Comment from: Stephen [Member]
JoJo:
Juju was hurt that you referred to her laugh as the pillsbury doughboy's. Then she actually did the laugh for us.

I'm not sure if my text will show up on that column, but I did politely suggest that perhaps BYU should consider rejoining the WAC which they left so many years ago as there is a fairly decent TV package with ESPN!

Ryan Moats had a morning that's become far too common. He had a few impressive runs -- including a cut back that was one of the better moves in camp -- but he finished the drive by fumbling on the goal line. This isn't news, but Moats needs to hold onto the football.

Taaffe gave the players a three-week schedule about a month ago, so they could start making travel arrangements rather than leaving it to this week.

"I told them 'I'm giving you plenty of advance warning, get your plans made, get all that stuff out of the way, so when we get into the game week for this game, you're not trying to make plane reservations or trying to decide where you're going after the game,'" he said yesterday.

Comment from: WreckinEyez [Visitor]
Hey SteveM... When did I come along? I was a Lurker too before I posted...

Mario Cox intercepts Tyler Graunke

Cam Cameron plans to use most of his offensive starters throughout the first half during Miami's preseason debut. The move is a stark departure from past Miami coaches and most NFL teams that generally bench their starters after a couple of series in preseason openers.

Cameron was unavailable for comment Friday but his goal seems to be giving as much work as possible to an offense that is under reconstruction and needs repetitions together in a game setting.

Brown will be running behind a starting offensive line that also is expected to play at least through the first half.

In all, the Dolphins are expected to start four rookies on offense and defense with guard Drew Mormino and center Samson Satele joining Ginn and Soliai.

Montana said before his death, Walsh asked him to tell the players how much he loved them.

"But I don't think he knows how much we loved him," Montana said. "On behalf of all the players, Coach, we love you and are going to miss you."

Comment from: homey [Visitor]
So Tsai, will the UH football defense step it up this year? Last year they looked like they were a couple of steps slower than the other team. I also noticed that they didn't tackle very good.

Do you have any insights on the Wahine Vollyball recruits?

What about the B-ball team? How are the recruits and what's the buzz about a replacement for Wallace?

Will be baseball team be pretenders? Was this past year a "lucky" season?

You would think the Golf teams at least be in the top ten. How come we cannot recruit better players? Same with Softball and Soccer. The Soccer coach gotta go.


07/25/06 @ 11:14

Comment from: Timmy B, da Punchbowl Kid [Visitor]
Leahey rocks. Most of us have no problem understanding him. Buy a dictionary maybe?
As for the Warriors...
for now I leave our dear readers with this:
BOOM goes the DYNO-MITE!!
Stay tuned for details in future WB must reads.
08/12/06 @ 06:25

Comment from: al [Visitor]
what we forget is that, these are young men (kids) who may not or will not make sound decisions all the time. in fact, they will most often make a poor/'bad' decision rather than a sound one. they will tend to make emotionally based decisions more often than not. but, its okay, this paves the way for some deserving walk-on, and we have many at UH, that is good. by the same token we will get back a player who hastily went away only to find home again and a lot of success. so yeah, the coaches are right, every year you lose some but every year you gain some. it all works out and for the better. it is better to have hard working, team minded players than one who is disgruntled. you know the old saying "one bad apple spoils the whole bunch." good luck to them in their pursuit of happpiness. we will survive. go bows, oops warriors!
08/12/06 @ 15:16

ahh, the rest is history.

Comment from: Barry Markowitz [Visitor]
Kazz, I think Samoa has already adopted Reinebold as a member of the family. In Samoa there isn't much concern if you are a Tongan or Solomon Islander heritage Samoan, Chinese Samoan, or a haole kine Samoan. 1/4 of Samoans are probably related to Reinebold on their German side, as Samoa was a former German colony under the Kaiser.

talking about stooges...hmmmm, ok, now that i am not in the inner circle but on the outer circle....i can understand....haha. oh well, that's life. al could me moe, the other 2 is up for grabs.

Red: I need a compass just to find my okole.

Comment from: princess leila [Member]
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today's shout out should go to st and family. here's hoping all's well at the tsai household. again...our prayers go out to you.

San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom told the crowd Friday the field at Monster Park would be named after Walsh, although the name of the stadium won't change.

It was an emotional request. Oscar De La Hoya had barely lost the richest boxing match in history by one judge's 12th-round score when he was met by his wife, Millie, telling him she was pregnant with their second child and asking him to end his fighting career.

More than three months after his split-decision loss to unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr., De La Hoya, 34, said Friday he has yet to convince his wife that he should fight again, but proclaimed, "I'm not retired."

did you know that only larry was not a brother?

John Estes (sprained left elbow) sat out the drills. He is not expected to resume practicing full-time until Monday.

By the way, thanks for all of the kind thoughts and prayers for our daughter. Looks like things are going to be OK. We appreciate your thoughtfulness.

Like a shepherd, Jesus will guard his children
In His arms He carries them all day long

After consulting with a fellow Big 12 Conference school, the University of Oklahoma wants the NCAA to strike a self-reported secondary rules violation from its record.

Oklahoma originally reported that it had broken NCAA rules when it hung jerseys with three prospects' high school numbers in the Sooners' locker room when the recruits came to visit.

The university's executive director of compliance subsequently sent a letter to the NCAA asking to have that violation removed, according to documents obtained Friday through an open records request.

Evolving offensive line: Who are the starters, and will rookies C Samson Satele and G Drew Mormino — as well as inexperienced RT Anthony Alabi — give their quarterbacks enough time to throw? Can they prove they belong on the first unit?

Cameron admitted that only "40 percent" of his multipronged offense has been installed, and fourth, his theme of the week to his team as he prepares for his first exhibition game as an NFL head coach is to "fail forward fast."

"In this business, we want them to fail," Cameron said Thursday. "Preseason games are awesome for teaching because it's a legitimate chance for them to fail and then we want them to fail forward fast.

"If you're failing forward that means you're failing, but you're learning. Then you've got to learn fast. Early in the first quarter, I want some guys to go out there and fail in the first quarter and then regroup and get it corrected in the second quarter. Or fail in the first half, and then dig down inside, get it corrected and then go out and correct it in the second half."

y = 2x³ – 297x² + 12565x – 128400

He helped a college basketball player into an All-Pro tight end (Antonio Gates); a rookie center into a Pro Bowler (Nick Hardwick); and won with quarterbacks who were too old (Doug Flutie), too small (Flutie and Drew Brees) or too inexperienced (Philip Rivers).

In two weeks of training camp, Cameron has continued the theme.

Coaches have repeatedly re-shuffled the offensive line and played two rookies, center Samson Satele and guard Drew Mormino, and a third-year pro without an NFL start, tackle Anthony Alabi, with the first unit.

Cameron has given as many first-team reps to quarterback Cleo Lemon as to high-priced veteran acquisition Trent Green and experimented with 270-pound rookie fullback Reagan Mauia at backup tailback.

NATE ILAOA, RUNNING BACK

Ilaoa is a big guy who has been effective in training camp when he gains a head of steam. He isn't quick or shifty, but Ilaoa has been able to get through holes and make some plays. He has been up and down catching the football, but with a couple of games ahead and with some chances to get into a groove, Ilaoa has a chance to make the coaches ponder the depth chart at halfback.

See Mark Jones is back to return this kickoff. Gruden emphasized this week the need to have one guy return punts AND kickoffs. In the past, Jones has done only punts. His best bet to make the final roster is to show he can do both. And, I'm not so sure he shouldn't have tried to bring that kick out of the end zone. He had a couple lanes that potentially have been exploited.

y = x©¯ – 46x©˜ + 129x + 9900

y = x^3 – 46x^2 + 129x + 9900

Ask A Scientist - Mathematics Archive
Quadratic Formula and roots of a cubic:

Any cubic, y^3 + p*y^2 + q*y + r = 0 can be reduced to x^3 + a*x + b = 0
by the substitution x = y - p/3 and where a = (3*q - p^2)/3 and
b = (2*p^3 - 9*p*q + 27*r)/27. Then the three solutions are given by:
x = A + B, -(A + B)/2 +/- (A - B)*sqrt(-3)/2
where A = [ sqrt((b/2)^2 + (a/3)^3) - b/2 ]^ 1/3
and B is same as A except for a minus sign in front of the sqrt.

Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani said Friday that he misspoke when he said he spent as much time, if not more, at ground zero exposed to the same health risks as workers combing the site after the Sept. 11 attacks.

"I think I could have said it better," he told nationally syndicated radio host Mike Gallagher. "You know, what I was saying was, 'I'm there with you.'"

The former New York mayor upset some firefighters and police officers when he said Thursday in Cincinnati that he was at ground zero "as often, if not more, than most of the workers."

"I was there working with them. I was exposed to exactly the same things they were exposed to. So in that sense, I'm one of them," he told reporters at a Los Angeles Dodgers-Cincinnati Reds baseball game.

Fire and police officials responded angrily, saying Giuliani did not do the same work as those involved in the rescue, recovery and cleanup from the 2001 terrorist attacks, which left many workers sick and injured.

Giuliani's explanation further angered his ground zero critics, prompting several to issue a statement demanding an apology.

"He is such a liar, because the only time he was down there was for photo ops with celebrities, with politicians, with diplomats," said deputy fire chief Jimmy Riches, who spent months digging for his firefighter son.

"On 9/11 all he did was run. He got that soot on him, and I don't think he's taken a shower since."

Harold Schaitberger, president of the International Association of Fire Fighters, a union that fiercely opposes Giuliani, said he doubted Giuliani misspoke.

"I think he was simply showing what his true character is - a self-absorbed, self-deluded promoter who got caught and is now just simply trying to backtrack," Schaitberger said.

Cameron laughed when asked if tonight's game means more for some players than others simply because the answer is pretty straightforward:

"Yes, plain and simple," he said.

There will be times tonight when the Dolphins coach expects players to go out and completely forget what they've been taught the past few weeks. In fact, you could say he's counting on it.

"I can tell you that there will be a significant number of guys Saturday night that abandon all technique," Cameron said. "It happens every year. They hold it in. They do it. They get to where they understand at meetings. Then they go out and they start to transfer it to practice.

"All of a sudden, you throw the lights on, they've got family in the stands and they go back to doing what they did senior year of high school. That's where the mistakes come. I'm looking forward to seeing which guys just have the belief in their technique. That's a huge part of the evaluation in early preseason games, especially with young guys."

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BTW - Jason, how did you calibrate your scale? Huuuhhhhhh?

Arizona is having so much trouble with teens from low income families dropping out of school that they are now PAYING teens $25 per week to stay in school, stay out of trouble, and pass their classes.

Another pet peeve is when people say: NONE of them ARE.

None = no one is.

So it should be: NONE of them IS.

Jason - Are these "left-over" problems you had for the summer school class you were going to teach?

To correct that, it would be better to write something like this:

Having danced the night away, they fell deeply in love.

where the participle modifies they.
corny I know! But maybe you can do better.

What was that on Ikaika Alama-Francis' face? War paint?

Bill Walsh planned his own memorial service in the months before his death with the same attention he paid to every aspect of the 49ers.

Even when a lengthy fight with leukemia finally sapped his strength last month, Walsh made sure Thursday's tribute at Stanford, Calif., would be a celebration of a Hall of Fame coach's life, as well as a chance for hundreds of old friends to praise and mourn.

Walsh's family and a cross-section of the football fraternity gathered at Stanford Memorial Church to praise the 49ers coach as an innovative leader and a loyal friend. More than 1,000 mourners honored Walsh, who died July 30 at 75.

The fact the offensive line, which is a hard-hat area under construction, is also supposed to play the first half is another stroke of genius. Play the rookies the entire game, I say. Let Drew Mormino and Samson Satele get their experience now rather during the regular season. At least let them go into the regular season with four games already under their jockstraps.

That's the way Don Shula approached it with Keith Sims and Richmond Webb 17 years ago, and I believe the strategy still works today.

With heavy competition at the running back position, Ilaoa also has been training on the Eagles' special teams. He said he could also see himself as one of the special-team aces on punt-return coverage or kickoff coverage.

"You just come out here and just try to find some way you can fit in and try to help the team, and that's what everybody who is out here is trying to do — to make the team and find their way to contribute."

Oh, and my howls of laughter at colleagues who are filing carefully-crafted stories and columns on deadline, while I can post a series of sentence fragments here.

As in "Samson Satele: Samoan. Strong."

Nate Ilaoa, RB

Heckert: “Nate shows up. I'll tell you what, he's not real fast, but he's got real good feet and he's a natural ball carrier and he's tough. We've got a lot of good backs, but he's done some nice things and we're happy with where he is.”

Pacman Jones will not wrestle, have physical contact of any kind or be involved in any other action that puts him at risk of injury, under terms of an agreement reached late Friday between the suspended cornerback and the Titans.

Charlie Taaffe said Maas is getting better every week.
"I think he is becoming the type of quarterback that I had hoped he would be," Taaffe told the Edmonton media here Friday.