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FAYETTE CROSS: Fayette's varsity cross country team came through with one top-10 finish Saturday at the 12-team Liberty Center invitational run.
Skylar Lantz lowered his time into the 16-minute range for a ninth-place finish at 16:52. He was only four seconds in back of the fifth-place finisher in an exciting finish.
Columbian's Brandon Gibson won the race at 16:30.
Dylan Stannard placed 32nd at 17:59, followed by Casen Burkholder (43rd, 18:16); Jared Wagner (61st, 19:02); Ian Schrock (66th, 19:31); Dylan Aschemeier (73rd, 20:35) and Cole Burkholder (74th, 20:58).
The Eagles finished ninth of 12 teams. Perrysburg won the race with 43 points.
Fayette's girls squad placed seventh of nine teams as Liberty Center won with 22 points. Toledo Christian's Delainey Phelps was first at 18:15.
Fayette junior Jill Stuckey finished first for the Eagles at 22:04 for 23rd place, followed by Melani Seiler (38th, 22:53); Emilie Keiser (45th, 23:29); Noelle Goodson (47th, 23:37); Madelyn Maginn (54th, 24:03); Liz Maginn (58th, 24:25); and Ellen Baker (69th, 26:25).
JUNIOR HIGH—Fayette's boys picked up another win, finishing ahead of Hopewell-Loudon, 42-53.
Austin Lopez took second at 11:59, six seconds out of first, followed by Alex Jaramillo (4th, 12:19); Christian Suarez (8th, 12:43); Skyler Jones (11th, 12:45); Mason Maginn (17th, 13:14); Bryce Conklin (19th, 13:17); Cole Stuckey (34th, 13:53); Jason Stuckey (38th, 14:12); Christian Renner (59th, 16:12); Max Baker (64th, 16:52); and Grant Reinking (68th, 17:58).
Haley Perdue was first for the girls, placing fifth at 13:16, followed by Kelsey Fruchey (6th, 13:41); Jennaya Hibbard (19th, 14:36); Alexus Ball (44th, 17:21); and Caitlin McIntosh (49th, 18:40).
The Eagles placed fourth among six teams.
FAYETTE GOLF: Two Fayette golfers were named to the second All-BBC honor team following the league match Friday at Ironwood.
The Eagles placed third with 378 strokes, behind North Central with 316 and Stryker with 357. Other finishers were Pettisville (386), Edon (391) and Hilltop (418). North Central's Branden Turner was medalist with a 76.
Fayette's Dustin Lantz posted a strong score of 40 on the front nine, but slipped to a 46 on the back for an 86 total. Zayne Colegrove carded a 43 on the front and a 48 on the back to finish with a 91. Those scores gave them a spot on the second team.
Other golfers were Riley Martin (44-49–93), Michael Brubaker (53-55–108), Alec Hylander (59-51–110) and Matt Storrs (54-62–116).
STRYKER—Stryker's Hunter Clingaman finished five strokes ahead of the nearest competitor to lead the Panthers to a 165-192 BBC win against Fayette.
Lantz carded the best score for the Eagles with 43, followed by Colegrove (48), Storrs (50), Tiffany Bates (50), Martin (51), Hylander (52) and Brubaker (55).
SECTIONAL—Wauseon's Ironwood golf course is the site of the Div. III boys sectional tournament starting at 9 a.m. Thursday. Fayette will compete with a dozen other teams.
Qualifiers to the Bowling Green Stone Ridge District, on Oct. 4, include the top three teams and the top four individuals not on a qualifying team.
Stryker won the team title a year ago, with North Central taking second place. Six of the top 10 individuals return this year along with several golfers from qualifying teams.
FAYETTE VOLLEYBALL: Fayette's volleyball team has a busy schedule ahead and coach Danni Keefer needs a healthy squad to compete.
Upper respiratory problems and the flu have left the Eagles fighting not just their opponents lately.
"I only had four girls at practice all week," she said. "I've never had that many kids sick at once."
The Eagles dropped a pair of league contests last week, falling to Edon Sept. 18 and to Stryker on Thursday.
"Our main goal was to stop Sydney Stoll in the front line," Coach Keefer said about the Edon game. "We had some good defense, but we were slow to cover on the back line."
The Bombers took the opener 25-9 and finished the match off 25-18, 25-14.
Fayette came out stronger against Stryker, dropping the opener 21-25, but fatigue took over and the Panthers won 25-16, 25-19.
"We played as well as we could due to the lack of girls being healthy," Keefer said.
She saw some improvement Saturday in a tri-match against Hicksville and Montpelier. The Eagles had a weak start against Hicksville, losing 10-25, but came back to challenge the Aces in a 22-25 game.
Against Montpelier, the Locos won 25-19 and 26-24.
Allison Cuff and Paige Keefer gave a good showing at the net, Keefer said, and Makayla Smith gave a good serving performance.
"We had better movement and communication as the day went on," she said.
JV: Fayette's JV volleyball girls picked up their first win of the season Saturday with a two-game win against Montpelier.
The Eagles took the opener 25-18 and followed up with a 25-20 victory.
"The girls worked well together and covered the ten foot line," said coach Alissa Stockburger. "They let very few balls hit the ground and had excellent service reception."
Michaela Bates served 14 in a row for 13 points. Brittney Croskey and Bates were strong hitters, Bates with seven and Croskey with six.
Fayette fell to Hicksville during the tri-match Saturday, 20-25 and 14-25.
Adrianna Hibbard was the high server with nine good serves, followed by Chyenne James and Alejandra Gonzalez, both with six.
Service reception was improved during the match, but the Eagles were still unable to consistently receive Hicksville serves, Coach Stockburger said, and that cost the Eagles the match.
Stryker needed three games to topple Fayette on Thursday, winning 25-21, 20-25 and 25-19.
"We gained momentum in the second game, which helped us win," said Stockburger, "but we weren't able to hold on as our reception weakened."
Fayette fell to Edon on Sept. 18 in two games, 16-25 and 18-25.
MORENCI CROSS: Saturday was a record-setting day for Morenci's girls cross country team and an especially good one for Mariah Gillen.
The junior finally bettered her previous best by 11 seconds—a time she set as a freshman—and she finally topped teammate Tatyana Pless, who came through with her top time of the season.
"Weather was not exactly ideal," said Morenci coach Brad Brown, "but the kids ran incredibly well."
The girls came through with five personal records and a season best at the Pittsford Invitational to tie for third overall with Quincy among 27 teams.
Runners from each class compete against each other at the event, and Morenci's juniors won the second-place trophy behind Potterville. Homer, ranked fourth in the state, finished first as a team with Pittsford in second place.
Gillen finished at 21:23, third in the junior race, with Pless behind her at 21:29. Madi Gleckler placed fifth in the sophomore race at 21:58 for her best ever by 19 seconds. Sammy Mikuski took 11th at 23:15, an improvement of a minute and 43 seconds.
In the senior race, Taylor Baugh turned in her best time ever at 23:59, trimming off a minute from her previous record, and freshman Andy Mikuski took 34th at 27:47, an improvement of three and a half minutes.
"Five PRs and a season best was impressive to say the least," Brown said. "There's still a lot of season left and a lot of improving to do to get where we want to be, which is qualifying for the state finals as a team, but the girls were excited with their performances, as they should be."
BOYS—"The boys also ran well with some season bests and a PR," Brown said.
Luke Spaulding took fifth in the senior race at 17:41 for a season best, and his brother Jake also ran his fastest time of the season at 18:45 for ninth place. Brandt Kelley placed 37th at 22:24.
In the junior's race, Reagan Stowell turned in a season-best run at 19:07 for 15th place. Freshman Adam Roseman set a personal record of 22:34 for 40th place.
MORENCI FOOTBALL: Every possession resulted in a touchdown here Friday for Morenci and Summerfield, right up until the final three minutes of the first half. Morenci never crossed the goal line again and the visitors went home with a 36-24 TCC victory.
It was a tale of two halves, said Bulldog coach Mike McDowell. For Morenci, the offense picked up 187 yards in the first half, then only 17 in the second. Summerfield's production was slowed some, but the visitors made it into the end zone twice to wipe away Morenci's half-time lead.
A big part of the Bulldogs' second half difference came through the loss of senior starter Cody Powell who suffered a shoulder injury late in the second quarter.
"Cody anchors our offense and defense," McDowell said. "Our offense becomes really limited without him. It complicates things."
Morenci was forced to make changes in the lineup—not an easy task with only 15 players dressed. The squad was already at a disadvantage with defensive starter Brandon Myers still recovering from a concussion.
If Powell had been able to play the second half, McDowell figures his squad would have been able to keep up.
"We did things that they weren't able to stop in the first half," he said.
Summerfield took the opening kickoff and scored on the first play of the game with a 65-yard pass, capitalizing on a missed Morenci defensive assignment. A minute later Morenci had the lead.
Austin Sandusky raced 41 yards on the Bulldogs' first play, then gained another 16 yards on the following carry to Summerfield's 10-yard line. Powell scored on the next play and Colin Smith carried for the conversion.
Summerfield drove 53 yards on 12 plays to score, and Morenci did the same on a four-play, 59-yard drive.
Smith covered 17 yards on one run, then threaded his way through defenders for a 27-yard touchdown run. Quarterback Torin Merillat carried for the conversion and a 16-14 lead.
And on it went.
Summerfield drove 69 yards for a 22-16 lead, but the Bulldogs came right back with a 66-yard scoring drive. Runs by Sandusky and a pass to Powell set up a six-yard scoring run by Hayze Wolf. Powell ran the conversion and the Bulldogs were back on top, 24-22.
Summerfield was finally stopped on its next possession, giving Morenci a little more than three minutes to turn the scoring pattern around. They advanced over the midfield line before running out of time at intermission.
Following an on-side kick to start off the second half, Morenci drove to Summerfield's 36 before losing possession on a fumble as rain continued to fall. Summerfield made a steady drive to the end zone at 3:28 in the third quarter. The conversion attempt was stopped and the visitors led 28-24.
Morenci ended up punting and Summerfield came through with one slow, final drive to add another touchdown with two minutes to play.
"Defensively we couldn't stop them like we hoped we could," Coach McDowell said. "I wasn't disappointed with our effort. We played well, but we were up against their good line."
In many cases it was sophomore against senior for the young Bulldog team.
Wolf finished the night with an impressive 17 tackles, many of them solos. Daiton Lemmon collected eight and Kendrick Taylor finished with six as he filled in for Powell in the second half.
Sandusky tallied 105 yards on 12 carries and Smith finished with 67 yards on seven carries.
Summerfield's win keeps them tied with Clinton for the TCC lead. Whiteford is alone in second place, with everyone else but Madison tied with 1-2 records.
JV: Morenci's JV football team broke away from Summerfield in the second half last week, scoring 28 unanswered points to win 44-12.
The Bulldogs held a slim 16-12 edge at halftime, but shut Summerfield down in the final two quarters.
Michael Heinze opened scoring with an eight-yard run in the first quarter and caught a conversion pass for an 8-0 lead. Summerfield came back with a touchdown, then took the lead on another scoring pass.
Alex Thomas completed a 14-yard pass to Chris Hinkley to put the Bulldogs back on top, and he passed to Austin Gilson for the conversion.
Thomas scored from two yards out in the third quarter, followed by a 22-yard touchdown run by Heinze. Before the quarter ended, Thomas scored on a 42-yard interception, followed by the two-point run by Heinze.
Morenci added eight more points in the fourth quarter on a 130-yard run by Heinze and conversion run by Gilson.
"They are starting to understand what it takes to win football games," said coach Tim Roberts.
The Bulldogs tallied 305 yards on the ground and added 43 yards in the air, completing four of six passing attempts.
Heinze gained 136 yards on 21 carries and he collected two passes for 13 yards. Thomas covered 75 yards on seven carries. He completed three of four passes for 38 yards. Gilson gained 57 yards on nine carries.
Brandon DiCenso carried five times for 24 yards and Hinkley carried five times for 13 yards. He made two receptions for 30 yards.
Bobby Black had an interception and played well at corner all night, Coach Roberts said. Danny Hunt put pressure on the Summerfield quarterback the whole game.
MORENCI VOLLEYBALL: Following two more league matches, Morenci's volleyball team remains tied with Madison for the Tri-County Conference lead. The Trojans visit Thursday for a double-header when at least one team will end the day with a TCC loss.
The Bulldogs started off last week by winning a three-game match at Clinton, a team they lost to badly earlier in the season at an invitational.
"They are doing well this year," said Morenci coach Dennis Owens. "Until last night their only loss in the TCC was to Madison. I am sure we surprised them last night."
Morenci trailed in all three games—by as much as seven points in the first game and eight points in the third. In the middle contest, the Bulldogs led by seven at one point, then fell behind by two before engineering a comeback win.
"I loved our mental toughness to come back in each game on the road," Owens said. "We played very well on defense and hustled all night long."
The scores were 25-20, 25-21 and 25-23. Morenci's serving finished at 97 percent and their service reception was 94 percent.
Brooke Bovee, 21 kills, 14/14 serving with 1 ace, 8 service points.
Hannah Jeffers, 10 kills, 17/17 serving with 2 aces, 11 service points.
Emma Binegar, 15 assists, 13/13 serving with 1 ace, 8 service points.
Breanna Gilson, 14 assists, 12/12 serving with 3 aces, 5 service points.
Erin Vanderpool, 11 digs, 5/6 serving.
Jessica Storrs, 7 digs, 10/11 serving.
SUMMERFIELD—Morenci followed up that win with a four-game victory at home against Summerfield. The Bulldogs lost the opener, 24-26, then came back to win 25-17, 25-18 and 27-25.
In the final game, Morenci trailed 9-15 when Erin Vanderpool stepped up and served eight straight points to close the gap to a single point.
"At the end of the set with the score tied at 25, Ashley VanBrandt made a great hustle play on a ball that was way out of the court to keep it alive and we eventually won the point and the match on the next serve," Coach Owens said.
The Bulldogs had the challenge of filling in for starter Hannah Jeffers who was not in school. That resulted in some shifting of the lineup with people playing in different positions, but they came through with a key victory to stay undefeated in the TCC at 6-0 and an overall record of 12-4-2.
Brooke Bovee, 27 kills, 24 digs, 1 assist, 14/14 in service reception.
Breanna Gilson, 19 assists, 4 kills, 2 blocks, 5 aces.
Emma Binegar, 13 assists, 15/16 serving, 3 aces, 10 points.
Erin Vanderpool, 16 digs, 20/20 serving, 6 aces, 14 points.
Jessica Storrs, 6 aces, 14 points.
Julie Terry, 9/9 serving.
Allison Piercy, 2 kills, 1 block.
Taylor Schisler, 2 kills, 1 block.
Ashley VanBrandt - 2 kills.
Chloe Molitierno, 5/5 serving, 1 assist.
Hilary Falor, 1 assist, 4/4 in service reception.
JV: Morenci's JV volleyball team rebounded from a weak performance in Tuesday's 14-15, 10-25 loss at Clinton to defeat Summerfield at home on Thursday.
"The Summerfield victory was possibly the JV's strongest showing of the year," said coach Renae Schaffner.
The two teams matched point for point in game one until Sydney Weeks served an ace to push Morenci ahead 11-10.
"After that," Coach Schaffner said, "Brooke Baumgarter, Megan Spencer and Justis McCowan started the offense with some fine passes, allowing Morenci to push ahead 17-11 and finally to a 25-20 first game win."
The second game was almost identical. Morenci led 12-11, only to allow Summerfield to tie it at 13-13. Emily Schmidt and Ali VanBrandt provided sets to Rebecca Heinze and Weeks for late game kills leading to another 25-20 win.


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The season is near, but don't lose perspective on the importance of the players' battle in the concussion lawsuit. And meet Kevin Turner, one of its foremost faces
There's only one story today, still. I know the season is three days away, and the concussion case settlement is four days old. But this head trauma issue was the nuclear cloud that hung over the game, and I think there are things you need to know—particularly you who would trash the settlement as being too meager. "Chump change,'' I believe many of you called it on Twitter and elsewhere. We'll have all week, and the bottom 3,500 words of this column, to trumpet the opening of the league's 94th season. This morning, you need to hear the story of 44-year-old former battering-ram fullback and current ALS sufferer Kevin Turner, and of the lead plaintiffs' attorney who woke up more than once at night thinking of Turner, and how men like Turner pushed this case to get settled.
"I have a policy of not getting involved with the plaintiffs in cases like this, whether it's NFL players, ballerinas or regular people,'' Chris Seeger, one of the lead attorneys for the 4,500 former players and estates of former players, told me Sunday night. "I like to keep a level head. But I met Kevin several times. Nobody had a bigger impact on me in this case than Kevin did. I'd wake up at night, sometimes in a cold sweat, thinking about this man and how important it was to him that he provide for his family, that his children get the college education they deserve."
I spoke with Turner over the phone for an hour Sunday afternoon. His voice is often garbled, because amyotrophic lateral sclerosis—known by many as Lou Gehrig's disease—is in the process of robbing all his muscles of their vitality, including the ones that form words in his tongue and mouth and vocal cords. But this was a pretty good afternoon; he'd taken medication to ensure he could be well understood.
Turner is an Alabama boy. He played for the Crimson Tide, then got drafted by the Patriots in the third round in 1992. He played eight years for the Patriots and Eagles, and retired following the 1999 season. He lives in Birmingham now. He is divorced with three children, the oldest of whom played his first varsity high school game ever on Friday night. That filled Turner with pride, knowing his son loved the game enough to pursue it, and now as a sophomore he was playing at a high level.
He knows what you're thinking: How can he let his son play? And how he can he not hate the sport that very likely gave him—such a young man—this cruel disease with no cure?
"It's not complicated,'' Turner said. "I love football. I always will love football. I love football so much I let my oldest son play the game, because I knew he would love it too.''
There are a few reasons this case settled when it did last Thursday morning, with a ruling by U.S. District Court judge Anita Brody announcing the mediated $765 million deal that she still must formally approve. The key points:
The deadline. Brody had told both sides they had until a date in July to reach a settlement. When they went to her at the appointed time nearly two months ago and said they were deadlocked, she assigned a mediator, Judge Layn Phillips, and told each side they had until Sept. 3 to reach a deal. If they didn't have a deal by then, she'd rule, and she told both sides there would be parts of her ruling that could well be injurious to each.
Each side was motivated to settle. ESPN reported over the weekend that Brody "signaled" that she agreed with part of the NFL's argument—that a large percentage of the plaintiffs, those who played from 1994 to 2010, should be omitted from the suit because the collective bargaining agreement precluded them from filing lawsuits over health issues. The players, instead, would have had to file cases with the NFL and go through the regular grievance process. No way they wanted that. The players also were pushing for a quick resolution because many of the sicker ones, Turner included, needed the money now and not years from now when the appeals had been exhausted. From the NFL's side, there was no way it wanted the dirty laundry of stories of team doctors ignoring or minimizing concussions during games aired in depositions before the trial, or in testimony at trial. The NFL didn't know what would or wouldn't be admissible at trial. One rogue doctor or ruthless trainer would have been enough to turn all public sentiment against the league, whether it won the trial or not. And the league was motivated to get the focus on the field, instead of it continually getting pummeled by the bad publicity of a continuing black cloud of head trauma.
The players' side controls the payout pool. This was important to the players. They didn't want the NFL controlling which doctors would examine the players in baseline testing, which would be the base provision for determining how much money each injured player is awarded. And the players' side got accountants and actuaries—professionals who use statistics to assess risk and figure long-term disbursements for huge cash pools—to figure out fair payouts to former players depending on their individual cases. The experts tried to figure a way this payout pool would be financially viable for 65 years, so the last player who could file a claim generations down the road would be one cut this preseason.
It's complicated. But at the end, the attorneys for the players felt they got as much as they could from the NFL before the two sides would have had to appear in front of Judge Brody on Tuesday—at which point the players knew the case could have been weed-whacked if Brody removed all the players who had played since 1994.
So the deal got done: a $685 million pool for compensation (a $5 million individual ceiling for ALS sufferers, $4 million for Parkinson's, $3 million for Alzheimer's or dementia), $75 million to fund baseline testing on retired players to see if they've been cognitively impaired, and $10 million for research. In addition, the NFL will pay lawyers' fees for the plaintiffs, which will likely be $200 million or more. Over the next 20 years, then, NFL teams will pay out about $1 billion, half in the first three years to fund the compensation pool.
Nobody had a bigger impact on me in this case than Kevin did. I'd wake up at night, sometimes in a cold sweat, thinking about this man and how important it was to him that he provide for his family, that his children get the college education they deserve. —Chris Seeger, Kevin Turner's attorney
Kevin Turner's payout, depending on his exam and findings, will be maxed out at $5 million. When he was asked in confidence by one of the plaintiffs' attorneys about the deal—with all details, including the part about the judge possibly throwing him out of the case because he played during the 1994-2010 time period—he was clear with his desire.
"I told him [the attorney] I was happy with it,'' Turner said. "I really wasn't expecting closure of this within my lifetime, honestly."
I'm told a large majority of NFL owners approved the details of the settlement in conversations with commissioner Roger Goodell in the last couple of weeks. (But it was not unanimous.) And why wouldn't they approve? For about $16 million per team all told in the next three years and $12 million over the following 17 years, nuclear winter was averted. If individual players are unhappy with the amount of compensation and want to file claims, they'll run into some of the best litigators in America, the NFL's, and it'll take years and millions of dollars to fight the fight. So for now, most experts feel the crisis has been averted, and the game will go on.
Seeger was one of the lead attorneys in the Vioxx case that won $4.8 billion from the pharmaceutical giant Merck. He's been down this road before, figuring how hard he can push a giant company. He's heard the criticism of what the players got, and he's hot about it.
"I would love to debate any sane person about this settlement,'' Seeger said. "We plotted how much these players who need the money now and in the future, and who are eligible for it, would need, and we got it. We got it now, not 10 years from now. I've heard the criticism. A pittance ... chump change. That is stupidity. We got exactly what we needed for the players and the families who need it most.
"I've seen people say because the NFL has $9 billion in [annual] revenue, that $765 million is too little. Suppose we sued GE, and GE has $50 billion a year in revenue, and we didn't get $50 billion. Would that have been a bad settlement?
"It's easy to sit in the cheap seats and have a conviction that the settlement is no good. You weren't in the game. You just don't know. What I asked myself at the end as a lawyer was, 'Is this enough? Is this enough for Kevin?' ''
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I asked Turner if he'd ever gotten a concussion during a game and played through it.
"Sure,'' he said. "The year after Green Bay won the Super Bowl, I was on the Eagles, and we played them in Philly. I remember the opening kickoff, and then I remember, maybe late in the first quarter, going up to our backup quarterback and saying, 'You'll think I'm crazy, but are we in Green Bay or Philly? And how are we doing?' He went and got a doctor. Turns out I had played a bunch of plays on automatic pilot. The doctor said, 'Remember these words,' and I couldn't. And he gave me the test three or four times, and finally I think it was the fourth time, I remembered the words and they let me back in the game. You can't imagine the fit I would have thrown if they wouldn't have let me back in the game."
Turner played the rest of the game. He remembers a long drive in the fourth quarter—being the lead blocker for Ricky Watters on play after play—that led to the winning touchdown. Nineteen plays, 80 yards, touchdown. Block after block. "That's just what you did then,'' he said. He watched film with his mates the next day, and there was a series of plays he had no idea had happened. He was back at practice Wednesday, and played the next week.
That wasn't the only time he played when he shouldn't have. But he blames himself as much as he blames the football culture of the day. "Football didn't do this to me,'' he said. "My ignorance did it. That, and maybe others who should have known better."
On Aug. 22, Turner had a surgical procedure. A doctor implanted six electrodes on his diaphragm. "That should give me 24 to 36 more months breathing on my own,'' Turner said. Before he needs a ventilator to breathe for him. He's spending "darn near every cent'' of his disability payments on treatments and doctors and medication and equipment.
"From the get-go,'' he said, "I was worried about how long this would drag out. I didn't think I'd see anything, but I was hopeful my kids would.
"I didn't do this for a public hanging of the NFL. I never wanted to kill the NFL. The past is the past. What's more important? Hanging the NFL for the sins of the past? Ruining the lives of people who, I'm guessing, most of them don't even work in the NFL anymore? Or doing something to really help people, and then really working to make the game safer?''
"How,'' I said, "can you still love the game?"
"I think even moreso I'm excited about the game now,'' said Turner. "Now, you see doctors, trainers and coaches who have the knowledge about concussions and head injuries treating them different than when I played. We should be excited about the game now. It's the most beloved game in the country, and they're making it safer now. Now, a guy wobbles back to the sidelines, and it's likely he's done for the day. But they'll examine him now. Refs are looking now. Trainers, doctors are looking. Hopefully, after 10 years, after maybe one more generation of players understands it's okay to say you have a concussion, players will learn a different game. Tackling with your head up, with your shoulders, not lowering your head.''
I never wanted to kill the NFL. The past is the past. What's more important? Hanging the NFL for the sins of the past? ... Or doing something to really help people, and then really working to make the game safer?
With the money he gets from the settlement, Turner said he hopes to help his 70-year-old father so he can stop working. He wants to put enough money away so his three children will be well-educated—something he knows he would have been able to provide were it not for the ALS. He wants to seek treatment for himself, in the hopes that some new ALS treatment might be found. "Then,'' he said, "if there's anything left over, I'd like to help fund some research into ALS. I honestly believe we will find something to stop this in the next five years.''
That was repeated to Chris Seeger Sunday night. "That's why Kevin Turner was a driving force for me in this case,'' Seeger said. "These are the people we should really admire in life."
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Quotes of the Week
"He looked good. He looked good. If we can have him practicing on Wednesday and we feel that he's good enough and mentally ready to play, then he's going to play [against New England in Week 1].''
—Bills coach Doug Marrone on Sunday, after watching rookie quarterback E.J. Manuel do individual drills at practice for the first time since minor knee surgery two weeks ago.
And so, apparently, ends the Jeff Tuel Era in Buffalo.
"It probably wasn't fair to Vince. We threw a lot on his plate and the fault is probably mine. I probably should have had him in here earlier.''
—Green Bay GM Ted Thompson on Sunday, after releasing quarterback Vince Young over the weekend. Young was signed Aug. 5, and couldn't assimilate to the Packers offensive system with the proper mechanics in time to earn the backup job to Aaron Rodgers.
"Players don't want to be reminded about their concussions. They don't want to be known as the guy who went down with one. They downplay it. Then it happens to me and I start wondering how these guys go back to being hit, taking all that punishment, a week or two later."
—FOX sideline reporter Pam Oliver, who suffered a concussion when hit by an errant pass from Colts quarterback Chandler Harnish during warmups before an Aug. 18 preseason game, in a New York Daily News column by Bob Raissman Sunday. For days Oliver said "the sun was completely my enemy'' and she had to stay in darkened rooms. She hopes to return for the network's opening regular-season nationally televised game Sunday, Green Bay at San Francisco.
"Pretty much every facet of my life was in turmoil, and I was basically waging war against myself at that time. I didn't realize that the battle was within me. It was a lot easier to blame everybody else. And it was a lot easier to be mad at everybody else and not be mad at myself. I placed blame anywhere blame could be placed. It was a coward's way out."
—Miami guard Richie Incognito, to NFL.com's Jeff Darlington, in a superb piece about how Incognito has gotten his life under control—or, at least more under control than it was when he first entered the NFL.
Stat of the Week
Last season broke a 16-year streak of at least five new teams qualifying for the playoffs. Only four new teams—Indianapolis, Minnesota, Seattle and Washington—made the postseason in 2012.
You can see the number of new playoff teams per season over the past 10 years to the right.
Thus: In 10 years, 61 of 120 teams—almost exactly half of the total playoff teams—have made the playoffs after being out of the postseason the year before.
Factoid of the Week That May Interest Only Me
It's likely New England coach Bill Belichick will one day walk into Canton wearing a yellow jacket. But it won't be because of his drafting acumen in the secondary. Belichick drafted seven defensive backs in the first two rounds of the six drafts between 2007 and 2012, and of those seven, only one is a starter today: Devin McCourty, and not at the position he was drafted to play. McCourty, a corner taken in the 2010 draft, will open the season as the starting free safety.
The ignominious seven:
Now, to be fair: Belichick has gotten Stevan Ridley, Rob Gronkowski, Brandon Spikes and Sebastian Vollmer in the top three rounds since 2009 too. It's just that, clearly, the defensive backfield is a blind spot for Belichick, which is very strange, considering his career as a defensive maestro.
Counting the game coming Thursday, three of Denver's most recent five games have been against Baltimore.
Mr. Starwood Preferred Member Travel Note of the Week
I went to Boston Tuesday night to catch a Red Sox game. Nothing of great substance happened, other than a good night out with some friends and family. And a wonderful meal—at Eastern Standard, around the corner from Fenway Park on Commonwealth Avenue. If you like a place with a fine menu and a better beer menu—and a place where the wait staff can talk about the beer the way Italian waiters can talk about wine at a restaurant in Italy—Eastern Standard's the place for you.
Tweets of the Week
"@profootballtalk there is no conspiracy. I pulled the plug."
—@JedYork, the 49ers' CEO, after the Pro Football Talk piece about Ray Lewis saying he didn't think it was a coincidence that there was a blackout when the Ravens were spanking the 49ers in the middle of last year's Super Bowl.
That, by the way, might be the silliest thing I've heard a player say in a long, long time. And that encompasses a lot of silliness. Lewis said he had no facts to back up his accusation, made in the NFL Films' America's Game show, which will be shown tonight on NFL Network. "But,'' Lewis says on the show, "you cannot tell me somebody wasn't sitting there and when they say, 'The Ravens [are] about to blow them out. Man, we better do something.' … " Lewis doesn't need advice from me, but he should have stopped at, "I'm not going to accuse nobody of nothing."
"Drake Nevis released by the Colts, claimed by the Chargers. Goes from Chuck Pagano to John Pagano"
—@brian_mcintyre, an NFL writer for Yahoo! Sports, after a defensive tackle cut by the Colts and head coach Chuck Pagano got picked up by the Chargers and defensive coordinator John Pagano.
"This experience has shown me a piece of life that was once taken, and where things (football wise) would have been if it wasn't for the 10 years of life loss."
—@BrianBanksFREE, the Atlanta free-agent linebacker, who was waived by the team Friday. Banks, a star high school linebacker on the verge of accepting a USC scholarship, was imprisoned for five years on a rape charge that was later proven false.
"@TimTebow ; Stay the course brother, your day will come & the crow feast will be glorious! #prevail"
—@KyleTurley, the former NFL tackle, after Tebow was cut by the Patriots Saturday.
"Do I have a football problem if I am sitting at a middle school football game and none of my kids are playing? I paid"
—@chris_spielman, the former Lions, Bills and Browns linebacker. I assume he meant "I paid" for a ticket.
Ten Things I Think I Think
1. I think the roster moves that caught my eye this weekend included:
a. Linebacker Adrian Robinson joined his third team in 10 days Sunday. He was dealt from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia Aug. 22, then got cut by the Eagles Saturday, and claimed by Denver Sunday. Robinson should either be a special-teams staple, or a weekly decision whether he's active for Denver.
b. The starter at quarterback for the last Vikings game (playoffs versus Green Bay) was Joe Webb. He made the team as one of five wide receivers.
c. Your favorite undrafted rookie free-agent, fullback Zach Line of the Vikings (thanks, Jenny Vrentas) looks like a Week 1 starter as Adrian Peterson's personal protector. Follow along as Line chases his NFL dream all season.
d. Matt Simms, an absolute roster afterthought with the Jets, is one of their four quarterbacks this morning. Stay tuned, but son of Phil wowed the coaches with his 33-of-44 preseason finale against Philadelphia. "Quite honestly, I don't know if I've ever seen a player make the improvements he's made,'' said coach Rex Ryan.
e. One of the game's best corners for the last decade-plus, Antoine Winfield, will retire instead of playing one more season, Seattle coach Pete Carroll said after the Seahawks released him. Terrific outside and slot corner; much more physical than one of the game's smallest corners should have been.
f. Daniel Adongo, a rugby player the Colts are trying to turn into a pass rusher, signed with the Indianapolis practice squad Sunday. He's a Kenyan, and played in the world's best rugby league, in South Africa, before being coaxed into giving football a try earlier this summer.
g. Defensive lineman Austen Lane wrote that wonderful piece for The MMQB, What It's Like To Get Whacked, after getting cut unexpectedly by the Jaguars in June. We promised you a part two. Lane, picked up by Kansas City when Jacksonville cut him, was waived by the Chiefs Saturday. We'll see what happens in the coming days, and Lane will certainly write a part two soon.
h. Jonathan Vilma stuck on the Saints' 53-man roster despite being hobbled by an August knee procedure. New Orleans kept six inside linebackers, which could be a nod toward accounting for the rehabbing Vilma.
i. Curtis Painter beat out David Carr at the Giants' backup quarterback. Somebody's got to sign Carr.
j. What a disaster the Eagles' 2011 first-round firefighter, Danny Watkins, turned out to be. Good example of reaching for a guy who never really loved the game. Watkins never played football until he was 22.
k. Austin Collie's future has to be in doubt after being cut by the Niners. He has a history of concussions.
l. Geno Smith's two favorite receivers at West Virginia, Tavon Austin (of course) and Stedman Bailey, were two of five wideouts kept by the Rams.
m. The Bucs signed Lawrence Tynes to be their kicker, but he came down with a serious infection, MRSA, that is resistant to antibiotics. So Rian Lindell won the kicking job, and Tynes, trying to get healthy, is bitter the team put him on the non-football injury list rather than injured reserve. The non-football injury status means Tynes won't have this year count toward his NFL pension. His wife, Amanda, tweeted that the Bucs informed Tynes of the designation via email. That didn't go over well in the Tynes household.
n. Pat White was the fourth Washington quarterback kept. Seems excessive, until you realize White is a mobile left-handed quarterback, and can play the mobile left-handed quarterback the team faces in Week 1, Michael Vick, on the scout team this week.
o. The San Diego offensive line, in Philip Rivers' 10th season, will be bookended by two new tackles: monstrous King Dunlap on the left and rookie D.J. Fluker on the right.
p. The Chargers chose not to keep veteran tackle Max Starks after he gave up three sacks in the preseason finale.
q. Lousiana Tech's Ryan Allen, with a monster leg, beat out Zoltan Mesko to punt for the Patriots.
r. The Raiders kept two punters on the 53-man roster Saturday, and unable to scare up any interest in a trade for Chris Kluwe, waived him Sunday. The Oakland punter is youngster Marquette King, who, when I was at Raiders camp, was punting the ball at high as the ancient evergreens around the training camp fields in Napa, Calif. Kluwe wrote about fighting for your NFL life, and being a good person to your competition, for The MMQB last month.
s. I wrote about agent Joe Linta driving through a snowstorm to work out Southern Illinois linebacker Jayson DiManche, a very marginal prospect not invited to the Scouting Combine ... while Linta was in the middle of negotiating the largest contract in NFL history for Joe Flacco. Linta signed DiManche. Kept saying DiManche was one of those classic players lost in the cracks, a guy who should have been drafted. DiManche got signed by Cincinnati after the draft, and that wasn't a great place for a linebacker to sign, because the Bengals were stocked in the front seven. Well, DiManche made it. He was one of five linebackers (a thin class, meaning he'll play special teams and probably some from scrimmage) kept by head coach Marvin Lewis.
2. I think the most underrated roster move of the weekend was Denver placing desperately needed pass rusher Quanterus Smith on injured-reserve because he was slow to return to full speed after undergoing ACL surgery late last November. "The knee just never came back,'' said John Elway. "He was favoring it the whole training camp." Smith was the defensive end from Western Kentucky who had three sacks against the vaunted Alabama offensive line last season before tearing the ACL in a later game. Now this is what would worry me the most if I were John Fox approaching the Thursday night opener between his Broncos and the Ravens: Last season, his two best pass rushers, Von Miller and Elvis Dumervil, combined for 29.5 sacks, 26 additional quarterback hits and 89 hurries, according to Pro Football Focus. Dumervil has left for Baltimore in free agency and Miller, of course, is suspended for the first six games of the season. The four men who will start—presumably—Thursday night are Derek Wolfe and Robert Ayers at end and Nate Irving and Danny Trevathan at outside linebacker. Those four players combined for nine sacks, 17 hits and 26 hurries last year. Obviously, the best nickel rusher Denver has is free-agent signee Shaun Phillips (9.5-6-23), who should add some edge pressure. But he's 32 and who knows what he has left. Fox told me in camp he's confident he can develop a way to get pressure. We'll see what he has up his sleeve Thursday. That'll be a major storyline to the game.
3. I think it wasn't a good weekend for bonus baby quarterbacks, and not just ones named Tebow. Five quarterbacks picked in the top 50 of the last seven drafts were cut: Vince Young and Matt Leinart (2006), Brady Quinn (2007) and Tim Tebow and Jimmy Clausen (2010). Brian Billick says picking a quarterback is no better than a 50-50 proposition between success and failure. Let's see, based on the five drafts between 2006 and 2010. (It's too early to make definitive judgments on quarterbacks in the league for two or fewer years.) Let's look at the quarterbacks picked in the top two rounds from 2006 to 2010, and their fate:
Of the 21 quarterbacks drafted in the top two rounds of these five drafts, six are solid starters, and eight are out of football.
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Let's now cut it down to first-rounders only. Billick, it turns out, is on the money. If you don't count Sanchez as a starter—and I don't see how you can term him a starter right now—six of the 12 first-round picks over a five-year period are starting in the league. So it's still a crapshoot. Six players in the first two rounds of the '11 draft will be opening-day starters, but let's see if Blaine Gabbert and Christian Ponder, among others, can stand the test of time.
4. I think if there was any doubt the Panthers are shaping the roster in new GM Dave Gettleman's image, here's proof: Only one of the eight 2011 draft picks from the Marty Hurney regime is on Carolina's active 53-man roster this morning. The last man standing from a two-year-old draft class is Cam Newton.
5. I think the Ravens will be a very interesting chemistry experiment. Has there ever been a Super Bowl team that changed seven defensive starters? This one will. Joe Flacco will have a new snapper, Gino Gradkowski, after the retirement of Matt Birk; and he'll have two new targets in Dallas Clark and Brandon Stokley. I'm fascinated to see how different this team will be Thursday night in Denver.
6. I think the most daunting task of Week 1—even playing at home—would be Jeff Tuel (4-22 as a Washington State starter) trying to beat Tom Brady. But as coach Doug Marrone said Sunday, if the rehabbing E.J. Manuel (August knee surgery) can move well by Wednesday, the Bills obviously will start Manuel against the Patriots Sunday.
7. I think this is the one stat of the weekend that says the most about the Philadelphia Eagles, courtesy of beat man Reuben Frank of CSN Philadelphia, after they waived 2011 first-round pick Danny Watkins: The Eagles drafted 94 players between 2003 and 2012, and four of those 94 made the Pro Bowl. Maybe that's the big reason why Andy Reid wanted so badly to divest himself of personnel duties in Kansas City. He just wasn't very good at it in his last few years in Philadelphia.
8. I think I got to thinking when I saw the Colin Kaepernick/Russell Wilson EA Sports/Madden commercial, the one that has little Colin and little Russell training in weird ways to be NFL quarterbacks: A year ago today, people had barely heard of these guys. If you don't think the NFL can invent stars out of whole cloth, look at the story of the second- and third-round picks who might own the future of the quarterback position. It's amazing how fast things change in the NFL.
9. I think The New York Times has made a smart hire in retaining Scott Fujita as a regular correspondent. Fujita's first column (I'm guessing his take on the settlement between the league and the 4,500 players over head trauma) will appear this week. The reason it's a smart hire is that Fujita's one of those players who always saw every side of the game—from the league's perspective, the union's perspective and the player's perspective. That, plus he can write a sentence. Looking forward to reading what he has to say regularly. He's also writing for FOXsports.com, including this gem on what cutdown day is really like, including the memory of a teammate throwing a chair when he heard he was about to be cut.
10. I think these are my non-football thoughts of the week:
a. Welcome to the world, Taylor Mattingly Eisen. The third child and first daughter of Rich and Suzy Shuster Eisen came into the world Friday. And yes, the middle name is for the first baseman Rich has sort of a thing for. And Mattingly knows. Rich believes it's not the first time someone has named a child for him.
b. Saw a cool indie film over the weekend, In a World, written by and starring Lake Bell. Never thought I'd find the dog-eat-dog world of voice-overing making a good film, and I never knew Lake Bell before Saturday. But the movie's good, and she's a star.
c. The Red Sox have a 5.5-game American League East lead with 24 games to play. They wouldn't be fixing to break hearts from Millinocket to Woonsocket, would they?
d. I hate the one-game Wild Card in baseball. It devalues the 162-game season. Having said that, a sudden-death playoff game in the National League Central, with Cincinnati playing at either Pittsburgh or St. Louis, will be pretty dramatic. And that's how it's shaping up.
e. I want Miguel Cabrera to get healthy, fast. I want him to win two straight Triple Crowns.
f. So … are you actually trying to convince me that Teddy Bridgewater is better than my alma mater's Tyler Tettleton? Is that what you're trying to say?
g. One request about Week 1 of the college football season: Can we wait a few more games—one or two at least, please—before saying Jadaveon Clowney has blown the No. 1 pick in a draft that is 36 weeks away? Thank you. Clowney, by the way, is tops on Andy Staples' draft board.
h. Coffeenerdness: Sunday marked the last three-espresso-shot day of the season. From now on, it's a minimum of nine per Sunday. Let the all-nighters begin next Sunday for this column.
i. Beernerdness: I have no idea what it means to be a Double Imperial IPA, but I do know it tastes very good—a classic IPA. Had one the other night: Calalyst Double IPA, by Backlash Beer Company in Holyoke, Mass., and if it hadn't been so lethal (8.5 percent alcohol), I'd have had more than two.
j. For those saying, "How can you pick Robert Griffin III to be the Comeback Player of the Year?'' (Which I did.) He played through the end of the season, then had knee surgery. So he actually played the 2012 season. A couple of things. There are no rules for the Associated Press voters for postseason awards (I have one of those votes) concerning the Comeback Player. A player can be coming back from major surgery, or from a lousy year the previous season. And there is precedent for voting for a player who gets hurt late in the previous year. In 2012, Adrian Peterson got 17.5 of 50 votes for Comeback Player, suffered his injury in the second-to-last game of the 2011 Vikings season.
k. Now for all the rest of my picks … I accept all over-ripe tomatoes, right in the forehead.
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l. Good luck in surgery, Jack Bowers. You're in good hands.
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KEENE, NH-The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth men's soccer team lost to host Keene State, 4-2, in a Little East Conference match at the Owl Sports Complex Saturday.
In the 10th minute of play, sophomore forward Scott Douglas (East Greenwich, RI/East Greewich HS) gave Keene State a 1-0 lead when he controlled a pass from senior forward Cam Blair (Keene, NH/Keene HS) and beat UMD junior goalie Mike Phelan (Carver, MA/Carver HS) to the far post. Just 44 seconds later, UMD sophomore defender Alex Machado (New Bedford, MA/New Bedford HS) pulled the Corsairs even when his free kick attempt deflected off a Keene State defender and into the back of the net. Douglas regained the lead for Keene State with his second goal of the day in the 25th minute. Less than a minute later, Douglas netted a hat trick when he controlled a lead pass from freshman midfielder Brett Sullivan (Barrington, RI/Barrington HS) and dribbled past Phelan and finished, giving KSC a 3-1 advantage.
The Owls pushed their lead to 4-1 when junior defender Danny Silverman (Maynard, MA/Middlesex School) fired a one-timer, off a header by junior forward Joe Senecal (Manchaug, MA/Sutton HS), past Phelan with 40:21 to play in the second half. The Corsairs added their final goal in the 65th minute when freshman forward Elton Borges (Praia, Cape Verde/Burke HS) redirected an effort by sophomore midfielder Kyle Duarte (New Bedford, MA/New Bedford HS) past Owls sophomore goalie Malcom Cheney (Hopkington, MA/Hopkington HS), en route to the 4-2 loss for UMD.
"We picked the wrong time to go on a little bit of a slide," said UMass Dartmouth Head Coach Henry Almeida. "We came out flat in the first half, and let them dictate the pace of the match. We had some opportunities late in the match, but, unfortunately, we couldn't capitalize on those opportunities."
UMass Dartmouth out shot Keene State, 25-21. Phelan made eight saves for UMD, while Cheney stopped five shots for KSC.
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From Rebecca Barrett-Fox's first visit to the church in 2004 until defending her dissertation "Pray Not for This People for Their Good" in 2010, the scholar became intimately acquainted with the people of Westboro in a way that few outsiders have. Barrett-Fox, now a professor at two Mennonite colleges in Kansas (Hesston and Bethel) and book review editor of The Journal of Hate Studies, conducted intensive ethnographic research on the church, joining members at Sunday services, pickets at memorials for gay and lesbian people, and outside the Supreme Court when it ruled in favor of the church's right to demonstrate at military funerals.
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Big Day Coming
Yo La Tengo and the Rise of Indie Rock
Jesse Jarnow
Gotham Books: 362 pp., $18
This is as scintillating as it gets: The opening and closing anecdotes of "Big Day Coming" revolve around typos. Shockingly, promoters and newspapers have had a chronic habit of misspelling the name of Yo La Tengo, the 26-year-old Hoboken, N.J., band whose members are the book's reluctant antiheroes.
"Yo La Tango," "Wo La Tengo," "Yo Lo Tengo" — Ira Kaplan, Georgia Hubley and their multiple bassists have suffered through an endless stream of typos by writers who apparently don't speak Spanish. (The phrase means "I got it" and comes from baseball lore. Yo La Tengo has never had a Latino player.) Since Kaplan and Hubley spent the first part of their band's existence supporting themselves as copy editors, the sloppiness galled, deeply. "They kept a running tally," author Jesse Jarnow writes. God, no — not a tally!
Musician and journalist Jarnow scraped low to find dramatic tension in this oversized book about an undersized subject. That's not entirely his fault. While they have crafted some exquisitely artisanal music that has been considered the defining apotheosis of indie rock, Yo La Tengo's public image and personality have been quietly, purposely, well, dull. As Jarnow writes, Kaplan and Hubley are a couple who enjoy a good night of staying home to watch TV. On the book's cover, they lean against a plain white wall in long-sleeved, loose-fitting clothes that probably have moth holes. It doesn't look like they bothered to comb their hair. This is the indie aesthetic: an image that's anti-image, because the emphasis is on the sound.
There's something refreshing (theoretically at least) about a rock narrative devoid of sex and drugs. "Big Day Coming" is like the anti-"The Dirt" (Motley Crüe's notoriously depraved memoir), the un-"Behind the Music." This is a new kind ofrock 'n' rollbiography, a genre that may have been started by Dean Wareham's 2008 memoir "Black Postcards." In fact, with confessions of a night spent in Hamburg, Germany's fabled red-light district, Wareham's book reads like a modern "Hammer of the Gods" after the viceless "Big Day Coming."
Jarnow does an excellent job of documenting YLT's evolution from tentative folk-rock nerds to an assured, expansive combo equally adept at noise jams, blue-eyed soul, jangly pop and space jazz. He's as encyclopedic in his coverage of their various obscure singles and live shows as YLT is in its tasteful knowledge base. The group started as a cover band, fronted by then-rock critic Kaplan, and, by Jarnow's count, has played more than 1,000 songs by other people — Yo La Tengo are is a virtuoso of repertoire.
But this is strictly insider baseball (if there's one thing the band's members love as much as rare grooves, it's baseball) for serious fans. It's hard to imagine that there's a large audience for "Big Day Coming." After all, the book's title is ironic: YLT never really hit it big. Sure, a few albums sold a couple of hundred thousand copies, and they even had a top 10 single ("Nuclear War"). But in the grand scheme of pop music, they're just a strong, steady vertebrae out on what Chris Anderson calls "the Long Tail."
Digressing into histories of such ancillary topics as the Hoboken music scene, Matador Records, South by Southwest and Pitchfork Media, Jarnow does try to tell a story that's larger than these three reserved individuals (James McNew became the band's permanent bassist in 1991).
But he misses the Big Picture. Questions he doesn't ask: What alternative version of domesticity have Georgia and Ira created by devoting their relationship to making music rather than babies and homes? What's the connection between indie rock and class? Specifically, what role did bands such as Yo La Tengo and the Feelies play in the gentrification of Italian, working-class Hoboken? Are the earmarks of indie-rock aesthetics, such as vintage instruments and vinyl collections, just examples of what the French theorist Pierre Bourdieu has called cultural capital — in other words, status symbols? By connecting with an ever-growing network of like-minded musicians, filmmakers, artists, writers and comedians, have Yo La Tengo truly helped forge an alternative to late capitalism?
Yo La Tengo has made some beautiful music: "Barnaby, Hardly Working" could have been written by Bob Dylan and played by the Beatles. But it's always allowed the music to be its narrative because the members are private people who philosophically and emotionally shun celebrity and because their stories just aren't that interesting. The most fascinating part of "Big Day Coming" recounts how Hubley's late filmmaker parents, Faith and John, battled with Disney and anti-communists, fled Hollywood and crafted an art-driven animation aesthetic in Manhattan. That dedication to principle is what being independent really means.... Forget the collections of out-of-print 45s and old issues of Forced Exposure.
McDonnell is an assistant professor of journalism and new media at Loyola Marymount University.


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Man Jailed After Forgetting Case Of Soda Underneath Shopping Cart
UPDATE: This guy is a liar! He stole the Pepsi after he was past the check out, and has now admitted to making the whole story up for reporters.
Have you ever accidentally forgot to pay for some heavy item that you stowed under you shopping cart? We have, too! Unlike one Cleveland man, however, we did not go to jail for it.
From WLKY:
Tom Sturgis has a long receipt showing the $157.20 worth of two grocery carts full of groceries that he bought at a Brooklyn supermarket Saturday night. After going through the self checkout, Sturgis said he forgot a $4 case of pop under the cart.
A police officer working security at the store asked to see his receipt.
"I went looking for the receipt, the pop wasn't on it and they decided to have me arrested," he said.
Sturgis was arrested on a petty theft charge.
Sturgis, who said he has never had so much as a parking ticket, found himself being led out of the store in handcuffs. He spent 11:30 p.m. until 3 a.m. in jail that night.
At home, his wife said she couldn't believe what was happening.
"It's over a case of pop," said Wendy Sturgis. "He turned around and offered to go back in and pay for it and the cop told him it's like robbing a bank, you just can't get caught robbing a bank and say, 'I'm sorry, I'll give you your money back.'"
Robbing a bank? The Great Case Of Pop Robbery Of '08? Yes, I'm sure the guy's grand plan was to buy over a hundred dollars worth of groceries as a cover for his brilliant $4 pop theft.
We humbly suggest that this police officer is not very good at his job.
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For the ones who follow fashion world Anna dello Russo is like a myth. A lot of people in fashion system are defined as fashion icon, but I think that only few are really eccentric. Anna or AdR is one of them. For this incredible woman nothing seems to be enough. She wears with the same nonchalance actually everything, a huge red swan over the head or two feathered wings on the shoulders.Born in Bari, south Italy in 1962, since a child she felt a strong passion for fashion and clothes. "From a very young age I understood fashion was my passion, I was obsessed; I wanted to grow up to own as many clothes as possible." In order to follow her fondness she took a degree in art history and in 1986 moved to Milan where she started to work for Vogue Italia, a collaboration that last 18 years (for the last 6 years she was the director of L'Uomo Vogue). In 2006 she decided to leave and work as freelance and so she became the editor at large and creative consultant for Vogue Japan, which she still is.


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Whether a varsity student-athlete, an intramurals participant or someone looking for a workout, members of the Bucknell community benefit from a wide array of first-class athletics and recreation facilities.
Sojka Pavilion, Kinney Natatorium, Krebs Family Fitness Center the Wiegand Family Squash Center, Davis Gym, Gerhard Fieldhouse, and the climbing wall, are all part of our indoor facility, the Kenneth Langone Athletics & Recreation Center.
Outdoor facilities include the Christy Mathewson-Memorial Stadium, Holmes Stadium, Emmitt Field, Graham Field, Depew Field, Becker Field, the Bucknell Golf Club and Bachman Golf Center, varsity tennis courts, the Boathouse, the Bucknell Landing and basketball courts.
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To ensure a safe, positive, and clean environment for all of our Bucknell KLARC members, the Office of Recreation Services asks that all of our patrons follow the Usage Guidelines and Policies for our facilities. The guidelines discuss procedures for proper attire, equipment requests, maintenance and care, facility etiquette, and reporting procedures.
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The Kenneth G. Langone Athletics and Recreation Center, one of the finest collegiate athletics and recreation venues of its kind, ensures the continuation of that success.KLARC Building
The Krebs Family Fitness Center contains state-of-the art cardiovascular and strength training equipment. Featuring over 50 pieces of cardiovascular equipment, pin-select resistance machines, Hammer strength and free weights. The facility is open to all students, faculty and staff.
The Berger Family Weight Room, sits on the former site of Freas-Rooke Pool, and is used for instructional free-weight training and varsity workouts
In January of 2003, Bucknell's new 4,000 seat basketball venue, the Sojka Pavilion was opened. Home to the varsity basketball programs, Sojka may play host to intramural championships during the coming year.Sojka Pavilion
The Kinney Natatorium, 50-meter x 25-yard, houses the Swimming, Diving and Water Polo programs for both men and women. It features two movable bulkheads that allow team practices and recreational swimming to occur simultaneously. The state-of-the-art facility is designed to provide a venue capable of attracting events for crowds seating for up to 500.Kinney Natatorium
The Graham Building, a new 36,000-square-foot addition to the Bucknell University campus that opened Aug. 1, brings together campus health, wellness and athletic resources in a central hub.Graham Building
The Bachman Golf Center is a multi-purpose, indoor/outdoor facility that is located adjacent to the Bucknell Golf Course's practice range, just across Smoketown Road from the 11th hole of the Bucknell Golf Club. The 5,600 square-foot building houses coaches' offices and locker rooms for the Bison women's and men's golf teams, a video-equipped swing diagnostic area, indoor putting green and hitting bays, and a conference room.Bachman Golf Center
The Gerhard Fieldhouse features 3 indoor basketball/tennis/volleyball courts, racquetball and squash courts, indoor tennis courts, wrestling room, climbing wall, aerobics/dance studio, as well as a six-lane 200-meter indoor track and field facilities.Gerhard Fieldhouse
Wiegand Family Squash Center was dedicated in February 2013.Squash Courts
Designed and constructed by the Bucknell Outing Club, the Climbing Wall features over 1200 square feet of indoor climbing. Located in the southwest corner of Gerhard Fieldhouse, "the wall" measures 22' tall and 32' wide and features a wide array of bouldering and lead routes.
Bucknell's two-level ergometer room was constructed in the former bleacher seating area adjacent to the Berger Family Weight Room, inside the Kenneth Langone Athletics and Recreation Center in 2011. The two-level facility includes space for more than 40 ergometers on the lower level and additional fitness equipment on the upper levelErgometer Room
The 13,100 Christy Mathewson-Memorial Stadium features a synthetic Field-Turf surface for football and lacrosse and an eight-lane, all-weather track around the playing field.Christy Mathewson-Memorial Stadium
Depew Field and the neighboring Becker Field, home of the Bison softball team, have undergone major renovations in recent years. In the fall of 2009, synthetic FieldTurf was installed at Depew Field. The new playing surface features the latest in-filled, grass-like artificial turf, manufactured by FieldTurf and designed to meet baseball specifications.
Bucknell dedicated a new synthetic turf field for its field hockey and women's lacrosse teams. Named in honor of lead donor William Graham '62, the artificial turf facility, Graham Field, located at the West Fields complex, provides a state-of-the-art playing surface.Graham Field at Holmes Stadium
Emmitt Field at Holmes Stadium is one of the newest facilities for the Bucknell Department of Athletics and Recreation, and it provides the Bison men's and women's soccer programs with one of the finest soccer-only venues in the country. The natural grass pitch was was completed in 2005 with the remainder of the stadium and grandstand finished in 2007.Emmitt Field at Holmes Stadium
A crew boathouse stores equipment used by Bucknell's crew teams.Crew Boathouse
Located behind Gerhard Fieldhouse, the varsity tennis courts are the competition venue for the Bison men's and women's tennis teams. There are a total of 10 courts available for competition.Varsity Tennis Courts
The Bucknell Golf Club, which opened in 1930, is located on the west side of Route 15, adjacent to the West Fields complex on Smoketown Road. The 18-hole course is open to the public.Golf Club
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By Ryan Poole, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine CommandSeptember 25, 2012
FORT EUSTIS, Va. (Sept. 25, 2012) -- Gen. Robert W. Cone, commanding general of U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command led a Sept. 13 town hall meeting at Fort Eustis' Jacobs Theater where he shared the command's progress over the last year, and held a question-and-answer session with the Soldiers and civilians assigned to TRADOC.
"It's been an incredible year," Cone said. "TRADOC was put in a position where it had to perform to set conditions for the Army into the future, and it has truly been a magnificent year."
The meeting began with Cone acknowledging TRADOC's impact on the Army as a whole, progress with its command initiatives, addressing Army-wide areas of concern, and talking about the ongoing facility upgrades taking place across the installation.
TRADOC is a key leader in four of the Army Chief of Staff's five priorities.
These priorities include developing the force of the future (Army of 2020); sustaining a high quality all-volunteer Army; adapting leader development to meet future security challenges; and fostering continued commitment to the Army Profession.
Cone said TRADOC will have trained more than 700,000 Soldiers by close of fiscal year 2012. Prior to the war, TRADOC trained roughly 400,000 Soldiers and last year trained more than 600,000 Soldiers.
"Much of the increase in Soldiers being trained comes from structured self-development and online courses," Cone said.
He pointed out that teaching via online courses does not lessen the workload for TRADOC because executing state-of-the-art online courses still requires instructors to grade papers and provide feedback.
Besides the increase in the volume of training at TRADOC schools and courses, Cone believes the quality of the training has also improved through the extensive application of the "Army Learning Model."
"A year ago I could talk conceptually about the Army Learning Model, but today I can go out on the ground and walk into most of our schools and centers and I am very impressed by the things that they are doing," Cone said.
Cone used the Intelligence Center of Excellence as an example of leveraging and incorporating technology into the classroom. One digital application the students are using has reduced training time from seven to two hours.
Cone noted that the time saved by using digital training resources like "apps" can be applied towards reinforcing other skills such as oral and written communication.
Cone noted that one of the most important accomplishments of the command is the launch of "Doctrine 2015."
Doctrine 2015 transforms the Army's doctrinal base to deliver doctrine -- clear, concise, current and accessible -- to the point of need. The first level of Army doctrine -- Army Doctrine Publications -- consists of 15 foundational manuals about 10-15 pages long that capture the enduring principles inherent in land warfare in the 21st century.
The ADPs are now available via the new "Doctrine 2015" website at http://usacac.army.mil/cac2/MCCOE/Doctrine2015Tables.asp.
However, now that the doctrine is available, Cone believes the challenge now is to get Soldiers to use it. "The biggest problem with doctrine is not writing it; it's getting the force to use and understand it," Cone said.
The TRADOC CG also discussed several Army-wide concerns such as suicide, discrimination, hazing, and sexual assault and harassment.
"We have to look harder at preventing suicides, and we have to think outside the box," Cone said. "In my mind Soldiers are in the top one percent of Americans when they raise their right hand to join the Army. This loss of life, this tragic loss of great Soldiers is just unacceptable to me."
In regard to sexual harassment and hazing, Cone made it clear to the audience that there is zero tolerance for those actions in the Army and TRADOC.
"Sexual harassment is like a cancer in an organization that takes happy, willing participants and takes away their ability to contribute. I will not tolerate that in TRADOC," Cone said. "It amazes me that in the year 2012, I have to stand up in front of an audience and talk about things like racial or gender discrimination."
Cone emphasized that TRADOC should work as a team, and that those who support discrimination, harassment or hazing cannot be part of the organization.
He concluded the town hall by discussing the improvements to TRADOC's new home -- Fort Eustis. The commissary will be upgraded starting in November, the Post Exchange upgraded started in May, and fitness facility improvements are also ongoing for Anderson Field House.
Cone says there will be about $425 million invested in Fort Eustis to make it a better place to live. Half of this has already been spent and the remainder will be used for improvements in the very near future.


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Marketing of Model X
Marketing of Model X
I just reread the page and I don't see the problem. They aren't saying that it's a minivan, just that it has the cargo area of one.
I disagree with removing the term "minivan" from the description of part mini-van, suv, and sports car. This is what made me want this car and made it an EASY sell to the wife. Women like minivans for their utilitarian functionality which is EXACTLY what Tesla should go for. They have the ultra sports car (Roadster), the sedan, and now the SUV (which is being marketed as all three). I think it's a very smart move.
Teenage boys and wives have different priorities. Teenage boys are broke. Therefore, ...
Well the Model X will be the coolest 'mommywagon' I have ever seen, if you must have a minivan to please a wife who is not into cars your best option will be a Model X. I am guessing 70% of the end users will be moms.
Teenage kids grow up to be car buyers in a decade or so yeah it matters - if Tesla keeps an image of being the automaker with the heart of a sports car than it will have ready made young customers being driven around in Model X for Model C who will then graduate to Model S and dream of a Model R (new roadster) or the Super-R (Veyron killer).
Really now how many of you as a kid dreamed of someday owning a Ford? Yeah you may have been driven around in a Pinto stationwagon but the poster on your wall had a Ferrari on it. Tesla started with the roadster, not a Model T, the kids (and Dad) will not feel so embarrassed rolling up in a Model X as in a Chrysler Town and Country, and yeah the roadster will be cool enough to be on the poster in the kids room. Model X may be the 'Tesla for soccermoms' but that is ok with me as it introduces kids to Tesla as a car you can really have and you really want...
I am a Mom (of triplets) and I would not be caught dead in a minivan. Label sport SUV please.
I believe they are calling it a CUV or crossover both of which do not remotely conjure images of a minivan. But somehow they have to emphasize the LOTS of people moving aspect of the vehicle. I started a discussion on another site about why anyone would buy a Model X over an AWD Model S. The most common answer was the fully usable third row seats and extra cargo space qualities we attribute to minivans and sometimes gas guzzlers like the Suburban. I like the label crossover because that is precisely what this vehicle is doing crossing over several different vehicle categories.
I am AMAZED at people's presupposition on what these labels are. Good Lord, Just LOOK AT THE CAR. Who care's if it's called a station wagon, minivan, SUV, CUV, or Fat Sports Car? None of these accurately describes the car for everyone's self-defined definitions of these labels.
Get past your preconceptions. Tell everyone you know to get past their preconceptions.
Tesla is redefining the automobile. If Telsa made up a new word for it, that won't help (see "frunk").
The best they can do is say "it's like a cross between an SUV, minivan, and sports car", so if you don't like ANY of those labels, then get past the label and LOOK AT THE CAR.
The Model X is a very practical EV with seats for 7 adults and even lots of space for luggage. Secondly, it looks great either. Many people will prefer to buy the Model X and not the Model S. Although, originally these people would have liked to buy the Model S, if the Model X would not have been introduced yet. I think that more people would buy a Tesla car if there would be a third Tesla car on the same platform as the Model S and Model X. Maybe a stationcar?
Outside of NL, that's "station wagon". There might be a station wagon variant of the Model S in the works.


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"Modern Family" star Ariel Winter has been removed from her mother's home by a judge following allegations of abuse.
The 14 year old, who plays Alex Dunphy on the Emmy Award-winning show, attended a legal hearing on October 3 to outline claims her mother Crystal Workman was physically and emotionally abusive, and the actress' 34-year-old sister Shanelle was subsequently granted temporary guardianship.
According to TMZ.com, the actress also obtained a protective order against her mom, which will remain in effect until their next court hearing, set for November 20.
The Associated Press reports Winter's mother was accused of "'ongoing physical abuse' described as slapping and hitting, as well as name-calling and personal insults."


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4/9/11 Nationals at Mets: Citi Field
So, I was on 67th street at 2:00 and had yet to pick up my Mets/Nationals gear. Long story short I showed up waay late to the game… but wait why haven't the gates opened?
Apparently the ever endearing Mets thought it best to open the gates a mere 2 hours before game time. This put me both at the back of a line of people and will take half an hour away from me every time I go to Citi Field. Why are both New York teams horrible at dealing with fans?
Anyway, the gates opened at 5:10 but I didn't get until probably 5:20 because of the line delay.
As the gates opened I quickly identified the fans racing up the escalator as ballhawks Zack Hample and Joe Faraguna. Since they were probably going to go right to left field, I figured I should pray that the pitchers were still throwing in right.
They weren't so I went to center field in hopes of getting a ball from the posse that shags balls there. At first, it seemed like that would never happen. Pedro Beato was cutting everything way in front of the wall (wasn't that hard considering I was about a thousand feet from home plate). One then finally made its way to the wall. A group of kids was yelling at him and he didn't turn around. Finally, I accused him of being racist towards Colombians. He laughed and threw me the ball.
On to left field. I got there and literally every feasible landing sector had a ballhawk patrolling it. There must have been half a dozen ballhawks. Let's see how many I remember. 1+2 the ones listed two paragraphs above. 3. Tony Bracco. 4. Oliver Rowles. 5. Gary Kowal. 6. Ross Finkelstein. It must have been the fact that it was the first 7:10 game of the season but take my word for it there are almost never ballhawks at weekend games (which is why I like them). Just check the day of the week I made this major snag on. I think that was everyone but I can't be that sure seeing as I didn't talk to many on account of me moving around so much.
Nevertheless, none of the ballhawks dared to be in the corner of left field amongst a sea of weekend fans. So when Michael Morse hit a homerun behind that sea, I ran through my aisle to the ball. I was late because of a few fan but the ball hit off a seat and stayed in the air for what seemed like minutes before I caught it on that fly (technically it is not on the fly but it didn't hit the ground so that's good enough for me. If you haven't picked up, I stink at tracking fly balls). I then got a toss up from a player I later identified as Chad Gaudin. I gave that one away to a kid who had missed the previous toss-up.
I then moved over to right field for the rest of Nationals bp. Seeing as I was the only Nationals fan in the section, you would think I would get a ball quickly:
Although, had a person not gone down the staris mid at-bat, I would've had my second foul ball at Citi Field:
Imagine the two or three fans standing up are the fans that got in my way. The ball went where the two or three fans are and I ran down the stairs with plenty of fans but couldn't reach out the extra three feet because of the fans and couldn't run around them because of the railing. This left the ball going into the row of fans where it was dropped and recovered. It was actually a great night for foul balls on this side because of the two lefty pitchers but not that many balls went into my section.
I then missed out on an opportunity for an umpire ball because I was again, seated on the wrong side of the stadium (but it may be good security doesn't know me, though. I saw the adverse affects this can have with Greg Barasch being essentially banned for the last few games of the season a year ago.)
- 3 Balls snagged (2 pictured because I gave one away )
A different side if you prefer below.
- 2.0 Balls Per Game
- 27 straight games with at least 1 ball
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- Time at Game: 4:55 to 10:30= 5 hour and 35 minutes
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Under a 1943 Supreme Court decision called Parker v. Brown, state governments and private parties who act on state orders are typically immune from prosecution under federal antitrust laws. Thus, while private parties who create cartels face severe penalties, state governments can authorize the same anti-competitive behavior with impunity.
Still, the Supreme Court has held that this kind of immunity only applies if the private parties who engage in cartel behavior are "actively supervised" by state officials. A case now before the Supreme Court, N.C. State Board of Dental Examiners v.FTC, presents an opportunity to expand on that directive.
Beginning in about 2003, the North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners issued cease-and-desist orders to beauticians and others who were offering "teeth whitening" services (in which a plastic strip treated with peroxide is applied to the teeth in order to make them brighter). Although teeth-whitening is perfectly safe—and can even be done at home with an over-the-counter kit—the state's licensed dentists want to limit competition in this lucrative area.
The Board is made up entirely of practicing dentists and hygienists and is elected by other licensed dentists and hygienists—with no input from the general public—and evidence later revealed that the Board issued orders on this subject in response to complaints from dentists, not consumers. The Federal Trade Commission charged the Board with engaging in anticompetitive conduct. Although the Board argued that it should enjoy Parker immunity, the FTC, and later the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, rejected that argument, holding that the Board was not "actively supervised" by the state, but was instead a group of private business owners exploiting government power.