts those philosophies yourself. We don't have you on lockdown. Nor should we. I don't want guys like that."
Changing the practice week to a faster pace and heavier work load later in the week. "We're not walking through. We're running. Always running."
Treatment of rookies. "We try to accept everyone when they first come in here. We've never had a rookie show… It's difficult when you're a rookie. You're just trying to fit in. Then you have to get them to acclimate to offense, defense, special teams. All the other stuff that's so different and they now have to worry about. Then to have to do other things on top of it? We try to be very accepting when young guys come in here and welcome them to what we're doing. I think our older guys by and large have been really good with that."
Predictions. "No one knows. I don't know. I don't know anybody that does know. I was asked after the draft, 'Give yourself a grade.' I was like, 'I have absolutely no idea.' But it's the truth! No one knows. I've said it all along. Everybody says, 'What a great job by the Patriots getting Tom Brady in the sixth round.' If you knew he was gonna be that good, you should have taken him in the first. No one knows. We all kind of luck out."
And so it went.
When we talked about year two, Kelly was very coach-like. No magic pills here. Just progress. Slow and steady progress. "Last year,'' he said, "we grew as the season went on. We started off at 3-5 in the first eight, then finished 7-1. It was evident to us as coaches that we were growing weekly. It started to show up on the scoreboard. Just guys getting more comfortable in what we're doing. Guys being able to finish other guys' sentences, instead of turning to look to somebody that has to tell them what to do, and then having to do the thinking they have to do themselves. In the short time that we have them, it's hard. We knew there were going to be growing pains, because it was a total new offense, defense, and special teams system than the existing guys had ever had. What excites me is these guys are very invested in what we're doing and really, really want to be good. They don't just say it. Their actions back that up."
A few interesting points about year one of Kelly's Eagles, from Neil Hornsby and Nathan Jahnke of Pro Football Focus. Nick Foles is so much more a Kelly quarterback than Mike Vick was. Last year, Foles led all NFL quarterbacks with a 131.8 rating when blitzed. Vick's rating: 78.4. That says Foles can think quickly under pressure, and a Kelly passer also has to think quickly because the offense is moving fast anyway.
Jahnke unearthed a great one here: The Eagles, particularly with 2013 rookie Zack Ertz, got great at multiple tight end packages. In the first half of the season, they used one back and two tight ends 17 percent of the time. In the second half, they used one back and two tights 33.4 percent of the time. Ertz contributed four regular-season touchdowns, all in the second half of the season. Now, Brent Celek, Ertz and James Casey are in their second year in the new offense, and they'll be better—and more productive, most likely.
Finally: The line learned on the run as the season went on, and was superb in the second half. The five offensive linemen allowed 199 quarterback disruptions (sacks, knockdowns or pressure) in the first eight games, only 57 in the last eight.
On the practice field Saturday, Darren Sproles was running around from three spots—the backfield, the slot, out wide. Big target Matthews worked with the second unit—maybe not for long. DeSean Jackson will be missed, but as The MMQB's Greg Bedard said watching the workout: "No one person will replace Jackson. Chip's scheme will."
It's going to be a fascinating year two. If the Eagles continue the fast-track of the last two months of last season, Seattle, San Francisco, Green Bay and New Orleans are going to have competition for late January football in the NFC.
Friday, July 25
Bon Secours Training Facility, Richmond, Va.
Robert Griffin III looks like Robert Griffin III again.
Washington's a mystery team in a mystery division. It's easy to look at the team and figure it was a 3-13 outfit last year, and maybe the quarterback is healthy again, but is that enough to make a playoff return? Robert Griffin III is back, and from the looks of this practice this morning—he ran, slid (surprise!) and threw the ball well—he's got a chance to be the man he was two years ago. The big thing Griffin has going for him is the deepest roster of weapons in the NFC East. Couple DeSean Jackson, Pierre Garçon and Andre Roberts, the former Cardinal (who looked elusive and very quick today), with a tight end with breakout-star potential, Jordan Reed, and a back with 2,888 yards in his first two years, Alfred Morris, and, I mean, who tops that? The defense allowed 30 points once in the last 13 games. But the mystery comes in because, at 24, Griffin now has had two ACL reconstructions, and he simply has to avoid some of the crash-test contact that's gotten him in trouble in his college and pro career.
"Physically," Griffin told me after practice, "I was able to go through a whole off-season without having to worry about injury or rehab. I was able to refine my craft in the off-season. It's a lot easier to do that when you don't have six hours of daily rehab to worry about. I am not having to come out to see if I can do anything. I know I can. On the field, two years of playing experience really helps you at any level of football."
And then he had to pause a second, because the kids nearby were too loud, demanding he come over to sign for them. He would in a minute.
"Ro-BERT! Ro-BERT! Ro-BERT!"
He went on. "None of us shy away from the fact that we were 3-13 last year. We have a bad taste in our mouths. For us as a group, we get to play football again, and we have a new coach, a new direction. That direction's up."
Greg A. Bedard's Washington camp report: Getting it going under Gruden. FULL STORY
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Baltimore Ravens
Thursday, July 24
Ravens facility, Owings Mills, Md.
Ray Rice resumes his career, chastened
Six seconds of mayhem, if that, ruined six seasons of reputation-building for Ray Rice, suspended for two games and fined $529,000 for striking his fiancée last February. And for one day anyway, the day I was here, Rice was a downtrodden man. Now the questions that remain:
1. How will he respond to the suspension, and to the world at-large that thinks commissioner Roger Goodell let him off way too easy? Rice was significantly down, I'm told, when GM Ozzie Newsome told him the news before practice Thursday. Not about the length of the suspension, but because of the weight of feeling he let so many people down. He will have to rebuild a shattered reputation brick by brick, and continue to work on his marriage, all while trying to jump-start a career that was blown off course by an awful 2013.
2. Is he really out of the woods with his wife, and can he be trusted to never hit another woman? Obviously this is the crux of the ongoing story. His wife, Janay, told Goodell this was a one-time event that would never happen again, and Goodell apparently believed her, though domestic-abuse experts say that as often as not a victim won't tell the truth, so as to save her partner's neck. Rice won't get a third chance from society, so he has to know this can't happen again.
3. What about Rice the player? Rice was making changes to his physical life before he struck his fiancée, losing about 15 pounds this off-season. He was too heavy last year to be effective, and couldn't make anyone miss. Now 204, around his rookie-year weight, Rice seems to be ready to be very good again—for 14 games, at least. "I honestly think he's going to dominate the league the way he did two or three years ago,'' one Raven said. Rice had 2,068 rushing/receiving yards as recently as 2011. He looks and moves like he can still be an impact player.
Rice will leave the team after the fourth preseason game, and he can return after the Ravens' Sept. 11 Thursday night game against Pittsburgh. You can't play football with your tail between your legs. So he's going to find a way to make sure he's ready when he walks back into football in September, trying to recapture the drive he had three years ago as a player.
Greg A. Bedard's Ravens camp report: Looking beyond Ray Rice. FULL STORY
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New York Giants
Wednesday, July 23
Giants facility, East Rutherford, N.J.
How do you change everything at age 67?
Tom Coughlin would be a good study for AARP or the Harvard Business School. Or both. This year he did two very uncharacteristic Coughlin things:
- He blew up an offense he's been associated with or ran every season for the last 27.
- A noted control freak, Coughlin handed the offense to a stranger, Ben McAdoo, a Green Bay assistant.
A stranger! "Well," he said, "Bill Parcells didn't know me when he hired me [as a Giants assistant in 1988] either."
So, I asked the oldest head coach in the NFL, what does it take to hit restart at age 67?
"I looked at our team and I just felt like what I needed to do from a leadership standpoint was stimulate our veteran players,'' he said. "Stimulate Eli. Create some energy, some renewed vigor, some enthusiasm for the unknown. Eli had played in this system for 10 years. We won two Super Bowls with it. His numbers from time to time have been out of sight. He's a leading guy in the two-minute offense for any number of years, when we had great running teams, we had balance, he'd been incredible. He's been the MVP of two Super Bowls. Eli's had to do it like a young guy coming in. That's exactly what he's done. For me, I have to force myself, just like all the players, to learn a new system. It is stimulating. It does create a little bit of pressure. You remember when we used to practice twice a day in pads? You had about an hour between and you ran around like a crazy guy as an assistant coach. You came off the field, you grabbed lunch, you got back in a meeting, you went back in with the players, you taught a whole new installation list for the afternoon. Those things have kind of mellowed out because of the new system that we're in. But now, I think there's some energy that maybe we haven't had.''
Coughlin knows energy is one thing, wins another. He's one win away from passing Paul Brown on the all-time NFL list ("Wow,'' he said when he heard this), and to get many of those this year, he knows he'd better have picked right when he chose the West Coast guy from Green Bay, McAdoo. The Giants' season depends on it.
Peter King's Giants camp report: The short story of Eli's new offense. FULL STORY.
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Buffalo Bills
Monday, July 21
St. John Fisher College, Pittsford, N.Y.
You want to feel pressure? Be E.J. Manuel for a day.
In a recent Bills' practice, young GM Doug Whaley, who cut his teeth watching some bombs-away quarterbacks win games and titles in Pittsburgh—most recently Ben Roethlisberger—sidled up to E.J. Manuel and said, "Don't be perfect. Be a football player."
Translation: Take some chances downfield, man. You've got some weapons out there now.
Manuel led all quarterbacks in football last year in percentage of pass attempts to running backs. That usually means a quarterback is checking the ball down, playing it safe. When the Bills drafted the most dangerous receiver in college football in May, Sammy Watkins, they didn't draft him to block for running backs.
In one practice I saw, Manuel was ultra-disciplined and careful not to turn it over—I thought far too safe to ever get the full benefit out of playing with Watkins. But the next day Manuel got the ball downfield a few more times, particularly down the sidelines to Watkins. That's going to be something Whaley and the coaching staff must monitor. You don't want to browbeat your quarterback, but you don't want Watkins to be running clear-out routes either.
"There is discipline in checking it down too," coach Doug Marrone said. "We'd never have beat Baltimore last year if he wasn't so efficient moving the ball downfield with short throws in the two-minute offense. But I won't say you're totally wrong either. We've got to get it downfield."
Peter King's Bills camp report: Watkins wows, but it the end it's up to E.J. FULL STORY
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It's Tweetup Time.
Please join me at Louisville Slugger Field in Louisville next Sunday at 5 p.m. for a Tweetup, to discuss everything you need to know about the 2014 NFL season. Actually, I'll be there to answer any questions you have and to meet and greet whoever is interested. I'll have The MMQB Team with me, along with our country-touring RV (which is starting to get a little gamey; imagine what it'll be like in a week), on the heels of watching the Titans practice Saturday night in Nashville.
A Tweetup, for those not well-versed in Tweetdom, is this: I show up at a public place, you come and see me, we talk for a while, maybe have a beer, and then we leave. The minor-league Louisville Bats play that night, and this being a Serenity Now evening for me, our team will relax at the ballpark.
Follow me on Twitter (@SI_PeterKing) for exact details and location, which I'll post Friday on my Twitter feed.
Quotes of the Week
"The best cornerback in the league? Me."
—Dee Milliner, second-year cornerback of the New York Talking Jets. Pro Football Focus rated Milliner 55th of 79 NFL cornerbacks who played at least 50 percent of their team's snaps in 2013.
These cornerbacks were graded higher by PFF after film study of every game: Logan Ryan (30th), Jimmy Wilson (41st), Terrell Thomas (44th), Nolan Carroll (45th), Robert McClain (50th), Darius Butler (51st), and Melvin White (52nd).
"The really great athletes make their news on the field, not off the field. We expect better from him."
—Cleveland owner Jimmy Haslam, on his life-of-the-party quarterback, Johnny Manziel.
It's clear the Browns are chapped by their rookie QB's lifestyle, which I'll address in Ten Things on Page 4.
"To me, shotgun spread is the new Pro Style."
—University of Arizona football coach Rich Rodriguez, on the changing face of college football, and the NFL game too.
"On Sundays, and depending on how many games Roger makes us play—some Saturdays, some Thursdays, some Mondays—those are going to be the guys that I'm out there with. Those are the guys who are important."
—Former Steelers safety Ryan Clark on his new teammates in the Washington secondary.
I also liked this one the other day from Clark: "We don't have the man with the hair, but we've really got a great secondary, I think." There's only one Troy Polamalu.
"I feel 30 and I want to coach until I'm 80."
—New Orleans coach Sean Payton, who is 50, responding to Drew Brees saying he wanted to play until he's 45.
Sign of the Week
"Don't sign Dalton. He sucks"
—Banner on a highway overpass near the Cincinnati Bengals practice fields at training camp Friday, referring to contract negotiations with quarterback Andy Dalton, not the biggest fan favorite after three straight Wild Card playoff losses in his three NFL seasons.
Tough crowd in Bengal-land.
Stat of the Week
I was on the sidelines of Saints practice Sunday when it became very clear what the emphasis of camp will be—forcing turnovers.
First: New Orleans bucked the conventional wisdom about needing to take the ball away on defense to have a good chance to win. The worst takeaway teams in the NFC last year show that, mostly, when you don't force turnovers, you don't win a lot:
|Turnovers forced
|New Orleans
|Green Bay
So the Saints' defensive coaches harped from the start of the first padded practice about taking the ball away. "Get the [expletive] ball out!'' defensive coordinator Rob Ryan screamed as Khiry Robinson tried to power through the line on an inside run drill. And so on.
On a sideline completion to fullback Eric Lorig, right corner Champ Bailey stripped the ball out violently, the ball bounded toward the white stripe, safety Rafael Bush dove and batted it in-bounds, and another defender recovered it and sprinted downfield. Well, you'd have thought the defensive backs just won a playoff game. They went wild. "That's who we gotta be!'' one of the DBs yelled.
Factoid of the Week That May Interest Only Me
Baltimore wide receiver Steve Smith and quarterback Joe Flacco have an interesting competition going: They wager $25 Starbucks cards when they disagree on on-field reads they have made. Case in point: Smith and Flacco viewed one adjusted Smith route differently, causing an errant throw; Smith said he was reading a Cover-2 alignment by the defense. Flacco said it was Cover-3. They went to the videotape. Flacco was right. They saw on video two corners covering the deep third of either side of the field, with the free safety dropping to cover the deep middle.
In the Starbucks Card standings this offseason, Flacco has a two-card lead on Smith.
Oh, and Smith pays up—usually the next day.
Mr. Starwood Preferred Member Travel Note of the Week
First: thanks to GoRVing.com for the groovy 30-foot RV. Now, here have been the movements of The MMQB Team, piloted by trusty driver/tour manager/pinch-hitting columnist/office mainstay Andy DeGory:
- Sunday July 20: Drive 330 miles from New York City to Pittsford, N.Y., to see the Bills for two days.
- Monday night, July 21: Drive 330 miles back to New York.
- Tuesday, July 22: Off day.
- Wednesday, July 23: Drive eight miles from New York to the Meadowlands for Giants practice.
- Thursday, July 24: Drive 199 miles from New York to Owings Mills, Md., for the Ravens, and, after a long day there, drive 163 miles to Richmond in advance of Washington's practice there Friday.
- Friday, July 25: Watch Washington practice, work for awhile, then drive 88 miles to Woodbridge, Va., for the Potomac Nationals-Carolina MudCats minor-league ballgame. Then drive 118 miles to Newark, Del., to stay for the night.
- Saturday, July 26: A bear. Drive 42 miles to Philadelphia for Eagles practice. Late in the afternoon, drive 198 miles to Winchester, Va., eat dinner at Violino Ristorante (thank you, internet), and drive 186 miles to White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. A Hampton Inn bed never felt so good.
- Geographical-interlude highlight: We were in three states—Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia—in the span of one minute Saturday around 7 p.m.
- Sunday, July 27: Drive 308 miles from White Sulphur Springs to Gaffney, S.C., just shy of Panthers' camp, for their Monday practice.
Late Sunday afternoon, we passed a "Welcome to Virginia" sign. Amazing. Virginia to West Virginia to Virginia to West Virginia to Virginia … in one weekend.
Tweets of the Week
Training camp B.O. might be the worst smell on the planet.
— Daniel Jeremiah (@MoveTheSticks) July 26, 2014
Couldn't have said it better myself.
Colts owner Jim Irsay passed out $100 bills to fans today at training camp.
— Andrew Siciliano (@AndrewSiciliano) July 26, 2014
There's something slightly creepy about that. Can't quite put my finger on it, but it's strange.
The NFL is sending a message with the Ray Rice suspension. Unfortunately, it's to women.
— Cindy Boren (@CindyBoren) July 24, 2014
Travelers glossary: when a hotel says,"Thank you for your feedback," they mean , "There's nothing we can do."
— Scott Simon (@nprscottsimon) July 27, 2014
Ten Things I Think I Think
1. I think if there's any question about America's appetite for pro football, consider this: The Broncos got 21,933 to watch an early-camp practice Sunday, and the Patriots got a total of 25,000 over the weekend for two practices.
2. I think this would worry me—a lot—if I were Cleveland coach Mike Pettine, and Cleveland owner Jimmy Halsam: the photo of first-round rookie quarterback Johnny Manziel tightly rolling a $20 bill in the bathroom of a bar, as reported by Mary Kay Cabot of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. There's no crime in that, obviously. But it's certainly suspicious. And even if Manziel was kidding around (I have no knowledge of what he was doing), it's not funny, and it gives every Manziel hater the fodder they need to say, "I told you so. I told you it was a waste to pick party boy in the first round." Good for Pettine to call Manziel immediately upon learning of the photo. That's got to stop.
3. I think if you've read me since March, you know I'm a champion of Manziel the player. I think he has a chance to be a terrific NFL player and game-changer. I don't want him to go to a monastery every night. I want him to understand this is the big leagues, not the big party leagues. And image counts. It's not everything, but it counts.
4. I think Doug Marrone sure looks like the smart one for passing on Ryan Nassib, his quarterback at Syracuse, in favor of E.J. Manuel in the draft last year. Nassib's had a poor start to his second camp, and it wouldn't be a surprise to see Curtis "House" Painter win the Giants backup job in the next month.
5. I think you can tell his contract is weighing on Ben Roethlisberger, and not just because he told the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, "Playing this year at my current salary, it's like I'm taking a hometown discount.'' Roethlisberger is due to make $12.1 million this year and $11.6 million in the last year of his deal in 2016, and Steelers president Art Rooney II said over the weekend to Steelers.com the team would not be re-doing the contract this year. Thirteen quarterbacks currently have a higher average salary than Roethlisberger's 2014 base. This is Roethlisberger's 11th season. He's been beaten up his share in his career. It'll be interesting to see if the Steelers pay him what the going rate for playoff quarterbacks is—somewhere between $19 million and $21 million a year. I think he'd have to come through this season healthy and having played well for the Steelers to commit another $100-million deal to him over the next five years.
6. I think one of the most interesting things I've heard in Week 1 of the camp trip is the undue pressure some players and coaches feel from big-money fantasy-football players. I had one coach tell me there's so much money in some of these fantasy-football playoff pools that people who used to gamble with bookies illegally are now gambling in high-stakes fantasy-football leagues, which is not illegal. The NFL has its antennae up over this, and it'll be interesting to see if the pressure escalates to more serious threats on players or coaches.
7. I think the way the league operates this will not happen, but if I were Roger Goodell, I'd take time this week to explain why I suspended Ray Rice for two games and not more. The reason he won't do this is because it will extend an ugly story for another couple of news cycles, because whatever he says he'll get bashed over the head for it by people who think he went far too soft on Rice for domestic violence on his then-fiancée Janay Palmer. But this is the one time, even if the criticism continued sharply, I think Goodell needs to come out and explain himself. Too many women, and plenty of men, feel outraged over this.
8. I think one of the dumbest things I've read in a while is Buzz Bissinger's claim in his Nick Foles story for Philadelphia Magazine: "Acolytes get to heaven. Strut gets you to the Super Bowl." It makes a good story, that quarterbacks need to be Joe Namath or Johnny Manziel or Brett Favre to be great, but it's absolutely false that they have to be. Let's look at the last four Super Bowl-winning quarterbacks:
- Super Bowl 48. Seattle (and Russell Wilson, altar boy) 43, Denver 8.
- Super Bowl 47: Baltimore (and Joe Flacco, who does have a little bit of counter-culture to him) 34, San Francisco 31.
- Super Bowl 46. New York Giants (and Eli Manning, sleepy and totally non-controversial) 21, New England 17.
- Super Bowl 45. Green Bay (and Aaron Rodgers, a swell guy who, like Manning, hates all aspects of fame) 31, Pittsburgh 25.
Foles is a boring guy in front of the press and maybe even throughout his real life. Fine. In his fraternity, that makes him neither a winner nor a loser.
9. I think that was a touching thing you did, Christian Ponder and Samantha Ponder, naming your daughter Bowden, after Bobby Bowden, and surprising him with the news over the phone.
10. I think these are my non-football thoughts of the week:
a. Great to see Liz Clarke, a pro's pro, in Richmond, back covering the hometown team for the Washington Post.
b. Two other media shout-outs to indefatigable peers: Alex Marvez of FOX Sports and Sirius NFL Radio, and Steve Serby of the New York Post. I get tired just keeping up with Serby's bylines, and Marvez simply cannot sleep. If he did, no way he'd be able to be as voluminous and productive.
c. The MMQB crew had a pleasant evening at the Potomac Nationals' ramshackle home ground in Woodbridge on Friday night. We have Neil Hornsby of Pro Football Focus on the trip, and I tried to show off my massive baseball intellect in the first inning. Carolina had the bases loaded with none out in the top of the first. Next batter walked. Potomac pitcher can't find the plate. Goes to 2-0 on the next hitter. I announce: "Neil, the batter won't swing here. Manager will make him take a pitch until this pitcher can throw a strike." Words are just out of my mouth. Windup. Pitch. CRACK! A Puig-like laser lines into the trees high over the left-field fence. Boy, I know my baseball.
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d. Tough call, whether to pay Jon Lester. I have no doubt the Yankees would sign him if he became a free-agent after the season and the Red Sox didn't come close to the New York offer. The knee-jerk reaction is to say, "You've got to pay him! He's your ace!" I lean toward agreeing—but at what price for a pitcher who's 31 next opening day? Look at the track record of paying thirty-something players $20 million-plus, and it's not good at all. I think if Boston offers $105 million over five, or something like that, it almost certainly wouldn't get the deal done. But $25 million a year, for a 31-year-old pitcher? Count me out.
e. Coffeenerdness: Thought it was funny to see at the Hampton Inn in Lewisburg, W.Va., a coffee urn labeled "robust" put out with breakfast. It jut might have been robust if they put 8 ounces of water instead of 64 through the grounds. That coffee was as weak as a two-week-old Calico.
f. Beernerdness: Thank you, Potomac Nats, for having SweetWater 420 Extra Pale Ale from Atlanta on tap at your game. I think Bedard and Hornsby are hooked.
g. Caught snippets of the Hall of Fame speeches from Cooperstown. Greg Maddux should teach a graduate class in Cool at Harvard. And so much admiration for Tony LaRussa and Joe Torre. I love the way they managed, always adjusting their styles to their talent. Great day for baseball.
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Flacco has a little bit of counter-culture to him? I'd love to know what you have in mind. This is the guy whose own Dad called him dull, who majored in accounting in college, celebrated a Super Bowl win by stopping for some McNuggets, summers at the Jersey shore like he always did, and pretty religiously attends the extended family pizza Fridays. I think most Ravens fans are quite content knowing all of the above. Joe can be as dull, and cool, and ordinary as he likes. So long as his second six years are as good as his first, we'll be very happy campers.
Year two of the Saints defense under Rob Ryan. The extra year grasping his concepts should help improve that defense. Dumbest thing Jerry Jones do was letting that guy walk. That's besides the point tho. The Saints still get the bonehead award for trading Reggie Bush, a constant threat on the field, for drafting Mark Ingram, who really can't get further than 3-4 yards down the field. And who, quite frankly, isn't a threat to anyone on the field.
Chip Kelly, like I said yesterday is in the zone of finding out if his offensive philosophy will truly work in the League or not. DCs from every other team have had time to study film and develop new schemes. It'll be interesting to see what they've come up with.
@Ciscos Meh, the Saints got rid of Bush for Sproles, which was an upgrade IMO. I agree with the bonehead award for moving up in the draft for Ingram, however. He's just not good.
Godell dismisses domestic violence.
Thought about Manziel-If I was his teammate and saw a photo like the one you referenced, I might start to question his commitment to the team and to winning. Might wonder if he felt the same way about his craft as I do. Might question his decision making, and perhaps begin to question my confidence in him as a potential leader. Not a good start at being the "guy" in Cleveland.
there DOES need to be more education by the NFL and roger goddell on the topic of domestic violence. 1 in 4 women in the US will be abused by a partner at some point in their life. statistically the same number of women that are affected by breast cancer. the only difference is that we can prevent domestic violence through education and break the cycle. those who grew up in abusive households are more likely to become abusers. and there is never anything a woman can do to "provoke" an abuser, contrary to what stephen a. smith thinks. volunteer for an afternoon and you will understand why his remarks and a two game suspension are offensive to millions of survivors and the friends and family of those who didn't get help in time.
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I play a lot of fantasy football. I once drafted Ray Rice with my last pick. He sucked last year & I would still brag about it. Now, no where near my draft board. Not that I don't make mistakes. Big ones but he's a little big tank unloading on a female. As Chris Rock would say in this situation. Oh there's a reason to hit a woman. You just don't do it.
Can't believe Snyder and Allen let any of you around any R E D S K I N S Players or Coaches, but you all being the hypocrites that you are I guess they felt like taking the high road and letting you ill-informed lackeys in.
@Go_Niners! @gary7 Nah. That hyena is too busy tossing around racial slurs.
@gary7 Perhaps you could try the high road yourself sometime.
Yes Allen Barbre, "mitigated disaster" for the Packers. A swinging saloon door straight to Aaron Rodgers.
Amazing how many people come here seemingly only to complain about how bad King is.
@Go_Niners! I think he stinks also not very truthful as an "alleged" reporter
@Go_Niners! @Raiderforlife Teabaggers are always angry.
@Raiderforlife @Go_Niners! And yet here you are. Seeking out a reason to be angry?
@Go_Niners! I actually take his football picks, bet the opposite, and do quite well. Never fails. So he is a must read for me.
Wow, over half of this article was about football. That has to be some kind of record, Peter.
@JimCody Go read something else, then.
@ianlinross @JimCody and yet you read his comment AND commented on it.
This will be the LAST article I read from Mr. King until he apologizes for how he reported the NFL's action toward Mr. Rice. I was hoping to read an apology from him. Sadly, he failed. I said this before and I'll say it again, "If Mr. King was reporter only and NOT commentator, then why did he NOT ask Mr Goodell if he considered the bus incident in DC in September when Ravens players were involved in an incident where a player was hit with a champagne bottle by a stripper on the bus who was defending herself when deciding the penalty. The Ravens have chosen NOT to do anything when this CLEARLY shows a pattern of violence in these Ravens players regarding women!
The NFL coming out today saying it was "fair" is a total joke. I am disgusted at how the NFL holds so little concern for women...yet will fake concern for Breast Cancer awareness. 2 games is a joke and the fact the Ravens could have added to the suspension themselves tells me all I need to know about that organization. Ozzie, you caved here. NFL, you too. Mr. King, get in line.
@samasters88 @BillPetrello I doubt it, because I bet Bill's back next week to tell us how outraged he is by King again.
@Go_Niners! @samasters88 @BillPetrello But maybe he'll disguise himself with some clever username like BillPetrello26.
SlowHairyAndWeezus - or as the rest of us refer to, Mr Tedious - can you find another place to pursue your therapy?
@BillPetrello If you're waiting for an apology, I think you're done reading King.
@BillPetrello I'm sure PK will personally miss you and your commentary.
Even is Manziel is a screaming success in the NFL, he'll still have haters. That "I can't hear you I've got so much money" clip has got to be one of the Top-5 d-bag videos of all time.
again remember pete a few years ago big ben had two sexaual harrassment accusastions lobbed at him, but never ever charged, never, and guess what big ben got, as we had no video, only the women's words 6 games no charges, down to 4, here we have charges filled, part of the video released, and the nfl and goodell saw the other video and all rice gets is 2 games, taking of 2 game checks and a 3rd and oh yeah nice also to pete to overlook the fact that the fine could've been bigger, had goodell used rice's base salary this year and not his 2013 salary, as the fine rice could've paid should've been 7 figures, but goodell also decided to help the ravens out by fining him an ammount from last year. goodell needs to be fired, as he is no longer the hammer of goodell and is just like uncle bud serving at the owners pleasure and instead of doing the right thing, instead being weak and doing nothing
@CobyPreimesberger sounds like a bitter Pittsburgh fan.....
@Wombat @Mike26 @CobyPreimesberger
Do we need to get someone to pee on the stick?
@CobyPreimesberger Coby: more periods, fewer commas. Peter just may choose your question/issue someday for the Mailbag - if he can ever fully comprehend it.
@Mike26 @CobyPreimesberger Sounds like this isn't the first time you've prayed for a period to show up... (sorry, couldn't resist)... :}
How would you like to come out of the shower and have dozens of men and women staring at your junk. This is what management and media do to male pro-sport athletes. They have effectively silenced male athletes on this. They face fines and discipline by the leagues and vilification in the media. Look up an article by Shuana Richer in the Globe & Maillast year. It was the of the most disgusting, vulgar and voyeristic pieces of shaming thrash I have ever seen. You would never, ever see women being put into situations of forced nudity, ever, let alone a man writing an article like that about women. I stopped supporting pro team sports long ago because of this. These men are owned, and are treated as such. Nor do I think pro-sport an appropriate role model for boys. It tells them that their role models have no right to boundaries. In this day and age that's the last message that young men should be getting. On so many levels this is wrong. I will not pay for any endeavour that treats grown men like this.
I believe there is a "grace period" where media are not allowed in NFL locker rooms immediately after a game so that players can do the things they need to do. Now I'm not a pro football player and never will I be lol - so who knows if that time is actually appropriate or adequate for that use. It *might* provide an opportunity for those who do not wish to be viewed starkers to get showered and cleaned up before the press arrives. Let me stress that *MIGHT* bit; cause 20 minutes after a game just isn't enough time in my estimation.
@alan.fournier49 1) These guys are paid bazillions of dollars for this scrutiny. They can leave if they want to
2) Most guys don't give a crap who sees them starkers... admit it, we'd all run around like that if we were that young and in that good condition. You don't hear them crying about it. It's a non-issue.
@alan.fournier49 Is this the same Shawna Richer who was fired as an editor in New Brunswick for running a story in 2009 that resulted in the paper printing a front page apology to the Prime Minister of Canada?
@alan.fournier49 : I just read the story authored by Shawna Richer that you mentioned and I didn't read anything vulgar nor voyeuristic except the stories related by her and other female sportswriters about players being vulgar to them. I'm afraid you have your head so far up your rear end that all you see is crap.
Here's the link, make up your own minds what the story is about:
@alan.fournier49 If this is your major issue then you need to get out more. I'm sure Kapernick is so traumatized he had to go out and pose for that nudie athlete magazine they put out. I mean these are grown adults, not scared little children cowering to hide their little bits. They work on their bodies and are proud of themselves. And what does your insecurities have to do with peter king anyway? I think also the message you think "young men" are getting is unique to you.
@alan.fournier49 I would actually like it. I've got some really nice-looking junk though. YMMV.
@blynder @alan.fournier49 Most, if not all, team locker rooms now have dressing areas free of all media. The team can come out once showered and dressed. I just can't see giving up watching a sport for an issue like this... to each his own.
@Shane Mac @alan.fournier49 If you can't see what's wrong with that article, then your beyond your rear end. How would you feel about men in your mothers, sisters, wives or girlfriend locker room hero?
@evetsyarsh @alan.fournier49 You're just upset because your heroes are being objectified and sold like livestock Believe it or not all men don't share your exhibitionistic fantasies. Your gladiators are owned by the leagues and media who treat them like the bi*ches they've become. No insecurities here. There's plenty of porn out there for you buddy This is sport, not a forced sex show. The action takes place on the playing surface not the locker room.
@Bananafish @alan.fournier49 I'm happy for you Buddy. Who knows, maybe there's a place for you in porn. But I thought that this was about sports.
@Wombat @alan.fournier49 Sure I used to love running around naked A lot of women and men used to do it with me. I'm very liberal when it comes the human body.
It's called choice. Not all men enjoy it. And it shouldn't be a prerequisite too being a pro-athelete.You don't force anybody into situations of nudity for an audience. That is and should always remain illegal. Not women. Not men. Why is that so hard for some guys to accept.
@blynder @alan.fournier49 Not enough time.
Why is the Ray Rice suspension not the major story today? King have regurgitated repeatedly over the legal name of the Red Skins, yet can not bring himself to dwelve into the extremely poor performance by Godell, NFL and Ravens in how the Rice suspension have played out.
Poor job by Godell
Poor job by NFL
Poor job by Raves
poor job by Peter King
@LenaBrun Your outrage is noted but will have little, (actually no), effect. Sadly the news cycle has passed this item by...
@Wombat @LenaBrun Actually - I think this issue will have more legs than some of the other off the field incidents in the NFL - since the NFL will start trotting out pink helmets, gloves, etc. in October which will bring this issue back to the forefront in the discussion about how serious the NFL truly is in taking a stand against domestic violence.
@Wombat @usameos6 @LenaBrun I almost wonder if it isn't the opposite and putting the old adage that 'there's no such thing as bad publicity' to the test. Had they given him 6 games and then let it be reduced to 2 on appeal - that would likely have been enough to sweep it under the rug. The way it's been handled has pretty much guaranteed that it is being talked about and discussed not only in the sports media world but in the larger media circles as well.
@LenaBrun Probably because it was so reported, rehashed and rehashed from the rehashing that there was nothing new to say. It's obvious that PK doesn't have a strong enough opinion he wants to share with it, so he just briefly acknowledged it and moved on. I and many others have no interest in going over it again - the horse has been beaten to dust on this one.


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The Duke Blue Devils will make their first bowl appearance since 1994, taking on the Cincinnati Bearcats in the 11th annual Belk Bowl Dec. 27 in Charlotte. It's the first appearance for both schools in the Belk Bowl. Duke finished the season with a 6-6 record, including a 3-5 mark in the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Blue Devils won six of their first eight games. They beat rival North Carolina 33-30 to become bowl eligible, but lost their final four contests. Coach David Cutcliffe was named the 2012 ACC Coach of the Year and nine Blue Devils earned All-ACC recognition. Cincinnati (9-3 overall, 5-2 in the Big East) won their first five games and then four of their last five contests to earn a share of the Big East title. ''Duke has made great strides this season and we are very proud to have them representing the ACC against the Co-Champions of the Big East,'' Belk Bowl executive director Will Webb said. ''We feel that the Blue Devils will provide a good matchup against the Be...
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A Teacher Tries To Abuse A Kid With Special Needs, A Judge Lets Her Off
Back in February, I wrote about a special-needs teacher who doused crayons with hot sauce to prevent a kid with autism from putting them into his mouth. I considered it a form of abuse back then, and I still think it is. So did the Osceola County, Florida school district where Lilian Gomez worked: After her hot sauce method of discipline came out, she was fired from her job.
On Friday, a judge issued an order recommending that the district give her back her job, saying her behavior was "inappropriate" but that there was no proof she'd tried to punish the student. The final decision about her job will be up to the school board.
Gomez placed jumbo-sized crayons in a cup, poured hot sauce over them, and placed them in a bag with the student's name. Her defense: "The intention was never to punish the child," she said. She testified that she never put the crayons in the child's mouth, and just wanted him to smell them.
I have zero objectivity here, as the parent of a child with special needs. But I do think that this is abusive. Even smelling a crayon with hot sauce can be very uncomfortable. If this child had sensory issues, as kids with autism often do, it could have been downright painful for him.
Can you imagine a teacher in a "typical" classroom ever trying this? It most likely would never happen, especially because a neurotypical kid would immediately rat out the teacher. Kids with autism and other special needs are more defenseless. Some don't have the wherewithal to know that hot-sauce on crayons is a bad thing; some also lack the ability to speak.
I honestly don't care what this teacher's intentions were; I'm concerned about her idea of discipline. Yes, it can be very challenging to guide and protect children with special needs. But I say that deterring them with anything that makes them physically uncomfortable, or that could cause them pain, is abusive.
I do not think she should get her job back.
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by deb
On August 20, 2012 at 1:22 pm
Definitely does not deserve her job back. And, the judge needs some training about children. What a fool!
One thing made me laugh, though. Putting hot sauce on the crayons would only encourage my boys to suck on them and eat them. As their mom, encouraging them to eat crayons would tick me off.
by Chrisa
On August 20, 2012 at 1:26 pm
She seems a bit overweight. Maybe we should put laxatives in her lunch and leave it in the staff room fridge with her name on it. Not for her to eat, just to smell.
Idiot. And what's the name of the judge, because he should lose his next election.
by Nicole
On August 20, 2012 at 1:28 pm
Nope. I would never allow my son to even be at the school if she was back there. Even if she wasn't his teacher. I wouldn't want him in a mile radius of someone who would do that.
On August 20, 2012 at 1:34 pm
She needs to be fired.
Stuff like this makes me despair…
by Nisha
On August 20, 2012 at 3:36 pm
Something is up with that judge how could he make such a recommendation?
by Kathy K.
On August 20, 2012 at 5:30 pm
Shame on that judge who obviously has no compassion on children and especially none for people who have disabilities and their families. How can he face the parents of this child and honestly say that he believes that she was "not trying to discipline" him with the hot sauce soaked crayons! And that she was "just going to have him smell them". I hope that the board will stand on their previous decision, this woman has no business being around children period! Much less children who have disabilities. Shame on you Lilian Gomez, you are an insult to good teachers everywhere.
by Hannah Jacobs
On August 20, 2012 at 7:54 pm
I can't believe we even have to discuss this. She should feel remorse and humiliation and shouldn't be allowed anywhere near children ever again. What if a mother did this to her child? Sickening behavior that sends a message to other teachers that they can get away with abuse.
by Cathy
On September 1, 2012 at 6:29 pm
If you can't work with kids with and with out a disability don't become a teacher. I have two kids one with autisum and one with no disability if anything like that happen I would be upset. It not the teacher place to do something like that at all.
It not easy to have or teach a kid with disabillity but in no way should a teacher do that.
This teacher should lose her job and not be allowed to teach every again for the students safty. If she did something like that what is stopping her from doing something more harmful?
This truly upsets me, having a son with disability is hard and people looking giving them mean looks when they act up parents and teachers should always be the safe people for them. Having a teacher do this make you wonder if your kid is really safe at school.


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Was it just me or did Sabo call 'em "testiclees" in that video?
For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism.
Hmm..no thank you
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Teach tolerance.
I wonder how many times they tested those cups before they came up with ones that actually protect you.
Other than catchers...did you guys wear cups? I was a catcher and, of course, wore one...but if I was playing any other position, I did not wear one. Too restrictive, I thought.
There were dudes on my HS football team that wore them always, but I never wore one on the football field for the same reason mentioned above. And it was never a problem. Maybe I was just lucky.
For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism.
Never, ever, wore a cup, and I realize now that I was really lucky.
My son, Matt, wears one every game. After he hit a line drive back to a pitcher that totally busted the kids' cup, I realized it was a pretty good idea that he keep wearing it.
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Prairie High School graduate Taylor Guenther and Camas High School graduate Austen Reiter placed second and fourth, respectively, for the Western Washington University women as the Vikings placed 18th at the NCAA Division II national championships Saturday at the Plantes Ferry Sports Complex in Spokane.
Guenther placed 94th overall -- 77th in the team scoring race -- with a time of 22 minutes, 35 seconds over the 6-kilometer (3.7-mile) course. Reiter was 136th overall -- 115th in team scoring -- in 22:57.
Both are sophomores.
"The women really came in and ran a solid race," coach Pee Wee Halsell told the www.wwuvikings.com website. "Our top six runners all ran better than they had two weeks ago on this course at regionals."
WWU's women better their national ranking by seven places.
Tanner Boyd, a Camas High School graduate and the No. 2 runner for the WWU men, was unable to compete because of a heel injury. The Vikings placed 20th in the team race.
• Seattle Pacific University sophomore Lynelle Decker, a Mountain View High School graduate, finished 115th overall (95th in team scoring) in 11:18.5. She was the Falcons' third runner, her best finishing position for the team this season.
• University of Tampa sophomore Chantalle Blundell, a Hockinson High School graduate, finished 203rd in 24:45.
Women's Soccer
Sych assists Vikings to NCAA-II Final Four
Western Washington senior right back Brina Sych initiated a counterattack that led directly to the game-winning goal as the Vikings advanced to the NCAA Division II Final Four with a 2-0 victory Sunday over St. Edward's University at Orca Field in Bellingham.
The Union High School graduate, a Second Team All-America player as a junior, collected a ball headed out of the WWU penalty area on a free kick in the sixth minute to start what wwuvikings.com described as "a 65-yard burst down the right side."
Sych played the ball to forward Kristin Maris, who found Catherine Miles for the finish and a 1-0 lead.
"It's how we play," Sych told the university website. "If there's a gap in front of me, then I can go. We have central midfielders who I know will cover for me."
Western Washington (20-1-1) finished 12-0-0 at home. Ranked No. 9 in the final National Soccer Coaches Association NCAA-II poll and the West Region champions, continued the deepest journey into the playoffs in program history.
The Vikings will face defending national champion West Florida in the national semifinals on Dec. 5 in Evans, Ga. The national championship match will be played on Dec. 7.
"This doesn't seem like real life," Sych told the website. "It hasn't sunk in that we're one of the top four teams in the country. As I senior I couldn't ask for a better way to finish my time at Western."
Women's Soccer
Eckler, Kimsey help Concordia advance
Bobbi Eckler scored Concordia's first goal and Hannah Kimsey recorded another assist as the Cavaliers advanced to the women's soccer NAIA national tournament with a 3-0 home victory Saturday over William Jessup University of California.
Eckler, a freshman midfielder and Union High School graduate, opened scoring in the 28th minute with the eventual game-winner. Kimsey, a senior midfielder and Columbia River High School graduate who led the Cascade Collegiate Conference in assists, set up the Cavaliers' second goal.
Concordia (18-1-1) moves on to the national tournament site in Orange Beach, Ala., for a Dec. 2 match against St. Thomas University of Florida. There are 16 teams remaining in contention for the national title.
EOU's Sorensen named First Team All-CCC
Eastern Oregon junior opposite hitter Stefani Sorensen was named First Team All-Cascade Collegiate Conference.
The Camas High School graduate was second on the Mountaineers with 377 kills on the season, collected a hitting percentage of .298. She averaged 3.40 kills per set.
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• Concordia University senior forward Adam Herman is averaging 25.6 points and 6.1 rebounds a game for the Cavaliers, who are off to a 6-1 start.
The Prairie High School graduate, a Third Team NAIA All-America selection last season, was named the Cascade Collegiate Conference Preseason Player of the Year in voting by the 10 conference coaches. Herman is shooting 76.9 percent (70 of 91) from the floor and is an 88.1 percent (37 of 42) free throw shooter.
• Junior guard Lauren Goecke scored a career-high 20 points in Cal Poly Pomona's 84-75 overtime victory Nov. 16 at Azusa Pacific. The Prairie High School graduate was 7 of 8 from the floor, making all four of her 3-point attempts and both of her free throw attempts.
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To commemorate the centenary of the destruction of the Library in 1914, the Goethe-Institut Brüssel, the British Council Brussels and the University of Leuven (KU Leuven) are organising a three day international conference on the challenging topic: What do we lose when we lose a library?
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Publication Date : 13-05-2014
The large, spreading banyan tree once had such a thick canopy that little sunlight could filter through, hindering the flourishing of any plants below.
But, to borrow this metaphor of the State made famous by former Singaporean minister George Yeo in 1991, it has been pruned somewhat in the past couple of years.
Consultation and engagement have become the buzzwords of government policymaking in a changed political landscape, with a more well-educated, well-travelled populace becoming more assertive and vocal.
There may be no better time for civil society - the wide spectrum of organisations operating outside the government and business sectors - to test this pledge to listen more, and in the process carve out a more influential role for itself.
They can take heart from the naming of Tan Chuan-Jin last year as the government's unofficial point person for engaging with non-governmental organisations (NGOs). Tan is manpower minister and a member of the fourth-generation leadership.
In 2012, Law and Foreign Minister K. Shanmugam met gay activists to discuss matters such as discrimination and the anti-gay sex law Section 377A.
The State's engagement with other interest groups on animal rights, heritage and conservation as well as environmental awareness has also increased.
Civil society has scored significant victories recently as well, influencing legislation and government policy.
Since the start of last year, foreign maids - either with a new work permit or a renewed one - have been entitled to a day off every week, or must be paid a day's wages in lieu.
As contracts last two years, all maids will, by next January, be on new contracts that have to abide by the rule. The change came about after a decade of lobbying from groups championing the rights of migrant workers.
Laws on sexual crimes have also been repealed.
It started in late 2011, after an article highlighting a little-known section of the Evidence Act was put up on website publichouse.sg. The Act allowed a man charged with rape to discredit the victim by digging into her sexual history, and showing she is of generally immoral character.
Andrew Loh, who runs the site, circulated the post to several ministries to get a response.
He received a call from the law ministry suggesting a meeting, but turned it down as he felt the Association of Women for Action and Research (Aware) was the expert on the topic.
Shanmugam eventually met representatives from the women's rights advocacy group and later started the process of amending the Act.
Nature lovers, who in 2001 succeeded in getting the reclamation plans for the Chek Jawa wetlands area shelved, also extracted concessions on Bukit Brown cemetery recently.
Several nature and heritage groups opposed the construction of a road that would slice through the historic graveyard.
It is the largest Chinese cemetery outside China, and among the thousands of graves are those of philanthropist Gan Eng Seng and Lee Hoon Leong, grandfather of founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew.
After months of engagement, a compromise was reached and the authorities changed the road's design so that the number of graves exhumed fell from 5,000 to 3,746.
But there are also many examples where civil society's push for change was not successful.
Earlier this year, several activists took issue with the government's tabling of proposed legislation to keep the peace in Little India following last December's riot.
They argued that the parliamentary bill placed too much focus on alcohol as the cause of the riot, and this might influence a Committee of Inquiry's deliberations.
Several non-partisan Nominated MPs criticised aspects of it. But it was passed, with the government explaining that the new laws would give the police powers in the neighbourhood for a year until longer-term measures could be enacted.
Other recent civil society proposals that were rebuffed include calls to introduce a poverty line to reduce income inequality, and the withdrawal of licensing regulations of news websites, which some saw as onerous and curbing free expression.
But groups can take heart that "the Government has and will continue to engage civil society as an essential partner in dealing with the important issues that face Singapore", as Shanmugam's press secretary wrote in a letter to The Straits Times Forum page last November.
Still, even as the political leadership indicates a greater willingness to engage, there is always the lingering question mark over whether a civil society group's actions or statements are deemed to have crossed into the political arena, thus risking censure from the government.
This longstanding stance of politics and political comment belonging only in the realm of party politics can be traced back to the fledgling days of the People's Action Party.
In the 1960s and 1970s, leftists used trade unions and cultural groups to garner support against the party.
A recent incident involved activist Nizam Ismail.
In April last year, the lawyer was accused by the government of using the Association of Muslim Professionals (AMP) as a platform for pursuing partisan and racial politics, a claim which he denied.
He resigned from his AMP leadership positions, saying he was told the Government had taken issue with his online comments and participation in political events that he said he did in his "personal capacity".
In the wake of the furore, Lawrence Wong, Minister for Culture, Community and Youth, said in May last year that the government welcomes feedback on policies even if they may be critical, as this helps improve public policy for the benefit of all Singaporeans.
But NGOs "should not be used as a cloak for partisan political objectives", he stressed.
"Similarly, while individuals in the NGOs are free to express their views, they should not use their organisations to pursue a partisan political agenda," he added.
The goals of civil society in wanting social transformation, however, mean these limits will inadvertently be tested on occasion.
Still, if the saplings under the banyan tree are to take root and thrive, much will depend on how willing Singapore's civil society is to push the boundaries and extend its reach in this new landscape.
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Skillet Jicama
19 Sep 2011
|Whipped butter
|1 Tablespoon
|Olive oil/Vegetable oil
|2 Teaspoon
|Cubed pared jicama
|4 Cup (64 tbs)
|Sliced red onions
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
|Thin red bell pepper strips
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
|Instant chicken broth and seasoning mix
|1 Ounce (1 packet)
|Red pepper
|1 Dash, crushed
1) In a 10-inch skillet, mix together the butter and oil.
2) Heat until the butter melts.
3) To this, add the jicama.
4) Over medium-high heat, cook this for 5 minutes, or until light brown. Stir in between as required.
5) To this, add onions and bell pepper. Mix well.
6) Cook until the onions become tender, for 3 minutes. Stir occasionally while cooking.
7) Now, add the remaining ingredients.
8) Over high heat, cook covered for 6 to 7 minutes, or until the jicama is soft.
9) Serve the Skillet Jicama along with hot cooked rice and a green salad.
Recipe Summary
Difficulty Level:Easy
Cuisine:South American
Course:Side Dish
Preparation Time:15 Minutes
Cook Time:20 Minutes
Ready In:35 Minutes
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Corpus Christi ISD expands trash pick up program to 11 schools
CORPUS CHRISTI - Windsor Park Elementary fifth-grader Conor Rice makes frequent laps around his school's playground picking up trash, helps manage the campus compost pile and places paper, plastic and aluminum in multiple recycling bins.
Conor, 10, takes part in a trio of programs Windsor Park students are involved with to promote a cleaner, greener environment.
Windsor Park students' efforts in picking up trash are planned as part of an expansion within the Corpus Christi Independent School District, where 11 schools are helping spread the Pick Up School program.
"This is great for us," Conor said. "We try harder and harder every day to make our school clean."
The program, which is in its fifth year, is supported by philanthropist Dusty Durrill and the Devary Durrill Foundation, and aims to encourage students to take more pride in their campus appearance.
CCISD Superintendent Scott Elliff said the program promotes a simple concept of keeping the environment clean.
"That's a habit that we would hope they would keep for life," he said, adding the expanded initiative fits into the district's civil behavior campaign that emphasizes the elimination of profanity and bullying.
As part of the program, students are asked to pick up trash around campus. To help promote the effort, CCISD has neon green wristbands for students to wear. Students also can receive prizes for their efforts, officials said.
Herb Canales,interim assistant city manager, said the school district program fits Mayor Joe Adame's effort to instill a sense of pride in the community where residents take responsibility to beautify an area.
The message is to not wait on someone else to do it, Canales said.
He said educating young residents can help keep Corpus Christi clean for years to come.
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Campuses taking part in Corpus Christi ISD's Pick Up School program as part of its expansion are:
Los Encinos
Schanen Estates
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The Township of Mount Holly, New Jersey has filed a petition for certiorari in the U.S. Supreme Court raising the issue of whether disparate impact claims are available under the Fair Housing Act. You can see a copy of the petition here. The petition has been docketed and given case number 11-1507 in the Supreme Court. Here's a link to the docket page so you can follow the case. Ballard Spahr represents one of the non-township defendants in the case.
The issues raised in the Mount Holly petition are virtually a carbon-copy of those in Magner v. Gallagher, the case which would have decided the disparate impact issue but for the City of Saint Paul's last-minute decision to dismiss its appeal.
The CFPB, joined by HUD and the Department of Justice, has insisted recently that disparate impact claims are viable under the Fair Housing Act and ECOA. If the Court agrees to hear the Mount Holly case, these agencies will have the opportunity to test their interpretations of these statutes against the plain text of the statutes themselves. As I predicted before Magner was dismissed, I strongly suspect that the Supreme Court will find an absence of any plain-language support for disparate impact claims, and the Court's recent decision in Freeman v. Quicken Loans makes me even more doubtful that the Court will defer to the government's views on this issue.
Speaking of which, this case will present yet another opportunity for HUD's proposed disparate impact rule under the Fair Housing Act to interact with the Court's decision on granting certiorari. Recall that the proposed rule was released just over a week after certiorari was granted in Magner. Will the final rule come out as the Court considers the Mount Holly case? I think it's very possible.
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My cousin and I have just started lifting again after a two week break. We've been lifting for about a total of two months, and although we have seen nice improvements, I'm trying to stream-line the workouts so as to make it easier on our schedules and bodies (the break was because my cousin pulled his bicep pretty badly). We followed a slightly modified WBB #1.
To replace this, I'm basically following Chris Mason's mass routine. I'm planning on a two-day split during the week, with maybe one or two isolation exercise supplements to the routine. This is what I have planned so far:
(All exercises are done at 3 sets with around 5 reps, not taken to failure, with progression as suggested in the Mason article)
1. Bench Press
2. Deadlifts
3. Chins
4. Dumbbell Shoulder Press
5. Calf-Raises
1. Squats
2. Seated Military Press
3. Rows
4. Dips
I'm pretty excited to start this and to see how we grow.
My first question, regarding the routine: My cousin has fairly weak hamstrings compared to the rest of his body, and he feels that it is hindering his sprinting in baseball (I think it's his form, it looks horrible, but maybe if he strengthens his hamstrings it'll help fix it). So I'm considering adding some seated hamstring curls on Thursday... do you all think that the addition of that is needed, or will deadlifts be enough? Any other suggestions in regards to hamstrings, or maybe adding something completely different?
Second question, regarding stretching: We normally stretched before we lifted, but I've read some articles on other websites saying that this is something that can hinder strength when done right before a lift, and should only be done after lifting. What do you all think about that? We didn't even do warm-up sets before we started lifting, and just stretched beforehand to warm-up. I've definitely changed that this time around.
And that's it, sorry for being so long-winded, but this stuff is addicting. Thanks in advance for any help.


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- Creeper has flat lock stitching & raglan sleeves
- Creeper, bib & bootie set
- Imported
- Officially licensed
- Rib-knit hems
- Screen print graphics throughout
Special event items are produced by manufacturers only after the outcome of a game or event. These are advanced sale items and will ship immediately after they are received in our warehouse.
Manufacturer direct items are shipped directly from the manufacturer. These items are not available for international or expedited shipping.
Customized items can be personalized with options such as your name, your favorite number, and/or designs. Some options may be limited by league rules.