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11-23-2012, 08:43 PM | #1 (permalink) |
1985 O-PEE-CHEE-WWF Randy Savage and Elizabeth....
This is one of the toughest cards I have ever gone after. Most have terrible centering and other issues. Finding one that is centered with sharp corners is extremely tough.
I purchased over 30 sets, a wax box and quite a few loose lots of cards and there are very few of these in really nice condition. Here is my PSA 10 and one of my favorite cards in my collection. A self subbed card that is extremely tough to find and currently a Pop 1. |
11-23-2012, 10:22 PM | #2 (permalink) |
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Great card. 1985 OPC series two cards are pretty cool and tough to find in gem mint shape. I like Mania two shots on some of the cards. I remember missing out on Bulldogs PSA 9, wish I had bid higher. Even some of Topps ones can be tough.
11-24-2012, 07:17 AM | #3 (permalink) |
PSA made a mistake and labeled these from 1985. You can clearly see by many of the pics that they were taken at Wrestlemania II which was on April 7th 1986.
These cards are almost impossible in Gem Mint with only 8 cards so far achieving that grade. Due to the fact that many do not sell for high prices I am sure that has kept the number of cards being submitted down so naturally that number could rise but they are indeed very tough. I am working on putting together a little sub set within this set of just the base cards. I am not a fan at all of most of the action shots or the skits and so on and won't be submitting those. |
11-24-2012, 01:43 PM | #5 (permalink) |
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Nice Andre.
What are the true rookie cards in 1985/86 Topps/OPC cards. Are those Bulldogs and Volkoff first cards in OPC version. Does seem all focus on collectors is in 1982/83 All Stars cards, where it is loaded with first cards of guys. While 85/86 Topps/OPC cards get overlooked and haven't caught one as much in PSA registry. Also helps how rare the 82/83 cards. |
11-24-2012, 07:15 PM | #6 (permalink) |
WrestlingTradingCards.com - 1985 WWF Pro Wrestling Stars Series 2
There are quite a few rookie cards in this set. The most expensive one would be the Randy Savage of course but there are a number of other one's that were great WWF stars. There are a few like King Kong Bundy and Jim Neidhart where the cards are 90/10 centering almost every time and I am not sure if a mint set could ever be made. In the big picture these cards will never be as popular as the Wrestling All Stars nor will any wrestling cards. That set is just a special situation that you can't compete with. The problem with the Topps and OPC sets is they have so many action shots. One of the things that make the Wrestling All Stars so amazing is every card is of a performer and you don't have so many silly looking cards. Obviously the print run is dramatically lower then any other popular set of cards from the 80's of any sport and that is a huge driving force behind the prices. There seems to be more interest from a registry standpoint in the 1985 Topps and there are plenty of cards in that set that are very tough in strong condition. There is plenty of product available from that set so if someone wanted to get serious about putting a great set together they could but the investment costs would be high and you would really need to get a few people chasing it or it would be an expensive proposition with limited cost recovery. |
11-25-2012, 09:02 AM | #9 (permalink) |
I would say almost every card from the set is tough to find centered. I have Randy Savage cards that have 0-100 centering and then this one posted above with 50-50.
There are a few cards that are virtually impossible to find centered but I would say generally speaking the Terry Funk and Jimmy Hart can be found with good centering. You might have to buy a bunch of cards but they are not impossible. Here is a picture of a few Jimmy Hart cards I got signed at the Hogan's Beach Shop grand opening. I took the best Jimmy Hart OPC I had and you can see this one has strong centering, |
11-25-2012, 09:08 AM | #10 (permalink) |
Here is an example of one of the skit cards that I think hurt the appeal of this set. There are certainly a few action shots from the Topps and OPC sets that are cool such as the card with Andre and Superfly but as I said before I only have an interest in the base cards. |
11-25-2012, 09:17 AM | #11 (permalink) |
Geoffyb there are a number of reasons why the Wrestling All Stars are the best set of wrestling cards that exist and always will be. Here are examples from both of these sets of Ricky Steamboat and I think it is quite apparent why one is much more valuable then the other. Do you own any Wrestling All Stars cards? |
11-25-2012, 11:42 AM | #12 (permalink) |
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That's an awesome Savage/Elizabeth card, congrats! I have picked up a few raw versions of this card since The Macho Man is my favorite wrestler. I'd love to have at least a PSA 9 some time. Congrats again!
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11-25-2012, 08:08 PM | #14 (permalink) |
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Very nice, I'm very jealous of those two cards
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11-25-2012, 08:31 PM | #15 (permalink) | |
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11-25-2012, 08:50 PM | #16 (permalink) |
Jimmy Hart was blown away that someone came to the signing with cards of him and especially older one's.
Brooke Hogan and Hulk's new wife Jennifer were dying when they saw the Jimmy Hart cards and commented how young Jimmy was in the Wrestling All Stars card. That picture is from 1974 to 1976 and one of the reasons the cards are so cool. He was ushering people up to Hulk and quite frankly having the cards for Jimmy to sign slowed me down and in some ways I think annoyed Hogan as he was trying to move the line as fast as he could. Jimmy was incredibly nice and thrilled when my brother Bill and I made reference to watching him when we were growing up. I am working on getting more of the older wrestling cards signed and I think they make for great collectibles. Here are the pics from the signing. |
11-26-2012, 03:33 AM | #17 (permalink) |
Great stuff in here guys. Thanks for sharing.
Lifelong St. Louis Cardinals fan. Lifelong Seattle Seahawks fan. John Smoltz collector. Socialist atheist. Bit pretentious. Twitter: ZoopSoul 90% of what I say is sarcasm. Life is too short to be mad on a message board. |
11-26-2012, 12:49 PM | #18 (permalink) | |
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I wanted to get a photo of him with the Hart Foundation signed, so hopefully I can get over there, then I'll have Bret and Jimmy and just need to track down the Anvil. |
11-26-2012, 07:20 PM | #20 (permalink) |
A CU board member had alerted me that he had made a trip to Canada a few months ago and had come across some very nice OPC WWF cards.
I saw the scans and thought there was a very strong chance one of his Randy Savage and Elizabeth cards could be a PSA 10 Gem Mint. He just contacted me and indeed it was. It will show up on the pop report tomorrow. Be on the lookout as he is selling the card. It is a stunner. |
12-01-2012, 02:28 PM | #22 (permalink) |
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Has PSA 10 Macho Liz hit EBay? was just checking 1985 PSA O Pee Chee listing and didn't see it.
IS their really much OPC wax around? I have never seen any. What does legit wax box even sell for. Did it mostly just end up in Canada take it. Was looking at checklist. Is it Uncle Elmer rookie card in it as well. |
12-01-2012, 02:40 PM | #23 (permalink) |
Here is a sealed box. I bought one about 18 months ago or so for $150 and it was not worth the price. I want to say each pack only has 7 cards. Unfortunately the top and bottom card were ruined in the box I opened in every pack with one having wax stains and the other gum stains. I did not get any mint cards out of the box. Your best bet if you are looking for good cards are to buy vending sets which is where both of the PSA 10 Randy Savage cards came from. It has yet to hit EBAY and he will also be listing a PSA 9 Andre from the set too. Both were Pop 1's but no longer. |
12-01-2012, 03:16 PM | #24 (permalink) |
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Just got in a OPC PSA 9 Volkoff sings. Has Piper on card, main reason I wanted it.
Was looking at registry sets on it. Only 4 listed. No one even real close to complete set. Would think over time with how tough these cards are compared to Topps set. It could get more interest down line. |
12-01-2012, 04:23 PM | #25 (permalink) | |
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I will have it listed tonight on Ebay |
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yeah... i really liked it when i first got it.. before the3 times i sent them back.. i had my ortofons as backup since then, and slowly the sound got to me.. when i finally got my T1 from repairs, I no longer like the thickness of it... Don't get me wrong, T1 are great.. but not my type of sound.. I prefer eq-7 over W4, SM3.... just my preference....
T1 is said to be neutral.. but to me its more of a slanting \ graph with bass/mid bass behing more pronounced.. i tried my friend's MG6pro that day.. bit better but still bass heavy... same goes to JH13 and apparently ES5 too.. Is it my preference on sound (not too strong bass) or is it a must for customs to have good bass presence?(be it to perfect the lack of bass in universals, or on stage requirement) aren't there any customs with ety er-4's bass-lite signature?
I don't hate bass don't get me wrong.. but I dislike intrusive bass/midbass! Does UERM also have a slight emphasis on the lower end too?
Ahhh ok. Yeah I felt the same way about the T1s when I heard them. Not my cup of tea, but not bad (thats probably why I'm not too bothered about the new ACS universal Jaben is hyping up now).
Can't comment much on the ES5 but the JH13 (non demo) I tested at Jaben didn't sound too 'slanted' in the bass/mids to me. Anax has both the ES5 and UERM and can probably give a better comment. I'm really interested in the UERMs and the discussion going on in this thread is really pushing me in that direction. So far I like what I've read .
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by Kevin Sylvester / Buffalo SabresMadison Square Garden (Photo: Getty Images) |
1. It was weird walking up to the fifth floor of this arena to get the playing surface. That's right. The fifth floor is the playing level, above the theater where they hold the NFL Draft.
2. The seats here are ugly. They are purple and teal. They should either be blue and red or blue and orange for the Knicks.
3. It's cool to look up into the rafters and see all the past greats that have played here (Messier, Richter, and Leetch), but what are Billy Joel and Elton John doing up there? They mark the 12 consecutive shows that Joel played here and the 60 performances by Elton John. That's impressive, but does it really warrant banners?
On to hockey.
I can't wait to see the goaltending match-up tonight between Ryan Miller and Henrik Lundqvist. With all apologies to Martin Brodeur, this is an Eastern Conference must-see.
They're both young, previous all stars and have playoff history against each other. Should be great.
A match-up that worries me is up the middle.
The Rangers have Scott Gomez (Chris Drury is on right wing), Brandon Dubinsky, Lauri Korpikoski, and Blair Betts. Now that would not normally worry any Sabres fan, but consider that three of the Sabres top four centers are out with injury.
Jochen Hecht joined Tim Connolly and Paul Gaustaud after undergoing surgery on his finger yesterday. The Sabres will now have Clarke MacArthur at center on the second line, Adam Mair on the third, and Matt Ellis will make his Buffalo debut on the fourth line.
This group has to do better job on draws than in Monday's lopsided win over the Islanders. Buffalo won just 20 of 60 faceoffs (33%) against the Isles. They need to be better than that in what should be a much tighter game.
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Turkish Fried Cauliflower with Garlic Yogurt and Red Pepper Dill Butter!
Karnibahar Kizartmasi is a nice Turkish cauliflower recipe that is easy to make. The flavor of this recipe is light and exotic.
It seems like American cauliflower recipes are limited to buttered cauliflower or cauliflower with cheese sauce. The most popular French cauliflower topping is polonaise. I posted a polonaise recipe a few months ago. Sicily has many great cauliflower recipes to choose from. Persian, Arabian and North African cuisines all offer hundreds of great cauliflower recipes.
Turkey is one of the great food capitols of the world. Turkish cuisine has been revered as great tasting food since ancient times. This cuisine definitely has no shortage of great flavor! There are many traditional finger food recipes and small cafe snack food is popular in the afternoon.
Today's Turkish Karnibahar Kizartmasi recipe is perfect for a nice afternoon snack, light meal or side dish.
Garlic Goat Milk Yogurt:
Greek style yogurt is goat milk yogurt. Goat milk yogurt is traditionally used in mediterranean and Turkish cooking. Goat milk yogurt is the healthiest yogurt, because it is fat free.
Place 3 tablespoons of goat milk yogurt in small bowl.
Add 2 minced garlic cloves.
Add 1/2 teaspoon of water at a time, while stirring, till the yogurt becomes a medium thin sauce consistency.
Set the garlic yogurt sauce aside for at least 10 minutes, so the flavors meld.
Turkish Style Fried Cauliflower:
Cut 1/2 of a head of cauliflower into medium size florets.
Boil enough water in a sauce pot over high heat to cover the cauliflower florets.
Add the cauliflower.
Poach the cauliflower, till it becomes tender, but not soft.
Drain the water off of the cauliflower and set the florets aside to cool.
Place 2 eggs in a mixing bowl.
Add sea salt and black pepper.
Add enough flour, while whisking, to form a thick batter. The batter should be thicker than pancake batter and it should slowly drip from a spoon.
Heat about 6" of vegetable frying oil in a high sided sauce pot to 360º.
Place a few of the tender cauliflower florets in the thick egg batter.
Completely coat the cauliflower florets.
Drop one floret at a time into the hot frying oil. (Try to keep the florets separate, so they do not stick to each other!)
Stir the florets in the hot oil occasionally, so they fry evenly.
Fry the florets till they become a golden color.
Use a fryer net to remove the golden fried florets from the hot oil and set them on a wire screen roasting rack to drain off any excess oil.
Repeat these steps till all the florets are fried.
Keep the cauliflower warm on a stove top.
Red Pepper and Dill Butter:
Spiced hot clarified butter (ghee) is often used as a finishing touch for many Turkish recipes.
Heat a small sauce pot over medium/medium low heat.
Add 1 1/2 tablespoons of unsalted butter.
Gently boil the butter, till the water and milk fats evaporate.
Reduce the temperature to very low heat.
Add 1 pinch of crushed red pepper.
Add 1/2 teaspoon of Turkish style harissa sauce.
Add sea salt and black pepper.
Add 3 pinches of dill weed.
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Karnibahar Kizartmasi:
Place the fried cauliflower florets in a shallow soup bowl or small casserole dish.
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A salacious lawsuit recently filed in California has spurred sports management giant IMG to make its own juicy allegations.
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Now IMG is on the offensive. It has since sent its staff a memo alleging that the man who filed the lawsuit is a financial stalker who has targeted Forstmann for four years. IMG says the individual, James Agate, has had 42 different addresses in the last 20 years and 19 judgements and liens against him.
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All at Once
Sometimes a good artist's first show feels more like their second showthe exhibition after a dazzling debut, wherein gains are consolidated, weaknesses dealt with, and directions altered. For the last three years, 31-year-old painter Benjamin Edwards has quietly dazzled in group shows. Every time I saw one of his detonating abstract-geometric landscapesa fusion of Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie in hyperspace, non-Euclidean Lari Pittman, and Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase spun in a cyclotronI was wowed.
Judging from Convergence, the earliest and best painting in Edwards's debut (and the canvas that looks most like his previous work), had he wanted to, he might have dazzled again. But he doesn't. Instead, this apparently thoughtful, self-critical artist is branching out and trying to speed up his process. While Convergence is a celebratory, multifaceted candidate for whatever it is we're calling a masterpiece these days, the other five works on view don't pack the same visual firepower or intellectual clarity. Two small paintings look like generic geometric abstraction; the big new 18-foot print on vinyl that depicts hundreds of Web sites is intriguing, but reads as wallpaper and is physically inert. Compared with the self-explanatory jolt of Convergence, the two other large-scale paintings feel like more complicated ways of saying similar things. Critics often whine when artists get formulaic. However, had Edwards stuck with the formula that got him hereif only for this exhibitionhis debut wouldn't be so transitional.
You can understand why he wanted to change. On every level, Edwards's paintings are exhaustive, and clearly exhausting to make. Convergence took more than 2500 hours to paint, and many weeks of field work. The image is an amalgam of scores of digital photographs the artist made of chain stores around Washington, D.C. The photos were programmed into a computer, simplified and color coded, then superimposed on one another and meticulously painted. Previously, Edwards used this formula stunningly to reproduce all the Starbucks franchises in Seattle, legions of chain stores in Providence, Rhode Island, and numberless retail sites along Route 80 between New York and San Francisco.
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Essentially, all of Edwards's paintings are contemporary landscapes, albeit busy ones. In Jasper Johns's famous words, Edwards depicts "things the mind already knows." We might add "things we know too well." His work confirms that both the strip-city sprawl endemic in L.A. and the mind-numbing nullity of architecture-as-advertising-as-architecture now blight the entire country.
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Edge, the second-best work on hand, involved more than 1800 hours of painting and 500 miles of driving. Tracing the perimeter of Los Angelesfrom San Clemente to MalibuEdwards photographed more than 600 massive industrial parks and shopping outlets. Instead of his usual additive procedure, however, he subjects the data to an elaborate subtractive program, removing information that appears in two smaller works, Dump (Edge Refuse) and Fill (Dump Retrieval). The results are obscure, but you can discern vestiges of those huge, boxy structures (i.e., Home Depots and Wal-Marts) that render the American landscape, in the words of Rem Koolhaas, "a low-grade purgatory"buildings that are closer to wavelengths than to architecture.
Convergence transforms this depressing condition into something breathtaking. Composed of a matrix of vectoring lines, recognizable geometric shapes, bright opaque colors, and a kaleidoscopic array of abstracted logos, Convergence is an all-at-once, hyperkinetic treatise on edge-city architecture, replication, and the culture of consumerism, delivered with the eye-popping razzle-dazzle of Andreas Gursky's 99 Cent. In her succinct catalog essay, Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn describes the refracting hivelike structure that dominates the painting's center as "the ultimate Megastructure." This fantastic, hallucinogenic superdomepart Piranesi, part Canaletto, part Jetsonslooks like Houston in the 23rd century, a baroque church from another dimension, or the highest realm ever devised for the video game Doom.
Imagine Ed Ruscha's early conceptual work updated as Every Building From Sunset Strip to Denver or 600 Gasoline Stations at Once. This is the mutated, Warholian multiplication Edwards is into. Duchamp called this overlapping, episodic agglomeration "dismultiplication" or "elementary parallelism." The Futurists called it "a new dimensionality." Whatever it is, Edwards strikes a balance between moralizing and hysteria, the pared-down and the psyched-up, while channeling the spirits of Eadweard Muybridge, Al Held, Zaha Hadid, Matthew Ritchie, and Peter Halley.
If this were only cubism with a computer, or deconstructive preachiness, his paintings could be dismissed as graphic didacticism. But Edwards has a scrupulous touch and a sly eye. You can make out elements derived from Starbucks' swirling-smoke wallpaper, Burger King's ersatz brick, McDonald's golden arches, and more. Paint emulates the texture of artificial grass, flocking, or fake wood. Even a fabled labor-intensive, anal-retentive slowpoke like Chuck Close allows for improvisational moments and looseness. Not Edwards. Everything is planned out and executed almost to perfection.
Unfortunately, the most recent work, Decoherence, is also the weakest. However, in transition or not, Edwards is already much more than a young painter to watch. He's an artist who has distilled something profound and profoundly sad about the American landscape into his paintings: how, after coming this far, we've turned so much into so little.
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James, the oh-so-meta character played by James Franco in "Maladies," has a liberal view on the artistic process: "Everything needs to get made," he says, "and someone has to make it." It's a philosophy reflected in Franco's own increasingly eccentric CV, but it's sorely tested by this precious, pointless exercise in designer neurosis from mononymic artist-turned-filmmaker Carter, in which a household of variously dysfunctional creative types squabble and bond over matters of art, psychology and the advantageous properties of pencils. Name cast is the only draw for distribs in an indulgence with no clear audience beyond those who made it.
New York-based multidisciplinarian Carter's 2008 debut feature, "Erased James Franco," was an experimental work featuring the star re-enacting every screen performance he had given to that point, and others besides. The pair's follow-up effort — ostensibly set in 1963, though Carter throws in a number of deliberately anachronistic cultural references and musical cues — has moderately more mainstream narrative ambitions than that gallery piece, though it also operates as a self-reflexive valentine to Franco himself. "James" is a retired soap star (an apparent nod to Franco's on-off stint on daytime institution "General Hospital") now pursuing a writing career that seems stuck in the planning stages. Hampered by an obvious but unspecified mental illness, he has retreated to a quiet coastal town with his equally damaged sister, Patricia (Fallon Goodson), and his friend Catherine (Catherine Keener), an emotionally brittle painter whose relationship with James borders on the maternal. Sometime cross-dressing Catherine is the sanest of the trio, but we're talking slim degrees here; this oddball family of sorts is regarded with not-unreasonable skepticism by the conservative townsfolk, with fey next-door neighbor Delmar (David Strathairn), a fawning fan of James' TV work, their only outside ally. The tone for the proceedings is set immediately by Ken Scott's oppressively arch narration, which alternates between second-person interrogation of James himself ("Where are your arms, James?") and third-person cod-philosophy ("At point A you are one person, at point B you are another person, at point C you are yet again transformed") that echoes the characters' own circular musings. The airlessness may not be entirely unintentional: Much of the film, with its offscreen interjections and indeterminate milieu, seems to take place in James' own addled headspace. Even with this level of inner access, however, it's hard for the audience to invest in a protagonist this solipsistic. His friendship with Catherine, culminating in a pact whereby they pledge to complete each other's artistic endeavors if one dies, is the closest thing here to an emotional hook, though Carter, who seems to define his characters principally by their affectations, hasn't given a game Keener much to work with beyond an occasional drawn-on mustache. A noisy diner scene — complete with the unwelcome intervention of an Alan Cumming cameo — wherein the three principals vent their frustrations at each other, soundtracked by a crying infant in the background, represents everything that is trying about the director's unruly approach. At least Franco has never looked better, skulking around the windswept beachfront in costume designer Jessica Glenn's chic appropriations of vintage American workwear. His styling and demeanor appear to emulate, not for the first time in the actor's career, James Dean; disengaged viewers may find themselves wondering how many other Jameses are concentrically worked into this performance. Visually, the pic is disappointingly inert coming from an artist of Carter's stature: Doug Chamberlain's rough-and-ready lensing appears to pursue an Instagram aesthetic, though that doesn't excuse some questionable color grading.Maladies
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On Monday, Gal Beckerman wrote about barbecuing and hijackers. first book, When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry, will be available September 23rd. Gal, a staff writer at the Forward, will be blogging for the Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning's Author Blog series all week.
I've repeated it so many times these past few months that I don't even think about it anymore. "I had two babies this year," I'll say, smiling widely. Or sometimes I'll hold up the book and say, "Here's my other baby." I try to avoid the line if my wife is anywhere nearby.
It's both a cliché and a kind of reflex at this point – both reasons to drop the whole baby thing altogether. It also feels like something a woman who's gone through labor might not utter so glibly. And yet, I can't give it up. It's hard to untangle my feelings about how the book and my baby started life – my editor actually called me while I was at the hospital because I was late to deliver (!) the manuscript. It's always felt more than just a thoughtless metaphor for me.
But now that my daughter is almost turning one and my book has made its way onto the shelves of bookstores, maybe it's time to test if the comparison actually stands up.
Gestation period: Hands down, the book wins if we're talking about time. I started working on it over five years ago, before I even met the mother of my little girl. It involved hours upon hours of research in archives and oral interviews. And beyond the work, there was the anxiety. There was plenty of that to go around while my wife's belly grew, but it was concentrated in a distinct – and relatively short – period of time. Anxiety for the book took different forms at different times over the years, and it was always waiting for me around the corner, even at my most confident moments.
Seeing her/it for the first time: Since I had no idea what she would look like and had not slept all night and my wife had gone through an intense labor that involved her yelling at me about getting rid of various things in the room whose smells she couldn't stand, I would say that the first sight of the book was a more controlled and predictable thing. My editor and I had been


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So many things to discuss, dissect, be optimistic, be fearful, be doubtful and otherwise post about from Saturday. I couldn't even go near the computer yesterday. Still too raw. Too many emotions after that game.
So I waited. I didn't even watch my recording of College GameDay Final until this morning.
And then there is Tino Sunseri.
"We missed a field goal. That's why we lost the game," Pitt quarterback Tino Sunseri said. "It came down to a special teams play, we didn't make the play. Give credit to Notre Dame for being able to finish it off."
Maybe he wasn't simply throwing Kevin Harper under the bus. But it is unlikely. Especially when it was clear that everyone else thought that.
After talking with a university spokesman, Sunseri addressed the media again.
"A team has to be able to make the play. A team has to be able to finish a game off. A team has to work together to win a game," he said. "It's not one individual's fault. It's a team game. It's a team loss today."
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I'm picturing a Phil Hartman-William Shatner exchange (5:15 mark) Between Sunseri and E.J. Borghetti after Tino said that.
Ultimately it doesn't matter what Sunseri "meant" by that. He is absolutely the last person on the Pitt squad that should ever — EVER — even appear to be pissing on another player or coach.
This is the kid that has been the receptacle of blame for every Pitt loss in the last two-plus years. Some rightfully, some unfairly. He had a coach all of last year put all the blame on him. His teammates, though, have publicly had his back the entire time.
And he can't do the same for his own teammates?
This is just more evidence that even three years later that nothing has changed between the ears.
For all the improvements this year. For being so, so much better and more consistent than he was the first two years. For finally appearing to get it. At that moment to reveal character. To fail to at least show comprehension of the moment. Tino Sunseri reverted back to type.
keep calm
hail to pitt
PITT should have won in regulation and that would have resolved everything. Including more questionable decisions by PC. As noted by Chris Dokish on his website.
As I've posted before this team will have a large weight removed from their collective necks after Sir Tino exhausts his eligibility…….finally !
(the last 3 years have seemed like a decade)
completely agree..much like the bball team, addition by subtraction(Gibbs and Nas..but I still like Nas)
When Kelly was at Cincinnati he had 5 QBs, each of whom were arguably better than any Pitt QB. Note that he replaced his QB in the most recent game when things weren't going well. PC didn't have that luxury.
Tino plays pretty well at the start of games, but chokes when the game is on the line. We all know that.
The only thing I'd fault PC for is some questionable time management at the end of the half and the game. Hopefully he will learn with more HC experience.
Its not Kevin Harpers fault, its the Pitt curse. Gary Anderson would have missed the FG. How many games do we win on a last second play or field goal??…I know e sure have lost our fair share. Pitt is forever cursed until the Script returns.
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the reference to 'internet moron' seems particularly appropriate in your case.
However, here's the bottom line: (1) a Div-I kicker should be expected to be able to make a 30-yard FG from either hash every time, (2) a Div-I offense should be able to make first downs in the fourth quarter of a game, (3) a Div-I defense should have some kind of pass rush and not allow every team they play to complete pass after pass after pass for huge chunks of yardage all game long, and (4) a Div-I team should not have 4 or 5 bad snaps in a game. However, we saw all of those things on Saturday.
So, we can all continue to whine about whether or not Tino is a Div-I QB, but the fact is that we've lost this year because other parts of the team did not live up to those same expectations. You can't put this one all on him, or on PC. Chryst went to the pass after the interception because at that point the run game was getting stuffed every play. If we run it, chances are we still give ND the ball back with 3 minutes to play, and with Pitt's porous defense you knew they were going to score. So, please – the guy's not stupid – he saw the writing on the wall and knew the only way to kill the clock was to put the ball in the air, try to make a few first downs, and maybe pick up 3 more points. If you think we were going to burn 3 or 4 minutes running the ball at that point, or had any chance of stopping ND on defense, then you weren't watching the same game that I was.
I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but our defensive schemes are terrible. We have no pass rush except on blitzes, and we get burnt play after play. What we do have is some talented players who have been able to make great plays to save the day. All of our big stops this year have been amazing individual efforts or mistakes by the other team – the rest of the time we've been torched. So, I don't have much faith in this DC, and I'd like to see someone else next year. At this point, I think we'd be better off with Cliff Huxtable running the defense.
To date, Tino still hasn't shown the ability to carry a team to victory.
But his impenetrable ego allows him to throw his kicker under the bus for failing to bring home a win.
No wonder we're 4 and 5!
With the QB's we have coming in, burn the redshirt and put Voytik in now so we can see what he has. All we need him to do is not fumble snaps, hand the ball off, and make a few 5-10 yd throws. ABT!
Other than ND, I have never seen another college program that year after year, fails in the kicking game. It has been a curse all the way back to Carson Long (and wide).
What bothers me most about Tino is that when the pressure is on and the team is looking for a leader, he just doesn't disappear, his hands shake, he gets the deer in the headlights look, he makes ridiculous decisions, and that gives the Pitt players no confidence and ND confidence to pin their ears back.
Again, I say that after ND scored their second TD, Tino in the next 6 plays, fumbled the snap from center Thrice, threw what should have been a pick on a middle screen and called the wrong snap count on the fifth play and had to fall on the ball on a muffed handoff on the 6th. You can look it up.
Whatever is problem, he needs some help. I suggested earlier a sports psychologist because if he goes into business (he will NOT be playing on Sundays!) he will lose far more than a game if he folds under pressure.
This in no way is a personal attack on Tino. Just a 3 year observation.
Pitt played their asses off. For those of you who can remember, if Dave Havern would have been at QB, Pitt would have won in regulation. Give me a player who maybe lacks in ability/size but makes it up in pure guts and leadership any day.
I have ordered a special glass of 50 year old scotch to celebrate his graduation. Never has one player aggravated so many!
snap of the missed FG, and two players with number 2 on the field. I respect Tino however an anxious to see another QB with a competitive backup next year.
Here's hoping we will win the next 3 games and go to a bowl game anywhere but Birmingham. The next 3 games will tell us alot about PC.
I, like you, thought Tino's comments were inappropriate and worthy of blather commenting, unlike insulting the POTUS. We are both Panther fans, so lets move on.
Hail to Pitt! Put it behind you and beat UConn! A "BackYard" Pinstripe Bowl is still possible.
I, too, won't be sad to see the end of Tino as a Panther, however
Don't look now but we have a kid headed to PITT next year to kick FG's named Blewitt. And people don't think God has a dark sense of humor ! lol
Oy Vey !
P.S. Btw Sal doesn't have anymore sons does he ?
The question now is: will Heinz Field erupt in BOOs when Tino is announced on Senior Day, or will Heinz Field erupt in applause because we will all know that the tortuous Panther Nation tragedy of Tino as a 3 year starter is finally coming to a long overdue end?
Comment by Dan 72 11.05.12 @ 5:40 pm
Sir Tino graduated like 2 years ago, he just hangs around to aggravate us, didn't u know !
Comment by Dan 72 11.05.12 @ 5:40 pm
Sir Tino graduated like 2 years ago, he just hangs around to aggravate us, didn't u know !
I personally can't wait to see Tino in the pros because as far as Pitt football goes, I've seen totally too much Tino time!
And if we're going to get political, then I vote for Voytek!
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I give Tino some slack because the comment was made right after the game. But not much slack. Tino should know better and I doubt Harper called out others who might have performed better.
Move onto the next game and get better. Some of us grow up faster than others. Football players are no exception.
If it helps, I accept all blame for the loss.
It's on me!
Blue Light specials disingenuous little cousin!!!
His comment was bull loney. It is amazing that all the other players could have negatively ranted about him after nearly every loss in his career. But they didn't. But give tino an opportunity to put the blame on someone other than he, and poof.
Did anyone notice at a key point in the game and while he was still within the tackles, he threw a pass directly into the ground? Luckily ray graham was close and that is what Pitt argued. Fortunately, we didn't get another grounding and loss of down. My point is that he still hasn't learned. You are not allowed to throw the ball directly south which is what he did. Lucky that another grounding wasn't called at a critical point in the game.
If I am Paul Chryst, Trey Anderson gets the start because an alleged leader cannot do that to his teammate…ever! By allowing Tino to start, coach Chryst risks losing his team for the rest of this year and into next. Ok, so I really didn't bash him, just stated the facts.
I'm behind HCPC, especially in his first year.
These next three games will tell me a lot about where we are headed.
How in the world do you get these guys fired up for a Friday night game, against Connecticut, after the groin shot that was the Notre Dame game???
I have no idea, but it is HCPC and his staff's job to do it.
Do we sink to 4-8, and go to talks of a 3 star committ in February, or do we look back and say, "what a finish", 7-5 and a bowl game and talk excitedly of some good recruits and starting in the ACC next year.
Big 3 games. Big 4 nights before Friday's game.
Don't want to hear the "well, what would you expect after the ND game" crap Saturday morning.
I want to see and hear all of us saying, "great game", "way to get the kids heads into it", "great rebound".
UCONN has lost 4 straight, and more to the point, have looked like a high school team doing it.
No excuses for a loss to this team. None.
Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly admitted the Irish had two players on the field — cornerback Bennett Jackson and wide receiver Chris Brown — wearing the same jersey number (2) during Kevin Harper's missed field-goal attempt in the second overtime Saturday. If the officials had noticed, a penalty would have been called and Pitt would have had a first down and a chance to kick again. "It was a coaching mistake," Kelly said. "We've got to do a better job. It's an oversight that can't happen." Chryst said the play will be reported to the Big East as part of Pitt's weekly routine. "They'll respond," he said. "They have been good about that." Pitt was penalized last season in the Rutgers game when No. 5s Cam Saddler and Ejuan Price were on the field together
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At least the two most likely QBs candidates next year (Savage and Chad V) seem to be good leaders on and off the field and know what to say and not to say to the media. If I was coach, I'd bench Tino for those BS comments. Although, if I were coach, Tino would never had started this year and we'd have at least 5 wins.
no politc on this site.
This also shows how much people really hate todd graham, people sticking up for Tino over his fraudness
It is Coach's job to get them focused and ready to play on a short week. If this team has developed into the squad that I think that they are, I would not want to be in a UCONN uniform come Friday night.
There should be a locker room full of mean and ugly guys just waiting to wash out this bitter taste from their mouths and UCONN could be just the mouthwash to satisfy that desire.
Mason up Panthers, win out from here on in and look forward to a bowl game challenge as well.
@ TonyinHouston, your question, "Has Tino Sunseri ever brought Pitt back from a deficit in the 4th quarter to win a game? Ever"? answer NO, NEVER, although he has had many an opportunity to do so. But remember, "he gives us the best chance to win". Excuse me, I have to go vomit now.
Also what is this he is saying he is from Knoxville, TN. He should say born in Knoxville moved to Pgh. to play HS fb because a place was waiting for me at Pitt to be a 3 year starter.
Sing it with me, true Pitt fans!! ? Ding, dong…?
but was sick yesterday going to doc to day
was not on post mutch yesterday.
your frend frank.
I know a lot of things would have to happen, with the teams lined up in the correct slots, but,
a NYC bowl game, during the holidays, against WVU??? I'd love it.
And not just hot air, we'd really be going. We've talked about the Pinstripe Bowl since it started, so, we'd make a very long weekend trip out of it!!
Anyhow, that's what I'm cheering for along with a good, strong finish!!!
But we are way, way ahead of ourselves on this one. Focus on the "controlables" as Coach says and just hammer out a win come Friday night is the first priority. Based on what Pitt showed against ND, to avoid the "same old Pitt" whine, we have to take care of business in a major way against UCONN.
I read a quote that I think is accurate out of the mouth of Ray Graham and that was that this team plays to the level of its competition. The Panthers need to find that "fire in the belly" that they played with against the Irish again, if so I think we'll be just fine. Tough to put a finger on what team comes out of the tunnel from week to week though with this squad.
Time for the Senior leadership to use that ND game as a rally point to get the full potential out of this team for the remainder of the season. Once that's taken care of, we can start discussion about bowl games.
The Game comes down to the Lines.. O and D… Chryst has to build those up.
When the O-Line blocks.. Tino actually looks half decent. When the O-Line fails.. Tino is not a QB that can make a play for his life. (Plus dropping a snap.. what the hell)
While the O-Line improvements need to happen… I hope the next QB can at least make a play, shoulder a game and win. The last qb that could put a game on his back was Palko.
National audience watched this one till the last unhappy minute.
I am not in favor of burning a red shirt to replace Tino. Let Tino finish the season and move on.
Playing Trey at this point may not get Pitt the 2 wins needed to get a bowl. Chryst will probably just wait until spring to get a new QB.
I doubt seriously that Tino's comment about the missed field goal was intended to throw Harper under the bus. It was a quick, ill-advised reaction to a very disappointing ending to what would have been a major upset. The team, coaches, and yes, Tino himself all know what they could have done better, even just a tad, to bring home a Panther win, but it was not to be. They also know that you win as a team, and on this Saturday in particular, you lose as a team. Opportunities were there in every quarter of the game, but it was not to be. Frustrating for sure, even for the 3-year starter who has had the whole community on his back throughout his career.
We see it with the Steelers when they do poorly, with the Penguins when they fail in the playoffs, and most noticably with the Pirates. Pittsburghers like to zone in on one guy and make him the one responsible for team failure. Write down the names of the most critical Sunseri bashers, haters without a doubt, and await the 2013 season and beyond to find their next target. The coach? Quarterback? AD? Someone, some one guy, probably a young man between the age of 18 and 22 who will disappoint them to the extent that they will demonstrate their meanness in print when things go sour.
Losing to Notre Dame last Saturday was not the end of the world. Unless you are blinded by hatred, there is no doubt that you saw continued improvement in this Panther team. As a Pitt fan I'm a believer that the team and the program is headed in the right direction.
Comment by dish 11.06.12 @ 12:33 am
LMAO. yes and the last 3 years have certainly been hell, as this team with a real D-1 QB would have had lots more W's. Off the top of my head, 4 last year, where we lost 4 games by a TOTAL of 12 points and at least 2 this year, YSU of course and Syracuse of course. Would have won the Utah loss in OT as well had Bostick been the QB, imo.
So we would have been at least 9-4 in 2010 and 10-2 in 2011 and we would NOT have been playing in that sh*t bowl game in Birmingham.
Comment by pittisit37 11.06.12 @ 1:55 am
hey pittisit37. The "Sir" thing is from my sarcastic sense of humor. As apparently Sir Tino was knighted by someone at PITT and that this knighting of him meant nobody but him was apparently allowed to play QB at PITT while he was there. And as you know, the title of Sir goes along with being knighted, so therefore Sir Tino it is.
Veritas et Virtus !
Comment by Upittbaseball 11.06.12 @ 1:04 pm
Good points Upitt. There is no logical reason with 5 losses now and 1-3 in the BigEast NOT to play someone else, ANYONE ELSE. The only reason is what I've been talking about for 3 seasons now.
A return trip to bumf*ck, alabama or where-ever for a 4rth rate bowl game, yes the BBVA Gyrocompass thing is a 4rth rate bowl as is the Pinstripe thing, that probably won't even exist after Syracuse moves with us to the ACC. And who in the hell wants to watch us get beat by some C-USA team again with Sir Tino at the helm. I barely watched that garbage last year.
PC is pinning our hopes in 2013 ENTIRELY on a young man who will have not stepped onto the playing field in a real game for 3 years. Now, while I hope Savage plays lights out, it's totally foolhardy by the HC, NOT to have one of his underclassmen ready WITH SOME GAME EXPERIENCE AND MAYBE A FEW WINS UNDER HIS BELT for next year!
For our big move and inaugural season in our new conference, the ACC.
You all (or some of you) say, well let's wait to next year and so forth as PC is in his 1rst year. OK, well let's PLAN for NEXT YEAR as WELL !!
Penguin — when athletes play well, they get overly praised…and the opposite when they don't …fighting human nature on that one I'm afraid. But you're apparently missing what most people have easily picked up on these past long long long three years — its Tino's attitude and character that grate on so many of us.
If he was just a regular kid who wasn't very good, people wouldn't display the vitriol they have — but he's not, he's clearly a d@uchebag. Plus he has benefitted from nepotism/favortism like no other athlete I can remember…these are the things that infuriate people, not that he's average talent-wise. By the way, I never put Stull down character wise, and never thought he didn't try, but its a real shame if people booed him at games…he deserved much better.


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Collaborative learning can improve retention rates, critical thinking, appreciation of diversity, and development of social and professional skills. When implementing collaborative learning, match students roughly according to experience levels and make sure to give students opportunities to work together for both graded and un-graded assignments.
Making curricula more relevant to students, introducing collaborative learning into the classroom, and tailoring courses to different student experience levels benefit female as well as male students.
Effective role models have a positive influence on youth. Schools can ensure the role model or mentor relationship is effective by following key advice offered on this CD from Techbridge. The CD offers a collection of resources and activities that draw on lessons learned working with role models in classroom and field trip settings. Share with colleagues, counselors, and school leaders as you bring role models and students together.
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Computational thinking involves mental practices that are fundamental to science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). A pull-out card for each STEM subject lists references to essential computational thinking activities and resources. Share with math, science, and technology colleagues as you plan ways to develop students' computational thinking abilities across the school program.
A joint project of the Computer Science Teachers Association and Microsoft
NCWIT has compiled a list of the latest and best computing resources to complement and extend Gotta Have IT. This resource list includes ideas for programs, robotics, creative media, class presentations, camps, and clubs. Get inspired to take action with the great ideas in the NCWIT Computing Resources for Educators pamphlet.
Give your students the tools professional web designers use! With free* copies of Expression® Studio you can help your students develop important technical skills as they build dynamic websites from scratch. Along with the software, you can access free "Teacher-Created, Student-Tested" modular curriculum units, which more than 250 schools have used to successfully teach web design since the Fall of 2008.
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