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Welcome to Week 12 of the SoConversation, featuring The Citadel beat writer Jeff Hartsell of the Charleston Post and Courier, Elon beat writer Adam Smith of the Burlington Times-News and Chattanooga beat writer John Frierson of the Chattanooga Times Free Press.
The SoConversation is proud to welcome guest Jason Yaman, the assistant commissioner of the Southern Conference, to this week�s edition. Jason was at the Wofford / Chattanooga game last Saturday and was nice enough to accept an invitation, with the blessing of commissioner John Iamarino, who, amazingly, still reads this thing.
Before we discuss what happened elsewhere in the SoCon last week, let�s take a moment to go over what happened with the teams we cover. The Mocs lost another heartbreaker, this time in overtime at Wofford, The Citadel held off VMI in a game closer than most of us expected and Elon�s struggles continued.
Thoughts? And Jason, what was your take on the Wofford / Chattanooga game?
JASON:First off, I want to thank you guys for the opportunity to join you this week � and thank you for your coverage of the SoCon through the year. As far as last week, the game in Spartanburg featured two really good defenses that put points at a premium. In this day and age of high-flying offenses at all levels of football, it was a nice contrast to watch a game where defense, field position, special teams and third-down conversions were key.
You couldn�t help but be impressed with Jacob Huesman�s execution on that late fourth-quarter drive to tie the game on the road against a team playing for a share of the conference championship. At the same time, Wofford�s third-string quarterback, James Lawson, acquitted himself very well when you consider everything that was on the line for the Terriers. His third-down run in overtime may have been the play of the game.
JEFF:I did not make the long drive to Lexington, Va., to witness The Citadel�s 27-24 win over VMI, a victory that kept the coveted Silver Shako (is there any other kind?) in Charleston, and secured a winning record for the Bulldogs, their second in eight year s under Kevin Higgins.
I fully expected a blowout over struggling VMI, but un-Citadelesque (Citadelian?) penalties hampered the Bulldogs� efforts. I was eyewitness to the All-Military Classic, however, and can report that Citadel hoops should be improved this season.
JOHN:The Mocs put together an 18-play drive in the fourth quarter to tie the game at 10 and then stopped Wofford in the closing minutes to force overtime. After UTC had to settle for a field goal, you knew they were in trouble against that Terrier offense.
Sure enough, who else but Eric Breitenstein plowed his way into the end zone for the game-winning score. The Terriers got to celebrate a share of the SoCon title and the Mocs had to walk off the field after another close, crushing defeat.
It�s a mystery how one team can lose so many close games. It may be time for UTC to hire some kind of voodoo expert to break whatever curse has been placed upon the Mocs. That or make sure their kickers are automatic from inside 30 yards.
ADAM:Hey, Frierson, does the old Blue Cooper poultry plant hex have any bearing here? Or has that been �cured� with the Mocs winning more under Russ Huesman? (Cooper, a colorful former Chattanooga receiver not just in name only, once joked during the Rodney Allison Era that the Mocs were cursed because they played across the street from where chickens were, um, processed).
Anyway, as for Elon, the Phoenix�s slide reached six losses in the last seven games due to a slow start and too much Fabian Truss, who continues to add Elon clips to his personal highlight reel. The Samford back ran for a career-high 219 yards and two TDs. His previous best? That was a 191-yard effort to go along with three TDs during a defeat of Elon last year in Birmingham.
Elon�s home finale became another game marked by disappointment and frustration � and another indicator of the work that lies ahead if the Phoenix is to play any sort of factor in future SoCon races.
Elon managed just 11 total yards on its first five possessions and went scoreless until the fourth quarter. It was painful on a literal level, too, with Samford sacking Elon QB Thomas Wilson five times before he left late in the game due to injuries.
Here are last week�s results: Wofford defeated Chattanooga 16-13 (OT), Appalachian State defeated Furman 33-28, Samford defeated Elon 26-15, Georgia Southern routed Howard 69-26 and The Citadel defeated VMI 27-24.
What surprised you or caught your eye during Week 11?
ADAM:Talk about the fine line of life in the SoCon � marketing material for Yaman and his homogenized crew of suits? � Wofford, at 6-2 and tied for first place in the league, has played three overtimes in the last two games. And the week before that, the Terriers had to fight through a scoreless second half to edge Citadel.
App State took care of business in dispatching Furman and now gets to enjoy a piece of its seventh SoCon title in the last eight years during its bye week before entering the FCS playoff field.
And a salute to Citadel for clinching its second winning record in eight seasons under coach Kevin Higgins and, of course, for retaining the Silver Shako.
JEFF:Struck by Wofford�s struggles down the stretch. The injury-riddled Terriers have not been the same team they were earlier in the season, nearly losing to The Citadel, losing at Samford and getting taken to OT by Chattanooga.
I figured Furman would give App its best shot, and sounds like the Paladins sold out. Wonder how much they will have left for The Citadel in season finale?
Samford remains the SoCon�s best-kept secret, and will have a compelling playoff case if they can beat Kentucky, which is entirely possible given the state of affairs in Lexington.
JASON:Samford won to give the Bulldogs a 5-3 league record, their best mark since joining the league in 2008.
Regardless of location, records or rankings you can be assured that Furman and Appalachian State will play a close game � Jerry Moore said as much on the league�s teleconference this week.
Georgia Southern�s offense was in high gear against Howard, while The Citadel�s defense shut the door on VMI for the win.
JOHN:Give Furman a lot of credit for going up to Boone and putting up a fight. It�s been a tough season for the Paladins, but it took an App State interception at the 5-yard line on the game�s final play to seal the win � and a share of the SoCon title � for the Mountaineers.
A couple of other App thoughts from that game: linebacker Jeremy Kimbrough had 17 tackles, Steven Miller rushed for 170 yards, Jamal Jackson threw for 332 yards and Andrew Peacock and Sean Price both had double-digit catches and more than 100 yards receiving. Impressive.
This is SEC vs. SoCon weekend, with four games between the neighboring conferences that have virtually nothing in common except geography. Western Carolina visits Alabama (noon, SEC Network), Wofford visits South Carolina (1 p.m.), Georgia Southern visits UGA (1:30 p.m.) and Samford visits Kentucky (7:30 p.m. / CSS).
Which team has the best shot at staying within two touchdowns and which team do you pity for the abuse it�s about to receive? Oh, and what are your thoughts on The Citadel at Furman (1:30 p.m. / ESPN3) and Elon at Chattanooga (2 p.m.)?
JOHN:The pity one is easy � Western Carolina. The one-win Catamounts were assuredly in for a rough afternoon when the Crimson Tide was undefeated. Now, after last week�s loss to Texas A&M, Mark Speir might want to double up on padding.
Lord Saban is clearly not happy and he might not be satisfied until he has again tasted the blood of the conquered. This could be a 60-0 final.
In the other games, Pat Sullivan and his Samford squad should be thinking that they might be able to slide into Lexington and sneak away with a win. Kentucky�s coach has been fired and basketball season has begun, so odds are nobody up there is thinking about football.
Don�t be surprised if Georgia Southern hangs around against the Dogs for a quarter or so. Between the triple option and Georgia�s penchant for slow starts against lesser teams, Dogs fans might be a little antsy at halftime.
JEFF:Samford has a shot at Kentucky, and judging by The Citadel�s game at South Carolina last year, the Gamecocks won�t waste a lot of practice time on the option and will rely on vastly superior talent on defense to get the job done.
As John said, the Eagles will make Georgia squirm for a while. And as I said last year, I�m not a fan of these late-season mismatches, and Western Carolina at �Bama is a prime example.
Chatt will dispose of the Fighting Phoenix, though Merle Mellette will catch his quota. And Citadel at Furman is a 50-50 game, despite the Bulldogs� superior record. It�s a rivalry game, and Furman would love to squash any vague hopes The Citadel has for a playoff bid.
ADAM:Unless Chattanooga checks out mentally after last week�s deflating loss, Elon will finish a season with no more than three wins for the first time since 2005. It�s almost impossible not to envision Davis Tull, Derrick Lott and the rest of that nasty Mocs defensive line making Saturday afternoon a rough one for Elon�s thin offensive line and banged-up QB Thomas Wilson.
Citadel and Furman should be a close, evenly matched game. Shocking prediction there, huh? I�ll take Citadel in a squeaker, which would get the Bulldogs to seven wins. In the last two decades at Citadel, only that magical 11-2 team from 1992 has posted more than seven victories.
On to the annual mid-November SEC / SoCon Challenge. Western Carolina has had two weeks to rest and prepare for Alabama, a fact that will have absolutely no impact on the outcome in Tuscaloosa.
Wofford has given South Carolina fits in these teams� last two meetings � 27-20 in 2006, 23-13 in 2008, both Gamecocks wins � but the Terriers� tank can�t be full given the toll of recent weeks.
Not only is Kentucky�s coaching staff on lame-duck status, the Samford game is a 7:30 kickoff, which won�t be a crowd booster. Saturday is going to be date night in Lexington because the Kentucky hoops team plays Lafayette on Friday night. By the way, Alex Poythress and Nerlens Noel are freaks of nature.
JASON:SoCon teams put quite the scare into former SoCon teams last year. Georgia Southern scored more points and rushed for more yards than anyone Alabama faced all season. Furman was two scores up on Florida in the Swamp and was down just five in the third quarter while Samford trailed by just five into the fourth quarter at Auburn.
In terms of this weekend, Western Carolina was going to face a challenge no matter when the Catamounts caught the Tide. Samford heads to Lexington with momentum and Georgia Southern gives virtually everyone fits with the option. The Citadel travels to Greenville looking for its seventh Division I win which would put the Bulldogs in contention for a playoff berth.
It�s the final Saturday of the regular season and that means it�s time to say goodbye to some seniors that we�ve all gotten to know for the past four or five years.
Who are a couple of guys on the team you cover or in the SoCon that you�ve enjoyed covering or will miss interacting with next fall?
JEFF:The Citadel�s Rickey Anderson is a sixth-year senior and a special guy, coming back from three knee surgeries and a twice-broken leg in his career. He got some love on CBS during the South Carolina / Arkansas game last weekend, when CBS interviewed Gamecocks RB coach Everette Sands about Marcus Lattimore. Sands, who coached Anderson at El Cid, referenced his story and said he had put the two star-crossed running backs together to talk.
Fullback Terrell Dallas is another good kid, but his comeback story did not turn out as well. He tore his ACL on his first carry last season, battled back, then broke a bone in his foot when he suffered a seizure this season. He�s OK, but his football career is over.
The Boyle brothers, Austin and Davis, were always fun to talk to, when I could figure out who was who. And I think DE Chris Billingslea made it through his whole career without uttering a curse word.
JOHN:The Mocs only have seven seniors on their roster � four are starters � and they have another six redshirt juniors that will call it a career after Saturday�s game.
The four starters from the senior class � RT Adam Miller, RB J.J. Jackson, LB Shane Heatherly and DE Josh Williams � have all been great to deal with. I know Heatherly didn�t want to talk to me after last week�s crushing loss, but he did and offered more than just short, monotone answers.
Miller, Jackson and Heatherly, as well as backup lineman Dustin Tate, are the last of the players signed by Rodney Allison. They were redshirting during that rough 1-11 season in 2008 and helped rebuild a once-proud program. They had plenty of reason to be cynical or bitter at some point, but I never saw it.
JASON:One drawback to working in a conference office is that you don�t get to form the same connection with the student-athletes that you do working in an athletics department � or covering them as part of the local media.
So while I�m a little removed from them in the league office, guys like Eric Breitenstein, Jeremy Kimbrough, Aaron Mellette, Brent Russell, Jerodis Williams, Josh Williams and Rock Williams are players that I�ve watched have a major impact on their respective programs.
Additionally, the group of fifth-year seniors at Samford are players who helped them assimilate into the SoCon and is their first five-year class to have played their entire career in the league. The senior class at The Citadel has helped bring that program through the offensive transition and is guaranteed a winning record in their final season.
ADAM:As if Aaron Mellette hasn�t sacrificed enough of his time for me already, I plan on bunking with him next summer during NFL training camp season. So no goodbyes are necessary yet for Merle.
Elon�s other nine seniors all have treated me fantastically at every turn, and I�m very appreciative for it. Sure, covering the SoCon isn�t the big time, but you get to know people on an intimate level, which really is rewarding. (I�ll save the story of how Pete Lembo and I became best friends for later).
Quarterback Thomas Wilson, defensive lineman Olufemi Lamikanra and kicker Adam Shreiner are great guys who are some of my favorites. I have respect for the way Wilson has handled carving his own path amid the shadow of former Elon star Scott Riddle, the SoCon�s all-time leading passer.
To me, linebacker Blake Thompson has been the best to deal with. Thoughtful and real, never afraid to say something. A grown man no matter what, even when he got ejected at Furman last year.
In 2010, Wofford beat Elon on a last-second prayer, a jump-ball pass to Devin Reed that Elon had double-covered but still somehow slipped through the cracks for a stunning touchdown. Thompson, then a sophomore safety, was one of the defenders on that play. He sucked back tears and, just like always, answered every question that day.
We�re heading toward the holidays and the gift-giving time of year. What�s the best sports-related gift you�ve ever given or received?
JASON:As a senior at Indiana University, I took Bob Knight�s �Coaching Theory of Basketball� class. And while I could regale you with plenty of stories from that semester, the point is that around that time IU installed a new court at Assembly Hall and sold off sections of the old floor.
I had a photo of Coach Knight and a section of the floor framed together and he autographed it at the end of the semester. I gave it to my father and he has it displayed in his house. And in case you were wondering � The General gave me an �A� in the class.
ADAM:Is a college romance with a very giving club volleyball player sports-related enough?
Never mind. Strike that. Or spike that. Either way, moving on �
I was either 7 or 8 and fired up beyond belief when my aunt told me she was taking me � just me � to a North Carolina / N.C. State basketball game. Back then, Duke had yet to fully become Duke under Coach K and the rivalry between the Tar Heels and Wolfpack was great, as it still remains.
Convinced that I would be on TV, I took along a poster board that my mom and I had turned into a sign. But we never made it to old Reynolds Coliseum in Raleigh.
On the way there I got sick and started barfing all over my aunt�s car, a sweet little Triumph convertible called a TR7 Spider that was loved by everybody in our family.
Sorry, Aunt Pam.
Still, though, it was a most memorable gift.
JEFF:I can�t remember if it was a Christmas gift, but I spent hours with my dad playing Foto-Electric Football (http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/14163/foto-electric-football). It was a box with a light bulb in it and a football field laid out on top. Offense and defense had �play cards,� which the �coach� of each team laid on top of each other on the board. You pulled out a sliding board to reveal the result of the play and moved a marker up and down the field.
Honestly, it was a lot more fun than I�ve made it sound here.
JOHN:I come from a tennis family. The way football was surely the center of everything for the Mannings as kids, that�s what tennis was for the Friersons. My two brothers and I played all the time and my father taught lessons after work.
This may be more of a fashion thing than a sports thing, but there�s a photo at my parents� house that shows a Christmas morning from around 1981. My brothers (twins) were around 11 and I would have been nine, and Joe and I are decked out head to toe in that awesome Bjorn Borg Fila gear from that time, including the headband, while Jack has the full John McEnroe / Sergio Tacchini look going. (Fun fact: my dad was the chair umpire when McEnroe won the NCAA singles title in 1978.)
The smiles on our faces show how happy we are. Those were the days of short shorts without shame. It was a simpler time, a more innocent time. Sigh.
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Head Coaches
OU Football History & Tradition | Updated Jan. 8, 2019
Oklahoma is the only program in major college football to produce four head coaches with at least 100 wins each. Bob Stoops reached the mark faster than any coach in college football history and finished his career with 190 victories. The others? Barry Switzer (157 wins), Bud Wilkinson (145) and Bennie Owen (122).
|100+ Wins
|Bob Stoops
|Barry Switzer
|Bud Wilkinson
|Bennie Owen
NC - National Championships; CC - Conference Championships
|Programs with Most 100-Win Coaches
|ĀCoaches (Wins)
|Stoops (190), Switzer (157), Wilkinson (145), Owen (122)
|Bryant (287), Saban (127), Thomas (146)
|Georgia Tech
|Dodd (165), Alexander (134), Heisman (104)
|Schembechler (194), Yost (165), Carr (122)
|Ohio State
|Hayes (205), Cooper (111), Tressel (106)
|Southern Cal
|McKay (127), Jones (121), Robinson (104)
|Neyland (173), Fulmer (147), Majors (116)
Lincoln Riley was named OU's 22nd head coach on June 7, 2017, succeeding Bob Stoops, who retired after 18 seasons at OU.
Stoops led the Sooners to the program's seventh national championship in 2000 and won 10 Big 12 Conference titles. Stoops won his 100th game at OU on September 13, 2008, with a 55-14 win at Washington, and he became OU's all-time winningest coach on Nov. 23, 2013, when the Sooners defeated Kansas State, 41-31, in Manhattan, Kan. He finished his career with a 190-48 (.798) overall record.
Barry Switzer leads all Oklahoma coaches in winning percentage and most conference wins while Bud Wilkinson accumulated the most conference titles (14) and best conference winning percentage.
Bennie Owen, the namesake of Owen Field, coached the Sooners for the longest tenure, 21 seasons, from 1905-1926. Five coaches who directed the Oklahoma program are in the College Football Hall of Fame including Switzer, Wilkinson, Owen, Jim Tatum and Lawrence Jones.
|Oklahoma Head Coaches
|Lincoln Riley
|Bob Stoops
|John Blake
|H. Schnellenberger
|Gary Gibbs
|Barry Switzer
|Chuck Fairbanks
|Jim Mackenzie
|Gomer Jones
|Bud Wilkinson
|Jim Tatum
|Dewey Luster
|Tom Stidham
|Lawrence Jones
|Lewie Hardage
|Adrian Lindsey
|Bennie Owen
|Fred Ewing
|Mark McMahon
|Fred Roberts
|Vernon Parrington
|No Coach
|Jack Harts
NC - National Championship; CC - Conference Championship
Lincoln Riley (2017-present)
OU's 22nd head coach, all Riley has done in his first two years at the helm is lead the Sooners to their 11th and 12th Big 12 titles and to a pair of College Football Playoff berths. He was also named the 2018 Co-Big 12 Coach of the Year.
Bob Stoops (1999-2016)
The winningest coach in Oklahoma history, Bob Stoops firmly etched his indelible stamp upon college football.
Quantifying the lasting impact that Stoops has made on Oklahoma is the easy part. No head coach in the Sooners' illustrious history has produced more victories than Stoops (190), who surpassed Barry Switzer in 2013.
Stoops led the Sooners to a school-record 18 consecutive bowl berths and 10 Big 12 titles. Even though he didn't arrive in Norman until the Big 12 was three years old, the Youngstown, Ohio, native coached the program to more than three times as many championships (10) as the next closest school in the league.
During the BCS era, Stoops was the only coach to win a national championship and every BCS bowl game.
John Blake (1996-1998)
John Blake was a four-time letterwinner at noseguard for the Sooners under Barry Switzer. He served as the defensive line coach from 1989-92 under Gary Gibbs and under Switzer with the Dallas Cowboys before taking the head coaching job at Oklahoma. Blake was named OU's 20th head coach Dec. 31, 1995, and led the Sooners through three seasons. One of the youngest coaches in college football, Blake led OU to victory over Texas in the first Big 12 overtime game, 30-27, in 1996.
Howard Schnellenberger (1995)
Despite arriving at the University of Oklahoma with a career record that was less than .500, Howard Schnellenberger was highly touted and respected by his peers across the country. Schnellenberger had directed the Miami Hurricanes to a national championship in 1983 after only five years at the helm, and brought perennial loser Louisville to respectability, guiding the Cardinals to bowl victories over football powers Alabama and Michigan State during his 10 years as head coach.
Schnellenberger attended the University of Kentucky where he was an All-American end, then went on to play two years in the Canadian Football League. After serving as an assistant at Kentucky, Alabama and the Miami Dolphins, Schnellenberger was named the head coach of the Baltimore Colts in 1973, and after two years in Baltimore, was the offensive coordinator of the 17-0 Super Bowl Champion Miami Dolphins.
After his lengthy tenures at the University of Miami and the University of Louisville, Schnellenberger lasted only one year as the coach of the Sooners. Still, he renewed fan interest in the program, shown by the sellout (two) and near sellout home games. His lone Sooner team finished 5-5-1, keeping the non-losing season string alive at 30.
Gary Gibbs (1989-1994)
During his six seasons as the Sooners' head coach, Gary Gibbs led the football program through some of the toughest times in recent history. He took the helm in the summer of 1989 after Barry Switzer resigned. The Sooners began a probation term during that same period.
In his first three seasons, the Sooners continued their pattern of success with the team making its first trip to a bowl game in two years. Oklahoma defeated Virginia at the 1991 Gator Bowl, 48-14. The full effects of probation finally caught up with the Sooners in 1992 as they compiled a 5-4-2 record. In 1993, Oklahoma defeated Texas for the first time in the Gibbs era, 38-17, as well as Texas A&M. The Sooners faced Texas Tech in the John Hancock Bowl, beating the Red Raiders 41-10.
Gibbs started as a linebacker on Oklahoma's 1974 national championship squad and graduated from OU in 1975. Before deciding to join the OU coaching staff in 1975, Gibbs signed with the New England Patriots as a free agent. In 1981, Gibbs was named the Oklahoma defensive coordinator. Under his direction, OU defenders led the nation in total defense three straight years (1985-87) and twice finished first in rushing defense (1986 and 1987). Gibbs also helped the Sooners win a national championship in 1985.
Barry Switzer (1973-1988)
Oklahoma's all-time winningest coach, Barry Switzer, led his Sooner teams to three national championships, 12 Big Eight Conference championships and eight bowl wins in 13 appearances. Switzer led the Sooners on a 28-game win streak from 1973 (his first season as head coach) to 1975. When the Sooners won the national championship in 1975, it marked the first time in history a team had won back-to- back titles more than once.
Switzer, also a former head coach of the Dallas Cowboys, overcame meager beginnings in a rickety house in the Arkansas woods to gain his many successes. He graduated from Crossett High with honors and played center and linebacker for the University of Arkansas. Before coming to Oklahoma as an offensive line coach in 1966, Switzer was a B-team coach and scout for the Razorbacks.
In 1967, he was named offensive coordinator for the Sooners. In 1970, he convinced Chuck Fairbanks, then OU head coach, to make the most significant and gutsy move in OU's football history, a switch to the wishbone offense. The only vehicles for learning this novel offense were films of the 1968 and 1969 OU-Texas games, since Texas was the only school that used the wishbone. This offense saved the career of Fairbanks and his seven assistants and made possible Oklahoma's second football dynasty.
Switzer resigned as Sooner coach in June of 1989, saying that "coaching was no longer fun." He stayed out of coaching, despite many offers, until Jerry Jones, the owner of the Dallas Cowboys, offered him the head coaching position in April of 1994. During the 1994 season, Switzer led the Cowboys to a 13-5 record and the NFC Championship game. In 1995, he led Dallas to a Super Bowl win over Pittsburgh. He coached the Cowboys through the 1997 season.
Chuck Fairbanks (1967-1972)
As Oklahoma's 16th head coach, Chuck Fairbanks won three Big Eight Conference titles (1967, 1972 and a shared title in 1968). He had 24 players earn all-league honors while nine received All-America accolades. Fairbanks also coached the 1969 Heisman Trophy winner, running back Steve Owens. In bowl games at OU, he posted a 3-1-1 record with the Sooners playing in a pair of Sugar and Astro-Bluebonnet bowls, and one Orange Bowl.
Fairbanks was the first OU coach to use the wishbone formation, a triple option offensive attack that Texas used on its way to the 1969 national title. The wishbone became the backbone of OU's offensive dynasty for the next 20 years.
In 1973, Fairbanks left OU to coach in the NFL for the New England Patriots. During his six-year tenure as the Patriots' head coach, Fairbanks set a club record with 46 wins. The Patriots also won two division titles in the American Football Conference's East division (1978 and shared in 1976). In 1978, Colorado began its battle to get Fairbanks as head coach, despite his four remaining years with the Patriots. After more than three months of legal battles between the Patriots and Buffaloes, the two factions agreed on a settlement that released Fairbanks from his NFL contract and allowed him to take over the helm at Colorado. He remained with the Buffaloes for three years.
Fairbanks began his coaching career at Ishpeming High School in Michigan. From there, he went to Arizona State and Houston before coming to OU as a defensive backfield coach in 1966. As a player at Michigan State, Fairbanks played offensive end on the Spartans' 1952 national championship team. In 1954, he concluded his playing career by earning a berth in the Blue-Gray All-Star game.
Jim Mackenzie (1966)
After finishing his first season as the head coach at Oklahoma, 37-year-old Jim Mackenzie died from a massive heart attack. In his only season at OU, his Sooners finished 6-4, but missed being 9-1 by only 10 points. Mackenzie's team upset two bowl teams, Texas and Nebraska, and he was named the 1966 Big Eight Coach of the Year by both AP and UPI.
Mackenzie came to Oklahoma in December 1965, after spending nine years as assistant to Frank Broyles. Mackenzie was with Broyles for one year at Missouri as well as eight years at Arkansas. Mackenzie built great defenses for the Razorbacks, and in 1964, Broyles named Mackenzie assistant head coach. Oklahoma's 15th head coach was an All-Southeastern Conference tackle under Coach Bear Bryant at Kentucky. Kentucky compiled a 28-3 record and went to a bowl every season Mackenzie played. The Wildcats also upset Oklahoma's 1950 national champions, 13-7, in the 1951 Sugar Bowl.
Mackenzie left an outline for Oklahoma's success in "The Winning Edge," a list of 20 principles Mackenzie believed held the keys to success in both football and life.
Gomer Jones (1964-1965)
Gomer Jones was the Oklahoma line coach for 17 years under Bud Wilkinson. He assumed the athletic director and head coaching duties in 1964. In 1965, Jones resigned as head football coach, but remained as athletic director until his death in 1971. He joined the OU staff in 1947 after being a line coach at the University of Nebraska.
Jones developed 16 All-American interior linemen while he was line coach at OU as well as two other All-Americans while he was head coach. He helped to develop nine Oklahoma bowl teams, 14 Oklahoma teams that won conference championships and three teams that won national championships.
Jones graduated from Ohio State in 1935. While there, the 220-pound center was a first team All-American. After graduation, he played professional football with the Cleveland Rams. In 1937, he began his coaching career as freshman football and basketball coach at John Carroll University. From 1938-1940, Jones was assistant line coach at Ohio State, then in 1941-1942, Jones coached high school football in Ohio. Before going to Nebraska in 1946, he served in the Navy as line coach at St. Mary's Pre-Flight school.
Jones' final coaching endeavor was termed "brilliant" as he coached the line of the West team that upset the favored East 22-7 in the 1965 Shrine game. That line paved the way as the West outrushed the East 208-70 net yards. Jones authored two books, Modern Defensive Football and Offensive and Defensive Line Play. He collapsed and died in a New York City subway station while accompanying the Oklahoma basketball team during the 1971 National Invitation Tournament.
Bud Wilkinson (1947-1963)
While confining OU's recruiting to a 150-mile radius of the Norman campus, Oklahoma's 13th football coach produced teams that were 6- 2 in postseason play, won the national championship in 1950, 1955 and 1956 and did not lose an astounding 74 straight conference games from 1946-1959 (72 wins, 2 ties). He still holds the modern record for wins by a Division I-A school with 47 straight victories from 1953- 1957, a streak that stopped when the Sooners lost to Notre Dame, 7-0.
After the 1947 season, the Sooners won 12 straight conference championships. In 17 seasons at Oklahoma, Wilkinson fostered racial integration and graduated players at an 87.2 percentage rate while becoming the eighth-winningest coach in Division I-A history.
His career began as a player at Minnesota, where he helped the Golden Gophers win two national championships in football, captained the golf team and was a goaltender in hockey. Wilkinson won the Big Ten Medal of Honor as the outstanding scholar-athlete in 1937. After serving as an assistant at Syracuse where he received his master's in English Education, Wilkinson coached at Minnesota and with the Navy's Pre-Flight School Seahawks. He also served in the Navy during World War II. Upon his return to the states, Wilkinson decided to give up football and work in his father's Minneapolis mortgage business.
Not long after his decision, Wilkinson's Navy buddy, Jim Tatum, Oklahoma's new head coach, asked him to come to Norman as an assistant coach. Wilkinson accepted and in one year, he was the Oklahoma head coach and athletic director. In 1964, he resigned from OU and ran for the U.S. Senate as a Republican, but fell short. Wilkinson was an ABC sports analyst from 1965-77, and from 1979-80, he coached the St. Louis Cardinals. He also served as a consultant to President Nixon and was a member of the White House Staff from 1969-71. Wilkinson died in 1994 of congestive heart failure at age 77.
Jim Tatum (1946)
In his only year as OU coach, Jim Tatum devised a massive recruiting effort that took the Sooners to prominence. His venture in the first year after World War II had never happened before or since because NCAA rules would not permit it and no school could afford it. The process almost bankrupted OU. Tatum had tryouts, winter practices, spring practices and summer practices. The few rules the NCAA had in those days were largely ignored by Tatum.
In pursuit of building a national powerhouse, he snared many discharged servicemen who had played at other colleges before the war. Tatum also raided rival campuses, recruited a conventional number of high school seniors and ran off most of the 1945 players. Estimates on the number of players who tried out ran as high as 600. Oklahoma's 1946 recruiting class produced nine All-Americans.
In the 1945 coaching search, Oklahoma opted to hire Tatum over Paul "Bear" Bryant. A 32-year-old North Carolina native, Tatum had served with Jap Haskell, OU athletic director, in the Navy. Tatum was head coach one year at North Carolina before the war and led a Navy team at Jacksonville. He also was line coach at Iowa Pre-Flight under Missouri's Don Faurot, inventor of the Split-T offense.
Some of the regents were more impressed with Charles (Bud) Wilkinson, Tatum's friend who accompanied him on the interview, than Tatum. After the Sooner victory over North Carolina State in the Gator Bowl, Maryland contacted Tatum and offered a coaching position. OU President Dr. George Cross privately hoped Tatum would leave so he could elevate Wilkinson.
Tatum had become "very difficult to work with," said Cross. Tatum had also spent the athletic department's entire surplus of $125,000 before the first game and run up a deficit of $113,000. Tatum did accept the contract with Maryland. From there, he accepted the head coaching position at the University of North Carolina. Tatum died suddenly in 1958 of a mysterious viral infection despite appearing to be in excellent health.
Dewey Luster (1941-1945)
At 5-foot-4, 135 pounds, Dewey "Snorter" Luster made a mark at his alma mater as the football and boxing coach. He piloted Oklahoma football to Big Six Conference titles in 1943 and 1944, and his team never finished below second place in the Big Six. Because of ill health, Luster missed several practices and the final game of the season against Oklahoma A&M in 1945. He resigned after that season.
Luster lettered four years as a football player at OU. He was a starting end his last two years and team captain of the undefeated 1920 team (6-0-1) his senior year. Luster organized the Sooners' first wrestling team in 1920 while he was still an undergraduate. At that time, he also installed a boxing program at the university, which was winless in two meets. Thirty-six years later in 1956, Luster's boxing team placed sixth in the NCAA Championships. The sport was discontinued after that season.
Luster got his nickname because he snorted so much as an amateur boxer. He decided he did not want a boxing career after fighting professional Mutt McGee for 10 rounds when Luster was only 15 years old. Before coaching at OU, Luster coached football at Norman High School. In 1922, he received his law degree from Oklahoma. Luster died at age 81 in his Norman home.
Tom Stidham (1937-1940)
Oklahoma's 10th football coach, Tom Stidham posted OU's most successful record of all time against Texas with only one loss in four years. His greatest triumph while at OU was his 23-0 demolition in 1939 of Coach Lynn Waldorf's Northwestern team that was picked to win the national championship. Stidham was the first Oklahoma coach to defeat Waldorf (both Adrian "Ad" Lindsey and Lewie Hardage had also tried).
Stidham's 1938 Sooners were undefeated in the regular season and were ranked No. 4 in the AP poll, but lost in the Sooners' first bowl appearance, the Orange Bowl, to Tennessee. After OU's hard-fought loss to the Volunteers, Stidham went back to his hotel room, took off the gray suit he had worn triumphantly in the 10 games Oklahoma had won and dropped it out the fifth-floor window.
He was a native Oklahoman who grew up in Checotah. Stidham was one-sixteenth Creek Indian. He went to Haskell Indian Institute of Lawrence, Kan., and played football from 1925-26 under Coach Dick Hanley. In 1927, Stidham went to the University of Iowa, but before he gained eligibility, Hanley, who had accepted the coaching position at Northwestern, asked him to be an assistant coach. He was Northwestern line coach from 1933-34.
Captain "Biff" Jones hired Stidham to coach the Oklahoma line in 1935. When Jones left in 1937, Stidham became the head coach. In his time, Stidham placed more of his Oklahoma players with professional teams than any other coach. In 1940, 17 Sooners started in pro football and 10 stayed all season.
Lawrence Jones (1935-1936)
Oklahoma's ninth football coach, Lawrence "Biff" Jones had also served as head coach at Army for four years (1926-29) and at Louisiana State for three years (1932-35). He left Oklahoma originally because the Army decided to transfer him to Fort Leavenworth, Kan., but an offer to head the Nebraska football team prompted Jones to resign from the Army and travel to Lincoln.
During his 19-month tenure at OU, he rebuilt the athletic training department by adding whirlpool baths and needle showers and organized the equipment department to save thousands of dollars. He installed the Warner system of single and double wingbacking, a 1-9-1 shift, and strengthened the faulty Sooner running game. At the end of Jones' first season, the Sooners rushed 1,748 yards, nearly 200 yards per game, while permitting the opponents only 873 yards.
At Nebraska, Jones led the team to two Big Six titles in four years. He coached the 'Huskers from 1937-40. In 1937, Nebraska was ranked 11th in the country and in 1940, NU was ranked seventh in the country.
Lewie Hardage (1932-1934)
The backfield coach for Vanderbilt before accepting the head coaching position at Oklahoma in 1932, Lewie Hardage played football as well as baseball for the Commodores. During his tenure at OU, he developed a lightweight football uniform consisting of foamed rubber head gear, knee pads and shin guards along with pants that ended three inches above the knee. This gear weighed approximately eight pounds, half of what the old style had weighed. He also built OU's fastest all-weather football field in his time.
Only 12 players attended spring practice in 1932, but running back Bill Pansze kept the Sooners up 3-0 for the first half of the season. A knee injury in the Texas game took Pansze out for the remainder of the season and severely slowed the OU running game. "The same wolves who had harassed Ad Lindsey, began to yip at Hardage's heels" because of the Sooners' poor running and blocking.
Hardage was fired in 1934. He then became the backfield coach at the University of Florida. Hardage later married and moved to a farm in Mississippi.
Adrian Lindsey (1927-1931)
Oklahoma's seventh football coach, Adrian "Ad" Lindsey, is remembered as the coach who resigned quietly after failing to produce a winning team. Lindsey's record (19-19-6) was not that bad, however. His players were small in size and number and the schedules they faced were too difficult for such a small squad.
Lindsey's 1929 team defeated Nebraska, 20-7, marking the worst defeat the Cornhuskers saw from a Big Six team in two decades. In 1931, he took his team and defeated the University of Hawaii in Hawaii, 7-0. This game marked the first time a university from the midwest was asked to play in the islands.
Before coming to Oklahoma, Lindsey was an assistant football coach at Kansas, his alma mater. After his coaching tenure with the Sooners, Lindsey returned to KU as the head football coach until 1938. He also played professional baseball for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1921 to 1925 and in Montreal for the Canadian League from 1925 to 1927. Lindsey fought with the Army in World War II and retired as a colonel in 1954. He died at age 85 in 1980.
Bennie Owen (1905-1926)
At the age of 17, Oklahoma's sixth football coach made part of the famous Cherokee Strip run from the south Kansas border into Indian Territory, making him a true Boomer. His age prevented acquisition of any land, but his sense of adventure took him four miles into the territory before turning back.
Bennie Owen coached Oklahoma for 22 seasons, longer than anyone else in school history. He began a tradition and a stadium that have endured for almost a century. Before coming to the university, Owen played and coached under Fielding Yost at Kansas and Michigan, and helped develop Yost's feared hurry-up offense. In it, Owen, the quarterback, would yell out signals for the next play on the bottom of the pile up of the preceding play. Although Owen only weighed 126 pounds, he was respected by all as a fierce competitor.
Before coming to OU in 1905, Owen coached and taught chemistry at Bethany, Kan., an early football power. Four of Owen's Oklahoma teams -- 1911, 1915, 1918 and 1920 -- were undefeated. Owen's first football star at OU was Owen Acton in 1907, a halfback, who the university recognizes as its first all-conference player.
Despite this, the 1907 season was misfortunate for both Owen and Oklahoma athletics. Owen lost his arm in an October hunting accident which left him out of coaching for the remainder of the season, and the athletic director, Vernon Parrington, was discharged by the new governor, Charles Haskell, along with all other Republicans at the university. It was not until 1911 that Owen and his players began to get national attention.
In 1913, OU's Claude Reeds was recognized as an All-American. About this time, Owen began to seriously play around with the forward pass, which had been introduced on a highly restricted basis in 1907, to open up the game. Reeds was the first to make good use of the pass, but another Sooner All-American, Forest "Spot" Geyer, built a legend with it. At the end of the 1920 season, Owen announced that he intended to raise $340,000 to build a 30,000-seat stadium, with an eventual expansion to 52,000 seats, and a 5,000-seat gymnasium. By 1928, Owen's vision resulted in Memorial Stadium circling Owen Field, as well as the OU Field House.
Owen coached six more years after 1920 before becoming solely athletic director. In 1950, Owen was one of 21 coaches to be elected to football's first National Hall of Fame.
Fred Ewing (1904)
Oklahoma's fifth football coach, Fred Ewing was hired to coach the Sooners for the 1904 season, through Thanksgiving Day. To coach, Ewing took an extended vacation from the University of Chicago Medical School. At Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, Ewing had been rated as the greatest Knox tackle of all time.
He became the first Oklahoma coach to insist on using only scholastically eligible varsity players. Despite the fact that Ewing was only one year removed from his collegiate football career and that Roberts and McMahon, the two Oklahoma coaches before him, had played, he never participated in any of Oklahoma's varsity games.
Ewing regularly used the Minnesota Shift, a formation in which on nearly every play, one offensive tackle was set behind the other offensive tackle and carried the ball or blocked. The 1904 season marked the first meeting between Oklahoma and Oklahoma A&M. Ewing's team defeated the Aggies, 75-0. One week later, Oklahoma faced Texas for the first game of the long series at the Texas State Fair in Dallas. Texas won, 50-10.
Ewing devised a system of strapping strained ankles with adhesive tape that was years ahead of its time. The system got varsity players with injured ankles back into action quickly. The day after the Thanksgiving game, Ewing returned to medical school in Chicago.
Mark McMahon (1902-1903)
Captain and left tackle of the 1901 University of Texas team, Mark McMahon heard of Oklahoma's head coaching vacancy after the Texas and Pacific Railroad team of Dallas, composed of ex-college players like himself, defeated Oklahoma 11-5. That game marked the first time an Oklahoma football team ever played at the Texas State Fair.
McMahon, who just graduated from UT Law School, asked for the coaching job to pay back his school expenses. He was hired under the condition that he would teach the OU team the wing shift, the trick play the Dallas team used to defeat the Sooners.
McMahon's style was a mixture of the popular Princeton vogue he had learned at Austin combined with some moves he learned from the coach of the Dallas team, Charley Moran. He stressed line play and introduced the first tackling dummy in Norman. McMahon was known to suit up and throw some tackles if the team needed him. He liked long, hard schedules and because of that, the 1903 team played more games on the road than any OU team before or since. Of the 12 games in two months, only two were played in Norman. After repaying his law school debts, McMahon moved to Durant in the winter of 1903 to practice law.
Fred Roberts (1901)
Fred Roberts first came to Norman in 1899 at the insistence of C.C. "Lum" Roberts, his cousin, who was then captain of the Sooner football team. Oklahoma's third football coach was a halfback who could both dodge and smash dangerously. When the 1899 OU team beat Arkansas, Roberts scored both Oklahoma touchdowns. In the final game of the that same season against the Arkansas City, Kan., Town Team, Roberts ran 70 yards off tackle for a touchdown.
In 1900, Roberts left OU to play halfback for Bennie Owen at Washburn College of Topeka. When Vernon Parrington relinquished his coaching duties in 1901, Roberts was persuaded to return to Oklahoma to coach the team as well as play on it. In the Texas game at Austin, Roberts played so well that The Dallas Morning News said, "Roberts of OU played one of the prettiest individual games ever seen in this city." Against Fairmont, Roberts kicked seven field goals out of seven tries. He gained the reputation of being the outstanding halfback of the southwest.
Roberts had to refuse the coaching job in 1902 because of increasing duties on his farm. He still returned from his farm to play for Oklahoma occasionally under Coach McMahon when the team needed him. In OU's final game of the 1903 season versus the previously undefeated Lawton Town Team, Roberts led Oklahoma over its opponent, 27-5.
Vernon Parrington (1897-1900)
Vernon Parrington came to Oklahoma in 1897 after running for office as a member of the Populist political party. After leaving OU, he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928 while teaching at the University of Washington with his book Main Currents of Political Thought. He was the first full-time football coach at OU. He played football at both Emporia College in Kansas and Harvard. He coached primarily the "tackle back" style which he learned from his Harvard coach, Bernard W. Trafford.
Parrington gave up his coaching position in 1901 because it interfered with his teaching, but he remained as athletic director. He taught English, French and German for the next seven years at OU until he was fired along with other faculty members, including OU pioneer president, Dr. David Ross Boyd, when the party control of the state government changed. Parrington then went to Washington. He died suddenly in 1929 in Gloucestershire, England, while taking the first vacation of his life.
Jack Harts (1895)
John A. "Jack" Harts proposed, recruited and doctored the university's first football team in Bud Risinger's Norman barber shop. He had arrived for the fall term in 1895 to attend school and teach a class in elocution (the study of formal speaking). Harts could kick farther than anyone else on the team. Because of his athletic ability and popularity, he was elected captain as well as coach.
Harts had played collegiately at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kan., before coming to Norman. Before the first game, he jerked a knee tendon while making a flying tackle in practice and was unable to play. Harts realized that he lacked two players for the game so he enlisted the town's barber and a horse driver. This first team never scored a point or made a first down. The university's longest gain came on the team's first play when Bert Dunn returned a kickoff for 50 yards. Shortly after that game, Harts left school to prospect for gold in the Arctic.
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Virgin downs 1and1 and Germany
Part of a lager problem?
Virgin subscribers spent yesterday without access to German websites.
Popular web hosting site 1and1 was one of those hit - and its customers were not happy. But it is now clear that a routing problem at Virgin was the cause.
Virgin broadband subscribers lost access to most German-based websites including gaming sites like World of Warcraft and Guild Wars.
A spokesman for 1and1 told the Reg: "I can confirm that a small number of 1and1 Root Server customers using a particular ISP had some routing issues which I believe are now resolved."
Thanks to Reg reader "Smokindope" who posted a Reader Comment on the original story offered a proxy fix yesterday evening. We're still waiting to hear back from Virgin.
Fasthosts, owned by the same company as 1and1, also had a fun day yesterday by changing passwords for a number of customers.
New passwords will be sent out by snail mail, which is not terribly convenient for people running ecommerce sites who hoped to make some sales in the run-up to Christmas. ®


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From Springfield to the Baseball Hall of Fame
It was the summer of 1896 or 1897 and the Baltimore Orioles were playing an exhibition match in Springfield against a local baseball team. "It wasn't that unusual for a major league team to stop off for an exhibition game," says Don Doxsie, sports editor for the Quad-City Times. "Teams traveling from Chicago to St. Louis by train might stop off in Springfield for an exhibition game to pick up a few extra bucks. What was unusual about that game is that (Springfield's pitcher) Joe McGinnity beat the Orioles, a team he ended up playing for as a rookie in the major leagues a few years later."
McGinnity, who became known as "Iron Man," was admitted to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1946. Sports Illustrated named him one of Illinois' greatest sports figures.
"You could make a case for McGinnity being the most durable pitcher in the history of major league baseball," says Doxsie, who wrote Iron Man McGinnity: A Baseball Biography (McFarland, 2009). "Three times in one month – August, 1903 – he pitched and won both games of a double-header. It's been done a handful of times in baseball history by anyone and he did it three times in one month."
Hall of Fame baseball manager Connie Mack called McGinnity a "magician." "It was difficult for a batter to get his measure. Sometimes his fingers would almost scrape the ground as he hurled the ball. He knew all the tricks for putting a batter on the spot," he said in his book, My 66 Years in the Big Leagues.
That "something" was "old Sal," a special pitch McGinnity developed while playing ball in Springfield. "He perfected that pitch to revive his career because he'd been released from a minor league team at a very young age and went back to play semi-pro in Springfield and Decatur," Doxsie says. While playing here, he developed "old Sal."
"It was such a radical sidearm motion that it almost ended up being an underhand throw," adds Doxsie. "He felt that put less wear and tear on his arm. When he pitched a double header sometimes he would throw one game with an overhand, more conventional motion, and one using that underarm motion."
According to baseball-reference.com, McGinnity said: "Nothing can hurt my arm. I can throw curves like that all day. Last year, I pitched a 21-inning game for Peoria that took four hours. I never hurt my arm."
He and his wife lived in Springfield at 724 West Washington, with McGinnity spending his time between here and Decatur from 1894 to 1897. (Joe also lived in Springfield about a year as a kid.) He worked as a coal miner and bartender, and for a while co-owned a saloon on Sixth Street, Doxsie says. But he concentrated on ball.
After 1897, McGinnity left Springfield for Peoria to play in its Three-I League. In 1899 the Baltimore Orioles signed him and he later played for the Brooklyn Superbas and the New York Giants.
The "Iron Man" pitched until he was 54. The last minor league game he ever played was in Springfield for the Springfield Senators on July 28, 1925. Earlier that day he pitched an "old-timers game."
McGinnity died in 1929. After his death, the Illinois State Journal commemorated him. The Nov. 15, 1929, edition said he was "a fighter with brains" who was a "hard player" and a "hard loser." Doxsie says: "They took (his body) back to be buried in Oklahoma where his wife was buried, but on the way the train stopped in St. Louis and a lot of people from Decatur and Springfield went down to St. Louis just to see the train as it passed through, because he was so well-thought of."
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Nokia confirms 'iPhone killer' handset in pipeline
Codename 'Tube'
Nokia has confirmed that it's developing a touchscreen-equipped handset to take on the Apple iPhone, and has shown off pictures of the upcoming phone to drooling onlookers.
The Finnish giant's handset is codenamed 'Tube', and Tom Libretto, VP of Forum Nokia, said the device will be the company's "first touch device".
Libretto remained unsurprisingly coy about the full array of features the Tube will offer. Aside from confirming that the Nokia handset will be entirely touch operated, he added that it will also support Java – something which the iPhone doesn't yet officially support - and will allow photos to be uploaded to the web.
Nokia's 'Tube': iPhone-alike
Given the codename, it's fair to suggest Nokia sees it as a mobile video platform. And with the DVB-H mobile digital TV standard now starting to gain momentum, Tube will probably be a handheld telly too.
Several pictures of the handset have already appeared online, which were taken from a Nokia presentation given at a recent Evans Data developer conference held in California. The device looks like the iPhone's long lost twin, except for a Nokia logo stuck underneath the handset's earpiece. The Tube's display doesn't look as wide as the iPhone's, but appearances can be deceptive. Nokia's design also lacks the iPhone's 'home' button.
Unconfirmed reports suggest Nokia's would-be iPhone killer will run on the Symbian S60 platform.
Nokia hasn't said when the Tube will be available, or how much it will cost.


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The CCRI Women's Soccer team hosted the Vikings of Mercer County Community College from West Windsor, NJ on Sunday at the CCRI Soccer Complex on the Flanagan Campus in Lincoln. The Knights defeated the Vikings 3-1 for their first win of young the season making them 1-4 on the season.
Mercer opened the scoring in the 12th minute of play as sophomore forward Taylor Wright scored on a deflection that got by CCRI goalkeeper Alex Place giving the Vikings a 1-0 advantage early. In the 28th minute of play CCRI finally got on the board when freshman striker Carla Porras (Narragansett, RI) scored on a pass from freshman Selena Canales (Cranston, RI) which beat the Mercer goalkeeper Jackie Laurenti low and into the right corner of the goal. The first half of play would end with the teams deadlocked at 1-1.
As the second half began the Lady Knights began the two teams played even until the seventh minute of play when Carla Porras tallied her second goal of the game on a pass from sophomore forward Jessica Hammond (Warwick, RI) giving the Lady Knights a 2-1 advantage. As play resumed, CCRI seemed to have the edge by wearing the Vikings down pinning them in their own defensive end. In the 17th minute of play sophomore Tri-Captain Paige Oram (Burrillville, RI) converted for the Lady Knights on a pass from sophomore midfielder Jennifer Kittila (Warwick, RI) making the score 3-1. CCRI began to dominate play for the rest of the half. However, midway through the half Mercer had a great chance on a breakaway but CCRI tri-captain and goalkeeper Alex Place (East Greenwich, RI) came up big stopping the scoring threat. Most of the play continued to be in the Mercer defensive end of the field as CCRI peppered the Mercer goal.
Head Coach Dennis Grassini commented after the game, "Hopefully this win today will break us out of whatever 'funk' our team has been in. Everyone has worked hard but we kept coming up short in our previous matches. Our goalkeeper Alex Place and Midfielder Betti Worth continue to shine for us today. Hopefully, this win will put us on the right track moving forward."
The next game for the Lady Knights will be Thursday when they host the Pride of Springfield College JV squad at 4:00pm at the CCRI soccer complex in Lincoln.
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As southwest Florida struggles through the recession, the highly endangered Florida panther, which has lost much of its habitat to strip malls and gated communities, might have been expected to benefit from tough times.
But efforts to save the official state animal – only about 100 remain in the wild – have raised questions over whether the cats' survival is compatible with more development. Even with thousands of foreclosed and unsold homes glutting the market, new communities are in planning stages.
The big problem for the panthers is that their habitat overlaps populated areas and they need quite a bit of space to survive, say conservationists.
Traveling alone, a male panther requires about 200 square miles of territory and is liable to kill other males who venture onto its turf.
Cars are the other major panther menace, killing at least eight so far this year, including three in one week, although roadside fences and highway underpasses have been constructed in some areas to block the felines from running across roads.
Weighing up to 150 pounds, panthers are sleek hunters, capable of overcoming a deer or a wild boar.
When panthers yawn, they flash no-nonsense wildcat fangs. Instead of the expected roar, however, they let out mewling chirps that sound as though they could have come from a pet kitten.
Few people admit to being completely opposed to the panthers, but the animals have stirred up some resentment among Floridians because they pass through residential areas and sometimes attack pets. There are no recorded instances of a panther attacking a person.
Last spring a panther was found shot. The perpetrator has not been caught.
Recent concerns over the panthers' survival have focused on a proposed new development in Collier County called Big Cypress, where Collier Enterprises is planning a town of 9,000 homes, plus businesses, retail stores, schools, and parks.
Big Cypress would occupy 2,800 acres, but the developers say they would preserve approximately three times that much land.
However, much of the development's footprint is in panther territory, specifically land deemed essential to the species' "long-term viability" in a peer-reviewed journal article by primary author Randy Kautz, a wildlife ecologist..
For more than two decades, scientists have tracked panthers by outfitting them with radio collars and picking up the signals from small planes. This data shows that panthers often appear on what will become the Big Cypress town site.
Panthers "want to avoid urbanized areas," says Andrew McElwaine, president and CEO of the Conservancy of Southwest Florida, an environmental group opposed to Big Cypress. "The concern now is that we're cornering them."
In southwest Florida, real estate is so central to the economy that street hawkers wave signs pointing drivers to the newest piece of heaven "from the 200s." So, if panthers disappeared altogether, it would be difficult to blame any particular development. But Big Cypress has provoked opposition because it's seen as the advent of a decades-long buildup that would transform a sparsely inhabited part of inland Florida into an urban area with a population that could top 400,000, roughly the size of Miami.
Opponents and proponents debate the economic benefits of Big Cypress: Environmentalists say the local economy should focus on agriculture and tourism, instead of what they call unsustainable building. Collier County Commissioner Jim Coletta notes that one upside of the development is job creation for the county's poorest residents.
Big Cypress would be built within the framework of a planning initiative called Rural Land Stewardship (RLS). Focused on Collier Country, this plan specifies that a group of major landowners would give up rights to build on large sections of their holdings in exchange for being allowed to build densely on a smaller portion of it.
Developed in the early years of this decade, RLS was designed to give landowners an incentive to preserve environmentally significant property.
A recent version of the plan would set aside more than 90,000 acres (140 square miles) of land for nature conservation while zoning approximately 40,000 acres for farmland and 45,000 acres for development.
The plan has support from many local environmental groups, including Audubon of Florida, Defenders of Wildlife, and the Florida Wildlife Federation. Resigned to additional development, the organizations see this as an opportunity to influence developers on land use.
"Do you pursue a utopian, idealistic route or do you look at all the options and find something that can actually be accomplished on the ground?" asks Bradley Cornell of the Collier County Audubon Society. He believes that the land RLS preserves makes it an acceptable compromise.
Christian Spilker, a vice president of Collier Enterprises, says that the RLS plan gives developers incentives to preserve panther habitat without hamstringing them with excessive regulation.
"We own this land, and we have the right to look into development potential on any particular acre of it," he says.
As development plans advance through various permitting processes, the company wants to avoid a federal designation of "critical habitat" for the Florida panther. That designation adds complications for projects like Big Cypress, which require federal permits.
Instead, Collier hopes to comply with the Endangered Species Act through a plan to "minimize and mitigate the impacts" of Big Cypress.
If Florida panthers were declared endangered today, they would probably receive critical habitat protection. However, the federal government first categorized the panthers as endangered in 1967, before "critical habitat" was on the books.
After an effort to close this loophole failed last fall, the Conservancy of Southwest Florida repetitioned the US Department of the Interior after President Obama's inauguration, hoping the Democratic administration would be friendlier to the panthers' cause. The result is pending.
A critical habitat designation wouldn't necessarily stop Big Cypress, but it would make the development process more difficult. If pressed, Mr. Spilker says, Collier would consider changing its plans for Big Cypress and building one house per five-acre lot, which wouldn't trigger critical habitat's "onerous" regulations but also wouldn't force land to be set aside as panther habitat.
The conservancy calls that an idle threat. If there was a market for inland "ranchettes," far from shopping and other amenities, developers would have built far more of them already, the group says.
Big Cypress would be in the primary zone, an area the Kautz paper considers crucial to panther survival. However, as Spilker showed a visitor around the site, he emphasized the "moonscape" of vast, sandy tomato fields. The industrial farmland belies the perception, he says, "that we're bulldozing a cypress swamp where panthers are sitting in the trees."
Such farmland has "no function for wildlife," which, he adds, would be better off on the land the developer would preserve under the Rural Land Stewardship plan.
However, Mark Lotz, a panther biologist with the state wildlife agency, wrote in an e-mail: "Panther are habitat generalists. They traverse farmland and hunt deer on its fringes."
In Collier County, a coalition of large landowners and environmentalists has commissioned six scientists to suggest guidelines on dividing land between development and preservation. The report's authors include Mr. Kautz and others who declined to comment.
A draft copy recommends alterations but assumes that building will occur on land the existing study says is critical to panther survival.
Because panthers have such far-ranging territorial requirements, protecting their habitat can save other threatened species as well.
"The panther is like the child in a divorce," Mr. McElwaine says, quoting a colleague. "It gets all the attention but isn't really the issue."
For the conservancy, protecting panther land saves cats but also carries an added benefit: potentially blocking development in what many Floridians still think of as paradise.
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Fire starting may indicate issues in children | News
WXIA -- On Friday afternoon, investigators determined that the fatal house fire that killed four children was set by a child playing with a lighter.
The investigation concluded that a child, possibly as young as 6-years-old, started the fire that ignited the Conyers home.
According to the Georgia Insurance Commission, fire setting isn't a phase that most children go through -- it could be an indication of deeper issues like: mental or emotional disturbances, rebellion or poor judgement.
Typical fire starters incessantly play with matches, try to burn items, talking about fire, ask how things burn or carry fire staring materials on their person.
If your child exhibits any of these behaviors, they may be a Juvenille Fire Stater and may need attention to curb their curiosity or learn how fire works.
For more information on how to educate children fire starting call the Georgia firefighters Burn Foundation at 404-320-6233.


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Yannick Smith's Hat Trick Leads No. 25 ODU Over Houston Baptist, 6-0
By ODU Athletics
Sept. 2, 2011
MORGANTOWN, WV. - Junior forward Yannick Smith (Hillsbrorough, NJ.) scored three goals to lead 25th ranked Old Dominion (1-0) to a 6-0 season opening victory over Houston Baptist (0-2) in the first round of the West Virginia Nike Classic. The Monarchs will play 10th ranked West Virginia Sunday at 5 p.m.
"A good opening win for the Team.We will face a very dynamic WVU on Sunday which will be a real test for our squad."- ODU Head Coach Alan Dawson.
Smith scored his three goals on just four total shots. His first goal came one minute into the match on a break-a-way assist from Tim Hopkinson (Nottingham, England). His second goal came 14:02 in to the first half on an assist from Gideon Asante (Sunyani,Ghana). His third and final goal of the match came midway through the second half on a cross from Ivan Militar (Szeged Hungary).
Senior Chris Harmon (Downingtown, PA.), and sophomore Gideon Asante added a goal and an assist each. Freshman Ivan Militar, and Hopkinson added two assists each, and freshman Skylar Hagan (Argyle, TX.) also scored a goal on the night.
ODU dominated play, outshooting Houston Baptist, 22-9 overall and 12-1 in shots on goal. ODU junior keeper, Victor Francoz picked up his first shutout as a Monarch.
The last Monarch to score three goals in a game was Steffan Rabben against Bryant University in 2008. and defeated Bryant 7-0. The last time the Monarchs scored six goals in a match was a 6-0 win over Longwood in 2003.
ODU 3-3=6 Hpt. 0-0=0
Shots: ODU (22), HB (9) SOG: ODU (12), HP (1) Corners: ODU (4), HP (13) Saves: ODU-Victor Francoz (1), HP- Kevin Suarez (6)
SCORING SUMMARY 1:39 ODU Yannick Smith from Tim Hopkinson 14:02ODU Yannick Smith from Gideon Asante 40:04 ODU Skylar Hagan from Ivan Militar and Chris Harmon 46:20 ODU Gideon Asante from Tim Hopkinson 55:00 ODU Chris Harmon from Alex Vaughan 68:59: ODU Yanick Smith from Ivan Militar


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Watching crowds whiling away their evening at the Gateway Of India across the road from the legendary Taj Mahal Palace Hotel facing the Arabian Sea, I'm convinced that not all Mumbai local trains disgorge passengers on their way to work and back, some will send them on their way to Colaba for an evening by the sea, to be charmed by the historic monument and inspired by the survival of the majestic Taj Hotel in face of a relentless terrorist attack launched by Pakistani Islamists on 26/11.
And like a river down the bridge, time too has flown past even if in circles, the radius getting bigger with every circle completed, dampening the ripple the further it curves away from the epicentre but never quite deadening it.
And like a bubble, time grows bigger, and bigger, offering you a transitory view in the momentary cocoon each bubble builds before it breaks, leaving you with a memory of the fleeting moment.
It's this fleeting moment many visitors to the seafront in Colaba seek to capture with their cameras. Those who cannot afford a camera or haven't brought one along and wish to frame their day by the Taj and the Gateway will pose for a Gateway Photographer to have their picture taken for a fee.
For a time after the Islamist terrorist attacks on Mumbai the Gateway Photographers were nowhere to be seen. The police had shooed them away, against their wishes. Now they are back, their DSLRs, mostly Nikon, hanging from the neck and waving albums of pictures showing tourists posing by the Taj and the Gateway, pictures of pretty girls smiling into the camera, and beyond.
Every once in while a Gateway Photographer conscious of his looks will seek to make himself more presentable than the stiff breeze blowing in from the sea will allow him, using the camera preview screen for a mirror as he adjusts his hair and wipes his face clean of dust before walking back among milling crowds scouting for visitors looking to have their pictures taken.
He is their medium, the bridge between their moment and its memory.
February 03, 2012
Gateway Photographers By The Taj Mahal Palace
Watching crowds whiling away their evening at the Gateway Of India across the road from the legendary Taj Mahal Palace Hotel facing the Arabian Sea, I'm convinced that not all Mumbai local trains disgorge passengers on their way to work and back, some will send them on their way to Colaba for an evening by the sea, to be charmed by the historic monument and inspired by the survival of the majestic Taj Hotel in face of a relentless terrorist attack launched by Pakistani Islamists on 26/11.
23 comments:
- Anonymous said...
Thanks for another post that gives so much insight to a place and its people.
- February 04, 2012 12:15 AM
- NRIGirl said...
If only you could have described a little more of the weather, the wind, the smell and the likes... It would have taken us to the then and there...
- February 04, 2012 4:05 AM
- Riot Kitty said...
Just beautiful.
- February 04, 2012 4:24 AM
- marja-leena said...
Lovely post - I like your descriptions of time like a river...
- February 04, 2012 5:59 AM
- Shweta Sonny said...
interesting one..
- February 04, 2012 8:59 AM
- Anil P said...
Lgsquirrel: Thank you.
NRIGirl: You're right. I just let the focus centre around the image of the photographer adjusting his hair before returning to selling his services as a photographer.
Maybe in another post I'll dwell upon the sights, the smells and the sounds around the Gateway Of India.
Riot Kitty: Thank you.
Marja-Leena: Thank you.
Shweta Sonny: Thank you.
- February 04, 2012 9:12 AM
- Upasna said...
it strange that this is one place in Bombay I almost need to keep visiting. For peace. In that massive crowd.
- February 04, 2012 11:23 AM
- Amber Star said...
Is the building in the picture the Taj Mahal? If so, it is from a different angel than I've ever seen. Or is it the hotel? My guess it is the hotel where the terrorists attacked. What a sad day for India.
Loved the picture and the story.
- February 04, 2012 12:01 PM
- Hilary Melton-Butcher said...
Hi Anil .. I'd love to visit India, Mumbai and other beautiful parts of your world - to see the history and get a feel of the country.
Looking forward to more photos and stories .. cheers Hilary
- February 04, 2012 3:33 PM
- radha said...
I have seen these photographers on my visits to Mumbai ( then Bombay) - I guess they are a dying breed that will soon disappear with the popularity of mobile phone cameras.
- February 04, 2012 4:33 PM
- Anil P said...
Upasna: Almost like the quiet in the middle of a storm, or the lull before it. There's peace at that singular moment.
Amber Star: This one is a hotel by the same name as the Taj Mahal a King once built as a memory to his queen in Agra.
The Taj Hotel in the picture was the one laid siege to by Pakistani terrorists, turning it into a killing field.
Hillary Melton-Butcher: Thank you. Do visit India, it's a wonderful contradiction of most things big and small.
Radha: Almost like a pilgrimage, the place. They've seen a downturn in their business for sure. But with instant photos on offer they still manage to get some business to survive by.
Until 2-3 years ago they would use Nikon FM10, Pentax K1000, Yashica etc. Now it's mostly Nikon DSLRs ranging from D40, D40X, D3000 etc.
- February 04, 2012 6:17 PM
- Daisy said...
Very interesting story and pictures, Anil. You captured the moment very well. So much sadness and horror happened there. Such a contrast from the peaceful scene in your first photo.
- February 04, 2012 7:22 PM
- Bronwyn said...
Again, gorgeous photos! I like your eye.
- February 05, 2012 1:17 PM
- Lubna said...
I've returned back to home town Mumbai after a few years. Just the other day I plonked myself in a chair at the open air restaurant of Sea Palace Hotel.
Once I could see the sea and the ferries if my seat was strategically placed, now I could only see parked Tourist buses!
That said, the scene at the Gateway was as joyous as ever. Perhaps the horse drawn carriages had a more gaudy make over with flashing light bulbs instead of just balloons and garlands, which was the traditional decor just a few years ago.
Nice article.
- February 05, 2012 1:50 PM
- Sam!! said...
Thanks for the knowledge..nice post! :)
- February 05, 2012 3:28 PM
- TALON said...
Taj Mahal and Arabian Sea conjure up such romantic and beautiful imagery in my mind, Anil. As always, through words and images you transport me.
- February 06, 2012 12:55 AM
- Anil P said...
Daisy: Thank you. True, it was a terrible time, compounded no doubt by the senselessness and ruthlessness of the terrorists.
It looks mighty peaceful now.
Bronwyn: Thank you. Nice to know you liked the pictures.
Lubna: Lot more people visit the Gateway of India and the seafront than before. They've changed the approach to the Gateway as well, widening the space to accommodate more visitors.
Sam: Thank you.
Talon: Sea and History always make for a great combination for imagery as well as imagination.
- February 06, 2012 9:17 PM
- An Iengar Chick .... said...
The kiddo made a trip to the Taj and GOI in 2010, and boy was she impressed. Well whenever I see the GOI I always remember one of Kaka Hathrasi's hindi poem, the last few lines go..
Kahe Kaviraj
Kiwad chunwa do raja
dushman hamla kare band karlo darwaza...
Do not remember the lines exactly but this poem won me 1st place in a poem reciation contest when I was in 7th grade...oooh lotsa water under that bridge !
As usual brilliant pics
- February 09, 2012 1:29 AM
- A grain of sand said...
"And like a bubble, time grows bigger, and bigger, offering you a transitory view in the momentary cocoon each bubble builds before it breaks, leaving you with a memory of the fleeting moment." beautiful lines..introspective and true too.
nice post!
- February 09, 2012 5:56 PM
- Anil P said...
Red: That's the first time I've heard the poem. It reads well, and am sure will sound nicer. A certain clang to it, the door shutting et al.
A rustic feel to it.
Nice to know you were into reciting poetry, and the prize, well, that's a memorable feather in the cap. Into poetry now?
Grain Of Sand: Thank you.
- February 12, 2012 12:32 PM
- Indian Bazaars said...
Sometime ago, I would travel every month to Bombay and did a day-trip to Alibag on work. So, had to take the catamaran from Gateway. In the mornings, the Gateway photographers and the chai wallahs paced the vast expanse of an empty plaza and then, by the time we returned in the evening, I would look for the photographers to see how good business was and they were always so busy. I always wondered who thought of this business idea the first time.
- February 15, 2012 5:08 PM
- amasc said...
What a delightful post. The trading photographers with the Nikons are so much a part of the scene and I too wonder how they will survive with the growing ownership of digital cameras. People still like to have their photographs taken though so perhaps they have a few more years. I first came across the breed when I lived in Vietnam - Nikons there too - they had assistants who printed off the photographs from a printer strapped to the back of a motorbike. I noticed here that many print in situ with little cubed HP printers. Thanks for posting, it's reminded me to take pictures of picture takers.
- February 25, 2012 8:30 AM
- Shanu said...
Is there any way to contact those photographers (gateway,mumbai)?
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By: Kathleen Madigan
The best evidence that the U.S. housing sector is recovering is the recent gains in home prices.
Tuesday brought two reports on home values. The third-quarter S&P/Case-Shiller nationwide home price index was up 3.6% from its year-ago level, its second year-over-year gain.
The Federal Housing Finance Agency uses different price methodology but came to the same basic conclusion: its third-quarter U.S. price index for purchased homes increased 4.0% from a year ago.
The uptrend in prices shows supply and demand are in better balance in both new and existing home markets. Of course, new home construction feeds more into gross domestic product but demand for both types of housing is good for consumer confidence and leads to future home-related purchases such as appliances, textiles and landscaping services.
Rising home values also filter through positively into other economic data.
Home equity remains one of the main components of household wealth, and the rise in home prices is making homeowners feel richer while also offsetting the recent decline in stock values.
(Of course, for a sustainable economic housing outlook, homeowners cannot fall into the credit trap seen during the boom: Homes are not ATMs to be tapped to finance purchases like vacations and cosmetic surgery. Luckily, more stringent bank-lending standards make that prospect less of a threat.)
Another benefit of rising prices: fewer forced sales that could retrigger an oversupply of properties on the market. Economists at IHS Global Insight cite CoreLogic data showing the recent rise in home values means about 1 million fewer homeowners are underwater with their mortgages.
News that home prices are no longer falling are also drawing out more potential buyers–as are record-low mortgage rates engineered by the Federal Reserve. The Conference Board's November consumer survey found 6.9% of respondents plan to buy a home in the next six months. While monthly results can be volatile, the percentage has been moving up since the spring.
The latest news reinforce prospects for a virtuous economic cycle that will keep the recovery in place (absent the U.S. falling over the fiscal cliff): To the extent buyers purchase new homes, construction will lift economic activity. Better growth generates jobs making for happier consumers more willing to spend and buy homes.


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TORONTO -- The woman who sparked Ontario's election by rejecting what many observers described as her dream budget formally launched her campaign Wednesday with the aid of a teleprompter, a run at the scandal-plagued Liberal government, and an explanation of why she felt the need to go to the polls.
On the hustings, New Democrat Leader Andrea Horwath said she couldn't trust the governing minority Liberals to implement their budget plan, which called for higher taxes on the wealthy and billions of dollars in spending on public transit and job grants.
"I thought long and hard about the many promises the Liberals are making," Horwath said in a cafe in Kitchener, Ont., where she used a teleprompter for her stump speech.
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The Liberals, Horwath said, deserve "some time in the penalty box" after what she called 10 years of scandal.
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That decision is estimated to have cost as much as $1.1 billion and a police investigation is also currently underway into the deletion of premier's office emails on the topic.
Still, Wynne's campaign headed Wednesday to the riding formerly held by McGuinty, saying only that the former premier served the area well and the Liberals "have a fantastic history in Ottawa South."
Wynne pulled the plug on the legislature Friday after Horwath made it clear she would side with the Progressive Conservatives and bring down the minority Liberal government by voting against the budget.
The Tories' Tim Hudak, who has been in a libel-suit sparring match with Wynne over the gas plants, tried to position himself as the only leader with a real economic plan -- although he has been light on the details on his key promise: to create 1 million new jobs over eight years.
Both Horwath and Wynne, Hudak said on the campaign trail, were trying to play the populist card rather than advance real policy.
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SAN JOSE, Calif — A cell phone video that shows police officers repeatedly hitting an unarmed university student with batons and a Taser gun has prompted a criminal investigation into the officers' conduct, a San Jose police spokesman said.
SAN JOSE, Calif — A cell phone video that shows police officers repeatedly hitting an unarmed university student with batons and a Taser gun has prompted a criminal investigation into the officers' conduct, a San Jose police spokesman said.
The video, posted by the San Jose Mercury News on its Web site late Saturday, shows one officer hitting 20-year-old Vietnamese student Phuong Ho with a metal baton more than 10 times, including once on the head. Another officer is seen using his Taser gun on the San Jose State math major.
The final baton strike in last month's incident appears to take place after handcuffs have been attached to Ho's wrists.
"It takes me back to the day I saw the Rodney King video on TV," said Roger Clark, a police expert and a retired lieutenant with the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department.
The last baton strike ought to bring a felony charge, Clark said.
Officers arrested Ho on suspicion of assaulting one of his roommates. He was not armed when police arrived and he told the newspaper he didn't resist arrest.
The confrontation began Sept. 3 when Ho's roommate, Jeremy Suftin, put soap on Ho's steak. The two scuffled, and Ho picked up a steak knife, saying that in his home country he would have killed Suftin for doing what he did.
Police were called, and four officers responded.
Officer Kenneth Siegel encountered Ho in the hallway, but couldn't understand the student's accent, police reports said. Ho then ignored a police command to stand still, reports said.
When Ho tried to follow Siegel into his room, officer Steven Payne Jr. moved to handcuff Ho. Payne wrote in his report that he pushed the student into a wall and then forced him to the floor when he resisted being handcuffed.
Ho, who weighs more than 200 lbs., said his glasses fell off. As he went to pick them up, the officers struck him, he said.
Another one of Ho's roommates, Dimitri Masouris, captured the events on his cell phone. An officer can be heard on the video shouting, "Turn over!" Ho can be heard moaning and crying as he's struck.
"In philosophy, they call it 'dehumanization,'" Ho told the Mercury News. "So when they think me a dangerous guy, they don't treat me like I was human. They hit me like an animal or something."
Masouris said he considered the police response excessive. He sold the tape to San Jose lawyer Duyen Hoang Nguyen, who is representing Ho.
The Mercury News obtained a copy of the video and showed it to Daniel Katz, San Jose's assistant police chief. The police department is taking the matter very seriously, he said.
The city's large Vietnamese-American community is already angry over the police shooting of a mentally ill Vietnamese man in May, the newspaper said in an editorial about Ho's beating. The lack of public disclosure in the investigation that followed was also a problem, the paper said.
Police experts said the grainy, shaky video is difficult to view and may not show actions by Ho that justified the officers' response. Nevertheless, several said the video raises serious concerns.
"Once he is handcuffed, then he is helpless," said Frank Jordan, a former San Francisco police chief and mayor. "If you can show that his hands are behind his back, and he is handcuffed, that is where you get brutality. That would be excessive force."
Siegel and Payne didn't respond to written requests for comment sent through department officials and their union.
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