In the early fall of 1962, a mob of segregationists tried to block James Meredith from becoming the first black student at the university. The football team's nickname, the Rebels, embodied the Old South, but Vaught was enlisted by the Kennedy administration in a futile effort to avert bloodshed.

''I had a call from Washington to tell me Meredith was coming on campus that particular day, and they asked me if I would use my influence to quiet the group and keep them normal,'' Vaught recalled in a 2002 interview with The Oxford Eagle. ''I went over to the Student Union and got on the high steps and looked at the crowd that was there, and I didn't know anybody. They weren't dressed like they were students. They weren't our people. They were outsiders. They weren't going to listen to me, so I just moved on.''

He recalled as a boy learning about African-American history from listening to his grandfather sing. "One Sunday afternoon, I asked him what he was singing about. He said he was singing about the Underground Railroad." Young Charles learned that his great grandfather had been a slave in Delaware and had escaped to freedom on the Underground Railroad.

"Our textbooks in those days said that all the slaves were happy on the plantations," Blockson wrote. "But I said to myself as I started to get into it, 'if the enslaved people were happy, why did they run away?'"  Thus began a lifelong interest in the Underground Railroad.

Inspired by a substitute teacher who told him there were no black people to study about  in history because "Negroes have no history - they were born to serve white people," he set out to learn more.

When I was 15 years old, I travelled from Norristown to Philadelphia to browse in some bookstores.  At Leary’s Book Store at 9th and Market Streets, I found a thick, worn green cloth-covered book entitled The Underground Railroad by William Still published in 1872.  I paid five dollars for the book.  The book was much more than I had bargained for as I found two of my relatives who escaped on the Philadelphia’s Underground Railroad.  The discovery of William Still’s book began my interest in the history of the Underground Railroad which led me to write about it."

During my research, I found a family connection between my family and the Still family.  Our family relationship extends almost 170 years.  I learned after contacting the National Archives for information on William N. Blockson,  the son of Leah Blockson, my great-grandmother.  William married Henrietta G. Still of Philadelphia on July 4, 1869 and she was the daughter of William Still’s brother .

The NCAA Football Rules Committee recommended that the distance that offensive linemen may go downfield to block on a pass be trimmed from 3 yards to 1 yard, and every defensive coordinator in the Pac-12 yelled, “Halleluyah!” No teams have done a better job of turning that 3 yards into 5 or 7 than Oregon and Arizona. NCAA rules editor Rogers Redding said that officials had a tough time keeping an eye on where the linemen were while seeing when the quarterback released the ball. It will be interesting to see if this change impinges on the offenses, or merely makes it easier for the striped shirts to do their jobs.

The late Beano Cook used to say that every coach has a loss that will awaken him at 3 a.m. 20 years after retirement. Before Sunday night, Pete Carroll's 3 a.m. loss was in the Rose Bowl to Texas for the 2005 BCS Championship. The Trojans led Texas 38-33, had 4th-and-2 at the USC 45, and went for it. LenDale White gained 1 yard. Now LenDale White was a good back. He gained 1,302 yards that year. But he was not Reggie Bush, the 2005 Heisman winner, who rushed for 1,740 yards, wasn't on the field. Bush ran for a 26-yard score against Texas with 11:19 to play. He never carried the ball again.

In 1962, Heinz’s friend and fellow sportswriter Red Smith put him together with Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi to write a book. In Wisconsin, Heinz learned that the coach had little descriptive recall of his life outside the gridiron, but his wife did, and Heinz slyly developed a method of gleaning Lombardi ’s memories from Marie Lombardi and then presenting them for his reaction, “Yeah, that’s right!” Soon they were filling up Heinz’s notebooks with what became the 1963 football classic, “Run to Daylight!”

A doctor he had interviewed for his 1963 novel “The Surgeon” introduced Heinz to Dr. H. Richard Hornberger, who was looking for help shaping his salty novel based on his surgical experiences in the Korean War. The two collaborated enough to share a byline as “ Richard Hooker ” for the novel “MASH” (1968), a best seller and the basis for the movie and television show that followed.

After the last event of the day, Robert and I head for the Let 'Er Buck room, the fabled saloon that sits beneath the bleachers and serves only hard alcohol, with your choice of mixer being Pepsi or nothing. Within moments of joining the crushing throng that crowds into the bar after the rodeo, Robert and I are separated. Figuring I can get along well enough on my own, I decide to look around. Big mistake. Maybe a nun could run the gauntlet from the entrance to the back bar without her crotch being grabbed, her ass poked, or her boobs prodded.  Maybe.

If there was ever a joint that should hang a sign announcing, "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here," this is it. The atmosphere of the Let 'Er Buck Room is a cross between a cattle auction and a potential orgy. It is a contest to see who can get drunk the quickest, cop the most feels, and get set up with a sure lay by evening's end. A gathering place for spectators and participants alike, here you find the cowboy groupies (or "buckle babes") offering "butt judging contests," and guys coming up with such memorable bon mots as "Hey, girl! Give me a squeeze out of one of them jugs!" Any illusion I harbored that a cowboy was a true gentleman was quickly shattered as I fended off groping hands. Troy, a Pendleton local who buys a $12 rodeo ticket just to gain entrance to this buckboard bacchanalia, sighs, "Sh--. This ain't nothing like it used to be. A few years ago you'da got the Wrangler patch bit off your ass."

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/a-dude-at-the-rodeo/Content?oid=2492

*** Absolutely astounding. The WaPo investigates a conservative's college records and yet we have yet to see the socialist president's transcripts, even after 6 years!

*** And where does this story begin ? Is it against the law to drop out of college ? I see some progressive fear between the lines. If this is suppose to be some deal breaker, well good luck with that. In the meantime since you find the college years of a potential candidate interesting, how about finding Obamas transcripts from Occidental, Columbia and Harvard. We have never been able to witness how smart he was.
 
*** If Obama had only been vetted half as hard as conservative candidates, maybe we would have known we were putting a community organizing, racist, Muslim sympathizer into office.

*** Bill Clinton is humping underage hookers at private orgies on a secret island with a pedophile... but the media isn't interested in that.

*** Let's see. Walker left college to work in the real world.  Obama snorted coke in college, kept going to school as long as he could, and then hid out from the real world as a law prof.. lol

*** Did he own any dogs?  
Did he have any black friends?  
Was he kind to his mother?
Does he now or did he ever use "Just for Men"?

*** WaPo is afraid of a match up between a young guy with a track record of keeping his campaign promises and getting things done for the taxpayer and a old, dishonest failure of a white lady Hillary Clinton.  If this is the worst they can turn up on Walker, Hillary shouldn't come out of rehab.

*** Thank you for this hard hitting article about Barack Obama's mysterious transfer from Occidental to Columbia and how he was given a waiver from the Classics core all Columbia students were required to complete as freshmen and juniors because he enrolled as a foreign exchange student from Indonesia with the help of an Arab businessman....oh wait, that article will never appear in the WaPo.

*** How does this compare with multiple allegations of being a rapist? If a serial sexual harasser, possible rapist, can become president, I am thinking that Walker will be okay.

*** WPO your bias is showing- again! Your article on Walker is silly. The Democratic Party spent millions trying to smear Walker and he beat them and their ridiculous candidates bloody in a deep blue state. You would have more credibility if you showed the tiniest interest in Obama's college and law school back ground including but not limited to : where are his transcripts, who paid for his college and law school education, has he ever published an article for Harvard Law Review? Why did his publicist claim he was born in Kenya? Did he apply at Columbia as a foreign exchange student? Come on WPO answer the questions and maybe we can take your interest in Walker as something more than partisan sniping.

*** Geez Louise, that's more words reported here in one article than all the words reported on Obama's college days in the last 8 years.. At least they remember him and acknowledge seeing him in class. I don't remember many stories here featuring Barry's classmates.

*** Walker, when he was 15 years old, threw to second base instead of first, in an attempt to get the lead runner. There were two outs.
 
QUESTIONS LINGER
 
Shouldn't he have thrown to first? Why didn't he?

Valentine is a disillusioned eco-philanthropist with a drastic plan to solve overpopulation: First, give free cellphones to the masses. Next, trigger a homicide-inducing subliminal frequency from the safety of a mountaintop bunker and sit back and watch as the population exterminates itself.

Students seem more anxious about classroom discussion, and about approaching the law of sexual violence in particular, than they have ever been in my eight years as a law professor. Student organizations representing women's interests now routinely advise students that they should not feel pressured to attend or participate in class discussions that focus on the law of sexual violence, and which might therefore be traumatic.  These organizations also ask criminal-law teachers to warn their classes that the rape law unit might "trigger" traumatic memories. Individual students often ask teachers not to include the law of rape on exams for fear that the material would cause them to perform less well. One teacher I know was recently asked by a student not to use the word "violate" in class - as in "Does this conduct violate the law?" - because the word was triggering. Some students have even suggested that rape law should not be taught because of its potential to cause distress.

Penetration cuts down on pursuit: Every step of penetration cuts down two steps of pursuit. It is basically more logical to play at the line of scrimmage, and to penetrate just enough to give you a change of pace. You will have to come in with penetration where the down and distance require it.

If you are to carry through with the axiom of pursuit, you must keep penetration to a minimum. You do not want to play for the "fourth and ten" - you are playing for the fourth with two or three yards to go for a first down.

A team that tries to stop the offense for no gain each time is leaving themselves open for the long gain.

Connecticut native, raised in Branford

Local, a graduate of New Haven's Hillhouse High School

First black man to play football at Yale

Elected captain of the Yale football team, 1949

First black executive of Ford Motor Company

Instrumental in forming Ford's Minority Dealership Training Program

Member President's Commission on White House Fellowships under President Lyndon B. Johnson

Member of Selective Service Appeals Board under President Richard NIxon

Ford's Man of the Year, 1968

Retired as Vice-President of Ford after 32 years

1987 Walter Camp Man of the Year Award

If Levi Jackson College should ever come to pass, a prominent place should be given to a portrait of Reggie Root, his coach at Hillhouse and later a member of Howie Odell's Yale staff. "That man was my angel," Levi told said of Root. It was Reggie who persuaded Levi, who was taking the standard high school curriculum, to switch over to the college prep curriculum, which kept him at Hillhouse an extra season. Reggie's move to the Yale staff doubtless made Levi more comfortable about choosing Yale (over Cornell and Brown, if one can believe the papers of the day).  When Odell went out to Washington, taking some aides including Root with him, Levi wanted to transfer. (Imagine a Husky backfield with Don Heinrich, Levi and Hugh McElhenny!) Reggie talked Levi into staying at Yale. Otherwise, who knows when we'd ever have had a black captain?

"I went on to become a sportswriter in New York and in future years dealt with countless stories that involved race, not all of them pleasant. There were more 'firsts', then numbers, percentages, countless counting of blacks and whites, alsong with the inevitable playing of various race cards.

"My finest racial moment had been back at Yale the time that no one gave white or black consideration when it came to Levi Jackson sitting on the Yale fence for the routine captain's photograph, the white Y on the blue jersey over his human body."

“It was nice of the President to give us a history lesson at the Prayer breakfast,” Jindal said. “Today, however, the issue right in front of his nose, in the here and now, is the terrorism of Radical Islam, the assassination of journalists, the beheading and burning alive of captives. We will be happy to keep an eye out for runaway Christians, but it would be nice if he would face the reality of the situation today. The Medieval Christian threat is under control, Mr. President. Please deal with the Radical Islamic threat today.”

A Vancouver man was sentenced Friday to 17 months in prison for torching a Vancouver home he shared with his former domestic partner of 16 years.

Timothy Meagher, 58, used gasoline to start the fire at 6208 NE Wilding Road on June 13 soon after his former partner, James L. Hansen, ended their commitment and asked Meagher to move out of their house.

Meagher's attorney, George Marlton, said Friday that the intentional fire was a crime of passion sparked by Meagher's belief that Hansen was having an affair with a woman.

The number of college football underclassmen declaring for the NFL draft went down this year, reversing a five-year trend, and talent experts credit better education and a new NFL grading system for the drop.

Seventy-four players were granted special eligibility for the NFL draft, down 24.5 percent from a record high of 98 in 2014. Before that, the number had been climbing steadily since 2009, when 46 players with college eligibility declared for the draft (see chart).

“Hopefully, 2014 was a one-year anomaly and the number in 2015 will begin a trend back to the historical averages,” said Rich McKay, Atlanta Falcons president and CEO and the chairman of the NFL Competition Committee.

Last year McKay decried the record number as “surprising” and “disappointing.” Thirty-six of those 98 players were not drafted.

McKay, NFL agents and others said that the new NFL grading system, which went into effect last year, may have something to do with the drop.

Previously, college underclassmen who requested a draft grade from the NFL were given one of five grades:
* Potential first-rounder.
* Potential second-rounder.
* Potential third-rounder.
* Potential fourth- through seventh-rounder.
* Projected free agent.

The new NFL evaluation system has only three grades:
* Ability of potential first-rounder.
* Ability of potential second-rounder.
* Recommendation to remain in school.

In addition to the new grading system, the NFL also implemented a limit on the number of grades a school could request. In the past, the number of requests was unlimited. This past year, once a college had five players reviewed by the NFL’s College Advisory Committee, the school had to ask permission to get additional reviews. It was not clear how often such permission was granted.

McKay said the new rules appear to have helped reduce the number of early entrants. “That said, it’s only been one year with these modifications,” he said.

Jeff “Hawk” Hawkins, University of Oregon director of football operations, said he worried at first that the new system might send the wrong message to underclassmen not projected as first- or second-rounders.

“I was afraid … the kids would think, ‘Well, I’ll go in the third [round],” Hawkins said. “I was really concerned that they would read between the lines when they shouldn’t.”

Hawkins said he was pleasantly surprised by the numbers and said that the new grading system seems to have had an effect.

Todd McShay, ESPN NFL draft analyst, said both the new grading system and the limit on evaluations may have kept the number down. “I think the combination of the two things was very smart,” he said.

The large number of juniors and redshirt sophomores declaring last year wasn’t due to underclassmen trying to take advantage of a weak class, McShay said. “This 2014 rookie class is one of the better rookie classes — I would say — in a decade.”

McShay noted that the number of underclassmen declaring for the draft took a jump after the negotiation of the 2011 collective-bargaining agreement, which instituted a new rookie pay system. Those new rules cut the amount of money that high first-rounders could make by about half.

Nowadays, agents are telling draft prospects that it is all about getting the second contract, where the real money can be made. If players come out one or two years early, they are closer to that second contract.

“The problem we are having is guys are coming out before they are ready,” McShay said. “And it doesn’t matter if you are closer to it, because ‘it’ (the second contract) doesn’t exist.”

Gil Brandt, a draft analyst for NFL.com, who makes the decision on which players are invited to the draft, said he thinks the reason fewer underclassmen came out this year is because college coaches did a better job of telling players about the underclassmen who declared last year but were not drafted.

While the number of underclassmen who have declared for the draft has gone up in recent years, the number who are actually drafted has not, said Lal Heneghan, a partner with Cornerstone Sports Consulting, which provides education about the NFL to college football players at 12 Division I schools, including Alabama and Florida State.

Universities are spending more time educating players about the pitfalls of declaring early, including the possibility of going undrafted, Heneghan said. The decrease in the number of underclassmen declaring could mean those players are going to stay in school and develop both as football players and individuals, Heneghan said.

If so, Heneghan said, “that is a good thing.”

My son’s high school football team finished 1-9 this year, and I wouldn’t be prouder of this team if they had gone undefeated.

They made a game of it each Friday night, and while they often were outnumbered and overmatched, they never were outplayed. My son and his teammates have learned more about hard work, sportsmanship and resilience on the football field than anywhere else, and these lessons will make them better men.

But as much as I enjoy the tradition of high school football, I worry about its future.

My son’s school has nearly 2,000 students, but his team is lucky to suit up 20 players for a varsity game. There are a lot more young men who want to play, but whose parents won’t let them. Their parents think the risk of brain injury outweighs the benefits of playing.

I understand the concerns and share them, but I have concluded those concerns are misplaced. My children are the most important part of my life. I am a widower, and when my son wanted to play football his freshman year, every mom and my in-laws chastised me for considering it. Even President Obama wondered whether he’d let his theoretical son play.

I’m a physician and medical researcher at Stanford, and I only decided to let my son play after reviewing the medical research.

The study that best elucidates the risk of football-related brain injury comes from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CDCP officials studied 3,439 former National Football League players with at least five years of pension-credited playing seasons between 1959 and 1988.

This is arguably the highest-risk group of players available for study. Among these players, the incidence of neurodegenerative disease is three times higher than in the general population. However, the risk of death from neurodegenerative disease was relatively low in both groups: 3 percent in NFL players, and 1 percent in the general population. The risk associated with a long NFL career is not insignificant but remains small.

The high-profile research that is regularly cited as connecting the dots between football-related concussions and dementia in NFL players lacks sufficient data to establish a causal link. Most of the cases considered focus on former NFL players involved in a lot of high-risk behavior other than football, and none of these studies included a control group. Research like this is typically filed away as “interesting, but we need better data.”

The key here is that high school football is not the NFL. The Mayo Clinic found that the risk of high school football players developing degenerative neurological diseases later in life is no greater than if they had been in the band, glee club or choir.

The data suggests that the normal life of adolescents puts them at risk for brain injury all the time. What would be the alternatives to my son playing football? Sports such as soccer, skiing, rock climbing or lacrosse have similar risk profiles to high school football.

My late wife rode horses competitively growing up. As an anesthesiologist at a hospital that treats more horse-related trauma accidents than any other in the country, I’m glad my son went with football.

I believe the benefits of playing high school football are worth the risks. Football is an equal-opportunity sport. All different types of athletes make up a football team, the skills needed don’t require years of practice, and there is no real advantage for kids with private coaches. A healthy, average athlete who shows up to all the team’s practice sessions and attends off-season weight training can usually find a spot on the team.

My son’s teammates are from the whole socioeconomic and racial spectrum. The only reason that his team was able to make a contest out of each game, despite that they had so few players to work with, is that the boys learned how to build on what they had in common instead of focusing on their differences.

As Jack Kemp, the former pro quarterback and congressman, once said, “The huddle is color-blind.” In an increasingly diverse world, opportunities to learn how to work together with a wide range of people who start out on equal footing should not be lightly dismissed.

When I sit in the stands, I worry when my 160-pound son lines up on the front line of the kick return team, but that is only slightly less than I worry when I sit in the passenger seat as he merges onto the highway. Adolescence is a scary time for parents.

To all you parents who are keeping your sons from playing football, I say, “Let them play.” They are just as safe on the football field as they are in most of the other sports and activities we regard as a necessary part of a healthy adolescence. You can save money on expensive club sports and specialty coaches, and your sons will develop skills that will serve them and the rest of us well.

There is something uniquely haunting about seeing the Wells Fargo Center parking lot full and lively at 5:00 a.m. as it would be for a Flyers game at 5:00 p.m, nonetheless, fans piled into the parking lots to tailgate the 23rd edition of the WIP Wing Bowl.

Some began filing into the arena when the doors opened at five, but many stayed behind to adult friends (and probably beverages) in the parking lot. For those who did make their way into the home of the Flyers and Sixers, they were treated to WIP narrating their flagship event.

Molly Schuyler came into the day with the best odds (2-1), looking for a repeat of her Wing Bowl 22 title in which she crushed the all-time Wing Bowl record by eating 363 chicken wings.

"There's some security out there because it is going to be a rambunctious morning in Philadelphia," host Angelo Cataldi said at the start his 6 a.m. timeslot on WIP, blasted across the sound system in the arena.

"Only a country like America would allow a competition like this," Cataldi added. No, only a city like Philadelphia.

When Gautt played at OU, the first- and second-team players at each position were roommates on road trips. Gautt's roommate for two years was Jakie Sandefer. "Prentice asked me to introduce him into the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame, and I was very honored that he asked me to induct him," Sandefer said. "My statement there was, 'Was Prentice different? Yeah, Prentice was different. He had more class than the rest of us, and he was a better student.'" -

"Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel, who's been photographed partying from coast to coast since the day he was drafted, entered a treatment facility Wednesday and is getting the help he needs, according to a family friend and advisor."

Scot McCloughan, the new general manager of Washington in the National Football League, played for the Hagerstown Suns baseball team in 1993 and 1994.

Dartmouth's in town again, Team! Team! Team!
Echo the old refrain, Team! Team! Team! -   

Dartmouth's in town again - run, girls, run! 
Dartmouth's in town again - fun, girls, fun!
Our pants are steaming hot,
We'll give them all we've got,
Virgins are just our meat!
Rape! Rape! Rape!

After a spate of student misbehavior that has tarnished the reputation of Dartmouth College, its president on Thursday announced a ban on hard liquor on campus, and threatened to do away with fraternities or other groups that fail “to elevate and not denigrate the Dartmouth experience.”

Officials said the ban will apply to any liquor that is 15 percent alcohol — barely more than most wine — or more, and will take effect when the spring term begins March 30. Dr. Hanlon said the college will also increase penalties for people who provide alcohol to minors and to any student in possession of hard liquor, but did not offer any details.

“The dream would be to stay here, the comfortable thing would have been to stay here, the ideal thing would have been to stay here. But where God is leading me, I have to follow, and I’ve always said that.”

Kitna, who spent the first four years of his 16-year NFL career with the Seattle Seahawks and the final four with the Dallas Cowboys, said it came down to sustainable positions for his assistant coaches.

At least four assistants will go with him, including brother Matt Kitna. Junior quarterback Jordan Kitna, Jon’s son, is going, as is junior tight end Devan Brady, whose father is Lincoln assistant Evan Brady. The other assistants leaving are Casey Kjos, Damola Adeniji and possibly Corey McBride, who had not decided as of Wednesday.

Lincoln had five assistant coaches, with each making almost $5,000 this year. In the 2013-14 school year, Kitna was paid almost $40,000 to coach and teach part time at Lincoln. Kitna said the pay for his assistants made it difficult to keep them and that his staff payroll will increase at Waxahachie.

“It’s really hard to ask coaches to put in 25-30 hours a week after they work a 40-hour-a-week job,” Kitna said. “If you just want to show up for practice, OK, we’ll go through our two-hour practice and show up on Friday. That’s great. We would be mediocre, we would compete for our league title here every year and stuff.

“But at the end of the day, I can’t stand average. I want to be able to compete at the highest level. I just don’t think we could sustain it as is, as it is currently constructed.”

No wireless communication with the coach.

Hashmarks dividing the field into thirds.

No Intentional grounding.  Anywhere.

Spiking? It's intentional grounding.

No surrender-by-hook-slide

Contact with receivers is allowed anywhere downfield until the ball's thrown

Offensive linemen must keep their hands against their chests when pass protecting

Defenders can hit  the quarterback anywhere on his body.

Defenders can's be expected to stop just because the quarterback has released the ball.

Defensive linemen can "head-slap" offensive linemen

We’re breeding generations of citizens who think attacking left-wing college administrators from the left is bold and courageous and denouncing Islamic extremism is racist. We apologize for the “root causes” that lead to actual violence, while we theorize endlessly about how ultimately we’re really to blame. Our military heroes are terroristic and the terrorists are misunderstood.

At the end of the 1959 season, Jim Lee Howell had walked into Wellington Mara's office and announced that he was burned out. The thrill of winning, Howell said, no longer compensated for the deep anxiety he took from losing.   He would coach the 1960 season, but that would be his last.  Howell's surprise burnout did not come at the best tie for the Maras. Not only had they let Lombardi go to Green Bay a year earlier, but they had just lost Tom Landry to the expansion team in Dallas.

“We are not at all admitting that we didn’t have the authority to impose the penalties,” Emmert said.

Well, not in so many words.

The NCAA’s proposed legal settlement with Penn State could avert a court battle over a consent decree the school signed under unseemly pressure from the governing body for college athletics. And it allows Emmert the right to continue claiming jurisdiction he might have a hard time justifying under oath. But if you’re keeping score at home, this case was a blowout.

Best bet: email a link to highlight film to the recruiting coordinator - it will get watched/evaluated by someone in the program

ESPN/rivals/etc is "all nonsense "- "we evaluate the film and go from there"

Is there a bigger hypocrite in college sports than Urban Meyer?

With Ohio State leading Oregon 35-20 in the college football championship game last night the Buckeyes had first and goal at the Ducks’ 2-yard line. There were less than two minutes left in the game. Urban Meyer could have his quarterback take a knee and Ohio State would be champs.

This is what Meyer instructed Cardale Jones to do, right? After all, Meyer talks a big God game and is pals with Todd Gongwer, whose book on finding the heart of leadership, LEAD…for God’s Sake, struck a chord with Meyer and served as the foundation for their friendship. The book is supposedly (I have not read it) about finding a purpose in life through Christian values.

Or not. Instead of graciously letting the clock run out and not humiliating his opponent, Meyer had Jones give the ball to running back Ezekiel Elliott. Twice! On his second attempt Elliott got into the end zone with 28 seconds left. Ohio State 42, Oregon 20.
Urban Meyer. Hypocrite.

Rule 5, Section 3 Changes in Position

REPORTING CHANGE OF POSITION

Article 1 An offensive player wearing the number of an ineligible pass receiver (50–79 and 90–99) is permitted to line up in the position of an eligible pass receiver (1–49 and 80–89), and an offensive player wearing the number of an eligible pass receiver is permitted to line up in the position of an ineligible pass receiver, provided that he immediately reports the change in his eligibility status to the Referee, who will inform the defensive team.

NFHS: Rule 7, Section 2, Article 5

(a) At the snap, at least seven A (Offensive) players shall be on their lone of scrimmage.

(b) At the snap, at least five A players on their line of scrimmage must be numbered 50-79

There are certain exceptions for "scrimmage kick formations" (in which the presumed kicker is at least seven yards deep) so that teams can substitute an eligible-numbered guy as a deep snapper as well as lighter, faster players to take the place of big offensive linemen in kick coverage. 

Rule 7, Section 5, Article 6

The following players are eligible pass receivers:
(a) All A players eligible by position and number include those who, at the time of the snap, are on the ends of the scrimmage line or legally behind the line (possible total of six) and are numbered 1-49 or 80-99.

So Sorry, Minneapolis Teachers

As promised, this morning brought the publishing of teacher ratings, including VAM scores, with a map and a pearl-clutching interview with the district's superintendent. The gap is shocking, alarming, inexplicable.

I'm speaking of course of the apparent gap between Superintendent Bernadeia Johnson's brain and reality. How does somebody with this gigantic an inability to process data end up as a superintendent of a major school system?


Superintendent Johnson is shocked-- shocked!!-- to find that under this evaluation system, it turns out that all the worst teachers are working in all the poorest schools! Hmmm-- the poorest schools have the worst results. What's the only possible explanation? Teachers!! (Pause for the sound of me banging my head on the desk.)

“It’s alarming that it took this to understand where teachers are,” Superintendent Bernadeia Johnson said Friday. “We probably knew that, but now have the hard evidence. It made me think about how we need to change our staffing and retention.”

No, Superintendent Johnson.  What's alarming is that you don't understand a damn thing.

Here's what you have "discovered." If you rip the roof off a classroom, the teachers that you send to teach in that classroom will get wet when it rains. You cannot "fix" that by changing the teacher.

But apparently that's the solution being considered. "Okay," says Superintendent Johnson. "Over here we have teachers who stay dry and their students stay dry, so we'll put this dry teacher in the classroom without a roof and have a dry teacher for the wet rooms. That'll fix it."

And Superintendent Johnson appears willing to go further. "Maybe we just need to fire the wet teachers and replace them with new, dry ones," she may be thinking. [Sound of me banging my head against the concrete slab of my basement floor.]

If you want a dry teacher in the room, build a damn roof on it.

Look. Look look look look look. We already know that poverty absolutely correlates with test results. Show me your tests results and I will show you where your low-income students are. Poverty and lack of resources and underfunding put these students in a classroom without a roof, and anybody you put in there with them will be a wet teacher.

Build a damn roof.

http://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2014/11/so-sorry-minneapolis-teachers.html?spref=fb

As someone who lives and works in Boston and deals daily with traffic gridlock, decaying bridges and tunnels, and a subway from the 19th century, where a large portion of the population lives in poverty, i was thinking the other day that what this city really needs is a good velodrome...


If you plan on taking the Green Line to the games, you'd better get on a train now.

Before Stanford University head coach David Shaw first started coaching at Western Washington, he received some terrific advice from his father that he holds dear to this day.

“Coach to your personality,” his father told him. It’s just a few short words, but it speaks volumes.

“He knew I was going to work hard,” says Shaw of his father. “He knew I was going to do what I was supposed to do, but his advice was don’t try to be like anybody else.”

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(Chris) Christie flew to Dallas and accepted the ticket to the game at the expense of the Cowboys’ owner, who just so happens to have a business relationship with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The state’s Code of Conduct says that governors “may accept gifts, favors, services, gratuities, meals, lodging or travel expenses from relatives or personal friends that are paid for with personal funds.”

The sticky issue is that the governor of New Jersey, along with the governor of New York, controls the Port Authority, and Legends Hospitality, a company in which Jones has an interest, has been given a license to run an observation deck atop One World Trade Center, which is operated by the Port Authority.

My grandfather kept a journal when he served with the 29th Division (the famous National Guard Division that was assigned Omaha Beach in WWII) in France in WWI. 

When I was researching WWI for a booklet I did on him for my family I read John Eisenhower's (Ike's son) book called "Yanks".  He has a chapter on Cantigny.  That was a crucial engagement for the American army for 3 reasons: it deprived the Germans of an important observation point, it showed the Germans that the American army was not just a rabble, and most importantly it added to Pershing's argument for an independent American command which saved many American lives.  Our troops would have been parceled out to French and British divisions and would have been used as cannon fodder.

The Black Lions are the 28th Infantry Regiment which was part of the 1st Infantry Division in WWI.  The 28th was assigned to take the town of Cantigny, France from the Germans and was commanded by Col. Hanson E. Ely.

Eisenhower says, "Ely was considered a formidable warrior.  A quarter century earlier, at 6'2 and 220 pounds, he had been one of West Point's first football players, and since then had lost none of drive and stamina."

The regiment did such a magnificent job that the French named the Regiment the "Lions of Cantigny", thus the patch and the French lion.