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Why Ohio Makes the Best Coaches
Post Date: 2008-12-26 12:39:21 by Rotara
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From Shula and Hayes to Stoops and Meyer, Ohioans rule football with a lunchbucket approach Ohio is a state in a deep recession, laid low by the decline of manufacturing. And yet, the Buckeye state is to college football coaching what Silicon Valley is to technology: It's where the brightest minds come from. The Cradle of CoachesView InteractiveSee an interactive map of coaches with an Ohio connectionBoth Florida's Urban Meyer and Oklahoma's Bob Stoops, who will face off in the national-championship game on Jan. 8, grew up in Ohio. Recent title-winners Jim Tressel of Ohio State and Les Miles of LSU are native Ohioans, as are two of the college game's rising stars, ...
Bowden: Lower divisions prove value of playoff
Post Date: 2008-12-18 19:26:21 by Rotara
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December 17, 2008 Bowden: Lower divisions prove value of playoffTerry BowdenRivals.com College Football Staff Here is a question to ponder as we get ready for bowl season: Where could a team that went 4-6 in 2007, from a school that never in its history had won a postseason football game, from a conference that never had won a football championship, beat a national powerhouse in the title game? That's right: It could only happen in a playoff. Bob Nielson guided Minnesota Duluth to its first national title. In the Football Bowl Subdivision, could Utah or Boise State win the national championship if given the chance to play for it? Well, Cinderella was at the dance – or ...
Retiring Football Coach Epitomizes Best of America
Post Date: 2008-12-13 14:32:42 by freepatriot32
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Every now and then, there comes along a local story that warrants greater attention because it represents a microcosm of America. That one of the most successful high school football coaches in the country has called it quits is such a story. Warren Wolf, who coached longer and notched more victories than anyone to ever coach in New Jersey, officially retired last week after coaching Brick Township's Green Dragons for 51 seasons. Wolf, who turned 81 years young this season, finished his legendary career with two words It's time. In his five-plus decades walking the Brick sidelines, Wolf coached his way into the history books, finishing with an astounding record of 361-122-11. He ...
Busy month ahead for new Washington coach
Post Date: 2008-12-12 01:12:18 by Rotara
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SEATTLE: Scott Woodward might have balked at the idea of Steve Sarkisian trying to split duties for the next month, especially when the task Sarkisian just inherited as the new coach at Washington appears so daunting. Turning around an 0-12 team needs as much time and attention as possible. But Woodward, Washington's athletic director, knows it can be done after seeing his friend Bo Pelini do two jobs at once a year ago. While Pelini was getting started at Nebraska he also had the responsibility of being LSU's defensive coordinator in the BCS championship game. So when Sarkisian requested that he continue as USC's offensive coordinator in the Rose Bowl on Jan. 1 against Penn ...
Some Tampa Bay Buccaneers can make a compelling case for owning handguns
Post Date: 2008-12-07 00:17:52 by freepatriot32
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The Giants’ Plaxico Burress, right, arrives at Manhattan Supreme Court for arraignment on gun charges Monday. TAMPA — Noah Herron had never given much thought to personal safety. The Bucs reserve running back and former Green Bay Packer had never had to. "I grew up in the country not being able to even see my neighbor's house. We didn't lock our doors at night," said Herron, a native of Mattawan, Mich., in the southwest part of the state. "I even felt like Green Bay (Wis.) was a small town and nothing would ever happen there. I slept many nights with my doors unlocked. So, with that being said, after feeling threatened for my life, I think (protection) is ...
Sean Avery Suspended From NHL For Elisha Cuthbert "Sloppy Seconds" Remark
Post Date: 2008-12-05 14:02:21 by scrapper2
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DALLAS — Of all the cajoling, snide remarks and other stunts Sean Avery pulled on the way to becoming the biggest pest in hockey, never had he gone so far that the NHL suspended him _ until Tuesday. Avery was punished indefinitely by commissioner Gary Bettman for using a crude term about his former girlfriends now dating other hockey players. Bettman acted within hours, in time to keep Avery out of the Dallas Stars' game against the Calgary Flames on Tuesday night. Avery's inflammatory line came following a morning skate in Calgary, Alberta. Reporters were waiting to speak with Avery about disparaging remarks he'd made last month about Flames star Jarome Iginla when Avery ...
New deal locks down Muschamp (Attached alert for White Guilt Bloggers)
Post Date: 2008-11-19 07:48:12 by Beendigen Sie die Kommunisten
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New deal locks down Muschamp Texas athletic director DeLoss Dodds said Tuesday that Will Muschamp will remain as the Longhorns’ defensive coordinator and will someday succeed Mack Brown as head coach, according to the Austin (Texas) American-Statesman. Dodds said a new contract that’ll raise Muschamp’s salary to $900,000 has been agreed to in principle. The new deal makes Muschamp the nation’s highest-paid assistant coach, according to the newspaper. “We want to keep Will Muschamp as our defensive coordinator at the University of Texas,” Dodds said. “We’ve decided to build our future from the inside.” Here's the rest of the Muschamp ...
Cowboys seek $350M finance deal
Post Date: 2008-11-18 15:03:04 by X-15
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The Dallas Cowboys are seeking to borrow $350 million by Dec. 1, according to numerous finance sources, in one of the worst credit environments in the nation’s history. The club’s proposed deal would refinance $126 million the team borrowed last year through the now-imploded auction-rate securities market, as well as add new debt to cover cost overruns at the team’s $1.2 billion stadium that is set to open next year, sources told Street & Smith’s SportsBusiness Journal, a sister publication. “Everyone is looking at the Cowboys’ deal. It is a huge bellwether,” said one finance source. “This is one of the only deals, period, in the market (sports ...
Parents Pull Kids From Day Care (And Other Deflationary Topics)
Post Date: 2008-11-14 20:54:04 by tom007
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Parents Pull Kids From Day Care (And Other Deflationary Topics) Here is an interesting deflationary twist on the state of the economy: Parents Pull Kids From Day Care as money tightens. The nation's economic troubles play out one family at a time at the New Horizons Learning Center in this struggling city two hours northwest of Chicago. Some parents have been laid off and must pull their children out of the day care center until they can find a job. Others' employment hours have been cut, so they reduce their kids' attendance to a few days a week. And the stress shows on the faces of the children who can't understand why their friends, without explanation, stop coming. ...
Texas' Buck Burnette Learns Why Racist Obama Facebook Updates Are Dumb
Post Date: 2008-11-07 11:35:39 by freepatriot32
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For those that don't know, Facebook status updates are broadcast to everyone you know. So, if you're going to post something that sounds racist or bigoted, well, don't. Texas Longhorn lineman Buck Burnette learned this the hard way. See, here was Buck's Facebook status following Barack Obama's win the presidential election: "all the hunters gather up, we have a #$%&er in the whitehouse" Geez, Buck. Even if you actually feel that way -- which is sad -- why not just keep it to yourself? You know, instead of telling five million people. But he didn't, and naturally, he is now paying the price; he's been kicked off the UT football team. On the very ...
This Is The Answer. We All Need To Do This
Post Date: 2008-11-07 00:57:30 by Old Friend
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WeAreCHANGE Destroys Karl Rove
REAL teamwork!! Royal Navy Field Gun Competition 1988
Post Date: 2008-11-06 20:56:07 by X-15
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Tuttle's New Car
Post Date: 2008-10-22 14:21:28 by tom007
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Could Mike Ditka have derailed Barack Obama's ascendancy?
Post Date: 2008-10-20 17:52:30 by Flintlock
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Sun Oct 19, 2008 11:39 am EDT Could Mike Ditka have derailed Barack Obama's ascendancy? By Chris Chase Barack Obama's easy win in the 2004 Illinois Senate race catapulted him to national fame and set him on his current path toward the White House. It was a convincing victory that is now but a footnote in the career of the Democratic presidential nominee. But that victory wasn't as assured as it appears in retrospect. For a few days in the summer of '04 there was the very real possibility that the Republican opponent in Obama's first major election battle race would be Chicago Bears coaching legend Mike Ditka. Jack Ryan had won the Republican primary that year, but ...
What a Relief!
Post Date: 2008-10-20 06:28:54 by Ada
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When I was a young boy, I loved collecting things. You name it, I collected it; antique toys, baseball cards, basketball, football, and comic books. Of course I thought that one day these things would be of great value. When I was a university student I was watching TV one night. On the news there was a report about a Mickey Mantle baseball card that sold for $5000 – or was it $50,000? I can't remember. I do remember, though, that I saw that report and thought, "I have that baseball card!" The next weekend I went to my parent’s house and searched for the card and, sure enough, I still had it. Off to the card collectors store I gleefully went. The store-owner took ...
Holtz Apologizes for Hitler Remark
Post Date: 2008-10-19 17:56:00 by freepatriot32
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ESPN analyst Lou Holtz apologized on air Saturday for mentioning Adolf Hitler during a college football studio show the previous night. The former Notre Dame coach said "Hitler was a great leader, too," while making a point about good and bad leadership during a discussion of the struggles of first-year Michigan coach Rich Rodriguez. "Last night while trying to make a point about leadership, I made an unfortunate reference,'' Holtz said. "It was a mistake and I sincerely apologize.'' An ESPN spokesman said Holtz will not be further disciplined. After Michigan lost 46-17 at Penn State, Rodriguez said he had not heard about what Holtz said. When told, ...
THE FALL OF WHITE EGYPT
Post Date: 2008-10-17 16:02:40 by IndieTX
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Part Five: The Nubians and the Fall of White Egypt SEA PEOPLES From the time of Tutankhamen onwards, the final decline of Egypt was irreversible. Later kings tried to reverse the trend - sometimes they succeeded, temporarily, in rolling back the waves of conquest and counter conquest in Palestine and Syria, and at one time a pharaoh did manage to take a Hittite princess as a bride. But there were fresh enemies: Egypt was now attacked by new Indo-European invaders emerging from the Aegean, the so-called Sea People. As their name implied, they arrived by boat and raided Egyptian settlements, leaving again by the means that they arrived. These Sea Peoples were mainly comprised of ...
O.J. Simpson found guilty of all charges in Nevada
Post Date: 2008-10-04 02:38:33 by christine
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LAS VEGAS -- O.J. Simpson, who went from American sports idol to celebrity-in-exile after he was acquitted of murder in 1995, was found guilty Friday of robbing two sports-memorabilia dealers at gunpoint in a Las Vegas hotel room. Simpson, 61, could spend the rest of his life in prison. A weary and somber Simpson released a heavy sigh as the charges were read by the clerk in Clark County District Court. He was immediately taken into custody. The Hall of Fame football star was convicted of kidnapping, armed robbery and 12 other charges for gathering up five men a year ago and storming into a room at a hotel-casino, where the group seized several game balls, plaques and photos. Prosecutors ...
Search Crews Find Adventurer Steve Fossett's Airplane
Post Date: 2008-10-02 14:28:14 by nikki
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Search Crews Find Adventurer Steve Fossett's Airplane Video Sheriff: Search Teams Find Fossett Wreckage Madera County sheriff John Anderson says search teams have found the wreckage of missing adventurer Steve Fossett's airplane. » LAUNCH VIDEO PLAYER LOS ANGELES, Oct. 2 -- Search crews high in the Sierra Nevada mountains have found wreckage of the small plane that belonged to adventure pilot Steve Fossett, who vanished 13 months ago after taking off alone from a Nevada airstrip, a local official in California said Thursday morning. Madera County Sheriff John Anderson confirmed that a ground crew had reached a crash site near Mammoth Lakes -- spotted from the air just ...
Jets' Smith Suspended for Scary Hit
Post Date: 2008-09-30 08:25:20 by freepatriot32
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PHOENIX (Sept. 29) - Hours after Arizona coach Ken Whisenhunt called for the NFL to review a helmet-to-helmet hit by New York's Eric Smith on Cardinals receiver Anquan Boldin, the Jets safety was suspended for one game. Boldin was resting at home on Monday, one day after being carted off the field in the Cardinals' 56-35 loss to the Jets in New Jersey. Team spokesman Mark Dalton said Boldin was fully mobile and was "resting comfortably at home" on Monday evening. The team released no other information on Boldin's condition. Smith also was fined $50,000 for a flagrant violation of player safety rules, the league said late Monday. Whisenhunt said he believed the hit ...
cheerleader uniforms Too Hot for School?(let them wear burkas! )
Post Date: 2008-09-25 09:31:54 by freepatriot32
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BOISE, Idaho (Sept. 23) - Less than a month into the football season, the Idaho Vandals are undergoing another makeover after spectators complained that cheerleaders' uniforms were flashing a little more than school spirit. After the football team dumped the school logo from the buttocks of their new pants, the university in Moscow got complaints that new two-piece cheerleader uniforms were too skimpy. "A number of fans were concerned that the uniforms were inappropriate,'' said Bruce Pitman, dean of students. "To be fair, there were a number of fans who liked them.'' The outfits that drew controversy, halter tops and short black skirts with white trim, were ...
Squirrel Game stopper
Post Date: 2008-09-24 19:45:33 by nikki
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Go to the URL to view. It's cute. Video was loading too slow to mess with. There will be an ad before the video.
Sarah Palin's wasteful ways
Post Date: 2008-09-19 14:31:43 by bush_is_a_moonie
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WASILLA, Alaska -- Sarah Palin has been touting herself as fiscal watchdog throughout her political career. But Palin's tenure as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, was characterized by waste, cronyism and incompetence, according to government officials in the Matanuska Valley, where she began her fairy-tale political rise. "Executive abilities? She doesn't have any," said former Wasilla City Council member Nick Carney, who selected and groomed Palin for her first political race in 1992 and served with her after her election to the City Council. Four years later, the ambitious Palin won the Wasilla mayor's office -- after scorching the "tax and spend mentality" of ...
Sliding Brewers Fire Manager Yost
Post Date: 2008-09-15 17:43:32 by freepatriot32
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MILWAUKEE (Sept. 15) - The Milwaukee Brewers fired manager Ned Yost on Monday, hoping to pull out of another late-season slump that has jeopardized the team's chance of making the playoffs for the first time since 1982. Third-base coach Dale Sveum will take over as interim manager for the remainder of the season. The Brewers have lost seven of eight and fallen into a tie with Philadelphia for the NL wild-card lead. At 83-67, the Brewers have just 12 games to rebound. Milwaukee came into this month with a 5 1/2-game lead in the wild card, but since has lost 11 of 14 - including a four-game sweep completed by the Phillies over the weekend. Milwaukee was idle Monday, and was scheduled ...
The Mad Max game for those with life skills
Post Date: 2008-09-13 01:15:56 by Tauzero
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The Mad Max game for those with life skills Australia's spirited Paralympic rugby players are primed for gold in Beijing. Yvonne Pecujac reports. THE roar from the court is deafening. Players shout as they dive for the ball. Arms pump and jaws clench. Bodies strain to push free from the tangle of arms and legs. There's an almighty heave and the bodies scatter. The ball sails overhead and the men ram their way down the court in search of a goal. In wheelchairs that look like they came straight out of Mad Max, even training sessions look like a demolition derby. The hubcaps on the battered metal chariots gleam like battle-scarred shields. The players freely admit murderball, or ...
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