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Again. Congrats to softball, which won their umpteenth consecutive regional. Their super-regional against Missouri is this upcoming weekend. Wolverine Devotee has assembled the relevant information:
2 Michigan will host 15 Missouri in the NCAA Ann Arbor Super Regional next weekend on May 28-29.
- Game 1- Saturday, May 28 (3pm/ESPN)
- Game 2- Sunday, May 29 (Noon/ESPN)
- Game 3 (if nec.)- Sunday, May 29 (3pm/ESPN)
Tickets go on sale tomorrow at 8:30am for season ticket holders and to the general public on Tuesday at 8:30am.
You will not get tickets if you don't already have them.
Awww yeah. Jane takes the 1986 Hawaii game and adores it:
10. When people tell you they want to see "Schembechler-style" football they mean they want to see a football game that looks sort of like the Battle of Verdun. Typically, the people telling you this will have a carefully-guarded recipe for seven-layer dip. I have no problem with any of this.
11. 27-10 is the score of a game in which one team is much better than the other team but doesn't really want anyone to know it. Like, you score 3 touchdowns but then, "whoa, let's not get cocky."
12. 27-10 is kind of the most Michigan score of all.
Expectations. Many people are expecting a good season from Michigan this year but this might be a tad much:
Updated College Football Championship odds from Vegas: Alabama still favored, but Michigan #Wolverines down to 7-1! pic.twitter.com/yrZ6I1XvAQ
— Johnny Detroit (@Johnny_Detroit) May 23, 2016
7 to 1 are the second best odds on the board behind Alabama at 6 to 1. This is not a power poll, many of which have Michigan around #5. Like this one from PFF:
5. Michigan
It's all about the defense at Michigan, as they're poised to be one of the nation's best. They return the nation's top-graded cornerback in Jourdan Lewis as well as two of the top three graded interior defensive linemen in Chris Wormley and Maurice Hurst. It will be on the offense to find a way to score points, but the majority of the offense returns and the results of their wide-open quarterback race – led by Wilton Speight – will determine just how far this Michigan team will go.
That's a power poll. The betting lines aren't. Those take Michigan's iffy schedule into account. They're also a collection of sucker bets that has less predictive power than a weekly line that sharps mostly control. (It also emphasizes how incredibly unlikely Leicester City was: you can bet on Navy or Air Force to win the national title at 1000 to 1. Leicester was infamously 5000 to 1.) But the expectations: they are out there.
About that defense. PFF details why they expect Michigan to have one of the best ones in the country again:
2. Their pass rush should be excellent…
As good as Henry was for Michigan last season, he was only the fourth-most efficient rusher on the Wolverines' defense. Chris Wormley and Maurice Hurst formed the most efficient interior pass-rushing duo in the nation, with Wormley ranking first among defensive tackles in pass-rush productivity (45 total QB pressures, including seven sacks) and Hurst ranking third (30, including three). Hurst only saw 418 snaps last season, so the ability of both he and Wormley to stay productive and on the field will be critical to the Wolverines' defensive success.
On the edge, Taco Charlton ranked sixth among 4-3 defensive ends in pass-rush productivity, generating 41 total pressures including six sacks.
Charlton did that in relatively scanty playing time as for much of the season he was splitting SDE snaps with Wormley. Only in the last few games did he end up starting at WDE. He could break out in a huge way with incremental improvement and a clear starting role.
PFF also offered up a couple of glimpses into their database that I don't think we'd seen before, since usually the only hard numbers we get are from the top end. On Michigan's departures:
The Wolverines only had one player drafted at all – defensive lineman Willie Henry, who went to the Ravens in the fourth round. That's not to say they don't have to replace some very productive players. Henry was PFF's No. 34 interior lineman, LBs Desmond Morgan and Royce Jenkins-Stone both produced at a high level (linebacker in general is a bit of a question-mark position for Michigan), and SS Jarrod Wilson ranked No. 29 at his position after grading well in both run and pass defense.
I didn't think RJS was that productive—not bad, but not great, either. And Wilson's ranking is very boring, as is appropriate. A couple departures are omitted, one due to injury early in the year, the other… not due to injury.
Why does there have to be a seamy underbelly? Waco police and Baylor have conspired to keep a series of serious crimes by Baylor players out of the public eye. One of many:
In one case from 2011, an assault at an off-campus event in Waco ended with three football players being charged and Baylor and Waco police discussing the incident. Waco police, according to documents, took extraordinary steps to keep it from the public view "given the potential high-profile nature of the incident." According to a police report obtained by Outside the Lines, Waco's investigating officer asked a commander that "the case be pulled from the computer system so that only persons who had a reason to inquire about the report would be able to access it." The report was placed in a locked office.
This is bigger than the football program. The Title IX "Dear Colleague" letter that we became familiar with when Brendan Gibbons was belatedly expelled from the university is very much in effect at Baylor despite its private status, and there are a pile of accusations that the university has been operating like it's still 1950 in this department. That could lead to serious repercussions for Baylor as a whole.
Via GTP, Chip Brown is reporting that Art Briles may be safe despite the fact that his teams seem to have a ton of bad behavior going on:
Multiple sources connected to Baylor told HornsDigest.com football coach Art Briles has a better chance of keeping his job after the school's rape scandal than BU president and chancellor Ken Starr.
The sources said Starr will probably be reassigned to a position in BU's law school as a result of the failed leadership displayed after multiple rape claims made by female Baylor students against five BU football players all but went ignored…
Briles, who has taken an irrelevant football program to two Big 12 titles in the last three years (including a bunch of new athletics facilities), is sometimes referred to by Baylor brass as "Moses."
Brown titles this piece "Starr—Not Briles—Will Be BU's Fall Guy," which is wrong. A fall guy is someone who takes the hit for something that wasn't his fault. Scott Shafer was a fall guy for Rich Rodriguez. Here, Ken Starr is certainly responsible for massive failures and should be booted. You could make an argument either way for Briles, but it's indisputable that Title IX stuff is above his paygrade. (Uh… figuratively.)
That's not to say that Briles isn't under a lot of heat:
"If you don't (release the findings), it's going to look like you're hiding something given all of these allegations that are now out there," he said. "There's just been so much of it. All of that (Shawn) Oakman stuff. Now this."
And this is a salient point:
"These guys kept playing?" the coach said. "The message you're sending is, 'This isn't a big deal.'" … "This is a guy (Briles) who prides himself in being a players' coach and coaching his team like a high school team. It's really hard to believe that he didn't know about any of this stuff."
Michigan would still have Logan Tuley-Tillman on the roster if they acted like Baylor evidently has. The goings-on in Waco make Michigan's participation in Baylor's camp a dubious proposition. We'll see if it continues as scheduled—Sam Webb mentioned there was some discussion of it but they still planned to go forward with it.
Still, this is more a story about Waco police corruption at the behest of Baylor's administration more than it is a football coach. Someone's head has to roll and unusually it look like the—or at least a—correct one will. Whether or not Baylor actually changes as a result is very much in question.
Praise to a sensible thing. More details on Big Ten hockey's revamped playoff format have emerged, and they are equally devoid of neutral sites:
The tournament would be played over the course of three weekends and feature three best-of-three quarterfinal round series, two single-game semifinals, and one championship game. All games will be hosted on campus of the highest seed.
I assume they meant "higher" seed, not "highest" seed, FWIW. While I'd prefer best two-of-three to continue throughout the tournament, that change is close enough to what I've been advocating since Big Ten hockey started existing that I'll take it. It's more hockey, and a much much better environment for it. I assume the single game semis and finals are for TV purposes—the league can say we have these three games at this time and televise it without having to worry about if-necessary games. There would seem to be no other reason to have the above format.
While the story linked above seems to assume that the Big Ten will stay at 7, the format will obviously accommodate an eighth team without much disruption. Arizona State's announcement they will join the NCHC means that particular bad idea is off the table, so the options are 1) swing for the North Dakota fences, 2) wait for a Big Ten school to add hockey or 3) take Miami, I guess.
BTW the comments here are 90% Minnesota fans bitching about Big Ten hockey…
Wow, it's been 24 hours since I thanked the Big 10 for ruining college hockey. Thanks Big Ten!!!!
…and one North Dakota fan trolling. My favorite is the guy that imagines Minnesota has leverage:
Cleaning up this mess is Coyle's first priority as AD. We need to force ourselves out of this debacle and back into regionalized hockey as soon as possible. He needs to play hardball like Alvarez played hardball in forcing Minnesota to accept this terrible idea.
They're gonna make Minnesota hockey great again by playing hardball. That's the ticket.
Etc.: Manuel on scheduling. Manuel on Harbaugh. Ian Boyd on how teams protect their matchup nightmare TE when he's not a killer blocker. Relevant to our interests. Conference distribution numbers show the SEC and Big Ten on par, at least temporarily. Billy Donlon, defensive coordinator.
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Jake Ryan came back before he was injured. Are we moving Jake Ryan's timetable up? I… maybe?
Joined by
@CoachRoyM live on @michiganinsider - "wouldn't be surprised if jake came back sooner (than predicted)"
There are rumblings about the first Big Ten game, which would be crazy.
When you have two quarterbacks, you have no quarterbacks. When you have four, math implodes. Michigan State's nominal starter put up 4.1 YPA in their latest closed scrimmage and their true freshman went 10 of 14 for 240 yards, so a two-way quarterback battle is now a four-way one:
"At the beginning of the scrimmage it was a three-horse race," Dantonio said Monday. "And at the end of the scrimmage, it was a four-horse race."
While you are fretting about uncertainty at guard and safety at least Michigan's quarterback battle is "who wants to get Devin Gardner sandwiches?" Also, Michigan is starting Taylor Lewan at left tackle instead of a former walk-on. LeVeon Bell ain't walking through that door.
Related: in weird news, Hoke told the Michigan insider that Shane Morris was held out of Saturday's scrimmage because they wanted to rest him. Uh?
Meanwhile in Iowa. An open practice(!) leads BHGP to conclude that redshirt sophomore Jake Rudock is likely to throw two-yard hitches on third and seven for the Hawkeyes. Rudock was a three-star out of star-studded Florida powerhouse St Thomas Aquinas a couple years back.
Other bits from Iowa City:
- Sounds like depth is at a low ebb on defense.
- Greg Davis has spent most of the offseason smoking opium and drinking absinthe, so Iowa's now a no-huddle shotgun team.
- True freshman tailback LeShun Daniels is going to play, because he is an Iowa tailback. He is scheduled to be raptured up midseason. Weisman and Damon Bullock also return.
From the comments:
"It looked like a modern-day college football offense."
This… wait, so… but… I can't… so wait, you mean…. but that's…. that's just…. um…. but…. I don't…. wait, what?
In West Lafayette. Rob Henry is named Purdue's starter, which is amazing because he's a redshirt senior. I don't know if I've ever experienced the opposite of the Brooks Bollinger Eighth Year Memorial Season effect, but it seems like Henry should be much younger. Playing at Purdue == premature aging. Thus all the ACL tears.
In South Bend. The Irish lose Danny Spond to migrane issues. He was a returning starter at the Irish equivalent of SAM.
Another angle. Gardner posted his slant touchdown to Joe Reynolds to instagram:
Johnson is young for his grade, and you know Beilein keeps an eye on that stuff. His coach reports that now that Johnson has "shown a lot of maturity" in the classroom that Michigan is getting more interested. His mom used to play at Wisconsin, but other than that connection it seems Michigan is the local favorite:
"I've really got to dissect the program and the way they play (more), but I love Michigan. I'm from Michigan and any time I turn the TV on, if Wisconsin is not playing and Michigan is, I'm rooting for Michigan. It is just a matter if it is going to be a fit for Jay. (It'll be about) where I feel that Jay is going to get the most development, the most growth, (and has) the people who are going to get on board with Jaylen's dream, as well as him being an asset to the program."
Johnson's going to take all five officials, but probably won't use one on Michigan because he's, like, 10 minutes away. Iowa State, Louisville, and Oregon have been scheduled already.
Old school. Newsreels from mgovideo. This, the 1943 Brown Jug game:
1943 Minnesota at Michigan by mgovideo
This from the 1964 Purdue game, narrated by a very, very boring man.
1964 Purdue at Michigan by mgovideo
There's also a half-hour of the 1936 Minnesota game.
It just had to happen to us. This Football Study Hall piece attempts to rank coaching performance relative to recruiting success by taking star average and comparing it to F+, one of those fancy holistic statistical measures that tries to smooth out schedule strength and takes MOV into account. Your #1 recruiting outperformer is the 2012 Kansas State Wildcats.
Of local interest: #2 is… 2007 West Virginia. 2006 West Virginia is 10th. Michigan hires that guy, and that guy turns in the 19th-worst performance of the decade. Cumong, man. No other coach appears in the top and bottom 40. The only other coaches with multiple years in the top 40 are Nick Saban, Bobby Petrino, and Brian Kelly, with Chip Kelly an honorable mention since he was the OC for Mike Belloti.
BONUS: this study makes Rick Neuheisel look like the worst coach of the past ten years. Three of his four UCLA teams finished 12th through 14th-worst, and many of those below him are outfits like Washington State and Colorado, teams whose recruiting profile doesn't really cover how terrible they are.
Etc.: "Forecast: Good." Not so good: David Terrell's situation. More Darboh stuff. I'm not sure if this is the best acronym for a college basketball team right now. IN SG James Blackmon Jr. on Michigan. On the 1977 OSU game.
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wait, what? – Caleb TerBush
Yikes. Michigan is a mere three-point favorite against Purdue this weekend, which seems mighty narrow to me. I may be assuming that Denard Robinson does not turn the ball over five times, which Vegas is not. Boo 2012 Notre Dame game, boo.
Purdue's coming off a not-as-close-as-you-think game against Marshall in which they led 42-14 at halftime before yielding three touchdowns in the first 18 minutes of the second half and allowing the Herd to get within ten points. They traded touchdowns in the final 12 minutes, and that was the final margin. Marshall's lost to Ohio and beat Rice in two OTs; they've got the worst scoring D in the country at the moment, and they outgained Purdue by 91 yards. If Michigan only wins by three I'll be expecting bad things the rest of the season. Purdue QB Caleb TerBush was ineffective against ND (8 of 19, 79 yards, 1 TD/2 INT) and was pulled for a considerably better Robert Marve. Marve won't be available.
So what I'm saying is that at first blush I don't like the spread, which makes me feel both sad and alarmed because it's the best predictor available. I would like to avoid posting this at any point over the weekend:
Beyer's back. The most newsy bit of the press conference:
How's your team's health?
"There ya go. You know, I think Beyer will be back. Brandon Moore will be close. He's getting better."
Richard Ash?
"Richard is better. Uh there's one more, too."
"Hop's fine. Devin's fine. They all practiced last night. Yeah Ricky Barnum was a little -- sore shoulder. He was fine last night. So with the guys who aren't out for the year, the rest of them are okay."
Marvin Robinson?
"He was better. He ran around last night and he feels much better."
Beyer was walking around in an air cast after his injury and I was a little worried he might be laid up for a long time, which would have been bad. The options at WDE were a major target for ND and didn't do so well. Beyer at least gives them another option at the spot. Clark makes more plays you notice, but I'll bet a nickel Beyer is less likely to get caved in and give up the edge.
Also, feel free to infer that Brink is out for the year from the above.
Also also, this:
Are you worried that Denard is what he is, i.e. not improving in your system?
"No. Not at all. I mean, he's our quarterback, and he's a damned good quarterback. I didn't say that, so don't write that. No we're very comfortable and we're very confident in him. … I know you're going to write that."
I will.
"Daggone it. My mom's going to read that and get mad."
She doesn't think you swear?
"Why don't you just ask a question."
And you're fired and you're fired and you're fired. Extreme media hostility isn't just for Los Angeles anymore:
Tuesday, South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier finally spoke with his media after two days of giving an opening statement and then refusing to field questions.
What has Spurrier so irked? Apparently columnist Ron Morris — again.
Ron Morris is a columnist at The State in South Carolina and has become Spurrier's nemesis. Last October, Spurrier called out Morris for something he wrote in the spring regarding then-basketball player Bruce Ellington and how Spurrier persuaded Ellington to play football.
This time, according to Saturday Down South, Spurrier seems to be mad about a Morris column that questioned playing quarterback Connor Shaw against UAB. Shaw, who has been nursing an injured shoulder he suffered in the season opener against Vanderbilt, injured the shoulder again against the Blazers.
The excerpt from the column that follows is pretty tame (also: dumb). Spurrier is accused of a "poor decision" to play Connor Shaw with a dinged shoulder, which he re-injured in the game. The column is just another tossed-off nothing (Shaw was 20 of 21 against Missouri), but apparently this business goes back a ways. Be chill, OBC.
Meanwhile, a local news station axed the guy's weekly segment, causing free speech rabbling.
Meanwhile in local media situations. Meinke is writing articles based off of his viewing of Inside Michigan Football. Interesting ones, even. Here's Mattison on Morgan defending that goddamned counter draw:
Mattison said he was most impressed by Morgan's discipline, specifically citing one counter draw play on which the sophomore could have pursued the ball, but elected to stay home as he was taught.
The play came back to him, and he made the tackle.
"We gave him that play probably four times in practice, and every time we gave it to him, we said, 'Desmond, you've got to stay home. You can't help on that sprint anyhow,'" Mattison said. "Well that same thing has happened before and he would go running and try to make the play because he's a young guy eager to make plays.
"All of the sudden, in this game, he became more of a veteran."
And Mattison on Raymon Taylor:
"Raymon has really improved," defensive coordinator Greg Mattison said this week on the Inside Michigan Football radio show. "He has been thrown in the fire. If someone would have said to me at the beginning of the year, 'Will he be starting against Notre Dame?' I don't know if I would have said yes.
"(But) I was really proud of him how he played. He knows he's got a lot of things he has to get better at, but one thing he didn't do was shy away from anything. He competed."
I'm not sure you can do that. In yet another NHL draft ranking, Chris Peters tackles prospects 26-50. D Michael Downing and F Tyler Motte show up, FWIW, but I'm most intrigued by this construction:
49. Tyler Motte - C - U.S. National Under-18 Team (USHL) - 5-9, 190
When at his best, he's an offensively dynamic talent. Good speed, solid strength despite a smallish frame, and good finish around the net make him an intriguing prospect. Motte has had a problem with consistency, which he has a whole season to prove isn't a problem anymore.
Lloyd Carr feels you, Mr. Peters. Also, yes please 5-9 kid good enough to be a second rounder. Needs moar tiny scoring machines at Yost.
Nice concourse. Wow:
That's quite a difference from last year. Also the zambonis have studded tires now. Yost Built is back to posting, BTW. The Blue/White game scheduled for next Sunday will be a start-studded even thanks to the NHL lockout.
Etc.: UMHoops previews Jordan Morgan and Matt Vogrich. AP Mealer article is everywhere. Trey Burke is a third-team All-American to the Sporting News. Baumgardner on Burke. Weinreb on Holgo and the WVU-Baylor game. Michigan hasn't sucked after byes.
Unverified Voracity Stops At Resistance
Scheduling note. I sat down to start UFRing last night and found that I'd actually re-converted the UMass game and hadn't downloaded ND at all. My subconscious is protecting me as best it can, but I now have the thing. UFR will be a day late, which it traditionally is during a bye week anyway.
Denard's night went better than at least one person's. Mmmm Northern Indiana style:
The man on the ground had severe facial and upper body wounds. According to police, both men said they were hit by a car, but police have not confirmed that. Investigators say it's possible that is a story to cover-up a fight.
While police were talking to the men, a woman approached officers and said she'd been hit in the face with a case of Natural Light Beer. The woman had very visible wounds, most profound, her entire bottom row of teeth were missing.
This was at 9 PM, so I assume all of this arose from an argument about whether Borges or Denard was the worst.
The pants! They are motion pants. That's not a Sufjan Stevens song title yet, but I bet it's on his next album. No, it's a reference to some digging done by UMHoops that unearths a piece of basketball's uniforms for next year:
The way this works is you put one leg in one tube and the other leg in the other tube and then pull up until you feel resistance. Once you feel resistance, STOP. You will now be wearing your legtubes. You will kind of look like a 12-year-old from 1993. If you did not stop when you felt resistance you will also be in severe pain, but that's your problem. That's what you get for not following instructions.
Nobody at commenting at UMHoops likes these, but they do like Glenn Robinson III.
Uniforms are supposed to be, you know, what's that word… the same. Adidas is still not executing this task, apparently:
Piping: it's just all over the place man. Also, Washington's missing his block M. If you sent this to me, thanks, but I forget who did.
Bye week activity. WTKA is replaying Ufer's call of the 1979 Michigan State game at noon on Saturday. 1050 on your dial, or on the internets. Here's Keith Jackson doing the same:
Band noise solution? They amplified the band a couple years back to mixed reviews. If you couldn't hear them before it's great. If you could, it sounds horrible as the slightly delayed noise coming out of the speakers conflicts with the band itself. I'm in an area where it sounds horrible.
I thought about this on Saturday at some point in the third quarter when I noticed I could hear the ND band loud and clear despite being about as far away from them as possible, but couldn't hear the Michigan band that was just below our section. I was going to mention this in the game column as depressing commentary on how quiet the MMB, but MVictors pointed out the speaker setup they had on the sideline:
Audio people: does this make a difference, having the speakers in the same place the band is? Or am I grasping at straws?
Idiots in charge of stuff. Replacement refs screw up Monday Night Football and the NFL burns its credibility all for a pathetically tiny slice of their enormous revenue pool. In the NHL, Edmonton's ownership laughably threatens to move the Oilers to Seattle; the NHL is bunkered down for another strike less than a decade after an entire season failed to happen.
At some point, it has to be about something other than the pursuit of as much money as you can get right damn now, doesn't it? Maybe, maybe not. They'll have to start to see some erosion before they act, just like college football teams are starting to now that the terrible scheduling practices of the last 20 years are finally resulting in empty seats.
In other news, someone is paying bowtied twit Gordon Gee an exorbitant amount of money and allowing the guy to spend 7.7 million in expenses(!), including $64,000 on bowties(!!!). How's that going?
At the University of Michigan, President Mary Sue Coleman's travel and entertainment expenses from 2007 through 2010 totaled $410,235. Upkeep and utilities at the university-owned house runs an additional $100,000 a year and if Coleman takes someone to lunch or dinner, she pays the tab out of her own pocket, according to University of Michigan spokesman Rick Fitzgerald.
Coleman's compensation package is $860,782 a year and includes housing and a car. Her employment contract does not call for first class airline tickets or private jets, as Gee's does. In Michigan's last endowment campaign she helped raise $3.2 billion — the most ever by a public university at that time.
There are signs that OSU isn't keeping pace nationally on the size of its endowment. OSU slipped from 27th in the four years preceding Gee's return to Columbus to 31st in 2010-11, according to the National Association of College and University Business Officers and the Commonfund Institute. The Big 10 universities Northwestern, Minnesota, and Michigan all ranked above Ohio State for the size of their endowment.
Jim Tressel, fire this man.
Come on Tim. Baumgardner on Tim Hardaway entering his junior year:
"I've watched and probably had more interaction with Tim this summer (than ever before)," Beilein said recently. "With him just coming in, sitting in my office, hanging out and feeling very comfortable as a Michigan man.
"Him being more comfortable with everything has allowed him to have a lot of confidence in the intangible area (off the court). And there's a strong correlation between that and how he'll perform on the court."
I hope that's true. Hardaway's three point shooting should bounce back just because 27% is incredibly low, but if Michigan is going to live up to some extremely hefty preseason expectations he'll have to either be more effective creating his own shots or go from terrible to elite from behind the line.
wat. Mac Bennett on the twitter:
@BeatsPointZero "Deblois is a Bag of Milk" EP will be out later today. Excited about it
I don't know. I've notified Jon Bois about this, though.
A fast one. The Michigan-ND series opened up in South Bend, and if it's ending semi-permanently in 2014, it'll end in South Bend. Not a smooth move to not build an even number of home/away games into the contract, Michigan. This is probably Bill Martin's fault, FWIW.
Chalk. Via Jamie, Michigan's… performance type thing against Notre Dame has finally provided a leader in Big Ten betting whatnot:
MSU now "clear" betting chalk to win Big 10: MSU +220, Braska +250, Wisco +300, UM +400, PU +700. Odds lot less muddled than a week ago
Purdue's down from 20-1 recently. I TOLD YOU JAMIE /ignores Wisconsin
Also, Michigan lines are frightening. Michigan's favored by less than a field goal at Purdue and about a touchdown at Nebraska and Ohio State. This is all an overreaction to something that won't happen again, right guys? Right?
I'm a little surprised things are shaking out like this after last weekend. I mean, MSU-EMU couldn't have moved the needle in favor of the Spartans, could it?
Here's your statistical nutshell. Michigan State snapped the ball 72 times on Saturday with the intention of advancing the ball.
On 46 of those plays, the ball ended up, or was targeted to end up, in the hands of Le'Veon Bell or Dion Sims. The average gain on those plays was 7.8 yards.
On the remaining the 26 plays, the ball was intended to end up in someone else's hands. The average gain on those plays was 2.8 yards.
Etc.: Hockey starts off ranked third. Seems high. Bois fake mailbag about those refs with mini-Packers TWIS. This is not Ace holding his head, but both Ace and I had to check. Kirk Ferentz is unfireable. Which person is Borges and which is me in this XKCD?
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Laser third downs and such. Wolverine Historian pays tribute to John Navarre, and even manages to get a still of the Buffalo Stampede selected as the introductory picture:
That's some youtube wizardry there.
Congrats on Olympic trials… and not dying. Michigan men's gymnast Sam Mikulak finished third in the men's gymnastics senior nationals and will appear at the Olympic trials as a result. He escaped a scary situation to do so:
Determined to make a good impression this weekend in St. Louis after missing last year's U.S. gymnastics championships with two broken ankles, Mikulak didn't flinch when he realized the parallel bars were loose.
After he had already started his routine.
"I thought the bar was going to fall and I was going to die," Mikulak conceded.
This comes a year after Mikulak managed to break those ankles on the floor exercise. Mikulak taped his ankles up and finished the meet because he only thought he'd badly bruised himself. The Olympic trials are in three weeks. USA Today has more on Mikulak's story.
Camp, basketball version. Michigan's Elite Camp was over the weekend, and while the effects were significantly less dramatic than last year's when the entire 2013 recruiting class was gathered, one Keita Bates-Diop was in attendance. Joe Stapleton on his appearance:
Keita Bates-Diop (2014, Wing, Illinois Wolves)
Keita was probably the only player in attendance who is a "lock" for a Michigan offer on June 15th. He didn't appear to be in his element during the 5-on-5 scrimmages but his skillset was more than evident in the drill portion of camp. Everything he was asked to do he did easily. His concentration and coordination was on display and it separated him from his peers. During the 5-on-5 scrimmages Keita didn't exactly stand out but did what his team needed from him in this guard-filled camp: he rebounded the ball well, finished in the post, and played smart defense. Bates-Diop's performance jives with what we've seen this spring: he has all of the tools but needs to become one or two notches more aggressive within a game setting. Still, he was solid and definitely the best player in attendance.
As the blockquote says, Beilein only offers after that's officially allowed in four days. At that point you'll see Bates-Diop and a few others like Devin Booker get them. It doesn't seem like anyone will drop right away, but I don't think anyone other than maybe the coaches was expecting to get four commitments last June.
There was one surprise 2013 name to watch, a kid named Vitto Brown out of Bowling Green, Ohio who you may remember being the one tall guy in that video where Mark Donnal goes bonkers. He was impressive but remains a 6'7" post player. I'd guess Michigan keeps him on the radar in case they get more attrition than they expect. Right now they're full.
There's also a bunch of stuff on 2015 recruits at UMHoops if you're interested.
Camp, fantasy version. Both the Women's Football Academy and the Men's Football Experience also happened recently. Fluff video ho:
Also there is one for the men. The big news resulting is Devin Gardner switching to #12 and Drew Dileo possibly switching to #9. Angelique Chengelis participated. Money was raised. I have no comment about this.
Brady Hoke is irascibly old-fashioned about something. He's like that about everything, yes. Here's a specific instance:
"You can take all these stars and the way all these guys are rated and all that, and that's great for the fan base and the public," Hoke told reporters last week. "But we've had some pretty good players here that probably would have been two-star guys.
"Tom Brady probably would have been a two-star guy. He turned out OK, I think."
Other recent Hoke rumble grumbles concern the playoff format—concerned about too many games and too much travel for parents—and year two with the same team.
Could have gone better. Michigan lost to Army 27-6 in 1954. Newsreel footage of that:
That bomb is totally offensive pass interference.
This game would be Michgian's last loss against Army. Michigan won the next two years and then a couple times in the sixties; the two teams haven't played since 1962.
Lines. Some real actual lines from Vegas:
- +12 vs Alabama
- +1 at Notre Dame
- -6 vs Michigan State
- -2 at Nebraska
- -2 at Oho State
That Alabama line has gotten a little less depressing after periods where it was supposedly +14.5, though I'm not sure you could have gotten a bet on that in an actual casino at any point.
Most of these lines are in the "I don't have any idea" range. When team X is favored by less than a field goal that's basically a coinflip. Could be a nervous fall.
Old school UFR. MVictors enjoys old-timey diagrammed wire photos of the Mad Magicians, and I'm with him:
What's wrong with Fielding? Peregrine falcons have been named inconsistently:
After receiving hundreds of submissions through the university's Facebook page, four peregrine falcon chicks that recently hatched in a nesting box atop University Hospital have been named Bo, Fritz, Lloyd and Yost.
The university selected the winning names after inviting the community to participate an online naming contest. The names reference former head football coaches Bo Schembechler, Herbert (Fritz) Crisler, Lloyd Carr and Fielding Yost.
This drives me crazy.
Etc.: Caris LeVert signs a thing, is now official. Hockey will play Cornell at MSG on November 24th, the day of the OSU game. Glenn Robinson continues to throw down dunks. 2011 four-star C Brian Bobek leaves the OSU team after plunging down the depth chart. Red Hot Chili Peppers troll Columbus.
Unverified Voracity Demands Eternal JLS
I missed you. John L Smith, never leave us again. We have gone too long without a college football coach organizing "etiquette team dinners."
College football should institute a rule: every year one team who fires their head coach is randomly chosen, and John L Smith coaches that team on an interim basis for a year. It's for the good of everyone. Yes.
Across this line you DO NOT… Hoke restating the obvious:
"The in-state rivalry is always something that's important to us," Hoke told sports editors and reporters at Weber's Inn. "We have not done our job the last four years if you're on the Michigan side of things. That's coaching, and that has to be better.
"But the Ohio game is the Ohio game. I don't think (that importance is) going to change," Hoke said. "And that doesn't lessen anything on the Michigan State game at all, because we realize in this state, you draw a line in the sand."
Obviously this was in response to some question about whether people respond to stimuli—
Hoke was asked if the Michigan State game carries even more importance for Michigan now than when he was here as an assistant under former coach Lloyd Carr, in part because of the improved Spartans under coach Mark Dantonio and also because of the Big Ten title game.
"Brady Hoke, can you be accurately defined as a life form?"
"Well, Lansing-based reporter, I can tell you I do respond to stimuli. Here, look. I shine a light in my eye. The pupil contracts. I hope this has been informative."
Hoke is also in favor of keeping the Ohio State game at the end of the season.
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE. Hearing that Connecticut offensive tackle Harry Poggins will commit to Michigan by Tuesday at the latest, or may have already done so. EXCLUSIVE DO NOT REPORT.
So… the long snapper. I don't get it either, man. In case you missed it, Michigan picked up a longsnapper with much fanfare yesterday. The fanfare comes because Scott Sypniewski says he's got a full ride, and this makes people confused. I am among you. Michigan picked up a walk-on who seemed pretty good last year (not the one MSU poached) and has a couple years of Sugar Bowl receiving MVP runner-up Jareth Glanda left. You'd think Michigan would wait and see if they could turn that slot into an excellent prospect before spending it on a guy whose main goal will be total anonymity.
Sometimes these things are confused. Lloyd Carr's last act as Michigan head coach was to bring George Morales aboard, but I don't think he ever factored into scholarship discussions. We'll see if Sypniewski signs a letter of intent. He may have been offered a conditional scholarship in the event Michigan has one at the end of the year, that sort of thing. If it's an out and out scholarship offer to a long snapper in early June that would be… odd.
Goodnight noon. Air Force and UMass are both 3:30 kickoffs, UMass on BTN and Air Force an ABC/ESPN2 reverse mirror. If those games aren't at noon it's hard to imagine Michigan will play more than one or two games then all year.
If you go to the games and care a lot about college football, that sucks. Most of the interesting games are on at the same time as yours and you can't watch the end of the noon games. Then you miss a chunk of the evening games. I feel like I've been getting less informed about everything going on in CFB, and that's a main reason why. Also, do we understand how many humiliating Notre Dame losses we're not seeing because of overlapping game times? THIS IS SERIOUS.
This is admittedly less of a problem during lame nonconference weeks in which Air Force-Michigan is worthy of ABC. The games we'll be missing in that window include Syracuse-USC, Purdue-Notre Dame, and… uh… UNC-Wake Forest. Songs will not be sung about September 8th, 2012.
Side note: a while back I was told that BTN could not show 3:30 games because of the ABC contract. Clearly there are some exceptions to that. Maybe it's just conference games?
The lines? Jamiemac promises a full evaluation of the hypothetical lines put out by Beyond The Bets on this here site a bit later. I'll be interested to hear his take on their assumptions. The conference schedule, with games Michigan is an underdog in bolded:
- @ Purdue: M –7
- Illinois: M –18
- @ Nebraska: M +3.5
- @ Minnesota: M –14.5
- Northwestern: M –17.5
- Iowa: M –14(!!!)
Those are not real lines. I assume a line with Michigan favored by two touchdowns over Iowa would be obliterated in ten minutes. But I don't bet. That's Jamie's area of expertise. For his part, Jamie wants to jump on MSU with the point.
Anyway, if those assumptions are anywhere near accurate that's about equal to a prediction of a 6.5-1.5 record. That feels a half-game high to me.
Position paper: Chick Fil'A. As the Big Ten-SEC blogger fight drags on into a sixth decade, positions must be taken. Here is one on Chick Fil'A: it's not as good as Southerners claim, especially displaced Southerners, but it is a cut above competing chicken sandwiches from other fast food joints. I'm sorry if this has caused anyone to snap in disappointment in either direction.
Big Two, Little Ten update. ESPN revamps/expands its rankings. No significant moves except a bit of a fall for Mike McCray and the addition of Dukes, Butt, and Gedeon to the specifically ranked. Michigan has 16 guys in their 300, OSU 12, the rest of the Big Ten combined: 9.
This is their list of the top 17 players in the midwest:
Hokemon, yo. Note that the two linemen not committed to Michigan on the list didn't have a chance to pull the trigger. Also, damn you Lane Kiffin.
Weekly Glenn Robinson III hype. From the Indy Star:
"Every time I see him play," said Indiana All-Stars coach Craig Teagle, "his stock goes up with me."
The 6-6 Robinson, who goes by "Tre," has earned rave reviews with his All-Star teammates this week. On a team filled with talent from the immediate area -- nine of the 13 players on the roster are from either Marion County or a neighboring county -- there was a bit of unfamiliarity with Robinson, who played at Lake Central High School in the extreme northwest corner of the state.
It didn't take long for the Michigan recruit to make an impression with his above-the-rim style, dunking nearly everything he touched in a scrimmage on Sunday.
"Wow," said North Central guard Patrick Ingram. "I've seen him play before, but didn't really know him that well. I like his game a lot. He can dunk from anywhere."
This basketball season promises to be fun.
Etc.: Wisconsin kerfuffler Jared Uthoff transfers to Iowa, ensuring that Bo Ryan goes out the Woody Hayes way. Ohio State gave back its Sugar Bowl profit for tatgate, but Gene Smith kept a 60k bonus for reaching the game. Hockey recruit Alex Kile profiled. Michigan pays their assistants money.


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In his mind, Serra-San Mateo basketball coach Chuck Rapp had conceded the lead with 40 seconds left. After all, the 3-point attempt by St. Francis guard Khalid Johnson was halfway down the basket. But as fate would have it, the ball rattled out and into the grasp of Serra power forward Henry Caruso.
"I had already flipped over the possession when it rolled out," Rapp said. "For the last four or five games we've had really weird rolls and really bad rolls, so maybe it was just our turn. It was karma coming back to us."
The No. 2 Padres sank six free throws to ice their 62-54 victory in the Central Coast Section Div. II semifinal at Foothill College, securing a spot in Friday night's championship game against top-seeded Mitty-San Jose at the Leavey Center in Santa Clara University. Tip-off is scheduled at 8:30 p.m.
"That was a tough game to coach because you felt the game was in the balance the whole way," Rapp said. "It's a credit to the kids to play in a situation like that where every possession becomes pressured. And for them to rise to the occasion in a game like that was huge."
Serra (23-5) jumped out to a 9-1 lead found itself ahead 16-5 with 1:07 left in the first quarter. No. 3 St. Francis, which lost twice to the Padres during the West Catholic Athletic League campaign, stormed back thanks to 6-foot-9 senior center Drew Dickey, whose 3-pointer with 4:06 left in the second quarter followed a jumper and a crowd-pleasing dunk that cut the deficit to 18-16.
"I don't know that we matched their intensity," St. Francis coach Michael Motil said. "Then we got our feet wet and we went from there."
The Lancers (14-13) never managed to overtake Serra, which extended the lead to 30-23 at halftime after Vika Jimenez caught fire to hit a trio of jumpers, including a buzzer-beater near the top of the key.
"Vika played awesome," Caruso said. "His shot was falling and he was crashing the boards. When he does that, we roll."
Caruso, who scored a game-high 24 points, made his fair share of contributions, including a fast-break dunk in the first half while going 10 of 13 from the line -- which meant he made more free throws than St. Francis attempted (eight).
"He's really good within 15 feet, really creative and quick with the basketball," Motil said. "He uses his body really well."
Back-to-back 3-pointers by Abu Tratter and Jimmy Frazier allowed St. Francis to climb within 39-37 with 2:23 left, but out of a timeout Serra point guard Jason Barsocchini hit a corner trey followed by another long-range shot to add some breathing room.
The Padres looked to pull away in the fourth quarter, up 52-44 after a hard cut to the basket by center Stephen Grosey. But St. Francis senior Durrell Crooks scored the first bench points of the game off a steal and Johnson took over with two buckets and an assist to Dickey, who tied for a team-high 15 points with Jarod Diaz.
Seconds later, down 56-54 and poised to take their first lead of the night, the Lancers were deceived by the rim.
"That ball was halfway down," Motil said. "That's kind of the story of our year. You get lot of good looks, but sometimes they don't go in for you."
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St. Francis 7 16 16 15 -- 54
Serra 16 14 16 16 -- 62
SF--Dickey 6 2-4 15, Diaz 7 0-0 15, Frazier 3 1-2 9, Tratter 3 2-2 9, Khalid Johnson 2 0-0 4, Crooks 1 0-0 2. Totals 22 5-8 54
S--Caruso 7 10-13 24, Jimenez 6 0-0 13, Barsocchini 4 0-1 11, Miller 1 4-4 6, Grosey 2 2-2 6, Cordery 0 2-2 2. Totals 20 18-22 62
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Character Role Analysis
Macbeth is his own worst enemy. He's Thane of Cawdor; he's got a devoted wife; and his king thinks he's the man. He should be happy and content, right? Instead, he overreaches—and ends up dead.
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Definition of toy in English:
1An object for a child to play with, typically a model or miniature replica of something: [as modifier]: a toy car
More example sentences
- There will be a range of automotive toys and model cars, boats and planes for children as well as a jumping castle, clowns, face painting and a care centre
- Everything bar the kitchen sink has to go… from cuddly toys to the cars standing on their driveway.
- Her favourite dolls, cuddly toys and teddy bears are lined along her shelves and bed.
plaything, game
model, miniature, imitation, make-believe, fake, simulation, artificial
1.1An object, especially a gadget or machine, regarded as providing amusement for an adult: in 1914 the car was still a rich man's toy
More example sentences
- The investment looked canny as the market for gadgets and toys aimed at adults keeps growing.
- The shop has been operating for more than three months, selling lingerie, adult toys and adult magazines, none of which requires a licence.
- But now that they've got that little one that everyone carries around, that's a bit of an adult toy, too.
trinket, bauble, knick-knack, ornament, gewgaw, trifle, gimcrack, bagatelle, triviality;
North American kickshaw
informal whatnot
British informal doodah
1.2A person treated by another as a source of pleasure or amusement rather than with due seriousness: a man needed a friend, an ally, not an idol or a toy
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- Sadly the drugs rapidly tired her out and she slumped back in humiliated defeat, a toy for his pleasure.
- Ilsa treats the inhabitants of her prison camp like toys to be played with and broken.
2 [as modifier] Denoting a diminutive breed or variety of dog: a toy poodle
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- Unlike the show held in April, there were not many fancy and toy breeds.
- He was judged against a flat-coated retriever, a giant schnauzer, an Old English sheepdog, a wire fox terrier, a saluki hound and Pekingese toy dog.
- Like so many fashions in New York, Rosenthal says the surge in demand for toy dog breeds is largely celebrity-driven.
miniature, small, tiny, fun-size, diminutive, dwarf, midget, pygmy
verb[no object] (toy with)
1Consider (an idea or proposal) casually or indecisively: I was toying with the idea of writing a book
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- I had been toying around with an idea for personalized feed subscriptions.
- I toyed around with the idea of waiting for awhile, until I could take a break from what I was working on.
- I toy around with the idea of attention or stardom, but never know what to do with it when the spotlight shines on me for a brief moment.
think idly about, play with, flirt with, trifle with, entertain the possibility of, consider, have thoughts about, argue the pros and cons of
informal kick around/about
1.1Treat (someone or their feelings) in a superficially amorous way: he had been toying with her that day on the river
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- He felt himself staring back, still wondering what she meant by what she had said; if it had some universal meaning or if she was toying around with him.
- She had found a new guy to toy around with for a while, a new senior by the name of Grant, and was immensely enjoying their daily hook up routines in random places all over the school.
- What if he just wanted her to toy around with her for a while?
flirt with, dally with, sport with, play with, amuse oneself with, trifle with, fool with
2Move or handle (an object) absent-mindedly or nervously: Alan toyed with his glasses
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- Her fingers toyed absently with the handle of the mug of ale before her.
- 'Justin,' I answered, toying nervously with the ends of my hideous plaid, pleated skirt.
- But turn I did, rolling over slowly to face the girl standing in the doorway, toying nervously with her sleeve.
2.1Eat or drink (something) in an unenthusiastic way: as the courses came and went, she could only toy with her food
fidget with, play (about/around) with, fiddle (about/around) with, fool about/around with, tinker with, finger, twiddle (with);
nibble, pick at, gnaw (at), peck at, pick over, eat listlessly, eat like a bird
informal mess about/around with
throw one's toys out of the pram
- British informal Behave in a childish and petulant way; have a tantrum: Lorenzo threw his toys out of the pram after being sent offMore example sentences
- I say: you're never too old to throw your toys out of the pram.
- This was all about making sure the Libs didn't throw their toys out of the pram.
- Denis, it seems, is throwing his toys out of the pram.
toylike adjective
- Example sentences
- Cell phones are toylike, nearly magic, and we get a huge kick out of them, as often happens with technological advances until the new wears off.
- On each of the five vertical sections that made up the image, silhouetted shapes, colored geometric forms, flowers, furniture, twigs, toylike figures and indistinct shadows floated aimlessly through a viscous, horizonless space.
- Considering the toylike quality of the car's aluminum frame clad in plastic panels, one hopes that the lights' purported safety function is worth the research-and-development dollars.
Late Middle English: of unknown origin. The word originally denoted a funny story or remark, later an antic or trick, or a frivolous entertainment. The verb dates from the early 16th century.
A toy was originally a funny story or remark, and later a prank, trick, or frivolous entertainment. The usual modern sense, of an object for a child to play with, dates from the late 16th century. Older women had taken up with younger men before the 1980s, but it took until then for the rhyming toy boy to appear. The origin of toy, like that of boy, is medieval but otherwise unknown.
Words that rhyme with toyahoy, alloy, Amoy, annoy, boy, buoy, cloy, coy, destroy, employ, enjoy, Hanoi, hoi polloi, hoy, Illinois, joy, koi, oi, ploy, poi, Roy, savoy, soy, tatsoi, trompe l'œil, troy
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Where you can catch Oscar-nominated films in Milwaukee
Here's a guide to where, and whether, you can see this year's Oscar-nominated feature films in Milwaukee.
Marcus Theatres' Menomonee Falls and Ridge cinemas are showing all nine best-picture nominees in a package deal Saturday and Sunday, while AMC Mayfair Mall is showing four of the nine in a package on Saturday; the movies are included below, but check the theaters' websites for details. And this year's nominated live-action and animated short films are still playing at the Oriental Theatre. »Read Full Article
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NEW DELHI: The government has approved disinvestment of 10 per cent of its stake in Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd (RINL) through an initial public offer (IPO), a move that could fetch about Rs 2,500 crore to the exchequer in the next fiscal.
"The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) yesterday approved 10 per cent disinvestment in RINL," sources said.
The share-sale is likely to take place in the next financial year.
The company has already initiated the IPO process and has appointed four merchant bankers --UBS Securities, Deutsche Bank, Edelweiss Capital and IDBI Capital-- as the book running lead managers (BRLMs) to manage its issue.


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I read your article with interest. I recommend you reading David Brook's The Social Animal. There is a lot I found meaningful and I think you would especially enjoy the section on having a baby.
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Being Present IS Producing
If more of us were honest with ourselves and with others, we would acknowledge some of the same personal angst that I hear in your post. Here is my view--we are always producing. It may be tangible or it may not. The results may be achieved now, or we might have to wait. We might know what the results will be, or they may come as a complete surprise. Make no mistake about it, though. Our presence produces.
Some dear friends recently moved to a new community. I have always viewed them as "movers and shakers," whether with youth groups, Red Cross shelters, construction projects, faith building retreats, or anything else. They are truly blessed and used by God to build His kingdom here and now. At their going away party, one of them surprised my wife and me when they thanked us for getting them started. They had attended a Sunday school class that we had organized. It was a new class. It struggled for a while. There were many weeks when it seemed to be a complete waste of time. Yet it had been the springboard for these people who had gone on to lead and inspire literally hundreds of other people in our congregation and the community to active service. I can name several other couples from that class (and other classes) who grew the same way. In each instance, they have said they never would have taken their big leaps unless we had been there for some of the first steps. We were there. That was all.
You need to be there, too. For your child. For those first steps. To encourage and to nurture. To praise and rejoice. Your presence will produce, whether you know it today or not.
Today your presence is planting something, so be sure to plant what you want to produce. If your presence is reliable, it will produce reliable fruit. If your presence is joyful, it will produce joyful fruit. I could go on, but I think you get the drift.
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We asked cookbook author and food writer Tara Mataraza Desmond for unusual drink recipes you can mix up right in your own kitchen:
1. Jazz up lemonade. Sure, regular lemonade is lip-smackin' good in the summer sun, but there are countless ways to get creative with the summer staple — even straight out of the grocery store. Red Jacket Orchard Joe's Summer Blend's cider lemonade is sweet, tart, refreshing — and totally awesome! Want to put your bartending skills to work? Add an ounce of lavender elixir or other floral water to your favorite lemonade, or get creative with add-ons like cucumber, blueberries and mint.
2. Make your own slurpee. Slushie lovers who know they're indulging in way too much sugar might want to fiddle with their own version of this perennial favorite. Take some frozen fruit — whatever your favorite is — and add seltzer, ice cubes and a splash of juice (orange, apple, lemonade, mango). Then blend to slushy consistency.
3. Go crazy with tea. Start by roaming the tea aisle at the grocery store. Flavors abound! Buy a box of an interesting flavor (think hibiscus, vanilla rooibos, apricot spice and cherry almond), brew a few bags in several cups of hot water in a big glass pitcher for 10 minutes, then transfer to the fridge (with bags) until cooled. Toss in some seltzer and mint for a mojito iced tea; sweeten with sugar or add a dash of spice.
4. Sip on a summer sangria. Sure, you see sangria on bar menus across the country, but rarely do you find a virgin version. Try this: Combine a bag of frozen fruit (Desmond likes strawberries, peaches or a berry blend) with 2 cups of lemonade and four cups seltzer. Let it mingle as the fruit thaws. Garnish with a sprig of mint, rosemary or other herbs.


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Playoff push begins with Vermont in AE Semis for No. 10/7 WLAX
May 1, 2013
Stony Brook, N.Y. – The No. 10/7 Stony Brook women's lacrosse team begins postseason play as the No. 1 seed and host-school for the America East Championship. The Seawolves will take on No. 4 Vermont in a semifinal matchup Friday, May 3 at 4:30 p.m. at LaValle Stadium. Links to free video for the semifinal game will be provided here.
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1. .@SBWLax holds a 7-4 lead in the all-time series vs. UVM #Seawolves
Last Time Out
Less than 24 hours after learning she was a Tewaaraton candidate, Demmianne Cook recorded seven goals and seven draw controls as Stony Brook (14-2, 6-0 AE) bested Binghamton, 17-6, on Senior Day to claim the outright America East regular season title. Cook also tallied four ground balls and two caused turnovers, while Michelle Rubino and Janine Hillier posted four and three points, respectively. Hannah Perruccio and Frankie Caridi combined for 11 saves to help SBU hold an opponent to single-digits in scoring for the 14th time this season. The Seawolves took a 5-0 lead early and never looked back, earning their ninth straight win.
Scouting the Catamounts
Vermont (7-10, 2-4 AE) is playing in its first America East semifinal game since 2009. Sydney Mas paces the Catamounts with 59 points on 50 goals and nine assists. Jessica Roach leads the squad in assists with 19 and is its second-leading scorer with 31 goals and 50 points. Charlotte Lyons has served as UVM's primary netminder and has made 115 stops. She holds a save percentage of .415 and goals against average of 11.98.
Series History
The Seawolves are 7-4 all-time against the Catamounts and have won the last two meetings. Stony Brook pounded Vermont, 19-5, in its conference opener March 23 in Burlington. Janine Hillier tallied a game-high eight points on three goals and a season-best five helpers, while Demmianne Cook and Michelle Rubino recorded five goals apiece in the win. Frankie Caridi dazzled in net, making 10 saves in a full game of work.
America East Championship History
Stony Brook is making its second straight and fifth overall appearance in the America East Championship. It is the second time the Seawolves have held the No. 1 seed with the first coming in 2007. Last season, SBU capped off its remarkable 10-win turnaround--the biggest in the nation--with its first-ever trip to the America East Championship, where it came up just short against Albany, 9-7. Stony Brook achieved its first conference championship victory the game prior with a 9-7 win over UMBC. The Seawolves fell to No. 4 Albany, 10-7, in the semifinals in 2007 and were eliminated by BU in the semis in both 2003 and 2006.
Cook Nominated for Tewaaraton
Senior Demmianne Cook has been named one of 25 nominees for the Tewaaraton Award, given annually to the nation's best player, the Tewaaraton Foundation announced Friday, April 26. She is SBU's first-ever nominee for lacrosse's equivalent of the Heisman Trophy in college football.
"Demmi is a relentless worker who respects the game and honors her teammates," said head coach Joe Spallina. "She represents everything about this prestigious award."
Movin' on Up
Stony Brook has been ranked in the top 20 of both major polls all season and cracked the top 10 for the first time in school history. The Seawolves currently sit at No. 7 in the Media Poll, their highest-ever national ranking, and are 10th in the IWLCA Poll.
Claire Petersen ranks fourth nationally in assists per game (3.17) and sixth in points per game (5.25). On March 9, she tallied an NCAA record 11 assists to top the previous record of 10 set by former Player of the Year Hannah Nielsen of Northwestern in 2009 and was named National Player of the Week by WomensLAX.com and Nike the following week.
The nation's leader in goals and goals per game, Demmianne Cook has posted an incredible, school record 76 goals and is just seven scores shy of becoming Stony Brook's all-time leading goal scorer despite only playing two seasons at SBU. Cook, who has broken the single-season goals mark in back-to-back years, is currently third all-time with 144 career goals. Kaitlin Leggio holds the all-time record of 150. A dynamic midfielder and Stony Brook's first Tewaaraton nominee, Cook ranks 13th nationally in draw controls with 4.81 per contest.
Janine Hillier is in the top 50 nationally in total points (61) and points per game (3.81). She has reached the 40-goal plateau for the second straight season and currently sits eighth all-time in school history with 87 goals despite only playing two seasons at SBU.
Caridi in the Cage
Frankie Caridi leads the country in goals against average (5.60) and is second in save percentage (.527). She has anchored SBU's top-ranked scoring defense that has held opponents to single-digits in 14 of its 16 games this season.
That's Offensive
Stony Brook boasts a high-flying, run-and-gun offense that ranks second in the nation in goals per game (15.94). The Seawolves also own the nation's best scoring margin (+10.38) and have reached double-digits in scoring in 13 games.
Not to be outdone, the SBU is tops in the NCAA in scoring defense, giving up an average of just 5.56 goals per game. Florida is a distant second in the rankings with a goals against average of 6.71. The Seawolves have kept all but two opponents (then-No. 3/3 Florida and BU) to single-digits in scoring, including holding No. 1/1 Maryland to its season-low goal total (8) and have set and matched the school's single-game record for goals allowed (2) three times (at Marist, vs. Fresno State and vs. Albany).
Envelope Please...
Stony Brook has captured eight weekly honors and has picked up at least one in seven of 11 weeks this year. Frankie Caridi has won a conference-high four Defensive Player of the Week awards this season. On the national scene, Claire Petersen nabbed Nike National Player of the Week and WLAX.com Player of the Week honors after her record-setting night against Longwood when she dished out an NCAA record 11 helpers and tallied 13 points to set a new school mark.
2013 Stony Brook National Honors
WLAX.com Player of the Week………….Claire Petersen (3/11/13)
2013 Stony Brook America East Conference Weekly Awards
Defensive Player of the Week………………Frankie Caridi (4/15/13)
Petersen, Cook Named to Tewaaraton Watch List
Seniors Claire Petersen and Demmianne Cook, two of the most prolific scorers in Stony Brook women's lacrosse history, were named to the 2013 Tewaaraton watch list by The Tewaaraton Foundation on Friday, Feb. 22. The list includes the elite women's lacrosse players in the nation and highlights the early contenders for the 2013 award.
The Tewaaraton Award is given annually to the top male and female lacrosse player in the United States. The selection committees are made up of top collegiate coaches and are appointed each year by The Tewaaraton Foundation. Both lists will be narrowed to 25 men's and women's nominees in late April, and five finalists will be announced in mid-May with the winner slated to be revealed at the 13th annual Tewaaraton Award Ceremony on May 30 at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian in Washington D.C.
Guess Who's Back?
Stony Brook, tabbed as the favorite to win the America East, returns 20 letterwinners, its entire starting lineup and 96 percent of its goal scoring (252 of 263 goals) from the 2012 team that shattered school records.
Claire Petersen, a senior attacker, notched an all-time, SBU-best 101 points in 2012 on 42 goals and 59 assists, also a school record. Many of her assists went to Demmianne Cook, a 2012 all-conference midfielder who tallied a program record 68 goals last season. Attacker Janine Hillier, another All-America East honoree, posted 47 goals and sits tied for second with Amy Taylor on Stony Brook's all-time, single-season ledger for goals scored. Michelle Rubino, a midfielder who controlled a school record 94 draw controls during her rookie year, also makes her way back to the field this season.
Fresh Faces
SBU adds nine newcomers to its roster, including a top-notch defensive recruit in Alyssa Fleming. The 5-9 Fleming, who led Shoreham-Wading River High School to the state championship in 2009, 2010 and 2012, garnered All-American and All-County accolades in 2012 and was tabbed All-County in 2010. She is a pure 1-on-1 defender who will help shut down the opposition.
2013 Newcomers
Jenna Demarinis (Fr., GK, 5-11) ................................... Howell, N.J./ Freehold Twp.
Miss All-America
Claire Petersen, the America East Player of the Year and SBU's first-ever women's lacrosse All-American in 2012, was named to ILWomen.com's preseason All-American third team.
Captaining the Ship
Demmianne Cook, Janine Hillier, Claire Petersen, Jessica Romano and Melissa Rotante have been selected as captains for the 2013 season. Cook, Hillier, Petersen and Rotante are all seniors, while Romano is a junior.
All He Does is Win
After turning a four-win team into a nationally ranked contender in his first season at the helm, Joe Spallina became the second SBU women's lacrosse head coach to pick up America East Coach of the Year honors. Under Spallina, the Seawolves completed the biggest turnaround in the NCAA and defeated a nationally ranked opponent for the first time in program history when they downed No. 20/17 Johns Hopkins on March 3.
Spallina added to his trophy case at the end of the summer when he was selected as Major League Lacrosse's Brine Coach of the Year for his work with the Long Island Lizards, who have since changed their name to the New York Lizards.
He came to Stony Brook after a successful run as head coach at Adelphi, a Division II institution, where he produced a dominant 73-2 mark and an NCAA-record three consecutive national crowns. During his final season, the Panthers were ranked No. 1 in the IWLCA poll and went 20-0 en route to a national title.
He is 101-9 (.918) all-time as a collegiate head coach.
Up Next
A win would pit Stony Brook against No. 2 Albany or No. 3 New Hampshire in the title game Sunday, May 5 at 12 p.m. at LaValle Stadium. The game will be streamed live on ESPN3.


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Controversial from the beginning, and controversial still, he was an emancipationist who lived in the slave-holding South among slave holders. He became very vocal in speeches for the emancipation of slaves, making many enemies in the process. Newspaper editor, soldier, politician ... above all, Cassius Marcellus Clay (1810-1903) was a fascinating Kentucky personality.
Cassius was born on October 19, 1810 to General Green Clay and his wife, Sallie (Lewis) Clay, at Clermont, their home in the Richmond area of Madison County, Kentucky. Green was a contemporary of Daniel Boone who had amassed great wealth from property in the area. Sallie was a Calvinist Baptist, and Cassius later said that he owed his character development to her stern upbringing.
Cassius attended the Madison Seminary, St. Joseph's College in Bardstown, Transylvania University in Lexington, and then Yale, where in 1832 he was impressed by an anti-slavery speech by the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison. From then on, Cassius Clay spent a great deal of his life opposing slavery and working for its end.
Clay was an emancipationist, not an abolitionist. Emancipationists sought to eliminate slavery by gradual, legal means, while abolitionists wanted slavery to end by any means possible. Their methods sometimes included violence and a disregard for law and the United States Constitution. Clay and the emancipationists (including his cousin, Kentucky Senator Henry Clay, the "Great Compromiser") hoped to maintain the law and the constitution while ridding the country of slavery by peaceful means.
Those high hopes, of course, would eventually prove futile. America would soon be at war with itself over the issues of slavery and political determination, with the Union itself in jeopardy. Abraham Lincoln, a fellow Kentucky native who was to become Cassius Clay's friend, would have to decide how to resolve the issue of slavery in the South in the midst of the Civil War.
Making Waves
In the mid-1830s, though, Clay was a political optimist -- and a young man with a future to make. After returning to Lexington after college, he married Mary Jane Warfield. (Eventually, they would have ten children, with six surviving.) He completed a law degree at Transylvania. And he embarked on a political career: Cassius was elected state representative from Madison County in 1835, defeated the next year, but then elected again in 1837.
Cassius Clay's speeches won him praise for his oratorical skills, but their subject matter also made him many enemies in Central Kentucky, which was a center of the Southern slave trade. He was threatened often and fought many duels. During the Wickliffe-Garret Davis debate at Russell's Cave Spring in 1843, Clay was attacked by a hired assassin named Samuel Brown. Brown shot Clay in the chest, but Clay defended himself vigorously with a Bowie knife, seriously injuring Brown. The helpers who carried Clay away were astonished to find that Clay's knife scabbard -- which he kept strapped to his chest -- had stopped Brown's bullet.
On June 15, 1849, Clay traveled to Foxtown, KY to speak out against slavery at a local political gathering. He was then a member of the Liberal Party, which hoped to elect anti-slavery delegates to the upcoming state constitutional convention. As Clay stepped down from the podium, Cyrus Turner, the son of a pro-slavery candidate, called him a liar and struck him. Clay drew his knife but was surrounded by a crowd, who disarmed him and began clubbing him. Clay was stabbed in the lung, and his breastbone was severed.
Wounded deeply, Clay grasped his knife and wrested it away from an attacker, cutting his own fingers to the bone. He then found Turner in the crowd and stabbed him. Clay's son, 14-year-old Warfield Clay, handed him a pistol, but Cassius was beginning to lose consciousness from loss of blood. Another Turner tried to shoot Clay in the head, but the gun misfired. As he passed out, Clay was reported to have said, "I died in the defense of the liberties of the people." The statement was a little premature: Clay did not die, although it took him months to recover. Turner, however, died some days later.


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Open Space Technology was discovered by Harrison Owen as a better way to unleash the power of self-organization in teams, organizations, and communities. The Open Space Institute of the United States (OSI-US) believes that inspired behavior can be an everyday experience and that humanity is limited by its perceptions of the possible. The OSI-US was created to grow that sense of possibility and make it a reality by focusing on: learning, research and practice.
Opening Space at International House January 2016
"When peace is threatened, the appropriate response is simply to open space. In doing so, the chaotic, conflicted human systems are invited to do what only they can do: self-organize to new and higher levels of complexity more in harmony with each other, their environment and their inner needs."
From the book Wave Rider, Leadership for High Performance in a Self-Organizing World by Harrison Owen, 2008
International House, New York City
January 15-17, 2016
You are invited to experience and learn to apply the age-old force of self-organization as we engage, explore and deepen our understanding around our theme:
"Creating High Performance and Peace in our Lives,
our Organizations, our Communities and our Planet."
Musing from our Membership Meeting
If you want to do a deep dive, the annual membership meeting notes and even the full audio are available. We did not use Open Space Technology, but instead kept to an agenda with wide ranging check-ins followed by two questions: How did OST impact the evolution of your own consciousness? What's happening with world wide open space institutes? And then we closed with check-outs.
What stands out? One board member was not present due to the illness in her family, and two who were present had immanent births upcoming. Several were excited about what was showing up in the Occupy movement, and how it is opening conversations very relevant for Open Space Technology.
For the personal question around consciousness it touched on personal evolution of letting go of control and fixed answers, of opening up to the infinite divine world where prayer, mystics and shamans are comfortable, of synthesizing and going deeper into what we and who we already know, and being a servant leader and a mid-wife. Open Space Technology is life changing, and changes our relationships with ourselves and others. We can see Open Space is, like birth, an event, and yet it is also a philosophy - about taking responsibility for what we love as an act of service. And how Open Space Technology is often a part of a journey that includes and touches on other philosphies and practices, such as Theory U, Appreciative Inquiry, and Transpersonal Psychology, and Gestalt.
Around the question of Open Space Institutes around the world, we had representation for the U.S., U.K., and France. The WOSonOS coming up in 2012 has already been touching on the question of having an Institute in the U.K., but there is no decision to have one as it is unclear what is the purpose and process around these institutes. As a community of practice internationallly, what needs to happen. Should they be called institutes that compare car insurance quotes? The Institute in France dissolved due to power struggles an in part the lack of clarity of the purpose and mission. Yet the OSI-US has managed to succeed by not imposing hiearchy and instead has been a mutually supportive space. And although there is some question about how to do it, it does seem important that we find a way to continue coming together to keep the conversation alive globally and to hold space for open space, despite the legacy we have of divide and conquer that makes it so hard for us to collaborate on coming to solutions that can address what we need.
Open Space 'New Women For New Egypt'
See how Open Space Technology has been used in Egypt after the revolution in the wonderful short video.
Expenses and Activities 2011
Our income in 2011 was $3,350 in donations, $1.19 in interest, and $259.27 in book sales.
Our expenses were $44.64 in PayPal fees, $130.83 in internet domain registration and Skype charges, $10 for the annual filing fee for the non-profit, $1000 for the Access Queen assistance to the World Open Space on Open Space in Chile, $3,250 to Haiti Partners for their Open Space event, and $700 for an in person meeting for the board (all of which was paid for in donations by the board).
If you tallied that up, that was $3,619.46 income, and $5,135.47 expense, with a net $1,525.01 outflow. Our total assets are as of 30 December 2011 equal to $3,771.04.
As for activities this year, we welcomed Barry Owen to the board - bringing our board membership to 10.
- Suzanne Daigle (Secretary)
- Lisa Heft (President)
- Peggy Holman
- Edward Laboy
- Douglas D. Germann Sr.
- Karen Davis
- Christine Whitney Sanchez (Vice-President)
- Phelim McDermott
- Harold Shinsato (Treasurer)
- Barry Owen
Beyond the individual Open Space Technology contributions and involvement of all the board members, which would be interesting but extensive - the board itself has contributed to the maintenance and development of OST with the following activities:
- Support of world wide Open Space Technology meetings financially through Haiti Partners and Access Queen.
- Financial support and 501(c)(3) status for free web hosting of the very active world wide OSList's migration from Boise State's ListServ to GNU Mailman.
- Significant improvements to our web presence at osius.org.
- Assistance to the English translation of the beautiful Open Space Learning Map poster.
- Initial meetings and design of a new logo for the Open Space Institute - U.S.
- A face to face meeting, with all meal, housing, and travel expenses donated by the board members, held in Sarasota, Florida to connect with each other and renew the mission of the Open Space Institute.
US West Open Space - A True Story
Enjoy this historical video of an Open Space event held at US West in 1995 which helps describe what Open Space is, how it works, and the impact through the lens of some real issues at a real company. Thank you Peggy Holman for making this video available!
U S WEST Open Space from Peggy Holman on Vimeo.
Support Open Space Institute of Haiti
The purpose of this letter is to invite our Open Space colleagues and OS Institute partners around the world to join us in a show of support for the Open Space Institute of Haiti who will be hosting their 10th Annual Open Space on Open Space June 23-26, 2011. Their theme will be: "What tools and practices do Haitians need to become agents of change in their communities?"
For a number of years, the OSI US has donated funds to Haiti to help pay for lodging and meals. In 2010, we contributed a more sizeable sum recognizing the urgent need for OS work in Haiti following the catastrophic hurricane.
This year, we again received a request for financial assistance in the amount of $3250. A number of local Haiti sponsors are also contributing. While we have limited funds, we feel strongly that this work deserves our help - thus the idea of this Matching Fund Campaign.
We will match $dollar for $dollar to a maximum of $1625 to help them achieve their goal of raising $3250 total dollars. If we raise excess funds from this campaign, it would be the intent of the OSI US Institute to make these funds available to serve other underserved communities through vehicles such as the Access Queen which helps lower-income individuals attend World Open Space on Open Space events or through other initiatives that OSI US is involved in that support access, inclusion and connection to the greater OS community.
As we honor their ten years of facilitating, mentoring, teaching and growing Open Space across Haiti, we are appealing to you - our worldwide OS community of friends and colleagues - to join us with a "pay it forward" matching initiative. For every dollar you contribute - we will match it as we join together to help enable 25 Haitian participants to attend Haiti's OSonOS this year. This matching donation campaign will end on May 15, 2011.
In 2010, 78 people attended the OSonOS - many of them new to Open Space. Their theme last year was: "What is the role of leaders and community organizations in the reconstruction of a new Haiti, based on the promotion of progress and social justice?" - which generated topics such as these:
- What are the needs of community organizations for the reconstruction of Haiti?
- What is the role of Haitians in Haiti's reconstruction?
- What results can we expect from using Open Space in communities?
- How can we help grassroots organizations in the economic and social development of the communities in which they work?
For more information and photos, please visit the website of Haiti Partners, one of the funding agencies. You will see that Fremy and John are part of this and other similar groups in Haiti involved in this work. Take a look at how Open Space is being used across Haiti. At the second link below, you will also see some photos of Haitian butterflies, bumblebees and the Law of Two Feet !
The comments below by Haitians speak volumes about the benefits of these sponsored Open Space events:
"The experience I had with Open Space has fueled my dream to see Open Space to practice throughout Haiti. It is the only method that can facilitate a true community mobilization, an important factor in the economic and social development in Haiti".-- Benaja Antoine
"After participating in the Open Space in June 2010, it inspired me to form an association of twenty-height women, for whom I did training on risks and disasters. I am very motivated to use the Open Space method because it is a method that creates a dynamic of participation.With Open Space, I learned to cultivate the spirit of tolerance, participation, how to help people to live together cooperatively".-- Norestin Nellie
"Open Space is a method which can play an important role in Haitian society. Haiti has been in slavery for a great number of years; it takes a lot of time for such a nation to become educated in the right way and I think the OS method can do much in helping to achieve that goal."-- Marie Kerline Janvier
We invite you to join us in celebrating the amazing work that has been done in Open Space in Haiti over this past decade by contributing a small or larger donation to support the upcoming Open Space event which will enable many individuals to progress in new ways on their important projects.
Appreciatively, the OSI US Institute Board Members,
|Suzanne Daigle
|Karen Davis
|Douglas D. Germann Sr.
|Lisa Heft
|Peggy Holman
|Edward Laboy
|Phelim McDermott
|Barry Owen
|Christine Whitney Sanchez
|Harold Shinsato
Girl Scouts National Convention - Large Open Space
Over 1400 convened one of the largest Open Space Technology events in North America when the Girl Scouts 50th National Convention met in 2005. This video documented the experience including interviews with leaders and girl scouts about how self-organizing Open Space Technology enlivened their convention.
Connected - A Nationwide Conversation - Girl Scouts & Open Space Technology from Open Space Institute-US on Vimeo.


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RIMM Results Not So Hot; Balsillie Resigns From Board
The results for Research In Motion are in. As expected, they don't look so hot.
The company reported a fourth-quarter net loss of $125 million, while revenue fell 19% to $4.2 billion, below analysts' expectations. The BlackBerry maker said it shipped 11.1 million BlackBerrys last quarter and over 500,000 PlayBook tablets.
On adjusted basis, which excludes one-time gains or losses including the good-will impairment, the company registered earnings-per-share of 80 cents a share, a penny shy of analysts' expectations.
UPDATE: The stock is down nearly 10% to $12.42 in after-hours trading. RIM also elected against sharing an outlook.
"No guidance implies no confidence," Citi analyst Jim Suva said immediately after the report.
2nd UPDATE: RIM shares are recovering as the conference call continues. The stock was recently only down 2% to $13.45 in after-hours trading. The company maintained it will release new BB10 phones toward the end of calendar 2012. And new CEO Thorstein Heins says the company is "committed to reclaim share" in the enterprise market.
Heins issued a lengthy statement describing his early views of the company. He notes the company's "substantial strengths" as well as the "business challenges" it faces over the next several quarters.
MarketBeat's emphasis included in his statement below:
I have assessed many aspects of RIM's business during my first 10 weeks as CEO. I have confirmed that the Company has substantial strengths that can be further leveraged to improve our financial performance, including RIM's global network infrastructure, a strong enterprise offering and a large and growing base of more than 77 million subscribers. I'm very excited about the prospects for the BlackBerry 10 platform, which is on track for the latter part of calendar 2012. Notwithstanding these strengths and opportunities, the business challenges we face over the next several quarters are significant and I am taking the necessary steps to address them. In addition to delivering the BlackBerry 10 platform and refocusing resources on RIM's key opportunities, such as BlackBerry Mobile Fusion and new integrated service offerings, we will also drive greater operational performance through a variety of initiatives including increased management accountability and process discipline. In parallel, we are undertaking a comprehensive review of strategic opportunities including partnerships and joint ventures, licensing, and other ways to leverage RIM's assets and maximize value for our stakeholders.
RIM also announced Jim Balsillie, former co-CEO, has resigned from the company's board. From Dow Jones' Ben Dummett:
Research In Motion new CEO Thorsten Hein exerts power on RIMM amid the smartphone maker's weak 4Q results and its decision against providing earnings and revenue guidance. Jim Balsillie, former co-CEO resigns from board, cutting all-ties with company despite being among the biggest shareholders–possible sign of dissention over Hein's strategy for company. RIMM's Global Ops chief leaves and CTO for software retires.
On the conference call, investors will look for more guidance and any clarity regarding the company's future direction.


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JAN 16, 2013 - Detroit Free Press
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Actor Conrad Bain, who played dad Phillip Drummond on the 1980s sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes," died Monday in Livermore, Calif., reports TMZ. He was 89.
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