DBD 12.4.09 - Don't look past the Fuskies
by carp on Dec 4, 2009 6:33 AM PST
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Onto the News and World Report after the Yump.
All links SF Gate, SFW, and should open in a new window unless otherwise noted. Cal-themed stories are in blockquotes for your rapid scanning pleasure.
http://imgs.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2009/12/03/ba-oliveridleytu_0500908415_part1.jpg
Rare giant sea turtle found in the Stinson Beach area. Biologists are drooling.
Guns and Deaths: OPD kills one suspect, wounds another in an E. Oakland apt complex. Homicide in Alameda.
Nov. unemployment rate drops to 10%.
Samoan tsunami wave was measured at 46 ft high.
Comcast makes an offer for NBC. Would, uh, love to see the Pac10 on the peacock.
Take a weekend trip to Big Sur.
Florida man lies about robbery to avoid telling wife about money he spent. As Ron White says, "You can't fix stupid."
AND YOU WILL KNOW MY NAME IS THE LORD WHEN I LAY MY VENGEANCE UPON THEE: Jesus Christ dumped from jury pool.
Jude Law's getting ex-sex (Caution: SFGate Daily Dish).
Sports
Tom Stienstra, aka the Chron's Best Columnist, on the status of Bay Area state parks.
A's aquire Jake Fox, a decent power 3b/utility guy, and Aaron Miles, a no-hit & no-field 2bmen, from the Cubs for Jeff Gray and 2 prospects. I like it, though Spencer seemed to have a very good A and AA seasons. Fox will play third when the wheels on Chavez fall off again (~March?) and Miles is the classic "I hope a change of scenery turns you into Jesus of the Double Play Pivot."
Tom Rathman and Jeff Ulbrich might be interested in HC and Asst Coaching positions at SJSU.
In case you were hiking in Iraq: Oregon's going to the Rose Bowl. Well, to date Cal's lost to 3 quality teams. I was thinking for a minute that this would be a wacky year if OSU won. Hopefully Scott and Company can build off the success of the teams on the field and the Pac10's success off it (regarding the better bowl agreements).
To beat Washington, Cal will have to do so without starting left guard Matt Summers-Gavin. He has been ruled out of Saturday’s game because of the concussion he sustained against Stanford. This is the fourth game Summers-Gavin has missed this season — the previous three were because of a shoulder injury. Mark Boskovich and Richard Fisher will split time in Summers-Gavin’s place.
Cornerback Syd’Quan Thompson returned to practice tonight and is a go for Saturday. And the field goal kicker will once again be decided during pre-game warm-ups.
Coach Jeff Tedford didn’t have a report about Jahvid Best’s meeting with concussion specialist Michael Connors at the University of Pittsburgh’s Medical Center. He was scheduled to get a debriefing from a team doctor later tonight. But he did explain why Best was sent to Pittsburgh, even though he said Best hasn’t complained about concussion symptoms for a couple of weeks.
"How often do you get taken off on a stretcher?" he said. "If you have a headache, you’re not going to send him to Pittsburgh. If you take him off on a stretcher, you’re going to send him to Pittsburgh. We’re going to exhaust everything we can to make sure he’s OK."
I will be traveling to Seattle tomorrow and am not sure if I will have time to get on here before I leave. If not, I will certainly check in from the Pacific Northwest. The forecast actually doesn’t call for rain, but I’ll believe it when I see it.
That's about it for Cal-content on teh Internetz that isn't Sun Bowl-related. We wouldn't want to bring on bad juju.
Oh yeah, nominate Carlee for SI Cheerleader of the Week or die.
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I think we're all lucky carp posted this early enough
I was in the process of writing up a dbd to express how hungover I am currently.
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word. i was totes hungover this morning. to make matters worse the gf kept trying to get to go to the gym with her.
No sleep plus bad hangover = HOW THE HELL AM I GOING TO GET THROUGH TODAY?!
I can’t even drink this coffee.
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Not too well :(
But maybe I need to work better on my approach. I will attempt it again this weekend when I’m not blastedly drunk.
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Hmm I suppose it does take some getting used to
I used to assume a fake identity early in the night before getting too far gone, and by the time I was, I pretty much was in character or two for the rest of the night.
Incidentally, if you do decide to pull two identities, make sure you remember which pocket you put which set of fake cards. Though the awkwardness of pulling out a card saying you market tobacco products to minors when you’ve been saying you’re a neurosurgeon all night is amusing too.
Go Bruins!
have you observed that very few women lift weights? And, if so, it’s all lower leg stuff? In fact, it’s usually a gazillion minutes of cardio while watching Saved by the Bell reruns followed by either abs or stretching.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
I have heard that they enjoy shopping and speaking ill of other women behind their backs. Not to mention feeling low-self esteem in regards to men.
President Emperor Warlord Of The Sun!
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Rumor has it that many of them feel that if they could just lose that extra five pounds, they could reclaim 50% of the contents of their closet.
by DC Trojan on Dec 4, 2009 8:28 AM PST up reply actions 3 recs
Hey, you gents appreciate the tight clothes, and tight clothes come with little margin of error.
Ragnarok: Great Man or Greatest Man?
by AndBears on Dec 4, 2009 8:38 AM PST up reply actions 3 recs
Except they don’t realise that if they built solid muscle mass, they won’t get jacked, just toned.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XEI2InseCg is kind of awesome in that regard.
UCLA's Bowl Quest Just got a Post-Season Boost
Both the Chicago Tribune and AOL Fanhouse are reporting that Notre Dame is likely to turn down a bowl invitation this weekend. The team is expected to meet with athletic director Jack Swarbrick on Friday to make a final decision.
http://espn.go.com/blog/ncfnation/post/_/id/14795/no-need-for-notre-dame-to-go-bowling
Boy, that’s really stupid. Six weeks of bowl prep could’ve really helped out their defense.
Oh well, looks like it’ll be UCLA’s gain.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Dec 4, 2009 7:30 AM PST up reply actions
But six weeks of mind-numbing practice after a pretty terrible season probably wouldn’t help team morale too much. Maybe if they locked up their new head coach quickly enough that he could help out for the bowl season it’d be a different story, but it makes sense that they don’t want to play. Also, ND sucks!
by calbeers05753 on Dec 4, 2009 7:54 AM PST up reply actions
They do suck. Still makes it stupid. Think big picture Irish fans (at least the ones who can read).
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by Avinash Kunnath on Dec 4, 2009 7:56 AM PST up reply actions
I can’t tell you how much I enjoy watching someone condescend to Notre Dame fans who went to a university with which they can’t possibly claim academic superiority / parity.
Football is a major at Harvard?
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by Avinash Kunnath on Dec 4, 2009 8:07 AM PST up reply actions
bah. all private universities are the same.
day care for teenage rich kids.
Go Bears Go
My mother/sister/girlfriend is dead.
Like cocaine straight from Bolivia.
by Thoroughbred on Dec 4, 2009 10:04 AM PST up reply actions
The joke is complete.
Like cocaine straight from Bolivia.
by Thoroughbred on Dec 4, 2009 10:06 AM PST up reply actions
ok pick one:
1. “why do you hate poor people?”
2. “ALL ALCOHOL TASTES EXACTLY THE SAME”
3. “suits are lame”
4. “Royrules is a witty, engaging individual”
OOO OOO i want to see 1. again!
Like cocaine straight from Bolivia.
by Thoroughbred on Dec 4, 2009 10:04 AM PST up reply actions
I feel like #1 is getting kind of old, honestly.
Maybe we can do a different facet of the same slapfight: Teacher salaries? Public employee pensions? Community college funding?
whoops.
Ragnarok: Great Man or Greatest Man?
by AndBears on Dec 4, 2009 10:17 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
as the sole authority in this case I’ll allow it, not even I could resist that leather jacket.
by turkey on Dec 4, 2009 10:18 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Two button, slightly lower taper, meant to be worn with a spread collar, not a pinpoint.
Black is the best way to go, but one lighter suit is also good for variety.
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those are sweeeeeeet coats!
I’d cerally wear one.
Go Bears Go
by Rocksanddirt on Dec 4, 2009 12:14 PM PST up reply actions
Jon Tenuta was pretty good at Georgia Tech.
Proud to hold season tickets to the only NBA team soon to be owned by a Russian oligarch.
Absolutely pathetic if true.
So what if they have no Head Coach. UCLA fired Dorrell and they put an interim guy in to coach the bowl game in 2007.
Way to quit on the season, ND.
Actually...
I was wrong. Had the wrong year in my head. I was thinking of 2002 when Toledo got fired and Ed Kezarian (The Towel Waving Guy on the UCLA sidelines stepped in)
When Toledo was fired on December 10, 2002, Kezirian became the interim head coach for the game against the New Mexico Lobos in the Las Vegas Bowl on December 25, 2002.
Well, that or not, she’s still a member of the team. If you have a team member that sucks, either help or kick them off. Don’t just keep them on the team to kick around
Ragnarok: Great Man or Greatest Man?
Right, which is why Gary Barnett was right to kick her off the team…
I mean, he was a douchebag, but he made the right decision there.
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The right decision for Barnett would have been to resign in shame for being a horrible human being
The #1 greatest threat to America: BEARS
Yea his last comment was ultra-lame. You get a comment that one of your ex-players was sexually assaulted by your other players and your comment is to say that the player sucked balls (both literally and figuratively)?
In other words, Go Bears!
Look up.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Dec 4, 2009 11:07 AM PST up reply actions
"Hun, please don't leave me. I'll give you $80 million dollars if you stay."
Tiger Woods is finding out the hard way that “I’m sorry” is not enough.
After publicly apologizing for his “transgressions,” the golfing great reportedly offered to give his wife, Elin Nordegren, a cool $5 million to keep her from walking – and taking their two young kids with her.
Battered by reports he cheated with three winsome women, Woods was also revising a prenuptial agreement that would give the former bikini model an additional $55 million just to stay with him two more years, The Daily Beast Web site reported.
If Nordegren can hack being Mrs. Tiger Woods for at least seven years, she gets $80 million, a “lawyer familiar with the couple’s negotiations” told Daily Beast reporter Gerald Posner.
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My God, there's more of them?
Tiger Woods did not pay purported gal pal Rachel Uchitel to cancel her expected dish-all news conference.
She backed out because she was “scared for her safety,” sources told the celebrity gossip website TMZ.
The 34-year-old New York party girl cancelled the planned conference after a spate of late night phone
calls with Woods, TMZ said Friday, citing unnamed sources.
Uchitel, one of three women identified as love interests of the married golfer, “walked away without taking a cent from Tiger Woods,” the website reported. “This was absolutely not about money.”
Sources told TMZ that Uchitel was “scared for her safety because she knows so much about Tiger, his alleged affairs and a variety of other Woods matters.”
“Rachel does not fear Tiger, as much as she fears all the other people caught in what is becoming a very large net,” the website reported.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Dec 4, 2009 8:04 AM PST up reply actions
Cal Football Fans Responsible for the downfall of World's Greatest Golfer?
Remember, none of this happened until we booed him.
Or maybe we’re all psychic and KNEW he had cheated on his wife.
I've been Honked...
Ari Fleischer, BCS propaganda director (or whatever they call it) comes up with an apt analogy
The former Bush factotum and current BCS shill discusses the playoff “scheme” with Bryan Curtis: “It’s like saying we should get rid of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and hold smaller parades all across America.”
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Fleischer think we should all watch what we say about the BCS.
by DC Trojan on Dec 4, 2009 8:07 AM PST up reply actions 2 recs
Rec’d for reminding us that Ari Fleischer is a bullying jackass that should always be ignored.
by paleodan on Dec 4, 2009 7:03 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
In Other Bush News
On this day in 1992.
President George H. Bush orders 28,000 U.S. troops to Somalia, a war-torn East African nation where rival warlords were preventing the distribution of humanitarian aid to thousands of starving Somalis. In a military mission he described as “God’s work,” Bush said that America must act to save more than a million Somali lives, but reassured Americans that “this operation is not open-ended” and that “we will not stay one day longer than is absolutely necessary.” Unfortunately, America’s humanitarian troops became embroiled in Somalia’s political conflict, and the controversial mission stretched on for 15 months before being abruptly called off by President Bill Clinton in 1993.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?id=7101&action=tdihArticleCategory
I find it odd, this is the precursor to the now prevalent piracy problems.
If Zoo News and 33SS get in a BIG slapfight over the political implications of George HW Bush sending troops into Somalia in the early 90s and its relationship with modern piracy problems, I am going to be so PISSED at you, chowder!
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Pussy have you ever been in war? Go join the military and kill some people and then you can experience real life
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by Rishi on Dec 4, 2009 8:14 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Marriage is a war greater than all military conflicts ever. Combined.
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I highly rec zoo news joining the military. I hear he could use to lose a few lbs...
by 33SwisherSweet on Dec 4, 2009 10:26 AM PST up reply actions
Zoo Noos, when I'm dealing with you, it's all too easy.
by 33SwisherSweet on Dec 4, 2009 11:01 AM PST up reply actions
I still find your name offensive.
Flag’d for offensive name.
by 33SwisherSweet on Dec 4, 2009 11:21 AM PST up reply actions
THIS IS SO FUCKING GOOD. I LOVE CGB SO MUCH RIGHT NOW!
You guys can have the Rose Bowl, we’ll have this Masterpiece Theatre!
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I was just trying to make jokes amid the awkward discussion. Fail?
It's spelled "S-H-U-F-E-L-T-L-I-K-E-A-P-E-R-V"
I am never watching another Oregon Football game again if they let that thug Blount back on the field. You keep that in mind, mister!
Today's the day the teddy bears have their picnic.
I am never watching another Oregon Football game again if they let that thug Blount back on the field any time during the remainder of the 2009 calendar year.
It's spelled "S-H-U-F-E-L-T-L-I-K-E-A-P-E-R-V"
He’s posting nonsensical insults in hopes of getting an angry response. On all of the WoW forums I visit it is called “trolling” and we ban people for it.
Today's the day the teddy bears have their picnic.
Nick, you're not funny. Never have been, never will be. Excuse me while I hit the gym.
by 33SwisherSweet on Dec 4, 2009 11:22 AM PST up reply actions
I’ll take ‘not funny’ over ‘only posts when he’s complaining about everything on the face of the earth’
The #1 greatest threat to America: BEARS
Can I take “super sexy and posts make a lot of sense and are well-typed?”
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I’ll take ‘not funny’ over ‘only posts when he’s complaining about everything on the face of the earth’
So…you don’t want me to post anymore?
well, at least when you complain, it’s not about me! Plus I’m a commie leftist too.
The #1 greatest threat to America: BEARS
Wait, so does that mean we need to go to the gym, get in a fight, or get “real jobs”? I’ve lost track of 33SS’s directives.
Well how about this article about the air quality in London:
Heavy smog begins to hover over London, England, on this day in 1952. It persists for four days, leading to the deaths of at least 4,000 people.
It was a Thursday afternoon when a high-pressure air mass stalled over the Thames River Valley. When cold air arrived suddenly from the west, the air over London became trapped in place. The problem was exacerbated by low temperatures, which caused residents to burn extra coal in their furnaces. The smoke, soot and sulfur dioxide from the area’s industries along with that from cars and consumer energy usage caused extraordinarily heavy smog to smother the city. By the morning of December 5, there was a visible pall cast over hundreds of square miles.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=52515
I didn’t realize just how nasty the air quality in UK cities used to be until the 80s and 90s when they started cleaning decades / centuries of accumulated soot off buildings in Edinburgh and Glasgow. (Presumably the same was true in London but I don’t have any family there so we weren’t visiting.)
It makes my father’s decision to take up smoking at 10 that much more epic.
Fuck it, all in:
It’s really a legacy of the Cold War. It’s no coincidence that as soon as client states stopped getting cash money or other forms of support from the US and USSR, the cracks immediately showed through. Somalia just happened to be really really good at imploding.
Great and now I have to leave. I look forward to returning to a litany of complaints about yet ANOTHER political slapfight.
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Oh relax, those countries would have imploded anyway, half the time they were just artificial constructs left behind by spiteful colonial metropoles.
(Wooooooooooooo!)
(resists urge to go on anti-Bush tirade)
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Don’t make me have to do my job.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Dec 4, 2009 10:27 AM PST up reply actions
that actually sounds like a good rationale FOR a single playoff instead of smaller bowls throughout America.
Go Bruins!
Rich Rod the latest coach to stick foot into mouth
“It’s really kind of ironic that the New Orleans Saints overcame the hurricane a few years back….We’ve had a few hurricanes of our own. We had a big hurricane in August….but don’t tell me this team is a failure.”
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Perhaps someone should give him a test to see if he can tell the difference between this:
and this:
Jackass.
And perhaps he could help us better understand the difference between a Marahshtran woman and a whore, because I’m still confused on that one.
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there are 500 people on campus ready to wave signs at you in disagreement
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
Only 3 are students
My heart skips a beat every time I hear the band strike up 'Our Sturdy Golden Bear'.
You can totally libel a corporation…
If you write an article saying that McDonalds really grinds up babies to make hamburgers, that’s libel.
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I really should have just sued and gotten it done with.
Where is CALumbus Bear when you need him?!
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I’m here, and I rule against Twist. Costs assessed against him.
Costs assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Dec 4, 2009 1:35 PM PST up reply actions
My post today was informative! I was trying to tell you guys what the weather might be like for tomorrow. And all you guys did was harass me. Not even a single “thanks”. Hmph!
In other words, Go Bears!
royrules: thanks.
BUT COSTS STILL ASSESSED AGAINST YOU.
Costs assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Dec 4, 2009 1:44 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
You may, but no funny business.
Costs assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Dec 4, 2009 1:46 PM PST up reply actions
I’ll allow it.
Costs assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Dec 4, 2009 1:50 PM PST up reply actions
I’d prefer if you reached around me to someone else.
Costs assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Dec 4, 2009 1:51 PM PST up reply actions
Teabag!
Goin' balls deep with Cal since 1972!
In the case of a public figure, the burden of proof is on the person claiming to have been libeled. A public figure must show that the person making the statement knew it was false and published it with actual malice. New York Times v. Sullivan.
November 20, 1982 - a date that will live in famy.
Let’s see, you don’t like Rich Rodriguez, call him a whore, don’t have proof for this, and are saying it to destroy his reputation. I think you’re guilty of libel.
Lawyered.
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You can’t lawyer anyone! You don’t even have a catchy song to help you remember things!
by Yes We Cannon on Dec 4, 2009 4:20 PM PST up reply actions
Dude, what proof do you have that CalBear81 ISNT Rich Rodriguez?
LAWYERED, BITCH!
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Any plaintiff in a libel case must also show that the purportedly false statement actually damaged his or her reputation. If the plaintiff’s reputation was already horrible, he or she cannot win a libel suit.
November 20, 1982 - a date that will live in famy.
Look, Rich, we know you are full of self-loathing. Give it up. GIVE IT UP!
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He’s an incorporated asshole
Like cocaine straight from Bolivia.
by Thoroughbred on Dec 4, 2009 12:07 PM PST up reply actions
According to the Supreme Court, it would be
Linda's in the cold ground, won't see her anymore
Somewhere out on the highway tonight, the drunken engines roar
It's just one of those things, one of those things
-- Al Stewart, "Accident on 3rd St."
In memory of Nick Adenhart and all victims of drunk driving
haha, James Doohan just said “trousers”
Like cocaine straight from Bolivia.
by Thoroughbred on Dec 4, 2009 12:48 PM PST up reply actions
I like this CalBear81
Like cocaine straight from Bolivia.
by Thoroughbred on Dec 4, 2009 12:02 PM PST up reply actions
Have you ever left a job to get a better, more prestigious, and higher paying job?
When you were job hunting and held your old job, did you tell your employer “hi, I am actively thinking about leaving this job and will leave if I get a job at another firm”?
Because if so, you’re as big a scumbug as he is.
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I’m defending RichRod…
Look, coaches that leave for a bigger, higher-paying program are looked upon as scumbugs for leaving, but all they do is take better opportunities, just like any of us (myself included) would or have done.
As for the lying about it, I’m not sure there’s a better option. If you’re in the middle of coaching your team during the season and the media is constantly hounding you and you don’t know if you’re going to leave, why should you have to answer? It ruins the team and whatnot.
Look, Bobby Petrino is a jerk for leaving his team MID SEASON, but he’s not a jerk for leaving for another opportunity that he was more well-suited for.
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You don’t think that using leverage (a polite term for legal extortion) to secure a new multi-year contract and then attempting to break the contract over a dubious technicality – so dubious that you were not able to avoid penalties for breaking the contract – in order to try and win a public relations battle is a demonstration of at best dubious judgment?
Those happened in two separate years.
When he was first looking around, he thought about Bama and Miami, but stuck with WVU and got a new contract.
The next year, the winningest college program of all time had a vacancy. More opportunities were available to him…
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I went back to check the timeline (all quotes from Wikipedia but the information is sourced, I did a couple of cursory checks):
On December 7, 2006, Rodriguez received an offer from the University of Alabama to be the next Alabama Crimson Tide head coach. Despite reports that he had agreed in principle to coach at Alabama,10 which Rodriguez described as totally incorrect,1112 on December 8, 2006, Rodriguez announced he would remain as head coach at West Virginia.13
So, he goes looking for a job in 2006, it doesn’t work out, no big deal.
On December 16, 2007, Rodriguez informed players at West Virginia that he was leaving to succeed Lloyd Carr as the University of Michigan head football coach.14 Rodriguez’s decision came on the heels of a loss to the unranked Pittsburgh Panthers, which eliminated WVU from national championship contention.15 Rodriguez’s original resignation letter listed January 3, 2008 as his resignation date, but he subsequently made it clear that he would not be coaching WVU in its January 2 appearance in the 2008 Fiesta Bowl versus Oklahoma. On December 18, 2007, Rodriguez informed the university that his resignation would instead be effective at midnight that night16 and was replaced by his former assistant coach Bill Stewart, who was selected as head coach after the Mountaineers won the Fiesta Bowl.17
He resigns in 2007, but:
The announcement of his departure came just four months after Rodriguez last renegotiated his contract with West Virginia, and was made despite his stated long-term commitment to the Mountaineers. The contract included a $4 million buyout if he left WVU within one year of the August 2007 signing date. It has since been speculated that Rodriguez’s departure was triggered by conflicts with the new president of WVU, Michael Garrison.18 19
So he renegotiates and then decides to leave. Well, borderline dickish, but people can have a change of heart. Then:
On December 27, 2007, West Virginia University filed a motion for declaratory judgment in Monongalia County Circuit Court, asking the court to find that Rodriguez’s contract with the University was valid, that WVU had not breached that contract, and that Rodriguez had breached it. Subsequently, on January 18, 2008, WVU added a count of breach of contract after Rodriguez allegedly failed to pay the first installment of the $4 million liquidated damages clause (often referred to as a “buyout clause” by the media) when due.23 24 2025
On July 9, 2008 Rodriguez and WVU agreed to settle the lawsuit. The terms of the settlement stated that the University of Michigan would pay $2.5 million of the settlement. Rodriguez is required to pay WVU the remaining $1.5 million in three installments of $500,000 each, spread over three years starting in January, 2010.
So Rodriguez decides to leave, but doesn’t want to pay the penalties, so he and his lawyers attempt to weasel out of the penalties by claiming that certain tangential contractual demands weren’t met, even though he didn’t have a leg to stand on.
So he wasn’t willing to take responsibility for the costs of changing his mind, and was happy to try and screw the university in order to do that.
So what I want to know is: how can you look at that and not say that his behavior was deplorable, in its sum, without being deliberately obtuse?
I think the dickish thing was not coaching the Fiesta Bowl.
Cal Football: I loved them once and they broke my heart. Let that be a lesson to you. Never love anything.
LOL That was the worst thing to happen to WVU. BILL STEWART?!?!? COME ON, MAN! YOU’RE BETTER THAN THAT!
Like cocaine straight from Bolivia.
Is he crying?
There’s no crying in football!
Cal Football: I loved them once and they broke my heart. Let that be a lesson to you. Never love anything.
They’re losing all the recruits from their usual hotbed to the Wannstache.
Like cocaine straight from Bolivia.
Charlie Strong.
"Let me tell you a story. I was a political prisoner for two years. The instant I was released I ran to McDonald's. I had a Big Mac and a Coke.
It was fantastic."
-Toyama Koichi, US Presidential candidate from Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZqOkeYbB0
You ask who they could have gotten. They almost certainly could have gotten Strong.
"Let me tell you a story. I was a political prisoner for two years. The instant I was released I ran to McDonald's. I had a Big Mac and a Coke.
It was fantastic."
-Toyama Koichi, US Presidential candidate from Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZqOkeYbB0
Yeah, Petrino is an asshole for the way he did it. I also think coaches shouldn’t blatantly lie and say “I’m gonna be here for years” if they’re thinking about taking another job.
I don’t disagree, but given the way the media hounds every single coach (really, people are asking Bob Stoops OVER AND OVER AGAIN if he’s going to Notre Dame), I can’t fault them for lying.
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Are you leaving to work at Ameriprise?????
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“Sorry, WVU, but I’ve got a job offer from Utah State!!!!!!!”
My bro worked at AmeriPrise right out of college for like 8months and hated it so he left. They just churn through people there.
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Rishi, I didn’t say the man’s a scumbag. I said I HATE him. That has nothing to do with logic or reason or making arguments. It’s pure emotion. Trying to reason a person out of hate is ridiculous.
November 20, 1982 - a date that will live in famy.
Leave it to the punchable Rick Reilly to kiss up to El Tigre
After years of cheating on his wife with multiple women, he’s going to be a better man now!
What we have here is the first superstar athlete chased down by a digital posse. Rightly or wrongly, the tabloids and the gossip sites got their man in breathtaking speed. To bring down someone as powerful and private as Tiger Woods is like seeing a lion crammed into a bird cage.
When it’s all done, Woods will still be the most successful and willful and talented athlete alive, but he will be a much different person than he was — chastened, humbled and, at long last, human.
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hit refresh, y’all. I added more linkies. I’ll get the Calbears.com stories too so HooknTwist won’t bitch.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Cal @ Washington Sat.
Coverage: TV – CSN California/FSN Northwest
Dec. 1 Press Conference Quotes | Cal No. 19 Nationally | Nine on Pac-10 All-Academic Team
California (8-3, 5-3 Pac-10) travels to Husky Stadium to face Washington (4-7, 3-5 Pac-10) in the final 2009 regular-season game to be played by Pac-10 teams on Saturday, Dec. 5 (3:30 p.m. PT). The Golden Bears still have five different bowl possibilities (Holiday, Sun, Emerald, Las Vegas, Poinsettia).
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Anybody else really fucking jealous of Oregon fans right now? I mean that should be our Rose Bowl! We were screwed out of the Rose Bowl MUCH more recently than Oregon was! That shoulda been us rushing Autzen stadium in our Rose Bowl clinching victory over OSU! THAT SHOULDA BEEN US!
Now, I do realize the oddity of Cal playing OSU at Autzen Stadium, but, on the same wavelength, it makes abaout as much sense as Cal, yknow, going to a Rose Bowl. So, lets work with this one here.
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I am a bit. We did lose to quality opponents this year and, if we beat Washington, that could that be the first time that’s ever happened over a full season?
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
eh…is that true?
OSU & USC were quality losses.
Maryland and Zona were not, but at least they were on the road.
Michigan St and Oregon were quality wins.
This year, Cal took care of business @ Minny, UCLA, ASU, and Stanfurd.
And that has to offset the blowout losses to Oregon, USC, and OSU (the latter two being blowout home losses).
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Both Arizona and Maryland won bowl games… And Zona had a bomb ass team last year, barely losing to both Oregon (after they got hot) and nearly punking USC (11-1 and should’ve played in MNCG) at home with a great defensive effort. Maryland beat some other qualities opponents on their schedule. Just because they lost a game they should’ve won early in the season does not mean they weren’t quality opponents.
Like cocaine straight from Bolivia.
I define “quality” as ending the season in the Top 25. If they enter the Top 25 at some point of the season, which Zona and Maryland did in 2008, then it’s perhaps not as bad as losing to a team who didn’t enter the top 25.
Regardless, I think it’s nice to see the 2009 team evolve and be able to take care of business on the road. They have two very nice wins vs Stanfurd and Zona.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
You’re jealous of anyone who doesn’t have to live with your wife.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Dec 4, 2009 8:24 AM PST up reply actions
No. I talked to my brother (an Oregon alum) after the game and he was practically giddy. Good for them all.
Plainly it’s Cal’s turn next season, right?
What, did you guys break another Crystal Football?
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by Avinash Kunnath on Dec 4, 2009 8:31 AM PST up reply actions
okay, I really really wasn’t jealous. I was totally happy for them! Happy! Until my Oregon-loving-friend posted this picture of the Last Oregon Rosebowl ticket and was reminiscing about how long it had been. And now I hate her.
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HOW ARE YOU JEALOUS OF YOUSRELF?!?!?
PS I cant believe you didnt rush the field. Goddamn it.
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I got two great kisses as I walked the other way. All the fools that rushed the field toads missed out.
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There was a giant orgy at the 35 yard line. Unfortunately, it was with Oregon girls. So, you mighta dodged a bullet there.
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Orgies are fleeting… Syphilis is forever.
by atomsareenough on Dec 4, 2009 11:36 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
The ladies who kissed you must have been impressed by the wonderful camouflage patterns on the hunting gear that you wore to the football contest.
Today's the day the teddy bears have their picnic.
Ah. Yes. Green and yellow jerseys do blend in very well for the “hunt” at Autzen.
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Crap, I thought you were one of the rugged burly ones wearing your huntin’ gear. My bad.
Today's the day the teddy bears have their picnic.
ironically the OSU fans in my apartment building were wearing hunting gear as they went off to watch the game…
They all wear it up there. We’ve got our bedazzled shirts and suspenders, they’ve got their cammies.
Today's the day the teddy bears have their picnic.
they were also big/former players/had lots of beer. It was awesomely true to form. (also, nice guys)
where was this? bay area?
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by Thoroughbred on Dec 4, 2009 12:24 PM PST up reply actions
While I don’t have a problem with people owning guns, I personally hate them, and I would never go hunting.
In terms of the “Oregon Outdoors” scene, I go more with the thrill seeking and hiking stuff.
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This is point in the conversation where I am forced to tell you to go to the gym and get into a fight and get a job so you can pretend to be a real man like me. I really don’t want to tell you to do these things, but I am obligated to do so.
Today's the day the teddy bears have their picnic.
I actually had three at the game. One was after half time, I was talking to a Beaver girl about the game and her visit, making sure she was having a good time. Next thing I know, she leaned in towards me and puckered up. I decided I was not going to pass up on that chance. She was a cutie. The rest of the game, when something good happened for the ducks, she kept giving me high fives while reserving her cheers for the Beavs.
After the game, I started walking up the stairs to get ready to go, and I shouted, “I love my ducks!” and right after I shouted that, a random girl grabbed me and swung me over and kissed me. I was ambushed I tell you! Everyone started to hoot and holler, and immediately after she let go, another girl grabbed me, spun me around and leaned kissed me.
One of the greatest and most memorable nights ever.
And in related news, I like alcohol.
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by JShufelt on Dec 4, 2009 12:17 PM PST up reply actions 4 recs
Rec’d for kissing Beaver
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by Thoroughbred on Dec 4, 2009 12:21 PM PST up reply actions
Rec’d, rec’d hard, and jealous that nothing like that has ever happened to me.
Praise be to Tedford!
So, you’re suggesting that cute girls go out and share excitement with random kissing? Or would we have a Stanfurd – Full Moon in the Quad – Mono situation
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Damn. Could your day have gone any better yesterday?
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Well… It did.
George Wrighster joined us at our tailgate.
I kinda feel like a douchebag, bragging about all this on a Cal blog.
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There’ll be hell to pay for all this good fortune. Oh yes there will be.
Or maybe horribly crushing defeat after good times is just a Cal thing.
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I honestly don’t care much about winning the Rose Bowl. Naturally, I want to go there and represent the Pac-10 to the fullest extent, but getting there is the biggest feat.
I’ll say this though, I want to see Cal in the Rose Bowl soon too. It is deserved.
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You Ducks better f-ing go down there and kick Ohio State’s ass. I made some bets yesterday. I got odds because “the Pac-10 doesn’t play defense”
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by CALumbus Bear on Dec 4, 2009 1:50 PM PST up reply actions
Ohio State fans really gave you odds?
I mean, they did well against Texas last year and all…
Like cocaine straight from Bolivia.
Buckeye fan: “we only lose to USC. We own the Pac-10”
Me: “That’s last century. Oregon will run circles around you.”
Buckeye fan: “Pac-10 doesn’t play defense.”
Me: “LAST CENTURY”
BF: “Our defense will kill you”
Me: “Give me odds if you’re so confident.”
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by CALumbus Bear on Dec 4, 2009 1:57 PM PST up reply actions
There may have been beer involved. Certainly suspect educations.
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by CALumbus Bear on Dec 4, 2009 1:59 PM PST up reply actions
Didn’t Ohio St lose to SC this year?
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I know. =P
It must be fun to rejoice in their tears and pain two to three times per year
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+1000
I’m watching ESPN with these same Buckeye jokers right now. Some pundit just said “Oregon is going to crush Ohio State.” Their response: “the Media always hates Ohio State and they’re always wrong.” WTF? Media hates Ohio State? Yeah, they never get the benefit of the doubt or more than they deserve.
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by CALumbus Bear on Dec 4, 2009 2:29 PM PST up reply actions
This is why I don’t want to bet on Oregon this Rose Bowl. Oregon will get all the love, and Ohio State will have the massive chip-on-the-shoulder a la Big Game 2009
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Can I be saucepan?
My heart skips a beat every time I hear the band strike up 'Our Sturdy Golden Bear'.
yes, but you have to be animated, ala Disney’s Mrs. Potts
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by AndBears on Dec 4, 2009 3:24 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Dude, I work 40 hours a week. 40 hours. But whatshisface is always chillaxing with Ohio State fans watching TV!
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He’s already completed his quota of grandmother evictions. That means he gets to sit around watch TV now.
Damn dude I had like 6 hearings in 4 days!
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As long as you are still hitting the gym and getting into fights it's all good bro
Today's the day the teddy bears have their picnic.
“whatshisface”??? You bastard!
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by CALumbus Bear on Dec 4, 2009 6:29 PM PST up reply actions
No, not “then”. Poor guess.
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by CALumbus Bear on Dec 4, 2009 7:10 PM PST up reply actions
you f-ing canadian
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by CALumbus Bear on Dec 4, 2009 7:17 PM PST up reply actions
ouch.
that could get ugly.
in their defense, they didn’t run any good running plays against $c. now they’ve got that new fangled zone-read play to work with.
Go Bears Go
Maybe. Our DEs are quick and can be a little over zealous, and the zone read can really capitalize on that.
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Hard to know what to say. I like to think that SC has had pole position in over-zealous DEs and LBs for some time, but Ohio State elected to play soul-killing Tressel percentage ball, so there were fewer opportunities for them to run into a minefield.
I’m pretty sure saying Tressel plays percentage ball is an insult to statisticians.
"Let me tell you a story. I was a political prisoner for two years. The instant I was released I ran to McDonald's. I had a Big Mac and a Coke.
It was fantastic."
-Toyama Koichi, US Presidential candidate from Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZqOkeYbB0
but they read slowly in the upper midwest.
Go Bears Go
but… they… read… s l o w l y … in … the… whatnow?
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by CALumbus Bear on Dec 4, 2009 6:31 PM PST up reply actions
flagged
I honestly don’t care much about winning the Rose Bowl.
by atomsareenough on Dec 4, 2009 3:03 PM PST up reply actions
Hey! Fuck you, Guy!
I honestly don’t care much about winning the Rose Bowl.
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agreed
Cal Football: I loved them once and they broke my heart. Let that be a lesson to you. Never love anything.
Was thta the most action youve gotten in a while?
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So, just 3 kisses? No over the sweater action?
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The second girl – that kiss was pretty intense, I was half way expecting to be making out with her for a while. The third one wasn’t too shab either.
Never kissed a stranger, so… it was a new experience for me.
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I actually won’t be going. I need to be in the office the 30th an 31st because of time off the 28th and 29th.
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Today's the day the teddy bears have their picnic.
by zoonews on Dec 4, 2009 4:24 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
how the fuck would that even work?
After the game, I started walking up the stairs to get ready to go, and I shouted, "I love my ducks!" and right after I shouted that, a random girl grabbed me and unzipped my pants and….
actually, i’m done, Rishi can write the rest of this
“I never thought it would happen to me. Literally. The Ducks going to the Rose Bowl. But that wasn’t the craziest thing to happen that night.”
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Then Lyle Moevuae came up to me and interrupted this. I couldn’t take it, so I blew a duck whistle in his ear, rendering him deaf. Twist, who was sexting me at the time, saw this and…
7
Yeah. He jacked up his ankle and had surgery earlier this year.
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No. 6 Cal leads after 1st day of Nat’ls.
FEDERAL WAY, Wash. – Sixth-ranked California won the 200-yard freestyle relay and 400-medley relay en route to its first-day lead at the 2009 AT&T Short Course National Championships on Thursday at the Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center. The Golden Bears have 127 points to lead the field in the team standings through five events. Also on Thursday, Cal freshman diver Kelsey Heiken placed eighth in the three-meter springboard final on the first day of the Texas Swimming and Diving Hall of Fame Invitational in Austin, Texas.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
M. Swimming also doing well.
FEDERAL WAY, WASH. – The California men’s swimming team had an impressive first day at the 2009 AT&T Short Course National Championships, held at the Weyerhaueser King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way, Wash. On Thursday (Dec. 3), the Golden Bears’ 200 free relay team of juniors Nathan Adrian, Graeme Moore, Guy Barnea and Josh Daniels, placed first with a time of 1:18.13, while Adrian captured the 50 free with a mark of 19.08.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Ninth-Seeded Cal Faces Lipscomb to Open NCAA Tournament. I suppose ‘Lipscomb’ is an institute of higher learning.
BERKELEY – The Golden Bears will be making their school-record eighth consecutive NCAA postseason appearance as they head to Columbus, Ohio, to face Atlantic Sun Conference champion Lipscomb in the opening round of the 2009 NCAA Division I Women’s Volleyball Championship. Cal has won all seven of its first-round matches under the direction of head coach Rich Feller and holds a 21-16 record in 13 trips to the postseason. The Bears received the ninth seed and were placed into the Gainesville (Fla.) regional where the top-seeded and No. 1-ranked defending champion Penn State will hold court. Cal has advanced to the regional semifinal in each of the last three seasons and went all the way to the national semifinal two years ago; the best finish in program history. As the newly anointed Pac-10 Player of the Year, senior outside hitter Hana Cutura looks to guide the Bears to yet another historic finish.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Alex Morgan called up to Nat’l team.
BERKELEY – California women’s soccer junior standout Alex Morgan will join the U.S. women’s national team at training camp from Dec. 5-15 in Carson, Calif. This marks the first time that Morgan, who replaces defender Brittany Bock, who is suffering from foot injuries, has been called up to join the full national team.
“We are all pleased for Alex,” Cal head coach Neil McGuire said. “Her selection for the full women’s national team camp speaks volumes for the season she had. Alex continues to grow as a player and will no doubt benefit greatly from being around some of the best players in the world. Alex’s game is evolving all the time as she adds different dimensions to her game.”
At the close of the 2009 season, Morgan paced the Bears 14 goals. Thanks to her scores this season, Morgan has 31 career goals, and is now tied for fourth place all-time with Erika Hinton for career goals. With 36 points accumulated this year, she now stands in fifth place with 41 career points, just fourth points shy of tying for third.
The 20-year-old Morgan, who just finished her junior season at with the Golden Bears, won the Silver Ball as the second most valuable player and the Bronze Shoe at the third leading scorer during the 2008 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup. She scored four times, including a gamewinner from distance in the 2-1 title game win over North Korea that goes down as one of the greatest goals in a world championship final in U.S. history.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Truth or cougar: Oregon might go on a run here and be in quite a few Rose Bowls in the next 5 years. Forget the Rose Bowl, Cal will be fortunate to play in the Cotton Bowl.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
False.
And cougar.
People jump the gun way too early on this shyat.
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I don’t doubt that I am, but assuming the program reeps the rewards of a Rose Bowl run (Kelly stays around, recruits sign up, etc) I see their goofy offense being highly successful assuming a) the QB can run it and b) they have 2 lightning fast skill players on offense.
Their offense intrigues me. Not so much the zone read business, but the fact that they run it so much and run it quickly and effectively. The passing game, when needed, is frequently opened up.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
No doubt their offense is twicksy indeed. But if we have ALAMARRRRRRRRRRRRR,
they have ALIOTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTIIIIII
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I believe starting in Jan 2011, they can.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Alamo Bowl
(cotton bowl is too traditional to switch up allegiances at this point)
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I’m 0-2. FML.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
It’s ok, kid. Keep your head up. ::buttslap:: You’ll get em next time
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is it basketball season yet?*
*I did NOT watch the New Mexico game.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Oregon returns a ridiculous amount of starters next year, thus they will be the favorite. Their conference schedule will be more challenging playing at CAL and USC. The Pac-10 as a whole is fairly young this year, and most teams with exception to Arizona State should be better, meaning a lot of parity, and with parity comes unpredictability.
I hope if we’ve learned anything that it’s returning starters does not automatically equate to same past success
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i traded it a billionty times leading up to the last 10-q…. it’s basically stuck @ 4 now, and i don’t trade it any more
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by Thoroughbred on Dec 4, 2009 10:02 AM PST up reply actions
I always thought the problem with using returning starters to predict the future was assuming the returning starters would improve. Oregon’s starters don’t need to improve they are already good, assuming they stay at the same level, Oregon will again be tough.
hey, didn’t you hear Cal was returning a bunch of starters in the secondary this year. They’re totally going to dominate…..
Yes, you are right, I would feel much more comfortable starting a bunch of players that have never started, than a bunch of players that both started and played well before.
actually, after the WR’s last year and the LB’s this year I just fear a season where an entire position group graduates. I think individual losses (Syd/Alualu) are much more manageable.
same.
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by Thoroughbred on Dec 4, 2009 10:02 AM PST up reply actions
The fact that you believe so strongly in this possiblity makes me feel better that, like the WSU to the WAC plan, itll never happen.
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1) Whaaaa???
2) Temple. Never forget.
3) I don’t believe in either that strongly.
4) Do you ever try and think about the future somewhat rationally?
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
I do. And the “OREGON WINS EVERY ROSE BOWL FOR NEXT 6 YEARS” seems far too fantastic to be true.
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They might
But they also have to play Cal, OSU, and USC on the road next year. Will be tough for the ducks to repeat as PAC-10 champs, methinks.
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This.
Good analysis. I forget they have the favorable (or is it?) breakdown of home/road games.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
it is currently favorable in the odd years, yes
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by Thoroughbred on Dec 4, 2009 11:51 AM PST up reply actions
Why the eff is the Civil War on a Th?
I see a number of problems with this.
1) It started at what, 6? 9 Eastern? C’mon.
2) It pretty much ruins the drinking fans Th and Fri days, as one needs to properly get prepared for a 6 pm kick at about 2 pm or earlier.
3) The entire state of Oregon will likely have little productivity in the workplace today.
4) Umm, are the we the WAC or a conference pretending to be the best in the land?
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
I think it had huge national ratings, as it wouldn’t have captured the attention of fans from all conferences if there were other games (CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES) also on the slate. If you followed sportswriters twitters, everyone was watching this game last night.
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still would have rather seen a 12:30 or 4 pm kick on a Sat, tho I see your point. Green get the money, dolla dolla bill y’all.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
::sighs:: can you do anything right?!?!
C.R.E.A.M. get the money dolla dolla bill y’all
thank you for your concerted efforts though
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really? huh. I always thought it was green.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
the title of the song is C.R.E.A.M (Cash Rules Everything Around Me)
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yeah, well, that makes sense now.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
god I hate whitey…
"Let me tell you a story. I was a political prisoner for two years. The instant I was released I ran to McDonald's. I had a Big Mac and a Coke.
It was fantastic."
-Toyama Koichi, US Presidential candidate from Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZqOkeYbB0
I was also considering what it would be like to have Big Game on a Thursday. All our beloved traditions would have to be moved! I expressed this to my OSU friend and he pretty much expressed that they only had one tradition, a bonfire, and that could easily be moved to Tuesday.
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Who do you think posts for Jahvid's 'Facebook Fans'
I am a ‘fan’ of Jahvid Best on facebook. I am certainly not close to him at all, or I’d be bragging to you all about how good his mom’s cooking is. But this did appear on my facebook feed and I need some help figuring out who wrote it.
Jahvid Best Next game: @ Washington. Saturday untelevised. We are ranked 19th and Wash. is unranked, but they beat USC. Let’s pull off a win and go to the Emerald or Sun Bowl. Jahvid is a possible starter.
thoughts?
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Just saw ninja assassin… Man shit was clean… Ima ask moms for a sword for Xmas lol
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by Thoroughbred on Dec 4, 2009 9:07 AM PST up reply actions 2 recs
I read this last night and did a small double take. Like who makes a fan page and then just half ass reports on the player lol
In communist Russia, Sanchez declares YOU!
by HOUSE66 on Dec 4, 2009 9:11 AM PST via mobile up reply actions
Sun Bowl tickets $15-60 through their website
Not that I am tempting karma or anything but I was curious since if Cal goes to El Paso, the Fire Starkey clan is too!
Goin' balls deep with Cal since 1972!
World cup draw time!!! Give the United States South Africa in our group or give us the group of death!
(airing on ESPN now LIVE!)
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ESPN screws up a ton, but they’ve been doing pretty good with futbol lately. They fly in a bunch of players from past world cups and let them bicker? I’m in! Plus, Bob Ley is always solid
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for soccer fans, why don’t they just have a ref placed right at the goal to avoid henry-like controversies? are you telling me they can’t afford an extra two referees for these events?
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Because they can’t be bothered.
Actually, they’ve been trying 5 officials in the Europa League this season, but FIFA said it was “premature” to try it for the World Cup.
In other words, the money’s changed hands already.
Weather @ Fusky Stadium:
YO says the forecast says no rain as of yet. Does the rain help one team more than the other? I can see the rain hindering Locker & the passing game but it might also inspire them since it is their pad and their climate.
Do the Fuskies have an indoor practice facility? What about Team Nike?
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
this draw is going slow as fuck though. pick the sides… then play your little mini-movies later
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When they finally get around to it the draw should be awesome – all the coaches are there so you’ll be able to see them agonize when they get drawn with Spain or Brazil
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my buddy (Oregon alum) put this up at his friends house (Ore. St alum)
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Is he saying the Ducks are suckers?
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by CalBandGreat on Dec 4, 2009 12:40 PM PST up reply actions
high speed rail having issues with Pacheco Pass environmental report. Great. It appears opponents of the rail project hail from Railroad U country.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Great article on Vereen
“I would turn and look at Shane and he would give me the nod,” Gould said this week. “He ran with a tremendous amount of passion and purpose.”
He also ran a mind-numbing 42 times. In two games as Cal’s starter, since teammate and good friend Jahvid Best went down with a concussion, Vereen has 72 carries for 352 yards and four touchdowns. Not coincidentally, the Bears beat Arizona and Stanford.
Now, as they head to Seattle for Saturday’s regular-season finale against Washington, it requires no exhaustive video study to identify the key figure in Cal’s offense. He wears No. 34, bursts through holes with striking efficiency and, much like Best, is difficult to catch in the open field.
Here’s telling statistical evidence: Vereen, not Best, might extend Cal’s streak of having a running back gain 1,000 or more yards (seven years and counting). Vereen stands at 738 yards this season, so he needs to average 131 against Washington and Cal’s not-yet-determined bowl opponent.
That’s realistic, especially if Best misses the bowl game. Best, with 867 yards, could reach the century mark if he returns for the bowl game and reclaims his starting job.The Bears probably will lean on Vereen against Washington, partly because of December weather in the Pacific Northwest. The forecast is decent – a high of 44 degrees, low of 32, no rain expected – but the chilly temperatures still seem better suited to running the ball, especially if Cal takes an early lead.
As the Huskies learned if they watched Vereen’s efforts against Arizona (159 yards) and Stanford (193 yards), he’s not reluctant to plunge into the middle of the line. Vereen might lack Best’s dazzling open-field moves, but he runs between the tackles with unmistakable conviction.
“That’s because we work on it during practice,” Vereen said. “Get your pad level down, keep your eyes up, run your feet through contact – we do all that stuff every single day, so it’s second nature when you get in a game.”
Said fullback Brian Holley: “Shane doesn’t mess around and take extra steps in there. He runs straight at you, and he’s very decisive.”
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Apparently we’ve a ways to go yet. I tried watching the world feed but it was too much like a South African Eurovision song contest. “Now that we’ve got your attention, here’s a singer from Benin!”
I hope you know I read all your posts out loud with a Scottish accent. It’s excellent.
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WTF?!?!??! I IMAGINE YOU LOOK EXACTLY LIKE JAMES DOOHAN AND YELL RANDOM THINGS LIKE “AYE… IF ME GRANDMA HAD WHEELS, SHE’D BE WAGON!”
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nope, you've been caught
a fan of
USC Trojans NCAA Men’s Football Division 1A Team
Scotland Soccer Team
Ragnarok: Great Man or Greatest Man?
you’ve put up that you’re a fan of Scottish futbol – therefore you speak like scotty.
What Englishman would be a fan of Scotland?!
Ragnarok: Great Man or Greatest Man?
true story: When I was a kid, my best friend and her family were from Wisconsin, so when I’m drunk I speak in a Wisconsin accent. It’s pretty funny.
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It’s more of an “upper midwestern” accent, but yeah.
by atomsareenough on Dec 4, 2009 10:47 AM PST up reply actions
I was also going to mention that, but I couldn’t find any of them in 30 whole seconds of searching
by atomsareenough on Dec 4, 2009 10:50 AM PST up reply actions
If it’s any consolation, I do the same thing (change up accents when drunk) – it’s the only time I sound Scottish.
Get your 9 Iron out rags… AndBears is trying to pull a Tiger Woods!
How much collagen do you have in your lips, DC?
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when I was a nipper
I am so offended.
by atomsareenough on Dec 4, 2009 10:44 AM PST up reply actions
I AM A BROWN MAN LIVING IN A BROWN WORLD.
by atomsareenough on Dec 4, 2009 10:52 AM PST up reply actions
The toilet?
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by Thoroughbred on Dec 4, 2009 10:58 AM PST up reply actions
yes, because brown ALWAYS ALWAYS means poop.
by atomsareenough on Dec 4, 2009 11:00 AM PST up reply actions
I’m glad we agree
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by Thoroughbred on Dec 4, 2009 11:00 AM PST up reply actions
It’s a beautiful thing, when people can come together and unite over the common bond of feces.
by atomsareenough on Dec 4, 2009 11:03 AM PST up reply actions
There are three things that will always be funny.
Poop, needless repetition, and poop.
My heart skips a beat every time I hear the band strike up 'Our Sturdy Golden Bear'.
bullhockey!
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by Thoroughbred on Dec 4, 2009 11:35 AM PST up reply actions
Guess what:
POOP!
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by Thoroughbred on Dec 4, 2009 11:34 AM PST up reply actions
Obscure reference fail
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwmrd_T53E0
Marginally NSFW without headphones and a baby boomer boss.
Scotty: Are you from the future?
James T. Kirk: Yeah, he is. I’m not.
Scotty: Well, that’s brilliant. Do they still have sandwiches there?
by HolmoePhobe on Dec 4, 2009 9:57 AM PST up reply actions 2 recs
If this isnt the end of the soccer talk, we might have to get out the banmonkeywrench
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Auburn's in trouble for recruiting violations.
AUBURN, Ala. — Auburn football recruiting has taken a hit because of secondary NCAA rules violations during its “Big Cat Weekend” last May.
Auburn was temporarily barred from contacting a half-dozen recruits who participated in the event.
The penalties stemmed from a recruiting event in May where recruits participated in the school tradition of toilet-papering Toomer’s Corner. Members of the media were on hand.
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People who have a higher career winning percentage than Gene Chizik:
Lee Corso
Mike DuBose
Terry Bowden
Mike Shula
Joe Kines
ife
Bad guys in PG movies
Top 2 Most Popular Phrases in Auburn, Ala. :
2) "War Eagle"
1) "Ni__er"
read more gump 4 heisman:
http://www.gump4heisman.com/my_weblog/2008/12/guerilla-warfare-hit-and-run-strike-and-hide-random-ass—attack————-thats-the-name-of-the-game-in-todays.html
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--Coach Clark
after Joe Kines, it should be “Turner Gil’s wife”
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
I would speculate that bad guys in PG movies actually have an outstanding winning percentage. Usually their first loss is the plot for the entire movie.
This
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by Thoroughbred on Dec 4, 2009 10:13 AM PST up reply actions
So if Argentina is in group B and England in C, an England vs. Argentina matchup can’t happen til late in the tournament, right?
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FUCK MEXICO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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by Thoroughbred on Dec 4, 2009 10:07 AM PST up reply actions
YES YES YES YES YES
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by Thoroughbred on Dec 4, 2009 10:09 AM PST up reply actions
YES
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by Thoroughbred on Dec 4, 2009 10:10 AM PST up reply actions
First game of the tourney for us! Get ready to eat it Rooney!
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SEE BELOW… THIS IS WHAT I WANT
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by Thoroughbred on Dec 4, 2009 10:19 AM PST up reply actions
Who do we want in Pool 4?
LET’S MAKE IT THE FRENCH, SO IT CAN BE THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR ALL OVER AGAIN
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weak*
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by Thoroughbred on Dec 4, 2009 10:20 AM PST up reply actions
Italy
Paraguay
New Zealand
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by Thoroughbred on Dec 4, 2009 10:20 AM PST up reply actions
I’m calling group H the toughest so far I think. Chile is underrated
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I assume Rishi
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by Thoroughbred on Dec 4, 2009 10:25 AM PST up reply actions
Yeah, this is a good group for us.
Now let’s get Onyewu and Davies back!
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by Thoroughbred on Dec 4, 2009 10:23 AM PST up reply actions
Gooch will be back, but isn’t there only a 50/50 shot that Davies ever plays high level footballa again?
He’s a young guy.
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by Thoroughbred on Dec 4, 2009 10:26 AM PST up reply actions
Umm… not going out on a limb there… They are the seeded team
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by Thoroughbred on Dec 4, 2009 10:28 AM PST up reply actions
If I've typed them correctly, the groups
A South Africa, Mexico, Uruguay, France
B Argentina, Nigeria, South Korea, Greece
C England, USA, Algeria, Slovenia
D Germany, Australia, Ghana, Serbia
E Netherlands, Japan, Cameroon, Denmark
F Italy, New Zealand, Paraguay, Slovakia
G Brazil, North Korea, Ivory Coast, Portugal
H Spain, Honduras, Chile, Switzerland
How good is E? That looks weak from a lay man’s perspective.
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by Thoroughbred on Dec 4, 2009 10:29 AM PST up reply actions
THROWDOWNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
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by Thoroughbred on Dec 4, 2009 10:31 AM PST up reply actions
Denmark is miles better than Japan. Japan is 2nd rate at this point
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by Fire Starkey on Dec 4, 2009 10:49 AM PST up reply actions
Which two teams are likely to come out of Group D? After Germany the other 3 seem very evenly matched, and I could see any of them going on to hopefully face America
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That is not a gimme group for Germany. Poosibly stronger than G. Australia is the best team in Asia and has played well on the world stage. Ghana has a salty midfield in Essien and Muntari and are trying to recruit Mario Balotelli to play for them. Serbia is very, very good. IMO a darkhorse title contender.
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by Fire Starkey on Dec 4, 2009 10:51 AM PST up reply actions
Mario Balotelli definitely doesn’t look like a ‘Mario Balotelli’
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by Thoroughbred on Dec 4, 2009 10:56 AM PST up reply actions
He is of Ghanian descent but was adopted into an Italian family as a baby I believe. Huge talent and Ghana needs forwards desperately.
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by Fire Starkey on Dec 4, 2009 10:58 AM PST up reply actions
yeah, i looked it up =D
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by Thoroughbred on Dec 4, 2009 10:59 AM PST up reply actions
Almost the best possible draw for the US
A- Shitty, shitty group
B- moderately tough. Inconsistant Argies and Nigeria, tricky SK and Greece
C- US and England should go through
D- Brutal group. Aussie good, Ghana tough (need some forwards- Balotelli?), Serbia a darkhorse for the title
E- Crap group
F- Crap group- Paraguay is very good though
G- Tough group except for NK
H- Very tough group, Group of Death? Maybe D is but they are tight
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by Fire Starkey on Dec 4, 2009 10:48 AM PST up reply actions
If I know anything about the US soccer team, they’ll end up beating England, drawing Algeria, and then losing to Slovenia 4-0. That’s the US team I remember!
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by Avinash Kunnath on Dec 4, 2009 10:35 AM PST reply actions
Then win a bizarre tiebreaker to get to the next phase, outplay Germany for 90 minutes but lose 1-0 on a set piece goal
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Nah, we’ll probably end up losing to surprise qualifier Australia. That would suck so hard.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Dec 4, 2009 10:39 AM PST up reply actions
I feel it’s pretty important to win the Group, as we don’t want to play Germany… but we can def beat the 2nd place team in Group D
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by Thoroughbred on Dec 4, 2009 10:40 AM PST up reply actions
Slovenia could be trouble… I mean, they beat Russia, which I’ve always assumed has a better team than the US
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by Thoroughbred on Dec 4, 2009 11:29 AM PST up reply actions
Name one Slovenian player! Wait, thats too hard…name the Slovenian capital… FUCK!!!!!
Slovenia doesn’t score much but they conced few goals. They’ll put 10 guys behind the ball and look for counterattacking opportunities.
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by Fire Starkey on Dec 4, 2009 11:30 AM PST up reply actions
I’d rather not get a draw though….because the US will prob have at least one slip up
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by Thoroughbred on Dec 4, 2009 11:31 AM PST up reply actions
as in, i’d want to avoid the situation in which USA draws all three matches and doesn’t advance because Slovenia beats Algeria, say
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by Thoroughbred on Dec 4, 2009 11:33 AM PST up reply actions
The US is CLEARLY the 2nd best team in this group and with the defensive injuries we’ve got, this is about the best possible draw. England should overrun us but the other 2 are definite win possibilities/probabilities. If we win 1 and draw 1, the key will be goal differential…
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by Fire Starkey on Dec 4, 2009 11:43 AM PST up reply actions
being the 2nd best team in the draw means nothing at this point though. game-by-game. hope we have a showing like we did against egypt
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by Thoroughbred on Dec 4, 2009 11:50 AM PST up reply actions
Slovenia is fucking beautiful. Too bad it produced Sasha Vujacic, otherwise I’d like it more.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Dec 4, 2009 3:35 PM PST up reply actions
Well, let’s see…
Rishi, thoughts?
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by Avinash Kunnath on Dec 4, 2009 3:41 PM PST up reply actions
Average FIFA Ranking by Group
(I know FIFA Rankings are weak but for what it’s worth…)
Group A: 31.75
Group B: 23.5
Group C: 21
Group D: 21
Group E: 20.75
Group F: 36.25
Group G: 26.75
Group H: 18.5
I'd incline toward just averaging the top 3 teams
Some of the 4th place teams are really horrible and drag the averages way down.
Linda's in the cold ground, won't see her anymore
Somewhere out on the highway tonight, the drunken engines roar
It's just one of those things, one of those things
-- Al Stewart, "Accident on 3rd St."
In memory of Nick Adenhart and all victims of drunk driving
Good point
Group A: 13.67
Group B: 14
Group C: 17
Group D: 15.67
Group E: 13.33
Group F: 22.67
Group G: 7.67
Group H: 12
This method also has its flaws – group C’s lowest ranked team is still #33, as compared to South Africa or the Koreas which are in the 50s or 60s or something.
Weather report from the Pacific Northwest
COLD AS FUCK. It was so foggy today that I couldn’t see 100ft in front of me. Supposedly no rain tomorrow (hasn’t rained in a few days) but it will be really really cold.
In other words, Go Bears!
Well, Rishi, I got in my car today to drive to work, and when I got on the freeway I realized it was pretty crowded. And that’s because there were a lot of other cars driving on the freeway! It took me a whole twenty minutes to get to work. Boy, was I ticked off. But once I got off the freeway, it was less crowded, because there weren’t that many cars on the road that I use to drive to work. After I got to work, I went into my office. Now I’m just sitting here wondering what to do next!
by HolmoePhobe on Dec 4, 2009 10:42 AM PST up reply actions 3 recs
Actually, this tweet is useful
Since we now have an idea of the weather circumstances for tomorrow.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Dec 4, 2009 10:48 AM PST up reply actions
More Arrests of SEC Players
ATHENS, Ga. — Officials in Athens say University of Georgia freshman defensive end Montez Robinson is jailed on charges involving altercations with a female student.
University police Lt. Eric Dellinger said Friday that the 19-year-old Robinson was being held at the Athens-Clarke County jail after being charged with misdemeanor simple battery and felony criminal damage.
I’m curious to know what ‘simple battery’ is, and if there is a ‘complicated’ battery.
I’d guess a complicated battery would involve Medieval torture devices.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Dec 4, 2009 10:38 AM PST up reply actions
Hey, it's not a moving violation!
So, uh, I guess there’s that.
Interesting Matt Maiocco / Scot McCloughan story regarding Ed McCafferyJeff Maehl in high school.
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--Coach Clark
Alright I'm stupid
I don’t know anything about soccer teams. If someone can compare World Cup teams to college football teams it’d be greatly appreciated.
Is Brazil Oregon? Fancy unis, fancy offense…
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by Avinash Kunnath on Dec 4, 2009 10:42 AM PST reply actions
Does Brazil have cheerleaders?
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by Avinash Kunnath on Dec 4, 2009 10:44 AM PST up reply actions
England = Ohio St.
Brazil = whichever college football team you feel plays the game ‘the right way’
Spain = Florida
Argentina = USC (Usually awesome, a little down this year)
Ivory Coast = Boise St. (small conference, nobody wants to play them)
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I bet Italy’s the SEC team that eventually sucks in conference play but has a great record against the Charleston Southerns of the non-conference schedule (Paraguay, New Zealand, Slovakia, Italy = weakest group, huh?)
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by Thoroughbred on Dec 4, 2009 11:58 AM PST up reply actions
Nice find!
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by Avinash Kunnath on Dec 4, 2009 10:47 AM PST up reply actions
That’s the one I was talking about.
Ohio State – USA – This team gets a LOT of press because of the fact that they’re located in a very populous state with several significant media markets. They play in a weak league, though, and because of that, they’re almost never really as good as billed.
Rut roh.
According to norcalnick, England’s Ohio State too! Looks like a draw.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Dec 4, 2009 10:54 AM PST up reply actions
USA is more like a Boise State
Yeah, they’ll pull the occasional massive upset of Oklahoma/Spain, but they’re not actually that good and would go like 8-4 in a better conference.
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Somewhere out on the highway tonight, the drunken engines roar
It's just one of those things, one of those things
-- Al Stewart, "Accident on 3rd St."
In memory of Nick Adenhart and all victims of drunk driving
Sanctions?
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by Avinash Kunnath on Dec 4, 2009 10:45 AM PST up reply actions
Brazil, Ivory Coast, and Portugal are gonna sanction that azzz
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by Thoroughbred on Dec 4, 2009 10:46 AM PST up reply actions
I’m going to be bummed if Ivory Coast doesn’t qualify from that group
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Portugal flatters to deceive. I like Ivory Coast to advance
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by Fire Starkey on Dec 4, 2009 10:53 AM PST up reply actions
Tiger enjoys...Ambien sex?
These rumors keep on taking turns for the awesome.
Rachel Uchitel, the first woman publicly named as Tiger Woods’ mistress, told friends that she did drugs with the golfing legend before they had sex, RadarOnline.com is reporting exclusively.
That’s the second too-close drug mention for one of America’s perceived squeaky clean sports idols. RadarOnline.com reported exclusively Thursday that another of Tiger’s women, Jaimee Grubbs worked at a medical marijuana “pharmacy” at least until a month ago.
Now we’ve learned that Uchitel told friends that she and Tiger liked to have sex while taking the drug Ambien. Uchitel told one pal, ‘You know you have crazier sex on Ambien – you get into that Ambien haze. We have crazy Ambien sex.’"
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by Avinash Kunnath on Dec 4, 2009 11:11 AM PST reply actions
This thread just took a turn for the Ohio.
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by Thoroughbred on Dec 4, 2009 11:14 AM PST up reply actions
I can’t recall ever having Ambien-sex with Tiger
Costs assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Dec 4, 2009 11:28 AM PST up reply actions
It pales in comparison to my motorized recliner
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by CALumbus Bear on Dec 4, 2009 11:36 AM PST up reply actions
Tip #1, you can never have a good enough PR agent
My heart skips a beat every time I hear the band strike up 'Our Sturdy Golden Bear'.
LOLOL nice find
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by Thoroughbred on Dec 4, 2009 11:41 AM PST up reply actions
It looks like Slovenia has a case of the Maryland (beat good teams, lose to horrible ones): Beat Slovakia twice, draw Czech Republic, win tiebreak over Russia…lose to Northern Ireland
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Gotta get a point from the England match. If not, it’s nervous time
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eh, I wouldn’t be TOO nervous… we play Slovenia second on the schedule, so we’ll know how they do against Algeria by the time we play them. If we lose to England and draw Slovenia (and they’ve beaten Algeria), we’ll be pinning a lot of our hopes on jolly ol’ England not to fuck up. Then again, we could take care of business a la Egypt in Confederations Cup
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by Thoroughbred on Dec 4, 2009 12:32 PM PST up reply actions
I would’ve preferred to play Slovenia last though
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by Thoroughbred on Dec 4, 2009 12:33 PM PST up reply actions
Well, would you look at that
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by Thoroughbred on Dec 4, 2009 12:29 PM PST up reply actions
It sounds like Healy is the Gerhart of Northern Ireland
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by Thoroughbred on Dec 4, 2009 12:36 PM PST up reply actions
It’s atypical, but they can string together a game every now and again. That said, people would put this guy a little higher in the pantheon of pure footballing geniuses if he had played for England instead of Northern Ireland.
George Best quotes:
I used to go missing a lot…Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.
I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.
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He’s pretty damn high already. Who knows what his legacy would have been if he hadn’t been such a party animal.
But would that be a legacy worth having?
by Yes We Cannon on Dec 4, 2009 1:02 PM PST up reply actions
SO MUCH SOCCER WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Twist, out of everyone on here, you seem like you’d be the biggest soccer fan… Dainty clothes, prancing gait, hooligan-ish demeanor.
Maybe you should give it a try
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What does hooligan-ish demeanor mean?
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But how do I exhibit hooligan-ish demeanor???
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Is this from that time I got down on all fours behind you and had Ragnarok push you over me?
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More Soccer!!!
I’m late to the party, but what an awesome draw for the US! Two winnable games, and one really great match! The US looked scared sh*tless at Wembley last year, but I think after the Confed Cup under their belt and having already played in Africa they’ll at least give England a good game.
It ain’t in Wembley this time either!
Anyway, are there any real correlations between friendlies and rated matches? I’m new to this
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Some, but not as much as one would think. In friendlies coaches tend to try out different formations or personnel so that they can win tournament games. The other weird thing is how one does in qualifying isn’t always correlated with success in the actual finals, since so much depends on the draw.
Anyway, I really want to buy South Africa tickets now, if only I had a spare month to take off!
Kinda like LeMoyne-Cuse =P
Yeah, I’m very optimistic, although concerned about the media already anointing England and USA through… despite DC Trojan’s severe hatred of Onyewu, I imagine he’s pretty beastly at defending corners and other set pieces, and it would suck to lose 1-0 against the underdogs off a weird corner
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You just make me want to discuss soccer more.
Dream/nightmare scenario – Brazil losses in a close game to either Portugal or Ivory Coast and gets 2nd place in their group, setting up….
Brazil vs. Spain in the quarterfinals! Kaka vs. El Nino! Danny Villa vs. Adriano! This would be awesome
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Seattle Times interviews Tedford, including some praise for Deandre Coleman:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/huskies/2010419643_uwfb04.html
Also, one bummer about the press blackout this season is there’s not a lot of news about how the redshirts are progressing. A few are going to need to step up next season.
maybe we’ll get some info by the time the bowl rolls around
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by Thoroughbred on Dec 4, 2009 12:37 PM PST up reply actions
Cal Volleyball playing @ 3pm PT apparently - Gametracker link: http://www.ncaa.com/gametracker/launch/gt_wvolley.html?event=866287&school=ncaa&sport=wvolley&camefrom=&startschool=&
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Rumor mill has Skip Holtz to KU anyway… which I can definitely believe
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Same… maybe Michigan next year if he does well and Rich Rod doesn’t
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But he still hasn’t signed that extension, right?
We never get a straight story on that
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yeah, that part is sketchy. rumors of alums not being fully on board with him, and with this years success maybe he has more leverage. it’s all super interesting….
well, now that tedford is locked up longterm, gotta find a soap opera somewhere.
weeeellll there is a sizable portion of the 'furd base
that would rather lose 52 – 49 with 450 yards passing than win 14 -10 with 350 rushing.
Go Bears Go
Holtz is weird. He wins the C-USA East every year but always finishes with like 16 losses anyway. Don’t really understand how that works.
"Let me tell you a story. I was a political prisoner for two years. The instant I was released I ran to McDonald's. I had a Big Mac and a Coke.
It was fantastic."
-Toyama Koichi, US Presidential candidate from Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZqOkeYbB0
Cal women’s volleyball ncaa tourney linked above
http://www.ncaa.com/gametracker/launch/gt_wvolley.html?event=866287&school=ncaa&sport=wvolley&camefrom=&startschool=&
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though i’m not sure if you’re a cal grad since you like the football team but also the bruins bball team
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We’re still going to need over 200 comments for the streak, but I’m sure that will be had over the weekend
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My heart skips a beat every time I hear the band strike up 'Our Sturdy Golden Bear'.
by oskisunbear on Dec 4, 2009 4:04 PM PST up reply actions 3 recs
in a thing called love?
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
by GoldBlooded on Dec 4, 2009 3:29 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
I feel as if it is more than a Feeling.
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HE COULDN'T GET A TICKET
IT WAS A SOLD OUT SHOW
My heart skips a beat every time I hear the band strike up 'Our Sturdy Golden Bear'.
We’re going to be rock banding tonight.
I hope you know.
by CaliforniaBone on Dec 4, 2009 3:51 PM PST up reply actions
HEARD THE ROAR OF THE CROWD
HE COULD PICTURE THE SCENE
well this is just awkward. I’m gonna have to go with GoldBlooded since I don’t think the song involved people listening to other people screaming for help from the bottom of wells.
JUST BLEW HIM AWAY
wait, are we talking about what happened to Shufelt at Autzen again?
It looked at me funny after the 4th hour.
Or maybe I looked at it funny.
Either way, I have to beat it now.
by CaliforniaBone on Dec 4, 2009 3:18 PM PST up reply actions
I wish I had more people to help me beat this clock though.
He usually wins. I never have enough help.
by CaliforniaBone on Dec 4, 2009 3:33 PM PST up reply actions
Put Mark Mangino and Charlie Weis in front of the window.
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by Rishi on Dec 4, 2009 3:41 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
when you rub fat on a surface, it becomes clear! it’s wont stop!
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
I’ll negotiate with the clock today. Ask it for a sprint rather than a marathon. We’ll see how this turns out.
I think its almost quasar time?
by CaliforniaBone on Dec 4, 2009 3:44 PM PST up reply actions
OH SHIT! THAT HELLA WORKS! I JUST TRIPLED MY PRODUCTIVITY!
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Now you’re going to try to go see “Honk if you’re horny,” right?
The #1 greatest threat to America: BEARS
Just because I won’t have to doesn’t mean I won’t!
by Yes We Cannon on Dec 4, 2009 4:57 PM PST up reply actions
tab tab space FTW
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
~855 bitches! Keep going!
Liberals don’t work.
Republicans are racis.
GO!
Need more topics?
Miller’s picking Oregon-Bama in the MNC game next year.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
LOLOLOL. Well, I like Miller because he’s always down for the cause (and Cal), but there is NO WAY it will get through
9-4 New Mexico
9-11 @ Tennessee
9-18 Portland State
10-2 Stanford
10-9 @ Washington State
10-16 @ Arizona State
10-23 UCLA
10-30 @ Southern California
11-6 Washington
11-13 @ California
11-20 Arizona
11-27 @ Oregon State
with at most 1 loss
Like cocaine straight from Bolivia.
crapshoot, i’d say. may have good freshmen talent on both sides, but remains to be seen how good they’ll start off the season
Like cocaine straight from Bolivia.
CALIFORNIA BONE AND OSKISUN PLAYED JORDAN AND THEO BEER PONG AT TRIVIA ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT!!!!
THERE I SAID IT!
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
Acutally, I shot 7 cups, Oski went 1 for 1, and my actual partner got 1 cup.
Wilkes shot 4, his real partner shot 4, the birthday girl shot 2 for 3, and Theo went a terrible 0-2 with overshots. He’s going to need to improve his game.
It came down to the last cup, and Wilkes finally used his height to his advantage, knowing he sank the last cup long before the ball landed in my beer.
Not bad, considering what we were up against.
by CaliforniaBone on Dec 4, 2009 3:42 PM PST up reply actions
Did they ask Theo about his foot?
WASN’T THEO WATCHING THE FARKIN GAME?!?!?!
…. (i guess that was earlier in the night0
Like cocaine straight from Bolivia.
He didn’t have much to say…. he wants to get back on the court
My heart skips a beat every time I hear the band strike up 'Our Sturdy Golden Bear'.
Also, the short table killed his game.
by CaliforniaBone on Dec 4, 2009 3:38 PM PST up reply actions
Today's the day the teddy bears have their picnic.
by zoonews on Dec 4, 2009 3:29 PM PST reply actions 2 recs
This book will have to do.
Today's the day the teddy bears have their picnic.
by zoonews on Dec 4, 2009 3:31 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
by GoldBlooded on Dec 4, 2009 3:36 PM PST up reply actions 4 recs
bears took first set vs. lipscomb, whatever the hell that is
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
oh: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX84STVbaI8
real name: ‘stefine’
Like cocaine straight from Bolivia.
she hang cleans 160lbs in that video.... something most of you pussies could never even do
Like cocaine straight from Bolivia.
Cal wins 2nd set 25-22
My heart skips a beat every time I hear the band strike up 'Our Sturdy Golden Bear'.
I actually dont know what you mean, could you be clearer?
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Amanda Knox found guilty; I wish I knew enough about this to render an expert and informed opinion. Wait, this is the DBD.
She’s innocent! U-S-A! U-S-A!
I JUST DISCOVERED THE NEXT BIG THING
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfxY59V6bgU
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
YES YES YES YES
My heart skips a beat every time I hear the band strike up 'Our Sturdy Golden Bear'.
It’s a tarp!
mrs. carp hired a nanny who had a cute pic in her resume. I guess that was in college. Now she’s put on a pound of 50. FML!
I tried to jostle for the 19 y/o, but mrs. carp said she doesn’t have enough ‘experience.’ Whatever.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
I believe he mean pound or fifty
My heart skips a beat every time I hear the band strike up 'Our Sturdy Golden Bear'.
Have you considered not having sex with your nanny?
President Emperor Warlord Of The Sun!
www.CaliforniaGoldenBlogs.com
who said anything about sex? I just want my son to grow up write. Or wright. Or rite.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
…You want your son to have unreal expectations that hot women will find him adorable?
More power to ya!
Email: bearsnecessities@gmail.com
by Avinash Kunnath on Dec 4, 2009 4:18 PM PST up reply actions
they already do.
And my sex appeal somehow sky rockets when I have carp Jr. in the baby carrier, slip my wedding ring off, and said we lost mommy in the delivery.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
by carp on Dec 4, 2009 4:24 PM PST up reply actions 3 recs
truth.
and rec’d for basic wrongness.
Go Bears Go
no, we don’t live out in Oakley.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Since you are local, give me your thoughts. With the CA-4 Bypass in place, what will become of downtown Oakley? Will that enormous tire merchant and the adjacent farm supply survive the loss in thru-traffic destined for Stockton? And what of the Centro-Mart, surely they rely on more than just customers from Oakley to keep those decrepit doors open!
Today's the day the teddy bears have their picnic.
haha…I haven’t been to Oakley since my Dad and I had to get rid of some questionable materials in his attic. Nah, I think I drove through it once en route to Murphys, but I don’t remember much.
Stockton sucks.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
As a small child I lived in Oakley for just over one year, 4 of us in a small trailer in Big Break Marina. It flooded that winter and our home nearly floated away. True story.
Today's the day the teddy bears have their picnic.
wow. that’s crazy. Is Oakley right next to the water?
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Ya, it’s on the delta. The Antioch bridge is at one end of town. Big Break is adjacent to Oakley. It, like Frank’s Tract, is one of a few delta tracts of land that succumbed to a levee break (decades ago) and was not subsequently reclaimed. These were practical decisions at the time but they ended up being good for both the fishies and the drunken boat parties.
Today's the day the teddy bears have their picnic.
huh.
My uncle lives in the yoch and sometimes we make it out to Antioch Motor Speedway for excellent people watching.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
And why that knitted purple sweater vest?
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by norcalnick on Dec 4, 2009 4:36 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
Have you considered not eye fucking your nanny?
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who said anything about eye fucking? How does one do that anyway? I mean, the penis can’t feel good in the eye, right? You’d know.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Have you considered not fantasizing about your nanny?
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not after mrs. carp called the inital pic “hot.”
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
therein lies the rub
mrs. carp can lay tarps with the best of ’em. She gets a good chuckle, too.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
by carp on Dec 4, 2009 4:34 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
Have you considered being less of a creepy old guy?
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who said anything of being old? Some circles might consider me creepy, although these folks better be prayin’ to the almighty every night.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
I think carp is genuinely enraged by what’s happened today! I’ve never seen so much profanity, just NSFWity!
Like cocaine straight from Bolivia.