W - 1st Anniversary

Yup, it's true, it's been a year.

The Dream Ends

But for this Dutchmen's downer and Hobart's 21-14 loss, Ed and I would have traveled to Union for the D-III Quarterfinals. Such is life.

Bucknell Strikes Again

Bucknell pulls off stunner at No. 17 'Cuse

Also,

KU loses to Arkansas

I Love The Internet

http://www.themonkeyscribe.com/ , I'd ask for one of these too, but you people never get me anything.

I Nearly Threw Up When The Score Was 20-4

However, "There are some positives to drag away from this game. This may be as athletic a team as we’ve seen at KU in quite a while, and quickness wasn’t an issue in the game. They looked good defensively at the beginning of the second half. Despite being down by 16 early and in danger of getting blown off the island the KU demonstrated the heart and determination of a champion, eventually tying the game at 41 with 11:46 to play. It was still a six point game with two minutes to go. "

Open For Discussion

Top 100 College PGs of the modern era: It’s only 100-81 right now,. Adonis Jordan & Aaron Miles in.

City Crime Rankings by Population Group

CITIES OF 500,000 OR MORE POPULATION: (32 cities)

Most Dangerous 10:

1 Detroit, MI

2 Baltimore, MD

3 Washington, DC

4 Memphis, TN

5 Dallas, TX

6 Philadelphia, PA

7 Columbus, OH

8 Nashville, TN

9 Houston, TX

10 Charlotte, NC

I've been living pretty dangerously, lately. In Baltimore now after 6 years in Dallas, and 5 years in St. Louis which is the most dangerous city of CITIES OF 100,000 TO 499,999 POPULATION: (208 cities). I'm planning a move to Camden, NJ which is flat-out the most dangerous city in the US. The city took the top spot last year from Detroit, which remained No. 2 in the most dangerous city rankings by Morgan Quitno Press. The national homicide rate in 2004 was 5.5 per 100,000. In Camden, the rate topped out at 60.8 per 100,000 - more than 10 times the national rate. By comparison, Philadelphia's homicide rate in 2004 was 22.2 per 100,000. Baltimore......42.7.

Union delivers by land, air

Hawkins sets ball-hawking tone

KU to enter Maui tourney as underdog

By Kevin Haskin
The Capital-Journal

Of all the illustrious basketball powers headed later this month to the EA Sports Maui Invitational, Kansas is the one program that may carry the lowest expectations.

Unranked in the preseason Associated Press poll for the first time since 1990-91, the Jayhawks must contend with a Maui field that includes four teams in the top 10 -- No. 3 Connecticut, No. 4 Michigan State, No. 8 Gonzaga and No. 10 Arizona. A fifth entrant, Maryland, is ranked No. 24.

The tournament is scheduled for Nov. 21-23 at the Lahaina Civic Center. On Thursday, each coach in the eight-team draw took turns marveling at the bracket, which includes a first-round matchup between KU and Arizona.

"This, in my opinion, is the best preseason matchups in a tournament situation I've seen, and that includes the NIT preseason or any you want to mention," Arizona coach Lute Olson said. "When you've got six teams that have won national championships and the seventh team that's been invited is Gonzaga ... it is loaded.

"There's going to be some great basketball games, and I feel strongly that every team is going to come out of that tournament with some positives to build upon and will know more about their teams. This is how they have to go into it, saying, 'Hey, this is the best of the best -- let's learn from it whether it's a win or a loss.' "

The coaching matchup between Olson and Self is a rematch of the 2000 final in Maui. Self was in his first season at Illinois and guided the Illini to the finals, where they lost 79-76 to Olson's Wildcats.

Self drew similarities to that Illinois team, except that this year's Jayhawks, who beat Fort Hays State 96-62 in an exhibition opener on Wednesday, possess less experience.

"We're going to make a lot of mistakes early. We're going to be up and down, but I think it'll be a team that will continually get better," Self said. "I think this tournament will do wonders for us because it'll certainly let us know where we stand on a national level."

The potential trouble that lurks is teams could go 1-2 in the tournament, or even 0-3 with a loss to host Chaminade. Suddenly, a potentially strong team could be hamstrung by a poor start.

"This is a great opportunity hypothetically. ... All the (team) names are great, and all of them will play great competition during the season," said UConn coach Jim Calhoun, who was inducted this past summer to the Basketball Hall of Fame.

"These are going to be games that are going to be highlighted by the (NCAA Tournament) committee," Calhoun said. "It's awfully early to be doing it, but we'll all come out of there with a heckuva lot better feel for who we are and what we are."

The other first-round matchup on KU's side of the bracket pits UConn and Arkansas. On the other side, Gonzaga meets Maryland and Michigan State faces Chaminade.

"You kinda have to tip your hat to all the coaches that have brought their teams over there," said Gonzaga coach Mark Few. "In this day and age there's a lot of guys playing relatively soft schedules and buying the games and staying at home. Yet you have all these nationally ranked teams showing up in basically a high school-sized gym over there and going to battle it out."

I Like This Guy

Murtha on Cheney: "I like guys who've never been there that criticize us who've been there. I like that. I like guys who got five deferments and never been there and send people to war, and then don't like to hear suggestions about what needs to be done." Somebody better call the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.

Now That's What I Call Football

Union College's football team will compete in the NCAA playoffs for the 10th time in the program's history, and first since 2000. The Dutchmen will host Ithaca College Saturday, November 19 at 12 p.m. in an NCAA Division III First Round playoff game.

After tonight's football game, my fantasy football team will fall to 1-9.

Arrested Development's season is being cut short and will not be renewed.

Chickens Don't Clap!

Wilco's live double album comes out tomorrow.

That is all.

Wait, there's more. Somebody buy me this book. For various reasons, I can't justify buying it for myself.

Spicy In. Pad Kee Mao style.

So I Guess This Makes Uggy A Hutu

CARACAS, Venezuela -- Philadelphia Phillies relief pitcher Ugueth Urbina has been arrested in Venezuela on charges that he and a group of friends attacked employees at his ranch with machetes and tried to set fire to them, police said on Tuesday. "He's been captured and he's held in one of our cells," investigative police commissioner Marcos Chavez told Reuters by telephone.

Down with Roy Williams.

I'm An Uncle Again

Oscar Wolfe born 11/05/05. I'm not so good with weights and measurements, so I'm going to wait until the official announcement before I start putting info out on the street.

I met the Mayor and future Governor yesterday in the lobby of my building. Anyone who watches the Wire should know that the character of Councilman Thomas "Tommy" Carcetti is based loosely on the current Mayor.

Holy Crap

Man Kills Buck With Bare Hands in Bedroom

BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) -- For 40 exhausting minutes, Wayne Goldsberry battled a buck with his bare hands in his daughter's bedroom. Goldsberry finally subdued the five-point whitetail deer that crashed through a bedroom window at his daughter's home Friday. When it was over, blood splattered the walls and the deer lay dead on the bedroom floor, its neck broken.

Goldsberry was at his daughter's home when he heard glass breaking. He went back to check on the noise and found the deer. ''I was standing about like this peeking around the corner when the deer came out of the bedroom,'' said Goldsberry. The deer ran down the hall and into the master bedroom -- ''jumping back and forth across the bed.'' Goldsberry entered the bedroom to confront the deer and, after a brief struggle, emerged to tell his wife to call police. After returning to the bedroom, the fight continued. Goldsberry finally was able to grip the animal and twist its neck, killing it.

Goldsberry, sore from the struggle, dragged the dead animal out of the house.
''He got kicked several times. He was walking bowlegged for a while,'' Deputy Doug Gay said.

Post #199

I love a good rap feud:

50 Cent Disagrees With Kanye West

NEW YORK (AP) -- Rap feuds aren't usually about differing opinions on President Bush. However, that appears to be the case between 50 Cent and Kanye West.
50 says he disagrees with West's infamous statement that ''George Bush doesn't care about black people,'' proclaimed during a September telethon for Hurricane Katrina victims.
''I think people responded to it the best way they can,'' 50 told ContactMusic.com. ''What Kanye West was saying, I don't know where that came from.''
Instead, 50 said, ''The New Orleans disaster was meant to happen. It was an act of God.''
It wouldn't be the first time 50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, made comments that weren't flattering of West. In a September interview with MTV, 50 -- while otherwise complimentary of the popular ''Gold Digger'' rapper -- said: ''I feel like Kanye West is successful because of me.''
''After 50 Cent, (hip-hop fans) was looking for something non-confrontational, and they went after first thing that came along. That was Kanye West, and his record took off.''
West's second album, ''Late Registration,'' has remained near the top of the charts since debuting Aug. 30.
50 stars in the upcoming film ''Get Rich or Die Tryin,'' a biopic of the rapper that is set to open Nov. 9.

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