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After playing the last few weeks with a banged-up knee, Kansas University senior point guard Elijah Johnson admitted he felt more like himself defensively during Kansas' 90-54 victory over Colorado on Saturday.
"I felt like I was on a slip-and-slide," Johnson said with a smile after the game. "You know when you're a kid, the little slip-and-slide? The little water thing? I felt like that's what I was on, because I was just so ... I don't know. It was like no one could get around me. And when they did, I felt like I halfway bailed them out (not the injury).
"So I'm confident in that. That's a plus."
Johnson bruised his left knee in the KU men's basketball team's Nov. 20 victory over Saint Louis. It was the same knee he had surgery on in April.
The Las Vegas native appeared to have much better bounce against CU.
"I'm feeling real healthy right now," Johnson said. "My knee hasn't been feeling bad, but it just wasn't feeling great. Right now, it's feeling great. Just working out with 'Cheddar' (Bill Cowgill) every day — our trainer — he's just getting me right, pushing me and making me do some things that I didn't think that I could do. And I think it's starting to show on the floor."
Johnson said the sessions with Cowgill haven't been fun.
"He usually tries to make me do something that he knows I don't like to do, or something that my body responds to significantly," Johnson said. "Lately, we've just been working on some explosion stuff, some lateral movement and just getting it going every day."
This past week, Johnson said he's felt more comfortable jumping, and because of that, he's been doing it more.
His hops were on display after one particular KU missed jumper Saturday, as he skied high in the air to attempt a stickback dunk.
The ball soared just out of his reach.
"I was praying that that one came off, because I was going to show people, 'Yeah, we've got three people dunking like that now at the perimeter position,'" Johnson said. "It'll come in time. I'm not really rushing it. I've just got to keep my health up, make sure that my knee's feeling good, my body's feeling good, get proper rest and eat right, and I think you'll see more of that."
Johnson received a nice surprise during the game Saturday, as at halftime, he looked to the crowd thinking he might have seen his sister, Terrin.
The senior left his team's layup line, walking toward the Colorado bench while squinting to try to figure out if he was actually seeing his sister.
Both Terrin and Elijah's mother, Yolanda Brown, had made the trip from Indiana to watch him play without telling him they were coming.
"I looked up at halftime, and I saw my sister Terrin standing up. I thought I was tripping at first," Johnson said. "Then I looked again, and I actually walked down there, and I saw them. It kind of just caught me off-guard."
Johnson wrapped his arm around his sister during most of his postgame interview while his mother stood a few steps away in a red, "15 mom" T-shirt.
The two hadn't seen him play in a game since KU took on Michigan State in Atlanta on Nov. 13.
"Whenever you see your family like that — and you're not used to seeing your family — it always shoots some kind of adrenaline into your body," said Johnson, who had six points on 2-for-2 shooting with two rebounds and two steals after halftime. "It definitely felt good."
Lists: The NCAA on Tuesday named the top 75 all-time March Madness players, 25 all-time March Madness teams and 35 all-time Madness moments as part of its season-long celebration of 75 years of the NCAA Tournament.
Starting in January, fans will vote at NCAA.com/MarchMadness to determine the top 15 all-time players in the NCAA Tournament, the single-best team and the single-best moment in tourney history.
KU's Clyde Lovellette (Most Outstanding Player 1952), Wilt Chamberlain (MOP 1957) and Danny Manning (MOP 1988) are included on the top players list. KU's 1952 team is the only Jayhawk national title team to be on the list of contenders.
KU's comeback victory over Memphis in the 2008 title game made the best-moments list. The NCAA's description of that victory follows: "Down nine with 2:12 left, Kansas cut into Memphis' lead and had a chance to tie the national title game. Kansas junior Mario Chalmers, with two seconds remaining, shot over two Memphis defenders to tie the contest and set the stage for a Kansas win in OT.
Wiggins to visit: Andrew Wiggins, a 6-7 senior forward from Huntington (W.Va.) Prep who visited Florida State last weekend, will visit KU, Kentucky and North Carolina in coming months, zagsblog.net reports. It's possible Syracuse or Ohio State will land the fifth visit of Rivals.com's No. 1-rated player in the Class of 2013. His mom (former Canadian Olympic track standout Marita Payne-Wiggins) and dad (former NBA player Mitchell Wiggins) both attended FSU.
Wiggins told zagsblog at the Marshall County Hoopfest he could envision playing alongside Kentucky signees Aaron and Andrew Harrison, 6-5 twins from Fort Worth, Texas. Aaron is ranked fourth and Andrew fifth in the class.
The country's No. 2-rated player, Julius Randle (6-9 Prestonwood Christian, Plano, Texas) will visit KU for the KU-Texas game on Feb. 16.
• EJ is having the most surreal season of any KU pg, maybe any KU player ever. Team is 7-1. Highly ranked. Everyone but him gets praise. Most of the time he seems invisible. His coach talks of replacing him with a power forward. His backup can't guard, so EJ has to play injured. And his mom and sis show up without telling him. Next thing you know his girl will tell she is not really who she said she was and some professor will confess to being an alien a Jovian moon. A TV show based his life will air called "Breaking Weird." Hang in Prophet! You still da man of this team. You keep doing your best and its going to break your way. You're still that rarest of things: the tall point guard. My dad would have loved you and defended you to the hilt. Big guys did it differently at the point. No one ever understood them. Even Oscar Robertson was misunderstood. Press on. Oscar lives on in you. Oscar would tell you, "Be yourself and don't worry what all the little people used to little guards expect." The W&L tells all.
• The '08 team was the greatest defensive team of all time.
• Chlamers The Shot towers over others.
• Manning's '88 team the greatest Cinderella story.
• Manning's '88 performance the greatest "put a team on your back and carry it" of all time.
• '12 team = greatest team ever beaten by a stacked deck that should have been disqualified for recruiting improprieties.
They still may be DQ'd. It took a while re: D-Rose.
Love your comments about EJ. Good insight, and I agree, this is HIS team.
Not sure if the '08 "moment" would beat the NC State alley-oop in the early 80s.
What has always gauled me over KU's win in '88 was it gets overshadowed by Villanova's stunner 3 years previously. Ours was every bit as big an upset as theirs was, yet everyone talks about Villanova's upset of Georgetown.
I know you see everything with Crimson and Blue colored glasses, and Manning's performance may take the prize, but Glen Rice in '89 totally carried that Michigan team to the NC. He was lights out hot in that tourney.
Upset losses? I still have not gotten over the KU loss to AZ in ....'98 .... or for that matter, the N. Iowa loss or the Bradley or Bucknell or so many others. Over the last 35 years, Kansas could have won 20 championships! However, we always have Houston (phi slama jama) v. NC State to realize the NCAA tournament is a gamblers paradise.
I think KU's kind of in a weird position considering a) the history of our program and b) the location. In other words, we would get more props for best team ever if we weren't from the Midwest, and '88 might be considered more of an upset if we weren't "Kansas".
Galls me too. But Nova is in Phillie and G-Town is in DC, which puts them both in the eastern time zone and inside the media drenched Bo-Wash Corridor.
KU and OU were central time zone teams from small towns. Its a miracle they remember the Miracles at all. I suspect if it weren't for Danny being voted to some Top 50 lists, KU being the winningest program the last 25 years, and Manning returning to coaching on KU's sideline, they might never mention it.
The world ain't fair.
But then we've got the father of all basketball programs and no one else does. I will settle for that, until KU can figure out how to be in a conference with at least one division in the eastern time zone.
Almost Jabatian, Motivation must come from within Grasshopper Elijah, not from the coach, the crowd, the family or the press, Seek what lies within the passion of your game, and unite with powers of your brother teammates to become one circle-the beginning with no end, and to this truth will be revealed the power and the spirit for the passion. It will consume you, but it will be yors forever in the phog of history. Go Grasshopper and see the rim once again.
KU DUE-TO'S VS. Belmont
• Perry Ellis due for a breakout.
• AW3 due for extended minutes.
• Jamari due to un-funk.
• Ben due to reel it in a bit to recover his efficiency.
• EJ due to jump'n'jam.
• Trav due to conserve and let the young guys play.
• Jeff due to go for de minimum triple double: 10/10/10, the sit.
• Naadir due to make his treys.
• Rio due to handle the ball under control.
• Justin due to get some minutes to get him ready for playing more minutes when bang ball starts.
• Self due to let them labor for one.
• Dooley due to find a new high percentage play.
• Townsend due to turn up another line on a recruit.
Good news we still have a shot with Wiggins. I had read somewhere that he was down to FSU and UK - must have read that wrong, but those are probably his favorites at this point.
I think we have a good shot at landing Randle. Either would be the icing on the cake of a great class!
Agreed. Imagine if we landed both??!! Fantasy I know...but man that would be incredible.
Just imagine landing Randle. Randle -- a skilled 4 -- is exactly what we need. We'd play Randle next to Ellis. Without Randle, we're either starting a freshman with little playing experience (Embiid), or either Traylor or Lucas, in the post (next to Ellis). If we have any "need", which we do, we need Randle.
wouldn't it be great if Peters could return? What a front three.
Yes, Yates, it would be grate.
But while I never say never, it just seems as impossible as something can be.
And it is striking how sharply the team has turned around from the moment the situation with Zach resolved.
It could be coincidental. Teams do start getting better at this time of year. And KU has.
But it was an awfully long and drawn out build up, and surprisingly complicated (if still perhaps incomplete) story finally told, and a separation highly choreographed.
Compare that with the usual perfunctory single comment announcing most departures.
How his departure and the team's performance improving would be connected, however, I still cannot imagine and still think speculating upon unwise.
A good shot at landing Randle? On the basis of what? Not saying KU doesn't have a shot with him, but haven't heard anything from Randle's camp that says he has KU as the favorite.
you might want to recheck your facts...
Randle's mother, Carolyn Kyles, recalled a recent conversation she had with Calipari, who told her about a time Randle called him to ask how the coach thought he was faring during the July evaluation period. "He said, 'Hey, Coach, how did I look? What can I do better?'" Kyles said on Thursday morning. "And one of the things he told him was, stop catching the ball with one hand. Catch it with two hands. And (Calipari) said it was amazing, that the very next game, he did that."
Kyles said Randle also had called Calipari and asked him about a way of coming off the dribble, and Calipari suggested an improvement that Randle made the next time out. "(Calipari) said it's obvious that Julius is hungry, that he wants to learn, that he wants to improve, that he's going to work hard and listen and be coachable and do what his coach asks him to do," Kyles said. "That was great."
Remember, National Championships aren't won in November & December...we shall see how the 3 future lottery picks gel in the next 4-6 weeks!
Yes, National Championships are won in April. They are also won with upperclassmen leadership and experience, two things which 2012-13 Kentucky doesn't have.
Yeah, last year's UK team had a lot of young'uns too, but I think Kentucky fans seem to forget/underestimate how important the previous class' appearance in the Final Four as well as the presence of Darius Miller on the roster were in turning UK from a bunch of talent into a national champion.
As far as your "3 future lottery picks"... I can only laugh, because the only reason they are being projected in the lottery right now is because Chad Ford is a talentless hack. His analysis for Noel and Poythress is basically "are they the next Anthony Davis/Michael Kidd-Gilchrist!?" Anyone who's watched 5 minutes of either of them play can see how silly it is to compare to those two very gifted freshmen from last year.
It's the same idiotic logic that assumed Tyreke Evans was the next Derrick Rose (he's not).
If you care to make a wager whether UK plays in NIT or NCAA, I'm game! How much? $500...$1,000...$2,000? Put your money where your mouth is...
Sick burns!
I would be so happy to see uk play in the post season NIT! Go Cats! You can do it!
I don't think his camp has SAID anything, but the fact that he schedules our visit when we are playing another one of the teams he was reported to be highly considering it certainly can't be bad.
That opening quote makes no sense to me from EJ...
I am having trouble with it too. I don't know if he means that he feels like he was able to slide around really fast, which doesn't make sense when I picture him slipping and slideing with no footing. Or if he means that all of the guys that he was guarding couldn't get any footing and couldn't get around him...
I think he just means that when he slid on defense, he felt he was getting to his spot quicker than normal.
He could not get comfortable playing defense, difficult for him to backpedal.
Weirdly worded article but I am thrilled to hear EJ is feeling healthy again. I truly thought he would be our best player this year and who knows...maybe that is still a possibility.
The March Madness All Time lists are fun. I think KU should have a chance at best game with the 2008 victory. I assume Villanova and NC State and other teams that pulled huge upsets will get some votes as well.
I am not sure if we have much of a chance with Wiggins. Just a gut reaction. Would be amazing to get him or Randle but even it those don't pan out we have a hell of a class coming in and a lot of guys returning that will be hungry next year.
" Aaron and Andrew Harrison, 6-5 twins from Fort Worth, Texas."
Funny thing. My relatives in Houston think Richmond, Texas, Travis H.S., is a suburb of Houston. Better be careful they live in Richmond not Richland.
I'm obviously biased, but the '08 KU National Champs were quite possibly the best KU team ever. How they would not make a list of Top 25 NCAA tournament teams is beyond me. They literally had it all: depth, defensive stoppers, offensive juggernauts (a different lead scorer almost every night), wins over highly ranked teams, etc. That was the only NCAA team in history (at the time) to win 37 games plus a NC (The Memphis team we beat that year was the only team to win 38 games, but they lost the NC. The 2011-12 UK team went 38-2 and won the NC since then though.). Not to mention, that '08 KU team is the only #1 seed to win a Final Four that included all #1 seeds. It would be awesome to see them get some love from the NCAA. Whatever, life goes on.
And it's great news to hear about EJ. The sooner he gets to 100% the better. Before the CU game, his play was pretty dismal on both ends of the court. He hasn't been very vocal about being hampered and when KU plays badly, he shoulders the load. That really says a lot about Elijah's character.
Not to mention it's the top team in the KenPom era and the beatdown it gave to North Carolina, a team whose almost identical roster from 08-09 IS on the list.
Wow. Stuff like this really pisses me off for some reason. I shouldn't let it get to me, but I can't stand the east coast bias. You're right...we beat that UNC team by, what, 19 points the previous year? No NBA stars, so I guess that hurts us...although I thought it was the best TEAM, not the best group of individual players.
Where can I complain?
What in the actual f--k?
I would have been able to let 2008 KU not being on the list slide, but it pisses me off to no end that the 2009 UNC team, who won the title in a year that most analysts agreed was weak and missing that "great" team, is on the list.
The worst part is the rationale that the NCAA site gives for selecting that team: because they won their tournament games by an average of 20 points/gm. Of course, they ignore the fact that the average was skewed dramatically by the fact that UNC beat pathetic Radford by 43 points. Remove that game and their average margin of victory was a much more reasonable 15 ppg, in a year when the rest of college basketball was terrible.
There are FOUR [expletive] North Carolina teams on that list, including the team that had their national title gift-wrapped by a boneheaded Chris Webber timeout call. What a joke.
And now that I go on to look at the all-time players list, I'm wishing I hadn't even clicked through to the site, because there was clearly a UNC alum on whatever panel selected these choices. UNC has six players on the list, and only two of those even won the Most Outstanding Player for that year's tournament. Meanwhile, a player like Chalmers, who actually WON the award for MOP, and did so after averaging 15 ppg, 3 rpg, 3 apg, and 3 spg over the tournament while shooting 50% from the field as a guard.
Since that 2008 probably wounded a lot of UNC pride (beatdown in the Final Four, ol' Roy wearing a Jayhawk sticker to the Finals), I would not be surprised if my silly assertion about a UNC alum on the panel being actually true.
Not just North Carolina. The 08 team also beat Florida in the November between Florida's consecutive national championships. What other championship team has beaten BOTH the prior and the subsequent championship teams? That should be worth something too.
This is false. KU beat Florida in Las Vegas in November 2006 when Julian Wright was still on the team. Florida went on to win the Championship that year (for their 2nd consecutive). The '07-'08 KU team won it the year after that (our best non-conference win in '07-'08 was against the Mayo-lead USC Trojans in LA).
To clarify: It's not false that KU beat Florida that year they won their second straight NC. But it's false that the '07-'08 KU team beat the '06-'07 Florida team.
No, it's not your bias speaking, it's just plain common sense. I don't think that team would win, but I think being the only National Champion to come out of a Final Four with all four 1-seeds should be worth SOMETHING. At least a place on the list of options.
Especially when you consider the fact that it was the first time a team put 5 draft picks into a single NBA draft (Rush, Arthur, Chalmers, Kaun and Jackson). They were also one of the best offense/defense combo teams of the last decade (since Ken Pomeroy has been collecting his advanced metric data).
DEFENSE: 82.8 points allowed per 100 possessions. Since 2003, ranks 3rd overall, behind 2007 Kansas (82.2) and 2009 Memphis (82.5).
OFFENSE: 125.3 points scored per 100 possessions. Since 2003, ranks 7th overall, behind 2005 UNC (126.6), 2008 UNC (126.0), 2005 Wake Forest (125.8), 2011 Ohio State (125.6), and 2007 Florida/2012 Missouri (tied at 125.4).
Kansas is and always has been the Rodney Dangerfield of NCAA basketball powerhouse programs.
You know, it's kind of like how the NFL Hall of Fame inexplicably excludes Chris Carter from being inducted. Chris Carter is quite possibly the second best WR to ever play in the NFL (behind Jerry Rice, of course). With such a glaring omission (he's not the only one, but the biggest snub off the top of my head), how could anyone who has been a fan of the NFL for years and years legitimately recognize it as the Hall of Fame? It is not a privilege for Chris Carter to be inducted, it is his right as one of the very best to ever play the game. I'm not even a Vikings fan, I just know an iconic WR when I see one. To snub someone who is so deserving really just makes it a list of good NFL players, not a Hall of Fame.
I know one thing, Chris Carter is in my NFL Hall of Fame, just like the '08 Jayhawks are near the top of my list of "greatest NCAA tournament teams ever." To exclude them is a travesty. But as I said, life goes on. These lists are all pomp and circumstance, IMO.
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No doubt '08 was a great team. However, Kansas has had soooo many greatest teams to encounter heartbreaking losses, i.e. '03 loss to Syracuse 78-81, '97 loss to AZ 82-85, '96 loss to Syracuse 67-60....not even to mention JoJo's '66 loss to UTEP '66 09-81 and Wilt's '57 loss to UNC 53-54 3OT. KU Basketball so great, so glorious.... yet so many heartbreaks.
I agree that KU has had some great teams lose in the National Championship, but the '08 team didn't. Despite what other KU teams did in the NC, the '08 team went out and won it all in one heck of a game against the team with the most wins in NCAA history (at the time). They deserve to be in the conversation, at the very least.
I have come to not care one bit about the East Coast, their obvious bias, and their slighting KU. WE know how we felt on that night in San Antonio when Chalmers' shot made one of the greatest memories in NCAA history. Only a handful can match it. That shot always makes the CBS reel in March, and to me, that's better than anybody's petty list.
Valvano, K. Smart, and Chalmers' shot. Top Three in no particular order.
2008? Without a doubt.
I personally think that if the 08 team had pulled away from Memphis as they should have and asserted more dominance ie UNC game some of the "voters" would view that team in a different light. I agree with what was already posted here: all 4 #1 seeds in the Final 4, crushing the overall #1 in the semi, and the depth of talent should easily put that team in the rankings. Of course had they thumped Memphis, we wouldn't have the Chalmers shot. On another note, I don't think enough can be said about what the 88 team accomplished. To go into the title game against the clear-cut best team in the country, having been pretty much whipped by said team 3 times and win was amazing!
Kinda surprised B-Mac's not on this list...maybe...maybe he should be around 15-20.
"Athleticism, Explosiveness, and Skills"
Part 1
Landing Randle would be a huge plus.
He seems to have athleticism, weight and skills, but explosiveness is one of those things that is hard for me to gauge in a high school player from a few feeds. Randle's only sure negative is that when he came up against a guy with more athleticism (and I suspect more explosiveness), he got beaten badly, not just a little. This suggests a player lacking some in mental toughness; i.e., he is a confident stud, when he holds all the aces, but has not ever had to learn to be resourceful against equals and betters. Note: I must apologize for not recalling the player's name right now that beat up on Randle. I think he might have signed with UK, though.
The above does not make Randle a bad sign, at all. It just means that, like Perry, talent and all, he is probably going to need a year of learning how to beat guys his own size--of how to really be tougher than the next guy.
There are guys, regardless of size, that just are born more cunning and more ferocious.
Perry was very heady and well coached and intensely developed skill wise as a high schooler. He was always able to rely on a combination of greater size and strength and better skills to win 4 state championships, or something like that. He always had two advantages that never got trumped, so he never had to rely on animal fury and cunning to get the job done. He is in the process of learning that as a freshman. People look and scratch their heads and think Perry outweighs Kevin, and Perry is a better natural scorer than Kevin, and Perry looks a bit meaner than Kevin with Perry's facial hair, and Perry has won all those state championships, and so they say Perry has to be better than Kevin. But Perry was so good in high school that he never had to learn to explode out of himself to survive. And he never had to learn a lot of tricks to survive. Once Perry learns to explode and learns the tricks Kevin knows, then he will be better than Kevin. But he these are not easy things to learn. And so Kevin may be graduated before Perry gets better than Kevin.
Same deal with Randle. And it would have been the same deal with Peters, had he not gotten injured. The bigger and stronger you are in high school, the less you have to explode outside yourself to survive and prevail.
Randle's advantage over Perry's will be an additional 20 pounds, which will be a very big advantage that will mask lack of explosiveness and lack of tricks. Randle might well be able to hold onto a starting spot through the early season due to his weight alone.
I think it was against Wiggins. Wiggins did better, but Randle wasn't too shabby either.
Part 2
But Randle could easily have his own version of Kevin to deal with next season in Jamari Traylor.
By this I mean that Randle might play out very much like Perry Ellis has. He might start some early, play big minutes some too, but gradually lose out to an older, more savvy, more explosive player, at least for awhile.
It all depends on whether Jamari can ever acquire the skills to go with his athleticism and explosiveness.
Kevin came with some athleticism, a lot of explosiveness, and frankly a good skill set that Self has not asked him to utilize until now, when he is coming off a broken hand. Self is like that. :-)
Justin exemplifies what happens when you have athleticism, a little explosiveness, but cannot broaden your skill set. You have to sit for guys with athleticism and explosiveness and only a bit more skill (e.g., Jamari).
Jamari this year exemplifies what happens when you have athleticism and explosiveness, but a narrow skill set. You sit for a veteran like Kevin, and a talented newbie like Perry.
What keeps Jamari off the floor a lot this season is he is not a natural rebounder, he hasn't got a reliable jump shot, and he is a weak FT shooter.
Compare Jamari to Thomas Robinson early. Thomas was born a rebounder. Probably got the doctor on his hip the minute he came out of his mother's womb. But even that couldn't keep him on the floor his freshman season, because he fouled, had no J, and could not make foul shot. Even Thomas' sophomore season he could only play situationally, because though he began to get a J, he fouled and could not make a free throw. As a junior, he added FT shooting, foul avoidance, and some good offensive moves and he was gold.
Few athletics can add what Thomas added to his game, or the world would be full of Lottery picks.
But it is reasonable to think that Jamari could add one of the three by next season. He could improve his rebounding, and maybe even learn to shoot FTs. I am a big believer that most can improve their FT shooting one increment of 10 percent. Doing so would get Jamari close to where he could be in the game late.
So if we look at the criteria above--athleticism, explosiveness, and skills we can understand why journeyman veterans can often keep 5-stars off the floor 20-25 mpg.
But the most interesting question to me is why do so many of these gifted 5 star bigs fall short of having these basics hard wired?
I mean Perry Ellis seemed like coming in that he would have them hard wired; that he would be plug and play.
Part 3
What happens in high school and what changes in college that makes them not be plug and play?
I suspect that good, big and skillful 6-8 high school players get used to two advantages in high school--they are stronger than most guys they play against and they are more skilled, too. Perry Ellis has a wide range of skills to draw on to win with in addition to being 6-8 and 225 since the age of 4. :-)
With these two advantages, unless their temperaments are predisposed to explosiveness, and cunning, they can get by, even excel, without every having to explode beyond their position on a regular basis, and without ever having to resort to cunning, rather than skill, to get and hold an edge on another player. Put another way, they are used to dominating other players simply by playing their games, rather than having to figure out how to dominate another player with will, ferocity and cunning.
So: I think what happens to these guys in college is that the advantage of being decisively bigger and stronger evaporates, and the advantage of being more diversely skilled evaporates, too. Thus, they are left as babes in the woods without the will, cunning and ferocity needed to find ways to dominate opponents. For some, learning will, cunning and ferocity are as insurmountable as learning to shoot the trey, or make 75% of their FTs.
Randle could have everything and step in. But if he lacks the will, ferocity and cunning to learn how to dominate another guy like himself, teammate, or opponent, then he is going to run into problems starting, or playing 25mpg.
This is where I think a lot of board rats get tripped up about arguing for some players to be given the PT immediately to get them ready. There are some gifted players with enough will, ferocity and cunning to benefit from being thrown to the dogs. But there are apparently also a goodly number of them that it does not help. IMHO, Self knows the difference. Watching EJ this season struggle with adversity makes me think he has correctly understood EJ all along, just as he understood that Tyshawn could take being thrown to the dogs as a freshman in a limited role. Rush could, too. Chalmers, too. Others not.
Frankly, who can benefit has less to do with levels of ability than with simply who has the will, ferocity and cunning to endure the fire.
Some break and some don't. But anyone thrown in too soon breaks. And a broken mind in my experience rarely mends, the way a broken bone does. It does not get stronger and more confident. Minds, unlike, bones, never forget the fracture.
Part 4
Jamari is stuck at a wall right now. And because he only started playing ball as a junior, or senior in high school, he has less experience with breaking through walls. He has found his limits. He is a freaky combination I have never seen before. He has the athleticism and explosiveness of a good D1 player, but his skills are so limited in scoring and rebounding that his production makes others a better choice.
But it seems likely that he will get the hang of boarding, or shooting, or FTing, or some combination of them. And if he adds all three, his veteran experience and his explosiveness will combine with those basics to make him very hard for Randle to keep off the floor.
On the other hand, if Jamari evolves more like Justin and cannot add the attributes outlined above, then jamari will not be able to keep Randle off the floor, even with holes in Randle's game.
Lastly, the really interesting guy is Landen Lucas. To me, he had everything this year but the explosiveness. If a year of physical-mental maturity and weight work turn on the explosiveness switch on, then Landen is going to be as tough to keep off the floor as Cole and Withey have proven to have been. I don't see Landen ever having the kind of game TRob had, but that's okay. Lucas is a 5, not a 4. Lucas has another advantage, too. The moment Self signed Joel Embiid, that meant Self had redundancy at the 5--Landen and Joel. And that redundancy enables Self to scheme a team that assumes, and even plays through a true 5; this is good for both Landen and Joel. And it is means Randle has to be a monsterously good 4 to slip over to the 5 and beat both footers out as a starter. Therefore, Randle might even pose more problems for Perry than for Lucas and Embiid.
It all depends on how good each of these guys are come next October. :-)
The list of the 35 greatest tournies started out with '39 Oregon wins the first NCAA, then the next on the list was Loyola's stunner in '63. So for 24 years there were no stunning upsets, cinderellas, buzzer beaters, hot players?
KU/UNC in triple OT with Wilt doesn't qualify for a list like that? Really? What about NYU (I think) winning both the NCAA and NIT in the same year? The NIT was just as prestigious back then.
These are ranked right? So maybe 57 will show up higher on the list.
CBS ever won against Michigan State? Just wondering
First year (2004). MSU came to Allen Fieldhouse ranked #3 (against our #6 Jayhawks)
The Fieldhouse crowd was clearly ready to "welcome" another top team, and was about as amped up before a game as I've seen for a non-conference matchup.
The final result was an 81-74 KU victory.
I don't remember his record against them in the Big 10, but in his time at KU, he is 1-2 against Mr. Izzo.
I believe that makes it 1-3. We lost twice in 08-09 in addition to this year. I was in Lansing for the regular season fiasco.
My gut feeling is that EJ's been playing hurt. Maybe not just the knee, but he also has a chronically sloppy shoulder issue. JMO but I've thought he was only about 60-70%. Young man can flat out sky when he is healthy.
KU FANS. Where is the love for each other, for our fellow posters? I have thumbed each response. Get in the habit. WE ARE ALL KU FANS!!!
"Johnson wrapped his arm around his sister during most of his postgame interview while his mother stood a few steps away in a red, "15 mom" T-shirt."
Did anyone get a photo of this?
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The Provost of the College of Education Studies, Prof. Eric Magnus Wilmot, has presented a Toyota Hilux vehicle to the Center for Educational Research, Evaluation and Development (CERED) to facilitate its operational activites. Established in 1992, the Center, which is the main research arm of the College, has been without a vehicle, making it difficult to carry out research works and also to woo non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and development partners for research proposals. Speaking at a brief ceremony held at the forecourt of the College, Prof. Eric Magnus Wilmot said the vehicle broke down and the College took a decision aimed at repairing it to assist the transportation of officials of CESED. "We detected that the old pick up for the office had a very weak engine. And so we took a decision that we could repair it and hand over to one of the departments that was in need- because an order has been placed for a new one", said the Provost. He continued: " And instead of disposing of this old pick up and get it to be auctioned so that somebody buys it for cheap, we could recondition it so that CERED would become mobile". Prof. Wilmot expressed the hope that the gesture would help the Center to expedite action on an ongoing project - Secondary Educational Improvement – that would need a vehicle to make CERED mobile, to solicit projects from NGOs to enable the University to attract more funds. He advised the Center to put the vehicle into good use so as to prolong its lifespan.
Receiving the keys to the vehicle on behalf of CERED, the Dean of the School of Educational Development and Outreach, Prof. Ernest Kofi Davis, thanked the Provost for the gesture and gave an assurance that the donation would be put to good use.
The Coordinator for CERED, Dr. Mark Owusu Amponsah, expressed delight at the presentation of the vehicle, describing it as "unprecedented since the establishment of the Centre".
He said the vehicle would give the Center a greater mobility to pay development partners regular visits.
Present at the ceremony were the Dean of Science and Technology Education (STE), Prof. J.K Mintah; the Registrar of the College, Mrs. Alberta Graham, and the Faculty Officer of STE, Mr. Yaw Mensah Anhwere.

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Interview – Jonathan Watkins and his new film 'Kes Reimagined' – a Kes for Today
"Kes Reimagined" is Jonathan Watkins' new film version of "Kes" and shortly to premiere at the Leeds International Film Festival – 7 November 2019. Diane Parkes talks to Watkins about taking on a story made famous for many by Ken Loach's classic film…
5 Questions to Emma Maguire, RB Soloist, about the Ann Maguire Gala and Charity
We talk to Emma Maguire about the Gala that honours the life of her mum, Ann Maguire, and this year takes place at the Leeds Grand Theatre on 3 September. The proceeds go to support the Ann Maguire Arts Education Fund – inspiring young people through the arts…
Northern Ballet – Casanova – Leeds
★★★★✰ This is Northern Ballet firing on all dramatic cylinders – a fine show made great by the entire company.
Birmingham Royal Ballet: Taming of the Shrew (Birmingham) and Northern Ballet: Jane Eyre (Leicester)
★★★✰✰ for BRB's troublesome fun packed Taming of the Shrew and ★★★★✰ Northern Ballet's Jane Eyre with Hannah Bateman in the lead…
Northern Ballet – 1984 – London
★★★★✰ …an excellent reminder of how enduring Orwell's work is, and how powerful a channel ballet can be for complex human emotions like distrust and defeat.
Northern Ballet – 1984 – Leeds
It's a significant accomplishment – Watkins has really marked his card.
Jonathan Watkins – Choreographer, on his new 1984 for Northern Ballet
5 Questions to Jonathan Watkins about his new 1984 for Northern Ballet – premiering 5 September in Leeds…
Northern Ballet – Angels in the Architecture, Perpetuum Mobile, Little Monsters, Northern Trilogy, The Architect – London
Good to see Northern Ballet back at the Royal Opera House with a mixed bill of 5 new and old works, rather different to the full evening dramatic ballets with which they tour the nation.


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Good Afternoon!
Another installment of Inspiration week was up on the Lawn Fawn Blog today and I had three projects that were shared on today's post!
I created two layouts and one pocket page project.
The new "Let's Polka" collection is such a fun, bright, and easy collection to use! I used it on all three of these projects and it will be perfect for your spring and summer layouts :-) I also am still loving the new 4x6 and 3x4 stitched journaling dies - they make creating your pocket pages SO super easy!
Make sure you check out the Lawn Fawn Blog and look at all of the other Design Team inspiration projects! They will surely leave you inspired :-)
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10 Risk Factors in the Treatment of Hemorrhoids
Risk Factor 1: Age
Age is an important element to consider when treating hemorrhoids. From the age of 30, the tissues that connect the muscles and the rectum wall begin to deteriorate. This deterioration increases the likelihood that anal tissue will generate prolapse and thus form hemorrhoids. Hemorrhoids, however, appear most frequently from the age of 55 years.
Risk Factor 2: Alcohol
We all know the saying: "Drink between 6 and eight glasses of water per day". Alcohol is not part of this adage! Water consumption is needed to soften the stool. Insufficient water consumption can cause constipation and therefore increase pressure on the anal walls. This can promote the onset of hemorrhoids or worsen existing hemorrhoids. Alcohol acts as a diuretic. This means that it encourages the evacuation of water, which increases the chances of dehydration and therefore of hemorrhoids.
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Risk factor 3: Drinks high in caffeine
Drinks such as coffee, sodas, chocolate-based beverages and some teas behave like diuretics. As mentioned, diuretics promote the expulsion of water from the human body, which increases the pressure on the rectal walls where hemorrhoids develop. In addition to acting as diuretics, these substances can increase blood pressure which can enlarge the veins abnormally.
Risk Factor 4: Anal Reports
The tissues of the rectum are made to evacuate loose stools. Anal intercourse can create lesions and tear the anal cavity. This can cause excruciating hemorrhoidal pains and promote the recurrence of hemorrhoids.
Risk Factor 5: Pregnancy
The pressure exerted by the baby on the lower abdomen can enlarge the anal and rectal veins and thus cause hemorrhoids. This can also occur during childbirth. During pregnancy, the female body produces a hormone called progesterone. Progesterone is partly responsible for reducing the pressure on the venous walls. However, a side effect of progesterone production is the slowing down of digestion. This can lead to abnormal bowel movements and consequent constipation, which promotes the appearance of hemorrhoids.
Risk factor 6: Chronic prostatitis
Prostatitis is a disorder that appears in men and is characterized by swelling of the prostate gland. Several studies show a correlation between this disease and hemorrhoids. However, the causal link is not highlighted; More research needs to be done in this area.
Risk Factor 7: Episiotomy
This clinical procedure involves cutting the tissues that surround the vagina. This is carried out under local anesthesia during childbirth. The goal is to avoid vaginal and rectal tears at birth. Despite the positive aspect of preventing tearing, these incisions can be painful and cause irregular intestinal movements; And eventually an increase in the probability of developing hemorrhoids.
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Risk Factor 8: Obesity
Overweight can increase pressure on rectal and anal veins. An increase in pressure increases the likelihood of developing hemorrhoids.
Risk factor 9: Pelvic tumor
Hemorrhoids are not cancerous. However, cancerous formations can increase vascular pressure on neighboring tissues. Care should be taken to always consult with your family doctor to rule out any problems.
Risk Factor 10: Smoking
The treatment of hemorrhoids can be more complicated for smokers. First of all, because there are many health hazards associated with smoking. Also, smoking causes a weakening of the blood vessels in the rectum and anus. Stopping smoking can help decrease the chances of developing hemorrhoids and improve overall health.
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The treatment of hemorrhoids begins with a healthy lifestyle. Good lifestyle habits promote the development of a healthy body and positive attitudes.
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Wine Classes In PhiladelphiaA Guide to Our Critically Acclaimed Wine Classes
We offer over 200 different classes, from Wine 101 to the First Growths of Bordeaux. No matter who you are –beginner or master sommelier— we have the perfect wine class for you. We offer three tiers of classes: Learn About Wine, Wine Essentials, and the Luxury Level. Not sure what wine to take? Take our Wine Quiz for some suggestions.
There is a reason why our wine classes are consistently ranked as the best in America. Each of our sommelier-instructors is the best in their field. Deep knowledge and passion runs through the veins of everyone here at the school. That is who teaches our classes. Couple that with an amazing wine tasting experience set in our beautiful Rittenhouse classroom, and you get the idea.
The best way to enjoy a class is in either a small group or by yourself. Keep in mind our wine classes are nothing like what you've experienced before, so leave your assumptions at the door. The school is staffed with brilliant academics and winemakers, not servants, so please don't expect a restaurant experience. The smart and curious are embraced here. The snobby and self-centered not so much.
Can't get to the Wine School? We offer online wine classes.
Sommelier Smackdown
Spain VS France
America Vs Australia
Ultimate Champagne Class
Wine 101: Learn About Wine
Italy vs Greece
Great Wine Made Simple
Sommelier Secrets
Artisanal Wine & Cheese Pairing
Wine 101: Learn About Wine
Wine Tasting Classes
Taking classes at the Wine School are designed to be both fun and educational. To take advantage of our classes to the fullest, we suggest taking a series of classes that both fit your schedule but also maximize your enjoyment and knowledge. Of course, if you are really serious, we strongly suggest enrolling in the Core Wine Program.
We offer three sections of wine tasting classes (Learn about Wine, Wine Essentials, and Luxury). You can take these classes in any order you prefer: we design with the assumption that there will a wide range of students in every class, from newbies to sommeliers. We do recommend taking classes from each section.
We list only a small example of classes we offer on this page. For a listing of currently available classes, please go to our Wine Tastings Classes page.
Learn About Wine
The building blocks of wine knowledge are right here, so don't miss out on these wonderful classes.
In these classes, you will learn the basics of wine: Learn how to read a wine label; Discover the differences between types of wines; Learn some fundamental sommelier secrets; And discover why you like certain wines and not others.
We suggest taking between two and four classes in this section. For a comprehensive understanding of these subjects, we recommend taking the Foundation Wine Program.
Wine Essentials
Discover the world of wine tasting in this series of classes. All the essential bits of wine knowledge are offered here.
Learn about the wines of Italy (or France or Spain or Australia or America or Germany). Take a class on Champagne & Bubbles. Delve into rare wines from exotic locales. Taste wines from American history.
This series of classes will blow your mind and expand your palate. It is suggested a student take between four and eight classes in this section.
For a comprehensive understanding of these subjects, we recommend taking the Intermediate Wine Program.
Luxury Wine Classes
These classes are designed to highlight the best wines of the world.
This is where things get seriously awesome. Some of our most famous classes are offered at the Luxury Level: Barolo & Beyond, the Sommelier Smackdown, the Sommelier's Guide to Pinot Noir, The Lux Cab Class.
These our most expensive classes we offer, but they are also one of Philly's worst kept secrets: sommeliers travel from Manhattan and Washington D.C. to attend. We strongly suggest taking at least three of these classes to round out your wine studies.
Take The Wine Quiz
A great way to figure out what type of wine class you should take is to take our wine quiz. Keep in mind this is no ordinary quiz: this quiz isn't designed to fluff your ego. It will give you an accurate overview of your wine knowledge level. Even Master Sommeliers find it challenging: the Wine Quiz.


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14 March 2019 - 22 August 2019
Venture Café Sydney connects innovators and entrepreneurs with high-impact programming and interactive sessions. It provides an opportunity for researchers, students and professional staff to build relationships, learn and grow together.
Join the Thursday Gathering @Venture Café, Sydney's largest weekly innovation experiment. See this week's program: www.venturecafesydney.org
Each week people from Sydney's amazing innovation and startup community gather to enjoy, connect, engage and learn from each other.
3-8pm. Every Thursday. See you there!
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) Authorities have investigated at least 106 threats of violence in or near schools in Louisiana since the Feb. 14 mass shooting at a Florida high school, state police and the FBI said Monday. The news came as the University of New Orleans was reopening its campus following the arrest of a suspect in one such threat.
Nicholas Heard, 20, was arrested without incident at his home, said New Orleans police spokesman Beau Tidwell.
Police on Monday said Heard told fellow students he would shoot several people on campus.
The university told employees not to report to work Monday and students in on-campus housing were told to remain in their rooms. Once the arrest was made, authorities made preparations to re-open the campus late Monday afternoon and re-start campus dining services.
Heard was being held at the New Orleans jail and bond had not been set as of Monday night. Online jail records did not indicate whether he has an attorney.
A joint news release from the FBI and Louisiana State Police said that in the other cases, the ages of those arrested ranged from 11 to 28. Most were juveniles.
"As shown by the number of arrests already effected by Louisiana law enforcement agencies, school threats are being taken seriously, and a zero tolerance policy is in place," the statement said.
After the threat was lifted at UNO, its president, John Nicklow, said campus and city police, U.S. Marshals, and police from other nearby campuses had assisted the school. "I am also grateful to our students for their patience, cooperation and even words of encouragement that some offered during this ordeal," Nicklow wrote.
Also Monday, authorities said a 14-year-old was arrested in connection with an unrelated threat at a New Orleans public school. Officials said the unidentified teen was arrested Saturday, adding it came a day after threats of a shooting at Dolores T. Aaron School came to light. The unidentified teen is accused of terrorizing and disruption of the operation of a school. Police said officers were in constant communication with officials at that pre-K through 8th grade charter school to ensure student safety.


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How to Care for Children with a Broken Foot!
I have been fortunate. In all of the years of being a parent, I was never challenged with mobility issues until I became a grandparent several years ago. The first time I was in a walking boot, my grandchild was a baby. I could hold and cuddle him for hours which worked well for all. The second time I was in a walking boot, I hobbled around with small grandkids that were easy to manage. This time, however, I am in an ortho shoe with orders to not walk. Today, I realized I was in trouble when considering my mobility challenges with three young grandkids that can outrun me in seconds. [Read more…]


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'Syrian refugees' trying to board flight to UK arrested on suspicion of terrorism
A MAN and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of terrorism after attempting to board a UK-bound flight with fake Belgian passports.
More than a million refugees entered Europe last year
Fears the pair, who claimed to be Syrian refugees, were linked to jihadis were raised after anti-terrorism officers found images of violence and war on their smartphones.
The pair, understood to be brother and sister, were arrested at Cristoforo Colombo Airport in Genoa, Italy, while trying to board a plane for London.
The 31-year-old man and 24-year-old woman were promptly arrested after police found their travel documents were forged.
The unnamed pair claimed to be refugees from Syria during a police interview - but have constantly changed their story after being held in custody and interrogated in court, a police spokesman said.
They hastily changed their story to say they were originally from Iran and had come to Europe to convert to Christianity.
The pair were arrested in the port town of Genoa
Officers found images of violence and war on their smartphones
The pair then struggled to recall how they ended up in Genoa and claimed they had been staying in a hotel - but could not remember what it was called or where it was.
Their identities are yet to have been confirmed.
They claim they entered Europe among refugees arriving from Turkey to Greek shores.
Hundreds of thousands of refugees arrived in Italy last year
Police said the pair are being held in custody while they try to determine their true identities and how they entered the country.
In a separate incident two brothers set to board a flight to London were arrested at the Ligurian port of Genoa's airport on New Year's Eve on suspicion of belonging to an international terror group.
The men also used fake Belgian passports and had photos of weapons and war scenes on their mobile phones.
Three Libyans were also arrested upon arrival at the port of Genoa on suspicion of laundering money for international terrorism.
The three men were arrested by officers from Italy's anti terror squad on Sunday night after arriving in a car ferry from Tunisia.
The group were travelling without luggage in three identical Hyundai cars, and images of weapons and war scenes were allegedly found on their mobile phones.
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Here at Michael Bonsby Heating & Air Conditioning, we have some great news for our customers in Germantown, Gaithersburg, Clarksburg, and throughout MD. If you purchased and installed a new, energy-efficient AC system in 2012, you might be eligible for a tax credit right now. Enacted on Jan. 2, 2013, the fiscal cliff avoidance legislation retroactively reinstated the 25C tax credit for highly efficient AC systems.
Wondering if you qualify for the air conditioner tax credit? Keep reading to learn more or contact us online!
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This is an all women's race put on by TTG sponsor Southern Arizona Roadrunners. We will have a TTG information booth set up at the race day expo as well as running the water station on the course. The TTG Tent will be set up by 7am. Water station volunteers will need to be in place by 7:30am, and plan on being there until a bit after 10am. This is a great way to support other female athletes in our community, and spread the word about TTG! Please consider spending your Sunday morning representing Tucson Tri Girls at this great event!
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Between 1820 and 1870 the United States was home to a rich oral culture, enhanced rather than eclipsed by the rising dominance of print culture. Older oral traditions of narrative, proverb, and song continued to circulate orally and were further disseminated in print forms. Jacksonian politics promoted vernacular forms of classical oratory; the belles lettres art of conversation flourished in a new female tradition that was noted as characteristically American by visitors such as Alexis de Tocqueville; and both these rhetorics were extended through expanded public schooling, a proliferation of rhetoric texts, conduct literature, and journalism. Large popular audiences enthusiastically received anthologies of speeches and sermons and some eventually came to accept women's public speaking on religious, political, reform, and cultural topics.
The period generated new oral forms, such as the lecture, and institutions, such as the lyceum and the female literary associations that laid the ground for the later women's club movement. It also generated dialect fiction and poetry, forerunners to the regional traditions that would flourish in the second half of the century. Ethnic oral traditions, particularly those of Native Americans and African Americans, gained increasing publicity outside of the folk group of origin, and transcriptions of these traditions appeared, varied in their authenticity. Literature circulated oral culture, promoted it, and drew on its forms and subject matter as resources for literary art. Literary texts represented features of contemporary oral culture, debated aspects of it, influenced it. These texts were in turn influenced by oral culture.
Despite long-standing argument that the United States had no characteristic, unique oral traditions, and despite ongoing debate over both foundational terms of the classification "oral traditions," as well as over a methodology for approaching them, the contours of academic study of American oral traditions have remained remarkably stable across the past century. Scholars have debated questions of the origins of oral traditions in the United States (American or European and African?), of whether there is a single American tradition or multiple ones, and of whether the differences or the continuities between literary and oral traditions should be emphasized; they have addressed problems of defining genres, of the authenticity of translation and transcription, of aesthetic status, and the relations between oral and literary traditions. Yet what has constituted oral tradition for literary study has remained relatively undisputed. Literary histories and anthologies that attend to oral tradition between 1820 and 1870 tend to focus on Native American myth, legend, and oratory; African American spirituals and oratory; Anglo tall tales, especially Southwestern humor; and folk songs (mostly about men's work and politics). Women's expressive culture has been, arguably, the most neglected aspect in the study of historical oral traditions. While scholarly understanding of the "oral" character of traditions shifted from an emphasis on origins to the mode of transmission, and "traditions" came to be understood as signifying less the surviving relics of a receding past and more thePage 822
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performances of living traditions with differing functions within specific contexts, a male-centered perspective has continued to limit the understanding of oral culture and its relations with literature.
The narrow map that academic study would draw after 1870 of the largely oral culture flourishing in the early national period would likely have surprised contemporaries. Samuel Knapp's (1783–1838) Lectures on American Literature (1820) voiced the assumption shared by contemporaries that oral forms of expression were a significant part of the literary field. Knapp discussed colonial hero legends about both women and men, songs of whaling and war, and Indian laments and oratory, and he mentioned novels, poetry, and plays. Rhetorical culture held an important place in Knapp's mapping of literature, not only the oratory that American men practiced in the pulpit, bar, and legislature, but also the social eloquence of the American fireside and drawing room, where both women and men combined learning with a new, more natural style of expression. The American mother, in Knapp's view, was responsible for laying in the nursery and domestic circle the foundations of a national art of speaking. Other commentators located any claim to unique American literary achievement in ethnic oral traditions, without resolving the challenges posed to notions of nationalism and a national culture by the forced displacement of the indigenous peoples and the forced immigration of slaves.
The anonymous author of "The Language and Literature of America" (North American Review, September 1815) claimed that everyone found the oral literature of the aborigines original and that it most properly constituted the literature of the country. The specimens of Indian oratory and legends that circulated in journalism, anthologies, school texts, and the collections of Indian agent and scholar Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793–1864) gave evidence of indigenous traditions and art, lending support to the North American Review and countering the opposing contention that Indians, as savages, had no valuable literary tradition. The abolitionist Theodore Parker (1810–1860), however, thought slaves' narratives marked the first original American expressive form, and another anonymous commentator, in Putnam's Monthly (January 1855), arguedPage 823 | Top of Article that the poetry of Negro minstrelsy should be given pride of place in American literature after authentic oral tradition was sorted from the impostures of white composing, a project begun with the publication by William Francis Allen, Lucy McKim Garrison, and Charles Pickard Ware of spirituals in Slave Songs of the United States (1867). Antiquarian interest in the traditionary lore of the colonizer groups, especially the English and Scottish, prompted collections such as John Fanning Watson's (1780–1860) popular Historic Tales of Olden Time from New York and Pennsylvania (1832, 1833) while, as the pursuit of literature turned professional, writers including Washington Irving, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Nathaniel Hawthorne capitalized on oral traditions with retellings of legends from European and settler sources.
By the 1880s, oral culture was displaced from literature in the instituting of American literature as an academic field and, further, was narrowed into "oral traditions" on one hand and oratory on the other as oral culture was progressively divided between the emerging fields of folklore and rhetoric. Charles Richardson's American Literature (2 vols., c. 1886–1888) equated literature with Anglo belles lettres writing, pointedly denying literary status to Native American oratory and poetry and ignoring other oral culture aside from Anglo men's oratorical forms. Concurrently, William Wells Newell, editor of the Journal of American Folk-lore, announced in his first issue a new folklore study whose focus would be on "oral tradition. . . . understood as the complement of literature" and whose aim would be to preserve traditional ballads, tales, proverbs, superstitions, jests, riddles, dialects, and such in four departments: the relics of Anglo Americans, Southern Negroes, Indians, and other European American groups (Journal of American Folk-lore 1 [1888]: 3–7).
Subsequently, scholarship has debated the boundaries and relations between the two fields, especially the hierarchy of values that privileges what is defined as literature and its study over oral traditions and folk-lorisitics. Tensions also emerged within folklore studies between those that followed the narrowly aesthetic system of Richardson's American Literature and others that, like the Cambridge History of American Literature (4 vols., 1917–1921), promoted a more comprehensive historical construction that included some mention of oral tradition. Yet the developing fields of literature, folklore, and rhetoric all came to agree that the oral culture selected as the subject of their anthologies would be overwhelmingly male in provenance and values. "Fairy tales, beast fables, jests, by scores. . .on the lips of mothers and nurses" (Journal of American Folk-lore 1 [1888]: 4) in the early nineteenth century, like the other expressive art that flourished in women's oral culture, seldom attracted the attention of collectors and commentators. Instead, they were assimilated into men's oral traditions, as if indistinguishable, or were attributed to male sources and collectors, as in the case of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft's (1800–1841) transcriptions of Ojibwa legends, which appeared in works by her husband, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. The Cambridge History was more concerned with explaining away the value of popular songs emanating from women's culture, as in the case of "Mary Had a Little Lamb," attributed to the editor of Godey's Lady's Book, Sarah Hale, than to understand such songs' long-lived centrality in oral tradition, and it construed the intersection of rhetorical and literary culture exclusively in terms of men's oratorical and sermonic practice. Increasing professionalization discouraged folklorists' collection of women's oral traditions. The reduction of nineteenth-century American literature in the modernist canon to a handful of men and Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) fed a similarly narrow reconstruction of oral traditions in literary history.
The work of scholars John Lomax and Constance Rourke, both informed by the now discredited frontier thesis of American history (that is, the notion that the confrontation of savagery and civilization at the edge of western settlement shaped a uniquely democratic and individualistic American culture), especially influenced the construction of oral traditions that most obtains in current literary history and anthologies. Although Lomax, as the pioneer collector of American folksongs, preserved and discussed a rich range of songs from the nineteenth century, literary history reflects more the focus of his first book, Cowboy Songs and Frontier Ballads (1910) and the typology he sketched in the Journal of American Folklore (1915) that equates American folksongs largely with men's work and African American tradition—the songs of miners, lumbermen, sailors, soldiers, railroaders, cowboys, and fieldworkers; only his category of outcasts imagines any place for women's songs. Rourke, a historian and American studies pioneer, in The Roots of American Culture points to some of the exclusions in such a scheme—the expressive traditions of women's domestic work and social rituals (weaving, spinning, corn husking) and those of marginalizedPage 824 | Top of Article groups in which women predominated, such as the Shakers—but it was her thesis of American humor that more than any other theory has given shape to what literary history takes as "oral traditions."
In American Humor (1931), Rourke, assuming German philosopher Johann Herder's (1744–1803) premise that any national aesthetic literature stems from powerful folk origins, underwrote the notion of a unique, valuable culture in the United States by elaborating a folk tradition of humor underlying the modernist canon of high American literature that scholarship was then consolidating, a folk tradition that alienated women as subjects, she observed, and as origins and disseminators. Later critics fixed on the three character types from popular theater and print sources that Rourke argued likely evolved from oral traditions (a mix of English regional dramatic types, Indian legends, Gaelic anecdotes, the era's proliferation of oratory, Southern lawyers' storytelling combats, and minstrel shows) and which, she claimed, represented the comic spirit of American culture in the early national period: the Yankee, the backwoods-man (including the boatman), and, especially, the Negro.
Rourke influenced critics who had the most impact on the writing of literary history and the making of anthologies. Her study buttressed, for example, F. O. Matthiessen's Renaissance thesis of American literature (American Renaissance, 1941), Richard Volney Chase's romance thesis of narrative fiction (The American Novel and its Tradition, 1957), and Daniel Hoffman's method of myth criticism that seeks folk traditions behind canonical writers (Form and Fable in American Fiction, 1961). While critics note that the tall tale tradition is overstudied, literary history and anthologies, backed by such criticism and by Rourke's thesis and viewing history through a lens distorted by the extraordinary status accorded later writers such as Mark Twain and William Faulkner, continue to overrepresent the significance of the form, its mode of humor, and protagonists (Davy Crockett, Mike Fink), along with the writers later grouped as Southwestern humorists (Augustus Baldwin Longstreet [1790–1870], Johnson Jones Hooper [1815–1862], George Washington Harris [1814–1869]) and the Big Bear school following from Thomas Bangs Thorpe (1815–1878) with its hunting fables that pit men against nature writ large. None of these featured centrally in the oral culture of the period or in contemporary analyses of it.
Literary history's investigation of the relations between oral culture and literature generally has tended toward the assumption shared by Rourke and her followers that oral traditions are most interesting and valuable as a background or foundation of literary art, or as Daniel Barnes put it, as matter an author uses to create literature. The operation of this assumption in literature studies and often in folklore studies as well, although it has generated no established methodology for studying the two fields together, has focused a large body of criticism that teaches more about nineteenth-century canonical men's appropriations—or approximations—of oral motifs than it does about historical oral traditions. In addition to extending the links that Rourke observed between her construction of oral tradition (particularly the frontier matter) and the writing of canonical male writers (and, incidentally, Dickinson), critics have worked to identify and interpret oral materials in these texts.
Studies have discussed in particular Washington Irving's and Edgar Allan Poe's reworking of legendary tales of the supernatural or macabre, about the knowledge and use of the oral traditions of Indian tribes and Anglo frontier traditions in James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking romances, Henry Wadsworth Long-fellow's poetry, and Henry David Thoreau's prose, and about the retellings of New England legends by John Greenleaf Whittier and Nathaniel Hawthorne, especially the latter's address of witchcraft and other superstitions. Melville's work, particularly Moby-Dick, (1851) has been mined for evidence of his use of sea chanties, legends, songs, and proverbs, in addition to frontier matter, and Ralph Waldo Emerson's work excavated for his use of folk expressions and proverbs. Otherwise, folk material, including dialect tales and poetry, has largely been positioned as a feature of regional literature, which repeatedly was rated as lesser than canonized masterwork. While there has been decreasing interest in claiming the oratory of some figures, such as Daniel Webster (1782–1852), as literature, more claims are being made for other figures, such as Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) and Frederick Douglass (1818–1895), and inquiry continues into ways that the conventions of oral traditions, such as oratory and storytelling, inform the writings of canonical male writers.
No equivalent body of criticism addresses the question of whether women's writing, too, might open a window on contemporary oral tradition, although that writing offers parallel opportunities, including the fictional use of ghosts and other supernatural motifs in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1851–1852); Alice Cary's "Ghost StoryPage 825 | Top of Article Number II" (1855), which rehearses neighborhood legends in a conversational narrative frame attentive to various modes of storytelling; and Harriet Farley's Happy Nights at Hazel Nook; or, Cottage Stories (1854), which presents tales of fairies, wizards, and ghosts told in a family writing club; Lydia Maria Child's version of Native American and European legends in her short fiction; Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), with its invocation of slaves' songs and legends; and Margaret Fuller's reworking of proverbs and legends, including the Ojibwa tale of Muckwa or the Bear in Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 (1844), a book that advocates the systematic compilation of Indian lore by a native collector so that the textual representation of native tradition might indicate the philosophy, symbol system, and values of indigenous peoples.
Scholarly anthologies now include work songs in the African American tradition that serve as women's expressive tradition and lullabies in Native American traditions, but neither form in Anglo traditions. As an understanding of literature as social practice gains currency, and theories of rhetorical and folk culture begin to account for women's conversational and oratorical forms of expression, inquiry is opening into the ways that literature informs women's speaking in the era, including African American activists and speaker-writers Maria Stewart and Frances Harper, and the ways that conversational traditions enter women's writing, notably Fuller's essays, the fiction of Stowe and Catharine Maria Sedgwick, and the poetry of Frances Osgood. While the texts are lacking that would illustrate reasons for the historical reputation of some women speakers, such as Lucy Terry, and the expressive innovations of others, such as Harper's recitation of poetry of her own composing in her reform lectures, reconstructed versions of the performances of other women, such as Sojourner Truth, are becoming available in literary anthologies. Women's fiction also affords a range of views on features of contemporary oral culture that were debated, including the promotion of women's rights speakers in Mary S. Gove Nichols's Mary Lyndon (1855) and Laura J. Curtis Bullard's Christine (1856), as well as the satire of oral institutions and dialects in Caroline Matilda Kirkland's A New Home (1839) and in Frances Whitcher's Widow Bedott Papers (1856).
Folklorists' repeated call for greater voice in the discussion of relations between written and oral traditions has gone largely unheeded in literary history, and with the shift in folklore study from an item-centered approach, focusing on texts and motifs, to emphasis on performance, contexts, and function of oral traditions, folkloristics shows less interest in nineteenth-century literature and more in ethnic traditions, especially in ethnopoetics, which works to understand oral traditions from a perspective and values closer to those of originary speech communities than to the Romantic and modernist definitions of literature and its aesthetic value that have informed American literary studies. Emphasis on context as well as performance has stressed the need to understand how the situatedness of oral traditions affects both their form and significance, and this emphasis informs arguments for more holistic study than literary history, ethnopoetics, or anthropological approaches have yet provided (Elliot, Prahlad), yet has not provoked much attention to issues of gender. The longstanding androcentrism in the study of Native American and African American lore, for example in the recovery and history of trickster figures—the figures in both traditions that have commanded the most critical attention—needs correcting, as Andrew Wiget (in Ruoff, p. 89) and Henry Louis Gates Jr. (p. 54) note. Yet the work of that project is just beginning, with scholars such as Paula Gunn Allen providing models for ways women's expressive culture might be viewed as equally important in the Native American oral traditions circulating through the nineteenth century. While the new scholarship brings problems of its own, it does promise a more balanced, comprehensive, and historical sense of the multiplicity of the era's oral traditions.
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Clasically trained ballet dancer Alexander Fost continually impressed judges with his exciting and near-perfect performances with partner Sasha Mallory on this season of So You Think You Can Dance. While never falling into the bottom three, this week's paso doble performance turned tides in the opposite direction for the 21-year-old and while not a unanimous decision, he was sent home during Thursday night's live results show.
Here's what Alexander had to say about his time on the series...
You were compared to Sasha a lot this season. How did you feel about that?
"I feel like I forgot a little bit that being in a couple is about teamwork. I know for a fact that every week, Sasha and I worked really hard. During rehearsals and during the shows, none of the choreographers ever complained or said, you know, so and so is better. It's only when we went live and the show started to air that we started to get those comments. It's confusing 'cos you hear one thing during dress rehearsals and then during the show it's completely different. But it is what it is and sometimes you just have to make the best of it."
What was the hardest style for you to learn?
"I think for the most part, the hardest had to be contemporary. I was listed as a contemporary dancer, but... Well, hip-hop was hard as well 'cos there's a certain attitude and swag you need to be able to perform it at a certain level. Most importantly, though, contemporary is a challenge."
What did you find so hard about dancing contemporary?
"Well, as a ballet dancer, we don't roll on the floor, we don't lie around. Every time I touched the floor I got a bruise because I wasn't used to it. I didn't know how to maneuver my body in that way. Every time I got contemporary was a very big challenge and because I wasn't a contemporary dancer, the expectations were really hard. That was one of the most challenging dances yet, for sure."
You were classically trained in ballet and worked with Russian masters. What was that experience like?
"Very, very intense! With that said, this show is intense as well but that type of training was intense only because the European dancers are way more disciplined than American dancers. The way they approach it - even more so ballet - it's not just an art form but the passion they have towards it is tremendous."
When did you begin ballet training?
"I was not a ballet dancer at 17 or 18. It wasn't until about 19 - about two years ago - when I got really into ballet. I was able to compete and I won competitions and was able to travel. In a matter of months I succeeded only because of the level of training I received. They also showed me a sense of elegance that ballet has that I wouldn't normally get in the US, so it was great."
Are there any other genres of dance that you'd like to train in?
"The ballroom is something that I've really opened my eyes to. My last dance was the paso doble, and it's very similar to ballet in a lot of areas 'cos of the structure involved, but it was probably one of my favourite pieces I was ever able to do. Also, tap. I know they don't have tap on the show but as a dancer, I've really wanted to take tap for a while and I think that's something that I might end up doing so soon."
Who are your dream choreography collaborations?
"I think that Tyce [DiOrio] was one that I've loved working with and since I started dancing, I'd heard about him. Jamie King for another is one of my all-time favourite choreographers. I have close friends who know him personally and they say he's a great person and a brilliant mind and he's by far one of the best choreographers so I'd love to work with him."
What did you struggle with most on the show?
"I think the hardest part of the competition is not just working with a group of people that you've never danced with before or learning the choreography in only two days and going live the day after, but the hardest part is having a performance on live television and being critiqued. Whether it is a television show or not, it's also a popularity contest as well. Yes, it's very entertaining, but people at home will not vote for you because they don't like your costume or because you said something in the package that they don't agree with. Being on the show, you just have to remember how much you love to dance and what a great opportunity it is to perform on one of the biggest stages."
So You Think You Can Dance airs Wednesdays and Thursdays on Fox
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This May Be the Coolest Hot Dog Vendor of All Time
The San Francisco Giants have one of Major League Baseball's coolest ballparks and here's one reason why: McCovey Cove. That's a small inlet beyond the right field fence where dozens of kayakers and boaters gather to hang out, have parties and, if they're lucky, even snag a homerun ball during games.
For last night's Sunday Night Baseball tilt between the Giants and Dodgers, ESPN decided to reward all those loyal, sea-faring and ticketless fans. How? By equipping pro kayaker London Van Der Kamp with a whole bunch of hot dogs that he paddled around and gave out for free.
Predictably, the stunt sparked a bunch of Twitter chatter. Here are some photos:
1. Van Der Kamp's rig was equipped with a box full of hot dogs, condiments and an ESPN umbrella:
The #HotDogKayak is REAL, and it's handing out free hot dogs in McCovey Cove tonight on @espn Sunday Night Baseball. twitter.com/MLB/status/331…
— MLB (@MLB) May 5, 2013
2. He sailed around handing out the dogs to McCovey Cove boaters:
The #HotDogKayak in action! twitter.com/MLB/status/331…
— MLB (@MLB) May 6, 2013
3. Here he is in action, dressing a dog:
We're handing out free hot dogs tonight to fans in McCovey Cove for #LADvsSF. Introducing, the #HotDogKayak -> twitter.com/espn/status/33…
— ESPN (@espn) May 5, 2013
4. The world's coolest hot dog vendor made people pretty happy:
Nothing like enjoying a dog at the ballpark -or- in a kayak in McCovey Cove #HotDogKayak #LADvsSF on ESPN twitter.com/BBTN/status/33…
— Baseball Tonight (@BBTN) May 6, 2013
5. And here's the ballpark in the background:
Courtesy ESPN
What do you think — cool stunt or is it a dud? Let us know in the comments.
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