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The Hall of Fame Case for Ron Santo (Part 3 of 3)
On Monday December 8th, the Baseball
Hall of Fame will announce
the voting results of the Veterans Committee.
In a three part series, guest columnist and reader, "Dying Cub Fan"
takes a look at the candidacy of former Cubs third basemen, Ron
Santo. We ran this piece two years ago, but it's lost in Internet limbo
and well, Santo deserves it, so we're running it again. Plus, the voting process has changed this year, as there are only 10 players for the committee to consider, so here's hoping this is the year. You can join the revolution on Facebook as well.
Why has
Santo been overlooked?
Santo did not do
well in BBWAA voting when he was eligible for consideration by the
writers. He was considered by the BBWAA 15 times, and his best
showing came in 1998 (his last year on the writers' ballot), when
he received 204 votes (43.13%, well short of the 75% needed for
election).14 He was removed from the ballot after the
1980 election (the first time he was eligible for BBWAA
consideration) for failing to receive the required 5% vote; he was
reinstated to the ballot in 1985. Under the selection process of the
reconstituted Veteran's Committee (which has elected no one since
being reconstituted in 2001, following the former Veteran's
Committee's pick of Bill
Mazeroski, and which now considers players every two
years), Santo received 56.8% of the vote in 2003 and 65% in 2005,
each time short of the 75% vote needed. The former Veteran's
Committee did not publish their voting results.
When Santo
retired, there were three third basemen in the Hall of Fame, Collins,
Traynor and Baker, only one of whom had been elected by the BBWAA
(Traynor in 1948). Since Santo's retirement, Mathews, Robinson,
Schmidt, Brett and Boggs have been elected by the BBWAA, with each
one other than Mathews having been elected in his first year of
eligibility. The Veteran's Committee added Lindstrom in 1976 and
Kell in 1983. Hall of Fame voters had ample opportunity to elect
Santo; until Schmidt's first year of eligibility, he was the best
qualified third baseman on the ballot. As shown above, at the time he
retired he was better than two of the three third basemen then in the
Hall of Fame. He was not as good as Mathews, but Mathews was elected
prior to Santo's first year on the ballot. He was better than
Robinson, but Robinson sailed through on the first ballot (with a 92%
vote), while Santo was kicked off for not getting 5% in his first
year on the ballot. It is difficult to see why he was overlooked by
the voters.
In addition to
his more obvious hitting skills, such as home runs and Rbi, Santo had
skills that tend to be underappreciated: plate discipline and
defense. His walk totals and on-base percentages were very high. He
was also the best defender at his infield position in his league for
a period of several years.
The list of Hall
of Fame members for whom extensive credit has been given for
defensive accomplishments appears to be small, particularly outside
of the shortstop and catcher positions. Yet, while Santo was not as
good defensively as either Schmidt or Robinson (and, although it is
difficult to truly compare them based on the eras in which they
played, for the sake of argument we can take Collins and Traynor as
better defensively than Santo, even though each made more errors in
fewer games),15 Santo was a very good defensive player at
a key defensive position, a multiple Gold Glove winner who still
holds National League and Major League fielding records thirty years
after his retirement. In addition to being recognized as the best
defender at a key defensive position in his league for an extended
period, he was clearly better defensively than Boggs, Brett, Mathews
and Lindstrom and would appear to have been better defensively, in
his time, than Baker was in his. It is difficult to say whether he
was better than Kell defensively.
Voters may not
have adjusted Santo's offensive numbers to account for the
run-starved environment in which they occurred. Santo seems to have
suffered for having played on teams that did not win pennants or
reach the post-season, and in particular seems to have been
associated with the Cubs' legendary collapse in 1969.16
Unfortunately, that year was his one real try at a championship, and
he and his team fell short.
As for not
playing on a pennant winner, a good case can be made that the Cub
record during his tenure was largely due to factors outside of
Santo's control. Was it Santo's fault that the Cubs were as bad
as they were for so much of his career? Santo did not play under a
manager for five of the first six seasons of his career, but instead
played under a "college of coaches" and an "athletic director":
was it his fault that his team was as mismanaged as it was?17
It was due to Santo and Williams (and not Banks, who was no longer a
great player) that the Cubs finally climbed out of the second
division in 1967; for the first several years of Santo's career,
the Cubs had few other players who were any good at all.
One of the
arguments I have seen is that the late 60s-early 70s Cubs already
have three Hall of Famers in Ernie
Banks, Ferguson
Jenkins and Billy
Williams, and to put Santo in as well would
disproportionately reward a team that did not win. There are several
problems with this argument. One, a very good case can be made that
Santo was better than Williams or Jenkins, and it is very clear that
Santo was much better than Banks during the period that the two
played together (the vast majority of Banks' worth as a Hall of
Famer having come from his seasons prior to 1964). Also, Jenkins did
not join the Cubs until 1966. Two, it is not all that uncommon for
teams to have multiple Hall of Famers on them and not win. The
Pirates from 1932 through 1935 had four or five Hall of Famers on the
team every year and did not win. After winning a pennant in 1962
(and losing the World Series), from 1963 through 1966, the Giants had
five Hall of Famers each year and did not win. The White Sox from
1933 through 1935 had three Hall of Famers and did not finish above
.500 in any of those years. The New York Giants between 1927 and
1932 had 5 or 6 Hall of Famers on the team each year, but didn't
win (they did win in 1933 when they had 4, one of whom was not
playing regularly). There are other examples. Finally, the Hall of
Fame is about honoring players, not teams.18 While it is
relevant to evaluate a player based on his team's success (or lack
thereof), one shouldn't penalize a player merely for playing on a
team with other Hall of Famers or simply for playing on a bad team.
Santo deserves to have his play evaluated on its own merits.
Santo was known
for being an emotional player, and was also something of a hothead at
times, at one time physically attacking Leo Durocher, apparently
after having been goaded into it. Santo's unfortunate habit of
sometimes clicking his heels following Cubs' victories in 1969 was
widely seen as bush league at the time, and has endured in public
perception of him. By contrast, Brooks
Robinson was immensely popular with fans and
sportswriters, which may have had something to do with him being
elected on the first ballot.
In The
Politics of Glory, Bill James said the following:
The Hall of Fame, in a sense, has been caught between hops at third
base. Third base is a half-and-half position -- half of a "slugger's
position" like first base or left field, but half of a "glove
man's position" like second or short. A good third baseman is
expected to contribute both ways, more so than a player at any other
position. This, in effect, creates a third set of standards, unique
to the position. The Hall of Fame selection system uses two distinct
sets of de facto standards. Bobby Doerr doesn't have
numbers that would put him in the Hall of Fame if he was an
outfielder, but he was a second baseman, so he's in. The same with
Vaughan, Yogi
Berra, Bill
Dickey, Johnny
Bench, Pee
Wee Reese and many others.
Conversely, the career batting statistics of Rocky
Colavito would unquestionably qualify him for the Hall
of Fame -- if he had been a shortstop. Joe
Judge's numbers would be plenty good -- if he was a
second baseman.
Third basemen are neither fish nor fowl; they need a third standard.
The system just isn't quite subtle enough to form an intermediate
standard, and honor the guys like Santo and Ken
Boyer who played a good third base (Santo won five
Gold Gloves) and also could hit.
Santo seems to
have suffered because voters have not had an appreciation of the
skills involved in playing third base. The three third basemen most
recently inducted (Boggs, Brett and Schmidt) all met one or more of
the classic de facto offensive tests for Hall of Fame
selection (e.g., 3,000 hits, 500 homers, .300 lifetime batting
average, etc.). These tests have not been imposed on shortstops or
second basemen or catchers and had not been theretofore uniformly
imposed on third basemen (Robinson, for example, met none of them).
A third baseman should not need to post those kinds of numbers to get
in if he can otherwise establish elite player status, as Santo did.
compared to other Hall of Fame Members
In 2001, Bill
James ranked Santo as the 87th best player of all time (and Brooks
Robinson 91st).19 There are 195 players in the Hall of
Fame. Thus, if you use James's analysis, Santo was not just a
better player than half of the third basemen currently in the HOF, he
was a better player than over half of all
players currently in the Hall of Fame. Even if you don't
buy into James's analysis, it is fairly easy to make a long list of
players that are in the HOF who were not close to Santo's level.
Santo was better than, among others, Joe
Tinker, Johnny
Evers, Frank
Chance, Burleigh
Grimes, Herb
Pennock, Waite
Hoyt, Hughie
Jennings, Roger
Bresnahan, George
Kelly, Travis
Jackson, Chick
Hafey, Lloyd
Waner, Hack
Wilson, Ross
Youngs, Rick
Ferrell, Ray
Schalk, Rabbit
Maranville, Dave
Bancroft, Jesse
Haines, Bobby
Wallace, Frankie
Frisch, Ted
Lyons, Nellie
Fox, Phil
Rizzuto, Bill
Mazeroski, Elmer
Flick, Eppa
Rixey, Enos
Slaughter, Tony
Lazzeri, Red
Faber, Sam
Rice, Billy
Herman, Jim
Bottomley, Lefty
Gomez, Rube
Marquard, Earle
Combs, Richie
Ashburn, Kiki
Cuyler, Max
Carey, Harry
Hooper and Vic
Willis. And those are the easy cases; James has
ranked him higher than Billy
Williams, Carl
Hubbell, E.
Delahanty, Bill
Dickey, Joe
Cronin, Tony
Perez, Orlando
Cepeda, Carlton
Fisk, Robin
Roberts, Kirby
Puckett, George
Sisler, Bill
Terry, Luke
Appling, Juan
Marichal, Gabby
Hartnett, Nolan
Ryan, Luis
Aparicio, Jim
Palmer, Lou
Brock and Bobby
It is a common
argument that we shouldn't add players to the Hall of Fame simply
based upon their being better than current Hall of Fame members who
shouldn't have been elected. Kell and Lindstrom were poor
selections, and if Santo's case was predicated simply on his being
better than they were, I would agree that he should not go in.
However, he was not just better than they were, he was better than
many other Hall of Famers as well, both third basemen and otherwise.
He would be squarely in the middle of the current Hall of Fame
contingent from third base. Put another way, for someone to argue
that the only players in the Hall that Santo is better than are those
that should not have been elected, that argument would imply that
over half the players in the Hall and half of the third basemen in
the Hall should not have been elected. As Bill James said, "Ron
Santo towers far above the real standard for the real Hall of Fame."
One problem with
the concept of players who "shouldn't be in" lies in setting
the standard of who should be in, which is quite difficult to do; the
Hall of Fame voters have been unable to set an identifiable standard
since they first started electing people almost 70 years ago. It is
clear that the standard is not at the Babe
Williams level, which Santo clearly does not meet: if
it were, Hall of Fame membership would consist of about 10 or 15
players. As it is, the standard is lower than that; if you consider
the records of those who are actually in the Hall of Fame, it is much
lower. Santo was better than a number of players currently in the
Hall of Fame, and it isn't a small number. None of those people is
about to be removed from the Hall of Fame. He was not just better
than Kell and Lindstrom. Santo was better than many of those
elected, and it's not just the questionable selections; he is not a
marginal case. It is ridiculous to say that Santo shouldn't go in
because he doesn't meet a certain standard when a large number
(possibly over half) of the current HOF members don't meet that
standard either. Although Santo was not as good as Schmidt, Mathews,
Brett, Boggs or Baker, he is comfortably within any objective
rational standard of who should go in.
Criticisms of Santo
There are
several valid criticisms of Santo. He faded very quickly and was out
of baseball soon after his skills started to slip, before his 35th
birthday. As a result he did not suffer through seasons like the
ones Robinson endured at the end of his career, which lowered
Robinson's career batting average and OPS. Nonetheless, Santo
ranks eighth in terms of number of games played at third base. His
career was considerably longer than the careers of Kell and Baker.
He played a lot more games at third than did George Brett. Also, as
noted above, he had more big years at the plate than did Robinson,
Kell, Traynor, Lindstrom or Collins. Even if he had extended his
career by playing additional subpar seasons past his prime, doing so
would not have taken away the big years that he did have.
Santo hit
considerably better at home than on the road. Santo hit
.296/.383/.522 with 216 home runs at home, and .257/.342/.406 with
126 home runs on the road. Dealing with split information is
somewhat troublesome, since full split information is not available
for players that played prior to the mid-'50s. Simply doubling
Santo's road homers and extending his road rate stats for his
career is an unfair adjustment, although some may be tempted to do
this. Even if you made this simplistic adjustment, Santo's
adjusted OPS would exceed Robinson's actual OPS.
Santo's sOPS+
numbers (which compare a player's split to major league average by
split), season by season, show that the differential between his home
and away numbers was not as severe during his prime, but got worse as
he aged (1968 being a particularly bad year for him on the road).
During his best years (1964-1967), his home/away splits looked like
1.006, A .922 sOPS+ H 184, A 171
1965: OPS H .908. A .846 sOPS+ H
1966: OPS H 1.019, A .878 sOPS+ H 190, A 160
OPS H .977, A .836 sOPS+ H 186, A 157
Santo is far from the only player to have benefitted from a strong
home split. For example, although we lack full split information for
many players, here are the home and away splits for three recent Hall
of Famers:
A: .264/.357/.422 .OPS: 779 (league OPS
during career: .733)
A: .302/.387/.395 OPS .781 (league OPS
during career: .750)
A: .291/.331/.430 OPS .761 (league OPS
during career: .744)
career road OPS was .748 versus a league OPS of .733)
were elected to the Hall of Fame in the past 20 years by the BBWAA
and all had their careers during a time when full split information
was available. Arguably, none of them would have gotten in if people
had done the simplistic analysis of extending his away line for his
whole career.
full split information is not available for a lot of players, we know
relatively more about home run splits. There are plenty of players in
the Hall of Fame who benefited significantly from a home field
advantage. On the Cubs, this would include Ernie Banks (290 at home,
222 on the road), Billy Williams (245 at home, 181 on the road) and
Sandberg (164 at home, 118 on the road). There are of
course non-Cubs in the Hall of Fame who benefited significantly from
a home field advantage, such as Mel
Ott (who hit 323 homers at home and 188 on the road),
Robinson (321 at home, 265 on the road), Jimmie
Foxx (299 at home, 235 on the road), Hank
Greenberg (205 homers at home, 126 on the road).20
While one could discount Santo's home run totals a bit because of
this, I view this as a mitigant to his Hall of Fame candidacy, not a
disqualification. You would have to take away a lot before Brett or
Robinson caught him. As noted above, other Hall of Famers have
received similar benefits. Also as noted above, his home run stats
should also be adjusted upwards on account of the era in which he
played. Because the big strike zone era was during his peak, it is
possible that he lost more offense to the effects of that than he
gained from his home advantage.
Santo was one of
the top ten third basemen who have ever played major league baseball.
Santo was the best at his position in the major leagues for an
extended period. His numbers fit him squarely in the middle of those
currently in the Hall of Fame who played third base, which is an
historically underrepresented position. He was a significantly
better batter than half of the current major league third basemen in
the Hall of Fame. His home run and walk stats exceed those of every
third baseman in the Hall of Fame except for Schmidt and Mathews. He
has been ranked by Bill James as among the best 100 baseball players
of all time. He was better than over half of the current members of
the Hall of Fame. He was a good defender and a terrific hitter who
had the misfortune to play on a number of bad teams. His exclusion
to date from the Hall of Fame has been a terrible mistake. He
belongs in the Hall of Fame and should be elected at the next
See http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/history/hof_voting/alpha/S.htm
Note that Traynor's career fielding percentage at third, .947, was
exactly equal to the league average at third for his career.
Collins's career fielding percentage at third was .929, while the
league fielding percentage while he played was .907. Santo's
career fielding percentage was .954, while the league fielding
percentage while he played was .948. Traynor led the NL in putouts
seven times, in assists three times and in double plays four times.
Santo led the NL in putouts seven times, in assists seven times and
in double plays six times. Collins led the league in putouts five
times, in assists four times and in double plays three times.
Traynor's career range factor was higher than Santo's, 3.12 to
3.07, against league averages of 2.82 and 2.58, respectively;
Collins' was 3.61 (against a league average of 3.33, perhaps
reflecting more "small ball").
Santo did not play well in September 1969, during which time the Cubs
lost 13 games in the standings to the Mets. He hit .240 with one
home run and 11 rbi in 23 games. He was not the only Cub to play
poorly that month. Beckert hit .211, Kessinger hit .192, Hundley hit
.162, Hickman hit .229 and Banks hit .186. Holtzman went 1-5 with a
4.46 ERA. Jenkins' ERA was 4.68. Only Billy Williams seems to have
played at all well during that fateful month (.278, 6 hr, 13 rbi).
For a good history of the Cubs during Santo's era, see
The BBWAA rule on voting is simply as follows: "Voting shall be
based upon the player's record, playing ability, integrity,
sportsmanship, character, and contributions to the team(s) on which
the player played."
The Veteran's Committee rule is similar: "The Committee shall
consider all eligible candidates and voting shall be based upon the
individual's record, ability, integrity, sportsmanship, character
and contribution to the game."
There are, of course, other lists. The Sporting News came
out with a top 100 list in 1998 which did not list Santo, Baker,
Lindstrom, Collins or Kell, but which listed Schmidt (28), Mathews
(63), Traynor (70), Robinson (80) and Boggs (95). In 1999, the
Society for American Baseball Research (the "SABR") released the
results from their "Top 100 Players of the Century Survey" (voted
upon by 865 SABR members), which did not list Santo, Lindstrom,
Baker, Collins or Kell, but listed Schmidt (16), Mathews (31),
Robinson (32), Traynor (70) and Boggs (80). See
Certain split statistics courtesy of
Certain splits also set forth in the 1988 Historical Baseball
Abstract; see also http://www.retrosheet.org/.
Wittenmeyer's latest
Re: Wittenmeyer's latest
LH bat.
Pretty much the same thing over at the Tribune's page.
Re: Wittenmeyer's latest
I'm still thoroughly confused on how replacing Edmonds with another LH bat is doing anything about fixing the lineup balance.
Re: Wittenmeyer's latest
Fukudome/Pie is replacing Edmonds.
Someone LH is replacing Fukudome.
The thought process seems to be Fukudome didn't count in the playoffs because of his slump. I agree that the logic is dubious at best.
The main problem with the offense in the playoffs were the #1, #2, and #4 hitters.
The only way we get more lefthanded is moving DeRosa to short, letting the Fontenaught play, and bringing in the LH hitting right fielder. Or signing Furcal, I guess.
Once again D Lee is a problem. One of the reasons I was against the Choi trade.
Re: Wittenmeyer's latest
Fukudome was still getting the bulk of the AB's in RF, so moving him to center doesn't really change much imo. And when he wasn't playing, it was Fontenot at 2b and DeRosa in RF, so still net gain in left-handed hitters = 0.
There's still just gonna be two lefties in the lineup at most times.
Re: The Hall of Fame Case for Ron Santo (Part 3 of 3)
I wonder if Hoffpauir and Hill could net us Huff from the Orioles. If the Cubs scouts think he can play right, he would certainly seem to be a good fit.
Re: The Hall of Fame Case for Ron Santo (Part 3 of 3)
Could Hendry get the O's to eat some of Huff's contract? I don't know exactly what it is. $8 mill-ish, no?
I think I'd rather have Luke Scott, but that'd maybe require more.
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"Once again D Lee is a problem. One of the reasons I was against the Choi trade.
Citing to Choi as a reason that DLee is a problem? You've got to be kidding....
Re: The Hall of Fame Case for Ron Santo (Part 3 of 3)
I think he's talking about first base being a place that the Cubs could stash a left handed hitter, but I'm right there with you.
Re: The Hall of Fame Case for Ron Santo (Part 3 of 3)
1B and LF are the prime places to have left handed hitters.
The Cubs have RH hitters in those two slots, so they have a RH leaning lineup.
When we traded for Lee we already had Sosa, Alou, and Ramirez as our right handed power sources. Adding Lee to that, made us too right handed, a situation Hendry's never corrected.
Re: The Hall of Fame Case for Ron Santo (Part 3 of 3)
But, regardless of that balance, the Choi for Lee trade was still a doozy as far as a 1 for 1 trade adding talent.
Re: The Hall of Fame Case for Ron Santo (Part 3 of 3)
Heyman from SI says the Cubs are 'considerig' Dunn.
I don't believe it, but I am sure crunch will be happy.
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And Rob too.
I wonder if Heyman and his source aren't a week or two behind. Dunn was mentioned in the same sentence with the Cubs a while back, and Heyman also says the Peavy deal is "on life support." But wait a minute, Hendry and Towers were going to resume talks today or tomorrow? If that's the case, how is the Peavy thing nearly dead? Does not compute.
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who the hell is dunn?
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Not me. I'm still goin' strong.
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Sam Zell's Tribune Company Bankrupt?
Re: Sam Zell's Tribune Company Bankrupt?
Hopefully that speeds up the Cubs sale, if anyone has the money to buy them.
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Re: homer bailey for jermaine dye
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woo! offseason.
now listing UZR defensive ratings...nifty.
one of the better ones around imo...
Cubs look considerably worse as a team by UZR versus Team Defensive Efficiency
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j.buchanan with a nice start...5ip 2h 1bb 3k, 0r/er
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Soler likely to return Sunday, Maddon says
Right now, I'd like to see the Mets first, Giants 2nd.
I believe that since most of the team from last years' NLCS is on the squad this year, they will really amp their game up even more to kick their ass in payback for 2015.
The Giants just do not have the depth in years past, and I think all things equal - and at Wrigley - they could handle them.
I do not want to see the Cards, period. Or their fans, media, or Joe Buck.
I don't want to play Braves in the first round. Any friggin team in the league can win 3 of 5..I hate the first round. Furthermore, I wanted to play the Marlins in 2003 and the Mets over Dodgers last year.
With that said in reverse order:
3. Cardinals: It will be devastating to lose in the first round, but even worse to their main rival. It is increased incentive for the Cardinals, especially after last year. Cards would have nothing to lose, Cubs have everything to lose.
2. Giants: Rotation in the playoffs scare me a bit, but what a lousy team.
1. Mets--because of the losses in the rotation
2. Giants--because they're not the team they were BUT they maybe have bullshit even-year magic?
3. Cardinals--because rivalry and not making the playoffs hurts them more than losing in the NLDS plus getting eliminated by them in the playoffs would make for horrible sports commentary next throughout next season.
Who's asking?
CLE/DET rained out last night already, possible rain-outs in New York (vs. Baltimore), Boston(vs. Toronto) and Philly(vs. Mets) this weekend too.
Not only games involving playoff spots that would need to be played, but any that involve home field advantage.
I got the first one! Second one I'm not even sure what even/odd betting is.
any opponent preference for NLDS?
Mets are down to 1 great pitcher instead of 4. Syndegaard may pitch Sunday which means if Mets win the WC game, he'd be set up for Game 1. There's a chance they clinch a spot by Sunday so he'd pitch the WC and then we'd probably get Colon for Game 1. They've certainly had the hottest bats over the last week and month out of the WC options.
A couple of Cub related puzzles.
Can't teach height and thinness
Hopefully Pirates don't call up A. Lincoln.
j.buchanan going friday...should be...baseball...or something like it.
Wow. I didn't know they could do that.
Nice for Willson, not so much for Addy.
Game is officially called...also officially a tie.
Stats count, no make-up date of course.
Yeah -- seeing the weather -- I hope KB and Rizz are inside, wrapped in blankets and drinking hot chocolate.


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Although shooting the basketball is her stock and trade, Brittany Boslet has waited a long time to get her shot in the starting lineup, so she tries hard to keep her head in the game.
Sometimes her head is a little too close to the action. Like Saturday afternoon against Clarion.
"I just remember we were playing a zone, and I was running up to guard this girl," Boslet said. "When I ran up, she turned her head, and her head went right into my nose.
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Brittany Boslet broke her nose in Saturday's game but is expected to play tonight.
"I didn't really recognize what happened at first. Then Halee [Adams] told me I was pouring out blood."
A visit to the hospital confirmed what most already knew: Boslet's nose was broken. But it wasn't dislocated and there were no signs of a concussion, so Boslet - Bishop Guilfoyle Catholic High School's only first-year starter on a team with four others that have started at least three seasons - should be on the floor when the Lady Marauders tip off tonight against WPIAL champion Vincentian in the PIAA Class A semifinals at Indiana Area High School.
"I never felt that it was the four of them with me as the fifth starter. They treated me like I was starting for three years. That was really good," Boslet said. "I just wanted to do everything that I could to contribute to the team, whether that meant shooting 3s or playing defense. Anything I needed to do, I was going to do it."
With a pair of 3-pointers on Saturday before her game ended prematurely, Boslet pushed her Lady Marauder-leading total to 35. She's also third on the team in assists.
"She's a very intelligent basketball player," BG coach Mark Moschella said of the 5-foot-8 Boslet, who is averaging 6.5 points per game. "She does a lot of good things with our defense. She's been very, very consistent the whole season. Offensively, she stretches defenses for us. We really rely on her when people want to converge on Halee in the middle that we can have a nice reversal. Brittany's a huge part of what we do."
Entering the season, Boslet was a big question mark. She barely played as a sophomore, and, as a junior, she was the first or second player off the bench on a team that rarely used its bench much unless it absolutely had to.
With a pair of players graduating who were in the rotation, though, Boslet's opportunity was there to step in.
"Just being on the team is awesome as it is. My sophomore year, I didn't play much. That just motivated me so much more to work harder and try that much more to start whatever year I could. That's all I really wanted to do," Boslet said.
Boslet had been playing basketball for about 10 years, and her outside shot always has been her calling card. But she knew she needed to do more to reach her goal of playing.
"I probably worked the most on defense, because I'm not the fastest kid out there, but Coach Mo really looks for defense which turns into offense," Boslet said.
Adams and Boslet always have gone to school together. Adams thought her friend had what it took to make her dream a reality.
"I noticed her drive and her passion for basketball. I know she's always loved it so much," Adams said. "There's a couple of us that came through grade school together, and we all push each other. She was always the one that was positive about it. And she was always the cutest one."
Boslet grabbed the spotlight in the District 6 championship game. Portage had 6-1 Olivia McCabe to contest shots in the paint, but Boslet hit a jumper to open the game, then another, then another. She wound up with 19 points, her career-high by six.
"It was awesome. I never imagined I would shoot that well in such a big game," Boslet said. "But I felt very confident coming in. I wasn't nervous at all. I wanted to win so bad, just like my teammates. You kind of don't think of anything else."
"I was so happy for her, I can't even explain," Adams said. "After she hit every shot, I just wanted to go over and hug her. I know she was loving that. I know her mother was so excited, too. I could tell she was enjoying herself that game and relaxed. I could tell she was ecstatic."
So was Moschella.
"Brittany's a good example of what hard work does. If we have a sophomore or a junior right now, they know that their time will come, but it's only going to come if they put in the hard work that Brittany Boslet put in," Moschella said.
In addition to basketball, Boslet is involved in the Eco Club, Spanish Club, SADD and the National Honor Society at BG, and she was crowned homecoming queen in the fall. She plans to attend St. Francis or Penn State Altoona when she graduates.
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Workers for Betsill Brothers Construction were in the process of removing the cornerstone with the inscription "United States of America, Dwight D. Eisenhower, President, 1959," when they found a rectangular metal box.
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Workers found a time capsule Tuesday while working to remove the cornerstone of the old Wailuku Post Office/Federal Building. Inside the capsule were three items — a 1959 copy of The Maui News, a letter from the contractor and blueprints for the building.
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Inside was a letter from the general contractor who built the building, Thomas T. Tanaka of Honolulu; a book of blueprints of the building; and a copy of The Maui News from Sept. 19, 1959, with the story of the new post office building on the front page.
"What a great find," said Regan. "Our records did not indicate there was a time capsule in the building."
In an interesting coincidence, the time capsule was discovered 52 years and one day from the official dedication of the building on Jan. 21, 1961.
According to the contractor's letter, the building cost $639,055 to build. The cost to demolish the building is $604,000, county officials said.
Workers began tearing down the building Jan. 7 as part of the county's campus master plan for Wailuku. The old building also had problems with asbestos and black mold and structural issues. County officials deemed it more economical to demolish the building than renovate it.
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As you might know, Archie Andrews recently died after 70 years of wholesome fun. It happened after he jumped in front of a bullet intended for Kevin Keller, newly elected senator and 50 percent of their world's gay population. Archie bled out a hero, but for a comic about well-mannered teens and sock hops, a homophobic political assassin was a pretty insane ending.
... and a hole in the group poop that will never be filled.
What you may not know is that this is not even close to the craziest or darkest thing to happen in Riverdale. In 1956, they started publishing a series based on Archie's younger years, and to look upon Little Archie is to go mad. Here are eight things I discovered while reading this collection of bizarre adventures.
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We had very clearly defined gender roles 60 years ago, and while sexism was common, if a woman worked hard and believed in herself, she could still be slightly tolerated. Little Archie thought this was feminism run amok. He hated girls so much, the Riverdale day care had to install a battered women's shelter. Betty and Veronica never got a single dime from the tooth fairy -- all their teeth were left on Little Archie's lawn. You probably think I'm kidding and that no one would actually make girl-punching a central theme in a children's comic. Well, they fucking did:
What's strange about this beating, aside from the fact that someone wrote it and another person drew it, is that Little Archie doesn't even address the girls before he attacks. Betty and Veronica went into that fistfight blind. And you can tell it happens all the time because neither of them asks "WHY!?" They skip straight to the "OW! STOP IT ARCHIE!!" and "OW! ARCHIE!"
What kind of a monster just ambushes little girls? Even the Red Skull offers his victims an explanation before he begins murdering them. In fact, now that I think about it, Little Archie's punch-first policy might make him the only effective villain in the history of comics.
That above is a normal battle of wits for Little Archie -- a girl screams something at him, and then he silently punches her. This comic isn't a cute adventure. This comic is an emotional outlet for someone who ran out of wives to kill. It's something a psychiatric guard would find right before he heard a giggle from the shadows and then nothing ever again.
Those panels represent a pretty unusual moment in Little Archie because it's Veronica who's instigating the fight. Most times, she and Betty are only asking him to play before he tells them they're worthless with words and karate. Here, let me show you:
They want to play fortune-teller, and he threatens to punch them in the eye! That seems like an overreaction ... although throwing a punch at a fortune-teller seems like a polite way to help keep their craft honed. Maybe Little Archie is right this time.
Little Archie's hatred of women was ceaseless and complete. But why? I scoured every issue trying to find his origin story. Did a Georgia O'Keeffe painting loom over his crib? Did he fall into a circus train car writhing with old tampons? I never found an answer. But I did find this scene where the writer decided an ordinary day for girls is grunting and panting over a pit of mud, a situation he could only describe as "WORSE than Indians." My point is, this comic was written by a madman from behind a secret hole in an OshKosh B'gosh changing room.
Just think, some of the children in this comic are now old enough to finish their seventh or eighth prison sentence. What are you standing around for, Veronica? Get the fuck out of there!
Before the corn syrup industry rewrote our country's DNA to be mostly pancake, being obese was a bit of a novelty. If you sent a pair of today's average-size pants back to 1950, they would assume it was some kind of 15-man parachute and drop an airborne squad into Korea. So it's understandable that Little Archie and his writers had no idea how to deal with fat people. For instance:
The first fat L'il Riverdale character we meet is named Fatty! And their nickname for him is Fatso! There's no biting analogy for something like that -- when you're a writer and you name your fat character Fatty, that's like a writer naming his fat character Fatty. It's the absolute minimum of human thought ever put into the creation of a thing. If the author named him Somename Whenlunch, it wouldn't be any lazier. It doesn't really matter, though -- Fatty Fuller only showed up in one issue so Archie could call him fat, steal from him, then never see or hear from him again. The real fat star of Little Archie came later when Bubbles McBounce moved to town:
Bubbles was the daughter of the ice cream shop owner, and she was shaped like a family of ovals having an argument. She had a weight problem, and maybe this is a credit to the efficiency of Little Archie's storytelling, but she never went more than two panels without someone mentioning it. It should also be noted that she was absolutely not cool with it. She spilled so many tears about her weight that all of Riverdale smelled like movie theater popcorn.
Bubbles was a great platform for the writers to deal with the issues of childhood obesity, like how Exxon has to spray oil dispersant all over the ground after they cry. Or, as seen here, how their "eating hand" gets stuck in bowls. Wait, what? Fucking what!? That doesn't make sense in two ways. First, it's crazy. And second, if this really is the author's understanding of obese people, wouldn't he just assume she could eat the bowl? I can't respect a comic that's so poorly researched. Have some respect for your craft -- read a book on obesity, or at least eat a case of frosting.
Despite her nearly supernatural weight issues, Bubbles had her fair share of suitors. Unfortunately, the boys were only interested in her ice cream. I think this was supposed to be funny, but afterward the author literally devoted half a page to Bubbles silently crying about it. The note to the artist probably said, "Bubbles plods into the shadows, weeping, her stupid ham face desperately trying to brine itself. She deserves all of this pain. All of it."
Oh holy shit, I thought I was kidding. The author really thinks she deserves all this! Now I feel bad. Let me look through this stack of comics and see if I can find a situation that didn't involve her breaking the laws of nature with her mass and then crying.
OK, this is the best I could do:
In the history of Little Archie comics, the only positive experience the fat character had was when her impossible mass broke through a dock and knocked out a lake of fish. Ambrose proposed on the spot, which strangely didn't make Bubbles cry. I'm still not clear on all these rules, but apparently marrying a fat woman for free fish is more chivalrous than marrying her for free ice cream. I'm just happy she made it five panels without crying.


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Haley, it seems what you are saying is strong argument given by many people. Many of whom mistake being sexual attracted to someone as love and very shortly after saying "I do" are divorced. Although I agree that all options should be taught to our young people, I also agree that abstaining should be one of those options.I was always told to test drive a car before you buy it, otherwise you could potentially end up in an unhappy marriage.
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the act of having sex doggie-style & pulling out (seemingly accidentally) @ which point you allow another male to take over, unknown to the recipient. At this point the first male sneaks out & reappears to the recipient, preferably by waving through a window from the outside.
Me & Nate pulled a David Blaine on Jennifer the other night. She totally freaked when she saw me waving through the window! It was awesome!
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автор: Broken_Wire 12 июня 2007
A peculiar magician who repeatedly performs abnormal stunts. Relying on the attention of the public, this creature is ironically, largely ignored. As the public grows increasingly apathetic his stunts become increasingly odd; as though he is some sort of modern "Houdini," but he isn't, he's just David Blaine
ex: David Blaine is standing on a volcano for a week -- who cares?
автор: George Padis 7 мая 2006
The David Blaine is a sexual position where you are having sex with a woman from behind and with out her knowing you let your friend slip in. Then you go outside and wave at her through the window.
Ricks and I love to pull the David Blaine on many girls but they usually don't laugh.
автор: flave171717 8 июня 2010
Have sex with your girl in the "doggy style" position in front of a window. On the "out stroke" pull completely out and have a friend (or if your from the south, a relative) fill in for you. Hopefully she will never realize the switch. At this point, run outside to the window, stand in front of it and wave at your girl while she is still getting nailed by who she thinks is you.
i david blained that chick and she never knew what happened
автор: crisp 1 февраля 2008
David Blaine is a 33 year old man born in Brooklyn who makes a living doing a whole lot of nothing. This man will do anything for publicity. Recent stunts have been standing in a block of ice for 61 hours, standing on top of a 27 meter post for 35 hours, being buried alive, and spending a week inside a water-filled glass sphere at Lincoln Center in New York where he attempted to hold his breath for 9 minutes. He goes around NY and other major cities showing people his impressive card tricks. There is a rumor that New York City is writing a law stating Blaine will not be able to annoy people with his tricks there anymore. Rumor has it that he has dated Madonna, Fiona Apple, and Josie Moran. Magician or not, he's just another guy.
That David Blaine treats himself like an organ grinder monkey. He will do anything!
автор: aishtamid 5 сентября 2006
thats when your having doggie style sex with a girl in front of a window and during intercourse you let your friend take over, the girl not knowing, thats when you run across to the outside of the window and wave at her while your buddy is doing it ;)
i pulled a david blaine at a girl last night, she said woow your good
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FINDLAY - Judging from the smiles and the amount of pictures being taken with the trophy, there's nothing about winning a district championship that gets old.
For the second straight year, Mohawk got the best of Midland Athletic League rival New Riegel in a Division IV district final at Findlay High School. After dropping the first game, Mohawk took the next three and a 19-25, 25-19, 25-15, 25-21 victory.
After the match, the opinion was unanimous. The second time around was just as sweet.
"It feels a lot better to know that we can go back and do it again," Lynsey Trusty said before admitting to losing her voice.
"It means a lot. we've been working really hard for this," Ashley Parker added. "It feels amazing to win it twice. It's a great feeling."
Parker, typically Mohawk's setter, isn't used to getting many opportunities for kills of her own. Yet, at match point, the opportunity came her way and she took it. While New Riegel was expecting a set to one of the several strong Warrior hitters, Parker instead spotted an empty slot in New Riegel's defense, and knocked it down for the district championship winning point.
"It felt amazing to get that final kill," she said. "There's not very times that I actually get to kill the ball. So to be able to experience that was awesome. Especially the game point."
New Riegel finished the season with a 23-2 record, both losses coming to Mohawk, but not before giving the Warriors and coach Eric Hoover a number of problems.
"It is a great accomplishment. Nobody else was able to beat them this year," Hoover said. "They're a very, very good team. They got three very good offensive players that, there's times tonight we couldn't stop them at all. We couldn't get touches on the ball. They scrap a lot, they play great defense and we really had to battle."
Mohawk's 23rd victory of the season came in a manner not typical of the other 22. The Warriors had to come from behind.
New Riegel's Taylor Arbogast set the tone early in the first game with three quick kills to get the Blue Jackets rolling. New Riegel never trailed the entire first game, and never lost the lead after breaking a 4-4 tie.
The game stayed close with the Blue Jackets never being able to open up more than a three-point lead, until they pulled away late. Leading 20-18, New Riegel closed the game out with a 5-1 run.
New Riegel coach Cindy Walerius said she felt her team missed a chance to build off its momentum from the opener.
"We had a lot of momentum after that first game. Everything was going our way," she said. "Second game, I think we missed three or four serves. ... We get game two and that really puts the pressure on them."
Facing adversity, the three Mohawk seniors - Trusty, Ashley Parker and Sarah Parker - stepped up their leadership in efforts to help rally the team.
"All three seniors had a talk and we're like 'Guys, we don't want this season to be over, we can't end it like this.' We want to go to regionals," Trusty said, "and then we picked it up from there. Our confidence level went sky high."
"The huddle for the second game, I was telling the girls 'okay, we're all going to have nerves, they do to, but the second game is how we come back from that,'" Sarah Parker said. "We are not a team just to roll over and let them win. We wanted this more than anything tonight. We wanted to win this game and we went out and proved it that second game."
Hoover made some adjustments to the rotation in between games 1 and 2, in an effort to slow down New Riegel's offense.
"I did move our rotation a little bit, because that first game, we couldn't touch anything they hit," he said. "They killed every ball. We couldn't get any stops on defense. So I rotated us one spot ahead, just to see if we could get some different matchups on defense. I don't know if that had anything to do with it or not, but I told them, 'we have to start getting some touches at the net and slowing them down. We can't just let them pound it at us.' We did a better job of getting some touches at the net early and letting our back row do their thing after that."
Mohawk raced out to a 7-1 lead early in game 2. Lauren Ladd tried to keep New Riegel close with three kills and a pair of aces. The Blue Jackets chipped away at Mohawk's lead, but Julie Adelsperger came up with a pair of kills late to seal the win for the Warriors, knotting the match 1-1.
Sarah Parker came out strong for Mohawk in game 3, with four kills on the first six Mohawk points. However, Arbogast and Ladd were able to keep things even. The game was tied seven times, the final time coming at 11-11, before Mohawk scored off a Sarah Parker block. From there it was a 14-4 Mohawk run to close out the game.
Sarah Parker knocked down two more kills, while Kasey and Julie Adelsperger combined for six kills over the game's final eight points.
"We knew they were going to be aggressive on their serve, we worked on that last night," Walerius said. "The first game I thought we were really on target with our serve-receive. And then after that it came and went. We'd have it, then all of a sudden, we'd have a couple shanks, because every time we free-balled it over to them, just gave them the opportunity to set up their offense and that's what we didn't want to do."
Mohawk seemed like sharks smelling blood in the fourth game, grabbing a 12-2 lead. Sarah Parker had three kills and got two more points off blocks during the early run.
However, New Riegel answered. Kara Scherger had five kills and Arbogast four as New Riegel erased the deficit, getting within a point on a pair of occasions, the final time coming at 17-16. But the Mohawk front line full of Parkers and Adelspergers was too much down the stretch.
"We know they're going to battle, they're going to make runs," Hoover said of New Riegel. "They're too good not to make runs; too good offensively and defensively not to. I felt like there was a couple rotations where we had an advantage. But we still have to execute to take advantage of it. We did a good job of that in games two and three, and the beginning of four we did a great job executing in all those rotations and made runs at the times I really thought we could."
Sarah Parker finished with 18 kills while Kasey Adelsperger added 13 and Julie Adelsperger eight. Ashley Parker dished out 42 assists while Trusty led the defense with 18 digs.
Arbogast's 15 kills led New Riegel while Scherger chipped in 10 and Ladd eight. Cassandra Acree had 26 assists.
Mohawk will face McComb 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in a regional semifinal at Elida.


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WATERTOWN, Mass. - Lifting days of anxiety for a city and a nation on edge, police captured the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect, found bloodied in a backyard boat Friday night less than 24 hours after a wild car chase and gunbattle that left his older brother dead and Boston and its suburbs sealed in an extraordinary dragnet.
"We got him," Boston Mayor Tom Menino tweeted. A cheer erupted from a crowd gathered near the scene.
"CAPTURED!!!" police added later. "The hunt is over. The search is done. The terror is over. And justice has won. Suspect in custody."
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A line forms to shake the hand of officer Raymond Coldero as a crowd reacts to news of the arrest of one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects during a celebration in Boston Common on Friday evening.
Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is visible through the window of an ambulance in this frame taken from video after he was captured in Watertown, Mass., on Friday.
Heavily armed police officers approach the door of a home while searching in Watertown, Mass., on Friday.
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Tamerlan Tsarnaev (left) and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
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During a long night of violence Thursday and into Friday, brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev killed an MIT police officer, severely wounded another lawman and hurled explosives at police in a desperate getaway attempt, authorities said.
Late Friday, less than an hour after authorities said the search for Dzhokhar had proved fruitless, they tracked down the 19-year-old college student holed up in the boat, weakened by a gunshot wound after fleeing on foot from the overnight shootout with police that left 200 spent rounds behind.
He was hospitalized in serious condition, unable to be questioned about his motives.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died in the shootout early in the day. At one point, he was run over by his younger brother in a car as he lay wounded, according to investigators.
The violent endgame unfolded four days after the bombing and just a day after the FBI released surveillance-camera images of two young men suspected of planting the pressure-cooker explosives that ripped through the crowd at the marathon finish line, killing three people and wounding more than 180.
The two men were identified by authorities and relatives as ethnic Chechens from southern Russia who had been in the U.S. for about a decade and were believed to be living in Cambridge, just outside Boston. But investigators gave no details on the motive for the attack.
President Barack Obama said the nation owes a debt of gratitude to law-enforcement officials and the people of Boston for their help in the search. But he said there are many unanswered questions about the Boston bombings, including whether the two men had help from others. He urged people not to rush judgment about their motivations.
The breakthrough came when a man in a Watertown neighborhood saw blood on a boat parked in a yard and pulled back the tarp to see a man covered in blood, authorities said. The resident called 911 and when police arrived, they tried to talk the suspect into getting out of the boat, said Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis.
"He was not communicative," Davis said.
Instead, he said, there was an exchange of gunfire - the final volley of one of the biggest manhunts in American history.
Watertown residents who had been told in the morning to stay inside behind locked doors poured out of their homes and lined the streets to cheer police vehicles as they rolled away from the scene.
Celebratory bells rang from a church tower. Teenagers waved American flags. Drivers honked. Every time an emergency vehicle went by, people cheered loudly.
"They finally caught the jerk," said nurse Cindy Boyle. "It was scary. It was tense."
Police said three other people were taken into custody for questioning at an off-campus housing complex at the University of the Massachusetts at Dartmouth where the younger man may have lived.
"Tonight, our family applauds the entire law-enforcement community for a job well done, and trust that our justice system will now do its job," said the family of 8-year-old Martin Richard, who died in the bombing.
The FBI was swamped with tips - 300,000 per minute - after the release of the surveillance-camera photos, but what role those played in the overnight clash was unclear. State Police spokesman Dave Procopio said police realized they were dealing with the bombing suspects based on what the two men told a carjacking victim during their night of crime.
The search by thousands of law-enforcement officers all but paralyzed the Boston area for much of the day. Officials shut down all mass transit, including Amtrak trains to New York, advised businesses not to open, and warned close to 1 million people in the entire city and some of its suburbs to unlock their doors only for uniformed police.
Around midday, the suspects' uncle, Ruslan Tsarni of Montgomery Village, Md., pleaded on television: "Dzhokhar, if you are alive, turn yourself in and ask for forgiveness."
Until the younger man's capture, it was looking like a grim day for police. As night fell, they announced that they were scaling back the hunt and lifting the stay-indoors order across Boston and some of its suburbs because they had come up empty-handed.
But then the break came and within a couple of hours, the four-day ordeal was over. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured about a mile from the site of the shootout that killed his brother.
Chechnya has been the scene of two wars between Russian forces and separatists since 1994, in which tens of thousands were killed in heavy Russian bombing. That spawned an Islamic insurgency that has carried out deadly bombings in Russia and the region, although not in the West.
The older brother had strong political views about the United States, said Albrecht Ammon, 18, a downstairs-apartment neighbor in Cambridge. Ammon quoted Tsarnaev as saying that the U.S. uses the Bible as "an excuse for invading other countries."
Also, the FBI interviewed the older brother at the request of a foreign government in 2011, but nothing derogatory was found, according to a federal law-enforcement official who was not authorized to discuss the case publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
The official did not identify the foreign country.
Authorities said the man dubbed Suspect No. 1 - the one in sunglasses and a dark baseball cap in the surveillance-camera pictures - was Tamerlan Tsarnaev, while Suspect No. 2, the one in a white baseball cap worn backward, was his younger brother.
Exactly how the long night of crime began was unclear. But police said the brothers carjacked a man in a Mercedes-Benz in Cambridge, just across the Charles River from Boston, then released him unharmed at a gas station.
They also shot to death a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer, 26-year-old Sean Collier, while he was responding to a report of a disturbance, investigators said.
The search for the Mercedes led to a chase that ended in Watertown, where authorities said the suspects threw explosive devices from the car and exchanged gunfire with police. A transit police officer, 33-year-old Richard Donohue, was shot and critically wounded, authorities said.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev somehow slipped away. He ran over his already-wounded brother as he fled, according to two law enforcement officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the investigation. At some point, he abandoned his car and ran.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev died at a Boston hospital after suffering what doctors said were multiple gunshot wounds and a possible blast injury.
The brothers had built an arsenal of pipe bombs, grenades and improvised explosive devices and used some of the weapons in trying to make their getaway, said Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, D-Md., a member of the House Intelligence Committee.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev had studied accounting as a part-time student at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston for three semesters from 2006 to 2008, the school said.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was registered as a student at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Students said he was on campus this week after the Boston Marathon bombing. The campus closed down Friday along with colleges around the Boston area.
The men's father, Anzor Tsarnaev, said in a telephone interview with AP from the Russian city of Makhachkala that his younger son, Dzhokhar, is "a true angel." He said his son was studying medicine.
"He is such an intelligent boy," the father said. "We expected him to come on holidays here."
The city of Cambridge announced two years ago that it had awarded a $2,500 scholarship to him. At the time, he was a senior at Cambridge Rindge & Latin School, a highly regarded public school whose alumni include Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and NBA Hall of Famer Patrick Ewing.


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on May 21, 2013 - 10:26 PM
LOCKPORT – The Niagara County Legislature is urging the Buffalo Bills to consider downtown Niagara Falls if the football team is seeking a site for a new stadium.
The resolution the Legislature passed Tuesday by an 8-4 vote notes that Niagara Falls has large expanses of vacant property close to the international border, which would make it handier for Canadian fans than is Ralph Wilson Stadium in Orchard Park.
However, the Bills have shown no official interest in any new stadium, regardless of location.
The state and Erie County have agreed to invest $200 million in upgrades at the Ralph during the Bills' new lease, which binds the team to the Orchard Park site until 2020.
"This is about preventing our team from Western New York from leaving for Toronto," said Legislator Jason A. Zona, D-Niagara Falls, the lead sponsor. "This is just a symbolic resolution that we don't want to lose our football team."
But some opponents were concerned that the resolution might commit Niagara County to building a stadium for the Bills. Zona denied it, and the resolution was amended to delete a specific reference to "building an NFL stadium in downtown Niagara Falls."
"Of course, we can't afford to build a stadium. We're not Erie County," said Minority Leader Dennis F. Virtuoso, D-Niagara Falls.
Opposition came from four members of the GOP-controlled majority caucus: Majority Leader Richard E. Updegrove and Anthony J. Nemi of Lockport, John Syracuse of Newfane and Michael A. Hill of Hartland.
"I think Erie County has done a lot of hard work on the lease," Syracuse said.
Three other Republicans – W. Keith McNall of Lockport, David E. Godfrey of Wilson and Paul B. Wojtaszek of North Tonawanda – were absent.
In other matters, the Legislature passed the 2013-14 Niagara County Community College budget, which includes a 2.6 percent tuition increase, equivalent to $96 for a full-time, full-year student.
The $49 million budget does not seek an increase in the county's contribution to the college, which will be $8.87 million for the seventh consecutive year.
Also Tuesday, the Legislature appointed Michael A. Ross of the City of Lockport as District 4 coroner for the rest of the year.
Ross, co-owner of two funeral homes, was recommended by a selection committee last week.
Ross, a Republican, succeeds Richard W. Rutland of Newfane, who resigned last month. Ross is expected to run for a full term in this fall's election.
On another matter, the Legislature voted to send a request to Albany for an enabling act that would allow the county to continue charging an 8 percent sales tax for two more years.
The current authorization expires Nov. 30. By state law, Niagara County must use all the proceeds of one extra percentage point on its share of the Medicaid program.
The Legislature also agreed to create a second welfare fraud investigator position in the Sheriff's Office.
A resolution from the Democrats, seeking to study whether to require inspections of apartments before they are rented to welfare clients, was sent to committee for study. Also sent to committee was a Democratic resolution to seek proposals for voting machine storage.
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With so many older adults living alone and in poverty, some Central Susquehanna River Valley seniors will undoubtedly be struggling to make ends meet this holiday season.
That's why the area Home Instead Senior Care office has partnered with retailers and community organizations to make sure isolated seniors receive gifts and companionship through the Be a Santa to a Senior program.
"Seniors faced with medical bills and the high cost of living can find they have little left at the end of the year," said Joe DeLauter, owner of the Home Instead Senior Care office serving the Central Susquehanna River Valley. "That's not the only issue, though. Personal needs may become magnified for so many living alone with no one to share their problems."
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 9 percent of U.S. seniors 65 and older are living in poverty and 27 percent are widowed.
With the support of Albright Life, Buffalo Valley Lutheran Village, ElderCare Solutions, Inc., Kramm Healthcare and Rehabilitation, Manor at Penn Village, Manor Care Nursing Home, Northumberland Area Agency on Aging, and Union-Snyder Area Agency on Aging, area retailers, volunteers and members of the community, the local Home Instead Senior Care office will collect and distribute gifts to seniors who might otherwise spend the holiday alone.
The Be a Santa to a Senior program runs through Dec. 1.
Christmas trees or wreaths, which will go up in Crossroads Church of the Nazarene Ministry, 71 Nazarene Lane, Milton; Mifflinburg Bank & Trust, 250 E. Chestnut St., Mifflinburg; M&T Bank, 409 Market St., Lewisburg; Swineford National Bank, 70 International Drive, Lewisburg; and Walmart Super Center, 120 AJK Boulevard, Lewisburg, will feature ornaments with the first names of the seniors and their gift requests.
Holiday shoppers are asked to pick up an ornament off special Be a Santa to a Senior Christmas trees and wreaths, buy items on the list and return them unwrapped to the store, along with the ornament attached, by Nov. 30.
The Home Instead Senior Care office will then enlist the volunteer help of its staff, senior-care business associates, nonprofit workers and others to collect, wrap and distribute the gifts. For more information, visit www.beasantatoasenior.com or call 522-6533.


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Dear students,
I hope you have all had a smooth start to the second semester after a restful and replenishing break. Though all the staff of Student Affairs took a week to be with family and friends as well, they spent the rest of the time preparing for the spring semester and are excited to have you back on campus.
Reflecting on what makes our campus a tight-knit and caring community, I want to remind everyone that we all play a valuable role in preventing acts that violate individuals' basic dignity. To help support that type of community, we have developed a new Web page, www.marquette.edu/sexual-misconduct, which was launched today. With input from community advocates, staff from the Counseling Center, Student Health Service, Student Development and the Department of Public Safety, the site provides resources and information for the campus community. This semester we will also begin a bystander intervention program with various student groups on campus. I encourage students to participate in the training if they can and to review the information on the new website.
Other programs and developments I'd like to call your attention to include:
Additionally, don't forget about the ongoing services of Student Educational Services for tutoring and academic health, the Counseling Center to support your mental health, and Student Health Service for your health needs.
I wish you all many successes this semester. Know that the entire Marquette community is here to support you and your goals. If you have any questions about the services or opportunities available, please visit the Division of Student Affairs website. If you can't find what you are looking for, you can always call our central office for assistance.
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on May 12, 2013 - 10:47 PM
July 21, 1944 – Dec. 9, 2012
A memorial Mass for Camille Bailey Severyn, a teacher of Spanish and an avid gardener, will be offered at 9:30 a.m. Thursday in St. Christopher's Catholic Church, 2600 Niagara Falls Blvd., Town of Tonawanda.
Ms. Severyn died unexpectedly Dec. 9 in her Amherst home. She was 68.
Born in the Buffalo area, she grew up in Cheektowaga and attended Villa Maria High School. She earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in Spanish from the University at Buffalo, where she was Homecoming Queen in 1965, and was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Peru in 1968. She also received a U.S. government grant to study in Cuba.
She lectured in Spanish at UB, Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia and Erie County College South Campus in Orchard Park.
She lived briefly in Ohio following her marriage to Robert Bailey and received a master's degree in international affairs from Ohio University.
She taught Spanish at Mill Middle School in the Williamsville district, retiring in 1999. In retirement, she continued teaching Spanish at Catholic elementary schools, including Infant of Prague in Cheektowaga and St. James in Depew. She also tutored adults in Spanish and worked as a literary volunteer and in the UB Host Family Program.
She was a member of the Forest Stream Garden Club and tended some of the public gardens on Main Street in Williamsville. She also volunteered at many local theaters.
An accomplished accordion and piano player, she played at the Amherst Senior Center, where she was a member, and with the Amherst Saxophone Quartet.
She traveled extensively in Europe and South America. She often designed and made her own clothes.


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Peter Facinelli's friendship with Jaimie Alexander has blossomed into romance. Something Alexander says has her feeling good if not a little scared.
"We've been friends forever and had a lot of mutual friends and we reconnected in the middle of the year," Alexander told PEOPLE Thursday night at the Tommy Hilfiger and GQ "Men of New York" event at Hilfiger's 5th Avenue flagship in New York. "It was one of those things where I'd been single for a very long time and he was going through a lot. We sort of bonded."
Facinelli, who split with Jennie Garth in March, and Alexander met on the set of Loosies, which Facinelli co-wrote, and went on to work together on Nurse Jackie.
"It's very new to me and it's scary," Alexander said of their relationship. "But it's also something we don't want to give up on because I know how it makes me feel in my heart, … It makes me feel really good. He's a good guy with a great family and I couldn't be any luckier."
Alexander can even count on her beau for fashion advice.
"Peter put this coat with this dress!" she said of her Catherine Malandrino coat and Naeem Khan gold frock. As for Facinelli's own style, Alexander said "he picks out his own clothes, and I think, of course that he looks handsome in everything."
Hilfiger donated 20-percent of the evening's sales to the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City for Hurricane Relief.
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An all girls alt-rock band from Nashville, TN. The band Tingo was created in early 2015 when four high schoolers decided to put their musical skills together to create a band. All songs on their EP 'Out of the Playroom' and their soon to be released album are original songs. The lead singer and rhythm guitarist is Gracie McGraw, the bassist is Gracie Johnson, the lead guitarist is Susie Joyce, and the drummer is Claire Joyce. To find out more information follow them on Instagram or Facebook, or visit their website thebandtingo.com
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David duChemin is a world & humanitarian assignment photographer, best-selling author, digital publisher, and international workshop leader whose nomadic and adventurous life fuels his fire to create and share. Based in Vancouver, Canada, when he's home, David leads a nomadic life chasing compelling images on all 7 continents.
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on January 26, 2013 - 12:06 AM
Doug Marrone could barely wait for his introductory news conference as the Buffalo Bills' new head coach to end.
He needed to get out of town – and fast. Marrone was eager to get to New York, where he would interview the man who would ultimately become his defensive coordinator, Mike Pettine.
"We jumped on a plane and went right down to see Mike," Marrone said. "I couldn't be happier with that choice. I couldn't be more excited with the staff we put together on that side of the ball."
Pettine, who met the Western New York media for the first time Friday afternoon, had never previously worked with Marrone, but had heard plenty of good things through mutual acquaintances.
"The response was overwhelming when people found out I had an opportunity to come and work with him," Pettine said. "It got to the point where I was literally answering the phones and saying 'if you're calling to tell me how good a guy Doug is, and how great he is going to be to work for, I already got that. You got anything else?' "
Now that Marrone has his guy in Pettine, the two can get to work on fixing a defense that fell far short of expectations in 2012. The Bills gave up 435 points, second most in franchise history.
That's after making defensive end Mario Williams the highest-paid defensive player in NFL history, and drafting on that side of the ball with consecutive top-10 picks (Marcell Dareus third in 2011 and Stephon Gilmore 10th in 2012).
"I can't really speak on what happened here," Pettine said. "I do know that we are going to bring a passion. We are going to work hard and ... highlight what we do well. There is no substitute for putting the work in, both on the field and in the classroom. I think that's where a lot of people think there is some magic schematically. It really isn't. Football is a game of a million little things, and we'll try to get as many of those things taught as we can."
Asked what the identity of his defense will be, Pettine hit all the right notes.
"We're going to play smart, we're going to be tough, we're going to be relentless. We're going to put pressure on you. We're going to force quarterbacks, we're going to force offenses to make very quick decisions," he said. "We're going to take our best shot at you. We're not going to be a read-and-react defense. That is not in our vocabulary. I think in this league to be successful, you have to be aggressive. I don't think you can be reckless, your aggression has to be calculated, but if you want to sum up what we'll be, it's going to be an attack style."
What Pettine wouldn't commit to was a label on what the team's base defense will be. The Bills last season played in a base 4-3 scheme under defensive coordinator Dave Wannstedt after spending two years in a 3-4 under George Edwards.
Pettine called it a "misconception" that the Jets, with whom he served as defensive coordinator for the past four years, were a 3-4 team.
"We are a multiple front, multiple packages. We'll be in 3-4, we'll be in 4-3, we'll be in 46. If you can draw up a front, we'll probably be in it," he said. "The cornerstone of our system is its flexibility and its multiplicity, that you can mold it to your talent."
As the league continues to trend more toward the spread passing game, Pettine said it's important to keep up.
"You're in nickel defense, you're in sub defense more than you are in base anyway," he said. "I think it's getting to the point where your third-down defense is almost your base. We'll be as multiple in third down as we are in early downs. Offenses are too good to sit in one front and be categorized as a 3-4 or 4-3."
Having been in New York the past four seasons, Pettine got to see the Bills eight times. He said the "cupboard is not bare" when talking about the team's talent level on defense.
"[There are] some good football players here and we're excited to work with them," he said. "They are explosive athletes and playmakers and we're looking forward to building a system that's going to take advantage of that."
The Jets under Pettine ranked no worse than eighth in yards allowed in any of his four seasons as coordinator, and led the league in 2009.
"Having more of a background on the offensive side of the ball ... I think what you look for is someone that has caused a lot of problems for offenses around the NFL," Marrone said. "Someone that you don't ever want to play against. When that was going through my mind and what I was thinking and talking to people in the league, it kept coming around to one name, one name."
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