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Nation's top PG talks Texas
Turner closing out his process
All Cleare for Shaq?
2015 center likes Red River rivals
2016 TE Guinn has Texas in top four
2017 OL ready for Saturday
Nation's top PG talks Texas
When the Longhorns offered five-star combo guard Justin Simon (Temecula, Calif./Valley) last week, it wasn't clear if he'd give Texas much consideration since he'd told Scout.com's Josh Gershon his top 10 on March 10.
Those 10 were Arizona, Colorado, Creighton, Kansas, Louisville, New Mexico, San Diego State, Santa Clara, USC and Washington.
But Simon gave Rick Barnes and the rest of Texas' coaching staff a bit of good news on Thursday when he told LonghornDigest he was seriously interested in UT.
"Yes I am [interested] because of their style of play and the conference they play in," said Simon, the top point guard in 2015.
The 6-foot-5 guard, who recently picked up an invite to USA training camp, also said that he would love to visit Texas in the near future.
"I'm not sure when but hopefully soon," he said.
Here are some highlights of Simon:
Turner closing out his process
We'll have a decision from top Texas recruit Myles Turner now by the end of the month. Sources close to Turner's recruitment have put Texas in a slight lead, but don't count out Kansas, which has an in-home visit with Turner on Sunday.
Of course, getting anything concrete out of Turner, or Turner's camp, is nearly impossible at this point. Turner has been busy on the all-star game circuit, so naturally at every all-star game there pop up stories about how he's being recruited by Top Recruit X to come join him at Basketball School Z. At this point, I think he still ends up at Texas, and here's why:
1) Turner admittedly grew up a Texas fan.
2) Turner's favorite player is Kevin Durant, and he met Durant while visiting Texas this summer.
3) He has a great relationship with the coaches.
4) The coaches have done an outstanding job of selling him on a doable role in the frontcourt playing starter minutes alongside Jonathan Holmes and Cameron Ridley.
5) What has been undersold is the relationship that he has with the Texas players.
Recruiting Turner has been a true team effort, and he's developed strong relationships with players like Ridley that will make it difficult for him to pick against the home-state Longhorns. Could he surprise and go somewhere else? Sure. But if you've been following here on LonghornDigest.com, I've been calling Turner to Texas since this past summer, and I haven't wavered from that.
There's never a sure thing in recruiting. The Kansas staff, for instance, thought it had a better shot at Julius Randle than with Andrew Wiggins, and we all know how that turned out. And things could certainly change.
If the things I hear do change, I'll be sure to fill you in as they happen. But for now, I think that Turner will pick Texas when he makes his decision on April 30. (Flaherty)
All Cleare for Shaq?
As reported by LonghornDigest.com, the Longhorns are closing in on landing a big-time transfer in former four-star prospect Shaquille Cleare, a Texas recruit, but Maryland signee, from the Class of 2012. In fact, had the Longhorns not landed Ridley in that class in the first place, it's pretty likely that Cleare would have started off his career as a Longhorn.
Right now, Texas is in the process of reviewing his transcripts, but according to multiple sources, Cleare is expected to come out of the process a Longhorn.
What does it mean? Texas went in search of impact transfers after the season, potentially hoping to add another wing scorer to the mix. But multiple factors led instead to the 6-foot-9, 265-pound (that may be kind) Cleare. First, Martez Walker came on at the end of the season, averaging 15 points and five rebounds per game in Texas's two NCAA Tournament contests, despite playing just an average of 23 minutes.
Second, with the way that Cameron Ridley developed this season, there's legitimate thought that Texas could lose the monster center after his junior year to the NBA. Add in the fact that Texas might not get Myles Turner, and certainly might not get Myles Turner for multiple years, and the Longhorns were looking at the possibility of heading into the 2015-2016 season with just Connor Lammert and Prince Ibeh (and a potential 2015 recruit) down low.
That's where Cleare comes in. Because he'll sit out this upcoming season, then have two years to play two, the Longhorns have some cover in case the sky does fall.
From a body standpoint, Cleare is very much like Ridley, a long 6-foot-9 player with a bulky body that can push around lighter players. Also like Ridley, he has soft hands and does an outstanding job of rebounding his area. In fact, Cleare could be considered something of a poor-man's Ridley … he has a bit better scoring touch around the basket, but Ridley is a better rebounder and a significantly better defender and shot-blocker.
Expect Cleare's process to play out before Turner makes his decision, and should he wind up at Texas, they don't expect that it will affect Turner's judgment. After all, Turner sees himself as a one-and-done, and even if he isn't, he would likely play over Cleare in '15-16. (Flaherty)
2015 center likes Red River rivals
At 6-foot-5 and 320 pounds, speed isn't exactly the first thing you'd expect three-star center Tyler Moore (Galena Park, Texas/North Shore) to list about himself as a reason why he is getting so much attention from college coaches these days.
Guess that's why you don't judge a book by its cover.
"I'm the quickest 300-pounder you will ever see," said Moore, who holds a 3.8 grade-point average. "From side-to-side with my lateral movement I will outrun a freaking defensive back. I've got this quick twitch that all the coaches seem to like. And they do like that I have a little size to be able to anchor the line too."
Moore said he runs between a 4.4- and 4.5-second 20-yard shuttle.
"For being this big that's kind of remarkable," he said.
That quick twitch, and his size of course, have helped him garner interest from a host of programs, including Texas, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Ohio State, Kansas State, Arizona State, Arkansas, Nebraska, and Wisconsin.
While he only has one offer from Louisiana Tech to date, Moore is confident that more will come this spring. That optimism is included with the Longhorns since he and UT offensive line coach/offensive coordinator Joe Wickline have been in contact since the beginning of his sophomore season.
"I kind of got caught in transition in the Texas thing otherwise I think I would have gotten the offer," Moore said. "I feel like it is very close. I feel like that an OU too."
Moore said that Texas head coach Charlie Strong told him he was going to visit Texas personally this spring, which was "pretty encouraging." He'd really like the Texas offer and said some things could move really quickly if he gets it.
"I've always loved the Longhorns," he said. "I have a thing for the Red River Rivalry and feel like if OU or Texas offered it would be between them and no one else.
"I feel like if Texas offered I'd commit but if OU offered I'd commit there to. I'd have to sit and ponder. [New UT commitment and teammate] Tristan [Houston] was leaning more Texas and I feel like I'm more OU."
Moore said he's leaning toward the Sooners right now because he's visited their campus, and because he has a lot of family in the state. But he'll get a first-hand look at Texas this weekend when he comes to town for the spring game.
That will help Texas' cause just as it will having Houston at North Shore to talk up the program should UT extend an offer.
"Me, Tristian and [2015 defensive end] Dorance Armstrong have this thing that if Texas offered us three we'd all commit if they offered all three of us so we could keep it close knit over there," he said.
Moore said a lot of schools want him at center but he'll be playing left guard this fall. (Wilkerson)
2016 TE Guinn has Texas in top four
With over 100 players expected to attend Texas' spring game, it's going to be hard for individuals to stand out. One that might be able to could also be one of the youngest there.
Class of 2016 tight end Marquise Guinn (Carthage, Texas/Carthage), who stands 6-foot-4 and 225 pounds, is one of the state's top players in his class. And he really likes the Longhorns.
"My top four are Texas, Oklahoma State, Arkansas and Texas Tech," he said. He, for one, is a big fan of the Charlie Strong hire.
"I really like the hire," he said. "I really think he's going to have a big impact on this season. I really like what he's doing this offseason and stuff. And Pat Moorer, the conditioning coach, is really getting those guys in shape."
It won't be Guinn's first trip to campus. He grew up attending Longhorns games with his uncle.
"When I was growing up my uncle was a big fan of Texas," he said. "There was a receiver he liked back then but I can't remember his name. He took me to a few games when I was younger so I just fell in love with the team."
Guinn shouldn't have that deer-in-headlights look on his face when he steps foot inside Darrel K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium since he was at Texas A&M last week.
And he's got a checklist for what he's looking for.
"I like to see how the tight ends work, what the facilities are like, what the atmosphere around the coaches is," he said. "I want a program I can fit in, that I will feel comfortable in. Not like a big SEC school or something. I want to be comfortable. Academics too. I was always brought up that if you don't pass you don't play. So that's very important to me."
Texas coaches should have a checklist for Guinn too, consisting of one key ingredient: build a relationship with him.
Guinn caught 25 passes for 310 yards and four touchdowns as one of only two non-senior starters for a Carthage team that won its fourth Texas 3A state championship in six seasons. He was the only non-senior starter on offense.
If that doesn't speak to his abilities, then what does?
"I'm dependable," he said. "Third downs you can come to me anytime. I can get open, create space, and my speed is getting there. I'm not the fastest. I'm at a 4.7 right now but looking to get down to 4.6 by the summer. But I've been in the weight room lately since the coaches want to put a little weight on me. They want me at 235."
Guinn should pick up a considerable amount of attention when it's all said and done. But he did say he'd like to stay in Texas. (Wilkerson).
2017 OL ready for Saturday
It's never too early to recruit in this day of college football, which is why the Longhorns will be hosting one of the state's top 2017 prospects at their spring game on Saturday.
Center Jack Anderson (Frisco, Texas), who stands 6-feet-4 and 280 pounds, will make his way to Austin for the game. Because he's so young, it took a little work on his end to get noticed. But it didn't take long for Texas to reciprocate.
"I reached out to one of the coaches on Twitter and said that I was interested in the program and he mentioned the spring game visit, so that's where I stand," Anderson said. "I'm really excited. I'm looking forward to meeting Coach [Charlie] Strong and getting the recruiting process started. I want to talk to Coach [Joe] Wickline too."
Anderson's interest level in Texas might not have been that high "growing up" with his father having graduated from Texas Tech and his sister, Braden Anderson, currently a student there. But he's past that now that he's beginning to talk with the Longhorns.
"My interest level in Texas is very high," he said. "I mean I'd say Texas is one of the top programs in the nation looking up to. My dad went to Texas Tech and my sister goes there so I've always grown up not liking Texas. But I have the respect for it now if I have the chance to play there."
This won't be Anderson's first rodeo. In fact, the young offensive lineman has been busy making the rounds across the state with visits to Texas Tech, TCU, and Oklahoma.
"I think they all have their advantages," he said. "Tech has the family ties. TCU, I really like the smaller school vibe. But OU blew me away with their fan base and how I was accepted there."
Anderson believes there is mutual interest with these schools in part because of his size and also because of how well he played in starting every game at center for Frisco's varsity team in 2013.
"Started from Day 1," he said. "My coach asked me one day if I wanted to start the first game. So I did and it went well. I thought I played better than I even expected."
Anderson also attributes his rise in popularity to his ability in using his feet as a lineman.
"I think my feet are real good for my age," he said. "I've heard that from a lot of my coaches at my school. And I think I'm real smart for my age. I don't think a lot of kids could handle what I went through as a freshman."
All of this attention has certainly changed Anderson's outlook on a whole lot of things, but he's taking it in stride.
"I've got people on Twitter saying they can't wait for me to be a Longhorn, or 'Boomer Sooner,'" he said. "It's just a lot to be going through. But I like the attention for sure."
In addition to the schools mentioned, Anderson said he's eager to hear from SEC schools but thought the Big Ten best suited his style of play since Frisco runs the ball "85 percent of the time." (Wilkerson)


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KidneyBuzz.com Viewer Connected With Stranger For Kidney Donation Via Facebook.
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Dialysis Patient Willing To Die If Policy Is Not Changed For Patients To Better Afford Treatment
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Feds Investigating Unnecessary Vascular Access Procedures On Dialysis Patients
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Dialysis Patient Mortality Rates Over 20% Lower Than They Have Ever Been. Why The Decline?
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Dialysis Patients May Not Be Impressed With Treatment Advances. Dialysis Withdrawal Greatly Increasing
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New System Of Transparent Dialysis Care May Be The Difference Between Life & Death For CKD Patients
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CKD And Dialysis Patients At Much Higher Risk Of Stroke: Tailored Signs, Symptoms & Prevention
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Mineral That Many CKD & Dialysis Patients May Be Unknowingly Over Consuming Causing Early Death
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New Method For Conducting Dialysis Improves Treatments By 50% For Chronic Kidney Disease Patients
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Is Dialysis A Benefit Or Burden To CKD Patients Who Are Elderly Or Have Multiple Illnesses?
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Overhydration A Dangerous Lesser Known Complication Which Many CKD & Dialysis Patients Are Unaware
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Police Investigating Chronic Kidney Disease Patient's Suspicious Death During Dialysis Treatment
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Most Doctors (83%) Go To Work Sick - Necessitating CKD & Dialysis Patients To Be More Alert
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The UWF Web Team, led by Jay Massey, assistant director for Web Services, is in the research and planning stages for the next redesign of the university web presence. During the last decade, UWF has made significant progress toward creating a common look and feel across university-sponsored web pages.
This goal has been achieved via a set of standard web templates and documentation to assist the university's web developers. While UWF has made giant leaps forward in improving its online presence, there is still much work to be done to create a first-class website that is scalable and easy-to-use for visitors. To that end, the Web Team is preparing for the third redesign of UWF's web presence, which will represent a major shift not only in the front-end design and navigation of university websites, but also in the back-end management of web pages through a Content Management System.
A Content Management System (CMS) is a software system that provides website authoring, collaboration, and administration tools designed to allow users with little knowledge of web programming languages or markup languages to create and manage website content with relative ease. UWF's proposed adoption of a CMS system will make it easier for non-technical staff to manage web content and provide workflow processes for content to be reviewed and approved at various levels in a timely manner.
The Web Team is currently evaluating CMS tools as well as user feedback collected through a recent online survey with more than 700 respondents from all audience types. This survey data, combined with other research on best practices and peer/aspirant institution experiences, will be used to drive the recommendations the Web Team will make to the UWF Web Advisory Committee as it guides the future direction of uwf.edu.
The tentative timeline for the next redesign of UWF's web presence includes a new "interim" homepage design to be launched in fall 2011 that will serve to refresh the look of the current UWF homepage, in preparation for a full redesign and the larger migration of the entire UWF web presence to a Content Management System in 2012. The campus community will be included in all phases of the redesign process. More information on the timeline and plan will be announced soon.
If you have questions, please contact Jay Massey, assistant director of Web Services, at (850) 474-2427 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Lin, Yu-Wei 2012, 'The emergence of the techno elite audience and free/open source content : a case study on BBC backstage' , Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies, 9 (2) , pp. 597-613.
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This paper, through a case study on the BBC Backstage project, argues that the continuing convergence of media and ICT sectors has encouraged a powerful elite audience group to emerge – what I term "techno elite" in this paper. The techno elite usually has access to the latest knowledge and cutting-edge hardware, and is equipped with good skills of manipulating, configuring and re-configuring digital tools. When free/open source data and content are made available, some people in this category have the competence of re-purposing, re-using, re-interpreting and renovating the data and content and (re-)generate values of the original data or content. This process can be quite innovative and sometimes result in unexpected and incalculable values. Drawing on discourse analysis and ethnographic fieldwork data, this paper will narrate the story of BBC Backstage, how it came about, how it engaged with the techno elite, how it envisioned the roles of the techno elite in participatory media. The concept of 'techno elite' will be illustrated and defined through examining the collective practices of the techno elite in this BBC-led project, looking at how they engage with free/open source content and data to re-create content and values. This practice-based perspective (on collective 'elitist practices') will avoid a static and categorical definition of an elite audience group and serve as a more robust analytical technique for understanding the roles of contemporary elite audience in today's convergent, distributed and networked media industry. The paper will conclude with some provisional findings about the potential influence of this emerging elite audience group, the opportunities and challenges emanated in light of the changing media landscape.
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From yesterday's President's Welcome:
Happy Summer Solstice! Summer officially began this morning at 12:45. Last night was the shortest night of the year, and today is the longest day. This is as far north as the sun will rise on the horizon – for the next few days it will appear to stand still, then it will start rising a little farther south each day, and the days will begin getting shorter.
Well, that's interesting, John, but what does that have to do with us? One of the readings in our hymnal contains the famous words attributed to Chief Seattle: "the Earth does not belong to us, we belong to the Earth." The creation myths of our ancestors tell how we were made from the Earth. The Great Story of evolution tells how we grew out of the Earth, and how all living things share common ancestors. We are all connected, and the future as well as the past of humanity is inescapably intertwined with the rest of the natural world.
But increasingly, we live lives that are separated and isolated, from the natural world and even from each other. Days like the Summer Solstice remind us of our connections to all our relations; remind us that we really do belong to the Earth, and remind us that without the sun, there would be no life on Earth.
So when you go home this afternoon, go outside for a few minutes – you won't melt. Feel the warmth of Summer, see and hear and smell the beauty of life all around you, and if you feel so moved, say a prayer of thanks for the Sun.


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What struck me about Nick Clegg's Commons statement on Lords reform was that he is finally trying to be conciliatory.
For the first time that I can remember, he acknowledged efforts made by Labour to sort out this problem – successful efforts by past standards – rather than airily dismiss them as hopeless, or worse.
Not that the gesture did him much good. As Simon Hoggart gleefully notes in his Guardian sketch, MPs on both sides queued up to mock the deputy PM – David Cameron loyally seated by his side – and enjoy his latest discomfort.
You felt sorry for him, always a bad sign in politics. No one needed to feel sorry for Margaret Thatcher or that Blair fellow, though you often did (at least I did) for John Major and even Gordon Brown, whose actions often stifled any sympathy quite quickly.
Yesterday, there were lots of jokes at the expense of AV, so recently rejected by voters, and knowing remarks about poisoned chalices. It wasn't hard to see why Tory and Labour MPs were so cross and amused.
Most of them think Clegg's white paper/draft bill is doomed – elections by 2015, you must be joking! – and many are irritated at the latest evidence that another pet project of the coalition's junior partners is being dusted off to keep them happy.
Under the scheme, 80% (preferably 100%) of future peers/senators would be elected under another variant of proportional representation (PR), the single transferable vote (STV) model used in Ireland and favoured by Lib Dems and other PR vegans.
One hundred would be elected at three successive general elections from 2015 onwards, eventually creating a 300-strong chamber. Meanwhile, the current 789 would resign, retire or quietly drop off their ermine perches. What could be simpler?
The outcome would be modern, allow wider representation of regions and communities (women too, said women MPs) and be more democratic. Oh, and the primacy of the Commons would, as it has since the 1909-11 budget crisis, be sustained. The Lords powers as a revising and advising chamber would not change.
But they would change, insisted the critics. Just look at those judges with their mission creep now they're a supreme court. Peers (let's call them senators) would want to flex their muscles more if they too had a democratic mandate, one they might regard as superior, what with it being STV.
Clegg insisted it would be all right, and constantly appealed to colleagues to embrace the basic proposition that election and accountability are at the core of modern democratic accountability. Surely they could all agree on that?
Well, not quite. The idea of electing senators for a single 15-year term with no right to seek re-election is an old one, designed to help create a different kind of second chamber, one filled with people who are less partisan, more independent, more disinterested (in the old-fashioned sense) than the average party hack or saint.
Fine, but how is someone who has just acquired a 15-year legislative mandate from a huge regional list and will never face the voters again accountable, someone asked? It's not an insurmountable problem, but it is a good question.
Different people get excited about different things when constitutions get discussed. That's why some countries have had so many. Once you get beyond the divine right of kings, it's complicated. What about those 12 surviving bishops – they're all blokes. What about rabbis? What about those 92 surviving hereditary peers who would go under reform? Etc, etc.
After years of Labour reforms, no one party has a majority in the Lords, though Blair, Brown and now Cameron have stuffed the place with allies. What's odd about the coalition is that it does have a de facto majority unless the crossbench peers gang up against them, as they do – but more often against Labour governments.
I've been round this course many times over the years, and well remember the night in 2003 when MPs voted against all variants on elected/appointed peers (though the 80:20 split was defeated only by three votes) and peers voted against any form of election on the same night. "The Labour party has voted on class lines," a working class MP whispered in my ear.
Since then, reviews and committees have come and gone, all exhausted by the intransigence of one house or party or another. Labour's abolition of all but 92 hereditary seats in 1999 was the biggest change since Lloyd George neutered their lordships budget-blocking powers in 1911, unless we count Harold Macmillan's more subtle assault, the Life Peerages Act of 1958. One of the first went to his wife's lover, the caddish Bob Boothby.
Voters don't seem to care much – rightly so, in my view. The half-reformed upper house usually works well enough as a revising chamber, a tripwire for the collective folly of MPs – better than none, I'd say. It's full of old but tough folk from many walks of life – the non-political appointees can be really clever and interesting – who won't readily hand over to such an unknowable alternative as the Clegg package.
Backbench MPs will also be disobliging, whatever their party manifesto said last time.
All in all, during tough times, I'm not sure a battle over this particular reform would be worth the fuss and suspect that Cameron – despite yesterday's polite show of support – feels the same.
Since the collapse of socialism as a transformative project, middle class progressives have looked to constitutional reform for their agenda. But the public isn't obliged to share that enthusiasm, as it demonstrated in the AV vote. Do we really need another tier of elected politicians? It's not as if the talent pool of volunteers is bursting.
What we do need is more effective accountability of the non 15-year variety, but it is the unelected who need to be held more to account, the quangocrats and officials, the corporate remuneration committees which rob shareholders and pension funds, not least the media barons. MPs try on select committees, albeit with limited success.
If someone can devise a model whereby an elected senate, full of worldly and experienced types with nothing to lose, not mere well-meaning novices, can put the fear of God or the law into that crowd, they'd get my attention.
Until then, I think it's a matter of: "Not now, Nick, we're busy."


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As I said here this is Beyonce's year, so another week, another Mrs. Carter story – King Bey will headline a global concert in London this summer as part of Chime for Change. The superstar performer has teamed up with Gucci as co-founder and concert artistic director for the international campaign that aims to raise funds for female empowerment.
The concert entitled The Sound Of Change Live, will broadcast around the world on 1st June and will also feature performances from Florence and the Machine, John Legend, Rita Ora, Ellie Golding, Iggy Azalea, and Timbaland. The event will be held at Twickenham Stadium and will be produced by veteran charity concert producers Kevin Wall and Aaron Grosky, who were behind Live Aid and Live Earth.
"Our goal is to call for change for girls and women in the loudest voice possible," said Beyoncé. "I am excited for us to come together on June 1 to bring the issues of education, health and justice for girls and women to the world stage."
Gucci are footing the bill so that all proceeds from ticket sales will go towards charities fighting for better education, justice, and health for women. Tickets go on sale at 9am tomorrow (27th March) when purchasing you can choose which charity your ticket sales will be donated to.
"This is the emergency and the opportunity of today," said Gucci creative director and Chime For Change co-founder Frida Giannini. "We have reached a significant moment in the history of girls' and women's empowerment and now is the time for change."


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No. 7 Baseball Travels to No. 9 Louisville
April 1, 2013
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Fresh off its third series win to open Southeastern Conference play, No. 7 Kentucky will step out of league action to face No. 9 Louisville in a top-10 showdown on Tuesday, with first pitch at Jim Patterson Stadium slated for 6 p.m. ET.
The game will be broadcast live on the UK IMG Radio Network, with the Voice of UK Baseball, Neil Price, calling the action. Fans in Central Kentucky can hear the game live on WLAP 630-AM, in Louisville on WKJK 1080-AM and online at UKathletics.com.
The Wildcats will send freshman right-hander Kyle Cody (2-1, 6.48 ERA) to the mound for his fourth career start. The 6-foot-7, 230-pound native of Chippewa Falls, Wis., has tossed 16.2 innings, allowing 17 hits and six walks, striking out 16. In his last outing, Cody worked a shutout inning in his SEC debut vs. Georgia on Saturday after tossing two shutout frames in a midweek win over Marshall. Louisville has yet to announce a starting pitcher for Tuesday.
Last week, Kentucky (21-6, 6-3 SEC) posted a midweek 8-2 win over Marshall, before opening the series with Georgia in a 10-game thriller on Friday night. UK got a rally in the bottom of the 10th inning that resulted in a two-out walk from Max Kuhn with the bases loaded to give UK a 3-2 win. On Saturday, Georgia took a 7-3 lead before UK mounted a furious rally that fell short in a 7-6 loss. UK rebounded on Sunday in its third straight rubber-match win in 2013, 5-0, behind a dominating clutch performance from Corey Littrell.
During the four-game week, UK had a 2.19 ERA in its 37 innings, with Austin Cousino pacing the club with a .500 average (7-for-14), with four doubles, a triple and four RBI.
The Wildcats have hit .292 as a team in 27 games, with a .411 slugging and a .401 on-base percentage, stealing 37 bases. On the mound, UK has a 2.49 ERA in 242 innings, walking only 66 and striking out 208. Defensively, UK has a .969 fielding percentage, allowing only eight steals in 16 chances, turning 27 double plays and picking off six runners.
Freshman outfielder Kyle Barrett leads the Wildcats with a .364 average, owning three doubles and four RBI. Junior J.T. Riddle has a .359 mark with six doubles, one triple, one homer and 17 RBI, with a 14-4 walk-strikeout ratio and four steals. A.J. Reed has hit .340 with four doubles, two triples, six homers and 28 RBI, with Cousino batting .315 with eight doubles, one triple, four homers and 20 RBI, stealing four bases. Catcher Micheal Thomas has hit .315 with two homers and 18 RBI, with Kuhn owning a .273 average with seven doubles, one triple, one homer and 20 RBI, including a 24-16 walk-strikeout ratio.
UK's all-lefty rotation of Reed (2-3, 2.57 ERA), Jerad Grundy (5-2, 2.15 ERA), and Littrell (4-0, 2.17 ERA) have been dynamic on the weekends. In the bullpen, Trevor Gott (3-0, 1.20 ERA) has seven saves in eight chances, striking out 19 and walking only three in 15 innings. Senior Walter Wijas (2-0, 0.60 ERA) has appeared in 13 games and tossed 15 innings. Zach Strecker (1-0, 1.12 ERA), Ryne Combs (0-0, 1.23 ERA), Dylan Dwyer (1-0, 1.23 ERA), Chandler Shepherd (1-0, 4.07 ERA) and Cody have each appeared in at least seven games.
Louisville (22-5, 4-2 Big East) enters the midweek tilt ranked as high as No. 9 in the Baseball America top 25 announced on Monday. The Cardinals are coming off a 2-2 week that included a weekend series win over Notre Dame. UL has hit .305 as a team in 2013, slugging .421 and reaching base at a .397 clip, stealing a staggering 79 bases in 102 attempts. On the mound, the Cards have a 2.29 ERA in 248 innings, walking only 77 and striking out 262. Defensively, UL has fielded .968, turned 23 double plays and allowed 18 of 28 steal attempts.
The Cardinals have been led offensively by Ty Young, who has hit .374 with four doubles, four triples, one homer and 29 RBI in 2013, stealing 14 bases. Sutton Whiting has a .367 average with four doubles, three triples, one homer and 19 RBI, stealing 10 bases. Cole Sturgeon has a .333 average with a pair of doubles and triples, driving in 15 runs. Nick Ratajczak has hit .308 with two homers and 14 RBI, while outfielder Adam Engel has a .291 average with a team-high 28 steals.
In the bullpen, UL has been paced by Nick Burdi (1-0, 0.00 ERA), who has five saves in 10 relief outings, striking out a staggering 32 in 13.2 innings, walking only four and allowing just five hits and no runs. Kyle McGrath (4-0, 0.53 ERA), Cody Ege (0-1, 1.50 ERA) and Dace Kime (2-0, 4.44 ERA) have each appeared in 11 games.
UK leads the all-time series with Louisville, 66-35-1, including a 23-17-1 record in games played in Louisville. Last year, Louisville swept the two-game series with a pair of decisive wins, opening the set with a 12-0 win in Lexington and a 10-2 win at Jim Patterson Stadium.
In the first game of the 2012 series, Louisville got a dominating start from Jared Ruxer in Lexington, with the righty working six shutout innings. UK started Reed, who allowed nine hits and five runs in his 2.2 innings, with UK also using Sam Mahar, Tim Peterson, Jeff Boehm and Taylor Martin in relief. UK got two hits from Thomas McCarthy, as the Wildcats were limited to just four hits, with Riddle and Lucas Witt adding a knock. In the finale of 2013, Louisville posted a 10-2 win in Jim Patterson Stadium, getting two runs in the first and six runs in the third for an early margin. UK started Mahar, who worked two innings, allowing five hits and six runs. Shepherd worked 2.2 innings in relief, with Reed, Wijas and Peterson also tossing out of the bullpen.
UK ranks throughout the SEC stats, checking in No. 4 in average (.292), No. 4 in slugging (.411), second in on-base percentage (.401), fourth in runs scored (185), fourth in RBI (167), fifth in doubles (46), fourth in homers (16), fifth in total bases, first in hit by pitch (50) and fifth in steals (37). UK also ranks fourth in ERA (2.49), first in fewest walks allowed and fifth in fielding double plays. Individually, Riddle ranks 11th in average, 10th in on-base percentage (.455) and 14th in hits (37). Reed checks in sixth in slugging (.592), eighth in RBI (28), fourth in homers (six) and seventh in total bases (61). Cousino ranks eighth in slugging (.519), fourth in runs (28), sixth in doubles (eight), seventh in homers (four) and 11th in steals (eight).
Kentucky: 21-6, 6-3 SEC
Louisville: 22-5, 4-2 Big East
Kentucky: No. 7 (Baseball America), No. 9 (Collegiate Baseball), No. 9 (ESPN/USA Today)
Louisville: No. 9 (Baseball America), No. 12 (Collegiate Baseball), No. 14 (ESPN/USA Today)
Schedule (times Eastern and subject to change) – Louisville, Ky.
Tuesday, April 1 * at No. 9 Louisville * 6 p.m.
Radio (UK IMG Network with Neil Price)
Tuesday: WLAP 630-AM in Central Kentucky, WKJK 1080-AM in Louisville
Internet Coverage
Live audio and stats on UKathletics.com
Tentative Pitching Matchups
Tuesday at Louisville
Fr., RHP Kyle Cody (2-1, 6.48 ERA) vs. Fr., RHP Kyle Funkhouser (2-1, 1.59 ERA)
Jim Patterson Stadium (4,000)


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A potential remake of John Carpenter's dystopian sci-fi classic Escape From New York that we've been ignoring has died, according to Deadline, who reports that New Line and Warner Bros. have allowed their option to lapse after numerous false starts. The project had been kicking around for years, with various directors, scripts, and stars attached: Most recently producer Neal Moritz and The Crazies' Breck Eisner were working on a draft, while rumors swirled that Gerard Butler, then Jeremy Renner, then Tom Hardy were all being courted to take on the thankless task of inheriting from Kurt Russell one of the most iconic characters in action-movie history. Anyway, their collective unwillingness has caused the reboot to wither, although there's still the possibility that someone else could step in and try again—but only after getting a blessing from Carpenter, who drafted a contract last year stipulating that any new Snake Plissken had to both wear an eye-patch and "always be a badass." And the best way to ensure those things, of course, is to not have any new Snake Plissken at all.
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If you look at Gearlog's pictures from CES, it looks like they are actually sold in stores as flat-pack. Maybe that will only amuse me, but I think that's pretty great.
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This post contains SPOILERS for all aired episodes of Scandal, including last night's Season 2, episode 14, "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot."
(Need a refresher? Check out Kwana's recaps of episode 2.08, episode 2.09, episode 2.10, episode 2.11, episode 2.12, and episode 2.13.)
So lovelies, when we last left our intrepid Gladiators, it seemed all was lost. Fitz had just found out about the conspiracy that landed him in the White House—and offed Verna, David had been screwed out of the case of his life and Olivia had finally given the heave ho to boring Eddie and was sitting all alone on a church pew, the mistress being cast aside by a pouty Fitz. But wait! All was not lost! Mellie was sitting pretty back on Team Fitz once again.
Well, not much difference does a week and OMG 10 fiction months later make! As this week's episode opens, we pick up 10 months later and Olivia is trying to work out her lonely girl sorrows by doing laps in the pool. Meanwhile, Fitz is trying to work out his lonely Fitz frustrations by taking up the new sport of 7am shower Scotch drinking.
Not happy with this new turn of Fitzy events, Mellie decides to head on down to the shower and bring a rise to this bleak situation. That is until Cyrus, way overstepping his job boundaries, barges into the bathroom with news of a hostage situation. Oh well, time to lower the flag. The President has to get to work.
Cut across town to a waking David Rosen and in yet another Godfather-esque scene, as he wakes and is in bed with—not a horse head—but a very dead and very bloody woman. Whoops. Now how did that happen? And how are the cops already knocking at his door? David dresses hastily and lies to the police at the door. Saying there is no problem. The disturbance was just a loud TV. And the smarty cops ever so nicely go away, despite his shifty eyes and nervous sweat. Hmm, yeah, okay. David now panicked, thinks of the only shady person he can trust and reaches for his phone. I figure he's either calling Ghostbusters or Pope and Associates. My money's on Pope and Associates though Bill Murry would be equally as entertaining.
Cut back to the hostage situation and the President and his crew are in the war room. Turns out some of the hostages are spies. This is getting extra sticky. Now how did the terrorist manage that bit of good fortune?
Cut to Olivia during her morning, looking quite fresh from ten months, Fitz-free, with a smashing new coat and a fab new flat ironed hairdo. She's swingy and sassy and she's behind a cute dude who's ordering a banana nut muffin. Cutie bumps into her and makes her drop her phone. Hey, that's no ordinary cutie—it's renowned cutie actorScott Foley, only now I'm giving him the side eye as is everyone else watching because he's chatting up Liv in a very pointed way. They exchange pleasantries and lie about their jobs. It's all very sweet and we don't trust it. Later, coffee guy.
Liv then gets a call from the office to run to David's place and check out the sticky wicket he's gotten himself into. So now David is the new client. And there is no time to be all self-righteous. He's in Olivia's neck of the woods and he has to spill it in front of Abby that yes he took the dead girl, Wendy, home for a one night stand, and having sex was the last thing he remembered before passing out. Abby gives her best judgey look.
But the judgment is warranted. Ten months after Abby stole the voter card from his office, David's been on quite the downward spiral. He's lost his high powered job, become a freelance attorney and HS teacher. Sadly, it seems he's not too good at any of these jobs and his grandmother has been keeping him afloat. Poor David.
Olivia convinces him to allow them to clear the scene and move the body. We get a scarily cute scene with Huck and Quinn playing the "clean-up crew" as they move Wendy's body back to her place. I have to say, we saw this duo coming for the past two episodes with Quinn coming into her own and being ever so slightly bloodthirsty. Can you see Quinn with Huck? I think I can. Though I'm still afraid of Becky. I'm also afraid of Huck falling for Quinn and Quinn falling for someone else. This one could go all sorts of ways.
We then get to a testy scene with Cy when he sees that Fitz is meeting with an ambassador without him. Cy is getting nervous as he's been feeling more and more cut out these past months.
Back at Pope and Assoc., and Huck has broken into Wendy's cell. There he finds lots of pics of male body parts. So either Wendy works for Heroes and Heartbreakers or she's doing something else. Turns out she was dating guys, drugging them to get stories to sell to the tabloids and David was next on her list. David finds about this and is pissed. He thinks that Liv set this up.
Later we see Liv and Cy meet for coffee. Liv asks him if he had a girl killed to frame David. Cy says no, though it's not a bad idea. Oh Cy. Liv then tells him that she thinks that Fitz knows about Defiance. To this Cyrus says no way. And to this, I say are these two just wondering about this now? 10 months later!? How about when Verna turned up dead and Fitz turned up pissy? Yeesh.
And now David is arrested as Wendy's body is found. Time has run out...
We then cut to Mellie and Cyrus whispering outside of a White House room while Fitz plays with the new Baby Fitz just inside. They talk of Cy's baby's upcoming christening and that fact that Liv will be there as the Godmother. To this I say really? Do neither he or James have any old friends cousins, school chums? And then they bring up the fact that Fitz may know about Defiance. Once again, this is not something that could have been discussed months ago? And out of the earshot of Fitz? Neither of these two know much about whispering.
Back at Pope and Assoc. we find out that the joint chief's office in the Pentagon is calling Wendy? Uh, why is that. Seems Wendy had some high powered friends. Was she a spy? They always seem to have the most unassuming names.
We then cut to David being called into his old office by the new DA, and though Harrison advises him to stay quiet David gives the new dude a laying out that lets him know he won't be warming his chair for long. Go David!
Cut to Olivia looking snappy and sliding into the Pentagon (you can do that?) to see whoever is calling Wendy. And who might it be, but handsome Scott Foley from the coffee shop! Only he's in a spiffy uniform and his name is Captain Jake. I told you there were no accidents. They banter and battle and flirt as they each give up no info. Though he's cute, I'm still giving the side-eye to Captain Jake.
Back in the White House strategy room they are trying to come up with an out for the hostages, but Cyrus is cut off at every turn. He calls the Pres out on it when they are alone and Fitz does take his advice, but Cy now knows that Fitz knows and he's nervous.
Back at David's, Liv comes to tell him that Wendy was onto something big. But angry David is through. He tries to diss Liv by saying he sold his soul to the devil and asking how much does he owe her. But Liv will not be played and tells him that he can't afford her. Bam! Good one because it's true.
In the car on the way to Cyrus and James's baby christening Mellie offers a mint to Fitz to mask the smell of the liquor he consumes and then she tells him that she knows that he knows about Defiance. And there goes the BOOM for the night. But it's not over; in a stunning Mellie twirl, she says it was all Cyrus's idea. That he was the Defiance mastermind and one not to be trusted. BOOM and KAPOW! She even gives Liv a little play putting it all on Cy without a word about Hollis. Wow. Oh, how I love to hate Mellie in her pearls and her perfect pink suits. All's fair, eh, Mellie Mel?
Now at the christening, against Cy's recommendation, Fitz orders Cy to send in the SEAL team for the hostages, which he just told Mellie he would do. And then in walks Liv. Fitz looks at her like she's a tall glass of water and he's dying of thirst. Cue sexy love music and this is suddenly the hottest christening ever with Fitz as the Godfather and Liv and the Godmother. Once it's over and the toasts have been made Liv tries to hightail it out of there rushing down the hall. She is positively flying, with Fitz fast on her heels. He flings open a side door and pulls her into some unknown computer room where her grabs her and kisses her roughly. Liv pushes at him and smacks him. Hard. But then she in turns rushes him and kisses him passionately and then Fitz is gone. Flipping her around and unzipping the back of her fine boucle skirt and well, it's all thighs, clinched fists, tight lips and pinging computer circuits from there.
Olivia and Fitz leave the computer room. She says she made a mistake and Fitz says it won't happen again. Oh how very romacey of you Fitz, but um, that's not what she was talking about and we don't believe you anyways if you're talking about getting down and dirty with Liv. She tells him she made a mistake about Defiance. But Fitz tells her that Defiance wasn't a mistake, that it was betrayal. Ouch.
In comes Cyrus to say the situation with the hostages in going down. Time to run.
Cut to the situation room and all is going wrong. The hostages are not where they should be. Looks like they have a mole. Fitz is side-eyeing Cy. Uh-oh.
Cut to Abby knocking at David's door with an apology. Wow, way late for that one. He slams the door in her face. Goes to his desk and moves a book and finds Wendy's flash drive with all sorts of high level info on it. Wendy left it at his apartment. (And the clean-up crew didn't find it? I'm looking shifty at that one.) David takes it to Liv. He realizes he needs her for Justice. They are now are a team and toast justice together.
Cut to Fitz drinking in the shower again and here comes Mellie trying once again to get him to raise the flag. But Fitz is not in the mood, having already had his fill with Olivia earlier and he pushes Mellie away, coming off mean and scary and then sad and apologetic as he pulls her back toward him into his embrace. The question remains, though, if he rose to the occasion or not.
And in a final scene we see Liv coming home alone. She swipes at her phone and calls Captain Jake for a date. She invites him to a quiet place but he says it's not his thing and she asks what is and he answers, "people watching."
Cut to him sitting down in front of a huge monitor with multiple open screens and on one is her image in real time as she sits on her couch and is talking to him.
And WHAM. Cute coffee boy captain just got creepy!
So what did you all think? As always, chime in with your thoughts.
I for one am just as twisted as ever and don't know why Liv doesn't have Huck walk her home nightly and sweep for bugs. I know I would. Oh well.
Kwana Jackson—aka K.M. Jackson—is a writer of women's fiction and contemporary romance. Her debut novel Through the Lens is on sale now. She can be found on most days at her blog kwana.com and at any moment on Twitter talking about everything and nothing at all under the handle @kwanawrites.