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My father enjoyed sharing three celebrity tales from his youth in Memphis. The first involved a chance encounter with St. Louis Cardinals legend Stan Musial at Russwood Park in 1953 (when Dad was 11 years old). The second was a brief visit with Elvis Presley at Katz Drug Store in 1956. And the third story he'd tell regularly was an account of the football game he played — for Central High School — against local legend Tim McCarver (and Christian Brothers) in 1958. The fact that football was merely McCarver's second sport somehow inflated the legend of a fellow Memphian who went on to fame and fortune, first as a catcher for the Cardinals, then as a Hall of Fame broadcaster. My dad was an only child, so I came to view McCarver as the equivalent of a displaced, very famous relative: "Uncle Tim."
This is a big year for McCarver's legacy as a baseball player. It's the 50th anniversary of the 1967 world champion Cardinals, known to history as "El Birdos," primarily because of the impact Orlando Cepeda (a Puerto Rican native) made on the team upon being acquired the year before from the San Francisco Giants. Cepeda earned National League MVP honors that year after leading the circuit with 111 RBIs. Who finished second in the 1967 MVP voting? Tim McCarver.
Just last month, McCarver was elected to the Cardinals Hall of Fame. He'll be inducted in August along with steroid-stained slugger Mark McGwire and one of the key members of the Gas House Gang from the 1930s, Pepper Martin. And McCarver's induction is a bit overdue. He wore the tools of ignorance for three pennant winners and two world champions in St. Louis. Only Adam Wainwright and Yadier Molina have started more games as a battery for the Cardinals than did Hall of Famer Bob Gibson and McCarver.
McCarver spent most of the 1970s in Philadelphia where he became the personal catcher for another Hall of Fame-bound hurler, Steve Carlton (a man he first caught in St. Louis). Carlton and McCarver were so closely linked that speculation grew the pair would eventually be buried sixty feet, six inches apart. When McCarver played six games for the Phillies in 1980, he became the rare man to have played major-league baseball in four different decades.
McCarver's view from behind the plate helped him transition rather smoothly into the broadcast booth, first with the Phillies, then for many years with the New York Mets' cable station, WWOR. McCarver's cerebral style competed for attention with his play-by-play partner, Ralph Kiner, who became known as much for his malaprops in the booth as for the 369 homers he hit in ten seasons, most with the Pittsburgh Pirates. ("On Father's Day, we again wish you all happy birthday.")
His skills as an analyst took McCarver back to the World Series, where he called the 1985 Fall Classic as a late replacement for Howard Cosell. He went on to call 23 more World Series, the most for any broadcaster in history. And he gained his share of critics, in large part for the cerebral approach that worked so well in the Mets' booth with Kiner. There are fans who feel McCarver aims to speak above his audience, never settling for a two-syllable word when four will do. (He titled his 1998 book Baseball for Brain Surgeons and Other Fans. Awkward title, but it's a terrific read.)
McCarver hasn't forgotten his hometown. During his acceptance speech at the 2012 National Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremony — he received the Ford C. Frick Award for broadcasting excellence — McCarver announced a donation to build a baseball complex for kids in Memphis. "I learned the game in Memphis, Tennessee, on long-ago fields . . . . The hope is that some of these African-American kids will become major-league baseball players." [Sources were unable to confirm where in the planning stage this project currently sits.]
"Uncle Tim" is now 75 years old. Though he's no longer in the booth for the World Series, you can hear him now and then on the Cardinals' regional Fox broadcasts. It's been a long time since his football team beat my dad's (7-0) on the gridiron. Long enough for some perspective on the size and weight of Tim McCarver's impact since he left Memphis more than half a century ago. He's a member of a few halls of fame now. When we finally get around to an organized, formal Memphis Sports Hall of Fame, you can count on Tim McCarver being a charter member.
I'm a Softball Dad. Have been since my firstborn daughter took her first swing in t-ball "way back" in 2005. Twelve years (and 13 softball seasons) later, Sofia Murtaugh will be honored this Thursday as part of White Station High School's annual Senior Day. Also in uniform for the Spartans this week will be Sofia's sister, Elena, a freshman pitcher/outfielder. It will be one of the happiest days of my life. And one of my hardest as a father.
Any semi-regular reader of this column knows what the game of baseball means to me. My days as a glove-first outfielder (read: poor hitter) in high school are among the happiest memories of my life. My devotion to the sport — and all it teaches us about patience, trials, order, and yes, fate — has fueled my outlook on life, in general, and on the most important job I will ever have: raising my daughters.
I've been fortunate to have AutoZone Park less than ten miles from my home. My daughters have scampered on the leftfield bluff in diapers and enjoyed the luxuries of a club-level suite. Sofia spent two summers there as the franchise's first batgirl. She became a friend of Willie McGee's. In steering Sofia toward a life of happiness, I consider friendship with Willie McGee a significant mile marker.
My daughters happen to be very good softball players. Sofia was in the starting lineup for her first game at White Station Middle School, and has spent four years in the starting outfield for the high school. Challenged with learning to bat left-handed (to capitalize on her speed) as a freshman, she pulled it off and batted second in the order. A switch-hitting centerfielder by her junior season in 2016, she earned All-Metro honors and was named the Spartans' offensive player of the year.
Elena is three years younger than Sofia, born just in time(!) to try out and make one team with her sister in the same dugout. (This was not scripted, but I'll spend the rest of my life telling people in casual conversation that it was absolutely part of the family-planning math.) A lefty, Elena is one of two pitchers on the Spartan roster, so has thrown her share of innings, still four months shy of her 15th birthday. My wife and I have sat in bleachers behind home plate and watched one daughter in the pitcher's circle, the other just over her shoulder in centerfield. I've actually ached at times with swollen pride.
And it's coming to an end. Sofia will play her final game in green-and-gray next month, hopefully deep into the postseason, but just as likely shy of the regional title White Station continues to chase. She'll be off to college in the fall, softball a possibility but not exactly a priority as an 18-year-old begins carving her own path. Elena has three high school seasons ahead of her, and it will be a delight to cheer her as she tosses her way toward Senior Day in 2020. But she'll have new centerfielders behind her.
Baseball and softball are agonizing joys, both to play and watch. Hitting a fastball with a round stick remains the hardest thing to do in sports. Catching and throwing a ball properly — and to the right base! — aren't much easier. Add the mental challenge of overcoming continuous failure (one hit in three at-bats is outstanding, remember) and a softball player doesn't so much compete as she does survive. I thought I knew agony when I whiffed on a third strike so many years ago. Then I saw Sofia's tears after doing the same. A day after striking out ten hitters without allowing a walk, Elena was pitching when the Spartans were "run-ruled" by a district rival. A father suffers when his children are ill. And the pain is acute when his children feel the sting of defeat.
Both of my daughters' grandmothers made the trip from Vermont to Memphis to see their favorite softball duo. They get it. They understand that certain seasons, for certain families, are unlike any other. They watched number 9 chase down a fly ball and number 6 induce an inning-ending grounder. Best of all, they saw the outfielder and pitcher return to the same dugout, sisters forever, but teammates for this brief — yet eternal — moment in time.
Before the St. Louis Cardinals' exhibition game at AutoZone Park last Thursday, a reporter asked outfielder Dexter Fowler — a Chicago Cub this time a year ago — what should be expected from his new team this season. And the 31-year-old veteran answered precisely the way at least half the players in Major League Baseball should this time of year. There is no date for optimism like Opening Day.
A year ago in this space, I wrote about a transformation in Cardinal culture, that from hunted to hunters. The Chicago Cubs had beaten St. Louis handily in a 2015 division series (after the Cards had won 100 games and the National League Central title). It had become abundantly clear that the young, talented North Siders were the team to beat, at least in the NL Central. They proved, of course, to be the best team in all of baseball, winning the franchise's first World Series in 108 years. Outside a few fans in Boston and Los Angeles (those that cheer the Dodgers), the Cubs are expected to repeat this season, even without Mr. Fowler manning centerfield.
But there are 162 games to play before the postseason, the longest, most grueling regular season in sports. And the Cardinals opened the campaign Sunday night with a thrilling victory over the champs, Randal Grichuk delivering a walk-off single after Chicago had tied the game with a three-run homer by Willson Contreras in the top of the ninth inning.
A few signs that suggest the Cardinals can make the mighty Cubs sweat this season:
• Fowler scored the Cardinals' first run of the season, on a sacrifice fly after going from first to third on a single. That's a speed-generated run, something that seemed all but extinct at Busch Stadium in 2016. The man who drove Fowler in was Matt Carpenter, the team's former leadoff hitter, whose bat fits better in the run-producing third spot in the batting order. Along with improving the team's outfield on two fronts (his own place in center and sliding Grichuk to left), Fowler's impact on the Cardinal offense is already positive, and with a ripple effect.
• Cardinal catcher Yadier Molina signed a contract extension (three years, $60 million) just as the unofficial deadline for such a signing — Sunday's game — arrived. This eliminates the cloud of pending free agency — and endless discussion/deliberation — that would have otherwise been a subtext to anything the Cardinals achieve on the field this season. The extension will keep Molina (34) behind the plate for St. Louis through the 2020 season, securing the face of the franchise, a player who contributes to the team's pitching success every bit as much as the official pitching coach (Derek Lilliquist).
(Molina's new contract could make trade bait of 22-year-old Carson Kelly. The top catching prospect in baseball will start the season behind the plate for the Memphis Redbirds, but it's hard to envision him waiting four years to assume everyday duties for a big-league team.)
• The stars who won last year's World Series for the Cubs are back, save one: Aroldis Chapman. St. Louis last scored on Chapman before Grichuk or Stephen Piscotty could shave. In Sunday's opener, Chicago manager Joe Maddon trusted Mike Montgomery with the ninth inning of a tie game. Montgomery allowed two hits, two walks and retired only two batters. If former Royal Wade Davis overcomes recent arm trouble, he could approximate Chapman's role of last fall. If not, the Cubs have an Achilles heel, and in an area that shows up in the standings.
The Los Angeles Dodgers and Washington Nationals will have a say in whether or not the Cubs return to the World Series. Can the Cardinals — now hunters after so many years as the hunted — surprise the baseball gods and declaw their mighty rivals? Keep your eyes on Dexter Fowler over the next six months. If he's smiling like he was last Thursday at AutoZone Park, they just might.
The Memphis Redbirds' 20th season begins (unofficially) this Thursday, when the St. Louis Cardinals visit for an exhibition game at AutoZone Park. (Memphis opens the regular season April 6th at New Orleans. The home opener is Tuesday, April 11th.)
In celebration of two decades of Redbirds baseball, here are 20 historical facts to flavor your next conversation at AutoZone Park.
• The first batter in Memphis Redbirds history was none other than Vince Coleman on April 7, 1998. The outfielder who won six stolen-base titles with the Cardinals in the 1980s played just 20 games for Memphis (and stole eight bases) before retiring for good.
• Three Redbird pitchers have gone on to homer in their first at-bat in the major leagues (with the Cardinals): Gene Stechschulte (2001), Adam Wainwright (2006), and Mark Worrell (2008).
• In 2000, during a brief stint with the Cardinals, Redbirds catcher Keith McDonald became just the second player to homer in each of his first two big-league at bats. (The first was Bob Nieman with the St. Louis Browns in 1951.)
• Albert Pujols hit the most famous home run in Redbirds history, one that clinched the 2000 Pacific Coast League championship for Memphis on September 15, 2000. Pujols played a total of 14 games for Memphis and enters the 2017 season (with the L.A. Angels) nine homers shy of 600 for his career.
• Five former Redbirds have been named MVP of a League Championship Series: Adam Kennedy (Angels, 2002), Pujols (Cardinals, 2004), Placido Polanco (Tigers, 2006), David Freese (Cardinals, 2011), and Michael Wacha (Cardinals, 2013).
• No Redbird pitcher has thrown a no-hitter. Four have tossed one-hitters: Clint Sodowsky (1999), Britt Reames (2000), Anthony Reyes (2005), and Tim Cooney (2014).
• Adam Kennedy owns the longest hitting streak in Redbirds history: 20 games in 1999.
• Rick Ankiel has the Ruthian distinction of having led the Redbirds in strikeouts (as a pitcher) one season (1999) and home runs (as a hitter) another (2007).
• One former Redbird has earned more than 150 big-league wins: Dan Haren (153). The Cardinals' longtime ace, Wainwright, enters the 2017 season with 134.
• Five Redbirds have won the PCL ERA title: Brady Raggio (1998), Clint Weibl (2000), Jason Ryan (2003), Kevin Jarvis (2005), and Mitchell Boggs (2008). But no Redbird has won a PCL batting title.
• Five members of the Redbirds' 2009 PCL championship team also played for the 2011 World Series champs in St. Louis: David Freese, Allen Craig, Jon Jay, Fernando Salas, and Jaime Garcia.
• A former Redbird has appeared in every MLB All-Star Game since 2003.
• Two former Redbirds have compiled more than 2,000 hits in the major leagues: Pujols and Polanco.
• Only five Triple-A franchises have been affiliated with their parent club longer than Memphis and the St. Louis Cardinals: Omaha (Royals), Pawtucket (Red Sox), Iowa (Cubs), Toledo (Tigers), and Tacoma (Mariners).
• Before the Redbirds' arrival, the longest affiliation Memphis professional baseball had with one MLB franchise was 11 years (1984-94) with the Kansas City Royals.
• He only played in 147 big-league games, but Nick Stavinoha dominates the Redbirds career-record book. The slugger ranks first in franchise history in games played (479), hits (531), home runs (74), RBIs (316), and runs (260).
• Stubby Clapp's uniform number (10) is the only one to be retired by the Redbirds. It was painted on the bullpen wall at AutoZone Park in 2007. The number was removed, though, in 2012 when the St. Louis Cardinals retired the same number in honor of longtime manager Tony LaRussa. The Cardinals' policy calls for a honored number to be retired throughout the farm system . . . for the same individual. (Clapp will, in fact, be wearing number 10 as manager of the 2017 Redbirds. You could say his number has been unretired twice.)
• Redbird first-baseman Larry Sutton hit the first home run in AutoZone Park history on April 14, 2000. (The Cardinals' Eli Marrero and Mike Matheny homered in the inaugural exhibition game on April 1, 2000.)
• Three Redbirds have led the PCL in home runs: Ivan Cruz (2002), Kevin Witt (2004), and Brock Peterson (2013).
• Redbird outfielder John Rodriguez hit four grand slams in less than a month (June 15 to July 9) in 2005.
Perspective can be challenging when it comes to basketball in Memphis, Tennessee. That talented team at East High School aside, you'd think soul-crushing roundballs were falling from the sky these days, at least from FedExForum to the Larry Finch Center on the University of Memphis campus.
The Memphis Tigers lost six of their last eight games, the last two by 41 and 30 points, to finish the season 19-13 and shut out of postseason play a third straight year. The honeymoon for Hall of Fame-bound coach Tubby Smith ended around Valentine's Day. Can he recruit? Can he manage a game? Can he fill empty seats at FedExForum?
A recent five-game losing streak had followers of the Memphis Grizzlies questioning everything from rotation dysfunction to Chandler Parsons' social life. When Parsons' on-court struggles came to an end with the announcement last week he requires knee surgery, the loss of a starter seemed like a blessing. Related or not, the Grizzlies now find themselves on a four-game winning streak, the latest a takedown of the mighty San Antonio Spurs Saturday night. Exhale.
However trying this winter has been in our fair city, this week should prove palliative, and considerably so. Three other cities may be hosting regional finals in the NCAA tournament, but make no mistake: Memphis will be playing in the center ring.
Headed to FedExForum for games this Friday are three of the top eight teams in the country (according to the AP rankings): 8th-ranked UCLA (31-4), 6th-ranked North Carolina (29-7, the region's top seed), and 5th-ranked Kentucky (31-5, coached by one John Vincent Calipari). The Ringo Starr of the South's foursome is Butler (25-8), a team that has been to the championship game twice this very decade. With Memphis transfer Avery Woodson a key member of the Bulldogs' rotation, this is the closest the Tigers have gotten to the Sweet 16 since 2009 (when, yes, Calipari called FedExForum his home arena).
But pull back for the broad perspective of this weekend's three games. North Carolina is seeking its 20th trip to the Final Four and sixth national championship. UCLA is aiming for a 19th Final Four appearance and 12th crown. Calipari's Wildcats are clawing their way toward an 18th Final Four slot (fifth under Calipari) and hope to raise their ninth championship banner at Rupp Arena in Lexington. If college basketball teams were Avengers, Memphis will host Iron Man, Captain America, and Thor this weekend.
Phoenix hosts the actual Final Four next weekend and won't come close to the historical weight under FedExForum's roof come Friday. A confluence of this magnitude is extraordinarily rare. We saw a similar gathering at the 2008 Final Four (remember that one, Memphis fans?), when UCLA, North Carolina, and Kansas were all there. You have to go back to 2005 to find a regional (hosted that year by Austin, Texas) that approximates what we'll have in Memphis this week. Duke, Kentucky, and Michigan State played that weekend in Texas. The Spartans have been championship contenders for most of Tom Izzo's tenure in East Lansing, but they'd be in the Falcon category on our team of Avengers.
On top of all the history, we have Calipari's return to Memphis. (Has it really been eight years?) Do Memphians celebrate the Kentucky coach for the remarkable heights his Tigers reached under his watch for nine years? Or do Memphis basketball fans curse Calipari for setting a standard that cannot be matched, whatever the expectations or hopes? Even when you subtract his 38 wins from the 2007-08 Final Four season (those vacated for the Derrick Rose test-taking affair), Calipari is one of two Memphis coaches to win 200 games here. He would not be Kentucky's coach were it not for the success he enjoyed in the Bluff City.
Enjoy this week of basketball, Memphis. Cheer and jeer like it matters (because it does). UCLA's Lonzo Ball will be a top-three pick in this year's NBA draft and he may play his final college game at FedExForum (as Blake Griffin did in the 2009 South Regional). Malik Monk (Kentucky) and Justin Jackson (North Carolina) will soon be wearing pro uniforms, too. So relish this chance sighting. And go ahead and let the rest of the country know where Hoop City can be found this Friday.
It took me 34 years, but I have proof that Bear Bryant was, in fact, mortal. At least as much proof as I can have without getting grisly and breaking a few laws. During a brief visit to Birmingham last weekend, I paid a visit to Elmwood Cemetery and, on a gray, rainy Saturday afternoon, found the resting place of college football's greatest legend, certainly as measured in the state of Alabama.
Legends, they tell us, never die. But men do. And Paul W. Bryant did on January 26, 1983, four weeks after coaching his final game, a Crimson Tide win over Illinois in the 1982 Liberty Bowl in Memphis. He took to his grave the most wins in the history of his sport at the time (323) and six national championships as coach of his alma mater. But Bryant's numbers are but dressing to his legend, one built on the kind of toughness a man displays in wrestling a bear at age 13 or incorporating methods just this side of institutional abuse in building a team. (Read The Junction Boys, the story of a 10-day summer camp conducted by Bryant his first year as coach at Texas A & M.)
To be clear, I'm no fan of the Crimson Tide and will never sport a houndstooth hat in honor of a football coach, living or dead. But Bear Bryant's legend is that big. So I paid my respects.
I was born in Knoxville, the son of University of Tennessee alumni. (My dad was a junior halfback at Central High School here in Memphis in 1958 when Bryant took over in Tuscaloosa.) The third Saturday in October was rarely pleasant in Big Orange country during Bryant's tenure at Alabama. His teams went 17-6-2 against the Vols, enjoying one 11-game winning streak (1971-81) during which they allowed UT as many as 20 points just once.
Cry me a river, say fans in Oxford, Baton Rouge, and Auburn. The Bear dominated throughout the SEC, helped integrate the conference, and did it all with a cigarette and stiff drink nearby. If we could wake the dead for one quote and one quote only, I'd like to ask Bear Bryant what he thinks of Twitter.
Birmingham's Elmwood Cemetery is enormous: more than 400 acres with more than 120,000 human beings interred. There is but one gravestone for Bear Bryant, though, and it attracts so many pilgrims that red stripes (crimson stripes!) have been painted along the narrow roads leading to Block 30.
Even upon locating Block 30, I needed some direction to find the Bear's resting place. The man coordinating a grave-digging crew kindly directed me: "He's over there, across from that tree in a triangle." (This was an awkward inquiry, a person much more recently deceased than the Bear being laid to rest as I pursued a personal mission. But it was taken with grace — he'd answered this question before — and note the present tense in the directions I received. Bear Bryant was the coach at Alabama . . . but he is still "over there," near a tree in an Alabama graveyard.)
Near a large marker with the family names Bryant and Folmar, I finally found Bryant's marker. And that's all it can be called: a marker. No larger than two feet by one foot, the granite stone is inscribed, "Paul William Bryant, Sr. / Sept. 11, 1913 / Jan. 26, 1983." It is almost precisely the size and style of my father's marker in Jackson, Tennessee. By this measure, the Bear and my dad are equals. Dad would chuckle at the notion and point out that he was, in fact, a better fisherman than the coaching legend. Bryant's stone had several coins on it, and a single red flower. Never forgotten, to say the least.
Each of us can become a legend, if only to one other family member, friend, or beneficiary. It's the numbers we reach — and how we reach them — that make a legend grow, and Bear Bryant's is beyond measure. (Schools in Alabama were let out on the day of his death, a Wednesday.) I'll relish my journey to the Bear's resting place for the irony of that tiny headstone representing a man so tremendous in the memories of so many. Measure a man not by the size of his tombstone, but by the endurance of his impact. For some, there's no cemetery large enough.
Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred is up in arms over the speed of his game. The commish wants to move things along, spur action, eliminate delays, make silent moments loud with the cheering of sellout crowds. The MLB players union has been reluctant to adopt most of the changes — a clock for pitchers, to name one — so Manfred finds himself grinding his teeth, awaiting the authority to unilaterally impose new rules for the 2018 season. (The two parties managed to agree on pitchless intentional walks. Starting this season, a batter can be sent to first base merely with a signal from the opposing manager. No more staring at four wide ones. Former Cardinal and Met Keith Hernandez would at times lean on his bat as though it were a cane during an intentional walk. Other than losing the chance for such an image, this is a good modification.)
While we start processing the idea of a clock factoring in a game long known as timeless, here are a few creative suggestions for making baseball a quicker experience, one the modern attention span might better fancy.
• Three balls for a walk and two strikes, you're out! If intentional walks are so mind-numbing, why are we drawn to five- or six-pitch at-bats? Step into the box and be ready to swing. And no third chances if you can't handle a pitch in the strike zone. If reality television has taught us anything, it's that drama is tight, abrupt, and in your face. (Foul balls will no longer keep a batter alive, either. Put the ball in play — no more than two swings — or take a seat.)
• Seventy-foot bases. We want more offense, more scoring, right? Let's get more hitters on base. And around those bases quicker. For safety's sake, we can't move the pitcher's mound closer to home plate, so it will now sit virtually on top of second base. So be it. About the only way we'll be bothered with double plays will be grounders back to the pitcher. The ol' 1-3 DP.
• Two-out innings for teams with a lead. Why does a team leading on the scoreboard get three outs when it bats, just like the team trying to make a comeback? We want excitement, tight scores, and yes, comebacks. A team protecting its lead better hit early (in an inning) and often. And let's see if a team ever bunts with a lead. Won't happen. That's sissy stuff.
• One-pitch warm-ups for relief pitchers. That flame-throwing righty has been tossing in the bullpen for 15 minutes. Upon entering the game, he needs to "get familiar" with the mound? This isn't a first date. One pitch to your catcher, and game on.
• No more mound visits . . . ever. We have technology that will allow pitchers to wear an earpiece, one connected remotely to his catcher and the pitching coach. Let those two get in the hurler's head (literally) all they want: strategize, energize, discuss appropriate wedding gifts, whatever. But no man will ever again walk to a pitcher's mound merely to have a conversation.
• Seventh-inning wave. Stretching? What sport is so boring it requires its fans to stretch before the game is over? No more "Take Me Out to the Ballgame." Moving forward, ballparks will play the Surfaris' "Wipe Out" after the top of the seventh inning and fans will do the wave. Then back to baseball, hopefully a two-out inning for the home team.
More than three hours is required to complete an NFL game and there are about 25 minutes of what can be called action on the field (including one-yard runs and incomplete passes). An NBA game takes 150 minutes to play but look at the clock: 12 minutes times four quarters (plus halftime) equals 48 minutes. By my count, that's more than 100 minutes of waiting for the next dribble, shot, or pass.
Never mind those sports, though. Baseball season is almost here. And it's been here since long before horseless carriages became the rage. It's about time we fix it.
The ATP World Tour returns to the Racquet Club of Memphis this week, the 41st consecutive year of professional tennis in the Bluff City. It is the third Memphis Open under the watch of Erin Mazurek.
You've got two tournaments under your belt. What have you learned about tennis fans in Memphis, and the community in general?
It's been a learning experience. I didn't really understand the state the tournament was in when I got here. It needed a lot of love. For this community, that means a lot of personal conversations and one-on-one meetings. Personal invitations to bring people back, whether it is businesses, box-seat holders, or sponsors. This market is different from the last market I worked in [Detroit]. It's a lot more personal down here. The community is very tight-knit. You must have a compelling business case or branding case to get the partnership.
You've recently added live music to the Racquet Club food court, and the championship trophy is an actual guitar. Has the connection between tennis and Memphis music added to fan engagement?
You've got to have a strong brand that fits with your marketplace. This tournament, with all its great history, has had so many different names and partners. But nothing resounded as Memphis. But now with the guitar pick logo, the Gibson Guitar trophy . . . now the pieces fit in a puzzle that makes sense. We stand out on the tour now. These guys are playing in cities all over the world. Your tournament stop has to stand out and scream your local points of pride. [Among performers this week will be Blind Mississippi Morris on Tuesday and John Paul Keith on Saturday, each from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m.]
The music connection has recently been embraced by the Memphis Redbirds in their own rebranding.
All of our sports properties have to complement one another. This is too small a town to consider yourself a competitor. We have to partner and cross-promote. There's definitely a partnership mentality.
The Memphis Open is one of only 10 ATP events in North America. What kinds of challenges do you and your staff face in keeping pro tennis on the radar of a market with a variety of entertainment options?
We have to drive home the message that we're one of ten. Memphians are really proud of our town, our region, our giving, our hospitals. We have something that so many other cities have either lost or never had. One of ten cities where you can go to see professional tennis live. It's a point of pride. We have a bit of a problem in that it's been around so long that it's become taken for granted [by some]. When you have four decades of history, people get a little spoiled, thinking it will always be the case. We need to change that mentality.
We'll have a new champion this year, with four-time champ Kei Nishikori not in the field. Who should fans expect to see raising that big guitar on Sunday?
I'm never bold enough to call a champion before the tournament. But it will be good for us to see a new champion crowned. There are a lot of guys who will have a shot. If we're lucky, we'll see another young-gun American get his feet under him here. We have three of America's "next-gen" stars: [2016 finalist] Taylor Fritz, Reilly Opelka, and Frances Tiafoe. I hope to see some good results out of them.
Do you have a favorite player in the field? Any style of play you enjoy watching?
Dustin Brown is fun to watch. He's from Germany, but has Jamaican roots. He has dreadlocks that fly when he hits the ball. He has a crazy style, kind of chip-and-charge. He has wins against Rafael Nadal. And Reilly Opelka is nearly seven feet tall.
There's no top-10 player in the field. What do you tell people who ask about the absence of some of the sport's biggest names?
You can get on a plane and fly to New York to see them or fly to California. Or you can get in your car, drive 30 minutes, pay half the price for a ticket, and see players who would give those guys a tough match any day. We have players like Ivo Karlovic and John Isner who have been in the top ten; they're just not sitting there right now. We're the last indoor tournament in America. Comfort, convenience, and guaranteed matches.
Is the business community responding to the tournament's new look and feel? Any closer to landing a title sponsor for the event?
That's an ever-present thought, and a challenge we're working on. We've had some great conversations around it. There's still a need; we just haven't quite found the right partner. Always in the works.
The connection to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital remains strong. Tell us about the Ball Kids program.
This has shifted our efforts for St. Jude into something a little more meaningful. The ball kids are doing peer-to-peer fund-raising. The top fund-raiser gets to go to New York City, all expenses paid, for an exhibition match at Madison Square Garden in March. Last year we raised over $40,000. FedEx stepped up to sponsor the ball kids. They know it's the right reason and for the right cause.
And St. Jude is not our only charity. We benefit Tennis Memphis, the city-run nonprofit courts in town. And we have a new program with Blue Cross Blue Shield, helping Shelby County Schools students, bringing them out for field trips. We're giving 500 kids their very own racket. We give a parking lot to the Boy Scouts to raise money for their summer camp.
Share something a sports fan will see or experience at the Memphis Open that can't be found anywhere else.
Their most intimate sports-viewing experience. Unless you're a courtside ticket holder [at a basketball game], you'll never get this close to sports or professional athletes. People will come up to me and say how surprised and impressed they were after coming for the first time. I love hearing that. Give it a try, for something unique to do in February. You're going to be delighted.
Let's play a game of association. In historical terms, who is the face of the Atlanta Falcons franchise?
Gotta be a quick and easy answer.
New York Jets: Joe Namath. Miami Dolphins: Dan Marino. Detroit Lions: Barry Sanders.
Some answers stir debate. Chicago Bears: Walter Payton or Dick Butkus? San Francisco 49ers: Jerry Rice or Joe Montana? Buffalo Bills: O.J. Simpson or Jim Kelly?
Now back to the original question: Who is the face of the Atlanta Falcons?
This Sunday in Houston, a franchise born the same season we first had a Super Bowl (1966) will play in the big game for just the second time. The most memorable Falcon moment from Super Bowl XXXIII actually happened the night before kickoff: safety Eugene Robinson's arrest for soliciting prostitution. Denver demolished Atlanta, 34-19.
The Falcons have played more than half a century of football, yet have precisely one former player in the Pro Football Hall of Fame who can be identified indisputably as a Falcon. Defensive end Claude Humphrey played 11 years with Atlanta (1968-78) and was a two-time All-Pro pass rusher. Humphrey didn't gain enshrinement in the Hall of Fame until 2014, 33 years after he played his final game (with the Philadelphia Eagles). If you identified Claude Humphrey as the face of the Falcons franchise, you do your football homework better than Phil Simms, Troy Aikman, or any other analyst you see this time of year.
The truth, of course, is that the Falcons' current quarterback, Matt Ryan, is fast becoming the answer to this barstool question. And Ryan will lock up the tag if he's named MVP for the 2016 season, as many expect he will be. In leading the top-scoring team in the NFL, the 31-year-old Ryan passed for 4,944 yards and 38 touchdowns, with only seven interceptions. Making Ryan's Super Bowl debut even juicier, of course, is his counterpart with the New England Patriots.
Tom Brady, it can be carved in stone, is the easiest, most definitive "face of the franchise" for any of the NFL's 32 teams. The two-time MVP is Ryan's chief competition for this year's honor, having passed for 3,554 yards with 28 touchdowns and but two interceptions despite missing the Pats' first four games while serving his suspension for "Deflategate." (If you don't know, look it up. It's now a miserably distracting part of NFL history. No more on it here.)
Brady will start his seventh Super Bowl, as many as Joe Montana and Troy Aikman did combined. He aims to become the first signal-caller with five Super Bowl rings (Montana and Terry Bradshaw have four each). He's as Boston as Beacon Hill, as New England as maple syrup. Fact is, if we had to name a "face of the Super Bowl," Tom Brady would be the guy.
I lived three years of my early childhood in Atlanta. (My sister was born there, ten days before Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth's career home run record.) I lived nine years in New England, my college days in Boston during a time Steve Grogan was remembered as the quarterbacking standard and Sundays had entertainment options besides football. (Faneuil Hall anyone?) Those days are long gone; so say the Patriots' trophy case and the color of my whiskers. I'll be torn come kickoff Sunday, but will likely lean toward the team still trying — after half a century — to make a face for itself in the gallery of pro football history.
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The most points scored by a Super Bowl loser are 31 (Dallas in Super Bowl XIII and San Francisco in Super Bowl XLVII). That could change Sunday. The Falcons scored more points (540) than any of the 50 Super Bowl winners. The Patriots finished third in the league in scoring (27.6 points per game). The trouble for Atlanta is the Patriot defense. Not packed with stars — Devin McCourty? Dont'a Hightower? — New England allowed the fewest points in the NFL (15.6 per game). There will be some irony when Brady becomes the first quarterback to win five Super Bowls . . . and has his defense to thank.
Patriots 35, Falcons 27
Among the hundreds of Memphis sporting events I've attended, one of the most memorable took place on January 19, 2009, at FedExForum. The Grizzlies hosted the Detroit Pistons in the franchise's seventh-annual Martin Luther King Day game. Julius Erving was honored before the tip-off, so there was basketball majesty in the building. But the day lives on in my memory more for its place in time than for anything that happened on the hardwood.
The event took place the day before Barack Obama was inaugurated as America's 44th president. Erving got some big cheers, as did second-year point guard Mike Conley. But the loudest applause that afternoon came during a video tribute, not to Dr. King, but to the man who would become this country's first black president. It was extraordinary to absorb. A basketball game scheduled to honor this country's patron saint of civil rights — a few short blocks from where he died — merely hours before a black man would take the highest office in the land.
There was togetherness that day at FedExForum, and not the typical, cheer-the-home-team synchronicity. As at every Grizzlies game, the crowd was majority white. And that crowd seemed to recognize a larger togetherness, one that stretched, well, from sea to shining sea. We all cheered the moment in time, the moment in American history.
I thought of that day Sunday night when the Grizzlies hosted Chicago in this year's MLK Day game. ESPN had moved the game up a day, into a prime-time slot, a move that backfired when an NFL playoff game was pushed back into the same broadcast window. Eight years have been good to the Grizzlies, though, with six straight playoff appearances and players who now feel as much like family as numbers on a roster: Zach Randolph, Marc Gasol, Tony Allen. And Conley, owner of the fattest player contract in NBA history.
But what will Inauguration Day this year bring? There was no video presence for Donald Trump during Sunday's game. And any sense of togetherness — "from sea to shining sea" — seems as distant as Vince Carter's prime. The Grizzlies lost a close one to the Bulls, just as they fell to the Pistons eight years ago. But the result didn't matter on January 19, 2009. None of us cared as we left the building. There was larger inspiration to be found.
Today? Every Grizzlies win serves a purpose needed more than ever, that of distraction. Of joy, if for just that night. If we can't find togetherness as a country — perhaps that's too ambitious — let's at least find it with a team we cheer. And hope for better days ahead.
• Wednesday should be a good day for Memphis baseball fans with long memories. In his tenth year of eligibility, Tim Raines is all but certain to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. The offensive catalyst for some fine Montreal Expos teams in the 1980s, Raines is fifth in baseball history with 808 stolen bases. He also starred in 1979 for the Memphis Chicks (Montreal's Double-A affiliate at the time), batting .290 and stealing 59 bases for a team that made the Southern League playoffs. Raines would become the first former Memphis player to be inducted into the Hall of Fame since Gary Carter in 2003.
• Two years ago in this space, I made the case that Tom Brady is the first one-man dynasty in the history of American team sports (January 26, 2015). This Sunday, Brady and his New England Patriots will play in their sixth consecutive AFC Championship. It will be the 11th AFC title game for Brady in his 16 seasons as the Patriots' starting quarterback. (His 11th in 15 seasons if we exclude the 2008 campaign, most of which Brady missed with a knee injury.)
This level and length of contention for NFL championships can be matched by only one other franchise. Over the course of 17 seasons (1966-82), the Dallas Cowboys played for the NFL or NFC Championship 12 times. During that period, four quarterbacks started those games: Don Meredith, Craig Morton, Roger Staubach, and Danny White. That lengthy era of success led to the Cowboys being tagged "America's Team" by NFL Films. What does that make Tom Brady today?


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NEW YORK, July 19 (IFR) - Just one year after rating its first commercial mortgage-backed securities deal, newcomer Kroll Bond Ratings has grabbed the No. 3 market-share spot in year-to-date CMBS ratings, eclipsing some of its more experienced competitors, including Big 3 agency Standard & Poor's, according to IFR Markets deal data.
The rating agency, started by storied corporate-investigations pioneer Jules Kroll two years ago, has rated about $10.6 billion worth of CMBS year-to-date via 11 offerings. These include private-label deals issued by bank lenders, as well as transactions backed by loans on multifamily properties underwritten by Freddie Mac, according to IFR Markets.
This places the newcomer at the No. 3 market-share ranking behind Fitch, which rated about $17.5 billion, and Moody's, which rated the largest amount of CMBS so far this year -- nearly $18 billion.
Kroll also narrowly beat out two other more-tenured competitors who have been rating CMBS for years: Toronto-based DBRS, which captured the No. 4 spot for year-to-date market share, and Morningstar, which came in at No. 5.
Kroll's ascendance was no doubt helped by the fact that S&P, once a leader in CMBS ratings, found itself all but locked out of the market to rate CMBS offerings after a slip-up a year ago on a $1.5 billion deal.
The episode, which involved discrepancies that S&P found in its ratings for a July 2011 deal, led to bonds being pulled from the market post-sale, and eroded S&P's credibility.
The debacle allowed companies like Kroll to steal away part of the sector's business. S&P has recently overhauled its ratings criteria in an attempt to regain a foothold in the market.
But Jules Kroll, who points out that his agency rated its first CMBS transaction prior to the S&P incident -- and has now rated a total of 19 deals -- says that it is instead a focus on deep due diligence, insightful analysis, and very selective hiring of seasoned professionals that has allowed his firm to quickly gain investors' and issuers' trust.
"Given my legacy, the tone we try to set is that due diligence counts," said Mr. Kroll, whom many credit with inventing the modern corporate investigations industry.
"The incumbent rating agencies make a point that it's not their responsibility to do due diligence, that they're only reviewing what's presented to them. But the tone we try to set is that the ultimate goal is to give investors as much as we can give them to make their own judgments."
Kroll Bond Ratings has already expanded into municipal-bond ratings and asset-backed securities, and plans to issue its first corporate rating in the Fall, continuing down that path with an emphasis on grading financial institutions. However -- sticking to its strengths -- it will not attempt to rate the debt of sovereign nations.
"Our views, our approach, our embracing of due diligence over time with surveillance and detailed write-ups, are of people who are trying to restore trust," Mr. Kroll told IFR.
It's not an accident that the agency has excelled in CMBS. After initially spending money and time in 2009 developing non-agency residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) ratings models, Mr. Kroll finally realized that the sector was not returning anytime soon, and instead turned his attention to the nascent post-crisis renaissance in commercial mortgage bonds, another battered asset class.
He sought out some of the most seasoned and well-known analysts in the industry to head up his new structured finance ratings business.
"We offer more than a rating; what we view as a product is the insight into the analysis," said Kim Diamond, who joined Kroll in December 2010 to head up the firm's structured finance business.
Diamond was a 21-year veteran of S&P who headed up the CMBS new-issue ratings group for years and eventually headed the entire mortgage-bond ratings unit during the tumultuous time after the crisis hit in 2008.
Frustrated by some decisions that S&P upper management made in the aftermath of the crisis, Diamond left the firm in 2010.
Diamond herself commanded the overwhelming respect of the CMBS investor and issuer community, making her a perfect choice to head up Kroll's new structured finance unit.
"She was well known, seasoned, and emerged from the crisis with an unscathed reputation," Mr. Kroll said.
Shortly thereafter, Diamond recruited another respected CMBS colleague from S&P, Eric Thompson, to head up Kroll's structured-finance surveillance efforts.
"We were known entities to the industry, just resident in a different place. So there was a predictability of outcome" to what investors were getting, Diamond said.
While many of the Kroll analysts have rating agency backgrounds, Diamond says that the firm has made a point to also recruit professionals from the buy-side, sell-side, bond-structuring professions, research, and appraisal and workout backgrounds.
"Rather than taking the standard academic or didactic approach that many agencies take -- which tends to be very disconnected from the real world -- we brought in perspectives of those that had taken part in different parts of the business. That makes our perspective much more holistic at the end of the day," she said.
Still, it was an uphill battle to gain the trust of investors or convince underwriters and banks to choose the upstart to rate new issues.
"It was not written in the Bible that anybody had to put a Kroll rating on anything," said Mr. Kroll.
One stigma that was hard to overcome: Kroll used the same pay structure as Moody's, S&P, and Fitch, the harshly criticized "issuer-pays" model.
The conflicts of interest arising from this model -- the notion that the agencies were serving the wrong master in the run-up to the crisis and therefore were swayed to stamp toxic securities with Triple A ratings -- have been sharply lambasted by Congress, investors, and pundits.
"It's become a bit of a shibboleth that 'issuer-pay' doesn't work," Mr. Kroll said. "Well, what's the alternative? The investors don't want to pay."
To get his start in the bond-ratings business, Mr. Kroll acquired an SEC-registered boutique credit rating agency in 2010, Lace Financial, that used an investor-pays model, but soon discovered that the pay structure was not viable.
"It quickly became clear that investors didn't want to pay," he said. Mr. Kroll says his firm recognizes the inherent conflict that's involved with 'issuer-pays', so there is a tendency to be more conservative on some ratings, and "that has cost us some business."
But company executives also point out that the investor-pays model has its own conflicts, including the fact that large, influential asset managers have their own vested interests: for instance, they don't like volatility or downgrades, they like access to analysts, and there could be the perception that they're receiving more information than smaller shops.
"The reason that the issuer-pays model got a bad name is because it was combined with opaque criteria," said James Nadler, president and chief operating officer at Kroll, as well as a former executive vice president at Fitch.
Pre-crisis, the rating agencies had unclear criteria, and therefore could rate securities however they wanted, saying that an issuer's rationale for a Triple A "generally fit" within the methodology, Nadler said.
"When the 'issuer-pay' model is combined with transparent criteria, and transparent analysis, there are fewer conflicts," he said.
Mr. Kroll feels that the quality of his firm's analysis is what distinguishes it from the Big 3 rating agencies, and that there is still opportunistic room for a boutique shop in the ratings business, especially after the pummeling that the large raters took over the last few years in the court of public opinion.
"The level of criticism and condemnation that these folks have taken now for several years is non-stop," he told IFR. "If I was running one of these places, the first thing I would do is apologize. And offer an explanation."
That may be hard to do for S&P, Moody's, and Fitch, however, Mr. Kroll said, as they are constrained by lawyers protecting them from litigation, regulators, and the Dept. of Justice.
But the tattered reputation of the other agencies means that Mr. Kroll sees selective near-term opportunities in other areas where his ratings company can prove its analytical worth.
The agency hopes to replicate the success it has found in CMBS this past year in other sectors, and has already rated a subprime auto ABS transaction, with two more in the queue, and is in the process of rating its first container-lease deal.
Moreover, the bigger picture for Kroll Bond Ratings expands beyond just grading transactions and companies: Mr. Kroll intends to acquire an information provider/data company and combine it with the agency over the next year.
"It is not our intent to only be a ratings business," he said.
In order to make such an acquisition, however, and for it to be profitable, he has to make sure that there is a sturdy platform to build on.
"I'm not doing this as a religious experience," Mr Kroll said. "I'm doing this to achieve an economic return, and I think the marketplace will ultimately reward us economically if the product is viewed as independent and of high quality."
"The minute it's not viewed as independent and high quality, we're toast."
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Nuclear Regulation Reorganization and Reform Act of 1989 - Title I: Reorganization and Reform of Nuclear Energy Regulation - Subtitle A: Nuclear Safety Agency - Establishes the Nuclear Safety Agency as an independent regulatory agency to succeed the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Sets forth the Agency's officers and administration, including an Administrator to be appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. Abolishes the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to require the Administrator of the Nuclear Safety Agency to establish one or more licensing boards to consider applications for the construction of nuclear waste repositories. Requires the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board to nominate persons for appointment to the licensing board.
Subtitle B: Office of Investigations - Amends the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 to establish an Office of Investigations in the Agency to investigate possible violations of nuclear energy statutes within the Administrator's enforcement purview. Requires the Assistant Administrator to report Federal criminal law violations to the Attorney General. Requires the Agency and the Attorney General to coordinate their enforcement and prosecution activities.
Subtitle C: Nuclear Reactor Safety Investigations Board - Establishes the Nuclear Reactor Safety Investigations Board within the Nuclear Safety Agency to investigate independently any significant safety events arising out of activities at production or utilization facilities licensed by the Agency. Defines significant safety events which may have adverse effects on public health or safety. Requires the Board to submit a written report of its findings and recommendations to the Administrator, who must respond to such report in writing. Mandates that the Board's recommendations and the Administrator's response be made available to the public and the Congress. Sets forth the Board's investigative parameters. Requires the Board to submit an annual activities report to the Congress. Transfers those Agency functions to the Board which the Administrator determines to be appropriate, but precludes the transfer of program operating responsibilities. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1994.
Subtitle D: Separability - Declares that the remainder of this title shall not be affected if any of its provisions or applications of its provisions is held invalid.
Subtitle E: Effective Date - Sets forth the effective dates of this title.
Title II: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 to change the nature of the parties required to give notice of nonconformance with safety regulations and laws from firm directors and responsible individuals to firms or individuals generally. Authorizes the Administrator to issue regulations to ensure compliance with safety regulations, requiring firms to implement procedures to identify, evaluate, and report defects. Subjects regulation violators to civil penalties.
Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to include within the scope of security-related safeguards information any generic studies, reports, and analyses containing information that would provide substantial assistance in compromising or negating a licensee's security measures to protect nuclear material or facilities or in targeting vital plant equipment.
Sets forth conditions under which the Secretary may accept for storage any low-level radioactive waste with radionuclides exceeding the Class C limits that is owned or generated under Agency regulations.
Requires a comprehensive report to the Congress before any such waste is accepted.
Mandates that such radioactive wastes be stored or disposed of only in facilities licensed by the Agency, and that federally-operated facilities for such wastes be licensed only by the Agency.
Requires the Administrator to submit a quarterly report to certain congressional committees on the status of the Agency's implementation of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act. Precludes the Nuclear Safety Agency from designating a permanent disposal site for low-level nuclear wastes in West Chicago, Illinois, until it has studied alternative sites to determine the safest one available.


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Running back Kevin McCall runs downfield with defensive lineman Terence Simmons in pursuit. The junior's day included four carries for a team-high 46 yards, including the day`s longest running play, a 27-yarder that started to the right before McCall reversed field and took it all the way down to the three yard line.
Safety Michael Willis is making a strong bid for playing time this spring. "He'll really come hit you," Doba said.
Alex Brink sets up with the offensive line during Saturday's scrimmage at Martin Stadium. Setting the tone early, Brink hit Jason Hill for a a 42-yard touchdown strike. The Cougs' starting quarterback was six of nine for 75 yards with two scores.
Versatile tight end Tony Thompson is rapidly is proving that he's more than just a long-snapper. Thompson had two TD receptions Saturday.
Receiver Chris Jordan celebrates in the end zone after hauling in a scoring strike from Alex Brink. Jordan had three receptions for 20 yards.
Arkelon Hall sets up before locating his target. The play resulted in a touchdown to tight end Tony Thompson, one of two TD connection between the pair on Saturday. Hall was 6-of-10 for 27 yards including the two scores.
Running back Dwight Tardy gets taken down by Terence Simmons. Tardy has had a good spring but found little room to run behind his offensive line on Saturday.
Safety Michael Willis, involved in a tremendous collision with DeMaundray Woolridge the day before, didn't shy away from contact Saturday, making a number of crunching tackles. The secondary, however, was unable to prevent four scoring passes on the day.
CB Tyron Brackenridge was in high spirits Saturday at Martin Stadium. The senior looked to be in fine form despite missing some of the spring due to a slow-to-heal hamstring.
Loren Langley at the point of impact as he attempts a field goal. The junior kicker was good on all four PATs, but missed his only attempt, wide left from 41 yards out.
Quarterback Alex Brink hands off to DeMaundray Woolridge Saturday during scrimmage. The sophomore-to-be running back gained 26 yards on 11 carries.
Receiver Brandon Gibson attempts to get by CB Jeremiah Doehne Saturday at Martin Stadium. Gibson, No. 1 on the pre spring depth chart at flanker, had two catches for seven yards.
Freshman receiver Greg Walker (6-4, 185), a January enrollee, sets up on the line during a scrimmage Saturday.
Sophomore walk-on RB Jace Perry looks for room against a stingy Cougar defense. The Camas, Wash., native his final two prep season rushed for over 1,200 yards and 17 TDs, averaging 9.0 yards per carry while logging 17 sacks in 17 games.
Linebacker Alex Hamill moves in on the ballcarrier.
Tight end Jason Price. The junior college transfer built like Zeus, (6-4, 256, 4.56) recently returned to the field from a hamstring strain.
Safety Xavier Hicks in his first spring session with the Cougars.
Linebacker Lamar Brumfield was part of a defense Saturday that allowed 254 total yards, but could not keep the offense from scoring four times. In the previous scrimmage, the Cougar offense accounted for 311 total yards, but no scores.
Defensive tackle Matt Eichelberger following Saturday's scrimmage. The defense was held without a sack for the first time in three scrimmages.
Senior left defensive tackle Odell Howard leaves the field Saturday on crutches. No immediate information was available after Howard was examined by several trainers and eventually helped off the field.
Alex Hamill is among those competing for playing time at the linebacker position this spring behind starters Scott Davis, Steve Dildine and Greg Trent.


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Can you confirm when the term of the current tenancy agreement expires?
Did you give a deposit to the landlord when you moved in and has this been protected in a tenancy deposit scheme?
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" the six months ends 29th December 2010"
Do you refer to the 6 month ending because there is a break clause permitting you to terminate?
In order for you to terminate the tenancy prior to the expiry of fixed term or break clause you would have to show that the landlord has committed a repudiatory breach of contract which is so serious that it goes to the root of the contract to deny you all or substantially all of the benefit of the contract. Effectively this must mean that the property is unfit for human habitation.
Your difficulties with the boiler are, in my view, not sufficient to constitute such breach because you are still able to have heating/ho water. Were you to unilaterally terminate then the landlord would probably be able to sue you for the remaining rent up until the point at which he could relet the property.
You do have a right to a boiler in repair and you can enforce this by writing to the landlord specifying the disrepair and asking that he repairs it within 14 days otherwise you will pay for the repairs yourself and then seek to claim the expense from him using www.moneyclaim.gov.uk though I accept that this does not help in getting out of the tenancy.
If you suspect that the landlord would not sue you for the rent or would not realise that the boiler problems are not sufficient to entitle you to terminate then I suppose you could take a risk and terminate in the hope he would not sue, but this seems too big a risk considering that you have the option of a break clause coming up.
Better in my view, to make sure you exercise the break clause OR perhaps offering to leave early and pay a fraction of the rent for time remaining until break so he can attempt to relet immediately to make a small profit.
Obviously though you should write to him as above stated in respect of the disrepair.
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I've heard Max Payne 3 was a pretty good port (aside from being 30 flipping GBs).
Yes, Max Payne 3 PC was an excellent port, IMHO...
...despite wanting 30 GB of freaking space.
yea, too bad about the actual game tho
I think if gamers liked the gameplay of Max Payne 1 and 2 + are okay w/ the game talking place in both Brazil and NJ - yeah, they'll dig it.
I thought the game was awesome.


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Behind the Mask reports that a Liberian newspaper, The New Dawn, is claiming that US$4 million has been promised to members of the Legislature to ensure the enactment of a law guaranteeing the rights of gays and lesbians in Liberia.
The report filed by reporter, E.J.Nathaniel Daygbor, and published on the newspaper's website on Monday January 9, 2012, claims that a number of homosexual foundations or gay rights groups based in Europe and the United States led by what it calls "the California-based Foundation for the Protection of Gay Rights" are reportedly already in close contact with a few lawmakers, including House Speaker Alex Tyler and Representative Edwin Snowe to ensure the success of the project.
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The news report claims the Foundation is expected to make available US$2 million to Tyler and Snowe, if Tyler is re-elected as speaker of the in-coming 53rd Parliament. The money, the paper claimed, is for the purpose of lobbying with other members of the House for the passage of what is to be known as the "Gay Rights Bill."
According to the report, an additional US$1 million will also be given to members of the Liberian Senate of the 53rd Legislature for the same reason. The newspaper reported that the name of the contact person in the Liberian senate was unknown.
The newspaper also reported that "a representative of the current 52nd Legislature close to Tyler's speakership bid, who pleaded to remain un-named, disclosed that the amount of US$1 million was last Friday released to them for the campaign to re-elect Tyler."
According to the newspaper's unattributed source, "Tyler was told to give each member of the incoming 53rd legislature (members of the House of Representatives) the amount of US$12, 000 as an inducement for his re-election so as to make the lobbying process less difficult when they shall have taken seats at the Capitol."
The source claims that he and other colleagues only received US$1, 500 last Friday night.
According to the newspaper, "Unconfirmed reports within the corridors of the [Liberian] Capitol building suggest that when the "Gay Rights Bill" is introduced, the California-based Foundation for the Protection of Gay Rights would release the amount of US$1.5m to Tyler and Snowe, as well as a few others within the Executive Branch spearheading the efforts."
The newspaper claims that "the 'Foundation for the Protection of Gay Rights' is a member of a coalition of Gay Rights groups and works around the world to sponsor organisations and other efforts that support the promotion and legalisation of 'same sex practices'."
According to the New Dawn, "When contacted, Speaker Tyler denied the reports. He termed the reports as mere politics intended to defame his hard-earned reputation. 'I am a Methodist and a traditionalist; I will never support gay bill because it is damaging to the survival of the country."
The newspaper said that Snowe "laughed the allegation out and said it was his first time hearing about such plan at the Capitol, since the issue was raised by US President Barack Obama. 'The day they will bring gay bill, I will oppose it,' Snowe said adding, 'You can put me on record for that, I will never ever support gay bill, it is not good for our society.'


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The present application hereby claims priority under 35 U.S.C. �119 on German patent application number DE 10 2004 036 488.5 filed Jul. 28, 2004, the entire contents of which is hereby incorporated herein by reference.
The invention generally relates to a method for adapting transport protocols that are accessed via a network during transmission of data.
There are a number of standards in the medical field for communicating between the partially differing equipment. The DICOM standard is very frequently used, inter alia.
If image data are to be transmitted from the respective acquisition equipment such as, for example, an ultrasound unit or a magnetic resonance unit, to a workstation, a different type of data is involved than when, for example, so called reports, that is to say data from findings that are largely of a textual nature, are transmitted. Different demands are placed on the data transmission, depending on the type of data.
The fundamental transport protocol is responsible, in turn, for the type of data transmission. Thus, it can be expedient, for example, in some instances to admit large packets in the data transmission, while in other instances it turns out to be advantageous to stipulate only relatively small packets and, in turn, a higher frequency or a higher data transmission rate.
In most known medical applications, it has been customary to define as early as in the development phase which parameters are used for the configuration of the transport protocol. Consequently, the configuration of the transport protocol takes place as early as in an upstream phase and can be changed only with an increased outlay.
Consequently, it is no longer possible to react with unconstrained flexibility to different demands placed on the transport protocol. This procedure from the prior art therefore proves to be very disadvantageous.
Moreover, the transport protocol cannot be adjusted and/or adapted optimally to the current specific demands.
In order to avoid these disadvantages, systems have been developed that enable (renewed or adapted) configuration of the fundamental transport protocol even in a phase subsequent to the development phase. The disadvantage in these systems is, however, that there is always a need for a service technician to reconfigure the system on site. It has so far been impossible to adapt and optimize automatically.
It is an object of an embodiment of the invention to indicate a way with the aid of which a transport protocol can be at least one of automatically, dynamically and adaptively improved or even optimized for transmitting data, in particular medical image data.
An object may be achieved by a method for automatically adapting at least one transport protocol that is designed for transmitting and/or receiving and for transmitting data from at least one source system to at least one target system, having the following:
Further achievements of the object may reside in an apparatus and/or a system for automatically adapting at least one transport protocol that is designed for transmitting data from at least one source system to at least one target system and that comprises the following:
An embodiment of the present invention is usually applied to digital image data, in particular from the medical field. There are different modalities here such as, for example, images of a computer tomograph, an ultrasound unit or other facilities. These acquired images have different properties. These properties are denoted below as data specific parameters and can, in particular, relate to the image size, image content or the type of compression method.
It is essential to an embodiment of the present invention that the transport protocol is adapted to a few parameters that are valid for the data currently to be transmitted. These parameters can relate exclusively only to the data to be transmitted, exclusively only to the fundamental network or to the transport protocol or else to a combination of these areas. The adaptation is therefore performed with the aid of the data specific, network specific and/or transport protocol specific parameters.
Depending on the application, the system administrator or user (in this case not identical to the end user) can determine which variables are to influence the configuration and/or adaptation of the transport protocol. For example, given very sharply varying loadings of the network it will be expedient to take account not only of the data specific parameters but also of network specific variables such as, for example, the current capacity utilization.
In an example embodiment of the invention, at least the source system and the target system are computer aided and belong to a network via which the transport is to be performed.
It is preferred that various transport protocols can be used and that the user can select one, normally when the system is firstly configured.
The parameters relating to the data to be transmitted are acquired by the source device or by an acquisition module. If the acquisition module is designed as a separate unit with reference to the source device, it can be provided that the acquisition module relays the acquired data to the source device. It is likewise possible for the acquisition module to be designed as an active unit that collects the data to be transmitted from the source device and also the associated metadata, that is to say the data specific parameters such as, for example, data type, data size, and then accesses the mapping function and optimizes the transport protocol adaptively.
The mapping function is an assignment function that on the one hand takes account of all the adjustable and/or configurable parameters of the transport protocol such as, for example, buffer sizes and packet sizes, and all the acquired parameters of the data to be transmitted such as, for example, image type and image size.
In an example embodiment, the mapping function accesses a database in which there are stored data records typically occurring for the respective source device—in a fashion referred to these data records—correspondingly configured or adjusted parameters of the transport protocol. It is thereby possible for the adaptation to be optimized, further automated and accelerated.
The method additionally may include the following step:
It frequently occurs precisely in clinical use that changes also occur as data transmission is running, and these can also affect the data to be transmitted. Thus, for example, it is frequently the case that a physician requests an X-ray picture, for example, in order to compile his findings, and notices during the transmission or during the loading of the data that he is interested only in a small section of the image or of the series of images. The optimized design of the transport protocol is then performed in accordance with an embodiment of the invention firstly on the basis of the entire image.
After the change has been acquired, the method according to an embodiment of the invention is run through iteratively such that the inventive adaptation of the transport protocol is then performed on the basis of the image section. By repeatedly executing the method steps in conjunction with a change in the data or a change with regard to the network or the transport protocol, it is possible to ensure that the adaptation is performed dynamically such that the transport protocol is always adapted to the data currently to be transmitted.
The above-described, inventive embodiments of the method can also be designed as a computer program product having a computer-readable medium and having a computer program and associated program code segments, the computer being prompted after the computer program is loaded to carry out an embodiment of the above-described method according to an embodiment of the invention.
An alternative achievement of the object provides a storage medium that is intended for storing the abovedescribed, computer-implemented method and can be read by a computer.
The following detailed description of the figures addresses example embodiments, which are not to be understood in a restricting way, together with their features and further advantages, this being done with the aid of the drawings, in which:
An apparatus denoted overall by 10 is designed for automatically and dynamically adapting a transport protocol. The aim is for data, in particular image data of medical content, to be transmitted from a source system 12 to a target system 14 via a network 16.
The apparatus 10 is designed according to an embodiment of the invention such that the transport protocol is automatically adapted optimally to the data to be transmitted.
The elements in accordance with an example embodiment of the invention are explained below with regard to
If the aim is, for example, to transmit digital medical images of an X-ray machine and a magnetic resonance machine from the respective source device 12 to the target device 14, a workstation of the investigating physician, these data are acquired in a first step according to an embodiment of the invention.
As shown in
Consequently, both the image data that are actually to be transmitted, and the metadata relevant thereto are now available, specifically the data specific parameters such as image type (in the above example: X-ray images and magnetic resonance images) and image size etc.
Thereupon, the source system 12 or another module of the apparatus 10 can access the mapping module 22. There, the data specific parameters are converted into transport protocol specific parameters or assigned to the latter. This assignment is normally also performed once again by accessing the database 18, in which the most frequent or most common assignments are stored. That is to say, for example, it can be recorded that specific image types require a specific packet size for the transmission of the image data. Thus, in this step the transport protocol is adapted automatically to the data to be transmitted.
In an example development of an embodiment of the invention, it is provided to store templates, preferably in the database 18 or at another location. Diverse configuration scenarios are mapped in these templates. They include assignments that relate the data of the respective source system 12 to transport protocol specific data. That is to say it can be mapped in a template that, for example, the assumption is that, for example, an X-ray machine transmits only X-ray images and, since X-ray images require a likewise predefined configuration k of the transport protocol, the assignment of "X-ray machine—configuration k" is stored in the template.
The knowledge that leads to the storage of appropriate data in the database 18 can be extended by additional operating cycles. The method is thereby further automated. Thus, for example, it can be defined that specific sections always require a predefined configuration of the transport protocol.
In the next step, the acquired data and parameters are used to adapt the transport protocol automatically to the image data and/or image data series to be transmitted. The term transport protocol is intended here to be understood in the meaning of transport protocol process, since the transport protocol must run as a software process.
In an advantageous development, it is provided that the method additionally sets up a data transmission link in accordance with the adjustments generated. In this embodiment, the apparatus additionally further includes a connection module that is designed to set up an adapted data transmission link.
As soon as any changes now arise, should these affect the data to be transmitted or changes with regard to the transport protocol or with regard to the network 16, the method just described is then run through again such that it can be ensured that the adaptation according to the invention is always updated and reacts dynamically to changes. Costs can therefore be distinctly lowered by optimum design of the data transmission at any instant.
An embodiment of the present invention is normally designed to the DICOM standard which, for its part, is based on the TCP/IP protocol. The TCP/IP protocol recognizes the packet size and the buffer size, for example, as transport protocol specific parameters.
However, an embodiment of the method is not restricted to this standard, but can also be applied to other data types. For example, an embodiment of the method may be applied to other data types that are of a more textual nature, are predominant in the administrative sphere and/or are based on another protocol such as, for example, HL7.
The source system 12 is normally a source device, and the target system 14 is likewise a target device or a workstation. The terms are to be used synonymously in each case in the above description.
Any of the aforementioned methods may be embodied in the form of a system or device, including, but not limited to, any of the structure for performing the methodology illustrated in the drawings.
Further, any of the aforementioned methods may be embodied in the form of a program. The program may be stored on a computer readable media and is adapted to perform any one of the aforementioned methods when run on a computer device (a device including a processor). Thus, the storage medium or computer readable medium, is adapted to store information and is adapted to interact with a data processing facility or computer device to perform the method of any of the above mentioned embodiments.
The storage medium may be a built-in medium installed inside a computer device main body or a removable medium arranged so that it can be separated from the computer device main body. Examples of the built-in medium include, but are not limited to, rewriteable non-volatile memories, such as ROMs and flash memories, and hard disks. Examples of the removable medium include, but are not limited to, optical storage media such as CD-ROMs and DVDS; magneto-optical storage media, such as MOs; magnetism storage media, such as floppy disks (trademark), cassette tapes, and removable hard disks; media with a built-in rewriteable non-volatile memory, such as memory cards; and media with a built-in ROM, such as ROM cassettes.
Example embodiments being thus described, it will be obvious that the same may be varied in many ways. Such variations are not to be regarded as a departure from the spirit and scope of the present invention, and all such modifications as would be obvious to one skilled in the art are intended to be included within the scope of the following claims.
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