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Utah Jazz: Lakers sweep way to conference finals
LAfanMay 13, 2010 11:15 a.m.
Fair enough. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt here. It's not as if all LA fans are perfect angels.
Look forward to playing you guys again soon....
ZoniezoobieMay 13, 2010 9:39 a.m.
Los Angeles is boycotting all business with Arizona...Too bad the Lakers will have to forfeit all games at Phoenix :)
HossmanMay 11, 2010 11:43 p.m.
I hereby dub the term "stay classy" as over used. Whoever uses he word shall henceforth be known as moron. That is all
toddfromsantaanaMay 11, 2010 9:14 p.m.
ed: relative of O Connor
Keep all believing what you want and we will see you all back same time next year, talking the same things again and again and yet again
Beat the Lakers with Sloan and the "sloanaholics"
We are not saying the boys did not play hard and it was a more enjoyable season than last. All good.
However, watching the weaknesses get exposed by the Lakers, if you want to come back with the same team and think it is going to win a "title" I have some cheap land to sell
Keep supporting being average. I beg you...
edMay 11, 2010 7:29 p.m.
I have to admit that I was surprised at how well Fes played in this game. I spent my time watching only him, when he was on the floor. He was blocking out and helping on defense better than any Jazz player, in quite a while. The biggest problem is that the 4's have a hard time rotating for him, when he has to help.
Yes, I am a Sloanaholic and I will be back next year. I liked the progress of this time, this year. It is still a lot of young players. They will get better.
Large TunaMay 11, 2010 5:18 p.m.
Give them a break, they played a team with 3 centers when we have 1 center. can't play fes 48 minutes, we had to play small ball at some point. we just got out-sized, there's not much more to say about it except it would have been nice if boozer showed up. gasol was giving him lessons out there. we need a replacement for him. one good year doesnt make up for 4 crappy years.
They had a good year, and played hard. just didnt have the right pieces to play the lakers, you can't blame them for not being tall enough, they did their best. hopefully the draft pick and a boozer replacement will help.
They better find a way to keep matthews, thats all i gotta say. maybe boozer will help us out with a sign and trade?
Chuck NunnMay 11, 2010 4:49 p.m.
Will do Captain L. First off, is trying to do my own season wrap-up, then updates on Tomic and Dragicevic is the next order of business. Also feel free to check my mock draft often, as mine will likely adjust right along with all the big boys.
As to Derek Fisher, I can never boo that man for his decision to move to an area where he could get his daughter treatment. But on the other hand, folks have to understand that when he decided to rejoin a franchise that Jazz fans just plain don't like, he has to expect some boos. Of course, the comments and actions fans made with reference to his daughter are unexcusable. But he'll never receive a warm reception in SLC from fans, so folks ought not to be surprised when it happens. I still think he's a class act, though, even though I think folks would have been less angry if he'd gone to play for the Knicks or the Nets.
JKMay 11, 2010 4:31 p.m.
The Master Toddfromsantaana said that Bill Laimbeer coached Karl Malone's Daughter.....WOW!!!!
we've got a new coach on the horizon....thank goodness....anyone that coached the Mailman's daughter must be great!!!!
There must also be someone out there that coached one of Stockton's kids..maybe he can be the assistant coach...
Captain LMay 11, 2010 3:55 p.m.
Re Chuck Nunn : I agree, with your comments about Fes.
Let me know when your post will be available regarding Ante Tomic.
Looked at several of the mock drafts when I went to your site, interesting. Liked Tom Izzo's mock.
Let me know what you think of Udoh, Izzo had him at #6or7.
SokolMay 11, 2010 3:42 p.m.
The problem with Sloan is that there is really a blue print now on how to beat the Jazz. All the coaches seem to have figured it out....Sloan is not
innovative enough or inspiring enough to stay...
He needs to reture.
Johnson72May 11, 2010 3:41 p.m.
Number on paper do not win championships... I dont care how many more points The Great Darren Williams scores than Fisher.. Untill Williams can get as many rings as Fish does he is not better on the hardwood.. Paper maybe but as I see Fish is at LEAST 4 times better the darren williams right now!!!
RationalMay 11, 2010 3:28 p.m.
Bugoff, do you even have season tickets? You are so happy to spend the Jazz' money
BugoffMay 11, 2010 3:09 p.m.
I think the best strategy is to
1. try to get the Jazz organziation to get the most and best talent they can.
2. fix the weaknesses.
3. get Greg and KOC to put some pressure on Sloan to make adjustments he should.
4. Wisely pay the lux tax as needed.
Jerry is not going to retire and he is not going to be replaced. The next best approach it to try to get enough talent and change to win.
SamwiseMay 11, 2010 3:07 p.m.
To LAfan
The vast majority of Jazz fans that I know are more like Sid and less like the idiotic judgmental Jazz fans who aggravate you. If you think those fans aggravate you as a Lakers fan, just imagine how it is as a Jazz fan. I personally always try to give people the benefit of the doubt. LA does have some of the best Cancer treatment. And frankly, I can't really blame him for taking the best job in an area that has such great cancer treatment (as opposed to going to New York or New Jersey).
So please don't judge the Jazz fan base as a whole based on the words and actions of a few loud, obnoxious, rude, and classless fans. Also, if I could, I would tell TNT the same thing. It is frankly ignorant in and of itself to say that a fan base is ignorant or rude or anything based on the classless actions of a few.
cvlfanMay 11, 2010 3:05 p.m.
The Jazz deserve better fans. You guys have a hall of fame coach, in the same league as Phil Jackson and Greg Popovich. After those 3 no one else is close. Sloan gets more out of players than any other coach in the league.
Your team was overmatched in this series. The Lakers are the one contender that beats you in SLC. Throw in your injuries and you didn't really have a chance.
Complaints about Fisher are unfounded and classless. Two cities have centers that deal with pediatric retinoblastoma. At the time Fisher was considered to be way overpaid and on the downhill slide. NY did not want him. LA did. He took a pay cut going to LA, and did Utah a favor at the time. He very graciously acknowledged the class act by Larry Miller in releasing him from his contract, and went to an LA team that was in shambles and a noncontender. Had he not been released, or had LA or NY not signed him, he would have retired. Notice how none of the Jazz players make the same stupid comments that their fans make?
Had Utah won, I'd be rooting for them.
tvbMay 11, 2010 2:58 p.m.
Jazz, No one makes you accountable for your efforts, not even yourselfs. You should only get paid if you win, wouldn't that change things! You would see a whole new level of play, every game. Now, Jazz need to replace front office, bring in someone who could actually make some decisions, fire Sloan (time to retire to the ranch)get rid of booooooozer, change the line up.
toddfromsantaanaMay 11, 2010 2:13 p.m.
Sloan will never be fired. Like the clowns in the state, most like "being competitive" and refuse to ever want better for them and theyr'e lives. Total boring complacency.
We can only hope "Jer gets frustrated and tired" and quits.
He said publicly, he does not like change. I believe he would not want John Salmons, Joe Johnson Or Chris Bosh.
THey would be "threats" to his coaching, continuity, change, and to the "sloanaholics"
Who would I like that would likely come to Utah?
Avery Johnson
Bill Laimbeer
Both are being interviewed for multiple coaching vacancies. Yeah I guess "they really stink"
Toughness and Defense, energetic, sound and positive leadership. People thought Bill would not be a good fit in the WNBA and won 2 titles. He coached Karl Malone's daughter.
If you want change in players: the only way is if you offer a package "to Jer" to go back to the farm
On his way out he can cleanse and take with him "the Sloanaholics"
Go Big Blue!!!May 11, 2010 2:07 p.m.
Thanks Jerry for another great season. Thanks for putting out a quality product on a tight budget. I am certainly not happy about being swept by the Lakers, but I do appreciate all that Sloan does putting together players and teaching them team ball. Hope you are back for another go at it! Go Jazz!!!
LAfanMay 11, 2010 2:06 p.m.
Thank you Sid 6.7 for giving me hope that there are some decent Jazz fans still out there. It's one thing to hate a player for choosing your rival (despite the fact that LA has the BEST cancer treatment in the world). It's another thing to taunt him by yelling "cancer" and covering one eye while he shoots a free throw. "Fisher lied" t-shirts are disgraceful and should not have been allowed in the arena. That show you the poor taste your organization displays. Larry Miller was a class act. The fans have continued to prove themselves the rudest, most obnoxious group in the land.
One of my closest friends in LA was a die hard Jazz fan growing up. Even he can't stand the disgusting antics from the fans.
The Clippers have Baron Davis. LA was in serious need of a PG. The man took a serious pay cut to give his daughter medical attention. Did ONE Jazz fan bother to comment on how his daughter was cured? NO. Instead you continue to pout and whine and cry about how he went to your rival.
Basketball is a game folks. Not life.
BugoffMay 11, 2010 2:03 p.m.
If Fes consistently plays as well as he did last night and is paired with the right PF the Jazz will be formidable. If Fes develops an average offensive game he will be one of the better Cs in the NBA.
I understand that he is still raw but he has only been playing 20 minutes for about 10 games and those minutes are against Nene, Gasol and Bynum. He is doing really well for just being thrown to the wolves.
He totally altered DEN's inside game and attacking guards. He altered LA's inside game and made Kobe pay when he came inside. Kobe still came inside but he missed some point blank shots after getting clocked a couple of times.
Kobe has more guts than Lawson but he still paid a price. I wonder how his finger feels today. He hit Fes and had to go out for a re tape.
TylerMay 11, 2010 1:45 p.m.
The Spurs got swept, does this mean Pop needs to go? Of course not. When a coach makes it to the 2nd round with a banged up team (and when they were not supposed to make it out of the first round) they are doing something right.
The Lakers have better players at EVERY position except for PG and have one of the best coaches EVER. Is it so terrible and unacceptable to lose to them? The Jazz were in every game and had a chance to win each except for game four despite these disadvantages. I would say that is a good enough job for a coach.
Chuck NunnMay 11, 2010 1:26 p.m.
Anybody who can't see that Fesenko played a man's game last night and gave the Jazz a shot at winning a game they were totally out of needs to go back and watch it again. I hope he comes back to this team and is a part of it for seasons to come.
Johnny TriumphMay 11, 2010 12:56 p.m.
B'Bye Boozer
RSL LOVERMay 11, 2010 12:18 p.m.
I thank Jerrry because he used what he had and he delivered a great product, we beat the Tugs when every one including some of you were counting the team out after game 1 in Denver.
As for Buzz, you should go and post your comments on L.A. times or any media in So Cal, you are talking about class, well show some class and don't write any more of your comments about your Lakers in here, we are helping each other to make this end of the season easier and we are looking the way to make our team, "The Utah Jazz" better over the course of the time.
I think the Lakers-Sun will be an interesting series, the NBA Final will be Lakers- Cavs, referees will make sure that that happens. And the King will reign at the end of the season.
This summer will be really busy, draft, free agency, world cup, and I hope the front office has listened to Deron's requested last night and they do what ever needs to be done in order to have a Championship team and not a 4 o 5 seeded as he said.
dwillfanMay 11, 2010 12:07 p.m.
MrsH, yeah they did call us ignorant, which was ignorant in itself. ALL fans are emotional. heck, we even condemn our own team at times, but for them to call us ignorant was absolute rubbish. everyone knows that the u of u hospital has one of the best cancer treatment centers in the nation. fisher, supposedly, wanted to leave utah to take his daughter (who suffers from retinoblastoma) to seek medical attention elsewhere.
are you telling me that the u of u doctors/staff weren't good enough or equipped to handle her condition?
anyway, that's where it all stemmed from.
BugoffMay 11, 2010 12:01 p.m.
Water Rocket It is miss management of the Sloan system prevents the Jazz from going deep in the playoffs.
The Jazz Organization had a PF and C who could not defend, wings who could not shoot and also refused to put enough money/talent into the team to create a winner.
The wings can shoot better. Okur is out but does not have a developed replacement. The PFs are undersized. The interior D is still porous but better in the last game with Fes playing better.
The Jazz insisted on continuity. They have been forced to make changes. There finally is some hope.
Now if they will get the right players for the key positions and get enough talent in the team they might contend.
The Jazz built weaknesses into this team and then refused to fix them. Hopefully this next time they get it right and keep it going.
Udoh is a little soft (maybe fix). Monroe plays with one hand (fixable?).
Get a AK clone who can shoot better in the 2nd round.
Develop Fes/Koufos/Gaines.
Resign Mathews who will get better.
Add an inside out set of plays to unpack the paint.
SokolMay 11, 2010 11:52 a.m.
I wonder if other people are saying its time for Sloan to hang it up. I think its time for him to go......I saw nothing from Sloan to want him back.
When a good team gets swept, even Sloan should be on the firing line...
water rocketMay 11, 2010 11:48 a.m.
No team likes to loose, and no true fan is happy when their team looses. Frustration aside, we are lucky to have a quality Jazz team year in and year out, with injuries, egoes, uncoachable "height" issues, other teams with fat wallets, and so forth. One great thing Phil Jackson does that I think is great is how he teachs phylisophically (sp) as well as X's and O's to get his team to "think" as a team and give it their all every game.
sid 6.7May 11, 2010 11:36 a.m.
I have to say never have I been more embarrassed to be a Jazz fan than I was last night. Not because our team lost but because of how some of our fans acted.
Did two women (and I use that term lightly) show up with T-shirts which read "Fisher Lies"? Words can never describe how utterly low class that is and it boarders on the moronic. Nay, it is totally moronic.
To personally attack a professional basketball player for switching teams so he could better care for his child with cancer is pathetic at best and neither of you should ever be allowed to set foot in the ESA ever again.
Your both an embarrassment to our city to our state and to the Jazz organization!
Shame on you both!
BuzzMay 11, 2010 11:33 a.m.
Hey Water Rocket-
The Lakers have only one free agent on their team that has any signficant playing time:
Ron Artest and this is his first year.
Kobe is homegrown, Fisher is homegrown, Bynum is homegrown. Ariza was homegrown last year.
Maybe you are referring to them signing Josh Powell?
Gasol and Odom were traded and the Lakers gave up Shaq in his prime, Marc Gasol and two draft picks. Even Popovich now says that trade was a good one for the Grizzlies. Google it if you don't believe me.
patriotMay 11, 2010 11:24 a.m.
If AK and Memo were healthy all throughout the playoffs we would probably be headed back to LA right now with the series tied 2-2 and fans would be happy as clams. Come on people, you can't lose your entire inside game and expect to compete against the biggest team in the league. The Jazz did the best with what they had but you can only squeeze so much blood out of the rock. Next year the Jazz need to go get a bigger power forward plus bring in some more inside players to help out Memo.
BuzzMay 11, 2010 11:17 a.m.
Against that person's best interest? You mean against the Spazz fan's jealousy right? Would you be happy if he went to the Clippers instead? What if he helped them become a contender and then beat the Jazz? You would be crying the same.
The man took 8 million less to go and play for the Lakers. What do you have to say about that? Does that make sense to you? The man wanted a ring that badly? He already had 3!
One of the biggest problem I have with all of this is the hypocrisy among Jazz fans.
Let me remind you. When Boozer joined your basketball team, he basically lied to the ownership of the Cleveland Cavs by stating he would resign if he was "released early" from his contract, but turned around and signed with the Jazz instead for a bigger contract.
Talk about hypocrisy! Once again, to those unclassy Utah Jazz fans, enjoy your off-season... you got what you deserved!
water rocketMay 11, 2010 11:09 a.m.
1 more comment, I have really enjoyed Boozer in the last half of the season this year. He has shown a real commitment to the team that he didn't show before. I don't know if it was simply to increase his trade-ability, or if he actually wants to make the Jazz a better team. If his thinking is the latter, then I hope he stays, but if he is just trying to look better so that he can be traded, then I hope he moves on. As for D Will, I think he gives it his all (ala Sloan style) and this is his team to make it a championship team. I just hope that we don;t hear that the Jazz are going to draft the "best player available." I hope that they go after a talented big for a change.
water rocketMay 11, 2010 11:02 a.m.
The Jazz are in the smallest market in the NBA, yet have one of the best won/loss records in the legue. Sloan has to develop his players, while LA simply buys the best talent (with the exception of Kobe). ANY NBA caliber player with a chance of playing in Utah or LA for the same money will always choose LA. Still, the players who have family interests in mind will choose a far safer Utah. I thank Sloan for what he has done, even though I think he is about as charming as a bull in a china shop.
Dig DugMay 11, 2010 10:56 a.m.
Fans behaving like a bunch of whining thugs... kind of like the players they cheer for.
kshioMay 11, 2010 10:46 a.m.
Hey Samwise-
no doubt d-will and d-fish are NOT comparable, EXCEPT when d-fish is playing d-will! for some reason, d-fish has d-will's head.
d-fish also gets to bump d-will a LOT, and then deron loses his cool when he doesn't get a call. it's happened almost every time they've played....
to me, the most visible stat for the jazz was assists. 15 or 16 on average probably for the series, and 25+ on average for the season. there you go. a lot of that is missed shots which would have been assists, or blocks, but a lot of it also is not making that extra pass. 10 fewer assists per game is a LOT when you consider any player averaging 10 a game would be an elite point guard all-star.
for some reason, the jazz didn't trust their offense. yeah, you'll get 10 or 12 blocked maybe, but shoot 50 layups, and you still get 30 of them to go down.....you can see that they just didn't trust that they were going to be able to score inside....
on to next year!
CRBMay 11, 2010 10:39 a.m.
This may be Jerry's best job of coaching ever. Too bad they ran into Kobe and the Lakers so early but Jerry took a team with one legitimate NBA starter in Williams and one-half of a legitimate offensive NBA starter (Boozer on offense only) and had a fabulous season. He of course has a group of great 6th through 10th NBA players but unfortunately some of these off the bench players are starting and getting paid starter's salaries. That will not get it done in the playoffs. Yet we have a good product here because Jerry gets so much out of what he is given. He has a center that is a 3 point shooting 7 foot guard that can't keep with his counterparts. A starter salary in Milsap who is a man without a position but an awesome 6th or 7th man and as they said on the original Gilligan's Island intro, "and the rest". This is a team that could easily drop to the bottom of the charts but somehow Jerry has them contending. Nice job Jerry. I hope in the future you get the personnel you deserve.
SamwiseMay 11, 2010 10:31 a.m.
RE: Johnson72
Here is a sampling of D-Will's and Fisher's stats:
Last night:
D-Will had 21 points 9 assists 2 steals and 4 rebounds
Fisher had 10 points 1 assist 3 steals and 5 rebounds
Average for the year:
D-Will: 18.7 points 10.5 assists and 1.3 steals 4.0 rebounds
Fisher: 7.4 points 2.5 assists 1.1 steals 2.1 rebounds
Yes, the Lakers have the Jazz beat at every other starting position (PF because of size regardless of stats). But you would have to be a fool to think that Fisher is better then Williams. Don't get me wrong, I like Fisher. He is my favorite Laker and probably one of my favorite players in the league (which is a hard thing for me since he is on the Lakers). But he is not better then Deron Williams. Not by a long shot.
embarassed fanMay 11, 2010 10:30 a.m.
What a embarassment! I attended the game last night with my 14 year old Grandson and was mortified by the behavior of the fans around us. Give Fisher a break! The doubting Thomas's who imply he had another motive may indeed be correct. What was it? To get away from a mediocre team, a mediocre city or perhaps mediocre classless fans
SportzFanMay 11, 2010 10:25 a.m.
I for one wouldn't ask someone to help me take care of my family, and turn around and do something which was definitely against that person's best interest. That Fisher would, and you approve, speaks volumes about both of you.
blauchMay 11, 2010 10:25 a.m.
I will happily Boo Fisher forever. I cannot stand that man. We all know the Jazz need better players.
If Okur/AK was there healthy we don't get swept, but we still loose this series. Fes played well tonight - Some team is going to spend on him and he will be gone.
As far as I am concerned the only 3 players untouchable are Williams, Matthews, and Millsap. I like to keep AK - for the fact that in 2 years we should be able to have him for about 1/4 the amount he is being paid now. Miles is playing well, but I still think he is absolutely replaceable.
Wish the Jazz wouldn't have resigned Okur. Boozer defense was horrible this off season. But he played a lot of minutes and showed Hart. Sap was great and the future.
The Jazz need another Big (who plays defense and can score on the block.
Yes the Jazz need better players down low. Fes played his best game of the series and now some team will make an offer to him and the Jazz won't match. There are about 100 big better than him in this league.
SamwiseMay 11, 2010 10:20 a.m.
Go Suns now, I guess.
Although I think Sloan has done some good for the franchise in the past, I actually am beginning to agree that it might be time for him to retire. It might be better for him as well as the team.
Captain LMay 11, 2010 10:15 a.m.
As far as the draft is concerned, at this point (and things could change), I like Udoh as my first pick, then Monroe or Motiejunas. Udoh is 6'10", long, athletic, shot blocker, defender, handles the ball like a pt forward. Monroe is 6'10/11, not quite as athletic nor is he as good a shot blocker, he plays smart, you can facilitate your offense thru him, pretty one sided (lefty). Motiejunas is 7' and very offensive minded, good mobility, they compare him to Bargnani of Toronto. All three play the 4 spot and would give us size and length we now don't have. I like Udoh because of his shot blocking, defense, and ball handling. None of the three will be able to come in and replace Booz to start the season but AK can fill in at the 4 (as can KK & Memo). If Fes and Kk can develop and we get one of those 3 in the draft we'll be in pretty good shape for the future.
If the Jazz decided to go for a 3 man in the draft, Johnson or Aminu would be good but they maynot be there when we pick.
BuzzMay 11, 2010 10:14 a.m.
Here is the difference between a level-headed fan and a delusional one:
When my Lakers get to the Finals, I would not be surprised if the Magic beat them. I would tip my hat to them and say they are a great team and deserve it.
You won't hear me complaining about anything or trying to put down Magic players or coaches to make me feel better.
The Lakers can't win every year. It is possible that there are teams that are better than them. It is possible that they get outcoached. It is possible that they get outplayed.
BuzzMay 11, 2010 10:03 a.m.
I've been to a Jazz game when they played the Lakers and I heard it all from Jazz fans. So I don't blame the Lakers fans from giving the Spazz fans a taste of their own medicine. I'd like to see some Jazz fan try to break my nose.
Oh and you go ahead and relish the fact that a younger 6'8" player was able to swat an older 6'1" player. I think Fisher needs to stop playing with all of his championship rings on so they don't weigh him down.
Funny, how the Lakers still scored on that possession and Fisher only got swatted because he had just stolen the ball from the "best point guard in the NBA." How's that for an old man?
Captain LMay 11, 2010 9:58 a.m.
RE Chuck : Fes played a very good game, 12 boards, physical, tough, aggressive, didn't get many touches but still scored 4 pts. I thought he showed improvement.
Re Tyler: The point to be made about Fes and the plus / minus statistics is : When Fes is in the game the Jazz out scored their opponent. It doesn't mean the player is a great player, it just means while they were on the floor their team either scored more, thus a plus statistic or they scored less, a minus statistic. While Fes was on the floor the Jazz were plus 9, while DWill was on the floor they were minus 19, it is not necessarily an indication of how a player played. What we are trying to say about Fes is that while he is on the floor the Jazz usually out score their opponent. And that is what we want. This has been the case all year,not just last night. That is why Fes has a positive plus / minus stat for the year. Fes has a lot of potential and just needs playing time and coaching. Hoping Fes works hard this summer and gets some individual coaching.
MrsHMay 11, 2010 9:55 a.m.
I've heard rumblings that the TNT announcers called Jazz fans 'ignorant'...Any info on that? (I didn't watch the game...)
Was it the fact that they were booing Fisher?
plyxplyMay 11, 2010 9:47 a.m.
it seemed to me that Sloan left Boozer in solely to let Boozer know the Jazz want him around, not because he was helping the team at that moment. If he does what he should've done he pulls Boozer and puts Fes back in and leaves Boozer on the bench. I think Sloan is one of the greatest coaches in history and we're lucky to have him, but frankly last night was frustrating to watch.
Boozer is so weak mentally that you could see immediately he didn't believe he could do anything against the Lakers and the Jazz had no chance with him in the game. Sign and trade him, but don't bring him back.
Happy Valley HillbillyMay 11, 2010 9:22 a.m.
Coach Sloan said it correctly; the Jazz need a couple more pieces to round out this team and become a true championship contender. It will be interesting to see what happens to the roster during the off-season. My prediction for this year:
Orlando beats the Lakers in the finals.
bigsoccerMay 11, 2010 9:22 a.m.
to Buzz: STayl classy Laker Fans, I was at the game last night, and the taunting by some of your fans made BYU and Utah fans look very classy, the greatest moment last night was when I saw a Lakers fan taunting some Jazz fans, and the next thing you know the Lakers fan was on the ground crying with a broken nose. Oh and when Fisher got swatted and put on the ground.
maidenwingsMay 11, 2010 9:22 a.m.
Have fun wherever
your Travels may Be
thru the Seasons..
So close to a great finish
Thanks once again UtahJAZZ :)
BuzzMay 11, 2010 9:17 a.m.
Funny, but I heard the announcers say that Fisher gave the Jazz a list of teams that they could trade him to so that he could help his daughter. They decided to just let him go.
He happened to be going to New York for treatment at the time so obviously that was probably one city he had on the list.
So do you Jazz fans know if he tried to sign with a New York team? You must all have ties with his agent to know exactly what they did right?
Would you go and play for the Knicks or Nets if you could play for the Lakers? He took 8 million less to play for them. That doesn't sound very smart.
So according to you, since the Jazz let him out of his contract that meant he had to go to a team that was awful? He couldn't go to a team where he was familiar with the system or had a good chance of winning? He couldn't go where his family would be most comfortable.
Stay classy Spazz fans.
SG ManMay 11, 2010 8:54 a.m.
Thanks for the great season Jazz. Go Suns!!! Take out the Lakers. Lakers are just bigger and deserved to sweep that series. I hope management takes D-Will's message to heart, we need a few more pieces. Of course, they never listen and never get a talented big man. It will be the same story every year, 4-5 seed as D-Will stated. He is gone as soon as he can get out of here because Jazz management won't try to improve where it is needed to be a championship team. As for booing Fisher, we loved him while he was here and I still respect him, but he claimed he had to go to New York, not L.A. Jazz let him go free and clear. I hope his daughter is doing better, but what he did was classless going to LA instead of NY. Still wish him the best of luck. Go Jazz, can't wait for another typical season next year.
Hugh G. HaterMay 11, 2010 8:52 a.m.
Sneaky Jimmy-
What about Dirk Nowitski?
I really don't see Jazz management putting together a big name trade. They are content with average records.
Rumor has it Bosh might be going to OKC. That would spell disaster for any team hoping to get to the finals out of the west.
The B.I.V.May 11, 2010 8:51 a.m.
Here's to the postseason! Hopefully the draft or the free agent market yeilds some hope for next year...
Uncle RicoMay 11, 2010 8:38 a.m.
Thanks for the great season Utah Jazz! I'm looking forward to next year.
BuzzMay 11, 2010 8:30 a.m.
The only reason why I come on these boards is because of the delusional things I read from Spazz fans.
Jealous, delusional Spazz fans are so blind and such hypocrits that I can't just leave it alone. If your team was being villified like I see Spazz fans doing to the Lakers then you would respond as well
I have never heard fans cry so much about ref or NBA bias, star treatment, egos, salaries, etc. To think that the Lakers have 15 rings as a product of all this is just flat out denial and jealousy.
I see many level-headed Jazz fans on here who are great fans and root for their team without being babies at the same time. Spazz fans boo and heckle Fisher because they feel spited. They have all the proof that Fisher double-crossed them and will not consider that Fisher was ever sincere in his actions.
Give the Lakers credit for being an amazing franchise. There are other teams in the NBA that get the same kind of treatment or have the same elements in their favor who do not win anywhere near as much as the Lakers.
Sneaky JimmyMay 11, 2010 8:30 a.m.
Key Learning from Lakers Series:
1). Fes is not the answer. You wonder why Jerry doesn't play him? He's a tall clown.
2). Lakers are a better team at every position except point guard.
3). Okur would have helped but would not have put them over the top.
4). Jazz will not be championship caliber until they get a dominant force inside (ie, Howard, Gasol,).
BuzzMay 11, 2010 8:10 a.m.
Your Jazz have won nothing signficant in their entire history and the Lakers have been in almost half of the Finals in NBA history. You have no idea what it feels like to support a champion and so you try to lessen what the Lakers have accomplished to make you feel better.
You Spazz fans keep hitting on the salary issue. Last year was the first time the Lakers were over the cap while winning the Championship. They were only 3 Mil over. Let's see, the Jazz are 2 Mil over this year and what did it get them? Name one team that is a legit contender for the title that is not over the cap. Your jealousy and hypocrisy is legendary Spazz fans.
The Mavs, Spurs, Cavs and Celtics are all well over the cap this year. You think the Lakers should field lesser talented teams all in the name of not going over the cap? That is ridiculous. Paying the most in salary is not a guarantee to success. Look at Dallas.
The Lakers were winning championships long before money became such a big player in the NBA. Stop your crying.
Hugh G. HaterMay 11, 2010 7:44 a.m.
Another season of "no change".
Care to guess how next season will end?
Those girls wearing the "Fisher Lied" shirts were cute. I wonder if they poste here? Give us a shout out if you are ladies!
CrowntownMay 11, 2010 7:27 a.m.
WHy do you guys always bring FISH's name. THe guy isn't an all star and he's a LAKER and has played most of his career there. YOu guys take it waaaayy to personal and need to get a life.
CrowntownMay 11, 2010 6:50 a.m.
There are way too many posers in this state.
John WicksMay 11, 2010 6:02 a.m.
This just shows this group needs to be broken up. Will be curious to see if Greg pulls it off. It's a disgrace getting swept in the playoffs regardless of who it is. I just hope the Suns stick it to the Zen Master and Kobe. I'm looking forward to this off season hoping for a major shakeup.
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CBMay 11, 2010 5:28 a.m.
Hard to come back from such a heartbreaker Game 3. Have to believe that there is 'help' from the ref's. when so many attacks under the basket were rejected and no calls made. Just follow the money, and you know the Why. Have a good summer!
B RussMay 11, 2010 3:37 a.m.
Do you think Gentry would have utilized someone like Fes? I think anyone in their right mind would have. I think Jerry Sloan and KOC have put too much presidence on the importance of Boozers offense. The guys with the rings will tell you, " defense wins championships."
Kevin are you going to tell us now that the need for big men in the NBA is like the need for the Dinasaur? If so you are wrong, again this year.* See Lakers.* Magic etc. ( championship caliber teams.)
donnieboy48May 11, 2010 3:09 a.m.
Maybe the problem with the jazz isn'r the players, but the same old coach, who year after year fails to make it..
B RussMay 11, 2010 2:39 a.m.
Fes should have been playing all year. For the last two years.
Johnson72May 11, 2010 1:39 a.m.
could anyone prove me wrong?... No I guess not... But I been saying for years.... Jazz need new blood.... 20+ years huh???.... You serious???
Johnson72May 11, 2010 1:33 a.m.
I'm still waiting for the helium to get to the PartY..... not even I saw this one coming!!!!
snakenamedjoeMay 11, 2010 1:28 a.m.
What a coincidence he didn't end up playing for Sacramento, or the Clippers. No, he goes straight to the championship contender. I'm sure his daughter was the first thing on his mind there.
So, the lakers get a big clutch man and starting point guard for nothing. Then a few months later the Lakers manage to land Pau Gasol, possibly the best big PF in the league, in exchange for a bag of shiny blue rocks.
Surprise, surprise, the NBA darlings just always seem to have the best players in the league just fall in their lap.
I don't understand how anyone can be a Lakers fan. You pick the team with the biggest salary, preferential treatment from the refs, the star players who all want to be there (for the salary and preferential treatment), and then you somehow think that you're special because the team you picked (with all the preferential treatment) manages to win all these championships.
Then that's not enough for you, you have to go onto a local news website for a team your team just swept and start crap with the fans.
Class Act.
therushMay 11, 2010 1:25 a.m.
As a die-hard Jazz fan whose completely mad for any team he supports, even I saw this series ending early. Thought 4-1, so even with my low expectations a sweep hurts. Being honest the Lakers were simply too long and too talented. Of the starting 5 it was pretty much a blowout position by position as far as Laker talent having a huge upper hand on the Jazz except at PG with DWill. Yet Fish can still get hot and drain those 3s. Plus the Lakers were just too long for the bread-and-butter of the Jazz which is interior passing. Put two seven-footers to clog the floor and passing lanes are going to disappear real fast.
As for the Sloan haters please name me one coach you would rather have coaching this team than Sloan who would actually come to UTAH. Hey, love the state but am probably in a severe minority when it comes to national opinion. Jackson and Karl are the only guys I can think of that could be considered legit better than Jerry (they're not) but neither of them would come to Utah for any amount of money.
Johnson72May 11, 2010 1:25 a.m.
But where is the best point guard??? Oh must be Fisher hnuh???
GoodGuyGaryMay 11, 2010 1:13 a.m.
I wonder if Harpring will the series different....
carpediemMay 11, 2010 1:04 a.m.
@utahswept The fans that booed fish were not booing him simply because he left the Jazz. Fish talked to the Jazz owner to get out of his contract so he could be closer to New York where his daughter was getting treated. But instead of going back east somewhere he went and joined the Lakers. We later found out that Fish had been talking to Kobe while he was with the Jazz and he was trying to get him to come to LA. That is why a lot of Jazz fans were mad. Because he was a big part of our team, and he left for the wrong reasons. It wasn't to be closer to New York.
TylerMay 11, 2010 12:55 a.m.
Compare Gentry's personell to Sloan's. They are completely different; therefore, you cannot compare the rotation and line ups they put out.
I still fail to see what you see in Fes. The Jazz were +9 with Fes in tonight and -19 with Deron in. Does this mean we should play Fes more than Deron? Of course not. I personally think that stat (when looking at individual players) is extremely overrated.
If the Jazz want to do anything in the playoffs they need to find a legitimate big and not undersized 4s with unskilled 5s.
SportzFanMay 11, 2010 12:41 a.m.
utahswept | 11:34
Any fan base that would boo the guy who left their team so he could get his sick kid better medical treatment deserves seeing their team swept. You stay classy, Utah.
NO ONE is angry at Fisher for seeking medical treatment for his daughter. NO ONE.
We object to a person who asks for his contract to be torn up "so he can do what is best for his family," and in return does what is worst for the man who helped him.
Fisher's daughter was being treated in NEW YORK. Fisher could've gone to the Nets, Knicks, Rockets (Houston was an option) or Clippers. No, he went to the Lakers, the only team of those five which could hurt the Jazz. Who returns a favor by spitting in someone's face? A "Classy" narcissist or Laker fan (same thing).
"Thanks for helping our family Larry. To show my appreciation, I'll go to the Lakers and act wounded when I know I conspired, lied, and spit in your face."
We've never ONCE heard Fisher express gratitude to the franchise or Millers since he left. NOT ONCE. That speaks volumes.
SomeguyMay 11, 2010 12:37 a.m.
I still don't understand why Jazz fans are chastised for booing Fisher? Look, the organization showed unbelievable class by allowing him out of his contract (name another NBA team to do that - ever!). It was Fisher, not the Jazz, who chose to go to a hated arch rival (29 other options) and his former team only two weeks after being let out of his contract on grounds of finding better medical coverage for his daughter. Jazz fans are understandably suspicious because Fisher was flying back and forth to NY (not CA) to help his daughter while on the Jazz. If he is being honest and made that request with integrity, then he shouldn't regret his decision. But why are Jazz fans precluded from doing what any loyal fan base should - boo the enemy. IT'S A GAME!!!
Booing is not necessarily calling his integrity into question. He chose go to LA and signed up for the consequences of Jazz fans casting him as a villain. I wish Fisher and his family ALL THE BEST - but GO SUNS! Time for Lakers fans to get a reality check and realize booing is part of the game - not life!
jimboMay 11, 2010 12:33 a.m.
@ utahswept
I agree it is classless to boo anyone or especially to say "they suck" for that reason. However, Derek Fisher could have easily commuted to LA to get the care he felt his child needed. In contrast, the much hated Boozer had his equally ill child with sickle cell anemia treated in Florida yet he stayed with the team and honored his contract. The Fisher case illustrates how it will be difficult for Utah to ever contend for the title again because they can't attract superstar free agents. Fisher took an $8 million pay cut to play in LA.
Ak FanMay 11, 2010 12:30 a.m.
I'm with you Bugoff. Sloan has preset rotation and follows, did not want to change no matter what. Where was AK. Boozer place was in bench. Deron can't handle pressure (He let Fisher go under skin). Millsap too short even plays tough. I pleased to see Fes slowly start playing true center. That hoop was very good. Sloan needs to go leave Jazz alone. He choose Boozer over AK (destroying his career)and failed big time.
Jazzman72May 11, 2010 12:25 a.m.
Nobody thought they would make it out of the first round. Nice season. Hopefully koc will work some magic in the offseason to improve the team.
BugoffMay 11, 2010 12:20 a.m.
The Jazz have to go bigger at PF. Booz is a great talent but he is just over matched by LA. Millsap is younger, cheaper and has more upside. This is the best Booz is ever going to be (at least for the Jazz).
Millsap will still get shot over by Odom/Gasol/Bynum. But if he has a big tall good back up and IF Sloan would play match ups the Jazz could live with Millsap at PF for a year or 2.
The Jazz do need another wing who can shoot and defend. They need an other AK with a better shot.
Gaines shows promise. OJ should develop. I like his play a lot. Mathews will get better fast. However he is a little short and not quite quick enough to guard Kobe. However, the more he plays the better he will get. He did a remarkable job for a rookie.
I have some hope for the Jazz IF the front office will just make the right adjustments.
I think draft a PF in the first round. There are a couple 6'10" SFs in the 2nd round who might help a lot.
Design an LA killer.
JesseMay 11, 2010 12:09 a.m.
Terry: Those two push in the back fouls were legit calls. If he would stop playing lazy D and start moving his feet, some of his fouls would go away.
BugoffMay 11, 2010 12:08 a.m.
CJ has come into his own. He fouled hard, shot well and has a complete game.
Booz had lots of rebounds but did not shoot well. Millsap has a different style. He shot well but could have had more rebounds.
The Jazz can get by with Millsap/AK at PF until they can develop/get the PF of the future. Koufos had limited minutes but played well.
For the Jazz to beat LA they have to have enough size inside. Then the guards do not have to help inside and leave their man open. The help defensive scheme has lost the Jazz a lot of games. The constant compensation by the guards to help inside have gotten the Jazz bombed quite a few times this year. GET a PF who can defend and score.
If the Jazz have enough talent/depth to match up with the contenders and Sloan plays the match ups then they can contend.
The Jazz have to have more talent. Sloan has to use the talent right and play the match ups.
Gentry is a better coach at this point. He is more flexible. The Suns can play gun and 1/2 court.
JesseMay 11, 2010 12:05 a.m.
One other thing missing is another player besides Deron who can create his own or others shots. Maybe moving up for Ohio State's Turner would be an option. Bottom line is that they can't miss on this pick, too much riding on it. If they do we'll be set back a few years.
JesseMay 11, 2010 12:00 a.m.
Now onto the off season
I used to be on the fence but i'm now completely against Booz coming back, even if reasonably priced. If he's not the answer now against the Lakers, will he ever be? He's not getting any better. And I honestly think Milsap has passed him offensively. He's consistently hitting that 18-20 foot jumper and is a better finisher. Way more crafty around the hoop. Give me Paul and AK at the 4, Fes and Kosta (until Okur gets healthy) at 5. Draft an athletic 4/5 with the Knick Pick, key word is athletic. Our front line will be fine, maybe improved. Korver can walk and CJ can stay where he is and hopefully we can add a better wing player to go w/ Mathews, although he can walk if he so chooses. If the right big man doesn't fall to us in draft than maybe go w/ best wing player available. If we have to, use Memphis' pick next year to move up to get a top guy, wing or big man.
BugoffMay 10, 2010 11:57 p.m.
There were some important events in this game. Sloan did go back to Fes after being down big and he stayed with him until he put the closers in (small ball) and went behind more.
I will give Sloan credit for doing a lot with limited resources. I disagree with some of his approaches but he gets paid 5 mill to make them.
The most important thing is Fes established himself as the C of the future for the Jazz tonight. He hit Kobe hard at least twice and also Gasol.
The Jazz for the most part played better with him in. He got 12 rebounds. It was obvious all he needs is playing time. If he had only been developed earlier.
He has a long way to go offensively but that will come with time. He did get 4 points but he played really well. He affected the Laker bigs and made the guards pay when the came into the lane.
The Jazz are 1 big very good PF away from matching up with LA. They can draft 1.
Mathews could not handle Kobe but he will be better next year and did pretty well.
Jazzman72May 10, 2010 11:57 p.m.
Nobody thought they would make it out of the first round. Nice season. Hopefully koc will work some magic in the offseason to improve the team.
TerryMay 10, 2010 11:55 p.m.
Sloan is way past retirement age. Whoever the next coach is going to be should have a say in all the off season trade/freer agency decisions to be made this summer, so Sloan needs to sail off into the sunset this year. Sloan is a good coach, but needs to go out with a little grace and style, not in a wheelchair with the fans all calling for change.
P.S. What is the NBA going to do about the biased referee calls for all stars and big market teams get (Kobey & Lakers) even on the road! They are losing more and more fans the more they allow these biased called games to go on! Sometimes you need to win by 20 to win by 1! I don't like Booze much, but boy he got hosed by the refs tonight!
utahsweptMay 10, 2010 11:34 p.m.
Any fan base that would boo the guy who left their team so he could get his sick kid better medical treatment deserves seeing their team swept. You stay classy, Utah.
Love the GameMay 10, 2010 11:26 p.m.
Jerry just said to Phil Jackson. "I hope you win it all". You have got to be kidding me. They just knocked us out in 4 straight for the 3rd or 4th year in a row and you "hope they win it all".
I don't even know what to say except "pathetic". How about "Congrats" and then move on. There is not one Utah fan who hopes the Lakers win it all. More like anyone but the lakers.
Come on Jerry how old are you?
Nice year by the Jazz. They are still not good enough to beat this team, but most others teams are not either. So we add another 50+ win season and Jazz fans will continue to buy season tickets. So.... Mission accomplished management.
toddfromsantaanaMay 10, 2010 11:05 p.m.
I called before it happened. Shannon Brown all by himself
sure enough as certain as taxes he gets the ball and drills the 3
toddfromsantaanaMay 10, 2010 11:00 p.m.
Bugoff, great point about Gentry. I was actually thinking about that today. You will get heat for your excellent takes, but accept from me..No one wants to hear the truth..
The Suns -Shaq are basically the SAME TEAM THAT LAST YEAR MISSED THE PLAYOFFS OH AND MINUS MATT BARNES
They say how Sloan develops young players (Fes and Kous no comment)
Meanwhile, the Suns are doing without one possibly tough defender Lopez
It is a team that has had youth develop
The Suns back up point, Admondson and Dudley to just name a few, and look at Frye improvement..
Also, Gentry is positive, youthful and energetic.
It all translates into this miracle team..
CrowntownMay 10, 2010 10:13 p.m.
Look at all the open seats! The Lakers have taken the hearts of the fans team etc. HAHAHAH kinda hard to be LOUD when people don't show up.
BugoffMay 10, 2010 9:37 p.m.
Sloanaholics will hate this but the Jazz played well and were ahead when Fes was in. He hit Kobe in the head. He disrupted Gasol, Bynum and Odom. He did a good job of stopping Gasol. He contributed in scoring and rebounded.
Sloan went small ball and the LA bigs went wild. Then the LA guard got going as the Jazz guards tried to help inside.
I have grown weary of it all. Sloan cares more about his rotations than winning. I am really tried of it.
Fes has a long way to go but this is pathetic. If it is going well then stay with it.
Booz is just to short. I am grateful for all he has done but the Jazz front line is just to short. There has to be changes.
However, as long as Sloan insists on his predictable rotations the Jazz will not win.
Compare Gentry's coaching with Sloan's.
The Jazz will never change.
ShaunMay 10, 2010 9:35 p.m.
I am so disgusted with the Jazz. Getting blown out on their home court by 16 points in the second quarter.
Sloan needs to go and the management either needs to bring players in who have heart and pride or they need to get out of the basketball business.
Go Suns!


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Ok, let me start by saying I always done my binding by machine and have never done this before. Apparently not enough coffee this morning.
I have been using amma's glue basting since I first saw it posted. I sew it on the back and then glue baste it to the front. I have gotten pretty good at it.
Problem: I sewed binding on, was almost done glue basting to the other side... Then it happened! I realized I sewed the binding to the front and basted it to the back! UGH Must be a Monday thing. I do not want to sew this to the back by hand (don't know how and hands tend to hurt.) The binding is tan(matches the backing) and the border on the from is red (civial war type colors)
How do I sew this together without taking it off? I know it can be done, but can't find a post or any info. I have tan and red thread to match. So how do I finish this by machine?


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Tiger Woods and his wife Elin are really working things out, you guys: they are on family vacation together right now and lookin' all normal, probably.
We're not sure how realistic it is that SNL — which has never given a damn about petitioning campaigns — is going to have Betty White host, but the rumors say she's well on her way toward that gig.
Don't you love it when an Olympic athlete trashes NBC's coverage of the Olympics… on NBC's website?
We couldn't let Sarah Palin have the last word (or get away with her usual grandstanding and exploitation of her own children), so we'll let the actress from Family Guy, who actually has Down Syndrome, get it.
A New Zealand teen was found guilty of breaking into a house so he could bring his girlfriend there for sex.
Word on the street says that Daniel Craig got married over the weekend.
Paris Hilton's boyfriend and ex-boyfriend showed how classy they can be by getting into a brawl at her birthday party. Unfortunately, neither was seriously injured.
And now for your viewing (and listening) pleasure, we present episode one of Ricky Gervais' new HBO series.


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Why study complex numbers, and functions of of a complex variable? Answer
We introduce , the square root of -1, so as to allow negative numbers to have square roots, something they do not have among ordinary real numbers.
Complex numbers can be described as vectors in two dimensional Euclidean space.
We normally use the variable to represent the real part of the number and the variable to represent its imaginary part. Thus the basis vectors and when dealing with complex numbers are the numbers 1 and , respectively.
The number can then be represented as the vector .
In this context the length of the vector, is the positive square root of the sum of the components.
For a number is the square root of .
The angle is defined exactly as for vectors.
We usually refer to the component of this vector as its real part , and the component as its imaginary part.
Complex numbers have the additional property, that ordinary vectors lack, that we can define multiplication among them so as to obey the usual commutative, associative and distributive laws of arithmetic. This fact allows definitions of complex valued functions by the same sort of rules that we use to define ordinary real functions.


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Jon Heyman joined the show Tuesday afternoon to talk some baseball with the guys, including the key to the Sox hot start. Is Heyman surprised that Jon Lester and Clay Buchholz are having such dominating starts to the season?
Also, the guys hit on Baltimore's success, the Yankees continue to deal with injuries and Nationals' ace Stephen Strasburg complaining about forearm tightness.
Also, how has 20-year-old Bryce Harper taken the leap to stardom and how are the Dodgers doing with all of the former Red Sox.


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A guest post by Paul Laidler and Andrew Super from this year's Multiplied Contemporary Art in Editions Fair in London.
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KCAI Printshop Tour
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A printshop tour of Seacourt Print Workshop, located in Northern Ireland.
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CUBS at PADRES
Time: 7:05 p.m. / Game 2 of 3
TV: 4 San Diego.
Radio: 1090-AM, 1700-AM; 860-AM (Spanish)
Cubs RHP Matt Garza (9-10, 3.35 ERA in 30 starts)
Garza is riding a three-game winning streak and coming off his second complete game of the season, holding Milwaukee to one unearned run on six hits and one walk while striking out 10 in a 7-1 Cubs win last Wednesday. Garza is 3-5 on the road this season with a 4.74 ERA in 14 starts. He is 1-0 lifetime against the Padres with a 1.93 ERA in two starts. He pitched six scoreless innings against the Padres back on April 20 in a 2-1 Cubs win at Wrigley Field.
Padres RHP Anthony Bass (2-0, 1.66 ERA in 26 games, two starts)
Bass, 23, will be making his first start outside of Coors Field in Denver. He is 2-0 as a starter with a 0.90 ERA, allowing two runs (one earned) on seven hits and five walks in 10 innings. He threw only 52 pitches in five innings in his start last Wednesday. Although this will be his first start at Petco Park, Bass has made 10 relief appearances at home with a 0.73 ERA. Bass is subbing for Tim Stauffer.
Looking Ahead
Home: 5:35 p.m. TV: 4 San Diego
Cubs RHP Ryan Dempster (10-13, 4.53 ERA) vs. LHP Wade LeBlanc (4-6, 4.83 ERA).


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Virginia man charged with drug offenses
Nesquehoning police have charged a Virginia man with drug offenses.
William Andrew Granick, 39, of Sterling, Virginia, is charged with unlawful possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.
According to an affidavit of probable cause filed by Chief Sean T. Smith:
At 9:01 a.m. July 1, police were notified by the Carbon County Communications Center that police in Fairfax County, Virginia, that a construction truck had been stolen. The GPS reading from the truck indicated that it was parked at 30 Club Drive, Lake Hauto.
Smith went there, and saw the truck in the driveway. He knocked on the door and a woman answered. He asked her who the driver of the truck was, and was he at the house.
The woman said it was her son-in-law's truck, and that she would get him. A man came to the door, and went outside with Smith. The man claimed the truck was his, that it was his company truck, and that he had driven from Virginia to go fishing with his children.
Smith told the man the truck had been stolen. The man identified himself as Granick. Smith asked him if he was carrying any weapons, and he said he was not. Smith patted him down and discovered in his pocket a metal pipe with residue and burnt vegetable matter, along with a plastic bag containing more of the vegetable matter, which appeared to be marijuana.
Smith handcuffed Granick for Smith's protection, and told him was not under arrest, but would be detained until Smith spoke with the Virginia detective who reported the truck stolen.
Rush Township Officer Duane Frederick arrived as backup, and Granick became irate, cursing from the back of Smith's cruiser.
The Virginia detective called Smith, and said he had learned that Granick was an employee of the company from whom the truck was taken. Although Granick did not have permission to take the truck to Pennsylvania, the company owners said it had not been stolen, and did not want him charged.
Smith released Granick, and told him he would be receiving charges by mail. The vegetable matter in Granick's pocket did test positive for marijuana.


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Simply put, electro-optic polymers are being used to make devices that take information that typically has been transmitted electronically and transfer it to optical systems that use light. The latest developments will affect not just how much information can be sent at one time but also the power required to transmit the information.
The newest materials have made possible something called wavelength division multiplexing, a process that can separate a beam of light into perhaps 100 different colors and impose as much as 50 gigabits of information on each color. At that rate, a beam of light could transmit 5 terabits -- or about 625 gigabytes -- of data per second, and could move data equivalent to what is in the Library of Congress in about 30 seconds.
The capabilities of the most recently developed materials are about five times greater than those of standard lithium niobate crystals, said Larry Dalton, a University of Washington chemistry professor and director of the Science & Technology Center on Materials and Devices for Information Technology Research. He will discuss some of the center's work during a topical lecture Friday at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Seattle.
Dalton also said the newest materials require less than one-fifth the voltage (less than 1 volt) needed for lithium niobate, the best naturally occurring material for transferring data from electronic to optical transmission and for many years the industry standard.
"What this shows is that people have done far better than nature could ever do in this process," Dalton said. "It's a perfect example of nanoscopic engineering. The reason we're seeing improved performance is the rational design of new materials with new properties."
The newest materials represent a nearly fivefold improvement in capability in just four years. At that rate, long before the end of this year material capabilities will reach benchmarks set for 2006 in the original National Science Foundation proposal for the center. Even more ambitious goals have been set by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a major supporter of electro-optic materials research.
The center (http://stc-mditr.
The center's work will be the subject of two AAAS symposia, 21st Century Photonics, at 9:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Sunday. Alvin Kwiram, a UW chemistry professor and the center's executive director, organized the sessions and presenters include Dalton; Alex Jen, a UW professor of material science and engineering; and Bruce Robinson, also a UW chemistry professor. Other presenters are from the University of Southern California; the University of California, Santa Barbara; Princeton University; the University of California, Berkeley; the California Institute of Technology; Cornell University; the Georgia Institute of Technology; Pacific Northwest National Laboratories; and Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center.
Discussions will cover recent advancements that are making possible technology that until recently was only a fanciful vision, Dalton said.
For instance, components now can be made so small and power efficient that they can be arranged in flexible, foldable formats yet experience no optical loss or change in power requirements until the material is wrapped around a cylinder as tiny as 1.5 millimeters, a little bigger than a paper clip.
Such materials can be used to create space-based phased array radar systems for surveillance and telecommunications applications. Each face of a phased array typically has thousands of elements that work in a complex interdependence. A major advantage of the new material is that the entire radar system can be launched in a very compact form, then unfurled to its full form once it reaches orbit, Dalton said. Deployment costs can be greatly reduced because of low power requirements and the much-reduced weight of the material being sent into space. Techniques to mass-produce the tiny foldable components, which should reduce costs even further, are being developed with the California Institute of Technology, he said.
The newest materials have immediate applications in a number of other technologies as well, Dalton said. For instance, photonic elements can make it possible for a cellular telephone to transmit a large amount of data with very low power requirements, allowing a device that is very efficient to be made very compact. Similarly, the materials can bring greater efficiency and affordability to optical gyroscope systems, commonly used in aircraft navigation but also adaptable for other uses if costs are low enough.
In addition, photonics can be used instead of coaxial cable to manufacture a variety of components in satellites, reducing the weight of the components as much as 75 percent and so greatly cutting the overall weight of a satellite.
"The cost of getting something up into space is horrendous because of weight, so anything that reduces weight and power requirements is of immediate importance," Dalton said.
MEDIA NOTE: This release is embargoed the beginning of the Symposium at "21st Century Photonics [part 2]", which begins at 2:30PM Pacific Time on Sunday February 15, 2004.
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Bible producers Mark Burnett and Roma Downey among Britain's richest couples
The husband-wife duo behind hit Bible TV series are among the top 20 richest couples in Britain, according to the rich list drawn up by The Sunday Times.
Mark Burnett and Roma Downey came in at number 17 in the list, with a net worth of £340m.
They are behind The Bible TV miniseries that became a ratings hit for the History Channel last year, with 13.1 million tuning into the first episode alone.
It gave rise to a film adaptation called Son of God that went on to make over $67m in cinemas worldwide.
A sequel to The Bible – AD: Beyond the Bible – is being planned and the couple have also been signed on to the movie remake of Ben Hur.
The TV power couple ranked higher in the list than TV chef Jamie Oliver and his wife Jools, with their joint fortune of £240m.
They also outdid David and Victoria Beckham, who together have amassed £210m from football, fashion, and various endorsements.
The Sunday Times released the list of Britain's 1,000 richest people on Sunday and has been releasing breakdowns throughout the week. Today's follow-up focused on richest couples.
The 1,000 richest Britons have had a great year, owning collectively around a third of the national gross domestic product and seeing their combined wealth rise to £449.65bn, an increase of 15.4 per cent on last year's total of £449.65bn,.
If your dream is to one day feature on the list, start saving now. You would have needed at least £85m to even qualify for this year's list.
And if you want to top the list you'll have to save even harder. Tycoons and brothers Gopichand and Srichand Hinduja were crowned Britain's richest people with a joint fortune of £11.9bn.


text: Regarding hpysics, did anybody did some experiments with this? The blog seems to be inactive since december 2008; has development ceased? Do alternatives exist? Maybe good wrappers (hopefully pure...) around existing engines? Integrating hpysics with Grapefruit might be a good topic for the Hackaton, trying to make a simple game (e.g. Pong or Breakout) without using recursive signal functions, but with correct collision response and better-than-Euler integration, all handled by the physics engine. Other FRP engines could be tried, but Grapefruit hacking is already a topic on the Hackaton, so it would combine efforts. It feels as if none of the current FRP engines can handle physics correctly, since a typical physics implementations requires "time backtracking", in the sense that when you want to advance the current simulation time by a timestep, collision events can happen during that time interval, and hence the FRP engine can only advance time until the earliest collision event. So to do physics *with* an FRP engine, the implementation and maybe even semantics of the FRP system might need to be changed. *Using* a physics engine as a blackbox inside an FRP system might make more sense. Thanks to Wolfgang Jeltsch and Christopher Lane Hinson for having a discussion with me that lead to this. Interestingly a similar discussion was help by other people in the Reactive mailing list at the same time :-) Cheers, Peter Verswyvelen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/attachments/20090306/8afacf3f/attachment.htm


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Each year the world's airlines lose between $1 billion to $2 billion due to wildlife strikes to aircraft. This is roughly the same level of loss as the carriers pay out each year for lost luggage. One US airline cites its losses at $2 million a month due to engine ingestion alone. The last several years have seen both hull losses to air carrier aircraft and lesser damage caused by such actions as loss of control and runway excursions. Wildlife strike mitigation is a defense in depth: airplane certification/construction standards; action by airport operators to minimize wildlife on and around airports; standards/regulation development by authorities such as ICAO and national regulators. What is missing is affirmative action by airline operators to develop and implement policy which will aid in the mitigation of this risk. As the airline operator, through its employees, is on the tip of the spear with this hazard, sound avoidance and mitigation policies, detailing actions which may be taken by employees, should be implemented. This paper will detail common practices which will reduce/eliminate wildlife strikes or mitigate their impact.
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/paul_eschenfelder/11/


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Epstein: Castro allegations won't be distraction
Epstein: Castro allegations won't be distraction
Castro was questioned by Chicago police in mid-January after he was accused of sexually assaulting a woman on Sept. 29, the night after the regular season ended. No criminal charges have been filed against Castro, 21, and there have been no new developments since the shortstop spoke to the police.
Epstein said on Saturday that the club has invited people from Sport in Society of Northeastern University to conduct seminars this spring for the players, in hopes of helping them make the right decisions off the field. Sport in Society covers such topics as leadership, diversity and inclusion, violence prevention and community service.
The baseball operations staff created a "Cubs' way" manual this week to make sure that they coach everyone in the system the same way. But Epstein said that there's more involved.
"The Cubs' way means high standards off the field," Epstein said.
In his first full Major League season in 2011, Castro led the National League in hits and was named to the All-Star team.


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Pettitte celebrated, but falls to Mariners
Pettitte celebrated, but falls to Mariners
Pettitte, making his first start in nearly 600 days, turned back the clock to 2010 Sunday, when he controlled Seattle early but fell to a 6-2 loss on a pair of two-run home runs. The left-hander said he didn't feel any rust from his layover and that his velocity and location were good enough to win.
"I just cannot believe how comfortable it is for me," he said. "I guess it's strange to think that I was coaching Pony League baseball and throwing batting practice to kids -- watching high school baseball and stuff like that -- and now I'm doing this. But it's like I picked right back up from where I was."
Indeed, if you discount the final result, Pettitte gave a fairly standard outing. The southpaw, who has more victories (203) with his team than any other active pitcher, had gone 7-0 in 11 daytime starts during 2010, and he had allowed more than one home run just three times in 21 outings.
Pettitte worked in the high 80-mph range for much of the game with his fastball, and he held the Mariners to one hit in the first four innings. That lone hit was a two-run homer by Justin Smoak, and Pettitte later allowed Casper Wells to drill a two-run homer off the right-field foul pole that put the Yankees down by a 4-1 margin.
"It felt like I never left," Pettitte said. "It's frustrating, and obviously I'm disappointed in getting the loss. The guys gave me a chance to get right back in the game and get me a run, then I go back out and give up a two-run homer. You can't do that. I got a little careless with a few pitches, and it cost me."
Seattle, backed by a strong outing from starter Kevin Millwood, scored twice more against the Yankees' bullpen in the ninth inning to provide the final margin. Pettitte, for his return, worked into the seventh inning and allowed 10 baserunners -- seven on hits and three on walks.
Pettitte, at 39 years and 333 days, immediately became New York's oldest starter since 45-year-old Roger Clemens got the ball during the 2007 campaign. Manager Joe Girardi said he was pleased with the way the veteran worked, and more pleased that he'll be around the rest of the year.
"I thought he was pretty good," said Girardi. "You look at the first five innings, and he really only gave up the one hard-hit ball and got a ton of ground-ball outs. He used pretty much all his pitches. And they hit some balls hard in the sixth, but to get us into the seventh inning, that's pretty good."
Both of New York's RBIs came as a result of a bases-loaded walk. The Yankees (19-15) were held to just one hit in the first four innings -- much like Seattle -- and the Bombers' best early scoring chance was erased when Millwood forced Derek Jeter to hit into a double play in the fifth.
The Yankees had already scored one run in that rally, and Pettitte (0-1) began the sixth with his team trailing by a run. The first batter -- Dustin Ackley, who had hit a ball to the wall in his first at-bat -- singled, and moments later, Wells belted his homer.
"You gotta give those two guys credit -- they hit those home runs -- but other than that, he looked sharp," said Jeter of his longtime teammate. "He did exactly what we had hoped he would do. They hit a couple home runs, but other than that, he pitched well, threw strikes, got out of a couple jams."
The Yankees loaded the bases with two outs in the eighth inning, and Alex Rodriguez drew a bases-loaded walk to pull them within two runs. But the Mariners (16-20) used four pitchers to get through the eighth -- two for one batter each -- before Brandon League closed out the ninth.
The Yankees, who have won five of their last seven games, will hit the road on a two-city trip to Baltimore and Toronto. Pettitte, for his part, acknowledged the crowd with a wave as he left the field on Sunday, but he really wants to blend into the scenery on a start-by-start basis.
"I'm nitpicking this one start, because I know that's what we want to do here today," he said. "This happens to me a ton during the course of the season, and that's what pitching is all about -- trying to figure out what you've got that day and attacking the guys. Figure out a way to get them out when you don't have your good stuff.
"That's what I feel like I've done my whole career, and there's not a question in my mind about how this is all going to play out for me. And it's not about this one start. I'll measure if this was a successful return or not at the end of October when I'm hoping we'll be where we want to be."
Spencer Fordin is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Come on guys! Why the hate? I don´t understand why this episode is receiving these bad scores, in my opinion this one was really interesting, it remembers me when cis ny used to be full of interesting action like in season 4 and not boring as they are in the last seasons, I think people is being too hard with this one
Maybe the only thing I did not like for this episode was danny trying to be a good boss, for me that was overacted but in general this episode worked at least for me
Honestly I though this episode was going to be the worst in the entire csi ny story after I see how bad receiving it had but after I watched I asked myself "why is everybody hating this one" it was very good, I wish season 8 bring more episodes like this one
P.D: I´m from Venezuela, I´m not an expert writing in English, please forgive my mistakes


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Golden Bear course likes women, but don't get all freaked out about it
HILTON HEAD, S.C. - Describing a golf course as "women-friendly" is sometimes seen as a sort of back-handed compliment in some of the more macho golf circles.
What, you mean it's short, wide and easy?
In fact, some head pros and golf directors equivocate when the subject is brought up. They don't want what they perceive as the stigma of a "pink tee" course. That shouldn't be the case. A course can be women-friendly, junior-friendly and senior-friendly without sacrificing bite and bone.
It's simply a matter of giving some thought to the placement of the forward tees, instead of treating them as afterthoughts, a token gift to the lesser sex. The Golden Bear Golf Club on Hilton Head is such an example.
"It's a lot of fun for women," said Mary Beth Morgan of Tennessee, playing alongside her husband, Cecil. "I don't know that it's as much fun for men, but they give a lot of forgiveness for women. I bring a group of women over every October and we have a ball."
Actually, it's not that bad for men, either. It has nice length - at 7,014 yards, it's neither short nor overly long. Its conditioning is good, with all the little details Jack Nicklaus courses are usually associated with.
Nicklaus has always liked wide fairways, not because they're easy to hit, but because he's a fan of Scottish golf, which dictates that there be more options and angles into the green than American target golf.
A consequence of that is that such a hole can be played many times over, giving a different perspective each time. The fairways at this course aren't as wide as some other Nicklaus courses - not by a long shot - but they still give you choices.
Another plus for Golden Bear is its conditioning, which is quite good. At a time when some Hilton Head courses are struggling because of a string of bad weather, the Golden Bear appears to be flourishing. That wasn't always the case.
"When we first opened, we used to be one of the top courses on the island," said Head Pro Neal Ryan. "Last year, we had temporary greens. Hard to believe from last year to now it's looking as good as it is."
The Verdict
Have you ever played an unfamiliar course and run into holes where you had no idea where to hit it? Not at the Golden Bear - there may be few other vacation courses that give the first-time golfer more information.
First of all, there are hole diagrams and descriptions on the markers. If that weren't enough, there are even more detailed descriptions on the ParView GPS systems in the carts, which has the clearest and most precise hole replications I've seen to date: these things could win art awards.
You'll find yourself consulting them often, like at No. 2, a 551-yard par 5. It's a slight dogleg left with a blind water hazard you might not have known about if you're trying to cut some yardage. There is a series of bunkers to carry to reach the green in two; keep it right or you'll be trying to land it delicate as a ballerina over two high-lipped bunkers.
There are some other tough holes, in case you were embarrassed at that "pink tee" remark, like No. 3's 200-yard carry over a lagoon and No. 18, a 537-yard par 5 that only the big baboons reach in two; the water starts about 100 yards from the green, so don't be short.
"From the back tees, it's all you need," Ryan said.
Places to Stay
There are a number of lodging options in and around Hilton Head, including the Crown Plaza Beach Resort, which is on the south side of the island, with easy access to the area's golf courses. The resort is located on 11 acres inside Shipyard Plantation.
The Shipyard Golf Club, a 27-hole facility, has hosted PGA Senior Tour events in the past, and there are more than 30 courses in the surrounding area.
Hilton Head is also a tennis hotspot and the Van der Meer Tennis Center/Shipyard Racquet Club is a couple of minutes away from the resort, with 23 courts on three surfaces. The 11-mile beach itself is a good one - it was voted in the top 10 of beaches in the country by the Travel Channel.
The resort offers boogie boards, sailboats, floats, catamarans, water bikes and beach tricycles. It has a fitness center with saunas, whirlpool and an indoor swimming pool as well as an outdoor pool and wading pool.
Crown Plaza has 340 rooms, including nine suites, all with high-speed Internet access available for a charge, as well as private balconies. The resort is housed in a five-story single building with views of the Atlantic Ocean.
Places to eat
The island has a wide array of restaurants, more than 250, in just about every conceivable style, from French, German and Italian, to Caribbean, Thai and Mexican.
Crown Plaza has Brella's Café, with inside dining or its outside terrace, and serves salads, sandwiches and fresh seafood. It has a Sunday brunch.
Portz specializes in Mediterranean food. The resort also has Docker's, a poolside bar and Signal's Lounge, with a large dance floor.
Fast fact
The course is located in the Indigo Run community, which has two courses, the Golden Bear and The Golf Club Course, which Nicklaus and his son collaborated on.
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Mangaluru: It is an alarming sign that more and more youth in their late teens or early twenties are getting involved in crime and destructive activities in and around the city.
Hariprasad of Bajilakeri was allegedly stabbed by two youth at Nandigudda on Sunday. They were reportedly associates earlier, but had broken away and joined another organization.
On account of this enmity, they had stabbed him. A case in this connection had been registered at the Pandeshwar police station.
They succeeded in arresting the duo, Dhanaraj aka Dhanu (21) and Pratish Poojary (19) of Valachil on Wednesday.