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LSU Football Championship Seasons
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2007 National Champions
2007 SEC Champions
Overall Record: 12-2 | SEC Record: 6-2 | Coach Les Miles
by Chris Macaluso
Special to LSUsports.net
NEW ORLEANS – LSU fans across the world had to wait 45 years between the Tigers' first and second National Championships. They only had to wait four between the second and third, but the victory tasted just as sweet.
With a crushing 38-24 win over Ohio State in Monday's Bowl Championship Series Championship Game, LSU left little doubt in the minds of those in the college football universe who the best team was during the 2007 season. Forget USC. Forget Georgia. Forget Ohio State. Remember LSU.
National Champions.
National Champions again!
The Tigers (12-2) became the first two-time winner of the BCS Championship by dominating the most of the game and outscoring the Buckeyes 31-0 over a 24-minute stretch. LSU also improved to 4-0 in BCS games since the series began in 1998, the best record of any team. Ohio State fell to 4-2, both losses in the past two championship games.
Head coach Les Miles, in his third season at LSU, lifted the $30,000 Waterford Crystal football-shaped trophy amid a cloud of purple and gold ticker tape -- a cloud that lifted moments later for the coach who's won 34 games against six losses since arriving in Baton Rouge in 2005.
Tiger quarterback Matt Flynn was nearly flawless, save for a third-quarter interception in LSU territory that gave a brief hint of hope to the Ohio State fans, on his way to winning the offensive Most Outstanding Player Award. Aside from the errant toss, Flynn jabbed and upper-cutted the Buckeyes on his way to completing 19-of-27 for 174 yards and a career-high four touchdown passes in his final game as a Tiger.
"It's very special to me to be part of such a great team with such great guys," Flynn said. "We came out here with the right frame of mind and just executed."
Tiger defensive tackle Ricky Jean-Francois garnered defensive M.O.P. honors chiefly for blocking a second-quarter, 38-yard field goal attempt that kept the game tied at 10-10 and swung the momentum completely in LSU's favor. The Tigers scored 31 unanswered points after taking control near midfield following the blocked kick. Jean-Francois also recorded six tackles, including 1.5 for loss and combined on a sack.
"I knew this team was competitive and I knew they would fight like heck," LSU Coach Les Miles said after winning his first National Championship as a coach and leading the Tigers to three-consecutive 11-plus win seasons. "This (LSU) is a great place to get an education and a great place to win championships."
Ironically, considering the final score, Ohio State out-gained LSU 353-326 on offense but also made a bevy of mistakes unbecoming a team trying to win a championship game. The Buckeyes turned the ball over three times, compared to LSU's one while committing seven penalties for a very costly 83 yards. LSU limited its penalties to just four for 36 yards, none in the first half.
Against the nation's top-ranked defense that had allowed only 30 percent third-down convertions this season, the Tigers converted 8-of-9 in the first half and 11-of-14 in the first three quarters. LSU finished 11 of 18.
Buckeye tailback Chris Wells carried the ball 20 times for 146 yards and a touchdown. Most of that production came early in the contest as he was only able to gain 27 yards in the second half.
LSU's Jacob Hester led the Tigers with another workman-like 86 yards on 21 carries and one touchdown to cap his outstanding and heroic LSU career.
Ohio State quarterback Todd Boeckman completed 15-of-26 passes for 208 yards and two touchdowns but also threw two interceptions and lost a fumble on one of LSU's five sacks.
Ohio State started the contest impressively as Wells broke a 65-yard touchdown run through the middle of the LSU defense before either team's fans had a chance to settle into their seats. Wells ran the simple off tackle run on the fourth play of the drive for the longest run from scrimmage in a BCS Championship Game. The gallop gave the Buckeyes a 7-0 lead with 13:34 to play in the first quarter.
LSU hurt its cause even more on the ensuing series when Flynn fumbled the shotgun snap from center Brett Helms on a third-and-7 at the LSU 23. Flynn recovered the botched snap at his 7-yard line, forcing the Tigers to punt from deep in their end zone.
The Buckeyes took over at their 41 after Patrick Fisher boomed a 62-yard punt and the Buckeyes quickly launched into LSU territory again. Boeckman hit a wide-open Brandon Saine who tiptoed down the sideline to the LSU 15. LSU's defense stiffened though, and held the Buckeyes to a 25-yard Ryan Pretorious field goal four plays later that gave Ohio State a 10-0 advantage with 9:12 to play in the opening quarter.
The Tigers made up the stagger some on the next drive as they methodically drove deep into Ohio State territory on a 14-play, 6:51 drive highlighted by a 20-yard Hester run on its sixth play. LSU's push stopped at the Buckeye 15 giving Colt David a chance to add the Tigers' first points with a 32-yard field goal with 2:21 remaining in the first quarter.
LSU made up the stagger completely on its next possession aided by 30 yards in Buckeye personal foul penalty yards. Flynn ended the drive on it's seventh play when he lobbed a 13-yard pass to tight end Richard Dickson who was standing all alone just shy of the goal line. The drive consumed just 2:07 and tied the score 10-10 with 13:00 left to play in the first half.
Ohio State appeared ready to take the lead again on the next possession, driving to the LSU 28 in just three plays. But, a personal foul too away their touchdown scoring chance and the Tigers shoved a 38-yard field goal field goal attempt back at Pretorious when Jean-Francois knifed through the line. Darry Beckwith recovered the bouncing ball at the 34.
Ten plays later, LSU took its first lead when Flynn capped a run-dominated drive with a precisely tossed 10-yard touchdown pass to Brandon LaFell in the back of the endzone. The David point after gave the Tigers a 17-10 advantage with 7:25 remaining on the first half clock.
LSU scored again before the Tiger fans had a chance to rest their voices from Flynn's toss. Tiger cornerback Chevis Jackson intercepted a Boeckman pass in one-on-one coverage at the LSU 42 and returned it to the Ohio State 24. Five plays later, Hester plowed into the endzone from the 1-yard line to stake LSU to a 24-10 lead after David's point after sailed true with 4:16 to play in the half.
"The defense just settled down," Miles said. "We blocked that field goal, got a turnover on an interception and really stemmed the tide. Our defense started settling down and they really couldn't score with us."
LSU ran its unanswered scoring streak to 31 when Early Doucet plowed through two Buckeye tacklers and into the endzone after taking in a Flynn pass at the 4-yard line with 9:04 to play in the third quarter. The catch capped a plodding 14-play, 80-yard drive to open the second half. Again, LSU's push was extended by two Buckeye personal fouls, the first a very costly roughing the kicker on 4th-and-23 at the LSU 40 that gave LSU a first down in Ohio State territory. The scoring voyage consumed 5:56 and gave the Tigers a 31-10 lead.
But, the Tigers handed the Buckeyes the chance to get back into the game on their next possession when Flynn tossed an interception to OSU cornerback Malcolm Jenkins at the LSU 34. Jenkins returned the pick to the LSU 11, giving Boeckman a chance to find Brian Robiskie just across the goal line on a fourth-down play from the 5-yard line. The catch cut the LSU lead to 31-17 with 1:38 remaining in the third quarter.
Ohio State again penetrated into LSU territory on its next possession but the LSU defense didn't crack. Facing a third-and-4 at the Tiger 31, Boeckman was pulled to the turf by defensive end Kirston Pittman for a three-yard loss forcing the Buckeyes to try to convert a fourth-and-7. Boeckman, finding no open receivers, was forced to scramble to his right, right into a crushing sack by linebacker Ali Highsmith who forced a fumble which was recovered by defensive back Harry Coleman.
LSU took possession at the Ohio State 46 but could not convert a first down forcing Fisher to punt from the spot where the Tigers claimed possession after a delay of game penalty.
Ohio State pushed its next possession to near midfield, but was knocked into a third-and-15 situation at its 40 when Glen Dorsey sacked Boeckman for a 5-yard loss on first down and batted away a pass intended for Brian Hartline on second down. Tiger defensive back Curtis Taylor intercepted Boeckman on third down at the LSU 43 to effectively salt away LSU's national championship.
Nine plays later, Flynn again tossed to a wide open Dickson in the endzone as the purple and gold clad erupted in what was sure victory for the Tigers. The 5-yard touchdown toss ran the scoring tally to 38-17 LSU after the David point after as the Tiger faithful chanted "SEC" as the Buckeyes smarted from another lopsided National Championship Game defeat at the hands of a Southeastern Conference team.
Ohio State added its most inconsequential touchdown of the season four plays later on a 15-yard pass from Boeckman to Hartline.
LSU reeled in the ensuing on-sides kick try and Flynn knelt his way to the win as the clock expired.
"We knew we would have to play well to win," Miles said. "I feel very fortunate that we played the way we did. This is a great group of young men, our senior class, a number of men, who knew how to commit to a team and to fight like hell."
A Superdome record 79,651 fans attended the game.
2003 National Champions
2003 SEC Champions
Overall Record: 13-1 | SEC Record: 7-1 | Coach Nick Saban
The LSU Fighting Tigers entered the 2003 football season with a potent offense, the potential for a dominant defense, and many unanswered questions.
The 2002 Tigers endured one of the biggest roller-coaster seasons in recent memory, winning six straight games after a season opening loss at Virginia Tech to move into the Top 10, but three losses in the final five regular season games, combined with the "Bluegrass Miracle"--Marcus Randall's 75-yard touchdown pass to Devery Henderson on the final play of the Tigers' 33-30 win at Kentucky--kept LSU out of the SEC Championship Game.
A 35-20 loss to Texas in the Cotton Bowl left the Tigers out of the final 2002 polls and heading into the 2003 season looking for redemption.
The Tigers earned the 15th spot in the pre-season polls by both the Associated Press and the board of coaches of ESPN and USA Today, but question marks were plenty surrounding Nick Saban's fourth LSU team.
Would quarterback Matt Mauck recover fully from the foot injury that ended his 2002 season prematurely? Would Marcus Spears and Marquise Hill develop into the dominant forces at defensive end that they were as Parade All-Americans in high school? Would Chad Lavalais continue to dominate at defensive tackle? Who would replace Bradie James and Jeremy Lawrence in the linebacking corps? And just who would run the football with LaBrandon Toefield and Domanick Davis now in the National Football League?
By time all was said and done with the 2003 season, all of these questions, and many others, would receive resounding answers from the Tigers.
But before the Tigers could begin their 110th season of football, they would have to wait out Mother Nature. A severe thunderstorm rolled over Tiger Stadium prior to LSU's season opener with Louisiana-Monroe, causing a 30-minute delay.
When the season finally started, Mother Nature's fury was tame compared to that of the Tigers. LSU rolled over UL-Monroe in the first meeting between the in-state rivals, 49-7, sending the Tigers with momentum into their first meeting with Arizona since 1984 and first visit ever to Tucson.
The purple and gold blew into the Old West with all of the force of a desert sandstorm, leaving the Wildcats as tumbleweed in a 59-13 rout in one of LSU's most complete games in many a year. The Tigers rolled up an incredible 38-0 halftime lead and finished with 481 total yards in scoring their most impressive non-conference victory away from Baton Rouge since 1986.
The Tigers returned home to face Western Illinois, the top-ranked team in Division I-AA. The Leathernecks put up a good fight, trailing just 6-0 until late in the first half, when LSU finally took control of the game and went on to a 35-7 win, moving the Tigers up to No. 10 for a key early-season showdown with defending SEC champion Georgia, ranked seventh.
The Bulldogs dominated the early going, moving consistently up and down the field on the LSU defense, but when the first 30 minutes ended, it was the Tigers who held a 7-3 edge, and would extend that edge to 10-3, a score that held until late in the fourth quarter.
That's when it appeared Georgia caught lightning in a bottle when David Greene, who had been harassed mercilessly by the Tiger pass rush, hit Tyson Browning with a screen pass that turned into a 93-yard touchdown that tied the game at 10-10. The record Tiger Stadium crowd of 92,251 had to be wondering if the rug would be pulled from under the purple and gold again.
LSU answered that question with an emphatic no. LSU needed only three minutes to take the lead back, with Skyler Green's over the shoulder catch of a Matt Mauck pass with 1:22 remaining pulling LSU into a 17-10 lead. Corey Webster's interception of Greene sealed the Tigers' first win over Georgia in 13 years and propelled LSU into the top 10.
The SEC's other Bulldogs, Mississippi State, provided no such challenge for the Bayou Bengals. LSU jumped out to a 24-0 halftime lead in Starkville and never looked back in a 41-6 rout that put the Tigers at 5-0 for the first time since 1973.
Now, the time seemed ripe for LSU to win back-to-back games over Florida for the first time since 1986-87. The Gators were struggling at 3-3 and had a freshman quarterback in Chris Leak going up against one of the nation's most savage defenses in what would undoubtedly be a raucous Tiger Stadium.
Early on, the Gators were on the skinning block. Green returned a punt 80 yards for a touchdown, and a goal-line stand in which the Tigers recovered a Florida fumble at the 1-yard line seemed to have LSU on its way to 6-0.
But then, Leak stopped playing like a freshman, and LSU's offense could not get untracked against a suddenly potent Gator defense. Florida would head back to Gainesville with a 19-7 victory, and now the Tigers stood at crossroads.
Prior to the Florida game, there had been talk around the bayou that this LSU team would have the best chance to win the national championship since the 1958 team pulled off the feat. The loss to the Gators may have ended those thoughts for the time being, but many of Saban's goals, most notably those for an SEC championship, remained well within grasp.
That is, if the Tigers didn't slip up in either of their next two games, which figured to be tremendous challenges--a trip to South Carolina followed by a home game with longtime nemesis Auburn.
The Gamecocks didn't have the talent to match the Tigers, but they had one of college football's greatest masterminds in their corner in coach Lou Holtz. Holtz had done the impossible at all of his college stops--William & Mary, North Carolina State, Arkansas, Minnesota, Notre Dame and South Carolina--and certainly upsetting a wounded Tiger team wasn't that big of a stretch.
Then again, it was. Led by a trio of freshman running backs in Justin Vincent, Alley Broussard and Barrington Edwards, the Tigers rushed for 263 yards on their way to a 482-yard effort by the offense.
Meanwhile, the defense held the Gamecocks to a net rushing total of zero yards and scored a touchdown themselves on a fumble return by Jason LeDoux as LSU rolled to a 33-7 victory.
Beating South Carolina was a solid accomplishment, but now, LSU faced the same team that one year earlier had sent the purple and gold into its season ending tailspin. Auburn had struggled in early season losses to USC and Georgia Tech, but five consecutive wins had coach Tommy Tuberville's team looking ripe to take control of the SEC West.
The Tigers indeed had control of the SEC West when the game was over--the LSU Tigers. Mauck hit Henderson for a 64-yard touchdown pass on the sixth play of the game, and hit Clayton for an 18-yard score as part of a 21-point first quarter.
LSU's defense limited Auburn star runner Carnell Williams to just 61 yards on 20 carries, and Auburn was never in it as the Bayou Bengals rolled to a 31-7 victory and into the top 10 of the Bowl Championship Series standings at number 7.
LSU didn't show any signs of a letdown in its homecoming game, crushing Louisiana Tech, 49-10, scoring all of its points in the first half. After the game, when asked if LSU compared favorably to the Miami team that beat the Bulldogs 48-9 in the season opener, Tech coach Jack Bicknell replied emphatically, "We played Miami, and I promise you that they are better than Miami."
The Tigers were on a roll, and after an open date, they were back into the nation's elite, at No. 3 in the polls. Now, the dreams of a national championship were alive and well.
LSU's trip to Tuscaloosa was an eerie role reversal for the nearly 84,000 fans jammed into Bryant-Denny Stadium. For decades, it was Alabama who bullied the purple and gold; now, it was Saban's crew doing the bullying, shutting off Alabama in every conceivable way in a 27-3 rout that set up a showdown for the SEC West title the next week at Ole Miss.
Early on, it appeared the Rebels would finally reach the SEC Championship game, as Ole Miss grabbed a 7-0 lead when a Mauck interception was returned for a touchdown on the Tigers' first play from scrimmage.
LSU had dominated the rest of the game, holding a 17-14 lead late in the contest when Ole Miss' Eli Manning got one more chance to lead his team to victory.
It never happened, as Manning tripped over his own lineman on a fourth down in the final minute, allowing the Tigers to escape with a win in the biggest LSU-Ole Miss game since 1970.
To win the West and clinch a berth in the SEC title game, LSU now had a score to settle with the Arkansas Razorbacks, who in 2002 marched 81 yards down the field with no timeouts to score the winning touchdown and claim a 21-20 victory to steal the title game berth from the Tigers.
The first quarter and a half of the game appeared as if neither team could stop the other. The Tigers and the Hogs were tied at 17-17, and Ole Miss was still holding out hope for an Arkansas victory and a trip to the title game.
LSU then showed how it has developed what Saban likes to call a killer instinct. The Tigers scored 17 points in a five-minute stretch late in the second quarter to break the tie, and then scored three consecutive touchdowns in the second half to run away to a 55-24 blowout and punch their ticket to Atlanta.
The week leading up to the SEC Championship game against Georgia centered as much on LSU's status in the BCS as it did on the Bulldogs. Since their win over Alabama, the Tigers had been mired at No. 3 in the BCS standings behind Oklahoma and USC, and all across the country, analysts were frantically trying to figure out every possible scenario as to just what two teams would play in the Sugar Bowl on January 4 for the national championship.
On championship Saturday, LSU made a statement for itself by blasting the Bulldogs in front of a partisan Georgia crowd, 34-13. Game MVP Justin Vincent scored on an 87-yard run and finished with a championship game record 201 yards on the ground.
Earlier in the day, USC routed Oregon State, 52-28, but that night, Oklahoma was blasted by Kansas State in the Big XII title game in Kansas City, 35-7, leaving more speculation than ever as to who would be making the trip to the Big Easy.
At 2:30 the day after the SEC championship game, LSU Chancellor Dr. Mark Emmert got a phone call. It was from Paul Hoolhan, Executive Director of the Nokia Sugar Bowl. The call relayed to Emmert the news that the Tigers would indeed be making the short bus ride to New Orleans for the title game to play Oklahoma.
In the weeks leading up to the Sugar Bowl date with the Sooners, most pundits were debating the legitimacy of the BCS title game, as both the Associated Press poll and the ESPN/USA Today coaches' poll had the Trojans in the top spot. The AP was not bound to elect the Sugar Bowl winner champion, and even though the coaches were, some coaches spoke openly of breaking their agreement and voting USC number one if the Trojans beat Michigan in the Rose Bowl.
In the weeks leading up to the Sugar Bowl, Saban hammered away at a theme, and that was LSU could only control what it did against Oklahoma in the Sugar Bowl, not what USC did or what 65 sportswriters or 63 coaches did.
USC defeated Michigan on New Year's Day, 28-14, and now, the media had their story--the LSU-Oklahoma showdown would be for "half" the national championship.
LSU didn't care. It had waited 45 years for a shot at any national championship, and the Tigers hit the field running, driving to the Sooner 1-yard line on their opening drive. Although LSU came away empty, the tone of this evening was set, and it would be the white-shirted team that would be the aggressor.
No one felt this more than Oklahoma quarterback Jason White, the 2003 Heisman Trophy winner. Time and time again, he was buried by the LSU pass rush, led by All-American Chad Lavalais and the best pair of defensive ends in America in Marcus Spears and Marquise Hill.
When White did have time to throw, he found his receivers blanketed by the Tigers' aggressive secondary, most notably cornerbacks Corey Webster and Travis Daniels.
Indeed, it was Webster, the savior of the first win over Georgia, who set up LSU for its first score of the Sugar Bowl, intercepting White at midfield and returning the pick to the Sooner 32. Four plays later, Green took a reverse around right end to a 24-yard touchdown, and the purple and gold partisans reveled in a 7-0 lead.
A blocked punt early midway through the second quarter set up OU for the tying touchdown, but instead of folding, the Tigers immediately responded with a 9-play, 80-yard drive that ended with Vincent's 18-yard touchdown run that would give the Tigers a 14-7 halftime lead.
Two plays into the second half, LSU took one giant leap toward that championship when Spears grabbed a deflected White pass out of the air and rumbled 20 yards into the end zone, sending most of the Superdome record crowd of 79,342 into sheer pandemonium.
That 21-7 lead seemed to grow late in the third quarter when Ryan Gaudet hit a 27-yard field goal. But two penalties on the Tigers erased the score, and if the Sooners were going to make their move, now was the time.
Mauck was intercepted early in the fourth quarter, and the Sooners got a touchdown from Kejuan Jones to cut the LSU lead to 21-14 with 11:01 still to play.
Saban and Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops, the nation's two premier defensive masterminds, set in for the final chess match that would determine the BCS champion. Stoops gained the upper hand with 5:45 left, as White led his team to the Tiger 12 with a first down.
The nation's highest scoring offense had made teams pay time after time when reaching the red zone. But LSU was no ordinary defense. And in a test of wills, the Tigers held firm, as Oklahoma did not move an inch from that point, with White's fourth down pass getting knocked away by freshman Jesse Daniels.
Oklahoma would get one more chance from midfield in the final minutes, but again, the Sooners were stuck in cement, and on fourth and 10, Lionel Turner buried White to send the Heisman winner off the field for the last time in 2003.
The Sooners had one slim chance, and that was to block a Donnie Jones punt with nine seconds left. But Jones made his last kick one for the ages. As it rolled out of bounds at the Sooner 12 on the west sideline of the Superdome, the clock ticked down to three zeros. The game was over...LSU was national champion!
Vincent won his second MVP honor in a month, rushing for 117 yards. The LSU defense sacked White five times and forced several hurried throws. And Nick Saban would now take his place as the nation's top college football coach.
In 1958, LSU was thought to be a year away from serious national championship contention, but proved the experts wrong. In 2003, the same was thought to be true, but Saban, his talented coaching staff and a group of young men proved that through hard work, attention to detail and playing for 60 minutes, that dreams can and do come true.
1958 National Champions
Overall Record: 11-0 | SEC Record: 6-0 | Coach Paul Dietzel
For years, LSU fans eagerly anticipated the coming of each new football season with talk of the two Tiger teams regarded as LSU's national champions-- the great 10-0 team of 1908 and "next year." After 50 years, next year finally came in 1958.
After seasons of 3-5-2, 3-7 and 5-5 under coach Paul Dietzel, and a team which included only three seniors among its 55-man roster, it didn't seem likely that 1958 would be "next year." Indeed, with a squad dominated by juniors and sophomores, many pointed toward 1959 as the year LSU would make a run at the top.
The LSU Fighting Tigers opened the 1958 campaign Sept. 20 at Houston against the Rice Owls. Although early in the season, Dietzel's Tigers, divided into three units -- the White team, the Gold team (later shortened to Go) and the Chinese Bandits -- showed unusual poise and balance. LSU scored in each period en route to a 26-6 victory over a team it lost to the two previous seasons.
The following week, the Tigers traveled to Mobile to take on Alabama in its first game under Paul "Bear" Bryant. LSU came away with a hard- fought 13-3 win before returning to Baton Rouge for its home opener against Hardin-Simmons. Against the Cowboys, the Tigers built a 20-6 halftime lead and used it to coast to its victory before only 45,000 fans, indicating that few had any idea what kind of team this would become.
LSU, now ranked No. 11, hit the road again the following week and served notice to the college football world. The Tigers routed the Miami Hurricanes 41-0 at the Orange Bowl to improve their record to 4-0, their best start since 1937.
No. 9 LSU completed the first half of its schedule with a 32-7 victory over Kentucky before a home crowd of 65,000, the largest yet to see the Tigers play. Sixty-three thousand turned out the following week anxious to see if the Bayou Bengals could snap a three-game losing streak to Florida in LSU's Homecoming game. The outcome was in doubt until the final three minutes, when placekicker/fullback Tommy Davis booted a 29-yard field goal, giving the Tigers a 10-7 victory.
Now 6-0, LSU earned the AP poll's No. 1 ranking. But the Tigers knew they had to overcome Johnny Vaught's deadly Ole Miss Rebels if they wished to remain on top, something they hadn't done since 1950.
The Rebels drove to second-and-one, just a foot from LSU's end zone, early in the second quarter before 67,500 fans, the first sellout in Tiger Stadium history. They were turned back by a superb defensive effort by the White team defenders. After that, it was all LSU as White team quarterback Warren Rabb and Go team signal-caller Durel Matherne ran for scores in the 14-0 Tiger triumph over their archrivals.
Now 7-0 and ranked No. 1 by AP, the Tigers had yet to impress the UPI board of coaches enough to earn the top rating, staying in the No. 3 position going into a home game with Duke. Although the Blue Devils did some things no other team could do against LSU all season-- take an early lead, outgain the Tigers 353-yards to 285 and put a total of 18 points on the board-- it was simply not enough. LSU bombed Duke for 22 points in the second quarter to take a 28-6 halftime lead and went on to a 50-18 victory.
When the UPI poll came out the following week, LSU was a unanimous No. 1 selection, a position it would not relinquish until it sustained a bitter 14-13 defeat at the hands of Tennessee in week eight of the 1959 season.
One week later, LSU traveled to Jackson, Miss., for a game against Mississippi State. It was a game in which 8-0 LSU could lose everything and the 3-4 Bulldogs could lose nothing. On a muddy field and with the Tigers tense, Miss. State took a 6-0 halftime lead and made it hold up until LSU faced a fourth and goal situation at State's 5 in the third quarter. With a possible national championship on the line, Rabb rolled left and found Billy Hendrix in the end zone to tie the game. Davis' extra point put LSU ahead 7-6 and allowed the Tigers to escape Jackson 9-0.
With one game against ancient rival Tulane separating LSU from its first recognized national championship (in those days, the wire services awarded their national championship trophies before the bowl games), some wondered how the Tigers would approach the 3-6 Green Wave, but a quote from Tulane halfback Claude "Boo" Mason took care of that. After losing to Vanderbilt, Mason told a reporter, "We'll beat LSU because they'll choke."
Whether the Tigers would choke was subject to debate at halftime, as LSU led only 6-0 before a then Southeastern Conference record crowd of 83,221 in Sugar Bowl Stadium. However, LSU took command in the second half, taking full advantage of Green Wave mistakes en route to a 35-point fourth quarter and a 62-0 thrashing of Tulane, the most lopsided score in the history of the series. Incredibly, LSU would defeat the Greenies by the same score in 1961 and 1965.
With a 10-0 record and national championship in hand, LSU accepted an invitation to take on the Tigers of Clemson, in the 25th annual Sugar Bowl Classic on New Year's Day, 1959. Once again, LSU found an opponent with little to lose but much recognition to gain in 8-2 Clemson, as Frank Howard's troops tried to deny LSU its first perfect season in 50 years.
After fighting off a series of bad breaks, including a fractured hand by Rabb in the first quarter, LSU got a break of its own when Chinese Bandit Duane Leopard recovered a fumbled punt attempt on the Clemson 11. On third and eight at the 9, Billy Cannon took a handoff from Matherne and hit Mickey Mangham with a touchdown pass on the halfback option for the game's only score.
The following season, a more experienced LSU team demonstrated how difficult it was to repeat as a national champion, going 9-1 during the regular season. Only the loss to Tennessee separated LSU from the school's second straight title.
2011 SEC Champions
Overall Record: 13-1 SEC Record: 8-0 Coach: Les Miles
For the first time since 1958, LSU football completed a perfect regular season with a 12-0 mark before going on to claim its 11th SEC Championship with a 42-10 dominating win over No. 12 Georgia in the SEC title game in Atlanta.
It was a season of records for the 2011 team, posting a 13-0 record for the first time in school history and spending 11 straight weeks as the nation's No. 1 team, the longest stretch in school history. The Tigers won 12 of their 13 games by double-digits, representing the most in LSU single-season history.
Led by Heisman Trophy finalist and Bednarik Award winner Tyrann Mathieu, LSU held opponents without a touchdown in 44 quarters. The Tigers set an NCAA record with eight victories over Top 25 teams during the season with five of those wins coming away from Tiger Stadium.
LSU opened the year in the nation's most anticipated non-conference matchup of the season, rolling over No. 3 Oregon, 40-27, in front of 87,711 fans in the new, state-of-the-art Cowboys Stadium on Sept. 3. Mathieu's Heisman campaign began with a roaring start as he forced a fumble and recovered it for a touchdown in the second quarter, which gave LSU a 10-6 advantage. The Tigers scored 24 unanswered points against the Ducks and opened the season with a win over a top-five ranked non-conference squad for the first time in school history.
LSU made its Tiger Stadium season debut on Sept. 10 with another brilliant defensive outing, holding Northwestern State to six first downs and 95 total yards in a 49-3 win. A week later, facing a short week, the Tigers posted a 19-6 win over No. 25 Mississippi State in a rare Thursday night tilt in Starkville on Sept. 15. It marked the second straight week LSU did not allow a touchdown.
The eyes of the nation were once again focused on the Tigers on Sept. 24 in Morgantown, W.V. With ESPN "College GameDay" on hand for the second time this season, LSU throttled No. 16 West Virginia, 47-21, in a primetime game. LSU's farthest trip to the Northeast since 1947 saw All-American Morris Claiborne race 99 yards on a kickoff return for a touchdown in the third quarter that sealed the victory.
Following a 35-7 win over Kentucky on Oct. 1, the Tigers posted their largest margin of victory over Florida since 1971 with a 41-11 thumping of the No. 17 Gators on Oct. 8 in Tiger Stadium. LSU's defense did the job again a week later at Tennessee on Oct. 15, pitching a second-half shutout in a 38-7 win in Knoxville.
Quarterback Jarrett Lee threw for a pair of touchdowns in a 45-10 romp of No. 19 Auburn on Oct. 22 in Tiger Stadium, setting the stage for the "Game of the Century" two weeks later. Four quarters were not enough to decide a winner as the nation's top-two ranked teams battled on Nov. 5 in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Safety Eric Reid saved a score with an acrobatic interception and Drew Alleman's 25-yard field goal in overtime lifted No. 1 LSU past No. 2 Alabama, 9-6. The six points were the fewest total for the Tide in the Nick Saban era.
On Nov. 25, the Tigers put a punctuation on an unblemished regular season with a 41-17 win over No. 3 Arkansas in Tiger Stadium. After trailing 14-0, Mathieu sparked LSU with a spectacular 92-yard punt return touchdown in the second quarter. The Tigers posted 17 unanswered points in the fourth quarter highlighted by a 48-yard touchdown run from quarterback Jordan Jefferson.
For the second straight week, LSU had to recover from a double-digit deficit, but did so when it counted most to claim its fourth SEC Championship game victory. The Tigers trailed 10-0 to No. 12 Georgia and went the entire first half without a first down. In the second half, LSU pummeled the Bulldogs with 35 unanswered points to win 42-10 in the Georgia Dome.
Once again, it was Mathieu who provided the momentum. Mathieu scampered 62 yards for a punt return touchdown in the second quarter, while his electrifying 47-yard return weaving through defenders in the second half set up another score. Kenny Hilliard recorded three touchdowns and Alfred Blue raced 48 yards for a touchdown in the fourth quarter as the coronation was complete. For the second time in the Les Miles era, the LSU Tigers were the undisputed SEC champions.
2001 SEC Champions
Overall Record: 10-3 | SEC Record: 5-3 | Coach Nick Saban
Following a strong 8-4 2000 season under first-year coach Nick Saban, the 2001 Fighting Tigers were widely expected to capture the SEC Western Division championship and play in the school's first SEC Championship Game.
The Tigers got off to a flying start with home victories over Tulane and Utah State before the terrorist attacks of September 11 postponed LSU's SEC opener against Auburn until December 1.
Instead, the Tigers opened SEC play at Tennessee's Neyland Stadium in front of more than 107,000, the largest crowd to ever see LSU play, where the Volunteers got revenge for 2000 with a 26-18 victory, before LSU returned home and fell to 0-2 in the SEC with a 44-15 loss to Florida
LSU then defeated Kentucky and Mississippi State on the road, but those wins were erased by a 35-24 home loss to Ole Miss that seemingly finished the Tigers' title hopes off, dropping LSU to 2-3 in the SEC.
But instead of folding, the Tigers fought back. First, Rohan Davey threw for 528 yards and Josh Reed caught 19 passes for 293 yards as the Tigers bombed Alabama in Tuscaloosa, 35-21. Home wins over Middle Tennessee and Arkansas closed November and set up the Western division title showdown with Auburn.
The showdown was no contest. LSU rolled to a 21-7 halftime lead and cruised home to a 27-14 victory, sending the Tigers to their first SEC Championship game against a Tennessee squad that would look to punch its ticket to the Rose Bowl and a national championship date with Miami with a second victory over LSU.
Most teams would have wilted under the pressure, especially after losing their starting running back (LaBrandon Toefield) and quarterback (Davey), but LSU didn't just survived, it thrived. Led by the steady play of backup Matt Mauck, the Tigers stunned the college football world by upending the Big Orange, 31-20, sending LSU to its first Sugar Bowl since 1986.
The Tigers capped off this glorious season with a 47-34 pasting of Illinois in the Sugar Bowl, as Davey earned MVP honors by throwing for a bowl record 444 yards and three touchdowns, while Reed caught 14 passes for 239 yards in front of a partisan LSU crowd of more than 77,000, leaving LSU in the top 10 for the first time since 1987.
1988 SEC Champions
Overall Record: 8-4 | SEC Record: 6-1 | Coach Mike Archer
LSU looked to win its second SEC title in three years in 1988, and after a 10-1-1 season in 1987 under first-year coach Mike Archer, the Tigers looked the part of champions in their first two games, thrashing Texas A&M 27-0 in Death Valley, then taking the school's first win ever in Knoxville with a 34-9 rout of Tennessee.
LSU would quickly find itself 2-2, though, as it squandered a 13-point lead in the final five minutes of a 36-33 loss at Ohio State, then dropped a 19-6 decision at Florida before heading into a critical showdown with fourth-ranked Auburn.
In a classic defensive battle, two Auburn field goals gave the Tigers of the Plains a 6-0 lead late in the fourth quarter before Tommy Hodson hit Eddie Fuller in the end zone with less than one minute to play, tying the game and causing such a tremor that it was felt on a seismograph in the LSU Geology Department. David Browndyke then kicked the extra point to give the Bayou Bengals a 7-6 triumph in what will forever be known as the "Earthquake Game".
Tough home victories over Kentucky and Ole Miss followed, then came a trip to Alabama, where LSU fell behind 15-0 late in the first half before the Tigers rallied and took a 19-18 victory on Browndyke's field goal in the waning seconds. The Tigers won the SEC title the following week with a 20-3 win over Mississippi State.
LSU split its final two regular season games, losing to Miami and defeating Tulane, before a loss to Syracuse in the Hall of Fame Bowl ended the Tigers' season at 8-4.
1986 SEC Champions
Overall Record: 9-3 | SEC Record: 5-1 | Coach Bill Arnsparger
The Tommy Hodson era began at LSU in 1986 in Bill Arnsparger's third and final season in Tigertown, which got off to a flying start with a 35-17 upset of Texas A&M.
The Tigers then dropped a shocking 21-12 decision to Arnsparger's alma mater, Miami of Ohio the following week.
The loss to Miami was only a temporary setback. The Tigers began to roll behind their new leader, defeating Florida 28-17 in Gainesville, then coming home for a 23-14 win over Georgia. The Tigers rolled to victories over Kentucky and North Carolina before Ole Miss came to Death Valley and won for the first time in Baton Rouge since Archie Manning's sophomore season of 1968, knocking the Tigers out of first place in the SEC.
Now came a trip to league leader Alabama in Birmingham. In a white-knuckle struggle, the Tigers prevailed 14-10, leaving the Tigers needing only to defeat Mississippi State the next week to win the Tigers' first league crown since 1970.
In front of a pro-LSU crowd in Jackson, the Tigers left little doubt as to who would be kings of the SEC, as the Tigers mauled the Bulldogs 47-0 to win at least a share of the league crown. LSU defeated Notre Dame and Tulane to close the season, then Auburn upended Alabama in the Iron Bowl to give the Tigers the title all to themselves and secure the school's second Sugar Bowl berth in three years.
Arnsparger, who accepted the position of athletic director prior to LSU's game with Tulane, coached LSU for the final time on New Year's Day in a 30-15 loss to Nebraska in the Sugar Bowl.
1970 SEC Champions
Overall Record: 9-3 | SEC Record: 5-0 | Coach Charles McClendon
Archie Manning and Ole Miss left LSU three points shy of a perfect season and the chance to play Texas in the Cotton Bowl for the national championship in 1969. After refusing a bowl berth following a 9-1 season, LSU was determined to remedy this failure in 1970.
The Tigers' hopes took a serious hit on opening night, as Texas A&M came to town and pulled off a 20-18 upset. The loss left the Tigers bloodied but unbowed, as LSU then rattled off seven consecutive victories, including a 17-9 victory at Auburn over future Heisman Trophy winner Pat Sullivan, then a 14-9 triumph in Birmingham over Alabama squad, the Tigers' second straight over Bear Bryant's Crimson Tide.
LSU would have two big non-conference games before its December 5 showdown with Archie Manning's Ole Miss Rebels for the SEC championship. First was a visit to South Bend and second-ranked Notre Dame, where LSU limited Ara Parseghian's powerful offense led by Joe Theismann to under 250 yards, but the Tigers missed several chances to win the game and fell, 3-0. The Tigers now needed two wins to lock up an Orange Bowl berth opposite Big Eight champion Nebraska, and got the first at Tulane Stadium over a pesky Green Wave squad, 26-14, setting up the title match with the Rebels.
Manning would return to Death Valley with a cast on his left arm that severely limited his throwing motion. The way LSU played that warm December night, Manning could have been Superman himself and it probably wouldn't have mattered. Tommy Casanova and Craig Burns combined to return three punts for touchdowns, and Ronnie Estay nailed Manning for a safety as LSU brought Christmas to Tiger Stadium early with a 61-17 rout of the Rebels and send the Tigers to Miami.
In the Orange Bowl against a Nebraska team looking to win a share of the national championship, LSU held a 12-10 lead after three quarters before wilting under the charge of the powerful Cornhuskers, 17-12.
1961 SEC Champions
Overall Record: 10-1 | SEC Record: 5-0 | Coach Paul Dietzel
Coming off of a 5-4-1 campaign in 1960, LSU wanted to get its 1961 campaign off to a flying start, but a 16-3 loss to Rice in the season opener signaled the beginning of what could have been a very difficult season, but as it turned out, the loss to the Owls meant little.
Over the final nine games of the season, LSU would allow a measly 30 points, with 14 of those scored by Kentucky in a 24-14 Tiger triumph in the fifth game of the year. The Tigers blanked Florida, 23-0, then took a 10-7 win over Ole Miss to leave them needing only a win over archrival Tulane to win a share of the league title.
For the second time in four years, Andy Pilney and his Green Wave suffered a 62-0 humiliation at the hands of the Bayou Bengals, and SEC champion LSU was on to the Orange Bowl to face Big Eight champion Colorado.
In what was Paul Dietzel's final game at LSU, the Tigers had little trouble in silencing the Buffaloes, 25-7.
1958 National Champions
Overall Record: 11-0 | SEC Record: 6-0 | Coach Paul Dietzel
In the modern era of college football, many coaches, especially in the hyper-competitive world of the SEC, would not survive seasons of 3-5-2, 3-7 and 5-5, but LSU athletic director Jim Corbett showed patience with the Tigers' young innovator, 35-year old Paul Dietzel, and for his fourth season in Baton Rouge, Dietzel would come up with the innovation that would revolutionize college football, and football on the bayou would never be the same.
Dietzel unveiled his three units -- the White Team, the Go Team and the Chinese Bandits -- in impressive road victories over Rice and Alabama (in its first game under Bear Bryant), before LSU returned home to defeat Hardin-Simmons.
After crushing Miami and Kentucky, LSU moved to third in the polls for a homecoming showdown against Florida in front of the first sellout crowd in Tiger Stadium history. The 67,500 in attendance weren't disappointed, as the Tigers won 10-7 to move to number one in the Associated Press poll, and LSU then backed up that ranking with a 14-0 shutout of sixth-ranked Ole Miss.
A 50-18 victory over Duke moved LSU up to the top spot in the UPI coaches' poll, but the Tigers nearly lost it all the next week against Mississippi State in Jackson, falling behind 6-0 at halftime before Warren Rabb hit Billy Hendrix for the tying touchdown in the third quarter, and Tommy Davis' extra point gave LSU a 7-6 triumph, leaving only nemesis Tulane standing between the Tigers and the brass ring.
The Green Wave held sway in the first half, limiting the Tigers to two field goals and a 6-0 lead at intermission, but in the second half, the Wave was swallowed up, as the Tigers scored an incredible 56 points in the second half, including 35 in the fourth quarter, to win 62-0 and leave no doubt as to who was number one.
LSU then took its victory lap in the Sugar Bowl against Clemson, as Mickey Magnham's halfback option pass to Billy Cannon led to a 7-0 Bayou Bengal triumph and the perfect ending to the first perfect season at LSU in exactly 50 years.
1936 SEC Champions
Overall Record: 9-1-1 | SEC Record: 6-0 | Coach Bernie Moore
LSU started off in fine fashion against a pair of SWC powers, defeating Rice 20-7 at home then tying Texas at Austin, 6-6, before destroying Georgia in the SEC opener, 47-7, and shutting out Ole Miss, 13-0.
The Tigers beat border rival Arkansas in Shreveport, 19-7, then blanked Vanderbilt in Music City and Mississippi State in Birmingham, then returned home to down Auburn 19-6 and Southwestern Louisiana 93-0.
LSU finished the regular season by whitewashing rival Tulane, 33-0, leaving the Tigers as the nation's highest scoring team with 281 points. The Tigers finished runner-up in the AP poll to Minnesota, but took national championship honors in the Williamson poll. The Tigers' season went sour again in the Sugar Bowl, though, as coach Buck Shaw's Santa Clara club shocked LSU 21-14.
1935 SEC Champions
Overall Record: 9-2 | SEC Record: 5-0 | Coach Bernie Moore
The start of the season proved to be tough for LSU as Rice came to Baton Rouge and handed the Tigers a 10-7 defeat.
But led by the exploits of a freshman end named Gaynell Tinsley, the Tigers would not lose again in the regular season. It started with an 18-6 win over Texas in which the Tigers scored two fourth-quarter touchdowns for the victory, then continued all the way to New York City with a 32-0 rout of Manhattan, then to Shreveport for a win over Arkansas and on to Nashville with a 7-2 victory over Vanderbilt in the SEC opener.
Auburn would fall in a 6-0 tussle in Death Valley, but no opponent the rest of the way would be that close. The Tigers then disposed of Mississippi State and Georgia before crushing Southwestern Louisiana 56-0 and Tulane 41-0 to end the season 9-1 and send SEC champion LSU to its first bowl game ever, a Sugar Bowl date with Sammy Baugh's TCU Horned Frogs.
With heavy rains turning the Tulane Stadium field to slop, the expecting passing matchup between Baugh and LSU's Abe Mickal never developed. Baugh threw an incomplete pass in the end zone for a safety that gave LSU a 2-0 lead, but the Frogs drove for a game-winning field goal and 3-2 triumph in front of an overflow crowd of 35,000.


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21 November 2009
I was at SuperU in Saint-Aignan the other day, and in the produce department there was a huge pile of just about the most beautiful choux-fleurs I have ever seen. Frais de chez frais, comme on dit. The price was pretty low at 1.20 € per head.
When I brought it home, Walt said, now what are we going to with that. He always says I buy too much food at the grocery store — and he's right, I admit it. But I can't resist picture-perfect vegetables, when I know they are going to taste so good.
I should say we are in a feast period right now. Since Walt came back less than two weeks ago, he made a big batch of turkey-sausage chili using fresh tomatoes from our ripening boxes and dried pinto-type beans that we grew in our garden over the summer.
Then he made a pan of cornbread to go with it for its second appearance. And he made pumpkin muffins — twice. In the planning stages, we have choucroute garnie — sauerkraut with smoked meats — and we have bought everything for that, including a smoked chicken. And then later this week, we'll roast a leg of lamb. Gigot d'agneau is what we always eat on American Thanksgiving, which, as you probably know, comes this Thursday.
Now, just yesterday a friend invited us for lunch next Saturday. She's going to cook a goose. I don't know how many people she might be inviting. We have been planning to cook a goose for Christmas this year.
Anyway, all that notwithstanding — I hope we can withstand the calories, and I took a long brisk walk with the dog this morning to try to stay ahead of the game — I needed to cook that beautiful fresh cauliflower while it still was... you know what I mean.
I could tell the chou-fleur was fresh because the leaves that envelope the head were so pretty — a nice pale green, and unblemished. I've always heard or read that you can eat those leaves, so this time I cut them off, chopped them up, thick white ribs and all, with a big knife, and cooked them in a skillet with some butter, white wine, and salt and pepper.
While those were cooking, I cut up the cauliflower into big florets, and I chopped an onion. Then I sauteed the onion with a package of lardons (smoked bacon chunks) and added the cooked chou-fleur leaves to that. It made a nice stirfry. Separately, I blanched the cauliflower florets in a big pot of boiling water, with salt, just for three minutes, and then let them cool in a bowl so the residual heat would keep tenderizing them. Don't cook them long or they will develop that smell we know so well. At that point, they are ruined.
I put the stirfried vegetables and bacon in the bottom of a big baking dish and arranged the partially cooked bouquets de chou-fleur on top of it. Then it was time to make a sauce béchamel — three tablespoons of butter melted in the pan the vegetables had cooked in, with three tablespoons of flour added. Stirred until it becomes a thick paste. And some milk and some of the cauliflower blanching liquid added alternately and stirred in until it made a nice thick sauce. Add the liquids slowly, half a cup at a time, and stir to smooth out the sauce.
Into that some cheese: I had half a pound of mozzarella and some so-called Swiss cheeses, which were actually French Comté and Emmenthaler. Jack, cheddar, etc., would be good. Cut them into little cubes and melt them into the sauce. Pour the sauce over the cauliflower.
Sprinkle the top with more grated Swiss cheese. Bake at 350ºF until the top starts to brown and the sauce is bubbling in the baking dish. Let cool slightly and eat. 'Tis the season.
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great looking dish!ReplyDelete
thanks for comments on SlowTrav on Massif Central and your great blog writeups on the area!
we would like to fly into CDG and then take a train to Colmar to revisit the Alsace - then maybe we could take a leisurely day to drive to the Massif area for a week before taking a train back to Paris
think this is too agressive and wasting time driving? was also considering Alsace 4 days, Champagne region 2-3 days and then a week in Paris.
thanks Dale
- melinda21 November, 2009 14:29
as a treat for myself i am having cauliflower au gratin for thanksgiving.....the treat part is that i bought a hunk of gruyere for the cheese sauce, which is so pricey here .....i know other cheeses r fine, but love the gruyere....ReplyDelete
When the weather turns cold, it is time to indulge in great food. What souvenir this gratin de choux fleur brings. I agree with you Melinda. I love gruyere in any dish (even pizza). It is so tasty , you don't have to use as much as a blender cheese.ReplyDelete
Delicious looking!ReplyDelete
I think that, for Thanksgiving, we are going to make the yellow-squash gratin that you described in September '08. We're looking forward to it!
OG! as I am getting older and only after 30 years in the US, I am still making mistakes. "What memories does the chou-fleur bring". Not souvenir and chou (without an x). I have to either read more french books or go back to France more often. May be the first option makes more economic sense, though not as rewarding. I do apologize for my spelling mistakes (in french or english).ReplyDelete
Perfect comfort food for the time of year and the depressing weather.ReplyDelete
It sounds like you really are going to have a feast this coming week.
Nadège, remember you are bi-lingual. That means you have to shuffle from one language to the other most of the time. Not to mention the syntax specific to each one. So mistakes happen. Not too many commenters on whatever blogs are fluent in two or more languages. Cheer up! LOLReplyDelete
I must add texting has ruined good spelling for ever. MDR
I was checking out some pictures from Montréal and saw one in which a guy at the market was selling colored cauliflower. Blue, Red, Orange....have you seen anything like that in France?ReplyDelete
Maybe it's like green carnations for St. Patrick's Day?ReplyDelete
Merci Monsier Charles Henri. Il fait beau sur la cote donc j'imagine qu'il doit faire tres beau dans le desert aussi. J'ai travaille sur un film en l'an 2000 et nous etions a Yuma et ensuite a Borrego Springs. C'etait tres joli, surtout au printemps. Mes beaux parents habitaient a Palm Springs avant de demenager a Kauai.ReplyDelete
J'aime beaucoup.
Hello Dale, according to Google maps, the drive from Colmar to Le Puy-en-Velay takes around six hours. That could be a good day of driving if you don't mind and take your time. I was only in the Massif for three days and saw and did a lot, as you can see from my blog. Salers is a little farther that Le Puy and in the Massif the roads are often twisty.ReplyDelete
Starman, all the cauliflower I've seen in France has been white.ReplyDelete
- Stella22 November, 2009 13:15
Ken, my stomach's cramping and my mouth's watering...! I am definitely going to cook same this coming week!ReplyDelete

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Sermons, Devotionals and other Bible studies share at the Portland Church of Christ.
Be Transparent and Encourage
by Steve Johnson on October 15, 2017
DetailsPart of the Congregational Services series, preached at a Sunday Service
About Steve Johnson
About Steve Johnson: Steve Johnson and his wife Lisa, serve as the lead evangelist and women's ministry leader of the church in Portland. They serve the entire church in many ways. Steve and Lisa are more than inspiring. They speak about God's word in a way that you cannot help but to be captivated and moved to action. When Steve is not in Portland he might be in any part of the world but you might not recognize him as he might be dressed in 1st century attire.


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The environmental protesters who Super Glued and chained themselves together at a local office building, keeping police and firefighters tied up for hours on Monday, said the effort was worth going to jail.
The environmental protesters who Super Glued and chained themselves together at a local office building, keeping police and firefighters tied up for hours on Monday, said the effort was worth going to jail.
"It was worth it and very empowering,'' said Shea M. Riester, minutes after posting $40 bail Monday night at the Westborough police station.
Riester was among eight protesters arrested after chaining themselves together and occupying the office of TransCanada Corp. which plans to build a pipeline to carry petroleum products from Alberta, Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. Environmentalists fear the pipe could rupture and cause catastrophic spills, harm wildlife and generate more greeenhouse gases than clean energy sources.
Riester said he and his group practiced on how to stage a protest.
"Our best (practice) lockdown was what the actual one looked like," Riester said. "We had our fastest time today."
When asked if he worries about how a criminal record will affect his future, Riester said he wouldn't want to work for a company that wouldn't hire him based on his arrests.
After posting bail, protester Dorian S. Williams said, "Even though the pipeline isn't going through our state, it's going to affect us."
Police spent nearly three hours Monday afternoon trying to remove the group from the building at 110 Turnpike Road in the Westborough Executive Park.
The protesters, all but one of whom are college students from the Boston area, used heavy chains and SuperGlue to link themselves.
Jacklyn Gil, one of the protesters who did not enter the office building, said the group consists of climate activists who aim to stop future fossil fuel infrastructure.Gil said the protest was "an act of desperation."
"We're tired of our political leaders ignoring our message," she said.
A similar protest was reported at TransCanada's Houston, Texas, office.
TransCanada plans to construct the approximately 2,100-mile Keystone XL pipeline to transport crude oil from Canada to refineries in the U.S.
Eight police cruisers and a fire truck were stationed outside the building by 2:30 p.m. Monday, as crews tried using bolt cutters and the Jaws of Life hydraulic rescue tool to unchain the group.
Sgt. Steven Reale said the chains linking the protesters were "Kryptonite", a brand of hardened steel products, and could not be cut with bolt cutters. The people were too close together for police and fire personnel to cut the chains with the Jaws of Life, he said.
A Framingham locksmith eventually removed the chains from the protesters' feet after about two hours.
Police Chief Alan Gordon said crews were able to remove the waist chain of one protester, while the other seven were taken from the building still chained together at the waist.
Fire Department personnel removed the Super Glue from the protesters' hands, Gordon said.
Besides Riester, 22, of 48 Brooksdale Road, Brighton; the protesters were identified as Devyn Weis Powell, 20, of 1260 Hideaway Lane, Lake Oswego, Ore.; Benjamin L. Thompson, 22, of 20 Watson Road, Durham, N.H.; Benjamin J. Trolio, 22, of 35 Fruitwood Drive, Burnt Hills, N.Y.; Lisa Rose Purdy, 20, of 26 Fisk St., Waltham; Allison J. Welton, 20, of 648 Highway 7, Tonasket, Wash.; Dorian S. Williams, 20, of 5301 South University Ave., Chicago, Ill.; and Emily Edgerly, 20, of 6 Douglas Road, Lexington.
Gordon said as the group was escorted out of the building that the protesters would remain in the chains until someone delivered a key to unlock them. A key was dropped off at the Police Department around 6 p.m.
The protesters will be arraigned today in Westborough District Court and are all charged with being disorderly persons, disturbing the peace and trespassing.
Westborough Police officer Cliff Luce said the group was the happiest of any that had been bailed out of the Police Department, and protesters thanked the department for being "so nice to work with."
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Yogi Bhajan on Early Morning Sadhana
Why do We Get Up for Morning Sadhana?
A key teaching of Kundalini Yoga is Early Morning Sadhana. Starting the day resetting our selves with yoga and meditation. What follows are some wonderful words from the 3HO website sharing the whys and hows of Sadhana. Best of all are some quotes from Yogi Bhajan sharing his wisdom with us with regards to this exceptional practice.
Wisdom, Commitment, Consistency
Why do we get up for morning sadhana? Because we have to face the whole day, and we cannot face the day without a constant level of energy. People love you for three things only:
Wisdom is the intuitive nature that allows you to give the right answer by listening within the question that is asked. For every question there is an answer in it.
Commitment is the ability for your whole self to sustain its status in projected reality of action. Then people can trust you. Otherwise, it is like building a cozy
bungalow on the top of a volcano. If you act like an earthquake or volcano, who will build upon you?
Consistency is steadiness through time. Sadhana gives us sensitivity to know, to
feel, and to touch. It gives us intuition to touch reality. The methods are three-fold: jappa, tappa, sanjam. Jappa is repetition. Tappa is the heat of central impulsation. Sanjam is merger through simran—meditation on a very slow, conscious breath.
In your consciousness, you must find a time to ask yourself three questions:
"How much am I a part of the I which made me what I am?"
"During my working day, during my existence, during my awareness, how much of the time have I been aware that I am part of the greatness that I am?"
"What can I do to extend myself to the greater I AM of which I am a part?"
In finding the answers to these questions, you will find your way from the realm of finite ego to the realm of higher consciousness, and you will have the experience of total relaxation into mental happiness and contentment.
Group Sadhana
All for One, and One for All
Your body is the temple of God, and your soul is the Divine Guru within. So, you get up in the morning, meditate, chant the mantras, do the exercises, call on your spirit, regulate the breath, and you get together in group consciousness. In that way you help each other. Group consciousness in morning sadhana is to help each other. If I am trying to sleep, another is not sleeping. If, in this whole group, one person opens up to God just once, we will all be blessed in his openness. That is what matters. If one has walked into sadhana with heart and soul in a prayerful mind, we will all benefit. That is the power of the group sadhana.
But, we still have something of the past in us. We bring up worries about who should lead. "Oh, that leader has brought a very good sadhana! That one has freaked out the sadhana." The truth is that nobody freaked out the sadhana, and nobody made it beautiful. It is the will of God which prevails through the soul. When you are a servant, and act as a channel, it prevails through you.
If, in morning sadhana, one cannot curtail the barriers and get to Oneness, I don't think there is any other time it can happen. All for one, and one for all. That is the principle.
Individual Sadhana
If you must do sadhana by yourself, then while you are chanting, imagine a million others all around you. Hear them all chanting, with you in the middle, not moving at all. Feel that you do not chant physically, and yet are leading the chant and letting the chant lead you. As you imagine this, continue chanting.
©The Teachings of Yogi Bhajan, Aquarian Teacher KRI Teacher Training Level 1 Textbook
More Quotes on Sadhana
"When a person gets up in the morning and does the sadhana, you know what accompanies that person? All the angels, all saints and sages come to listen. Their souls fly to those places to listen where God is chanted." 10/4/77
"Getting up in the morning to do your sadhana does not mean you will become God. No, getting up in the morning, you will become you!" 6/27/93
"The greatest reward of doing sadhana is that the person becomes incapable of being defeated. Sadhana is a self-victory, and it is a victory over time and space. Getting up is a victory over time, and doing it is a victory over space. That is what sadhana is. And when you do a sadhana in the sangat, you enrich yourself in multiple ways.
"First, the isolation which can hit anybody and make them go totally crazy is defeated. Secondly, when all of you meditate on God, the total effect of your sadhana becomes multiplied by the number of people participating.
"Sadhana is not a matter of advantages and disadvantages. It is simply a means through which you can defeat all your miseries, misfortunes, and handicaps. It is a very personal thing which does not relate to anybody except yourself.
"You are supposed to go through self-evaluation every day. That is what sadhana is. On one side is God, the superiority of you; on one side is you; and on one side is the devil or the inferiority of you. Between the three you have to assess yourself.
"A sadhu is a being who has disciplined himself. Sadhana is the technique to discipline yourself. It is a scientific way to live." KRI International Teacher Training Manual Level 1
"One part of sadhana should stay constant long enough for you to master, or at least experience, the changes evoked by a single technique. Each kriya and mantra has its individual effects, although they all elevate you toward a cosmic consciousness. Learn to value the pricelessness of one kriya, and all others will be understood in a clearer light." – from The Aquarian Teacher, Level One Instructor, page 150.
"We get up early in the morning, we rise, we do our sadhana so that we can match up with the day, with absolute reality. Face the reality with reality. Don't face the reality with the laziness and slowness. You will never be successful. You are your own enemy. You can't make it. Those who want to punish themselves during the day, and they do not want to match up with reality as reality... and do not want to prepare themselves... they are afraid to face the day and they have that fear. They are always afraid of sadhana and shall continue to be so." 1/7/90
"Your electromagnetic radiance should be continuous and should be creatively high. That's why there is discipline. That's why we do sadhana. That is what dharma is. A dharmic woman will be radiant, very shining, very bright-faced, very attractive, very real. Don't do sadhana for your husband, and don't do sadhana for anything else. Do sadhana for yourself. If you cannot get up in the morning at 3 o'clock, if you don't take your cold shower, if you don't massage your body, if you don't do all those things, you pay during the day. Everything is in balance. If you don't sharpen the knife, what do you think you can cut with it? If you don't sharpen your mind, if you do not shine your soul, what are you going to do during the day?" July 31, 1984
"The problem at this moment is the majority of us do not want to do sadhana. These unfortunate people are really cursed. With all the teachings and all the knowledge, isn't it a curse? It is. Sometimes you use the children as an excuse, sometimes the husband. One way or the other, there is an excuse. To be realistic with you, an excuse is an excuse, and sadhana is sadhana. I know on some days, I am dead tired. I feel I can't do my sadhana. Then what do I do? I go to the bathroom, I take cold water, and I wash my face again and again, and again and again, until I understand that I am fully awake. When I am doing my sadhana, sleep sometimes wants to overtake me; I get tired. Sometimes I get home late and I have to get up very early. Then I do pranayam and I apply some yogic locks. I do a lot of things that I have learned and I go through it as gracefully as a humble human being should." 8/23/78
"It seems that on a daily basis, when you do sadhana, nothing happens. But you don't do it out of greed. You do it to conquer your laziness, your ego, your stupidity, with your essence of commitment. That's all sadhana is. We don't do it to get anything." - Aquarian Teacher p. 145
"Sadhana, Aradhana, Prabhupati. Those who do sadhana and do it—they put their whole self into it. Wholehearted sadhana is called aradhana. Prabhupati is you become the master of the Almighty God which created you." 1/7/90
"There are a lot of things we need: One of these needs is that for the mind to work for you for the whole day, it must be fresh and clear; it must be made livable. That is why it is a requirement to rise early in the morning when nobody can disturb you, when you can be yourself."


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AMHERST, Mass. – The George Mason University women's team took home the 2014 Atlantic 10 Women's Outdoor Track & Field Championship on Sunday, to earn their first A-10 Outdoor title.
George Mason overcame a Day One deficit thanks to gold medal performances from Bethany Sachtleben in the 5,000 meters (16:30.12), Shavon Briscoe in the 100 meter hurdles (13.74) and by the 4x400 relay team (3:40.56). George Mason finished with a total of 164 points after 22 events scored, while runner-up Duquesne finished with 137 points. VCU (110), Rhode Island (93.5) and Dayton (86.5) finished third, fourth and fifth respectively. Saint Louis and Massachusetts finished tied for sixth with 76 points, followed by Richmond (48), La Salle (28), Fordham (23) and Saint Joseph's (16).
Mason coach Andrew Gerard was named Coach of the Year after leading the Patriots to the title.
VCU's Kiara Porter and Jaleesa Williams were named the Women's Track Performer of the Year and Field Performer of the Year, respectively. Porter finished first in the 200 meters (23.89) and the 400 meters (53.55) and was also a member of the 4x100 relay team that finished first with a time of 45.88. Williams took home the gold in both the Shot Put and the Discus while finishing second in the Hammer.
Heather MacLean of Massachusetts finished first in the 800 meters (2:09.26) and in the 4x800 relay (9:00.22) en route to being named the Rookie of the Year.
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Thursday, May 14, 2009
I've heard about the free movie program at Regal Cinemas, but I can never take my kids since I work Full Time.
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App Service Mobile Apps completed quickstart for Xamarin.Android apps
This repository contains an Xamarin.Android app project based on the App Service Mobile Apps quickstart project, which you can download from the Azure portal. These projects have been enhanced by the addition of offline sync, authentication, and push notification functionality. This demonstrates how to best integrate the various Mobile Apps features. To learn how to download the Xamarin.Android quickstart app project from the portal, see Create an Xamarin.Android app. This readme topic contains the following information to help you run the sample app project and to better understand the design decisions.
- Overview
- Configure the Mobile App backend
- Configure the Xamarin.Android app
- Running the app
- Implementation notes
The projects in this repository are equivalent to downloading the quickstart Xamarin.Android app project from the portal and then completing the following Mobile Apps tutorials:
- Enable offline sync for your Xamarin.Android app
- Add authentication to your Xamarin.Android app
- Add push notifications to your Xamarin.Android app
Configure the Mobile App backend
Before you can use this sample, you must have created and published a Mobile App backend project that supports both authentication and push notifications (the backend supports offline sync by default). You can do this either by completing the previously indicated tutorials, or you can use one of the following Mobile Apps backend projects:
The readme file in this project will direct you to create a new Mobile App backend in App Service, then download, modify, and publish project to App Service.
After you have your new Mobile App backend running, you can configure this project to connect to that new backend.
Configure the Xamarin.Android app
The app project has offline sync support enabled, along with authentication and push notifications. However, you need to configure the project, including authentication and push notifications, before the app will run properly.
Set the Mobile App backend URL
The first thing you need to do is to set the URL of your Mobile App backend in the MobileServiceClient constructor. To do this, open the ToDoActivity.cs project file, locate the
applicationURL constant and replace the URL with the URL of your Mobile App backend.
Configure authentication
Because both the client and backend are configured to use authentication, you must define an authentication provider for your app and register it with your Mobile App backend in the portal.
Follow the instructions in the topic to configure the Mobile App backend to use one of the following authentication providers:
By default, the app is configured to use server-directed Facebook authentication. To use a different authentication provider, change the provider by changing the value of the
providerconstant in ToDoActivity.cs and changing it to one of these other values:
MicrosoftAccount, or
Configure push notifications
You need to configure push notifications by registering your Xamarin.Android app for Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) in the Google developer console, and then storing the API key in Azure. This key is used by Azure to connect to GCM to send push notifications. Assuming that you have already created the notification hub in your backend as instructed in the server project readme, complete the following sections of the push notifications tutorial to configure push notifications:
Finally, open the ToDoBroadcastReceiver.cs project file and set your Google project number in the senderIDs variable
public class ToDoBroadcastReceiver : GcmBroadcastReceiverBase<PushHandlerService>
// Set the Google app ID.
public static string[] senderIDs = new string[] { "MY_PROJECT_NUMBER" };
Running the app
With both the Mobile App backend and the app configured, you can run the app project.
In the Android emulator or device, make sure you have a valid Google account added.
Run the app, click the Sign-in button and authenticate with the provider.
After authentication succeeds, the device is registered for push notifications and any existing data is downloaded from Azure.
Type text in Insert a TodoItem, and then click Save.
Note that after the insert completes, the app receive a push notification from GCM. The notification is displayed in the notification bar when the app isn't running. Clicking the notification launches the app.
Implementation notes
This section highlights changes made to the original tutorial samples and other design decisions were made when implementing all of the features or Mobile Apps in the same client app.
Push to an authenticated user
Because the user is authenticated before push registration occurs, the user ID is automatically added as a tag in the installation. The backend then uses this tag to send push notifications only to devices registered to the user doing the insert. For more information, see the readme file for the quickstart completed backend project.
Client-added push notification tags
When a mobile app registers for push notifications using a Mobile Apps backend, there are two default tags that can get added to the registration in Azure Notification Hubs: the installation ID, which is unique to the app on a given device, and the user ID, which is only added when the user has been previously authenticated. Any other tags that get supplied by the client are ignored, which is by design. (Note that this differs from Mobile Services, where the client could supply any tag and there were hooks into the registration process on the backend to validate tags on incoming registrations.)
Because the client can't add tags and at the same time there is not service-side hooks into the push notification registration process, the client needs to do the work of adding new tags to a given registration. In this sample, an
/updatetags endpoint in the backend lets the client add tags to their push registration. The client calls that endpoint to create new tags, as you can see in the following:
// Define two new tags as a JSON array.
var body = new JArray();
// Call the custom API '/api/updatetags/<installationid>'
// with the JArray of tags.
var response = await client
+ client.InstallationId, body);
catch (MobileServiceInvalidOperationException ex)
string.Format("Error with Azure push registration: {0}", ex.Message));
For more information, see Adding push notification tags from an Azure Mobile Apps client.
Authenticate first
This sample is a little different from the tutorials in that push notifications are send to all devices with push registrations that belong to a specific user. When an authenticated user registers for push notifications, a tag with the user ID is automatically added. Because of this, it's important to have the user sign-in before registering for push notifications. You should also have the user sign-in before executing any data or sync requests, which will result in an exception when the endpoint requires authentication. You also probably don't want an unauthenticated user to see offline data stored on the device. The following button event handler shows how to require explicit user sign-in before push registration and doing the initial data sync:
public async void LoginUser(View view)
// Only register for push notifications and load data after authentication succeeds.
if (await Authenticate())
// Register the app for push notifications.
GcmClient.Register(this, ToDoBroadcastReceiver.senderIDs);
//Hide the button after authentication succeeds.
FindViewById<Button>(Resource.Id.buttonLoginUser).Visibility = ViewStates.Gone;
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Statement from Don Dodd, Publisher of The Examiner, for the 2012 Labor Day Guide
Greetings and welcome to the annual Examiner Labor Day issue, where we celebrate the nobility of work and those who perform it every day – which includes most of us.
Labor Day is a holiday that was born in blood in 1894, when President Grover Cleveland pushed it through Congress just six days after multiple deaths during the Pullman Strike. Cleveland was seeking reconciliation with the labor movement that bloody summer, though those events are rarely mentioned when the first Monday in September rolls around each year.
Instead, we enjoy the last weekend of summer with picnics, barbecues, maybe a trip to the beach or just a lazy interlude to relax and unwind. Feel free to indulge in these pursuits – you've undoubtedly earned a break. But take a minute to reflect on what Labor Day is all about and consider the state of work and working men and women in 2012. That shouldn't be too hard – just look in the mirror.
We recognize and honor those companies that drive our local and national economy, providing jobs and prosperity in Southeast Texas. This newspaper records their accomplishments large and small each week and celebrates the free enterprise system that makes possible our way of life.
On Labor Day, we pause to honor those who do the heavy lifting in this capitalist economy, the rank and file workers from the factory floor to the refinery to the front office, health care workers and first responders, teachers, retail clerks, landscapers, cooks, waitstaff and too many others to mention here. You know who they are – and they make up the fabric of our society and deserve our respect and gratitude.
The Labor Day publication is a tradition here at The Examiner, almost as old as the newspaper itself. We have assembled an impressive collection of stories and columns including contributions from Rita Haecker, president of the Texas State Teachers Association; Becky Moeller, president of the Texas AFL-CIO; Fr. Sinclair Oubre, co-founder of the Catholic-Labor Network; and regular Examiner columnists Carl Parker and James L. Holly, M.D.
A lot of work has gone into producing this edition, and I want to acknowledge editor James Shannon, copy editor Joshua Cobb, designer Adam Balla, graphic artist Justin Rabb and contributing photographers. Special thanks to Examiner staffer Edna Hetzel, who has coordinated our Labor Day efforts for the past 16 years and for whom it is a labor of love.


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Hey Newspaper Guys: Google's Not Making Money From News
from the so-wrong,-so-sad deptIt's become popular for old school newspaper folks to hate on Google and other aggregators for somehow "profiting" off of their content. This is wrong on many, many levels. First, the aggregators send traffic to newspaper sites. They're promoting the newspapers' content. That's a good thing. But much more important is that they're barely profiting from it, if they're profiting at all. That's why it's odd to see some newspaper folks like Howard Weaver think that the answer to the newspaper industry's woes is to create their own aggregator and start making all that cash.
Except, uh, someone forgot the part where Google and the others don't actually make much, if any, money in aggregating all of that content. At best, it's a loss leader for most such sites. Chris Tolles, who runs Topix -- which is an aggregator that tried to play that game and realized how little money there was in it, before changing business models, has a fantastic response to Weaver that should be read in its entirety, but here's a brief snippet. It starts off in response to Weaver's claim that Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL make ("conservatively") $15 billion from "news and news-related content":
Once again, as these newspaper guys struggle to recognize what business they're in, they seem to reach out and attack Google, without even recognizing what it is they're attacking. They don't want to take the time to understand their own business (hint: it's never been "selling content"), so perhaps it's not surprising that they don't bother to understand the business of those they compete against either. And, if anything is causing the industry to falter it's that simple fact. If they can't understand the business they're in (or how others are beating them) then they're not going to do a very good job fixing themselves, will they?
Uh. No. That's just wrong.
AOL annual revenue is $4.2B, Google $21.8B, MSN ~$2B, and Yahoo $7.2B
So, since the grand total is around $36B, Google news is pretty much a non revenue products, and Google was doing just fine with little or no news results in their main index until the last couple of years. Yahoo does put news ina lot of their products, but certainly, nowhere near 50% of their advertising is sold against news, as is the same for AOL and MSN.
(Oh and last time I checked the newspaper industry advertising revenue was $37.85B)
News is a crap search product, and a loss leader, which is a big reason why Google news was in beta for years, and unmonetized, and why many news-centric searches get no ads next to them.
News is an unprofitable search. Since we at Topix are an adsense partner, and I am a downstream beneficiary to what revenues there are here, I know what kind of eCPM news brings and how hard it is to make money on aggregated "news" content.
So if you built a news aggregator, powered by journalists, this would somehow unlock the value and get to $1.5B in annual revenues?
If that was true, Daylife, Inform, newsvine and the myriad of other startups would be actually making a ton of money and chewing up the pop charts. Or Digg for that matter, or the Huffington Post.
Closer to home, I have some experience in running a news site here at Topix, and having talked to Howard while he was at McClatchy (and one of our investors), I am somewhat puzzled since I actually talked him personally about the economics of news search a few years ago.
We've built a site which is,according to comScore, the #2 "newspaper" site online. We actually had a program for a while where' we'd give 50% of all ad revenues back to publishers who wanted to syndicate content to us. Didn't work worth a damn.
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When we recently polled Cakespy readers on which iconic bar they preferred, the blondie or the brownie, we found the results staggering: out of our respondents, 174 vs 49 preferred the brownie.
Now, we understand why brownies ought to be loved. They're soft. They're gooey. They take to a variety of fillings. But are they really so superior to the blondie? Surely, we figure, once people get to know the honey-hued confection they'll show a little more love--so, we took some time to get to know the blondie better, and share it here, so that our readers can see that while it may not be the same as a brownie, it sure ought to be loved:
But first things first. What is a blondie? Generally, a blondie is accepted as a type of brownie--but not so much a brownie flavor, more like an identical cousin. An identical, albino cousin. Generally, it uses vanilla or butterscotch base instead of chocolate, and thus has a lighter hue which gives it its name. In our opinion, the finest blondies will have a texture (though not taste) halfway between a cakey and a fudgy brownie: that is to say, delightfully chewy, rich, and dense.
But whatever you may call a blondie, don't call it a brownie wannabe. For as we discovered on foodtimeline.org:
According to old cookbooks, blonde brownies (also known as "Blondies") predated chocolate brownies, though under different names. The primary ingredients of blondies (brown sugar/molasses and butter) compose butterscotch, a candy that was popular in America in the mid-19th century. Some 19th century American cookbooks contain recipes that combined traditional butterscotch ingredients with flour and a leavening agent (baking powder or soda). Presumably, these recipes would have produced something similar to the blonde brownies we enjoy today.
By the 1950s, butterscotch or vanilla brownies were described as "blonde brownies," underscoring the primacy of chocolate.Aren't you starting to feel a little bit for the dear blondie now?
Blondies, the taste of chocolate chips in: Because of the lack of chocolate in the base, it is our opinion that the addition of chocolate chips is better appreciated in the blondie--while we certainly wouldn't say they detract from a brownie's taste (oh, not at all), the contrasting flavor that they add to the blondie's mellow butterscotch taste is beyond compare, each little chocolatey morsel a pleasant surprise and miniature treasure for the tastebuds.
Blondies, lack of frosting atop: With brownies, it seems as though there are two primary types--dense, fudgy, moist brownies, which usually remain unfrosted--and more cakey, slightly fluffier versions, which sometimes have frosting. As much as we love frosting, we have to admit that some frosted brownies make us just a little bit suspicious--like they've got something to hide perhaps? However, we have never before seen a frosted blondie. Naturally, the only conclusion to be drawn is that our dear blondies have nothing to hide. (Cakespy Note: Naturally, when we make some bold statement soon about how everything benefits from the addition of frosting, we expect to be called hypocrites).
If it sounds good to you to have blondies that are "denser than chocolate chip cookies, more complex than brownies and in the classic Minimalist style" that you can "customize anywhere from a cranberry almond coconut bar to...gunky atery-cloggers"...then it sounds like you'd better check out this one by Smitten Kitchen.


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Businesses that sell Drakes Bay Oyster Co. goods have filed for a temporary restraining order with the District Court of the Northern District of California to keep the operation open.
Attorneys representing the operation say the legal filing represents a new argument — different from the one rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court last month — to keep the oyster farm open.
The Thursday filing asserts that when Ken Salazar, the interior secretary at the time, announced he would allow a 40-year lease to expire, he did so in a vacuum without looking at evidence.
"This is a case about the manner in which secretary Salazar went about making the decision," said attorney Stuart G. Gross, who is leading the effort. "The government ignored legal requirements and said its discretion was unbridled by the law."
Owner Kevin Lunny said he had planned to close the operation at the end of the month.
Former U.S. congressman Paul "Pete" McCloskey of Cotchett, Pitre, & McCarthy, LLP and former state assemblyman Bill Bagley of Nossaman, LLP, are also lending legal help. A judge is expected to issue a ruling on the request early next week.
The Tomales Bay Oyster Co, a plaintiff in the case, stated in the legal filing it stands to lose up to $400,000 a year if the Drakes Bay is shut down. While Tomales Bay Oyster Co. grows oysters itself, it depends on Drakes Bay when customer demand at their retail operations on shores of Tomales Bay outstrips what they can grow.
Margaret Grade of Sir and Star, Osteria Stellina, Saltwater Oyster Depot, Café Reyes, the Hayes Street Grill also join in on the filing along with the Alliance for Local Sustainable Agriculture.
Amy Trainer, executive director of the Environmental Action Committee of West Marin, said the filing lacks merit.
"This lawsuit is another desperate attempt to avoid acknowledging that Drakes Bay Oyster Company's contract expired over 19 months ago, it has made millions of dollars rent-free off our national park wilderness area, and it has no legal right to continue operating in our national park wilderness at Drakes Estero," she said in a statement. "Nobody likes a sore loser, instead of accepting 'no,' they filed a meritless lawsuit that delays the inevitable closure and prolongs the much-needed healing in our community."