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Former UK Keeper Andy Gruenebaum Steps into Spotlight
June 17, 2009
UKathletics.com Feature Story on Gruenebaum: Wildcat World Champion
COLUMBUS, Ohio. -- Former Kentucky standout goalkeeper Andy Gruenebaum is off to an excellent start to the 2009 season for the defending Major League Soccer Champion Columbus Crew, posting an unbeaten record in eight starts.
Gruenebaum, a native of Overland Park, Kan., has made eight starts in goal for the Crew, posting a 4-0-4 record and a 1.12 goals-against average. A UK letter winner from 2002-2005, Gruenebaum has broken into the starting lineup midway through the season after starter Will Hesmer went down with an injury five games deep into 2009. The 6-foot-1, 200-pounder, has saved 16 shots while facing 27, notching one clean sheet.
"I hated to become the starter due to injury," Gruenebaum said in an interview with Kyle McCarthy of MLSnet.com. "I wanted to win it out right and have a goalkeeper competition. Will had a phenomenal year last year and he's a phenomenal goalkeeper. I want him to get healthy so we can get the tandem back. It's always fun being successful (with the Crew), but at the same time, when you actually get to play, step in and contribute, it's that much more rewarding."
Gruenebaum's positive contribution to the Crew comes just a year after he joined Columbus in capturing the MLS Cup, becoming one of six former UK student athletes to win professional championships in 2008.
A 2005 first-team All-Conference USA selection at UK, Gruenebaum logged every second in goal during his senior season, posting a 0.91 goals-against average with 21 shutouts in 66 career games. Gruenebaum was selected by the Crew with the third overall pick of the first round in the 2006 MLS Supplemental Draft.
"When coach (Ian) Collins recruited me to come to UK the whole thing was that they told me they would put me in a situation to go play professionally," Gruenebaum said during an interview with UKathletics.com following the 2008 Columbus Crew championship season. "Playing for UK was on the best experiences I ever had. Playing soccer, the school and the friends I made will be something I will never forget or would ever trade for another school. We played the most competitive teams in the nation and we competed in every game. It really prepared for the next level. We had a blue-collar mentality and we didn't take anything for granted. Coach Collins was very adamant about teaching this to the guys. I think UK was a launching pad for my professional career. It was the message that was conveyed to me when I came here and it came true."


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The Charism of Unity
The word charis, charism and charismatic really means grace, or gift. I write and speak a great deal about Christian unity. The norm, in our time, seems to be disunity, schism and brokenness. We seem to make peace with this norm, which in reality is sin. We see very few Christians living out our Lord's call to unity. In fact the number seems so small that at times it would seem that all calls to unity are hopelessly unsound and ludicrous.
When I began to walk in this direction, one which I now call missional-ecumenism, many told me I was not only wrong but that this new way was dangerous. I was warned that I would begin to work with Christians who were unsafe, ill-taught and even dangerous to my spiritual health. Yet the more I have shared my Christian life and experience with others, across a great array of Christian expressions, the more I've experienced grace through God's gift. Unity now stands out in an entirely new light in my mind and heart.

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Superhuman LeBron James is used to dunking all over anyone he pleases. But with a chance to slam home a game-winning dunk on Tuesday, LeBron ran into an unlikely impenetrable wall: the Nets' Mason Plumlee.
Plumlee's block allowed the Nets to hold on for the win and sweep the season series. Jon Terbush
Gentlemen, if you're itching to voluntarily end your reproductive ability with a relatively painless snip, but also want to share the experience with some of your closest male friends, you're in luck: According to The Wall Street Journal, "'Brosectomies' are a thing now."
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Hundreds of thousands of men get vasectomies in the U.S. each year, the American Urological Association says, noting that the procedure is faster and safer than the most analogous procedure for women, tubal ligation. Even so, there's obviously room for improvement — and for a few thousand dollars a head, men can get the $500 vasectomy, snacks or a steak dinner, maybe a stiff drink or two, and a club-like recovery lounge where they can watch sports with their similarly recovering pals.
Urologists who offer group vasectomies say they make the men more relaxed, willing to get snipped, and, anecdotally, quicker to recover. "We thought it was going to be painful," says Jeb Lopez, after a getting a vasectomy at a clubby clinic with friend Rob Ferretti, who videotaped the experience, but it was more like getting snapped with a rubber band. "After that, we were just laughing, I guess it's from the alcohol, but we had such a great time."
Megan Gerald joined her fiancé, David Dischley, at his appointment at the same clinic Lopez and Ferretti used, Obsidian Men's Health outside Washington, D.C., and she was impressed. "I gave birth to two children, and this is so easy," she told the Journal. "It's not fair!" You can watch Ferretti and Lopez laugh their way through their brosectomy, and read more about the trend at The Wall Street Journal. Peter Weber
On Monday, House and Senate Democratic leaders will roll out the Democratic Party's newly developed economic agenda, "A Better Deal: Better Jobs, Better Wages, Better Future." The agenda is a response to Democrats' disappointing performance in 2016; Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has admitted "the number one thing that we did wrong is we didn't tell people what we stood for."
The middle class-focused agenda prioritizes fighting corporate overreach and proposes an extensive infrastructure plan, paid family leave, more federal funding for job training, and an independent agency to monitor prescription drug prices. "It's about reorienting government to work on behalf of people and families," Schumer wrote in an op-ed published in The New York Times.
Democratic leaders will unveil the agenda in Berryville, Virginia, the county seat of a district Democrats need to win back to gain control of the House. Becca Stanek
Early Monday, Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, released an 11-page statement to the House and Senate intelligence committees detailing what he described as "perhaps four contacts with Russian representatives out of thousands during the campaign and transition," insisting that he "did not collude, nor know of anyone else in the campaign who colluded, with any foreign government." Kushner is meeting behind closed doors with staff of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Monday and speaking privately with members of the House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday about his role in Trump's campaign and its ties to Russia.
Kushner dismissed all four meetings, all of them previously reported in the media — two with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak; one with the head of a Russian state bank, Sergey Gorkov; and the June 2016 meeting he said Donald Trump Jr. had invited him to with a Kremlin-linked lawyer — saying that none of them "were impactful in any way to the election or particularly memorable." In a new bit of information, Kushner said he found a way to get out of the Don Jr. meeting with the Russian lawyer, writing: "in looking for a polite way to leave and get back to my work, I actually emailed an assistant from the meeting after I had been there for ten or so minutes and wrote 'Can u pls call me on my cell? Need excuse to get out of meeting.'"
Kushner said he had filed an incomplete security-clearance application prematurely by mistake, blaming an assistant. "I had no improper contacts," he concluded. "I have not relied on Russian funds to finance my business activities in the private sector. I have tried to be fully transparent with regard to the filing of my SF-86 form, above and beyond what is required. Hopefully, this puts these matters to rest." Peter Weber
Anthony Scaramucci, a former Wall Street hedge fund manager, made his public debut as President Trump's White House communications director on Sunday's political talk shows. Along with threatening to fire his entire staff over leaks, saying Trump won't need to pardon himself, and contradicting White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders over Trump's stand on Russia sanctions ("My bad," he told The New York Times), Scaramucci apologized to Trump on-air for the less-than-flattering things he said about him as late as August 2015.
Before he had jumped on the Trump train — and started driving people to the dictionary to look up an Italian commedia dell'arte character featured in a famous Queen song — Scaramucci was also a donor to former President Barack Obama, giving his campaign $2,300 in May 2008, shortly before the big financial collapse. Scaramucci obviously changed his mind about Obama at some point, and it may have been around the time of this 2010 CNBC town hall meeting, where he asked Obama — whom he identified as a classmate at Harvard Law — about his administration's actions regarding Wall Street.
Things started out on a jocular note, and then Scaramucci got to the point. "The question I have, sir, and this is really— you know, a lot of my friends are thinking about," he said. "Listen, I represent the Wall Street community, we have felt like a piñata. Maybe you don't feel like you're whacking us with a stick, but we certainly feel like we've been whacked with a stick." Obama began with with some conciliatory talk about the importance of Wall Street, but he started hitting back after a minute or so. "I have been amused over the last couple of years, this sense of somehow me beating up on Wall Street," he said. "I think most people on Main Street feel they got beat up on." And Obama was just getting started. You can watch the entire exchange below. Peter Weber
The Daily Show's tongue-in-cheek remembrance of Sean Spicer's White House career is surprisingly wistful
Sean Spicer's short tenure as White House press secretary didn't break any records for its brevity, but it was as memorable as it was fleeting. For all he lacked in verbal precision, before he resigned on Friday in apparent protest of President Trump appointing Anthony Scaramucci as White House communications director, Spicer was, for the time when he allowed cameras in the briefing room, must-watch TV for the political set, at times outdrawing scripted soap operas. So The Daily Show's brief in memoriam video for Spicer's briefings, posted online, had a lot of material to work with. And maybe it's the sad piano music, or the fact that Spicer is out of our lives, or the presumption that Sarah Huckabee Sanders just isn't as good for comedy, but there is something almost wistful in this brief look back at Spicer's "alternative facts," catch phrases, mispronunciations, and those haunted eyes. Watch below. Peter Weber
Trump's last three months set another polling record, and historically, things should get even worse
President Trump's average job approval rating for his second quarter in office, from April 20 to July 19, was 38.8 percent, according to Gallup, a drop from the already historically low 41.3 percent Trump notched in his first quarter and inaugural 45 percent number. The lowest previous second-quarter approval rating for a president was Bill Clinton's 44 percent, and every other president since John F. Kennedy was above 55 percent at this point in his presidency, usually in the 60s, according to Gallup's data; Barack Obama was at 62 percent, and as CNBC's John Harwood notes, Obama never polled lower than 40 percent in any week of his presidency.
More broadly, Trump's second quarter ranks 250th out of the 287 president quarters Gallup has polled back to 1945. Most of the 12 percent of quarters worse than Trump's were for troubled presidents — Richard Nixon, Harry Truman, Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush — near the end of their administrations. And Trump probably should expect things to get worse, not better, at least over the next year, Politico says, based on its analysis of four decades of Gallup's extensive presidential polling data.
That's partly because of growing political polarization and historical trends — Trump's six immediate predecessors saw their approval rating drop an average of 9 points from the six-month mark to 18 months, according to Gallup data — but also because of the nature of the objections to Trump. Among the majority who disapprove of Trump, most cite his character and personality, not his policies, a departure from previous presidents and a situation that would make it harder for Trump to win over skeptics. Trump is also much more unpopular among independents than his predecessors.
From his first to his second quarter, Trump lost 2 points among Republicans, versus 3 points for independents and 1 point among Democrats, but he is still at 85 percent approval in his party — Republicans and conservatives are the only groups that give him above 50 percent. Still, for Trump to get above 50 percent overall, he would have to get the support of almost 100 percent of conservatives, Politico finds, or double his supports among moderates of quadruple his backing by liberals. You can play with various groups to try to get Trump above 50 percent support at Politico. Peter Weber
President Trump continues to push for a big infrastructure bill, on Twitter and in interviews, but his administration is divided over how Trump's $1 trillion proposal should be structured, Republicans have put the plan on the back burner after a series of other difficult and high-stakes legislative priorities, and Democrats, who also support infrastructure projects, are increasingly unwilling to work with the Trump administration after months of mutual animus, Glenn Thrush reports at The New York Times, citing "two dozen administration officials, legislators, and labor leaders involved in coming up with a concrete proposal."
In April, Trump said his administration had the $1 trillion infrastructure plan "largely completed and we'll be filing over the next two or three weeks — maybe sooner." By late July, Trump hasn't named anybody to the infrastructure board he said would have the authority to approve big projects — and the panel will be advisory and not actually have green-light powers, an administration official tells Thrush — or set out a general outline for what he wants.
Some White House officials, like Trump and his National Economic Council chief Gary Cohn, are open to putting more than $200 billion into the proposed public-private partnerships and combining the plan with another must-pass bill; Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin opposes combining the infrastructure and tax-cut legislation; White House budget director Mick Mulvaney reportedly opposes adding new federal money to the plan. Congressional Republicans, still struggling over health-care legislation, are waiting for a White House plan. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is skeptical "of any deal that would require him to compromise with Democrats," Thrush reports, and "has suggested a more modest Republicans-only package."
"Right now, it doesn't appear that they have a plan," said AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka. "The president doesn't know what his own party wants, and he's not sure what he wants." White House spokeswoman Natalie Strom said the White House will release its proposal in late summer or early fall, arguing that was always the timetable. You can read more about Trump's stalled effort at The New York Times. Peter Weber


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THE 2013 William Hill Ayr Gold Cup Festival which runs from Thursday 19 September until Saturday 21 September promises to be one of the busiest and best yet.
[Pictured: The runners pan across the full width of Ayr Racecourse in last year's William Hill Ayr Gold Cup.]
More than 20,000 people are expected to flock to Ayr Racecourse over the three days for Scotland's richest flat race meeting, which this year boasts £587,000 in prize money.
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The opening day's action features The William Hill – Download The App Handicap for the Kilkerran Cup run over one mile two furlongs with £25,000 on offer.
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Writers, it seems, have a love/hate relationship with solitude. We seem to crave that noise which can only be found on the inside of our own heads. It is indeed a beautiful noise. I can't for the life of me understand why more people don't agree.
We're all very social creatures, of course — one week in solitary confinement at Brushy Mountain Correctional Facilty, just over the mountain from where I sit, will prove that very quick.
But as an artist, being alone is truly a requirement. And not just literally having no one around: Even in the living room I can often write when people are moving through the house and the TV is on, and the dishwasher is cycling through and the kid is bouncing a ball against his bedroom wall. But what's necessary is the sense that you are unneeded for a time — that's true gold. That's where the magic happens.
Some people, when they have a night off, are working the phones hoping to get a beer summit together, or a movie, or a communal jog. Me on a night off, I'm usually headed for my office to tinker with a script, or a song, or read a book, or just peruse articles on that never-ending pop culture magazine rack we call The Internet.
I'm genuinely puzzled here. I love to hike, love movies, love eating out, love communal work sessions, love socializing (as long as it excludes small talk, that buzzing mosquito in the ear of every true conversationalist's existence). But an evening or afternoon spent in one's own head — what could be better? Unfettered thoughts, strings of logic left uninterrupted, daydreams, fantasy worlds created and destroyed in minutes. That's what we're running away from?
Is it selfish to think that one's head is one of the more interesting places to be at any given time? Are we that desperate for noise and distraction that we can't settle down for a solitary film, or an hour with a book, or even (God forbid) staring at the ceiling for a time?
In his day, the poet Wordsworth worried that the coming years were bringing a number of gross distractions, that more and more stimulation was needed to keep our attentions. And that was in the early 19th Century. He'd abhor what has happened now.
I don't think I'm making some huge pronouncement here. I'm just observing, and also asking a question: What is so tough about hanging around with yourself and listening the music inside one's own head?
"Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god."


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Well, Mobile World Congress hasn't even started and we're already about to keel over exhausted from the sheer volume of handsets to hands-on, preview and otherwise record for your viewing pleasure.
Today saw Huawei, LG, Sony and finally HTC announce to the world what they were planning for 2012. And it definitely ended with a bang way up high above Barcelona in an old bullfighting arena where HTC officially announced its super-specced OneX phone.
But first:
Huawei went as expected and launched a quad-core Ascend; the only surprise was its name, the Ascend D Quad. Huawei is claiming it's the world's fastest with a four-core processor plus HD video playback and recording, but I was more interested in its enlarged battery and power management software that is meant to let you use it for up to two days without a charge.
Battery tech isn't particularly sexy, but with increasingly brilliant, high-clarity displays stretching over multi-cored processors for 3D, HD content, current batteries will soon not last beyond a late lunch.
LG showed off all the handsets it had officially announced – in a rather small venue that meant they were turning people away. Oh well, we'll get into their stand on Monday when the Congress opens and get those hands on and product photos.
We started to get a little excited heading to the Sony press conference – as one of the few manufacturers that had neither leaked nor well, gone ahead and told us all about what they were launching, maybe we'd get something massive. But the upshot was instead a couple of differently priced alternatives to its flagship Xperia S , announced at CES. In fact, a specific point made was that the Xperia range now hit every 'major operator price point' – another way of saying you can get an Xperia phone for expensive, less expensive, and positively budget-friendly. Hit our launch story on the Xperia U and Xperia P for the lowdown.
The apex of our conference hopping came literally at HTC, who hosted a giant conference in a circular hall perched (seemingly) precariously above a thin shaft whose sole purpose was to ferry an elevator up and down.
That's the view I got from our high, high vantage point
We already knew HTC had some major news to announce judging by the leaks, and despite the element of surprise missing, I was pretty impressed by its new One 'product family' and the hyperspeed camera shutters.
HTC is scrapping those flamboyant names for which it had such a penchant, and simply labeling all the phones 'One' – as in the one phone, or one camera you'll need. Superscripted letters – X, S, V and eventually C – refer to how highly specced the device is. Flagship One was the quad-core OneX, which also had an incredibly quick eight-megapixel camera capable of taking about 40 shots in rapidfire to get those action shots, and simply snapping the shutter in less time than it takes to blink (0.7 seconds versus your eye's 0.8 if you were wondering).
iPhone 4S or HTC One X?
It's about time manufacuters got onboard with the features we really want/need in a camera – it's not about the megapixels, but instead about the right software and in the case of the OneX, its larger f/2.0 aperture in the lens. We got some hands-on photos and will have a preview written up soon.
Still to come: Two full days of Congress, press conferences from Asus, ZTE and Nokia, as well as my one on one with HTC's marketing manager, and my detailed tour of Samsung's growing Galaxy range. Plus: wherefore art the tablets of Mobile World Congress?
Follow us on Twitter and Facebook for all the behind-the-scenes MWC action. You can also follow Natasha and Chris on our personal Twitter feeds, as we get increasingly hyper on coffee and taurine.


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A ham since she was 5, she now anxiously is waiting to see if her first real job as an actress will take off.
Fans of MTV know her as a VJ on Total Request Live.
Viewers of One Tree Hill, airing tonight on WB (9 ET/PT), are getting to know her as smart, beautiful Peyton Sawyer, who is torn between two brothers, played by Chad Michael Murray of Dawson's Creek and newcomer James Lafferty.
"It's unnerving. No longer am I being criticized for being a goofy MTV VJ. Now it's what I've dreamed about since I was a little girl."
Burton, who has had an agent since she was in eighth grade, grew up in Loudon County, Virginia, and it was inevitable that she would go to New York for college. She enrolled at Fordham in Manhattan.
Her big break: Her college roommate suggested that they enter an MTV contest, and Burton won.
First prize was a chance to be on the red carpet at a star-studded event. Next thing she knew, MTV had offered her a job, and suddenly she was interviewing people like Jennifer Lopez and Justin Timberlake.
For the aspiring actress, "it was a little bit hard," she says with a laugh. "I had to be myself."
Favorite star: Angelina Jolie. Burton got so excited when she heard she would be interviewing Jolie that she "broke down crying. Carson (Daly) was just laughing at me."
Daly says Burton is "a natural. The sky's the limit for her future."
The gig proved to be a door-opener. "Before MTV, I'd never flown on an airplane. Now I'm flying all over and meeting famous people. It's kind of a warped way to come into your own."
Even though she had the MTV job, she still wanted to act, so she auditioned for the part of Ed Harris' daughter in the upcoming Radio. Callback after callback encouraged her, but she didn't land the role.
The casting folks remembered her and asked her to send an audition tape for One Tree Hill Producers promised her a character that she could sink her teeth into. Or as Burton says: "She's got a lot of qualities that make you hate her guts."
The show tapes in Wilmington, N.C., where Hurricane Isabel just missed them. Already, Burton has had to do a major kissing scene with Murray, and it was "weird," she says. After all, she's engaged to a guy (she doesn't want to name him) she has been seeing for three years.
Reviews and ratings for One Tree Hill haven't been great. After a weak opening of 2.7 million viewers on Sept. 23, the show drew an improved but still middling 3.3 million last week. But Burton is undaunted, and she still has her MTV job.
"I'm a big believer in fate and faith. If things are supposed to happen for you, they will."


text: Okay , not many people will see this but you know with MW3 they brought back the CoD4 red dot sight and left out the MW2. Dont you think if we could get enough non-anons commenting and getting IWs attention we could get the MW2 red dot sight iback in an update, since I saw and have heard a lot of people getting mad at IW for not including it. Well if you want it back just comment with a account. Also if we show that the community is actually requesting something the developers will pay more attention on other subjects? Sorry for grammer im on my iPad 2 (Bob34236 22:39, February 4, 2012 (UTC))


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ATHENS, Ga. - Georgia lost another top defensive starter when senior cornerback Tim Wansley suffered a broken leg at the end of a 52-yard punt return in the first quarter.
Wansley already had one punt return for a touchdown called back by a holding penalty when he broke free again. Fielding the punt at his 6, Wansley was tackled at the Houston 42 by Leif Penn. Wansley, Georgia's top cornerback, last year shared the Southeastern Conference lead with six interceptions.
Coach Mark Richt said it was "very questionable'' Wansley would be able to
return in time for a bowl game.
The good news is Wansley should make a full recovery.
"I don't think it's going to affect him in any way in his NFL career,'' Richt said.
The break occurred three or four inches above Wansley's ankle. Georgia already has lost defensive tackle David Jacobs to a stroke and defensive end Bruce Adrine to a knee injury.
Wansley was given an ovation when he left the Sanford Stadium field on crutches with 6:30 left in the first half. After Wansley's injury, Decory Bryant, Dantra Clements and Bruce Thornton saw most of the playing time at the two cornerback spots with the first-team defense.
Share of records for Edwards:
With his 49-yard touchdown catch in the third quarter, Terrence Edwards tied the school record for the most career scoring receptions.
Edwards matched Brice Hunter's mark of 19 career touchdown catches. Hunter set the record from 1992-94.
"I'm happy he got the record,'' Richt said. "He deserves the record. He's beginning to play like he's been practicing.''
With four catches for 107 yards, Edwards also matched Hunter's school record with his seventh career game with 100 yards receiving, but freshman Fred Gibson is coming on fast with five 100-yard games in his first season. Edwards and Gibson each have six touchdown catches this season.
Shaking off the rust:
Quarterback Cory Phillips had eight games to think about throwing an interception on his last pass. Appearing in a relief role behind David Greene against South Carolina in the second game of the season, an interception by Phillips helped end Georgia's hopes of beating the Gamecocks.
Finally against Houston, Phillips returned in the third quarter and completed 4 of 9 passes for 39 yards, including a 10-yard scoring pass to Jarrett Berry.
"Yeah, it has been a long eight games,'' Phillips said.
For Berry, a sophomore from Lyons, Ga., the touchdown catch on a fade route was his first career reception. He had played previously as a blocker.
Nice debut for Richt:
No Georgia coach had won as many as eight games in his first season since H.J. Stegeman's Bulldogs went 8-0-1 in 1920 to win the Southern Conference championship.
Vince Dooley was 7-3-1 in his 1964 debut, including a Sun Bowl victory over
Texas Tech.
Sack race:
Senior Josh Mallard added a sack in his final regular-season game, leaving him with 18 for his career - fifth in Georgia's career records. Mallard and junior Charles Grant have been competing for bragging rights on the sacks list this season, but Grant was shut out against Houston, leaving him with 15.
Johnathan Sullivan added two sacks against Houston, giving him four for the season. Grant still leads the team with six sacks this season, followed by Mallard's five.
Backup defensive end Will Thompson, a redshirt freshman from Warner Robins, Ga., added his first career sack to give Georgia four for the game.
Numbers for Greene:
Greene moved to third on the school records for most yards passing in a season with 2,789. Eric Zeier had the two highest totals in school history - 3,525 in 1993 and 3,396 in 1994. Greene matched his career high with three touchdown passes, giving him 17 for the season - fourth on the school records.
Worth noting:
Receiver Damien Gary was held out, as expected, with a sprained knee. ... Tight end Ben Watson caught his first touchdown pass, a 49-yarder in the third quarter that also is his longest career reception. ... Houston senior Orlando Inglesias became the school's all-time leading receiver. His six catches for 48 yards gave him 222 career receptions, passing Manny Hazard's previous record of 220.


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Tue., Dec. 14
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North Texas vs Southern Mississippi
SG's Pick: North Texas
If the So. Miss team can finish Jamario Thomas from tallying to his tawdry stats they should be able to keep hold of this one stick.Post ads:
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7:30 pm
Tue., Dec. 21
Champs Sports Bowl
Georgia Tech vs Syracuse
SG's Pick: Georgia Tech
7:45 pm
Wed., Dec. 22
GMAC Bowl
Memphis vs Bowling Green
SG's Pick: Bowling Green
I want to decision making Memphis to win this battle, but the Falcon's rating offense, 4th in the nation, will simply beat Memphis unheeding of how very well they frolic.
8:00 pm
Thur., Dec. 23
PlainsCapital Fort Worth Bowl
Cincinnati vs Marshall
SG's Pick: Marshall
Marshall has shown up to play in big games this period of time. I weigh up a bowl hobby a "big" game, wouldn't you?
6:30 pm
Las Vegas Bowl
Wyoming vs UCLA
SG's Pick: UCLA
UCLA should hurting Wyoming next to it's transient and moving hobby. Although, Wyoming is playing in it's firstborn bowl hobby in 11 eld...that's surely causative.
9:45 pm
Fri., Dec. 24
Hawaii Bowl
UAB vs Hawaii
SG's Pick: Hawaii
NCAA's all event ratification chief should have a hay-day antagonistic this no put on show UAB defense
7:00 pm
Mon., Dec. 27
MPC Computers Bowl
Fresno State vs 18 Virginia
SG's Pick: Virginia
Fresno State failed to romp with the big dogs this period and Virginia is on the apparent horizon to become one.
2:00 pm
Motor City Bowl
Toledo vs Connecticut
SG's Pick: Toledo
Connecticut has a field game team? Well, that's what we would have aforesaid closing period but they have a QB that can rip the inferior. You in all probability haven't heard of him but the NFL scouts know him drastically resourcefully. Connecticut has a arbitrary if they hold onto the mentality they had once consultation Pittsburgh more rapidly in the twelvemonth.
5:30 pm
Tue., Dec. 28
Independence Bowl
Iowa State vs Miami (Ohio)
SG's Pick: Iowa State
Iowa State's explosive doings will offer Miami all they want...plus some.
6:30 pm
Insight Bowl
Oregon State vs Notre Dame
SG's Pick: Notre Dame
Notre Dame is going to box its suspicion out in defense of Tyrone Willingham. Oh, did we introduce they're a pretty slap-up football game team anyway?
9:45 pm
Wed., Dec. 29
Houston Bowl
Texas-El Paso vs Colorado
SG's Pick: Texas-El Paso
Jordan Carson (name good familiar?) will at length have his accident to scope his natural ability on political unit tv. Colorado is motionless curious what happened in the Big 12 championship...
4:30 pm
Alamo Bowl
24 Ohio State vs Oklahoma State
SG's Pick: Ohio State
Oklahoma State is no outcast to big games. Unfortunately, they haven't bookish how to win them.
8:00 pm
Thur., Dec. 30
Continental Tire Bowl
25 Boston College vs North Carolina
SG's Pick: Boston College
North Carolina has a drought of "big game" endure patch Boston College has the "secret to success" for leading bowl games, they've won 4 through.
1:00 pm
Emerald Bowl
New Mexico vs Navy
SG's Pick: Navy
Did we say Navy? That's right! These guys in time scholarly how to let down your hair field game.
4:30 pm
Holiday Bowl
4 California vs 23 Texas Tech
SG's Pick: California
Cal will discipline Texas Tech for human being short of out of the BCS reflection.
8:00 pm
Silicon Valley Bowl
Troy vs Northern Illinois
SG's Pick: Northern Illinois
Troy has ne'er been to a vessel winter sport and they're not waiting to win one any. N. Illinois has a base make for that will out-muscle this Troy defense.
11:00 pm
Fri., Dec. 31
Music City Bowl
Alabama vs Minnesota
SG's Pick: Alabama
This isn't because we look-alike the SEC. Minnesota isn't playing at nest...
12:00 pm
Sun Bowl
Purdue vs 21 Arizona State
SG's Pick: Purdue
Arizona State is coming near their 2nd lead QB that Purdue's young, yet darn good, squad should include. Expect Purdue to buoyant up the rack up sheet in this one!
2:00 pm
Liberty Bowl
10 Boise State vs 7 Louisville
SG's Pick: Louisville
This may be bowl unfit of the year. If you similar fast set on offenses and hard-hitting scoring, this lame is for you! Vegas will be exploding next to "total points" bets on this one.
3:30 pm
14 Miami (FLA.) vs 20 Florida
Peach Bowl
SG's Pick: Florida
If Chris Leak (Gators) isn't the go-to-meeting QB in the land he will be. When the Gators are operational on all cylinders I would collect them to whitewash everybody in the land. Keep an eye on this one because it should be a medium of exchange maker!
7:30 pm
Sat., Jan. 1
Cotton Bowl
15 Tennessee vs 22 Texas A&M
SG's Pick: Tennessee
The Vols only ran out of occurrence in the SEC title. I fishy they will selection up wherever they disappeared off. Neither team "should" be present so it will by all odds be one of the amended games to study.
11:00 am
Outback Bowl
16 Wisconsin va 8 Georgia
SG's Pick: Georgia
Wisconsin can theatre offensive activity buy GA's swift defence will suspend the run and thrust Wisconsin to throw consequent in too tons mistakes to overcome. Georgia wins.
11:00 am
Gator Bowl
17 Florida State va West Virginia
SG's Pick: Florida State
Florida State has put the mislaid to Florida behind them. Bowden's propensity to rule vessel games has a "W" written all ended it.
12:30 pm
Capital One Bowl
11 Iowa vs 12 LSU
SG's Pick: LSU (restrictions apply...)
LSU is newborn but managed to fracas their way to a moral vessel unfit this yr. If LSU's squad can save the evaluation friendly they can yank this one off.
1:00 pm
Rose Bowl
13 Michigan vs 6 Texas
SG's Pick: Texas
If Mack can encourage his players they're as not bad as he did the nations coaches Texas will overwhelmed a concrete Michigan squad.
4:30 pm
Fiesta Bowl
5 Utah vs 19 Pittsburgh
SG's Pick: Utah
Pittsburgh slipped finished the put a bet on door to win the Big East but I'm numb Utah will bear out Pitt what it's close to to gambol near the Big Boys.
8:30 pm
Mon., Jan. 3
Sugar Bowl
3 Auburn vs 9 Virginia Tech
SG's Pick: Auburn
Auburn should be playing for the national title. Look for Auburn to win big for the small option of sharing the gong.
8:00 pm
Tue., Jan. 4
Orange Bowl
1 Southern California vs 2 Oklahoma
SG's Pick: Oklahoma
This one should go low to the second fourth part. Oklahoma should be in the majority with stamina.
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