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The Inaugural Go Blue Bowl
Charity is good. Football is fun. Meeting former players is cool. One day before the Spring Game may be really cold, but that's not going to stop us from joining a heap of former Michigan players in a day of flag football and fun-having at Pioneer for charity. Wanna come?
The things of the goings on. The event will be a series of flag football games from 4-9 pm on Friday, April 4, between local kids' teams and two adult teams, each coached by a former Michigan player. Confirmed guys: Marlin Jackson (it's his event), Jason Avant, Jerome Jackson, Donovan Warren, Chris Perry, Cato June, Tim Massaquoi, Marcus Ray, Jeremy Gallon, Roy Manning, Brandon Williams, Jamar Adams, and Andy Mignery.
The adult game will be at halftime, after you've had some time to get coached up (and Heiko's had time to prepare his super-secret passing play for Gallon that he's been diagramming incessantly).
|If you find yourself with any of these guys there's a 66.7% you can talk about stuff you read on MGoBlog.
After the games there will be an after-party for those who gave donations to hang out with the former players and collectively reminisce about Jason's catch against Iowa, or Jerome's 19-yard TD against Iowa, or Donovan's 3 PBU/1 INT performance against Iowa, etc.
The charity of the receiving. Marlin Jackson's Fight for Life Foundation is taking the same programming he's implemented so well in Indianapolis and launching it for Ann Arbor and environs. The programs give underprivileged kids access to critical educational opportunities. One's an SEL program for helping kids get and stay on track for their grade level in learning, reading, and communication skills. One's a program to give them access to artistic and self-actualization education (arts and music classes, basically). And one's a series of football camps so they can have access to things you get from team sports. Why we care.
The involvement of the you-like people. Want to be part of this? There are five sponsorship levels:
- Heisman ($5,000) – Great for a business looking to be a lead sponsor.
- All-American ($2,500) – Also great for a local business looking to be very visibly associated with this.
- All-Big Ten ($1,000) – Stepped down version of above.
Ha, Python joke. Or typo. Or maybe there's two more for those who want to play in the adult game:
- $250 – Gets you a roster spot
- $1500 – Gets you and five friends roster spots; you can all fight over the signed jersey.
Any donation gets you in to watch. Or you could volunteer to help. If you've got a team you'd like to participate, sign them up here.
MGoTailgate and Marlin Jackson Q&A, This Time With Free Beer and Outside and Stuff
Why is this thing back on top? First: logistics. Those in town tomorrow (Friday) evening are welcome to join us at MGoPatio, 312 Berkley Ave, Ann Arbor, MI for the first-ever MGoTailgate. All the MGoStaff (except Coach Brown) will be there, as well as Marlin Jackson and some other former Wolverines you remember. There is free beer from Wolverine State Brewing; they're bringing the Amber Lager. Festivities begin at 7pm, Marlin arriving at 8pm.
Parking is available on the SOUTH side of the street (opposite the house). Note that the street will be closed the following day for the game so don't leave your car there expecting a Jedi parking spot on Saturday.
Second, there will be a Raffle at this thing. Tickets are $5 and giveaways are a signed Lamar Woodley Steelers Throwback jersey, a mini Colts helmet with "Hart" and "Marlin" written on it by Marlin and Hart, plus some t-shirts and Adidas backpacks. And I think Marlin is bringing something else to hand out.
Second-Second: Expecting between 50-80 people. If it's more than 80 we'll have to start grilling people on Michigan trivia and turning away those who don't have the roster memorized. Don't think it'll be a problem given turnout in the past but just putting that out there.
Third-Second, the bolded guy has an announcement.
Dude I got you food.
You're going to ask if it's leftovers or something...
C'mon you act casual them I blow you away with the TRUTH. That's how this works.
I know but I am expecting big things now. What do you got?
Free food.
And it is...
You're no fun. It's HOLIDAY'S!
That's...wait seriously? I LOVE THAT PLACE!!! Tell me you got the Tat-o-Skins.
I got the Tat-o-Skins!
Also the BBQ sliders and Quesadillas.
Dude, you are the best imaginary rhetorical narrative mechanism since the bolded subconscious that Plato was always arguing with.
I'll take that as a compliment.
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Hokepoints: Carries for All
Running back carry splits: we went over them in last week's roundtable, argued them in the practice tweet post, and then Brian answered a question about it in his mailbag. This horse has been very bad; perhaps it needs one more lesson.
What I'd like to do is illustrate this point of Brian's from the mailbox:
Even if Fitzgerald Toussaint is 100% healthy, someone else is going to get a lot of carries. Michigan ran 502 times last year, and even carry-magnet LeVeon Bell only scooped up 382 for Michigan State. Meanwhile, Toussaint has 130 and 187 carries the last two years. There are going to be 200 to 300 carries, minimum, handed out to other players, and with the situation at quarterback only a handful will be Devin Gardner's.
Last year, yes, but last year was a weird one for rushing and I'd like to see what's really been out there. And here we go:
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2003: An Advanced Stats Year in Review
Images archived from MGoBlue.com
This is the first in a series of posts going back through the years to pull out some of the highlights from an advanced stats perspective of years prior. Glossary at bottom for further detail on specific metrics. @The_Mathlete
The Basics
Record: 10-3
Big Ten: 7-1, Big Ten Champs
Bowl: Rose Bowl loss to USC
Final AP Rank: 6th
Advanced Team Stats
Talent rank: 13th in nation (Texas), 2nd in Big Ten (Ohio)
Offense: +7 EV+ (10th-Minnesota, 2nd)
Defense: +6 EV+ (17th-LSU, 4th-Iowa)
Special Teams: +1 EV+ (33rd-MSU, 5th)
Advanced Player Stats
John Navarre, 1st Team Big Ten, +2 EV+ (27th-Roethlisberger, 3rd-Abdul-Khaliq), 0.13 WPA/G (39th-Frye, 4th-Sorgi)
Top Games
Ohio: 278 yards, +8 EV+ and 0.23 WPA
Minnesota: 369 yards, +5 EV+ and 0.37 WPA (legendary receiving TD not included)
Northwestern: 284 yards, +7 EV+ and 0.18 WPA
Chris Perry, all everything, +2 EV+ (9th-Barber, 3rd), 0.09 WPA/G (6th-Barber, 3rd)
Top Games
Central Michigan: 17 carries for 232 yards, +8 EV+ and 0.25 WPA
Michigan St: 52 carries for 220 yards, +8 EV+ and 0.30 WPA
Houston: 18 carries for 184 yards, +7 EV+ and 0.14 WPA
Braylon Edwards, 1st team Big Ten, +4 EV (51st-Fitzgerald, 2nd-Evans), 0.07 WPA/G (97th-Hackett, 8th-Evans)
Top Games
Ohio: 7 targets, 132 yards, +12 EV and 0.21 WPA
Michigan St: 7 targets, 103 yards, +11 EV and 0.23 WPA
Northwestern: 6 targets, 110 yards, +7 EV and 0.10 WPA
WPA Charts
Michigan takes their first loss of the season in a wild one in Eugene. Three special teams touchdowns, Michigan recovering the onside kick with a chance for a dramatic comeback from an 18 point second half deficit that wasn't to be.
Michigan takes control early with a 14 point first quarter lead, only to see Iowa reverse course to go up 30-20 midway through the fourth. Braylon Edwards goes for a 41 yard touchdown and the Wolverine D forces a three and out. But Michigan's final drive stalls on Iowa's half of the field.
Michigan's third game with big swings finally goes their way. Michigan trailed 28-7 at the end of the third quarter with their only touchdown coming on the famed Breaston to Navarre connection. Four fourth quarter touchdowns would tie the game and Garrett Rivas hit from 33 yards out with less than a minute to go to give Michigan it's final margin.
Tressel's only loss to Michigan in ten tries saw Michigan in control until the fourth quarter. A John Navarre interception gave the Buckeyes the ball back down seven with 13 minutes to play, but a three and out, a scare on a fumbled punt return and an 87 yard touchdown drive would push the lead back to 14 and Ohio wouldn't threaten again.
Season Summary
In terms of contribution to success, the 2003 Michigan team was highly balanced. Chris Perry would be the player that took home the hardware, those of you have followed my articles are familiar with the lack of love EV+ and WPA have for running backs. Perry certainly had an outstanding season but benefited from a lot of carries and the famed position as lead back at Michigan. In all, Perry and the ground game, a solid Navarre and a pretty good defense would give Michigan its last outright Big Ten title and only victory over a Jim Tressell-led Buckeye team.
For being BIG TEN FOOTBALL, the season featured several wild comeback games. Michigan pulled out a win over Minnesota but dropped games to a solid Iowa team and an unranked Oregon team. The Rose Bowl saw Michigan take on the first USC juggernaut that went on to win the AP crown despite missing out on the BSC title game.
Heisman Re-Vote
2003 was a tough vote for the Heisman. Jason White, Larry Fitzgerald, Eli Manning and Chris Perry were the finalists. My four finalists would have been Ben Roethlisberger, Larry Fitzgerald, Philip Rivers and Matt Leinart (sorry Chris).
Ben Roethlisberger +11 EV+ and Larry Fitzgerald +9 have the best claims to the most valuable season. Fitzgerald's EV+ was the best wideout rating in the 9 years of data I have accumulated.
If you don't like mid-majors or wideouts, Philip Rivers was the best BCS QB or RB at +8 for NC State. If you think the winner needs to be a "winner" and have a team in title contention, then Leinart's your man. At +7 he is well ahead of the other title contenders, eventual winner Jason White from OU (+4) and Matt Mauck from LSU (+0).
My vote: Larry Fitzgerald, a once in a decade receiving season and no dominant BCS QBs makes this my clear choice
My Post-Season Top 25
|AP Rank
|Miami (OH)
|Kansas St
|Oregon St
|Miami (FL)
|Washington St
|Florida St
|Ohio St
|NC St
|New Mexico
|Texas Tech
|Boise St
|Bowling Green
The top five compared pretty closely between the two. The notable exceptions were the two teams from Ohio. Roethlisberger's Red Hawks check at #3 in my final rankings where that other team from Ohio was highly overrated based on a number of close wins. Michigan gets a slight bump up to #5.
EV+: Opponent adjusted expected value. How many points a player/team/unit was worth relative to average performance against the same opponent. Excludes all garbage time plays and fumbles (considered random).
WPA: Win Percent Added. How much each player/unit contributed to winning games. Each team starts a game with a 50% chance. For the first three quarters in a competitive game this will track directly alongside EV. In games with larger margins almost all plays have zero value. Plays in the fourth quarter/OT of tight games will have a higher leverage based on the situation. This is largely were WPA deviates from EV+. WPA for offensive players will be higher if the teams defense is bad and vice versa. If your defense is giving you good field position and stopping the opponent, there is less opportunity for the offense to "win" the game. If your defense is terrible your WPA numbers will be higher because there is constant pressure for the offense to succeed. Includes all plays.
Ranks: The ()'d numbers after ratings are the national rank first followed by the conference rank. If there is a team/name after the rank, that is the leader of the category.
Talent Rank: Total team talent estimate based on recruiting rankings of all players on that year's roster based on all available major scouting services. Only counts plays currently on the roster and weights players with more years on the team higher than new recruits.
Of The Decade: Michigan's Offense
A series covering Michigan's aughts. Previously: obsessive ESPN image breakdown.
This is a fairly standard pick-your-team exercise covering the 2000-2009 seasons. One note on the methodology: instead of considering careers we will consider individual years.
There are only two real options since Michigan saw two players occupy seven of the ten available starting slots and was robbed what should have been rampaging senior campaigns by Drew Henson (signed away by the Yankees) and Henne (constant injury). They are Navarre's first-team All Big Ten performance in 2003, the—sigh—last time a Michigan QB actually beat Ohio State, or Henne's junior year, when he could hardly be blamed for an Ohio State loss in which he guided his team to 39 points.
Season totals for those two years:
|Navarre '03
|Henne '06
Very little to choose from. Both ended up losing to USC in the Rose Bowl in games of approximately equal competitiveness (not very), though Navarre's trip seemed more doomed by fate—one USC touchdown set up by a ball bouncing off Braylon's heel and ricocheting directly to a defender—than Henne's.
The edge is Navarre's if only because of that attempts number. Michigan '03 relied far more heavily on his arm than Michigan '06 did on Henne's, passing 47% of the time to '06's 37%. Yes, Chad Henne threw less than 40% of the time in 2006. That just goes to show the Lloyd Carr ideal: have a defense so ridiculous that you can grind out low-risk touchdowns against everyone not named Notre Dame and Ohio State. It did work once, and it almost worked in '06.
Digression over. Your shocking winner is John Navarre, a guy who was utterly and unfairly loathed during his wobbly sophomore year—during which he should have been watching Henson, anyway—to the point where it was hard to figure out where his transition from liability to asset occurred. Whenever it was, it was before the 2002 Ohio State game. Michigan spent that running into the line for nothing on first and second down before deploying Navarre to pick up the third down with a laser-accurate pass to Edwards, Joppru, or Bellamy. Edwards lost a critical touchdown on a questionable offensive pass interference call and Navarre was blasted from behind on what should have been the game-winning drive. Michigan was only able to get down to the OSU 30 before they had to take a shot at the endzone with the last seconds on the clock. My friends and I wrapped arms around each other during the timeout, and I thought he could do it.
Second String: Henne (2006).
The obvious runner-up. Other candidates are inferior seasons by the above two quarterbacks, Henson's eight-game run as Michigan's starter in 2000, and then the horrible last two years. Since Henne concluded his career during the MGoEra we can turn to a column written after the '07 Michigan State game for a summary of how he played:
I first thought "Chad Henne is a robot" a long time ago.
It was the middle of 2004. A then-freshman Henne strode onto the turf at Michigan Stadium facing a four point deficit against Minnesota. The ball was on the Michigan thirteen; the clock read 3:04.
Five plays and 56 yards later, Henne zeroed in on Z45 Part A Subsequence C Tight End Tyler Ecker, Rabbit-Hunting Mormon, crossing in front of a Minnesota linebacker; various servos and hydraulics kicked in. Henne flung a pass into Z45PASCTETERHM's outstretched arms, declared GOAL COMPLETED, and initiated nailcoeds.exe.
This weekend, now-senior Chad Henne strode onto the turf at Spartan Stadium facing a ten point deficit. He was 6 for 19 for 83 yards at that point, 47 of which came on a single bomb to Mario Manningham. The clock read 7:35.
Henne had been awful. Whether it was the unpredictable wind or his separated shoulder or some combination of the two doesn't really matter. He had been missing open receivers all day, flinging balls into the turf or the sideline or taking sacks he didn't have to. He and Brian Hoyer were locked into a duel to see who could torpedo his team's chances more thoroughly; Henne was winning. In the Michigan section, faith was running low. On the Michigan State sideline Jehuu Caulcrick was exhorting the Spartans to remember this moment, the moment they beat Michigan.
Caulcrick forgot one thing: Chad Henne is a robot.
On the last two drives he was 12-14 for 129 yards, flinging wide open outs, finding Mathews on a critical third and long, and looping perfect touchdown passes to Greg Mathews and Mario Manningham. He was ruthless, precise, and busy calculating digits of pi deep into the millions. He has a heart of nails and lungs made from old tires; his hair consists of pipe cleaners cropped short and his bones are discarded pipes. You have to whack him in just the right spot at just the right time to get his late-model Soviet guidance chip to seat itself in his shoddy southeast Asian motherboard.
Excellence was good, man.
A bloody fight here. Your candidates:
|Anthony Thomas '00
|Chris Perry '03
|Michael Hart '06
|Michael Hart '04
|Michael Hart '07
Close statistically with Perry's herculean, 51-carry Michigan State game pushing him past the two main contenders in terms of carries. Perry was much more frequently used in the passing game, though a 70-yard screen TD for Thomas against Ohio State made him more explosive. Thomas surpasses everyone else in terms of yards and has a significant edge in YPC, but as we're about to see a large part of that has something to do with the preposterously stacked 2000 line, which currently has four NFL starters and one Hall of Famer. Hart and Perry never had that luxury.
Perry wins here, though, for the silverware. This is in addition to the Doak Walker:
The Bo Schembechler Most Valuable Player of the 2003 football team, Perry was a finalist for the Heisman Memorial Trophy, placing fourth in the balloting. He led the Big Ten with 128.8 rushing yards per game and was named the 2003 Big Ten Conference Offensive Player of the Year and the Chicago Tribune Silver Football Award recipient as the Big Ten's MVP.
It's brutally hard to leave out Mike Hart, but the methodology here favors the one supernova season over Hart's four (three and half) years of merely being awesome. Perry's gliding cuts and Navarre's addiction to him as an outlet win.
Second Team: Mike Hart (2006)
I know by the stats this is Thomas, but the stats don't reflect Hart's remarkably ability to glue the ball to his ribs when not inside the five against Florida and the infamous Northwestern game Thomas gave away without even being touched. Hart couldn't quite stay healthy enough to get past Perry, and that very reason makes me want to crumple up this post and start over with a career-focused outlook but it's postin' time and this is pushing 3000 words and the monster must be fed, so here he is and we're all a little bitter at Chris Perry for winning the Doak, but only just today. Hart, too, came in for summarizing in a game column, this one after the '07 Penn State game:
Mike Hart does not care. He does not care that he is the size of Toad and runs about as fast as Richard Nixon, who is dead. He does not care that Michigan ruined everything the first two games of the season as he rode a bike on the sideline. He does not care that some people think he should shut up. He does not care that his legs are on someone else's legs and there is no possible way he can worm the ball to the goal line. It takes someone like this to pull you back from despair and ennui, to turn emo week into something other than emo year.
Mike Hart does not care what came before.
All he cares about is getting there.
Third Team: Anthony Thomas (2000)
Okay, Thomas did fumble against Northwestern but he also put up 1733 yards by RAGING his way directly at defenders. The original Brandon Minor, Thomas was briefly an NFL star before his inability to change direction without bouncing off something caught up with him.
Kevin Dudley (2004)
Dudley was the inspiration for this description of the fullback's job that still lingers on as one of phrases I'm proud to have turned:
Minus Dudley, last year's fullback spot was manned by a motley crew of confused squat guys more likely to whiff entirely than crush a linebacker into a white-hot furrow of snapped limbs and smoke.
For this, and his ability to create that furrow, he gets the nod.
Braylon Edwards(2002-4, pick a year), Mario Manningham (2007), Steve Breaston (slot)(2006)
It's a brutal competition when a guy who went eighth overall in the NFL draft and another guy in the midst of what will be a productive 10-year NFL career don't make the first team, but Michigan was blessed with a ridiculous wealth of options. Since the team has moved to a spread system and even before that used a three-wide formation as its base for virtually the entire Breaston era, we will include him as the prototypical slot ninja.
The first winner is obvious. For all his problems catching simple slants, Braylon Edwards remains the second most terrifying receiver to ever put on a winged helmet:
This is not up for debate.
The second outside receiver slot is a war between the junior years of David Terrell and Mario Manningham. The stats:
|Terrell '00
|Manningham '07
Like quarterback, there is little to choose from. One small push in Manningham's direction: he rushed for 120 yards on 19 carries; Terrell had two rushes for 12 yards. (Terrell's team played one fewer game than Manningham's did, but Mario was suspended for the EMU beating in '07, so they're even as far as playing time goes.)
Both labored through iffy quarterback situations, with Manningham saddled with about four games' worth of Ryan Mallett and another four games in which Chad Henne's shoulder was essentially nonfunctional. Despite this he lit up the heart of the Big Ten schedule, going six straight weeks with more than 100 yards receiving and at least one touchdown, with the high point a five catch, 162-yard performance against Minnesota. He was shut down in the Ohio State game that year as Michigan chose between a one-armed Henne and a then chicken-brained Mallett, but rebounded to post 131 yards of total offense and a touchdown in the Citrus Bowl against Florida.
Meanwhile, Terrell was saddled with a freshman Navarre through the bulk of the nonconference schedule. That didn't matter much statistically, as he put up at least 82 yards and usually just around 100 in the games Navarre was forced to play in, but it didn't help. When Henson returned it was a steady diet: about six catches, approximately 100 yards except for the Penn State game, one win over Ohio State and a bowl nuking of Auburn (34 yards a catch on four receptions and a touchdown).
The verdict: Manningham by a nose, who had fewer opportunities to make an impact in Michigan's injury-stricken '07 offense and added more production on the ground than Terrell did. This is a reversal from the All Carr team, FWIW.
Finally, Steve Breaston is included as a slot receiver on my first team since Michigan fullbacks were increasingly situational players as Michigan moved to a modern passing offense, and then a spread, as the Henne era progressed. Dudley was the last true fullback to be able to claim anything approximating a starting job, and even before that there were a couple years in which BJ Askew was the team's top FB. Over the course of the decade the third receiver got more playing time than the FB.
Anyway, the third receiver goes inside one of the outside guys in a place called the slot and the man who defined the position at Michigan in the aughts was all-purpose ninja Steve Breaston. Nicknamed "Black Jesus" before he even saw the field by cynical messageboarders wary of his massive practice hype giving way to a skinny version of Grady Brooks, Breaston took all of one game to establish himself a threat, returning four punts for an average of 26 yards against Central Michigan. By the Illinois game he'd set a team record for punt return yardage despite having two long touchdowns called back on irrelevant penalties; subsequent opponents refused to kick to him. As a kick returner he took one to the house for the first time since the 80s against Minnesota, returned virtually every kickoff to midfield in the '05 Rose Bowl, and set up The New Math Henne-to-Manningham connection with another return to midfield against Penn State the next year. Steve Breaston went to work immediately.
As a receiver Breaston was the inspiration for the UFR receiverchart, which was a direct response to people complaining about Breaston's hands. They weren't necessarily wrong—the Year of Infinite Pain kicked off in earnest with a 17-10 loss to Notre Dame in which Breaston got open deep twice and dropped sure touchdowns—but the chart did its job, showing that Breaston's hands were an overrated flaw. His best year was '06, and while he never recaptured the magic of his freshman year in the return game that was largely because teams stopped punting to him (and Michigan, infuriatingly, refused to double the gunners). Only Anthony Carter, also the guy preventing Braylon Edwards from being the bar-none most terrifying Michigan receiver of all time, stands between Breaston and the title of Michigan receiver you'd pick to throw a bubble screen to if your life depended on it.
Second Team: David Terrell (2000), Jason Avant(2005), Marquise Walker (2001)
Terrell was just discussed. No one else quite matched his productivity save Marquise Walker, and when Walker and Terrell shared the spotlight Terrell was the man.
Avant, meanwhile, is the player I'd pick if someone was holding a gun to my head and said he'd pull the trigger unless Michigan converted this third and five. I still remember the fourth and two pass at the end of the 2004 Ohio State game that clanged off Braylon's hands, and remembering that I really, really wish that ball had gone to Avant. Here's why:
At some point during 2005 Avant dropped a third down pass that hit him in the hands, and that more than anything was an indication that it just wasn't Michigan's year.
Avant also might be the nicest guy to ever play for Michigan—up there with Brandon Graham. The only person who can't root for Avant is Christopher Hitchens.
Walker was a combo of Avant and Edwards, blessed with Edwards's leaping and Avant's ability to make the spectacular catch but cursed with Avant's lack of electric speed and Edwards's tendency to drop routine balls. It seemed like the latter flaw was something that popped up after he sustained a brutal hit early in his senior year; after that the footsteps got in his head and he alligator-armed a couple passes per game. That may have been a result of his increased deployment; once Terrell left for the NFL he went from 49 catches in a supporting role to 86 as the man in Navarre's bumpy sophomore year. He did do this:
And that alone is worthy of mention.
There is no competition. Joppru came from nowhere to become John Navarre's safety blanket, a big white Minnesota version of Avant before Avant was around. By the time he'd finished his breakout senior season he'd set a Michigan record for tight end receptions that still stands and worked his way into the second round of the NFL draft. The Texans took him, whereupon he tore his ACL in training camp every year.
Second Team: Bill Seymour (2001)
It wasn't a good decade for tight ends. Seymour was a steady two-year starter that didn't get injured all the time, have meat for brains, or fail to pitch it to Steve Breaston. He wins basically by default.
Jake Long (2007), Steve Hutchinson (2000), David Baas (2004), Jon Goodwin (2001), Jeff Backus (2000)
The first three are cake easy. Jake Long was dominant and became the first pick in the NFL draft. Hutchinson went in the first round to the Vikings and is in the midst of a Hall-of-Fame NFL career. Baas won the Rimington award. All were All-Americans their senior year. Lock, lock, lock.
The right side of the line is trickier. We're not distinguishing between right and left tackles because players tend to move to the left as they get better, we're just trying to assemble the best possible team. So we'll flip Jeff Backus from left to right tackle and put him opposite long. Backus was first round pick of the Lions and has started 144 NFL games, all with the league's most sad-sack franchise. At Michigan he was All Big Ten two years running and won the Hugh Rader award as Michigan's best lineman those same two years, sharing it with Hutchinson and Mo Williams on 2000's ridiculously stacked line.
The other guard spot is something of a downer compared to the All-Americans surrounding him, but Jon Goodwin was All Big Ten in 2001 and, unlike a couple of other ABT recipients later in the decade, seemed to deserve it. He's still in the NFL with the Saints.
Second Team: Adam Stenavich (2005), Adam Kraus (2006), David Brandt (2000), Steve Schilling(2009), Mo Williams (2000)
Williams is the most obvious, another member of the insanely stacked 2000 line who is still in the NFL. Sharing a best lineman award with Hutchinson and Backus is no shame, either. Stenavich is next, a two-time All Big Ten selection. This blog caught the end of his career and found it to be pretty good. He edges out Mark Ortmann, another good-not-great left tackle. The interior is something of a mess. Brandt, the final member of the insanely stacked 2000 line, gets a tentative nod over Dave Pearson and David Molk's freshman(!) year; Kraus and Schilling are the best of an uninspiring bunch, with Kraus's 2006 better than his '07.
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Bubbly. AnnArbor.com catches up to a smiling Brandon Graham after his selection by the Eagles:
Rarely have I been so happy for a Michigan player. After the last two years, Graham deserves every good thing that can possibly happen to him. I hope he learns how to fly.
(Also: can I take a moment to tout how useful UFRs have been in tracking Brandon Graham's impact? I was a little worried that BG was outperforming Woodley, but there he is in the top half of the first round after the NFL saw how unblockable he is.)
Denard-o. Gerry DiNardo has lost more football games than you've ever watched, but he's still on the television so people ascend to his yurt high up in the Indiana mountains to beseech him for his wisdom. Last year his wisdom was "Denard Robinson is going to start at quarterback," which is a strong indicator as to why he's lost more football games than you've ever watched. DiNardo single criterion for choosing a starting quarterback is "is it vaguely possible this kid was named after me?" By no other measure was Robinson a plausible starter in 2009.
In 2010 things are different. Denard Robinson is still named after Dinardo, though:
"I think it has to be Denard Robinson," he said. "If you think about the way Rich Rodriguez became so successful at West Virginia it wasn't with a drop-back quarterback that threw 50 times, even though that approached worked for him some as an offensive coordinator. He wants to play the game that Denard plays, with a greater emphasis on the running attack than the passing attack. He wants to have that guy that can tuck the ball and make you miss even when the blocking isn't perfect, that can make you miss even if he misreads the read-option, and from everything I've seen, Denard Robinson is that guy.
"In college football nowadays, defenses, as much as they try to practice this, cannot tackle in space. From the earliest age, you're not coached to tackle one-on-one without help. The instruction is always about rallying to the ball and then for your defensive backs to use the sideline as their friend. But when you're stuck in a one-on-one situation, against an athlete like Denard Robinson, most of the time you're going to be left grasping for air.
"So when I see what he can do, and then I see what Forcier did last year - to me there is no comparison for where this offense wants to go."
I'm not sure he's right that Rodriguez is dedicated to running 75% of the time, but his other points are solid. The bit about defenses being unable to tackle in space could be the operational philosophy of Rodriguez's entire offensive system. Tate missed reads on the option plenty last year—most of the time, it seemed—and while he was slippery enough to evade lumbering defensive ends he wasn't fast enough to turn his frequent missed reads into anything more than a few yards. A prime example from the Illinois game:
It's possible Robinson can turn this into another couple yards, or even break something long (although probably not on this particular play). A quarterback who can get that extra couple yards is an extremely dangerous option. For all Forcier's flaws, he was an effective runner. If you cut out the copious sacks Michigan gave up last year (24 for 184 yards), he averaged 4.7 YPC. (This is slightly optimistic since Robinson probably took a couple sacks, so you may want to mentally adjust that to 4.5 or so.) A version of Denard Robinson that can run the zone read and throw well enough to keep linebackers honest will obliterate that.
Keeping the linebackers honest will take some doing, but the nice thing about being Denard Robinson is that when you go to play action, it's time to cheat like a mother for all but the best defenses. I don't think Ohio State is going to be particularly vulnerable to a raw sophomore like Robinson, but I also don't think Illinois or Purdue has much of a chance to stop him.
Merrill rising, talkin' smack. Incoming defenseman Jon Merrill saw his stock slip slightly over the course of his final year with the NTDP, but a strong U-18 tournament (where the US is obliterating all comers) has seen Merrill's stock pop up into the rarefied air of a potential top ten selection once more:
At the beginning of the tournament Gudbranson had the inside edge as the potential top defender to be selected this year, battling it out with Windsor's Cam Fowler, but the gap is closing. The play of Merrill, along with the struggles of the Gudbranson-led Canadian team, may have catapulted Merrill into that coveted position and certainly into the overall debate.
Coming into the tournament many even felt Forbort would likely be ranked and selected ahead of Merrill, and even though Forbort has looked strong, the abilities that Merrill has showcased so far during this tournament have pushed him ahead in the eyes of many scouting circles. Merrill is a tall and lanky player with a lot of room to build on his frame. He has tremendous speed and has extremely good intelligence with and around the puck. Merrill has been the kingpin of the US's powerplay and quarterbacks it tremendously well.
Merrill will jump into Michigan's top four on day one and I'm betting he'll be on the top powerplay and top pairing by midseason at the latest. He was also interviewed by McKeen's, and because he's going to play in college he was asked to justify his existence. He did so with aplomb:
I think a lot of guys make the argument that the CHL (Canadian Hockey League) is the most similar to the NHL in style of play, and you play a lot of games, and things like that, but you've got to look at it from my perspective. I'm 18 years old. If I went and played in the CHL, there's 15 and 16-year-olds, 17-year-olds, in the league. There's top-end 18 and 19-year-old guys, too, but if you go to college, everyone's older than you. I'm a freshman in a bigger, stronger, faster game, and you get up for every game, because you only play 35, 40 games, or whatever it is. Every game is a big game. Whereas in the CHL, you're playing in Sudbury on a Tuesday night, and how do you get up for that, you know?
Tuesdays in Sudbury is a best-seller by Bizzaro Canadian Mitch Albom, but not a particularly attractive option compared to playing outdoors in front of one million people, give or take nine hundred thousand.
Nothing on Moffatt, unfortunately. He has just one assist for a rampant USA. The U18s are the last opportunity to put it out there for NHL scouts and he's not drawing a whole lot of notice. Hopefully he'll slide in comfortably—a mid-round NHL draft pick is usually a good player—but an instant impact is unlikely.
Side note: please don't read anything about Jack Campbell. It will make you sad.
(Interview HT: Michigan Hockey Net.)
About the one million people. Sales for Cold War II have been ridiculous so far:
General ticket sales began Wednesday, netting 14,700 purchases by 4 p.m., according to an athletic department spokesman. When added to the that seats have already been sold or committed to by season-ticket holders, former players and other groups, officials announced Wednesday that close to 80,000 tickets have already been sold.
"This has just taken off. You knew it would when you have something this special at the Big House - the first time ever, maybe the only time ever," Berenson said in a statement. " Everybody wants to be there. I think we'll be sold out before we know it. It'll be a tough ticket to buy."
With the original Cold War still the all-time hockey attendance record, the question at this point is not if this December's game will break it, but if the record shatters with enough force to match the destructive power of a bear dropping a bomb into a volcano.
Probably not. But it will be close, yo.
Cancer, again. Chris Perry's arrest was a family thing in which something went down with a cousin, possibly because Perry's mom is terminally ill with the cancer she was battling when Perry played at Michigan. Irene Perry is the main reason Chris didn't transfer a couple years into his career. Best wishes, for whatever that's worth, to the Perry family.


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President Hamid Karzai met with the Iranian Energy Minister Majid Namjoo Sunday afternoon in Kabul to discuss relations between the two countries, Karzai's office said.
"President Karzai and Majid Namjoo discussed the economic cooperation between the two countries," the office said in a statement.
Earlier, Namjoo met the Afghan Minister of Energy and Water Mohammad Ismail Khan and inaugurated the installation of two power generators in Kabul city which were gifts from Iran.
The generators have the capacity to produce 50 megawatts of electricity per hour and consume 18,000 litres of fuel per hour.
The Afghan minister said that the generators will only be used in emergency situations.
Ismail Khan further revealed that the Iranian government has agreed to increase the level of electricity imported to western Afghanistan from Iran from the current 90 megawatts to 140 megawatts.
Namjoo said he was invited by the Afghan government to talk with energy officials on how to increase the level of electricity imported to western Afghanistan from his country.

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My earlier coverage of today's Sixth Circuit ruling appears at this link.
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And in related news, The AP reports that "Gay Fla. couple who fought adoption ban adopts 2."
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David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has a news update headlined "Supreme Court limits privacy rights of federal contract workers; Ruling on a lawsuit brought by researchers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the court upholds the personal background checks required of thousands of people who work under government contracts."
Jesse J. Holland of The Associated Press reports that "Court says NASA background checks can continue."
Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that "Privacy Rights of U.S. Workers Curbed by Supreme Court in Contractor Case."
And James Vicini of Reuters reports that "Supreme Court upholds NASA employee background checks."
Update: At "SCOTUSblog," Lyle Denniston has a post titled "Constitutional issue left open: The Court refuses to clarify whether the Constitution does, in fact, protect individuals from disclosure by the government of information about their private lives; It goes on to uphold background checks for employees of government contractors."
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And at "SCOTUSblog," Lyle Denniston has a post titled "Argument recap: Losing on a privacy claim? The concept of 'personal privacy' for corporations found next to no support from the bench as the Court heard an appeal on the scope of the Freedom of Information Act."
You can access the transcript of today's U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in FCC v. AT&T Inc., No. 09-1279, at this link.
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The lawsuit was brought by the guardians of the children whose images the attorney had morphed into pornography.
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The Los Angeles Times reports today that "U.S. Supreme Court to decide if California can cut payments to Medi-Cal providers; Justices will decide whether to allow the cash-strapped state to reduce what it pays to doctors, hospitals and other providers of healthcare for the poor."
And Michael Doyle of McClatchy Newspapers reports that "Supreme Court takes on states' plans to cut Medicaid payments."
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Reuters reports that "Appeals court upholds University of Texas over race admissions."
The Associated Press reports that "Court upholds UT Austin admissions standards."
At the "School Law" blog of Education Week, Mike Walsh has a post titled "Appeals Court Upholds Use of Race in Texas Admissions."
And at the blog "First One @ One First," Mike Sacks has a post titled "Is the End Near for Affirmative Action?"
My earlier coverage of yesterday's Fifth Circuit ruling appears at this link.
Posted at 10:33 AM by Howard Bashman
Meanwhile, in somewhat related news, The New York Times reports today that "Parenting by Gays More Common in the South, Census Shows."
Posted at 10:24 AM by Howard Bashman
In the second decision announced today, Justice Kennedy delivered the opinion of the Court in Harrington v. Richter, No. 09-587. You can access the oral argument via this link. The Chief Justice and Justices Scalia, Thomas, Breyer, Alito, and Sotomayor joined in the opinion of the Court. Justice Ginsburg issued an opinion concurring in the judgment. And Justice Kagan did not participate.
And in the third and final decision issued today, Justice Kennedy delivered the opinion of the Court in Premo v. Moore, No. 09-658. You can access the oral argument via this link.The Chief Justice and Justices Scalia, Thomas, Breyer, Alito, and Sotomayor joined in the opinion of the Court. Justice Ginsburg issued an opinion concurring in the judgment. And Justice Kagan did not participate.
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China's official comment on the S&P downgrade was harsh and condescending. Released through Xinhua (via Reuters) the statement condemned America for its "debt addiction" and "short-sighted" political wrangling.
"The U.S. government has to come to terms with the painful fact that the good old days when it could just borrow its way out of messes of its own making are finally gone," Xinhua wrote.
America's largest creditor, China said it will accelerate diversification away from US treasuries, and that meanwhile it demands reform: "China, the largest creditor of the world's sole superpower, has every right now to demand the United States address its structural debt problems and ensure the safety of China's dollar assets," Xinhua said.
The statement also called for a new global currency: "International supervision over the issue of U.S. dollars should be introduced and a new, stable and secured global reserve currency may also be an option to avert a catastrophe caused by any single country," Xinhua said."When you look at this final agreement that we came to with the White House, I got 98 percent of what I wanted. I'm pretty happy," Mr. Boehner said in an interview with CBS News.
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My guess is that we are not too far away from large-scale rioting here in the US. The economic destruction that has hit the global youth population is starting to boil over into physical rage all over the globe. It's not just an "Arab Spring." It's a global explosion of anger, hopelessness and rage.
It's just a matter of time before it erupts here. We're just running out the clock.
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Hey there! I'm Karlye, a 21 year old Graphic Design student from Melbourne, who loves design.. Who would have thought!
I have the capacity to geek and am really just a big kid.
Music is my passion and one day I will marry Alex Turner.
My new mini Marshall amp is the greatest thing in the world!! I clip it to my pocket and walk around the house playing Arctic Monkeys songs on guitar and pissing everyone off muhaha. The sound is fairly decent too!
My new baby!!! I am now Mrs Turner. But my baby still needs to be named! It needs to be something Arctic Monkeys related because it's the same as Alex's guitar..
At this point he/she is Nettles, but I think I can do better!
Ok most epic present ever right there. I'm such a lucky girl!!!
Does this not look like the most exciting present ever?!! An Arctic Monkeys card, Arctic Monkeys/Strokes gift box and individually wrapped sectors of the present in "Keep Calm and Open Me" wrapping paper… I'm so excited! He's already winning before I even see what he's bought me.
Words cannot explain how amazing Arctic Monkeys were. I'm still in shock that we were able to call Alex over and then he stopped and read my sign and then shot gunned his guitar directly at me. Holyyyyy motherfnffofksmandk
Is that actually Miles practicing that we can hear or just a stereo system ?!!
Me and my sign waiting in line at Arctic Monkeys. I'm getting restless. Come onnnnnn boys
Just suffering from a bit of "I-can't-sleep-so-I'm-going-to-draw-the-posters-on-my-wall-itis". I'm too scared to fuck up Alex's face!!! But I can't continue until his head's in it. At least Nick's hand made the picture lol.
It felt so FREAKING REAL.
I even remembered that Jamie was wearing a buttoned up checked shirt. God dammit.
I hate my life.
Matt Helders rocking some very American trousers. (via Aaron Brown)
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Stole The Kooks poster from The Kooks night at Black Night Crash last night. Shit yeah.
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With the 2013 MLB All-Star Game just around the corner, the starting rosters have been finalized. After a few late replacements, rosters are set from top to bottom. As we prepare for Tuesday night's game, take a look at the complete roster for the American League.
Manager: Jim Leyland, Tigers
C: Joe Mauer, Twins
1B: Chris Davis, Orioles
2B: Robinson Cano, Yankees
3B: Miguel Cabrera, Tigers
SS: J.J. Hardy, Orioles
OF: Adam Jones, Orioles; Mike Trout, Angels; Jose Bautista, Blue Jays
DH: David Ortiz, Red Sox
Jason Castro, C, Astros
Salvador Perez, C, Royals
Prince Fielder, 1B, Tigers
Jason Kipnis, 2B, Indians
Dustin Pedroia, 2B, Red Sox
Ben Zobrist, 2B, Rays
Manny Machado, 3B, Orioles
Jhonny Peralta, SS, Tigers
Nelson Cruz, OF, Rangers
Alex Gordon, OF, Royals
Torii Hunter, OF, Tigers
Edwin Encarnacion, DH, Blue Jays
Felix Hernandez, RHP, Mariners
Justin Masterson, RHP, Indians
Matt Moore, LHP, Rays
Chris Sale, LHP, White Sox
Max Scherzer, RHP, Tigers
Chris Tillman, RHP, Orioles
Grant Balfour, RHP, A's
Brett Cecil, LHP, Blue Jays
Steve Delabar, RHP, Blue Jays
Greg Holland, RHP, Royals
Joe Nathan, RHP, Rangers
Glen Perkins, LHP, Twins
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Dad got into his ' if you take one more step I'm going to kill you' stance. I rolled my eyes,
put down the Kindle, and ran outside iggnoring my parents ' stops or you don't know what
you are getting intos'. " Ok it has been 13 years and I still have not fallen for you so just
leave before this ends badly." I said trying to be as nice as possible. I walked to him and
motioned for him to go back to his normal annouging Jacob self. " Nessie I can't do
that! I know your parents have told you what happens when I am away from you. Please
just let me into your heart." He said trying to use that stupid boyish charm voice that they
think they have. I crossed my arms and shook my head. " Jacob you have killed so many
innocent things to keep yourself alive. I only kill what has kill the innocent. If I remember
right there use to be this little cougar that me, you and my mother use to play with. And
because of you I watched it grow and I watched it die! I am sorry Jacob but I just can't it
is to hard for me to believe that you have changed in your killing habits. You just need to
leave and never come back." With that I ran in the house. I could feel tears of blood
starting to form. I wiped them away. " It is not like you are in love with him Renemee you
just watched him kill one of the only good memories that you had from your not normal
some what childhood." I said to myself trying to see if it would help. I felt the pain go
away. I walked over to grab my Kindle and walked out the door. But I was stopped by
Dad's big boney arm. " Where are you going?" He asked simply trying to not be strict.
" I was just planning on going down the hill to the pond and read for a little while, while I
try to process what just happened." I said moving him arm away from my torso and back
down to his side. Mom stepped forward as I felt Dads arm start to tense up. " I will go with
her so she does not go after Jake sweetheart." She said winking at me. " Ok as long as you
she is going, you can go Ness." " Thanks Dad now come on lets go." I said grabbing Mom's
arm and dragging her down the grassy hill. " You do realize that I have no book right?" She
asked. " Um yup but you have that book app on your phone so read one from there." I said
plopping down in the hammock that rested between two very tall Oak tree's. She sat down
on her usual chair shapped rock. I turned on my Kindle and opened up my selected book.
After reading the book and getting 12 chapters into it, there was another howl from a wolf,
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Quinton "Rampage" Jackson has been the talk of the town since losing to Ryan Bader at UFC 144 in Japan. He's brought up TRT usage, a knee injury leading up to his fight with Bader, and wanting to be done with the UFC.
Rampage on Monday did an extensive phone interview with Inside MMA's Bas Rutten.
He talked at length about TRT usage and drug abuse, the knee injury that he felt hampered him in his fight with Bader, and also flatly stated that he wished he didn't have one more fight on his UFC contract, he wants out.
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"I don't want to be with them no more," Rampage stated. "I think that slavery is done."
Check out Rampage's explosive interview with Bas Rutten…
Who needs him? He refuses to grow as a fighter. He hardly trains for his fights. He blames everybody else for his problems. He blasted commentators for saying "mean things" about him. Their job is to report the truth, not idolize him. His performance in Japan was a joke.Let him go make money elsewhere. LOL Bellator? Sad to see him fall this far but he needs to look in the mirror.
I completely agree!
Pretty pretty PLEEEEASE…. release me NOW instead of after ONE MORE FIGHT on my contract, because I REALLY REALLY REALLY don't want to get annihilated by Shogun again!!!!!!!!
I am a rampage fan and find it very sad that he acts like this. Has for TRT i have been put on this by my medical doctor and did not even need it extra testosterone in your body will cause havoc on your health.
I find that rampage is a very good actor, seeing how well he did in the movie the A team, he can continue in this way and get roles in other movies. If he is tired of that whole MMA thing then he can honor is contract with UFC (don't bite the hands that feed you) finish is last fight and just leave.
He is not done has a fighter, he got some left in him. But if he lost the will to fight and train then he wont show up at its best.
UFC should let him loose of his contract. Guarantee Quinton will fade away as soon as he leaves. He is over the hill, disloyal, arrogant and he will never be more than a gate keeper at best. Unfortunately, people still want to watch this one dimensional poor sport compete. So I'm sure UFC heads are not letting him go that quick, he does still have PPV draw power. If he only fights one more time in the UFC before his "PRO BOXING(HAAHAHAHAHAHA)" career starts, I would like to see Matyushenko or Gustaffson (i don't think either of those names are spelled correctly)beat the living hell out of him for a going away present.
Cut him. He is one dimensional and has nothing left to offer the sport. Later Rampage…have fun doing commercials and guest staring on B rate TV shows. And by the way, slaves didn't get paid…Page made $250,000 for hardly showing up. If the dude is so concerned about money, making weight and winning is a good place to start.
When he was making weight and winning he wasnt crying at all about making money. Ive said for a while now he's not top 10 material. What 2 finishes hes got in the UFC were against 2 past their prime people in Liddell and Wandy. Everything else has been decisions. Oh, and the Jardine and Machida fight both could have easily been losses which would put his record at an impressive 5-6……..
Your an Idiot ! He's just not into it anymore ! A prime motivated Rampage is still the #2 LHW in the world.
Umm…you mean #2 after Shogun???? But Jones is #1…hmm…so prime Rampage is at best #3???
Anyway, you make no sense.
Rampage was never a Knock out artist like Chuck or Cro Cop (or JDS or Overeem now).
Yes, and Rampage's most relevant wins are those against Chuck and Wandy.
Prime Rampage is top 5 at best.
I understand where rampage is coming from. He has never been a fan of the UFC, he's here because the UFC bought out everyone else worth fight for. But take his PPV against Jones. 400000 PPV viewers @49.95 = 19.8 million, add 2 million gate, subtract 1.2million fighter payroll and bonuses.
So if i were rampage and seen the UFC made 20.6 million + off me ( i am sure sponsers cover the cost of the event) and paid me $400000, I would be in the same boat, release me and let me make movies. live off the name beacuse really, 13 years and 32 pro fights its pretty easy to say I'm done
Obviously some people here don't understand that.
Is Rampage a multimillionaire athlete who can buy mansions anytime he wants like Manny and Floyd? No.
But can he live comfortably? Probably. I am sure he has at least $1million saved up by now. Lucky for him, he can do other things to make a living. He can star in random movies or open up his own gym like Randy.
In any case he doesn't have to fight anymore to make a living. And yes, MMA fighters are slaves.
I don't think those numbers are exactly correct. Doesn't Rampage get a % of the PPV money? Didn't Jones? that bumps up the fighter pay roll past 1.2 million. I recall reading GSP making close to 5 million with the PPV bonus added in.
And your assumption that Rampage was a 20.6 million dollar draw is severely flawed. You give Jones no credit for being a draw?
And the other part of that argument is that the PPV would have been 0, zilch, nada if it was just one fight. Rampage vs Jones. There is some value to the rest of the main card fighters.
I don't think anyone is going to cough up 50 bucks to see 1 fight. And no, you can't stack the card with any bunch of nobodys to fill it up either. Main card fighters are not a dime a dozen. They may not be the main event, but they are part of the draw, Just like the Japan show where Rampage helped contribute to the draw of Frankie vs Henderson.
The question is if Rampage had won his last fight, would he still be having this conversation?
I don't know.
I mean, he is almost done right? He only has rematches left. Rampage vs Shogun/Machida/Rashad IIs.
Of course, he knows that he can't beat Jones.
Rampage has enough money to live comfortably.
What a douche bag this guy has become. I am a fan of Rampage, but how does he have the balls to complain after not making weight, and still losing the last fight? Let's put aside the notion that he may be right about not being paid enough. You still have to follow thru on your contract and make weight. He was not only overweight, he lost the fight.
Anyone that defends this guy is out of their mind too. He should be a tad bit grateful that he has the opportunities that he has in his life. Nothing is perfect, and of course the UFC has it's issues, but get serious. Try to make weight and win a few fights before bitching and moaning all the time. It makes your argument a lot more credible when you are arguing and winning. He comes off as such a b*tch!
By the way, he may still be in the UFC, but he hasn't truly fought for quite some time now!
Cut that p*ssy and let's get on with guys that want a real chance at winning!
Oh please. If if Rampage had made weight and won, some people here will still criticize him for "running away" from the UFC.
I can only speak for myself, and not every other fan. All I am saying is this… When Rampage wins he doesn't seem to bitch and moan. There's always something new to moan about right after his losses. Either stay and fight, or quit and don't. Choices…We all have them.
But the guy is in his mid 30′s and has been fighting all over the world for 30+ years. He has made enough money to live comfortably so long as he manages the money well.
We keyboard warriors think of fighers as video game characters. They are human beings and fighting in a steel cage is not the most humane thing a person could do.
All fighters fight because of money and the love of fighting. While some in it more for the money (the young up and comers and old journeymen that need to support their family), some are in it more for the fighting.
Try putting yourself in Rampage's shoes. 13+ years of fighting in front of other people. The physical damage! The fact that the organization you work for pockets 90% of the revenue!
I'll tell you why you make less money now. Its because you're 2-3 in your last 5 fights. You haven't finished anyone since 2008 & that was a past it Wanderlei. You were a complete joke against Bader, not engaging & throwing 30 strikes to his 109. You were a joke against Jones, not engaging & throwing 24 strikes to his 74. Since 2009 you've beaten Matt Hamill & had a controversial win against Machida which even you admit you lost. Add to this the fact that you were arrested for a hit & run, sucked unbelievably as a coach on TUF….twice, blame everyone but yourself, cant take criticism from commentators, you were 11lbs overweight in your last fight & just seem completely uninterested in fighting. I used to be a fan of his but his cry baby attitude & boring fights have changed my opinion.
I see where you are going with this. I agree with parts of your statement.
If they cut him he'll piss and moan that they abandoned him. Victim mentality…
Yes Rampage, Boxers make a ton of money per fight. However, as a sport, boxing is a gigantic mess that needs to be completely reset and modeled after the UFC. If it took you this long to realize that the money was in boxing, then perhaps the dumb Rampage you pretend to be on camera isn't so pretend as Rashad said it was. Nobody wants to fight each other, multiple champions per division, and corrupt promoters. Have fun. Just shut up, fight Tito in a retirement match and move on. Oh by the way, your recent cribs style tour on inside UFC makes me think you aint strapped for cash homey. Nice sexual harassment with cameras rolling on the ring girl host too. Brilliant.
Money is NOT in boxing. Top dollar is in boxing but there are more millionaire UFC fighers than boxers.
Rampage is out of his mind if he thinks he will be the next Roy Jones. And yes, in boxing you have to be #1 to make Manny/Floyd money.
Rampage is full of it. He can't take responsibility for his faults, he can't improve, he talks a lot and never backs it up. The problem is his ego is hurt, he's going downhill, he can't even make weight, so this is his way of scapegoating and trying to get out before they cut him.
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The assault trial of R&B singer Chris Brown is on hold after the entertainer's bodyguard was found guilty in D.C. Superior Court of punching a man outside the W Hotel.
The bodyguard was expected to testify in his boss's defense, but his conviction has created new legal trouble for the singer. The trial is now on hold until Wednesday.
Brown's bodyguard was planning to take the stand until his conviction Monday effectively threw the strategy out the window.
Christopher Hollosy wants to protect his right to appeal and is now seeking immunity from the government. Without it, Hollosy's attorney says the bodyguard will not take the stand.
Brown needs Hollosy, who defense attorneys say will provide the testimony that will clear the entertainer.
If the bodyguard takes the stand, attorneys for Brown say Hollosy will tell the court the singer threw no punches that October morning outside the W Hotel.
"Hollosy says my client didn't hit," said Brown's attorney Mark Geragos. "Hollosy said, 'I hit him.' So if that isn't crucial, I don't know what is."
In trial testimony last week, Parker Adams told the court Hollosy hit him in the face after Brown threw a punch. A limo driver backed Adams up telling the judge he saw Brown throw a punch and then saw Hollosy finish him off.
A third witness says she saw Brown throw a punch at Adams, but did not see one thrown by the bodyguard.
Adams was trying to take a selfie with his girlfriend, Brown and another girl when the singer took offense and words were exchanged.
The question is now this: in order for the singer to get a fair trial, does the government have to offer immunity to the bodyguard?
"There are a couple of cases that seem to suggest the government has a duty to fairly treat a defendant and to extend immunity in certain situations," said Geragos. "It's going to be our argument this is one of those situations."
Prosecutors asked Judge Franklin Burgess to postpone the trial until Wednesday so they can look at their options.
For Chris Brown, he remains locked up in a Virginia jail at least through Wednesday.
The entertainer is in custody for probation violations stemming from his 2009 assault conviction of then girlfriend, Rihanna.
As it stands now, the trial is still scheduled for Wednesday, but without immunity for the bodyguard, it is unlikely to happen and could be postponed for months.
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Vallee des Eaux ClairesPoitou-Charentes, FRANCE
Climbs 447 – Rocktype Limestone – Altitude 75m a.s.l – Faces SW
Crag features
All routes are bolted with one or two exceptions that are A0/A1. The bolts are generally good, spaced nicely and there are chains or double bolts in situ for a lower off / abseil. Alternatively access to the top of the crag is good although take a machette in the summer months.
* The valley boasts 28 seperate blocs / Buttresses each described in the climb list with their climbs below. The blocs are numbered from right to left but for each bloc the climbs are described from Left to Right parking is at bloc 10.
The updated guide book (2012)lists 42 separate blocs, the total number of climbs is still around the 450 mark. The 2012 guide also numbers the blocs from left to right along with the climbs on the bloc, parking is located at the base of bloc 21.
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The blocs are now numbered from left to right with the climbs continuing to be described from Left to Right. Parking is at bloc 21 adjacent to the noticeboard. Beyond the parking area is the access road to the paper mill - no further parking is available and there is no turning space.
Access to bloc 19 is up the marked track to the west of bloc 18 and not the newly trodden direct path from the road. The beret-wearing gentleman from the paper mill with the flailing arms did suggest that we used another path...
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This Live Conversation with TED Fellow Rachel Armstrong will open on February 8th, 2012 at 1pm EST, 6pm UK time.
Join the conversation as Rachel discusses her view on ecological humans and city 2.0.
We are not machines but Ecological Humans. We depend on our networks for survival, like an oak tree in the forest, being made up of highly interacting and interdependent systems. For example, eating is not simply consuming 'fuel' to feed our body-machine but is a mutual relationship shared between our gut bacteria, our food and our bodies (which, in turn, are highly interconnected assemblages of specialised tissues). The way that we see ourselves influences the way that we operate through the world in all aspects of our lives - from health, to business and even space exploration!
Ecological Humans, imagine the City 2.0 as being grown from the bottom-up by its communities. It is underpinned by highly interacting and interdependent networks, which use dynamic fabrics that behave in life-like ways. These buildings can be described as Living Architecture that are capable of responding to the changes in our dynamic cities as only real ecologies can.
Will The City 2.0 be qualitatively different to modern cities? Or pragmatically, can the transition only be made as a series of incremental changes? What can we do to facilitate this transition?
What does being an Ecological Human mean to me? Can it help me find new or more effective ways of working?
Can we rely on biology to provide all the answers when it comes to sustainable building solutions? Is life a technology - and should we exploit it in the pursuit of more sustainable ways of building?
Closing Statement from Rachel Armstrong
Thank you so much everyone for joining me today and taking time to comment and share your thoughts. What an amazing set of discussion threads have begun! I am excited about how the TED Prize winner City 2.0, will turn out - which is the event that inspired the context for this discussion. Perhaps, beyond the immediate context of near-future cities - the idea of being an Ecological Human may help us imagine ourselves and the world around us differently. Maybe we can use this way of imagining the world so that we can find truly sustainable solutions for the places we live in. We could possibly also use this approach to help others understand what being 'ecological' might mean. Perhaps this way of looking at the world may have applications in other areas of our lives such as, in the workplace. So, again - a really warm 'thank you' everyone for taking time out to share your thoughts with me and offer your perspectives. If you would like to find out more about Living Architecture you may like to buy my TED Book http://www.ted.com/pages/tedbooks, which is available from Amazon.com, Apple's iBookstore, and is also on the Nook platform.
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Feb 8 2012: The definition of a living technology is one that possess some but not all of the properties of living systems - in other words, it appears life-like but is not truly alive. These qualities can be found in living things like bacteria and algae which you've probably heard a lot about in sustainability forums but you may be less aware of the kinds of materials and chemistries that can be programmed to perform life-like jobs - like harvest sunlight and turn it into a biofuel, or paints that can 'eat' pollution, or artificial reefs that could be grown by cities on the inter coastal zone as a way of sustainably reclaiming them. Again, I go into more detail about some of these technologies and possible uses in my book http://www.ted.com/pages/tedbooks but I think it would be remiss not to raise the question of the ethics of designing with life-like systems. We are used to gardening and animal husbandry which we have found ways of dealing with culturally and I think that living technology provides an opportunity to think of ourselves as Ecological Humans and ask further questions about what this means for us and our role within our society and newfound partnership with nature and its systems - that is, of course, if you'd like to explore what this idea of being an Ecological Human might mean. I'd really recommend Jane Bennett's book on 'Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things' and Steve Fuller's provocative 'Humanity 2.0" - I've found these texts useful and stimulating.
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The 5 traits of successful innovators, according to research from the Harvard Business School.
For the second point, learn how to master the art of observation.
For the last, don't forget the hallmark of creativity:
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It is the ability to spot the potential in the product of connecting things that don't ordinarily go together that marks out the person who is truly creative.
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2012 - The year as it was:
Marathon race still stand for 2013: at least two HM with target finishing time 2:30:00 (improve PR). Other than that:
It's going to be a wonderful roller coaster ride of 2013. "Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life." - Rumi
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i think people need to realize that hetalia focuses more on random bits of history here and there that are generally looked over by books. not to mention hetalia portrays nations in a humorous manner, like in a way that makes you realize, "hey, people in other countries are people too." yanno what i mean? it's not about the war itself, it's about the things that happened during it, the relationships, the people that went through it.
how many of your history classes went over the dandelion coffee thing, for example? it's something silly, but it was still a great achievement for the people who discovered it! hetalia focuses more on the human parts of nations rather that the governmental moves of it, i guess, is what im trying to say here.
not that it doesn't touch upon battles, though, because it clearly does. i just don't see how hetalia, a humorous, almost slice-of-life (or earth rather) anime/manga can handle something like the holocaust, and i don't see why it needs to. you can respect something by choosing not to adapt it as well, and i honestly think it's a good thing we don't bring it up in canon.
and that whole "the axis powers did nothing" argument is such bullshit like both sides of the war did terrible things IN ANY WAR WE'VE HAD??? yet the allies are treated just like the axis and no one gripes about them.
same goes for older wars. nations are comprised of people, and that's the part hima chooses to represent. anyone would be pissed to see their country portrayed in an evil and demeaning fashion????
/gets down on one knee
Okay so I was re-watching Hetaoni (because I hate myself I guess) when I decided to do some math.
Each number on the floor represents the number of survivors in the group that have reached that room. Therefore, each number is a different time loop. I counted them, (but knowing me I probably over or under counted, so give or take a few), and got 83.
That means Italy has been through at least 83 time loops.
But I'm not stopping there! I multiplied 83 by five, assuming that the average time loops lasts about five days. Then, I divided that by 365, the number of days in the year. I got a total of 1.136. That means Italy has been going through this for about… a year. Which is sad. But you wanna know what makes it worse?
That's only counting the number of times he's made it to this room.
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Not only that, but there are a couple 1's on the ground, meaning that only Italy made it to the room. But we learned in the earlier scene that you need a least like three people to enter the room. (2 on certain numbers, one to click the switch.)
That means Italy had to drag the bodies of his friends up here on more than one occasion
plus one more image of America!
I apologize for worrying you all during my long absence. Thank you for all the messages while I was away. I have big news to share with you all.
My news series "Taisho Romance Mr. Demon Stopppp!!" will be serialized in Jump SQ from August 3rd. There are parts that aren't yet perfect but I'd make me happy if you enjoy it as well!
Let's enjoy Hetalia and Mr. Demon together!
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I'm sorry for worrying everyone for such a long time. Also, thank you everyone…
>What is the animal in the drawing for your new serialization? A dog?
>China has too few appearances!! Can I request you increase his appearances?
>When America laughs it says, "DDDDDDD," how are you supposed to pronounce that!?
>I'm so excited volume 6 is being released!
Thank you very much! During the hand over, some things got lost but an old manuscript appeared and it's being compiled right now. The Drama CDs that come with Hetalia volumes are always long, and this time it's also long. This time characters that haven't been in lots of CDs will also appear. Please wait a little longer for new Hetalia.
>Has anything changed recently?
New lines have appeared on my palm!
Also when thinking about Italian characters it usually ends up like this…
The rejected cover look for America. The balance of his face and mouth are a bit off in this version. The Italy cover for this time wasn't supposed to be beat by Louise-san…
i love how the fandom has made prussia out to be all cool and confident and smart and sexy when in reality he's like
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Dev blog: Summer slackers
Hi guys,
This is just to let you know that we're not dead..we've just been slacking off that's all.
The thing is that here in beautiful Québec we get to have nice weather only 1-2 months each year, so when it happens we usually try to go outside and enjoy it (read play with the kids or cut the lawn) instead of being in front of the computer. Rich and I also got to find some freelance work to be able to pay the bills. But while we're working on our contracts we don't have much time to work on Shape Invaders and even less time to write about what's going on. That explains why we were on the quiet side for the last month and we're sorry about that.
That does not mean some stuff didn't get done. Rich created some awesome tank animations, explosion sprites and shapes' helmets. Vince and Mike fixed a bunch of bugs to make the game more fun and more stable, allowing me to start balancing the levels. With summer now in full swing we'll probably continue to enjoy the warm weather a bit, but soon we'll be back on the saddle working to complete Shape Invaders. Here are some of the big things left to do:
- Completing all the art asset
- Implementing the shop
- Tweaking all the levels
- Implementing the final boss
Our target is to complete the game for the holidays 2012. Hope we can make it.
Thanks a lot for all your support and keep checking us out, we'll be posting some new stuff soon.
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NEW DELHI, Jun (Reuters) - October's Indian Open will be the richest full-field event on the Asian Tour after a hike in prize money, the tour said Friday.
The October 13-16 tournament in the Indian capital will now have a prize purse of $1.5 million after the Asian Tour signed a three-year deal with Nimbus Sport.
"With an increased prize fund up for grabs this year, it promises to be an exciting week of golf," Kyi Hla Han, executive chairman of the Asian Tour, said in a statement.
"We will work closely with Nimbus Sport in putting together a grand event this year and building up to the (event's) golden jubilee in 2013."
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Space for all: Small, cheap satellites may one day do your bidding
Instead, they'll be hard-core hobbyists and elementary-school students, entrepreneurs and hacktivists. In short, anyone who can afford a few hundred dollars to send something to the final frontier.
The technology for this outer-space revolution already exists: It's a type of satellite known as a CubeSat, which measures just 4 inches (10 centimeters) on a side. The CubeSat phenomenon started out as an educational experiment, but now it's turning into a crowdsourcing, crowdfunding movement of Kickstarter proportions. And not even the sky is the limit.
This year alone, more than two dozen CubeSats are due to go into orbit, piggybacking on commercial and government space launches.
"We had no idea CubeSats would go so far," Jordi Puig-Suari, an engineering professor at Cal Poly who is considered one of the inventors of the CubeSat concept, told NBC News in an email. "We were trying to develop a better system to educate students, and we did succeed at that. ... But we also created a whole new space ecosystem that we could not imagine at the time."
Part of that ecosystem is taking shape in a squat, gray building at the foot of a highway on-ramp in San Francisco. That's where a company called NanoSatisfi has brought together a small team of aerospace veterans and computer engineers to build CubeSats by hand, amid surroundings that look more like a Web startup's office than a space agency's clean room.
"We take advantage of all the industries on earth, from cellphones to smartphones to UAVs, robotics, all of that," said Peter Platzer, a former research physicist and Wall Street trader who co-founded NanoSatisfi last year.
It all starts with a hobbyist computer called an Arduino. For less than $200, anyone can buy an Arduino — basically a stripped-down motherboard — and start building gadgets like a self-balancing skateboard, a band of LEGO robots, or a flame-throwing pumpkin.
The engineers at NanoSatisfi decided to put those Arduinos to a more serious use: They installed the low-cost computers inside the standard CubeSat frame. NanoSatisfi's first two satellites, dubbed ArduSats, will hitch a ride in August on a robotic Japanese cargo ship heading for the International Space Station — where they'll be kicked out into space using a spring-loaded launcher.
Video: NanoSatisfi's Peter Platzer explains the company's strategy.
The cost of building each ArduSat is close to $200,000, and launch costs amount to another $100,000 or so. That's far less than the price tag for large-scale satellites, which can range from $100 million to more than $1 billion. To get the project launched, Platzer and his partners raised more than $100,000 through a Kickstarter campaign, and supplemented that amount with their own money and more than $1 million in venture-capital funding.
Once the ArduSats are active, NanoSatisfi's clients will be able to conduct their own experiments in space. Each satellite is equipped with 10 sensors — including a Geiger counter, a magnetometer and a camera. One of the satellites will be dedicated to schools. The other will be rented out at the rate of $250 per week, with special deals available for the Kickstarter contributors.
Sources and more information:
• JAXA Plan CubeSat Deployment from ISS
Kibo Robot Arm CubeSat Deployment Masa JN1GKZ reports on four CubeSats that are being sent to the International Space Station on August 4, 2013. The Japanese space agency JAXA has announced that four CubeSats will be deployed from the ISS by the JEM Small Satellite Orbital Deployer (J-SSOD). The four CubeSats are: - PicoDragon a 1U CubeSat...
• ArduSat-1 and ArduSat-X CubeSats launched into space
(Phys.org) - Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has successfully launched an H-2B cargo rocket into space - a portion of which is bound for a rendezvous with the International Space Station. After it docks, two CubeSats - ArduSat-1 and ArduSat-X - held in its cargo module will be deployed into an orbit above the Earth.
• Successful Kickstarter for Raspberry Pi LunarSail CubeSat
• HamTV transmitter launched to ISS
• JAXA plan CubeSat deployment from ISS
• ArduSat Open Source Ham Radio CubeSats
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Its been 4 years and nothings really changed
We grew apart and stayed that way,
I guess that fate.
I sat up late, so many nights
And thought about the times,
When talk and laughter, even fun
Came naturally.
But now I sit here, feeling alone
And reading the words
You once wrote:
"We'll always be together.
No matter the distance,
No matter the time,
I'll be with you forever
And ever. All time"
Its been 4 years and everything has changed.
We grew apart and stayed that way
A decision that was made.
So here I sit
Yet another night
And re-read for the who know what time
That last letter that you wrote.


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What a DAY! I took the chair up Evan from patrol around 11:30 – and he mentioned that so far with last night's snow and today's combined, the storm total is up to about 33″ at the base lodge. The powder is AMAZING! It's great to see the familiar faces of winter on the mountain, and start 09/10 off the right way – it's gonna be a great winter!
Just how deep is it? Check out Alec – he was completely fine, by the way (landing in powder and all).
Check out Bob! First day back on the tele's! Hey you might be a little sore tomorrow from all those turns, but nobody can pass up powder turns!
Keeping up with Wes (black & white jacket) is hard, but worth it.
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Once again I audited the machine. The difference was that this time, someone had wiped all the browsing history from Internet Explorer. Little did they know that browsing history is not the only place you can see which pages have been visited. I used the cookies to file another report, but this time I made sure to include that someone tried to cover their tracks.
A few weeks later, I was informed that the teacher was reprimanded and transferred to a different school in another sector -- not the harshest of consequences, in my opinion.
I guess you never know what the end-users are up to, and sometimes, all it takes is a small glitch to cause an avalanche that leads to a techie being asked to troubleshoot a different kind of problem than broken hardware.
This story, "Troubleshooting both printer and personnel problems," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Read more crazy-but-true stories in the anonymous Off the Record blog at InfoWorld.com. For the latest business technology news, follow InfoWorld.com on Twitter.


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Children's Health
Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) in Infants or Children
What Are the Treatments for Acid Reflux in Infants and Children?
There are a variety of lifestyle measures you can try for acid reflux in babies and older children:
For babies:
- Elevate the head of the baby's crib or bassinet.
- Hold the baby upright for 30 minutes after a feeding.
- Thicken bottle feedings with cereal (do not do this without your doctor's approval).
- Feed your baby smaller amounts of food more often.
- Try solid food (with your doctor's approval).
For older children:
- Elevate the head of the child's bed.
- Keep the child upright for at least two hours after eating.
- Serve several small meals throughout the day, rather than three large meals.
- Make sure your child is not overeating.
- Limit foods and beverages that seem to worsen your child's reflux such as high fat, fried or spicy foods, carbonation, and caffeine.
- Encourage your child to get regular exercise.
If the reflux is severe or doesn't get better, your doctor may recommend medication.
Drugs to Lessen Gas in Babies and Children
Drugs to lessen gas include:
- Simethicone such as Mylicon
- Gaviscon
Drugs to Neutralize or Decrease Stomach Acid
Drugs to decrease stomach acid include:
- Antacids such as Mylanta and Maalox
- Histamine-2 (H2) blockers such as Axid, Pepcid, Tagamet, or Zantac
- Proton-pump inhibitors such as Nexium, Prilosec, Prevacid, Aciphex, Zegerid, and Protonix
Researchers aren't sure whether decreasing stomach acid lessens reflux in infants.
For the most part, drugs that decrease intestinal gas or neutralize stomach acid (antacids) are very safe. At high doses, antacids can cause some side effects, such as diarrhea. Chronic use of very high doses of Maalox or Mylanta may be associated with an increased risk of rickets (thinning of the bones).
Side effects from medications that inhibit the production of stomach acid are uncommon. A small number of children may develop some sleepiness when they take Zantac, Pepcid, Axid, or Tagamet.
Drugs to Improve Intestinal Coordination
Drugs to improve intestinal coordination include:
- Propulsid. This drug was voluntarily withdrawn from the U.S. market in 2000 due to an association with abnormal heart rhythms; however, it is still available when prescribed under the guidance of a specialist in gastrointestinal diseases and can be very effective for treating childhood reflux. The drug works by increasing the pressure of the lower esophageal sphincter and increasing emptying of the stomach and the rate that food moves through the intestines. This helps reduce esophageal exposure to stomach contents.
- Reglan. This is another medication that helps speed up the digestion process. However, it is also associated with many side effects, some of which can be serious. As a result. it is rarely prescribed.
- Erythromycin. This is an antibiotic usually used to treat bacterial infections. One common side effect of erythromycin is that it causes strong stomach contractions. This side effect is advantageous when the drug is used to treat reflux.
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