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His list looks ok for the most part, but no way McCoy over Suh
Mike Mayock revealed the top 20 players on his draft board for the 2010 NFL Draft tonight and they are as follows...
1. Gerald McCoy DT Oklahoma
2. Ndamukong Suh DT Nebraska
3. Dez Bryant WR Oklahoma State
4. Sam Bradford QB Oklahoma
5. Russell Okung T Oklahoma State
6. C.J. Spiller RB Clemson
7. Earl Thomas S Texas
8. Bryan Bulaga T Iowa
9. Joe Haden CB Florida
10. Eric Berry S Tennessee
11. Jason Pierre-Paul DE South Florida
12. Trent Williams T Oklahoma
13. Derrick Morgan DE Georgia Tech
14. Dan Williams DT Tennessee
15. Sergio Kindle OLB Texas
16. Rolando McClain ILB Alabama
17. Jermaine Gresham TE Oklahoma
18. Brandon Graham DE Michigan
19. Maurkice Pouncey C Florida
20. Jimmy Clausen QB Notre Dame
- Mayock is one of the few who didn't fall for the Bryant garbage that's been coming out during the dry news week. I give him props for that.
- Suh > McCoy
- He's done the Thomas over Berry thing a few times. I'll offer my own interpretation on this...he doesn't really believe this but he does want to cool the whole "Berry in the top 5" thing. Berry is one of the top prospects in this draft, but he's an averaged sized safety in a deep draft too. I probably misinterpret, but since I haven't done a mock in a while I'll run with it. I still think Berry goes 7th on draft day if the Browns stay put.
- This draft is convoluted as hell. All there is is noise, noise, noise.
His list looks ok for the most part, but no way McCoy over Suh
I trust Mayock's evaluations more than any other mainstream guy out there.
I believe it was '07 or '08 when 85-90 of his Top 100 rated players went in the Top 100 of the draft. That's nuts.
At #29, I say go with a CB or D-lineman. Us getting shredded by Manning in the AFC Championship proved that you can never have too many quality DB's, especially with the passing game becoming more and more incorporated into the NFL.
And at the same time, we're lacking young, quality talent along the DL. With Douglas gone, who do we have to play opposite Ellis? Mike DeVito? Don't get me wrong, I like the guy in a rotational role, but do we really want him starting? And at the same time, Ellis is getting long in the tooth. As is Jenkins who despite being dominant when healthy, has been prone to injury and is also approaching the end of his career.
Getting someone like McCourty to come in as the nickelback or Odrick/Cody to help fill out the DL in round 1 would be a good idea. JMO
look at where Pouncey is. I swear you guys.. I'm really like the idea of taking him..
We've been fortunate over the last couple years to have avoided injuries on our 0-line, but y'all remember what it's like when you lose a lineman or two? Its like suffocating.
Maurkice is money in the bank insurance on the entire o-line. So critical to our success.
If the right DT or pass rusher isn't there, I think he makes more sense than alot of the wackyness i'm reading
We have been very fortunate on the Oline having had virtually no injuries the past couple years.
Pouncey can be a backup to mangold, OG and RT this year, and then start at LG for faneca or RT (somewhat of a stretch but has the athleticism and size to play the position) next year.
We have a franchise QB and young RBs....we need to protect our investment and be able to run the ball, building Oline Depth BEFORE you need it is the key to both of those things.
I could see McCoy over Suh, but Thomas over Berry has be disgusted with Mayock this year.
There's absolutely nothing Thomas does better than Berry.


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I just read in my latest LXF that there was now LXF available via the Android Play Store.
I got my tablet fired up and checked and yes LXF is there but I could see no where that an existing subscriber of the magazine could download and install it without... having the resubcribe through Play Store ???
I don't want to pay twice for a 1 or 2 year subscription?
Any plans to change this.

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- Ferrari
'Now it is time to win' - Ferrari
Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo says Ferrari is ready to win championships again in Formula One with its new F14 T launched on Saturday.
The new car broke cover via an online launch and carries the hopes of Fernando Alonso and Kimi Raikkonen this year. Montezemolo, who has been critical of the team's struggle to beat Red Bull in recent years, says he thinks Ferrari is ready to return to the top in the new V6 turbo era of Formula One.
"Now it is time to win," he said. "I have a lot of confidence in the new technical director James Allison and in the work that our people have made in the engine. It's a very complicated engine and very complicated system and I think at the beginning of the season reliability will be crucial. Whenever we have the new rules it is difficult from the beginning to find out who is competitive, but our goal is to be on top and do our best. Domenicali has done some innovation within the team and I am very confident."
Montezemolo also backed his two drivers to deliver to a high standard this year.
"I'm confident because we have a strong team and I think we have all the ingredients to be very successful," he added. "I'm pleased to have Kimi back, Kimi was the last driver to win the championship with us. Fernando has made fantastic seasons by achieving second place in the last four years."


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Quarterfinals down, semifinals to go
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- Published on 14 May 2014
- Written by Mount Vernon Optic-Herald
Mount Vernon Lady Tiger Holly Hemmingsen catches a fly ball just in front of the left field fence against Prairiland. The catch made the third out in the first inning of the third game in the Reqional Quarterfinal series.
The Lady Tigers will advance to the Regional Semifinals games on Thursday night and Saturday afternoon. See details from the Quarterfinals games in the May 15 edition of the Mount Vernon Optic-Herald.


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Impressive! Most criminals could have only pulled one or two of those off.I think I've been involved in half of these and I consider myself safe.
I dunno, I perpetrated a pretty heinous Internet crime the other day, but you need this [pcworld.com] to detect it.
Errrr, no.... E-Bay
... doesn't say if the complaints were ever followed up on
Copyright infringement is not the same as these criminal activities. It's a violation of the copyright, not a criminal act that can be prosecuted.
U.S. Code treats some intentional infringements of copyright as criminal offenses. See 17 USC 506 [cornell.edu] and 18 USC 2319 [cornell.edu].
So is there a reason that copyright infringement, such as through peer-to-peer file sharing networks, is not one of the top 10 Internet crimes of 2006?
Crimes = criminal. Copyright violations are generally punishable only by civil suits, with the exception of high volume piracy by a single individual for profit, but that generally occurs through physical media rather than online. Unless you consider contributory infringement, most online piracy by individuals probably does not reach the volume to make
I would say that auction fraud could happen to just about anyone.
Maybe because it's loss per incident? Nobody gets hit with a 419 scam for a few hundred dollars -- they get hit for a few thousand. Auction fraud is certainly more common, but a single instance of auction fraud probably costs less than a couple hundred dollars.How are these still the #1 loss per incident crime?
I mean c'mon - it's the most widely distributed piece of spyware YET. And it occasionally calls legitimate users thieves and reports them. And blackmails people. How did that not make the list?
Unless you are a teenager shooting yourself, a live child-porn vids is a violent act.
Unless you are a teenager shooting yourself, creating child porn is a violent act.
I'm not sure I 100% agree with this. For the simple reason that it fails to differentiate between images of consentual sex involving a minor who has reached the age of consent and child porn.
Find me a jurisdiction in which a 17 year old can consent to sex, even if the other party is above the age of majority (they exist), and I'll show you on
Fucking children falls outside of the normal criticism of thinkofthechildrenism, because it's a crime, like rape or murder.
You are right much of the time.
Except when the laws doom teens fooling around or taking cell-phone pictures of themselves into life on the sex-offender register.
The Georgia case of Genarlow Wilson [foxnews.com] is an extreme case.
1. Pass overly broad laws to protect children from predators.
2. Enforce them to the letter
3. ???
4. Profit!!!
I think not. Won't someone thinkoftheteenagers?
Lobby your lawmakers for sane predator-protection laws.
This thread is about child porn, which does not necessarily involve fucking children as possesion is also illegal and not merely production.Fucking children
Nothing is beyond criticism.falls outside of the normal criticism of thinkofthechildrenism
Basing your morality on the law is fucking stupid.because it's a crime, like rape or murder.
Just take a look at the Top 10 list:The feds caution that these figures don't represent a scientific sample of just how much Net crime is out there. They note, for example, that the high number of auction fraud complaints is due, in part, to eBay and other big E-commerce outfits offering customers direct links to the IC3 website. And it's tough to measure what may be the Web's biggest scourge, child porn, simply by complaints.
2006 Top 10 IC3 Complaint Categories (Percent of Total Complaints Received)
- Auction Fraud (44.9%)
- Non-delivery (19.0%)
- Check Fraud (4.9%)
- Credit/Debit Card Fraud (4.8%)
- Computer Fraud (2.8%)
- Confidence Fraud (2.2%)
- Financial Institutions Fraud (1.6%)
- Identity Theft (1.6%)
- Investment Fraud (1.3%)
- Child Pornography (1.0%)
1) But "internet communication based/reliant crimes" is longer to say
2) "internet communication based/reliant crimes" does not really useful for narrowing the subject down
It's not semantics. I'm not discussing how this "category of crime" (Internet crime vs. internet communication based/reliant crimes) should be called. What I'm saying is that there is no way to narrow down all these crimes using the fact of the Internet being involved in some way. This information simply has no correlation with the cr
These are the people who are suing 10-year-old girls (who were 7 at the time of the alleged download), using information obtained by one Time-Warner company (AOL) to shake down people for another Time-Warner company (Warner Brothers Records, Inc.), and who sue 61-year-old school teachers (with law enforcement training and no children in the home) whom RIAA and its lawyers know or should realistically have known before filing suit wouldn't be using a d
Because copyright infringement is a civil matter, not a criminal one.
Not according to the MAFIAA. Why else do they try and get the FBI to enforce it? Have you learned nothing from all those FBI warnings on the front of your DVDs? Oh wait, pirates remove them
I think they may be referring to instances where items/services can be paid for with an on-line "check". I know that at some of the sites where I pay bills, I do so by authorizing them to write a "check" against my checking account. Assuming a crook had your name, address, bank routing number, and checking account number, they could easily purchase goods as you, with money drawn directly from your account. The hitch of course being if there's any money in the account to begin with...
You know, Callahan's is a peaceable bar, but if you ask that dog what his favorite formatter is, and he says "roff! roff!", well, I'll just have to...


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Longtime Gazette contributor Juan Rodriguez has enjoyed a vantage point on rock 'n' roll that few listeners — or even critics — have experienced. Before the music industry became a well-oiled machine, he found himself with enviable access to some of the biggest names to pass through Montreal, as well as some of the city's brightest stars. In this weekly series, he looks back at the moments that stand out in his career.
Crawdaddy! began publication in 1966 (typeset on an IBM Selectric), providing a pulpit for the first wave of rock critics. Rock, wrote editor/publisher Paul Williams, had become "the arbiter of quality, the music of today. The Doors, Brian Wilson, the Stones are modern music, and contemporary 'jazz' and 'classical' composers must try to measure up."
I was already publishing my little mag Pop-See-Cul, a play on the frosty confection, starting on mimeograph and graduating to actual professional typeface, doing all design and paste-up myself (a bottom-up education in publishing). The mag became a member of the Underground Press Syndicate, centred on music and New Left politics. (As for the name, I later learned French-speakers consider "cul" — short for "culture" in my title — quite risqué. I had no idea!)
Meanwhile, Crawdaddy! published an early version of Richard Meltzer's The Aesthetics of Rock, a takeoff on academic style, complete with footnotes, but also a densely sentient epistemological work. Inventor of rock criticism, Meltzer quickly became its most prolific and irreverent writer, with a prose style — made-up words, wild punctuation — you couldn't mistake for anyone else's. (He also became my hero, and friend to this day.)
"A lot of what happened in the '60s felt very miraculous, like it was coming out of nowhere," he told me years later. "You didn't have 'rock-surround' yet. There was no full map, but it was certainly in massive discontinuity (with) what had been encouraged before, in terms of artistic output. It wasn't even like anyone was making art — it was just an emanation of self, like breathing, sweating."
Then along came Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967, with the acid-eyed Beatles in psychedelic Edwardian costumes on its elaborate cover collage, and advance hype — a "concept album" they spent months of multi-tracking to create — lending the album a high-art sheen before anyone removed the shrink wrap. Remember: Until then, rock 'n' roll raves were by and large the domain of teenybopper mags like 16 and Tiger Beat. Academics had missed the boat with Elvis; eggheads predicted Beatlemania wouldn't last six months. On Sgt. Pepper's, the Fab Four transformed British music hall into stoned art songs. (Important exception: A Day in the Life, which was probably one of the two most awesome songs to date, alongside Dylan's Like a Rolling Stone.) The professors went ape, comparing them to T.S. Eliot, Schubert and so on. Record companies followed suit, and rock became not only a cash cow, but a sacred cow. Within a year, Columbia Records captured the generational mood with the slogan The Man Can't Bust Our Music.
I listened to Sgt. Pepper's incessantly for two weeks. And then I stopped. Forever. It was just bells and whistles, I decided. There was no there there, as Gertrude Stein once said. I won't get fooled again, as the Who had it.
Among the visitors to Expo 67 was a young New Yorker seeking respite from a controversy that would mark him forever: Richard Goldstein, who wrote the witty, sociologically inclined Pop Eye column for the Village Voice, had the nerve to pen a devastating review of Sgt. Pepper's — for the New York Times, no less! To his chagrin, he was on the receiving end of a countercultural twist on the '50s phrase "don't knock the rock": his review received more outraged letters than any other Sunday Arts article ever.
"It was the first time I'd heard a boring Beatles album," Goldstein told me in an interview for Pop-See-Cul. "And it was very tricky, gimmicky. I listened to it dozens of times, and it was a hard review to write ... but I figured a lot of people would agree with me. It never entered my mind it would cause such a huge stink. Professors wrote in saying the Beatles were Schubert and how dare I put them down? ... It hurt a lot to have people I respected either accuse me of purposely writing a bad review to elevate my own name, or completely missing hidden significances they found in the album. ... I asked myself, 'How could you hate an album so many people loved?' I was convinced I was finished as a critic."
He was. Years later, he actually apologized for the piece, after leaving the music beat to cover gay affairs for the Voice.
Having dropped out of university in 1966, in my first year, by day I toiled in the mailroom at Montreal Engineering — on St. Jacques St., directly opposite the Montreal Star — and wrote at night, getting rejections, then acceptances. Hit Parader published a hysterical, clumsy screed, The Rock Revolution: Kind of a Drag. I still like the last paragraph: "Legions of psychedelic agents and con men flogging the most syrupy hype imaginable will never be able to replace the standards by which good music must be judged." The piece netted $50 US.
My very first interviewees, in 1968, were Bill Haley and Carl Wilson of the Beach Boys — the former still riding the wave of the first rock 'n' roll hit, Rock Around the Clock (1955), the latter troubled about his future (thanks to the draft).
The Gazette published six pieces before I summoned up the nerve to ask to be paid. "Fifteen bucks a pop, kid," said entertainment editor Jacob Siskind. "Chicken feed. Take it or leave it."
In 1968, Jimi Hendrix played Paul Sauvé Arena, his speakers perched on coasters on a low-slung stage, producing a grating sound that ricocheted off the walls perfectly. We stared agape at this small, wiry dervish with an Afro, wildly coloured ruffled shirt and tight studded pants, wielding his axe in a soul strut and psychedelic swagger, out there in his own universe, coming from outer space to our town. All sonic kinetics, without a light show. For the hundreds of fans who crowded toward the stage, Jimi used the sparsely filled arena's echoes to amazing effect.
In the spring of '69, before embarking on a six-month sojourn in swinging London, I made a proposal to the Star: If I got an interview with the Rolling Stones, would they hire me as their first full-time pop critic? "Sure, kid — go ahead, give it a try."
Upon arrival, I called the Stones' office; the secretary said the boys weren't talking now, but might be in the near future. My heart jumped: This wasn't an out-and-out no! I followed up to make sure they had my name and phone right, that I'd be here on Big Assignments, and other fibs to indicate I was, ahem, there for them.
Meanwhile, I settled into a small room on Manchester St. that anchored my dreamlike existence as "foreign (pop) correspondent" in a city with more pop happenings than any other. My pad, between Baker and Oxford Sts., was around the corner from EMI Records' headquarters — the same building where the Beatles posed for their first album cover! I felt I was at the epicentre of hip.
I wrote longhand on lined paper, every few days typing the honed product on a portable Royal — a modus operandi I hoped would approximate the 500-words-a-day routine Hemingway employed. I soon learned that when the iron strikes hot, you have to go for it. The hours flew by. I mailed articles to the Star, and received nice cheques. (The Canadian dollar went a long way back then.)
I took long walks to Soho: elbow-room-only food and flea markets on Berwick St., a cacophony of cockney accents, strip-club barkers. To the Marquee Club on Wardour St., where R&B and jazz combos made their mark (Stones, Yardbirds, Georgie Fame & the Blue Flames). A stroll down Carnaby St., bedecked with Union Jacks and the Who's mod bull's eye. Boutiques blaring Tommy ("see me, feel me, touch me"); Marrakesh Express by Crosby, Stills and Nash; Pink Floyd's spacey soundtrack to the French art film More (which hyped sex, drugs, beauty and life itself); the Stones' raunchy Honky Tonk Women; The Ballad of John and Yoko (the Beatles were slowly disintegrating in public); anything by Hendrix and, above all, Je t'aime ... moi non plus by Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin, with its churchy/orgiastic organ and heavy breathing, a No. 1 hit banned by the BBC (but not by offshore pirate stations). With the Kinks' hit Waterloo Sunset ringing in my head, I trekked across Waterloo Bridge almost nightly for a Hitchcock retrospective by the British Film Institute.
Late afternoons were spent poring over Melody Maker and New Musical Express in Hyde Park. There, I attended the free Stones concert introducing guitarist Mick Taylor, replacing Brian Jones — who, it was claimed, wanted to go in different directions (viz.: was unreliable). It turned into a memorial for Jones, who drowned in his pool a few days earlier (with a cornucopia of drugs in his system). The London papers ran Extras throughout the concert: 250,000 Happy Fans and Just a Handful of Screamers; Nice to Have Hells Angels on Our Side, above a photo of helmeted Angels assisting a drug casualty.
As part of the foreign press corps — heh heh — I was invited by the Stones' office to a press conference introducing Taylor. Street Fighting Man was the anthem of the day, a holdover from the events of 1968, when Mick joined a march on the U.S. Embassy in Grosvenor Square that turned violent. "I got a nice buzz from that," he said. "It's like our concerts in the old days. ... My whole act was showing off. And showing off is violence. It's the same sort of feeling of exhibitionism."
Talk turned to new-wave cineaste Jean-Luc Godard, whose docudrama Sympathy for the Devil (also known as One Plus One) interspersed black-power dudes delivering agitprop lectures with the Stones recording the title track. Mick declared: "I don't think Godard knows anything about black people. He just got himself a couple of two-bit hustlers." Keith sneered: "Godard sounds like a schoolboy. He's just so earnest."
The "exclusive" interview ran over three pages in the Star, and I got the pop music gig when I returned in September.
My first review for the Star, of the Doors at the Forum, was headlined Doors Bore but Boppers Love It, and ended: "The crowd loved every minute of what was passed off as music, and they enjoyed themselves. This is called Being Together and it is an easy enough commodity to produce. All the radio personalities on stage had to say was 'You're beautiful!' and the audience cheered crazily. The promoters of this kind of show certainly know 'where it's at.' They're laughing all the way to the bank."
"I don't know how old you are, but man your old. Too old to sit at your desk criticizing today's art. Let's face it your not on the right train to where everybody is going. I don't know how the Montreal Star can pay you to talk about something that your so ignorant of. You make me laugh. Take my advice get yourself a desk on the Lost and Found section of the Star. Because man your lost and I doubt if anyone will ever find you. BEAUTY IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER. YOUR BLIND. BLIND WITH AGE."
This missive was the very first I opened after the review. Jim Morrison was blind drunk; the rest of the Doors just kept playing without pause, the sooner to get off the stage. I was barely 21.


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- Shayla Taylor was already in labor when the Moore tornado roared toward her hospital
- It was too late to move her; her four nurses sprang into action to protect her
- As her labor intensified, "I knew we were getting hit directly"
Tears flowed and hugs were traded on Thursday in an Oklahoma maternity ward as four nurses saw for the first time the baby whose birth they helped safeguard during a direct hit by Monday's tornado.
"Look how handsome your boy is," said one of them, when she saw the 4-day-old boy.
But baby Braeden's birth came only after a very close brush with the twister.
His mother, Shayla Taylor, was already in labor when the tornado turned toward Moore, Oklahoma. She was so far along -- dilated and going through contractions -- that in spite of the approaching storm, there was no way to evacuate her.
"She couldn't move," said Alyson Heeke, nurse supervisor at Moore Medical Center. "She'd had an epidural anesthesia, which meant that it numbed her enough that she couldn't walk."
As the tornado came closer, the medical staff moved Taylor into a hallway, then to a windowless operating room that offered more protection.
"Her baby was not doing the best," said charge nurse Cindy Popejoy, "so I really needed a way to monitor her baby to see how the baby was tolerating the labor process -- especially since she was so far dilated. So the only place to do that would be the OR."
With the twister bearing down on them, the four nurses -- Popejoy, Heeke, Barbara Brand and Bonny Stephens -- covered their patient with blankets, pillows and even their own bodies.
"We actually were on the floor," said Heeke. "Bonny the scrub-tech was kind of leaned over her a little more. We had blankets and pillows all around her. We were holding onto each other -- and the bed."
Within minutes, the hospital was hit with massive force. Taylor said she did not know whether she and the baby would survive, but she kept praying.
"I knew we were getting hit directly," she said. "I felt the floor start shaking. It feels like an earthquake."
The outside wall of the operating room was ripped off, but everyone in the room survived. Afterward, debris was lying everywhere, including heavy equipment and lighting fixtures strewn across the floor. There was wreckage in every direction, there was a gaping hole where the wall once stood, and the baby-warmer was silhouetted against the open sky.
"I opened my eyes, I could see I-35," said Taylor. "And I could see the movie theater."
But Shayla's husband Jerome -- who had taken cover downstairs with their 4- year-old son Shaeden -- did not know whether she had survived and did not know how to find her.
"They were saying 'No, everyone's out of the building,' " he said. "And I was like 'No, my wife - my wife is upstairs."
He soon found her, and she was transported on a flat board down a stairwell and through the debris. Shayla Taylor was closer than ever to giving birth.
She was taken to the nearby hospital in Norman and gave birth within hours. Braeden weighed in at 8 pounds, 3 ounces.
"He probably will sleep through anything now," Heeke said with a smile.
Shayla Taylor is herself studying to become a nurse. Seeing these nurses put a patient's welfare ahead of their own, she said, has made her more committed than ever to becoming a caregiver.
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There is no real difference, in my opinion.
Retired English Teacher
What is the difference between "keep a diary" and "write a diary"? Thank you very much.
There is no real difference, in my opinion.
I can't see much difference, but if someone says that they keep a diary, I would assume that they had been doing it for a reasonable time.
In AmE, one "keeps a diary" or "writes in a diary." Saying "write a diary" implies that the person is writing a book, or a work of fiction, not a personal day-by-day memoir. By definition a diary is the personal accounts/reflections/feelings of the author. Usually folks that keep diaries use blank books/journals that are designed for that specific purpose.


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Role of Frogs in Ponds
Role of Frogs in Ponds
Frogs need water to reproduce. Masses of gelatinous eggs are often found in pond water during spring and summer. In Kansas, the bullfrog is the only common species that has a tadpole stage lasting longer than a year. All others will develop into tiny frogs the same season the eggs are laid. These amphibians are an interesting addition to the aquatic ecosystem, but they usually do not substantially help or hinder the fish community. The adults are quite mobile and often leave the pond. Bullfrogs, however, will take up residence by a pond and can usually be seen sitting on the edge of the water. Frog legs are tasty, and frog harvest during the legal season is another benefit of a pond.
Frogs seldom are a problem because bass and other predators usually keep populations low. Bullfrog tadpoles can become a problem in channel catfish-only ponds or minnow ponds because they can become abundant. Excessive numbers of tadpoles can be reduced by seining, and the adults can be eliminated by capturing them during the legal frogging season.


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By Mike Springer
June 16, 2013
Crawfordville, FL-The goal of having the YMCA run Wakulla's Community Center could move closer to fruition Monday.
The Board of County Commissioners will decide if it's a good for the County. They're voting to possibly ratify a multi-year agreement with the Y. The commission's meeting to ratify the contract starts at 5 p.m.
Under the contract, the Y keeps 75 percent of the rental fees. While 25 percent of all third-party rental fees go to the County. The County also foots the Y's utility bill for the first two years. But the Y pays a higher percentage of the bill as its membership grows.
But not everyone is on board with seeing the Y come to town. Some of the County's gym and fitness center owners say the Y will away their customers and hurt their business.
If the contract is approved, it would make way for the YMCAto in April 2014 or as soon as it sells 350 memberships.
By: Mike Springer
June 3, 2013
Crawfordville, FL-Plans to bring a YMCA to Wakulla County may have to wait at least a few more weeks.
The Board of County Commissioners voted unanimously Monday to table its decision to possibly allow the Y to manage the community center.
The County is looking to hire an organization to run the center. But some say turning it over to the Y would hurt local businesses who couldn't compete.
But others say the Y's credentials make it an attractive option.
"They have a lot of experience. They've been in the business of having Y's and having youth programs throughout the country so it's an entity with a proven track record," said Wakulla County Commissioner, Howard Kessler.
If the contract is approved, the Y hopes to open its doors by April 2014 or once it secures 350 members.
The commissioners plan to take up the contract once again at the next board meeting on June 17.
By: Elizabeth Nickerson
May 17, 2013
Crawfordvile, FL-- A YMCA may be making it's way to Wakulla County. Commissioners voted 3 to 2 in having the "Y" take over the county run Community Center.
The empty facility costs taxpayers $24,000 a year to maintain.
Commissioner Ralph Thomas could not give us an exact figure as to how much the renovation would cost, but says letting the 'Y' take over would pull money away from the recreation center and the 4H Department, where children go for after school activities and summer camp.
"It's going to have a negative impact in local businesses that compete in the same market place," said Commissioner Ralph Thomas from Wakulla County. "It is just one thing they can get off their plate and turn over to the YMCA."
Other commissioners just want to spend the money in renovating the building. Some residents feel that the YMCA is much needed in the community, but others just want the money to be spent the right way.
"Just need to be spending our money a little bit more wisely for some other projects that the county could be using right now," said Chuck Turner, a Crawfordville Resident.
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Five Hurricanes were invited to the NFL Combine next month in Indianapolis. Here's the release we just received from UM.
CORAL GABLES, Fla. – Five Miami Hurricanes have accepted invitations to participate at the 2014 NFL Scouting Combine, while will be held Feb. 22-25 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. The four-day combine will be televised live on NFL Network.
QB Stephen Morris, OG Brandon Linder, OT Seantrel Henderson, WR Allen Hurns and P Pat O'Donnell will be among the more than 300 prospects evaluated by all 32 NFL teams. Linder, Henderson and O'Donnell will work out on Feb. 22, while Morris and Hurns will work outFeb. 23.
Morris, a two-year starter under center and a 2013 Allstate AFCA Good Works Team member, finished his career ranked third in Miami history with 7,896 passing yards and 49 touchdowns. A 2013 All-ACC third-team selection, Morris is one of only two QBs in Miami history with multiple 3,000-yard passing seasons (Gino Torretta).
Linder started all 13 games along the offensive line in 2013 and concluded his career with 37 consecutive starters. He was a second-team All-ACC selection and was named the team's Offensive MVP at the end of the season. Henderson, a third-team All-ACC selection, played in 12 games along the offensive line, making eight starts at right tackle.
Hurns enjoyed one of the greatest receiving seasons in program history in 2013. The second-team All-ACC receiver set a single-season school record with 1,162 receiving yards and finished with 62 receptions – the third-most in a single season. He finished his career ranked seventh in both receptions (121) and receiving yards (1,891).
In his one season in Coral Gables, O'Donnell made a considerable impact, setting the school single-season record with a 47.1 yards-per-punt average. A first-team All-ACC choice and second-team All-America selection by USA TODAY, O'Donnell booted 23 punts of 50+ yards and downed 19 inside the opponent's 20-yard line.
Miami, in its third season under head coach Al Golden, finished 2013 with a 9-4 mark and an appearance in the Russell Athletic Bowl in Orlando.
Regarding Al Golden, still waiting for concrete news on Penn State. The coaches are on vacation this week, and it's a dead period recruiting wise.
Al has an afternoon news conference scheduled with the media on Monday. It was his regular end-of-the-year talk. We're all wondering if that will happen.
Not confident it will at this point.
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Just three months into their capital campaign, Our Town Foundation has raised the funds to meet its first goal in the Save Our Strand Campaign which began this past March. A new digital projector, screen and sound system were purchased and installed while the Strand Theater was closed from July 1 to July 10.
A total of $58,000 was raised for this first goal in the necessary improvements to the theater.
�I felt really good that the community had stepped forward realizing our needs and knowing that we had the support of the community behind us,� said Deena Kershner, Executive Director of the foundation.
Kershner credits the OTF board of directors members for stepping up and making large donations to the campaign.
�Several members of the board of directors remember the fun times they had at the theater and they want to have the opportunity for their families to experience the same,� said Kershner.
The first goal was met with the community and board of directors donating and a grant from the PA Department of Community and Economic Development.
Not only do those in Hamburg wish to see the theater become a central hub again, but so do those that grew up in the area and have since moved away. Kershner spoke of a woman who now lives in California, but grew up in Hamburg, who sent a donation with a letter during which the former resident spoke about remembering standing in line to watch �The Sword and the Stone� when it first came out and was actually turned away because the movie sold out.
�That gave me goose bumps when I read it,� said Kershner. �That�s neat. The outsiders that grew up in Hamburg, they want to see it continue.�
Though the foundation is glad to meet the first goal so quickly, there is still much to do as Kershner pointed out that this was the first of ten improvements that need to be done. The total amount to save the theater is $200,000. Next on the list is $5,000 for outside improvements. As each goal is met and the next begins, the funds start from zero. It was the foundation that decided to set the capital campaign up in increments rather than the total for all necessary improvements.
�Why don�t� we do it in increments so we can say �We met this goal and now we have another goal and now our next goal is only $5,000,�� said Kershner on the decision.
OTF is already getting estimates for the outside work on the theater as they hope to raise the money by fall. After that the next goal with be repairs to the roof.
When asked if she thought the OTF could raise the money after the foundation first bought the theater in March 2013, Kershner replied, �I did. I felt confident that we could do it.�
The capital campaign is how the foundation is raising money for the Save Our Strand campaign, but there are also fundraisers. All the money raised from these projects go directly into the capital campaign account. Current fundraisers include Save Our Strand t-shirts available for purchase through Our Town Foundation, Spirit Nights at Logan�s Steakhouse which are held the last Wednesday of each month and Reading Fightin� Phils tickets available for purchase through the Our Town Foundation using a special code. In June, two nights were held at Logan�s during which $625 was raised. The goal is for $500 to be raised each month at this event. Coming up on Oct. 19 will be a Gala Auction featuring movie memorabilia, autographed items, donations from businesses, artwork and more. OTF is already accepting item donations.
On July 8, a special showing for donors was held at the theater.
�For our donors as a �thank you,�� explained Kershner. �We felt that they should have the first opportunity to say �We were part of history.� Fifty years down the road the next people will be writing about this happening in 2014.�
She continued, �I just feel very strongly that anybody that was willing to donate, they should have the first opportunity to see the improvements.�
The foundation was told by the company that installed the current improvements that Hamburg �should have bragging rights to having the top notch in Berks County right now� explained Kershner since other similar theaters last had the new screens and systems installed about five years ago and there have been improvements.
�I think OTF, we should be very proud of ourselves that we were able to save the theater and get the necessary equipment to keep it open,� she said.
Kershner believes that the foundation is going about the project the right way by taking its time and going step by step. Since buying the theater, the foundation has had to learn about the film industry in order to save the Strand.
This is an important project to OTF and the community for �lots of reasons. It provides evening entertainment, inexpensive family outings and a place where memories are made,� said Kershner.
For more information on the Save Our Strand capital campaign visit http://www.hamburgstrand.org/. For more on Hamburg�s Our Town Foundation visit http://hamburgpa.org/.


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Trends that make otherwise average people wear clothes backwards, say, or pierce unusual outcroppings of flesh, often, of course, become cringe-worthy years later. Perhaps it was coming to terms with the embrace of pastel colors and technologically advanced hairspray; maybe it was the accretion of weird chemicals in the water supply, but in the '80s, part of the metal scene went haywire. Somehow wrestling shoes and neon paint splatters made sense in the pop or New Wave scenes, but the "hair metal" bands of the '80s looked all wrong when they juxtaposed music tailor-made for pissed-off boys with painted faces that would make Barbie look butch.
Many were the diehard metal fans who would sooner listen to Cyndi Lauper than Poison or Cinderella, but L.A. was nonetheless the center of an '80s metal scene with a whole new look. In 1988, Penelope Spheeris released the second in her Decline of Western Civilization documentaries, and in this one (dubbed The Metal Years) she ventured into the frizzy heart of that metal scene.
Though plenty of rockers hailing from an earlier, less goofy rock era show up, from Aerosmith's Steven Tyler to Ozzy Osbourne and Motorhead's Lemmy, most of Spheeris' subjects are hair metal devotees and performers. Most sport fern-like dos, made-up faces, and songs that make Spinal Tap look Nobel-worthy. Things reach their silly peak when the band London breaks out a Soviet flag to burn, following that with the nearly meaningless "Russian Winter": "Snowbound, just like a Russian winter, yeah/ hellbound, just like a Russian winter in the U.S.A." London also shows off its home digs—the band is filmed hanging out of a speeding old truck with a camper on the back.
The movie is full of such face-palm moments, from dimwitted performers bragging about penis size to a wonderful sequence in which Ozzy discusses his life in Black Sabbath while cooking eggs and bacon for breakfast. (He also famously misses his glass when he tries to fill it with juice, a moment that may or may not have been staged.)
All the same, the film gets into serious territory. Chris Holmes of W.A.S.P. gets blind drunk and self-abusive in his swimming pool with his mother watching, and two musicians show up to be stout antidotes to all the insanity. The down-to-earth Lemmy merely stands on a hillside smoking, offering common-sense views of his profession. Dave Mustaine of Megadeth proves his bona fides as an earnest spokesman for his music, almost singlehandedly transcending all the hairspray.
The must-see film for music fans who survived the '80s or who don't know how bad things really were opens this Wednesday at Pleasant Street Theater in Northampton.
In other news, the UMass Doo Wop Shop, which boasts the descriptor "UMass' only all-male a cappella group," hits the stage at Smith's John M. Greene Hall to raise money for the American Cancer Society. That event was largely organized by Heather Craig because, she explains, of her appreciation for the group's role in relieving stress during her husband's illness. The Doo Wop Shop was founded by students in 1993, and, though the roster has changed over the years, the group continues to sing a huge number of shows for charitable causes.
April 28, 2 p.m., $15, John M. Greene Hall, Smith College, Route 9, Northampton, (413) 586-8686 or http://www.nbotickets.com.


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New University of Miami offensive coordinator Jedd Fisch spoke with reporters Friday afternoon. Here is what he had to say:
Opening statement: "I want to say how excited I am about joining The U. While it's been a crazy time here in Seattle preparing for the second round of the playoffs, the opportunity to join the U football program, coach [Al] Golden, is really exciting. I can't wait to be down there, but hopefully it won't come for a few more weeks as we're hoping to continue on our Super Bowl quest. It's a great moment for me, my family. My wife can't wait to get down there as well as my two kids."
Why did you decide to make the move to college now?
"That's a great question. The first reason is I realized how much I missed the game of college football, the pageantry that college football brings, the youth, excitement, energy of the players you have the opportunity to coach. The second reason was I wasn't planning on going back to college football this year. It wasn't something I was looking into at all. I was thrilled to death to be in the job I have, but when a program like the University of Miami calls and you have that opportunity, it was a dream come true. I grew up in northern New Jersey, my brother went to law school at the University of Miami. I couldn't believe it, was so thrilled to take it."
When will you be able to start recruiting?
"Depending how we move forward in Seattle. Assuming we win on Sunday [in Chicago], then I will continue in my role as the quarterbacks coach of the Seahawks and the program will recruit knowing that I will be there when the season ends. I hope the athletes Miami is recruiting, there will be some visibility because then we will be in the NFC Championship Game and from there the Super Bowl. Recruiting would be going on without me making the direct hit, hopefully the indirect hit of being part of a championship program [would be beneficial]."
Are you allowed to recruit while you are still coaching the Seahawks?
"From what I understand about the compliance, until I take the NCAA recruiting exam, which is administered at the university, there would be no contact with potential student-athletes."
Can you at least evaluate the QB's Miami is currently recruiting, watch film of them to figure out who you want?
"That will have to wait. Brennan Carroll who is the national recruiting coordinator has been evaluating some top-notch quarterbacks. He's looking at them and coach Golden is looking at them, George McDonald, the wide receivers coach, is looking at them. They know what direction we're going in on offense. What I appreciate most about coach Golden is, `You take care of your business, winning this week and beating the Chicago Bears, and whatever happens after that we'll revisit it.' Right now we're about winning, taking care of the Seahawks business."
Can you talk about your offensive philosophy?
"I know a lot of people use the term pro style offense. We'll be multiple and balanced. That's the key to a pro style offense. We'll use personnel groupings to our advantage. We're going to try to find our best matchups whether that be through the air, on the ground, getting the ball to our running backs in space, more of a downhill running attack, taking one-on-one matchups with our wide receivers. We're going to evaluate all of that. We'll be under center and shotgun, and we're going to attack. The one thing I really believe in is taking advantage of the defense with your personnel and being able to make explosive plays when the opportunity presents itself. If you take care of the football and make explosive plays you'll win a lot of football games."
What did you learn in your time as offensive coordinator at the University of Minnesota (2009)?
"You can never underestimate the value of experience. It was a phenomenal learning curve for me, both the good and bad. What you learn is what the players can handle, the 20 hour rule versus an NFL work week, how it really feels, what you can ask your players to do, really do a better job of evaluating your own talent. I think the key thing in college football vs. pro football - you better really know what you have. You better know what you can ask your guys to do. The thing about coming to the U is we have the ability and opportunity to have the best players in the country. To be able to figure out what they do best, put them in position to do that, will give us our best chance."
Having coached at the pro level, what do you think can you bring to a college team?
"I believe a lot. Pro football -- it's football all the time, and you're around the best of the best in terms of the athletes you're coaching and you get a great feel of what can be done and can't be done, what's too much and what's not too much. When you're around the pro athletes scheme is so important, the amount of time you can study film, get ideas, learn from different coaches in what people are doing to attack defenses. It's really good. To be able to take that experience and the resources you have in the NFL in terms of offensive line coaches, quarterback coaches, wide receiver coaches, coordinators - talking to those guys and asking those guy questions you build such great relationships that they never die. What I'm looking forward to is coming in and taking the experiences of what we did in the NFL, and we did a lot of good things in the nine years I coached in the NFL, and the things we did at Minnesota - we did some good things there - and put those together and put [forth] the best possible plan for the University of Miami to put the U offense back on top, which is where it belongs."
What is the history of your relationship with Al Golden?
"It's a very short history. It goes about five days. I never met coach Golden prior to our phone conversations. I will tell you I can't be more impressed. Obviously it's not an easy decision to make when you're in the middle of a playoff run with a very young team and a first-year head coach. The reason I left is two-fold: one, Al Golden, two the tradition at the U. The times I spoke to coach golden on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, every time that we talked prior to the offer and the acceptance of the position has been great conversation. We're on the same page not only philosophically but schematically. We bring a similar passion and energy to coaching. I'm thrilled to have the opportunity to work for him."
So you've never met coach Golden?
So how did the connection form between you and coach Golden?
"I never specifically asked him that question. I don't know the answer. The relationship, we'll build that over time. The relationship will thrive; I can tell that from the conversations we've had.
When did he first make contact with you?
"He made contact with me on Sunday evening, spoke with coach [Pete] Carroll and then he spoke with me. It was more of a brief introduction at first, talked about my history, the people I've coached, coached with, the philosophy I have. We moved forward from there."
Can you talk about working with Mike Shanahan, coach [Pete] Carroll and Brian Billick, coaches like that?
"Those coaches have won three national championships, have competed in five national championships, and they are coaches that have won three Super Bowls - it's about as good as it gets in that regard. Obviously each guy brings something else to the table. Each guy has a special quality. But all of them universally have the No. 1 quality of being great competitors. The No. 1 thing I've taken from those guys is the motivation to compete every time. I hope I can take all of their characteristics and mold them into the coach that I'll continue to be."
UM's quarterbacks have thrown a lot of interceptions the last couple of years. How do you work with quarterbacks to make better decisions?
"Interceptions are the craziest things. You watch Tom Brady, it's in the 330 range of throwing without an interceptions. You can watch ones tipped, dropped interceptions. Sometimes it just works out that way. Other times it works out that they weren't clear on the read. Sometimes it's experience in the offense. What we need to do is make sure with the quarterback that the first thing you teach them is where everybody is on the field. Until they realize where their receivers are they stick the ball in tight places when they don't need to. The other thing is you have to teach quarterbacks to take care of the football - punting is okay, it's okay to throw it away. When you don't, sometimes momentum swings. We have to teach our quarterbacks to be extremely disciplined. They have to have a great work ethic so they understand what we're asking them to do."
You never played football, even at the high school level. How unlikely is it for you to be where you are now at age 34?
"There's a lot of circumstances that go around a lot of things. The one thing I know is when you work extremely hard, if you give it everything you have usually good things happen. One thing I chose to do growing up is I was going to be a football coach and a football coach at the highest level. That opportunity presented itself every time I turned around."
Your offense struggled at Minnesota (2009). What went wrong?
"They were in their third year [under the same head coach], had run spread, had no experience with the quarterback under center, from an I formation. I tried to go and put in an offense thinking they had more experience in that type of system than they actually did. I might have been quick to assume they were able to get it right away. We just have to always continue to evaluate, how to get better and make sure that at Miami if there's something that I'm going to make sure I keep a close eye on, it's what our players can handle mentally and physically."
How familiar are you with the guys you're coaching with and will you have any input on the offensive line coach hiring?
"I know George McDonald, spent three weeks prior to him departing for Cleveland - he was at Minnesota when they hired me. I think highly of him. In terms of Brennan [Carroll]] - Brennan and I met a couple of times, have always had great conversations. I'm looking forward to meeting with everyone on the staff. Coach Golden and I have been speaking about the line coach and we'll continue to have that communication. Obviously it's a critical hire for the program, for me to make sure we're on the same page with)the philosophy of running the football and pass protection."


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The team have managed to pull themselves away from Minecraft long enough to produce a new podcast! The aim of this show to cover the big topics of 2010, including: HTML5 video, the rise of Android, more tablets than you can shake a stick at, handheld gaming biting at Nintendo's heels, companies suing companies and consumer rights degradation, web apps taking over the world, Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Series and capping off with our feelings on the lay of the land in 2011 before we invariably end up back at the crafting of mines.
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2011-12 Men's Basketball
Bluffton 51, Hanover 48
Bluffton stuns Hanover 51-48 after trailing for over 38 minutes
February 11, 2012
By: Martin Kluk, sports information intern
HANOVER, Indiana - The Bluffton University men's basketball team took its first lead of the game with just over a minute thirty to play and came away with a huge win on the road at Hanover, 51-48, on Saturday, Feb. 11. The Beavers upped their season record to 15-8 overall and 9-7 in the HCAC. Hanover dropped to 16-6 (12-4 HCAC) with the loss. The win moved Bluffton into a tie with Anderson and Rose-Hulman for third place in the conference. Hanover locked up second place while Transylvania clinched the regular season crown following its 72-52 win over Manchester.
Hanover grabbed the lead with two baskets before a layup by Josh Fisher (Rockford/Parkway) got Bluffton on the board at the 15:52 mark. After the Panthers extended the lead to as many as seven, a jumper by senior Brent Farley (Lima/Shawnee) pulled the Beavers within one, 18-17, with just over five to play in the half. However, Hanover used a quick 10-5 spurt to take a 28-22 advantage at the break.
Both teams came out of the half and kept up the intensity as scoring went back and forth for the first 10 minutes with Hanover leading by as many as nine following three consecutive Mike Smith hoops early in the second stanza. Bluffton finally gained some momentum when senior Mychal Hill (London/Jon. Alder) drained a trey to cut the deficit to one at 44-43 with 7:22 left in the game.
The Panthers fought back and held the lead as they had the entire game, but the gauge hit empty for Hanover and the determined Beavers had one last burst in them as they grabbed their first lead of the game (49-48) on a layup by Farley with 1:31 remaining.
Farley then used a slick feed from Nate Heckelman (Norwalk) on the very next possession for a 51-48 lead with just under 50 seconds to play and that was all she wrote for the Panthers as they missed both of their three-point attempts with the clock ticking down.
It was a well-rounded effort by the Beavers as five players scored seven or more points. Farley chipped in with 10 points, four boards and three assists. Fellow senior Nate Heckelman also had a productive game, finishing with 10 points and six rebounds.
Bluffton went 20-of-47 (42.6 percent) from the field, while Hanover connected on 17-of-51 (33.3 percent) field goals. From the foul line, the Beavers were 8-of-12 (66.7 percent) and the Panthers hit 8-of-11 (72.7 percent). Bluffton finished 3-of-13 from outside the arc (23.1 percent), compared to Hanover who converted just 6-of-24 (25.0 percent) triples. Hanover finished with a 35-27 advantage on the glass.
Bluffton returns to action on Wednesday, Feb. 15, when the Beavers travel to long-time rival Defiance College. The contest is slated for 8 p.m. in the Weaner Center.


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As jet insider expert.... being #1 in JI yahoo confidence pool makes me so...... I am here to end this silly thread by making a 100% DBAKE gaurantee....the pathetic suckchez led jets will lose to titans next week....season over.
Ps....not starting McElroy the rest of season is a huge mistake. Rex sucks.
Hopefully we lose at least one of the final three games so this can all be moot.
The jets are 3-1 since my boycott and the loss came thanksgiving night cause i broke the boycott and watched.
I am continuing the boycott for the rest of the reg season so look for the jests to end up 9-7.


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Lady Plainsmen hosting "Dig for a Cure" Oct. 19
On Wednesday, October 19th, Frank Phillips College Lady Plainsmen fans are encouraged to wear pink to support "Dig for a Cure" during the volleyball team's WJCAC conference match against NMMI at 7:00 p.m. at the BCAC. All donations and proceeds from the match will go to the "Susan G. Komen Fight against Breast Cancer."During the game a drawing will be held for an iPAD 2 being donated Verizon Wireless. Raffle tickets are $3 each or four for $10 and you must be present in order to win.The Lady Plainsmen are also selling "Dig Pink" shirts and the shirts can be ordered by calling Coach Dyer at 806-457-4200 ext. 748.


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Monday, December 13, 2010
Douche move by Jets coach on sidelines
Yesterday, during the Jets/Dolphins game, corner Dolphin back Nolan Carrol was running down the sideline on punt coverage and Jet strength and conditioning coach Sal Alosi put his knee out just enough to trip him.
Total dick move.
9 comments:
- J said...
- December 13, 2010 3:30 AM
- phil said...
yost, what part of "the twelfth man" don't you understand?
- December 13, 2010 7:36 AM
- Andy said...
Come on Yost....
This isn't that bad, everyone is doing it, this guy just got caught.
- December 13, 2010 7:48 AM
- phil said...
andy, that's too (SMU) funny. at least it's not as if the coach came and punched the guy in the face (where have i seen that before?)
-i am confused about the rules. wasn't the player out of bounds? are you allowed to run out of bounds and then get back into the play?
- December 13, 2010 8:15 AM
- TdK said...
You Can tell that the Jets are coached by a Ryan (thug).
They were gooning it up against the Lions when they played them, and I'm just waiting for the news that Rex Ryan is putting bounties on players like his old man did.
What a bunch of tools.....
- December 13, 2010 9:50 AM
- Bigasshammm said...
I'm interested to see the Roger Goodell hammer come down on this guy and the Jets as a whole. Looks like another person at the unemployment line soon.
- December 13, 2010 10:30 AM
- whetstonebuck said...
Always disparaging the "Woody Effect." It's not cheating if you do it for the camera. It's art.
- December 13, 2010 11:10 AM
- Nickname unavailable said...
He thought he was on the subway.
- December 13, 2010 9:04 PM
- Bigasshammm said...
Suspended for rest of the season and a 25k$ fine. Plus there's no way he has a job next season or ever again in the NFL.
Good riddance.
His tearful apology was utter bullshit. Dude can go to hell. I'd love it if the Dolphins team or player sued him.
- December 14, 2010 9:21 AM