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Post by Flying Horse on Sept 1, 2011 14:35:24 GMT -5
Why ?- - because I live near Syracuse and I did my graduate work at the university. Unfortuantely, I had to quit 5 credits short with my graduate thesis almost complete (on the 19th century women's rights movement in the US)
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Post by Flying Horse on Sept 1, 2011 19:05:34 GMT -5
ARRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!! >:(ESPN does it again. I've been watching the US Tennis Open most of the day (or rather listening) and ESPN has been advertising UNLV vs Wisconsin all day long. Guess what? They are telecasting Syracuse Univ. vs Wake Forest!! and I almost missed it!!!!
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Post by a on Sept 4, 2011 18:08:06 GMT -5
So, Syracuse won, Missouri won, Iowa won, Ohio State won. I think everybody we know here is happy!
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Post by Flying Horse on Sept 5, 2011 11:25:31 GMT -5
NFL: ....Indy radio host says Peyton needs another neck procedure. John Michael Vincent of ESPN 1070 says via Twitter, citing multiple unnamed sources, that Manning needs another procedure on his neck and will be out indefinitekly. He has had two neck surgeries in the last two years and there have been concerns regarding his recovery and rehab. The Colts, well known for burying injuriy information, have schedulted a press conference at noon to discuss the issue. I certainly hope the reports are erroneous. The NFL will sorely miss Peyton Manning and the Colts will be rendered inconsequential.
BCS/NCAA Football: ....#24 West Virginia dodges lightning, beats Marshall. The Mountaineers won a game delayed and then shortened by severe weather but Dana Holgorsen's offense showed some signs that it could match his wide-open philosophy before the dky turned ugly. And after 4 hours 22 minutes dealy, the game was halted with 14:36 left in the 4th quarter with WVU declared a 34-13 winner of intrastate rival Marshall University. With this weather-shortened win, the Big East was a perfect 8-0 on the oening of the college football season. Way to go Big E!!
R.I.P. Lee Roy Selmon, Oklahoma All- American and one of the most talented defensive linemen to ever grace a collegiate football field. He died at a Tampa, Fla. hospital of a massive stroke at age 57. On the playing field in Norman, Okla., Selmon was a force, the likes of which had never been seen. Off the field at South Florida in his later years, he helped a football program that “would not have been possible without his early and dedicated involvement.” It goes without saying that both programs are reeling from Selmon’s death. In between he had an All-Pro career (1979 Defensive Player of the Year) with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers joinging the NFL Hall of Fame when he became eligible. One of football's truly great men who whil be sorrily missed.
Baseball: ...SF Giants: Opportunity, and perhaps, hope, lost for Giants. The defending 2010 World Series champions fall seven games back of the Arizona Diamondbacks after losing yesterday's game 4-1 and the series to the D-backs. With each grind-it-out victory the Diamondbacks move closer to the NL West crown nobody envisioned for this bunch back in spring training. ... Injured Giants closer Brian Wilson, last season's majors saves leader who is sidelined with elbow inflammation, threw a light session of catch on flat ground. If Wilson feels fine Monday he will throw a light bullpen in San Diego. ....NY Yankees: Sabathia (19-7) keeps Yankees i front in East. Jeter tied a career high with 5 RBIs in the team's 9-3 win sweeping the Blue Jays in three games.
Jeter, A-Rod and Swisher all homered for the AL East leaders, while CC struck out 10 in 7 1/3 innings to win his 7th consecutive start against Toronto. In doing so, he continued to dominate slugger Jose Bautista, the major league home run leader, who is 0-18 againt the big lefty.
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Post by a on Sept 7, 2011 18:07:26 GMT -5
Just heard on the Denver news that a current Avalanche player and a former Avalanche player were killed in that Russian plane crash...
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Post by Flying Horse on Sept 8, 2011 12:09:35 GMT -5
KHL chief vows to rebuild team after plane crash.
All be one of the 28 Lokomotiv Yaroslavi players traveling to Belarus for ther first game were killed in a plane crash. The team will be rebult in time to take part in this year's Kontinental Hockey League season according to the league's leader, Alexander Medvedev. Each league team should volunteer up to three players to restock the decimated team. The KHL is an international club league that features 24 teams from Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Latvia and Slovakia. Lokomotiv is a leading force in Russian hockey, winning the Russian League championship in 1997, 2002 and 2003. It finished third in the KHL last year. Among those killed were Lokomotiv coach/NHL veteran Brad McCrimmon (Canadian), ass't coach Alexander Karpovtsev (one of the first Russions to have his name on the Stanley Cup with the NY Rangers) and Pavol Demitra who played for the St Louis Blues and Vancouver Canucks and was the Slovakian team captain. Other standouts killed were Czech players Josef Vasicek, Karel Rachunek and Jan Marek, Swedish goalie Stefan Liv, Latvian defenseman Karlis Skrastins and defenseman Ruslan Salei of Belarus.
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Post by a on Sept 8, 2011 16:15:22 GMT -5
Those are the former and current Avalanche players, Skrastins was traded for Salei.
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Post by moxie on Sept 8, 2011 17:22:11 GMT -5
I thought they always had a rule that teams were divided up to fly separately, so that if something like this happened it wouldn't be such a devastating loss. So sad.
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Post by Flying Horse on Sept 8, 2011 23:09:00 GMT -5
moxie--I think US teams do, but this was a Russian team flying on an antiquated airplane in Russia.
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Post by Coldwarrior on Sept 9, 2011 20:41:13 GMT -5
Watch out baseball fans, the Detroit Tigers are on a roll. Playing Minnesota right now. The Twins got 4 runs in the 1st inning but now it is 7-4 Tigers in the 5th. Two real good starters and a strong set of relief pitchers. The batting order is fearsome and can come from behind and kill the opponents with 2 outs in the 9th inning. They don't quit. Austin Jackson the centerfielder was acquired in a trade between the Yankees, Diamond Backs and the Tigers. The Tigers gave up Granderson which seemed to me at the time to be a major blunder. Jackson is every bit as good if not better than Granderson. he doesn't get as many homeruns but leads the league in triples. He has a cannon for an arm and has saved wins by throwing a guy out at the plate from centerfield. It was right in catcher Avila's glove from around 300 feet away. Only Al Kaline could do that. I would love to see the Diamondbacks play the Tigers in the World Series. Kirk Gibson is Arizona's manager and Alan Trammel the bench coach. Everyone around Detroit loves both of them even if they are on the opposing team. Never forget Kirks homerun against Goose Gossage to win the World Series. I'm sure Gossage remembers it too. Then Kirk went to LA and did the same thing for the Dodgers. Gibson doesn't have the numbers to get into the Hall of Fame but he provided some real thrills while he played. His numbers probably would have been better hadn't he had so much problems with his legs.
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Post by Flying Horse on Sept 10, 2011 13:47:23 GMT -5
CW--I have to agree about the Tigers (that Verlander is something else!!) and it wouldn't surprise me at all it the Tigers went to the World Series. But I really think the Philllies will take it all. What other team has 3 aces on its pitching staff? Holliday, Lee and Oswalt with Hamel along for 4th. And now they've come up with a kid pitcher who just might beat out Oswalt - Worley. And they have a batting order that can match anyone's. And they play good, fundamental baseball. I wish I could believe that my Yankees were going to make it, but they don't have the starting pitching. CC and the others. And everyone knows - in the playoffs, it's the pitching that counts.
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Post by Flying Horse on Sept 12, 2011 12:02:15 GMT -5
U.S. Open (tennis) Going into the match with Australian Sam STosur, Serena Williams was the heavy favorite among the experts. Well, they were wrong. Serena couldn't keep her temper and already being outplayed, she lost a point to her opponent for yelling during a point. The yell occurred after she had served the ball and seemed to me and evidently to the judge also, to be an attempt to rattle her opponent. She didn't. In the end Stosur beat her 6-2, 6-3 to win her first Grand Slam title. Hitting powerful strokes from the baseline, and looking fresher than the far-more-accomplished Williams right from the start, the ninth-seeded Stosur became the first Australian woman to win a major championship since Evonne Goolagong Cawley at Wimbledon in 1980. Today is the Men's Finals: Novak Djokovic vs. Rafael Nadal. Top-seeded Djokovic won 6-7 (7), 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, 7-5 Saturday to improve to 63-2 on the year and set up a rematch in the final against No. 2 Rafael Nadal, who beat No. 4 Andy Murray 6-4, 6-2, 3-6, 6-2 in the second semifinal. Nadal beat Djokovic in the final last year, but Djokovic is 5-0 against the Spaniard this year. All the meetings have been in tournament finals, including Wimbledon. On Monday, Nadal must try to stop the losing streak against a player who will come into the final on the high of a win he called definitely the biggest of the year and "one of the biggest wins of the career under the circumstances." Whoever wins, it should be an outstanding match. CBS 4:00 EDT.
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Post by Coldwarrior on Sept 13, 2011 10:57:02 GMT -5
Tigers keep winning. Martinez hit into 4 double plays the game before last night. On one of the double plays he got a RBI that won the game. Last night they scored 14 runs against the White Sox. Four Tigers in the middle of the batting order are over 300. But, victory can come from anyone. Bradon Inge hit a game winning homerun with 2 out in the 9th. He had been sent down to Toledo earlier to get straightened out. He could have asked for a trade but wanted to stay here. The time in the minors worked, He's back where he was. The Tigers are a different team now than they were in July. Fister a pitcher from Seattle was snapped up on waivers. I don't know what Seattle was thinking as they are doing poorly. Fister meanwhile is getting more K's than ever. Verlander probably has something to do with his improved pitching whether by team competition or inspiration, we will never know. But it's working well. I forgot his name but we also picked up a player from Minnesota that is doing well too. Not to mention Victor Martinez who came from Cleveland. The batting order is solid. Two pitchers are almost unbeatable, other starters are iffy but they can just as easily have a good day as a bad one. The bullpen is really good. If they keep going like they are, they will beat everyone. 10 wins in a row and counting. The Tiger's record is 12 wins in a row made in 1968 when they won the World Series.
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Post by Flying Horse on Sept 13, 2011 14:13:09 GMT -5
The Yankees pummeled King Felix of Seattle last night. Let's not get carried away. There's still the Yankees, Rangers and RedSox/Rays to get through.
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Post by Flying Horse on Sept 15, 2011 11:20:16 GMT -5
Sports: 1. NFL: Sorry, Jerry, but Romo doesn't look super.
Said Jerry Jones: “This may draw a little criticism, but I thought Tony played one of the best games I’ve ever seen him play.” Not only does the Dallas QB Tony Romo keep making killer mistakes but does anyone, besides Jones, thnk he can navigate past Aaron Rodgers, Drew Brees, Mike Vick and the rest of his NFC QB peers into the Super Bowl?
2. NBA: Agents in the way of labor resolution? Some players, pushed by their agents, are seeking decertification of the union. "If you've got a bunch of agents telling players not to trust Billy (Hunter, exec. director of the union), then you've got a break in solidarity," a player's agent said. Yes, decertification might be the path toward a more favorable agreement for the players in the long run, but would guarantee a long-haul lockout. For players, whose careers average 4 1/2 seasons, the loss of even months might mean money never recovered. The fact that such bickering is taking place within days of the scheduled start of training camp speaks volumes of how unsteady the players' strategy has been from the start. That's not to say the owners necessarily are any more resolute in their convictions, but merely that it is easier to hold together a group of 29 owners (the NBA owns the Hornets) than a union of 100s of players. Weel, it's just about time for training camp for the players to begin. Maybe they'll get down to some serious negotiations so as not to lose the season. And remember, this is one sport where a number of the owners ARE losing money.
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Post by Flying Horse on Sept 16, 2011 20:28:57 GMT -5
NHL: Buffalo Sabres get back to work
Back on the ice at the newly named First Niagara Center, the Buffalo Sabres reported for training camp today. The work of the day for the veterans was on ice testing, with practices scheduled to start Saturday. An impressive offseason saw the Sabres bring in proven talent and lock up some of their own to put a winner on the ice. With that, a lot is expected of the team this season. “A lot of fans are excited to see the change in the arena, change in name, change in owners, some different players. It's a great atmosphere right now. We’ve got to go get to work and focus in on camp,” said Derek Roy. “I think Buffalo right now, when Terry Pegula came and bought the team, it's been one of the places you want to play. It's a great hockey town and it's been a really competitive team for a couple years now. Players usually want to be on a team and be in a place where they appreciate hockey,” said free agent acquisition Ville Leino. My second favorite sport, even before college football. And the Rochester Amerks are the Sabres minor league team, so we get to see the future of the Sabres play and also those on rehab. It makes for great interest in hockey throughout the area, starting with youth hockey and high school teams. I think it's the most exciting and fastest team sport in the world.
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Post by Flying Horse on Sept 17, 2011 15:09:18 GMT -5
Sports
1. NCAA Football: a. Big East exit is said to begin for Syracuse and Pittsburgh.
Syracuse University, a founding member of the Big East, and Pittsburgh have begun the formal process of leaving the Big East by applying to join the Atlantic Coast Conference, an ACC official said. The same official said that at least 10 other universities had reached out to the ACC. The ACC presidents also moved to increase the fee exacted on schools leaving the conference from $12-14 million to $20 million (as you listening Miami and Florida State?). With the Southeast Conference perhaps looking to the ACC for its next member, it makes sense for the ACC to accept Syracuse and Pittsburgh. Those universities are being cautious about what they say because of possible legal action by Baylor University has significantly slowed Texas A&M's jump to the SEC. Universities are also seeking stability, a rallying cry of Oklahoma whose board of regents will meet Monday and discuss the Sooners' intent to leave the Big 12 and join the Pacific 12, probably taking Oklahoma State with it If the A.C.C. accepts Syracuse and Pittsburgh, the Big East will scramble once again to hold on to the rest of its members. Two possibilities are Baylor and Iowa State. Assuming Missouri goes to the Big 10. Where I wonder will Texas, Texas Tech, Kansas and Kansas State go? And the game of musical chairs goes on among the NCAA Division !-A football colleges.
b. Where football and higher education mix.
The University of Chicago, well known for Saul Bellow, Milton Friedman and links to 85 Nobel Prize winners, was once famous for football. It boasted a legendary coach (Amos Alonzo Stagg), a Heisman Trophy winner and a national championship (1905 beating Michigan). But in 1939, it did something extraordinary - gave up the game to save its soul. “In many colleges, it is possible for a boy to win 12 letters without learning how to write one,” Robert Maynard Hutchins, the university’s president, had written acidly of sports in The Saturday Evening Post. He particularly disparaged football, deriding as myth the idea that the game produced men of good character or instilled a sense of fair play. Indeed, for a college to be a success on the field, he said, it must be something of a scoundrel beyond it. But instead of euthanizing the game, Hutchins merely put it in a coma. In 1969 it returned as a varsity sport and since then it has been thriving on its own merits in Division III. Winning is preferred but not an obsession; players recruited but not given athletic scholarships; championships are won but little noticed. "We're just a teaspoon in a larger sandbox," said Dick Maloney Chicago's head coach since 1994. Last year, when the squad won the University Athletic Association championship, the clinching victory merited only 187 words in the hometown Chicago Sun-Timesand none in The Chicago Tribune. As a fan of another Division III school, Hobart College, and surrounded by a number of other Division III and II colleges, I understand exactly what the University of Chicago has achieved. A return to the true nature of sports, where winning is not the main point but how you play the game. And here in the western Finger Lakes, the local papers, including Rochester's Democrat and Chronicle, cover all the various colleges within its sphere (Hobart, Univ. of Rochester, Rochester Institute of Technology, Nazareth, St John Fischer, and SUNY Brockport and Geneseo).
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Post by a on Sept 18, 2011 11:24:43 GMT -5
So, from what I read, Missouri and Iowa won, Syracuse and Ohio State lost. I guess half of us are happy!
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Post by Flying Horse on Sept 18, 2011 13:05:50 GMT -5
<sigh> Unfortunately, you're right IIF
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Post by Flying Horse on Sept 18, 2011 14:03:04 GMT -5
Sports News:
1. NFL: Before surgery, Peyton Flew to Europe for stem cell therapy. Before Colts QB Peyton Manning had hismost recent neck surgery, he took a trip to Europe for a last-ditch effort to avoid going under the knife once again. The therapy is currently not approved for use in the US and didn't apparently work. So Manning still had the sergery. But it confirms that Manning will do whatever he has to do to play again.
2. NCAA Div 1-A Football: Ohio St out of AP Top 25 for 1st time since 2004.
Mark another loss for Ohio State in a year of setbacks. They fell out of the AP college football poll for the first time in nearly seven years, ending the US's longest streat of appearances in the Top 25. They had been ranked in 103 straight Top 25s since last being left out on 20 Nov 2004. The loss of Pryor, who would have been a senior, has left Ohio State (2-1) with huge problems at quarterback, and not until the sixth game of the season will the Buckeyes get three other key offensive players back in the lineup — running back Dan Herron, receiver DeVier Posey and tackle Mike Adams. Oklahoma stayed at No. 1 with Florida State dropping six spots to No. 11 and for the 3rd week LSU and Alabama flip-floppged Nos. 2 and 3. The Tigers moved up to No. 2 after beating Mississippi State 19-6 while the Crimson Tide slipped to third. Boise State stayed at No. 4 and Stanford mooved up to No. 5. The rest of this week's top 10 has Wisconsin at No. 6, followed by Oklahoma State and Texas A&M. [The Cowboys and Aggies meet in College Station, Texas, on Saturday.] Nebraska is No. 9 and Oregon 10th.
3. NCAA: a. Texas tp Pac-12 reportedly 'almost certain' and the ACC has accepted Syracuse and Pittsburgh as its newest members. But there is still one question amid the speculation that we do know still exists: is Texas willing to forfeit or compromise some of its power with the Longhorn Network? A move to the Pac-12 could very well force Texas to share its LHN revenue and exposure with other teams. Are the Longhorns prepared to give that up? Football independence , a la Notre Dame, is a possible route, as is landing with another conference — say, the ACC — who is more willing to accommodate Texas’ wishes. But don’t think for a second that the Longhorns are out in the cold on this one. There may be some truth to the statement that Texas “overplayed its hand“, but it seems unfathomable that if Texas came calling that a conference commissioner wouldn’t pick up the phone and listen. & In the meantime, wrapping up what’s been a whirlwind past 36 hours, the ACC announced Sunday morning in a press release that the conference’s Council of Presidents (COP) has unanimously voted to accept Pittsburgh and Syracuse as new members. The invitation followed the submission of letters of application from both universities within the past two days. The ACC, which has officially poached the Big East for the second time in a decade (Boston College & Va Tech), now stands at 14 members, although this could be their first shot in a move to a 16-team superconference. “The ACC has enjoyed a rich tradition by balancing academics and athletics and the addition of Pitt and Syracuse further strengthens the ACC culture in this regard,” said commissioner John Swofford. “Pittsburgh and Syracuse also serve to enhance the ACC’s reach into the states of New York and Pennsylvania and geographically bridges our footprint between Maryland and Massachusetts. With the addition of Pitt and Syracuse, the ACC will cover virtually the entire Eastern Seaboard of the United States.” It’s the second — with Texas A&M-to-the-SEC being the first — of what could be myriad dominoes tumbling in the next few weeks and months that could, and likely will, change the face of college football forever.
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