html_removed html_removed html_removed
Wednesday,
August 27, 2008
5:53 PM
Dave Miley returns to the dugout- My heart goes out to him.
Start the debate-
The College football season hasn't started yet and they have a debate going in the LOTD CHAT ROOM during Mo's show about who is the best THE SEC or the BIG TEN
I'm looking for some stats from last season to help compare their records and such from last season- I will post them later
SOOOOOOOOO, there has continued to be this debate about the 9 year old that can pitch 40 mph.
It's interesting because the league says:
"He is a very skilled player, a very hard thrower," Noble said. "There are a lot of beginners. This is not a high-powered league. This is a developmental league whose main purpose is to promote the sport."
Pasted from <http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080826/ap_on_sp_ba_ne/bby_too_good_to_pitch>
BECAUSE HE'S too good, you can't PROMOTE the sport? When you tell a kid you can't play because he's too good… you are telling him that it's WRONG to be a GOOD PLAYER- has anyone watched ESPN??? How often do they talk about mediocre players? NEVER only really good and REALLY BAD!
I found this online earlier today and I had to snag it and place it on my blog-
even though REDS talk is pretty much over around here.
[IMG] http://wa3.images.onesite.com/thelotd.com/user/fundy/thumb/cpbanner.jpg [/IMG]
AND NOW FOR SOME RAIDERS TALK- BECAUSE THAT WILL ALWAYS BE MY TEAM- win/lose/or draw
-
Legendary OAKLAND RAIDERS offensive lineman [guard] GENE UPSHAW passed away August 21st while fighting against pancreatic cancer.
Gene Upshaw, famous as a member of the menacing offensive line during the Raiders glory years earned honors of being a 7 time PRO BOWLER, 2 time SUPER BOWL CHAMPION and the only man in the NFL to have played in 3 Super Bowls with 1 team, during 3 decades. He was enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1987.
-
[IMG] http://www.raiderfans.net/forum/customavatars/avatar1017_40.gif [/IMG]
I'm waiting to see if the Raiders can use the force...
Q
& A with LANE KIFFIN from
www.raiders.com/Common/Article.aspx?id=50934
The Oakland Raiders have been on the practice field this week getting ready for their 2008 Pre-Season finale this Friday night against the Seahawks at Qwest Field in Seattle. Raiders Head Coach Lane Kiffin spoke to the media after practice Monday and Tuesday.
Coach Kiffin [Monday's opening remarks]: It was a practice split between corrections from the other night and Seattle as well. I thought the guys worked well, and we’re going to continue to work with our guys especially on offense with the loss of Drew [Carter]. As far as the receivers and quarterbacks, we’re going to continue doing a lot of work with those guys together.
Q: How did Arman Shields look [Monday]?
A: He looked good, ran around. It’s hard to do what he’s doing for him to come back right now as a rookie and be able to remember everything. But movement wise he looked pretty good. We pushed him through some stuff and he caught some balls in the team drills.
Q: Since [Johnnie Lee] Higgins could conceivably be the return specialist on both punts and kicks, does that lessen the likelihood that he could be the third guy off the bench as a receiver?
A: No, I don’t think that if a guy is returning kicks that he can’t be your third receiver by any means. Guys have started at receiver and done kicks, so that will have nothing to do with it. Hopefully Johnnie will continue to develop, and he’ll play a lot this week and gain some confidence, and we’ll gain some confidence in him.
Q: You talked at camp about Michael Huff’s confidence being much higher at free safety. What have you seen in the games so far?
A: He’s played really well back there. His play the other night was perfect. The range is exactly what the guy is, he’s a free safety. He’s had a great off-season. From when we got here a year ago to the off-season this year, he’s completely different physically and mentally.
Q: With regard to Tyvon Branch...
A: Tyvon played extremely well. Every time Tyvon’s had a chance to do something on special teams he’s looked great. He just looks faster than everyone else out there. That’s a credit to him. It’s not just his speed, it’s a credit to the way he plays and how hard he plays. The play the other night was as good as it gets. That’s the second time he’s had a gunner rep where he’s looked like a Pro Bowl gunner, a guy that’s a legitimate special teams Pro Bowler. If he can carry that over, he can be a dynamic special teams player for us.
Q: That downhill-type guy that you're talking about that most every team seems to need, is that the basic reason fullbacks don’t carry the ball anymore? How often did you give the fullback the ball at SC?
A: Not very often in the run game. When you have good tailbacks it is hard not to give those guys the ball. Even a guy like Justin [Griffith] that can run the ball, Justin in Atlanta closed out a few games. When we got in situations, he helped us in Miami carrying the ball. When you have dynamic tailbacks, it is hard to give the ball the fullbacks unless it is short yardage. There are different types of fullbacks, [some] who play 10 years and never carry the ball.
Q: Fullbacks would carry the ball 60-70 times a year. Now nobody does it.
A: I think part of that is you don't see split backs. If you look at [Tom] Rathman when he was playing they were in split backs all the time. That was the old West Coast. You'd make your tailback block sometimes and you'd run the ball, run your sweeps to your fullbacks and fullback traps. I think that that's phased out, you don’t see a lot of split backs anymore.
Any of you TECHIES out there- take a read about the new iPHONE, I don't care because I will NEVER own an iPhone but it's out there so I thought I'd post this for those of you that care.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7582197.stm
Bengals vs. Barack
By John Kiesewetter • jkiesewetter@enquirer.com • August 27, 2008
If it comes down to the Bengals vs. Barack Obama on WKRC-TV (Channel 12) Thursday night, the Bengals will lose.
Channel 12, which will broadcast the Bengals-Indianapolis Colts game starting at 7 p.m., will switch to CBS News’ Democratic National Convention coverage at 10 p.m., if the game is not over.
The final minutes of the last preseason game would air on Channel 12’s sister station, the CinCW, also being called Local 12.2.
Presidential nominee Obama will address the convention in a national TV speech after 10 p.m., when the broadcast networks provide live coverage from Denver.
“Because of the long history and tradition we have for news here, and the historic nature of the convention, we thought our WKRC-TV viewers would expect to see the convention on Local 12,” says Les Vann, Channel 12 general manager.
WLWT-TV (Channel 5) also will be airing NBC’s preseason football game, Jacksonville at Washington, at 7 p.m. today. Channel 5 will “do whatever the NBC network does at 10 p.m., says a station spokesman.
Pasted from <http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080827/NEWS0108/308270078>
