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Glenolden vs. Folcroft Pee Wee Football: New tradition set for Thanksgiving (With Video)
FOLCROFT — The first Thanksgiving Day game between the Folcroft Falcons and Glenolden Indians pee wee football teams came alive on the second play from scrimmage when Glenolden's Nate Zoladkiewics took a reverse around the left end and sprinted to daylight.
One play after the lanky second-grader was brought down at the 1-yard line, the Indians punched it in for a touchdown.
The sequence proved to be the high water mark for the Indians.
For the rest of the game, it was the Falcons who did the punching on their way to a lopsided 39-13 Turkey Bowl rout at Delcroft Field.
"They came out today and they were ready to play," said Falcons head coach Dennis DiVito. "It was a scrimmage so it really didn't matter if you won or lost but they were excited to play their rivals on Thanksgiving Day. You don't normally get chances like this."
With assistant coach and defensive coordinator Rodney Oakley in their ear and a few steps onto the field the entire game, the Falcons used a punishing running attack featuring Sincere Morales and Ohifame Ijeboi and a gang-tackling defense led by Ibrahim Sanogo to subdue their Chester Pike rivals.
"This team will win championships as seniors," Oakley told his players after securing the Turkey Bowl trophy, referring to the upper division of the Delaware County Youth Football League (DCYFL).
Despite the result, Glenolden coach Eric Storlazzi said his players had a great time suiting up on Thanksgiving.
"The kids loved it," said Storlazzi, whose son Damon scored the touchdown and extra point on the opening drive. "When I was talking to them in the huddle after the game, you never would have known they lost. They were happy and talking about Thanksgiving and playing basketball next week." Continued...
Though the rivalry between the Falcons and Indians dates back nearly a half century, the two teams had never played on Thanksgiving Day.
"The coaches got together on it and we are hoping it becomes a tradition," said Dave Spangenberg, athletic director and longtime coach for the Folcroft Boys Club. "It makes sense because the rivalry has been around forever and all the kids grow up with each other.
"When I played for the Falcons I would see the Glenolden kids at different events and, when I got older, at the MacDade Mall. To this day if you go to the Red Lantern, which is our local bar, you will find the same guys talking trash. And it's not just between the two teams. It's generational. The 23- and 24-year-olds will tell the older guys how much better they were and how they never lost to Collingdale or Glenolden."
More than 100 people turned out Thursday for the scrimmage between the teams, both of whom finished their league season with a losing record and out of playoff contention. (Colwyn and Chester will square off Saturday at 10 a.m. for the DCYFL pee wee championship at Academy Park High School.)
Before they took the field, players on both teams were jumping up and down, chanting and predicting a blowout.
By halftime, the Falcons were up 19-7 and holding all the momentum. When Morales opened the second half with a long touchdown run, and then another, the outcome was secure and Folcroft began to take its foot off the gas.
Another Zoladkiewics score made the final tally more respectable.
"The kids had a great time and we got off to a great start," Storlazzi said. "But after that first touchdown things went downhill. We're a really young team and today was like a lot of games this year. As soon as the other team scored our guys started to hang their heads a little and got down on themselves.
"Folcroft played a good game. They used their speed. They started finessing us and then they overpowered us."
Laura DiAntonio of Glenolden said her son Joseph was fired up to put on the pads one more time regardless of the opponent. That the game was played under sun-splashed skies with temperatures north of 50 degrees made the day even more enjoyable. Continued...
"I don't think they really care who they are playing against," she said. "I was glad that we were doing this today because, besides going to eat later, this is it. It was a nice way to start Thanksgiving, I think."
After the game, players and coaches shook hands at midfield and took a knee while John DiFuria, football commissioner for the Folcroft Boys Club, presented the winner's trophy to the Falcons and most valuable player awards to Morales and Zoladkiewics.
"I hope we can do it again next year," DiFuria said.
A father of four boys, including pee wee players Nicholas and Dennis, DiVito said coaching second- and third-graders is all about making strides from week to week. "I was taught not to get too competitive and to keep it instructional," he said. "I'm happy as long as everyone is progressing and learning. Winning is just a bonus."
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A Survey of Clergy and Their Views on Origins
What do today's pastors think about science? What views do they hold on creation and evolution and how strongly do they hold them? How do origins issues impact their ministries? These were just a few of the questions that motivated us at BioLogos to commission a survey of pastors on origins
Does Resurrection Contradict Science?
So what then does Resurrection mean? For Benedict it represents a new dimension of reality breaking through into human experience. It is not a violation of the old; it is the manifestation of something new.
A Scientific Commentary on Genesis 7:11
Although committed to the principle of sola Scriptura, Calvin recognized that the Bible would have been written in terms its original recipients would have understood. Calvin inherited the medieval cosmology of his time, a way of viewing the world heavily influenced by Greek thought and one which was about to receive shocks from astronomers such as Copernicus and Galileo. But not just yet.
Dissonance and Harmony
People hold clearly discordant points of view, and it would be dishonest to ignore the conflict. Yet some voices emphasize the dissonance without any note of harmony to put it in context. Too often, science and faith becomes a hostile battle of worldviews, sounding angry, dissonant chords even among fellow Christians. But civil, gracious dialogue is possible.
Science and the Bible: Assessing the Evangelical Encounter with Evolution
Having now completed our study of the five main views about "Science and the Bible" held by conservative Protestants, I conclude with a final column, assessing the whole situation as I see it today.
Series: The Church Fathers and Two Books Theology
In this series, Mark Mann explores what many of the great Christian theologians and saints of the Church have said about how God speaks in and through God's other great book: Nature, or Creation. Listening to figures from the the 2nd to the 18th centuries,Mann proposes three main points:
Christians should think of Scripture and Creation as two "books" that should be read together for understanding the fullness of God's self-revelation;
Science is a God-given tool for discerning the handiwork of God in Creation, and is fully compatible with God's Word revealed in Scripture, and therefore,
Christians have nothing to fear from science.
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The God who created the cosmos is the God who came to us as a child in Bethlehem.
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Surveying George Murphy's Theology of the Cross
If God himself is willing to die, particularly in such a gruesome way, then perhaps we should at least consider the possibility of God allowing the death of other creatures, too. But would this really be compatible with what we know of God through Scripture?
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Sounding the Trumpet (Vine)
If you're looking for a good bee plant that offers a little bit of an obstacle, try the violet trumpet vine (Clytostoma calystegioides). It's one of the UC Davis Arboretum All-Stars.
What's an Arboretum All-Star? The UC Davis Arboretum horticultural staff, led by Ellen Zagory, singled out "100 tough, reliable plants that have been tested in the Arboretum." The All-Stars are "easy to grow, don't need a lot of water, have few problems with pests or diseases, and have outstanding qualities in the garden. Many of them are California native plants and support native birds and insects. Most All-Star plants can be successfully planted and grown throughout California."
In addition to hummingbirds, you'll find honey bees all over the purple-veined blossoms. Bees crawl inside a blossom (obstacle course!), forage a bit, and then pop back out, ready for another blossom.
Unlike most UC Davis Arboretum All-Stars, the violet trumpet vine is not a California native. It's from Argentina and the southern part of Brazil.
However, like many vines and trumpet players, it likes to put on a show. Its "show" is climbing walls and trellises and covering the sides of buildings for breathtaking displays. When you visit the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, a half-acre bee friendly garden on Bee Biology Road at UC Davis, you'll see it trellised.
This is a plant that knows how to survive the winter and "bee" ready to bloom in the late spring and early summer. Call it robust. Call it hardy.
The bees call it food.
Honey bee slides into a a violet trumpet vine blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey bee leaves a violet trumpet vine blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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it's a traffic stopper.
The plant, reminiscent of a Christmas tree, attracts not only vehicular and foot traffic, but honey bees, bumble bees and hummingbirds. It's basically a tower of bees when it blooms.
The one in our yard is about eight feet tall. Honey bees, eager for the nectar and pollen, keep creating traffic jams. If you sit and watch them, you'll see them constantly bumping into one another as they forage for food.
No wonder it's a favorite of beekeepers.
The species, a biennial, is native to the Canary Islands. It's endemic to the island of Tenerife.
Last year several towers of jewels bloomed near Storer Hall on the University of California, Davis campus, and a couple of others graced the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, a bee friendly garden on Bee Biology Road, about a mile west of the central campus.
The UC Davis Arboretum Teaching Nursery sells these at their plant sales, but they go fast, says Ellen Zagory, the arboretum's director of horticulture. "We don't have any left," she said.
No wonder.
Honey bee foraging in a tower of jewels. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey bee gets down to business. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Upside down honey bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Buzz About Bees
It's good to see so much interest in bees.
When folks think of bees, they usually think "honey bees." However, our European or western honey bee (Apis mellifera) is one of a total of seven species of honey bees found throughout the world.
Worldwide, there are some 20,000 described species of bees.
University of California scientists Robbin Thorp, Gordon Frankie and Ellen Zagory will be discussing a few of them in their "Buzz About Bees" program on Saturday, June 5 at the Bouverie Preserve in Glen Ellen, Calif.
Thorp is a native pollinator specialist and emeritus professor of entomology at UC Davis who continues to do research. Frankie is a professor and research entomologist at the UC Berkeley Division of Insect Biology. Zagory is director of horticulture, UC Davis Arboretum.
The registration deadline for this session, a science discussion about the "plight of Sonoma County's pollnators," closed May 28 but Thorp and Frankie continue to call attention to the plight of the pollinators. They talk about bumble bees, cuckoo bees, blue orchard bees, sweat bees and the like. Some bees are defined by what they do: leafcutters, masons and miners.
And Zagory is an expert on plants, especially ornamental plants. One has only to walk through the UC Davis Arboretum--or ask her to identify a plant--to confirm that!
We hope the "buzz about bees" continues to draw widespread interest.
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Spring Practice Presser Transcript 4-4-13: Greg Mattison
Opening remarks:
"We're so proud of those guys. We're so proud of that basketball program. I mean, what they've done with that young team is so special. We're pulling for them just like everybody else."
What do you see from Jarrod Wilson?
"I've seen him since the day he got here, and he's one of the first we brought in at semester. He's very mature. He's a young man that studies the books, studies exactly what he's supposed to do by position, has great pride in the way he plays, and he's a very good athlete. All he needs now is just continued reps in game-like situations, and that's what we do in practice a lot. He's a very consistent football player, too. A lot of times young guys will show flashes of why you recruited them, and then you say 'Aw man' when you step back."
Spring Practice Presser Transcript 3-28-13
- Jake Ryan had his surgery on Thursday.
- "No update" on Will Hagerup's suspension.
Opening remarks:
"We're going to get after it pretty good tomorrow. I thought we had a good practice. I think it was practice eight. I think we've done a nice job of competing. I think a lot of the young guys are really doing a good job in the competition area and also how they're grasping the things that we're doing offensively and defensively."
Has Jake Ryan had surgery yet?
Do you have any sense of his recovery timeline is?
"No. I think everybody's different, so I think -- nine months, 12 months some people say. Some people say six to nine. I think it just depends on the individual."
Hokepoints: Would Bill Walsh Draft These LBs
Sinestral: Ross, Ryan and Clark|Bryan Fuller, MGoBlog. Dextral: Bill Walsh
First, a Chag Sameach to my fellow tribesmen and a Happy Turtleversary to the wingnuts.
We now continue with the Bill Walshian rundown of the 2013 roster. Since Michigan's offense and defense schemes are kindred spirits of the great 49er teams of the '80s, I've found it somewhat useful to re-scout Michigan's players on the same factors that the legendary coach used to evaluate his draft picks. How do we know what Walsh drafted on? Well wouldn'tchya know it, he provided it in a 1997 article for Pro Sports Exchange that Chris Brown (Smart Football) discovered.
Part the first was the entire offense. Part the second was the interior D-Line. Now we're on to the linebackers, among whom I include the WDEs.
Weakside End
Bruce Smith/ James Hall / Frank Clark by Upchurch
Walsh Says: 6'5/270 or 6'3/245 depending on type. It's complicated so I'm going to spend some extra time here. His DE descriptions bounced between what you want from 3-4 DEs, which is the 3- and 5-tech in Michigan's defense, and pure pass rushers. Ultimately Michigan's WDE is closer to the pass-rush-specialist-who-stops-runs-too job description of a Walshian 3-4 weakside linebacker than a blocker-sucking interior DL, so they go here with the LBs. Speed and quickness are now very much in play:
Must have explosive movement and the ability to cover ground quickly in three to five yards of space. The ability to get your shoulder past the shoulder of the tackle. This makes for a pass rusher. With that there is quickness because it sets up a lot of other things.
From the outside linebackers description we get this:
These pass rushing outside linebackers must have natural gifts, or instincts for dealing with offensive tackles who are up to 100 pounds heavier. Quickness is only part of it. They must know how to use leverage, how to get underneath the larger man's pads and work back toward the quarterback. And he must be strong enough to bounce off blocks and still make the play.
The rush DE needs to have some finesse. This site never misses an opportunity to knock on Will Gholston so I'll do that: Gholston has more than enough explosion and strength, and is an excellent tackler but the big hole in his game is he doesn't get leverage or bounce off blocks. This is why State deployed him mostly SDE this year while Marcus Rush was the premier pass rusher. Walsh says it's all the same if you can push a tackle as go around him, but being an okay jack of all trades here isn't as valuable as being super disruptive at one or the other.
Overall strength is important. You don't have to be a Mike Martin beastmonster in the weight room but a WDE has to be strong enough to not get turned by the tackle. This is also a technique issue though it's not a skill that needs years to develop—a big sophomore year leap is expected at this position as the kid gains weight, strength, and the footwork and balance to be able to keep his shoulders pointed toward the football.
As echoed in Mattison's statements in 2011 regarding WDEs, Walsh calls his rush DEs "the substance off the defensive team" since their ability to put pressure on the quarterback can make or break a defense. This is why great DEs are at such a premium in today's NFL.
The last piece is willpower, which in scouting parlance becomes "high motor." WDEs typically get rotated a lot because they burn a gazillion calories on each play. Because this spot is supposed to win 1-on-1 battles and kill plays himself, success on the second and third moves can make a huge difference.
Walsh's Favorite Wolverine: If James Hall and Larry Stevens had a baby, and that baby came out 6'5/260 and immediately ate the doctor. Michigan just hasn't had the freaks here unless you count Woodley and I'm saving him. Stevens didn't have the sacks but generated hurries. And Hall: because he's 6'2 every scout from the early recruiting years to modern NFL trade talkers underrates him, despite consistent production at every level. Hall is second (to Graham) in career sacks and 6th in TFLs among Wolverines and was the 1997 team's secret weapon. Both guys were often extolled for their virtues under the hood.
What to look for in a Scouting Report: EXPLOSIONS! I know I said this for SDE but even more so. You know these guys on sight because the innate quickness and strength makes them terrors against high schoolers. Skipping over the blue chips (or like Ra'Shede Hageman who would have been a blue chip if he accepted Florida's offer to play DE rather than Minnesota's offer of tight end) 3-stars who shine seem to have athletic tickmarks or the proverbial motor. I noticed some of the big performers from high school All-American games (Ray Drew, Alex Okafor, a million dudes who went to Florida) tend to fare well—about the worst among Army game standouts of yore was Victor Abiamiri, who was still pretty good. The pushers had ridiculous squats (Simon's was 700!)
What you can learn on film: How fast he gets into the backfield, adjusted for competition. You're looking for that quick burst. The great ones just look completely unblockable—like the guy blocking him doesn't seem to have any leverage.
What could signal bust potential: Size. Rivals tends to put its favorite DEs at "SDE" for this reason. If you browse through the five-stars you generally find two categories: high-effort guys who were early contributors and are or are on track to be NFL draft picks at defensive end, and Pierre Woods/Shawn Crable-like linebackers whose recruiting profiles said they would grow into Jevon Kearse. There's a reason they called Kearse "the freak."
How our guys compare: Frank Clark and Brennan Beyer are the two sides of the WDE coin. This refrain from MGoBlog is becoming tiresome but Beyer seems the stronger and more responsible one and Clark is the greater X-factor. We overplay this; both would still fall more into the finesse side than, say, John Simon, and both seem to top out as useful but not stars.
Ojemudia is kind of a James Hall but more akin to Shantee Orr. Where James Hall was small but had the size to stand up to a good shove when needed, here you have a dude with explosiveness and great hands for pass rushing but is going to be dead meat if doubled and run at, and is therefore best deployed as a 3rd down or [blank]-and-long specialist.
Early enrollee Vidauntae "Taco" Charlton, who's already 6'6/265 on Michigan's spring roster, is the closest thing to Walshian dreams. On film though a lot of times you just see him blowing something up because they didn't block him, and though this probably had a lot to do with being way bigger than high school tackles in Central Ohio he didn't play with much leverage after the snap. The reason for all the Tacoptimism is he blew up the camp circuit. He probably still needs a year to work on technique since he spent most of high school in a 2-point stance. Warning: he doesn't check the motor box.
[Linebackers, after a leap.]
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Or maybe "fail." Minnesota lost money selling beer.
The University of Minnesota lost almost $16,000 last year on alcohol sales at football games, despite selling more than $900,000 worth of beer and wine.
Proving that there's nothing too goddamn ridiculous to assert in public in a laughable attempt to save face, Minnesota responds!
University officials say it was never the intent that the school turn a profit on alcohol sales.
Jim Delany has taught you well, Minnesota.
Do you like pictures of oily men not wearing very much? Have I got some instagram for you, ladies and men hopeful Frank Clark is going to be superbad this year. Before and after winter conditioning, here's Devin Gardner and Frank Clark:
I now believe Clark is at 277, sure.
Is oiling an extra benefit? Get Rosenberg on the case, yo.
I certainly hope this prediction is worthless since you seem to have something more pressing to do. Man with no more knowledge of basketball than random Rome caller picks Michigan to Elite Eight. Happens to be president, so people note it. Watch for upcoming Graham Couch column on how Obama is racist!
Obama chose Indiana, Ohio State and Louisville as his other Final Four teams [to go with Florida].
"I think (Aaron) Craft's defense is unbelievable," Obama said. "That makes a big difference."
By Grahm Graghm Graham Couch
Has anyone notice how racist Obama is?
Welcome to the jungle!
I kid, kid.
It's just that for a black man his skin tone isn't very dark and he seems to think Aaron Craft is good at basketball.
I think Aaron Craft isn't, because he's white.
That makes Obama racist.
Just sayin'.
I like pudding.
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"I had an old lady who saw me at Kroger with my dad, (she asked) 'Are you Taylor, that No. 77 fella?'" said Lewan, mimicking her voice. "I was like, 'Uh, yeah, I'm Taylor.'
'She goes, 'You're an idiot! Why would you do that? You're dumb.'
"I was like, 'I appreciate it. Thank you. Go blue.' I didn't know what to say."
That's what you get for going to Kroger, man. Mandatory scan-your-card grocery stores FTL, amirite?
Aw man but we're just a four seed. Jeff Goodman runs down the list of teams with the most NBA talent and starts in Ann Arbor:
Trey Burke (G, 6-0, 190): The sophomore is a National Player of the Year candidate and also could be the first point guard taken in the June draft. He can shoot it, distribute, and will be ideal at the next level in pick-and-roll situations. Most NBA executives have him going somewhere among the lottery selections.
Glenn Robinson III (F, 6-6, 210): The Big Dog's son still needs another year in college, but he's intriguing. He's long and athletic and has shown spurts in which he's looked phenomenal. He still needs to shoot it more consistently from the perimeter and also play hard all the time, but he'd likely be a first-rounder if he left after this season.
Tim Hardaway Jr. (G, 6-6, 205): Another ex-NBA player's kid, Hardaway Jr. has improved his decision-making. He has nice length for a wing player, but still needs to improve his ability to put the ball on the floor. Likely pegged somewhere in the second round.
Stauskas and McGary also mentioned. But hey, at least we're a four-seed instead of an eight like #2 NC State. Mark Gottfried may be a terrible coach, but I remember thinking that about Thad Matta a few years ago and… uh… no. I will reserve judgment this time around.
This may be why. Even when talking about dangerous mid-majors in the tourney, Luke Winn manages to rope you in with interesting Michigan-related stats. Like this one:
Michigan isn't just the least experienced team in the tourney, they're the least by a mile.
SDSU is included at #8. Winn says watch out for this business:
The Wolters Special is a left-hand hesitation dribble, followed by a drive left and a righty floater/runner.
That's alarmingly Burke-like.
Aw man but they're an eight seed. A tip of the hat to Robert Morris despite their fans' failure to chant "N-E-C" last night after they knocked off the NIT's top seed Kentucky in a first round game at the Colonial's 3500-seat arena. (Rupp has NCAA games this weekend so Kentucky did not bid to host.) Even with the missed opportunity, Robert Morris set the irritating meme about "perception" harming the NCAA fates of SEC bubble teams on fire.
What meme? This meme. Cuonzo Martin two days ago:
"I wish I knew," he said. "It's unfortunate. I would say a lack of respect more than anything. When you have a second-place team at this level (Kentucky and Alabama finished second in the SEC and will join UT in the NIT), it's almost like a mid-major mentality in this league. When your second-place team doesn't get in the NCAA tournament — this is a BCS league, it's one of the best league's [sic] in the country — that just shouldn't happen." …
"When you look at Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky," he added, "those are NCAA tournament teams; they're just not playing in the NCAA tournament."
If the SEC had actually beaten anybody in the nonconference maybe we could talk here. Florida got a three-seed thanks in part to wins over Wisconsin, Marquette, and I guess Middle Tennessee. Missouri got in comfortably with wins over VCU and Illinois. The entire rest of the league had three (three) wins over teams that got an at-large bid to the tourney, those Arkansas over Oklahoma in the midst of a 1-4 slide against BCS teams (and at home, obviously), Alabama over Villanova on a neutral floor, and Tennessee beating Wichita State at home.
USA Today rounds up the internet aftermath, with obligatory wikipedia vandalism:
oh god someone get rid of that apostrophe
The ACC is also bitching about a lack of respect, Rodney Dangerfield-style. If that's the case, the ACC is suffering a lack of respect from every-damn-body on the internet. Of 120(!) brackets tracked by the Bracket Matrix, all of seven had Virginia in them.
It is not that hard to predict this stuff, as Andy Glockner points out in excellent article. It's no secret how to game the RPI: don't lose at home, play some road games, and if you have to play a really bad team make sure they're not D-I. Glockner points out an imbalance in the RPI's home-road adjustment I hadn't thought about:
Almost a decade ago, the NCAA made an adjustment to the RPI formula to try to incentivize teams to play more road games. Of course, they screwed up the math such that the new formula rewards "not losing at home" more than it does "winning on the road," at least for what its primary purpose is: sorting teams that may make the NCAAs.
The formula adjustment for Factor I (your winning percentage) now credits you with 0.6 wins for a home win and 1.4 wins for a road victory. Likewise, you get 1.4 home losses for an actual home defeat and 0.6 losses for an away loss. That sounds like a reasonable plan until you realize that the target demographic — NCAA tournament-caliber teams — are all way above .500. As such, when you split two games (.500 overall), you want that impact to be as small as possible on your overall adjusted record, as determined by the RPI formula.
If you win at home and lose the away game, you would get an extra 0.6-0.6 added into your overall adjusted record. If you do it the other way, you get 1.4-1.4 added to your totals. If you are well above .500 overall, like all these NCAA caliber teams are, adding the 1.4-1.4 into the record drags you down more than the 0.6-0.6 does. In simple terms, losing home games (for 1.4 losses in your adjusted Factor I) is the worst thing you can do, and it's way more harmful than adding 1.4 wins to the ledger is helpful.
He also mentions that the committee did to some extent see through the Mountain West's conference-wide Game of RPIs*, dropping New Mexico and their on-paper case for a one seed down to a three and giving the rest of the league seeds that portend a second-round exit.
Yeah, it is perception that the ACC is down and the SEC is worse than the Mountain West. An accurate one.
This week in Expansion Was A Bad Idea. Verizon FIOS wants to move to a you-watch-it-you-pay-for-it model. Who could have predicted this?
"This is the beginning," said Gene Kimmelman, a former senior antitrust official at the Justice Department. "If the conflict between cable distributors and content owners persists and prices keep rising, there will be enormous market pressure to begin unbundling offerings, give consumers more choices and, from my perspective, ultimately let consumers control what they buy and how much they pay."
Nobody! Except a lot of people. [HT: Get The Picture.]
Etc.: But the kids love it! In other news, kids enjoy Laffy Taffy. Wetzel on O'Bannon and Delany. How did it take this long for someone to beat up Tim Doyle? No offense, Tim, it's just that you shouldn't have called Kendall Gill "that wasp that lays eggs in spiders and then the baby wasps eat the spider from the inside out" for ten years.
Of course Michigan State fans are buying up SDSU apparel. This is why you are Sparty. Delany-inspired "feelings collage." "An Open Letter From Jefferson Davis To Jim Delany." Don't recruit short fat guys.
Spring Practice Presser Transcript 3-19-13: Brady Hoke
- Toussaint is in pads. Walking around and stuff. Not doing everything yet but progress looks good.
- Thomas Gordon is practicing at both safety positions so they can try the other guys out at both positions as well.
- Blake Countess's redshirt application has not been filed yet, but it will be.
- Frank Clark is staying at WDE despite gaining a lot of weight. There are no plans to move him to strongside.
Opening remarks:
"It was good to be the first day in pads. I thought we had a lot of enthusiasm like the physicalness that they played with -- really for the last three days, because even with the no-pads they got after each other pretty good. We have a lot of competition, have a lot of young guys that have to go out and compete. And then some of the older guys who have played, obviously, and they have to compete also. Everybody understands that, so it's been good. I think the leadership's good. I like the way they've handled themselves and handled the team. Like I said before, that stems from the winter into this phase."
Picture Pages: Misaligned, Temporarily
[PROGRAMMING NOTE: Due to a three-pronged failure in various systems I lost the first half of UFR and had to re-do it. I tried, but couldn't get it done for today. 2x UFR tomorrow.]
Minnesota's offense struggled to move the ball most of Saturday. When they did move it was often because Michigan was in a difficult position against spread principles. For example: on Minnesota's first snap, Michigan slid their linebackers way to the field against a trips formation and gave up five yards when the tailback cut all the way behind the defensive line.
I'm not sure if this is actually a problem Michigan should fix or if they're taking away certain things that would otherwise be open and will just open up another hole in the dam. In certain cases, anyway. I caught a second-quarter run—at twelve yards, Minnesota's long run of the day—on which Michigan's alignment had them in trouble from the start. Since the Big Ten Network was running an uncommonly large number of useful replays, we can take a look at it from the end zone.
From the dead center of the field Minnesota comes out in a pistol formation with two backs flanking the quarterback. Minnesota has two WRs not shown. When Blue Seoul was pumping out With Pics on the regular he would often point out presnap alignment issues, and Michigan has one here.
This is a balanced formation right smack in the middle of the field, but note that the linebackers are shifted to the left—Demens is left of the center; Morgan is inside the tackle to the right while Ryan is well outside. The line is also shifted left: Washington is inside the guard, Campbell outside. As a result you can draw a line with five Minnesota players to one side and three Michigan defenders:
Minnesota will run at this, running the back on the left across the QB and pulling a guard to keep that two-man advantage as the center uses his angle to take care of Campbell.
Before the mesh point a few things are clear: the three backside defenders are basically nonentities. Demens has a shot, maybe, but he's getting a free release from a tackle with an excellent angle and is in tough. The two backs are available to take on Clark and Morgan.
At the mesh point and just after, two things. First, Clark:
Clark dives inside the pack trying to get him, which could be a valid move. The second frame there has a pulling guard; if Clark hits him that's two blockers on one guy. Because Michigan was badly aligned that still won't matter, though. Minnesota will run this later at Keith Heitzman; Heitzman will do the same thing and peg the QB, so this was what Mattison wanted… sort of. I'll explain below what he actually wanted, probably.
Second, Demens:
He eats a block, but I'm not even mad when he eats a guy before it's even clear who has the ball. Even if he reads the play on the snap this guy probably gets him since he's got a great angle; if the tackle doesn't the pulling guard literally has no one to block so Demens will again feel the wrath of two different OL on the same play. If Demens is at fault it's for presnap stuff involving this alignment that gets him in trouble.
By the time the back breaks outside, it doesn't really matter what Morgan does, the play is getting yards, whether it's inside or out.
But man you still shouldn't get hewed to the ground like this and give up the edge:
It was faintly possible that Washington, who beat a down block, gets in some sort of tackle attempt, and you also wouldn't be forcing Kovacs to get on his horse outside like he does. Note that Raymon Taylor is also on his knees after eating a cut block:
Kovacs has to take an awkward angle around that block and misses the tackle as a result. He does get the guy off balance; Taylor recovers.
Twelve yards.
Things And Stuff
I don't really have a big theme here. Often these posts are attempts to explain a general trend—like Michigan not blocking anyone against Nebraska—with some concrete examples. This is just a thing that happened and probably doesn't mean much of anything. These things pop up from time to time; the defense is still really good.
If there is a theme it's that these things tend to get fixed, as we'll see in the next bullet.
Clark is less good at defending the run than other folk/Mattison adjusts fast. There are two main differences between this and a –1 yard run later in the game off this same play. One is Heitzman. Watch the defensive end to the bottom of the screen:
That may be a different playcall that causes Beyer to move down on the tackle and prevent him from releasing. It is more useful than what Clark does above. While that's not a two for one the guy taking Demens is now the pulling guard, who takes a lot longer to get out on him. That allows Demens to get outside of him; a gap further inside James Ross is also playside of that tackle when he finally releases.
The other difference is of course JMFR, who demonstrates what the coaches are talking about when they call him an "unorthodox" player by taking a cut block hard and still managing to fling his off-balance body at the RB for a TFL.
Even if that does not happen Michigan has this covered as this chain…
- Beyer holds up T
- Demens beats pulling G to outside
- Back bounces it outside
- Gordon runs past RB with no angle now
…has an unblocked guy waiting to clean up if'n Ryan isn't a wizard or something.
These things tend to get fixed. Note that Michigan's alignment above is even instead of slid to one side or the other.
I am sorry to remind you of our shared, dark past, but remember the GERG defenses when Michigan would frequently get annihilated by the same thing over and over again? In the Oh God Justin Siller game (to be fair, a GERG defense only in spirit, not in letter) it was ten yard outs over and over. In the 2010 Wisconsin game I think the Badgers ran power 28 straight times in the second half, and I am not even sure that's a joke. One of the most frustrating aspects of Michigan's terrible terrible defenses pre-Mattison were the times when the same thing just kept working.
Here Michigan gets burned for a first down. The next two snaps they see out of this formation are runs that go for zero and –1 yards. That's why there's not a theme, because the things that seem to be dodgy with this defense are pure talent issues. Michigan doesn't have an elite pass-rusher or a lot of speed in the secondary. This leads to lots of attempted deep bombs that have not come off yet, mostly.
Minnesota backs and receivers can really cut block. Seriously, our guys could learn something from the Gophers in that department. Michigan CBs and LBs hit the ground a lot in this game, even if sometimes they got up like an unkillable zombie and made the tackle anyway.
Washington: pretty good. He couldn't do anything about the 12 yarder above; he did get off a block and pursue in case he could.


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Smooth leather and shiny, transparent PVC compose a retro-cool Marc by Marc Jacobs purse. The push-lock flap in the front opens to a see-through interior with a snap-flap phone pocket, change pouch, zip pocket, and a leather zip compartment for more discreet storage. The adjustable shoulder strap allows for comfortable cross-body wear, and can be detached to convert the bag to a clutch.
Leather: Cowhide.
Weight: 20oz / 0.57kg.
Imported, Indonesia.
Height: 7in / 18cm
Length: 9in / 23cm
Depth: 2in / 5cm
Strap drop: 23in / 58.5cm
Leather: Cowhide.
Weight: 20oz / 0.57kg.
Imported, Indonesia.
Height: 7in / 18cm
Length: 9in / 23cm
Depth: 2in / 5cm
Strap drop: 23in / 58.5cm
Since the 2001 launch of his secondary label, Marc by Marc Jacobs, celebrated designer and NYC-native Marc Jacobs has garnered global acclaim for his iconic designs. Decorated with the Parsons Design Student of the Year title and 7 prestigious CFDA awards, Jacobs's unwavering knack for reinventing vintage trends and classics lends a timeless allure to his work. With each new season, Marc Jacobs runways brim with nostalgia and charm, and secure the label's well-deserved place in the American fashion canon.
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It was my first purchase on SHOPBOP and i'm happy! My little red Marc by Marc Jacobs purse is gorgeous! Shipping in Ukraine in 3 days - it's really fantastic!!!!
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I love fruit. Especially during the warmer months when their sweet juices offer hydration and infuse my body with easily
digested and natural sugars for enhanced energy.
A naturally detoxifying food, fruit is truly Mother Nature's most perfect offering, and also one of the most overlooked secrets to longevity, beauty, and health.
Consider the brilliant design of the human body: With our long and winding digestive tract (25-30 ft), the body absorbs nutrients beginning in the small intestine, but only after the first stage of digestion in the stomach. Large and sluggish meals therefore provide no useable nutrients until it can make its way from the stomach to the first part of the small intestine, or duodenum (and then, who knows what the body will be able to use after that tiresome and lengthy wait).
On an Empty Stomach, Fruit takes roughly around 20-40 minutes in the stomach to digest. Melons take the least, and bananas take the longest.
Secret #1: It is a trick to think that a sandwich, or protein bar, will give you any quick and sustainable energy. In fact, these foods can take anywhere between 4-8+ hours (depending) in the stomach alone. They only provide stimulation. Not energy. If Mother Nature intended for us to seek lasting nourishment outside of her garden, she would not have made fruit to obviously accessible. When a fruit is ready to be eaten, it will actually drop right from the plant. At this moment, the fruit has the most viable nutrients.
How brilliant!
But we've gone and done it again. In order to make fruit accessible throughout all areas of the land, and at every season, we pluck, pull, and ship fruits and vegetables from one end of the world, to the next. Not only is this a lot of travel time, but we don't wait for them to jump from their branches. We pluck them early!
Oh how I wish I had a papaya tree in my backyard.
Secret #2: The best time to eat fruits (and vegetables) is when they are in season, and local. The fresher they are, and the less time the spend backpacking across the country, the more nutrients they will contain.
Secret #3: We often hear about eating seasonally, and locally, but in addition to this little secret, the best time to enjoy a fruit is when it is ripe.
Let's face it: Fruit goes bad. This is by no means a bad thing however, nor does it mean that we should spray foods to keep them from going "bad."
"Bad" is part of a natural organism's life cycle.
Instead, we should focus on the beauty that exists within living foods. The best time to eat a fruit is when it is ripe. A ripe fruit will have a more alkaline pH, and leave a more alkaline residue in the body, whereas an unripe fruit can be irritating and leave an acid residue in the body.
Additionally, a "ready to eat" ripe fruit is easier to digest, and requires less energy for digestion. The point of nourishing the body with living foods is that they are more readily digested, and that their nutrients more abundant and easily assimilated and absorbed.
What good is a raw food if the body cannot break it down?
A green banana would not fall from a tree, and it is constipating when eaten before spotted. A green banana will hang on for dear life until it has received all of the divine power and nutrients that it is going to receive from its life-sustaining branches. When it falls, or in our case, is easily plucked, it is a sign that it's ready to give back to the earth–It is ready to provide.
A fruit is thus part of a plant's healthy growing cycle. It contains seeds so that it can bare the next generation of fruit. How cool, eh?
When talking about a fruit's lifecyle, I cannot help but get giggly and think of a particular dinner scene in the movie, Notting Hill. Brokenhearted by the wonderful Anna Scott (played by Julia Roberts), William, (played by Hugh Grant), has been set up on a random date by his dear pals. The "date", unbeknownst to anyone prior to dinner, is a "fruitarian." Here is their dialogue:
Keziah: No thanks, I'm a fruitarian.
Max: I didn't realize that.
William: And, ahm: what exactly is a fruitarian?
Keziah: We believe that fruits and vegetables have feeling so we think cooking is cruel. We only eat things that have actually fallen off a tree or bush – that are, in fact, dead already.
William: Right. Right. Interesting stuff. So, these carrots…
Keziah: Have been murdered, yes.
William: Murdered? Poor carrots. How beastly!
Charming movie. I laugh every time.
Keziah, however she might pronounce her name, is fortunately wrong… these fruits are not dead, but ready to be consumed. A banana, for instance, should not be consumed until it is ripe with a splattering of tiny brown spots. You will find that the peel easily releases the edible fruit for eating without a fight, and that the fruit is not only sweeter, but also much easier to digest!
So, enjoy your fruits, and do so without the consumption of other foods at the same time.
Secret #4: Eat foods alone, and on an empty stomach. With the exception of leafy greens, fruits should not be combined with other foods. Fresh fruit should not be eaten as a snack, dessert, or close to other meals (3-4 hours).
Remember, we want to get the nutrients from our meals to our small intestine quickly. Fruits will take the least amount of time in the stomach. When consumed with other, slower digesting foods, it slows down that beautiful process. The only time we should consume Mother Nature's perfect food is on an empty stomach (so, for breakfast, for instance), and preferably when Mother Nature has given her O.K. to consume (when ripe). When we combine fruits with other foods, especially more concentrated food (animal protein, almond butter, dairy, bread), we create fermentation in the stomach (gassiness). This is an unpleasant feeling, and a common cause of headaches, lack of energy, and constipation, etc.
Secret #5: How do you tell when a fruit is ripe? Generally, the fruit will smell sweet, and give a little to the touch. A pineapple, that does not yet smell like a pineapple, is not ready to be sliced open and eat.
Do you have any tips on enjoying fruit? What is your favorite fruit?
I love papayas, ripe bananas, crisp pink lady apples!


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She loves the ring.
Cut is the absolute most important of the 4C's and the Signature Round Diamond's are comparable to the very best cut diamonds from any other retailer. This diamond sparkles brilliantly in any light and appears much larger than it really is due to the cut.
Michael, DENVER CO 2011-08-16
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She said 'YES!!'
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Stunning Diamond
This is his fiance here. We love the diamond. It is exceptionally clear and has that "fire" everyone speaks of. It is just stunning. I may even venture to say he loves it more than I do, if that is possible. I often find him staring at the ring lovingly and am tempted to say "Hey! up here!" Thanks Blue Nile!
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My now fiancee adroes this ring. She can't stop looking at it!!
Was beyond expectations. Beautiful sparkle to this diamond. Delivered well on time. Glad I made this purchase
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Shut out of the pro bowl ...having to watch Raider fans fill the Q again.....these are indeed dark days for Charger fans.......just remember Monday is coming.....food will taste sweeter, the sun will be brighter, and the air will be thick with optimism. It's a new day in Chargerville! Raider fans can suck a bag of d!#ks.
A 2-13 team has 5 representatives, we get none. That was pathetic BS by any standard; hell in 2003 when we were 4-12 and sucked I remembered LT was super human he couldn't get near the pro bowl
Weddle was snubbed because he's white. KC's players got in because a few of them got in on strong performances from previous seasons, while Charles is having an absolutely monstrous season, which is only not being talked about because AP is having a record-breakingly monstrous season. The problem is that no one on our front seven is a standout (See JJ Watt if you want to see what a standout 3-4 end looks like) compared to the field, and none of our skill position players are actually good. Rivers is an elite QB spending so much time on his back that his stats are simply not up to par with Brady and Manning, who were basically preseason locks, and compared to new blood like Luck, and playoff QBs like Dalton and Schaub (and Luck), he's just getting lost amongst the rest of the crap. I don't think that the Chiefs deserve 5 PB players, but if you think there should be more than 1 Charger in the PB, you're crazy/have strong homer-vision.
I think that Scifres should've gotten in but don't think Colquitt was any less deserving. As far as Butler, Johnson and Mayo got the nod over him.
I read the roster once and didn't care enough about players on other teams that I generally don't care about so I don't remember whom was better, those are just the only Chargers who would be deserving of even being considered. Strange to think that Rivers doesn't deserve to be mentioned there considering his play two years ago.
It's the only "all star" game I know of where it's a bigger honor to get picked than to actually play in it.
It didn't used to be that way. I have some autographs from the days when the AFC would practice in San Diego. O.J.,Franco Harris, Larry Little, Art Shell and a few more. I also remember when they played the College All-Stars but the NFL has become a shell of what it once was.
Dark Days? For me it feels like the lead up to Christmas Day hopefully being that glorious morning on Monday where we wake up to find our coach and GM gone forever, then we can all start posting about who we'd like next, trying to ignore that small sick feeling in our stomach that says the next guy will somehow be worse. On the subject of next HC, would anyone give Ken Whisenhunt a look for here if Arizona can him? He did take them to a bowl not that long ago...
You'll see some Chargers at the Pro Bowl when those players that earned their place there either decide not to attend or are in the playoffs and can't make it. Charger players usually make fine "replacement" Pro Bowl players in a game that is even less meaningful then their regular season games.
I'd at least consider Liuget who's been a one man wrecking crew lately. Don't think he'd deserve it now but he's played well enough to deserve consideration
Butler really didn't stand a chance once he missed time for injury. Johnson's getting by off last year's numbers, by comparison he had a pretty mediocre campaign this year. Woodley easily deserved to get in over him (and Butler). Mayo is what it is. Boston fans will votes for him - he's a stat accumulator but hard a game-impacting player by much; Brandon Spikes, his own teammate, had a better case for the PB than Mayo did. The amazing crap about the voting: Weddle is the 5th alternate and yet Gates, who had a humdrum season by his standards, is the 3rd alternate (in an AFC where guys like Owen Daniels, Hernandez - even though he missed half the season, Gronkowski - even though he's current injured, Miller - also injured, and Scott Chandler all outperformed him).
If I remember correctly, Weddle was the only player who was in "game mode" last year, and other players were telling him to take it easy...
Consideration yes, but do you think he'd be able to make it ahead of Dumervil or Wake (because no way is Watt anything but a lock, nobody would beat him out of that starter spot)? I just checked and wow, Cameron Wake has 15 sacks and I haven't heard his name once this season. Kind of crazy how a 15 sack season goes unnoticed, just goes to show the monster seasons other guys are having.
Oh absolutely he shouldn't be in it now, but consideration or at least mentioning would be nice considering the season he's had and the improvements he's made. That's all, but he shouldn't be in it this year. Possibly next year


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Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water again, it's "Divorce at the Beach". More ominous than a shark attack, the beginning of summer heralds into San Destin an entourage of Birmingham's illustrious divorce attorneys for their annual seminar, more commonly referred to as "How to force your client's beach house into foreclosure by driving up their legal bill and own their beach house yourself".
As their clients sit home scratching their heads, puzzled as to why their divorces have curiously been put on the administrative docket for the summer, this cackling coven of family attorneys is touring 30A, plotting their real estate purchases from their anticipated proceeds. Wake up and smell the hemlock, clients -- you have entered the Bermuda triangle. A simple inspection of the topics for this year's meeting is bone-chilling and will include a special presentation, not to be missed, entitled: "The 14 day PLR hearing with the unlicensed court reporter: I win no matter what the outcome, and so can you."
This is not a law school hypothetical but it would have been too unbelievable as a reality show.
The attorneys typically travel to San Destin with a pack of private investigators, who will be strategically seeded throughout the beach from May until August, poised to catch on videotape any and all incriminating activities which clients may foolishly dare to engage in while vacationing in Florida over the summer. One such videotape recently placed into evidence at trial included the following demand for explanation:
"Minnie Mae, is this or is this not YOU in this photograph serving your children ice cream before lunch at the Sugar Shak in Rosemary Beach on Saturday, June 12??" Follow-up testimony related to the ice cream will then be required from the child's pediatrician, dentist, dietician, nanny, kindergarten teacher, Sunday School teacher, the server from the Sugar Shak, a witness who will attest that the ice cream had gummi worms on top, and a special 90 page report from a team of child psychologists who will testify that the gummi worms' resemblance to snakes is causally related to the child's bedwetting and anxiety. A three day "Ice Cream Hearing" will be ordered in front of a special master appointed by the court to hear all aforementioned testimony. Total legal bill for trip to the Sugar Shak? $27,411.
Ice Cream is more expensive in Alabama. Upon Minnie Mae's discovery that her soon to be ex-husband is NOT off on a Habitat for Humanity Adventure, and HAS, in fact, been the subject of numerous photographs at the Old Florida Fish House doing shots off the legs of bikini clad sorority girls and running up a bar tab that surpasses damages from the BP Oil Spill, his attorney will immediately schedule a deep sea fishing trip with the judge, who may, at his discretion, take an affidavit from the husband's mother attesting that her son was away at choir camp, exonerating him of any malfeasance. The line item: "copies: $2500" will be added to Minnie Mae's legal bill to cover the charges for the fishing boat. Should she dare to contest the bill, fifteen attorneys will be required to review the bill over a course of six months, at which time it will be pronounced a fair and accurate bill, with a warning to her that any attempt to appeal the ruling will likely "miss the deadline for filing", and she will incur additional cost for inconveniencing everyone.
These are stormy sea waters, indeed. Best to stay close to home and tend to one's smocking during "Divorce at the Beach"- season in the Magic City…. where the tea is sweeter….where some things simply never change… And we like it that way.
Until next time, Scarlet
Ask Scarlet a question, and she will tell you how to navigate those stormy waters. Send your questions to firstname.lastname@example.com. Or go to www.bhamweekly.com and comment on her articles. In case you missed some before she was as popular in Birmingham as she was in high school, with many disappointed suitors, try these on for size:
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