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Judas Priest rocked 'American Idol' on Wednesday night!
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
No, your eyes did not deceive you – the one and only Judas Priest just debuted their new guitarist, Richie Faulkner, tonight on 'American Idol'! Ripping through a medley that included kick ass renditions of two 'British Steel' classics ("Living After Midnight" and "Breakin' the Law") with major Priest fan – and this season 'American Idol' hopeful – James Durbin joining in on vocals.
This is the second time that Durbin has professed his admiration for Priest on the show, as he wowed judges Randy Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, and Steven Tyler a while back with a rendition of "You've Got Another Thing Comin'." Although Durbin was recently voted off the show, he undoubtedly has a bright rocking future ahead, as evidenced by his multi-octave vocal range.
Judas Priest recently announced plans to launch their farewell Epitaph Tour, which will take them around the world, including a just-announced U.S. tour of arenas from October through December, which will also feature opening acts Black Label Society and Thin Lizzy.
Speaking on Wednesday to the Rolling Stone website, Priest singer Rob Halford had the following to say about what fans can expect on the group's forthcoming trek. "We're pulling out all the stops. We've built a brand new stage set, we've got all the effects that people love us for – the lasers, the fire, the bombs, the smoke, new costumes, and the bike. It's just a full-on metal extravaganza."
Few heavy metal bands have managed to scale the heights that Judas Priest has during their nearly 40 year career. Responsible for not only issuing some of metal's all-time classic albums ('British Steel,' 'Screaming for Vengeance,' and 'Painkiller') and anthems (the aforementioned "Breaking the Law" and "Living After Midnight," and "You've Got Another Thing Coming"), the group has been one of the leading arena rock acts for decades, and single-handedly introduced the "leather look" to heavy metal.
And now Judas Priest are set to blast their way round the world one final time.
Confirmed Judas Priest U.S. Tour Dates (more dates to be announced shortly):
12 – San Antonio, TX: AT&T Center
14 – Corpus Christi, TX: Concrete Street Amphitheater
15 – Houston, TX: The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
16 – Dallas, TX: Allen Event Center
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19 – San Diego, CA: Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre
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22 – San Bernardino, CA: San Manuel Amphitheater
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25 – Los Angeles, CA: Gibson Amphitheatre
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29 – Seattle, WA: WaMu Theater
30 – Vancouver, BC: Rogers Arena
1 – Edmonton, AB: Shaw Conference Center
2 – Calgary, AB: Scotiabank Saddledome
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This second pack contains 4 different cinematic compositions. This pack including beautiful, dramatic and sad, epic orchestral compositions, including strings, percussion, sound effects and piano. This tracks is perfect as the soundtrack to the film, the trailer or teaser. I hope you like my work)
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Epic Victory (WAV/MP3) – 2:38
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Michigan Tech Advance In Tissue Scaffolds Could Lead To Stem Cell Treatments
HOUGHTON (WWJ) -- Our cells don't live in a vacuum. They are surrounded by a complex, nurturing matrix that is essential for many biological functions, including growth and healing.
In all multicellular organisms, including people, cells make their own extracellular matrix. But in the lab, scientists attempting to grow tissue must provide a scaffold for cells to latch onto as they grow and proliferate. This engineered tissue has potential to repair or replace virtually any part of our bodies.
Typically, researchers construct scaffolds from synthetic materials or natural animal or human substances. All have their strengths and weaknesses, but no scaffolds grown in a Petri dish have been able to mimic the highly organized structure of the matrix made by living things, at least until now.
Feng Zhao of Michigan Technological University has persuaded fibroblasts, cells that makes the extracellular matrix, to make just such a well-organized scaffold. Its fibers are a mere 80 nanometers across, similar to fibers in a natural matrix. And, since her scaffold is made by cells, it is composed of the same intricate mix of all-natural proteins and sugars found in the body. Plus, its nanofibers are as highly aligned as freshly combed hair.
The trick was to orient the cells on a nano-grate that guided their growth -- and the creation of the scaffold.
"The cells did the work," said Zhao, a assistant professor of biological engineering at Michigan Tech. "The material they made is quite uniform, and of course it is completely biological."
Stem cells placed on her scaffold thrived, and it had the added advantage of provoking a very low immune response.
"We think this has great potential," she said. "I think we could use this to engineer softer tissues, like skin, blood vessels and muscle."
Zhao's invention may someday lead to make tissues like skin or cartilage that could be transplanted into people with burns or tissue injuries.
The work is described in the paper "Highly Aligned Nanofibrous Scaffold Derived from Decellularized Human Fibroblasts," coauthored by Zhao, postdoctoral researcher Qi Xing and undergraduate Caleb Vogt of Michigan Technological University and Kam W. Leong of Duke University and published Jan. 29 in Advanced Funcational Materials. Zhao designed the project. Xing and Vogt did the work, and Leong developed the template for cell growth.
The work was funded by the National Institutes of Health (1R15HL115521 -01A1), the Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute (062518-YCSA) and Michigan Technological University.
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A long time ago on a film set far, far away, two directors made a friendly bet about a small space-fantasy film called "Star Wars."
Steven Spielberg would go on to win the bet and take millions of dollars from George Lucas over time.
Here's how the out-of-this-world wager came to be.
The Troubles Of "The Star Wars"
In the mid-1970s, science-fiction films weren't very popular.
1968's "2001: A Space Odyssey" led the way for the genre but made just $56 million at the box office. So when a young director named George Lucas was trying to sell a script called "The Star Wars," based on "Flash Gordon" space serials, not many studios were eager to make it.
It wasn't until Lucas took his script to 20th Century Fox that the film finally received backing — but even then it was more because of the success of Lucas' previous film, "American Graffiti."
The challenges didn't stop there. A delayed, over-budget production caused the troubled director to visit a friend shooting his own sci-fi film in Mobile, Ala.
That friend was Steven Spielberg and the film was his 1977 classic, "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."
The Bet
According to an interview with Spielberg for Turner Classics Movies, Lucas came to the set of "Close Encounters" out of sorts after problems with his passion project. Needing to recharge, Lucas spent a couple of days on set.
"George came back from 'Star Wars' a nervous wreck," Spielberg said. "He didn't feel 'Star Wars' came up to the vision he initially had. He felt he had just made this little kids' movie."
After a few days, Lucas realized something else: Spielberg's "Close Encounters" was going to be so much more successful than "Star Wars." So much more that he felt like making a bet with Spielberg.
Spielberg would later say:
"He said, 'Oh my God, your movie is going to be so much more successful than 'Star Wars'! This is gonna be the biggest hit of all time. I can't believe this set. I can't believe what you're getting, and oh my goodness.' He said, 'All right, I'll tell you what. I'll trade some points with you. You want to trade some points? I'll give you 2.5% of 'Star Wars' if you give me 2.5% of 'Close Encounters.' So I said, 'Sure, I'll gamble with that. Great.'"
"Close Encounters" would indeed be a hit, making $303 million at the box office. However, "Star Wars" would go on to become one of the biggest box-office hits of all time.
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Spielberg's gamble paid off. Big time.
Released May 25, 1977, on a budget of $11 million, "Star Wars" — later retitled "Star Wars, Episode IV: A New Hope" — went on to make $460 million in the U.S. alone.
Adjusted for inflation, the film has made $1.48 billion at the box office, making it the second-biggest box-office hit of all time — only behind "Gone With The Wind."
By our calculations, this means Spielberg's 2.5% could have made him nearly $40 million.
"'Close Encounters' was just a meager success story. 'Star Wars' was a phenomenon," Spielberg said a few years ago. "Of course I was the happy beneficiary of a couple of net points from that movie, which I am still seeing money on today."
Sequels "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi" would also go on to be great successes leading to prequels, rereleases, and merchandising, making the "Star Wars" franchise one of the biggest in Hollywood, reportedly worth $30 billion and growing.
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Bernstein's 1962 St. Matthew Passion starts off with two strikes against it: it is abridged, and it is sung in English. Nevertheless, one man's grief is another man's joy, and Bach's German vocal music generally adapts itself well to the English language. The adaptation is an old-fashioned one by Troutbeck, and although it frequently departs from the original German and forces singers into prissy constructions of the "despisèd" sort, there's an undeniable immediacy attached to hearing a work such as this one sung in the vernacular. After all, that's how Bach wrote it. It's a little more difficult to apologize for cutting about one-third of the Passion's length. However, it should be noted that this recording was made following live subscription concerts in Carnegie Hall. That Philharmonic audiences should have heard the St. Matthew Passion at all was surprising, and perhaps allowances can be made for Bernstein's daring in programming the work in the first place.
With those caveats out of the way, there is much to admire here. The soloists are an excellent group. The quick vibrato in Lloyd's voice makes him a distinctive Evangelist, and he is an excitable participant in this story of Christ's crucifixion. Wildermann also has an unusual but not unpleasant voice, the sort that immediately attracts one's attention. It would be hard not to be involved with his very human Christ. Addison and Allen sing their solos with dignity and face; Allen's mezzo was a particularly rich and steady instrument at this early stage in her career. The choir alternates dramatic involvement in the turbae with devout purity in the chorales. In 1962, the musicians of the New York Philharmonic included concertmaster John Corigliano, flutist John Wummer, and oboist Harold Gomberg. Each of these gentlemen makes significant contributions to this recording. Finally, Bernstein treats the music tenderly, but he also treats it as a living thing; if this venture has little about it that is scholarly, it has much that is simply honest and communicative. A bonus to this set, as with the original LPs, is the conductor's 16-minute talk on the material and dramatic structure of the St. Matthew Passion. Although this is not everyone's recording of this work, it should not be "despisèd" before being given a chance. It may be just the thing for people who have delayed exploring this work because they find it too daunting.
The best reason for acquiring the Berlioz disc is Lincer's glorious reading of the solo viola part in Harold in Italy. This is viola-playing at its most melting, and it instills deep sympathy in the listener for the fate of Berlioz's (and Lord Byron's) luckless hero. In fact, this Harold is too nice a guy for these things to happen to; no wonder he is practically shocked into total silence (and death) in the hectic fourth movement, which is an "Orgy of the Brigands." Bernstein's conducting is alternately offhanded and obvious, as if he didn't believe in Berlioz's admittedly elusive score, or didn't quite know what to make of it. The interior movements are better than the outer ones; I like the accented horns at the phrase-ends near the start of "March of the Pilgrims," a movement that might be described as "breezy" in Bernstein's conception.
Berlioz wrote La Mort de Cléopâtre in his third unsuccessful bid for the Prix de Rome. (The fourth time was a charm, but the winning work, La Mort de Sardanapale, no longer exists in toto.) This "scène lyrique" from 1830 is something of a warm-up for Dido's music in Les Troyens. At times it soars (a melody that later appeared in Le Carnaval Romain appears midway through), and at other times it stumbles. One highly characteristic touch is the orchestral yelp that depicts Cleopatra's wounding by the asp. The panting strings that follow this are a convincing picture of a faltering heartbeat.
Bernstein's soloist is his friend and frequent colleague Jennie Tourel, a masterful singer, and one whose sympathy for the French language helps to sell this work. Not to be ungallant, but she sounds too long in the tooth to be totally convincing as the Egyptian beauty, and two of her high notes are yelps of quite a different sort. Bernstein is the helpful accompanist here; it's not clear to me what attracted him to this score in the first place because it doesn't give him and the orchestra much to do. Janet Baker remains first choice in this work, but Bernstein fans will not be seriously displeased by either this version or by Harold. Both recordings date from 1961.
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text: Soviet Bus Stops, photographer Christopher Herwig locates fresh wonders of the Soviet vernacular in Georgia, Ukraine and Russia itself After the popular and critical success of his first book, Soviet Bus Stops, photographer Christopher Herwig has returned to the former Soviet Union to hunt for more. In this second volume, as well as discovering new stops in the remotest areas of Georgia and Ukraine, Herwig turns his camera to Russia itself. Following exhaustive research, he drove more than 9,000 miles from coast to coast across the largest country in the world, in pursuit of new examples of this singular architectural form.A foreword by renowned architecture and culture critic Owen Hatherley reveals new information on the origins of the Soviet bus stop. Examining the government policy that allowed these small architectural forms to flourish, he explains how they reflected Soviet values, and how ultimately they remained--despite their incredible individuality--far-flung outposts of Soviet ideology.The diversity of architectural approaches is staggering: juxtaposed alongside a slew of audacious modern and brutal designs, there are bus stops shaped as trains, birds, light bulbs, rockets, castles, even a bus stop incorporating a statue of St. George slaying the dragon. An essential companion to the first volume, this book provides a valuable document of these important and unique constructions.


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July 21-24, 2014
This course is oriented to designers and concept modelers who wish to interact with their creations in a friendly and enriching manner.
This 3-day workshop will provide the students with all the understanding needed to create and easily interact with their concepts using all the potential Rhino and VSR can offer. During this course, students will learn the main concepts regarding car design and how to implement them to improve their concepts into the 3D environment. The participants will find how to generate, edit, and evaluate their models in a simplified manner. This will let them concentrate on the really important part of their creations: the design.
Instructor: Jorge Biosca
Language: English
Cost: Students 395€ + VAT / Professionals 495€ +VAT (early bird price until July 7)
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Chevron Folds (Montana)
Between the land sloping away from the base of these rock layers and the layers themselves, there is a gap of nearly 3 billion (yes, billion with a "b") years of geologic history, also known as an unconformity.
Tilted and Folded
Badlands (Teddy Roosevelt Nat'l Park, N. Dakota)
Kaolin clay
Kaolin clay mine (middle GA)
Tilted rock layers (Montana)
More tilted layers, almost completely upturned
Palo Duro Canyon (Texas)
Basalt columns (Montana)
More tilted rock layers, possibly limestone - this part of Montana was once underwater.
More folded and titled rock
Ancient mud with fossilized cracks
Limestone - a happy home to lichen and moss - some of the rock in this area had shells embedded throughout - so cool to find evidence of ancient aquatic life on now bone-dry land!
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Chocolate is a delicious confection popular among humans, both male and female. Not only is it very tasty, it is a good source of antioxidants and some minerals, particularly copper and magnesium. The darker the chocolate it is (i.e. the higher the percentage of cacao), the larger the antioxidant and mineral punch it packs. As Magnesium is particularly essential to proper brain and heart function and is generally lacking in the diets of North Americans, dark chocolate is emerging as a popular health food, though its value and quality are diminished by the sugar and fat that typically accompanies it. All chocolate commercially prepared contains soy lecithin, making it allergenic to those with soy allergies.
Much more relevant to Davis, where can you get this delicious ambrosia.
- UC Davis Botanical Conservatory
A Theobroma Cacao tree grows fruit near Tabatha the Titan, the corpse flower. Please obtain permission before harvesting.
Specializing in pure chocolate desserts and fudge, baking chocolate is also sold here.
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Mainly selling the snacking variety of chocolate.
Selling both a selection of baking and snacking chocolates as well as desserts made from the ambrosia.
Selling only dark chocolate bars, with either marshmallows or almonds.
Available at the farmer's market, the last Saturday of every month, also ordered from their website.
- The cacao tree was discovered somewhere around 2000 years ago in Mesoamerica by the Maya.
- The botanical name of the cacao tree is Theobroma cacao, which translates to be the "Food of the Gods".
- Chocolate bars were not developed until the 1800s. Up until that point, chocolate was consumed as a beverage.
- This beverage was made with hot water frothing a liquid chocolate made from refined powder, it was pretty spicy having chili in it, additionally, it often contained hallucinogenics such as psilocybin mushrooms.
- The first Valentine's candy box was introduced by Richard Cadbury in 1868.
- White chocolate contains no cacao at all.
- I believe true white choc contains cacao butter. Rather than get into a debate about whether cacao butter=cacao, perhaps the original poster can clarify his/her statement. —AlphaDog
- White chocolate is pure cacao butter, but doesn't contain much of the theobromide or lighter substances that are found in darker varieties, people who are allergic to chocolate will sadly also be allergic to white chocolate just the same.
- Theobromide in chocolate is toxic to to both people and dogs. The concentration of this substance is relative to the darkness of the chocolate, and dogs generally weigh much less than a human, so avoid feeding dogs chocolate, especially the delicious darks found in many local stores. Depending on your dog's weight, it might be able to ingest quite a bit without worry, so don't faint if a lab eats a single chocolate chip cookie. It's not a good idea to intentionally feed it to them, but an incidental amount now and then is usually okay. According to the Merck Veterinary Manual, LD50 for dogs is approximately one ounce of milk chocolate per pound of dog, or 1/16 of their body weight. For an 80 pound dog, that's 5 pounds of chocolate. For a 176 pound human at the human LD50, it's about 13.5 pounds of chocolate. That's a lot of chocolate.


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Fluid, one of the most eye-catching designs for the much-anticipated 2012 World Expo in Yeosu, South Korea, is a whale-like pavilion designed by Melbourne-based Peddle Thorpe Architects (PTA). Their organic floating exhibition space is designed around the concept of adaptability, making the structure useful for many scenarios, even long after the World Expo has concluded. With it's environmentally aware design, Fluid has a minimal impact on the surrounding coastal ecosystem and has another extremely cool feature – after it's duties in Yeosu are complete, the whole building can unlatch from its site and be sailed to other cities as a giant, amphibious floating exhibition!
The concept for Fluid was actually created for PTA by Antoine Damery, who is known for his sustainable and environmentally conscious designs. Sustainability and conservation are integral elements of the design of the structure, acting also as a metaphor of change for the emerging city of Yeosu. Fluid will be anchored to a harbor and can rise and fall with the tides, resting on the water, but not fully built into its environment. Extremely organic in form, Fluid even appears as an aquatic animal with it's flowing lines and smooth facade.
PTA and Antoine Damery's hope for Fluid is that it will encourage collaboration between the Asian and Pacific countries, especially with regards to the preservation of oceans and ecosystems. Created with adaptation in mind, the interior of the pavilion is open, capable of hosting various types of events during the Expo and afterwards, becoming more sustainable as the lifespan and utility of the environmentally aware pavilion is expanded. Post World Expo 2012, Fluid can be sailed around to coastal Asian cities, showcasing various exhibitions or acting as a venue for events, celebrations or concerts, meaning that new pavilions will not have to be constructed at those locations.
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Vintage Liquori & Buerkle
Here's an unpublished photo from 1974 showing Marty Liquori, Tom Fleming, and Dick Buerkle at a meet in Germany. Who says distance runners cannot dress well?
For five consecutive years in the 1970s Buerkle and Liquori traded off as the #1 ranked American at 5000 meters. Buerkle was ranked #1 in 1974 and 1976 (when he won the USA Olympic Trials 5000), while Liquori was #1 in 1975, 1977 (when he was #1 in the world at that distance), and 1978.
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Marina Muncan is Villanova Female Runner of the Decade
The 2000-2009 decade produced several national class distance runners on the women's side of the program: Frances Koons, Ioana Parusheva, Sheila Reid and Amanda Marino to name just a few. But the obvious choice for Villanova Female Runner of the Decade is Marina Muncan. Muncan competed for the Wildcats from 2002 to 2005 and achieved numerous noteworthy accomplishments. In cross country, Muncan was a four-time All American by viture of her finishes at the NCAA cross country nationals. Between 2002 and 2005 Marina finished 24th, 16th, 6th, and 23rd at NCAA cross nationals. Frances Koons, perhaps Muncan's closest challenger for title of decade's best, had but one All American finish in cross country, a 20th place finish in 2008. Muncan was a six-time Big East champion. She won four Big East individual titles: 800 meters (2004), 1000 meters indoors (2005), the mile indoors (2005), and 1500 meters (2005). She was part of two Big East championship relays as well: the 2004 4 x 800 and the 2005 4 x 800 indoors. Koons won 7 Big East titles: 3 individual and as part of two relays. Finally, Marina was an NCAA finalist in four individual and one relay events (in 2003, 2004, and 2005 she made the 1500 meter finals, finishing 5th, 3rd, and 9th, respectively; she was a 3000i meter finalist in 2004) and one relay (the 2004 DMR, which finished 4th). Koons was a four-time NCAA individual finalist: 2006 1500 meters (10th), 2009 3000i (9th) and 5000i (2nd), 2009 5000 (3rd).
Since the start of her professional career, Muncan has been a 1500 meter finalist at both the 2008 and 2009 European Indoor Championships (finishing 8th and 9th, respectively) and in July 2009 she won the 1500 meter gold medal at the World University Games, held in Belgrade, Serbia (her native country). Possessing good speed (a 2:02.86 PR at 800 meters) as well as strength, and by virtue of her success in both cross country and track, Muncan is here considered the best Villanova female runner of the past decade.
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Blincoe Edges Curtis for Villanova Male Runner of the Decade
|Adrian Blincoe (r) and Bobby Curtis were Villanova's best in the decade
As we approach the end of the decade it is appropriate to consider the contenders for the title of Villanova male Runner of the Decade. The most accomplished VU runners of the 2000-2009 decade were Adrian Blincoe (2003) and Bobby Curtis (2008). In my view, third place should go to Ryan Hayden, but a very difficult decision for first and second remains. Also, it is important to weigh only those accomplishments attained by the respective runners while wearing the blue and white. Otherwise, Blincoe's 5 extra years of international success (including his 13:10.19 New Zealand national record at 5000 meters, his 3:54.40 mile and 3:35.50 1500 meter PRs, and his 2008 Olympic team appearance) would make him the clear winner of the award. Curtis will have his time to build a comparable record if he is able to do so. As it stands, though, both runners have compelling claims on the title.
|Blincoe over Willis on NCAA DMR anchor
|Curtis wins NCAA 5000 crown
Both Blincoe and Curtis won NCAA titles (3000i and 5000 meters, respectively), and both were runners-up at the NCAA meet in those same events. Curtis ran a faster 5000 while competing for Villanova, while Blincoe is the school record holder at 3000i. Blincoe was an NCAA finalist at 1500 and was part of two NCAA DMR champions. At bottom, the fact that Blincoe established a school record, won two additional national championships, and anchored the 2001 Penn Relays DMR victory gives the Kiwi an ever-so-slight edge over Curtis for the title of Men's Runner of the Decade.
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Monday, December 28, 2009
High School Stars to National Champions
Here are photos of (1) Eamonn Coghlan from the 1971 Irish Schools championships , (2) Marty Liquori competing for Essex Catholic in New Jersey in 1967, and (3) Bobby Curtis of Louisville's St. Xavier winning his third consecutive national high school mile championship in 2003. All three later won individual NCAA titles at Villanova.
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Sunday, December 27, 2009
Pipped by Parlapiano
UCONN's Dan Wilson, a 2002 NCAA 1500 meter finalist, thought he had won the 2002 Big East title at 1500 meters (see above). But he was pipped at the line by Villanova's Tom Parlapiano. Wilson celebrated too soon and failed to lean at the wire, and was beaten for the title (see below). Both Parlapiano and Wilson were timed at 3:45.41. It was Villanova's second consecutive conference title at 1500, with Adrian Blincoe winning in 2001.
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The Finish Line -- part 3
The initial picture to the left is that of Eamonn Coghlan on the cover of the July 9, 1979 issue of Sports Illustrated. On June 30 in Philadelphia he had covered the mile in 3:52.88 and in the process beat Steve Scott (3:53.4), Craig Masback (3:54.7 PR), Olympic 1500 gold medalist and WR holder John Walker (3:55), as well as Rod Dixon, Don Paige, and Paul Cummings. At the time it was Coghlan's outdoor mile PR, a mark he later lowered to 3:51.59 in July 1983 in Olso. Coghlan's indoor mile record of 3:49.78, a world record set in February 1983, stood for exactly 14 years before being broken by the legendary Hicham El Guerrouj on February 27, 1997. To this day, only Coghlan an and El Guerrouj have gone under 3:50 for the indoor mile.
The picture to the right is that of Nnenna Lynch winning the 1997 USA World Cross Country trials in 20:17. In doing so she bested Amy Rudolph (20:21), Gwen Coogan (20:27), Elva Dryer (20:33), and Deena Drossin (later Kastor) 20:45, among others.
Finally, one of the most famous Villanova finish line photos ever: Marty Liquori beating Jim Ryun in the 1971 Dream Mile. It was one of the most anticipated races in US history and was covered live on ABC's Wide World of Sports with Jim McKay and color analysis by Jim Beatty. Oddly enough for a race of that distance, the race started with a false start and required a second gun.
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Saturday, December 26, 2009
Rhines Ranked #3 USA at 5000 for 2009
One running site has ranked Jen Rhines as the #3 American at 5000 meters this year, behind Shalane Flanagan and Jenny Barringer. Here is Letsrun.com's summary of her year:
LRC #3 Jen Rhines • adidas • 15:07.78 • 9th Place, Worlds • USA Runner-Up
Jen Rhines had a great year as she finished as the USA runner-up in the championship 5,000m and went on to finish 9th in the IAAF World Championship 5,000m final. In Berlin, Rhines ran a strong 15:20 to make the 5,000m final and then ran even better, 15:12, in the final. This year Rhines ran 8 races between 15:33 and 15:07 on the track, including a 4th-place finish in the 5,000m at the IAAF Grand Prix in Stockholm, won by LRC #2 Jenny Barringer. Rhines ended her year with a 3rd-place finish on the roads in Providence in 15:33.
While 9th at Worlds, Rhines is only #3 in the US rankings. For many her ranking may not need an explanation. But for those of you who need an explanation here it is: Making the final at Worlds was not very difficult for a 15:10 5k runner this year. Rhines was not the US champ, so we couldn't see ranking her over Flanagan and Barringer whose 5k campaigns were more impressive than Rhines (except for the Worlds which they didn't run).
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Wednesday, December 23, 2009
1980 Olympic Boycott
Three Villanova runners were to compete at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. Eamonn Coghlan ran the 5000 meters in that Olympiad, finishing fourth. The two Americans -- Dick Buerkle and Don Paige -- stayed home with the rest of Team USA as President Jimmy Carter issued a boycott of the Games in response to the December 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. But Carter did throw a bone to the 1980 American team: he invited them to a picnic on the White House lawn. Below are two photos from that White House event: Dick Buerkle and his wife and baby in the first, and Don Paige and his parents in the second. Interestingly, Don Paige finished that 1980 olympic year ranked #1 in the world at 800 meters (the Brit Sebestain Coe lost an 800 race only 4 times between 1978 and 1984, but he lost two of those four in 1980: to Steve Ovett in the Moscow final and to Don Paige in Viareggio, Italy. Controversially, Track & Field News ranked Don Paige #1 that year, ahead of Ovett and Coe).
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The Finish Line -- part 2
In this installment of famous Villanovans at the finish line, we see two of Ron Delany: just before and just after crossing the finish line in his gold medal effort at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. In the second shot, Delany is being congratulated by John Landy. Also, Carrie Tollefson is shown winning the 2004 Olympic Trials 1500 meter finals and making her first Olympic team.
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Tuesday, December 22, 2009
The Charmed Life of Thomas Donnelly
For young people Tom Donnelly is famous for his unparalleled success as track and cross country coach at Haverford College, located a short jog away from Villanova's campus on the Main Line. For those of us a bit older, Donnelly is remembered as one of the best distance runners ever produced by a Philadelphia high school, a multiple NCAA champion while at Villanova, and the coach of world class runners such as Marcus O'Sullivan and Sydney Maree.
Donnelly entered LaSalle College High School in 1961 and proceeded to win three Philadelphia Catholic League cross country individual championships. After his freshman year, Donnelly never lost a high school race. After winning his third Catholic League title in 1964, we went to Van Cortlandt Park and won the Eastern States championship as well, setting a course record in the effort.
He crossed the Schuylkill River to attend Villanova and promptly contributed to three consecutive NCAA championship cross country squads. Donnelly was Villanova's top finisher on both the 1966 and 1968 teams, finishing 7th and 8th, respectively. These top ten finishes sandwiched a 27th place finish for the 1967 NCAA champs.
The 1966 team is pictured here, with Donnelly wearing bib 286. Tom was also successful on the track, highlighted by an NCAA team championship, three All-American awards in the 3000 steeplechase (his PR was a gaudy 8:45) and three Penn Relays Championship of America 4 x Mile relay titles (his baton-mates in those races were Frank Murphy, Charlie Messenger, Dave Patrick, Dick Buerkle, and Marty Liquori).
After his Villanova career, Donnelly entered coaching and likewise found early success. He spent one year at Archbishop Wood high school in Philadelphia and the team promptly won the Philadelphia Catholic League cross country title. Tom left Wood in 1970 to coach at his alma mater LaSalle High. He coached the Explorers four years, won two more Philadelphia Catholic League cross country team championships in 1971 and 1972, and helped develop a future Villanova All-American in John Burns. I myself had the good fortune to have been coached for a year by Donnelly during his stint at LaSalle (and to have had him as my American history teacher as a frosh).
Donnelly left LaSalle in 1974 to attend graduate school at Villanova and to concentrate on his own running. He also was a part-time volunteer coach at Haverford (see photo above). When the full-time coaching slot at Haverford opened up, Donnelly was in the right place at the right time. He's been there now 35 years (notwithstanding Villanova's muffed attempt to hire Donnelly as its coach in the mid-1990s). At Haverford, he developed the first NCAA Division III sub-4:00 miler in 1997 (Karl Paranya, 3:57.6) and his Haverford teams have won so many conference titles (64 at last count) that he has run out of wall space in his office and cannot hang any more. He led Haverford to the NCAA cross country national title in 2010. How many Division III track coaches have found themselves the focus of a laudatory article in the New York Times? If anyone can claim to have lived a charmed life in the pursuit of running excellence, Tom Donnelly can.
Donnelly entered LaSalle College High School in 1961 and proceeded to win three Philadelphia Catholic League cross country individual championships. After his freshman year, Donnelly never lost a high school race. After winning his third Catholic League title in 1964, we went to Van Cortlandt Park and won the Eastern States championship as well, setting a course record in the effort.
He crossed the Schuylkill River to attend Villanova and promptly contributed to three consecutive NCAA championship cross country squads. Donnelly was Villanova's top finisher on both the 1966 and 1968 teams, finishing 7th and 8th, respectively. These top ten finishes sandwiched a 27th place finish for the 1967 NCAA champs.
The 1966 team is pictured here, with Donnelly wearing bib 286. Tom was also successful on the track, highlighted by an NCAA team championship, three All-American awards in the 3000 steeplechase (his PR was a gaudy 8:45) and three Penn Relays Championship of America 4 x Mile relay titles (his baton-mates in those races were Frank Murphy, Charlie Messenger, Dave Patrick, Dick Buerkle, and Marty Liquori).
After his Villanova career, Donnelly entered coaching and likewise found early success. He spent one year at Archbishop Wood high school in Philadelphia and the team promptly won the Philadelphia Catholic League cross country title. Tom left Wood in 1970 to coach at his alma mater LaSalle High. He coached the Explorers four years, won two more Philadelphia Catholic League cross country team championships in 1971 and 1972, and helped develop a future Villanova All-American in John Burns. I myself had the good fortune to have been coached for a year by Donnelly during his stint at LaSalle (and to have had him as my American history teacher as a frosh).
Donnelly left LaSalle in 1974 to attend graduate school at Villanova and to concentrate on his own running. He also was a part-time volunteer coach at Haverford (see photo above). When the full-time coaching slot at Haverford opened up, Donnelly was in the right place at the right time. He's been there now 35 years (notwithstanding Villanova's muffed attempt to hire Donnelly as its coach in the mid-1990s). At Haverford, he developed the first NCAA Division III sub-4:00 miler in 1997 (Karl Paranya, 3:57.6) and his Haverford teams have won so many conference titles (64 at last count) that he has run out of wall space in his office and cannot hang any more. He led Haverford to the NCAA cross country national title in 2010. How many Division III track coaches have found themselves the focus of a laudatory article in the New York Times? If anyone can claim to have lived a charmed life in the pursuit of running excellence, Tom Donnelly can.
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A Conversation with Mark Belger
Reflections with Middle Distance Great Mark Belger
BY Gina Giacopuzzi
Saturday, 23 May 2009
From Mark Belger's newly remodeled house in Pacific Beach, it is only a short walk to Mika Sushi, where he walks in the door, waves to the chef, and shows me a picture of him and his daughter on the wall. In the space of a few blocks, I had already learned that Belger tried running because he got "kicked out" of other sports, that he set age-group world records when he was 15, 16 and 17, and that both his daughters received college scholarships for following in their father's footsteps.
Over an off-menu sushi roll and Sapporo beers, Belger tells me stories of the races that he ran (Penn Relays, 800 meters) and the ones that he didn't (most notably, the 1980 Olympics, due to a U.S. boycott of the games). One thing I notice, over and over again, is Belger's use of the word "fun". He uses it in every story of every race.
"Racing was the part I liked," Belger said. "Training was the hard part…I trained less than most."
Belger grew up on Long Island in what he calls a "strict, middle-income" family. He stopped playing football when he hurt his jaw, stopped wrestling when he dislocated his fingers, and stopped playing soccer when he broke his toes. His dad told him, "you have to do some after-school activity," so Belger began running in junior high. He received his first trophy running 600 meters during a President Kennedy Fitness test.
Belger enjoyed middle distances, setting three age group records in what was then the 880-meter at his high school, W.C. Mepham. He was persuaded to go out for cross-country, which he admits he approached with the same philosophy as middle-distance running.
"The first time I had to run two miles, I quit," Belger laughed. "I was running as hard as I could as long as I could." Innately, he said, he worked hard and had a hard time pacing himself. However, he managed to return to cross-country at the prodding of his coach. In his first junior varsity race, which was in the shape of a figure-8, Belger remembers staying right behind the front of the pack until he took a wrong turn. When he realized his mistake, Belger turned around and ran as fast as he could to win first place.
That tenacity and persistence paid off on college, which Belger attended at Villanova under famed coach James (Jumbo) Elliott.
"All coaches give you a rope," Belger said. "It's up to you if you want to hang yourself or swing with it."
At Villanova, Belger ran the 800 meter and "lots of relays".
"When weekends came around, I ran four to five races," he remembers. "The ability to run that many races was my treasure. I loved relays, it's like tag. You can tell when you're going to beat somebody… from the warm-up, I'd put my eye on somebody and think, 'I got him.'"
Belger set a record for the most Penn Relay titles, earning 10 coveted gold watches. "You don't lose the Penns," he jokes, but I can tell he's completely serious. He never lost a race in the four years he participated. Belger made Sports Illustrated when he set the record in 1978, leading Villanova to five victories out of five races. He was inducted into the Penn Relays Wall of Fame in 1994.
"In college, our team had a lot of depth," Belger said. "We trained together really well… Because we trained fast, we were well-honed." At the ICA4 Championships, he ran five back-to-back races. Going into the 800-meter finals, the last race, Belger felt a little queasy at the beginning of the stagger lanes. He raised his hand, asking for a delay of the start, went and barfed, and returned to the starting line-up.
"I remember turning around in the stagger lanes, looking at the other guys, and they were slack-jawed," Belger said, laughing. "They couldn't believe it."
Although he was less infatuated with training than he was with racing, Belger learned to train smart. He's surprised by how many runners would hit the course without knowing the race.
"Going to bed at night, I visualized any and every possibility," he said. "Then, when you get to the race, nothing's new. You've already run it."
At the Olympic Trials in 1976, Belger used that strategy---and his knowledge of opponent Keith Francis---to place fourth.
"I knew exactly how it was going to go," Belger said. "I waited until the back straightaway, because Keith Francis always ran wide on the back straightaway. I came out of the turn in front, and then I hit a wall---I was just telling myself, 'left, right, left, right.'"
Belger went on to become the NCAA 800-meter champion in 1978.
After college, Belger moved to Boston, where he worked in "econometrics"--- he helped to forecast the price of raw materials for the auto industry and developers. He remembers showing up at a Boston Athletics Association workout, where the coach told him his proposed quarter-mile workouts were a bad idea. Belger proceeded to run both of the BAA workouts and then run his quarters.
Just after completing college in 1979, he also had the opportunity to run against Villanova's other star---Don Paige, whom Elliott had never allowed Belger to compete against. Belger could ask meet directors for an appearance list. He specifically asked the director of a meet at Madison Square Garden to set up a matchup with Paige. Although Belger tried to contain his energy, he said before the 1000-yard race, "I don't think it's gonna take a world record to beat Paige, but it'll take a world record to beat me."
The race was widely publicized, and Belger and Paige made the centerfold of Sports Illustrated. Belger held the lead for much of the race, only to be passed by Paige in the last three laps. Paige set a World Indoor Record.
Belger hit the travel circuit of post-collegiate racing, becoming familiar with running races with jet lag. He'd run a Friday night race in New York, pass through Chicago to run one on Saturday, and hit a Sunday race in Los Angeles. He enjoyed running in New York, which he said was a different experience altogether.
"One of my first races in Europe, I ran flat-out and set a personal record," he said. "I still came in dead last! I saw people run faster than our pros, and I'd never heard of them."
Belger enjoyed the international feel of running in Europe, compared to the spread-out invitationals in the U.S. He visited more zoos than perhaps any other American runner.
"What? I liked zoos!" He said. "People want to do what reminds them of home."
Nowadays, Belger doesn't do much running. He leaves that to his daughters and his wife Mimi, who join him for hill runs and strides at Kate Sessions Park on Saturdays. Any runner who wants to improve their running mechanics can learn from Belger at "the hill". Even though the workouts are held on Saturdays, they often include a sermon from the Godfather of San Diego Running, Mr. Steve Holl.
Belger explains that strides are the key to improving running form and speed. The uphill running portion of the workout is necessary to isolate and blast one small muscle—the heart.
His eldest daughter, Erin, received a scholarship to UC Berkeley and competed in the Pac-10s and the NCAAs. Sarah, his next youngest, came back from a horrible knee-injury post high school to receive a cross-country/track scholarship at San Diego State her senior year.
"The fruit didn't fall far from the tree as far as their ability and commitment went... and in the end it paid off by providing structure, travel, a college education and other rewards," Belger said. "Any passion suited to an individual's talents is a good thing… I'm just glad my daughters grew up with the experience that hard work and dedication has a positive effect."
Belger is optimistic about track and field in the U.S. today, and he hopes some things never change.
"I'm old school," he said. "You draw a starting line in the dirt, hoist a flag on the other side of the field, throw in a few obstacles, maybe even a good rain shower, drop the temperature to 40 degrees and pull the trigger. I'd say you have a race... Throw on a jersey with the name of your school across your chest and tie on a borrowed pair of spikes to your feet and I'm in heaven."
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Labels: Heroes and Heroines, Interviews
Saturday, December 19, 2009
The Finish Line -- part 1
Here are some famous finish line photos of Villanova runners -- click on image for a larger view. In this first installment: (1) Adrian Blincoe's anchor winning the 2002 NCAA Distance Medley Relay title, (2) Sonia O'Sullivan winning the 1998 World Cross Country Championship (she won both the long course and short course races that year), (3) Marty Liquori beating Jim Ryun for the 1969 NCAA mile championship, (4) Jen Rhines winning the 2002 USATF national title at 10,000 meters, (5) Matt Gibney anchoring the 2009 Penn Relays Championship of America Distance Medley Relay, and (6) Eamonn Coghlan winning the 1983 World Championship at 5000 meters.
Adrian Blincoe
Sonia O'Sullivan
Marty Liquori
Jen Rhines
Matt Gibney
Eamonn Coghlan
Take a look below at the final lap of Eamonn's 1983 world title at 5000 meters.
Adrian Blincoe
Sonia O'Sullivan
Marty Liquori
Jen Rhines
Matt Gibney
Eamonn Coghlan
Take a look below at the final lap of Eamonn's 1983 world title at 5000 meters.
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Thursday, December 17, 2009
The Strange Legacy of Sydney Maree
By standard measure (the stopwatch) Sydney Maree is the greatest male runner in the illustrious history of the Villanova program. His accomplishments are the stuff of legend: a world record over 1500 meters (3:31.24 in August 1983), American Records at 1500 meters (3:29.77 in 1985), 2000 meters (4:54.20 in 1985), 3000 meters (7:33.37 in 1984), and 5000 meters (13:01.15 in 1985, at the time the third fastest time ever). He won the first 5th Avenue Mile in 3:47. His mile PR (3:48.83) is faster than those of Eamonn Coghlan and Marcus O'Sullivan. Same for the 1500. He won multiple NCAA championships over 1500 and 5000 meters. We was an All-American in cross country. In 1981 he was the first Black to receive the South African Athlete of the Year award. Yet, despite this resume, Maree is routinely not placed at the top of the list when Villanova greats are considered. What accounts for this incongruity?
Perhaps the simplest explanation is that Sydney Maree, despite the best times produced by any Villanova runner, was considered even in his heyday to be a poor racer. He was viewed as a runner with freakish natural ability and legendary workouts who was a terrible tactician in races. He was Steve Holman before there was a Steve Holman. He was Alan Webb before there was an Alan Webb. Consider his tactics in the 1989 World Indoor Championship 1500 (won by Marcus O'Sullivan). Maree bolted immediately to the front, did all the work for 1400 meters with Marcus tucked neatly behind, and was promptly passed by three runner over the final 50 meters. He finished out of the medals, despite making ther race for everyone else.
Maree posted staggering times, but won very few important races. Perhaps the most impressive race he ever ran he did not win: covering 5000 meters in 13:01.15 in chasing Said Aouita to a 1985 world record (see video below). He was inconsistent. He himself felt unappreciated. On the international circuit he was insulted when Steve Scott offered encouragement to his friend Eamonn Coghlan rather than supporting him, a fellow American. He was considered thin-skinned.
Perhaps this anecdote captures the sentiment: Steve Cram, the British world record holder, was asked in the lead-up to the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles what he thought of the threat Maree posed to his own chances at the Games. Cram replied: "He runs one good race in seven, but he might get lucky." What an unfair legacy for a man who ran 3:29, 3:48, 7:33, and 13:01.
Perhaps the simplest explanation is that Sydney Maree, despite the best times produced by any Villanova runner, was considered even in his heyday to be a poor racer. He was viewed as a runner with freakish natural ability and legendary workouts who was a terrible tactician in races. He was Steve Holman before there was a Steve Holman. He was Alan Webb before there was an Alan Webb. Consider his tactics in the 1989 World Indoor Championship 1500 (won by Marcus O'Sullivan). Maree bolted immediately to the front, did all the work for 1400 meters with Marcus tucked neatly behind, and was promptly passed by three runner over the final 50 meters. He finished out of the medals, despite making ther race for everyone else.
Maree posted staggering times, but won very few important races. Perhaps the most impressive race he ever ran he did not win: covering 5000 meters in 13:01.15 in chasing Said Aouita to a 1985 world record (see video below). He was inconsistent. He himself felt unappreciated. On the international circuit he was insulted when Steve Scott offered encouragement to his friend Eamonn Coghlan rather than supporting him, a fellow American. He was considered thin-skinned.
Perhaps this anecdote captures the sentiment: Steve Cram, the British world record holder, was asked in the lead-up to the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles what he thought of the threat Maree posed to his own chances at the Games. Cram replied: "He runs one good race in seven, but he might get lucky." What an unfair legacy for a man who ran 3:29, 3:48, 7:33, and 13:01.
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Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Sonia O'Sullivan named 2012 Irish Olympic Team Chef de Mission
Former Villanova great, multiple world champion and Olympic Silver medalist Sonia O'Sullivan (Cobh, County Cork) a few years back was voted Ireland's greatest living athlete. Reflective of such a honor, she was today named the Chef de Mission of Ireland's 2012 Olympic team. Here is the story from RTE Ireland:
Sonia named Olympic Chef de Mission
Tuesday, 15 December 2009
The Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) has selected Sonia O'Sullivan as Chef de Mission of the Irish team for the London Olympic Games in 2012.
The former Olympic silver medallist will head up a management team comprised of the OCI's chief executive Stephen Martin, who won a hockey gold medal for Great Britain in 1988, and Martin Burke, the OCI's sports director.
O'Sullivan recently served as Chef de Mission of the highly successful European Youth Olympic squad.
Chairman of the Olympic Athletes Commission, Jamie Costin, said: 'Sonia is a sporting legend and she will ensure that the Irish team's preparations and participation at the London Olympics will be totally athlete focused.
'This is a superb move by the OCI and will undoubtedly assist our chances of winning medals.'
Meanwhile, Siobhan Hoey has been appointed Chef de Mission for the Ireland team at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver in February.
Here's a video tribute to Sonia:
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Monday, December 14, 2009
The First Irishman to tell Jumbo "No, Thanks"
Eamonn Coghlan's recent book Chairman of the Boards, Master of the Mile relates the story of Jumbo Elliott's failed attempt to recruit John Treacy to Villanova. According to Coghlan, despite the existence of the Irish Pipeline dating back for two decades or more, prior to 1974 Jumbo had never traveled to Ireland and, aside from Carl Lewis in New Jersey, had never traveled to recruit a runner in person (usually leaving the recruiting to Jack Pyrah). Since he had been invited to speak to the Olympic Council in Dublin, Jumbo decided to seek out Treacy and offer him a scholarship to run at Villanova. When Treacy turned Jumbo down and accepted a scholarship to Providence College, he became the first Irishman to turn down an offer to compete at Villanova. Treacy went on to greatness at Providence and on the world scene. His younger brother Ray followed John to Providence a few years later and became the team's track and cross country coach.
John Treacy's greatest moments, including a 1984 Olympic silver medal in the marathon and two World Cross Country golds, are listed below:
5000 meters: 13:28.89 (Rome, 1987)
10,000 meters: 27:48.7 (Brussels, 1980)
10K: 27:46 (Phoenix, 1985)
Half-Marathon: 1:02:22 (Nara, Japan, 1988)
Marathon: 2:09:15 (Boston, 1988)
Greatest Hits:
Silver Medal, Marathon (2:09:56), 1984 Olympic Games (Los Angeles)
Gold Medal, 1978 World Cross Country Championships (Glasgow)
Gold Medal, 1979 World Cross Country Championships (Limerick)
5th Place, 1985 World Cross Country Championships (Lisbon)
Brone Medal, 1974 World Junior Cross Country Championships (Monza)
Bronze Medal, 1975 World Junior Cross Country Championships (Rabat)
3rd Place, 1988 Boston Marathon (2:09:15)
3rd Place, 1989 Boston Marathon (2:10:24)
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Saturday, December 12, 2009
Bobby Curtis @ 5000 meters
Bobby Curtis is the last Villanova runner to win an individual title at the NCAA national outdoor meet. He won the 2008 NCAA 5000 title in 13:33, making his move at the bell (top photo) and winning by 6 seconds over Stephen Pifer and Brent Vaughn (bottom photo). Curtis in the #2 man all-time on Villanova's 5000 meter list. Only Sydney Maree (the NCAA meet record holder) in 1979 has run a faster 5000 meters in a Villanova singlet.
1 Robert Curtis SR Villanova 13:33.93 10
2 Stephen Pifer SR Colorado 13:39.34 8
3 Brent Vaughn SR Colorado 13:39.44 6
4 David McNeill SO Northern Arizona 13:42.17 5
5 Ryan Vail SR Oklahoma State 13:42.85 4
6 Hassan Mead FR Minnesota 13:44.30 3
7 Kenyon Neuman JR Colorado 13:45.54 2
8 Patrick Smyth JR Notre Dame 13:47.82 1
9 Ian Burrell SR Georgia 13:48.40
10 Stephen Furst SR NC State 13:49.87
11 Emmanuel Bor SO Alabama 13:53.39
12 Mark Steeds JR Georgia State 13:56.18
13 Felix Kiboiywo SO Auburn 14:02.65
14 Abraham Ng'etich SR Iona 14:05.73
15 Joseph Maina JR Eastern Kentucky 14:06.43
16 Patrick Sovacool JR Miami-Ohio 14:18.55
Here's a post-race interview video with Curtis:
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Villanova & The Wanamaker Mile
The premier indoor mile race in the United States is the Wanamaker Mile, held each year since 1926 at the Millrose Games in New York. Six different Villanovans have won that race a total of 22 times:
Eamonn Coghlan (7): 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1985, 1985, 1987
Marcus O'Sullivan (6): 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1996
Ron Delany (4): 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959
Marty Liquori (3): 1969, 1970, 1971
Dick Buerkle (1): 1978
Dave Patrick (1): 1967
During the 1977-1992 stretch, Villanova runners won the race an astonishing 13 of 16 years. The photo above shows Marcus O'Sullivan winning the 1989 mile in 3:54.27.
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Ireland's 4 x Mile World Record
Two Villanova greats were part of the still standing 4 x Mile world record. On August 17, 1985 in Dublin Eamonn Coghlan, Marcus O'Sullivan, Frank O'Mara and Ray Flynn broke the existing world record by 10 seconds in establishing the new mark of 15:49.08 . The mile splits were as follows: Eamonn Coghlan (4:00.2), Marcus O'Sullivan (3:55.3), Frank O'Mara (3:56.6) and Ray Flynn (3:56.9). Click on the post title for a video highlight of the race.
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Friday, December 11, 2009
The Only Man Ever ....
Eamonn Coghlan is the only man to have broken 4:00 minutes for the mile after the age of 40. The picture to the right shows the 41-year old Dubliner crossing the line at Harvard's indoor track in 3:58.13 on February 20, 1994. He ran his very first sub-4:00 mile on May 10, 1975. That's three months short of 19 years between his first and his final sub-four minute mile.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Carey Pinkowski on Jumbo Elliott
Carey Pinkowski was an All-American at Villanova in the 1970s, and has been the race director of the Chicago Marathon since 1990. At Hammond (IN) High School he was State Champion twice in both cross-country and the mile. His best times were 4:12 for the mile and 8:56 for two miles. With his teammates, Tim Keogh and Rudy Chapa, he is part of the only trio of runners from one high school to break 9:00 for two miles in the same year. At Villanova, he had personal bests of 4:00.8 for the mile, 13:48 for 5,000 meters and 29:12 for 10,000 meters. In a recent interview, he spoke about the Villanova program and running for Jumbo Elliott:
Q: You were a very good collegiate runner at Villanova with personal bests of 13:48 for 5,000 meters and 29:12 for 10,000 meters. Additionally, you ran on a Penn Relay 4 x 1,500 meter winning squad which included Sydney Maree and an IC4A distance medley winning foursome with the legendary Indoor Mile World Record Holder Eamonn Coghlan. Your coach was the renowned Jumbo Elliott. How did your coach and being around many dedicated, top-notch runners help you develop as an athlete and person?
Carey Pinkowski: Running for Villanova and Jumbo Elliott for four years was a great experience as we were IC4A and NCAA team champions at various times. To be coached by Jumbo Elliott was fantastic. I ran all of the distances and made All-American a couple times so it was a great career with wonderful teammates. The indoor schedule was very enriched by running big meets like the Olympic Invitational and Millrose Games. Jumbo's philosophy wasn't complicated. It was a specific routine where he tried to keep us healthy because one of the challenges was in having so many great athletes that we could get competitive in practice. The tradition of Villanova and of Coach Elliott was very impressive. When I ran there he was the only track coach Villanova had ever had as he ran there and coached the team while he was running. Then he just continued after graduating for many, many years. He had a marvelous personality and a great sense of humor and wanted to see his Villanova runners continue that tradition. He could get angry, but he liked to laugh and keep things on the light side. He expected things from his athletes but didn't put on undue pressure. It was more like, 'You're here and you know what to do and lets see you do it.' Jumbo's philosophy was that life wasn't just about athletics but that we should enjoy the school atmosphere, the friends we make and the people we meet because when you finish with school your life will change dramatically.
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The Strange Case of Villanova's 1970 Cross Country Crown
On November 23, 1970 the NCAA Cross Country Championship was held at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. The top contenders for the team championship were UTEP, which had won the crown in 1969 and returned all 5 top finishers from that race, Oregon, 3rd in 1969 and led by the iconic Steve Prefontaine, and Villanova, which had won the title in 1966, 1967, 1968 and finished second behind UTEP in 1969. By all accounts, though, Villanova was in something of a rebuilding phase in 1970 and most observers had UTEP as the pre-race favorite.
Oregon, though, had seemingly pulled the upset. Steve Prefontaine, 3rd the year before, won the race in 28:00 and Oregon was declared the team champion, beating Villanova 86-88. UTEP was third. The championship trophy was awarded to Bill Dellinger and his Ducks, the top teams stood atop the podium, and the press conference was held. Oregon departed for the airport, trophy in hand, believing it had won the championship.
However, when Les Nagy, Villanova's 5th finisher, look at the results board, he noticed that several runners he knew he had beaten were listed ahead of him in the list. Nagy claimed that after having crossed the finish line he had fallen to the ground, and several runners had passed him in the finish chute prior to the runners having gotten their place cards. Villanova filed a protest of the results and refused to leave the site until the 8mm film of the finish line was reviewed. Sure enough, Nagy was correct. After reviewing the film, Nagy was awarded 62nd place overall, instead of 67th, and as a consequence Villanova was declared the team champion 85-86 over Oregon. Bowerman and the Ducks filed a protest, but to no avail. Villanova's squad -- Donal Walsh, Marty Liquori, Wilson Smith, Chris Mason, Les Nagy, Jerry Bouma, and Dave Wright -- had won its 4th national title in 5 years.
Here are the top 25 finishers in that 1970 championship race:
1. Steve Prefontaine, Oregon 28:00
2. Donal Walsh, Villanova 28:08
3. Don Kardong, Stanford 28:10
4. Greg Fredericks, Penn State 28:12
5. John Bednarski, UTEP 28:14
6. Keith Munson, Oregon State 28:22
7. Bob Berlesen, Ohio 28:28
8. Sidney Sink, Bowling Green 28:30
9. Marty Liquori, Villanova 28:37
10. Scott Bringhurst, Utah 28:40
11. Jerome Howe, Kansas State 28:43
12. Richard Sliney, Northern Arizona 28:44
13. Don Smith, Washington State 28:45
14. Jerome Liebenburg, Western Michigan 28:46
15. Kerry Pearce, UTEP 28:47
16. Mark Covert, Cal State Fullerton 28:48
17. Mark Hiefield, Washington State 28:48
18. Gary Harris, Western Michigan 28:50
19. Dennis McGuire, Iowa State 28:50
20. Ken Popejoy, Michigan State 28:55
21. John Cragg, St. Johns (Minn) 28:58
22. Greg Carlberg, Nebraska 28:56
23. Wilson Smith, Villanova 28:56
24. Edmund Norris, Kent State 28:59
25. Ron Martin, William & Mary 29:00
TOP 5 TEAMS: Villanova (85), Oregon (86), UTEP (124), Indiana (195), Western Michigan (214)
After the race Villanova coach Jack Pyrah commented: "We were really surprised to win it. UTEP had everyone back and Oregon had its usual fine personnel. We really don't have a cross country runner except for Walsh. The rest of our runners are half-milers and milers who are suited more for the track. Marty doesn't like to run cross country. He doesn't like to run hills -- in fact, we didn't even run him in the IC4A meet the week before at Cortlandt Park in New York because the course has so many hills. He has muscle problems in his leg and a hilly course aggrevates it. But the course at Williamsburg was pretty flat."
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Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Ronnie Delany
Villanova's legendary Ronnie Delany, wearing the green vest of Ireland, won the 1956 Olympic Gold Medal at 1500 meters in 3:41.2, which was a new Olympic record. In the process, he defeated Australia's John Landy, the world recorder holder at that distance. He went on himself to set three indoor world records in the mile in 1958 and 1959. He's pictured below from 1956.
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Blincoe's 3000 Meter National Crown
At Fayetteville, Arkansas Adrian Blincoe won the 2002 NCAA 3000 meter indoor championship. Blincoe's time was 8:01.76. At the same meet, Blincoe anchored Villanova's NCAA champion DMR team. Blincoe is Villanova's 3000 meter school record holder, having run 7:47.50 in Boston on January 27, 2002. Currently a Villanova assistant coach, he is the New Zealand national record holder at 5000 meters (13:10.19).
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1981 Penn Relays 4 x 1500
Here's a shot of the 1981 Penn Relays 4 x 1500 Champions. From left to right: Ken Lucks, Marcus O'Sullivan, Jack Pyrah, John Hunter, and Sydney Maree. The foursome ran 15:01.96 and Maree was named the meet's Most Valuable Athlete.
They're wearing black ribbons to honor Jumbo Elliott, who had died of a heart attack in March of that year.
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Tuesday, December 8, 2009
The Ryun vs. Liquori Duels
|Liquori defeats Ryun for the 1969 NCAA Mile title
So far as I am aware, Marty Liquori and Jim Ryun raced each other a total of nine times (although two of the nine races -- the 1968 Olympic Trials 1500 meter final and the 1968 Olympic 1500 semi-final -- were qualifying races where the goal was to advance among top finishers, not necessarily win outright). Ryun won the first five races. The sixth race -- the 1969 NCAA indoor mile championship in Detroit -- was a photo finish, with Ryun declared the winner, but Liquori still believing years later that he had in fact won. The final three races were won by Liquori, punctuated by the 1971 Dream Mile that landed Liquori on the cover of Sports Illustrated (see left). I don't believe they ever faced each other again. Here are the nine races:
1. June 1967 at the Compton Relays in Los Angeles: Jim Ryun, a 20-year old soon-to-be junior at the University of Kansas and already the world record holder at 880 yards (1:44.9) and the mile (3:51.3), won the mile race. Liquori, a senior at Essex Catholic in New Jersey and a few months short of enrolling at Villanova, was chasing his first sub-4:00 mile. He had run a 4:04.4 at the 1967 Penn Relays that spring and was in California on a three-race swing in search of fast races. At Compton, Liquori came closer to achieving his goal, coming third in 4:01.1. A few days later, in San Diego, Liquori ran 4:00.1 and beat his future Villanova teammate Dave Patrick. In his next race versus Ryun, a few days later on June 23rd in Bakersfield, Liquori would achieve his goal.
2. June 23, 1967 in Bakersfield, California: At the US AAU national mile championship, Jim Ryun lowered his own world record in the mile, running 3:51.1 (a record that would stand for eight years). Liquori, a 17-year old senior at Essex Catholic in New Jersey, qualified for the finals by running 4:08 in the heats the day before. In the final, he finished 7th, but became the third high school prep runner to break the 4:00 barrier, running 3:59.8. Fifteen days later in Los Angeles, Ryun would add the 1500 world record to his resume, defeating Kip Keino in 3:33.1.
3. September 1968 in Lake Tahoe, California: The "second" 1968 Olympic Trials were held at altitude to simulate the Olympic venue at Mexico City. The pre-Trials buzz was that Villanova's Dave Patrick would challenge Ryun for mile supremacy, but it was not to be. Ryun won easily and Patrick finished in the dreaded 4th place (and off the USA team). However, Villanova's sophomore Marty Liquori surprised observers by finishing second to Ryun (see video, right) and making the US squad. Liquori went on in Mexico City to become the youngest ever 1500 meter finalist in Olympic history.
4. October 19, 1968 in Mexico City, Mexico: Both Ryun and Liquori advanced easily on October 18th in separate preliminary heats of the 1500 meters. Ryun won heat 4 in 3:47.5, while young Liquori won heat 5 in 3:52.7. They would both be slotted for heat 2 of the semi-finals for the next day, with the top 6 finishers qualifying for the Olympic final. On October 19, 1968 Ryun won the 1500 meter semi-final heat #2 in 3:51.2. Liquori came fourth in the heat, in 3:52.1. Liquori thus became the youngest person in Olympic history to qualify for the 1500 meter final. That race would occur the next day. Unfortunately, Liquori injured his foot in this semi-final, putting his competitive chances in the final at grave risk.
5. October 20, 1968 in Mexico City, Mexico: In the Olympic 1500 meter final, Kip Keino displayed a courageous case of front-running and won the Olympic 1500 meters in an Olympic record 3:34.91. Jim Ryun (who had not previously lost to Keino) trailed by 25 meters and took the silver in 3:37.80. Marty Liquori decided to run in the final despite the stress fracture in his foot, and came 12th and last in 4:18.22.
6. March 1969 in Detroit, Michigan: At the NCAA Indoor Championships Ryun and Liquori waged an epic battle over one mile that resulted in a photo finish (see right). Ryun was declared the winner, with Liquori a disappointing second. Ryun and Liquori were both timed in 4:02.6.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Taye Diggs can claim an actor's version of scoring a hat trick: He's worked with a trio of television's most innovative writer-producers.
Diggs, who visited David E. Kelley's "Ally McBeal" as attorney Jackson Duper and played Dr. Sam Bennett on Shonda Rhimes' "Private Practice," is starring in a new drama, "Murder in the First," co-created by veteran Steven Bochco.
"There's something to be said for putting out in the universe that which you want to claim. It's happened to me three times," he said.
In the latest instance, he was eager to be part of a project "where it's about relationships and not just catching crooks and jumping over buses and whatnot," said Diggs, who's casual and candid in a phone interview.
"Murder in the First," despite the procedural-sounding title, turned out to be just such an opportunity. It debuts at 10 p.m. EDT Monday on TNT.
Diggs' character is San Francisco police homicide Detective Terry English, who's paired with fellow detective Hildy Mulligan (Kathleen Robertson). The officers are admirably dedicated but have more to their lives than work.
Terry's burden is a tragic one, the terminal illness of his wife (Anne-Marie Johnson). Hildy is a single mom who, at least in episode one, appears to have a limited network of support to raise her bright daughter.
The series crisscrosses between the detectives' off-duty lives and their efforts to crack two killings with a high-profile link, a Silicon Valley whiz kid who takes arrogance to a new level. He's played by Tom Felton, of Draco Malfoy fame from the "Harry Potter" film franchise.
Richard Schiff, Nicole Ari Parker, James Cromwell and Steven Weber are among the co-stars.
"Murder in the First," created by Bochco and Eric Lodal, will wrap its investigation within the 10-episode season. If viewers are hooked, the drama will be back with another case to solve.
Bochco took a similar approach with his 1990s series "Murder One," which focused in its freshman year on a single crime. The ABC series was critically lauded but was ahead of its time, and its low ratings prompted a switch to a multiple-murder story line for its second and final season.
In the new TNT drama, the case focus is narrow but the approach is ambitiously multilayered, said Bochco, whose groundbreaking series include "Hill Street Blues," "L.A. Law" and "NYPD Blue."
"Murder in the First" is a "cop show, it's a legal drama, and then it's a courtroom drama. And so what we've tried to do is to pretty much encompass the whole of the criminal justice system," he said.
Diggs, for one, was quickly sold on the concept of "Murder in the First" and agreed to temporarily pull up stakes from New York City.
"Bochco and Lodal were so excited about it they got me excited. I was not excited about the fact it was shot in Los Angeles," Diggs, 43, said, with exteriors taped in San Francisco. "But hearing their ideas and the future of the character, Terry, I couldn't help but get drawn in."
He's back in New York for the summer, spending time with his son (with "Frozen" star Idina Menzel; the couple separated in 2013) and weighing how to get back to his stage roots. Although his resume includes "Rent" and other Broadway productions, he's toying with the idea of something other than a musical.
"I want to get together a group of other concert singer-actors and see if we can put together a kind of Rat Pack-ish crew," he said. "Something that harkens back to Sinatra and his friends."
Would Diggs be Frank, the main man? No, he replied. He has a more modern, inclusive approach in mind.
"It would be a new take, where we're all a mixture of everybody," Diggs said.
Lynn Elber is a national television columnist for The Associated Press. She can be reached at email@example.com and on Twitter at https://twitter.com/lynnelber.


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Heritage @ Boshamps
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What: Heritage @ Boshamps
When: Friday, January 3, 2014
Time: 7:00 pm to 6:45 pm
A Reggae feel, an Island Rock vibe, Funk and R&B...mix them together and you get Heritage. A bunch of guys just doing what they love -- making music and having fun! When their cultural and individual flavors fuse together, it just flows...creating a significant sounds that can only be known as HERITAGE.
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