What a tremendous confluence of events for Ohio State fans last night.
Their basketball team hammered Duke, 85-63, the perfect backdrop for celebrating Urban Meyer's hiring to resurrect the football program.
And in addition to chanting "overrated" at Mike Krzyzewski's team they also got to boo LeBron James .
Donald Faison, who stars in the TV Land series "The Exes" debuting Wednesday, wanted to learn to play basketball so well that he hired a shooting coach.
No, seriously.
Despite growing up playing streetball in New York and playing basketball on so many TV shows and movies, the 37-year-old Faison wanted to learn the right technique -- and not just how to showboat.
Professional basketball is back – or, rather, it’s about to be back. Some of you are excited about that. Others don’t care. Either way, referees will soon toss basketballs into the air and tall men with over-stuffed wallets will jump after them.
Huzzah. Or something.
Here in Philadelphia, the Sixers have new owners , but the same old questions remain: Will Evan Turner be a significant contributor or just another average NBA player? Will Jrue Holiday improve and take another (jab) step toward becoming an elite point guard? What kind of talent does the team’s new big man, Nikola Vucevic, posses? Should the Sixers consider clearing some cap space by using the amnesty clause on Elton Brand (even though no one expects them to do so)? And, my favorite forever-unresolved issue: Should the Sixers trade Andre Iguodala?
The pressure for a team like the Miami Heat to improve is never-ending, as dominance will only bring calls for more dominance, and victories will be met with demands for more victories. It’s only natural, after all, that much would be expected of a team with such potential. But those expectations fly in the face of one important fact: the avenues of improvement for Miami are closing off rather quickly.
David Wilson was emotional. He was fiery, ticked off and even cried a little. He didn't take Virginia Tech's 23-3 loss to Clemson in October well.
He told his teammates as much.
"The team got in there and just like a rage came over me and I was screaming at my team telling them we shouldn’t have lost that game," the running back recalled of the Oct. 1 matchup's aftermath. "'They’re not better than us.' And I told them we weren’t going to lose any more games. And I told them I mean it."
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HOUSTON — The Texans added to their quarterback depth Tuesday, reaching a deal with Jake Delhomme.
Delhomme on Tuesday worked out with the team, along with another retired quarterback, Jeff Garcia. Delhomme, 36, will back up rookie T.J. Yates, a fifth-round pick slated to start Sunday's game against Atlanta.
Josh Freeman (notes) needed five stitches on his injured throwing hand after cutting himself while at a gun range on Halloween night.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback played his next game with a wrap around his thumb. Up until Tuesday, the team had only said he hurt it during the team's London game against the Chicago Bears . It wasn't until the Tampa Tribune asked specifically about the stitches that the team and Freeman confirmed the gun mishap.
" Out of Rubble ," works by 16 international artists who consider the consequences of war, from decimation and disintegration to the possibilities of regeneration and recovery, opens from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust SPACE gallery, 812 Liberty Ave., Downtown.
Curator Susanne Slavick will give a gallery talk at 7 p.m.
Montoya stopped 30 shots in a 2-1 win over the Sabres on Tuesday, and the first thing that came to the goalie’s mind was how he didn’t allow Vanek to get the better of him as happened when the two first met in the 2003 Frozen Four semifinal—and in this same building, no less.
“Get out of here, I can remember it like it was yesterday,” said Montoya, who eight years ago was playing for Michigan and gave up the overtime goal to Vanek in a 3-2 loss to Minnesota. “It’s my college hockey nightmare.”
Nominees have been submitted for the 39th annual Vince Lombardi Outstanding Down Lineman of the Year Award 6:30 p.m. Dec. 12 at the Expo Center on the Clinton County Fairgrounds.
Nominees are Michael Schmitz and Evan Ostermeier from Blanchester High School; Matt Ison and Ricky Habermehl from East Clinton High School; Jared Salisbury and Trent Smart from Clinton-Massie High School; and Jesse McCann and Alex Begg from Wilmington High School.
The Ravens are an impressive 8-3 right now. For the first time in the John Harbaugh era, the good guys have it all seemingly going their way with regard to hosting one or maybe two playoff games. And, while winning the Vince Lombardi trophy is what its all about, being there is actually more than half the prize.
as his football coach.
If Edsall, a Pennsylvania guy with a wholesome reputation and no real Penn State connections, would have stayed at UConn another year, he would have been high on the list to replace Joe Paterno . Despite that nonsense about Maryland being Edsall's "dream job" when he bolted UConn last January, no one would more love to go to Unhappy Valley to begin the job of rebuilding Penn State morally, spiritually with one scoop of vanilla offense and two self-serving scoops of self-righteousness.
NEW ORLEANS -- Tom Coughlin has no choice but to reconnect with his team this week, and find something, anything, to restore its credibility. If he fails, Coughlin is not going to lose only his cool or his mind.
He is going to lose his job.
Last week, after watching 3-6 Philadelphia commit one felonious assault after another on his lifeless New York Giants, Coughlin went public with his disgust over his team's effort, not merely its execution.
It started with four friends and a football.
It evolved into a half century and counting of Turkey Day Tradition.
We take you back to the afternoon of Nov. 22, 1962 in the 3000 block of Ruby Avenue in Racine. The 60-and-older crowd might remember it as the day of Vince Lombardi's most humiliating game - Bart Starr was sacked 11 times in the previously unbeaten Green Bay Packers'
Whether it was about advertising, Republican politics, football, or going public with his bedroom stories, Dick McDonald had a flair for the dramatic.
"I once watched him present a hospital campaign where, in his setup, he quoted Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Gandhi and Vince Lombardi in five minutes," said Gary Mueller, McDonald's former business partner.
Of course, we all know what happened that fateful day in the south shadows of the Angeles National Forest, with the bitter pill of disappointment to come home with.
However, on a positive note, the Packers had miraculously played their way into the playoffs, taking us all on a ride that included stops in Philadelphia, Atlanta, Chicago, and finally Dallas before bringing the Vince Lombardi Trophy home.
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Charger fans, this is what rock bottom looks like.
After losing to Green Bay, there was a lot of reason for optimism. The Chargers had taken the defending Super Bowl champions to their limit and the Packers barely escaped Quaalcomm with a win. A good place to begin the second half win streak would be the next week against the Raiders. The only problem was that game ended in a home loss as well. The home team was outdone by a Raiders squad without Darren McFadden, a quarterback who had been in camp less than two weeks and a rookie that all of a sudden looked like a pro bowler in Denarius Moore. Next game out the Chargers lost to the Bears, led by arch-enemy Jay Cutler. Finally, today’s loss to the Broncos shows how far and fast a team that was the odds-on favorite to win the division can fall. The Chargers went from starting the season 4-1 to 4-7 after a loss to a team led by Tim Tebow. Tim freaking Tebow.
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Tiger fans have long been clamoring for R.C. Johnson to retire, and at Monday’s press conference, after 16 long years of ups and downs, he did just that. Johnson was not the only member of the athletic department to bid farewell on Monday, as head football coach Larry Porter was fired after two seasons.
From the new the Game of Thrones production promo and Jason Segel’s hosting duties on Saturday Night Live to a new Sarah Silverman television project, the Expendables 2 poster and more, 411's Porfirio Diaz breaks down the Right, wRong, and Ridiculous from the week in Movies/TV!
Welcome to Week 126 of The 3 R's for the Movie/TV world.
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: When the wolf is at your door, when it’s time to head out to your shack on the alkali flats stocked with beef jerky and shogun ammo, when the only thing between you and the abyss is a semi-rabid dog you nursed back to health after finding it in the scorched husk of a ’79 Chevy Nova, there’s one place where global investors want to be. U.S. Treasurys.
The Ultimate Fighter 14 Finale weigh-ins are slated for Friday.
The ceremonies take place at Key West Ballroom at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas.
The first fighter is on the scale at 7 p.m. ET (4 p.m. PT local time), and Stephan Bonnar hosts a UFC Fight Club Q&A session at 5 p.m. ET.
MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) will be on scene at the festivities, though it's not clear if they'll stream live online.
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BEEF seedstock producers are just six months away from having the ability to more accurately identify animals with superior genetics.
The Beef CRC yesterday announced that genomic predictions to help stud cattle breeders identify animals for superior carcase and beef quality, feed efficiency and female fertility traits, will be made available to BREEDPLAN by May next year.
Frank’s Pizza and Subs is in an area known as Tightsqueeze, named after a narrow dirt road 120 years ago. It is just outside the town of Chatham, seat of government for Pittsylvania County, in south central Virginia, an area known as Southside. Frank’s is especially popular for pizza and steak-and-cheese and boasts a loyal following. There is nothing fancy here. Customers drink out of hard blue plastic cups that advertise a variety of businesses: a towing company, O.K. Mobile Home Park, Virginia Uranium, Inc.
This is fairly off-topic (although we have covered this subject occasionally in the past ), but with all the teeth-gnashing I’ve been reading about lately regarding the latest round of supposedly major cuts required to keep state spending in line with revenues, I thought it might be interesting to look at a couple of charts on the subject.
Washington -The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, now investigating fire risks in the extended-range electric Chevrolet Volt, has long made fire hazards in gas-powered vehicles a priority.
Automakers have issued about a dozen recalls over the last year for fire risks in gasoline-powered vehicles.
Malaysia Pargo earned a reputation this season on Basketball Wives L.A. for being sweet and non-judgmental despite getting off to a violent start after an altercation with Laura Govan . At the reunion, I spoke to Malaysia and basically fell in love with her immediately. She was soft-spoken but funny, and even more gorgeous in person. We talked a bit about the launch of her Three Beats Jewelry line, which came out on 11/11/11 , which has kept her busy since the end of the show, and then we got into the nitty gritty of the season. Malaysia admits that she regrets fighting with Laura and putting so much trust in Jackie , which is why she spent so much of the season as the odd man out, thinking that no one liked her. Which is why when I asked if she’d ever come back for a season two, her response was a vague “I don’t know.” Read on for more with Malaysia.
Virginia Tech rolled into its first match-up against Clemson with a 4-0 record, although the Hokies hadn't played anyone too tough in the first month.
Safety Eddie Whitley said playing Appalachian State, East Carolina, Arkansas State and Marshall was like four exhibition games.
"The first four games wasn't as - I don't know - as powerful, dominant as we would like," he said. "Going into the Clemson game everybody was on a high horse. It was a wake-up call. After that game we were like, this is ACC play.... I guess we got caught off-guard for a little bit."
's Bobby Wilder asked Delaware counterpart K.C. Keeler for the Blue Hens' daily postseason schedule in their run to the 2010 Football Championship Subdivision title game.
Wilder and the Monarchs might want to borrow Delaware's game plan, and perhaps a defender or two, from the Blue Hens' semifinal.
Delaware bounced Georgia Southern 27-10 a year ago, holding the Eagles to their second-lowest point total all season and lowest against an FCS opponent.
ODU athletic director Wood Selig says he’s bid nearly twice the NCAA-required minimum to secure a home playoff game for the Monarchs in two weeks – if they get past third-seeded Georgia Southern this weekend.
Should they win, the Monarchs will play the winner of the Appalachian State-Maine game in the third round. And because those teams like ODU are unseeded, the NCAA call basically will come down to where it can cash in the most.
A savoir : pain complet, épinards, amandes, chocolat noir, lentilles, banane, riz complet, eaux minérales (Hépar, Contrex, Arvie, Badoit). Un déficit dope l’appétit selon un cercle vicieux où la faim redouble pour contrebalancer la fatigue et le stress induits par la carence.
S’alléger avant les fêtes, éviter l’inflation des kilos réveillon, stabiliser son poids... Notre petit programme anti-crise pour gérer son capital slimness sans passer par la case rigueur.
« On prend en moyenne 400 grammes pendant les fêtes... Qu’on reperd généralement le mois suivant naturellement », rappelle le Dr Jacques Fricker (Auteur de Maigrir vite et bien, éditions Odile Jacob), médecin-nutritionniste à l’hôpital Bichat. Celles qui grossissent davantage sont celles qui étaient déjà en surpoids auparavant et doivent de toute façon prendre des mesures sur le long terme. »
If you want to watch Saturday’s second-round NCAA Football Championship Subdivision game between the University of Maine and Appalachian State from Boone, N.C., you may have to make your way to the UMaine Marketplace in the Memorial Union or access the game on your computer.
Joe Roberts, UMaine’s associate athletic director for external operations, said he received an email from the NCAA stating that “there aren’t any syndication rights available for Saturday’s game.
Natalie Gouge is the 2012 Principal of the Year for McDowell County.
Natalie Gouge, principal of West Marion Elementary, has been selected as the 2012 Wells Fargo Principal of the Year for McDowell County Schools in a program sponsored by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction and Wells Fargo.
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Death Nation author to speak at UNC-Asheville Highsmith Grotto Tuesday, November 29
WHAT: The Real Death Penalty: A Summary of the Data and Scientific Studies.
WHO: Dr. Matthew Robinson, professor of Government & Justice Studies at Appalachian State University, is the author of a dozen books, including Death Nation: The Experts Explain American Capital Punishment.
Bruno Gobbat (à droite sur cette photo), médaille de bronze à Mèze. /Photo DDM.
Le Judo-Club conquois compte dans ses rangs Bruno Gobbat, un cadet de 15 ans talentueux de 1,80 m, affichant sur la balance 120 kg de muscles. Cet espoir du club a décroché la médaille de bronze lors de la compétition au grand prix de l'Hérault, à Mèze, dans la catégorie lourd des plus de 90 kg. Il a récidivé lors du grand prix des Pyrénées-Orientales. En décembre, il participera au grand prix audois à Narbonne et à ne point en douter il devrait se hisser sur la plus haute marche du podium avec la médaille d'or à son cou. Croisons les doigts pour « Babou » comme le surnomment gentiment ses copains. Dimanche les poussins conquois ont participé à la compétition de Montréal.
Auburn stands not quite a year out from winning a Bowl Championship Series title, and the Tigers just finished a rebuilding season with a record as good as any realistic fan could expect in preseason.
So, why must Auburn’s head coach make statements like this after the regular-season finale?
“It’s been a lot of ups and downs this season for 12 games, and we’ve had some really good things occur in our 12-game season, and we’ve had some disappointments,” Auburn coach Gene Chizik said after the Tigers’ 42-14 loss to rival Alabama on Saturday. “This is certainly one of the huge disappointments.
AUBURN, Ala.
Auburn coach Gene Chizik started taking stock of the season in the immediate aftermath of the frustrating finale.
The review, predictably, was mixed.
The Tigers (7-5, 4-4 Southeastern Conference) couldn’t pull off another magical Iron Bowl comeback or muster much offense in Saturday’s 42-14 loss to No. 2 Alabama. Now, the defending national champions wait for what will likely be a mid-tier bowl destination.
Le jeune ténor polonais, Andrzej Stec, qui a récemment chanté dans le rôle de Roméo dans l’opéra «Roméo et Juliette», du Théâtre d’art lyrique de Laval (TALL), se produira lors du Midi-concert du Théâtre d’art lyrique de Laval (TALL), le 4 décembre, au Centre de création artistique de Laval, (430, 5e Rue), dans Laval-des-Rapides, à midi. Coût d’admission: 10$, incluant croissant, fromage et café. Information et réservation: secrétariat du TALL au 450 687-2230 ou tall@aei.ca.
C'est Noël, avec un mois d'avance ! A l'instant où l'intrigue du Carlton commençait à faiblir, voici que le super-méga-modèle économique 2011 de la presse française (l'affaire DSK) s'invente une nouvelle saison. Bonjour les clics, les ventes, et l'audimat. On ne sait plus comment la numéroter. 1? 2? 3? DSK, le complot: la presse n'osait en rêver, M. Epstein l'a fait. Petit papa Epstein, quand tu descendras du ciel, avec ta hotte pleine de coïncidences-qui-ne-prouvent-rien-en-elles-même-mais-qu'on-est-tout-de-même-très-troublés, n'oublie pas nos petits journaux !
AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Longhorns can help Baylor quarterback Robert Griffin's Heisman Trophy campaign. They can probably end it, too.
The Longhorns and No. 19 Bears will play Saturday in Waco in Griffin's last game before the trophy is awarded in New York on Dec. 10. A big game against the Big 12's best defense could sway some undecided voters to make him their top choice.
George Bremer CNHI The Washington Times-Herald Mon Nov 28, 2011, 09:00 AM EST
Indianapolis — It was hard to watch Cam Newton on Sunday and not imagine what a top draft pick like Andrew Luck might look like in a Colts uniform next year.
Newton completed 20 of 27 passes for 280 yards and ran nine times for 53 yards, including a 14-yard touchdown. It was a performance that’s quickly become typical, if not slightly under par, for the reigning Heisman Trophy winner.
Stanford senior quarterback Andrew Luck has completed 261-of-373 passes for 3,170 yards and 35 touchdowns with nine interceptions for the Cardinal (11-1) this season.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Andrew Luck, the son of the West Virginia University athletic director, is back among the masses in what is expected to be a ridiculously close Heisman Trophy vote.
Texas defensive coordinator Manny Diaz talks with Keenan Robinson, Emmanuel Acho and Adrian Phillips. Diaz' defense will have to contain Griffin on Saturday.
Baylor quarterback Robert Griffin III's 34 touchdown passes this season have averaged an incredible 35.9 yards.
Baylor's Robert Griffin anxious to return to action against Longhorns
Tell us: Is OU-Texas now playing second fiddle to the Bedlam game?
SportsDay OnAir (11/21): With the current BCS standings, why even have conferences in college football
SportsDay OnAir (11/21): Gosselin says Baylor's Griffin is possibly the best player right now
AUBURN - Nothing will be certain until all the open head coaching jobs have been filled, but offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn has told people close to him that he expects to return to Auburn for his fourth season in 2012.
Malzahn has been mentioned prominently as a candidate for jobs at North Carolina and Ole Miss. Last December, he turned down an offer to become Vanderbilt head coach and declined to interview for an opening at Maryland.
"We all played each other, it isn't like we're in different divisions," Stoops said Monday. "You can determine who the champion is if there are two people or three people tied for it. Who beat who."
There is no longer a Big 12 championship game since there are only 10 teams with no divisions and a round-robin schedule. But the annual Bedlam game will be a pseudo title game, with the winner of Saturday night's showdown between third-ranked Oklahoma State (10-1, 7-1 Big 12) and No. 13 Oklahoma (9-2, 6-2) getting the league's automatic BCS berth.
It was bad enough for the Texans to lose Matt Schaub for the year. But after losing backup Matt Leinart (pictured), likely for the season as well, Houston's road to the Super Bowl got a lot harder.
Musings, observations and the occasional insight from a Week 12 in the NFL that helped separate the pretenders from the contenders as December looms....
By JEREMY ELLIOTT, The Patriot-News The Patriot-News
PHILADELPHIA — Andy Reid’s grand experiment of building an all-star team to quench Philadelphia’s thirst for an NFL championship has officially come to an end.
Time of death on the 2011 Eagles and what was supposed to be a “Dream“ season: 7:25 p.m. Sunday.
Spielberg is currently working on a film version of the theatrical hit War Horse which is due to be released in the UK on January 13.
The story began as an extraordinary children's book about the brutality of the First World War, seen not through the eyes of a combatant but of a horse.
A quarter of a century later, it was adapted for the stage in a production that took puppetry to a new level, and is still playing to packed houses in London.
WeÂ’ve made our list and checked it twice, so you donÂ’t miss your favorite holiday TV show.
2 p.m. (HALL) “Debbie Macomber’s Trading Christmas” A widow (Faith Ford) swaps homes with a professor (Tom Cavanagh).
2 p.m. (LIFE) “Eve’s Christmas” A woman (Elisa Donovan) wishes upon a Christmas Eve star.
There’s something for everybody this week—from a variety of artistic and interactive holiday events to adventures in opera, classical and DJ-ed music.
Monday, November 28It’s opening night for the 10th Anniversary ofAmerican Theater Company’s It’s A Wonderful Life: The Radio Play. Adapted from Frank Capra’s iconic film and directed by ATC Artistic Associate Jason Gerace, the 7:00 pm performance will be followed with milk and cookies in the lobby at 1909 West Byron Street in Chicago.
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Turkey dinners, mince pies and mistletoe are no longer the only staples of the traditional family Christmas according to a recent survey* - watching your favourite film as a family is now another firm Christmas custom and the top way to spend quality time together, with 93 per cent of families settling down to enjoy their much-loved movies over the festive period.
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View full size Express-Times Photo | Sue Beyer The Nazareth Area High School Theatre Troupe rehearses for its upcoming winter performance of a one-act play called, "It's A Wonderful Life." Performances will be Dec. 17 and 18. Student director, Ryan Skerchak, 17, of Nazareth, works with Zack Esposito, 16, of Lower Nazareth, and Margaret Richter, 14, of Lower Nazareth.
Rudolph. Charlie Brown. The Grinch. They're longtime favorites who always grab top billing when the networks roll out their holiday programs.
You have to wonder, though, if they would have become big TV stars, or if their shows would have earned "classic" status, if not for the extraordinary contributions of solid supporting players.
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We hope everyone had a happy and safe Thanksgiving break! Here's what's in store today and the rest of this week:
1. Plan ahead: Red Ryder Christmas exhibit open at museum
The Plymouth Historical Museum has a nice holiday gift that opened to the public Nov. 9: "A Red Ryder Christmas Story."
It isn’t just about shopping and family get-togethers. The holidays are also full of special events—some of which have become traditions in their own right—for Twin Cities area residents.
Here are some of the local favorites:
The Target Holidazzle Parade is in its 11th year and has become a Minneapolis institution. Sponsored by the downtown council, the Holidazzle was originally created to encourage downtown shopping.
School officials visit new high school -
Many school boards, accompanied by school superintendents, have made recent trips to the new Central Bucks High School [which opened in September 1952; today it is known as CB West] to discover what aspects of it might fit their own needs in an extensive building program.
Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre presents the heart-warming classic, Irving Berlin's White Christmas, playing now through December 25, 2011. The 1954 film starred Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney and Vera Ellen.
The story takes place in 1954 and two ex-GI's turned showbiz partners follow a couple of singing sisters to a Vermont inn. When they discover their beloved former commanding officer owns the inn and is in jeopardy of losing the property, the foursome decides to put on a show to raise money - and they find love in the bargain. White Christmas is full of dancing, laughter, and some of the greatest songs ever written such as Happy Holidays, Sisters, Count Your Blessings, Blue Skies and the Academy Award-winning White Christmas.
Lafayette's Danielle Fiacco scored a career-high 23 points Sunday against Monmouth.
CENTER VALLEY, Pa. – Holy Cross won its second in a row to pull to .500 while Lehigh snapped a two-game skid with a big victory in the concluding game of the inaugural Thanksgiving Challenge.
Lembo watching scores around country that could help Cardinals
Sophomore quarterback Keith Wenning escapes from a Toledo defensive lineman during the game on Friday. With a final record of 6-6, Ball State has an outside shot of reaching a bowl game.
Its offense impotent at inopportune times and its defense unable to slow down Toledo's high-powered offense, Ball State's regular season ended in disappointment Friday afternoon at Scheumann Stadium. The Cardinals lost 45-28 on Senior Day, a surprisingly-promising run at the Mid-American Conference championship ending with back-to-back losses.
After beating the Gators, Florida State is now projected to play in the Chick-fil-A Bowl against Auburn.
Things are starting to become pretty clear, and I only made a few changes from last week, none in the BCS bowls. The ACC lineup shuffled considerably, with Florida State moving up to the Chick-fil-A Bowl, sending Clemson to the Champs Sports Bowl. The Orlando game really wants to match FSU and Notre Dame, but the Atlanta game would have to either pass on 7-5 Auburn for 6-6 Florida or voluntarily take a Clemson team that would have lost three straight games.
November 27, 2011 at 7:41 pm by Pete Dougherty, Staff writer
A majority of college football teams have completed their regular-season schedules. Some of them get to play a “bonus” game, thanks to six conference championship games this season.
The Big 12 no longer has a championship game, but the Oklahoma at Oklahoma State game (8 p.m. Saturday, ABC) is as good as one. The winner wins the title, and the Cowboys have an outside shot at the BCS championship game.
Much of what SPAWAR does behind its fences and walls on the Charleston Naval Weapons Station is secret. That's to be expected of a military information technology nerve center.
But one aspect of Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic that shouldn't be a mystery is which branch it serves, SPAWAR's military and civilian leaders have emphasized recently.
It's down to one week and counting in college football's regular season, with the conference championship games and a few other scattered contests remaining this weekend. After next Saturday, it's down to Army-Navy on Dec. 10, and one week later the bowls hit with a vengeance.
But for Louisiana's three bowl-eligible teams, the bowl situation is already abundantly clear.
LAREDO, TEXAS – The Laredo Rattlesnakes Football Team announced the signing of wide receiver Nathaniel Dunn as its newest addition to the team.
Dunn is a native of Corpus Christi and spent last season with the Corpus Christi Hammerheads in the SIFL and the Bricktown Brawlers in the IFL. The team also announced its Armed Forces Appreciation Program that will give the first 500 military families, active or retired, a pair of 2012 season tickets.
Preview by Becky Bartlett .
It's almost Christmas, but It's a Wonderful Life is not the only film showing across Scotland this month. From 6-22 Dec the GFT in Glasgow is screening a season of Mad Love – six films dedicated to passion, lust and madness. Alongside classics like Mulholland Drive (15 Dec) and Black Narcissus (13 Dec) are some lesser known gems, including Gus Van Sant's directorial debut Mala Noche (8 Dec), a tale of unrequited love between a young man and an illegal Mexican immigrant. Also included in the season: Gun Crazy (20 Dec), Head-On (6 Dec) and A Blonde in Love (22 Dec).
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open slightly higher, as investors look for value in local stocks following more than a week of losses.
On the ASX 24, the December share price index futures contract is pointing to a five point gain, or 0.12 per cent, to 4008 points.
Paul Wulff has likely coached his last football game at Washington State.
Sources close to the situation say Wulff, whose Cougars lost 38-21 to Washington on Saturday at CenturyLink Field, will be dismissed after a meeting with athletic director Bill Moos, barring a last-minute change of direction by Moos. It could happen as early as Sunday, possibly Monday.
We recently heard that Ben Whishaw (Perfume) has been cast in the upcoming James Bond movie "Skyfall." And now comes word that he'll be playing the role of MI6 gadget expert Q.
Whishaw will play the youngest Q in the history of the Bond franchise. So young, that he's actually younger than James Bond (Daniel Craig). Other actors who played the role are Peter Burton, Desmond Llewelyn, and John Cleese.
IN MY VIEW, that it happened to Penn State didn’t make it seem any less damning, only less likely. For years now, the Nitanny Lions have been held up as being all that’s good and pure about college football and no coach — not even Bear Bryant himself — has been so revered as the seemingly indefatigable Joe Paterno.
In what may be regarded as a veiled message to his board of directors, Neil Lennon has reiterated a desire to augment his Celtic squad with experience when the transfer window opens. Lennon has been thwarted in attempts to sign Sol Campbell, Jimmy Bullard, David James and Craig Bellamy since taking charge at Celtic Park. Only recently, Bolo Zenden failed to agree terms after an apparently successful trial period.
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There’s trouble in union paradise.
Sid Ryan, the controversial leader of the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) is under fire — from his own members.
Several large unions are withholding dues from the umbrella OFL organization, citing Ryan’s divisive leadership style and his confrontational tone.
Monday. Louisiana-Monroe at Nicholls State, 6:30 p.m.
Today. Nicholls State vs. Oregon at Oregon Tournament, 2 p.m.
Monday. New York Giants at New Orleans Saints, 7:30 p.m. (TV: ESPN, Radio: 96.7-FM, 1490-AM)
* — TV, radio and Internet listings in parenthesis.
Today. The LA Yankees, a local 10U travel baseball team, is looking for players for the 2012 spring season. For information, call James Lebouef at 856-1961 or Bryan Porche at 688-6221.
DALLAS — The Owls failed to get a yard in two critical situations Saturday.
The first cost them a touchdown in the second quarter.
The second cost them a shot at a game-tying field goal in the final minute.
Rice quarterback Nick Fanuzzi's fourth-and-1 pass was deflected at the line of scrimmage with less than 40 seconds remaining in a 27-24 season-ending defeat to SMU on chilly and blustery afternoon at Ford Stadium.
Split end Eric Ward broke the Texas Tech single-game record for pass receptions in the Red Raiders’ loss to Baylor on Saturday. Robert Johnson had 15 in a 2006 game against SMU and Mike Crabtree matched that in 2007 against Texas-El Paso.
Ward caught 16 passes for 151 yards and two touchdowns.
“Eric had a great night,” Tech coach Tommy Tuberville said. “He made some huge plays and kept us in the game.”
Memphis, Tn - Fox 13 News has confirmed that University of Memphis football coach Larry Porter has been fired. Porter coached the Tigers for two seasons.
The news comes after the U of M football team lost a decisive victory to Southern Miss on Saturday.
The Tigers went 3-21 over the past two years.
"We want to thank Coach Porter for his efforts as our football coach, but believe that it is in the best interest of our program to make a change at this point," said Memphis Athletic Director R.C. Johnson.
Jon Solomon's Nov. 19 column asked to have a real conversation about UAB football, so let's have one. To do that, let's take a look at three other schools to compare.
In 2001, School A played in a top-10 media market surrounded by multiple national football powers. It played its games in a decaying stadium that is no longer in use. In 2001, School A went 0-11. Average attendance was 20,646. Its final conference game that year drew a paid attendance of 11,647.
Houston quarterback Case Keenum (7) throws a pass during the first quarter of an NCAA college football game against SMU, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
NEW YORK — The voters in The Associated Press college football poll are clear on which two teams they believe are the best in the country.
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BEDFORD -- Southlake Carroll scored 21 unanswered points to beat Arlington Bowie 21-17 in their Class 5A Division I regional matchup.
Carroll quarterback Kenny Hill had a hand in all three touchdowns as he ran for two and threw another. The Dragons (13-0) will play Arlington Martin at 6 p.m. Saturday at SMU in the state quarterfinals.
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Denard Robinson rushed for two touchdowns and passed for three more in a win over Ohio State. (US PRESSWIRE)
Snap Judgments from the Week 13 early shift. For swing shift Snaps, click here . For Andy Staples’ recap of LSU’s win over Arkansas, click here . For Staples’ take on Alabama’s rout of Auburn, click here . For a recap of all the Top 25 action, click here . For highlights from SI.com, click here .
STANFORD, Calif. - One of a kind. That's how Andrew Luck's appreciative coach described him.
"There's no player in America like Andrew Luck,'' was the biased but hardly inaccurate phrase of David Shaw. "Forget about the stats."
In his last game at Stanford Stadium, Luck's stats were good but not great, maybe not the kind he needed to win that Heisman Trophy. But Saturday night they were the kind he needed to lead the Cardinal over Notre Dame 28-14.
The BCS system has been in question since it started. This may be the most controversial year yet as the top 2 teams could come from the same division of the SEC conference. The fact that they are in the same conference isn’t as hard to swallow as the fact that the Alabama Crimson Tide will neither be a conference of division winner. Many college football experts will argue that their one loss was by just 3 points to the number 1 team in the nation, but that doesn’t ease the pain for teams like Oklahoma St, Virginia Tech and Stanford.
The statistics and awards from that single year are all that are taken into account. Although it is an individual award a lot of the team's success is factored into the rankings. The rankings reflect how each player performed when it was crucial and if the player had the "Heisman moment" or just the "it" factor.
ARLINGTON -- Texas Tech's impressive string of bowl-eligible seasons ended Saturday night with a thud. So, too, perhaps, did Robert Griffin III's chances of winning the Heisman Trophy.Griffin was knocked out of the game late in the second quarter on a personal-foul hit by Cornelius Douglas and missed the second half. But even without their main player, No. 18 Baylor still rolled to a 66-42 victory over Texas Tech before 51,615 at Cowboys Stadium.The Bears piled up 617 total yards and snapped a 15-game losing streak to Tech while beating the Red Raiders for the first time since 1995 -- the last season of the Southwest Conference. Baylor also improved to 8-3 on the season, its first eight-win season since finishing the 1991 season at 8-4."The last four weeks have been pretty magical for us," Bears coach Art Briles said. "Tonight it was just a resilient and determined effort.''That definitely rang true for backup quarterback Nick Florence.After Griffin had his bell rung and suffered a slight concussion on the hit by Douglas, Florence took off his redshirt and played in his first game of the season."It's not about me, it's about the team," said Florence, who was 9 of 12 for 151 yards and two touchdowns. "If I'm going to remove (the redshirt), I'll remove it like that."Griffin went out for one play after absorbing the blow from Douglas with 2:19 left in the first half. He returned for one play and darted into the end zone from the Tech 3 to give the Bears a 31-21 lead.It turned to be Griffin's last play, although he was pressing Baylor's medical staff to play in the second half."I was fine," Griffin said. "But any time you have concussion-like symptoms they've got to play it safe."They took my helmet away at the start of the second half, because they knew if I had it I was going to go back in. But life is more important than football, because it's just a game."As far as his Heisman chances disappearing, Griffin had more important things on his mind."I don't play for awards," Griffin said. "To me, (being out of the Heisman race) doesn't matter."The better line is we've won eight games this year, and we're excited about that."Such excitement has been tempered at Tech, which finished the season 5-7 and was winless since upsetting then-No. 2 Oklahoma in Norman on Oct. 22. Tech had five or less wins for only the fourth time since 1986."It pretty much went tonight like it's gone for the rest of the year," Tech coach Tommy Tuberville said. "It's been a long year. We just need to go out now and start recruiting."Tech last failed to play in a bowl game in 1999, former coach Spike Dykes' final season before Tech's streak of 11 consecutive bowl appearances -- 10 under Mike Leach, whom Tuberville replaced in 2010.This season, Tech allowed 66 points to Baylor and Oklahoma State.Baylor's Terrance Ganaway rushed for 247 yards on 42 carries and scored two touchdowns. He became the first player in Baylor history to have multiple 200-yard rushing games in a season.Offensively, the Bears didn't appear to miss a beat when Griffin went down."We have a lot of depth on offense and we have a lot of great players," Ganaway said. "We didn't know if (Griffin) was going to go into the game for the second half, and we just backed Nick up." Dwain Price, 817-390-7760
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Usually when a quarterback is completing 44 percent of his passes, his lone appearance on the sports pages is when his team cuts him. Not so with Tim Tebow.
Fans in Denver have been very quick to latch on to unorthodox QB Tim Tebow, who is 4-1 with the team this season.
Matt Leinart has a new role, and the Houston Texans hope he can keep them rolling.
Leinart, who will be starting in place of injured quarterback Matt Schaub who is out for the season with a foot injury, hasn't started a game since 2009 — and only one since 2007.
The two latest games of the Pac-12 football weekend provided decidedly different results for the league.
Stanford kept Notre Dame at bay, winning 28-14 to claim its 11th victory of the season. That ought to be enough to get the Cardinal to the Fiesta Bowl, although one bowl official I spoke with awhile back voiced some concern that a 10-2 Michigan team with Denard Robinson could squeeze Stanford out on the basis of fan travel. Michigan is indeed an exciting team with Robinson, but it would be hard to pass on an 11-win team with the consensus No. 1 pick in the NFL draft (and very possibly, the Heisman Trophy winner) in Andrew Luck. Then there were the UCLA Bruins. What can you say about Rick Neuheisel's team, other than 50-0? Fifty to nothing against USC? Funny, but I remember covering the UCLA-USC game back in 2008, because Steve Sarkisian had been named coach at Washington, and this was his swan song at USC. The Bruins acquitted themselves well, losing 28-7, and really took the fight to USC at the Rose Bowl. You had the sense Neuheisel had the Bruins on the right track. And now this.
Supercommittee member, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., walks with reporters as he arrives to meet in the Capitol Hill office of Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and other Supercommittee members as time for action by the deficit reduction panel grows short, Monday, Nov. 21, 2011, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Signs point to John Skelton, not Kevin Kolb, starting for Arizona Cardinals on Sunday by Bob McManaman on Nov. 25, 2011, under Arizona Republic News
There’s still a slim chance Kevin Kolb could return as the Cardinals’ starting quarterback Sunday, but judging from John Skelton’s comments Friday, it seems much more likely Skelton will make his fourth consecutive start instead.
Described by one paper as "a severe product of St Hugh's College, Oxford", Dame Helen - who was appointed DBE in 2008 - had declined to release documents to the committee. All its chairman, Keith Vaz, could do when confronted with the elegant periphrases of her opening riposte, was to murmur: "So your answer to my question is 'No'." Asked if the Home Secretary's pilot scheme for border controls which got Brodie Clark into such hot water last week, would mean fewer staff, she offered a number of judicious equivocations about technology and flexible rostering when, as The Independent's Simon Carr pointed out, the answer was surely "yes". An invitation to distance herself from official disparagements of Mr Clark produced the Delphic retort, "He always led from the front."
* Keith Sweat said in a recent interview that he looks up to Lil Wayne , saying, “His work ethic is ridiculous … he never stops.”
The veteran R&B crooner, now 50, is on the road promoting his latest album, “ Til the Morning ” along with his collaborative effort, a book, with erotic fiction writer Zane. The relationship advice tome should be out by May 2012.
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Signs point to John Skelton, not Kevin Kolb, starting for Arizona Cardinals on Sunday by Bob McManaman on Nov. 25, 2011, under Arizona Republic Sports
There’s still a slim chance Kevin Kolb could return as the Cardinals’ starting quarterback Sunday, but judging from John Skelton’s comments Friday, it seems much more likely Skelton will make his fourth consecutive start instead.
Hugh Naylor Hoover, 59, went to be with the Lord on Friday, Nov. 25, 2011, at his home in Kabletown.
Born May 19, 1952, he was the son of the late Dickerson and Carrie White Hoover.
He was a veteran of the U.S. Army.
Hugh was operator of North Rocks Farm LLC. He was a lifelong outdoorsman, with hunting trips to Africa and New Zealand. He was a 1970 graduate of Charles Town Senior High School and a was a member of the American Legion and The Safari Club.
InsideTennessee staffer offer their thoughts on the marquee matchup in this week's edition of SEC Picks. Chris Price, Danny Parker and Josh Woodward went 8-0 on last week's picks, while Randy Moore checked in at 7-1. Price continues to hold the best season's record at 73-15.
Two weeks into his prolonged search for a new defensive coordinator in December of 2009, Georgia coach Mark Richt flew to Texas to meet Todd Grantham for the first time.
They got together at the home of the then-Dallas Cowboys defensive line coach in the middle of an NFL game week.
“It was more of a get-to-know basis,” Grantham said. “Him feel me out, me feel him out.”
Written by Philip Rossman-Reich on 26 November 2011.
The last four weeks of the college football season could have been a celebration of the Sunshine State. There's today's Thanksgiving weekend battle between Florida and Florida State, and with Florida State and Miami playing each other later in the year, it set up a classic slate of games for fans in the state.
The collapse of MF Global will have many fascinating story lines to uncover over the next several months. Here are at least four...
1) How did regulators like FINRA, which noticed leverage problems with the firm's $6.3 billion bet on European debt over the summer, not act sooner and more decisively to prevent the questionable speculation with other people's money from ending very badly?
The five-star quarterback and the five-star wide receiver first met in the south end zone of The Swamp during a recruiting visit in 2007. There was an instant connection, and the two ended up signing with Florida, where they have forged a strong bond over the past four-and-a-half years.
“No doubt, friends forever,” the wide receiver said earlier this week.
Urban Meyer at his resignation press conference less than a year ago. (AP photo)
Aside from when he lost his father, Urban Meyer has appeared on ESPN’s college football coverage every weekend.
Now, in the final week of the regular season, he needs some time off.
Earlier this week, ESPN announced it planned to keep Meyer in the studio all day instead of joining his broadcast team to do the Ohio State game against Michigan. That appears to have been more his choice than ESPN’s.
Leading into Saturday’s rivalry game between Florida State and Florida, the quarterbacks will receive plenty of attention. As will the head coaches, FSU’s Jimbo Fisher and UF’s Will Muschamp, and their shared beach house.
But as the Seminoles (7-4) and Gators (6-5) look for a win to end the regular season, the contest will mostly likely come down to which team’s lines perform better.
Jimbo Fisher and Will Muschamp prepare to put their friendship on the line Saturday as the Seminoles face the Gators. (US-Presswire)
Florida men's basketball coach Billy Donovan knows how difficult it can be to coach against a long time friend. Donovan has routinely faced off against former Gator assistants who went on to head coaching positions at other schools.
NINTH GRADE: Brandon Boehm, Amanda Brandeen, Braeden Callis, Shelby Capel, Alexander Cauneac, Liam Connolly, Jennifer Cook, Elizabeth Fare, Connor Feick, Samuel Giacinto, Jenna Guglielmini, Casey Handwerger, Kadie Hartman, Madeline Haughton, Samantha Haughton, Sara Henke, Lauren Johnson, Paul Kalafos, Andrew Keith, Madolin Keller, Greta Kintzley, Tec Lee, Timothy Lentz, Anna Linthicum, Sarah Lotlikar, Abigail Mandelblatt, Brendan Martin, Jessica Martin, Connor Meyers, Alexander Nolte, Isabella Pazaryna, Allison Penna, Matthew Praley, Bridget Rabaglia, Joseph Robinson, Cemre Sahinci, Matthew Scarborough, Adam Schaeffer, Julia Selle, Cameron Stadlin, Brennen Stevenson, Catherine Storch, Emma Trew, Olivia Turner, Jessica Valvano, Alexander Weatherford and Noah Windsor.
Calloway: Madison Devito and Alora Glenn.
Langham: Robert Bankich, Gavin Fisher, Michaela Fisher, and Ismael Ontiveros.
Rhodes: T. J. Fahr, Lindsey Hawkins, Reagan Hayes, Marlee Middleton, Ethan Pensyl, and Christian Valarezo.
Smith: Hadley Capen, James Hu, and Griffin Hutto.
Smithey: Carys Grossheim, Rebecca Fuller, and Cole Jablonski
The sale of surplus property in Sharon is almost complete – but not quite.
“It’s a tedious process. It’s not over and it won’t be over tonight,” Weakley County Commission Chairman Jimmy Westbrook said at the November monthly meeting of the Weakley County Commission Monday night.
The property in question, the W.S.W. Co. building and the Rebel Screeners building, received high bids of $30,100 from Will Bolton and $15,001 from Royce Bates respectively, but, according to county attorney Jeff Washburn, the matter is far from over.
GAME NOTES: In their first-ever meeting, the 22nd-ranked Florida State Seminoles and the Harvard Crimson both find themselves undefeated as they enter play in the semifinals of the inaugural Battle 4 Atlantis in the Bahamas this afternoon.
The Seminoles had played their first four games of 2011-12 all at home in the Tucker Center in Tallahassee, so hitting the floor inside the Imperial Arena on Thanksgiving was something new altogether for the team in several respects. But FSU did not disappoint as it posted a 73-53 win over the UMass Minutemen in order to remain unbeaten.
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Here we are in week three of the MF Global (OTC: MFGLQ) meltdown, and at least $1.2 billion in customer funds remains missing . Who's at fault? Take your pick. It looks like there's more than enough blame to go around, whether we're talking about executives, board members, outside investors, or regulators. Here's a closer look at a handful of the key players.
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First of all, the game against San Diego was during the regular season, not a playoff game.
Secondly, you apparently have not watched many Raiders games or you would feel differently. We were screwed out of a repeat Super Bowl performance while playing against Denver in 1977, when Rob Lytle fumbled the ball as soon as he hit our line. We recovered and ran it back for what would have been the winning TD. The only thing is that the refs never saw him fumble and ruled him down. Add in the Immaculate Deception, the Tuck Bowl and the Tony Siragusa body slam of Rich Gannon that was even flagged although it broke Gannon’s collarbone and Raider fans begin to believe that the NFL refs are against them. Add in a few more strange calls over the years, including the game against San Diego in which a Charger receiver catches the ball, falls to the ground and isn’t touched but gets up and spins the ball. Oakland recovers but it is ruled an illegal forward pass. Or the game against Seattle when our safety intercepted the ball at the 3 yard line but slides into the endzone and is touched by a Seattle player. Not only isn’t the play ruled a touchback, but Seattle gets two points for a safety and the Raiders have to punt the ball back to Seattle
Thanks to WrestlingINC.com reader Michael Ward for sending in these results from Tuesday's SmackDown taping in Wilkes-Barre, PA:
Mark Henry comes out in a cast and on crutches. Henry complains about his broken ankle and says that this isn't how a champion should be treated. Henry said he's down, but not out as the crowd gave him a "You Suck" chant. Henry said he is fighting through the injury and wants to compete, but Teddy Long and the doctors won't let him because he isn't cleared. Big Show comes out and calls Henry a liar, saying that he kicked him in the crotch, not the knee. Big Show said that next time, but Henry cuts him off and said that there won't be a next time because he is a big loser. Show hits him with the WMD and walks to the back.
After the morale-boosting win against AC Milan in midweek, FC Barcelona travel to Madrid for the first of a double-header of matches against sides from the capital. The destination is the Coliseum Alfonso Perez and the opponents are Getafe, in a match Barcelona really should be winning. Kicking off after the Madrid derby (Real vs Atletico) will almost certainly put the Blaugrana under pressure as Jose Mourinho’s side will likely be six points clear.
Well, the man has certainly paid his dues.
Back in November 2010, Shonie Carter was trying to break into World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). Fast-forward almost a year later and now he's trying to break into Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).
Again.
Related stories: TU: Three storylines.
TU notebook: Here's the kicker.
Key matchup: Case Keenum vs. Tulsa’s defense.
View the Tulsa/Houston starting lineups.
This past week of WWE Raw earned itself a 3.2 rating. It averaged 4.72 million viewers throughout the two-hour show and was the second-highest rated show of the night (behind NFL Monday Night Football).
It was a solid show. However, numbers are what tell the entire story. Here are the segment-by-segment breakdowns of each quarter, with my thoughts after each section.
White Sox general manager Kenny Williams isn't one to play it safe with managerial hires. In 2003, he picked Ozzie Guillen to run the team even after they got into a heated exchange during Guillen's interview. The two men had an oil-and-water dynamic from the start, but those differences didn't prevent them from winning two American League Central titles and a world championship in 2005.
With the other networks taking a holiday from their regular prime-time schedules, ABC emerged as No. 1 in all ratings categories on Wednesday thanks to its usual comedy lineup. A new episode of “Modern Family” led the way, with 12.6 million total viewers, followed by “The Middle,” at 9.1 million, according to Nielsen estimates. Elsewhere, a special Wednesday live results episode of “The X Factor” drew 8.5 million total viewers and put Fox in second place for the night in the advertiser-coveted 18-to-49-year-old demographic. CBS was in third place with a slate of repeats and a recap episode of “Survivor: South Pacific.”
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All Or Nothing: A Season In The Life Of The Champions League.
In the bowels of the Emirates Stadium, after Borussia Dortmund’s defeat to Arsenal, the cameraman for the German club’s in-house TV channel is cheerfully taking stock. “I’ve been with them for 12 years,” he reflects. “So I’ve seen some very, very bad moments too.”
The Knights’ defense was expected to slip some after losing four players who signed with FBS schools, but opposing offenses have found the going as tough against Steele this season as they did last year.
Anchored by four returning starters from a team that finished 14-2, the Knights’ defensive unit has been a model of consistency and cohesiveness in helping Steele extend its winning streak to 25 games.
DNR stocks rainbow trout at Moorland Pond November 24, 2011
By HANS MADSEN - Messenger staff writer , Messenger News
MOORLAND - On Nov. 16, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources added 1,500 rainbow trout to Moorland Pond southwest of Fort Dodge.
If all goes well, the newcomers will be mostly gone within a few weeks.
The Quinte West Major Midget Hawks swept a home-and-home series with the Lindsay Muskies on the weekend to run their Lakeshore Hockey League unbeaten streak to 10 games.
The first-place Hawks (12-2-2) clipped the Muskies 4-3 Saturday in Lindsay.
Ryan Klemencic led the Hawks' attack with two goals, including the game winner, while Alex Leclerc added a goal and three assists. Colin Childerhose scored the other goal, with additional helpers to Griffin Rupnow (2), Zach Hiscock (2), and Andy Paul. Patrick Quinn earned the win in net.
HONG KONG, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) -- A total lunar eclipse will occur at night on Dec. 10 and will be visible in Hong Kong if the weather is fine, the Hong Kong Observatory said Thursday.
Scientific Officer of the Hong Kong Observatory Woo Wang-chun said, "The duration of the whole process (from the moon entering the penumbra to leaving the penumbra) will last six hours, the longest period of lunar eclipse visible in Hong Kong since the year 2000."
PENARTH Under 16s had the luxury of a very strong turn-out with a squad of 20 prepared for what had in the past been a very tough match.
Fairwater began with intent but flanker Nick Boudier’s superb try-saving tackle threw down the gauntlet. The new pairing of centres Louis Allen and Riyad Auckbarally was a revelation with both having an immediate impact on the game.
Christmas TV Preview: Doctor Who, Downton Abbey, Soap Spoilers & more
So the countdown begins we’re less than five weeks removed from the big day and most of the channels have released word of their Christmas schedules. As I’m good to you I’ve put all these together in one handy guide so you can decide what you want to watch early and ultimately get hold on the remote control, which as we all know is the most important thing about Christmas!
ALCESTER slumped to a disappointing defeat against fellow strugglers Coventry Welsh, who recorded their first league win of the season with this victory at Kings Coughton.
With the slope at their back in the first half Alcester started in the ascendancy, but with both sides struggling for much cohesion to their play chances were relatively limited. However, midway through the half and following a good break by wing Jack Sears, centre Matt Hurleston opened the scoring with a try.
Royce Burke Flynn, Matt Gidlow & Mark Chivers ready to lock heads in a Tigers scrum
It’s been a tough fortnight for Sheffield Tigers.
A double-header against the top two teams in National 2 North ended in defeat - the last one a 29-19 home loss to second in the table Caldy - but now a different double-header challenge looms.
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Photographer and skywatcher Bernt Olsen snapped this view of the partial solar eclipse of June 1-2, 2011 just during the "midnight sun" in Tromso, Norway. The partial solar eclipse was dubbed a "midnight" eclipse as its viewing path crossed the International Date Line across far northern latitudes.
I remember my first solar eclipse. I was a kid, and it was the one Carlie Simon sang about, in March 1970.
(The eclipse reference is just past three minutes. Some other time we can argue over whether or not Carlie, singing in this video on Martha's Vineyard, was referring to the March 1970 eclipse or the July 1972 eclipse, but I'm sure it was the former, because that's the one everybody got all excited about.)
Sun Valley ResortÂ’s new features target youth, families
As Sun Valley Resort celebrates its 75th birthday this December, the venerable resort and her erstwhile mountains are being pulled firmly in to the 21st century. The 2011-12 winter sees a raft of changes coming to the two old favorites: Bald and Dollar mountains.
The earliest known observations of sunspots appear in Chinese records from the fourth century BC, when unusually large spots were probably seen through haze or smoke. A ninth century Benedictine monk observed a large spot for over a week, noting that it moved from day to day. The invention of the telescope in the early 17th century allowed Galileo to correctly deduce the sun’s rotation from sunspot motion.
Azera-modellen har eksistert en fem års tid, nå er det på tide med en oppfriskning. Dette er en bil i det som er amerikanske mellomklasse – Buick LaCrosse er en typisk konkurrent, Ford Taurus, eller Toyotas Avalon – som vi heller ikke kjenner noe særlig til.
Solide besteborgerlige transportører med en eim av overklasse, komfort og kanskje til og med litt luksus, men egentlig snusfornuftig, akkurat som en leilighet med to bad er snus-fornuftig selv om du egentlig godt kunne klart deg med mindre.
By JOE DUARTE; WADE OZEROFF, QMI AGENCY Posted 21 hours ago
of an all-new model that features 11 new exclusive features and fuel economy projected to top its segment.
Hands-free technology abounds, with the latest generation Sync and MyFord Touch, plus a motion-sensing tailgate that opens with a simulated kicking motion when the driver approaches with key fob in pocket. Improvements in economy come via new 1.6 and 2.0-litre EcoBoost four-cylinder engines (the standard engine is a 2.5-litre "four"). All are mated to a six-speed automatic with sequential shift.
Michigan-raised rock and country artist Uncle Kracker has spent the last few years as tour support for country megastar Kenny Chesney. The two even recorded a song together, "When the Sun Goes Down." Kracker is expected to release his fifth studio album, "Postcards From Home," in 2012 on Atlantic Records. 7 p.m. Fri. $9.95. 318 W. Fourth St., Royal Oak. (248) 377-2980.
In preparation to move a dozen inmates out of the jail, Johnson County Sheriff Department Sergeant Demetrius Marlowe places restraints on an inmate at the Johnson County Jail in Iowa City in the early morning hours of Friday, October 14, 2011. The jail routinely moves some inmates to other county jails in order to have enough space to handle arrests on weekends that include University of Iowa home football games. (Matt Nelson/SourceMedia Group News)
Here are the highlights of the 15 ad-sustained programs that aired in primetime on the broadcast networks last night:
Next up was CBS (7.78 million viewers, #2; adults 18-49: 1.8, #3) with a new "Survivor: South Pacific" (7.85 million viewers, #6; adults 18-49: 1.9, #7) followed by repeats of "Criminal Minds" (8.23 million viewers, #5; adults 18-49: 1.8, #8) and "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" (7.26 million viewers, #7; adults 18-49: 1.6, #T9).
What kind of loser spends his Thanksgiving eve recapping a recap episode? THIS LOSER! I used to dread the Survivor recap episodes because they used to just show you what you’d already seen, but back in Tocantins the producers actually began putting their hundreds upon hundreds of unused hours of footage to use and started making the recaps a showcase for scenes and storylines originally cut from the season. As a result, there are always things to be learned. So without further ado, here’s what I learned from this season’s “A Closer Look” recap episode. (My other idea was to honor the spirit of the episode by making this entire column deleted outtake paragraphs from my previous recaps, but seeing as how those were the Milwaukee’s Best-fueled ramblings of a madman, this seemed better.)
Matthew Slater doesn’t want to get burned by the ‘amazing’ DeSean Jackson again 11.23.11 at 5:08 pm ET
DeSean Jackson making one of the most famous punt returns in NFL history against the Giants in 2010. (AP)
FOXBORO — Matthew Slater knows all too well just how dangerous DeSean Jackson is on a football field with the ball in his hands.
After seeing the Giants (similar to past years under Tom Coughlin) finish the first half of the 2011 season at 6-2, with a two-game lead, before subsequently starting the second half with a pair of losses and falling into a first-place tie in the NFC East with Dallas, it’s understandable why Big Blue fans would focus on the negative right now.
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Southeast Missouri State quarterback Matt Scheible tries to dodge Jacksonville State's Dimetrio Tyson during the fourth quarter of their game earlier this month at Houck Stadium.
The Southeast Missouri State football team followed last year's historic season with a losing record.
John Force will be back for more in 2012 with a repaired knee. (RacinToday/HHP photo by Harold Hinson)
YORBA LINDA, Calif. – Drag racing icon John Force answered any lingering questions about his level of commitment to winning a 16th NHRA Funny Car world championship by undergoing post-season surgery to repair a damaged right knee originally injured playing high school football.
IMPROVING Upton registered their third Midlands Two West (South) win in four weeks with an impressive 30-29 success against fourth-placed Old Laurentians.
Upton’s confidence was high, having run Newbold close the week before, and they boasted a strong squad.
Jason Smart returned with a strong performance in the second row along with the outstanding Guy Field.
By MATT THACKER Matt.Thacker@newsandtribune.com The News and Tribune Wed Nov 23, 2011, 07:09 PM EST
JEFFERSONVILLE — A Clark County Emergency Medical Services dispatcher is accused of providing police with false information about her brother’s location during a standoff in Charlestown last month.
From the star-studded, yet surprisingly sentimental A Very Gaga Thanksgiving, to a Peanuts classic, plus staples like the Macy’s Thanksgiving parade, and marathons including Buffy, Bones, Designing Women, Roseanne, rom-coms galore, holiday family favorites and James Bond movies, there is something for everyone on TV this year.
Førte til at byen brøt loven da den vedtok å gå konkurs.
Harrisburg, som er hovedstaden i den amerikanske staten Pennsylvania, gikk i midten av oktober til den amerikanske skifteretten og ba om frivillig kreditorbeskyttelse under reglene i kapittel 9 i den amerikanske konkurslovgivningen. Dette er en spesialregel som kun kan benyttes av amerikanske kommuner som trenger hjelp med å få restrukturert gjelden.
Thanksgiving is definitely about the food, the family, and giving thanks. To me, it will always be about tuning in to see what John Madden and Pat Summerall are going to say next. They were my favorite booth duo in my life of watching sports. On Thanksgiving I would wake up and crush some of mom’s home cooked food and then flip the channel over to the Land of Turducken to listen to Madden and Summerall call the national game.
Thriller: Sam Worthington and Jessica Chastain star in The Debt
THE DEBT: Starring Helen Mirren, Jessica Chastain, Sam Worthington, Marton Csokas, Tom Wilkinson, Ciaran Hinds, and Jesper Christensen. Directed by John Madden. Rated M (Mature themes and violence). 93 min.
Thanksgiving comes early to ABC’s comedy lineup tonight. And as you might expect from comedies there will be turkey day mishaps galore.
Three of the night's comedies are joining in the fun. Here’s the rundown from ABC:
"The Middle" - "Thanksgiving III" (8:00-8:30 p.m., ET) - Frankie's parents, Pat (Marsha Mason) and Tag (Jerry Van Dyke), invite the Hecks to spend a few days at their house to celebrate Thanksgiving together. But the festivities fall apart quickly when Frankie's sister, Janet (Molly Shannon), and her family also join in. Soon the siblings are at each other's throats over their widely differing parenting techniques. "Suburgatory" - "Thanksgiving" (8:30-9:00 p.m., ET) - Depressed that she has to spend Thanksgiving in the suburbs, Tessa convinces Dallas to take her to the city for a girls' day out. During their fun day, they run across George making out with a woman while he was supposed to be "working." Angry with George for lying to her, Tessa confronts him during the Royces' Thanksgiving dinner. Meanwhile Lisa refuses to wear a special dress Sheila picked out for her, so Sheila decides to literally turn up the heat. "Modern Family" - "Punkin Chunkin" (9:00-9:31 p.m., ET) - When an old neighborhood kid returns to town as a hugely successful internet billionaire (Josh Gad, "Book of Mormon," as Kenneth), it gets Phil thinking of what might have been. Jay feels Manny could use a little dose of constructive criticism, and Cameron is offended when Mitchell questions the authenticity of his colorful childhood stories. It all comes to a head at Thanksgiving with the family is divided between the "Dreamers" and the "Pritchetts" -- and nothing settles the score like a punkin chunkin challenge.
Saints have been fortunate on the injury front, and while the team has struggled at times this season, New Orleans has no need to burn a doctor in effigy. Offensive line depth could be an issue with tackle Charles Brown on IR. Atlanta is finally getting its act together after a sluggish start to the season. Offensive line depth is a concern for the Falcons too. Nagging injuries have spoiled the debut of rookie wide receiver Julio Jones. The Falcons will trade reps from Jones now if they can have him healthy down the stretch, including a week 16 matchup against the Saints.
Sitting on the couch playing with my newly downloaded A Charlie Brown Christmas iPad app last Friday evening, I was struck by the difference between what kids watch these days and what we watched when we were younger.
At the other end of said couch, my wife had our 3-year-old on her lap, and they were watching a trailer for Happy Feet Two , in which a bunch of squeaky-voiced penguin chicks do a dance routine to a parody medley of LL Cool J’s “Mama Said Knock You Out” and Justin Timberlake’s “Sexy Back” (redone as “Fluffy Back.” You know: for kids!).
: The Broncos won again in thrilling fashion, with quarterback Tim Tebow directing a late 95-yard drive to defeat the Jets 17-13 on Thursday. Denver has won four of its past five outings to climb back into the AFC West race, trailing first-place Oakland by a game.
plate? Must look like Google Earth photos of Zurich. Over here, mountains of potatoes; over there, fast-moving rivers of gravy bordered by big zeppelins of bread. All I can say is watch your cheesehead today. Berman's got a fork.
Football crazed as we all are, is it no coincidence that the centerpiece of today's feast is shaped like a down lineman in a four-point stance? Look at that giant bird, down on its haunches, awaiting the snap. The Steelers ' Casey "Big Snack" Hampton comes to mind, and certainly the Packers ' B.J. "The Freezer" Raji. Or Jets Coach Rex Ryan reaching down for an untied shoelace. Ooooooph! Grrrrrunt! Medic!
Today's appetizing parade of NFL games begins with breakfast (Packers-Lions at 9:30 a.m.), carries through lunch (Dolphins-Cowboys at 1:15 p.m.) and culminates with a Thanksgiving dinner feast (49ers-Ravens at 5:20 p.m.).
That's great entertainment for fans, but if league officials truly cared about player safety - and they clearly don't - they would not schedule any games on Thursdays.
A lot of people looked at the Eagles' 17-10 win over the Giants and credited the defense -- and rightly so -- but the offense played pretty well. Vince Young led the Birds on a game-winning marathon of a drive but it was the offensive line that gave him plenty of time.
For the second time this season, the Eagles offensive line was selected as the Top Protectors for Week 11 by Hall of Fame coach John Madden. The Eagles were also selected in Week 8. They are the only team to win the honor twice this season.Madden selects the top offensive line each week of the NFL season. The NFL's best offensive line by the end of the season will be announced at Super Bowl XLVI and will receive the third annual Madden Protectors Award.
Ok, this week isn't really over, as it's only Wednesday, but with Thanksgiving one day away, this is kind of like the end of the week with Wednesday sort of resembling Friday, so here's an abbreviated edition of the New York Week That Was. And who knows what shape I'll wake up in on Friday, as I may have my head stuck inside a turkey carcass with no way out, or there's a very good chance that I'll be trapped in a pie and beer coma, so Wednesday it is. Just to make things more confusing, things are so askew that we don't even have aNew York Jetsgame to talk about since they played this week's game last week.
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There is not much in the way of new entertainment set to air on Thanksgiving night -- so with that in mind, you have to be a little bit excited that "Cake Boss" is going to be airing some sort of special themed all around a feast.
In a new video from the episode (which you can see to the left), Buddy gets set to engage in what is going to be an intense cooking competition involving both him and his mother-in-law. While we haven't seen much of Buddy's contraption yet, his wife Lisa's mom is preparing something that John Madden would certainly approve of -- a turducken. What not to like here about turkey, duck, and chicken stuffen together?
The Orioles are working out the final details of a contract with Korean pitcher Chong Tae-Hyon and could have the deal wrapped up sometime on Wednesday, but the announcement does not appear imminent. Apparently, the Ravens aren't the only ones trying to get things done on a condensed schedule this week.
By Greg A. Bedard Globe Staff / November 23, 2011
For the Patriots offense, the start and finish to Monday night’s 34-3 victory over the Chiefs at Gillette Stadium couldn’t have been more different.
On the first four drives, the Patriots totaled 18 plays, gained three first downs, and had 25 net yards and zero points.
The Broncos waived quarterback Kyle Orton, team executive vice president John Elway announced today, Tuesday, November 22, 2011 ending his run with the team. Orton and his agent David Dunn had started talking to Broncos officials about the move after it was learned Chicago Bears’ quarterback Jay Cutler suffered a broken thumb on his right passing thumb Sunday that will likely sideline him for the rest of the season.
The Town of Leesburg's Utility Rate Advisory Committee continues to chip away at its workload, now concentrating on developing a set of policy guidelines in advance of a planned rate study.
URAC member Dan Connolly presented a status report to the Town Council last week. He noted that committee members working to develop policy guidelines that will aid a consultant in developing new utility rate recommendations for the town in line with the council's wishes.
' star quarterback doesn't like it when opposing defenses utilize—and have success with—a pass-rush that disrupts his timing.
Couple that with tight man coverage in the secondary, and you have the consensus recipe for stopping No. 12.
Sounds simple, right?
Supporters of an independent blood agency in New Brunswick say it's unreasonable for Canadian Blood Services to suggest there isn't a market for the province's excess blood and blood products.
Business leader Gerry Pond, one of several experts who advised Quispamsis-based Growth Strategies on the possibility of establishing a stand-alone blood system in the province, says New Brunswick hasn't been getting credit from the national agency for its excellent donor system and the extra blood it produces.
First Period_1, Toronto, MacArthur 7 (Gardiner, T.Connolly), :41. 2, Tampa Bay, Lecavalier 9 (Stamkos, Malone), 8:38 (pp). 3, Toronto, T.Connolly 3 (Kulemin, Franson), 17:56 (pp). 4, Toronto, Bozak 3 (Kessel, T.Connolly), 19:22 (pp). Penalties_Dupuis, Tor (hooking), 3:27; Gardiner, Tor (hooking), 7:42; Hedman, TB, double minor (high-sticking), 16:20; Kubina, TB (interference), 18:44.
A MAN who fled to Turkey after accidentally shooting a father of two dead following a fight at a christening has pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
Robert Egan told gardai that he "did not mean to shoot" Wayne Doherty, but planned to shoot another man, Bobby Hughes, in the legs.
Mr Doherty (32), a bread delivery man, was shot outside his parents' home after he attempted to stop a dispute involving his friends and a group of men late on the night of July 4, 2009.
(The following is a game featuring former standout Foxborough and Mansfield football players using EA Sports NCAA Football 'O7. Only players who have graduated are eligible to players and they were created by the create player feature in the game. This is third pretend meeting before the all-stars as previous games were presented in the Foxboro Reporter and the Mansfield News. This year, Mansfield elected to go just with players coached by Mike Redding during his tenure. The game was simulated.)
It's Thanksgiving Week in the NFL, which nowadays means three games on Thursday. Be sure to set your lineups for those games.
Is there still help available on the waiver wire this late in the season? Of course, with injuries and guys breaking out late in the season, there's bound to be someone you can take a shot on. We wanted some help narrowing it down, so we asked numberfire.com to provide us with ten players to add, and ten players you might consider dropping.
Andrew Luck lost his second game in two years to the Oregon Ducks. He returned to The Farm at Stanford to complete his education and to win a national championship.
There is still an outside chance the Cardinal get in, but Luck is likely going to settle for a Pac-12 title and another BCS game.
It doesn't look like Luck will get the trifecta the way Cam Newton did last year, but as Meatloaf once said, "two outta three ain't bad."
Love Celebrity Style: Kim Kardashian Fights Back, Justin Bieber Stands Tall, Kate Gosselin Pulls Up?
K IM KARDASHIAN'S BOOTY WAS THE BUTT OF "FAT" JOKES by Kris Humphries. Justin Bieber could teach Kris lessons in how to treat his lady loves -- as well as any lying, conniving hos that cross his path. And self-lover Kate Gosselin gets her smooth on. Today's love American style is righting wrongs and seeking revenge.
November 22, 2011 11:56 AM by Jeremy Feist Comment Filed Under: Famewhores Tagged: Christmas , Kim Kardashian , Kris Humphries
With Christmas slowly creeping up on us, and Santa preparing to work the one day of the year he’s required to work (unless he’s bailed out by yet another cartoon character who has to save Christmas … seriously, every year it happens. Santa hasn’t actually worked since 1959.) it’s time to break out everyone’s favorite almost tolerated holiday obligation: Christmas cards! And like all irritating newlyweds, Kim Kardashian decided to use a picture of her wedding as the card this year, except whoops! That was a sham cash-grab that ended after only two months. Ho ho ho and such.reports:
(NewsCore) - Kim Kardashian committed an expensive blunder after placing a large order with a top notch stationery company to produce Christmas cards featuring pictures of her and her soon-to-be ex from their now doomed marriage.
The 31-year-old American socialite asked the company to produce festive cards using the pictures of her and husband NBA star Kris Humphries that were taken on their big day in August, RadarOnline reported Tuesday.
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Need an idea for your holiday lip look this year? Take a cue from Kendall and go for a vibrant orange-coral shade.
Kendall Jenner took to her Twitter to reveal her makeup look for the official Kardashian family Christmas card. Do you like her long lashes and bright lips? She’s very on trend — Katy Perry just wore a similar look to the 2011 American Music Awards!
In the midst of everything that has happened recently for Kim Kardashian, things do appear to be slowly returning to normalcy. For the first time since her split from Kris Humphries, the reality star made an appearance at "Dancing with the Stars" to support her brother Rob -- who currently looks as though he could be the one to beat. In addition to that, she also took part in what has been a family tradition as of late.
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