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|The Celtics are not alone
|04.01.09 at 9:10 pm ET
When news broke this week that the Celtics were shutting down star Kevin Garnett until his sore right knee feels strong enough to take the punishment of practices and games, many thought their 'ticket' to a return to the NBA Finals was in jeopardy.
And while that certainly may be the case, another story came out Wednesday about an injury to a team that the Green might face in the first round.
HoopsWorld reported that Philadelphia 76ers forward Thaddeus Young could miss 2-3 weeks after spraining and bruising his left ankle last night in Philly's win over Atlanta. That would keep him out the rest of the regular season and possibly the first game of the playoffs, which open on April 18.
The sprain and bruise were diagnosed after an MRI today and Young will be using crutches and an air cast on the ankle for a bit.
Why should Celtics fans care? Because Young, along with superstar Andre Iguodala, gives Philly the type of size in the front court to match up with Boston.
The 6-8 Young has started 68 games for Philly this season and has greatly improved his statistics in every category over his rookie numbers, averaging 15.2 points, 5.0 rebounds, 1.3 steals, and 1.2 assists on 49% shooting from the floor.
In March, Young scored 20.5 points a game and averaged 5.5 rebounds, scoring 20 or more points in 10 of 15 games. The Sixers would likely replace Young with bruiser Reggie Evans (a Celtics killer on the glass) and Marreese Speights. They do have depth but losing Young hurts.
Now, Philly's hold on sixth in the East doesn't look so sure with Detroit trying to make a move. No. 7 Detroit would play No. 2 Orlando right now and No. 8 Chicago would take on top-seeded Cleveland.
|Ray Ray turns into Super Ray
|at 8:25 pm ET
Ray Allen executed one of the best moves of the season midway through the second quarter and brought the sellout crowd at the Garden to its collective feet.
Starting at the left wing about 15 feet from the basket, he went behind his back on the dribble, undressing Juwan Howard and then with DeSagana Diop waiting to eat him up, Allen lofted a high-arcing shot off the glass and in. That was followed moments later by a slam dunk Mikki Moore as the Celtics went ahead 43-42 after trailing by as many as nine just minutes earlier.
|Just to clarify
|at 7:13 pm ET
At first, Doc Rivers thought he was being asked whether the Celtics can win an 18th title with Kevin Garnett not at full strength.
"Yeah, we can," Rivers said. "I believe that. Defensively, is where we need him, offensively, too, with his shot and all that and his leadership on the floor. I really believe we can. And I think he will be 100 percent or close to it. I don't know if he'll be 100 percent. Yeah, I do, though, that is the answer."
Then told that the question was can you win without Garnett, PERIOD, that generated a slightly different response.
"No, that would be difficult," Rivers added. "That would be very difficult. But let's hope that is something we don't have to find out."
|Doc: KG should be ready for playoffs
|at 6:51 pm ET
Doc Rivers said before Wednesday's game with Charlotte that he expects Kevin Garnett to be ready for the playoffs.
Asked if he thought the star wouldn't be ready for the playoffs after the team shut him down on Tuesday, Rivers said he doesn't expect his right knee injury to keep him from the postseason.
"I think he absolutely will," Rivers said of Garnett playing in the playoffs. "Obviously, there's always a chance but I don't see that, I really don't. I would be very, very surprised if Kevin Garnett is not playing in game 1 of the playoffs."
More to come.
|Celtics playoff tickets on sale Friday
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The Celtics announced on Wednesday that a limited amount of playoff tickets for Round 1, home games 1 and 2 at the TD Banknorth Garden will go on sale Friday, April 3 at 10 a.m. There is a four (4) ticket limit per customer and seats start at just $12 in the Rite Aid Family Section.
Dates and times of home playoff games will be announced following the conclusion of the 2008-09 NBA regular season, and will be posted on www.celtics.com.
Celtics fans will be able to purchase on April 3 beginning at 10 a.m. by visiting Celtics.com, by calling 1-800-4NBA-TIX (800-462-2849) or by visiting the TD Banknorth Garden Box Office. Acceptable forms of payment for tickets are American Express and all other major credit cards and customers may also pay by cash at the TD Banknorth Garden Box Office.
Fans interested in securing private suites for playoff games may do so by calling the Celtics Sales Office at 866-4CELTIX (866-423-5849). Private suites accommodate 18 fans and catering options are also available. For more information log on to www.celtics.com.
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|Tony Allen to return
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After missing the last 22 games with a sprained left thumb, Tony Allen said after practice that he is looking forward to returning tonight against the Charlotte Bobcats.
"I'm going to give it a shot and see how it goes," the Boston Globe reported Allen as saying following this morning's shootaround. "Today is a big day for me. I'm not looking at going out and scoring 50 points, nothing like that. Just getting in a rhythm and getting a feel for my new teammates and just trying to do what I can do to help."
Allen has missed a total of 35 games this season. He figures to give the Celtics some much-needed depth off the bench as a defensive stopper. How much he plays is not certain and will likely be determined by his stamina and the game situation.
|KG concern: He's the center of everything
|03.31.09 at 2:52 pm ET
He hasn't been that big a player since coming to the Celtics in February but Mikki Moore spoke volumes on Tuesday when he spoke about the news that the team is shutting down Kevin Garnett for the time being with continuing right knee soreness.
"It's a big adjustment," said Moore, who will pick up the slack along with Glen Davis. "He's the center of everything. He's the vocal point of our defense and he enthuses guys to come out and play hard. We're going to miss his presence out on the floor but he's always in the locker room or on the sideline out there talking to us. We'll be alright."
Coach Doc Rivers is hopeful that Moore, Davis and Bill Walker can step into line of fire and help while KG gets his rest.
"He's been terrific," Rivers said of Davis. "Mikki has a big game the other night as well. Maybe that's the silver lining, that Mikki and Big Baby are playing more. Steph is getting more minutes due to the fact that we just don't have enough bodies and Billy Walker is playing more so maybe that is a silver lining."
As for others who just became more important, Rivers knows the burden falls to Paul Pierce and Ray Allen.
"We're not going to play them more minutes but clearly there's more pressure on them," Rivers said. "I understand that. That may be a reason to cut their minutes a little bit as well. Bottom line is we're going to be healthy when playoffs start and we're going to do whatever we can to have the legs."
Then there were the following words from Kendrick Perkins.
"We have to do it as a team," Perkins said. "For sure, I have to do a better job of communicating on the floor and talking the defense out."
Perkins can read the writing on the wall about the team's chances if KG isn't fully recovered.
"There's always concern," Perkins said. "A guy that has a month off from rest, comes back and he's still not fully recovered. It's still kind of scary. But then again, you're dealing with a warrior, so he'll find a way to get back.
"When he was out there, he wasn't 100 percent, you could tell. The biggest thing is, we've got two-to-three weeks before the playoffs and we just want Kevin to be healthy, get treatment, messages and go from there," Perkins added.
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Beavers was arrested in April 2007 by Waco police after a 30-year-old woman reported she had been sexually assaulted at a Waco bar.
On Tuesday prosecutors Beth Toben and Mark Parker told 19th State District Judge Ralph Strother district attorney's office would not pursue the charge.
Beavers was terminated by the Robinson department after almost five years of service there following an internal investigation.
But in the interim, prosecutors never formalized a charge against him and his case was never presented to a grand jury.
Beaver's attorney, Abel Reyna, sought to have the charge dismissed because more than 180 days had passed since Beaver's arrest and prosecutors had not sought an indictment.
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Of course you will! You are a thief right?
BTW Good job!
BTW Good job!
I love this! He's totally had my heart for years.
You and me both. Kaito is so cute at times :3
Yes he is! I love him in Magic Kaito! He is so funny!
Nice work on the pose and shading.
thanks it was fun to draw.
You're welcome and that's good.
I always seem to have a lot of amusement drawing anything from the Detective Conan series.
Never seen/read it, but its cool you like drawing from it.
it's a fun series but then again I love any murder mystery (a legit and good series) as well as any puzzle game.
Not big on those most of the time but who knows. Puzzle games are fun
Well, this message is a bit late. XD He's had it for years.
oh it is Nevermind! i would love it if someone gave this to me!!
XD yeah I'd agree with you there Kaito is so funny.
It's funny Kaito actually acts more seriously in the Detective Conan series as compared to his behavior in his own series.
oh rlly? hmm intresting
yeah you can find the Magical Kaito manga on some manga websites and the anime on some anime hosting websites. (I read the manga on Mangahere and watch the anime on Anilinkz but if you choose to look it up on either site make sure to have a Anitivirus in your computer and use with caution.)
this is from case closed right?
Actually Kaito KID (aka Kaito Kuroba) first appeared in his own series called "Magical Kaito" then later appeared as a "guest character" in Detective Conan.
wow thats so cool! i didn't know that! how many episodes/movies of case closed is he in?
He's appeared in quite a few episodes, manga chapters, and movies: Last Wizard of the Century, Magician of the Silver Sky, Private eye's Requiem, and Lost ship in the Sky.
(I've seen all 15/16 Detective Conan movies the only one I've missed was movie 13 Raven Chaser.)
(I've seen all 15/16 Detective Conan movies the only one I've missed was movie 13 Raven Chaser.)
please come over tonight! °-° I will wait for you <3
Ha! Steal your heart! And he actually stole heart shaped medallion instead of the girl's metaphorical heart! I love it!
Oh, and its drawn well too.
Oh, and its drawn well too.
Well Kaito KID is known for stealing giant gems. He never steals anything else and always returns the stolen gems later.
Thanks I was testing out a new "pen" that I got. It's really as extremely fine brush and I'm LOVING it.
Thanks I was testing out a new "pen" that I got. It's really as extremely fine brush and I'm LOVING it.
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Funny Tom and Todd didn't tell us that they are the Brewer beat writers. Certainly that didn't factor into their decisions. I do however agree with their recognition of Aramis Ramirez. The Brewer infield was so much better all-around in 2012 than in 2011. Ramirez was the biggest reason for that.Hide replies
I don't think they were hiding it. They did post it on the blog for which they write.
Agreed Dan. My words could have been better chosen. What I meant is that their position of Brewers beat writers made them more likely to select Braun than the beat writers for the Mets or Astros. In fact because more voters selected Posey over Braun it might be inferred that one of Tom and Todd's primary reasons for their vote was their putting their money on the home town boy.
HD... the S.F. beat writers voted for Posey. Are you saying they should have voted differently too? Braun clearly had the better offensive season and was in the running for a gold glove. Posey also deserved the award, but you could easily make a case for either one.
I didn't say Tom or Todd should have voted differently. I merely said that we all know their home town bias was part of their decision . . . just like everyone elses' home town bias is part of their criticism of my comment.
Yadier Molina should have been further down the list because he is such a pshcho. nut.
Shame on both of you! Shows the lack of character and morals you have as cheaters should NEVER be tolerated! Great message for our youth Tom and Todd!Hide replies
so you are saying if someone is accused off 1st degree murder and is found not guilty, we should give him the death penalty anyways? that my friend, is a lesson I hope you don't teach your kids. I feel bad that they had to be raised in your household.
Your real name is either Dino Laurenzi or Bud Selig.
Inside.. it sounds as if you have taken one too many shots to the head. Your hate mongering and slanted views of reality should be an embarrassment to everyone. Hopefully you don't have children. Your tiny little closed mind, warped sense of reality, and absolute refusal to believe in the truth would be extremely harmful to our youth. Let's all hope you don't coach somewhere.
I'm going to have to ignore your posts from now on Inside, you are either a troll or an ignorant hater. Either way, you are no Brewer fan. Love Braun!
Every time I read one of your posts I think to myself, "who wrote that stupid comment?". Then I look and It's usually you.
Inside Pitch is an idiot TROLL. He has a compassion for hate.
Congrats to Braun, he was never going to win MVP even though he deserved it. It's astonishing, yet not surprising, that he was fourth on four ballots and third on 10 ballots. There is no justification for voting for him in those positions unless you are bitter about his offseason. Those voters should be ashamed of themselves, and illustrates the imperfect system that is MVP voting.Hide replies
The voters that did that should lose their vote forever if they cannot be more responsible.
"Granted, Posey doesn't play in a hitter-friendly ballpark as Braun does."
This is fact, but remember a bigger field leaves more open space for hits to drop. While Posey's power numbers may have been higher playing elsewhere his average would've dropped as well, so it equalizes. Needless to say, I'm glad this didn't factor into your decision Tom.
And I'm glad neither of you, as it appears all but one other writer did, held something that never should've been known against Braun. I would say that demonstrates character and is a great message for our youth about fairness.
I"m shocked that Braun was on all 32 ballots.Hide replies
Was he? I believe somebody voted him 10th.
I give Joe Strauss a lot of credit voting for Braun over Yadi. Thats a noble move that may not sit well with his fan base.
Hey Tom, remember on November 7 when one of your guesses for the five finalists was Carlos Beltran? Turns out you voted him 5th and nobody else had him on their ballot. I guess you are pretty out of touch.
Is anyone surprised that the two Milwaukee bloggers who follow the Brewers both picked the PED using Braun as league MVP? Can you spell HOMER ?
I am sure Selig is happy that Posey won the MVP race. I guess going to the playoffs is the criteria on this one here.Hide replies
Winning the award because of the team he plays on has no factor is how valuable how the player was and should not even be considered in the voting.
Braun was the best, also impressive was how the team made a great run at the end of the season.
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Apparently there's no end to the market for alternative history.
It's the kind of history that begins with the question, what if? - and counts on intriguing possibilities to multiply from that point on.
No sooner had Grant and Lee gone through the formalities at Appomattox than the ranks of Civil War buffs began to fill with people asking what might have happened if reality hadn't been there first at crucial moments. Many of the "what if" questions deal with military strategy and action, and that is true of a book called "Bull's-Eyes and Misfires" by Clint Johnson (Rutledge Press, $12.99).
However, you don't have to be an expert on Civil War battles to enjoy the sketches of about "50 people whose obscure efforts shaped the American Civil War." Author Clint Johnson, a Civil War re-enactor for 25 years, makes his living as a free lance business writer who also has produced five books on the war between North and South.
"Bull's-Eyes," in his new book, designate actions or qualities that contributed to an outcome favorable to the side the person favored. "Misfires" describes planning or action that went awry.
Fittingly, the first misfire in the book deals with an error by Union Army Major William F. Barry at the first major engagement of the war, First Bull Run. His failure to identify certain blue-clad infantrymen as Confederate, not Yankee, led to Union rout on a field where they should have won.
Barry did not suffer from poor eyesight. He was just a little early in deciding that blue was the Yankee color. It had not been officially determined this early in the conflict; and the soldiers Barry thought were Union were actually members of a Virginia militia unit.
Appalled at the damage the Confederate boys in blue were doing to his artillery, Major Barry compounded his problems by losing his sense of direction on the battlefield.
Another Union misfire, according to Johnson, was Maryland spinster Anna Ella Carroll, described as "a woman rarely gifted but maybe not a military genius." As the story is told, Carroll was honest in saying she had thought of the strategy used by the Union to split the Confederacy.
It involved sending gunboats up the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers to check Confederate strength at Forts Henry and Donelson before attacks that would isolate Confederate states in the West from the rest of their new nation. Carroll claimed credit and wanted the federal government to pay her $250,000.
Unfortunately for her, the same strategy had been worked out - earlier - by Generals U.S. Grant and Don Carlos Buell. Miss Carroll collected no money.
Elizabeth Keckley, the black seamstress and former slave who became Mary Todd Lincoln's "sanity keeper" in the White House, rates a bull's-eye in the book for her service in keeping Mrs. Lincoln "on this side of reality and off of the president's back." It was a service that permitted him to do his job of winning the war.
After 1868, when Keckley published a "tell all" book about life in the Lincoln White House, Mrs.Lincoln cut off ties with the woman often described as her only friend. Keckley also earned a place in the black book of Robert Lincoln, the president's only surviving son and an unforgiving man who later committed his mother to an insane asylum.
Among bull's-eye winners on the Confederate side was Gen. Joseph Reid Anderson, who combined business sense and engineering skills to operate his country's largest manufacturing plant. It provided armor for CSS Virginia and other ironclads and armed the vessels with the best cannon manufactured during the war. His success in supplying Confederate field artillery units was a major block to early victory by a Grand Army of the Republic powered by an industrial juggernaut.
A West Point graduate, Anderson actually saw little military duty before going to work as a salesman for Tradegar Iron Works of Richmond, and President Jefferson Davis saw him as far more valuable as a hands-on business manager than as military commander. Bowing to Anderson's request, Davis granted him the military rank but kept him on the job in Richmond.
Also scoring a bull's-eye was Gen. John Bankhead Magruder, the eccentric who twice saved Richmond. The text describes him as a "clever, pompous, overdressed, alcoholic general who suffered anxiety attacks when under duress."
Despite the flaws, Magruder's ability to stage a show on the battlefield twice duped superior Union forces into keeping their distance when they should have attacked. Without his action, many military experts believe, the war would have lasted only one year.
Called a misfire is Gen. William Booth Taliaferro, "the man Jackson both hated and needed."
Taliaferro was an experienced citizen soldier who made the monster mistake of writing a letter in which he implied that Stonewall Jackson was incompetent to command.
The rest of Taliaferro's military record was excellent, even heroic, but could not cancel out his judgment call on the great Stonewall, who submitted his resignation over the incident that led to Taliaferro's judgment. Acceding to pleas by Confederate Secretary of War Judah P. Benjamin and President Davis, he withdrew it.
Later on, Taliaferro was promoted to brigadier general and served in Stonewall Jackson's command. Stonewall never liked him.
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- GM-labeling legislation would set federal standards
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- Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act introduced in the House.
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"The diversity of innovative options farmers and ranchers have in regard to how they grow our food is one of the reasons U.S. consumers enjoy a wide variety of foods that are also among the most affordable in the world," said Bob Stallman, AFBF President. "Farm Bureau supports all production practices -- and common sense, science-based regulations -- that ensure consumers are receiving safe and healthy food. But we will stand adamantly opposed to those who want to take tools and technologies away from America's farmers and affordable choices away from consumers.
"The GMO labeling ballot initiatives and legislative efforts that many state lawmakers and voters are facing are geared toward making people wrongly fear what they're eating and feeding their children. They undermine the public's understanding of the many benefits of biotechnology in feeding a growing population -- and keeping costs down."
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"A federal GMO labeling solution will allow consumers to feel confident in the safety of American food by affirming the FDA's sole authority in food safety and labeling decisions," said Martin Barbre, NCGA President and farmer from Carmi, Ill. "GMOs are important to farmers and to our nation's food supply as they help us grow a stable supply of crops that can withstand a variety of changing conditions while reducing our use of chemicals…
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Terrestrial foraging and dental microwear inPapio ursinus
- David J. DaeglingAffiliated withYale University
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Dental microwear of ten wild-shot chacma baboons (Papio urinus) form Northwest and Northern Privinces, South Africa was examined by scanning electron microscopy. All specimens were collected during the dry season, during which these primates exploit hypogeous (underground) food items, including tubers and corms. The microwear fabric of thisP. ursinus sample is characterized by high pitting frequencies and large microwear features. It differs significantly from those displayed by other terrestrially foraging papionins of the genusTheropithecus. Exogenous grit is hypothesized to be largely responsible for the observedP. ursinus wear pattern, which resembles the microwear profiles of durophagous primates. It is suggested that large microwear features and a high incidence of enamel pitting, which are generally held to represent a microwear "signature" of durophagy, may not always be indicative of hard-object feeding in anthropoid primates.
Key WordsDiet Feeding behavior Scanning electron microscopy Papionins
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Just as the children of Abraham so many years ago, the people in our country
wanted to be like the other countries with the liberal laws and lower moral
standards than their religion allowed under their type of rule, law, and order.
We are coming into a position where we already robbed Peter to pay Paul, as Congress has been borrowing from the "overpaid" Social Security sacred funds taken from people's pay checks for two generations. The "baby-boomers" wouldn't ever become retirement age as the "Woodstock" generation would fade away and no collect on their "Social Security" process. However, due to the great medical programs we have and the disability, Medicare, Medicaid and great additional state and local programs, private and public, we have people living beyond the 1930 Social Security life-span. Congressmen and women who started the process of taking from those funds to pay for other government programs are now six-feet deep. The rest of us have a government that is 20 feet deep in debt. People are paying now for wanting to be like their neighbor countries instead of being the country of our Founding Fathers. In 240 years, we forgot them.
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If you pay for something, you're entitled to it. The arithmetic being used to say the nation cannot afford the current system is a bogus argument for not making good on the investments of wage earners. Sustainability is a matter of priorities and commitment. But Mr. Romney, Mr. Ryan, and others mask their social restructuring agenda in cause-serving manipulation of the numbers. We're capable of doing the math ourselves.
- 9:57 a.m. Sept. 24, 2012
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Fiduciary responsibility falls squarely on the Government and that involves
auditing, scrutiny, and other accepted forms of control. Both bureaucratic and
elected officials have the requirements on their shoulders to ensure a safety
net for the people that entrust them to make reliable judgements for our future.
The system is not to be a Lehman Brothers and AIG type of process. Anything
can be bought from those companies but not necessarily what someone wants in 40
years after working and inputting a lot of trust in the government.
I do not trust individuals as power corrupts. There needs to be a system that is not corruptible. When Social Security was started it was not designed to be robbed to pay current bills or expand government at the cost of those who paid into the Social Security system. The trust of those who robbed went with them to the grave. We still have some of those that robbed while in their elected and appointed government offices knew the bill would come due sooner or later. Sooner is now here and I am glad for people like Romney/Ryan who will look at this and hopefully will not become politicized by robbers.
- 10:41 a.m. Sept. 24, 2012
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".....When Social Security was started it was not designed to be robbed to pay current bills or expand government at the cost of those who paid into the Social Security system....."
Precisely. But as long as the Social Security trust fund after all the doomsayer's hullabaloo about its impending insolvency is STILL being dipped into to pay off program deficits, guys like and Romney and Ryan are going to find me a hard sell in persuading that current entitlements are not sustainable. Especially when they start calling for a two trillion dollar increase in defense spending beyond what the Pentagon is asking for.
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My point in sharing these real life scenarios is simply to illustrate the ironies of the system, the waste and abuse that goes on. I don't have the answers as to "how" it should be done, but the system needs to be tightened up so that the help goes to those who really need it and that our tax dollars don't get fed to the ducks.
8:34 a.m. Sept. 24, 2012
Let me get this straight you are worried and outraged about your neighbors "wasting" your tax dollars feeding a few ducks?
For the life of me, I can't honestly imagine how you must be feeling right now about the $2 Trillion for Middle Eastern wars.
[FYI; For a little perspective -- that equates to every man, woman, and child in America each feeding a loaf of bread every single day to ducks for the next 20 years, and that's without paying the interest. But I haven't heard your outrage about that.]
Talk about irony.
- 12:14 p.m. Sept. 24, 2012
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LDS Liberal...of course I'm outraged at overspending in every case. Some aspects of the wars were unfortunate but not totally unnecessary. Right now I'm outraged at so many things the current POTUS has done that I can't fit it all into the space alloted by DN. But that's not what we're discussing at the moment. May I refer you back to the topic of the article? Entitlement reform.
- 12:31 p.m. Sept. 24, 2012
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OK then --
I'm for a Flat tax.
But uber-Rich like Romney don't want one. Why?
Because it takes away all the Deductable goodies they become entitled too gor decades.
When 1% owns 80% of everything, they need to pay 80% of the taxes.
That's HOW a Flat system works.
The RICH tell you not to change it, and scare the "little people" into not supporting it.
So, the Middle class ends up getting cobblered.
Romney's tax releases so far prove my point.
They one he's keeping hidden would spark a American version of the French Revolution.
- 12:59 p.m. Sept. 24, 2012
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To "LDS Liberal" again with the lies.
Lets look again at the stats on the top 1%. According to the NY Times and various other sources the top 1% own 40% of the wealth in the US. However, we do not tax people based on their wealth, but their income. If we look at their income, they take home 16% of all income in the US.
Ok, now we know how much they own, and how much they earn. Lets look at what percent they pay of all federal income taxes. According to the the IRS, those same top 1% pay 40.4% of all income taxes in 2011. So, according to your reasoning, the rich pay their fair share. If you base it on income they pay more than their fair share.
Since they pay their fair share according to your standards, does this mean that you will no longer complain about the taxes that the wealthy pay?
Can you please pass that along to Obama.
Does 20% of your income go to Federal income taxes?
Do you also promise a chicken in every pot and a car in every driveway?
- 3:18 p.m. Sept. 24, 2012
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I don't believe that half of all Americans don't pay taxes. it has not been proven at all! Besides, there is something wrong here if there are that many people with no money! When the Wal Mart family owns more of our country than 40% of of our population, and we are giving them all the tax breaks, there is something wrong! Who are the ones with entitlements? So, it makes sense to say that the people who have the least are the ones causing all the problems? Gee whiz, I guess most of us should expect nothing , should we! They are talking about us~! It isn't your poor neighbor that they refer to. Take a look at the wars we have had! Do you think that may have contributed to our financial problems? What about all those wealthy bankers and the automobile industry. I guess that didn't hurt our economy either? Maybe if big business would pay a fair wage, we wouldn't have so many poor people. HAve you ever thought of that. Something is wrong with this story!
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You believe that an increase in capital gains tax will stifle job creation. Wrong. Historical data show that, allowing for a 6-year lag between the cuts in the capital gains taxes and the resulting unemployment, the low rates begun during the Bush era are actually behind the last two decades of job stagnation. Google "capital gains correlation unemployment" and you will find plenty of rhetoric on both sides but little evidence on yours.
If corporate bigwigs see a big difference between regular tax rates and capital gains rates, they start sucking money out of their companies by exercising stock options, etc., so they can enjoy a lifestyle fueled by high, low-tax incomes. Their businesses stagnate and do NOT create jobs.
Today's capital gains tax rates are the lowest they have ever been in over a century, except for the years preceding the Great Depression.
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Roland Kayser: What would you do to bring our medical expenses back in line, or make them comparable to the rest of the 'developed' world? Maybe first off would be some form of tort reform?!
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Peppers at 10, which seems low.
Kyle Meinke discusses quarterbacks in Michigan vs. Notre Dame matchup
I will never understand newspaper beat writers talking in front of a webcam.
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This was filmed last year. I know this seems very 2008 Ohio, but they're behind the times. It was 2010.
This is also by Pop Evil. They turned into a bunch of hair metal posers just last year. Before that they were were "Muskegon's Menudo," and before that they were dog groomers. They're still dog groomers but now they have a band so they can test out exciting new techniques on each other.
Doubling down on… us? Bill Connolly is a smart person who does good things with stats, so he (and his models) know Michigan had a hugely positive yards per play margin last year and that turnovers don't correlate that well year to year and Michigan finally has a returning quarterback so they could bounce significantly forward this year.
This is a little much, though:
Five Predictions for the Big Ten in 2011:
1. Michigan wins the damn Legends Division. That's right.
5. Oh why the hell not ... Michigan beats Wisconsin in the conference title game. Might as well go all-in, right?
That is all in like whoah. If any part of this transpires Brady Hoke is king and Bill Connolly will be assaulted for lottery numbers.
The main problem with this is his model takes recruiting into account and Michigan's recruiting has been a paper tiger for a while now.
I'll take it! An NFL scout type guy on SI.com drops David Molk on his list of NFL prospects… but only to call him overrated. Still, I'll take this description:
Overrated: David Molk, Michigan -- Molk is considered the top center in the country by a number of scouts, yet in our opinion there are better senior centers in his conference.
I'll take "a number of scouts" believing he's the top center in the country over one dude disagreeing.
This is a fake thing. Iowa graduated leather magnet Tyler Sash last year. They are Iowa so they'll replace him with a walk-on. This is the filthy lie about this walk-on's name that BHGP expects us to believe:
Collin Sleeper (#16, Junior (RS), 6'2", 200, Solon (IA) HS)
We know absolutely nothing about Collin Sleeper.
It's not that we know absolutely nothing. It's that we know exactly what we're supposed to know. He's a junior walk-on from Solon who has never played a down of college football and is now the starting strong safety. He was completely unrecruited and unscouted by the services. According to him, he's fast. He played halfback for the James Morris-led Iowa high school juggernaut 10 miles up the road from Iowa City. He reportedly played Denard Robinson on the scout team last year. His name is Sleeper, for chrissake.
THAT IS A LIE, SIR. Your walk-on safety is named "Sleeper" and my new running back recruit runs a 4.3 40. Eighteen fakes out of five, you Hawkeye bastards. Eighteen fakes.
This is a dumb thing. WMU beatwriter Greg Couch on the state of Michigan's quarterbacks:
I think Alex Carder is the best college quarterback in the state. Denard Robinson is a great athlete, but I'd bet you if Carder were in that program, they'd find a different role (flanker, perhaps) for Robinson. MSU's Kirk Cousins isn't even close.
That is literally the dumbest thing I have seen written about football in the state of Michigan not related to Rich Rodriguez. In games against ND and MSU last year Carder averaged 5.4 YPA—Threet/Sheridan numbers—and threw two TDs to three interceptions. He had 104 yards on 33 attempts against Idaho in a 33-13 loss. Playing a MAC schedule he finished 35th in passer efficiency. Cousins was 18th and Robinson 20th playing in the Big Ten.
This is not a surrounding talent issue. According to Couch WR Jordan White "would be an All Big Ten wideout." He proved this by averaging a whopping 10.5 yards per catch against MSU and Notre Dame. But sure, a MAC team with a better quarterback than Kirk Cousins and Denard Robinson and an All Big Ten wideout went 6-6 last year in the MAC.
This guy also thinks Denard Robinson is "Juice Williams with wheels," which is like saying "Carlos Brown but fast." Guh. Insert Billy Madison quote here.
I hope Chris Brown didn't get fired… or do I? He's gone from near-hibernation to putting out ridiculously good content consistently. There was the speed option post I linked in a previous UV, then a description of the inverted veer option Michigan tried a couple times last year and Auburn rode to national title. I don't think we're going to see it again, which is sad-making. I was so excited about it last year even though they never quite got it right.
End. The USHL's president is awesome. Some Canadian hockey radio guys were pondering a USHL-CHL matchup as a way to get a true North American junior championship, which prompted USHL prez Skip Prince to write them an open letter that said "Ready to do it" and bombed the CHL's model. This is a dagger. I'm going to quote a big chunk of it:
It's odd to hear second-tier status ascribed to the USHL, the notion of "Well, if you're going to go to college, then the USHL is the best place to go." There's an implicit demotion there – an implied statement "…because I guess you've decided you're not good enough to go pro." Really? So that's an either-or decision?
No. It's not. Our website equally celebrates the 165 NHL alumni we sport and the 283 college commitments we have in hand. They go together. It's our pyramid at work. The fact is, 35% of the young men wearing an NCAA Division I sweater this past year – more than one out of every three rostered players in college hockey – is a USHL alum. That's extraordinary. That 3% of those kids make it to the NHL is also extraordinary. The fact that's right on par with the CHL is not extraordinary – not to us – but somehow that gets lost in translation.
So we are damn proud of that special 3% - and the other 97%. Every – every – player departing the USHL this year, who was eligible for NCAA play, had a Division I commitment in hand. Last year we were one short of perfect, a great young man who chose Division III instead. Match that.
Sure, there are those who depart from the USHL-to-college-to-NHL route, and take the CHL direction instead. We're well aware of the four well-publicized de-commitments this past month. Point given. The CHL gets four great players. Hey - we celebrate them, and hope they all do well. That's American freedom of choice.
We just think it's a risk they didn't need to take. Each and every one of those players had just as great a chance of making the NHL playing college hockey, lifting and getting better, over a time period they control, as they do with the two-year bet they've now made. But we know each of those young men, and our competitiveness does not stop us from wanting that bet to play out for all of them.
About 95% of the CHL would be better served in college. There's not enough room for all of them, unfortunately, but unless you're getting a massive under the table payment or can't hack classes you should probably go to college.
Flyover spoilers. Stop reading now if you like your planes all surprising. Notre Dame is going to be overkill city:
10 Sep vs. Notre Dame: The Yankee Air Force's C-47 Skytrain "Yankee Doodle Dandy" will conduct a pregame flyover and a two-soldier parachute team from the 101st Airborne Division (The Screaming Eagles) will drop into the stadium during the halftime program (one each in the two end zones). Prior to the game, the Michigan and Notre Dame NROTC Units will contest their annual flag football game on Friday, 9 Sep at 7 pm at Oosterbaan Fieldhouse. Stop by and cheer on your fellow students.
Nebraska and OSU will also have flyovers; Purdue(?!) is tentatively scheduled for one as well. Not sure why they'd do one for Purdue unless they're bombing the World's Somewhat Large Drum.
Etc.: Jason Whitlock writes a panting piece on Hoke day after he writes one of his odious race-baiting idiot columns, this one directed at the incredibly irresponsible Charles Robinson. Yes, that Charles Robinson. As a result I can't really take the former seriously. The lesson is always that Jason Whitlock is an asshat.
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I guess I can't be mad at the Dispatch any more. Because we're doing it to ourselves:
If it motivates the players, great. I never want to see it again.
That's one way to put it. How are things on the Michigan State offensive line? Deep. Peachy. Deeply peachy:
Spartans depth sparks offensive line competition
This is their depth:
Converted defensive tackle Dan France has emerged as the leading candidate at left tackle, but the battle at center and right tackle are far from decided.
Redshirt freshman Travis Jackson and junior Blake Treadwell, another converted defensive tackle, are running neck-and-neck at center, while redshirt freshman Skyler Burkland and junior college transfer Fou Fonoti are fighting for the top spot at right tackle.
Er. France was flipped from OT to DT last year despite being 6'6" and now returns to be the starting left tackle. That is a hell of a position switch starter. This was his status in January:
"But in the bowl practice, I was struggling," he said. "I didn't know the (blocking) techniques and footwork. I never had done pass blocking before. I mean, I sort of did (at tight end) in high school, but I didn't have any technique or really know what I was doing."
Kirk Cousins might be under siege this year. Let's hope so, because if someone were to bold Michigan's secondary it wouldn't be much prettier.
Hey, here's a Michigan football coach talking. I wonder if he's going to talk about "violence," "toughness," "being physical," and "being consistent":
No, he mostly talked about cheese. Cheese and Will Campbell's pad level.
Of course not. Some news organization I can't be bothered to look up—oh this article says it's the Seattle Times—posted the shocking news there was a Pac-10/Big 10 "consensus" in favor of a plus one game. This was shocking for a little while until it was debunked. Or at least sort of debunked. Check out Jim Delany's reply to that:
"To describe the ADs as supportive, I would call that erroneous," Delany said.
Masterful weaseling right there. This on further expansion, at least, is a straightforward declaration they're not interested:
"No, we're about as comfortable as we can be with where we are," Delany said. "We've said we will continue to monitor the landscape, but we have closed down active expansion. Every period you look at it, but we don't expect anything the SEC does to affect us."
I'm increasingly irritated at the media reports predicting Superconferenceageddon without bothering to figure out whether adding teams like Pitt and Missouri helps or hurts the bottom line. The burden of proof is on people predicting unwieldy, tradition-hurting behemoths but all we get is "this is totally happening because it's an arms race!"
Yes, yes, TV markets blah blah. At times like these I think about Lloyd Carr in his last couple years sighing disgustedly whenever the subject of money came up in press conferences. He believed placing it above all other goals was destructive, he's looking prophetic at the moment.
Zing. I was just hoping Jerry Hinnen would drop some more twitter bombs on the SEC so I could post them up, and then he did:
Gotten the feeling that if Scott and Delany jumped off a bridge, SEC fans would gripe that Slive should have been the one jumping first. "We can't afford to react. You have to be proactive when it comes to bridge-jumping!"
Adding Nebraska had a purpose. Adding A&M to the SEC just dilutes it.
Downing disagreement. Retweets coming from Michigan Hockey Net and Yost Built over the course of the recent Five Nations tournament were rapturous about 2013 D commit (and team captain) Michael Downing. Examples from tourney observer @twharry:
The difference between Downing and DeAngelo is vast. I had no idea Downing was this good. He plays like a vet.
Michael Downing is having another very strong two-way game. Comparing him to Merrill may be unfairly lofty, but they are strikingly similar.
Breakaway going the other way. DeAngelo was way out of position. Luckily Downing was there to cover and Demko made the stop.
FWIW, talked to an ex-teammate of Downing today from CC - said he's the real deal, nat. skill set but little rough around the edges at times
When one of my friends checked out the Friday game he compared Downing to Nick Lidstrom. Apparently the US team was so confident in his positioning they would often send the other defenseman up the ice to pressure the Swiss. A local diary praised his game as well.
So of course a couple scouting reports are mixed at best, contradict the above, and contradict each other. WCH:
Michael Downing has had a very good summer--including locking down a scholarship to Michigan--which has helped turn him into one of the top defensive prospects in the US for his age group. He appears to have loads of potential with a big frame and nice skating, but still has a pretty long ways to go when it comes to decision-making and handling the puck. The pace of play here looked a little faster than what he was used to, which took him out of his comfort zone and forced him to make some bad turnovers. Not many players have things completely figured out by age 16 though, and with a little more experience, he has a chance to develop into a very nice player.
And the United States of Hockey:
Michael Downing - Canton, Mich. — The big defenseman served as the captain for this U.S. outfit. He's pushing 6-foot-3, but has some good mobility and offensive instincts. Despite the size, however, Downing was getting out muscled and hit hard by smaller players. The more muscle he can tack on, the better in the coming years. He'll also need to do a better job in his own end, but he appeared to improve defensively as the tournament went on. Despite the defensive deficiencies, I really liked his offensive game. If he can develop defensively, he could be a. pretty solid blueliner down the road. Draft eligible in 2013
Another Burns tweet did mention Downing needs to fill out quite a bit, so at least there's some consistency there. Downing maintains he's 110% committed to Michigan and is not a goalie, so he'll probably show up. I'm actually drawing a blank on the last Michigan D commit to skip out for the OHL before he hit campus. Seems like it's a F/G thing.
The Blip …is what I called the 2008 Wisconsin game in last year's Plays of the Decade feature. It was a briefly intoxicating lie about how good that team could be that presaged the less brief but no less deceitful starts the next two years; as such it's both an emblem and an enormous outlier.
Holdin' the Rope takes us way back when:
I sat and wondered how we could spring a comeback from so much flailing incompetence. I had faith, but it was that kind of belief that eats at itself if exposed to the light.. It's propped up by rubber bands and paper clips and a little bit of measured delusion and naivete.
Somehow, Michigan pulled itself together and willed themselves through a halfway decent touchdown drive in the third quarter, capped by Kevin Koger's first touchdown reception. A promise of a bright future. Michigan went down the field on the arm of Steven Threet, the legs of Sam McGuffie and Kevin Grady, and the hands of Martavious Odoms and Greg Mathews. Greg's last name only had one "t," but people managed to always get it wrong, and they probably still do. This wasn't Henson, Terrell, Walker, and A-Train. It wasn't Henne, Manningham, Arrington, and Hart. It wasn't Navarre, Braylon, Avant.
Etc.: Notre Dame is taking its sweet time figuring out where its hockey team is going to hang out. MGoMix is going with songs 1-5 and 6-10. Trailer for the Willis Ward movie is good. Shakin' the Southland's DrB talks 3-4, 4-3 under, and multiple fronts. Money quote:
In the one-gap 3-4, you have a blend of the 4-3 and the older two-gap system. You can take a guy that is a 'tweener' and put him at DE or OLB. You can take heavy interior linemen that are skilled at pass rushing, and put them at DE positions even if they don't run 4.6-4.7 in the 40. The fact that it is a one-gap system and easier to teach means they can rush the passer without regard for the linebackers and put what talent they do have to good use.
I do not advocate the one-gap 3-4 over the 4-3, each has its uses. I do prefer the one-gap over the 2-gap version because it disguises the bubbles in the front better, and is simpler to teach. I'm all for adding fronts that simply teach guys new places to stand without actually changing everything they're doing. In most cases, the fronts are exactly the same, but with different personnel.
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I was in… France. We had a free apartment to stay at and my mom turned in a bunch of airline miles, so it seemed like a one-time opportunity. It rained most of the time and the food was pretty disappointing but it sounds like everyone in the United States melted while we were gone so that's cool. Also if you ever get a chance go to a calanque, you should probably do it:
That is a real place, not the scene from Contact where the alien is all like "yo I'm your dad what up Jodie Foster."
The guy above was checking out a very serious bocce tournament we stumbled across in Marseille whilst trying to figure out how to get back to the bus. I'll probably throw up a trip report in the diaries if there is further interest, or even if there isn't.
Now presenting Things That Happened When I Was Going "Meh" At Escargot:
A large chunk of next year's attrition got resolved. Kellen Jones, Teric Jones, and Christian Pace are not on the fall roster and therefore not on the team. Kellen Jones reportedly got in some legal trouble that must be serious given the repercussions on his team status. Pace and Teric Jones got sent to St. Saban Memorial. Meanwhile, Terry Talbott is also expected to miss the season but it's unclear whether or not he has made the same journey. Rivals says Hoke confirmed he was medicaled($) in the hallway scrum following his media day time, so that's probably that for one Talbott. UPDATE: Misopogon reports that Ablauf also confirmed Talbott is done.
Three of the four are obviously not sketchy. Michigan needs linebackers and DTs like Mark Dantonio needs the collected Sophocles and Pace was the only(!) offensive lineman in his class. Teric Jones's departure is one you can question given his place on the depth chart, but since there's an entire football season between now and crunch time it's probably legit. In the Big Ten, sketchy medical scholarships are something to look for in January.
As for on-field impact, Teric found it impossible to contribute even in an offense suited to his scatback skills; his absence won't impact Michigan going forward. Pace removes one bullet from the chamber at center, but they'll still have Khoury and Miller once Molk graduates. That should be okay. Talbott's absence is bad. Now instead of a shaky three-star-ish redshirt freshman behind Will Campbell there are walk-ons and air and maybe Kenny Wilkins. Kellen Jones's absence will be felt keenly as well. My excellently-timed recruiting profile of him hyped him up as an immediate contributor and possible four-year starter due to his talent and the glaring hole at WLB. Now he's gone and WLB next year is the untested Mike Jones and two really small guys.
With those four off the roster the path to 26 is considerably less eyebrow-cocking. Michigan will have to shed another two or three players before signing day. A natural level of attrition should get Michigan to their projections without fuss.
Michigan got a fullback. Tim profiled Sione Houma, who is it. I hate giving scholarships to fullbacks because the difference between a walk-on fullback and a scholarship fullback is usually indistinguishable. Michigan's best in the last 15 years was walk-on Kevin Dudley. If they really take one DT it's going to be weird, doubly so with the uncertain status of Talbott.
Michigan got Chris Wormley. A foregone conclusion, that, but it's another head to head win for Hoke against the Bobcats. SDE is set in a major way and someone—possibly two someones—are moving to three-tech as soon as they hit campus.
San Diego State got a little less scary. Two of their receivers are out for the year with knee injuries, including presumed #1 Dominique Sandifer. Their new leading guy is the equivalent of Kovacs—walk-on made good. Ryan Lindley's good but he might not have anyone to throw to.
Something vaguely ominous happened with Devin Gardner's redshirt. Brady Hoke has been unusually wishy-washy about what Devin Gardner's eligibility status is after he saw a few snaps here and there as the designated Guy Who Replaces Denard For Three Plays Guy during the nonconference schedule. This is unusual. In the past the NCAA has just issued a ruling and been done with it.
The eligibility status of Alabama receiver Darius Hanks—still on the team and everything after five years!—may provide some insight into why:
… Hanks appeared in one game as a true freshman in 2007, hauling in one pass for six yards in a 52-6 win over Western Carolina. Accordingly, his fifth season required a waiver from the NCAA, which apparently attached the two-game breather to offset Hanks' contribution to that hard-earned victory four years ago.
Gardner appeared in three of Michigan's first four games. Against UConn and ND his box score totaled one rush for –4 yards but against BGSU he had 6 rushes for 25 yards and went 7 of 10 for 85 yards and a TD in the air. If I'm Dave Brandon I'm making the first couple of games of 2015 walkovers. Which Dave Brandon is going to do anyway because…
Dave Brandon does not Get It. This is awful:
"I don't believe we can or should go on the road for nonconference games when we can put 113,000 people in our stadium. It's, financially, the right thing to do. It's the right thing to do for our fans, in terms of their ticket packages. And we're going to alternate with Notre Dame, so we're going to have one game on the road every other year. So the rest of those games, I would like to have at Michigan Stadium."
Kiss ever seeing an interesting non-ND nonconference opponent goodbye. This is another symptom of the AD's descent into full-blown corporate ninnydom: we get to play Alabama in Dallas because it makes incrementally more money than having an exciting home game. Brandon fails to understand that the point of an athletic department is not to accumulate the biggest Scrooge McDuck vault. (See also: renting the Big House for your special event, though that's far less offensive since I don't have to buy a 70 dollar ticket to the Jones-Wilson wedding. Unless I do. Do I?) Even if it was, the marginal difference between one home game against a real opponent and two body-bag games from schools charging a million each is not that much. People will suck up the difference on the ticket cost: a Clemson ticket that costs $80 will make people happier than an EMU one that costs $70.
At least we won't have to endure three pointless games against non-BCS opponents yearly for too long. Schools have been told to clear the decks in 2017. Presumably that's when the Big Ten will go to nine conference games. That's is not as cool as actually seeing teams from other conferences but better than our yearly battle for county pride.
Ohio State didn't get anything extra handed them by the NCAA. Time for a homer check. Matt Hinton:
Is it really possible for the people in charge to have that little interest in enforcing their own rules, as long as the paperwork is in order? …
The Ohio State and USC cases are similar in the sense that they both involve a star accepting a lot of money from shady characters on the fringes of the program, but the the case against OSU is on a different level. Where USC's violations (as chronicled by the NCAA's final verdict) involved a single player, Ohio State's involve at least six. Where USC consistently disputed that anyone affiliated with the program knew what was going on with Bush — as well as the sketchy evidence the NCAA used to reach that conclusion — the paper trail leading from Jim Tressel's hard drive is an indisputable smoking gun. Which he intentionally concealed as the offending players led the Buckeyes to another conference championship. Ohio State's star player(s) and its head coach did the crime, and no one denies it. Tressel's silence after being tipped to the investigation is the definition of a program failing to cooperate. He's the head coach: He is the program.
At this point, any athletic director with half a brain is going to set up a firewall between himself and the head coach. Oh, sure, there will be any number of compliance people who will be sent around wagging fingers at coaches about following regulations. But there will also be plenty of blind eyes turned to what those coaches are doing when the compliance folks aren't in the room with them. So when the shit inevitably hits the fan, those ADs and the presidents they work for can blink their eyes vapidly at the NCAA investigators, claim they had no idea what was going on and swear they'll get rid of the rogue bad apple. And it'll work.
Nice system you got there, NCAA.
Mark Emmert, you have lost our confidence in your ability to do the job.
The next time you speak, we won't be able to take you seriously thanks to news that Ohio State would not face additional charges of failure to monitor or lack of institutional control in the school's infraction case.
'It's all about what the NCAA can prove, not what we've read' is the company line. Well, you had a chance to prove things but you said you weren't going to try.
It's pathetic, really. The rats see a ship sailing to probation, and it's every dirty, cheating program for itself.
Ohio State got out first, and now North Carolina sees the opening. Soon enough, Oregon will too.
Here's the best part of this growing, sordid tale: The NCAA is standing with open arms on the other side.
Want to blame someone for North Carolina's utterly bizarre firing of coach Butch Davis, who was never mentioned once in the program's lengthy NCAA Notice of Allegations? Blame Ohio State.
Better yet, blame the NCAA – and more specifically, president Mark Emmert.
Meanwhile Mandel, the guy who was predicting this would happen, hasn't taken up a position on whether it's good or bad. I haven't found anyone who doesn't have a framed Andy Katzenmoyer jersey who thinks this is anything other than total horseshit. Homer check tenuously passed.
Meanwhile, OSU confirms that Terrelle Pryor was ineligible for the entirety of last year and bans him from contact with the program without explaining why. Where is the extra violation that gets Pryor that treatment while the other five players remain on the team, associated with the program. Is the NCAA interested in this? Apparently not.
There is a recent precedent for a team not getting failure to monitor or LOIC (which come on) and still getting hammered: Alabama got 21 scholarships docked and a two-year bowl ban for various boosters paying dudes to go to Alabama. If Ohio State gets something similar, fine. The NCAA's two-eyes-for-an-eye policy could see at least 12 scholarships obliterated and two years of bowl ban even without LOIC if the committee is like "hey, your head coach lying to keep a half-dozen players eligible and hoodwinking us to let them play in a bowl game… that's bad."
loldantonio. Mark Dantonio called Jim Tressel a "tragic hero."
Then Jim Brandstatter was all like "loldantonio" and Dantonio was all like "paraphrase of insanely misused Teddy Roosevelt quote about being in the arena," because that's what people who say stupid things do when they are criticized for saying stupid things.
The Big Ten Network made itself into a feed. Press release:
BTN2Go features a live feed of all BTN linear network programming, including more than 40 football games, over 100 men's basketball games and hundreds of other live events, as well as Extra Football Game Channels, on-demand programming and archived content.
BTN2Go will be offered exclusively through BTN's participating cable, satellite and telco distribution partners as an authenticated digital service to subscribers who already receive BTN as part of their video subscription.
If the authenticated bit lets you watch the BTN if you're in Alabama despite the locals not giving a damn, that's great as long as it works better than the streaming service did a year ago when I tried it for an hockey game. If it's ESPN3 quality, lovely.
Desmond Howard had a good idea. Via Get The Picture:
"But if you want to play the education game, then check this out. If they get my likeness for life, then they should be committed to my education for life. So if Mark Ingram 20 years from now, when they're still selling his jerseys in Tuscaloosa, says 'You know what? I want to get my Ph.D.' Guess who should pay for that? They should be committed to his education for life. They're still selling his jerseys."
If a school is still profiting off a guy who had a few years in the NFL and now has some messed up knees and maybe wants a more saleable degree, he should be able to get it.
Wolverine Historian posted a bunch of games. Bo becomes the winningest coach in school history with a victory in The Game:
Also available are 2000 Indiana (58-0), 2003 Illinois (56-14), and 1993 Minnesota (58-7). Bring your nostalgic bloodlust.
John Gibson defects to the OHL, Michigan picks up Michael Downing. Let's not mince words: dropping a college commitment less than a month before classes start is a dick move. I get that he'll get more games next year because he probably won't be splitting time, but exactly no information has changed since he committed and signed a LOI. Blah blah blah about "doing what's best for me" is what they say on Jerry Springer, too.
Michigan now has zero backup to Hunwick and is in a desperate search for his replacement next year. At least whoever they pick up—they likely need two goalies—won't have a midget dynamo blocking their path.
In happier news, Michigan's somewhat glaring hole on D going forward is smaller thanks to Downing's commitment for 2013. Downing was the third pick and first defenseman in the USHL Futures Draft. He's coming off a strong showing at the U16 Festival. OHL defection risk currently seems low: he's from CC, has an older brother already in the USHL, and was drafted in the flyer area of the OHL draft (8th round) by Sarnia, a team not known for picking up off college-bound folk.
People discussed ways to prevent "Jerry, Jerry, Jerry" events. Gibson's very very late decision spurred a round of "what can we do" from Yost Built and The United States of Hockey. Yost Built wonders about making a hockey LOI binding in the same way an NTDP commitment is. Someone will have to ping The Bylaw Blog for confirmation but that would redefine the LOI in such a comprehensive fashion it wouldn't be a LOI anymore. It's currently a non-legal agreement enforced by a non-NCAA organization of schools interested in reducing chaos.
The United States of Hockey discusses whether or not it's a good idea to allow CHL players to play NCAA. He says no, and he's right. CHL teams have no incentive to keep athletes NCAA eligible even now; removing that restriction would provide an incentive to actually discourage players from keeping up with their books. The number of players headed the other way would be few. Meanwhile, the USHL has established itself a high quality league designed to get kids to college. This would hurt it as some players choose the CHL over it.
It's a moot point anyway: the NCAA just relaxed regulations on foreign players playing with pros. Hockey specifically requested and acquired an exemption.
So there's not much the NCAA can do. The one thing I'd suggest is prohibiting American 16 and 17 year olds from playing CHL hockey in Canada. As we learned during the Max Domi song and dance, Hockey Canada currently prohibits Canadians from leaving the country to play junior. Domi's dad would have had to "move to" Indiana to get his kid eligible for the USHL, a major hurdle for anyone who didn't have a long NHL career.
USA hockey should adopt the same policy, limiting American high-schoolers who want to play in the CHL to the small number of American teams in the WHL and OHL*.
*[The Q just shut down their only American team, the ridiculously-named Lewiston MAINEacs.]
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Austin Hatch is still in a coma a month after the plane crash. At least that's what his local paper says. Depressing.
Zak Irvin picked Michigan. Covered yesterday, but dang if Beilein's recruiting hasn't been on a steady upward trajectory since his first class. It's got to plateau soon, but that plateau looks like a Sweet 16 team.
Also, UMHoops has uncovered the first grainy videos of the camera-shy Irvin.
People covered ADs golfing like it was news. I don't care if it's July. A story about an athletic director playing golf against another athletic director is time that could have been spent on something more socially productive like spitting off a balcony. I'm not linking to any of this stuff. Sports editors across the state: you have suffered the mother of all eye-rollings.
Baseball made its RPI more Northern friendly. By acknowledging that—surprise!—having to spent the first month or two of the season on the road is a significant handicap, Big Ten teams that are actually kind of good will stand a better shot of making the tournament. They also eliminated some bonuses/penalties for teams at the extreme ends of the the range.
Getting those kind of good B10 teams remains a chore. As long as this is true…
Some schools are able to play 35-40 of their 56 allowable games at home, while other teams, due to factors such as weather, may play only 20 home games.
…the playing field will never be anywhere close to level, but good luck trying to change that.
In related news, Jonathan Bornstein moves to Honduras. Bob Bradley was fired and replaced by Jurgen Klinsmann as the head of the USMNT. I get people's reservations about Klinsmann's reputation, which is largely based on one World Cup with Germany and a flameout with Bayern Munich, but if there's one thing the US needs now it's a holistic look at how they develop talent and how it can be improved. The talent gap with Mexico won't be huge for the rest of this WC cycle, but it's hard to see the US not taking a back seat once the Dempsey/Donovan/Dolo/Boca generation ages out after Brazil. There are 100x fewer Uruguayans than Americans, man: there's no reason the US shouldn't be able to produce a few world class players.
Also! PSU QB Paul Jones is academically ineligible, leaving the QB competition there just Bolden and McGloin. The Big Ten further proved that putting their athletic directors in charge of naming anything just leads to a successories poster. BTN revenues increase 21(!) percent over last year. A Michigan undergrad built the largest solar array in the state. Basketball agreed to a home and home with Arkansas. Doctor Saturday predicts 7-5 again, but adding up the "likely win/tossup/likely loss" bits seems to point to 8-4. Gameday likely for the ND game.
Hello, Michigan football beat; now where to start?
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