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It was an ugly pitching line for Tigers' right-hander Rick Porcello Saturday at Comerica Park.
Eight runs – all earned. Twelve hits in 5 1-3 innings. Two home runs allowed. He surrendered a couple walks, too.
Was it a decided setback for Porcello? Or just a bad outing even the top MLB pitchers experience occasionally?
Porcello had pitched consistently well since the second half of last season until his poor outing Saturday, which raised his ERA nearly a run from 2.91 to 3.88 in 2014.
"He just got some pitches up where he didn't want them," Tigers manager Brad Ausmus said of Porcello. "On a good day, you got away with it. Today, Texas got ahold of a couple of them."
Porcello's battled a side injury.
"It's the best it has been the last three games," Ausmus said, "and the other two outings were pretty darn good."
He was 7-1 entering the game. His WHIP was barely above one. He is just 25 years old, yet viewed, perhaps unfairly, as an enigma.
Tigers' general manager Dave Dombrowski has made many outstanding decisions in recent years.
Despite Porcello's disappointing performance Saturday, was not giving into temptation and not trading him one of them?
I think so.
This is why:
Remember all the Porcello-for-Roy Halladay talk in 2009. It was just innuendo, nothing sourced. There has never been any proof given the Tigers even had an opportunity to make such a deal.
The idea lit up the phone lines on sports talk radio, and timelines during the early days of Twitter, though. Porcello was a 20-year-old rookie. In the long run, how would that decision turned out?
After all, despite his youth, Porcello has already won 68 MLB games.
Halladay, who will get my vote for the Hall of Fame after winning more than 200 MLB games, retired after last season. He had a couple brilliant years for the Philadelphia Phillies after being moved by Toronto, but the last two of his career didn't go well. He retired with a broken down arm at age 36.
But even if there was no possibility of a Porcello-for-Halladay deal, the Tigers could have traded Porcello and received a good haul by this point.
However, the Halladay-Porcello comparison remains a fascinating one after all these years.
Both were highly-regarded high school prospects taken in the first round of the draft. Halladay didn't have nearly the same success Porcello did in his early 20s. When he was 25, he experienced his breakout season. He went 19-7 with a 2.93 ERA. The next year he won 22 games and the AL Cy Young Award.
The 7-1 start appeared to be a similar emergence for Porcello, at least until Saturday. From July on last season, Porcello was 9-2. The Tigers have given him much run support, but a 16-3 mark over a long span is nonetheless noteworthy.
There have been obvious improvements from Porcello. He has done a better job of mixing his straight (four-seam) fastball with his bread-and-butter pitch, a sinking (two-seam) fastball. His curveball has gained bite. His command of the baseball has improved. Porcello has been better holding runners on base, as well.
Halladay was outstanding for the Phillies in 2010 and 2011 before faltering. Would it have been enough to put the Tigers over the top, especially in 2011?
It's a great question. It's the classic baseball debate about playing for now instead of the future. One world title would be worth it. It's often forgotten how great Doyle Alexander was in 1987 for the Tigers. There is no way they would have gotten to the playoffs without him. He had a good season the following year, too. Yet, it's difficult to argue it was worth trading future Hall of Famer John Smoltz, a fledging prospect at the time, for him without gaining a World Series title.
If it's any consolation to the Tigers' fans after Saturday's dud by Porcello, Halladay was 4-1 with 3.18 ERA after nine starts his breakout season at 25 in 2002. Like Porcello, he compiled a 7-2 mark, but was lit up initially when he went for his eighth win (five runs, 10 hits in 6 1-3 innings in a loss).
It turned out to be just a bad day on the way to brilliance, which was difficult to envision at the time, for Halladay,
There is same uncertainty regarding Porcello after he has a bad start at this stage of his career.
However, it is difficult to argue he hasn't done more, earlier in his career than Halladay, and that the Tigers were wise not to trade him.
Saturday's poor performance does not change that.


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Do you hate the world? The demo for Codemasters' destruction-mad shooter Bodycount might not let you outright end everything and put us all out of our unending misery, but it will let you smash up a small virtual corner of it. The demo launched today on Xbox 360, and "will follow" for PlayStation 3.
"The demo of Bodycount takes place very early in the game and what we've gone for is a really good display of what Bodycount's capable of, and what players can expect when they buy the full game," says level designer Andrew Parsons in an accompanying trailer. Better hope you enjoy the demo, then.
As is customary, the Xbox 360 demo is presently exclusive to Xbox Live Gold members. With the game launching on August 30, presumably the PS3 demo isn't too far off.
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DAVENPORT, Iowa – It is a fine day in spring when travelers have an opportunity to explore architecture, see inside churches, and learn about religious history.
The Hilltop Altar Crawl Tour of Historic Churches will be in full swing from 1 to 5 p.m. May 19.
This is the first time for the crawl, which consists of stops at six churches. No need to check the pocketbook before attending; the visits are free. To make touring easy, brochures can be found at all locations, as well as at the Hilltop Campus Village website.
The stars of the crawl are:
n Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, 323 W. 11th St.: This church was founded in 1866. It is a craftsman-style, half-timbered and stucco building that has been in use since 1908. In the congregation's early days, circuit riders were the ministers. There will be a bake sale to raise money for youth projects; the entire church will be open.
n First Baptist Church, 1401 Perry St.: This building was dedicated in 1890. The Baptists, however, had their first service in 1839. The sanctuary will be open, and an historical display and refreshments will be in the fellowship hall. Note the stained glass windows and the Romanesque revival style.
n First Christian Church, 510 E. 15th St.: First Christian's sanctuary came on the scene in 1966, making it the baby of the tour. Music will be part of the tour here. The sanctuary, prayer chapel, fellowship hall, and gymnasium will be open. An historical display and refreshments are included. The congregation will celebrate 175 years in 2014.
n First Presbyterian Church, 1702 Iowa St.: The sanctuary was built in 1897-98. Its style is Richardsonian Romanesque, known for steep roofs and block-like style. The sanctuary, balcony, chapel, and pastor's study will be shown. An organ demonstration and refreshments complete the tour in the fellowship hall.
n St. John United Methodist Church, 109 E. 14th St.: This Gothic revival church's cornerstone was laid in 1902. Guests will tour the sanctuary, conference-history room, and the former parsonage. Refreshments will be served in The Center across the street, which is where "Skate Church" is.
n Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 121 W. 12th St.: The oldest church on the tour is a Gothic revival cathedral. Its cornerstone was laid in 1867. It's made of native rock-faced random limestone. It may have taken a while, but the church's hope for a bell tower and steeple finally were realized 1998.
Parking lots are available near all the churches.
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Hazelnut Hot Chocolate Recipe
Vanilla beans and Frangelico liquor lend to the sophisticated flavor of this hot chocolate. With such rich taste, it could be served as a dessert.—Michael Compean, West Los Angeles, California
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- 3 vanilla beans
- 9 cups milk
- 2-3/4 cups heavy whipping cream, divided
- 15 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped
- 1/2 cup Nutella
- 2 tablespoons dark brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup hazelnut liqueur
- 1 ounce semisweet chocolate, shaved
- 1/4 cup chopped hazelnuts, toasted
- Cinnamon sticks, optional
- Split vanilla beans in half lengthwise. With a sharp knife, scrape the beans to remove the seeds. Set seeds aside; discard the beans.
- In a large saucepan, heat milk and 3/4 cup cream over medium heat just until mixture comes to a simmer. In a large heat-proof bowl, combine the bittersweet chocolate, Nutella, sugars, salt and vanilla seeds. Pour warm milk mixture over chocolate mixture. Let stand for 1 minute.
- Meanwhile, whip the remaining cream. Whisk chocolate mixture until smooth; stir in liqueur.
- Fill mugs or cups three-fourths full. Top with whipped cream, shaved chocolate and chopped hazelnuts. Garnish with a cinnamon stick if desired. Yield: 22 servings (1/2 cup each).
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TOPEKA -- Connie Gibbons has been named as director of the Mulvane Art Museum. She will assume her duties June 1.
Gibbons has served since 2011 as executive director of the Nicolaysen Art Museum and Discovery Center in Casper, Wyoming. Her previous appointments include executive director posts at the BB King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center, Indianola, Miss., and Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Chicago, Ill.
She holds a bachelor of science degree in photography from Drury College, Springfield, Mo., and a master of fine arts degree in photography and art history from Texas Tech University, Lubbock.
"We are very pleased Connie Gibbons has agreed to serve as the Director of the Mulvane Art Museum," said Randy Pembrook, vice president of academic affairs. "She brings a wealth of assets to this position including a diversity of experiences in directing museums and arts experiences in several states."
Pembrook also noted Gibbons has been instrumental in developing partnerships and has enthusiasm for educational outreach to the community. "Her work in curating, writing grants, and leading accreditation efforts will be invaluable to Mulvane and to Washburn University and we enthusiastically welcome her to Topeka," he said.
The Mulvane Art Museum is dedicated to providing art education and art resources to Topeka and surrounding areas. The Mulvane Education Department provides numerous options for all ages, including in-house and outreach programming. The Mulvane Art Museum cooperates with the Kansas Arts Commission, a state agency; the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency; the City of Topeka; ArtsConnect; local school districts; area agencies; businesses and private donors to offer citywide Art Resources for Topeka (A.R.T.) education programs.


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Thank you for printing the article in the Daily Camera by Noah Greenwald (Guest commentary, March 16) pointing out the need to protect the now rare wolverines from extinction. When I was young I grew up sitting on my father's couch next to the pelt of a wolverine that had been shot in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
I recently learned that they are now extinct in California and some other states. With less than 300 left in the lower 48 states, living in fragmented populations across Montana, Idaho, Oregon and Washington, they are rapidly heading towards extinction.
Since wolverines den and have their pups in remote mountains in the winter in dens as deep as six feet into the snow they will need to be protected from climate change. Large areas of territory will need to be kept roadless and preserved so that they can hunt and raise their young without disturbance and they will need to be protected from hunting and intentional or accidental trapping.
To protect the future of wolverines will mean adding them to the Endangered Species List and enforcing strong protections that are sensitive to their special needs. And to the wolverine on the couch, I am sorry for what happened to you and your kin. I hope humanity steps up and does what is necessary to protect your species.


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Issue 217 8 – 14 February 2013
In This Issue
Japan quake study [2]
Solomon Islands [2]
SCANZ conference [2]
New from the SMC [2]
New Sciblogger [2]
Policy News [2]
Sci-tech events [2]
Quick Links
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Japan quake released stress
Samples of rock drilled from depths of the Pacific seafloor have revealed the tremendous release of tectonic pressure that occurred during the 2011 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake [7].
The findings could have important implications for the understanding of fault boundaries and tsunami risk near New Zealand, says a Kiwi geologist involved the research.
The new study, published today [8] in the journal Science, found that nearly all the stress built up at the plate boundary near the epicentre was released in the tsunami-generating magnitude 9.0 quake.
Researchers on board the scientific drilling vessel Chikyu [9]drilled boreholes into the fault zone, 850 meters below the sea floor and almost seven kilometers underwater (video of scientists aboard the Chikyu identifying the fault zone in drill core samples can be seen here [10]).
The stresses on rock samples were measured using electrical currents to detect the extent of fracturing.
Dr Virginia Toy
The results of the study indicated a nearly complete drop in stress following the earthquake. Such a large release is unusual, according to University of Otago geologist Dr Virginia Toy [11].
"This is significant because most earthquake faults only release a small portion (typically 10%) of the stress in the crust around them, not nearly 100% as in this case," she said in a media release from the University of Otago.
Dr Toy also said the results suggest that subduction zone faults in other locations, including around New Zealand, need to be more carefully examined. New Zealand has "so much of its coastline exposed to the Pacific Ocean, which is ringed by subduction zones, for example in Tonga-Kermadec, Hikurangi and Chile."
"If the materials in the fault planes are similar to those in the Japan Trench, it is likely they will also be very frictionally weak and therefore that we can also expect very large seafloor displacements when they slip,"
"It means that we should be prepared for other similar subduction zones to generate very large tsunami."
Selected examples of media coverage of the study can be found here [12].
On the science radar…
Food and sleep [13], smelling in stereo [14], 3D printed stem cells [15], the return of Richard III [16] and exploding robots [17].
Solomon Islands shaken, swamped
The full extent of the damage from Wednesday's magnitude 8.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami in the Solomon Islands is still to be determined.
While New Zealanders enjoyed a sunny Waitangi Day holiday, the Solomon Islands were shaken by a magnitude 8.0 quake with an epicentre near the Santa Cruz [18] Islands.
The quake triggered a tsunami which flooded several islands, causing damage to villages. Tsunami warnings were also issued for more distant coastlines, including New Zealand [19], but lifted later in the day.
Currently, ten people are reported dead [20] in the Solomon Islands but the number may rise as others remain missing.
Strong aftershocks continue to be reported [21] in the region.
Professor James Goff, Director of the Tsunami and Natural Hazards Research Group at the University of New South Wales, commented to the AusSMC:
"This part of the Solomon Islands is in a particularly active part of the boundary between the Australian and Pacific Plates, and has seen a swarm of earthquakes recently. In geological terms, this is hot on the heels of the 2007 event that occurred in the Western Province and killed 52 people – an area of different plate boundaries and different activity, but in reality we know very little about the long-term earthquake and tsunami activity of the entire Solomon Islands region and so cannot say with any confidence whether this type of event we have seen today is out of the ordinary or how often we might expect it to happen in the future.
"Much work needs to be done to improve our understanding of such events in the Solomon Islands for the safety of both local and regional communities."
Professor Goff will be taking up an Erskine Fellowship as a visiting lecturer at the University of Canterbury [22] in April, working on tsunami research.
You can read more expert commentary on the Science Media Centre website [23].
Science panel up for a Challenge
A panel of top researchers and some budding young scientists have been appointed to identify New Zealand's National Science Challenges [24] for the Government.
The panel will sift through hundreds of submissions with the aim of identifying the top 10 challenges to put before the government by the end of February.
Selection criteria [25]for challenges includes the likelihood of impact, scientific feasibility and overall benefit to New Zealand.
Announcing the panel, Science and Innovation Minister Steven Joyce said, "Over the last few months we have had excellent input from both the public and the science sector, with hundreds of submissions, ideas and proposals on what these key challenges should be."
"The final challenges will help focus our overall science funding investment, and help foster links across the research community in New Zealand to maximise the impact of work already underway in the Challenge areas.
The Panel, chaired by Sir Peter Gluckman, includes SMC Advisory Panel Member Prof Jacqueline Rowarth and Macdiarmid PhD student Elf Eldridge, who writes for SciBlogs [26].
Details of the full panel can be found in a media release [27]
from the Ministry of Business and Innovation and Employment.
Quoted: Radio New Zealand
"I'd be disappointed if these weren't very visionary. You might never quite achieve it but you are going to do a hell of a lot on the way through."
– Dr Ian Ferguson on the National Science Challenges [24]
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Experts Respond: [3]
Solomon Island tsunami: Australian experts comment [23]on the quake and resulting tsunami in the Solomon Islands this week.
In the news: [28]
Japan quake a stress reliever: Samples drilled from the seafloor have revealed the extent [12] of tectonic stress released by the 2011 Tohoku quake.
Data viz guru joins Sciblogs
Sciblogs, the largest blog network in Australasia, welcomes a new blogger this week, with Dr Mike Dickison joining the fold.
Mike will be blogging under the banner Pictures of Numbers [29], where he will be looking at the increasingly popular area of data visualisation and giving New Zealand scientists tips on how to unlock the potential in their own data.
Recently Mike teamed up with fellow Sciblogger Dr Siouxsie Wiles to develop an infographic looking at the morbidly fascinating topic of what New Zealanders die of [30].
Mike's background is in zoology – he did his PhD on giant flightless birds. He consults on information design and data visualisation. Read more about him here [31].
Sciblogs highlights
Some of the highlights from this week's posts:
The case of the disappearing Elf [32] – Elf Eldridge goes dares to question current theories and goes hypothesis testing with science engagement.
Just So Science
'Divine commands' and personal conscience [33]– Ken Perrot examines the philosophy behind arguments
Open Parachute
Beach Mouse Pelt Map [34]– Scibbogs newcomer Mike Dickison does an infographic make over on an ecological research figure.
Pictures of Numbers
Progress in restoring wetlands in New Zealand [35]– Bev Clarkson outlines recent research aiming to increase the number and success rate of wetlands.
Research highlights
Please note: hyperlinks point, where possible, to the relevant abstract or paper.
Fairytale genetics: A University of Auckland researcher and colleagues have adapted methods from biology to examine patterns of variation in a popular folktale – the Tale of the Kind and the Unkind Girls, which appears in the Brothers Grimm collection. Paralleling human genetic diversity, the researchers found that versions of the folktale changed over geographic distance and language barriers.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B [36]
Tohoku quake a stress reliever: The massive 2011 earthquake in Japan released nearly all of the stress that had built up along the plate boundary in that region, according to a new study. The Expedition 343 team, which included a University of Otago scientist, drilled bore-holes along the fault line on the seafloor to examine the stress changes in rock layers post-quake. They found that there had been a near complete drop in stress following the earthquake. Images available.
Science [8]
'Listen to your heart': Women who are better at listening to their hearts – literally – tend to have a more positive perception of their own body, according to new research. The study found that accuracy in a heartbeat perception test was linked with perception of one's body as an object, as measured by a questionnaire. These findings have important implications for understanding body image dissatisfaction and clinical disorders which are linked to self-objectification, such as anorexia.
PLOS One [37]
The mothmobile: Forget about dogs driving cars, a new study has put insects behind the wheel. Japanese researchers have developed a two-wheeled robot which is driven by a male silkmoth. The 'drivers' were able to steer the machine to a target point releasing enticing female moth sex pheromones, allowing researchers to closely monitor the moths neural activity during goal-oriented behaviour. Video available here [38].
Bioinspiration and Biomimetics [39]
Mobile networks measure rain: Because raindrops absorb and scatter the radio signals received by cellular communication towers, cell phone communication networks could be used to monitor rainfall, say Dutch researchers. They were able to use cell networks in the Netherlands to record rainfall patterns and suggest their method could be used in locales with poor meteorological monitoring systems.
Digital text easy on old eyes: Despite grumbling about the new technology, older readers seem to find it easier to read text on digital devices like e-readers and tablets. New research used brainwave monitoring and eye tracking to show that reading text on digital devices (as opposed plain old paper) requires less neural effort for older individuals – but not younger participants.
PLOS One [41]
Policy updates
Some of the policy highlights from this week:
Science Challenge panel: A panel of 11 top researchers and young scientists have been appointed [27] to identify New Zealand's National Science Challenges for the Government.
Upcoming sci-tech events
• The Invisible World: Images of Nanotechnology [42]– Opening 8 February; Exhibition 8-23 February, Auckland.
• Moving in extreme environments symposium [43] – 8-9 February, Dunedin.
• Sixth International Conference on Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology [44](AMN-6) – 11-15 February, Auckland.
• Accurate and Efficient Use of Nutrients on Farms [45] – 26th Annual FLRC Workshop – 12-14 February, Palmerston North.
• Energy at the Crossroads: Energy Innovation for a Sustainable Society [46] – 12 -14 February, Wellington.
For these and more upcoming events, and more details about them, visit the SMC's Events Calendar [47].
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A bill to raise ethical standards at the Public Service Commission sailed through the Senate Rules Committee Tuesday, clearing the way for Senate floor debate as early as the first week of the 2010 session next month. The 20-member Rules Committee is one of the Senate's largest.
Citing "numerous news reports" about improper communication between PSC members and staff and utility officials about pending rate cases, Sen. Mike Fasano, R-New Port Richey, called for passage of the bill (SB 1034), which would levy $5,000 fines for violations. Referring to cozy relationships between commissioners, staff members and utilities, Fasano told senators: "That's not what the public wants to see. I certainly don't want to see it."
The bill requires the five commissioners to obey the code of judicial conduct, which applies to judges, and requires written and oral communications be posted on the PSC website within no more than 72 hours. An amendment extends from two to four years the term of office of the public counsel, who represents citizens in PSC rate cases.
The vote was 17-1 with two members absent. The only dissenter, Sen. Gary Siplin, D-Orlando, criticized the provision that would extend from two to four years the ban on PSC commissioners and staffers from going to work for regulated utilities. "Why would we want to prevent people from working?" Siplin asked.
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Unverified Voracity Has Bad News For Les Miles
I agree with these men, whatever they happen to be saying. Would you like your Gallon touchdown in… Italian or something?
Les Miles is in a lot of trouble, unless he isn't in any. Sports Illustrated has published the first of five articles detailing NCAA malfeasance at Oklahoma State initiated during the Les Miles era and continuing today. This one is about players getting money from boosters—a lot of them:
In separate interviews seven other former Cowboys told SI they received cash payments; 29 other OSU players were named by teammates as having also taken money. Those payments, which stretched from 2001 to at least '11, were primarily delivered three ways: a de facto bonus system based on performances on the field, managed by an assistant coach; direct payments to players from boosters and coaches independent of performance; and no-show and sham jobs-- including work related to the renovation of Boone Pickens Stadium -- that involved at least one assistant coach and several boosters.
The moral outrage here is all gone…
One or two standouts bought a new car or expensive jewelry, team members say, but the vast majority of the players used the extra cash to purchase everyday items -- food, clothing, tickets to a movie. "There were some athletes who were almost starving," says Carter. "Wherever the money came from, they were like, Yeah, I'll take that."
…but flagrantly violating NCAA rules is, you know, not good. And if you're wondering why so many dudes are breaking omerta here; we may find out at the end of the series, which promises an article on:
One of the selling points of college football is that it changes lives, that young men have their character and fortunes enhanced by taking part in the sport, even if they remain on campus for only a short time. But in the past decade, player after player has been driven out of Stillwater, returning to worlds they had hoped to escape. Some have been incarcerated, others live on the streets, many have battled drug abuse, and a few have attempted suicide. COMING IN NEXT WEEK'S SI/ONLINE SEPT. 17
That does retain outrage.
I'm surprised, but not that surprised. Miles has left a trail of sketchy events in his wake that get overwhelmed by his nuttiness. I may have been 100% wrong about Hoke during the last coaching search, but at least I was right about Miles. Again, it's wonderful to look at Brady Hoke and know that he will neither choose a dumb punt nor turn purple on the sideline nor have a massive cadre of discontent former players who hate him so much to take him down.
Side note: I feel really bad for Brian Phillips. Squinky's revenge. I may feel less bad when Oklahoma State gets a warning squint from the NCAA.
You oughta have excellent medical insurance. Purdue football in two articles. One:
Purdue safety to play vs. Indiana St. with two broken hands
It's not unusual for a college football player to wrap up a broken hand and play with it, particularly for a big game. But Purdue safety Landon Feichter is preparing to play for his Boilermakers' home opener against Indiana State Saturday with two broken hands.
Purdue safety Landon Feichter breaks leg
Feichter was forced to leave Saturday's game in the first half with a leg injury and coach Darrell Hazell confirmed on Saturday night that Feichter had suffered a broken leg.
It's just a flesh wound.
The moral of the story is if you see Purdue football coming towards you, punch it in the nose and run away. Purdue football will have a broken nose, but won't be able to tell.
Jeremy Gallon presents. Okay, official Michigan tumblr, okay:
Gardner knows this is going on, and enjoys looking at the back of his own head.
So that explains it. Via Doug Karsch, Jeremy Gallon describes his game:
"That was a great performance. After the game, I asked him, 'How tall are you, and how tall do you play?' He said, 'I'm 5-8 and a half, but I play like I'm 5-9.'
Now is not then. Orson found this. It is Greg Robinson:
This man was in charge of our defense. He is a weirdo who sets everything on fire. How does that guy get hired by anyone to do anything more complicated than clean gutters?
Saying a quarterback reminds you of Erik Ainge of Tennessee can be good and bad. It's good, because he's mobile, physically gifted, and often fearless. It's bad because sometimes that means Evil Erik Ainge, the one who threw interceptions when the team could least afford it. Gardner sort of reminds me of Ainge. Tommy Rees, however, might BE Erik Ainge, using a warm body as a spiritual proxy to replay his career in an alternate historical line.
Accuracy issues largely put aside, Gardner's main issue is Reesin' it too often.
Yes. Throw it to Dileo. From Michigan Monday:
Drew Dileo had three catches for 18 yards out of the slot, including the final touchdown of the game on a nice option route that left a defender reminiscing about where Dileo used to be and no longer was.
Get this man the ball.
LAZERS. Stewart Mandel:
That No. 17 Michigan beat the comparably ranked No. 14 Irish is not especially surprising. That it rolled up 41 points on a very talented Notre Dame defense, however, is eye-opening. In particular, quarterback Devin Gardner put all questions to rest about what Michigan's offense will look like post-Denard Robinson. It looks really darn explosive, primarily because Gardner -- who wore No. 98 this week in honor of 1940 Heisman winner Tom Harmon -- has asserted himself as a laser-armed passer.
…Gardner's skills were never more evident than on his last touchdown pass, which came on second-and-goal from the four-yard line with 4:18 remaining. With Notre Dame pass rushers Stephon Tuitt and Prince Shembo coming at him full bore from opposite sides, Gardner set his feet and threw a perfectly placed dart to receiver Drew Dileo in the end zone.
Probably not a rivalry. This is on the official Notre Dame football blog:
That Notre Dame was struggling against Michigan made me feel that void much more acutely than I would had we been winning, or even struggling against another opponent.
But this was Michigan.
I was shaking in the aftermath of the two fourth-quarter pass interference calls, completely enraged. "I can't remember the last time I was this pissed," I texted my dad, who replied, "2011."
Oh, yeah. 2011.
Etc.: Michigan moves into BCS bowl projections. MVictors has everything you need to know about the Harmon stuff. USF dude impressed with M-ND. Gardner and Gallon postgame. NDMSPaint does Eminem. Northwestern QBs were rather good against Syracuse. Stuffing the Passer. Go. Partake.
Unverified Voracity Gawps At Stuff
[Programming note: UFR is coming today, but later than usual, say 4 or 5. For some reason I'm having trouble summoning the willpower to slog through all of it.]
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Holgo. I know they hate our guts and went all ex-girlfriend on us when Rich Rodriguez left, but I can't help but want West Virginia to tear the Big 12 up. They're weird, passionate, isolated from all recruiting hotbeds that are not Pittsburgh, they've got a history of putting up video-game numbers, and their coach says stuff like this:
I don't think it would go well if we hired that guy (learning: I has it), but I'll admire them from afar.
I am not sure you are up on recent events. Air Force coach Troy Calhoun on Michigan:
"There are a handful of programs in college football that are guaranteed at least 10 victories every season," Calhoun said, "Michigan is one of them. They clearly are the favorite to win the Big Ten Conference."
I'm imagining a world where this is literally true. I'm so happy, in this world. I wear sunglasses all the time and high five anyone I come across. I make pancakes a lot just so I can put a whipped-cream smiley face on them. If my car breaks down, I exclaim "aw, shucks!"
I chew bubble-gum nonstop.
my watch says it is STAB O'CLOCK
How did this not end in homicide? Serious question:
The misery wasn't over for some fans of the No.8-ranked Michigan Wolverines on Saturday night at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington when their team took a 41-14 pounding at the hands of then-No. 2 Alabama Crimson Tide.
Many who planned to catch a taxi for the return trip to their hotels or other lodgings after the nationally televised football game were in for a long wait. Some complained of standing in line with dozens of other fans and waiting as long as two hours for a cab.
Beer + that game + two hour wait for cab == STABBY STABBY STAB STAB. The local news channel interviewing these folks says this lady is not mincing words!
Michigan fan Elizabeth Jahn minced no words. "If there's a system, and this is where the fans are supposed to be stationed and situated, that should be communicated to the cab companies," she said.
That lady minced those words, TV station. She took those words and made them tiny and even by chopping. If she was not mincing words she would have said "I STAB YOUUUUUUU."
Alphabetical. Spencer kicks it off by talking about how Alabama owned Michigan. At least we're not alone:
Again, it is not a Big Ten thing: disabuse yourself of that notion immediately, Michigan fan. The last thing we want you feeling is special, because what happened to you on Saturday night in Dallas was not special. Slightly different than in past years? Perhaps: Doug Nussmeier's offense appears to be a bit more happy to turn A.J. McCarron loose, particularly in early innings, and the defense didn't pressure so much as constrict Michigan into tiny, useless spaces turning Denard Robinson into a doomed sub captain. Depth charges: Alabama has them
Unfortunately, his assertion that no one died does not account for the Countess injury. Sad face.
Bubble popping? I've muttered about how college football fans are getting close to the breaking point for a while now, and Pat Forde has just documented an opening weekend that was an attendance bust all around. I was shocked at more than one of these factoids:
There was exactly one announced capacity crowd in eight Southeastern Conference home openers. Before the Labor Day Georgia Tech-Virginia Tech game, six out of seven Atlantic Coast Conference schools had smaller crowds than their openers last year – some of them much smaller. Attendance was down at six out of eight Big 12 home openers from 2011. Five out of eight Pac-12 schools had smaller crowds as well, and Oregon's 13-year sellout streak was in jeopardy until game day.
I saw the Florida-BGSU game and was shocked at a corner of the endzone in the upper deck that was all but empty. Even the bluebloods are reaching their limit.
Michigan doesn't seem to have similar problems except when it comes to getting the students to show up on time, but they should benefit from this trend. They may have already after snagging one-off home games with Oregon State and Colorado in the near future. Would those have happened ten years ago? Probably not. Increasing ticket prices and the ubiquity of television are pushing the economics of college football back towards actual games between teams. Tomato cans aren't going away but we should see them gradually recede from their boring-ass apex. High five, epic ongoing recession!
Bubble expanding. Via Get The Picture, the Ed O'Bannon lawsuit that threatens to drain money from the NCAA and give it to the players whose images have been expropriated has decided to aim higher:
O'Bannon seeks a judge's permission to expand the class action to include current D-I football and men's basketball players. O'Bannon does not ask that current players be paid while in college. Instead, he wants a temporary trust set up for monies generated by the licensing and sale of their names, images and likenesses. Players could access those trusts at the completion of their collegiate careers.
The O'Bannon plan sends half(!) of broadcasting and a third of video game revenue to the players. Even partial success here would be seismic. I'm in favor, obviously.
Austin Hatch to 2014. Everyone in the world speculated that Austin Hatch would take another year of high school after his tragic plane crash, and now that's official. He's a 2014 recruit now.
Michigan is now at 13 for next year's team will have open spots if Hardaway or Trey Burke head for the NBA, which is why they're still after some 2013 guys. The most prominent is Reggie Cameron, a 2.0 version of Smotrycz hopefully without the existential depression.
As for Hatch, if he doesn't recover to the point where he can play, Michigan will still honor his scholarship. Presumably they would give him a medical; I'm guessing in this situation the NCAA would provide whatever waivers would be necessary lickety-split.
!?!?!?!? Touch the Banner interviews JB Fitzgerald, and he says this!
(3.) If you had to choose, who was your favorite coach at Michigan, including position coaches?
"So many great coaches I had the privilege of learning from, which I expected going into a program like Michigan. Two coaches really stand out. First, Greg Robinson - truly a class act and the depth of football knowledge that I was able to gain from him is hard to put a price on. And then of course Coach Hoke."
Air Force stuff. Via mgovideo:
Oosterbaan unretirement. MVictors scores an interview with Ben McCready, Bennie Oosterbaan's godson:
MVictors: As one of the representatives of Bennie Oosterbaan family, did the athletic department reach out to you to ask if the family would be interested in participating in the Legends program?
McCready: Dave Brandon contacted me last September to see what I thought of the Legends program. I loved the idea. He and asked if I could put him in touch with members of Bennie's family. I was happy to put Dave in touch with Bennie's surviving relatives (8 in all), most of whom Bennie and his wife Delmas were very close to throughout their lives. Dave sent letters to all of them. Every member of the family responded to Dave that they loved and supported the Legends Program and the "unretiring" of Bennie's jersey.
McCready wants Jordan Kovacs to wear 47, which nooooooooooooooooooo.
Seriously, though, as the guy who famously hauled in Benny Friedman's passes, I'd hope Oosterbaan's 47 goes to a wideout. 47 would be a lot more notable on a WR than a defensive player, and Michigan already has to throw Gerald Ford's #48 to someone other than a lineman due to modern-day number restrictions. The Wisterts' #11 should end up on the DL somewhere; Ron Kramer should obviously be given to a TE.
Etc.: Quality diary featuring Hall and Oates. A dinged Rex Burkhead does not need surgery. He may be out a bit but should be fine by the time Michigan hits Lincoln. Texas A&M is going to get pwned. This Week in "John L Smith must stay forever": prank-calls reporter at presser. Comprehensive M blogosphere Alabama react collection. To his credit, Dantonio says MSU players need to shut up.
The Story 2012: The Real William Carlos Williams
Previously: The Story 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008. Preview 2011.
Sometimes there's a man... I won't say a hero, 'cause what's a hero? But sometimes there's a man … and I'm talkin' about the Dude here… sometimes there's a man, well, he's the man for his time and place. He fits right in there.
-The Stranger, The Big Lebowksi
I construct the preview every year from the bones of the previous one, and when I took my first stabs at organizing what I was going to say about the secondary I ran across this, because obviously:
How long ago was that? A hundred years.
Joe Paterno was still Penn State's coach, and wonderful. JT Floyd was unable to stay within ten yards of a receiver. Michigan's football program was riven with factionalism. Craig Roh was some sort of linebacker and Kenny Demens was lining up an inch from the nose tackle. Rich Rodriguez had hired Greg Robinson, and this was Greg Robinson burning the world in response.
How long ago was this?
Bathrooms had not yet been invented. Top hats were all the rage. Punting was a good idea. Pterodactyls were the hot new species. It was a long, long time ago, October of 2010. A long time ago.
It was college, so we did ridiculous things. In my sophomore year one of those was having a fight about who the "real William Carlos Williams" was. William Carlos Williams was obviously the real William Carlos Williams but somehow Kit and Sunil contrived to have a dispute about which one of them really was the real William Carlos Williams anyway. This was settled the way these things always are: with a poetry-off.
We met with great solemnity in Ryan's dorm room. One of us had found a recipe for a drink that supposedly tasted like apple pie. I was still in the phase where changing my state of mind with alcohol was something beneath me and did not partake. I do remember there being whipped cream from a can. It was drinking in a dorm room. Of course there was whipped cream.
Embarrassingly sweet drinks were consumed as the festivities progressed until the poetry-off. Kit and Sunil would be given a topic and asked to compose a poem on that theme in the style of William Carlos Williams. The topic—revealed with the allez cuisine flourish of an Iron Chef ingredient—was red-haired women.
When the allotted minutes had passed and time was called, Kit went first. Kit had prepared. His poem was a mélange of repurposed WCW lines that he'd memorized and crammed together into a surprisingly coherent Frankenstein of a poem.
Sunil was next. He'd had far too much to drink and was showing it. Sitting on Ryan's bed slumped over, he roused himself. He looked down at what he'd written, and started.
"I love red haired bitches
they say 'whatever' and 'like'
how easily we imbibe their terminology
At this juncture Sunil toppled over backward on the bed and said no more. The panel of judges unanimously declared him the Real William Carlos Williams. Sunil celebrated by throwing up into the trash.
I think about Sunil's poem whenever someone other than Brady Hoke calls the Great Eye of Columbus "Ohio." This is all the time. Kit assembled a frankenpoem from someone's else's mouth; Sunil just said stuff. One of these things stuck. There's an "imbibe this terminology" tag on this blog.
Brady Hoke dropped the "State" from Ohio and drove the Buckeyes to distraction to the point where the program—not just the fans—celebrated the return of "that school up north" like Terrelle Pryor welcoming an auto dealer into his tattoo-artist-sponsored apartment. Hoke dropped "This is Michigan" in his introductory press conference and tacked on the "fergodsakes" that made it immortal. He called last year's outfit Team 132, and now this year's outfit is team 133 and the ridiculous recruiting class that will enroll next year is shooting #team134 hashtags back and forth across twitter.
Hoke didn't seem to mean anything by any of it. He just talked, and though he tried to press-conference it things slipped out sideways. We imbibed them.
That's marketing. The rest is just repetition.
A year ago—or a hundred, whatever, I can't tell anymore—I wrote a story about the 2011 season that focused on how it was a damn good thing that Denard and Mike Martin and Ryan Van Bergen and Kevin Koger were around because I'd been in the stands when they were losing to Purdue and some guy kept screaming "they don't have any HEART" and heard tale after tale of shameful behavior directed at Rich Rodriguez—if you can't recall, he was the head coach at the time—by program alums.
A year later, Brady Hoke has every last Michigan fan marching behind him, not to mention Greg Mattison and a heaping handful of the country's best high school football players. This has just happened, you know? It is of course planned and difficult and meticulousness is required, but on one level Hoke just vacuumed everyone up because he is who he is.
Last February I was in a hotel in Grand Rapids where people had gathered to talk about football. I'm in the very corner of this room and I've got longer hair than any five other people in it put together and a goatee and I look like I do, you know. Like a guy who has trouble crossing borders sometimes. I could have been wearing a sequined dress and heels and not have looked less like a football coach than I did.
Hoke is standing two feet in front of me.
I have this completely insane fear that somehow Hoke will recognize me even though he knows nothing about me. He may not even know what the internet is. But this is an insane fear, remember. I don't want to make eye contact in case he says "you're the one who wrote a post called 'Profiles In Cronyism' about me, and several other uncomplimentary things besides" and this will spur the rest of the room to toss me bodily out of this hotel. But I'm staring at him all the same.
Borges is there, too. He's talking a couple rooms down but has stopped in for a visit. In an hour I'll sneak over to his talk and listen, enraptured, for an hour as he describes Michigan's passing concepts, and feel embittered when he has to stop instead of continuing on for another four. Before he gets into it he'll tell the room that it is great working for "Brady" because he trusts you to do your job, unlike some coaches he's worked under. When he says it, it sounds like he's saying no one will ever leave him, because why would you?
Right now Borges is surveying a room packed from stem to stern for Hoke and making a self-depreciating comment about the lack of people in his much smaller room. Brady grins, and says "Nobody cares about offense, Al. Who cares about offense?" He says it again. He laughs, and is completely at ease as myself and a half-dozen other star-struck folk file this interaction away in our brains. He walks away and we fall into line behind him, like so many others.
Unverified Voracity Stops Fearing Books
I'll miss you, Birds+Books APR image header, except I'll probably still use you
APR threat: downgraded. My annual fretting about the first-year Rich Rodriguez number has been a full-post kind of thing the last few years. This year it gets downgraded to a UV bullet because of this number: 984. That's Michigan's most recent one-year score, and it's shiny enough to get Michigan over the 930 Mendoza line even with that 897 anchor. Hurray for everyone.
Unless Michigan experiences another flurry of transfers—unlikely—the next few June days on which everyone reports APR scores because it's the middle of June will be opportunities to reflect on what a swell guy Brady Hoke is. Officially standing down on APR alert.
Michigan's other sports are all doing well, as per usual.
Playoff: almost officially happening. It seems like we've had articles about the inevitably of a four-team playoff for months now. At some point if the thing is so inevitable people would stop writing about it. No one's writing about players being required to wear helmets this fall. Anyway, it seems like there has finally been a meeting with an actual single endorsed plan. It is this (emphasis added):
While the B.C.S. commissioners did not announce the details of how they would pick the teams for the four-team playoff, a source with direct knowledge of the decision said the plan is for a selection committee to "more than likely" pick the four best teams.
There will be a preference given to conference champions in the selection, but how much is yet to be determined. Strength of schedule will also be strongly considered. There have yet to be any discussions about how the finances will be split among the teams.
The selection committee will subject a sport steeped in regional biases to a different type of controversy, although one that will likely die down a bit now that there will be semifinal and final games. The two semifinal games are expected to be played within the bowl system and the national championship will be bid on like the Super Bowl.
In a joint statement, the 11 conference commissioners and the Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick said that they had reached a "consensus behind a four-team, seeded playoff, while recognizing that the presidents will certainly present their views, including a discussion of a Plus-One."
That's lip service. Presidents are going to rubber stamp it. Pop champagne? It could be better but it's a huge improvement. Other than the Big Ten's self-defeating opposition to home playoff games leading them to perpetual road travels, I'm cool with it. FWIW, even without preferences for conference champions, the SEC would only have grabbed multiple bids three times.
As for where the first one will be, bet on Dallas.
Why not both? This is a revamped sports bar split into MSU and Michigan halves.
Revamped? Revamped.
VERNON TWP. — Uncle Buck's Northern Exposure is making a dramatic change in format — from a nearly topless dance club to big-screen sports bar.
In fact, it was an overload of drama, says owner Ken Canfield, that prompted the change, including a different name: Crossroads Sports Bar.
Missed opportunity there.
[via EDSBS.]
Hockey schedule: again with the front-loading. Michigan's released the hockey schedule, which again has an extremely light back end. Nine of Michigan's final 12 games are away from home (one is at the Joe) and there are just six home games (and the U18 game) in 2013. Not like they could do anything about that what with the conference going away next year. Price of leaving.
Michigan plays no road games in the slim nonconference portion of the schedule. They've got two against RIT, another one-off versus Bentley, the game at MSG against Cornell, and the outdoor GLI. They'll open against Tech and get WMU or MSU in the second game.
I hope this isn't an indication of where Michigan's nonconference schedule will go when they join the Big Ten. It probably isn't. Red has sought out tough competition as frequently as possible since the program got its footing, and with a whopping 14 games to play with—16 if M makes the trip to Alaska—they should have room for annual series against the big powers.
Context at Maize and Brew.
Should you flip your defense or not? Generally the answer is "not" these days because of spread hurry up stuff. You may remember Michigan doing this a bit early in the year, but that was a stop-gap measure:
Why to Flip
Flipping the defensive positions based on strength of the Offensive formation started as a way to keep teaching simple.
Rather than having to teach a Defensive End to play either lined up either inside a Tight End or outside shade on a Tackle, you could teach him to always align to the strength, meaning he spent all of his time on the Tight End.
The teaching got simpler, as players had to know less about the entire game, and more about their own little piece of tunnel vision. It became easy to know very little about the game while still being a very good and knowledgeable player about your own position.
No more, because if you flip your bits people will run hurry-up on your face and get you confused. Better to have a general understanding these days than a hyper-specific focus. That's a subtle way in which the game's generally increasing specialization is taking a step back.
FWIW, the coach who posted this noted that a number of guys are using field and boundary calls to set their defense instead of opponent alignment. (IE, you line up to the wide side or short side of the field no matter what the offense does.) FWIW, Mattison is one.
More uniform concepts. This time Notre Dame does it to themselves:
The second comment is an image of Chris Hall—life's winner—and his glorious Tom Hammond tie. Well done.
Etc.: UMHoops gives the 1,000-foot view on Michigan's five-man 2012 basketball recruiting class. Rothstein horning in on my season intro column by discussing Hoke's inadvertent marketing genius. Baumgardner has a series on key moments from last football season. I disagree with Baumgardner's take on the 49% TD against Iowa—he seems to think the issue there was whether Hemingway was in, but the real problem was the nose of the ball hitting the ground.
Preview 2011: Five Questions On Defense
Previously: The story, the secondary, the linebackers, the defensive line, the offensive line, the receivers, the running backs, the quarterbacks, special teams.
1. How does the shift back to the 4-3 under fit the personnel?
left: stack no blitzy. right: 4-3, though an even 4-3, not the under
Better than the 3-3-5-type-substance but it's not going to be a huge difference. Fits:
- BETTER: Roh (LB/DE to WDE), Demens (MLB to MLB with guys in front of him)
- SAME: RVB(DE to SDE/DT), Martin (NT to NT), Heininger (DE to SDE), Gordon (spur to SLB), Jones (WLB to WLB), Gordon (FS to FS), cornerbacks
- WORSE: Kovacs (bandit to SS)
Craig Roh and Jibreel Black were men without a position last year. Though Roh actually help up pretty well when he moved to the DL late, he was still miscast as a DE in a three-man line. Black just got crushed. This year both will be playing weakside DE, where they can get after one tackle.
Kenny Demens will be shielded by two senior defensive tackles, allowing him to flow to the ball like he did against Iowa. Michigan set of small, quick WLBs is better suited for the 4-3 since it will be harder for opponents to get a hat on them.
The major negative is not finding a way to keep the two safeties near the LOS. Both are effective blitzers who are a little dodgy in a deep half.
2. How big is the coaching upgrade? Will the transition hurt more than it?
The Mathlete's numbers suggest a coaching change is a drag on the improvement of very bad defenses worth about eight spots. It seems flabbergasting that that could be the case for this specific situation, however. dnak438 found a GERG effect of approximately negative 30(!) spots. While you should take that with a grain of salt because the sample size there is extremely small, each grain adds to a pile threatening to eclipse the Schwarzschild radius. Going from Greg Robinson not running a system he knows to Greg Mattison teaching exactly what he's taught for a zillion years has to be a positive even in the short term.
What causes that drag? Probably a system change. How long has Michigan been running its current system? Six games. They've probably got more experience running the under than the 3-3-5.
Then there are the position coaches: Adam Braithwaite was a grad assistant promoted to LB coach without the usual stops at East Nowhere State. Tony Gibson was reputed to be mostly a recruiter. Bruce Tall seemed pretty good but in his place Michigan has Hoke, Mattison, and Jerry Montgomery. That's an upgrade across the board.
3. Why is everybody so suicidal when the personnel doesn't look entirely doomy?
doug karsch interviewing popular perception about the defense. via firstbase
Slap me for saying this but the starting lineup isn't that scary save for two spots: SDE, where walk-ons Will Heininger and Nathan Brink are backed up by Nobody At All, and WLB, where four cats are fighting in a sack. You know what they say about WLBs: if you've got four you don't have any.
The rest of the line is Martin, Van Bergen, and Roh. Demens is promising at linebacker and they've got a couple of good options at SAM. And the secondary isn't awesome but Avery/Woolfolk/Kovacs/Gordon looks like it could be below average, which will seem like heaven. This year's edition of "Are You Experienced?" sees Michigan move towards average. There's still a gap, but it's narrowing. The Decimated Defense series also sees its Michigan number creep towards sane.
So why is everyone, including myself, afraid of going 7-5 this year with just about everyone back everywhere?
Well, there's depth. Once you get past those starters its scary. There are three backups I wouldn't wince upon seeing enter on the field: Black, Jake Ryan, and Carvin Johnson. I guess Brink fits in there as well but only because he'd be spotting another walk-on. Everyone else on the line has been beaten out by Brink and Heininger, I have little faith in JT Floyd, and even if Marell Evans was injured at Hampton he's done little in four years of football. When injuries happen the dropoff will be severe. It won't even take injuries for the defensive line to wane in effectiveness. Modern football rotates the DL. Michigan has a choice between tired starters and ineffective backups.
Even so I still can't work up the same sense of bowel-crippling panic I had last year when I believed the secondary would tread "horrible, polluted, razor-blade-filled, despair-laden water." Let's poke around at
2010: Black, Gordon, Gordon, Johnson, Avery, Talbott
2011: Maybe Ash
2010: 4-3 under, 3-4, 3-3-5
2011: 4-3 under
2010: Third year running
2011: Hell no
2010: Rubbing a stuffed beaver in your face
2011: Navy SEAL tridents
Michigan wasn't just rocking an underclass two-deep, they were rocking a freshman-heavy two deep. This could work out! For a given definition of work out!
4. What is with Will Campbell? Isn't the situation at SDE just horrible?
Man, I don't know about Campbell. Maybe his center of gravity is just too high. Maybe he'll never learn technique in the same way Mike Cox can't remember to run into the hole.
The situation at SDE is caused by whatever it is with Will Campbell and will not be encouraging. Heininger was already a non-entity in the passing game and that was 28 pounds ago. And who the hell knows about Brink? I'm guessing Mattison is just trying to get that spot to hold up against double teams in the run game and will rely on Roh/Martin/Van Bergen to get the pass rush. If they can do that it's a win.
Can they do that? Why do I ask myself unanswerable questions?
5. Well?
Michigan will be much, much better this year. How much better depends on:
- The health of key, irreplaceable pieces. These are Martin, Demens, Van Bergen, and the starting corners.
- The improvement of last year's freshmen. Avery, both Gordons, and Black all have the potential to leap forward Darius Morris style.
- Nathan Brink. If Michigan's unearthed something here that not only makes SDE acceptable it means the guys he beat out are potentially serviceable.
- Craig Roh. He could be anything from Tim Jamison to James Hall.
The first bit is unknowable but I can hazard guesses on the latter three: two of the four freshmen above will be startlingly good. Two will be meh. I'm guessing Thomas Gordon and Avery are the former. Brink will not be as bad as everyone feared but that SDE spot is going to be averaging +2 for the season, which is bad. Roh will be in the 75th percentile of his range, a fringe All Big Ten guy.
When I wrote that the D should improve but "not enough" I didn't account for a GERG/RR effect that is real. They'll be better than 82nd in advanced metrics this year by a long shot.
Now, behold the greater-thans and less-thans!
- senior Mike Martin with ankles > Mike Martin
- junior Craig Roh playing his actual position >>> linebacker Craig Roh
- junior Demens >> sophomore Demens/Ezeh
- sophomore Cam Gordon > freshman Gordon/Gordon/Johnson
- Woolfolk >>> Rogers
- sophomore Avery >> freshman Avery/Floyd
- T. Gordon/Johnson >> Gordon/Vinopal
- senior RVB == junior RVB
- Kovacs == Kovacs
- Heininger/Brink == Banks
- Jones/Hawthorne/Herron/Morgan << Mouton
It's going to take two years to dig out of this hole completely but I think the defense will rebound more effectively than stats and conventional wisdom suggest.
Last Year's Stupid Predictions
Fumbles recovered double to ten.
Michigan recovered seven.
The secondary is actually better than last year's secondary because long touchdowns are less frequent. It will still be very bad.
First sentence: false. Second: true.
Mouton is much better, leads the team in TFLs and sacks, and is still incredibly frustrating.
Very accurate. Mouton led the team in tackles (117), was in a three-way tie for TFLs (8.5, Kovacs and RVB tied) and had two sacks. RVB (4) and Banks (3) beat him but not by much in a pathetic year for sacks.
Mike Martin is great and should get first-team Big Ten recognition, though he probably won't.
This might have actually transpired if he hadn't gotten laid up with high ankle sprains. Before he was chopped down against MSU he was playing very, very well.
Mark Moundros holds on to the starting MLB job all season.
Michigan manages a modest improvement in yards allowed, getting up to the 60-70 range nationally.
Not so much: Michigan dipped to 110th.
More accurate than anyone thought possible.
This Year's Stupid Predictions
- Courtney Avery busts out. Going into next year people are talking about him as an All Big Ten performer.
- Kenny Demens leads the team in tackles with Northwestern-MLB-type numbers.
- Brink is a legitimate player, better than Greg Banks was last year. The biggest source of pain on the defense is the WLB.
- Craig Roh leads the team in sacks with eight.
- Sacks almost double from 1.4 per game to 2.4. That would be a move from 98th to around 30th.
- Turnovers forced go from 19 to 27.
- Michigan noses just above average in yardage allowed. Advanced metrics have them about 50th.
Dear Brian,
I am a long time reader of your blog, this summer I went to Normandy to visit the D Day beaches. Imagine my surprise when in Carentan (where the 101 airborne landed) I saw this car dealer.
Go Blue
We've just gotten some copyright lawyers a free trip to Normandy. Say thank you, copyright lawyers.
One of my biggest fear with the new coaching staff is that they're going to end up marginalizing Devin Gardner because he's not a player they recruited. I think I'm justified in my worry because that sort of thing happens all the time. He certainly has the measurables to play in a pro-style system. And after seeing what Vince Young did at Texas and what Troy Smith did at OSU, I think his skill set could work in a non-spread 'n shred offense.
Here's what the QB depth chart looks like for the next four years -
2011: Robinson, Gardner, Bellomy
2012: Robinson(maybe), Gardner, Bellomy
2013: Gardner, Bellomy, Morris
2014: Gardner(maybe), Bellomy, Morris
So in 2013, Gardner will have to beat out Bellomy, a player the current staff recruited, and Morris, probably the most hyped QB recruit we've gotten since that dude from Brighton. Then in 2014, if he gets his redshirt, he'll have to compete with a sophomore Morris, and I'd say all bets are off at that point.
I just wanna see the guy get a fair shake, because he's so damn likable.
I think you are paranoid.
Gardner's an interesting guy. He's not Denard or Troy Smith or John Navarre. Vince Young really is his closest comparable. (Insert copious disclaimers about how good Young was and how unlikely Gardner performs at that level.)
What does a MANBALL team do with Vince Young? Do they look at the legs as a nice bonus when the play breaks down? Is Michigan even a MANBALL team? I mean… there's Hoke's words and then there's what Al Borges actually did at SDSU. I'm working on a post about this: the limited evidence we have suggests Hoke means what he says when he says he doesn't futz with Borges at all. It's tough to reconcile that with Hoke's very Lloydball statements.
So… like much about the next few years, how well Gardner fits is unknown. But even if we assume the Lloyd-iest, MANBALL-iest version of Michigan under Hoke he has a major asset: experience. Shane Morris is going to have to be a prodigious talent to wrest the starting job from Gardner when he's a freshman and Gardner is a redshirt junior with two years under Borges. As for Bellomy, his recruiting profile reads like a poor man's Gardner—if Gardner doesn't get a fair shot Bellomy will be in the same boat.
Now that Beilein is going all gangbusters on 2013, Dylan keeps downplaying the situation. I definitely see where he is coming from, as none of them have even signed their LOI's yet. I also understand that it is common practice to pull a kid's fifth year (in McCliman's case). But I still struggle with the idea of hoping Colton Christian transfers, or hoping THJr decides to go pro, or hoping that if we (by some miracle) land McGary that he's a one and done.
What's your take on it? Too early to get all worked up about this? If by this time next year, the roster is exactly the same except without Stu and Zack, is that time to get all worked up about this?
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p.s. is it "wrong" or whatever to accept a kid's verbal commitment, but then not allow him to sign the LOI when the day comes? The verbal is not at all binding on the kid's part, obviously. For example, if Stu and Zack are the only ones to leave, could we decide to only take one of the 2012 small forwards? The other would still have a year to find a team, and it would definitely be less morally dubious then, say, a greyshirt or something.
Michigan is currently oversigned by two for the fall of 2013. One of those scholarships can be freed up by not offering a fifth year to McLimans, which is a standard, fair practice. He should have a degree by then.
To not have another one would mean not losing a single player over the next two years. That is exceedingly unlikely. You have to go back to 2005-06 to find a two year period in which no one left without exhausting their eligibility*. In 2005 Tommy Amaker had eight scholarship players—not a recipe for a playing time crunch.
So, yes, it is too early to get worked up. If there's zero attrition over the course of the next year or Michigan lands McGary, then you might cock an eyebrow. Even then you have the Hatch situation** and the possibility of an NBA departure. The chances Michigan sees Tim Hardaway's senior season seem pretty low right now.
There's a balancing act between what's good for the program and what's good for the kids that always leaves some chance you miscalculate. In the case of Nick Saban, that chance is 100% once he signs 24 kids with maybe half that many spots. It's all program there. In Beilein's case the chance no one leaves the team in two full years is small enough that I don't have a problem with handing out one more spot than seems available.
If it does come down to the wire with no room and Beilein has to part ways with someone in the 2013 class, they'll be right to be pissed off. They won't be locked into a LOI with no other options, though. It would be better for the kid.
The most likely outcome of the scholarship crunch in 2013 is a firm handshake for McLimans, an NBA draft party for Hardaway, and Austin Hatch either reclassifying or becoming everyone's favorite student manager. That would actually leave Michigan room for McGary or someone else.
*[Early departures since follow. 2007: Reed Baker, Jerret Smith. (Baker may not count since he had an explicitly one-year offer.) 2008: Ekpe Udoh, Ron Coleman. 2009: Kelvin Grady. 2010: Anthony Wright (fifth year), Laval Lucas-Perry, Manny Harris. 2010: Darius Morris.]
**[It's clear Michigan was planning on four guys in 2013, as they continued to pursue Irvin and Walton heavily after Hatch's commitment. If Hatch does need to be replaced Michigan might have already suffered the attrition to make the fourth guy totally un-sketch.]
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hi brian,
just saw this bit on Scientology (no i'm not wearing a tie and white shirt) and made this connection. That teddy bear thingy on the sidelines was beyond bizarre, yet no explanation that i have seen has been put out there. could GERG have been a Hubbardite? Would this explain better our total failure on D?
check it out:
if not, do you know of any story behind this rubbing the face of players with a stuffed animal?
Cazzie has nailed it. When this went down…
…GERG was screaming "YOU DID IT FOR XENU." Explains everything.


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The Chef: Joseph
The Menu: A mostly Asian-food-inspired lunch, with one notable Irish twist. Joseph cooked up a savory blend of curried amaranth and red quinoa, over which he served a very deliciously garlicky stir-fry of snap peas, broccoli, carrots, bell peppers, water chestnuts, and tofu. It's always a treat to get vegetable gyoza, and today's dumplings had a lovely gingery bite. Finally, our plates were completed with some very colorful mashed potatoes.
The Goods: Huzzah! Mark your calendars! Today was officially the first day of 2009 that found us dining al fresco. The added sunshine certainly boosted our spirits—we hear that's one of the side effects of absorping vitamin D. Since we're in such good moods, a little treat seems in order. A number of you guys have commented that you'd like to see recipes on this here blog, and while the brutal truth is that we very rarely use recipes to create our lunches, we also don't want to leave you hanging. So, please enjoy our Simple Evening Pasta recipe, which makes such a lovely meal that it graces the cover of our current issue!
Friday, January 9, 2009
Simple Stir-Fry
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For anyone who played a lot of StarCraft (or watched it played professionally), the RTS's soundtrack is a permanent fixture in their head, seared into ear canals like spiral soundwaves on a record and played by your fingernail every time you root around in there. Delightfully, Blizzard has remastered the hot tracks, and will add them into StarCraft II with patch 2.1.
Players will have the option to play music from only StarCraft or SC2 during multiplayer, or have the game mix them together at random, Blizzard explained in yesterday's announcement.
"Players around the world have been constructing additional Pylons to the music of StarCraft and StarCraft: Brood War for over fifteen years now, and we've heard your feedback that the soundtracks from these titles would make great additions to StarCraft II," Blizzard said.
How could any Terran not win with this ditty pumping in their ears?


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What: Vine Street Pub's Smoking Hot Anniversary Party, featuring Capital Saison, Mountain Sun's special-release anniversary brew, as well as beers donated by Great Divide, Ommegang and Green Flash Breweries. BBQ and live music. Proceeds benefit Denver's Judi's House.
When: 4:20 p.m. to close, Friday, April 20
Where: Vine Street Pub, 1700 Vine Street, Denver
Info: 303-388-2337, mountainsunpub.com
A fresh batch of beer bubbles away in a fermentation tank on the day I visit the new in-house brewery at Denver's Vine Street Pub.
It's the brewery's first day of operation following a four-year planning and construction process, and brewers Brian Hutchinson and John Fiorilli are toasting the first batch brewed in the new space with, what else? A couple of beers.
"It was nice to brew the first batch in peace and quiet, and to do it in an environment that we helped create," says Hutchinson. "It's going to fill up in here pretty quickly."
And for once they'll have the room to accommodate the demand.
The new 3,500-square-foot facility will be the "workhorse brewery" that supplies the Vine Street Pub in Denver and the Mountain Sun and Southern Sun pubs in Boulder with the bulk of its beer, says Hutchinson, including staples such as Colorado Kind, XXX Pale Ale, FYIPA, Quinn's Golden Ale, Annapurna Amber and Blackberry Wheat.
This will free up space in the relatively cramped brewing facilities at both Boulder locations to brew more lagers and Belgian-style beers, which tend to take longer in the fermentation tanks, as well as specialty and pilot-batch beers.
The Boulder locations have a combined annual brewing capacity of about 3,000 barrels. The new brewery's capacity is more than 5,000 barrels annually, with room to grow.
"For the first time, we're going to be able to make enough beer to fill all of our own taps," says Hutchinson, who will continue to oversee brewing operations for the company. Fiorilli will be head brewer at Vine Street.
Mountain Sun and its sister locations differ from typical brewpubs in that all of the beer is served from kegs, rather than from serving tanks. It's a more feasible solution to keep the 21 taps at each location flowing with a ready supply of beer.
"We're basically a production brewery that distributes to our own restaurants," says Hutchinson.
All of the beer brewed in the new brewhouse will be kegged and housed in a large cold storage area before it's distributed to the three pubs. The increased capacity also opens up the possibility of additional Mountain Sun locations opening soon, as well as distributing beer to other bars and restaurants. For example, the newly opened The Kitchen Denver currently has Mountain Sun's Hop Vivant on tap.
The new brewhouse also incorporates efficiencies designed to increase yield and minimize downtime between brews, including a large silo that holds 30,000 pounds of malted barley, a gristmill for milling the grain, and an in-house lab that will help with quality control.
Vine Street Pub will host a Smokin' Hot Anniversary Party on Friday to celebrate the opening of the new in-house brewery and the four-year anniversary of the Denver pub.
For their part, both Hutchinson and Fiorilli are excited to finally put the new brewery through its paces.
"For months it just smelled like construction and me cleaning the floor in here," says Fiorilli. "So it was exciting today when it actually smelled like a brewery for the first time."
Add Hutchinson: "It feels good to walk out of here today and know that there's beer in the tanks."
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|Four Somali immigrants convicted of supporting militants
|[MOBILE.REUTERS] Four Somali immigrants, including a popular imam at a San Diego-area mosque, were convicted by a U.S. federal jury on Friday of conspiring to provide material support to an al Qaeda-linked Islamist militia in the Horn of Africa nation.
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, said that the men - the imam, two cab drivers and an employee at a money transmitting business - had conspired to raise and send money to Somali al-Shabaab
... the personification of Somali state failure...
Al-Shabaab beturbanned goons want to impose a strict version of Islamic law in war-ravaged Somalia, but have lost significant territory in the southern and central parts of the country in the face of an offensive by African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
According to the evidence presented at trial, the men conspired to transfer funds from San Diego to Somalia through the Shidaal Express, a now-defunct money transmitting business in San Diego.
The U.S. Attorney's office said the jury had listened to intercepted phone conversations between one of the men, San Diego cab driver Basaaly Saeed Moalin, and an al-Shabaab leader who was later killed in a U.S.
Aden Hashi Ayro implored the cab driver in those calls to send money to al-Shabaab, telling him it was "time to finance the Jihad."
"You are running late with the stuff. Send some and something will happen," Ayro told Moalin. He also repeatedly asked him to reach out to Mohamed Mohamed Mohamud - a holy man at the City Heights mosque - to obtain funds for the group.
U.S. warplanes killed Ayro, the Afghan-trained then-leader of al-Shabaab who was said to be al Qaeda's top man in the country, in 2008. Under Ayro, al-Shabaab had adopted Iraq-style tactics, including liquidations, roadside kabooms and suicide kabooms.
Prosecutors also presented a recorded telephone conversation in which Moalin gave the rebels permission to use his house in the capital Mogadishu. Prosecutors argued he was offering the home as a place to hide weapons.
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You might not recognize Catrinel Menghia by name, but if you watched this year's Super Bowl and saw the Fiat 500 Abarth "seduction" ad, then you'll immediately recognize her. Menghia continues her role as the model for the Abarth in this collection of new ads for the performance-oriented subcompact hatch. We'll let you decide if you think Catrinel or the Abarth is the bigger star of these spots. No disrespect against J.Lo, but her role as judge on American Idol suits us just fine. Ms. Menghia makes a mighty fine supermodel for Fiat's hot hatch.
Burning Up the Desert
In this clip, a black Abarth tears across the dry lake beds, interspersed with Catrinel being her sultry supermodel self. Need we say more?
Sin City
This shorter clip shows the Abarth cruising the streets of Las Vegas with some familiar area landmarks. Some gratuitous B-roll of Catrinel is thrown in for good measure.
Despite his recent appearance in the "House Arrest" spot, Charlie Sheen disappointingly does not appear in "Winning" although that was our first thought. Instead, Catrinel and a photographer get into an impromptu race. You'll have to watch the rest of the clip to see who wins.
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— I debated posting this image for several weeks. Sometimes images stay with me far beyond the moment they appear during the daily edit. Car bombs or disasters, so many images we view show sadness and devastation, but the way the photographer framed the victim's legs among the upturned earth and mess of roots and debris helped to give me a peaceful feeling following the initial shock at this tragedy. It becomes surreal, as if we're looking at the circle of life, and maybe in death we return from where we came? I hate to think of one persons tragic fate so metaphorically, but some days thats maybe how I cope with bearing witness to so many highs and lows of humanity.
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LAKE PLACID - Local runners will be show their support for the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings through a tribute run around Mirror Lake this coming Monday.
Lake Placid resident Greg Borzilleri is organizing the "Boston Strong LP" tribute run. He said he came up with the idea after seeing a Facebook link to the blog Pavement Runner, which encourages runners across the country to organize tribute runs in their communities on the one-week anniversary of the bombings. The website listed nearly 40 runs planned in locations all across the country as of Thursday.
"I'm a race director for Ironman Lake Placid, and when I see stuff like what happened it Boston, it hits me pretty hard," Borzilleri said. "We have empathy being that we're an event town, and Boston's a big event place, and I just want to be able to show some support. The main thing is we want to pay tribute to the victims, but also to the first responders and to the city of Boston."
Borzilleri said he's working to coordinate the event with the village of Lake Placid, the town of North Elba, state police, village police, the state Olympic Regional Development Authority and the Lake Placid Convention and Visitors Bureau. He also has sponsorships from some local businesses.
"It's amazing how much support you can get when it's for something like this," Borzilleri said. "It hasn't even been 24 hours since I first posted it on pavementrunner.com."
The "Boston Strong LP" run will begin at 6 p.m. Monday near the village beach on Mirror Lake and follow Mirror Lake Drive and Main Street around the lake, ending in front of the Conference Center at Lake Placid. There's no charge, but donations will be accepted for The One Fund Boston Inc., a charity set up by Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and Boston Mayor Tom Menino to assist bombing victims.
Borzilleri also said he'll sell "Boston Strong LP" T-shirts, with all the proceeds going to the same cause.
It's being called a tribute run, but it's also open to walkers or people with dogs and strollers. Borzilleri said the first half-mile will be run in silence as a tribute to the victims of the bombings.


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Bake perfect Christmas cookies
By Kris Elliot
Even though my kids are teenagers, they still look forward to baking and decorating cookies for the Christmas season. It is a family tradition, one I hope they will pass down to their children. We are developing memories that will last a lifetime.
There are times when their cookies encounter little problems. Despite the fact that we make at least 15 dozen cookies a year, there are times when they just don't turn out like they should. An example: the cookie dough sticks to the rolling pin. When that happens, lightly dust the surface and rolling pin to prevent sticking. You may need to occasionally repeat dusting with flour. You can also use a pastry cloth and stockinet-covered rolling pin to make rolling the dough easier, and to help prevent dough from sticking. Rub flour evenly onto rolling pin and pastry cloth for easy handling. If dough is too soft, refrigerate for about one hour.
You have rolled out the dough and put them on the cookie sheet only for them to spread and become flat after they have been baked. If this happens, refrigerate the dough until well chilled (1 to 2 hours). If the dough is too soft, stir in 1 to 2 tablespoons of flour.
It's not necessary to spray the cookie sheet. This can cause the cookies to spread too much and brown too quickly around the edges.
You must start with quality ingredients if you want a quality cookie. Never use a low-fat spread with 60 percent or less fat in place of butter or margarine in baking recipes. Low-fat spreads have higher moisture content and will make cookie dough very soft.
If you want cookies that will be evenly browned, you may want to use a baking stone, or a shiny, aluminum cookie sheet at least two inches narrower and shorter than the oven. The sheet may be open on one, two or three sides. If you choose to use a dark colored cookie sheet, watch it carefully. It may cause your cookies to brown quicker.
Unless you have a convection oven, place one cookie sheet in the oven at a time in the middle of the center rack of the oven. If cookies are baked on the bottom rack of the oven, they may burn or not bake evenly. Make sure there is about 2 inches of space around the cookie sheet to allow for good air circulation.
Once cookies are made, you can freeze for later use for up to 2 months. Arrange cookies in a container lined with plastic food wrap or aluminum foil. For best results, wrap cookies individually in plastic wrap. Separate with layers of aluminum foil or plastic food wrap.
Store in an airtight container, with label and date. Thaw cookies, by letting them stand loosely covered on a serving plate for about 20 minutes before frosting or serving.
For answers to your baking questions, contact me at the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture in the Saline County Extension located at 1605 Edison Avenue, Suite 15 in Benton, call 501-303-5672, or e-mail me at email@example.com. You can also like on Facebook at UAEX Saline County Family & Consumer Sciences for your daily holiday tips.


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I beg to differ with their point of view. We have become a society of watchers and followers and not the primary teachers of our children. We are encouraged to constantly praise our kids and not humiliate them in front of others. Tim- outs have replaced grounding and a good old-fashioned paddle on the butt. We as a society have become so wrapped up in basic survival due to a Liberal-dominated economy that our kids are now babysat by uncensored blood-and-guts video games, high-paid, Liberal, union-label teachers, and absolute filth coming across the TV (otherwise known as an electronic income reducer).
Our kids have become social zombies in an ever-changing world. They are not taught critical thinking or coping skills. They are not taught anything about faith or freedom. They are only taught how to play "follow the leader". Well, how is that working out for us? Innocent people are getting killed.
As for guns, the establishment run by the Liberals/Communists is 100 percent responsible for these mass murders. They have taken away parental rights to properly raise our children in an effort to take our 2nd Amendment rights away. An armed population is a free people; an unarmed population is a subject of the state.
If our Communist leaders want to blame guns for these murders, why not blame knives as well?Why not blame cars for drunk driving deaths? Why not blame eating utensils for obesity? Does this sound far-fetched? Unfortunately, it is the mindset of these Liberal/Communist leaders who live in their glass bubbles. It is way past time that we the people put the blame where it is due, directly on the backs of the people who think they know what's best for our kids.
We must take the responsibility to stand up and say "no more" and raise our own children minus the outside influences. It is our duty to rebuild our society as our founders have set it up. As always, my fellow Patriots, stay safe and be aware of your surroundings.


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Crusaders notch 2-0 victory over Curwensville
KERSEY – The Elk County Catholic Crusader soccer team used a pair of goals - one in each half - to shut out the Curwensville Golden Tide 2-0 on Wednesday evening in a match played at Angela Huey Memorial Field. "Tonight's game was a close contest that could have gone either way," said ECC assistant coach T.J. Weaver. "The Curwensville team did a great job on their offsides trap and got our forwards off a great number of times. This was a learning experience for [the team] for future contests. We are playing better as the year is going on and the team is learning as they go, which is all you can ask for at this point in the season."The Crusaders started off strong in the first half; however, it took them a number of tries before they were able to get a shot into the back of the net. Elk Catholic finally got onto the board as Joey Ferragine scored with 10:17 left in the half to put the Crusaders up 1-0. ECC carried that lead into halftime. Elk Catholic outshot Curwensville 8-4 in the first half and the Crusaders also had a corner kick. The second half continued to be a back-and-forth battle, with the Crusaders fighting hard to extend their lead. They picked up their final goal of the game when Aaron Meier put the ball past the Curwensville keeper with 26:56 remaining to put ECC up 2-0, which would be the final score. Elk Catholic outshot Curwensville 10-3 in the second half. Curwensville also had a pair of corner kicks. With the win, the Crusaders are now 8-1-1 on the season and will travel to Punxsutawney on Saturday for a 12 p.m. match.


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Jan 16, 2014
From staff reports
The Facilities Work Center is notifying the Athens Campus of a power outage scheduled for 8 a.m. to noon Monday, Jan. 20.
The outage will affect Seigfred, Robert Glidden, Putnam and McCracken Halls, as well as the Sculpture Studio, and is related to the renovation of Lindley Hall.
The following buildings will experience a power blink at the beginning and end of the outage: Gamertsfelder, Tiffin, Biddle, Perkins, Bush, Johnson, Read, Shively, Jefferson, Lincoln and Washington Halls.
Facilities thanks you for your patience.
If you have any questions, please contact Mike West in the Design and Construction Department at 593-2727.


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