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Discussion in 'Adult League & Tournament Talk' started by Cindysphinx, May 9, 2010.
Not according to some here who call people who foot fault "cheaters".
Well... I would like to think they would warn you before claiming points, and if there was doubt about the foot faults in question have a third party make future calls. If that is not possible then you would have to live with the opponents call like any line call you might not agree with.
I've never heard or seen any match where an opponent could a) call foot faults and b) take serves away and with it a point on a second serve call. That's why the USTA has the rules as they are. I couldn't imagine anyone going to play a USTA match after he/she gets off work and allow the opponent to yell "FOOT FAULT" at them an entire match LOL.
That's a ridiculous statement, you're projecting. I've never heard of anyone calling a foot fault when it didn't actually occur.
If someone called a foot fault on you, you should thank them for informing you or your negligence.
What kind of hell would you make your opponent pay? What if it were a roving-referee at a tournament--what kind of hell would you make them pay?
Isn't that what this whole thread is about..?
Agreed, it is just negligent behavior and not mayhem. Those who think it's just a technical violation and are resentful if called on it, would probably feel alright if someone parked a few inches into their driveway preventing them from exiting and making it to their league match.
They would probably go back in their house and stay home that day and not do or say anything about it--since parking "just" a few inches into someone's driveway is a technical violation and surely wouldn't inconvenience anyone and surely wouldn't result in their being towed away and fined.
OK, but what if the guy you were playing in a tournament the week before and you called for a footfault parked in your driveway the next week preventing you from making your match this week AND he said "NEE-NER-NEE-NER"?
I think in this case the USTA would mandate that you sleep with his wife if I read the rules correctly.
Sure, if she was cute.
Nope, no exceptions.
In fact I know this guy who purposely footfaults every week, then................
Yep, been called on it once.
I was playing mixed doubles in 3.5 league about 8 years ago and the guy receving the ball called me on it.
At the time I didn't think I was foot-faulting but did know that I had a tendency to move my left foot 2-3" slightly before making contact with the ball. I'd stand an extra 2-3" from the line just in case.
I recall taking exception to the call because how on earth is someone standing that far away that is supposed to be watching the ball toss going to know whether or not I was foot faulting. I actually did tell them that if the net person were calling it that I'd take it more seriously.
I always end up about a foot into the court but never go to net and I'm under 6' so it's not it's an advantage in any way shape or form.
I still don't think I was footfaulting at the time but it did make me look at my serve and gradually I've made it so that my left foot stays much more planted and that I don't have to stand that extra 2-3" behind the line. Planting my foot has also helped with getting a little more power into the serve and generally staying a bit more balanaced at ball contact.
I've recorded myself serving and have never (even then) found myself to footfault but I suppose that could have been due to actually concentrating on not doing it.
Yes, every rule should be followed but I do hope that people remember that this is a game and the majority of us are in fact not very good at it. I'm more concerned about opponents giving me the benefit of the doubt when they are making a line call from 30 feet away then I am with them foot faulting.
Regardless of whether you think you are right or wrong, if you **** them off then some of those close calls will not go your way. Pick your battles.
If you always look for evil in others, that is what you will find.
Look within yourself and root out the evil there.
I don't know how to respond to this statement. What would you call someone that is not playing within the rules? I understand it is not intentional... but does the police officer care if you didn't realize you were doing 50 in a 35 zone?
Don't get me wrong I have never called someone on a footfault though during my time I should have many times. I just felt even with that advantage I was going to beat them anyway.
My problem is that there are those... (and obviously a few posting here), feel that if you do call them on a foot fault that they are hard done by. That the person calling the infraction is the person in the wrong... (how dare they call me on a foot fault, I don't foot fault).
If you are a foot faulter, fix it... if your opponent calls you on it, make an adjustment, the line is there for a reason. If you cross the line on a bowling alley and the buzzer went off I don't think you would be trying to argue the point. There is a lot of room behind the service line to setup... so there shouldn't be an issue.
Ripper agree with what you say. Most foot faulting is not deliberate cheating it is just negligent behavior.. The key factor to me is the statement the player makes about his character when confronted with their errant behavior. Do they get defensive, combative, choke, fall apart?--or do they go forward and fix it?
I completely agree. Foot faulting is against the rules, but is not (usually) an attempt to cheat and gain unfair advantage. And when confronted with evidence of foot faulting, an honest player will accept it, and either fix it or accept the penalty.
But the problem is in providing the evidence. For example, if there is a line judge present and he/she calls a footfault, this should be accepted completely (unless your name is Serena). But when the footfault is being called by opponents on the other side of the net, it is much harder to accept, not because of doubting their sincerity, but because they are not in position to really see it:
1. They are typically concentrating on the ball / service motion, not the server's feet.
2. They are looking across the baseline from a distance, rather than down it.
3. They can't judge from there whether the server's feet are perhaps an inch off the ground versus actually touching the ground
Unless of course it is flagrant. Which is where all the argument comes in
Agreed... but they are in a better position to see it than the server. And I would suggest in a doubles match the receivers partner has a very clear view.
But I would offer... that like line calls you have to give your opponent the benefit of the doubt. Make an adjustment and move on.
This is somewhat an academic discussion, since in 5 years of league and tournament play I've never once had a footfault called on me, nor have I called a footfault on anyone else, nor have I witnessed any other footfault calls made by/against team-mates.
But apparently some people's tennis lives are much more dramatic and exciting than mine
I hear you... but I have the awful personal fault to have at least a few people agree with me before I can let an issue go.
Honestly, I've only had the one guy (story above) question my foot placement on the serve. It hasn't really come into play in any of my USTA matches or even competitive tournament play.
The only reason I'm sticking to my guns on this and being so bull-headed about this is that before our USTA district matches, the 3.0 teams were playing and there was one match where, even though the roaming officials were walking around, an opponent called a foot fault on his opponent for a game's worth of points. Because these people were so new to the game, nobody questioned it, but our 3.5 team (all of whom got moved up to 4.0 the next year) were there with our mouths wide open at the line caller's arrogance. We didn't want to say anything, but the attitude of entitlement by the caller was ridiculous.
I say, unless a foot fault blatantly helps the server's game out, play the point and try to win it fair and square. To win on technicalities is bush league and I am VERY dead set against it. Play the game, not the rules of the game.
tennis has foot judges for reason. because of opposition bias and angle distance is to far to call an correct 100%.
Get an official. Come finals chronic and flagrant footfaulters will be caught out big time.
I think you are missing the point.
While I would never call a footfault on an opponent, I realize that an opponent is well within the rules to call (or caution me for) a footfault.
When you take the court, you (implicitly) agree to play by the rules. Perhaps you (wisely) overlook certain rules, but that does not mean that your opponent is required to do the same.
If he makes this call, you have to deal with it in one way or another. Easiest way (in my opinion) is to back a few inches off the baseline, apologize, and continue play.
another thing, if i was ever called without a warning given first. the opposition better make sure their own foot isn't anywhere near that line.
That shouldn't be an issue. Per the code, you cannot just call a footfault. First you would have to warn the player. Second, you would have to attempt to get an official. Failing both of those remedies, only then could you call a footfault and then only if it is "flagrant". The code is pretty clear that flagrant means it is clear to the receiver.
So to hfmf's example, the player calling the footfaults was in violation of the code since there were officials available at Districts. If they were concerned about their opponent's footfaults, they should have gotten an official to watch the match. They had no right to make that call on their own.
In NorCal our local league rules allow us to call for court monitors, which are typically one player from each team, who can call footfaults. I have seen plenty of really egregious footfaulters clean up their act quickly when monitors were brought onto the court.
As I said above, when I am playing a match I don't look for or call footfaults - it isn't worth the argument and I don't want to lose focus on the match. I would just like to see people respond to a FF warning with some humility rather than hostility.
If an official is called in or someone is agreed upon to act as a stand-in official, where are they located in respect to play? Do they stand at the net-post or in line with the baseline on the server's side?
you are mistaken Kyle. YOu can call a footfault immediately. This what the code says:
"24. Foot Faults. A player may warn an opponent that the opponent has
committed a flagrant foot fault. If the foot faulting continues, the player may
attempt to locate an official. If no official is available, the player may call flagrant
foot faults. Compliance with the foot fault rule is very much a function
of a player's personal honor system. The plea that a Server should not be
penalized because the server only just touched the line and did not rush the
net is not acceptable. Habitual foot faulting, whether intentional or careless,
is just as surely cheating as is making a deliberate bad line call."
Where it says "may", it means an option, that player does not have to do it. If the code said "shall", then that means the player is obligated to follow the code as stated.
Nope, you must warn and you must locate an official. From Friend At Court:
Thanks Cindy, I stand corrected.
Hey, it's not your fault. The wording in the Rules/Code is often not as clear as it could be.
I was adjacent to league mixed doubles match on Friday and all them foot faulted at one time or another.
Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan, should be questioned long and hard regarding her views on foot faulting, past and present.
I agree, me bad. The foot-faulting issue is sensitive enough to effect vital national security interests. It's best left to the Joint Chiefs of Staff or the CIA for review and interpretation. This is complex. Maybe unmanned high-flying drones should be employed for pin-point accuracy?
What about the sideline? I see a player in doubles who routinely stands with his back foot outside the doubles sideline. ie wide of the court on his ad side serve.
I searched and can't find where it states the server is allowed to stand in regard to the imaginary sideline extension. Is it legal, or a foot fault?
One of my opponents in a recent 4.0 match was footfaulting like crazy. I didn't raise it, warn her or even tell my partner.
'Cause I didn't want to be That Guy.
Besides, she is really nice and maybe someday she'll help me get on a team. But not if start calling her for footfaults!
Seems like they made it up like they do with most things in your leagues.
The code addresses something similar where you can call it if it's flagrant and after you've tryed to contact an official.
Ironically though Ive been in a situation twice now where the opponents were either calling it on me or my partner, and luckily it was in a tournament and I was the one getting an official.
(usually the speel goes like this: "They are calling foot faults. Maybe we are doing it, and maybe we are not, Im not sure, but I dont trust those guys to call it.....")
www.usta.com (it has the rules on it somewhere)
You cant go over the baseline, the imaginary extension of the center hash mark, or the imaginary extension of the doubles sideline.
But "the sideline" is different depending on if it's singles or doubles. In doubles you can serve from behind the doubles alley, but in singles you can not.
Ah just the opening I was looking for.
Does this apply to a part of the body (most likely foot) touching the ground or does it apply to any part of the body encroaching in a three-dimensional sense into the space?
In other words, there are players who stand close to the imaginary extension of the center hash mark and as they serve they will bump against an imaginary vertical plane aligned with the center line. Some players noticeably bring their racquets in through the opposite side to create an angle.
Is this a violation.
You cant touch the ground on the line, or the imaginary extension of the line.
You can float in the air all you want. (with any of those lines or imaginary lines)
I had a guy at a tournament that thought I was "foot" faulting because I had a bad habit of bringing my right foot up and swinging it over the center hash on ad court serves. (but not touching the ground)
I went and got an official once he started to actually call it.
The rules are pretty clearly on www.usta.com, Im not sure how someone could say they "searched for them but didnt find them".
I don't even know how people can call foot faults. I'm always watching the ball and my opponent. If you can hit return winners while looking at your opponent's feet, you need to go up a level or two.
Another example of why I am skeptical of club players calling FFs correctly.
It has more credibility in doubles when the net man on the receiving side has a better view.
Can the net man call a FF or does it have to be the returner? (I think either can call)
Either can call of course. I would think you'd have a right to be more suspicious if the returner is calling it.
Unless the server is venturing several feet into the court or walks right into the court or is starting the whole motion while standing on the line (I know one guy that does that just to start an argument).
I know everyone says that everyone does it, and I know that you shouldnt do it.
But if depending on how you want to define "flagrant", that eliminates a lot of people. I know of only 3 or 4 people in my amateur tennis career that I would consider to be flagrant, and EVERYONE knows they do it, and THEY know they do it, and it does get called.
(it's flagrant because they either jump way into the court to get a head start or one guy is a lefty and he spins around and steps across in a sort of continuation of a circle which gives him a huge amount of lefty slice)
I agree. Bringing up foot faults in a tennis match often results in a nuclear response.
I had an opportunity to watch some really spectacular foot faulting the other day. The opponent server lined up right on the middle hash and would step over the middle to serve every time to the deuce court.
It wasn't even close he would cross the middle going into the same side that he was serving to all prior to throwing up the ball for the toss.
I probably should have said something, but since they were already hooking us on line calls I figured it would be a big fight for no benefit. (We had been breaking his serve every time)
That's exactly when you should be able to exercise your right to call it.
You cant do anything about the bad line calls, but foot faulting is actually your call to make.
From section 18 of the USTA rule nook
During the service motion, the server shall not:
a. Change position by walking or running, although slightmovements of the feet
are permitted; or
b. Touch the baseline or the court with either foot; or
c. Touch the area outside the imaginary extension of the sideline with either
foot; or
d. Touch the imaginary extension of the centre mark with either foot.
If the server breaks this rule it is a "Foot Fault".
Thanks for your answer. The guy is definitely foot faulting then.
And when I said I did a search and couldn't find it, I meant on these boards. I could have sworn I read it somewhere here. That's why I asked in case the one who may have posted that info could answer.
My bad.
good thread
I called one on myself Wednesday night.....the serve was a service winner(not returnable)
Our opponents said don't worry about it take the point, I said 2nd serve - it was blatant....
As for calling it against opponents I would only do so after multiple warnings and if the server was a serve and volley player and was gaining a clear advantage from the repeated violations....
Otherwise I would let the friendly recreational league match go on....most of the players in my mixed league foot fault a lot.....
It is a tough call tho, good thread.
I wonder if local league basketball players have heated debates on the nature of lane violations....
Nah, basketball players argue about 3 second calls and offensive fouls.
I can't tell you how many times illegal defense is called on the courts where I play. That is a tight call, but usually called correctly IMO.
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Back in December, I mentioned finding a William Winsor who was the right age to be my great-great-great grandfather in the 1860 census of Tatooch (Tatoosh) Island, Clallam County, Washington. Since my William disappears after 1860 and I cannot find a death record in Massachusetts, I felt certain this was the same person.
The history that the Clallam County Historical Society and others have on William state that he, as well as Rufus Holmes, the first settler of Port Angeles (a name my fellow Twi-Hards will recognize) was a bachelor. The very kind and helpful research librarians could not find any information on William's death, or anything beyond the histories I had located online already.
Rufus Holmes, William Winsor and Alexander Sampson, all of Duxbury, Massachusetts, were married with children. So was this simply a mistake on the part of the people writing a history for Clallam County, or a coincidence of names and birth dates?
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If you go to the second page, the first 3 columns of the article talk about how Rufus Holmes left Duxbury to go to Port Angeles, purchased a schooner to begin shipping fresh halibut to San Francisco, and brought in his childhood friend, William W. Winsor - first cousin to Rufus's wife, Clara.
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While the article does not say what became of William, it confirms for me that my great-great-great grandfather, the William Winsor who is credited with being one of the early settlers of Port Angeles, and the William Winsor found at Tatooch Island in the 1860 census as the lightkeeper are the same man.
Next step?
I have contacted both the Duxbury Free Library and the Duxbury Rural and Historical Society to see if either one has a copy of Captain Sampson's diary.
It would feel great, not just to know my great-great-great grandfather was one of the founders of the city made famous by the "Twilight" series, which I must admit to loving, but also to know where he went from there. I have no death date on him and I do not know if he remained at Tatoosh Island or Port Angeles.
I only know that he would have died sometime after 1860, and that it could have happened in Washington or Massachusetts... Or anywhere in between!
That is quite a large "in between".
Let's hope that Captain Sampson's diary was preserved and may at least shed a little more light on my great-great-great grandfather's life in the Port Angeles area.
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a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Apr 20, 2012 at 4:50 pm
Was he by himself, or with others?
Did the police make a report at the time?
Why is it taking almost five months to look into this? What makes anyone think this death is more than an accident?
a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on Apr 20, 2012 at 4:58 pm
OSHA still needs to figure out the exact sequence of events to help prevent tragedies like this from happening again. They may also determine that legally required safety procedures were not properly followed.
a resident of East Palo Alto
on Apr 20, 2012 at 5:41 pm
This sounds like a horrifying accident - & a residential elevator shaft, of all the weird things. I am so truly sorry for Mr. Collins & his loved ones.
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Apr 20, 2012 at 5:54 pm
The print media tabloids in Palo Alto were notified by a concerned citizen of this tragic event involving a contract employee working as a City of Palo Alto Building Inspector shortly after the accident occurred. None of the tabloids chose to report or investigate the story further. What is even more disgusting about this incident is that the City of Palo Alto Information Officer, City Manager, Human Resource Director, Chief Building Official or any city official having information of this tragedy failed to acknowledge, notify the public, or convey publicly their condolences regarding this tragic accident.
publisher of the Palo Alto Weekly
on Apr 20, 2012 at 6:36 pm
Bill Johnson is a registered user.
I can't speak for other local newspapers, but the Weekly learned about this incident for the first time through a posting on Town Square earlier this week and immediately followed up to report on it. This is an example of how an individual with knowledge of a newsworthy event can alert the community and our reporters. This is what we're here to do; we would never ignore a news tip like this.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Apr 20, 2012 at 6:54 pm
> or any city official having information of this tragedy failed to
> acknowledge, notify the public, or convey publicly their
> condolences regarding this tragic accident.
There is always the possibility that the City is somehow liable for compensation to the company which was his employer, or the City directly. Under those circumstances, it's probably not all the unprecedented for the City to say nothing until the case is settled. Even then, it's quite possible that non-disclosure of the details and the settlement might become effectively "sealed".
It's a shame that the system works this way .. but when money is involved--all sorts of unreasonable things can happen--and the taxpayers pay the bill without getting to know where the money goes, or why.
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Apr 20, 2012 at 7:38 pm
Bill Johnson,
Actually your paper, as well as The Daily, were notified in December by email of this tragic accident. That being said, it is indeed unfortunate that the City of Palo Alto Information Officer, City Manager, Human Resource Director, Chief Building Official, or any other city officials having knowledge or information regarding this incident failed to acknowledge or notify the public or local media of this accident and chose not to convey publicly their condolences regarding this tragic accident. We can only hope that the Palo Alto media will begin to fully investigate and report their findings on this accident and why it went unreported by city officials.
publisher of the Palo Alto Weekly
on Apr 20, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Bill Johnson is a registered user.
Please let me know offline where the e-mail was sent so I can look into what happened to it. You can e-mail directly at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Thanks for your help in bringing this story to our (and the community's) attention.
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Apr 22, 2012 at 9:11 am
Look man...the man was an inspector. Why would he fall through a shaft?
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Apr 22, 2012 at 3:17 pm
Our sincere and heartfelt condolences go out to Gary Collins wife and two children who have suffered an unfortunate and saddening loss. Gary will be remembered for his commitment and caring in providing Palo Alto with a safer community. Gary Collins will be missed.
a resident of Mountain View
on Apr 23, 2012 at 12:14 pm
When OSHA gets involved, MONEY sometimes gets to be a deciding factor.
The city does not want liability and if the inspector was not using OSHA REQUIRED SAFETY EQUIPMENT ( like a HARD HAT, for example ), the city gets the liability, especially if lawyers get involved ( and we know that Palo Alto doesn't have an excess of lawyers [/sarcasm] ).
This is a tragedy..No sense in adding people who will milk it...
So in many cases, silence is literally golden....
a resident of Charleston Gardens
on Apr 23, 2012 at 12:40 pm
We have a relative who,while doing construction on a three-story building "up north" slipped on the damp roof and fell to the ground. He was terribly damaged, is in a wheel chair etc. The problem: necessary safety measures that should have been in place, were not taken by the people in charge of the construction. Yes, a tragic accident.
a resident of Mountain View
on Apr 23, 2012 at 2:43 pm
Kevin Duggan, president of 4Leaf, Inc.,
The paper needs to make clear that this person is or is not the recently retired City Mgr. of Mountain View.
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Apr 23, 2012 at 4:56 pm
firstname.lastname@example.com a resident of Mountain View, 4 hours ago said:
When OSHA gets involved, MONEY sometimes gets to be a deciding factor.
The city does not want liability and if the inspector was not using OSHA REQUIRED SAFETY EQUIPMENT ( like a HARD HAT, for example ), the city gets the liability, especially if lawyers get involved ( and we know that Palo Alto doesn't have an excess of lawyers [/sarcasm] ).
Tell me what a hard hat can do to spare your life, landing head first trough an elevator shaft?
Safety measures set into Law that are there to prevent accidents in a construction workplace are routinely not deployed and observed. Who has the burden to make sure that they are followed? The developer.
Specially in the residential construction going on in Palo Alto, with the developers trying to make the most money out of a new home being built, they are willing to look the other way in order to get the job done as fast as possible, and their crew mostly of undocummented workers that willingly or unwillingly play their game. Steel toe boots? Hard hats? respirators or dust masks while dry cutting stone or concrete? PHYSICAL BARRIERS and warning signs around open trenches or elevator shafts? If you want to make a Palo Alto contractor/developer laugh, and tell you a lot of BS go ahead and ask about safety measures and enforcement on their job sites.
a resident of Downtown North
on Apr 23, 2012 at 5:00 pm
It is not obvious to me why every accident or event needs to be publicized unless we can learn from it and avoid a similar tragedy. I don't think many readers work in the building trade with the possibility of falling down an elevator shaft under construction.
Until OSHA completes its investigation, knowledge of the accident isn't a factor in our lives. Let the family mourn in peace.
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Apr 23, 2012 at 5:40 pm
Yeah this story does not give enough information.
a resident of Palo Alto Hills
on May 1, 2012 at 12:30 pm
As a Building official in a relatively small town in southeast Alabama my condolences go to the family. I have seen it all in the construction trades. I have witnessed many many OSHA violations throughout the years.I or my inspector do not have the authority to enforce safety regulations on a contractor.We can suggest to the contractor that we noticed something but their response normally is nothing will happen, don't worry. That is THEIR RESPONSIBILITY.At the very least the shaft should have had a built up barrier and warning signs that the shaft was not completed. This also falls on the shoulders of the design profesional ie, architect and or engineer if one or both were involved.
a resident of another community
on May 7, 2012 at 7:43 pm
@ Whiskers,
Very unlikely that the Architect or Engineer will be involved at all, they usually are expressly off-limits when it comes to "means and methods" during a construction project; unless things are vastly different in California (which wouldn't be a surprise0.
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on Dec 5, 2012 at 9:15 pm
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Alexei proud of collecting 1,000th hit in win
By Scott Merkin / MLB.com
CHICAGO -- In seven seasons with Pinar del Rio in Cuba, Alexei Ramirez finished with 680 career hits.
With a 12th-inning, two-out single to right off Justin Grimm in Monday's 3-1 victory over the Cubs, the White Sox shortstop reached 1,000 hits in his Major League career over six seasons and a little more than one month, as well as 1,400 more at-bats.
"I'm very, very happy. That's a good accomplishment," said Ramirez through interpreter and White Sox manager of cultural development Lino Diaz. "I couldn't get to 1,000 hits in Cuba, and that was something I wanted to get to. It's good that I got it here."
"He's swinging it and he's feeling good about it," said White Sox manager Robin Ventura. "Any time a guy keeps going and you get up to 1,000. You see [Miguel] Cabrera had 2,000 the other day. It's an accomplishment. This year, he seems to be swinging the bat and feeling pretty good offensively."
Ramirez, who is hitting .328, took pride in the 1,000th hit leading to the game-winning run. But he gave all the credit to Marcus Semien for delivering the deciding double.
Sale throws off mound for first time
CHICAGO -- Chris Sale threw a 40-pitch bullpen session prior to Monday's contest with the Cubs, marking his first time pitching off the mound since he was placed on the disabled list retroactive to April 18 with a flexor muscle strain in his left arm.
The solid reviews from Sale to pitching coach Don Cooper to manager Robin Ventura to general manager Rick Hahn might be the last words spoken on Sale until he embarks on a rehab assignment 10 days to two weeks down the line per Hahn's guess. The White Sox have a plan, a plan that is day to day based on how Sale feels, but that plan will be more on a need-to-know basis as far as the public is concerned.
"It's weird because I think quite frankly that we have been extraordinarily transparent about all these injuries and what has transpired, but still there has been daily speculation about where he's at and what it means," said Hahn of Sale, who will miss his fourth scheduled start as of Wednesday. "Not just with Chris but with some of the other injured guys. Frankly it makes me, at least personally, preferring to go to an NHL style and just tell you it's an upper-body injury and see you in the morning skate.
"This is more art than science when you are starting to rebuild a guy back. Right now, clinically he feels great and he's progressing, but I don't want to put a marker in the sand saying he's going to do this on Day 4 because if for some reason he doesn't do this on Day 4, it creates panic. In reality, it's just a natural process of rebuilding a guy's arm strength."
Sale said that he got after it "pretty good" during the 40-pitch effort, but was reluctant to go into any sort of detail at first despite being surrounded by media in the cramped visitors' clubhouse at Wrigley Field. The affable White Sox ace has become a go-to quote, but he doesn't want his comeback to take away from the everyday action on the field, so he has stayed quiet since addressing the injury in Detroit.
"I deserve a certain level of privacy in terms of myself and my teammates and my coaches and training staff and general manager, manager," Sale said. "The more we keep to ourselves the less people can speculate, and that's helped the process a little bit in terms of hecticness coming with what's involved. We're trying to keep this at bay as much as we can and try not to leak too much information out as much as what it is and what it isn't.
"I'm not going to sit here and lie to you -- I feel much better than when we started this process. There's nothing there today that made me think there should be any steps back or any setbacks."
If Sale responds well Tuesday, he'll probably throw again Wednesday. A return date to the Majors still is a guess the White Sox aren't willing to make at this point.
"That's not my decision," Sale said. "I go out there and throw and relay to them how I feel and then we'll assess it from there."
"Today, the big thing was how do you feel before, during and after, meaning tomorrow, too," Cooper said. "We are not anticipating anything because it went really good."
Jones undergoes back procedure to alleviate pain
CHICAGO -- Nate Jones underwent a successful microdiscectomy procedure Monday at Rush University Medical Center, with general manager Rick Hahn adding that the doctors found what they expected in doing the surgery.
The right-handed reliever was bothered by glute pain at the start of Spring Training, which was further diagnosed as hip pain. Monday's surgery doesn't necessarily mean that Jones won't return this year.
"Everything went very smoothly and very well," said Hahn of Jones, who did not retire any of the five batters he faced this season. "We'll re-evaluate in a month.
"After a month, it's conceivable we'll ramp up baseball activities and he can return soon thereafter as tolerated by the baseball activities. At that point, it's more about getting him into pitching shape than dealing with the back. We'll see in a month and come up with a timeframe then."
Hahn hopes rivals can someday play in October
CHICAGO -- White Sox general manager Rick Hahn broached an interesting idea on how to return a little more intensity to the Cubs-White Sox rivalry.
Add a few games in October, with the World Series title on the line.
"I hope we get to the point where these games matter 11 times a year instead of just four," Hahn said. "It's nice for the fans. It's always a little heightened level of intensity over your normal regular-season game.
"But the two we played last week with Detroit, the three we've got coming up with Kansas City, they are more relevant to our year than these four games are against the Cubs," Hahn added.
Hahn was reminded that 11 games between the two would mean the World Series went to seven games. He quickly amended his choice to eight games, with the White Sox sweeping.
"It would be a wonderful thing for the city," Hahn said. "I don't know if my stomach could handle it, but it would be a wonderful thing for this city and baseball in this town if these games could matter 11 times a year instead of just four."
Dunn finds himself out in left field
CHICAGO -- For the first time this season and for the 11th time since he joined the White Sox, Adam Dunn found himself in the outfield on Monday night. Dunn started in left and hit fourth against the Cubs, a move made even more necessary with the absence of Avisail Garcia and Adam Eaton.
"Obviously, it's an adjustment, but it's a fun one," Dunn said. "It is something that I've done in the past quite a bit, but it's been a while since I've been out there. Again, it's going to be fun to get out there and run around a little bit.
"I probably have loser denial about some stuff, but I feel like once I get out there I can do it. This isn't any different, that's for sure."
The White Sox can't afford to lose Dunn's bat, with the designated hitter who has played 1,107 career games in the outfielder having reached base in 23 of his 25 games. Dunn admits that the nuances of Wrigley Field make left a bit tougher.
"Especially at night here," Dunn said. "It seems the lights aren't as high, obviously, as other places. It's not as bright. The field's not as bright. The wall and the wind and all that stuff. It should be fine."
Third to first
• Sunday's comeback win over the Indians (trailing in the eighth or later) was the first on the road for the White Sox since May 16, 2013, against the Angels. The White Sox had lost their previous 53 road games when trailing in the eighth inning or later, the longest active losing of that kind in the Majors per Elias. Miami now owns that longest streak at 39.
• Tyler Danish earned his third win for Class A Kannapolis and extended his scoreless innings streak to 16. Danish ranks among the South Atlantic League leaders in ERA (0.84), WHIP (1.00) and opponents' average (.205).
• The White Sox lead the Majors with 30 ninth-inning runs this season, nine more than second-place Oakland.
• Hahn compared the Eaton move to the disabled list to the way they've handled Sale, in that they aren't taking unnecessary risks with a valuable commodity.
"With the 15 days, he's able to rest and stay off his legs for the first week or so," Hahn said. "Then he can slowly ramp back up and he, too, eventually will be on a rehab assignment at some point in this 15-day period, and we'll go from there."
Scott Merkin is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Merk's Works, and follow him on Twitter @scottmerkin. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Lane Kiffin voted his Trojans No. 1 in the first USA Today college football coaches' poll after he said he wouldn't and now he'll never do it again.
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In a letter to USA Today and the executive director of the American Football Coaches Association, Kiffin said he is giving up his vote.
"It is an opportunity and responsibility that I do not take lightly," Kiffin wrote. "However, I find it necessary to relinquish my voting status."
Kiffin said last week that he would not place the Trojans in the top spot of the poll, but USA Today revealed his vote—they are usually confidential—"to protect the poll's integrity."
Kiffin said that he does not think he misrepresented himself in voting for USC.
"So looking at it from the outside, I wouldn't (vote USC No. 1)," Kiffin told USA Today. "Did I? Yeah, I did. That's not based off of 75 vs. 85 (scholarships). That's based off of Matt Barkley, T.J. McDonald and Robert Woods and Marqise Lee. When everybody has the same record, I can't go into a meeting with our players and have them say, 'You put that team and that team ahead of us.' That's why I did that."


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Veteran can fill in at three infield spots, play outfield in pinch
By Ian Browne / MLB.com
The addition of Punto is the third move made by Red Sox general manager Ben Cherington in the last two days. On Tuesday, he signed catcher Kelly Shoppach to a one-year deal. And hours before closing the deal with Punto, the Red Sox traded Jed Lowrie and pitching prospect Kyle Weiland to the Astros for righty reliever Mark Melancon.
Punto can effectively replace Lowrie as a bench player, only he is more durable, experienced and a step up defensively.
The switch-hitting Punto broke into the Majors with the Phillies in 2001 and played parts of three seasons there before moving on to the Twins from 2004-10.
Playing for the Cardinals in 2011, he hit .278 with a homer and 20 RBIs in 63 games. Punto played in six of the seven games against the Rangers in the World Series, hitting .214.
Aside from his versatility, Punto is known for his spunk and positive attitude.
Punto can play second, short and third, while also getting a little experience in the outfield during his career.
The 34-year-old has played 887 games in his career, hitting .249 with 14 homers and 218 RBIs.
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Anquan Boldin was a non-factor in Baltimore's 34-17 Week 15 loss to the Denver Broncos. The Ravens' receiver, who had a team playoff-record 145 yards last Sunday in a playoff win over Indianapolis, was held catchless on six targets by the Broncos.
For the Ravens to have any shot at upsetting the Broncos in this weekend's divisional round, Boldin likely needs to deliver another huge playoff game.
He never had much of a chance the first time around against Denver, even with top Broncos cornerback Champ Bailey focusing most of his attention elsewhere. Boldin had no luck creating space against the Broncos' coverage and, exacerbating the problem, Joe Flacco delivered a subpar performance.
Denver's pass rush had a lot to do with the latter problem -- when Flacco did look Boldin's way, the passes often were rushed and off-target.
Let's take a closer look at what went wrong for Boldin in Week 15 (and what went right against the Colts) in this "Break It Down" ...
The Ravens tried to get the ball to Boldin off a number of different routes in that earlier 17-point loss, but the Broncos had an answer for each of them. The biggest defense play of all came when Chris Harris stepped in front of a quick out to Boldin near the Denver goal line, then returned the pick 98 yards for a touchdown.
Boldin and Torrey Smith were lined up to the same side on that play, each drawing man-to-man coverage.
First and foremost, that was an egregious decision by Flacco -- one that underlies just how mediocre he was on that particular day. But it also highlights a key component to Boldin's zero-catch outing: He simply could not get open in tight quarters against Denver's cornerbacks.
The Ravens ran into the same problem, on all counts, on the play pictured below, as Flacco overthrew a curl route that was not open in the first place.
And here, Boldin faced tight coverage at the line, plus over-the-top safety help on a crossing route. Flacco tried to fit the ball into him anyway, despite Smith streaking up the right sideline with a step on his man.
The only time the Ravens were able to find Boldin any room over the middle came on one second-half pass (which was called back by a holding penalty). Boldin found himself facing press coverage from a linebacker, beat his defender off the line and made an easy grab for a 10-yard gain.
Those gaps were few and far between, though, in part, because the Ravens rarely gave Boldin the opportunity to stretch the field.
Case in point: In the play pictured below, Boldin had man-coverage, while the Broncos slid the rest of their defense to the other side of the line, where Baltimore had two receivers and a tight end lined up. Denver rushed five and left just one deep safety, who also shaded away from Boldin.
Rather than Flacco checking into another play or Boldin adjusting his route on the fly toward that wide open area deep (white line), the Ravens tried to force an underneath route. It resulted in yet another incompletion.
Contrast that to Sunday against the Colts, when the Ravens took advantage of those gaps to send Boldin deep.
On one of his several long grabs in the second half, Boldin lined up in the slot to Flacco's right, with Smith motioning in tight to him. The Colts had just two defenders in coverage spots on that side of the field, tipping the Ravens that they probably would see man-to-man looks after the snap.
Rather than try to flare Boldin into a short-yardage route, the Ravens called for a double move up the sideline. Boldin beat Cassius Vaughn for a big gain.
Baltimore picked up solid yardage again later by having Boldin stretch the field. He lined up alone to Flacco's left but, as you can see in the picture below, there was space over the middle plus a deep safety.
The Ravens pushed the envelope a bit here anyway, sending Boldin on a deep out. He created space and Flacco delivered for a 22-yard gain.
A key to that completion, which came in the face of a six-man rush by the blitzing Colts? This:
The Ravens did a terrific job picking up said blitz, allowing Flacco to set in the pocket, step up and find Boldin downfield.
That's a noticeable difference from Flacco's pocket presence against the Broncos. Denver managed to pressure the Baltimore QB all day, specifically off the edges. As a result, Flacco hurried his throws and lost his mechanics.
On one of the few deep shots Flacco took against Denver, he tried to give Boldin an opportunity against one-on-one coverage outside, as the Broncos' deep safety dove underneath to help on Dennis Pitta. The resulting defensive look was not all that different from what Baltimore uncovered on that Boldin-Vaughn matchup above.
Except, rather than planting and delivering a solid pass, Flacco threw the ball like this:
That's a recipe for an incompletion (or worse), and Flacco's footwork similarly devolved all afternoon against the Broncos. It occurred one last time late in the game, with Denver holding that 17-point lead, when Flacco tried to fire one wide to Boldin on a fourth down.
Everything that we've covered so far went wrong on this play for the Ravens:
1. Flacco felt pressure off the edge, so he hurried his throw.
2. Boldin was unable to create any space with a cornerback covering him on an underneath route.
3. With Denver backing off deep to play it safe, there was tons of room available across the middle, but Flacco and Boldin did not make the necessary read to find it.
The Ravens' offense needs to be much better across the board this weekend to have any shot at unseating Denver.
For Flacco, that starts with more effectively diagnosing the Denver defense pre-snap, so those downfield gaps do not go to waste.
And for Boldin, he not only needs his quarterback to deliver accurate passes and put him in advantageous situations, but he ought to be given a few shots to open Denver up deep. Boldin no longer possesses elite speed and he will struggle against quality cornerbacks short.


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On a milestone night in the Major Leagues, switch-hitting Mark Teixeira went yard from both sides of the plate for the 11th time, tying the all-time mark set by Chili Davis and Eddie Murray (MLB.com). Said Teixeira of the feat, "It's pretty special. Eddie Murray is the reason I'm a switch-hitter. My dad and I loved watching him play. It's just pretty neat to be a part of that group." (MLB.com). Livan Hernandez tossed a three-hit shutout for his 50th career complete game and 100th home victory (MLB.com), and Josh Beckett provided the pitching performance of the day with a near perfect one-hit shutout (MLB.com). Ricky Romero struck out twelve to tie his career high (MLB.com), and Ichiro became the 42nd Major Leaguer in history to collect 400 career stolen bases (MLB.com).
Reigning American League MVP Josh Hamilton stopped by the Ed Sullivan Theater for a chat and a batting demo on the "Late Show with David Letterman". The episode airs Thursday night at 11:35 p.m. ET on CBS. (Dallas Morning News)
Gaby Sanchez is an intramural softball legend and can pull off a mean fake mustache. (YouTube)
Mariners pitcher David Pauley joined high school Action Team captains to package food and deliver senior meals at Seattle's Greenwood Food Bank. (Facebook)
Get to the know the Dodgers: Matt Kemp "pushed a bad boy" '89 Acura in high school (MLB.com), and Clayton Kershaw rocks out to Taylor Swift (MLB.com). Tony Gwynn Jr. would love to play in the NBA if he wasn't a baseball player but, "considering I'm only 5-foot-10, it'd be kind of tough." (MLB.com).
Jed Lowrie, Sam Fuld, Carlos Quentin, John Mayberry and Jeremy Guthrie all share a special bond as Stanford University alums in the Major Leagues. (Boston Herald)
Bronson Arroyo isn't just a talented pitcher -- he's a gifted storyteller and musician, too. The Reds starter joined former Major Leaguer David Wells for some behind-the-scenes chatter on baseball, cornrows and rock and roll (FOXSports.com). For some bonus footage of Arroyo jamming on his guitar, check out his version of "Wonderwall." (YouTube)
Yankees reliever David Robertson shared exactly what it's like to live the dream in the Yankee Stadium bullpen. (Yankees.com)
Tweet of the Day: "How awesome!! Afghanistan-worn Air Force jacket from @kevin_ziegler_ (he changed his twitter). Thx so much for sending! Twitpic.com/5c243e" -- A's starting pitcher Brad Ziegler (@bradziegler)
Quote of the Day: "I'm trying to understand why mediocre people become good at what they do and why good people become the best. I try to be the best at anything I can be, that being school, baseball. Whatever I take seriously, I do it to get better, to learn and to be successful." -- Jose Bautista who studies books on the mental habits of exceptional people in his free time and mastered mathematics, science, language and business strategy before climbing the ranks as one of baseball's best sluggers. (The Post Game)
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Carboplatin, Paclitaxel and Gemcitabine Hydrochloride With or Without Bevacizumab After Surgery in Treating Patients With Recurrent Ovarian, Epithelial, Primary Peritoneal, or Fallopian Tube Cancer
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00565851
Recruitment Status : Active, not recruiting
First Posted : November 30, 2007
Last Update Posted : January 23, 2018
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|Condition or disease
|Clear Cell Adenocarcinoma Fallopian Tube Clear Cell Adenocarcinoma Fallopian Tube Endometrioid Adenocarcinoma Fallopian Tube Mucinous Adenocarcinoma Fallopian Tube Serous Adenocarcinoma Mucinous Adenocarcinoma Ovarian Brenner Tumor Ovarian Clear Cell Adenocarcinofibroma Ovarian Endometrioid Adenocarcinoma Ovarian Seromucinous Carcinoma Ovarian Serous Adenocarcinoma Primary Peritoneal Serous Adenocarcinoma Recurrent Fallopian Tube Carcinoma Recurrent Ovarian Carcinoma Recurrent Primary Peritoneal Carcinoma Undifferentiated Carcinoma Undifferentiated Fallopian Tube Carcinoma Undifferentiated Ovarian Carcinoma
|Biological: Bevacizumab Drug: Carboplatin Drug: Docetaxel Drug: Gemcitabine Hydrochloride Other: Laboratory Biomarker Analysis Drug: Paclitaxel Other: Quality-of-Life Assessment
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|A Phase III Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial of Carboplatin and Paclitaxel (or Gemcitabine) Alone or in Combination With Bevacizumab (NSC #704865) Followed by Bevacizumab and Secondary Cytoreductive Surgery in Platinum-Sensitive, Recurrent Ovarian, Peritoneal Primary and Fallopian Tube Cancer. NCI-Supplied Agents: Bevacizumab (NSC #704865)
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|December 6, 2007
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Active Comparator: Arm I (paclitaxel, docetaxel, carboplatin)
Patients receive paclitaxel IV over 3 hours or docetaxel IV over 1 hour and carboplatin over 30 minutes on day 1. Treatment repeats every 21 days.
Drug: Carboplatin
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Other Names:Drug: Docetaxel
Given IV
Other Names:Other: Laboratory Biomarker Analysis
Correlative studiesDrug: Paclitaxel
Given IV
Other Names:Other: Quality-of-Life Assessment
Ancillary studies
Other Name: Quality of Life Assessment
Experimental: Arm II (paclitaxel, docetaxel, carboplatin, bevacizumab)
Patients receive chemotherapy as in arm I and bevacizumab IV over 30-90 minutes on day 1. Treatment repeats every 21 days.
Biological: Bevacizumab
Given IV
Other Names:Drug: Carboplatin
Given IV
Other Names:Drug: Docetaxel
Given IV
Other Names:Other: Laboratory Biomarker Analysis
Correlative studiesDrug: Paclitaxel
Given IV
Other Names:Other: Quality-of-Life Assessment
Ancillary studies
Other Name: Quality of Life Assessment
Experimental: Arm III (gemcitabine hydrochloride, carboplatin)
Patients receive gemcitabine hydrochloride IV over 60 minutes on days 1 and 8 and carboplatin as in Arm I.
Drug: Carboplatin
Given IV
Other Names:Drug: Gemcitabine Hydrochloride
Given IV
Other Names:Other: Laboratory Biomarker Analysis
Correlative studiesOther: Quality-of-Life Assessment
Ancillary studies
Other Name: Quality of Life Assessment
Experimental: Arm IV (gemcitabine hydrochloride, bevacizumab, carboplatin)
Patients receive gemcitabine hydrochloride IV as in Arm III, bevacizumab IV and carboplatin IV as in Arm II.
Biological: Bevacizumab
Given IV
Other Names:Drug: Carboplatin
Given IV
Other Names:Drug: Gemcitabine Hydrochloride
Given IV
Other Names:Other: Laboratory Biomarker Analysis
Correlative studiesOther: Quality-of-Life Assessment
Ancillary studies
Other Name: Quality of Life Assessment
- Overall survival [ Time Frame: Up to 10 years ]The treatment regimens will be compared with a logrank procedure which includes all of the patients categorized by their randomly assigned treatment. The logrank test will be stratified by the secondary surgical debulking status (randomized to undergo cytoreduction, vs randomized to not undergo secondary cytoreduction vs not a candidate or did not consent to secondary surgical cytoreduction) and the duration of treatment free-interval prior to enrolling onto this study (6-12 months vs > 12 months).
- Change in QOL as measured by FACT-O and RAND-SF36 [ Time Frame: Baseline to up to 12 months after starting systemic therapy ]Descriptive statistics from the baseline QOL data will be calculated. These will include descriptions of the distribution of QOL scores (mean, standard deviation, median, etc.). For all patients the baseline scores will be calculated using the questionnaire completed prior to treatment cycle 1, except for those undergoing cytoreductive surgery. In that case, the baseline score is calculated using the questionnaire completed prior to surgery. Therefore, comparisons involving the patients who were allocated to surgery, the effects of time are confounded with effects of surgery.
- Frequency and severity of adverse events assessed by Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events version 3.0 [ Time Frame: Up to 10 years ]A logistic model will permit an estimate of the relative odds of grade 3 or worse adverse treatment effects for both randomized factors while adjusting for potential confounders like age. Deaths considered to be at least partially attributable to treatment will be reported and summarized.
- Molecular and/or biochemical profiles [ Time Frame: Up to 10 years ]
- Progression-free survival [ Time Frame: From study entry until disease progression, death or date of last contact, assessed up to 10 years ]A proportional hazards model will be fitted to the survival data. Apart from the randomized therapy, other factors such as: prior exposure to bevacizumab, histologic cell type, initial performance status, and age will be included in the model as potential confounders because there exists evidence that these factors may have an effect on survival in these patients.
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients enrolled after August 28, 2011 must be candidates for cytoreductive surgery and consent to have their surgical treatment determined by randomization
- Patients must have histologic diagnosis of epithelial ovarian carcinoma, peritoneal primary or fallopian tube carcinoma, which is now recurrent
- Patients with the following histologic epithelial cell types are eligible: serous adenocarcinoma, endometrioid adenocarcinoma, mucinous adenocarcinoma, undifferentiated carcinoma, clear cell adenocarcinoma, mixed epithelial carcinoma, transitional cell carcinoma, malignant Brenner's tumor, or adenocarcinoma not otherwise specified (N.O.S.)
- Patients must have had a complete response to front-line platinum-taxane therapy (at least three cycles)
- A complete response to front-line chemotherapy must include: negative physical exam, negative pelvic exam and normalization of CA125, if elevated at baseline; although not required, any radiographic assessment of disease status (e.g. CT, magnetic resonance imaging [MRI], positron emission tomography [PET]/CT, etc) obtained following the completion of primary therapy should be considered negative for disease
- All patients must have also had a treatment-free interval without clinical evidence of progressive disease of at least 6 months from completion of front-line chemotherapy (both platinum and taxane); front-line therapy may have included a biologic agent (i.e. bevacizumab)
- Front-line treatment may include maintenance therapy following complete clinical or pathological response; however, maintenance cytotoxic chemotherapy must be discontinued for a minimum of 6 months prior to documentation of recurrent disease; patients receiving maintenance biological therapy or hormonal therapy are ELIGIBLE provided their recurrence is documented more than 6 months from primary cytotoxic chemotherapy completion (includes maintenance chemotherapy) AND a minimum 4 weeks has elapsed since their last infusion of biological therapy
- Patients must have clinically evident recurrent disease for the purpose of this study
- Measurable disease (Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors [RECIST]) is defined as at least one lesion that can be accurately measured in at least one dimension (longest dimension to be recorded); each lesion must be more than or equal to 20 mm when measured by conventional techniques, MRI or CT, or more than or equal to 10 mm when measured by spiral CT
- Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) greater than or equal to 1,500/mm^3, equivalent to Common Toxicity Criteria for Adverse Events version (v)3.0 (CTCAE) grade 1
- Platelets greater than or equal to 100,000/mm^3 (CTCAE grade 0-1)
- Creatinine (non-isotope dilution mass spectrometry [IDMS]) =< 1.5 x institutional upper limit normal (ULN), CTCAE grade 1
- Total bilirubin =< 1.5 ULN (CTCAE grade 1)
- Serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (SGOT)/aspartate aminotransferase (AST) =< 2.5 times the upper limit of normal in the absence of liver metastasis; SGOT/AST < 5.0 times ULN in the presence of liver metastasis
- Alkaline phosphatase =< 2.5 times the upper limit of normal in the absence of liver metastasis; alkaline phosphatase < 5.0 times ULN in the presence of liver metastasis
- This criterion applies only to the patients enrolled before August 29, 2011 and those enrolled after this date electing to receive bevacizumab; patients must have a urine protein-to-creatinine ratio (UPCR) < 1.0 mg/dL
- This eligibility criterion does not apply to patients enrolled after August 28, 2011; patients who are not candidates for surgical cytoreduction are eligible for the chemotherapy randomization; patients are not considered candidates for surgical cytoreduction if complete cytoreduction in the estimation of the investigator is impossible or a medical infirmity precludes exploration and debulking
- Patients must have met the pre-entry requirements as specified
- Patients must have signed an approved informed consent and authorization permitting release of personal health information
- Patients must have a Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG) performance status of 0, 1, or 2
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients who have received more than one previous regimen of chemotherapy (maintenance is not considered a second regimen)
- Patients receiving concurrent immunotherapy, or radiotherapy
- Patients who have received prior radiotherapy to any portion of the abdominal cavity or pelvis are excluded
- Patients whom have already undergone secondary cytoreduction for recurrent disease are excluded
- Patients with a prior histologic diagnosis of borderline, low malignant potential (grade 0) epithelial carcinoma that was surgically resected and who subsequently developed an unrelated, new invasive epithelial ovarian or peritoneal primary cancer are eligible provided that they meet the criteria listed above
- Patients who require parenteral hydration or nutrition and have evidence of partial bowel obstruction or perforation
- Patients who have received prior chemotherapy for any abdominal or pelvic tumor (other than ovarian, fallopian tube, and primary peritoneal) are excluded
- Patients with synchronous primary endometrial cancer, or a past history of primary endometrial cancer, are excluded, unless all of the following conditions are met: stage not greater than I-B; no more than superficial myometrial invasion, without vascular or lymphatic invasion; no poorly differentiated subtypes, including papillary serous, clear cell or other International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) grade 3 lesions
- Patients with uncontrolled infection
- Patients with concurrent severe medical problems unrelated to the malignancy that would significantly limit full compliance with the study or expose the patient to extreme risk or decreased life expectancy
- Patients with >= grade 2 peripheral neuropathy
- Patients with a history of allergic reactions to carboplatin and/or paclitaxel or chemically similar compounds; patients with allergic (hypersensitivity) reactions to these chemotherapeutic agents are NOT excluded IF they were successfully retreated following a desensitization program or protocol
- This criterion applies only to the patients enrolled before August 29, 2011 and those enrolled after this date electing to receive bevacizumab; patients with known hypersensitivity to Chinese hamster ovary cell products or other recombinant human or humanized antibodies
- Patients of childbearing potential, not practicing adequate contraception, patients who are pregnant or patients who are nursing are not eligible for this trial; bevacizumab should not be administered to nursing women
- Patients with other invasive malignancies, with the exception of non-melanoma skin cancer, who had (or have) any evidence of the other cancer present within the last 5 years or whose previous cancer treatment contraindicates this protocol therapy
- This criterion applies only to the patients enrolled before August 29, 2011 and those enrolled after this date electing to receive bevacizumab; patients with active bleeding or pathologic conditions that carry high risk of bleeding such as a known bleeding disorder, coagulopathy, or tumor involving major vessels
- This criterion applies only to the patients enrolled before August 29, 2011 and those enrolled after this date electing to receive bevacizumab; patients with a history or evidence upon physical examination of central nervous system (CNS) disease, including primary brain tumor, seizures not controlled with standard medical therapy, any brain metastases or a history of stroke within 5 years of the first date of treatment on this study
This criterion applies only to the patients enrolled before August 29, 2011 and those enrolled after this date electing to receive bevacizumab; patients with clinically significant cardiovascular disease; this includes:
- Patients with significant cardiac conduction abnormalities, i.e. PR interval > 0.24 seconds (sec) or 2nd or 3rd degree atrioventricular (AV) block
- Uncontrolled hypertension, defined as systolic > 150 mm Hg or diastolic > 90 mm Hg
- Myocardial infarction, cardiac arrhythmia or unstable angina < 6 months prior to registration
- New York Heart Association (NYHA) grade II or greater congestive heart failure
- Serious cardiac arrhythmia requiring medication
- Grade II or greater peripheral vascular disease (exception: episodes of ischemia < 24 hours [hrs] in duration, that are managed non-surgically and without permanent deficit)
- History of cerebrovascular attack (CVA) within six months
- This criterion applies only to the patients enrolled before August 29, 2011 and those enrolled after this date electing to receive bevacizumab; patients who have had a major surgical procedure, open biopsy, dental extractions or other dental surgery/procedure that results in an open wound, or significant traumatic injury within 28 days prior to the first date of treatment on this study, or anticipation of need for major surgical procedure during the course of the study; patients with placement of vascular access device or core biopsy within 7 days prior to the first date of treatment on this study
- Patients undergoing pre-treatment secondary cytoreduction will undergo therapy with bevacizumab on cycle #2
- Patients undergoing pre-treatment surgery for purposes other than cytoreduction may also participate provided they meet eligibility; patients randomized to arms containing bevacizumab must wait a minimum of 28 days since that procedure to begin protocol treatment; patients who undergo an uncomplicated port placement must wait a minimum of 7 days to begin protocol treatment
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00565851
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00565851
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|Principal Investigator:
|Robert Coleman
|NRG Oncology
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
|Responsible Party:
|National Cancer Institute (NCI)
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00565851 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
NCI-2009-00587 ( Registry Identifier: CTRP (Clinical Trial Reporting Program) )
GOG-0213 ( Other Identifier: NRG Oncology )
GOG-0213 ( Other Identifier: CTEP )
U10CA180868 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
U10CA027469 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|First Posted:
|November 30, 2007 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|January 23, 2018
|Last Verified:
|October 2017
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Cystadenocarcinoma, Serous
Fallopian Tube Neoplasms
Ovarian Neoplasms
Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial
Carcinoma, Endometrioid
Adenocarcinoma, Mucinous
Adenocarcinoma, Clear Cell
Brenner Tumor
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Genital Neoplasms, Female
Urogenital Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Fallopian Tube Diseases
Adnexal Diseases
Genital Diseases, Female
Endocrine Gland Neoplasms
Ovarian Diseases
Endocrine System Diseases
Gonadal Disorders
Endometrial Neoplasms
Uterine Neoplasms
Neoplasms, Cystic, Mucinous, and Serous
Neoplasms, Fibroepithelial
Neoplasms, Fibrous Tissue
Neoplasms, Connective Tissue
Neoplasms, Connective and Soft Tissue


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By Hayden Wright
Last week's London terror attacks shook the globe, but the deadly strikes around British Parliament may have altered the fate of Nicki Minaj's forthcoming video for "No Frauds." Minaj was photographed shooting the video on Westminster Bridge, where the vehicular attack took place days later. According to the U.K. tabloid, The Sun, Nicki and her team are rethinking the footage in light of recent events.
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"When everybody involved in the project heard the news they were devastated and thought it would be in bad taste to feature it," a source told the paper. "The other London scenes will remain, but it's highly doubtful the bridge footage will make the cut."
The last-minute edit would remove scenes deemed "inappropriate" in the wake of the attacks. "No Frauds" is a collaboration with Drake and Lil Wayne, widely interpreted as a Remy Ma diss track. Remy's audacious "Sheether" put Nicki on blast in February.
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text: That's a lot of questions. I wouldn't dare question your knowledge because your job to know everything about how the Trek universe works. But (you saw that coming, right?) ... The Ceti Alpha system was apparently remote maybe not well charted. Wasn't that why Kirk left Khan and Co. there? I don't spend a lot of time dissecting these things, but it makes sense to me. I'd think that the Khan incident was not "required reading" so I'm not surprised that the Reliant captain wasn't familiar with it. Add to that, it was 15 years earlier so it probably wasn't at the front of Chekov's mind. Not until he saw the "Botany Bay" thing anyway. As I said in an earlier post, if CA5 was near where CA6 was supposed to be, why look any further? Planets don't just line up for roll call when a ship approaches, so if there's a planet where you're looking you might assume that it's the right one. I can't address costume or makeup design or casting, because I don't know enough about it. The Genesis device, as we found out later, used protomatter (whatever that is) for the terraforming process. We don't know what scientific advancements will be made in the next 300 years, so I just accept that as a neccessary suspension of disbelief. Spock's code: maybe Khan was preoccupied or gloating or who knows what, but he didn't get it. Chekov was apparently strong enough to resist the eel's influence and "sour the milk." Why? No idea. But it's there. Why did Scotty haul his dead nephew to the bridge? Dramatic effect. No other reason I can see. Kirk "never faced death" himself. Sure, he's seen it plenty but it was always someone else. He had never faced a situation that he couldn't BS his way out of. I'm pretty sure that's what he means. I probably missed a few, but these are what I'm thinking after seeing the movie dozens of times over the last 30 years. Again, I have a ton of respect for what you do and I'd like to know how you might have written it differently.


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As a long-time Rackspace customer, BambooHR has watched Rackspace's cloud portfolio evolve. We started as a SliceHost customer, moved to Cloud Servers when they became available, and now we've made the move to the open cloud with Rackspace Cloud Servers powered by OpenStack.
Because the updated version of Cloud Servers is built on open source, I can download the code and run my own stack of virtual servers without the fear of being locked into a single vendor. Openness is of huge importance to our business, because we are part of a community. When everyone works together, we all get something to be proud of, and Rackspace and OpenStack are perfect examples of that.
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Pew's Nikki Roy discusses Dingell-Boucher draft, previews '09 climate debate
With the stock market plummeting and all eyes on the presidential campaign, has the push for comprehensive climate legislation fallen by the wayside? Will Democrats turn the focus back on cap and trade during the next session of Congress? During today's OnPoint, Nikki Roy, director of congressional affairs at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, discusses the new Dingell-Boucher climate draft, released in the House last week. Roy explains what the main sticking points to the draft are and gives his take on a possible timeline for legislation over the next two years. He also explains how international pressure will impact domestic climate negotiations in 2009.