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Visitors pour into resort town
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Queenstown has racked up a new record of almost 900,000 overnight stays for the first three months of the year.
A total of 877,416 guest nights for the January to March period was recorded by Statistics New Zealand's Commercial Accommodation Monitor, released yesterday.
The groundbreaking record flows hot on the heels of another.
In 2013 Queenstown recorded its highest number of guest nights ever at 1.8 million.
The latest figures reveal guest nights in March this year rose by 5.2 per cent on March 2013 to 268,443.
That was an increase of 13,305, and the average length of stay increased from 2.27 nights to 2.56 nights.
Destination Queenstown chief executive officer Graham Budd said the record quarter was great news and it was exciting to see the trend of growth continuing.
"Feedback from our members had indicated a strong January, February and March and it certainly felt busy and vibrant on the streets of Queenstown and around the region," he said.
"It's very pleasing to see the positive growth of 2013 continuing in 2014 - the March result is particularly pleasing given that the Easter holiday fell during March in 2013 but not until mid April this year.
"It is also encouraging to see length of stay increasing as that is directly in line with Destination Queenstown's strategy of attracting longer staying visitors."
- The Southland Times
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text: This was promoted as a quality place to stay in this Caribbean resort off the coast of Colombia. That was about 50% correct. The food, the view and the free drinks were as billed. The room was underwhelming, no chair, thin poor mattress. The staff really helped form my opinion. I am an American living in Colombia and am used... 更多

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Second Nature Journal published my poem Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree a few days ago.
Books Finished in March 2016
(3 paper books, 1 ebook, 1 audio book)
- Spiders, Men, and Scorpions: Being the History of Arachnology by Theodore H. Savory
- The Ten Commandments by Thomas Watson
- Beautiful and Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry by David Orr
- Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families & Churches by Russel D. Moore
- Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
Books Finished in February 2016
(3 paper books, 1 ebook, 4 audio books)
- The Trouble with Poetry: And Other Poems by Billy Collins
- How to Begin the Study of Spiders by J. L. Cloudsley Thompson
- Room by Emily Donoghue
- Jerry on Jerry ed. by Dennis McNally
- All Things For Good by Thomas Watson
- Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities by Amy Stewart
- The Private Life of Spiders by Paul Hillyard
- Better Than Before: Master the Habits of Everyday Life by Gretchin Rubin
The Sabbath and Nature
"The creation is a looking glass, in which we see the wisdom and power of God gloriously represented. God produced this fair structure of the world without any pre-existent matter and with a word…On the Sabbath let us meditate on the infiniteness of the Creator. Look up to the firmament and see God's wonders in the deep…Look into the earth where we may behold the nature of minerals, the power of the loadstone, the virtue of herbs, and the beauty of flowers.By meditating on these works of creation, so curiously embroidered, we shall learn to admire God and praise him." – Thomas Watson (1620-1686)
Building an Enhanced Macro Setup
Starting off with my new (to me–it's actually about 12 years old) Nikon D70S and a Sigma 17-70mm F2.8-4 DC Macro lens, I decided to try out extension tubes. I bought a set of three Fotodiox extension tubes for $15. The set includes 7mm, 14mm, and 28mm, stacking together for a total 48mm. Basically, the extension tubes sit between the camera and the lens.
Here is a photo of the camera with the lens and the full stack of extension tubes:
The initial problem with this setup is that you (a) lose tons and tons of light, (b) lose the ability to autofocus, and (c) lose the ability to tweak your aperture.
My strategy for overcoming this had to be simple: reduce movement and increase light!
First, I rested the camera on a disk. Then I turned off the autofocus on both the camera and the lens. Then I zoomed the lens all the way in and positioned the object I'm photographing so that it is just under a inch away from the subject. Then I turned off the flash and figured out an external light source. Sometimes I used an overhead lamp. Sometimes I used the flashlight app on my phone. Sometimes I used both. I experimented pointing my phone light at different angles for different results and different shadow configurations. Then I manually focused and shot away!
I'm very happy with the result. I estimate that I get almost twice as much magnification with the $15 tubes! Objects that are in reality 1 cm appear in my images well over 20cm long. What I lose is photo quality and I have to with external lighting and obsessively remove movement.
I look forward to warmer weather and a chance to try this setup out on invertebrates. For various reasons, this setup is not very practical for field work. However, I'm hopeful that it will be very helpful in getting better macro photos of invertebrates.
Here are some links to some of my tests on Flickr:
Spiders and God's Providence
"Coelius Secundus Curio wrote a book of eighty-eight pages which was published in Basle in 1544. The name of his book, , shows that it was in effect a sermon, Curio took his facts, both true and false, from the writings of Pliny and interpreted the life and work of spiders as evidence of the wisdom and goodness of the Creator." – Theodore H. Savory in Spiders, Men, and Scorpions: Being the History of Arachnology, 30 (University of London Press, 1961).
The treatise mentioned by Savory, which was the first work ever exclusively devoted to spiders, begins on page 52 of this document. Curio (1503-1569) was an Protestant Italian living in exile in Switzerland. According to Robert Baird in Sketches of Protestantism in Italy, Curio was "the most regretted loss" of those who left Italy for the sake of Protestantism.
The World Is An Unsafe Place for the Arachnophobe
Books Finished in January 2016
(2 paper books, 2 ebooks, 3 audio books)
- Fathers and Sons by Iven Turgenev
- H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
- Spiders and Their Kin by Herbert W. Levi
- The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
- Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright
- The Elements of Entomology by William Ruschenberger


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A Guide To College Hockey
Afternoon guys,
I've been mulling this over for a bit and I don't know it makes for a mailbag question, a separate post or even just a "here are some helpful links Dana" reply but here goes;
How would you guys explain (REALLY explain) college hockey to someone new to the sport? I'm not a complete layman, I follow the team through MGoBlog and even spent a couple summers at Red Berenson camp years ago, but when it comes to Michigan athletics it's definitely Football, Basketball and Hockey in that order that I follow.
So again, how would you guys explain college hockey to a layman or someone who wanted to know more;
- Conference makeup and where the power in college hockey lies (who is the SEC of hockey, etc) -
- RPI (convenient way to rank all 60 teams or nah?)
- Recruiting (where do US College Hockey players come from I guess…did I mention I'm Canadian?)
- Scheduling
Etc, etc.
Time to break out some bigger headers.
Penn State blew it up, but it needed to blow up [Bill Rapai]
College hockey is a bifurcated sport with two main areas of interest: the East, which consists mostly of New England and the occasional Pennsylvania team, and the West, which is concentrated in Minnesota and Michigan with scattered outposts in Nebraska, Colorado, Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, and elsewhere. There are also a couple of Alaska teams funded largely by the state's desire to have local sports of any variety and two weird outliers: Arizona State just started a program, and Alabama-Huntsville has one for… reasons.
The East is more or less static with some minor movement. From top to bottom:
- Hockey East contains almost all of the big state schools in New England plus various private institutions that fit in for historical reasons. BU and BC are the perennial powers with a rotating cast of other teams who are good enough to make the tournament. UNH and Maine used to be powers but have fallen off a bunch recently. ND joined up and is quickly departing because HE is kind of perfect.
- The ECAC is about half Ivy League schools and half academically respectable schools in upstate New York and environs. Historically they've been a weak league with one bid more often than not, but in recent years surges from Union, Quinnipiac, Yale, and Harvard have seen them lock down high seeds in the national tournament and even a couple of national titles. Sustainability of this surge is in question.
- Atlantic Hockey is a one-bid league that does not offer the full scholarship complement of 18—I think it's 12 for them. They're the Horizon League, basically.
The vast majority of these teams are smack on top of each other. HE and the ECAC are bus leagues in which most weekends see two different teams come to town. AH is a little more spread out with teams in Pittsburgh (Robert Morris, Mercyhurst) and Colorado Springs (Air Force, which wants to be in the same conference as Army and Navy).
The West is now all over the place. There used to be two conferences, the WHCA and CCHA. The CCHA was all the Michigan teams save Tech and everything else in the Midwest. The WCHA was all the Minnesota teams, Wisconsin, North Dakota, and the two Colorado teams. Those conferences split the Alaska teams. The Big Ten blew this all apart a couple years ago, and now:
- The NCHC is more or less the top half of the old WCHA (minus Minnesota and Wisconsin) plus WMU and Miami from the old CCHA. This means they have a couple of major powers and a large number of respectable outfits. They are probably the best conference in college hockey at the moment. They just added Arizona State, an upstart program that just finished its first season.
- The Big Ten is a six-team league consisting of Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Penn State, and Ohio State. It is currently in a down phase since Michigan is in Berenson limbo, Minnesota had an off year, Wisconsin took too long to replace Mike Eaves, and Michigan State spends every day of every year spitting on their rich heritage. Wisconsin is going to get real good real quick here and once Mel Pearson (knock on wood) comes back from Tech, Michigan will also get back to what it was. ND, who will be good as long as Jeff Jackson is around, joins next year.
- The WCHA got stuck with the leftovers from both the CCHA and WCHA. There are some good teams in there, but it's more mid-major than major.
The West is far more spread out than the East. The addition of the Big Ten was deeply controversial, especially in Minnesota, but once Penn State added a program it was a fait accompli.
One benefit of shakeup: the addition of a conference now gives new programs a landing spot. Previously the WCHA and CCHA were both full at 12 teams; new programs eked out an existence as an independent or in the ever-shifting, now-defunct College Hockey America. Many of them failed. Without the Big Ten it's tough to see an Arizona State adding a program. Also, Penn State has been a great success. They just missed the tournament this year and play to a sold-out rink.
I believe hockey is unique amongst NCAA sports in that they select and seed their tournament exclusively by a formula. The Pairwise used to be a complicated pile of factors that overweighted some things (recent games, nonconference schedule) and underweighted others (how good you are at hockey). Elements of it were gradually pared away until the current version, in which there are three factors. One of those, head to head, usually doesn't apply. RPI breaks ties when it disagrees with the other factor, common opponents. So these days with very limited exceptions RPI == Pairwise.
College hockey RPI is okay. They do some home/away weighting that is out of whack with stats and they have a quality win bonus for beating top 20 teams. (This is approximately the top third of D-I.) That latter plus the relative lack of true tomato cans means a lot of the issues basketball RPI has do not apply. The end result makes enough sense that people don't complain about it much.
There is a competing ranking system called KRACH that is more mathematically rigorous but tends to overrate schedule strength; the differences between the two are a lot more muted now that the WCHA, which was by far the best conference before the shakeup, is no longer in its Voltron form.
Teams play 34 or 36 regular season games plus a conference tournament and an NCAA tournament. (You get a couple extra games if you go to Alaska.) Games are usually on Friday and Saturday nights with the occasional midweek or Sunday game. Somewhere between 20 and 28 of these are conference games, depending on the number of teams in each. Conference tournaments generally have a round or two of best-two-of-three matchups and then a single-elimination final 4 (or 5).
TV coverage is poor unless you're Minnesota or Notre Dame. Regional sports networks were generally carry a handful of games. FSN covers every Minnesota game that the BTN does not; NBCSN picked up a bunch of ND games because ND. The Big Ten Network covers a reasonable number. Full coverage is rare, and smaller schools often rely on streaming. Even megapower North Dakota struggles to get TV coverage, with only 4 national games a year ago.
The Tournament
Hockey has a 16-team single elimination tournament held at four regional sites and then a Frozen Four modeled after… well, you know. The Frozen Four is a successful and well-attended event that will draw a full house or something near to it even when it's thousands of miles away from the nearest hockey program. The regionals are half meh and half a disaster.
The meh half is in the East, where the teams are so close together that the NCAA can rotate through a more or less defined collection of mid-sized arenas that will all be reasonably full because at least two fanbases will be right on top of them. Atmospheres are still muted for the most part.
Neutral site college hockey is not well attended [Jason Coller]
The West is the disaster. Michigan has seven college hockey teams and hasn't seen more than one NCAA regional in a decade; instead the committee keeps putting regionals in places like Fort Wayne, St. Louis, and even Omaha, in buildings way too big and with ticket prices way too high. A second West regional is generally in the WCHA footprint, Minneapolis as often as not. These regionals are almost universally attended by marching bands and crickets and are loathed by literally everyone in the college hockey world except a plurality of coaches who either think playing in a tomb gives them a better chance to win or are in the East and therefore don't care.
There have been some rumbles that the NCAA will finally move away from the failed regional model in the next few years, but I'll believe it when I see it. It's a shame, because Yost hosted a couple of regionals a decade ago, and they were insane. So insane that the rest of college hockey got mad and more or less banned campus sites. The leadership of college hockey has failed massively in this department.
The Rules
On the other hand, college hockey has pioneered most of the rules that the NHL adopted over the course of the past decade. These include no-touch icing*, two refs, and getting rid of two-line passes. The main differences between the NHL and the NCAA that remain are
- fighting is five, a game, and a suspension in college
- there is no goalie trapezoid behind the nets
- five-on-five OT, with shootouts only applicable to conference standings**
- no handpasses, anywhere
- Olympic rinks are allowed
Also you have to wear a full shield.
*[The NCAA had pure no-touch icing until a few years ago, when they went to the same hybrid icing the NHL did.]
**[A game that ends in a shootout is treated as a tie for RPI purposes.]
These days a plurality of players come from the USHL, a "Tier 1" junior league spread throughout the Midwest. The USHL and NAHL, another junior circuit with two main hubs in the upper Midwest and Texas, were about on par until a decade or so ago when USA Hockey created the Tier 1 designation and the USHL went after it. In general this means a higher level of facilities and support for the players. If you believe in point equivalences—ie the idea that a league can be judged by how well its players' scoring translates to higher leagues—USHL to AHL/NHL point transitions are more or less on par with the CHL. The NAHL is some distance back and their players usually populate lower-tier teams and fourth lines.
USA Hockey's National Team Development Program also plays in the USHL but is a thing apart. They have U17 and U18 teams that play a variety of international tournaments and, for the U18s, a ~30-game schedule of exhibitions against college teams. The U17s draw the majority of USHL games and generally get cranked due to the age gap. The NTDP gets about 80% of the first round NHL draft picks who are headed to college.
Minnesota and New England both have high school hockey that is good enough to produce a lot of recruits, and the NCAA recruits from various non-CHL junior leagues across Canada, the most prominent of which are the BCHL and OPJHL, if the latter is still called that. Per the most recent NCAA data 24% of NCAA hockey is played by "nonresident aliens," the vast majority of whom are Canadian.
One key difference between Canada and the US is that US players will often stick with their junior teams after high school. USHL teams can have players up to 20 and for many teams their answer to recruiting deficiencies is to bring in older and older players. There was a recent kerfuffle when the Big Ten, which generally recruits right out of high school, introduced a proposal to reduce eligibility for players who enter college older than 20. Everyone yelled at them and it was withdrawn.
Level of Play
More variable than the CHL but likely to be better overall. In large part this is due to age. College hockey players are on average much older than CHL players, and now college alums make up about 30% of the NHL. While the CHL has more NHL prospects per team—both leagues have about 60 teams total—the NCAA's are more concentrated, so unless you have a lot of Atlantic Hockey teams on the schedule that gap between future NHLers is smaller. The NCAA also has a significant edge in point equivalencies. Three years is apparently more than enough to bridge the gap in relative NHL draft status.
HTTV Is About To Expire
The Hail To The Victors 2016 Kickstarter slams shut at 3 PM. This is already the most successful year we've ever had, so many of you have already bought the book and various ancillaries. We thank you for that. If you haven't already, you could… you know… do so.
Did you guys really change the cover? No. We did get pinged by compliance about a potential problem with using a guy with eligibility on a Kickstarter so we pulled it—while we look at it as a preorder, it's not worth the bother. Every preview magazine since time began has had an editorial photo on the cover and ours will also.
But you already made your goal. Yes. From your perspective the Kickstarter gives you an opportunity to get things you can't get elsewhere. From our perspective, the Kickstarter tells us about how many to publish and is the most efficient way to exchange goods and services without (much of) a middleman.
But I want multiple shipping addresses. We decided a few years ago that this was not a good idea because getting all these addresses was a cluster and it slowed down everyone's shipping. This is a valid reason for you to not back the Kickstarter.
But I want a stretch goal. If we hit 75,000 I'll call someone a horseface? This is going to happen anyway eventually so it is a bad stretch goal.
Click here or here or here but certainly not here to back the thing.
Big Ten Recruiting Update: Big Two, Maryland Lurks
Michigan is poised for a major in-state recruiting haul that could include Ambry Thomas [left, Rapai]
When 247 created the industry composite rankings, there was no longer a good reason for me to continue putting together the old Big Ten recruiting rankings posts. In the absence of those, however, I haven't done a great job of providing an overview of conference recruiting in the roundups. This new, recurring feature should rectify that issue—I plan to publish these on a monthly basis.
While it should come as little surprise that Ohio State and Michigan have separated themselves from the pack, the current rankings of the rest of the conference aren't exactly what you'd expect. Via 247, here's how the Big Ten team rankings currently stand:
[After THE JUMP, separating the conference into tiers.]
Unverified Voracity Is Paterno 2.0
— Max Olson (@max_olson) May 26, 2016
Baylor fires
everyone some people. Others get tiny American flags. First Ken Starr, and today Art Briles. For Baylor to fire the best coach in their history by several light years, the reports that have already come to light are probably the tip of the iceberg. They're bad. They're very bad. But programs will go to extraordinary lengths to keep coaches as good as Briles around, so expect a bombshell. Like, another one. If "football team brings down university president" isn't enough for you.
Oh and here it is:
Key findings of the Pepper Hamilton report, according to Baylor: pic.twitter.com/BBKkE1ach9
— Jake Trotter (@Jake_Trotter) May 26, 2016
That'll do it. Last time I mentioned Baylor I said you could "go either way" on Briles, which wasn't particularly clear: I meant whether he should lose his job, not whether he was implicated in this or came off well. Moot point now, and obviously there's no way to read Art Briles as anything other than despicable.
I wonder if the NCAA will get involved here. This is a million times worse than anything Ole Miss has done. Giving people money is generally helpful to them. Enabling sexual assault is… not. This should be the very definition of lack of institutional control; Baylor is systematically overlooking felonies to make their football team better. This is Paterno-level stuff here.
Pause. … Yeah, I mean that. Baylor created more rape in the world. This is probably worse, at least in terms of the actions taken by the football staff, than the Paterno thing since it appears people actively got involved in direct violation of title IX.
Meanwhile Starr is actually being reassigned to some cushy retirement position, the rest of Baylor's staff is staying on, and the athletic director somehow didn't get fired. Ooookay.
Like whatever man. This is my opinion on the #1 jersey:
I'm placing "Braylon Edwards on the #1 jersey" in the Never Talk About This Again bin. It's right next to the Fab Five.
— mgoblog (@mgoblog) May 25, 2016
I offered this opinion because like clockwork someone asked Edwards about #1 because someone had the temerity to issue it.
No offense to the Fab Five or Braylon Edwards, but I have massive fatigue about these topics. I don't want to hear about how Jalen Rose asked Sandy to the dance but Chris Webber already did that and now one of them is mad at the other and they haven't talked for 15 years. And I don't want to hear about Braylon Edwards's quest to take the One Jersey to Mount Doom and his inevitable opinion that anyone who hasn't taken the One Jersey to Mount Doom shouldn't get to wear it. I know how he feels about this. We can take it as read. I know that Jalen and Chris are in the world's longest performance of Mean Girls. I would rather hear about anything else.
Well maybe not anything else. It turns out that firing Jason Whitlock is necessary but not sufficient to have a successful venture. The first piece that's been social media'd into my lap from The Undefeated is this article on how black people don't do analytics from Michael Wilbon. Wilbon talks about how stats are dumb about as frequently as I talk about how people are just in charge of things, but usually he doesn't bring damn near 20% of the American populace with him. At least he included someone bombing his dumb ass in his own column:
"So many front offices are staffed by guys like me, who didn't play the game, who didn't come in through the coaching ranks … Don't tell me that there are no black people who are good at math. There are black people who expert at qualitative analysis," Elhassan said. "I worry that it becomes a way to exclude. Don't tell me there aren't any black people on Wall Street who are passionate about basketball. These people exist. Wall Streeters, people with qualitative analysis backgrounds. I know them. I went to school with them. I just don't believe that one ethnicity is more predisposed to this than another. You realize, of course, that this is the new gateway into the game … into sports?"
I'll let Elhassan speak to the wider implications of Wilbon's piece. I just want to focus on Wilbon's inability to grasp what he's even saying. This paragraph is a perfect encapsulation of Wilbon's worldview:
My friend and ESPN colleague J.A. Adande relayed a conversation he had a couple of seasons ago with Stephen Curry when the then-future MVP was transitioning from shooting guard to point guard. Curry told Adande one of the biggest differences he noticed immediately was playing the point took him away from the corners of the court, where he felt most comfortable taking 3-pointers. Curry didn't cite any numbers, just his comfort level shooting from the corners relative to the top of the arc. Only later, after the shift, did we learn how much better Curry was from the corners. One stat, according to ESPN Stats & Information, assigned Curry some number in excess of 100 for his 3-point sniping from the corners. This tells you just how bogus the exercise is if the "percentage" reports to be greater than 100.
Step by step:
1. Curry says playing PG takes him away from the corners, where he thinks he shoots better.
2. Statistic created by ESPN confirms this.
3. Wilbon agrees that this is true.
4. Wilbon dismisses the stat because it is over 100.
5. Wilbon thinks this means ESPN believes Curry hits more than all of his shots from the corner.
That is the most ignorant thing ESPN has put in the world for years and yes I am including First Take. Wilbon doesn't bother linking to or explaining what this metric is, because he's a columnist and that means he can put a piece on the internet that references something else on the internet without telling you what that is. But I bet one dollar that this metric, as many are, is calibrated such that a league average player gets 100.
In the very next paragraph Wilbon whines that efficiency metrics are per 100 possessions instead of per 48 minutes. If black people really were the monolith Wilbon suggests they are, they would do well to assemble and vote him out of the race. Ditto SAS, who apparently got on the same bandwagon in a Sportscenter clip you literally could not pay me to watch.
Etc.: David Schilling blasts the Wilbon article in a witheringly entertaining piece. Saddi Washington profiled. Samoans happy to get a visit from Harbaugh. Ross Fulton on OSU's defense in 2016. Josh Rosen on UCLA's endorsement deal. Hockey gets a commit from Jake Slaker, who had 42 points in 57 USHL games this year. Also team captain. 19.
Softball Super-Regional Preview
[Ed-S: We asked SBW to cover one of the best teams in Michigan sports history. Previously: Postseason primer]
All photos from Bryan Fuller
Regional Review
The Ann Arbor regional featured one of the more noteworthy upsets of the opening weekend of the NCAA softball tournament. Fortunately for Michigan, it didn't happen to us. The Maize & Blue marched through the regional with relative ease, not quite hitting on all cylinders, but never seriously threatened either. Before looking ahead to the upcoming super-regional showdown with the Missouri Tigers, let's take a quick look back at how Michigan became one of 16 teams in the nation lucky enough to go to practice this week.
The Wolverines started the weekend off against a Valparaiso team still trying to figure out just how they found their way into the tournament in the first place. With a record well below .500, the Horizon League tournament champions were one of the strangest sights in regional play in years. Michigan didn't wait long to get on the board, with senior super-star Sierra Romero lining what's known in Ann Arbor as a "Rom-Bomb" over the wall in the first inning. In addition to giving Michigan an early lead, the solo shot gave Romero her 300th career RBI. The Wolverines added a couple more in the 2nd, but were not able to fully solve Valpo's pitching until the 5th inning, when all Hell broke loose. 5 singles earned Michigan 3 runs and brought about a pitching change. The change didn't help, as the relief pitcher walked the next three batters on only 14 pitches to drive in the game-ending runs. Megan Betsa was majestic in the circle, ceding just one hit and one walk while piling up 9 Ks in the 8-0 run-rule walkover.
Miami (NTM)
On Saturday, Michigan was expecting a tougher challenge, and they got one from an unexpected source. Instead of the presumptive challenger Notre Dame, the Maize & Blue had to square off against Miami (NTM), who had upset the Irish with a controversial 3-2 win on Friday. Betsa was again phenomenal, but the story of the early part of the game was Redhawks hurler Amber Logemann, who didn't allow a hit until the 4th inning. In the 4th, though, Michigan showed a tendency familiar to anyone who watched the 2015 NCAA tournament. A good pitcher can get through Michigan's order once, maybe twice. After that, though, the offense starts to lock in on tendencies & weaknesses, and the runs can come in bunches. 2 runs in the 4th led to 4 more in the 6th, and Michigan finally had the breathing room they wanted. Hutch took advantage of the extra cushion, resting ace Megan Betsa for the rest of the game. After a wobbly start put runners on 2nd and 3rd with no outs, Driesenga retired the next 6 batters she faced on 6 consecutive ground-outs, securing a 6-0 win.
Notre Dame
To no one's surprise, the Irish shook off their Friday funk and emerged from the losers' bracket to face Michigan in the regional final on Sunday. The Irish have seen their season end in Ann Arbor again and again in recent years, and would need to take 2 in a row from #2 Michigan to avoid the same fate in 2016. Sierra Romero sent a message early on that the "luck of the Irish" wasn't going to apply in Ann Arbor, getting her money's worth on her 300th career hit, launching a first-inning long ball for the 2nd time on the weekend (the blast was also good for her 299th career run scored, extending her own NCAA record). Another Sierra home run, this one from Sierra Lawrence, put Michigan up 2-0, but an unexpected blast from Irish lead-off hitter Karley Wester trimmed the lead back down to 1. Again it took a few innings for Michigan's bats to acquire target-lock, but when the Irish gifted Romero 1st base on an error to start the 5th, the Wolverines were determined to take advantage. A bunt single & a walk loaded the bases, and singles from Aidan Falk and Lindsay Montemarano stretched the lead to 6-1. The Irish would get one back in the 6th, but never seriously threatened to catch up to the heavy favorites.
On the weekend, Michigan outscored their opponents a combined 20-2. On a historical note, Sierra Romero joined the extremely exclusive 300/300 club (hits & RBIs), and moved to just one run away from creating an entirely new 300/300/300 club (hits, RBIs, & runs-scored). For a team of Michigan's caliber, the victories were expected, and celebrations were moderate compared to scenes around the country. The Wolverines will not be satisfied with anything less than a trip to Oklahoma City for the Women's College World Series, and they know that just one team stands between them and that goal.
[Hit THE JUMP for a Super-regional preview]
This Week's Obsession: Most Irreplaceable
Michigan can't afford to lose their best back you say? [Upchurch]
Following a good laugh over one of those offseason #content lists where they name random skill position players at recognizable schools, we thought maybe a real answer might be good for, you know, an offseason #content list. So:
So who IS Michigan's most irreplaceable starter?*
David: In most years, I think there would be a few clear-cut, shining star answers. And while Michigan's ceiling would not be as high without some of its premiere talent, I'm not sure those particular players are the most irreplaceable. Let's try a Top 3, this time…
1. Mason Cole. He's played LT for 2 years and has done a very solid job despite not being ideally-sized for that position. Now, it appears he will be starting at center, which just tells you how much smart of a player he is. Michigan basically has four proven OL starters, one highly-rated probably starter, and a couple of depth guys that no one really knows how they'll turn out. Losing Cole would mean that everyone more-or-less has to be a hit in their respective positions. That COULD happen…but will it? Ehhhhh…I don't know. Losing anyone else on the OL and Cole can move if it would allow M to put its best five on the field.
2. John O'Korn. Ok, this miiiiiiight be a reach, but I'm going off of some potential and I get to be the guy on the staff that goes rogue sometimes. I do think that JOK has the highest ceiling on the team in a position that does not quite have the depth…yet. I think we still need one more season of injury-luck in this department before the options absolutely explode. There is still some uncertainty with him, obviously, but he's shown the physical [in]tangibles to have some backing for what he can do…in addition to belief in QB development under Harbaugh. Plus, like mobility, etc. Perhaps Speight would be adequate –or even successful- enough, but I'm personally not sold, yet.
3. Jabrill Peppers. I've been arguing with a buddy about this spot for a while, now. What it came down to for me is that Peppers is the backup everything on this team. I actually believe if he had to play guard or weak-side end for a couple plays, he would hold his own. Seriously though, in addition to Peppers playing his 5 positions on the field where you know he'll line up and be awesome, he could potentially take over a starting role at 3-4 of them and there would be very little drop off from the nominal starter. On most teams, Peppers would be the cornerstone of any defense. And while he is certainly important, this defense is SO deep that he do almost whatever is needed and not be depended on to do one certain responsibility…in addition to being to handle most single-position responsibilities. Get it?
[After the JUMP: offseason #content, plus Rashan Gary's hudl highlights are embedded again]
Ten Ways To Make X Better: Hockey
An irregular series in which I fix all of a sport's problems.
[Patrick Barron]
10. Get rid of the penalty for flipping the puck out when you're in the defensive zone. This is exactly icing and should be treated like icing. The only competition for worst rule in sports is what happens when a football player fumbles and the ball goes out of the endzone.
9. Non-shootout wins are three points. The NHL is the only league in any sport in the world in which some games are worth more than others. This is so very dumb. College hockey uses a model where you get three for actually winning a hockey game, two for winning a shootout, and one for losing it. It is not an offense to God and math.
8. Widen the blue line. The blue line is a lovely demilitarized zone that is both offensive zone and defensive zone, so you can touch it and not be offsides. The puck can touch it and not exit the zone. Both of these things are good. No offsides whistle in the history of hockey has improved the experience of a neutral fan. Widening the blue line reduces these whistles.
7. In fact let's get rid of offsides whistles (almost) entirely. Instead of stopping the game, you can just continue playing hockey. An offsides team can't score. Game continues. Once team ceases being offsides you can go score.
6. And add passive offsides. If you can't tell already, I hate offsides in hockey. It boggles that if one guy is offsides then everybody is. If you're on a rush and one guy is a hair over the line, he and only he is offsides. Let him tag up; let everyone else continue playing. If an offsides player does anything other than try to get onside, I guess you can blow the whistle, you game-stopping ninny. But if offsides guy is headed for the blue line, let him get there.
5. Gradually introduce Olympic ice. Olympic ice is a lot of fun, but currently impractical for buildings not set up with a 100-foot-wide sheet already. The NHL should force new buildings to be Olympic-sized, leading to a transitional period where some rinks are small and some are wide and there are all kinds of home/away effects, kind of like baseball. Also there will be an increasing number of big rinks on which standing a guy up at the blue line is super difficult and skill is more important. College hockey already has a number of Olympic sheets, and the transition is both jarring and fun.
4. Just embiggen the goals already. Goalies won. Whether it's equipment size or improved technique, the fundamental truth about hockey over the last 20 years is that goalies win and we give up and to restore the proper tension of a hockey game we're going to admit they win and tweak the size of the goal.
Most protests about this are luddite or ludicrous. One common protest is that expanding the goal invalidates records going forward. It does not, at least any more than the various equipment advances have done so. Ken Dryden versus any modern NHL goalie is QED here:
Dryden's pads are not only smaller but infested with mice and 10-20 pounds heavier. Also he doesn't know about the butterfly. Goalies win, expand the net by the width of the posts, all CLANG events now are goals, add 2-3 per game, it's a good time.
This is important. The current state of hockey is too close to baseball, which is dumbly random, because the goalies can cover up big differences in team quality.
3. A team doesn't clear the offensive zone until the puck gets over the red line. Michigan actually experimented with this in an exhibition a few years back. It was deeply weird but it rewarded teams who could actually get ahold of the puck in the defensive zone and increased the number of shifts where one team was scrambling around defensively and it felt like the team with the puck absolutely had to score.
2. Force teams to change goalies on the fly once a period. This would be awesome.
1. Teams have the option of putting a guy on the ice without skates. Offsides does not apply to him. Goals he scores count double. The thing that hockey has lacked for far too long is a broomball player. What does the world's best broomball player look like? I don't know. You don't know. We've waited far too long to find out.
Profiling the Proletariat: MAC
Left to right: WMU's Zach Terrell, Ohio's Frank Solich, Kent State's Terence Waugh
College football's still a ways away, but now that we're getting close to Memorial Day – when the national preview magazines start appearing at bookstores – we might as well take a look at the CFB landscape. While the sport's third estate won't receive as much ink as the superpowers and the playoff race, the mid-major conferences around the country are part of what makes college football so great. Now that the sport is divided into the Power 5 and Group of 5, there's a decided hierarchy for the have-nots, but at least one of them is guaranteed a game against one of the big boys in a New Year's Six Bowl. For the true college football fan, at least a cursory knowledge of the Group of 5 conferences is a must. Because of their regional proximity to the Big Ten, I'll start with the MAC.
[article after the JUMP]
Tuesday Recruitin' Is Near The Peak
Vilain Shuts It Down
A few significant developments emerged from what was a strong recruiting weekend for Michigan. First and foremost is the optimism surrounding Michigan's chances with top-100 VA WDE Luiji Vilain following his weekend visit. Michigan has pursued Vilain, a Canadian import, since he was a freshman and Brady Hoke was still in charge, and they were one of the first Power 5 schools to get in on what's become a legitmately national recruitment. Sam Webb has a lengthy, free post on Vilain's reaction to his visit last weekend, and the Wolverines are in great shape:
"I came in with high expectations, but I was still pretty blown away," said Vilain. "It was really good. Everything was different. The vibe as soon as I get there, I felt that it was different. There's change. I guess that's the Harbaugh effect."
Webb issued one of his famous "gut feelings" about an unnamed recruit who will make his choice public in mid-June, and all signs point to Vilain, who told Sam that after last weekend he won't need to take any more visits before making his decision. After speaking with his parents and his trainer, he'll decide between Michigan, Virginia Tech, and USC. It would be a surprise if he didn't end up a Wolverine before the end of the June.
[Hit THE JUMP for the rest of the roundup.]
2016 Recruiting: Michael Dwumfour
Previously: Last year's profiles. S Josh Metellus, S Khaleke Hudson, CB David Long, CB Lavert Hill, LB Elysee Mbem-Bosse, LB Devin Bush Jr., LB Devin Gil, LB Josh Uche, DE Ron Johnson.
|Wayne, NJ – 6'2", 286
|3*, NR overall
|3*, NR overall
|3*, NR overall
|3*, #1261 overall
|Other Suitors
|PSU, Pitt, BC, Iowa, WVU
|Maurice Hurst
|Previously On MGoBlog
|Hello post from Ace.
|Twitter. HS teammate of Kareem Walker.
Michael Dwumfour is probably destined to be known as Rashan Gary's sidekick for the duration of his career at Michigan. The two guys grew up together, played together their first couple years in high school, and remain good friends. Around the time of the UA game Sam Webb started dropping hints about a player down in Florida who Michigan might flip; said gentleman would supposedly lock Gary's commitment down if the flip happened.
Because Sam is crafty like that he didn't mention that the player in question wasn't at the UA game but rather some other, obscure All-Star outing. This set off a wild goose chase that I certainly did not participate in. I was certainly not the cause of baseless threads about flipping Ole Miss five star Greg Little popping up months after the mystery man was revealed to be Dwumfour.
Anyway: despite a Penn State commitment and PSU's outstanding success with lightly-recruited DTs over the past few years, Dwumfour may have to put up with a "Marsha Marsha Marsha" situation over the next few years. There are worse things.
Dwumfour doesn't have a big time recruiting profile. Nobody offered him a fourth star or really anything close to it, and unlike a few guys already covered the ESPN scouting report more or less matches the ratings. They sum him up by saying that he "can contribute" to a Power 5 team "by at least offering quality depth to a rotation," which is very much a meh three-star kind of destiny. The rest of the report is littered with caveats:
Possesses good bulk with thick base, but could have trouble adding any additional good mass without reworking body comp. … good playing strength and first-step quickness. … Demonstrates ability to come off ball with quick first step and good pad level and when he can win with quickness and leverage can hold ground. Flashes upper body strength to shed from blockers, but needs to continue to improve hand usage. … Can do a good job of attacking half-man and while he needs to refine usage can be very active with his hands. Displays adequate bull rush ability.
ESPN ranked Dwumfour higher than any other service by some distance. So of course there are more positive reports at the other sites, because sometimes the low end of the rankings is shruggie central.
Other reports focus on his proverbial get off. (No, guy in the comments who brings this up every time the term comes up, we aren't doing "phrasing" anymore.) His 4.4 shuttle is impressive at Dwumfour's size. The highlight film above features a lot of plays on which he shocks an OL and drives him back much like, yep, Maurice Hurst. His ability to bring the heat in just a step or two is a consistent theme of the more positive evaluations, including one from Don Brown himself:
Michael is very explosive, can separate on the double team and has good lateral movement.
Back when Brown was trying to get Dwumfour to BC they also focused on that first step:
"The day before I went up there they said they sat down and watched my film as a staff. My position coach specifically said he likes how I'm quick and explosive off the ball," he said.
Clint Brewster's take is the most detailed on Dwumfour's assets and future role:
I like how sudden he is off the ball for a player that's around 300 pounds. He's got the ability to shoot the gap between the center and the guard and penetrate the pocket. Dwumfour has the quickness to play the outside shade of the center or the inside shade of the guard and not just a nose-tackle. He's got a really strong and well-built lower half that you like on an interior defensive tackle. He's able to bull-rush offensive linemen or use the swim move to go around them.
Brewster actually named Dwumfour as a potential "instant impact" player when it came time to offer up Signing Day superlatives. That seems unlikely given the state of the defensive line and other reports about Dwumfour's to-date inconsistent motor, but it is an indicator that Brewster thinks he's an undervalued player.
So. Dwumfour isn't a zero-tech nose tackle who will occupy the sun and moon. He is the kind of gentleman who will shoot through a gap and blow up a run play in the backfield… or possibly a guy who will eat a double team and moonwalk backward when he doesn't shoot that gap. Concerns about Dwumfour's lack of gravitational pull pop up regularly. Scout has the ever-popular "size" as an an area for improvement:
… quick with his hands. He has explosion, but has a tendency to stand up quickly before accelerating forward. Once he explodes forward at the snap, he will become even more effective. Dwumfour has good strength and he plays with a low center of gravity, and he keeps his pad level low. He changes direction well and can make plays in space. At 6-foot-1, some schools make be hesitant to offer.
Lack of height is not actually a problem for interior DL. Lack of weight stemming from a lack of height is, and Dwumfour has had to add a bunch of it over the last couple years. Per Scout's Brian Dohn he was a 240-pound kid a couple years ago; he got to 280 or so without losing his quickness. That's a good sign for the last 20 or 30.
Other aspects of his game are not scouted consistently. He has good pad level, or he plays a little high. He's raw or he has excellent technique for a high school player. His hands are active and violent, or you'd "like to see him more assaulting." He has size concerns or he "has the build to be a 300+ pound guy." He's a penetrating guy with a quick first step…
…easily the most impressive player at the camp from any day in my opinion. He was legitimately unblockable and Pitt offered on the spot.
…or he's just trying to keep his linebackers clean:
"He's not going to be an 'every-play, go out and make a play' guy. A successful play might be holding offensive linemen up to keep his linebackers clean. His responsibility may be to collapse the pocket so another guy can make the play. Success won't always be making the tackle, but opening things up for another player."
I'm not sure how much credence to lend Rivals's Adam Friedman here since he talks about Dwumfour transitioning from DE to the interior. The Hudl film above is about 98% Dwumfour as a three-tech. Dwumfour is 6'2", 280+. Nobody thinks he's a candidate for any type of DE spot except apparently Rivals, which ranked him as an SDE. As a result the "Rivals analyst discusses prospect" article wastes a bunch of time engaging that positional designation, and concludes that he will have to move to DT. Which he has already moved to.
Anyway. A lot of the scouting reports seem tossed off or amateurish—Rutgers people are involved in the latter—and it's hard to get a solid read. His highlight tape is impressive, but short and tends towards filler at the end. Friedman refers to him as a "project" and I think that's accurate. When asked to scout himself a year ago, Dwumfour noted his athleticism and said he had to work on his stamina. Another year in the weight room, another year to refine his ability as a somewhat undersized interior DL, and then we'll see if the set of defensive coaches that went after him is a better indicator than the rankings.
Because the best argument in Dwumfour's favor is the set of defensive coaches who wanted him. Boston College was an early contender; Dwumfour initially decided between Pitt and Penn State. That's Don Brown, Pat Narduzzi, PSU's outstanding DL coach Sean Spencer, and Don Brown again—not bad.
Etc.: Cool hair and salty twitter header.
Why Maurice Hurst? Hurst is almost exactly the same size as Dwumfour even deep into his college career—listed at 282 on his bio still, though I assume that will go up by fall camp—and was also regarded as a quick first step in human form. Hurst was higher regarded by the recruiting sites as a 3/4-star tweener, and his scouting reports were more consistently effusive about his ability to teleport into the backfield.
Some of Hurst's limitations were exposed late in the year when opponents could double him without worrying about Glasgow: if successfully doubled he got blown off the ball. Dwumfour could have similar issues. If he does find himself at 300 or more after a couple years in the weight room, a couple of Michigan's recent rangy NTs are also possible comparisons. If he scrapes the ceiling of his potential he could be in the same vein as a Glasgow or a Mike Martin. Neither are bighuge NT types; both hold up to doubles just fine and get through gaps with regularity.
Guru Reliability: Low-plus. Healthy player on a team that featured Kareem Walker and was thus well-scouted. However, in the generic three star bin and there are a lot of evaluations in the shruggie zone. Very little consensus on him in the scouting reports.
Variance: High. Could top out at around his current weight given his height, and that might not be enough to be a contributor. Could end up another penetrating interior DL like Glasgow or Hurst.
Ceiling: Moderate. Doesn't seem to have the same first step as Hurst. If so would probably end up a rotation player only.
General Excitement Level: Moderate. Dwumfour seems a little underrated given his offer sheet, but not outrageously so.
Projection: Redshirt. Michigan loses a bunch from the DL after this year: Glasgow, Wormley, Charlton, and Godin all exit, leaving just Hurst and Mone amongst the veterans. Dwumfour is likely to move into the two-deep even as a redshirt freshman. He'll have to wait another year for a realistic shot at a starting job, at which point that fight will be between Dwumfour and a bunch of second-year players from the 2017 class. Your guess is as good as mine since those players are yet to be determined.


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- JBL sends us a Tout from the summit of his mountain climb. He will be back soon.
- The Great Khali and Natalya dance in the ring awaiting and during the music of Fandango. Fandango and his dancer enter on the stage. Fandango wants Khali to pronounce his name. Fandango doesn't like Khali's accent and walks him through the syllables. He tells Khali to put it all together and tells him that was horrible. Fandango and his dancer leave and we go to another break.
- The excellent Cena-Rock promo from RAW is shown.
- Matt Striker is standing-by in the back with Sheamus and Randy Orton. The says they feel the odds are in their favor now that Ryback is on their team. They are attacked by The Shield. The Shield slams Orton into a steel garage door twice and put Sheamus through a table. Refs come and check on Orton and Sheamus and call for Booker T.
- Back from a break as Booker and Teddy Long have arrived on the scene. Ryback shows up and asks what happened. Booker tells Ryback they have it under control and that he needs to focus on Mark Henry.
- We go to the shot of Mark Henry's back as he makes his entrance to the ring. "Feed Me More" hits the speakers and Ryback makes his way to the ring.
Ryback vs. Mark Henry
The bell rings and the two monsters lock-up. They struggle to a stalemate as The Shield's music hits and they make their way through the crowd. Henry ducks to the floor as The Shield hits the ring and attacks Ryback. Ryback clears the ring of them and Henry gets back in but The Shield attacks Ryback from behind and Henry dips to the floor again and looks-on. The Shield stomps Ryback and hits the triple powerbomb. The Shield puts their fists together in solidarity and leaves.
Mark Henry slides back in the ring and delivers 2 World's Strongest Slams to Ryback to a sea of boos. He screams, "That's what I do!" as he picks Ryback up for one more WSS. The crowd boos and chants, "Feed Me More." Henry kneels down and tells Ryback that he is not like the punks he has been running through. He screams that Ryback will not run through him and he welcomes Ryback to the Hall of Pain. The chants get suspiciously louder as we go to commercial.
- We return to a replay of what just happened and go to Jack Swagger and Zeb Colter's entrance for the main event. I kind of dig Swagger's theme. Pyro goes-off and the lights go out as Y2J makes his entrance; he is very tan and greasy.
- We cut to the WWE Rewind of Del Rio rescuing Sin Cara from Swagger last Monday on RAW.
Chris Jericho vs. Jack Swagger
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Back to action in the ring. Swagger screams, "We the people!" as he stretches Jericho from behind. Jericho escapes with a side suplex but Swagger runs him over with a clothesline and gets 2. Jericho builds a momentum with a series of shoulderblocks and comes off the top with an axe-handle. Y2J hits a bulldog but Swagger avoids the Lion-sault. They go back and forth with counters. Jericho hits a big kick to the back of Swagger's head and gets 2.
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The Simpson PowerShot gas-powered commercial pressure washer features a high-performance Honda engine, soap detergent siphoning tubes, five quick-connect nozzles and more. This commercial pressure washer is backed by a one-year warranty from the manufacturer.
Simpson PowerShot Gas-Powered Commercial Pressure Washer, PS4240S:
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Customer review by Big E
Bought this unit last year and it has preformed flawlessly each time. I really like the 4 GPM water flow. Washes away the stuff you wash off. Great Honda engine, first pull start ! I really like things that start when they are supposed to! I agree with the idea of a swivel end that connects to the wand. That would be a good idea. I also like the long wand. Easy on the back! I looked at several pressure washers and after all the research and comparing of different models and brands, I am so glad I went the extra money and got this heavy duty unit. Easy enough to handle on the little jobs and is a beast when it comes to the tough stuff. I would buy another one of these with no questions. Get you one. You will be glad you did. And no I am not a Simpson employee. I just really really really like this unit.
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This is my second year with this unit, I still give it a heafty five star rating. Pros: - Honda kills it with thier easy start feature, one pull starts. - The Honda GX390 Commercial Series OHV Engine is thrifty on gas...runs smooth as well. - The overall package is well balanced and easy to move around...perfect size and quality of tires. - Very rugged construction, the unit is built to be worked. - Well balanced (but heavy) if one needs to pick it up and put it in the back of a truck bed. - My unit came with the Comet pump, zero complaints. Cons: - Attaching the garden hose was awkward for my large hands (to close to the motor and under the pressure hose coupler) so I extended that connection point just outside the frame and yet still is protected by the tire. Connecting the garden hose is now simple. - There is nothing to complain about with this machine, but I guess if one has to say something negative....the hose does not like to swivel at the wand*, therefore one has to wrassle with the stiff hose when changing the orientation of the wand. Overall: Love the 4,200 psi w/ 4 gallon feed, I don't use it always, but I have it when I need to get serious. I also really love the 4,200 size because it allows me to run 100 - 150 ft of hose and still have pressure at the nozzle. * One day I'm going to have to buy the proper high pressure swivel for the hose to wand.
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Silver Hill, Hampton Centre, Peterborough PE7Property to rent - 5 bedrooms
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Its a must see well presented property with neutral decor throughout, 5 Bedroom family town house, located in the popular new development Hampton. This Large 5 Bedroom property comprises of a large front to back lounge, large kitchen with utility and ...
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Baldwin Drive, Sugar Way, Peterborough PE2Property to rent - 5 bedrooms
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*** executive & spacious *** Five Bedroom detached house, 3x en-suites, family bathroom.Living room, dining room, study area. Kitchen. Gas CH. Double Garage.Available end August This property is approx 148m2 EPC - tbc Ground floor Entrance hall ...
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We have thoroughly enjoyed that wonderful website list of the bands and where they are playing for over a year now! Its a great reference for planning our musical adventures. It really helps us think on our feet.
lots of cool music started at noon
0 · May 11, 2014
was there until 750 the left i went home was there all day and anna was going to the madison
1 · May 10, 2014
Well we didn't see anyone or hear anything so we decided to do out own thing and heading to the Austin for dance lessons.
0 · May 10, 2014
sorry 650
0 · May 10, 2014
We are way in the back at a big table!!!
0 · May 10, 2014
I may be a little late I had to stop at Auto Zone. Is anyone there yet?
0 · May 10, 2014
Yes This should be intense. If someone gets there early pls do get a table. Thanks
0 · May 10, 2014
this event starts at 12 noon
0 · May 9, 2014
Hi there yes this event starts earlier in the Day and goes into the Eve. Thank you and I will double check.
0 · May 9, 2014
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