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The Larry Foote signing put a close to the Steelers free agency season. Of course, Kevin Colbert said hell keep his eyes open, but told reporters that the focus is going to shift more heavily toward the draft.
We can do that. The Foote signing was a final piece of the pre-draft puzzle as we get around to posting odds on the Steelers first-round pick.
From the longshots to the favorite, heres what my instincts are telling me:
18-1 Jared Odrick, DE, Penn State: I watched this guy all year and was captivated by his height, quickness and relentless motor. No, he was not a two-gapper, but I strongly doubt that Aaron Smith was a two-gapper during his days at Northern Colorado. He was taught, and so can Odrick. But the rest of the draft analysts dont seem to share my enthusiasm on Odrick anyway. And even if Mike Tomlin shows up at Penn States Pro Day and shouts out encouragement as he did to Quentin Groves a few years ago, I dont see a two-man position receiving a second consecutive No. 1 pick, particularly since the Steelers also kept last years sixth-round pick, Sunny Harris, and hold him in high regard at the position.
15-1 Maurkice Pouncey, C, Florida: This is another guy about whom I raved all season, but that was when I thought he was a second-rounder. His stock has risen, and Im not really sure why. He didnt have a first-round game against Alabama, and at 304 pounds ran a 5.27 40 at the combine. Hes quick to the second level, but rarely pulled at Florida. A very good player, Pouncey can also play guard, but I only see the Steelers considering him as a member of a pool of late first-rounders in a trade-down. I prefer they wait on Baylors J.D. Walton in R2-3 if theyre finally going to put a high priority on the center position.
12-1 Rolando McClain, ILB, Alabama: What? You say I may as well throw long odds on Eric Berry and C.J. Spiller, too, since the Steelers wont have a chance to draft them either? Well, I believe theres a good chance McClain will fall to the Steelers and that they will pass. Yes, its a surprise, particularly since Ive tooted this guys horn all season long. But Ive also always questioned his motor. It was something I tried to repress because I admire his leadership, intelligence and run-stuffing ability so much. I think I just wanted him to be the perfect replacement for James Farrior. But Ive been hearing whispers about him lacking speed. At his Pro Day he ran well, and told scouts that hed been bothered by a hamstring injury since mid-season. So I went back and watched the national title game, and his lack of speed is clear. Texas ran five outside plays that shouldve involved McClain or any inside linebacker worthy of pick 18. He got to one, only because the flow took him that way and he broke quickly to break up the screen pass. But he was hopelessly outrun on two outside running plays and two bubble screens. Its a wonder Texas didnt run outside more often because they were hugely successful. If it was the hamstring, well, thatll be tough to prove. Throw in his admission of having Crohns disease and I see McClain slipping. I also watched Brandon Spikes the other night and would prefer drafting him in the second round to McClain in the first.
8-1 Joe Haden, CB, Florida: In watching Spikes, it wasnt difficult to miss Haden as he broke sharply on short passes and came up hard in run support. Hes a viciously physical cornerback, something the Steelers require. But, is he fast enough? That question arose up after the 193-pounder ran a 4.58 40 at the combine. In taking a closer look at his bowl game, Cincinnatis receivers twice beat Haden deep. The first time he was fooled on a gadget play and recovered in the nick of time to break up the underthrown pass. On the second, he was clearly beaten but the deep ball was overthrown and incomplete. Certainly its a small sampling, but the question remains in my mind, particularly in a draft thats thick with upper mid-round cornerbacks. While Haden plays a position at which the Steelers have a clear need, and he plays it with Steelers-style toughness, the odds are high because someone may draft him earlier. And if hes not drafted earlier, its possible the Steelers are worrying about his speed as well. (P.S.: The Steelers drafted my 8-1 choice last year.)
5-1 Sean Weatherspoon, ILB, Missouri: This guy dropped on the tote board when the Steelers signed Larry Foote the other day. Id given several reasons why Weatherspoon makes sense for the Steelers, and theres a good chance hell be available at pick 18. But with two solid backups now behind Farrior and Lawrence Timmons, and two just-signed special-teams stars from the CFL behind Foote and Keyaron Fox, it would make little sense to squeeze Weatherspoon onto the roster for future consideration. So, why have him rated so high at 5-1? Well, I can just hear Mike Tomlin telling reporters on draft day that Weatherspoon will start his career as an OLB a position with a hole on the second-team depth chart because thats where he played in college. Yes, Weatherspoon, like Timmons before him, was a 4-3 OLB, but he prefers the middle and thats where 4-3 OLBs play on 3-4 NFL teams. This thinking would be swallowed whole by the media, as it was when the Steelers tried to tell us that Timmons was an outside linebacker on draft day 2007.
4-1 Mike Iupati, OG, Idaho: At the combine, new OL coach Sean Kugler told Iupati he was the Steelers No. 1 offensive lineman. And Iupati fits a position of need. Hes a 6-5+, 331-pounder who can not only run better than any other Steelers lineman, he has the frame to add 20 more pounds. Hes a monster and would help the Steelers with their short-yardage game. But Iupatis shown to be a liability in pass protection. His supporters claim these problems can be fixed, that hes played too little football and probably hasnt received much coaching yet. Still, in my mind, a guard at pick 18 should be a sure thing, as Steve Hutchinson was at pick 17 in 2001. But the upside here is too big to ignore, and its quite likely hell be available when the Steelers take their turn.
3-1 Earl Thomas, FS, Texas: Heres a guy I was willing to ignore because of A.) the depth of the position in the draft, B.) his poor showing against the Alabama run game, and, C.) the fact the Steelers signed two safeties in free agency and already have Troy Polamalu at the position. Then I learned yesterday that the Steelers had scheduled Thomas for a visit on April 8-9. When I searched his numbers for my story, I read an intelligent write-up in which the analyst compared Thomas to Polamalu. Not that I take such media remarks seriously, but when I turned the tape on to re-watch Thomas in the national championship game, the comparison rang true. Sure, Thomas was run over a couple of times by the Alabama RBs. But as I watched him closely, I saw the quick-twitch Polamalu speed as Thomas came up hard to upend Alabama backs on a handful of occasions with shoulder-first dives at their feet. I also watched Thomas stop three breakaway Alabama plays down the sideline with a burst of speed from the middle of the field. I also watched Alabama seemingly on purpose avoid throwing at all to anyone covered by Thomas. The three or four deep Alabama passes were all thrown with the other Texas safety over the top. Nick Saban was not about to let Thomas beat him, because, as a redshirt sophomore, Thomas had intercepted a school-record eight passes, 10 in his two-year career. In the title game, he was used as a chess piece in the Polamalu mold: He blitzed, covered slot receivers, played deep center field, played in the box, and on special teams he was used as a jammer and later came off the edge and almost blocked a punt. Hell play this coming season as a 21-year-old and is nearly the exact size (5-10.2, 208) as Polamalu (5-10.1, 206) when Polamalu came out. Polamalu ran a 4.40 40 at his combine and dipped into the 4.3s at his Pro Day. Thomas ran a 4.48 at the combine and will likely run faster at his Pro Day (March 31). Thomas might also be able to play cornerback, and could in the least replace Deshea Townsend as the Steelers nickel back and third safety.
However, with Thomass stock on the rise, and the prototype having been established by Polamalu (no safety shorter than 5-11 had been drafted in the first round for 19 years before Polamalu), its unlikely that Thomas will be available at pick 18. The Jacksonville Jaguars, at 10, are becoming the choice landing spot on mock drafts for Thomas, after the safety-deficient Jags addressed their other main weakness by signing pass-rusher Aaron Kampman in free agency.
But, theres the possibility of trading up, something Kevin Colbert has done twice. The first time in team history was in 2003, when the Steelers held their breath as the San Diego Chargers, picking 15th with a hole at SS after losing Rodney Harrison, traded down 15 spots to draft a CB named Sammy Davis. The Steelers then moved up 11 spots to draft Polamalu with the 16th pick. It cost them third-round and sixth-round picks, which was less than half of the points required, according to the draft pick value board. If the Steelers can procure a similar deal this year, or even pay a smaller price if the Jaguars pass on Thomas at 10, its the move I expect them to make.

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Lorde has been put in charge of the "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay -- Part 1" soundtrack and will provide the album's first single, according to Billboard.
Will that get her free movie tickets? That would be pretty cool.
"I sat down with Lorde on the set of Mockingjay this spring and I was immediately struck by how she so innately understood what we, as both fans and filmmakers, were trying to accomplish with the film," director Francis Lawrence said in a statement. "Her immense talent and keen understanding of Mockingjay's characters and themes not only have enabled her to create a song of her own that completely captures the film's essence, but her insight and passion for our project make her the perfect creative force to assemble the other songs on our soundtrack. I can't wait to share what she's done with the fans -- it is truly remarkable."
Wouldn't it be fun to hear a director say something like, "Yeah ... she's OK. We couldn't really afford anyone better."
Not that there's anything wrong with Lorde, of course. Oh, wait ... more canned statements are coming.
"Curating the soundtrack for such a hotly-anticipated film was a challenge, but I jumped at the chance," Lorde said, presumably in the same statement. "The cast and story are an inspiration for all musicians participating and, as someone with cinematic leanings, being privy to a different creative process has been a unique experience. I think the soundtrack is definitely going to surprise people."
If she wants to surprise people, she should make it all accordion music.
As Billboard points out, themes of Lorde's work should do well as a backdrop to the dystopian world of the film, which stars Jennifer Lawrence.
Lorde's pal Taylor Swift and The Civil Wars provided the first single, "Safe and Sound," for the original Hunger Games film, which topped the Billboard 200 album chart and won a Grammy for best song written for visual media.
"The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" soundtrack included Lorde's "Everybody Wants To Rule The World."
Tony Hicks provides celebrity commentary for the Bay Area News Group. Contact him at Facebook.com/BayAreaNewsGroup.TonyHicks or Twitter.com/thicks67.


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Posted on August 14, 2013
Essays sold pretty well, for those of you who have inquired. (Actually, nobody inquired, but I know you were thinking about it.) You will recall that this was a new category added this year, after some requests. It was sitting near Short Stories in Room 2, in a shelf-and-table part of the room.
(Some categories wind up on tables, and some in places where they have table space AND bookcase space. Some categories, like Art, or Photography, really do better if they have shelf space, whereas others, say, Paperback Fiction, are just as well off without bookcases. Turns out that Essays would probably do better without bookcases, but this is how we learn.)
We do add categories slowly and only after much cogitation. Over the years, we have had dozens of categories suggested which did not make the cut. So far. We never forget a suggestion, mainly because no matter how bad it was, somebody else will make the same suggestion again some time. This gives us time to practice our sigh,.
And you never know when a bad suggestion might suddenly become appealing. During our fifth annual 25th anniversary Book Fair last month, as people took all those four dollar signed management texts out of Business and jammed them into Signed Collectibles, I thought once again of the lady who suggested we have a category called Signed But Not Collectible, "because some people collect those."
Anyway, here are a few of the suggested categories which you will NOT be seeing next year. So far.
WORLD WAR I: The 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I actually falls at Book Fair time in 2014. We did, after all, start our Civil War category to mark the 150th anniversary of THAT conflagration. But will it bring us profit to continue chipping away at our Military History section, and do we really want a separate category for every war we've had?
WORLD WAR II: It's one of the sad facts of history, but the Second World War started not long after the 25th anniversary of the first, so next year is the 75th anniversary of that period. All the arguments against the previous category pertain, as well as another which several volunteers pointed out. The United States didn't enter the first war until 1917 or the second until 1941, so surely WE don't need to take notice until 2017 and 2016. After all, history stops at our border, doesn't it?
YOUNG ADULT: We had a lot of requests for this in July, mainly from the parents of children who had reached an age where they don't like to be called children any more. The folks who set up the Children section do sort the books by category, and the longer books for more experienced readers are set on their own shelves. I'd hate to embarrass those Young Adults who might want to shop a little in the books for younger readers by putting up a sign and a barricade of bookends. And, anyway, are we saying that the rest of our selections are all for Old Adults?
GRAPHIC NOVELS: I blogged about this already and, actually, a lot of the people who asked after Graphic Novels nodded their approval when I told them these were sorted by subject. I don't rule out the possibility–books in verse wind up in poetry, after all, whether they're fiction or nonfiction, so why shouldn't a biography in pictures go into something called Graphic Novels?–but I'd have to work on definition. Is a Bugs Bunny comic book a Graphic Novel? A book reprinting Hagar the Horrible comic strips? (Listen, in Europe, there were Hagar the Horrible graphic novels, so it's not as easy as you might think.) There are Batman Graphic Novels AND Batman comic books…. I'm thinking about it all.
MILLENNIUM COLLECTIBLES: Would you STOP bringing me your Y2K preparation guides and telling me they're collectible? They may be, but so far they are not valuable. (See my many blogs on the difference between the terms "collectible" and "worth a million bucks".) Just this week, I had books of Prayers For the New Millennium, Parenting for the New Millennium, and Financial Planning for the New Millennium. Those publishers who skipped the New Millennium bandwagon were busy with the Old Millennium: Greatest Books of the Last 1000 Years, Most Important People of the Last Millennium, What We Learned From the Last Millennium. Someone suggested we could have a whole category just for these books, plus the books that were written about the world in the year 1000.
"And call it Millennium Collectibles?" I asked.
"No," said the suggester. "Call it One More Table You Can Skip."
A sensible suggestion, but it won't make us any money. Isn't that always the way?


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Huskers Host Final Regular Season Indoor Home Meet
Where: Lincoln, Neb. (Devaney Center)
When: Friday, Feb. 15 (12:30 p.m.)
Live Results: Huskers.com
The Nebraska track and field team will finish the home slate of the 2013 regular season on Friday, Feb. 15 when it hosts the Nebraska Tune-Up at the Devaney Center Indoor Track. The one-day meet is scheduled to start at 12:30 p.m. with the women's DMR, while the field events start at 2 p.m. with the men's weight throw and women's long jump.
The meet is free of charge and live results will be available on Huskers.com.
Huskers Gear Up for Big Ten Championships
The Nebraska Tune-Up is the Huskers' final meet before the 2013 Big Ten Indoor Track and Field Championships Feb. 22-23 in Geneva, Ohio. The meet will be tape delayed and will air on Saturday, March 2 at 11 a.m. CT on the Big Ten Network.
Huskers Dominate Mark Colligan Memorial
The Nebraska track and field team hosted the Mark Colligan Memorial last weekend as they welcomed the Alabama Crimson Tide and North Carolina Tar Heels to the Devaney Center. The Huskers used a dominant performance to earn 18 event crowns and sweep the team titles.
Husker Men Crack Top 10 in National Rankings
The Nebraska men's track and field team is ranked seventh in the latest USTFCCCA poll, moving up seven spots from last week's rankings. The Big Ten leads all leagues with six ranked teams.
Arkansas leads the standings in the No. 1 spot, while Florida is second, Oklahoma State is third, Texas A&M is fourth and Penn State is fifth. Texas Tech comes in at sixth, while Oregon, Texas and Indiana round out the top 10.
Top Competition Highlights Husker Invite
Some of the nation's best competition was at the Devaney Center for the 38th annual Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational. Nebraska came away with six titles on the weekend in the men's and women's long jump, men's 600 meters, men's 800 meters, women's mile special and the men's 4x400 relay.
Huskers Sweep adidas Classic Team Titles
The Nebraska track and field team swept the meet titles at the adidas Classic for the fifth straight year on Jan. 19 at the Devaney Center Indoor Track. Both Husker squads dominated the field, as the women finished with 207 points, while Wichita State finished second with 100 points. The men posted with 205.33 total points; Iowa was second with 111 points. The afternoon was highlighted by numerous personal best performances and 19 event titles for Nebraska, including Jessica Furlan, Janis Leitis and Mara Weekes all winning more than one individual event crown on the day.
Winning Ways
The all-time winningest track and field coach in the history of the Big 12 and the former Big Eight Conference, Nebraska Head Coach Gary Pepin enters his 33rd season at NU during the 2013 track and field season. The longest tenured active coach in Cornhusker athletics, 2013 will be Pepin's 33rd season as head coach of both the Husker men's and women's track teams. Pepin captured 23 Big 12 titles as the Huskers' leader.
In his first 32 seasons at Nebraska, Pepin has coached athletes to 57 NCAA titles, 477 All-America honors and 516 conference titles.
White Leads Huskers, Earns Big Ten Honor
Junior James White made a quick name for himself at the Holiday Inn Invitational during the first weekend of competition, stealing the show and winning the men's high jump with a leap of 7-5 1/4 (2.27), a personal best for him. His jump is the second-best jump in the Big Ten and is fifth all-time in the Nebraska record books. He is the reigning junior college high jump champion after completing the last two years at Central Iowa Community College. White was named the Big Ten Co-Field Athlete of the Week on Jan. 14.
Leitis, Griva Honored by Big Ten
Senior Janis Leitis Nebraska was honored by the Big Ten Conference on Monday, Jan. 21 as he was named the league's male field athlete of the week.
Leitis is undefeated in the long jump this season. He ranks first in the conference and is sixth in the nation in the event. He also ranks fourth in the triple jump nationally and leads the Big Ten Conference.
Mara Griva was named the Big Ten Female Field Athlete of the Week on Monday, Feb. 4 after finishing first in the long jump (20-4 ½) and second in the triple jump (42-5 ¼) at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational. Both marks rank first in the conference, while her triple jump and long jump efforts are both 12th in the nation. Griva also won the long jump (20-0 1/4) and triple jump (41-8 1/2) at the Mark Colligan Memorial last weekend
Akinmoladun's Stellar Start
Oladapo Akinmoladun opened his 2013 season by recording the second-best time in the Big Ten this season, the 17th-best time in the nation and the ninth-best performance in Husker history with a personal-best-tying time of 7.83, giving him his first event title as a Husker.
Vidlak Climbing Record Books
Nebraska junior Trevor Vidlak recorded the second-best time in Husker history at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invite with a personal-best mark of 14:13.62 in the 5,000 meters. He ranks 10th in the Big Ten Conference. He is also 17th in the Big Ten in the 3,000 meters (8:11.58) and is 16th in the mile with a time of 4:05.55.
Brinn Continues to Excel
Senior Tommy Brinn improved his season time in the 600 meters to 1:17.95 at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invite, earning the event title. Brinn's personal-best in the event is 1:17.63, and he is second in the event in the Big Ten Conference. He ranks 18th in the nation in the 800 meters with a time of 1:49.11.
Husker Throwers Set PR's
Chad Wright took home the men's shot put title at the adidas Classic with a throw of 61-6 ¼ (18.75). He improved his personal-best to 61-7 (18.77) at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invite, moving him to third in the Big Ten and 14th in the nation. Taylor Shapland recorded a personal-best throw of 57-5 (17.50) at the adidas Classic, the 15th-best throw in the Big Ten.
On the women's side, the Huskers continue to impress, as Annie Jackson leads the way with a personal-best throw of 53-7 (16.33) in the shot put at the Mark Colligan Memorial that ranks fifth in the Big Ten. Veronica Grizzle posted a personal-best throw of 51-10 1/2 (15.81) at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invite and ranks sixth in the Big Ten, while Carlie Pinkelman ranks eighth in the Big Ten with a throw of 50-3 ½ (15.33).
Make in 104
The Nebraska women's track and field team capped its first Big Ten Indoor Championships in style with a 114.50-106 win over defending champion Ohio State last season. The NU women earned the second Big Ten title in school history and the first team title for the track and field program. Nebraska has a total of 104 conference titles as a program.
As an overall program, the Huskers won 51 Big Eight titles during the conference's history from 1974-1996 and Nebraska continued to dominate the conference since moving to the Big 12 in 1997. NU had won a league-high 23 team titles, including the program's historic 100th conference team title in 2007.
The Huskers added their 101st and 102nd titles during the 2009 and 2010 outdoor seasons when they became the first men's team in Big 12 history to win back-to-back team titles at the outdoor conference meet. Nebraska recorded its 103rd conference title in 2011, as the women's team upset four-time defending champion Texas A&M at the indoor championships.
All-America Pipeline
Nebraska has been a staple at the NCAA Indoor Championships as the men's team alone has produced 118 All-America awards. The men's squad has been on quite a roll as they have had at least one athlete earn All-American honors at the past 22 national meets. Since the indoor championships began in 1965, the Huskers have failed to leave with at least one All-America award on just five occasions, including 1975, 1982, 1983, 1984 and 1990.
The women's team has been just as good indoors since the national meet started in 1980. Along with three straight national titles from 1982 to 1984, the Huskers have two or more All-Americans at every meet except for 2002 when they failed to earn a honor.
Huskers Name 2013 Captains
The Nebraska track and field team named its 2013 captains earlier this year. Leading the team this season will be Tommy Brinn, Jessica Furlan, Mara Griva, Tim Thompson, Bjorn Barrefors, Morgan Wilken, Chad Wright, Anne Martin, Seth Wiedel and Ellie Grooters.
Among the group of captains the Huskers boast one NCAA Champion, seven All-Americans indoors and outdoors (first-team, second-team and honorable mention) and numerous All-Conference competitors.
Wright Under Consideration for Bowerman Award
Nebraska junior Chad Wright was listed among the names released on the initial Bowerman Watch List by the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. Wright is one of six who received votes on the initial ballot from the selection committee.
The Bowerman, which debuted in 2009, is presented annually by the USTFCCCA to the most outstanding male and female collegiate track & field athletes in the nation. It is named after legendary coach Bill Bowerman. The award takes into consideration the performances during the indoor and outdoor NCAA track and field seasons.
Wright, a native of Kingston, Jamaica, was the 2012 NCAA Discus Champion and is a two-time All-American and All-Big Ten performer. He holds the second-best discus throw in Husker history with a throw of 206-3 (62.88). Wright finished second in the discus at the 2012 Big Ten Outdoor Championships.


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The innovative children's musical group Hot Peas 'N Butter brings their mellow multicultural vibe to the Madison Theatre, on Sunday, Dec. 16, at 3 p.m., at Molloy College.
Nickelodeon and Noggin TV favorites, this appealing group was founded by New York City-based musicians Danny Lapidus and Francisco Cotto, best friends since childhood. Pumping out tunes that make kids – and their parents – want to get up and dance, Hot Peas 'N Butter incorporates elements of traditional Latin music, Afro-Caribbean rhythms, jazz, folk, and rock into their unique sound. By combining an interactive, invigorating approach to performance with mature, multicultural music, the group has developed a distinct way of inspiring care and creativity in kids and adults alike.
Tickets are $25, $15 children. For more information, contact (516) 678-5000 ext. 7715 or www.madisontheatreny.org.
Madison Theatre, Molloy College, 1000 Hempstead Ave., Rockville Centre.


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This is the column that was published by The Week. I don't need to elaborate. It pretty much says it all. It's going to be a busy tuesday. I have a lady called Anne Cunnigham , a radio producer with the BBC, coming in at 5pm to set up an interview with Nikki Bedi (Kabir Bedi's ex). I have been on Nikki's shows before and enjoyed her sparkling style. I am sure we'll make a terrific show together!! Those of you who want to catch Editor's Verdict will be able to do so by logging on to the ndtv site. I am not sure whether or not I'll be on tonight. But the show is worth a dekho regardless.
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I am guessing Akshay Kumar was following a brief – for a big, fat fee, of course. I am guessing he was wearing his briefs when he followed the brief. I have stared and stared… but haven't been able to tell . Like me, thousands of curious viewers must have scrutinised the actor's crotch closely to figure out what lies beneath… if anything. It brought back memories of an ancient Calvin Klein ad for jeans . Yes, the same one that featured a bare torsoed Brooke Shields declaring wickedly, " Nothing comes between me and my Calvins." Now, with Akshay's Fashion Week act being hauled over the coals in court, let us just say the man has more brawn than brain, or else he would have figured out the consequences of getting his poor wife to unbutton him in public. We live in strange times. Women in Bangalore are assaulted for displaying their bare arms and wearing jeans. Imagine then, a popular hunky actor thrusting his pelvis into his wife's face and requesting the blushing lady to do what she may or may not do even in the privacy of their own bedroom. This is where discretion and good sense often fail our organizers. Clearly, it was a planned part of Akshay's ramp strut for Levi's Jeans – he is the brand ambassador of the product. I know the entire campaign is based on the 'unbuttoning' story. Great. So far, so cool. But to perform this cheesy number on the catwalk was definitely pushing it. I am no prude. I am all for freedom of expression etc . etc. But this is plain silly. And all the people involved , ought to have known better than to go along with the script, knowing the media would gobble up the tantalizing visual, and replay it a million times over.Which is exactly what happened.
Now what? Akshay's wife has made her court appearance. Paid a fine. She has been subjected to all kinds of jibes and embarrassed by the excessive publicity. The clip is still being run across channels. Just the repeat value itself has rendered it pornographic. Viewed in isolation, it may appear innocuous and in- offensive – big deal, we endure much more garbage on various channels that specialize in such exposes. But what has actually triggered such a strong reaction against Akshay's naughty behaviour is the fear that young people across campuses will mimic the movie star and ask girlfriends to unbutton them in the canteen. Hey Bhagwan!! How many kids will Muthalik's men beat up if that really happens??Movie stars have it good ninety per cent of the time. But when they get it bad, it's really terrible. I am sure Akshay thinks he did absolutely nothing objectionable – and he may be justified in believing that. The argument being – it's a part of the entire ad strategy. Nobody objected to the print ads which were equally risqué and suggestive. So why the fuss over a small gimmick during fashion week? Besides, the lady who obliged happens to be his legally wedded wife, not some random chick in the front row. That is correct. Unfortunately, these sort of gimmicks have a nasty way of back firing sometimes. Perhaps this little disaster will soon be forgotten.But I doubt it. There was something lewd and disturbing about the entire episode. It appeared manipulative and exceedingly calculated. The minute I saw the clip, I said to myself, " Oh no…. this guy has had it." It was not a wardrobe malfunction, but something worse – it was a deliberately sexualized performance designed to generate shock. Well , the shock waves continue to reveberate throughout India as the Khiladiyon Ka Khiladi figures out how to wiggle out of this sticky situation. A real stud does not have to stoop to such cheap tricks. And a real gentleman never exploits his wife's goodness by subjecting her to public humiliation. Par kaun sikhayega? Our movie stars love to learn their lessons the hard way. Akshay's Free Willy stunt may turn out to be his most expensive one to date.Go pay for it,buddy.


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Padres - 022 000 100 - 5 7 1 Red Sox - 101 101 000 - 4 13 0Boston collected 13 hits, including two doubles and a triple, but missed many opportunities to score, going 3-for-13 with RATS and leaving 11 men on base.
The Red Sox, who had scored 10+ runs in five of their last nine games, lost for only the third time in 17 games. The Yankees/Reds game was rained out, so Boston now has a one-game lead in the East.
After getting two outs in the second inning, Aceves (5-4-4-6-4, 99) walked five straight hitters, forcing in two runs. At one point in the inning, the Padres saw 33 consecutive pitches without putting the ball in play. (The MLB record for most consecutive walks is seven, by Dolly Gray of the Senators, in the first game of a doubleheader against the White Sox, on August 28, 1909.)
Aceves also retired the first two batters in the third, but then gave up a double, single, stolen base, double to put the Sox in a 4-1 hole.
Boston chipped away. Josh Reddick tripled to start the third and scored on Jacoby Ellsbury's single. In the fourth, Jarrod Saltalamacchia walked, took second on Marco Scutaro's single, and scored on Reddick's double. Adrian Gonzalez knocked in Scutaro in the sixth to tie the game.
Dan Wheeler relieved Aceves and pitched a perfect sixth, but loaded the bases with one out in the seventh. Daniel Bard came in and got Anthony Rizzo to hit a weak infield grounder, but the tie-breaking run scored.
The Red Sox came up empty many times. Down by two runs in the third, Gonzalez batted with runners on first and second and no outs. He hit into an unusual 1-5-6 double play, reaching safely as the two lead runners were put out. After Kevin Youkilis singled, David Ortiz grounded out.
In the fourth, after Reddick's double had cut San Diego's lead to 4-3, Ellsbury batted with runners on second and third and one out. He struck out, Dustin Pedroia walked to load the bases, and Gonzalez struck out looking.
Salty batted with a man on third with two outs in the fifth and struck out. Also in that inning, Ortiz stole second base, his first steal since August 3, 2008, and the 11th of his career. Padres starter Latos (5.2-10-4-4-8, 120) was completely ignoring him, so Tiz took off. When Latos went into his windup, Ortiz slowed down, then turned it on again, and slid safely into second.
Youkilis ended the sixth with runners on first and second. In the seventh, J.D. Drew walked with one out and Salty singled, but Scutaro flied out and Reddick grounded out. In the bottom of the ninth, down by one run, Youkilis singled and Drew Sutton pinch-ran. With a chance to win the game, Ortiz hit into a 5-6-3 DP. And Drew struck out.
The announced attendance was 38,422, the largest regular season crowd since World War II. The previous record was 38,347 (May 21, 2009, against the Blue Jays).
Terry Francona, on Josh Beckett's "intestinal turmoil":
[H]e hasn't felt good the last couple of days. He was going to go home and see if he felt better. The more we were thinking about it, before he got out of here, we said, "You know what? This is silly. If you're that sick, you're kind of worried about pitching tomorrow." I'm not sure how good he'd feel anyway. So we stayed away from Aceves [on Monday].Latos set a major-league record last year of 15 consecutive starts of at least five innings pitched with two runs or fewer allowed. Mike Scott (1986) and Greg Maddux (1993-94) had streaks of 14 starts; Maddux also had a 13-game streak (1995). (Pedro Martinez's longest streak was 10 games.)
I would have thought a Deadball Era pitcher had a string of more than 15 such starts -- the BRef data goes back only to the start of the 1919 season -- but this ESPN sidebar says Latos, Scott, and Maddux are the top three on the list since 1900.
In 2011, Latos has received very poor run support; the Padres have scored three or fewer runs in nine of his 13 starts.
AL East: Yankees/Reds at 7 PM; Rays/Brewers at 8 PM.


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JOHANNESBURG — Standing in his flatbed truck, Marc Goss touches "take off" on his iPad 3, and a $300 AR Drone whirs into the air. It's his latest weapon to fight elephant poachers around Kenya's Maasai Mara National Reserve.
"It's an arms race," said Goss, whose green khaki clothing shields him from thorny acacia branches in the 30,000 hectares (74,132 acres) of savanna he protects. "We're seeing larger numbers of poachers."
Besides the almost 2 foot-long drone, Goss and other conservationists use night-vision goggles and Google Earth to halt the decline of Kenya's wildlife, which helps attract $1 billion a year in tourism. With elephant ivory sold for as much as $1,000 a kilogram in Hong Kong, Kenya faces its most serious poaching threat in almost a quarter of a century, according to the United Nations.
At least 232 elephants have been killed this year through Sept. 30, adding to 384 last year, from a population of 40,000. Demand for illicit ivory from expanding economies such as China and Thailand has doubled since 2007, according to the UN Environment Programme.
Goss' patch borders the Maasai Mara National Reserve, where semi-nomadic tribesmen known as the Maasai herd their cows. On a warm morning he was in the hills above the village of Aitong. Fifty meters (55 yards) away was the body of an elephant, minus her tusks, surrounded by 10 grieving family members.
Poachers had speared the pachyderm in her back. The carcass was the third found in four days, an unusually high number, Goss said. The ivory would be worth more than $8,000 in Asia.
"It's pretty grim," Goss said. "It's an elephant without a face. It'll be eaten by hyenas now."
Goss, 28, a Kenyan, initially thought the drones would help mainly by providing aerial footage and tracking poachers armed with rifles, as well as the Maasai, who sometimes kill elephants when they interfere with cattle grazing. He soon discovered the drones could help by frightening the elephants, keeping them out of harm's way.
"We realized very quickly that the elephants hated the sound of them," Goss said. "I'm assuming that they think it's a swarm of bees."
Goss' team have put collars with global positioning system devices on 15 elephants so they can be tracked on a computer using Google Earth. That way the animals — who have names such as Fred, Hugo, Polaris and Madde, after Goss' wife — can be followed to see if they've strayed into areas at risk of poaching or human conflict.
Goss hopes to buy 10 more drones and to modify them by adding a mechanism that releases capsaicin, the active component in chili pepper, when elephants stray near dangerous areas. Paint balls loaded with chili pepper are being used in Zambia's lower Zambezi region to deter elephants from high-risk zones.
"Drones are basically the future of conservation. A drone can do what 50 rangers can do," said James Hardy, a fourth-generation Kenyan and manager of the Mara North Conservancy. "It's going to reach a point where drones are on the forefront of poaching. At nighttime we could use it to pick up heat signatures of poachers, maybe a dead elephant if we're quick enough."
Poaching blights much of the African continent. In South Africa, home to 90 percent of the world's rhinos, at least two a day are killed for their horns, which sell more for than gold by weight in China and Vietnam, where they're falsely believed to cure cancer and boost sexual prowess.
East Africa is a key battleground against the poaching of elephants, whose numbers in Africa are estimated between 419,000 and 650,000, according to the 178-nation Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, better known as Cites.
Elephant populations are stable in Botswana, Tanzania and Zimbabwe, with more than 300,000 roaming southern Africa, according to the World Wildlife Fund.
An African elephant weighs as much as 6 metric tons and can be as long as 7.5 meters (25 feet) long and 3.3 meters high, according to the WWF. Elephants at the San Diego Zoo eat as much as 125 pounds of food a day.
Kenya is proposing stiffer penalties for the slaughter of elephants and rhinos, with fines of as much as 10 million Kenyan shillings ($117,000) and 15-year jail terms. The government has deployed paramilitary forces and plans to acquire drones to fight poaching.
The development of new towns and urban sprawl in Kenya is intensifying the conflict between humans and elephants. The UN says the country's population has more than doubled to about 43.2 million people in the past two decades.
"Kenya very soon will have to make some tough decisions on how to manage the elephant population because they will be at high levels of human-elephant conflict," said Matthew Lewis, senior program officer of the WWF's African species conservation program in Washington.


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Katie Alderman: "The woman who inspires me is Michelle Blasengame."
LaTaaka Harvey: "I have three women who have inspired me — my former teacher, Beth Washburn, my mother, Leslie Anderson and my pastor, Debra Burton."
Shelby Maddox: "That's easy, my mother Amanda Maddox."
Carrie Barton: "I am inspired by my grandmother, Mary Ann Hastings."


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Demonstration: Scalability to 120 Threads Is Recommended
Listing One is a C source code snippet that implements
doMult(), a function that multiplies two square matrices
A and
B and assigns the result into matrix
C. This function will be used to quantify the performance impact of the number of threads utilized per core.
Listing One: A simple square matrix multiplication function.
// An OpenMP simple matrix multiply void doMult(int size, float (* restrict A)[size], float (* restrict B)[size], float (* restrict C)[size]) { #pragma offload target(mic:MIC_DEV) \ in(A:length(size*size)) in( B:length(size*size)) \ out(C:length(size*size)) { // Zero the C matrix #pragma omp parallel for default(none) shared(C,size) for (int i = 0; i < size; ++i) for (int j = 0; j < size; ++j) C[i][j] =0.f; // Compute matrix multiplication. #pragma omp parallel for default(none) shared(A,B,C,size) for (int i = 0; i < size; ++i) for (int k = 0; k < size; ++k) for (int j = 0; j < size; ++j) C[i][j] += A[i][k] * B[k][j]; } }
Readers familiar with OpenMP are comfortable using pragmas to annotate their code so it can be parallelized by an OpenMP-compliant compiler. Listing Two is a complete source code with test harness to demonstrate the average native (Intel Xeon Phi as a Linux SMP computer) runtime performance.
Listing Two: Source code for firstMatrix.c.
/* firstMatrix.c (Rob Farber) */ #ifndef MIC_DEV #define MIC_DEV 0 #endif #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <omp.h> #include <mkl.h> #include <math.h> // An OpenMP simple matrix multiply void doMult(int size, float (* restrict A)[size], float (* restrict B)[size], float (* restrict C)[size]) { #pragma offload target(mic:MIC_DEV) \ in(A:length(size*size)) in( B:length(size*size)) \ out(C:length(size*size)) { // Zero the C matrix #pragma omp parallel for default(none) shared(C,size) for (int i = 0; i < size; ++i) for (int j = 0; j < size; ++j) C[i][j] =0.f; // Compute matrix multiplication. #pragma omp parallel for default(none) shared(A,B,C,size) for (int i = 0; i < size; ++i) for (int k = 0; k < size; ++k) for (int j = 0; j < size; ++j) C[i][j] += A[i][k] * B[k][j]; } } int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { if(argc != 4) { fprintf(stderr,"Use: %s size nThreads nIter\n",argv[0]); return -1; } int i,j,k; int size=atoi(argv[1]); int nThreads=atoi(argv[2]); int nIter=atoi(argv[3]); omp_set_num_threads(nThreads); float (*restrict A)[size] = malloc(sizeof(float)*size*size); float (*restrict B)[size] = malloc(sizeof(float)*size*size); float (*restrict C)[size] = malloc(sizeof(float)*size*size); // Fill the A and B arrays #pragma omp parallel for default(none) shared(A,B,size) private(i,j,k) for (i = 0; i < size; ++i) { for (j = 0; j < size; ++j) { A[i][j] = (float)i + j; B[i][j] = (float)i - j; } } // warm up doMult(size, A,B,C); double aveTime,minTime=1e6,maxTime=0.; for(int i=0; i < nIter; i++) { double startTime = dsecnd(); doMult(size, A,B,C); double endTime = dsecnd(); double runtime = endTime-startTime; maxTime=(maxTime > runtime)?maxTime:runtime; minTime=(minTime < runtime)?minTime:runtime; aveTime += runtime; } aveTime /= nIter; printf("%s nThrds %d matrix %d maxRT %g minRT %g aveRT %g ave_GFlop/s %g\n", argv[0], omp_get_num_threads(), size, maxTime,minTime,aveTime, 2e-9*size*size*size/aveTime); free(A); free(B); free(C); return 0; }
The firstMatrix.c source code can be compiled to run natively on an Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor as an OpenMP application with the Intel C Compiler (
icc) command shown in Listing Three. The
–mmic argument specifies native compilation for Xeon Phi.
Listing Three: Intel compiler command to build firstMult.c for native execution.
icc -mkl -O3 -mmic -openmp -L /opt/intel/lib/mic -Wno-unknown-pragmas -std=c99 -vec-report3 firstMatrix.c -o firstMatrix.mic -liomp5
Listing Four is a shell script that was used to observe how the runtime varied according to thread count when multiplying 1000x1000 square matrices natively on a Phi coprocessor.
Listing Four: Shell script for observing runtime variance.
export KMP_AFFINITY="granularity=thread,balanced" export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/tmp i=1 while [ $i -lt 480 ] do ./firstMatrix.mic 1000 $i 10 let i++ done
The KMP_AFFINITY environment variable specifies the thread-to-core affinity. There are three preset schemes: compact, scatter, and balanced. Intel recommends the user explicitly define the affinity that works best for their application. The reason is that the default runtime thread affinity can change between software releases. For consistent application performance across software releases, do not rely on the default affinity scheme.
Compacttries to use minimum number of cores by pinning four threads to a core before filling the next core
Scattertries to evenly distribute threads across all cores
Balancedtries to equally scatter threads across all cores such that adjacent threads (sequential thread numbers) are pinned to the same core. One caveat being that all cores refers to the total number of cores -1 because one core is reserved for the operating system during an offload
Interested readers can find more about the affinitization schemes in "Best Known Methods for Using OpenMP on Intel Many Integrated Core Architecture."
The runtimes in Figure 4 show that the first performance peak is around 120 threads, or 2x the coprocessor core count. (Remember that one core is reserved for the operating system.) The highest and broadest performance peak is observed around 240 threads, or 4x the core count.
Figure 4: Average GFlop/s as a function of thread count when multiplying 1000x1000 matrices.
Figure 5 illustrates the variation in runtime performance with 240 threads is clearly larger than the variation with 120 threads. However, an average over 10 samples shows that the minimum observed runtime does not dramatically affect the overall average runtime (marked with the green tic mark).
Figure 5: Variation in runtime in native mode.
Be aware that operating system jitter due to system daemons and multiple user processes can introduce performance variations. (An excellent starting paper on this topic is "The Case of the Missing Supercomputer Performance.") In particular, the default round-robin scheduling with multiple devices can introduce performance variations.
Offload Programming
offload pragma in Listing One, provides additional annotation so the compiler can correctly move data to and from the external Phi card. Note that multiple OpenMP loops can be contained within the scope of the
offload directive. The clauses are interpreted as follows:
offload: The offload pragma keyword specifies that the following clauses contain information relevant to offloading to the target device.
target(mic:MIC_DEV) is the target clause that tells the compiler to generate code for both the host processor and the specified offload device. In this example, the target will be a Xeon Phi device associated with the integer specified by the constant
MIC_DEV. Note that:
- The offload runtime will schedule offload work within a single application in a round-robin fashion, which can be useful to share the workload amongst multiple devices. It is the responsibility of the programmer to ensure that any persistent data resides on all the devices when round-robin scheduling is used! In general, only use persistent data when the device number is specified or bizarre errors can result. Note that the use of persistent data on the device is required by the three rules of high-performance computing to avoid PCIe bottlenecks.
- The offload runtime will utilize the host processor when no coprocessors are present and no device number is specified (for example,
- Alternatively, programmers can add
use _Offload_toto specify a device in their code.
in(A:length(size*size)): The
in(var-list modifiersopt) clause explicitly copies data from the host to the coprocessor. Note that:
- The
length(element-count-expr)specifies the number of elements to be transferred. The compiler will perform the conversion to bytes based on the type of the elements.
- By default, memory will be allocated on the device and deallocated on exiting the scope of the directive.
- The
free_if(condition)modifiers can change the default behavior.
out(C:length(size*size)): The
out(var-list modifiersopt) clause explicitly copies data from the coprocessor to the host. Note that:
- The
length(element-count-expr)specifies the number of elements to be transferred. The compiler will perform the conversion to bytes based on the type of the elements. By default, memory will be deallocated on exiting the scope of the directive.
- The
free_if(condition)modifier can change the default behavior.
More information about the syntax of the offload directive is available from Intel.
Note that the call to
doMult() utilizes the variable
size to dynamically specify at runtime the number of columns in the 2D matrices. The ability to index contiguous memory through variable length multi-dimensional arrays (such as, 2d, 3d, and so on) arrays was added to the C programming language in the ANSI C99 specification. This feature is important because the offload pragmas transfer only contiguous regions of memory. Old-school C programmers have been trained to manually calculate the offset for each multi-dimensional array access from the start of a contiguous memory region. This article and the upcoming installments use the newer C99 VLA (Variable-Length Array) feature to make the examples easier to read, potentially enable more compiler optimizations, and also achieve high data transfer performance as each multidimensional array can be transferred in one operation. For compatibility reasons, it is also important to list the variables used in the multidimensional array declarations first in the calling sequence because some compilers (such as the Intel compiler) do not forward variable references within an argument list.
More information about the Xeon Phi offload syntax is available from Intel.


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Monday, August 16, 2010
Tuesday TV/Media Notes (Updated)
Update #1: Brian France will appear on SPEED's Race Hub with Steve Byrnes via liveshot from Texas Motor Speedway in the 7PM ET hour.
Update #2: Richard Petty and the new driver of the #9 Stanley Tools Dodge Marcos Ambros will be on NASCAR Now with Mike Massaro at 5PM ET today.
It's a big day of press conferences on Tuesday. Richard Childress Racing is up first at 10AM from the shop and then again at noon ET on the official NASCAR weekly news teleconference. Expected news is that Budweiser is joining RCR as a sponsor, reportedly on the #29 car with Kevin Harvick as the driver. Updated: Click here for the NASCAR.com link to online streaming for this event.
Richard Petty Motorsports has called a press conference for 1PM to announce a new driver and sponsor combination for 2011. Odds are Marcos Ambrose is the driver, but the sponsor is still TBA. No online streaming for this event at the present time.
The third media event of the day will be streamed live at SPEED.com with good reason. They always do things bigger in Texas. Here is the media release info:
TMS officials announced Thursday that a press conference and a 2011 Schedule Party will be held on Tuesday at the House of Blues in Dallas. The announcement will take place in the Foundation Room at 8 p.m. A reception will be held beginning at 6 p.m.
TMS officials said NASCAR Chairman and CEO Brian France, along with Indy Racing League CEO Randy Bernard, two-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Tony Stewart, three-time Indianapolis 500 champion Helio Castroneves, ABC/ESPN motorsports reporter Jamie Little, Speedway Motorsports, Inc. Chairman Bruton Smith, Texas Motor Speedway President Eddie Gossage and some 1,000 TMS fans will be on hand for the announcement. A concert by the Goo Goo Dolls, a Grammy-nominated, triple-platinum rock group, will be performed at the House of Blues after the announcement.
This one should be fun to watch, with the expected news that TMS will keep two Sprint Cup Series dates and one will be a night race. We will update streaming details during the day on Tuesday.
Jim Utter from thatsracin.com reports that Red Bull driver Brian Vickers will give an update on his medical issues this weekend in Bristol, TN. SPEED will be on the air most of Friday with activity from the track, so that would probably be the best place for a TV update.
Trackside on SPEED has a new host this week since Steve Byrnes has moved to the studio to host Race Hub. Krista Voda will handle those duties in Bristol, but a permanent host has not yet been announced.
Although Darrell Waltrip has said he will be in Bristol, he is not currently on the list of folks working for SPEED. Elliott Sadler returns on Trackside and Kyle Petty and Kenny Wallace will handle RaceDay.
Camping World Truck Series announcer Rick Allen also gets an opportunity to step into a new role with the absence of Byrnes at the track. Allen will move into the Nationwide and Sprint Cup Series as he calls various practice and qualifying sessions on Friday. SPEED will not confirm that Allen will fill this role for the rest of the season.
Over on ESPN Ray Evernham joins Allen Bestwick, Brad Daugherty and Rusty Wallace in the Infield Pit Studio for the Bristol telecasts this weekend. Evernham passed along that he will also be at Richmond, Loudon, Charlotte, Talladega, Phoenix and Homestead.
This week, the daily shows are a bit different. Race Hub has Kurt Busch in studio on Tuesday, is preempted by live racing on Wednesday and then has Richard Petty as a Thursday guest.
NASCAR Now will be hosted by Mike Massaro this week at 5PM on Tuesday, 6PM on Wednesday and 5PM on Thursday. No show Friday due to live racing. Also due to the Saturday night race, the weekend wrap-up edition will air at 10AM on Sunday.
Finally, lots of folks have been asking about the Knoxville Nationals Sprint Car race last weekend. It was not live due to a promoter issue, but SPEED will air an edited version of the race three times. Saturday, August 28 at 4:30PM, Friday, September 3 at 3PM and Saturday, September 11 at 9PM are the air dates.
We will update this post during the day on Tuesday. In the meantime please feel free to add your comments on any of the topics mentioned above. To add your opinion, just click on the comments button below. This is a family-friendly website, please keep that in mind when posting. Thanks for taking the time to stop by.
34 comments:
- Skip said...
I'm actually really curious about this. If the announcement is what's been leaked so far, 2 races and one's a night race, then I'm kind of underwhelmed. And that also wouldn't explain the IndyCar folks being there.
I know Eddie Gossage likes to throw a party, but without some sort of actual exciting announcement this seems silly. Unless he's talked the IndyCar folks back into letting him do two races a year, and actually moving the weekend of the fall race, which is something that needs to happen.
- August 16, 2010 at 10:54 PM
- Anonymous said...
A weekend free of DW. I might tune in to some programming.
- August 16, 2010 at 11:48 PM
- Brian Fletcher said...
I've never been a fan of Steve Byrnes for some reason, so I welcome the change for practices and qualifying, but I did enjoy seeing him on Trackside. I don't mean to sound sexist, because Krista is a great part of the NASCAR on Speed crew, but I'm not sure I like the addition of her on Trackside. I could be wrong, but I don't see her fitting in with "they guys" very well.
I do love the addition of Rick Allen to the practice/qualifying broadcasts. I've loved him for the CWTS races (aside from constantly yelling out "PROBLEMS!") and I'm glad to see him getting a shot at expanding his work.
- August 16, 2010 at 11:58 PM
- Anonymous said...
I just moved to Texas and the idea of a night race there excites me to no end. After having my choices in California limited to a road course where you can't see but a portion of the track, or Fontana and it's miserable on-track "racing" and even worse facilities, a night race at TMS is like winnng the lotto. Color me the happiest NASCAR fan in Texas!!!!!!
- August 17, 2010 at 1:19 AM
- KoHoSo said...
Skip, I think the reason IndyCar is there is possibly for the announcement of them changing the Texas race to Twin 125's.
- August 17, 2010 at 1:36 AM
- PammH said...
Welp, I just woke to bad news. I live in the Detroit area & the Woodward Dream Cruise is this wk-end. My ABC affliate just imformed me that coverage of the Bristol nite race will be on something called channel 7.2 until 9 pm. I assume that's a digital channel that I don't have access to. Great..
- August 17, 2010 at 6:22 AM
- Vicky D said...
JD, looking forward to all these announcements today. I like Rick Allen I think he can do a nice job for practice and qualifying. I wanted to comment about Brad Keselowski on NN yesterday I thought he was terrific and added much to the broadcast. I don't know if I liked Angelique keep on asking him questions but they were all started off by well I've never driven a race car but . . . .
- August 17, 2010 at 7:12 AM
- 51 yr. fan said...
Race Hub with Byrnes yesterday
was great. The segment with Tony
Gibson displayed the type of
the "human side" of our sport that
needs to be portrayed more. These
behind-the-scenes heroes are what
we need to see more of. There are
lots of these hands-on guys who
make the drivers what they are and
make great story lines.
RH also brought the story home on
Newman vs Logano with most of their
dialogue. Sounds like Joey wants
everyone to roll over.
Think the TMS news may be Tony and
Helio talking trading of their Czars?
- August 17, 2010 at 8:49 AM
- GinaV24 said...
Although the RCR announcement kind of intrigues me, I'll have to follow all of this via the internet since I'm working during these "announcements".
The schedule changes that have been "leaked" so far make me yawn. I guess its nice about Texas, but its not a track that has been on my "gotta get there" list so one or two races doesn't matter to me and changing the first chase race to be Chicagoland is a really who cares item for me.
BTW, I thought RaceHub was really good last night. I like the new set, Steve did his usual fine job and the interview with Tony Gibson was something special. I didn't know that he had been part of Alan Kulwicki's team and having the conversation with Steve connect the dots between Bristol and how the 39 team plans to make up the points it needs over the next 3 races with Kulwicki and the plane crash was really interesting to me. For me, finding out about the people involved in racing, not just the drivers, is what makes it special and real.
- August 17, 2010 at 9:53 AM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
So, Harvick gets Bud for 20 races plus the Shootout next season. So that leaves a pretty good chunk of the season for another sponsor. We know Shell is gone. Hmm...
Very interested to see what TMS says tonight and why they have so many big names at that event.
- August 17, 2010 at 11:01 AM
- Zieke said...
Thanks Speed, for keeping the shill Waltrips off your shows this weekend. Your intelligence is improving.
- August 17, 2010 at 11:38 AM
- sbaker17 said...
Daly Planet Editor said...
So, Harvick gets Bud for 20 races plus the Shootout next season. So that leaves a pretty good chunk of the season for another sponsor. We know Shell is gone. Hmm...
Very interested to see what TMS says tonight and why they have so many big names at that event.
August 17, 2010 11:01 AM
The other sponsor filler for Harvick would have to be a chips/salsa combo
- August 17, 2010 at 12:02 PM
- Wisconsin Steve said...
Did anyone see Dave Despain: On Assignment last night? I missed it but am thinking of watching the re-air if its worth my time.
- August 17, 2010 at 1:13 PM
- NatureBoyNC said...
Big mistake moving Steve Byrnes to the RaceHub. He was good at 'Trackside' and he was part of a good team with himself, Larry Mac & Hammond doing practice & qualifying. Should have let Krista Voda do RaceHub because she's good in that format. Don't care much for Rick Allen.
- August 17, 2010 at 1:17 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
Steve, fantastic show! Airs again on Wednesday at 3:30PM ET.
- August 17, 2010 at 1:19 PM
- Wisconsin Steve said...
Thanks JD.
I kind of hope Speed gives Krista Voda a chance in the booth for qualifying or practice before the season ends; I think she's earned the opportunity.
- August 17, 2010 at 1:23 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
Steve, Krista is going to handle most of the "Trackside" shows down the stretch along with the pre-race on the Trucks.
- August 17, 2010 at 1:30 PM
- Newracefan said...
I loved the new Hub Show, the set it much better. Just looks more professional without the ESPN suits so it's still fun and now informative. Steve was fantastic. I'll miss him at the track but having him on Hub is reason enough for me plus it means he gets to see his family which I totally understand.
- August 17, 2010 at 2:00 PM
- Skip said...
Well my hope is that they're announcing that the Fall race is moving weekends. I know that Gossage wants to move it because he probably loses twenty thousand in attendance having the fall race go up against the opening weekend of deer season. But I figure that this would have leaked before now if it was going to happen.
- August 17, 2010 at 2:26 PM
- Richard in N.C. said...
Wonder whether Bud might have an option to expand sponsorship if Happy wins the championship?
Happy seems like a better fit, to me, for Bud than Kasey.
- August 17, 2010 at 2:47 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
I'm still floored they are only doing 20 races. That makes no sense at all for a major brand like that.
- August 17, 2010 at 2:50 PM
- batchief said...
Happy for both Steve and Krista. Steve lives in the Charlotte area while Krista lives in Pittsburgh and is why it makes sense the way they have set things up. Shades of Totally Nascar for Steve and Krista just keeps advancing the female participation in the sport.
- August 17, 2010 at 2:56 PM
- glenc1 said...
Personally I'm looking forward to having a woman on the Trackside panel. Just to see if it changes the dynamic any. I mean, she'll be herding cats just like Steve, but I like the idea of mixing it up a bit, if she's up to the challenge. They are not an easy group. It's so rare for them to even have a female as a guest, when at least a third of your fans are women, it would seem out of proportion with the NASCAR population. Just thinking aloud.
- August 17, 2010 at 3:06 PM
- Blue Duecer said...
As for Bud...see InBev, the new foreign owners. Also, they spent a ton of marketing money at the World Cup to be the official sponsor and only beer at all World Cup games. Possibly they shrank their marketing budgets in the US to expand marketing on a worldwide basis.
- August 17, 2010 at 3:12 PM
- GinaV24 said...
I think Krista will do a good job with trackside -- Krista and Wendy V are my two favorite female NASCAR broadcasters. Both are professional and smart and it is great.
I think it will be fun to watch Krista herd that group of "cats" on Trackside.
WisconsinSteve -- I watched it -- it was a very good show -- I've setup the recorder to catch it again on Wed.
Richard in NC -- I'm with you on Harvick being a better fit with Bud than Kahne. Harvick looks like he actually drinks beer, I always figured that Hallmark would be a good sponsor for Kahne.
- August 17, 2010 at 3:13 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
BD, totally agree with that. They have dropped so many US sponsorships to concentrate on the international market.
- August 17, 2010 at 3:29 PM
- glenc1 said...
Gina...lol. I like Kasey, but that just never seemed like a good fit.
I've been surprised that they've haven't had more interest from Canadian beer companies wanting more recognition in the US. I'm sure there is no stone unturned by the NASCAR owners though.
- August 17, 2010 at 4:49 PM
- Richard in N.C. said...
Isn't Molson tied in with Coors, which now is in a joint venture with Miller as I recall?
Never know what RC might have up his sleeve. Offhand I can't recall what happened about the Holiday Inn N-wide sponsorship RCR had the past few years.
With the upcoming birth, I thought SPEED might have used Wendy V more on Race Hub. To some extent it surprises me that Race Hub apparently is going to have one, non-track host whereas NASCAR Now has 3 rotating hosts all of whom have some regular at-the-track presence. I will miss Steve on Trackside.
- August 17, 2010 at 6:02 PM
- saltsburgtrojanfan said...
This is greed at it's finest, JD. Sponsorship changing hands every year you never know what conflict of interest chaos can occur.
- August 17, 2010 at 6:58 PM
- sbaker17 said...
The TMS announcement this evening will be that there will be a combined NASCAR/IRL race weekend with the added bonus that if a driver enters and wins each event, they get a ton of $ and an opportunity to sing with the Goo Goo Dolls on an off weekend
- August 17, 2010 at 7:01 PM
- Vicky D said...
JD, just hope that the "Local Singing Sensation" doesn't show up at the announcement tonight. I'm wondering about the other races for KH maybe a pretzel maker?
- August 17, 2010 at 7:36 PM
- Bobby said...
John, InBev is also cutting back from Bud to focus on other beers (note Bud is cutting to a little more than a half season). The Leuven-based brewery's primary beers include Stella Artois and Beck's. It's a clear move out of the big red beer for the over 600-year old brewer.
The IRL race will be two 275 km feature races in the same evening with half points for each race, in the traditional June date. USAC has run this format in the past, and it is listed in the NASCAR rule book for short track racing. Many short tracks feature the twin-feature format for some weekly races.
The NASCAR announcement is the April date is moving to a night race. This is two-fold: first, it allows a built-in Sunday rain date because Denton ISD has had to close school in the past when the Sprint Cup race is rained out and postponed to Monday; second, this is Masters weekend, and NASCAR doesn't want to compete against the final round of Augusta.
- August 17, 2010 at 10:10 PM
- Anonymous said...
I see that Texas race in April is going to start at around 8p.m. Eastern, 7p.m. Central. So much for the idea of standard starting times. Once they start allowing exceptions like this, before you know it, the starting times will be all over the map again.
- August 18, 2010 at 9:44 AM
- GinaV24 said...
glenc1 -- I don't dislike Kasey - heck I'm a longtime Gordon fan so I have no room to talk about someone being mocked as a "pretty boy". LOL
I just never could see the Bud sponsorship as a fit for him, not like with Schrader or Dale Jr and now Harvick.
And I do wish that Kasey would grow out of that "deer in the headlights" look he tends to get. Maybe all those creepy Allstate Insurance stalker ads took their toll.
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