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The following is reprinted from ESPN College Football Encyclopedia: The Complete History of the Game, edited by Michael MacCambridge
Every sport needs its kings. Kings define excellence and provide a standard for everyone else in the sport to measure themselves against. They are loved and hated, respected and feared, revered and reviled. They are royalty, regardless of the year, regardless of the era. Baseball has the Yankees, pro basketball the Celtics, pro hockey the Canadiens. And college football has Notre Dame.
The sheer breadth of the history that's taken place on this Indiana campus is enough to take your breath away. Coaches? Put it this way: Dan Devine went 53–16–1 and won one national title in six years at Notre Dame, yet his .764 winning percentage puts him only sixth on the all-time Irish list (among men who coached more than five seasons). Ahead of him: Lou Holtz (.765), Elmer Layden (.770), Ara Parseghian (.836), Frank Leahy (.855) and Knute Rockne (.881).
Players? Where do you start? With George Gipp, subject of the most famous pep talk in history? With Paul Hornung, or Leon Hart, or any of the seven Irish players who have won the Heisman Trophy? Oh, you want college football icons? Well take your pick: there's Touchdown Jesus. The Golden Dome. The Four Horsemen. For kicks, we'll throw in Rudy, too.
And maybe we should mention the 11 national championships the Irish have won outright, or the 10 other times they finished a season with a partial stake in the title. "The first time you walk onto the field here," former Irish nose tackle Chris Zorich said, "you wonder if the goose bumps will ever leave your arm. Then you realize: you have a lot of history to live up to."
Sometimes that history can be overwhelming. Ty Willingham learned that after three seasons, when his 21–15 record wasn't enough to satisfy the echoes and the ghosts. Beginning in 2005, Charlie Weis will see it for himself. It really is a lot of history.
The most history, in fact.
Where to begin? Notre Dame is the very definition of college football tradition. Before each game, as players descend the locker room tunnel to the field at Notre Dame Stadium, each player touches an overhanging sign that reads, "Play like a champion today." Once they reach the field, their senses are assaulted
by the leprechaun mascot and Touchdown Jesus, the mural that covers the south side of Hesburgh Library and is visible from inside Notre Dame Stadium. If it's an especially big game, there may be an extra surprise awaiting the players: the green jerseys that are broken out only for extra-special occasions. And, of course, there is the Notre Dame Victory March endlessly emanating from the band section, which is only the most famous song in college football history, and one of the most recognizable in all of American song. Is that enough?
Best Player
He has become famous mostly because of a tear-jerking (and perhaps apocryphal) deathbed speech and because Ronald Reagan portrayed him in the movies. But Gipp may well have been one of the finest all-around college football players ever. Rockne often called Gipp "the most versatile player I've ever seen," and that was evident on both sides of the ball. As a defensive back, he was one of the original "lockdown" cover men, and opposing quarterbacks rarely ventured into his territory.
As a running back on offense, Gipp led the Irish in rushing and passing his final three years. His career total of 2,341 rushing yards stood as a record for some best coach Rockne may have first achieved a measure of notoriety as a player, teaming with quarterback Gus Dorais to stun Army 35-13 in 1913 in the game that popularized the forward pass. But it was as the coach at his alma mater that Rockne grew into a fable. He succeeded Jesse Harper as coach in 1918; over the next 13 years he would guide Notre Dame to five unbeaten, untied seasons and 105 wins (against 12 losses and five ties). His .881 winning percentage is still unequaled by anyone who has ever coached at the major-college or professional level. But Rockne was an innovator as well as a winner.
He all but invented the notion of intersectional games by instituting yearly matchups with Southern California. He designed his own uniforms and streamlined football equipment. He made far more use of substitutes than most coaches of the day (foreshadowing two-platoon football, which was still a quarter century away from becoming standard). And, of course, he was eager to use the forward pass at a time when most coaches were devoted to keeping the ball safely wrapped in their running backs' arms. There's no telling how vast the numbers Rockne would have compiled had he been afforded a complete career. But on March 31, 1931, he boarded Transcontinental-Western Flight 599 in Kansas City, bound for Los Angeles, where he was to complete a football instructional movie. Shortly after takeoff, the plane hit bad weather and went down in a wheat field near Bazaar, Kan. Rockne was 43 years old.
Best Team
When you've won 11 national championships, it's a happy dilemma trying to figure out which is the best of the best. Perhaps it's best to listen to Rockne, who always considered the 1924 team his finest -- and his 58 years, until Jerome Heavens broke it in 1978. Eighty-four years after he last carried a ball for Notre Dame, Gipp still ranks No. 6 all time on the rushing list. In 1920, he was named the college football player of the year by Walter Camp. But it was during a game with Northwestern that year -- a game in which he stepped in at quarterback and completed five of six passes for 157 yards and two touchdowns -- that he contracted the strep throat that would contribute to his death three weeks later.
On Dec. 13, 1920, the day before he died, Gipp made a simple plea to Rockne: "Sometime, Rock, when the team is up against it, when things are wrong and the breaks are beating the boys, tell them to go in there with all they've got and win just one for The Gipper. I don't know where I'll be then, Rock, but I'll know about it, and I'll be happy." While scholars have questioned whether Gipp actually made the speech -- or even called himself The Gipper -- his words nevertheless have become an iconic part of American sporting lore. Gipp's legend was solidified by Reagan's performance in the film Knute Rockne, All American.
It was also the first Notre Dame squad to capture the consensus national title. In the Oct. 19, 1924, New York Herald-Tribune, Grantland Rice immortalized Notre Dame's wondrous backfield of Harry Stuhldreher, Don Miller, Jim Crowley and Elmer Layden, dubbing them the Four Horsemen. The 1924 squad outscored its nine regular-season opponents 258-44, then pounded Stanford 27-10 in the Rose Bowl. It was the last bowl game Notre Dame would play for 45 years. "I think I sensed that the backfield was a product of destiny," Rockne would say later. "At times, they caused me a certain amount of pain and exasperation, but mainly they brought me great joy."
Biggest Game
The Army-Notre Dame game of Nov. 9, 1946, at Yankee Stadium was one of the most hotly anticipated college football games ever. Army was No. 1, Notre Dame No. 2, and 74,121 fans shoehorned their way into the stadium. What followed was the most famous scoreless tie in football history, maybe in all sports history. Notre Dame drove to the Army 4 in the second quarter, but the Cadets held. Just before the fourth-down play, Notre Dame coach Frank Leahy turned to kicker Fred Earley. "Can you make it?" he asked of the possible 21-yard field goal. "Sir, it's like an extra point to me," Earley replied, grabbing for his helmet before Leahy replied, "No. We need six, not three. Three points will never win this game."
Later, Army's "Mr. Inside," Doc Blanchard, broke into the clear and seemed headed for a sure score, but Johnny Lujack's sensational open-field tackle saved the day for the Irish. Army emerged from the game with its No. 1 ranking intact, but Notre Dame, on the strength of beating Northwestern, Tulane and USC by a combined 94-6 to close out the season, wound up passing Army in the polls by season's end. Still, the 0-0 score burned both teams. "I suppose I should be elated over the tie," Leahy said after the game. "After all, we didn't lose. But I'm not." Added Army's Red Blaik: "There is no jubilation in this dressing room."
Biggest Upset
Notre Dame had been the last team to defeat Oklahoma, a 28-21 victory in Norman on Sept. 26, 1953. Four years had passed. Oklahoma had played 47 games in the meantime and had not lost any, the longest unbeaten streak in college football history. And there seemed no end in sight to the Sooners' dominance. In fact, if you picked up a copy of Sports Illustrated on the morning of Nov. 16, 1957, you would have seen this headline: "Why Oklahoma Is Unbeatable." Notre Dame, coming off its first losing season in 23 years in 1956, was a pedestrian 4–2 coming into the game, riding a two-game losing streak in which it had been outscored 54-12 by Navy and Michigan State. There seemed little chance Notre Dame would pose an impediment to the Sooners at Norman's Memorial Stadium.
And Oklahoma drove the ball breezily on its first possession, driving to the Irish 13. But the drive stalled there and, stunningly, the Sooners would never get that close to the end zone the rest of the day. "I was willing to settle for a scoreless tie," Oklahoma coach Bud Wilkinson would admit later. But Notre Dame had other ideas. With 3:50 left in the game, the Irish had fourth and goal at the Oklahoma 3. Quarterback Bob Williams faked a dive to fullback Nick Pietrosante, then pitched to halfback Dick Lynch, who scampered into the end zone for the staggering, game-winning score. The game ended 7-0. The Sooners' streak was over at 47. And Terry Brennan, the embattled Irish coach who'd been under fire for two years, called the game "the greatest thrill of my athletic career."
It's enough to get the football poets kicked into overdrive. Is it a shrine? A cathedral? A football mecca? What it is, is the most recognizable college football stadium in the world, a formerly cozy 59,075-seat bandbox that is now a fortress for 80,795 strong. Notre Dame first played its home games at Cartier Field, a 30,000-seat facility located just north of the present stadium, but as the program grew to national prominence in the 1920s, it was clear a bigger home was necessary. The Osborn Engineering Company of Cleveland, which had built Yankee Stadium, designed the new stadium and it was completed in only four months. The sod from Cartier Field was transplanted into the new stadium, and Rockne carefully oversaw every minute detail, from how much sideline space was available (to limit game-day intruders) to parking and traffic systems.
Ironically, Rockne would get to coach only one year in the new palace before his tragic plane crash, although he did earn the stadium's first win, a 20-14 decision over SMU on Oct. 4, 1930. Notre Dame won its first eight games there, in fact, before falling to USC 16-14 on Nov. 21, 1931, a loss that also snapped a 26-game unbeaten streak. Since 1966, every home game has been a sellout, except for a Thanksgiving Day game with Air Force in 1973, which was about 1,800 shy of capacity due to the absence of students.


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Friday's area sports calendar and upcoming area events
Published: Thursday, March 6, 2014 at 8:03 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, March 6, 2014 at 8:03 a.m.
Friday. Class 2A quarterfinals, No. 6 Episcopal at No. 14 St. James, 7 p.m.
Friday. Class 5A quarterfinals, No. 19 Thibodaux at No. 6 Dutchtown, 7 p.m.
Friday. Centerville at St. James, 3:30 p.m.
Friday. Terrebonne at Breaux Bridge Tournament.
Friday. Houma Christian at Hanson Tournament.
Friday. Ellender at Berwick Tournament.
Friday. Covenant Christian at Lakeshore Tournament.
Friday. South Lafourche at Ponchatoula Tournament.
Friday. East St. John at St. James, 4 p.m.
Friday. Assumption, Thibodaux, Central Lafourche, Houma Christian, Vandebilt Catholic, South Terrebonne, H.L. Bourgeois and Terrebonne in Hahnville Tournament.
Friday. Ellender and Covenant Christian Academy at Patterson Tournament.
Friday. South Lafourche at John Ehret Tournament.
Friday. Tiger Invitational at Thibodaux High.
Friday. E.D. White Catholic Relays at E.D. White Catholic.
Friday. LSU vs. Tennessee at the SEC Tournament at the Gwinnett Center in Duluth, Ga., 5 p.m. (TV:FSN) if necessary.
Friday. BYU at Nicholls (DH) 3 p.m.(Radio: 91.5-FM)
Friday. Purdue at LSU, 7 p.m. (Radio: 98.1-FM)
Friday. Tulane at Cal Baseball Classic in Berkeley, Calif.
Friday. LSU at Auburn, 6 p.m.
Friday. Nicholls at SMU, 2 p.m.
Friday. Bucks at Pelicans, 7 p.m. (Radio: 105.3-FM; TV: FSNO)
Today. The Bayou Crocs, a 13U USSSA travel baseball team, is looking for players ages 12 and 13 for the upcoming season. The practice times for tryouts are at 11 a.m. on Sundays, 6:30 p.m. on Wednesdays and 6:30 p.m. on Fridays at the Houma Air Base. For information, call 860-8510
Today.The Thibodaux Express boys basketball program will hold open tryouts for the 2014 teams from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday at West Thibodaux Middle School. The Express will field four teams from sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth grades. Also the Express are looking for coaches and assistant coaches. For information, call Brian Rhodes at 438-0953.
March 13-16. The Louisiana Sportsman Show, presented by RAM Trucks, is Louisiana's largest outdoor show and boat show and this year's show will be March 13-16 at the Lamar Dixon Expo Center in Gonzales. The cost is $10 for adults, $5 for kids (6-12) and children under 5 get in free. Parking is also free. Times are: March 13 — 2 p.m.-7 p.m., March 14 — 11 a.m.-7 p.m., March 15 — 9 a.m.-7 p.m. and March 16 — 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. (Sunday is Kids Day and children 12 and under enter free). For information, visit www.louisianasportsmanshow.com.
March 22. The Friends of South Terrebonne High School will hold its third annual Gatorland Sporting Clay Classic on March 22 at the Tri Parish Sporting Clays in Houma. The event is put on by alumni, sponsors, friends and volunteers of the school, will donate 100 percent of all proceeds to the Million Dollar Band from Gatorland's Band Booster Club.
March 28. The Louisiana Lightning AAU basketball team will host a golf tournament at the LaTour Golf Club in Mathews on March 28. The tournament will benefit the Louisiana Lightning and the Pink Ribbon Social Cancer Foundation. It will start with check-in at 8 a.m. March 28, and the shotgun round will begin at 9 a.m. The cost is $110 per person and $440 per team. Lunch, drinks and prizes are included. The Louisiana Lightning, a local non-profit organization, is also looking for tournament sponsors. Sponsorship package levels are Diamond ($2,500 and up), Platinum ($1,500), Gold ($500), Silver A ($175), Silver B ($110) and Bronze ($100), and the due date for sponsorships and ads are March 7. For information, call 860-9947 or 791-4710.
March 29. The Third Annual Joe's Septic Contractors Shooting Da Crap clay shooting competition will be held March 29 at 15344 La. 3235 in Cut Off and will benefit the Give Kids the World charity and the Center For Pediatric Therapy Scholarship Fund. All teams are responsible for providing its own guns, shells, ear and eye protection and golf carts (four-wheelers not allowed). Auction items are also being collected. The event will be held even if it rains and will start at 8 a.m. Shooters under 16 must submit a hunter safety card and be accompanied by an adult. For information, contact Joe's Septic Contractors at 985-632-5591 or at firstname.lastname@example.com.
April 11. The LSU Bayou Bengal Booster Club will hold its 26th Annual LSU Fighting Tigers Celebrity Golf Tournament on April 11 at Ellendale Country Club in Houma. The deadline to enter is April 3. There will be a shotgun start set for 7:45 a.m. or 12:45 p.m. and it will be 18 holes (five-man scramble with four amateur golfers and an LSU coach, past athlete or LSU celebrity. There is a full handicap set with a max of 18. The cost is $850 per team or $210 per player and the cost includes mulligan fee and the cost of the golf cart, green fees, lunch, beer and soft drinks. Prizes will be awarded for both morning and afternoon start times for low net and low gross scores. There will also be a closets to the hold contest (holes four, eight, 13 and 17), longest drive (hole 16), straighest drive (hole two) and a hole in one contest. For information, contact Eddie Pullaro at 868-3500 or Darryl Brue 852-1625.
April 22-26. The Fourth Annual Fakier Open, benefiting Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center at Terrebonne Genral Medical Center, will be held on April 22-26 at Ellendale Country Club in Houma. The Fakier Open, presented by Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center at Terrebonne Genral Medical Center and Fakier Jewelers, is a professional golf tournament with the Adams Pro Tour. Proceeds from the tournament benefit Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center at TGMC and help provide free cancer screenings throughout the area for breast, prostate, skin, oral and colorectal cancers. The Taste of the Tournament Par-Tee and Auction will be held at 6:30 p.m. April 25. The event will feature food, music and a large silent auction selection. Tickets are $50 per person and are available for purchase online at marybird.org/fakier or call 851-8661. The pro-am, a four-man scramble, will be held April 22, and each team is comprised of three amateur golfers and a professional from the Adams Golf Pro Tour Series. The four-round tournament will begin on April 23 and end on April 26. A free junior clinic for kids ages 6 - 16 is scheduled for April 25 in association with Adams Pro Tour professionals, weather permitting. Sponsorship and team opportunities are still available. For information on any of these events, please contact Amy Ponson at 851-8661 or firstname.lastname@example.com or visit www.marybird.org/fakier.
May 3. The South Louisiana Youth Shooting Sports Foundation will host its first annual "Shoot for the Kids" benefit clay shoot at Tri-Parish Sporting Clays in Houma on May 3. SLYSSF is a non-profit organization created by local shooters in 2013 for the purpose of raising money to provide funding, education and training to youth shooting sports organizations and participants in the Terrebonne/Lafourche area. Proceeds from this year's event will go to the Terrebonne Parish Jr Deputy (TPJD) Shooting Team to help offset travel expenses for team members who qualify to compete in the National Rifle Association's (NRA) International Youth Hunter Education Challenge (YHEC) in Mansfield, PA. These local competitors, ages 10-19, will qualify for the International YHEC event by competing in the Louisiana State YHEC competition in June at Camp Grant Walker in Pollack. The benefit clay shoot will have two main event starting times at 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. May 3. There is a four-man team main event category (100 shot main course), a four-man five stand (25 clays per shooter), a two-man frenzy (two score sheets per four man team) and long bird (five clays per shooter). The entry fee is $550 for four-man team package. 5 Stand will be on a 1st come basis starting at 8 a.m. on the day of the event. Event will happen rain or shine. Participants are responsible for providing their own shells and eye and ear protection for the event. Registration will open at 7 a.m. There are various sponsorship opportunities available. For information, contact Mel Duplantis at 226-2628 or at email@example.com or Derrick Chaisson at 856-4400.
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Year in review: SDG&E installs its millionth smart meter
What was the most important energy or green business story of the year?
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Installation of hundreds of thousands of smart meters 19% (25)
SDG&E's continuing vows to cut power in fire weather, and its mediation efforts with critics 4% (5)
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Early in 2011, contractors working for SDG&E will pull out the last of the company's old-style analog meters and replace them with digital models — just a few months after putting in the millionth smart meter at the home of an engineer who also got the 500,000th analog meter.
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Posted on 01/01/2012 5:43:39 AM PST by Never A Dull Moment
The Muslim Brotherhood comes up with a neat trick to break the peace treaty with Israel without formally doing so. Egypts next likely ruling party says it simply will hold a plebiscite and let the people do it.
Rashad Bayoumi, deputy Supreme Leader of the Brotherhood, told the London-based newspaper Al-Hayat on Sunday it respects international treaties and will leave the issue of the peace treaty in the hands of the people. The pact was signed by then-Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, but a "cold peace" has set in over the past several years.
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
Yeah, 0bama-lama-ding-dong couldn't have done better if he had been in the pay of the Islamofascists themselves.
Egypt receives about 2 Billion a year from the U.S. since signing the peace accords with Israel. If Egypt votes down the Accords then Congress needs to end the aid.
Anther gift from Outstanding Leader in the W.H. that will keep on giving like Carter and Iran. What Mubarak should have done after Sadat's assassination was to hunt down all M.B. people and shoot them and anyone else that is alleged to join, shot them as well.
There were agitators behind the scenes. Soros,UN- ICG. The Muslim botherhood also involved with this administration. Seems this may have been part of the agenda all along.
The descendants of Amalek are sure getting restless.
The Israelis made a possibly fatal mistake. They tried so hard not to be hated that they are now no longer feared. This going to wind up getting a lot of Egyptians and a lot of Israelis killed.
It's a strange thing. As much as most countries will give to have peace the M<uslims just want war.
Their deaths mean nothing to them. Egypt and Israel couldbe the tourist Capitol of the world if they could just get along. Rich's would come to them,but the Muslims would rather die than live in peace. Stupid religious hatred ,from a cult that is no more religious than paganism.
How can you expect peace from a people who do not know love.
You cannot kill your daughter because she has an affair and call that love. You cannot beat a wife because her ankle shows and call that love.
There is no love in islam, only hatred , power over others, and a crazed adrenalin rush gained by killing and watching killing.
They are a bit like the Romans who went to the Colliseum to watch Catholics die.In fact catholics and any Christians, and Jews will die if these people are not weeded back.
Like a Trumpet Vine it will kill anything it wraps around if you do not keep cutting it back.
Give me a Representative Republic any day!
Nations listed in the Psalm 83 war that will attack Israel:
The Muslim Brotherhood cancelling the peace pact with Israel is not a surprise at all.
How long can Bammy and the Arab "wolf" tread water?
IIRC, the Muslem Brotherhood's 'hood' is downstream of the Aswan High Dam, and the Israeli's can nuke that dam.
Just mentionin'.
....................."Qaradawi uses his al-Jazeera platform to preach this message to the Muslim masses. As the Middle East Media Research Institute and Robert Spencer document, in one memorable Friday sermon broadcast in 2009, he prayed that Allah would kill all Jews: Oh Allah, take this oppressive, Jewish, Zionist band of people. Oh Allah, do not spare a single one of them. Oh Allah, count their numbers and kill them, down to the very last one. He added that throughout history, Allah had imposed upon Jews people who would punish them for their corruption. The last punishment was carried out by Adolph Hitler.
After thousands of young Americans have laid down their lives to protect the United States from jihadist terror, President Obama apparently seeks to end the war by asking Qaradawi, a jihad-stoking enemy of the United States, to help him strike a deal that will install our Taliban enemies as part of the sharia state we have been building in Afghanistan. If the Hindu report is accurate, the price tag will include the release of Taliban prisoners from Gitmo an element of the deal Reuters has also reported. The administration will also agree to the lifting of U.N. sanctions against the Taliban, and recognition of the Taliban as a legitimate political party (yes, just like the Muslim Brotherhood!). In return, the Taliban will pretend to forswear violence, to sever ties with al-Qaeda, and to cooperate with the rival Karzai regime.
It would mark one of the most shameful chapters in American history."
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Hmmm... Cancel the peace treaty. Just what do these primitives say that the Israeli people have done to them to warrant hostilities? I suspect that it has something to do with the insane conspiracy theories that permeate the religion of peace.
Does Israel get the Sinai Peninsula back?
Finally, a public Islamic vote to dispel the myth of the moderate Muslim. Islam is evil and this will publicly prove it.
Soetoro must be smiling. He will now probably send his muslim brotherhood more money...
It boggles the mind to hear progressive communist dems gripe about evil Bush killing people in Katrina.(They some how... still believe this and currently blame Bush for everything)All awhile... Obama is a slush fund fat cat lovin crony crook from hell. When this POS Obama destroys America and further kicks sand in our face by providing aid and comfort to the enemy terrorists with our tax payer money!
anyone who didn't see this coming was willfully blind or a liberal
Hahahahahahaha. Can't wait to e-mail this to all my anti-Semitic Jewish colleagues who were cheering when Mubarak was overthrown. You get the government you deserve. Israel is so screwed.
If youd like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
And the Jew-hating Leftists celebrate in their evil hearts...
If not, they can take the Aswan Dam instead. No need to worry about packing it; Israel will handle the disassembly.
LOL, well put, S&A!
Bear in mind that the Aswan High dam is a long, very wide earthen dam - not nearly as easy to take out as masonry/concrete dams.
Just a little hole in the right place and running water can do the rest.
Note all the dominoes in N Africa, Yemen, lots of EU, Malaysia, Indo Maklsives all falling via " democracy": and Obama loves it. Note: After agreeing with the UN and bypassnig Congresss he slams "do nothing congres and bombs Libya when they're NOT a threat. Note Iranistan protestors dead in the streets and nary a word. Note Ivory Coast over 1,000 Christians murdered , Nigeria's Boku Harem killing reelentlessly but we have "observers in Uganda? Note Syria disinformation and outright brutally torturing and killing Assad's interlopers and one must remember Syria's "milk Factory was destroyed after a joint op(???) when North Korean were "on vacation building a nuke faciklity in said "milk factory
Note, Obama demanding not just Ivory c oast ti STFU but telling Copts in Egypt, mssage is same, shut up you'll get your "democracy which neabs more purges as Jewish diplomats escaped for their lives. Note Hamas firing many more rockets, Saudi's get many more military arsebal, Libya going shar;ai rogue with their "denocracy."
Want more? 0/11 and pantagon( but no such thiing as "axis of evil"). USS Cole, Somalia, Sudan in which finally Israel( smallest country is helping the Xhristu=ian afrer over 2,000,000 murdered. Note direct ine with ME terror and the borders sieve sending radical insolent killers inside the US via foggy botton and WH dumping so many into the streets WITH financed money and homes and cars and more!'
Missed anything? I'm bettnig I just hit the tip of the ocedberg. Has Nachum or anyothers got linked to all this vefarious not just LINKS tot he WH but the muslim e B-hood are bending this mutt;s ear. Okay time to turn my in to attackwatch.com. And that .gove site and his new ad. Meanwhile the bombings continue in Iraq and Iran is salivating thinking maybe, just maybe they can dream of and make into reality a nuke, One must thank God His civenant( nit conditional) in Genesis chapter 12 and others
Please remember Christians are being martyres as these scum bags can't find any Jews, Oh, oh. OH and oplease never forget ZObaa tried deleting Tricare( our military) tried sending Israel back to 1967 lines, and cap'n obvious has spoken sand a
teletubby, I mean teleprompter. 1,000 days sans a budget, Tele17 stitch wants yo raise debt sealing by a mere 1,200,000,000,000.00.....lovely what next?
"Hahahahahahaha. Cant wait to e-mail this to all my anti-Semitic Jewish colleagues who were cheering when Mubarak was overthrown. You get the government you deserve. Israel is so screwed."
No, actually Israel is not screwed. In the end, they will survive. It is the USA and the other nations who will be..........
But...... If Israel is forced against the wall and uses the Sansom Option, and the ME and surrounding areas becomes one huge, irradiated, glowing glass dish from over 400 advanced nuclear weapons, what do you think the end result will be? Irradiated oil, water, air, and food. The whole planet goes.
The Sansom Option is designed not just for the Arabs/Muslims, but also every single nation that has ever brought harm to Jews and Israel. The idea is that if the Jewish people are going to be anhiliated, they will take the entire world with them.
It's the last card in the deck, but one Hell of a royal flush, doncha think?
They actually don't want it.........It is Egypt's problem. The bedouin there are freakin' mad dogs.
lolololol........indeed they are.
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We construct a model of valuation to assess the financial fragility of a set of firms in a closed economy. A firm is identified with a possibly infinite random sequence of benefits. Firms with negative benefits in a given period are said to be in distress and need liquidity to refinance their projects. Those liquidities must be obtained from firms with positive benefits (which represent excess liquidities). Distressed projects are refinanced to the extend that their need for liquidity does not exceed their endogenous continuation value. This value is, in turn, affected by current and future refinancing possibilities. We provide a recursive proceduure to compute this value when there is an aggregate liquidity constraint. We compare the allocation under a centralized coalition of firms with that of a decentralized competitive liquidity market. We show that the competitive market is more fragile because it does not value the possibility that a currently distressed firm could become a provider of liquidity some period in the future. That is, the market value of a firm can diverge from its social value due to externalities involving the ability of that firm to refinance other distressed firms in the future.
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I guess I'm tired, because I'm going round in circles here.
I'm trying to remove the 'Private' prefix on private posts (and in archive/category view) but I'm struggling a bit.
I had the following pasted into the bottom of my funtions.php file earlier, which I think was working...
function title_format($content) {
return '%s';
add_filter('private_title_format', 'title_format');
add_filter('protected_title_format', 'title_format');
... but I've migrated to a child theme since then, which might be why it's not working any more?
I've also tried whacking something like this:
function the_title_trim($title=null)
$title = the_title('','',false);
$pattern[0] = '/Protected:/';
$pattern[1] = '/Private:/';
$replacement[0] = ''; // Enter some text to put in place of Protected:
$replacement[1] = ''; // Enter some text to put in place of Private:
echo preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $title);
into my child theme's style.css file, but that does nothing as far as I can tell.
Anyway, going round in circles. I know there have been previous discussions on this, but I can't make anything work. Any advice appreciated.
Oh, and if anyone knows how I might be able to to tweak the 'Nothing Found' message brought up here — your thoughts would be much appreciated. I've drawn a blank there, too.
Best, Sarah


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Game changer 6: Will shale gas save the climate bill?
The NY Times — and U.S. Senate — have caught up to Climate Progress with this piece last week, "Is Shale Gas the Climate Bill's New Bargaining Chip?":
Natural gas from shale formations is the new magic phrase in the oil and gas industry, as new technologies have led to stunning increases in potential resources and anticipated profits.
Now some want to see if it carries any political magic.
With new discoveries of the fossil fuel in massive but difficult to drill shale deposits, advocates claim that climate legislation means a job boom for gas engineers and drillers, and revenue for producers. They say a cap on greenhouse gas emissions could lead power plants to switch to gas from coal, which emits about double the carbon dioxide of gas.
Some experts — but not all — say that a strong mandate to expand wind power and other alternative energy generation could be a boon for natural gas generators, which are a likely future source of backup power for renewables.
At the same time, some politicians on Capitol Hill are pushing for new natural gas incentives in climate legislation moving through Congress. They note that the fuel resource sits in many states, like Michigan and Pennsylvania, whose lawmakers are needed for passage of a bill.
"If you took a map of swing-state senators and look at where these new gas finds are, they match," said Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.). "It's more than ironic."
This echoes many key points of my series on gas. There appears to be a lot more natural gas than previously thought (Part 1) and therefore unconventional gas makes the 2020 Waxman-Markey target so damn easy and cheap to meet (Part 2), which is great for low-cost climate action, bad for coal (Part 3). As Part 3 discusses, natural gas is the critical low-carbon "firming" resource that can enable deep penetration of both windpower and concentrated solar thermal power.
Last month I noted that many of the key fence-sitting Senators come from states with major unconventional gas reserves, including Arkansas, Louisiana, and the Dakotas and that "If a serious climate bill passes the Senate in the next several months "" and I believe it will "" then activism by the natural gas industry may prove decisive." [see Tim Wirth to natural gas execs: "You don't have the right to sit back and do nothing" about climate change. "We are in very deep trouble, the edge of catastrophe, and you can help." (Part 4)].
Here are more excerpts from the NYT piece on this very subject:
He said he and his colleague Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) are working with other senators on provisions to promote natural gas in global warming legislation.
New benefits for gas are "going to be an essential part of my support for a bill," Bennet said yesterday. The first-term senator is himself a possible swing vote on a climate and energy package.
Another potential swing voter, Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), also said yesterday that he would like to see more legislative text favoring natural gas. Such a plan could be one of many bargaining chips that get lawmakers behind a climate and energy bill in the Senate, he said.
'Bigger than nuclear'
A former U.S. Senate aide who has been in close contact with Capitol Hill offices said natural gas "could be much bigger than nuclear" in getting politicians on board.
Legislation sponsored by Reps. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Edward Markey (D-Mass.) passed the House last month establishing a mandatory cap on greenhouse gases, but the fate of the measure remains uncertain in the Senate. A bill draft has yet to be released in that chamber, and Democratic leaders are searching for 60 votes to block a filibuster.
Many natural-gas advocates believe that a carbon cap will benefit natural gas by default, but the industry also is pushing for things such as fewer carbon offsets in a climate bill. Offsets allow emitters — such as big coal-dependent utilities — to meet carbon caps by paying for projects outside their own factories, like forestation projects overseas. That offsetting allows them to avoid switching to gas as an alternative fuel.
Rod Lowman, president and CEO of the newly formed America's Natural Gas Alliance, said in a recent interview that he was "concerned" about the number of offsets allowed in the Waxman-Markey proposal.
The shale discoveries brought natural gas to the political forefront.
In recent years, the oil industry developed technologies to drill horizontally into gas-bearing shale seams and fracture the rock with high-pressure water injections, called hydrofracturing. These techniques make it possible to recover shale gas reserves that were separated in many tiny pockets that could not be tapped economically before, said John Curtis, a Colorado School of Mines professor.
According to a 2008 report from the Potential Gas Committee, estimates of gas resources surged from more than 1,300 trillion cubic feet (tcf) in 2006 to more than 1,800 tcf last year. Much of that jump came from shale gas, which made up 616 tcf of the 2008 total.
Some politically convenient geology
The geographic locations of these new shale gas resources overlap with the home states of many Senate lawmakers, like Sens. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) and Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.), who could make or break the outcome of global warming legislation.
During the House vote, majorities of delegations in Arkansas, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Ohio, Louisiana, Pennsylvania and Texas — sites of major shale gas resources — opposed the Waxman-Markey bill. House majorities from New York and Michigan, where shale gas is also found, backed the bill, and West Virginia's delegation split evenly.
Reid Detchon, executive director of the Energy Future Coalition, finds it puzzling that the natural gas industry hasn't lined up more forcefully behind the climate legislation moving in the Senate. Gas figures to be a big winner if climate policy mandates an ambitious renewable energy standard and restraints on power plant carbon dioxide emissions, he said.
In addition to being a potential coal replacement, gas generation is the obvious backup for the fivefold to tenfold increase in wind and solar generation that may be mandated in a climate bill. Gas-fired power plants can ramp up quickly when clouds block the sun or the wind stops blowing.
"Natural gas is best" for that role, said Jeffrey Eshelman, vice president of public affairs of the Independent Petroleum Association of America. "It's abundant. It's a natural backstop for renewable energy. It makes all the sense in the world to bring all of it online."
The Energy Information Administration last year analyzed how energy use would change if the nation were getting 20 percent of its electric power from wind in 2030, and predicted that gas turbine generation would increase significantly to back up wind power, but that more expensive combined-cycle gas generation from coal would be displaced by wind.
True, but with a moderate and rising carbon price — as the climate bill would drive — combined-cycle gas would replace coal.
It's possible that the shale gas phenomenon is so new that it hasn't reached its full political weight with Congress.
For example, two of the biggest shale gas plays are the Haynesville Shale in Louisiana and Texas and the Marcellus Shale, extending from New York's Southern Tier through western Pennsylvania and into Ohio and West Virginia. "Only in the last 18 months have Haynesville and Marcellus proven themselves productive," said Curtis, who oversees the Potential Gas Supply report.
Norway's national company StatoilHydro, the world's largest offshore oil producer, paid $3.4 billion last year for a one-third interest in 1.8 million acres in the Marcellus region. The company said it believes it may recover up to 3 billion barrels equivalent of shale gas, according to OilandGasInvestor.com.
A new Pennsylvania State University report that was requested by state legislators predicts that the Marcellus Shale could add $14 billion to the state's economy in 2010, create more than 98,000 jobs and generate $800 million in state and local tax revenues. Yet the economic benefits may not come for a while, making shale gas a potential tough sell for lawmakers looking for immediate results.
Actually, passage of the bill would immediately benefit the gas industry, since it would create sufficient long-term price certainty (because of the price floor) for the industry to start signing the kind of longer term contracts needed to replace a large fraction of coal in the electric sectory by 2020 — and even more by 2030.
Note: The NYT piece was a reprint of a piece by Climate Wire.
For even more, see Game changer 5: RFK, Jr. on "How to end America's deadly coal addiction "¦ practically overnight" thanks to "a revolution in natural gas production."
9 Responses to Game changer 6: Will shale gas save the climate bill?
While the Shale Gas may be boon, there are those of us who have to live with the pollution it causes:
I'm not necessarily opposed to the shale gas drilling, but has anyone studied how much it'll cost to do it the right way and avoid this kind of pollution in our drinking water supplies?
This problem on the Mon River is particularly exacerbated when the river flow is low and with climate change likely driving hotter summer temperatures into Western PA in the future, I would suspect low flow levels in our rivers would tend to happen more often.
Beyond the water pollution, we have to know when we frac the shales to get the natural gas, whether some is escaping and how much, given that methane is 23x stronger as a GHG than CO2.
Fracturing is an inexact science, and it is done with brute force, not pinpoint accuracy.
I'm all for using natural gas — it's a perfect compliment to renewable energy, and it's relatively low in carbon. But let's make sure we do it right. Let's monitor and regualte the process. The undergound injection rules under the Safe Drinking Water Act already give us the authority to regulate this activity. Let's use it to make sure shale gasses are a solution, not another problem.
[JR: No argument there. If it turns out there really is a lot of natural gas, then we should be looking at carbon capture and storage for combined cycle gas turbine plants.]
Numbers and Questions
Has anybody really done a credible, accurate "all in" comparison of coal vs. gas — including this source of gas — including the total amounts of CO2 generated from well (or mine) to electricity generation? I have seen (so many times) people make incomplete and faulty comparisons of "A" vs. "B", only to find out the problem after committing to one or the other and spending lots of $$$$$.
Also, have people compared, rigorously, the coal plants that would go off-line with the precise gas plants (new, old, efficient, not?) that would replace their electricity generation? What bona fide, unbiased, credible engineering contractor has done that comparison, and where can I read about it in published reports?
[JR: Full life-cycle looks to be at least 50% reduction (see here, and note the coal plant is supercritical PC, which is NOT the plant gas would be replacing, so you can probably add 10% to the number in that analysis for typical coal plant. Also, by doing massive efficiency like W-M, you don't actually increase gas production, just switch its use, while slashing coal use, so I'm not sure how much of the CH4 emissions should even count. And, of course, it is a much more short-lived GHG.]
Also, has this way of smoothing electricity production (to complement the availability of wind and solar) been compared to the latest sources of thermal energy storage and electricity storage? There are a number of means of storage (of thermal energy or electricity itself), and they are getting better, and it's not clear to me that (by the time we build all this) we wouldn't be able to do the necessary supply management (of electricity) with solar, wind, geothermal, and storage, with not-very-large amounts of other things to fill in any remaining gaps, IF we put our minds to it.
In other words, IS gas, REALLY?, the best way to go for this transition period, because it's "better than coal", even though it's not as good as solar, wind, and so forth? Are we SURE? Does that conclusion consider the fact that gas is not a renewable anyhow, so we'll have to make the rest of the transition in the future to solar, wind, geothermal, nuclear, or whatever? So, we'll have two transitions, in a sense. OR, instead, is a large part of the "wisdom" of this gas option tied to the notion that, politically speaking, we think we'll have to make people who own gas "happy", to get them on board for something that they SHOULD be on board for anyhow (i.e., caring about the planet, and future generations)?
I'd like to know: Is it the "best" solution as we transition from source to source to source, OR is it mainly a political compromise that is fairly far removed from what we really SHOULD be doing?
Joe, are you saying that you know the answer to that question, and that this IS the best solution, not some sort of political compromise? Or, are the answers still "out", subject to much more analysis before anyone concludes that this jump to gas is a good idea?
[JR: Yes, I think we know the answer. I have written thousands of words on this subject with multiple links to original studies, so I'm not going to repeat of those year when the original post are available for anyone to read.]
And again, have any of the big engineering firms, or McKinsey for that matter, done a holistic analysis of this thing, or are we working from different sub-analyses of different parts of the "elephant", possibly missing some, possibly not well-integrated, and possibly flawed in some major way, and possibly not comparing to the better or next-better options in accurate fashion?
I ask because, any solution that just relies on more hydrocarbons (that create CO2) raises "red flags" in my mind, gives me concerns of several sorts, makes me worry about multiple transitions, and certainly isn't sustainable.
Be Well,
Have you done a complete entry that covers the dangers to groundwater from fraccing?
Being someone who is convinced we are facing serious "energy descent" from Peak-Oil, and who is equally disturbed by how close we are to a tipping point with the climate… I'm pretty interested in the possibilites of shale gas.
If we poison the groundwater over vast areas to do it, it's not going to be worth it. So if you have run across good studies convincing us that this extraction can be done without destroying groundwater I would be interested.
Natural gas may play a role, but I think the role should be quite limited and I think these posts exaggerate it's potential. These posts, while interesting and informative, have two serious blind spots: first, a solid understanding of the mechanics of upstream and midstream natural gas production, processing, transmission, and distribution and, second, a realistic evaluation of how the politics will define the end-result policy.
On the first blind spot, the claim that full life-cycle pollution from natural gas is 50% of coal is simply *not* well substantiated. The weak link in the life cycle isn't the downstream point of combustion, but the upstream and midstream production, processing, and transmission of natural gas. The upstream and midstream components of the natural gas life cycle contain myriad leaks. Indicative of the problem, and the deficiencies in the few existing life-cycle analyses which are premised on extremely course and inaccurate top-down data, the Final New Mexico GHG Inventory and Reference Case Projections, 1990-2020 explains that:
"The sheer number and wide diversity of oil and gas activities in New Mexico present a major challenge for greenhouse gas assessment. Emissions of carbon dioxide and methane occur at many stages of the production process (drilling, production, and processing/refining), and can be highly dependent upon local resource characteristics (pressure, depth, water content, etc.), technologies applied, and practices employed (such as well venting to unload liquids which may result in the release of billions of cubic feet of methane annually). With over 40,000 oil and gas wells in the State, three oil refineries, several gas processing plants, and tens of thousands of miles of gas pipelines in the State – and no regulatory requirements to track CO2 or CH4 emissions – there are significant uncertainties with respect to the State's GHG emissions from this sector."
Notably, this language was a basis for New Mexico promulgating a GHG reporting rule, but the data acquired by that rule's reporting program will take time to digest and understand.
Furthermore, I haven't gotten my hands on the study, but James Lovelock referenced a 2004 Society of Chemical Industries report indicating that 2%-4% of natural gas is leaked to the atmosphere. This is quite significant and should be fully accounted for in evaluating the true benefits — and any necessary limits — of relying on natural gas. While the residency time of methane is shorter than CO2, it's also around 25x as potent as CO2 and, when CH4 breaks down, it breaks down into CO2.
On the second blind spot, I don't doubt that natural gas has a role to play. But I think that role is limited and that the issue is far more complicated — technically and politically — than your posts acknowledge. The natural gas industry just isn't going to content itself with a "transition" role but is going to want more and more and more and will be able to muscle politicians to get what it wants.
For example, Colorado Governor Bill Ritter recently stated (http://www.hcn.org/articles/cozies-up-to-natural-gas) that "Natural gas is a vital part of the new energy economy, a permanent part," Ritter told hundreds at the Colorado Oil and Gas Association's annual conference in Denver on July 9. "Not a bridge fuel, not a transition fuel, but a mission-critical fuel." The only way to counteract the natural gas industry's effort to entrench itself as a climate "solution" is to make sure we properly frame the issue, now, before the natural gas industry gets it's act together. Respectfully, these posts don't do that.
I do note that the Center for American Progress has recently released a memo (http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/08/pdf/naturalgasmemo.pdf) explaining a role of natural gas. This is a positive first step, but its also incomplete and we need to think more carefully and get better analysis to ensure that we don't drink too much of the natural gas kool-aid (being distributed by the likes of T. Boone Pickens) in our drive to get climate legislation through Congress.
Back to the grind,
Erik S.G.
We are just making the least bad choices.
I trust we all know that ANY carbon fuel combustion is deleterious.
All carbon combustion should be directed toward installing no polluting energy systems.
Are you kidding me? Natural gas is a finite fossil fuel that emits CO2. The words "gas" and "solution" should not appear in the same sentence. I can't understand this love affair with natural gas and this biased paranoia against nuclear power. It's flat-out baffling. As for natural gas being "clean" — nonsense. (Who is funding this blog and those in Congress pushing natural gas, anyway?)
Who labeled natural gas "low-cost carbon action"? How utterly WRONG.
"Each shale gas well on average requires some 4.5 million gallons of water, and there can be many wells at a single site.
Hundreds of trucks transport water into drilling sites. They then truck the recovered water, with grit and chemicals mixed in, back out for disposal. How is it disposed of? Well, it''s difficult to find an answer and Texas reportedly has no regulations covering it.
Documented reports of contaminated well water are growing, as are indications that the water table in the Fort Worth area is falling. Both are mortal threats to farmers and ranchers, as well as the region's general population, and they're not the only mortal risks associated with shale gas drilling and production, topics which will be explored further next week in Part Two. "
Sacrificing water for another fossil fuel — dumb.
Get real. It's weird how this blog is becoming a mouthpiece for a lot of really bad ideas.
Nice blog, Shelly T. I'll comment further over there.
You write: "As for natural gas being "clean" — nonsense."
I'm not aware of anyone here saying natural gas is clean. What we say is that it's less dirty than coal, hence a worthwhile source of energy during the transition to a truly carbon-free energy economy.
Natural gas is easily distributed to places where heat can be used, in fact, it already is. Many of us use it to heat our houses.
Not using this to first generate electricity is a wasted opportunity.
Compared to central power plants, household level cogeneration can double or triple the amount of electricity per unit of natural gas.
If there is enough natural gas to justify widespread development of such systems, much can be accomplished at modest cost.
The cost could be modest because the basic machinery for cogeneration could be available in hybrid cars.


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FanDuel NFL Bargain Bin – Week 4
Week 4 approaches and with the first two byes on the schedule for the Packers and Panthers, finding the right value players is an even more important if difficult proposition. Of course, there are still 30 NFL teams playing in games this weekend, so there are plenty of options available if you take the time to find them.
This article will highlight three undervalued players and one super cheap option to consider at each position this week. The list will only include players if they fall below the following salary levels by position:
QB – 3 Players under $7,000 & 1 Freebie under $6,000
RB – 3 Players under $6,000 & 1 Freebie under $5,000
WR – 3 Players under $6,000 & 1 Freebie under $5,000
TE – 3 Players under $6,000 & 1 Freebie under $5,000
K – 3 Players under $5,200
D – 3 Players under $5,200
Bargain QBs:
1. Terrelle Pryor, OAK v. WSH ($6,300) – Pryor is a bit of a risk coming off of a concussion in Week 3, but he has resumed practicing and has at least a decent chance to play this weekend against Washington's appalling attempt at defense. If he does play, expect big points as he runs and throws all over the field. After all Pryor is first among quarterbacks in rushing yards this year with 198 through three games, a higher total than all but 11 running backs, and he has been passable through the air with 624 yards, two touchdowns, and two interceptions. If he doesn't end up playing, backup Matt Flynn ($5,000) might be an even bigger steal, albeit a downgrade without the rushing potential.
2. Philip Rivers, SD v. DAL ($6,900) – Rivers has been a difficult QB to trust in fantasy lineups over the last couple of seasons, but he's been extremely effective so far in 2013 and finds himself looking pretty underpriced on FanDuel. While he's only thrown for 798 yards through three weeks, good for just 14th place among QB's this season, he has completed a smooth 70% of his passes for eight touchdowns and just one interception. His opponent in Week 4, the Dallas Cowboys, have been very tough against the run but haven't put up much of a fight against opposing passing games since embarrassing the Giants in Week 1. Rivers will be pressured but has proven his ability to handle that pressure this year with lots of short passes to Antonio Gates and Eddie Royal. Add the fact that the Chargers have had just one rushing touchdown since Week 5 of 2012 and the situation looks pretty good for Rivers.
3. Alex Smith, KC v. NYG ($6,800) – When you talk about efficient quarterbacks, Alex Smith has to be near the top of the list. He lacks the flash many FanDuel users look for in their quarterback, but he's thrown 34 touchdowns and just 10 interceptions since the beginning of 2011, including a 4-0 ratio in 2013. Coming off a very quiet Week 3 with 273 yards and no touchdowns, Smith might be avoided by a lot of users. That makes him an ideal dark horse for tournament play against a Giants defense that has just two interceptions and three sacks on the year despite spending an awful lot of time on the field. Smith has also been effective as a runner this year with 23 runs for 114 yards, already just 65 yards shy of his previous career high in a season. While he's not likely to put together a huge game, he could easily find his way to 250 yards and a couple of touchdowns, which could be enough to match a lot of the pricier options.
Freebie: Brian Hoyer, CLE v. CIN ($5,800) – Hoyer has a tough matchup this week against a strong Cincinnati defense and doesn't exactly have a long track record of success to fall back on, but he did throw for 321 yards and three touchdowns in Week 3. It took him 54 passes to get there with three interceptions along the way, but if Cleveland continues to feel that it's running game post Trent Richardson is not yet up to speed, they could air it out often again in Week 4. I do not expect Hoyer to repeat his performance from last week, but with enough volume he could still be a good play at his price.
Bargain RBs:
1. Bilal Powell, NYJ @ TEN ($4,700) – Powell tops the bargain running back list this week after appearing in the Freebie slot last week. He could have remained there again this week, but I actually like him the most out of all the sub-$6,000 options at running back. He's coming off a strong game in Week 3 with a career-high 149 rushing yards on 27 carries, which is a bit much to ask him to repeat, but not completely out of reach. With his price remaining so low, and the fact that his fellow RB committee member Chris Ivory is unlikely to play, Powell might be the bargain of the week across all positions. He's the Jets goal-line back and will get most of the carries across the board, likely ceding only a handful to Alex Green. The Jets have opened up their offense a little bit more this year but they are still committed to running the ball, giving Powell a chance to see 30 touches this week. Tennessee is allowing 4.4 yards per carry so far this season, which could spell another 100-yard day for Bilal.
2. Jacquizz Rodgers, ATL v. NE ($5,500) – It's difficult to choose between Rodgers and teammate Jason Snelling ($5,800), given that they are splitting carries in the Falcons' backfield in the absence of Steven Jackson. In fact, Snelling is probably the more likely of the two to score a touchdown. That said, Rodgers is the more electric back with big play ability and the likelihood of out-carrying Snelling possibly by as much as a 2-1 margin. With the extra $300 in salary cap available going for Rodgers, he is my choice between the two. New England has given up a lot of rushing yards this year, an average of more than 120 per game, so it's likely one of these guys has a good game. It's possible they both do.
3. David Wilson, NYG @ KC ($5,900) – It's a bit of a risk to recommend a Giant, particularly Wilson, after their dreadful 0-3 start. The team has looked like a total mess and has disappointed fans and FanDuel users each week. However, they are still the New York Giants with Eli Manning at the helm and quite a few talented players on offense. Despite the struggles of the offensive line he relies on, Wilson is a starting running back on a generally high-scoring offense whose price was as high as $8,100 on FanDuel as recently as Week 2. Getting him for $5,900, while no guarantee for production, is a fantastic opportunity to buy low and take a player with upside that many users will avoid. Sure, Wilson has just 75 rushing yards through three games, but he also only has 25 carries. He also hasn't fumbled since Week 1. The Giants will likely try to balance their attack against the Chiefs as part of their plan to turn the sinking ship around, and if Wilson gets 20 carries he could be a nice surprise.
Freebie: Willis McGahee, CLE v. CIN ($4,500) – With Bilal Powell moving up to the main bargain list, a spot opens up for the next best sub-$5,000 running back in Willis McGahee. The Browns did not run much in Week 3, having just signed McGahee to replace the traded Trent Richardson earlier in the week. It was not a productive week for McGahee, who moved the ball just nine yards on eight carries. Still, with a full week on the team under his belt, he should get more carries and do more with them in Week 4. He is 31 and has taken a bruising over nearly 2,000 carries in his career, but McGahee looked solid last year with the Broncos and quite good the year before. If Trent Richardson was struggling to eke out 3.5 yards per carry for the Browns, Willis could struggle to do even that, but again it's a matter of volume for the price. At $4,500 even 40 yards and a touchdown is a pretty good contribution.
Bargain WRs:
1. Denarius Moore, OAK v. WSH ($5,400) – Moore had a wonderful game in Week 3, catching six balls on 11 targets for 124 yards and a touchdown, his second on the season. I would not normally overreact to a good game from Moore, given that he has converted just 45% of his targets into catches in his career, and just 55% this year. That said, he is facing the Washington charade of a defense this week and whether it's Pryor or Flynn slinging the ball, Moore should get enough targets to catch a half dozen balls at least. And, with the fourth highest career yards per catch average of any receiver currently in the NFL (18.1), he's got a good shot at reaching 100 yards again in Week 4.
2. Tavon Austin, STL v. SF ($5,600) – Austin has been on this list every week so far this season, turning out to be a good play just once so far. However, that one week he scored 20.5 points on FanDuel. This is the expected nature of Tavon, at least in his rookie season, to be an inconsistent but occasionally brilliant producer. That's the kind of player that's available under $6,000 at wide receiver, and Austin has the best combination of talent, opportunity, and explosive potential available in that price range. If Oakland was facing a different team, Austin likely would have topped this list over Moore, but as is he'll settle for second place. You think San Francisco has a good defense, and they do, but without Aldon Smith they are not as scary to opposing QB's, and their secondary has been more vulnerable this year.
3. Kenbrell Thompkins, NE @ ATL ($5,900) – Thompkins was an early season bargain darling with huge ownership in Week 1, followed by an ownership hangover that might finally be brought to an end this week. The main reason being that he scored 17.6 points on FanDuel last week, which is sure to turn a few heads his way. My initial reaction would be that Thompkins is not a great play, given that he has caught a miserable nine of his 28 targets on the season, which is only 32%. He has also yet to rack up more than 47 yards in a game this year. That said, he caught two touchdowns last week after nearly grabbing one the week before, and has been one of Tom Brady's favorite targets in the end zone and on deep passes. That sounds like a pretty good opportunity for points to me, and if he can manage to improve over time as most rookies do, there could still be big things in store for Thompkins. Brady will need to throw quite a bit against Atlanta, and while Thompkins has given Brady little reason to trust him, the passes will still come his way as Rob Gronkowski remains limited at best and Danny Amendola looks to be out for one more week.
Freebie: Santonio Holmes, NYJ @ TEN ($4,700) – Holmes has been slow to return to form after a foot injury ended his 2012 season, but he showed what he can still do in Week 3 catching five passes on 10 targets for 154 yards and a 69-yard touchdown. Geno Smith really aired it out with a lot of deep passes last week, giving some hope to a Jets passing game that had been hiding in the darkness for a long time. Holmes was productive as recently as 2011, and while he'll never return to the status he had in Pittsburgh, he can still be the best receiver on the Jets this year. It's tough to find good options under $5,000 once the season has gotten into full swing, but Holmes and Eddie Royal ($4,800) remain players to consider if you're trying to fit a bunch of studs into your lineup.
Bargain TEs:
1. Jared Cook, STL v. SF ($5,700) – It's been all downhill for Cook since his phenomenal 27.6 point game in Week 1 as the talented tight end has caught just six of 13 targets for 54 yards combined over the last two weeks. Not good, but also not the worst since 13 targets over two weeks shows he is still be involved in the passing game, just without the desired results. Cook has always had a lot of potential but not gotten the targets in past seasons to capitalize. This year with the Rams he is getting those targets, on pace to nearly double his targets from his last season with the Titans. Week 1 seems like a long time ago and is easily forgotten in the hustle to focus on what he's done for you lately, but Cook is ready to remind you given another bundle of targets in Week 4.
2. Owen Daniels, HOU v. SEA ($5,600) – Daniels reappears on this list for the second straight week after a disappointing game in Week 3. He actually saw the most targets, nine, of any game so far this year, but turned them into just five catches and 29 yards. More importantly, he didn't score a touchdown, as he had done three times in the first two weeks. Tight end production is often a mystery, but Daniels is as likely as anyone not named Jimmy to grab a TD at the position this week as Matt Schaub continues to look his way often with Andre Johnson limited.
3. Kyle Rudolph, MIN v. PIT ($5,500) – Rudolph makes the bargain TE list for the third week in a row. He has not been nearly as productive this year as last year, with just 97 yards and a touchdown through three weeks after scoring nine touchdowns last season. Two things going for him are that last week he had the most targets he's seen in a game so far this season, catching five passes on eight targets, and the fact that he's playing against a Pittsburgh defense that has fell criminally flat so far this year. The Vikings will likely look to keep Rudolph involved in Week 4, of course after allowing Adrian Peterson to accumulate his traditionally beastly rushing totals.
Freebie: Charles Clay, MIA @ NO ($4,600) – Clay occupies the Freebie tight end spot for the second week in a row. He didn't do a ton last week, but stayed involved with four catches on six targets for 40 yards. It was his worst game on the season, but ended up still outscoring quite a few higher priced tight ends. With Clay's minor role in the running game, as he lines up at fullback as well as tight end, he makes for an interesting x-factor play. He had a rushing touchdown in Week 2 and another one would be fantastic and begin to hint at a pattern. Even if he doesn't get another carry all year, he's catching his targets at a 74% rate and inspiring Ryan Tannehill to look his way at least six times a game so far.
Bargain Ks:
1. Dan Bailey, DAL @ SD ($5,100) – 7 for 8 on field goal attempts on the season, and 2 for 2 from 50+. Second in the league in points among kickers so far.
2. Sebastian Janikowski, OAK v. WSH ($5,000) – 5 for 7 on field goal attempts on the season, no attempts yet from 50+ despite his huge range. Facing Washington means lots of points will be scored, even if they're just extra points for Janikowski.
3. Robbie Gould, CHI @ DET ($5,000) – Perfect 4 for 4 on field goal attempts so far this year, 1 for 1 from 50+. Hasn't missed from 50+ since 2010, 9 for 9 on such attempts since the beginning of 2011. Always a solid, trustworthy option with the chances he gets.
Bargain Ds:
1. Indianapolis Colts, IND @ JAC ($5,000) – Indianapolis has not been stellar on defense this year, but they won the lottery and get to face Jacksonville this week. With 9 sacks on the year the Colts will likely get to Blaine Gabbert and make his already meager chances at success almost impossible. It remains to be seen whether or not their weakness against the run can be exploited by a Maurice Jones-Drew that's been underperforming all year.
2. New York Jets, NYJ @ TEN ($5,000) – The Jets are back to playing great defensive football, as the defense has kept the team in every game so far this season, almost robbing one from the Patriots in Week 2 in spite of Geno Smith's best efforts to throw it away. Allowing just 3.2 yards per carry, the Jets are tough to run on and could shut down Chris Johnson. Jake Locker had a fine game last week but will have it much tougher against the Jets, who have racked up 12 sacks already this year.
3. Cleveland Browns, CLE v. CIN ($5,000) – The Browns make this list for the second week in a row coming off a 12 point showing against Minnesota. Cleveland also has 12 sacks on the year and are allowing just 2.8 yards per carry on the ground. Cincinnati has a better offense than Minnesota, but Cleveland has the personnel and scheme to contain the Bengals and give the Browns a shot at their second straight win in Week 4.


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Tonight's chef to be is Jean. Her theme is Holiday Extravagaza and her menu includes: Mrs. Claus Soup, Stuffed Cornish Games Hens with Raisin Sauce, Vegetable Medley,and Croquembouche. Seating is limited and pre registration is required.
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