I don’t even know who that is in the fourth photo.

Article on Moaevaoigfaoiga’s injury:

Two injured starters on the Oregon State football team are progressing in their recovery, but their status for Saturday’s game against California is uncertain this early in the week.

Quarterback Lyle Moevao plans to test his arm in practice, but it is still sore when he throws the deep ball. His shoulder was injured Nov. 1 against Arizona State, and he missed last Saturday’s game at UCLA.

A decision by coach Mike Riley as to whom the starter will be between Moevao and Sean Canfield will happen later this week, and could be a game-time decision.

"Sean will be ready, and Lyle is getting closer," Riley said Tuesday. "(Monday, quarterback coach) Danny Langsdorf asked him where he was percentage-wise and he thought 80 percent. Knowing Lyle, that means 60 or 70 percent. I do think he’s getting close to ready to go."

Moevao said he’s really about 70 percent, but believes he’ll be able to play. It’s just a matter of how much pain he can take when he throws deep.

He practiced Tuesday, sharing time on the first string with Canfield. Moevao’s passes didn’t have the usual zip and the ball fluttered at times.<

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Article on Canfield:

There’s still no quarterback controversy at Oregon State.

There is, however, a quarterback quandary.

Once again, a hurt shoulder has forced one starter to the sideline and given another the chance to thrive.

While Sean Canfield’s injury forced him out of his starting spot for the final few games last season and the first eight this year, Canfield stepped in when Lyle Moevao fell on his shoulder during the Arizona State game and led the Beavers to a 27-25 win over the Sun Devils.

Last week, Canfield started his first game since suffering an injury to his left shoulder in a loss to Southern California in the ninth game of the 2007 season.

Although he saw significant minutes in the Emerald Bowl, offseason surgery kept him on the shelf throughout the spring and fall and limited him to minor mop-up duty until Nov. 1.

"It’s been awesome," Canfield said. "It’s finally come to the point where I can show what I can do."

Canfield said his shoulder didn’t feel right until the week of the Washington State game. With the exception of a few underthrown deep balls, his arm looks live enough to stretch the field.

Canfield has done just that in the past two games. He completed 19 of 28 passes for 218 yards and two touchdowns against the Sun Devils.

He followed that up by throwing for 222 yards and two touchdowns against the Bruins. He completed 16 of 22 passes in the game.

"He’s brought a lot to the table," OSU guard Gregg Peat said. "He stepped up big in the last game and he threw some awesome balls, I mean they were just perfect."

It hasn’t gone off without a hitch or two. There was the interception and 41-yard touchdown return by Troy Nolan against ASU, a pick at the UCLA goal line and an untimely fumble to stop potential OSU scoring drives last Saturday.

Avoiding meltdowns is a key for Canfield.

Also from Okanes:

Wide receiver Nyan Boateng was at the press luncheon today and was very candid about his disappointment with the progression of the team’s passing game. He acknowledged that having such an inexperienced group of receviers was a big reason for the team’s lack of production through the air. He also said he feels like the team would be better off if it just picked one quarterback and stuck with him.

"It’s been real frustrating but that’s what happens when you have new starters and you graduate all your receivers," Boateng said. "It takes a little bit of time. I didn’t think it was going to go this far into the season, but I think we learned a lot from this game and I think we’re going to build on it."

Boateng said at first he didn’t think the rotating of quarterbacks was a big deal, but he said it was tough to make the adjusment from one to the other, as demonstrated by the second half of Saturday’s game against USC.

"At first, as a receiving corps, we felt like it didn’t matter who was in there, but in the middle of a game when you switch quarterbacks like that, the timing gets thrown off a little bit. I think we need to just have one guy and stick with it."

and is that Joe F**king Ayoob?!?!?!

I wonder if Pete Carroll ever paid a song girl to sleep with a recruit…maybe he doesn’t even have to pay ’em…maybe he just asks them fresh after gurgling with mint green Listerine and staying in a Holiday Inn Express the night before.

“After the game I stayed out there and talked to a bunch of guys from SC and they felt like we were the better team that day,” Boateng said. “They said some things I can’t talk about but they felt like we were better.”

“I told that to guys in the locker room and that gave us a lot of confidence,” he added. “That game was big for us. Even though we lost it’s a positive because it’s going to help us down the stretch. Now we now how to handle those tough teams and those type of games.”

Greg Smith, CarGon, and Street are going to the Rox.

AN is absolutely blowing up over this. It’s the biggest thing since the bash brothers (maybe? too far?).

It would be interesting to see how this progresses. I could see Beane pushing for a pre-season extenstion. Holliday’s agent is show-me-the-money Boras who doesn’t do pre-season extensions very often (if at all). Beane might see what he can get for Holliday…or Holliday could suck in Oakland with a crappy offense and a crappy ballpark and become more affordable after the season. If he does suck, the A’s might not want to pay big bucks for someone who would be turning 30 by 2010.

I told those fucks down at the league office a thousand times that I don’t roll on Shabbos!

this is crazy.

A postdoctoral researcher in the UCSF urology department has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly admitting that he twice tried to poison a colleague by putting laboratory chemicals in her drinking water, authorities said Tuesday.

The bizarre scheme ended when researcher Benchun Liu, 38, allegedly told the colleague, lab technician and research assistant Mei Cao, that he had tried to kill her, police said.

Ryan Anderson, Nets
Anderson is proving to be an excellent pick by the Nets, who were torn between him and Courtney Lee on draft night. They drafted Anderson hoping he’d be a space creator with his shooting ability, and they look smart right now. He can definitely shoot, and he plays with passion, confidence and some toughness.

from Wilner’s blog:

The Bears are focused on big men and are expected to sign at least three players, their top prospect being Bak Bak, a power forward from Sun Valley who was named honorable-mention Best in the West. (He’s originally from the Sudan.)

The Bears also have commitments from guard Brandon Smith of Concord and forward Markuri Sanders-Frison, a JC transfer from Texas, according to scout.com

(Sanders-Frison might be Montgomery’s first-ever junior college recruit; I’m not sure about his Montana years.)

Could we get a “Pete Carroll does his cheerleaders scandal” going?

None other than the newest unmember of Oregon State and newest member of Cal. Mr Douglas Englebart!

Broderick Green (who?) is going to transfer to Are Kansas as the PTBNL for the Mitch Mustain trade.

Will recruits finally stop choosing to ride pine for 4 years? Short of Carroll leaving, recruits getting this message could really help our Bears.

http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12566826

Only a few years ago, so few people blogged that being a blogosphere celebrity required little more than showing up. Now it takes hard work. And vitriol. "Today the blogosphere is so charged, so polarised, and so filled with haters hating that it’s simply not worth it," Mr Calacanis lamented.

The rest of the world may well have missed the unfolding of his tragedy. Behind it, however, is a bigger trend. Blogging has entered the mainstream, which—as with every new medium in history—looks to its pioneers suspiciously like death.

… what does DBD stand for? (crouches down and covers head as frozen oranges are thrown my way)

California Golden Blogs are 5th in the Numb Existence category, where they seem to be perennial top 5 contenders.

New Boy Scout Eagle Project.

10. Truth or Beaver!

Are you guys illitirate illiitarate ill unable to read?!

HT to BI
:

Just found this on ESPN’s college football recruiting page.

"Under Armour All-American cornerback Steve Williams has decommitted from the Sooners and could join California’s Class of 2009, ESPN affiliate Web site OUInsider.com reports.

When asked if he was a solid pledge, Williams responded, “I don’t want to lie to you guys, but I don’t think so. I think I am going to go to California and I am going to decommit from Oklahoma.”

He continued, “It is not really about Oklahoma it is just that I like California better. I just don’t see myself as an Oklahoma Sooner as far as the system of playing cornerback. It is nothing against Oklahoma because it is a real good system, but I just want to play somewhere else.”

Click here for the ESPN report.

I accidentally stumbled across this ASCII thing for beaver week as I was trying to draw an ass…
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