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Roasting Peter Koch is an opportunity Earl Tillinghast couldn't refuse. He's spent the last few months eagerly preparing notes.
"I'm looking forward to it," said Tillinghast, who has been friends with Koch since the late 1960s. "He's quite a character. He's got some unique traits – some strange eating habits, and he is very athletic. He's also in the entertainment industry – you may have seen him in ads with the Cardi Boys. He's a big time TV star."
All sarcasm aside, Tillinghast said he was "thrilled" when Koch asked him to participate.
"He said, 'I want you to be one of my roasters,' and I said, 'Buddy, I wouldn't miss it,'" said Tillinghast.
Along with Tillinghast, Nick, Ron and Pete Cardi (NiRoPe), former WPRI Channel 12 news anchor Karen Adams, Claudia Jordan of "Deal or No Deal" and "Celebrity Apprentice," and Koch's daughter Kelly will roast Koch at an awards dinner hosted by the Rhode Island Mentoring Partnership Thursday, Nov. 7 at the West Valley Inn at 5:30 p.m. Proceeds will benefit the Partnership, a non-profit organization dedicated to the expansion of quality mentoring services for Rhode Island youth.
In addition to ticket sales, donations will be accepted. An anonymous donor is matching $5,000 or more for any funds contributed at the event.
Koch, the CEO of Koch Eye Associates, has been involved with the Partnership for nearly 20 years. He said the roast concept is a great one.
"We banged around all different ideas and when someone suggested the Dean Martin roast, I was all for it," said Koch. "I just think it's hysterical. I have no idea what they are going to say, but it should be a good time. If you can't make fun of yourself, who can you make fun of?"
In January, Koch was awarded the first ever Excellence in Mentoring in America Award for Individual Leadership by MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership. He attended a ceremony at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., where he was recognized for providing time, financial support and leadership to the cause.
According to Partnership President and COO Jo-Ann Schofield, the awards dinner and roast is another way to honor him before he retires from the Partnership Board in June, as well as keep the "fun in fundraising."
"He's been a longtime supporter of mentoring and has been on our Board of Directors for years," she said. "This was our way of bringing that celebration that happened in D.C. back home with our own spin on it. We wanted to do something here to celebrate his many years of contributions to mentoring."
Former president and CEO Arlene McNulty agreed. From being a mentor, serving as treasurer of the Board, donating funds and performing in the annual Rhode Island Dancing with the Stars fundraiser more than once, Koch has "done such phenomenal things for the program throughout the state."
Koch holds the Partnership close to his heart. He mentored two students, who are now adults, and keeps in touch with them.
"We still get together and talk," Koch said. "They still bounce ideas off me."
He also spoke of the importance of mentoring, as he knows children require guidance and encouragement to strive.
"I've spent over 20 years doing something that I thought was only going to last three years, but this is something that I couldn't give up because I love it so much," said Koch. "I love that we can help children who need our help. We can be an inspiration for them, a friend for them and give them a better foundation as they get older."
Mario Hilario of NBC Channel 10, along with Warwick Beacon publisher John Howell, Director of Elementary Education for the Warwick School Department Robert Bushell, and MetLife Auto and Home are being honored at the event for their efforts toward promoting the Partnership with the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Howell was the Partnership's first Board chair, while Bushell and MetLife are also instrumental in helping the organization thrive, and have been with the organization since it formed in 1990.
"He gives us wonderful coverage in the Warwick Beacon, and he's been such an advocate for us," Schofield said of Howell, adding that Bushell was "a member of the founding team. Mentoring in Warwick was initially his vision."
Hilario also spreads the word about the Partnership. Aside from competing in 2008's Dancing with the Stars of Mentoring and participating in the event's opening number for the last three years, Hilario has done many reports about the Partnership on NBC through the years.
"I've seen the testimony firsthand of how impactful it can be," Hilario said. "There are so many challenges that our young people face today that a program like mentoring really makes a big difference in a young person's life. It's a valuable organization, and I am honored that they are choosing me for this award. It's very humbling."
In addition to reports, NBC promotes National Mentoring Month, an organization that also supports mentoring, by inviting a panel of Partnership experts to field calls from viewers and provide insight about mentoring.
"There are many different avenues Channel 10 has taken over the years to get involved and raise awareness about the importance of mentoring and the work the Partnership does," Hilario said.
Schofield is grateful to Hilario, as well as Howell, Bushell and MetLife, for their hard work and help. Of course, she's also appreciative of Koch.
"We're very thankful for the support of the folks being honored, either with a toast or a roast," Schofield said.
For Koch, taking a few good ribbings to support the Partnership will be all in good fun. Helping the youth of Rhode Island is the main goal.
"It's a wonderful organization, and it should be a nice evening," Koch said. "I've got three children feeding my oldest daughter ideas, and I know for a fact Earl's been gathering up things."
A few people who are unable to attend the event are sending videos all the way from Caesar's Palace, as well as Scotland. Koch's friends, including professional golfer Brad Faxon, are among them.
And let's not forget about NiRoPe.
"We're excited to be part of this fun event," they wrote in a statement. "Peter Koch has been an avid supporter for many years. We can't really make jokes about his hair because we're losing ours, but we've got plenty of other stories we can share. We're looking forward to [it], and we hope many more will join us."
Dinner includes garden salad, penne pasta, sirloin steak with mama butter, plus a baked potato and vegetables. Tickets to the event, which are $70 each, can be purchased by calling the Partnership office at 732-7700, via the website at MentorRI.org, or at this link: www.mentorri.org/events.htm.
West Valley Inn is located at 4 Blossom Street in West Warwick.


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After the Windows Vista debacle, Microsoft got back to basics with another strong Windows release. Windows 7 made up for a lot of the sins of the past with a stripped-down approach, enhanced stability, and an improved task bar. Oh, and it was much faster than previous Windows versions. To date, Windows 7 has sold more than 630 million copies (and it's still going).
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AMD Phenom CPUs to See Further Delays
Furthermore, according to DigiTimes, whether AMD's triple-core Toliman series CPUs will also see delay will be the key decision for the company, since Toliman offers a high price/performance ratio compared with Intel's quad-core CPUs. A delay for Toliman will hurt AMD the most, noted the sources.
The sources commented that the reason for the delay of 9700 and 9900 is because AMD has not yet been able to solve the translation lookaside buffer (TLB) erratum found in the chips. However, they added in saying that, in the long-term, AMD's decision is correct since pushing products that are not ready will only hurt the company more.
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Martha Ann Wilson Wallace, 68, of Benton went to be with the Lord on May 14. She was born May 26, 1943 in Malvern.
Martha was a graduate of the Bauxite Class of 1963. She was retired from State of Arkansas Department of Human Services after 31 years, and was a member of Trinity Baptist Church.
Martha was preceded in death by her parents, Mable and Lee Wilson; and a brother, Don Wilson.
She is survived by her son, Jack Wallace Jr. of Benton; a brother, Bill Wilson of Benton; three sisters, Helen O'Kelley of Bauxite, Mary Lee Whitmire of Bauxite and Diana Goins of Benton; seven nephews and six nieces.
Funeral service is scheduled for 2 p.m. Thursday, May 17, at Trinity Baptist Church with the Rev. Mike Titsworth officiating. Burial will follow at McPherson Cemetery in Sardis.
Pallbearers are Danny Reed, Jimmy O'Kelley, Clint O'Kelley, Joe Bradshaw, Reed Yates, and John Paul Propst.
Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, May 16, at Ashby Funeral Home.
Family and friends will gather at 221 Princeton St. in Benton.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Trinity Baptist Church Building Fund, 702 Church St., Benton, AR 72015.
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RTD WINS 3rd on 6.3.12.avi [09:24]
Ready To Defer WON the 3rd race on Sunday, June 3rd at Beautiful Belmont Park. He broke sharp from the 4 hole with Ramon Dominguez and never looked back! Ramon never moved his hands through fractions of 22, 45, 56! As the race progressed the margin steadily widened. At the top of the stretch he opened up an 8 length lead then in the words of the chart caller: "....Increased the lead from upper to mid-stretch, under a mild hand ride, got geared down at the 16th pole, allowed to complete the contest handily"... I think that about sums it up! He finished in 109 and 2! Sundays so far have been very good luck for PGR!! Congratulations to all! This is one awesome horse! Nice way to celebrate another weekend
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A western-themed amusement park on Lake Tahoe's north shore based on the hit 1960s television show "Bonanza" has been sold to PeopleSoft founder David Duffield for an undisclosed sum.
Duffield, who became a residential real estate developer after leaving as president and CEO of the Pleasanton, Calif.,-based business software maker in 1999, was vague about his plans for the 570-acre Ponderosa Ranch.
"Some folks are concerned about the development potential of the Ponderosa Ranch," he said in a statement. "I can assure them that I have no immediate development plans for the property. As a full-time resident of Incline Village, I appreciate the concerns about the future of this property as it is the gateway to our community."
Duffield's home phone is unlisted and he could not be reached for comment Saturday.
Local, state and federal officials expressed shock and disappointment, saying the sale thwarts their efforts to purchase and preserve the prime real estate for the public.
The U.S. Forest Service had hoped to use $35 million generated by a recent auction of federal land near Las Vegas to purchase about 490 acres of the ranch. Other agencies had planned to split the rest.
"It was just a real win-win proposition for the state of Nevada and the Tahoe Basin, " said Pam Wilcox, administrator of the Nevada State Lands Division. "We all invested so much time and hard work in this and it's a real blow. We're just crushed."
Supporters of the public buyout envisioned leaving most of the property as open space and incorporating the ranch into a system of trails for hikers and bikers.
They also envisioned using part of the property for parking for nearby attractions and preserving several Ponderosa Ranch buildings.
After putting the ranch up for sale in February, the owners said they preferred to sell to the government, not a developer.
David Geddes, president of the ranch, praised governmental officials' efforts to put together what he called "a very complex project."
But he said their offer "was still in the formative stages and had an awful lot of contingencies. For us, this was the right business decision for our family."
Geddes said he's confident that Duffield will be "a responsible steward of the land."
Royce Anderson, co-owner of the Ponderosa, said the deal with Duffield did not evolve until about two weeks ago.
"We demanded an answer to the completedness of (the agencies') intent and never got an answer," Anderson said.
Karen Mullen, Washoe County parks director, said eight governmental agencies had planned to complete the sale later this year.
"We had the interlocal agreement between the agencies drafted, we had the purchase and sale agreement drafted and the money lined up," Mullen said. "We thought we were sailing along and then we just got the wind knocked out of our sails."
The Ponderosa Ranch, which opened in 1967, was based on the NBC show Bonanza that aired from 1950 to 1973. It concerned the exploits of the Cartwright family who lived on the fictional Ponderosa Ranch.
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It is time to declare victory in the war against al-Qaida and start the process of bringing the United States — its defense structure, its judicial system and its respect for its own values — to a post-war footing.
This was the gist of a major national security speech delivered Thursday by President Obama at the National Defense University. In it, he called, again, for closure of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay and explained plans to put the use of deadly drone strikes against terrorist targets under a more structured and reviewed process. He once more challenged Congress to work with him to develop a new statutory basis for national security to replace the law passed in the understandably panicked wake of the terror attacks of 2001.
As befits our democratic system, critics on the right and the left will, and should, examine the president's ideas for their soundness and keep a wary eye on his willingness to live up to the principles he set down Thursday. But it will be of no benefit if all that happens is more partisan deadlock. The debate about our future national security policy should be a chance for people of all ideological persuasions to work out the best ideas for returning the United States to a land where the law is supreme, force is a last resort and the fear of attack is not used to justify overreaching government power or any other loss of traditional American ideas of liberty.
The extraordinary, often constitutionally and morally questionable, conduct of the war on terror under both George W. Bush and Barack Obama has been based on the Authorization to Use Military Force, basically a declaration of war against Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network and its allies and affiliates. It passed Congress while the ruins of the World Trade Center were still smoldering.
As Obama noted Thursday, that act is now nearly 12 years old. The threat from individuals and groups that mean America harm has not gone away, and never will. But enough has changed in those years that the leaders of Congress should accept the president's invitation to replace that act with a new, more limited, more appropriate set of rules. Rules that allow the executive branch to seek out and counter legitimate threats to our national security without casting so broad a net that it justifies everything from torture and secret prisons to searches of reporters' telephone records and the labeling of journalists as security threats.
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PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. Volunteers are pulling on their Santa hats, phone lines are in place and wall-size tracking screens are ready. NORAD Tracks Santa is primed for its 57th annual goodwill mission.
The first shift of Santa trackers starts taking calls early Monday at (877) HI-NORAD (877) 446-6723, telling children — and some adults — when Santa is due at their house. The last shift won't end until nearly 24 hours later.
They'll also post updates online (http://www.noradsanta.org), on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/noradsanta) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/NoradSanta).
The volunteers will work from Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colo., home of the North American Aerospace Defense Command.
NORAD, a joint U.S.-Canada command responsible for protecting the skies over both nations, says its Santa-tracking rite was born of a humble typo in a newspaper ad in 1955.
The ad in a Colorado Springs newspaper invited children to call Santa but inadvertently listed the phone number for the Continental Air Defense Command, NORAD's predecessor, also based in Colorado Springs.
CONAD officers played along, and word spread that this Cold War military command charged with guarding the U.S. against an attack by the Soviet Union was also telling kids where Santa was.
Since then, NORAD Tracks Santa has gone global, progressing through bulletins on AM radios and black-and-white TVs to updates on Facebook, Twitter and smart-phone aps.
Last year, volunteers answered almost 102,000 calls, nearly 25 percent more than the previous year. They also answered more than 7,700 e-mails (firstname.lastname@example.com).
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BEIJING — In his first speech to the Chinese Communist Party's elite Politburo, Xi Jinping, the new party chief, denounced the prevalence of corruption and said officials must guard against its spread or it would ''doom the party and the state.''
The remarks were made Saturday at a meeting of the 25-person Politburo, which announced a turnover of 15 members last week at the close of the 18th Party Congress, the state news media reported Monday.
Xi's admonitions echoed points he made in his inaugural speech Thursday. Xi appears to want to take a populist tack in shaping his image and to push an anticorruption drive as one of the first visible acts in his new post.
''In recent years, the long pent-up problems in some countries have led to the venting of public outrage, to social turmoil, and to the fall of governments, and corruption and graft have been an important reason,'' Xi said, according to a version of the speech posted online. ''A mass of facts tells us that if corruption becomes increasingly serious, it will inevitably doom the party and the state. We must be vigilant."
Xi also took the occasion to underscore the need to remain true to the party's founding ideology, and warned that some officials appeared to be heading down a wayward path.
''Faith in Marxism and a belief in socialism and communism is the political soul of a communist and the spiritual pillar that allows a communist to withstand any test,'' Xi said.
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Vincent Lecavalier Skates In 1,000th Career Game Todayby Staff Writer / Tampa Bay Lightning
Tampa Bay Lightning captain Vincent Lecavalier skated in his 1,000th career NHL game today against the New York Islanders at Nassau Coliseum. He became the 280th player in NHL history to reach the 1,000-game milestone.
Lecavalier, the first overall selection in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft, has played 1,000 games for the Lightning and ranks fifth all time in NHL history for games played by first overall picks by their drafting team. He is the 29th player to reach the 1,000 game mark currently playing in the league (including Chris Pronger). He is the 49th player to play 1,000 or more games for one NHL franchise, and the eighth active player currently playing in the NHL to have reached that milestone with one team.
The Lightning will honor Lecavalier's achievement before their next home game on Friday, January 25 when they host the Ottawa Senators at 7:30 p.m. at the Tampa Bay Times Forum. Prior to Friday night's puck drop, Lecavalier will be honored with a pregame presentation, commemorating his milestone. In honor of Lecavalier, Reebok purchased 1,000 tickets to Friday's home game against the Senators for fans to win. Fans can enter to win the tickets by going to the Lightning's official Facebook page.
"We are very proud to partner with Reebok on this Lightning Facebook ticket giveaway, allowing our fans the chance to see Lecavalier's pre-game presentation on Friday night for free, compliments of Reebok," said Jamie Spencer, executive vice president of sales for the Lightning.
The Ile Bizard, Quebec native is one of three players to ever be selected by the Lightning with the first overall pick in the NHL Entry Draft. Lecavalier was an integral part of the 2004 Stanley Cup championship team. In 2006-07 he won the Maurice "Rocket" Richard Trophy, awarded to the NHL's top goal scorer during the regular season, when he scored 52 goals, then a Lightning record. Lecavalier still holds the Lightning single-season record for most points in a season with 108, set during the 2006-07 campaign. He has represented the Lightning at the NHL All-Star Game four times in his career (2009, 2008, 2007 and 2003). Lecavalier has tallied 374 goals and 470 assists for 844 points in 1,000 career games.


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Three And Out Takes: Ensemble
Yesterday we covered the main characters in Three and Out; today some of the people who show up less frequently (or do not loom with their absence).
For people complaining about spoilers, I have bad news: they fire the guy. But we won World War II, so we've got that going for us. Unless this is an alternate history and we're all Nazis, but only Michigan State fans believe that because Michigan State fans will believe anyone is a racist if it helps exonerate Will Gholston. Denard: totally racist.
Anyway, I show up briefly. A few reporters show up more extensively, and then there are the players—addressed as a group—and the new athletic director.
This guy's opinion: boy, does that hippie with the blog need a haircut. But his logic… so dashing.
Person Who Identifies Himself As Brian
(And you guys.)
So… right. There are some scattered MGoBlog references, mostly as a reading of the fan zeitgeist. "Never Forget" is referenced because "Never Forget" is always referenced all the time; The Horror is identified as The Horror, and so forth and so on. The blog's permanence relative to most message boards (and even newspapers, which put their stories behind a paywall after a while) seems to have made it the database of record when it comes to how the average fan felt at X point in time, even if the average fan here is not the average fan elsewhere. It's around. Since that's more than anything else can say, its opinion wins by default.
A couple people have asked for more detail about the point in the book where I show up in the flesh. This is after the WMU 2009 press conference, which was the first one post-Free Press story. I've had a couple days to consider the story and have come to the conclusion that it's a misleading, unethical hack job. I am steaming. I go to the press conference to liveblog it.
Afterwards—and in retrospect I can't believe this actually transpired—I go to the front of the room, where Snyder is, and repeatedly ask him if he knows what a countable hour is in an unfriendly fashion. He refuses to answer. The pattern is: I ask, he says he won't respond because I am a "competitor," I ask, he says the same thing, I incredulously ask if he will not defend his article, etc. etc. etc. This is actually broadcast (off-camera but audible) on the MGoBlue stream, which was not turned off after the presser.
I give up on Snyder and am in the process of storming out when I happen on Rosenberg in the little vestibule between the Junge proper and outside. I ask the same thing; Rosenberg responds that he does know what a countable hour is, so I start in on why that wasn't in the article and how realistic it is that a head coach at a major program had been more than doubling the NCAA's allotted maximums for years. He starts asking me my name over and over again, which I ignore in favor of further badgering. Craig Ross, watching this with a combination of bemusement and horror, eventually tells Rosenberg my name. I think this was because he wanted Rosenberg to start saying other things, but you'd have to ask him and he doesn't remember interjecting. So that's lost to history.
I had no idea this was going to be in the book until just before the thing went to print when Bacon emailed me with Rosenberg's version of the event and asked me if I had any corrections, which I did since he remembered me as some wild-eyed nut instead of a wild-eyed nut with very specific questions.
And <poof> like that, he's gone.
Mike Rosenberg
As for my bête noir… well now. Revelations about Rosenberg from the book:
- Countable hours was "in the story at some point" but "there were a lot of edits."
- He did not attend a single practice before writing the infamous story in which he declares it "sad" that Michigan is employing a guy to belittle its students. (I found this so implausible when I read it that I double-checked with Bacon about this; he dug up the email he had gotten from Rosenberg as proof.)
- He told multiple Michigan employees that he "hated Bill Martin" and "was going to get him run out of his job."
- He got teary when Michigan fans left nasty reviews of his book on Amazon.
Rosenberg has taken to twitter to call Bacon a "fan" and claim the book is "littered with errors," complaining that Bacon made "almost no attempt to talk to anybody who would contradict his subject's point of view."
How Rosenberg knows this is unknown. Bacon states in the book that he repeatedly tried to talk to Martin, Coleman, Carr, and Brandon but never got anywhere. Certainly Brandon's response to the book—a disingenuous "what book?" issued at the same time he's pressuring the M-Den not to carry it and Bacon has been exiled to Drew Sharp Row—indicates the sort of cooperation the AD is providing the guy.
Meanwhile, the height of irony:
When I asked Rosenberg if they had made any attempt to talk to players with different views, he replied, "Did we keep calling until we got guys to say, 'Hey, it's fine?' No, we didn't."
The difference between Bacon's book—which contains a half-dozen quotes from Rosenberg as it attempts to show both sides of the story—and the Free Press piece is stark. The [REDACTED] has the balls to complain about Bacon's approach to journalism? After the NCAA called the original article exaggerated and misleading? After they took countable hours out of the story? /head explodes
That this guy still has a job is a black mark on the Free Press. That he's still allowed to show up at press conferences is inexplicable. That he has the chutzpah to criticize someone else's journalism is totally expected, because he's just that kind of guy.
Players of all varieties
The only enjoyable parts of the book are the moments when Michigan's players come into focus. I suspect that Bacon soft-pedaled some of the Tate stuff. He comes off as a fairly likeable, if pretty weird, kid. Denard and Devin and Mark Moundros and Ryan Van Bergen and Mike Martin all come off well.
At least we've got that after the last few years. Michigan's players are easy to root for. They don't put MIKE VICK on their eyeblack or fracture skulls or not pay for tattoos or give quotes about how "everybody murders" to the media. They leave all that stuff to the adults.
Dave Brandon
That feeling you got at the end of the Hoke press conference when Brandon was talking and you thought "Rodriguez was a dead man even before the bowl" is a feeling most of the players had. Bacon, too, which he made more explicit than he did in the book in an appearance on the Huge show yesterday.
Brandon's drawn-out firing process does seem like an unnecessary delay of an already-made decision. The impression Bacon got was the players thought Rodriguez was done, people around the program felt Brandon was hoping for a loss in the bowl game. So cut the cord already.
We don't get much else on the current AD.
I put up another review of Rosenberg's book on Amazon just now... for no particular reason, but just after seeing that he read them and took it personally, I figured why not add another. Have to admit, it felt good.
Drew Sharp condones this sea mammal abuse
I will say that reading Bacon methodologically destroy Rosenberg's professional integrity in a book getting national attention from serious journalistic institutions has been one of my favorite parts of the book so far. Having to relieve the Horror in well-written prose, probably the least.
My mind was blown when I heard that Rosenberg is a Michigan grad. I know, I know, college affiliation should not get in the way of news reporting and news is what it is - bad news has to be reported just like good news does. But NSFMF - you would think that someone would go the extra mile to make sure all bases are covered when publishing an expose about your own school that could send shockwaves across your school's environment. If anything, why would he not err on the side of extreme caution, just for his own personal satisfaction? I'd love to sit down and talk to him. I wouldn't even be rude - I'd just love to get into his brain and see what motivated him to write that expose. A--hole.
Never a dull day in the world of Michigan Football.
Back in May 2010, around the time of the Morgan Trent fiasco, you wrote:
Through it all, Rodriguez just grits his teeth and asks if you've heard his Lion King joke. I shudder at the tell-all book that will inevitably follow a Rodriguez canning.
Now that said Rodriguez canning has occurred and said tell-all book has been written and read, were your shudder-inducing suspicions confirmed or rebutted? In other words, what was your first immediate reaction after having finished reading the book?
I'm curious as to how you feel after seeing your name in print. Is it exhilarating? Nerve-wracking? Unmoving? I know it was a very emotional time and I'm curious as to how it feels now seeing you included in the history of it all.
[Edit: FrankMurphy kind of stole my thunder but maybe you'll entertain both questions?]
I haven't really thought about it. It's strange that my conversation with Rosenberg is going to be read about by a bunch of people who have no context. I hope I don't come off like too much of a weirdo to them.
I like the fact that Bacon went to the blog to get the emotional tenor of M fans, and that in doing so he didn't just quote me but also used community-generated material. That seems like something the site has done right.
You do come off as a weirdo....but maybe thats just because I know you
that more of a ZING than a BURN
1) I think the cord not being cut was due to the reduction in the buyout after Jan 1. Kind of petty, but that is the only logical explanation I can come to as to why it did not happen after the OSU game -- I think most of us agree now (even those who were RR supporters) it had to be done.
2) the only other thing about Brandon that really stood out was that he refused to meet with Denard Robinson before the firing, and then when asked after the firing if he had talked to the players, he said "I talked to players" or something to that effect.
Brandon comes off as kind of how you would expect him to - ego and agenda driven, which if it gets results can be unpleasant, but far better than the rudderless sailor. Brandon will control the message whether you like it or not. That is why he hates this book. Brandon wants this all put in the dustbin of history so he can focus on adding stripes to jerseys and rawk music to our lives -- a pleasent diverson where pocketbooks are removed.
I thought it was established that RichRod received the same buyout amount that he would have had he been fired in December ( something about a 30 day notice being required to void the higher buyout). The job-blocking argument seems to make the most sense.
I'm pretty sure that the buyout dropped from $4 million to $2.5 million on January 1, 2011. The book mentions that his original contract called for an annual $500,000 reduction in his buyout, but Bill Martin and Mary Sue Coleman agreed to the change after Rodriguez agreed to keep quiet about their secret deal for Michigan to contribute $2.5 million to the settlement of WVU's lawsuit.
According to Mvictors, it didn't really, because UM had to give RR 30 days written notice that they were firing him.
Article 4.01(a) defines the amount U-M must pay Rodriguez if he's terminated without cause and note the drop in contract year four starting January 1, 2011.
However, these terms require Michigan to provide 30 days written notice of the termination:
Practically speaking if Brandon fires Rodriguez next week, Rich Rod is not going to hang around for 30 days. But it appears as though the contractual time table on the termination will stretch into January, providing another reason why the $1.5 million "savings" question doesn't hold water.
For the clips from his contract, see http://mvictors.com/?p=9046
That's not how contract close outs really work. Yes, they could say "I'm giving you 30 days notice, and you can sit in a closet and throw papers into a trash can and earn your salary"...or..."hey, you can wave the clause, take your money right now, and get on with your life"...that's how these things generally work in real life. He could have pulled a West Virginia with Rich, and insisted on the letter of the contract. Instead, he wisely took a West Virginia with Beilein, and negotiated an easier departure.
Do you think it was partly to reduce the likelihood of transfers? If RR is fired right after the Ohio game, he has a good opportunity to get another head coaching job and would be coaching this season. Then Denard or others would have had an opportunity to transfer to where RR landed. Sure they would have the redshirt year, but still two years to play for RR in Denard's case.
Additional addition: maybe DB was thinking of right after The Game and wanted to see SDSU's bowl game as an audition?
RR finding another head coaching job after last season seems improbable and I'm not sure that the players would have left in droves after the OSU game anyway. If the ship had sunk here, why jump on where it might sink again.
Rosenberg and Snyder still have complete access to the program (and have suffered no real repercussions from the university), but Mr. John U. Bacon has been banished to the Badlands?
That speaks volumes.
It does seem completely upside-down to me.
Or just haven't been banned? (Much like Bacon hasn't). Or is it all about seating charts? Because I don't think the Freep gets any one on one interviews anymore, really. Hoke's Q&A was put in the Detroit News today; nothing like that seems to appear in the Freep anymore. I think all legit access has been cut off, without looking vindictive. Which many of us wish they would do, but probably isn't a good PR move. You'd suddenly get the other media members defending the Freep guys, rather than looking their noses down at them.
And if I can, I'll report the answer.
My head and in part my gut tells me that the MGoBlogosphere might be making a little more of this Bacon-banishment thing than is merited.
First, the press-row assignment. Umm, there are approximately three rows in the press box. Now I'll be happy to be corrected if I'm wrong about this, but the first row is for lots of guys who might not be working on deadline and want a good view. They get the first row, but not a lot of elbow room. The second row is where Angelique and Snyder sit. And there are like one-third the number of chairs, so that they can open their laptops, but also have papers on either side. And then there's the back row. Which is just the back row and more of sort of the same as the first row. Drew Sharp sits there because he is almost always the fifth wheel in Free Press coverage of Michigan sports. (The Freep already has Snyder there, and sometimes another writer like a Shawn Winsor, and perhaps even another columnist, like a Rosenberg or an Albom.) Sharp routinely doesn't even get a press seat at all for basketball games at Crisler, and he has indicated to me that he likes it that way. He likes to watch a little of the game from ordinary seats, and he likes to hang for a while in the tunnel.
As for the alleged Bacon-banishment-but-Rosenberg's-still-got-access! Well, not so much. Bacon has a press pass. So does Rosenberg, and so does Snyder. They all get into the Press Box. They all get into the Junge Center for pressers. They all get to sit and watch and listen. But JUB is not getting any personal interviews with Brandon, and neither is Snyder or Rosenberg. And, I think I am correct in saying that both Angelique and Larry Lage of the AP have each gotten special access, since the conclusion of Michigan's NCAA investigation. So there is that pecking-order. Mostly informal.
btw: For the past three years, Bacon's hardly even been in the Michigan Stadium Press Box. For a very good reason. He was on the sidelines with the players. I wish I could remember when I said it; I think it was in mid-2009; that "It looks like John U. Bacon is working on a new book; he's now on the sidelines for every game..."
So that's that. I'm certainly not calling out JUB on anything. I just am unaware of anything other than a press row assignment that signals that Bacon is being sent to the Russian front.
With nothing but what I hear or read, that is exactly the way things appear. It does not seem right that Bacon should stand alone in the hinterlands.
but from the excerpts it is becoming clear that most of the things I had suspect but hoped (beyond hope) weren't true, actually occurred. I was of the opinion that RR had to leave after the bowl loss and am very excited about the new staff, but there are a lot of so called "michigan men" who should be damned ashamed of their actions while RR was coach. People don't deserve the treatment he received no matter who they are. All the guy did was accept a job that most people would jump at and got crucified in return.
It's clear that RR was a failed UM (in terms of record) as the head football coach, but what is far more evident to me is how UM failed both RR and this team of young men. Damn it makes me almost sick thinking about it. Thankfully this hire was better received by the ones that seem to matter and we don't seem headed down the same path again.
The reduction in buyout could not have been the main reason for prolonging Rodriguez's firing.
I personally believe it was the reason posited in the book - by the time Rodriguez was fired, there was nowhere for him to go. With him on the sidelines, it ensured Denard and most of the players who he had brought in would have nowhere to follow Rich Rod to.
It surely is plausible that if Rich Rod found himself at Pitt or Maryland or Miami or Indiana or anywhere else with a coaching opening, that anyone with 2 years plus a redshirt year that he recruited to Michigan would have followed him to that new gig. Imagine the roster that would be left behind right now.
In that sense, Brandon handled it perfectly.
I think this explanation is as good as any. We may never know David Brandon's rationale behind it, but one thing I think we can all agree on is that there was a clear motive for the timing of the firing. DB is one sly bastard and I don't give credence to those who think he was indecisive or procrastinating with the "process"
To me, it would show even more cynicism on Brandon's part than the buyout rationale, and that doesn't sit well with me. It's one thing to unnecessarily delay someone's firing, but another entirely to force the coach's and various players' hand by sabotaging their other options. That seems pretty dishonorable and classless to me.
Well, think about it this way:
his first interest is Michigan football. In that sense his priority is "protecting the brand."
Second, he in effect paid Rich Rod to sit out this year. Rich Rod's still getting paid and paid handsomely by Michigan.
Given what Brandon wanted to accomplish (keep the team together, and get rid of the coach and the associated negativity), I don't see a way to handle it any better.
I can reluctantly accept that that's the lay of the land for head coaches (although it still rubs me the wrong way), but it bothers me when it comes to the players. Maybe I have too strongly, uh, parental feelings for Denard. He's only got four years of eligibility, though. Rather than forcing him (as an example) to make a decision on staying in February or March, it seems fair for him to have December and January to start thinking about it. Sure, it would have been worse for Michigan football to have him decide to leave. Don't we owe him a fair shot at making the right decision for himself? Obviously he decided to stay, but I don't think it's unfair to say that his season probably hasn't played out the way he thought it would. I grant, of course, that I'm not privy to his conversations with the coaching staff and don't know about what's happening in the second half of this season and next year for his senior season.
A lot of times I get really pissed at many of you for some of the things I read but today I'm really enjoying so many takes on this matter and this seems like an awesome thread so far.
However, after reading your take Derek, well written but dude, Denard is getting an education from the University of MICHIGAN! This doesn't suck, wouldn't you say? I'm not too concerned about whether Denard might have had a chance to transfer to Miami, yeah that Miami or whatever.
He's lucky to be in the position he's in, that's all I'm saying.
I think we can both agree that Denard, like the vast majority of athletes, isn't at Michigan for the education.
DB did exactly what he planned to do. Some may not like it, but he worked out his plan successfully. Plus, there doesn't seem to be anyone trying to sabotage the program anymore. I also think that DB is trying to avoid bad press about the program. I bought this book, I enjoy reading it, I respect Bacon, but the book itself paints the program in a bad light. DB is distancing himself from that, but I think he is correct in doing so.
I'm not sure I buy this line of thought since waiting to fire RR also disallowed us from initiating the coaching search. And there's no evidence that we were searching for coaches before RR was let go. Granted, Harbaugh and Miles probably wanted to wait till after their bowl games to seriously consider anything, but it's still not great to wait to start your search.
My thought is that hindsight is 20/20 and that's why people around the program are now saying "well sure, RR was as good as gone. DB must've been up to something sneaky by waiting" They can say that now, but did they REALLY think that before he was fired? I don't really think there was any mischief going on. Look at the blog in the week leading up to it - plenty of people that he would/should be retained. The firing wasn't a given necessarily. I'll keep my naivete and assume DB really wanted to give him one last shot.
either. Mississippi State seemed to be very beatable, and a bowl win (news year day bowl win) to go 8-5 could have given him the "you have one more year but you better use it to not suck at defense" fourth year. Starting from scatch was a risky proposition, especially because I don't believe that either Harbaugh or Miles had any actual interest in the job to begin with. i think the choice from the jump was either give Rich Rod another year or hire Brady Hoke (to coach Rich Rod's players), not that easy of a choice if you consider it in that context.
"Mississippi State seemed to be very beatable"
To whom? That game had nothing to do with the decision to fire Rodriguez.
For me the Miss St game was the final straw. I was a fervent supporter of a fourth year until that game. We had a month to prepare, but looked like a bunch of lost puppies ... and it was Miss St. They weren't exactly a juggernaut; they were a middling SEC team.
The report was RR and DB met for 3 hours the day he was let go. I don't get what they could have talked about for so long. If DB was intent on firing him, does he string him along for 2:45 and then pull the trigger. Or does he pull the trigger and then they spend the next 3 hours ironing out the detrails. That doesn't seem likely.
let's not pretend that the mississippi state bulldogs (let's repeat that again...the MISSISSIPPI STATE BULLDOGS) looked like some sort of wrecking crew. they were (and are) a profoundly mediocre outfit, and our team got flat toasted for 60 minutes. worse, they looked unprepared and uninterested.
going into the game I thought rodriguez had already earned a fourth year. I changed my mind before the fourth quarter.
This is why I think Bacon's claim that DB leaked to the players that RR was gone before the
Gator Bowl holds water. I never got the sense that the team quit in all three years, but I did in that game. I think their hearts had been stomped on.
Thanks, douchebag.
Last year, Mississippi State lost to 4 ranked teams by an average of less than 2 scores, including a loss by 3 points to the eventual national champion undefeated Auburn tigers. The 4 teams they lost to were Alabama, Auburn, LSU, and Arkansas. They were actually much much better than profoundly mediocre. They were pretty fucking good. They could have probably won the B10 or come very close.
I think you're right - people just see this year's team and think of the past and just assume they suck. I thought they were pretty good last year. Although I also think the M players knew RR was gone and they didn't give it their all. A combination of the two.
You thought a team that gave up 35pts a game was pretty good? I'm sorry but that's not pretty good, pretty sucky is more like it. So we had a cute Offense that did some things and was sorta exciting but not so much against good teams.
And If you're right about the players packing it in a little bit, then doesn't that say something about the coach at the time.
If you know you've got a guy you consider to be a good candidate already in the bag, and his university president knows he'll walk if the job is available, you can initiate your coaching search whenever you want.
There are other possibilities, but we might want to first look at what Brandon said himself. He told everyone the reason he waited was because he felt Rodriguez and the players, after all they had been through, deserved to coach and be coached by the guy who got them there.
Brandon knew Harbaugh wasn't coming here. He said Harbaugh was probably going to coach a pro team.
Brandon knew he wanted Hoke and knew Hoke would take the job at any point. The only way you can consider what Brandon did during the coaching search as bad is if you think we should have taken someone other than Hoke. Then you could have conducted a search earlier. But since it seems clear Hoke (after Harbaugh) was Brandon's choice, there was no need to pull the trigger sooner.
And it didn't hurt recruiting. We only lost D Hart and Kris Frost (sigh, two five stars) but we likely would have lost them anyway because they were coming to play for Rodriguez.
If this were true (not the statement, which was uttered, but the belief):
"He told everyone the reason he waited was because he felt Rodriguez and the players, after all they had been through, deserved to coach and be coached by the guy who got them there"
then why no Gator Bowl rings for the coaches?


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Technologies-User Services at the University
of Delaware teamed up with leaders of the Institute
for Transforming Undergraduate Education (ITUE) to host a series of
WebCT classes infused with active learning
strategies. This article outlines the WebCT Communications class, in which
a problem-based learning approach was used to teach the online course management
system to the participants. To generate participant interest, a current
real-world problem was introduced within the context of teaching WebCT.
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problem as they learned WebCT techniques to facilitate their group work.
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at the University of Delaware.
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The specific goals of the class were to introduce participants to three of the four WebCT Communications tools, Discussions, Mail, and Chat, and to model how these tools can be used to enhance student communication. The Whiteboard tool was omitted from this session due to time constraints and lack of use at the University of Delaware. To prepare for this session, a WebCT course was created that included those tools that would be used in the class.
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The three-hour session began with an overview of problem-based learning and active learning strategies presented by Dr. George Watson, Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences and ITUE co-founder. Dr. Valerie Hans, Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice and an ITUE leader, continued the overview by describing her use of WebCT and active learning approaches in her classes at the University of Delaware.
After the half-hour overview, the participants were given their first assignment, a group icebreaker. Using the WebCT Mail tool, participants were asked to introduce themselves to the other members of their group. Each group was then required to devise a group name and send one e-mail message to the instructor indicating its group name. The facilitators purposely started with the Mail tool because e-mail is a concept with which all participants were likely to be familiar. However, other WebCT communications features such as the Discussions tool can provide more efficient methods of group communication. Beginning with the Mail feature and moving to the Discussions tool allowed the participants to see for themselves the advantages and disadvantages of each approach.
Once all the groups had sent their emails to the instructor, Erin Sicuranza of IT-User Services gave a demonstration on how to open and read e-mail messages. She also introduced the Discussions tool, and demonstrated how to set up private discussion topics for the groups. Initially, the participant groups experienced difficulty getting started with the opening activity. As noted above, the active learning approach was a departure from the usual WebCT faculty training sessions. This became even more evident when one participant decided to leave because she was admittedly hoping to sit passively and work on other research while in the session, rather than being actively engaged with the material. According to other feedback, some participants found it difficult at first to place themselves in the role of students; others were expecting more direction from the facilitators on actually using the Mail tool itself. Additionally, the facilitators were asking students located near one another to communicate using the computer as a medium, rather than speaking.
To overcome some of these initial barriers, the four facilitators monitored
the room and assisted participants individually. Also, Watson added a
bit of lightheartedness to the atmosphere by creating a two-sided sign
that indicated on one side, "Talking allowed," and on the reverse
side, "No Talking." This was a visual cue that told participants
when they needed to use the computer to "talk" to group members,
and when they were allowed to participate in a live class discussion.
Once the participants got started, the remainder of the process went more
Example 2: E-mail responses to opening activity
Once the groups completed the icebreaker and watched the demonstrations of the Mail and Discussions tools noted above, Hans presented the participants with the first stage of a problem, which was quite similar to a PBL problem that she might use in her own classes on the courts. The problem took up a timely issue in January of 2002, deciding on a method of trial for terrorist suspects. Hans posted the instructions and Stage One of the problem under the Main topic in the Discussions tool, where all participants would be able to read it.
Example 3: Instructions for Stage One
Hans directed the participants to the Discussions tool in WebCT where they were asked to use their private group topics to exchange views about the two questions for fifteen minutes.
Example 5: List of messages by topic
Following the Stage One discussion exercise, Karen Kral of IT-User Services demonstrated how an instructor can track student progress throughout the WebCT course, and how to view student discussion postings.
After a fifteen-minute break, Hans presented the participants with the second stage of the problem by posting it as a new topic in the Discussions area:
Example 8: Postings regarding questions for expert
The next portion of the session introduced the Chat feature of WebCT. The University of Delaware has a resident expert on terrorism, Dr. Mark Miller of the Department of Political Science and International Relations, and as luck would have it, Miller was a participant in the WebCT session that day. Hans had contacted Miller prior to the session and asked if he would be willing to play the role of expert for an online chat session. He enthusiastically agreed to participate in this role, and even if he were not a participant in the class, Miller could have joined the chat session from anywhere he had access to the Internet.
During this section of the workshop, the facilitators moved Miller to a different part of the lab so that other participants would not be able to see him, thereby simulating a true online chat session. During the chat, designated participants posed questions that their group devised in the previous section of the class. Miller responded to as many questions as time allowed.
There are important considerations to bear in mind when using a chat
session in a workshop. First, if you have an expert who is not an efficient
typist, you may wish to offer assistance, a surrogate typist to transcribe
the expert's words. In a short time period, it can be difficult for a
slow typist to address many of the questions posed by participants. Even
Miller, a good typist, at one point apologized for his slow typing. It
can be difficult to think through an answer and to type simultaneously.
Secondly, it may be best to designate certain participants from each group
to pose the questions in the chat room. It can be overwhelming to have
a roomful of participants all sending questions to the expert at once,
and will most likely reduce the number of answers that the expert can
provide. Finally, when choosing an expert for the chat session, remember
that the expert can be anywhere in the world provided that he or she has
access to a computer and the Internet, and a valid WebCT account with
access to your course.
Example 9: Chat room transcript
For the last ten minutes of the formal session, participants were again directed to the WebCT Discussions tool, to develop their group's final recommendation about a tribunal for the terrorists. The group was then asked to post its recommendation, along with the most important justifications for their recommendation, to the Main section of the Discussions area. Even with tight time constraints, two of the three groups did manage to complete the final assignment.
Example 10: Group discussion about final recommendation
The session concluded with an informal open group discussion. Interestingly, the session generated such enthusiasm that several participants stayed beyond the scheduled time to continue discussing what they had learned about WebCT and about the problem content.
Workshop Evaluation
Was this an effective way to teach a WebCT workshop? To determine the answer to this question, the facilitators reviewed the class evaluations, and sent a follow-up e-mail message to the workshop participants. According to the evaluations, the majority of the participants felt that the Discussions and Chat tools would be useful in their jobs; only two felt that way about the Mail tool. All of the participants felt the information was presented clearly, even though facilitators provided less instruction from the front of the room than is the case in a traditionally taught training session. Other comments verified that certain participants appreciated seeing the tools from a student's perspective, that the problem was useful for structuring communication, and that some will continue to explore uses of these tools for their own courses.
One person responded that the last part of the class, posting a final recommendation, was unnecessary. However, based on past experience using active learning approaches in faculty development work, the facilitators felt that asking groups to post a final recommendation was important in that it provides closure to the problem. It was a good way to end the formal part of the session, especially for those participants that were somewhat uneasy with the problem-based approach at first.
Finally, the e-mail follow-up has proven that participants are indeed using the tools that they experienced in this workshop. Several participants who are currently teaching a course are using the Discussions tool. Only one is using the Chat tool at this point for online meetings, but one respondent said he is thinking about using it to provide extra student assistance. Those participants who are not teaching this semester are planning to incorporate the Discussions tool in their courses at some point in the near future. In the words of one participant, "the class was very helpful, and the format was good. I wish more faculty would take advantage of WebCT because students appreciate it."


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In the early days drivers like Art Bennett, Sammy Sessions, and 'Jungle Jim' Gresley towed 12 hours to run the Big O. Years after, Norm Mackareth, Todd Gibson, Mike Ordway, Doug Didero, and Skip Matczak made Oswego their home tracks.
That tradition continues today, as Fairlawn, NJ driver Joey Payne has made the 5-hour trip for the past half-decade to run an Oswego Supermodified.
"It's funny, Wall Stadium is right up the road, but Oswego Speedway is my home away from home," the 'Jersey Jet' said, looking forward to the May 5th opener. "I have a lot of great friends, and fans up there, and they have all welcomed me with open arms."
This year will see Payne switch rides, having switched seats from the Strong Racing No. 99, to the Muldoon Racing stable.
"Pat and Terry are great people," Payne reiterated. "We did very well together, and I wish them luck with Michael, he's a really talented driver, and they'll get some wins for sure. The two-car team just didn't work out for me. Things didn't work out as well as I had hoped for. I decided to step back and look at things. "
Payne now teams up with someone he has driven for in the past, former Track Champion, Budweiser International Classic Champion, and Oswego Speedway Hall of Famer, Mike Muldoon.
"Mike sure has a fleet of cars," Payne laughed. "It actually kind of started last year, when Michael was looking for a little help. I like helping guys out, and he was looking for some help with the car. Mike wanted to get some information, and asked me to help."
"Michael was a rookie, and didn't really know what he was supposed to feel with the car," Payne continued. "The super is a big adjustment to what he was used to, and he was working hard at trying to learn these cars. It was fun helping, and Michael is a great kid. He was like a sponge. It's just like anything else, info, help, anything is always better when it comes from someone else. I would tell him to follow me when we went out for warm ups, I would show him the line to run, and things like that. Michael did really well last year, and had a good year. He was getting quicker and quicker, and running a good line."
Muldoon cars are no strangers to the front of the pack, and that fact isn't lost on the 'Jersey Jet'. Muldoon cars have won multiple Track Championships, multiple Classics, and over two dozen feature events.
"Mike builds a great car," Payne said. "I think we can win some races together, that's for sure. As of now, it looks like we'll be part time, but I want to run Oswego full time. Oswego is my home away from home, and there are some races I really want to win this year. I really, really want the Classic, and I would really like to win the Mr. Supermodified race. Those two are really high up on my list."
The car Payne will drive is a new one out of the Muldoon shop in Baldwinsville, NY. This past weekend Joey made the 5-hour haul to Central New York, and there wasn't even a race.
"I went to Mike's shop last weekend, and we did a few things," he said. "My LaJoie seat doesn't fit in the car, so we put a different one in. I cut my LaJoie seat down and am going to put it in my midget. I'm looking forward to getting started this year."
It may not be at Oswego, but his season has already started with the indoor midget races in Atlantic City and Providence. The outdoor part of 2012 starts this weekend at Waterford, with the NEMA season starter.
"It will be a busy season, between NEMA, Oswego and my son racing," Payne said looking at his calendar. "Anthony has three cars, and is a good driver. He needs time, and seat time, but I really enjoy the time spent at the track with him as well."
It may be a busy 2012 season, but the 'Jersey Jet' Joey Payne, makes time for it all. He'll wheel the NEMA midget, the Muldoon super, and have his son's cars race ready each week. He is one of the all-time hot shoes at Oswego Speedway, currently solidly residing in the top 100 in all time Oswego points. With three feature wins, two runner-up's in track championship chases, and 29 all-time top fives, he is one of the fan favorites at the Steel Palace.
"We'll be there for the opener, and hopefully if things work out, a whole lot more."
Joey Payne is one of those drivers that loves Oswego Speedway, its fans, and everything involved with it. Driving 5 hours each way every weekend for the past handful of years proves that fact. The combination of Joey Payne and Mike Muldoon is surely one to watch in 2012.
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quote:Don`t be surprised if a guy like Joe Thornton joins the leafs dressing room on draft day.
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quote:Originally posted by slozoDuke - I've disagreed with you many times before, but your logic is hard to argue with when discussing the Brad Richards possibility. You're right . . . there isn't a more meddlesome / proactive GM out there, Burke WOULD have gotten the negotiating rights, that would make sense for such a coveted free agent (it's why Philly did it with Bryzgalov).I also agree that Richards to Toronto is unlikely. But giving the reason that he has publicly stated that he doesn't want to go to Toronto . . . well, that's not much of a reason, IMHO. Players say a lot of things that turn out to be the exact opposite of the truth, lol. Especially concerning Toronto, where you want to deflect as much specualtion as possible before a big deal might go down.But like I said, I don't think it's likely either now, the more I think about it. Burke won't want to overpay for Richards, who isn't that old, but is certainly not young anymore either. Richards had concussion issues, to boot.And Beans . . ."I can't wait for the Brad Richards signing. That will quite the Leaf Nation."First off, there are more Leafers on this site saying it probably won't happen as opposed to those saying it will. So again, the false indignation against "those crazy Leaf fans" is just that - a made up outrage that masks a burning hatred.Probably just jealous. Porkchop - I think Burke will definitely pursue Carter, yes; but give up Grabo, no. Again, Philly needs cheap assets going back, which sort of handicaps them a bit, and it'll be picks and prospects, maybe a rookie/second year player. And it won't be that expensive for a legitimate first line center, most importantly."Take off, eh?" - Bob and Doug
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quote:don't know if anyone else feels this way, but i'm not completely sold on Carter yet. stats wise he's only had one solid year. aside from that he's never got more then 70 pts in a season. is that really top line center material?
quote:Originally posted by nuxfanquote:don't know if anyone else feels this way, but i'm not completely sold on Carter yet. stats wise he's only had one solid year. aside from that he's never got more then 70 pts in a season. is that really top line center material?yeah, I'd give up both first rounders for Carter as well. He's had one excellent (46g/84pt) season and 2 pretty decent (30+g/60+pt) seasons to follow - as Beans says, he doesn't play on the top line in PHI either. Not bad for a second-line forward.Those are pretty good numbers, I'd give up my 2 late-round draft picks for Carter as well. IMO a Carter-like player is exactly what TOR should be looking to get.
quote:Only problem is prying him away from Clarke, who is notoriously difficult to deal with in terms of trades. Hopefully it goes like the Gagne deal . . . when his back is against the wall, he lets him go for cheap!
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quote:Originally posted by The DukeI would trade those 2 late first rounders in a heart beat for Jeff Carter....Joe Colbourne i would like to hang on to and see what he will bring. The leafs have to start hanging on to these ( blue chip prospects ) type of young players and build around these guys.Thank God those asst. coaches are gone...YAHOOOOO...at least they are trying something diffrent, it may not work...but at least they are trying. Now, if only Ken Hitchcock can replace that MORON Wilson, all will be happy in leaf land. Personally i will be very, very surprised if Philly moves Carter, so young and such a dominant player...really can`t see him going anywhere. It will take a damn good young player to fetch Carter, certainly a player no team will want to part with.Look for San Jose to make a major move this off season...another season gone by...another season with the same results. Joe Thornton is on my wish list for the leafs ...realistically the Sharks will try and move Marleau and Heatley...i think both may be gone if there are any takers.
quote:Here's another guy that just might be available to the Leafs from Philly: Ville Leino, the young LW that had that awesome rookie playoffs a bit more than a year ago.
quote:Originally posted by Beans15And Colbourne has done what, exactly, to make him so valuable?? Carter has done 60+ points and 30+ goals playing on the 2nd line in Philly! Those are the numbers that Phil Kessel puts up on the 1st line. I think Carter is absolutely the real deal and I would give up 2-1st round draft picks for him.Without much thought either.
quote:Originally posted by nuxfanquote:Here's another guy that just might be available to the Leafs from Philly: Ville Leino, the young LW that had that awesome rookie playoffs a bit more than a year ago.Leino is available to everyone - he's UFA in 10 days, and while PHI might trade his rights to someone, I would not be surprised to see him test the market. He's coming off a great year and will probably try to capitalize on that. Burke is not the kind of person to pay for "one-hit" seasons, and as good as Leino looks going forward, thats all he's had so far - one good season. But someone is going to pay him I think.
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