Finally, the tournament has moved on to the semi-finals of the "Other" bracket, the last of the three that we need to get to. The finals of the College bracket will be a battle between the two lowest seeds, as The Waterboy managed to take down We Are Marshall in the second semi-final to set up a battle against Necessary Roughness for the College bracket championship.
Our first semi-final match-up in the "Other" bracket gives us a recent classic going up against an older classic.
The Blind Side
The Blind Side is based on the real life story of current Baltimore Ravens offensive tackle Michael Oher, and is taken from the book The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis.
Young Michael Oher (played in the film by Quinton Aaron) spent much of his childhood bouncing around different foster homes in Memphis, Tennessee, largely because he keeps running away whenever he gets placed in a new home. He eventually winds up enrolling in the Wingate Christian school, where he makes a friend named Sean. Sean's mother, Leigh Anne Tuohy (Sandra Bullock) eventually brings him into their home, and he becomes a part of the Tuohy family. Eventually, his academic problems get turned around, which allows him to join the school's football team, which is where young Oher finds his true calling.
Bullock won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in this movie, and the film itself received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture.
The Longest Yard
Apologies. . .the trailer above is for the 2005 remake. The only thing I could find for the 1974 version was something hyping a DVD release. Then again, since they're essentially the same movie, I guess the difference isn't that great. I just prefer the older version. Your mileage may vary.
The Longest Yard centers around Paul Crewe (played in the original by Burt Reynolds), a former star professional quarterback who was kicked out of the league for point shaving. After getting into a fight with his girlfriend, Crewe gets drunk and drives his girlfriends car off of a pier, winding up with an 18-month prison sentence as a result. After being harassed by both his fellow inmates and the guards at the prison, the warden eventually compels Crewe to put together a team of inmates to take on the prison's guards, who have a semi-pro team of their own, and many of whom are big enough and fast enough to play at the pro level. Most of the prisoners have no football experience, and the African-American players won't even talk to Crewe about joining the squad. . .at first.
Eventually, game day comes around and the prisoners actually have a shot at taking down the guards. At halftime, the prison warden comes to Crewe and tells him that if he doesn't lose this game to the guards, he'll pin a crime on Crewe that they both know he didn't commit. From there. . .well, I don't think I want to spoil the ending, although I'm sure most folks here have seen the film already.
The Longest Yard won the 1975 Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy). The 2005 version is pretty good, too. . .after all, as I said earlier, it's essentially the same movie. . .but I simply prefer the Burt Reynolds version.
There you have it, ladies and gentlemen. . .let the battle begin!
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Monday, March 28, 2011
U.C.L.A. Spring Football: Pushing Forward with the Offensive Line
Let's continue with our preview of the 2011 U.C.L.A. football team with a look at the offensive line. With all due respect (which usually means you're about to disrespect someone) to my fellow front pagers, you can forget the excellent previews of the D Line, Linebackers, Def Backs, and Special Teams. The Offensive Line will be the key to the Bruins' success in 2011. Line wins games.
The offensive line was an enigma last season. Injuries, academic problems, a Mormon mission, and a lack of stability and consistency from 2009 prevented the Bruins from starting their ideal top five players. Despite that, OL Coach Bob Palcic deserves a ton of credit for converting a patchwork line into the most overachieving unit on the field last season. In adapting the new Pistol offense, the self-named Filthy Five vastly improved on a feeble running game from 2009, as evidenced by their utter dominance in the Texas game. However, pass blocking remained a major problem throughout the year, and that inability to pass allowed opposing defenses to stack the box and bottle up the Bruins' run game, and the offense sputtered as the season progressed.
If all goes as planned this year, the Bruins should not suffer the same problems. Though the OL lost 4 seniors who saw significant playing time from last year's squad, this year's unit will benefit from the return of 2 starters from the 2009 team who were unavailable last year. They will join 2 regulars returning from last season, and there are guys with playing time battling for the fifth spot. The result for 2011 will be an OL that is improved on talent and better for experience. This should by the best OL that Bruin fans have seen during Neuheisel's tenure in Westwood. That said, the play of the OL as a single well coordinated unit is crucial. While our projected starters have all seen time on the field, these 5 have not lined us next to each other in this manner before. The coaching staff has its work cut out getting this group to come together as a cohesive unit that can communicate well and read and react off each other. There may be a learning curve for this OL, but unlike previous years, the ceiling should be very high.
Extended thoughts on the projected depth chart, players, the coaches, and the prospects for this unit after the jump.
The offensive line was an enigma last season. Injuries, academic problems, a Mormon mission, and a lack of stability and consistency from 2009 prevented the Bruins from starting their ideal top five players. Despite that, OL Coach Bob Palcic deserves a ton of credit for converting a patchwork line into the most overachieving unit on the field last season. In adapting the new Pistol offense, the self-named Filthy Five vastly improved on a feeble running game from 2009, as evidenced by their utter dominance in the Texas game. However, pass blocking remained a major problem throughout the year, and that inability to pass allowed opposing defenses to stack the box and bottle up the Bruins' run game, and the offense sputtered as the season progressed.
If all goes as planned this year, the Bruins should not suffer the same problems. Though the OL lost 4 seniors who saw significant playing time from last year's squad, this year's unit will benefit from the return of 2 starters from the 2009 team who were unavailable last year. They will join 2 regulars returning from last season, and there are guys with playing time battling for the fifth spot. The result for 2011 will be an OL that is improved on talent and better for experience. This should by the best OL that Bruin fans have seen during Neuheisel's tenure in Westwood. That said, the play of the OL as a single well coordinated unit is crucial. While our projected starters have all seen time on the field, these 5 have not lined us next to each other in this manner before. The coaching staff has its work cut out getting this group to come together as a cohesive unit that can communicate well and read and react off each other. There may be a learning curve for this OL, but unlike previous years, the ceiling should be very high.
Extended thoughts on the projected depth chart, players, the coaches, and the prospects for this unit after the jump.
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Lingerie Football League Bounces To Minneapolis
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — As some continue to argue the merits of outdoor football in Minnesota, there must at least a few women who might be glad the sport remains indoors.
That’s because the Lingerie Football League is set to expand into the Twin Cities this fall.
The LFL announced the 11th franchise was granted to Minneapolis, and the full-contact action will soon be coming to the Target Center.
The sport has made a name for itself by showing scantily clad women in pads playing no-holds barred football.
Among the other cities being included in the expansion are Cleveland, Las Vegas and, yes, Green Bay.
The Minnesota team, whatever it ends up being named (the comments section below is open to suggestions), will compete in the league’s Western Conference against the Seattle Mist, Los Angeles Temptation, Green Bay Chill and Chicago Bliss.
There will be an announcement about open tryouts sometime in the near future, so get your shoulder pads ready.
League Lingerie Football kthehet To Minneapolis
Minneapolis (WCCO) - Si disa vazhdojnë të argumentojnë meritat e futbollit në natyrë në Minesota, nuk duhet të paktën disa gra që mund të jetë i gatshëm për sport mbetet në ambiente të mbyllura.
Kjo për shkak se Football Lingerie League është vendosur që të zgjerohet në Qytetet binjake këtë vjeshtë.
LFL njoftoi ekskluzivitet 11 është dhënë në Mineapolis, dhe veprim të plotë kontakti së shpejti do të vijnë në Qendrën e synuar.
sport ka bërë një emër për veten, duke treguar në mënyrë të pamjaftueshme grave të veshur në pads duke luajtur futboll nuk ka-ka ndaluar.
Ndër qytetet e tjera janë të përfshirë në zgjerimin janë Cleveland, Las Vegas dhe, po, Green Bay.
Ekipi Minesota, çfarëdo qoftë ajo përfundon duke u quajtur (seksionin Komentet më poshtë është e hapur për sugjerimet), do të konkurrojnë në Konferencën Perëndimore të ligë kundër mjegull Seattle, Los Angeles Temptation, Green Bay Chill dhe Çikago begatshme.
Nuk do të jetë një njoftimi për tryouts hapur dikur në të ardhmen e afërt, kështu që të marrë shpatullën tuaj pads gati.
Lingerie Football League To Minneapolis erreboteak
Minneapolis (WCCO) - batzuk jarraitu futbol kanpoko merezimenduak argudiatzeko Minnesotan bezala, gutxienez batzuk emakume alaiaren kirol hondarrak etxe barruan egon liteke.
That's Lingerie Football League delako ezarri Twin Hiri sartu zabaltzeko jaitsiera hau.
LFL iragarri 11 frankizia zen Minneapolis ematen, eta full-Ekintza aurki izango dira helburu Center Datozen.
Kirola egin ditu izena berez scantily erakutsiz jantzitako emakume pads-en dauka trangatuta futbol ez erreproduzitzen.
Beste hiri izateaz hedatzeko artean sartzen dira Cleveland, Las Vegas eta, hori bai, Green Bay.
Minnesotako taldea, edozer eman bukatzen ari da named (comments atalean baino txikiagoa izanen da proposamenak ireki), Will Ligako en Seattle Mist, Los Angeles Temptation, Green Bay Chill eta Chicago Bliss aurka Conference Western lehiatuko dira.
Ez tryouts ireki dela iragarki bat egingo da noizbait etorkizun hurbilean, beraz, Lortu zure sorbalda pads prest.
That’s because the Lingerie Football League is set to expand into the Twin Cities this fall.
The LFL announced the 11th franchise was granted to Minneapolis, and the full-contact action will soon be coming to the Target Center.
The sport has made a name for itself by showing scantily clad women in pads playing no-holds barred football.
Among the other cities being included in the expansion are Cleveland, Las Vegas and, yes, Green Bay.
The Minnesota team, whatever it ends up being named (the comments section below is open to suggestions), will compete in the league’s Western Conference against the Seattle Mist, Los Angeles Temptation, Green Bay Chill and Chicago Bliss.
There will be an announcement about open tryouts sometime in the near future, so get your shoulder pads ready.
League Lingerie Football kthehet To Minneapolis
Minneapolis (WCCO) - Si disa vazhdojnë të argumentojnë meritat e futbollit në natyrë në Minesota, nuk duhet të paktën disa gra që mund të jetë i gatshëm për sport mbetet në ambiente të mbyllura.
Kjo për shkak se Football Lingerie League është vendosur që të zgjerohet në Qytetet binjake këtë vjeshtë.
LFL njoftoi ekskluzivitet 11 është dhënë në Mineapolis, dhe veprim të plotë kontakti së shpejti do të vijnë në Qendrën e synuar.
sport ka bërë një emër për veten, duke treguar në mënyrë të pamjaftueshme grave të veshur në pads duke luajtur futboll nuk ka-ka ndaluar.
Ndër qytetet e tjera janë të përfshirë në zgjerimin janë Cleveland, Las Vegas dhe, po, Green Bay.
Ekipi Minesota, çfarëdo qoftë ajo përfundon duke u quajtur (seksionin Komentet më poshtë është e hapur për sugjerimet), do të konkurrojnë në Konferencën Perëndimore të ligë kundër mjegull Seattle, Los Angeles Temptation, Green Bay Chill dhe Çikago begatshme.
Nuk do të jetë një njoftimi për tryouts hapur dikur në të ardhmen e afërt, kështu që të marrë shpatullën tuaj pads gati.
Lingerie Football League To Minneapolis erreboteak
Minneapolis (WCCO) - batzuk jarraitu futbol kanpoko merezimenduak argudiatzeko Minnesotan bezala, gutxienez batzuk emakume alaiaren kirol hondarrak etxe barruan egon liteke.
That's Lingerie Football League delako ezarri Twin Hiri sartu zabaltzeko jaitsiera hau.
LFL iragarri 11 frankizia zen Minneapolis ematen, eta full-Ekintza aurki izango dira helburu Center Datozen.
Kirola egin ditu izena berez scantily erakutsiz jantzitako emakume pads-en dauka trangatuta futbol ez erreproduzitzen.
Beste hiri izateaz hedatzeko artean sartzen dira Cleveland, Las Vegas eta, hori bai, Green Bay.
Minnesotako taldea, edozer eman bukatzen ari da named (comments atalean baino txikiagoa izanen da proposamenak ireki), Will Ligako en Seattle Mist, Los Angeles Temptation, Green Bay Chill eta Chicago Bliss aurka Conference Western lehiatuko dira.
Ez tryouts ireki dela iragarki bat egingo da noizbait etorkizun hurbilean, beraz, Lortu zure sorbalda pads prest.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Bundesliga
Bundesliga - Hamburg fire coach Veh
Sun, 13 Mar 12:25:00 2011
Hamburg coach Armin Veh, who announced last Tuesday he would leave the club at the end of the season, has been fired following the 6-0 Bundesliga defeat at Bayern Munich.
RELATED LINKS
• Three for Robben in Hamburg rout
• Bayern deny Loew reports
"After he made it known he would leave at the end of the season and, with the impression left by the last two games, we decided to make the cut now and part company with Armin Veh," Hamburg director Bastian Reinhardt said.
Veh, 50, who won the Bundesliga with Stuttgart in 2007, had been in charge of the team for eight months, having taking over at the start of the season.
Last season, he was fired by Wolfsburg after only five months at the club.
The club said assistant coach Michael Oenning would take charge for the remainder of the season, becoming the club's sixth coach in the last four years.
Hamburg are eighth in the Bundesliga but their chances of a place in Europe have suffered in the last week, with a 4-2 home defeat by Mainz preceding Saturday's debacle.
It was a case of deja vu for the club who sacked Bruno Labbadia near the end of last season following a similar heavy defeat, 5-1 against Hoffenheim.
德甲- 汉堡火灾，请设在教练
太阳，2011年3月13日12时25分零零秒
请设在汉堡队主教练阿明，谁上周二宣布，他将留在本赛季结束后俱乐部，已被解雇后，在德甲拜仁慕尼黑6-0击败。
相关链接
在汉堡的罗本三击溃
拜仁否认勒夫报告
“当他知道他会离开它在本赛季结束后和进行的最后两场比赛留下的印象，我们决定把削减现在和阿明，请设在部分公司，“汉堡莱因哈特导演巴斯蒂安说。
请设，50，谁赢得了2007年斯图加特德甲，已经在该小组的负责八个月后，以在本赛季重新开始。
上个赛季，他被解雇后的沃尔夫斯堡在俱乐部只有五个月。
该俱乐部的助理教练迈克尔说，将采取Oenning本赛季剩余电荷，成为该俱乐部在过去四年第六教练。
汉堡在德甲第八，但在欧洲的地位的机会都遭受了上周由美因茨4-2家上周六的崩溃失败。
这是一个似曾相识的俱乐部解雇谁靠近上赛季结束后布鲁诺Labbadia似曾相识的情况类似的惨败，对霍芬海姆5-1。
Bundesliga - Hamburg Feuer Trainer Veh
So, 13 März 2011 12.25.00
Hamburg-Trainer Armin Veh, der am vergangenen Dienstag angekündigt, er werdeden Verein am Ende der Saison verlassen, ist nach der 6-0 Niederlage Bundesligabei Bayern München entlassen worden.
LINKS
Drei für Robben in Hamburg Flucht
Bayern bestreiten Löw Berichte
"Nachdem er es bekannt, er würde am Ende der Saison verlassen und mit demEindruck von den letzten beiden Spielen hat gemacht, wir, um den Schnitt jetzt undtrennt sich von Armin Veh machen entschieden", Hamburg Regisseur Bastian Reinhardt sagte.
Veh, 50, der die Bundesliga mit Stuttgart gewann im Jahr 2007 hatteVerantwortlichen des Teams für acht Monate, nachdem die Übernahme zu Beginnder Saison.
Letzte Saison wurde er von Wolfsburg nach nur fünf Monaten im Klub gefeuert.
Der Verein sagte Assistenztrainer Michael Oenning würde Gebühr für den Rest derSaison zu nehmen, zu dem Club der sechste Trainer in den letzten vier Jahren.
Hamburg sind Achter in der Bundesliga, sondern ihre Chancen auf einen Platz inEuropa haben in der letzten Woche gelitten, mit einem 4:2-Heimniederlage gegenMainz vorausgehenden Samstag Debakel.
Es war ein Fall von Déjà-vu für den Verein, die Bruno Labbadia am Ende der letztenSaison entlassen nach einem ähnlichen schwere Niederlage, 5-1 gegen Hoffenheim.
Bundesliga - Hamburg Veh ignis coach
Sun Mar XIII MMXI 12:25:00
Armin Veh coach Hamburg, nunciantes last Tuesday excedens club fine temporis estaccensa secundum Bundesliga 6-0 Bayern Munich vinci.
Related Links
Robben in triduo fuga Hamburg
Loew negare tradit Bayern
Post et significavit exiens in fine temporum et impressione sinistra duobus ultimisludis, placuit ut nunc et concidens parte Armin Veh fornicariis, director BastianReinhardt Hamburg dictum.
Veh, L, Qui meruit in Stuttgart cum Bundesliga MMVII, prefuisset consors octo mensibus cum capiendi initio temporum.
Last tempore incensus est post quinque tantum Wolfsburg mensibus in fuste.
Clava Michael dixit Oenning Assistant Coach esto se reliquum temporis uenit club'scoach in sexto quadriennium.
Hamburg VIII sunt in casum Bundesliga sed loci in Europa passa in ultima hebdomada cum domi vinci 4-2 Mainz debacle's sabbato præcedenti.
Erat causa vu deja de Bruno club Labbadia qui diripuit circa finem ultimum tempussequens similis gravis clades in 5-1 Hoffenheim.
Bundesliga - Hamburg vuur afrigter VEH
Sondag, 13 Mar 2011 12:25:00
Hamburg afrigter Armin VEH, wat verlede Dinsdag aangekondig dat hy die klub verlaat aan die einde van die seisoen, is afgedank as gevolg van die 6-0 Bundesliganederlaag teen Bayern München.
VERWANTE WEBWERF
Drie vir Robben in Hamburg rout
Bayern ontken Loew verslae
"Nadat hy dit weet hy sou verlaat aan die einde van die seisoen en, met die indrukgelaat word deur die laaste twee wedstryde, het ons besluit om die snit nou en deelmaatskappy met Armin VEH te maak, " Hamburg direkteur Bastian Reinhardt gesê.
VEH, 50, wat die Bundesliga gewen met Stuttgart in 2007, was in beheer van diespan vir agt maande, nadat die oorname aan die begin van die seisoen.
Afgelope seisoen, is hy afgedank deur Wolfsburg na slegs vyf maande by die klub.
Die klub het gesê assistent-afrigter Michael Oenning aanklag sou neem vir die resvan die seisoen, word die klub se sesde afrigter in die laaste vier jaar.
Hamburg is agtste plek in die Bundesliga, maar hul kanse van 'n plek in Europa gely het in die laaste week, met'n 4-2 nederlaag teen Mainz huis voorafgaande Saterdagse debakel.
Dit was 'n geval van deja vu vir die klub wat Bruno Labbadia afgedank naby die eindevan die vorige seisoen'n soortgelyke swaar nederlaag, 5-1 teen Hoffenheim.
Bundesliga - Hamburg trajner zjarr Veh
Sun, 13 Mar 2011 12:25:00
Hamburg trajner Armin Veh, i cili njoftoi të martën e kaluar se ai do të largohet ngaklubi në fund të sezonit, ka qenë i shkarkuar pas humbjes 6-0 në Bundesliga Bayern Munich.
Related Links
Tre për Roben në Hamburg shpartallim
Bayern mohuar raportet Loew
"Pasi ai e bëri të njohur se do të largohej në fund të sezonit dhe, me përshtypje tëlëna nga dy ndeshje të fundit, ne kemi vendosur të të prerë tani dhe kompani pjesëme Armin Veh," tha drejtori Bastian Reinhardt Hamburg.
Veh, 50, i cili fitoi Bundesliga me Stuttgart në vitin 2007, kishte qenë në krye të ekipitpër tetë muaj, që ka marrë përsipër në fillim të sezonit.
Sezonin e kaluar, ai u shkarkua nga Wolfsburg pas vetëm pesë muaj në klub.
Klubi i tha ndihmës trajneri Michael Oenning do të marrë përgjegjësinë për pjesën e mbetur të sezonit, duke u bërë trajneri i gjashtë e klubit në katër vitet e fundit.
Hamburg janë tetë në Bundesliga, por shanset e tyre për një vend në Evropë kanëvuajtur në javën e fundit, me një humbje 4-2 në shtëpi me Mainz mësipërm përmbysje e së shtunës.
Kjo ishte një rast i deja vu për të klubit që shkarkoi Bruno Labbadia pranë në fund të sezonit të kaluar pas një humbje të ngjashme të rëndë, 5-1 kundër Hoffenheim.
Sun, 13 Mar 12:25:00 2011
Hamburg coach Armin Veh, who announced last Tuesday he would leave the club at the end of the season, has been fired following the 6-0 Bundesliga defeat at Bayern Munich.
RELATED LINKS
• Three for Robben in Hamburg rout
• Bayern deny Loew reports
"After he made it known he would leave at the end of the season and, with the impression left by the last two games, we decided to make the cut now and part company with Armin Veh," Hamburg director Bastian Reinhardt said.
Veh, 50, who won the Bundesliga with Stuttgart in 2007, had been in charge of the team for eight months, having taking over at the start of the season.
Last season, he was fired by Wolfsburg after only five months at the club.
The club said assistant coach Michael Oenning would take charge for the remainder of the season, becoming the club's sixth coach in the last four years.
Hamburg are eighth in the Bundesliga but their chances of a place in Europe have suffered in the last week, with a 4-2 home defeat by Mainz preceding Saturday's debacle.
It was a case of deja vu for the club who sacked Bruno Labbadia near the end of last season following a similar heavy defeat, 5-1 against Hoffenheim.
德甲- 汉堡火灾，请设在教练
太阳，2011年3月13日12时25分零零秒
请设在汉堡队主教练阿明，谁上周二宣布，他将留在本赛季结束后俱乐部，已被解雇后，在德甲拜仁慕尼黑6-0击败。
相关链接
在汉堡的罗本三击溃
拜仁否认勒夫报告
“当他知道他会离开它在本赛季结束后和进行的最后两场比赛留下的印象，我们决定把削减现在和阿明，请设在部分公司，“汉堡莱因哈特导演巴斯蒂安说。
请设，50，谁赢得了2007年斯图加特德甲，已经在该小组的负责八个月后，以在本赛季重新开始。
上个赛季，他被解雇后的沃尔夫斯堡在俱乐部只有五个月。
该俱乐部的助理教练迈克尔说，将采取Oenning本赛季剩余电荷，成为该俱乐部在过去四年第六教练。
汉堡在德甲第八，但在欧洲的地位的机会都遭受了上周由美因茨4-2家上周六的崩溃失败。
这是一个似曾相识的俱乐部解雇谁靠近上赛季结束后布鲁诺Labbadia似曾相识的情况类似的惨败，对霍芬海姆5-1。
Bundesliga - Hamburg Feuer Trainer Veh
So, 13 März 2011 12.25.00
Hamburg-Trainer Armin Veh, der am vergangenen Dienstag angekündigt, er werdeden Verein am Ende der Saison verlassen, ist nach der 6-0 Niederlage Bundesligabei Bayern München entlassen worden.
LINKS
Drei für Robben in Hamburg Flucht
Bayern bestreiten Löw Berichte
"Nachdem er es bekannt, er würde am Ende der Saison verlassen und mit demEindruck von den letzten beiden Spielen hat gemacht, wir, um den Schnitt jetzt undtrennt sich von Armin Veh machen entschieden", Hamburg Regisseur Bastian Reinhardt sagte.
Veh, 50, der die Bundesliga mit Stuttgart gewann im Jahr 2007 hatteVerantwortlichen des Teams für acht Monate, nachdem die Übernahme zu Beginnder Saison.
Letzte Saison wurde er von Wolfsburg nach nur fünf Monaten im Klub gefeuert.
Der Verein sagte Assistenztrainer Michael Oenning würde Gebühr für den Rest derSaison zu nehmen, zu dem Club der sechste Trainer in den letzten vier Jahren.
Hamburg sind Achter in der Bundesliga, sondern ihre Chancen auf einen Platz inEuropa haben in der letzten Woche gelitten, mit einem 4:2-Heimniederlage gegenMainz vorausgehenden Samstag Debakel.
Es war ein Fall von Déjà-vu für den Verein, die Bruno Labbadia am Ende der letztenSaison entlassen nach einem ähnlichen schwere Niederlage, 5-1 gegen Hoffenheim.
Bundesliga - Hamburg Veh ignis coach
Sun Mar XIII MMXI 12:25:00
Armin Veh coach Hamburg, nunciantes last Tuesday excedens club fine temporis estaccensa secundum Bundesliga 6-0 Bayern Munich vinci.
Related Links
Robben in triduo fuga Hamburg
Loew negare tradit Bayern
Post et significavit exiens in fine temporum et impressione sinistra duobus ultimisludis, placuit ut nunc et concidens parte Armin Veh fornicariis, director BastianReinhardt Hamburg dictum.
Veh, L, Qui meruit in Stuttgart cum Bundesliga MMVII, prefuisset consors octo mensibus cum capiendi initio temporum.
Last tempore incensus est post quinque tantum Wolfsburg mensibus in fuste.
Clava Michael dixit Oenning Assistant Coach esto se reliquum temporis uenit club'scoach in sexto quadriennium.
Hamburg VIII sunt in casum Bundesliga sed loci in Europa passa in ultima hebdomada cum domi vinci 4-2 Mainz debacle's sabbato præcedenti.
Erat causa vu deja de Bruno club Labbadia qui diripuit circa finem ultimum tempussequens similis gravis clades in 5-1 Hoffenheim.
Bundesliga - Hamburg vuur afrigter VEH
Sondag, 13 Mar 2011 12:25:00
Hamburg afrigter Armin VEH, wat verlede Dinsdag aangekondig dat hy die klub verlaat aan die einde van die seisoen, is afgedank as gevolg van die 6-0 Bundesliganederlaag teen Bayern München.
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"Nadat hy dit weet hy sou verlaat aan die einde van die seisoen en, met die indrukgelaat word deur die laaste twee wedstryde, het ons besluit om die snit nou en deelmaatskappy met Armin VEH te maak, " Hamburg direkteur Bastian Reinhardt gesê.
VEH, 50, wat die Bundesliga gewen met Stuttgart in 2007, was in beheer van diespan vir agt maande, nadat die oorname aan die begin van die seisoen.
Afgelope seisoen, is hy afgedank deur Wolfsburg na slegs vyf maande by die klub.
Die klub het gesê assistent-afrigter Michael Oenning aanklag sou neem vir die resvan die seisoen, word die klub se sesde afrigter in die laaste vier jaar.
Hamburg is agtste plek in die Bundesliga, maar hul kanse van 'n plek in Europa gely het in die laaste week, met'n 4-2 nederlaag teen Mainz huis voorafgaande Saterdagse debakel.
Dit was 'n geval van deja vu vir die klub wat Bruno Labbadia afgedank naby die eindevan die vorige seisoen'n soortgelyke swaar nederlaag, 5-1 teen Hoffenheim.
Bundesliga - Hamburg trajner zjarr Veh
Sun, 13 Mar 2011 12:25:00
Hamburg trajner Armin Veh, i cili njoftoi të martën e kaluar se ai do të largohet ngaklubi në fund të sezonit, ka qenë i shkarkuar pas humbjes 6-0 në Bundesliga Bayern Munich.
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"Pasi ai e bëri të njohur se do të largohej në fund të sezonit dhe, me përshtypje tëlëna nga dy ndeshje të fundit, ne kemi vendosur të të prerë tani dhe kompani pjesëme Armin Veh," tha drejtori Bastian Reinhardt Hamburg.
Veh, 50, i cili fitoi Bundesliga me Stuttgart në vitin 2007, kishte qenë në krye të ekipitpër tetë muaj, që ka marrë përsipër në fillim të sezonit.
Sezonin e kaluar, ai u shkarkua nga Wolfsburg pas vetëm pesë muaj në klub.
Klubi i tha ndihmës trajneri Michael Oenning do të marrë përgjegjësinë për pjesën e mbetur të sezonit, duke u bërë trajneri i gjashtë e klubit në katër vitet e fundit.
Hamburg janë tetë në Bundesliga, por shanset e tyre për një vend në Evropë kanëvuajtur në javën e fundit, me një humbje 4-2 në shtëpi me Mainz mësipërm përmbysje e së shtunës.
Kjo ishte një rast i deja vu për të klubit që shkarkoi Bruno Labbadia pranë në fund të sezonit të kaluar pas një humbje të ngjashme të rëndë, 5-1 kundër Hoffenheim.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
fabregas confident of facing barcelona
The Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas missed the Carling Cup Final after pulling up with a hamstring problem against Stoke last week, but he is certain that he will be fit to play against Barcelona at the Nou Camp next Tuesday, in fact he thinks he will be ready to face Sunderland this weekend.
He said yesterday: “I am running, getting better and don’t sense any pain. We’ll see how the next few days go. Perhaps I’ll have a chance for Saturday.
“We’ll take things day by day. I knew I had to come off (against Stoke). I know when I can play. We have many games coming up so I couldn’t afford to stay on and lose three weeks rather than seven days.”
It is already certain that Robin Van Persie and Theo Walcott will miss the return leg, but it will be a great boost to the Gunners if Fabregas can lead his team out next Tuesday.
He said yesterday: “I am running, getting better and don’t sense any pain. We’ll see how the next few days go. Perhaps I’ll have a chance for Saturday.
“We’ll take things day by day. I knew I had to come off (against Stoke). I know when I can play. We have many games coming up so I couldn’t afford to stay on and lose three weeks rather than seven days.”
It is already certain that Robin Van Persie and Theo Walcott will miss the return leg, but it will be a great boost to the Gunners if Fabregas can lead his team out next Tuesday.
Sports Illustrated is Overstating Claims About College Football Crime
Sports Illustrated and CBS News released their report about arrests in college football. They ran criminal background checks on last year’s Preseason Top 25 and the results are shocking, if you frame them the right way and make sure to use THE SERIOUS FONT on the cover.
Reporters looked at 2,837 players and found records of 277 criminal incidents from 204 players. Taking those raw figures one could conclude that more than seven percent of college football players at those 25 schools are dangerous miscreants rampaging their way across campuses. You would think universities are fostering a criminal element to promote success and that you should lock your doors and fasten your chastity belts. But, take a closer look.
The report lumps all forms of crime together. Of the 277 offenses, 105 (38 percent) were drug and alcohol related. These “included” DUI, drug possession and intent to distribute cocaine. I don’t doubt that the offenses did “include” those crimes but how many were hardened drug dealers? How many were popped for underage drinking? Should I throw the stones there or at the kids experimenting with pot? Most of us did both those things. DUIs are inexcusably reckless by individuals. A university should react appropriately when they happen, but how does one predict them?
SI and CBS list players “charged with or cited for” a crime, not convicted or arrested. Only 60 percent of the offenders “were guilty or paid some penalty.” It’s customary in domestic abuse cases to make charges initially, then figure out what happened and throw them out. See LaMichael James. According to the reporters 40 percent of the criminal charges were “serious,” which means 60 percent were “not serious.”
So that’s 111 “serious” incidents from 2,837 players, which, assuming one serious incident per player, is 3.8 percent of players. The national average of adults, convicted for a crime not just “charged” or “cited,” is 3.1 percent. At worst the average rate of criminality at those 25 football programs coincides with the national average. Even granting them the problem exists, they don’t prove that there’s active neglect from schools or a tangible way to prevent it.
Reporters charge the football programs with neglect for not running background checks on juvenile records. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement makes those records available for a fee. Most states do not. There’s a reason for that.
Separate juvenile and adult courts exist because children often don’t have the same decision-making capacity as adults. In most states those records are sealed. Courts and law enforcement officials have access in recidivism cases, but the general population does not. The courts believe kids who make a mistake and reform should not face a lifelong stigma.
Running those background checks is a “simple step” to take in theory, but for a university it’s problematic. It is the school’s responsibility to accept an incoming student, not the football program. A scholarship offer doesn’t guarantee admission. Rich Rodriguez offered Demar Dorsey a scholarship at Michigan despite a juvenile criminal past. The University overruled him.
Many schools have policies mandating prospective students self-disclose criminal incidents beyond minor traffic violations when applying. With the number of recruits who are quasi-public figures, it’s hard to believe schools wouldn’t be aware.
Universities have to be fair. They don’t have the resources to run juvenile background checks on every prospective student from states that allow it. Is it fair to do it just for athletes? Just athletes from the high-profile sports where an incident would be embarrassing? They can’t have a special “face of the university” clause to put scholarship football players (often poor black kids) through a grueling, invasive admission process while trusting everyone else.
Even if you get those records, how do you interpret them? Let’s say a wealthy lacrosse player and a poor football player both are arrested for marijuana possession in high school. The lacrosse player’s family hires an attorney who specializes in those cases and gets it expunged. The football player probably doesn’t have the same resources. The former gets into school. The latter does not.
Even if a university could do this, recidivism isn’t a given. Many players with a past overcome it. Many players without a past are charged with crimes. Many crimes are impossible to predict based on a players’ past. A background check can’t tell a school that Offensive Lineman A is going to be the guy who becomes a complete asshole while drunk, pick fights with half the bar and assaults a police officer while resisting arrest? Every school is going to have kids who get drunk and do stupid things. That’s different than actively recruiting a criminal element.
Any crime occurring is too many. There are disturbing individual cases, however, given this reporting, it’s not apparent that crime is epidemic in college football or that schools are actively or passively facilitating it through admissions.
Reporters looked at 2,837 players and found records of 277 criminal incidents from 204 players. Taking those raw figures one could conclude that more than seven percent of college football players at those 25 schools are dangerous miscreants rampaging their way across campuses. You would think universities are fostering a criminal element to promote success and that you should lock your doors and fasten your chastity belts. But, take a closer look.
The report lumps all forms of crime together. Of the 277 offenses, 105 (38 percent) were drug and alcohol related. These “included” DUI, drug possession and intent to distribute cocaine. I don’t doubt that the offenses did “include” those crimes but how many were hardened drug dealers? How many were popped for underage drinking? Should I throw the stones there or at the kids experimenting with pot? Most of us did both those things. DUIs are inexcusably reckless by individuals. A university should react appropriately when they happen, but how does one predict them?
SI and CBS list players “charged with or cited for” a crime, not convicted or arrested. Only 60 percent of the offenders “were guilty or paid some penalty.” It’s customary in domestic abuse cases to make charges initially, then figure out what happened and throw them out. See LaMichael James. According to the reporters 40 percent of the criminal charges were “serious,” which means 60 percent were “not serious.”
So that’s 111 “serious” incidents from 2,837 players, which, assuming one serious incident per player, is 3.8 percent of players. The national average of adults, convicted for a crime not just “charged” or “cited,” is 3.1 percent. At worst the average rate of criminality at those 25 football programs coincides with the national average. Even granting them the problem exists, they don’t prove that there’s active neglect from schools or a tangible way to prevent it.
Reporters charge the football programs with neglect for not running background checks on juvenile records. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement makes those records available for a fee. Most states do not. There’s a reason for that.
Separate juvenile and adult courts exist because children often don’t have the same decision-making capacity as adults. In most states those records are sealed. Courts and law enforcement officials have access in recidivism cases, but the general population does not. The courts believe kids who make a mistake and reform should not face a lifelong stigma.
Running those background checks is a “simple step” to take in theory, but for a university it’s problematic. It is the school’s responsibility to accept an incoming student, not the football program. A scholarship offer doesn’t guarantee admission. Rich Rodriguez offered Demar Dorsey a scholarship at Michigan despite a juvenile criminal past. The University overruled him.
Many schools have policies mandating prospective students self-disclose criminal incidents beyond minor traffic violations when applying. With the number of recruits who are quasi-public figures, it’s hard to believe schools wouldn’t be aware.
Universities have to be fair. They don’t have the resources to run juvenile background checks on every prospective student from states that allow it. Is it fair to do it just for athletes? Just athletes from the high-profile sports where an incident would be embarrassing? They can’t have a special “face of the university” clause to put scholarship football players (often poor black kids) through a grueling, invasive admission process while trusting everyone else.
Even if you get those records, how do you interpret them? Let’s say a wealthy lacrosse player and a poor football player both are arrested for marijuana possession in high school. The lacrosse player’s family hires an attorney who specializes in those cases and gets it expunged. The football player probably doesn’t have the same resources. The former gets into school. The latter does not.
Even if a university could do this, recidivism isn’t a given. Many players with a past overcome it. Many players without a past are charged with crimes. Many crimes are impossible to predict based on a players’ past. A background check can’t tell a school that Offensive Lineman A is going to be the guy who becomes a complete asshole while drunk, pick fights with half the bar and assaults a police officer while resisting arrest? Every school is going to have kids who get drunk and do stupid things. That’s different than actively recruiting a criminal element.
Any crime occurring is too many. There are disturbing individual cases, however, given this reporting, it’s not apparent that crime is epidemic in college football or that schools are actively or passively facilitating it through admissions.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Cincy Jungle: Favorite Football Movie Tournament Round One Continued
Only three more days in the first round of our football movie tournament. That means there's only three more match ups before we move onto the second round. Those three match ups are: Invincible VS The Longest Yard (2005), Radio VS Any Given Sunday and North Dallas Forty VS Gridiron Gang.
Tonight's match up is between Invincible and The Longest Yard (the Adam Sandler edition).
A little about the match up:
Invincible is the true story of Vince Papale and the Philadelphia Eagles. In 1976 the Eagles, Papale and the city of Philadelphia were all down on their luck. Papale was a part-time teacher and bar tender who gets left by his wife. The only thing that gives him happiness is playing football with his friends. When new head coach Dick Vermeil announces that the Eagles will be holding open tryouts, Papale's friends convince him that he should try out. After surviving the long off season try-out process, Papale finds himself on the team and accepted by the players, but will he be able to help the team recover from a 4-10 record the previous year?
Memorable Quote:
Frank Papale: You know how I used to tell you about Van Buren scoring that touchdown back in '48?
[pauses]
Frank Papale: Yeah, I know.
[waving hands]
Frank Papale: I know. That touchdown got me through 30 years at that factory. Got me through all those times your mother being sick. When I told you not to get your hopes up... didn't mean that I wasn't.
The Longest Yard (2005) is a football comedy about Paul Crew (Adam Sandler, not Burt Reynolds), a former professional quarterback who was in trouble for fixing a game. After Crew found himself in prison for drunkenly creating a police car pile-up with his girlfriend's car, the warden asks Crew to lead a football team of inmates to play the guards' team. After some convincing, Crew agrees and builds a team. During the game, which was much closer than anybody expected, the Warden told Crew to lose and he'd be released from prison early. Will Crew learn from his earlier mistakes and stay loyal to his team or will he take the Warden's deal and lose the game?
Memorable Quotes (spoiler):
Huddle up! Look, I'm sure you already know this, but I've never said it out loud. I *did* throw that game. I did it. I was in a bad way with some worse people. After I did it, I felt so shi**y, I wish I would have just let them kill me instead. Now the warden wants to pin Caretaker's murder on me if I don't throw *this* game. So it looks like I'm going to get to know you guys a lot better because I aint doing that twice in a lifetime. We got a little time left. We can still do this. I'm begging you. Put your hands in here. Ok, thank you. Who are we?
Will Adam Sandler succeed where Burt Reynolds failed in being able to advance The Longest Yard into the second round or will Marky Mark take Vince Papale's true story one step closer to glory?
Tonight's match up is between Invincible and The Longest Yard (the Adam Sandler edition).
A little about the match up:
Invincible is the true story of Vince Papale and the Philadelphia Eagles. In 1976 the Eagles, Papale and the city of Philadelphia were all down on their luck. Papale was a part-time teacher and bar tender who gets left by his wife. The only thing that gives him happiness is playing football with his friends. When new head coach Dick Vermeil announces that the Eagles will be holding open tryouts, Papale's friends convince him that he should try out. After surviving the long off season try-out process, Papale finds himself on the team and accepted by the players, but will he be able to help the team recover from a 4-10 record the previous year?
Memorable Quote:
Frank Papale: You know how I used to tell you about Van Buren scoring that touchdown back in '48?
[pauses]
Frank Papale: Yeah, I know.
[waving hands]
Frank Papale: I know. That touchdown got me through 30 years at that factory. Got me through all those times your mother being sick. When I told you not to get your hopes up... didn't mean that I wasn't.
The Longest Yard (2005) is a football comedy about Paul Crew (Adam Sandler, not Burt Reynolds), a former professional quarterback who was in trouble for fixing a game. After Crew found himself in prison for drunkenly creating a police car pile-up with his girlfriend's car, the warden asks Crew to lead a football team of inmates to play the guards' team. After some convincing, Crew agrees and builds a team. During the game, which was much closer than anybody expected, the Warden told Crew to lose and he'd be released from prison early. Will Crew learn from his earlier mistakes and stay loyal to his team or will he take the Warden's deal and lose the game?
Memorable Quotes (spoiler):
Huddle up! Look, I'm sure you already know this, but I've never said it out loud. I *did* throw that game. I did it. I was in a bad way with some worse people. After I did it, I felt so shi**y, I wish I would have just let them kill me instead. Now the warden wants to pin Caretaker's murder on me if I don't throw *this* game. So it looks like I'm going to get to know you guys a lot better because I aint doing that twice in a lifetime. We got a little time left. We can still do this. I'm begging you. Put your hands in here. Ok, thank you. Who are we?
Will Adam Sandler succeed where Burt Reynolds failed in being able to advance The Longest Yard into the second round or will Marky Mark take Vince Papale's true story one step closer to glory?
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
The Art Of College Football Scheduling (And How Cal Ended Up With Presbyterian)
NOAH BERGER - APMore photos »
AT&T Park is one of the many reasons Cal ended up with a non-ideal football schedule.
(For more on the economics of college football scheduling, check out this impressive research by Dr. Robert Zullo.)
Let me tell you a story about the California Golden Bears and the Presbyterian Blue Hose, and the long and winding trip they took to setup their now legendary matchup this September 17th.
So Cal football head coach Jeff Tedford, and Athletic Director Sandy Barbour knew around 2009 that they would be spending the 2011 season away from Memorial Stadium while the whole place got torn apart. That leaves them with about a year and a half window to fill in two non-conference slots, which sounds a lot harder than it looks.
And it's about to get harder, because they can't fill them in yet. Why?
Well, for starters, they don't know where they're playing! It will be one of three places: AT&T Park, Candlestick, or the Coliseum. Each place has its own set of pros and cons, but the biggest problem is that both house pro football and baseball teams. So they can't schedule opponents because they're not certain whether it'll conflict with the home team's schedules. Another year passes and the window grows narrower.
We find out it's AT&T Park in the spring of 2010. Hurray! But wait, that means we have to wait for the Giants to announce their home schedule before we can figure out who and when to schedule. So now we have to wait until the WINTER to set up our two remaining non-conference games, eliminating another set of potential lower FBS/West Coast FCS opponents.
A month or two later..
WHAAAAA? Larry Scott created the Pac-12? Right now? But that means we have a road date with Colorado that's up in the air! So now Colorado is getting cold feet about playing a non-conference game with us in Boulder, meaning we have to deal with this flare-up and get this settled down or get stuck with yet ANOTHER last minute scheduling frenzy. That still hasn't been fully settled, although it's been widely speculated this is our road OOC game next season.
So Cal doesn't have many FBS opportunities left. We're left with a school like Fresno State, and since no Cal fan ever wants to travel to Fresno for a road game ever again in our lifetimes, we get a neutral site game in Candlestick. But it has to be the first week because of the possibility of the NFL season kicking off the week after that. Now we're down to two weeks to fix up.
THEN we have to deal with the Pac-12 championship game, which eliminates one extra bye week and gives us even LESS flexibility in scheduling. At this point our options are narrowing to a handful of teams, none of them at all appealing.
There is the option of TCU, although it's not much of an option, since it pretty much means we lose another home game to play a neutral site game since the Horned Frogs want the game to be in Dallas a la Oregon State-TCU last year. And even if TCU wanted to come to AT&T, do we really want to sacrifice a solid home date with an upper tier opponent when we can instead invite them into the new and always intimidating Memorial?
Plus we don't know about all the good teams that turned down a home game with us because at this point, beating Cal isn't as prestigious as it once was and losing to them would be embarrassing for our program, or the teams Cal turned down because they didn't want to waste a home date with a strong opponent in a ballpark known for the Freak and the Machine rather than Beast Mode and Pain Train. More importantly, if it was a big road opponent, you'd almost certainly want to play them in Memorial and maximize ticket sales rather than waste it on a stadium half its size.
The Bears also know that they're boxed into September 17th as the home date with the Giants playing at home the week before and the Candlestick matchup already locked in for September 3rd. With the schedules of all the potential lowly Western opponents already filled up, there aren't many places left to turn...
Long story short, this is how Cal ends up scheduling Presbyterian. A little bit more complex than you thought it would be, huh?
Cal did not want to schedule Presbyterian. They had to schedule Presbyterian because there was barely anyone left thanks to this incredible series of unfortunate events. Do you really think Jeff Tedford and Sandy Barbour have suddenly become cowards, with Ohio State and Texas looming for grueling home-and-homes and with previous matchups with Tennessee and Michigan State already hanging under our belt? The game is way more complex than you think it is.
So laugh at us, Nelson Muntzes. But if you're going to laugh at Cal, you might as well laugh at Oregon, who scheduled the lovely 5-6 Missouri State. Why are the Ducks wasting their time with paltry opponent X when they have the best home field advantage in the entire Pac-12 and have attracted plenty of high-profile teams in the past? Anyone checked Florida's schedule lately and their high-stakes November matchup with Furman? Or the national champions dialing up 4-7 Samford for an Iron Bowl tuneup as their eighth home game of the season?
(Quick tangent, trivia question: Want to know the last non-conference opponent the Gators scheduled that WASN'T in the state of Florida? Answer: Syracuse. IN 1991. They lost 38-21.)
So get off your high horse. This is the first time in a long time the Bears have had to go outside the West Coast for one of these type of contests. It's not embarrassing, it's unfortunate. If you really feel this disenchanted about this type of contest, then burn your Cal gear and go grab your Niner/Raider gear and suit up and take a long wait for the NFL season to kickoff. Cal playing Presbyterian isn't any worse than previous contests against UC Davis or Sacramento State.
Besides, we have bigger fish to fry. Like how our football team will rebound from their most disappointing season in over a decade. Winning cures all.
Stringer Bell: Yo, get it straight, your territory ain't going to mean shit if your product is weak.
So let's focus on the things that matter, like how Cal's offense is going to function without Shane Vereen and how the defense is going to manage a good pass rush. Stop worrying that people are going to think we'll look like "some punk-ass bitches" on 9/17, because you're afraid people you've never heard of on the radio or on the Internet are going to call our school bad names and fill you with "shame".
Because if things go according to plan, no one's going to remember anything about Presbyterian if Cal has a successful football season. Accept this season as the perfect storm and let's see if we can ride it out.
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AT&T Park is one of the many reasons Cal ended up with a non-ideal football schedule.
(For more on the economics of college football scheduling, check out this impressive research by Dr. Robert Zullo.)
Let me tell you a story about the California Golden Bears and the Presbyterian Blue Hose, and the long and winding trip they took to setup their now legendary matchup this September 17th.
So Cal football head coach Jeff Tedford, and Athletic Director Sandy Barbour knew around 2009 that they would be spending the 2011 season away from Memorial Stadium while the whole place got torn apart. That leaves them with about a year and a half window to fill in two non-conference slots, which sounds a lot harder than it looks.
And it's about to get harder, because they can't fill them in yet. Why?
Well, for starters, they don't know where they're playing! It will be one of three places: AT&T Park, Candlestick, or the Coliseum. Each place has its own set of pros and cons, but the biggest problem is that both house pro football and baseball teams. So they can't schedule opponents because they're not certain whether it'll conflict with the home team's schedules. Another year passes and the window grows narrower.
We find out it's AT&T Park in the spring of 2010. Hurray! But wait, that means we have to wait for the Giants to announce their home schedule before we can figure out who and when to schedule. So now we have to wait until the WINTER to set up our two remaining non-conference games, eliminating another set of potential lower FBS/West Coast FCS opponents.
A month or two later..
WHAAAAA? Larry Scott created the Pac-12? Right now? But that means we have a road date with Colorado that's up in the air! So now Colorado is getting cold feet about playing a non-conference game with us in Boulder, meaning we have to deal with this flare-up and get this settled down or get stuck with yet ANOTHER last minute scheduling frenzy. That still hasn't been fully settled, although it's been widely speculated this is our road OOC game next season.
So Cal doesn't have many FBS opportunities left. We're left with a school like Fresno State, and since no Cal fan ever wants to travel to Fresno for a road game ever again in our lifetimes, we get a neutral site game in Candlestick. But it has to be the first week because of the possibility of the NFL season kicking off the week after that. Now we're down to two weeks to fix up.
THEN we have to deal with the Pac-12 championship game, which eliminates one extra bye week and gives us even LESS flexibility in scheduling. At this point our options are narrowing to a handful of teams, none of them at all appealing.
There is the option of TCU, although it's not much of an option, since it pretty much means we lose another home game to play a neutral site game since the Horned Frogs want the game to be in Dallas a la Oregon State-TCU last year. And even if TCU wanted to come to AT&T, do we really want to sacrifice a solid home date with an upper tier opponent when we can instead invite them into the new and always intimidating Memorial?
Plus we don't know about all the good teams that turned down a home game with us because at this point, beating Cal isn't as prestigious as it once was and losing to them would be embarrassing for our program, or the teams Cal turned down because they didn't want to waste a home date with a strong opponent in a ballpark known for the Freak and the Machine rather than Beast Mode and Pain Train. More importantly, if it was a big road opponent, you'd almost certainly want to play them in Memorial and maximize ticket sales rather than waste it on a stadium half its size.
The Bears also know that they're boxed into September 17th as the home date with the Giants playing at home the week before and the Candlestick matchup already locked in for September 3rd. With the schedules of all the potential lowly Western opponents already filled up, there aren't many places left to turn...
Long story short, this is how Cal ends up scheduling Presbyterian. A little bit more complex than you thought it would be, huh?
Cal did not want to schedule Presbyterian. They had to schedule Presbyterian because there was barely anyone left thanks to this incredible series of unfortunate events. Do you really think Jeff Tedford and Sandy Barbour have suddenly become cowards, with Ohio State and Texas looming for grueling home-and-homes and with previous matchups with Tennessee and Michigan State already hanging under our belt? The game is way more complex than you think it is.
So laugh at us, Nelson Muntzes. But if you're going to laugh at Cal, you might as well laugh at Oregon, who scheduled the lovely 5-6 Missouri State. Why are the Ducks wasting their time with paltry opponent X when they have the best home field advantage in the entire Pac-12 and have attracted plenty of high-profile teams in the past? Anyone checked Florida's schedule lately and their high-stakes November matchup with Furman? Or the national champions dialing up 4-7 Samford for an Iron Bowl tuneup as their eighth home game of the season?
(Quick tangent, trivia question: Want to know the last non-conference opponent the Gators scheduled that WASN'T in the state of Florida? Answer: Syracuse. IN 1991. They lost 38-21.)
So get off your high horse. This is the first time in a long time the Bears have had to go outside the West Coast for one of these type of contests. It's not embarrassing, it's unfortunate. If you really feel this disenchanted about this type of contest, then burn your Cal gear and go grab your Niner/Raider gear and suit up and take a long wait for the NFL season to kickoff. Cal playing Presbyterian isn't any worse than previous contests against UC Davis or Sacramento State.
Besides, we have bigger fish to fry. Like how our football team will rebound from their most disappointing season in over a decade. Winning cures all.
Stringer Bell: Yo, get it straight, your territory ain't going to mean shit if your product is weak.
So let's focus on the things that matter, like how Cal's offense is going to function without Shane Vereen and how the defense is going to manage a good pass rush. Stop worrying that people are going to think we'll look like "some punk-ass bitches" on 9/17, because you're afraid people you've never heard of on the radio or on the Internet are going to call our school bad names and fill you with "shame".
Because if things go according to plan, no one's going to remember anything about Presbyterian if Cal has a successful football season. Accept this season as the perfect storm and let's see if we can ride it out.
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Monday, February 28, 2011
Great Football League Teams 17: West Bromwich Albion, 2001-02
BROKER.......
Booker Prize winner: True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
John Peel Festive 50 Number 1: Melys: Chinese Whispers
Poet Laureate: Andrew Motion
President of Libya: Muammar al-Gaddafi
They may not have been a team for the purists.
But the West Bromwich Albion of 2001/02 knew how to do drama.
With only eight games of the season left, they stood 11 points behind bitter local rivals Wolverhampton Wanderers, who occupied the second automatic promotion spot – but turned things around in a barnstorming finish to the campaign.
It was a wet dream for Albion fans, a nightmare for the old gold.
And it was all the sweeter for being so unexpected.
Context
Albion at the start of the new millennium were emerging from the most traumatic decade in their history, with humiliation on the pitch, and stagnation off it.
Wolves, in contrast, had enjoyed tens of millions of investment from chairman and 'golden tit' Sir Jack Hayward, who rebuilt both ground and team – though fell short of elevating them to the Premier League.
The seed of Albion's recovery was planted on Christmas Eve 1999, when Sheffield businessman Paul Thompson took over as chairman.
One of his earliest decisions was to sack Brian Little as manager, with the team sliding towards relegation in March 2000, and appoint Gary Megson.
The carrot-topped Yorkshireman was known for his pragmatic style of football, which contrasted with the cavalier approach Albion fans preferred.
But these were desperate times – so prized ideals went out the window.
Megson brought in four signings on deadline day – and Albion survived by beating champions Charlton in the final match of the campaign.
In 2000/01, things improved considerably, with a switch to 3-5-2 resulting in a surprise play-off place.
But few Albion fans expected the team to push for the automatic spots during the following campaign.
Megson's men
Megson had built a team largely in his own image – short on flair maybe, but never on commitment. Most had tasted better days with other clubs, before being released – and you could sense a point being proved in every tackle.
Captain and midfielder Derek McInnes, once of Rangers and then Toulouse, exemplified the Megson spirit best and proved a born leader – as he is showing currently as St Johnstone manager. Andy Johnson's top flight experience with Nottingham Forest and youth team product Adam Chambers helped the engine room tick over.
At the back, ex-Derby and Pompey stopper Russell Hoult was beginning to hit the form that saw him on the fringe of the England squad a year later. He was protected by craggy centre halves Larus Sigurdsson, Phil Gilchrist, and Darren Moore – a lynchpin of Bradford's happy promotion season three years earlier.
The wing backs were Neil Clement, blessed with a left peg so sweet his free kicks appeared guided by a third force that season, and on the right, Slovakian Igor Balis, whose moment in the sun would arrive late on in the campaign.
The attack looked blunt, after local hero Lee Hughes defected to Coventry for £5,000,001 during the summer (the £1 relating to a contract clause), and Jason Roberts injured his metatarsal, restricting his appearances that season to just 12.
So the line was led by the more workmanlike Scott Dobie, signed from Carlisle for £150,000, and Danny Dichio, £1.25m from Sunderland – supported by club legend Bob Taylor, now 34 years old.
It was not a team full of goals, but concerned more with keeping them out – often a 5-3-2 rather than the 3-5-2 on the teamsheet. Some 19 games would be won 1-0 during 2001/02.
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They may not have been a team for the purists.
But the West Bromwich Albion of 2001/02 knew how to do drama.
With only eight games of the season left, they stood 11 points behind bitter local rivals Wolverhampton Wanderers, who occupied the second automatic promotion spot – but turned things around in a barnstorming finish to the campaign.
It was a wet dream for Albion fans, a nightmare for the old gold.
And it was all the sweeter for being so unexpected.
Context
Albion at the start of the new millennium were emerging from the most traumatic decade in their history, with humiliation on the pitch, and stagnation off it.
Wolves, in contrast, had enjoyed tens of millions of investment from chairman and 'golden tit' Sir Jack Hayward, who rebuilt both ground and team – though fell short of elevating them to the Premier League.
The seed of Albion's recovery was planted on Christmas Eve 1999, when Sheffield businessman Paul Thompson took over as chairman.
One of his earliest decisions was to sack Brian Little as manager, with the team sliding towards relegation in March 2000, and appoint Gary Megson.
The carrot-topped Yorkshireman was known for his pragmatic style of football, which contrasted with the cavalier approach Albion fans preferred.
But these were desperate times – so prized ideals went out the window.
Megson brought in four signings on deadline day – and Albion survived by beating champions Charlton in the final match of the campaign.
In 2000/01, things improved considerably, with a switch to 3-5-2 resulting in a surprise play-off place.
But few Albion fans expected the team to push for the automatic spots during the following campaign.
Megson's men
Megson had built a team largely in his own image – short on flair maybe, but never on commitment. Most had tasted better days with other clubs, before being released – and you could sense a point being proved in every tackle.
Captain and midfielder Derek McInnes, once of Rangers and then Toulouse, exemplified the Megson spirit best and proved a born leader – as he is showing currently as St Johnstone manager. Andy Johnson's top flight experience with Nottingham Forest and youth team product Adam Chambers helped the engine room tick over.
At the back, ex-Derby and Pompey stopper Russell Hoult was beginning to hit the form that saw him on the fringe of the England squad a year later. He was protected by craggy centre halves Larus Sigurdsson, Phil Gilchrist, and Darren Moore – a lynchpin of Bradford's happy promotion season three years earlier.
The wing backs were Neil Clement, blessed with a left peg so sweet his free kicks appeared guided by a third force that season, and on the right, Slovakian Igor Balis, whose moment in the sun would arrive late on in the campaign.
The attack looked blunt, after local hero Lee Hughes defected to Coventry for £5,000,001 during the summer (the £1 relating to a contract clause), and Jason Roberts injured his metatarsal, restricting his appearances that season to just 12.
So the line was led by the more workmanlike Scott Dobie, signed from Carlisle for £150,000, and Danny Dichio, £1.25m from Sunderland – supported by club legend Bob Taylor, now 34 years old.
It was not a team full of goals, but concerned more with keeping them out – often a 5-3-2 rather than the 3-5-2 on the teamsheet. Some 19 games would be won 1-0 during 2001/02.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Cincy Jungle: Football Movie Tournament Week Two Recap
nice football tournament
As you know, we've started a football movie tournament in hopes that we can come up with the greatest football movie ever filmed. In week one, The Blind Side took down Air Bud: Golden Receiver, Brian's Song beat Necessary Roughness, Remember The Titans destroyed Little Giants and Rudy beat out Semi-Tough. All of those movies will move on to the second round.
This week we had another great set of first-round match ups, including a couple upsets. The Waterboy took down the favored Jerry Maguire, Friday Night Lights beat Leatherheads, my personal favorite, The Program narrowly beat out We Are Marshall (by 2 votes), Varsity Blues beat The Longest Yard (the1974 version... another upset) and The Replacements took down The Express.
Next week we'll finish our first round of the tournament before moving into the next round. Monday's match up will be between No. 10 Invincible VS No. 15 The Longest Yard (2005 version). Tuesday's match up is between No. 11 Radio and No. 14 Any Given Sunday. And finally, Wednesday's match up will put No. 12 North Dallas Forty and No. 13 Gridiron Gang in the ring together. Then on Thursday we'll start the second round of the tournament.
Make sure you vote every night so your movie has a chance at being the greatest football movie ever (unless your favorite football movie was Air Bud: Golden Receiver... that one's been eliminated already).
As you know, we've started a football movie tournament in hopes that we can come up with the greatest football movie ever filmed. In week one, The Blind Side took down Air Bud: Golden Receiver, Brian's Song beat Necessary Roughness, Remember The Titans destroyed Little Giants and Rudy beat out Semi-Tough. All of those movies will move on to the second round.
This week we had another great set of first-round match ups, including a couple upsets. The Waterboy took down the favored Jerry Maguire, Friday Night Lights beat Leatherheads, my personal favorite, The Program narrowly beat out We Are Marshall (by 2 votes), Varsity Blues beat The Longest Yard (the1974 version... another upset) and The Replacements took down The Express.
Next week we'll finish our first round of the tournament before moving into the next round. Monday's match up will be between No. 10 Invincible VS No. 15 The Longest Yard (2005 version). Tuesday's match up is between No. 11 Radio and No. 14 Any Given Sunday. And finally, Wednesday's match up will put No. 12 North Dallas Forty and No. 13 Gridiron Gang in the ring together. Then on Thursday we'll start the second round of the tournament.
Make sure you vote every night so your movie has a chance at being the greatest football movie ever (unless your favorite football movie was Air Bud: Golden Receiver... that one's been eliminated already).
Jungmann throws second straight shutout
BRaVo..
Whether at UFCU Disch-Falk Field in Austin or 3,750 miles away in Hawaii, Texas right-hander Taylor Jungmann remains at home on a pitching mound.
Jungmann pitched his second straight complete-game shutout to open the college baseball season, as the Longhorns balnked host Hawaii 2-0 early this morning. He allowed just four hits while striking out nine. After retiring the first eight batters he faced, Jungmann later set down 10 batters in a row from the fifth inning to the eighth inning.
On Feb. 18 in a season-opening victory over visiting Maryland, Jungmann allowed five hits and struck out nine to lead Texas to an 8-0 shutout.
Against Hawaii, Texas (4-2) took a 1-0 lead in the third inning. Paul Montalbano reached on an infield single and moved to second on an error. He eventually scored on Mark Payton’s single to right field.
The Longhorns added another run in the sixth inning. Brandon Loy bounced a ground-rule double over the left-field wall before scoring on Erich Weiss’ RBI single.
Texas and Hawaii will resume their three-game series at 7 p.m. today.
Whether at UFCU Disch-Falk Field in Austin or 3,750 miles away in Hawaii, Texas right-hander Taylor Jungmann remains at home on a pitching mound.
Jungmann pitched his second straight complete-game shutout to open the college baseball season, as the Longhorns balnked host Hawaii 2-0 early this morning. He allowed just four hits while striking out nine. After retiring the first eight batters he faced, Jungmann later set down 10 batters in a row from the fifth inning to the eighth inning.
On Feb. 18 in a season-opening victory over visiting Maryland, Jungmann allowed five hits and struck out nine to lead Texas to an 8-0 shutout.
Against Hawaii, Texas (4-2) took a 1-0 lead in the third inning. Paul Montalbano reached on an infield single and moved to second on an error. He eventually scored on Mark Payton’s single to right field.
The Longhorns added another run in the sixth inning. Brandon Loy bounced a ground-rule double over the left-field wall before scoring on Erich Weiss’ RBI single.
Texas and Hawaii will resume their three-game series at 7 p.m. today.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Maradona Is Captivated By The Beauty Of Larissa Riquelme
news update...
HUMOR — Diego Armando Maradona has declared that he is in love with the South American beauty Larissa Riquelme, who was known for her promise to run nude through Asunción, Paraguay if they had won the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
The purpose of this is to invite Riquelme to participate in the Argentine version of "Dancing With The Stars".
According to what transpired, Maradona asked his friend Marcelo Tinelli, the host of the TV Show, to get Riquelme included in the program.
Maradona's assistant, Gabriel Bueno, also took care of all the necessary elements so that his boss's dream can be a reality.
The possibility of Riquelme participating in "Dancing With The Stars" in Argentina is a big question mark. My question is whether Maradona will be her dancing partner if she is does decide to take part.
Is this pure coincidence since Maradona along with Argentine Actress Luciana Salazar promised to do the same thing as Riquelme should Argentina win?
The only difference was that Riquelme went ahead and posed nude even though Paraguay lost while Maradona (thank your lucky stars) did not do that.
HUMOR — Diego Armando Maradona has declared that he is in love with the South American beauty Larissa Riquelme, who was known for her promise to run nude through Asunción, Paraguay if they had won the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
The purpose of this is to invite Riquelme to participate in the Argentine version of "Dancing With The Stars".
According to what transpired, Maradona asked his friend Marcelo Tinelli, the host of the TV Show, to get Riquelme included in the program.
Maradona's assistant, Gabriel Bueno, also took care of all the necessary elements so that his boss's dream can be a reality.
The possibility of Riquelme participating in "Dancing With The Stars" in Argentina is a big question mark. My question is whether Maradona will be her dancing partner if she is does decide to take part.
Is this pure coincidence since Maradona along with Argentine Actress Luciana Salazar promised to do the same thing as Riquelme should Argentina win?
The only difference was that Riquelme went ahead and posed nude even though Paraguay lost while Maradona (thank your lucky stars) did not do that.
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