Friday, March 25, 2005
Great New Blog
This blog is awesome...and from an NBA player. Here's a taste:
I had several Gun In Mouth Moments tonight—most of them caused by some bad nicknames. Gun In Mouth Moments (GIMM’s) are defined as points in my life when, if I were carrying a gun at the time, I would have to consider putting it in my mouth and ending it all so as to avoid dealing with the further downward spiral of our culture. The first GIMM arrived with the announcement of the starting line-ups. Here’s the deal: When, after 60 games, the team being announced has a winning percentage hovering around the same area as most pitchers’ batting averages, it loses the right to a grand entrance. No more dance team, no more theme song, no more dimming the lights. The players just walk onto the court and play the game. That’s it. The Hawks did not agree to my deal. They had an over-produced introduction on the big screen, an actual hawk that flew down from the rafters, and even a catch-phrase—something like, “The Spirit Lies Within.” Make it stop.
My other GIMM's occurred each time either of the Hawks’ rookie Josh’s was announced for scoring a basket. Apparently, someone decided that saying Josh Smith or Josh Childress was just not going to be sufficient. So instead, each time Josh Smith scores, the crowd is treated to, “J-Smooth for two.” When it is Childress, out comes, “J-Chill with the assist.” An analysis of this situation that does not include profanity escapes me, so I will not even try. Good night.
I had several Gun In Mouth Moments tonight—most of them caused by some bad nicknames. Gun In Mouth Moments (GIMM’s) are defined as points in my life when, if I were carrying a gun at the time, I would have to consider putting it in my mouth and ending it all so as to avoid dealing with the further downward spiral of our culture. The first GIMM arrived with the announcement of the starting line-ups. Here’s the deal: When, after 60 games, the team being announced has a winning percentage hovering around the same area as most pitchers’ batting averages, it loses the right to a grand entrance. No more dance team, no more theme song, no more dimming the lights. The players just walk onto the court and play the game. That’s it. The Hawks did not agree to my deal. They had an over-produced introduction on the big screen, an actual hawk that flew down from the rafters, and even a catch-phrase—something like, “The Spirit Lies Within.” Make it stop.
My other GIMM's occurred each time either of the Hawks’ rookie Josh’s was announced for scoring a basket. Apparently, someone decided that saying Josh Smith or Josh Childress was just not going to be sufficient. So instead, each time Josh Smith scores, the crowd is treated to, “J-Smooth for two.” When it is Childress, out comes, “J-Chill with the assist.” An analysis of this situation that does not include profanity escapes me, so I will not even try. Good night.
"The Pistol"
by Tim Laden of Sports Illustrated:
A junior high school boy in upstate New York thirsted for college basketball. Two years earlier, he had snuck out of his bedroom to watch, bug-eyed, as Texas Western stunned Kentucky on a Saturday night to win the national title. Now he gained permission to watch Alcindor on the rare nights when his games were televised. He bought a basketball scorebook, just like one his coach used at his junior high games. It was green with a thick cardboard cover and on each pair of facing pages he could write Xs for baskets and circled Xs for free throws. He could be a part of every game on television.
Into this world came Pistol Pete Maravich. At first, Maravich was the greatest myth of all, a first-year player on the LSU freshman team. So the boy waited, along with so many others, until the fall of '68, when Maravich made his debut with the varsity. Grainy pictures made their way to the local newspapers, of the kid with the floppy gray gym socks and the even floppier mop top hair. There were better pictures in Sports Illustrated that brought the Pistol to life, and finally there were games on television. The boy kept score in his green cardboard book, slashing Xs until there was no more room.
It's easy to argue that Maravich was just an overrated gunner. Sure, the cynics will say, Pete scored 3,667 points and averaged 44.2 points a game for his career (both NCAA records; and no four-year player has scored more points than Maravich scored in three), but he also averaged more than 38 shots a game. His father coached the team and used it to showcase his kid, to the detriment of the team as whole.
I say Maravich was an artist who bridged the gap between the Globetrotters and the globe. He didn't just play basketball; he expressed it. He scored while double- and triple-teamed. He scored when every human in the building knew he was trying to score. Yet lost in the array of scoring and shooting statistics is the truth of Maravich's remarkable skills: the no-looks, the behind-the-backs. A few years ago I interviewed Florida State athletic director Dave Hart about a football topic and at the end of the conversation, we talked about Maravich. Hart played at Alabama, and I asked if he ever got the chance to guard Maravich. "Well, nobody really guarded Pete,'' Hart said.
Of course not. Maravich was a sliver of mercury on a countertop, pounding his dribble, hunched over and floating until suddenly he was gone or the jump shot was released. Nobody stopped Maravich until Al McGuire and Marquette put a nasty box-and-one on him and held him to 20 points in the semifinals of the NIT at Madison Square Garden during his senior year. Just to satisfy those who thought he was a fluke, Maravich scored more than 15,000 points in the NBA.
By the early 1990s, the boy with the scorebook had become a sportswriter. He made a visit to LSU to write a story about Shaquille O'Neal. In search of a sidebar with historical relevance, he talked to Jay McCreary, who was an assistant coach on the Pistol Pete teams (and, coincidentally, the coach of the Muncie, Ind., Central High School team that was beaten by Milan High in 1954, in the game at the became the inspiration for the movie Hoosiers).
McCreary took the sportswriter inside the John M. Parker Agricultural Coliseum, where Maravich played his games. As an athletic arena, it had been replaced by a modern building that bears Maravich's name, and was by then used only for livestock shows. McCreary walked down a flight of dingy stairs into the basement, which once was the locker room. There were crumbling wooden cubicles where the players dressed. He stopped beside one and tapped the lumber above it with his index finger, where faded black stencil announced, "PETE 23.'' Maravich's college career had ended more than two decades earlier and his life had ended in 1988. Here a worthy legend was preserved in silence. A tear formed in McCreary's eye. And in the writer's, fed by a child's heart.
A junior high school boy in upstate New York thirsted for college basketball. Two years earlier, he had snuck out of his bedroom to watch, bug-eyed, as Texas Western stunned Kentucky on a Saturday night to win the national title. Now he gained permission to watch Alcindor on the rare nights when his games were televised. He bought a basketball scorebook, just like one his coach used at his junior high games. It was green with a thick cardboard cover and on each pair of facing pages he could write Xs for baskets and circled Xs for free throws. He could be a part of every game on television.
Into this world came Pistol Pete Maravich. At first, Maravich was the greatest myth of all, a first-year player on the LSU freshman team. So the boy waited, along with so many others, until the fall of '68, when Maravich made his debut with the varsity. Grainy pictures made their way to the local newspapers, of the kid with the floppy gray gym socks and the even floppier mop top hair. There were better pictures in Sports Illustrated that brought the Pistol to life, and finally there were games on television. The boy kept score in his green cardboard book, slashing Xs until there was no more room.
It's easy to argue that Maravich was just an overrated gunner. Sure, the cynics will say, Pete scored 3,667 points and averaged 44.2 points a game for his career (both NCAA records; and no four-year player has scored more points than Maravich scored in three), but he also averaged more than 38 shots a game. His father coached the team and used it to showcase his kid, to the detriment of the team as whole.
I say Maravich was an artist who bridged the gap between the Globetrotters and the globe. He didn't just play basketball; he expressed it. He scored while double- and triple-teamed. He scored when every human in the building knew he was trying to score. Yet lost in the array of scoring and shooting statistics is the truth of Maravich's remarkable skills: the no-looks, the behind-the-backs. A few years ago I interviewed Florida State athletic director Dave Hart about a football topic and at the end of the conversation, we talked about Maravich. Hart played at Alabama, and I asked if he ever got the chance to guard Maravich. "Well, nobody really guarded Pete,'' Hart said.
Of course not. Maravich was a sliver of mercury on a countertop, pounding his dribble, hunched over and floating until suddenly he was gone or the jump shot was released. Nobody stopped Maravich until Al McGuire and Marquette put a nasty box-and-one on him and held him to 20 points in the semifinals of the NIT at Madison Square Garden during his senior year. Just to satisfy those who thought he was a fluke, Maravich scored more than 15,000 points in the NBA.
By the early 1990s, the boy with the scorebook had become a sportswriter. He made a visit to LSU to write a story about Shaquille O'Neal. In search of a sidebar with historical relevance, he talked to Jay McCreary, who was an assistant coach on the Pistol Pete teams (and, coincidentally, the coach of the Muncie, Ind., Central High School team that was beaten by Milan High in 1954, in the game at the became the inspiration for the movie Hoosiers).
McCreary took the sportswriter inside the John M. Parker Agricultural Coliseum, where Maravich played his games. As an athletic arena, it had been replaced by a modern building that bears Maravich's name, and was by then used only for livestock shows. McCreary walked down a flight of dingy stairs into the basement, which once was the locker room. There were crumbling wooden cubicles where the players dressed. He stopped beside one and tapped the lumber above it with his index finger, where faded black stencil announced, "PETE 23.'' Maravich's college career had ended more than two decades earlier and his life had ended in 1988. Here a worthy legend was preserved in silence. A tear formed in McCreary's eye. And in the writer's, fed by a child's heart.
Strange Bedfellows
WASHINGTON, March 24 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader and Wesley J. Smith, author of the award winning book "Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America" call upon the Florida Courts, Governor Jeb Bush and concerned citizens to take any legal action available to let Terri Schiavo live.
"A profound injustice is being inflicted on Terri Schiavo," Nader and Smith asserted today. "Worse, this slow death by dehydration is being imposed upon her under the color of law, in proceedings in which every benefit of the doubt-and there are many doubts in this case-has been given to her death, rather than her continued life."
"A profound injustice is being inflicted on Terri Schiavo," Nader and Smith asserted today. "Worse, this slow death by dehydration is being imposed upon her under the color of law, in proceedings in which every benefit of the doubt-and there are many doubts in this case-has been given to her death, rather than her continued life."
The Disabled Are Fighting Back
A disability rights lawyer (disabled herself) fights for Terri with Aaron Brown:
BROWN: Let me try and ask the question a little bit differently. No state in the country allows a non-terminally ill person to commit suicide. Every state in the country would intervene in that matter. Ms. Schiavo clearly to me is not terminally ill in the way we think about terminal illness.
So, regardless of her wishes -- and let's just accept for this moment that those in fact are her wishes -- regardless of those wishes, should -- is it appropriate for a non- terminal person to end their life or to have assistance in ending their life?
JOHNSON: Well, I think the key distinction is that we have an incapacitated person and someone else making the decision. I would say that there are a few decisions that each of us can only make for ourselves. And one of those is to give up our lives. And here we have a substitute decision-maker claiming to have the right to end another person's life, again, based on disability, which is a stigmatized minority group.
But one person says, I can end my wife's life because of her disability. And I think, for that decision to be valid, there ought to be real solemn documents, like a properly executed health care proxy, that says, absolutely, after advice, this is what I want, because the truth is that many, many people say casually throughout their lives, I'd rather be dead than disabled.
I've had people come up to me and say, I would rather be dead if I had to live like you. But the reality is that most people adapt. Most people go on to lead good lives that they could never have imagined. And this case is a particularly tough one. But the law applies to all people. And I think it's just a dangerous idea to say that we're going to let a substitute decision-maker authorize the killing of another person based on fairly casual statements they made without any particular knowledge of what they were talking about.
BROWN: Let me try and ask the question a little bit differently. No state in the country allows a non-terminally ill person to commit suicide. Every state in the country would intervene in that matter. Ms. Schiavo clearly to me is not terminally ill in the way we think about terminal illness.
So, regardless of her wishes -- and let's just accept for this moment that those in fact are her wishes -- regardless of those wishes, should -- is it appropriate for a non- terminal person to end their life or to have assistance in ending their life?
JOHNSON: Well, I think the key distinction is that we have an incapacitated person and someone else making the decision. I would say that there are a few decisions that each of us can only make for ourselves. And one of those is to give up our lives. And here we have a substitute decision-maker claiming to have the right to end another person's life, again, based on disability, which is a stigmatized minority group.
But one person says, I can end my wife's life because of her disability. And I think, for that decision to be valid, there ought to be real solemn documents, like a properly executed health care proxy, that says, absolutely, after advice, this is what I want, because the truth is that many, many people say casually throughout their lives, I'd rather be dead than disabled.
I've had people come up to me and say, I would rather be dead if I had to live like you. But the reality is that most people adapt. Most people go on to lead good lives that they could never have imagined. And this case is a particularly tough one. But the law applies to all people. And I think it's just a dangerous idea to say that we're going to let a substitute decision-maker authorize the killing of another person based on fairly casual statements they made without any particular knowledge of what they were talking about.
Quote of the Day
"Here's the question I ask of these right-to-lifers, including Vatican bishops: as we enter into Holy Week and we proclaim that death is not triumphant and that with the power of resurrection and the glory of Easter we have the triumph of Christ over death, what are they talking about by presenting death as an unmitigated evil? It doesn’t fit Christian context. Richard McCormick, who was the great Catholic moral theologian of the last 25 years, wrote a brilliant article in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1974 called "To Save or Let Die." He said there are two great heresies in our age (and heresy is a strong word in theology — these are false doctrines). One is that life is an absolute good and the other is that death is an absolute evil. We believe that life was created and is a good, but a limited good. Therefore the obligation to sustain it is a limited one. The parameters that mark off those limits are your capacities to function as a human." - Jesuit theologian Rev John J. Paris
I agree with this 100%. However, starving someone is not to "let die". Taking a dead person off of machines...yes. Prohibiting food and water...no.
I agree with this 100%. However, starving someone is not to "let die". Taking a dead person off of machines...yes. Prohibiting food and water...no.
.264!!
I think Huggins regime's days in Clifton are numbered.
The University of Cincinnati indefinitely suspended assistant basketball coach Keith LeGree on Thursday after he was arrested Wednesday night and charged with driving under the influence.
LeGree's arrest comes less than a year after head coach Bob Huggins was arrested on the same charge in Fairfax.
"This is totally shocking to me, in view of the harm and hurt that has already been caused to individuals, our men's basketball program and this university," UC athletic director Bob Goin said in a statement released by the university.
"Our image has taken yet another big hit by the careless action of someone, who, given the events of the past year, should have been very much aware of the consequences. The fact that we have recently had another major incident of this sort will mean that this will not necessarily be treated as a first-time offense."
The suspension will remain in place pending a "total evaluation" of LeGree's situation, according to a UC press release. He will continue to receive his salary during the evaluation but will forfeit all other benefits, be separated from the program and will not be allowed to represent the university in any way.
LeGree, 33, was arrested at 7:20 p.m. Wednesday at 2701 Central Parkway in Cincinnati.
According to the police report, he registered a blood-alcohol level of .264 on the breathalyzer, even though he did not blow long enough to complete the test.
The legal limit for DUI in Ohio is .08.
The University of Cincinnati indefinitely suspended assistant basketball coach Keith LeGree on Thursday after he was arrested Wednesday night and charged with driving under the influence.
LeGree's arrest comes less than a year after head coach Bob Huggins was arrested on the same charge in Fairfax.
"This is totally shocking to me, in view of the harm and hurt that has already been caused to individuals, our men's basketball program and this university," UC athletic director Bob Goin said in a statement released by the university.
"Our image has taken yet another big hit by the careless action of someone, who, given the events of the past year, should have been very much aware of the consequences. The fact that we have recently had another major incident of this sort will mean that this will not necessarily be treated as a first-time offense."
The suspension will remain in place pending a "total evaluation" of LeGree's situation, according to a UC press release. He will continue to receive his salary during the evaluation but will forfeit all other benefits, be separated from the program and will not be allowed to represent the university in any way.
LeGree, 33, was arrested at 7:20 p.m. Wednesday at 2701 Central Parkway in Cincinnati.
According to the police report, he registered a blood-alcohol level of .264 on the breathalyzer, even though he did not blow long enough to complete the test.
The legal limit for DUI in Ohio is .08.
Thursday, March 24, 2005
This Is So Wrong
SAN FRANCISCO, California (Reuters) -- A diner at a Wendy's fast food restaurant in San Jose, California, found a human finger in a bowl of chili prepared by the chain, local officials said Wednesday.
"This individual apparently did take a spoonful, did have a finger in their mouth and then, you know, spit it out and recognized it," said Ben Gale, director of the department of environmental health for Santa Clara County. "Then they had some kind of emotional reaction and vomited."
Local officials launched an investigation after the incident Tuesday night and the medical examiner determined Wednesday that the object was a human finger.
Officials are trying to determine whether the finger came in the raw materials Wendy's used to prepare the chili, Gale said.
Wendy's International Inc. corporate office did not immediately return a call for comment. Wendy's is the third-largest hamburger chain.
"This individual apparently did take a spoonful, did have a finger in their mouth and then, you know, spit it out and recognized it," said Ben Gale, director of the department of environmental health for Santa Clara County. "Then they had some kind of emotional reaction and vomited."
Local officials launched an investigation after the incident Tuesday night and the medical examiner determined Wednesday that the object was a human finger.
Officials are trying to determine whether the finger came in the raw materials Wendy's used to prepare the chili, Gale said.
Wendy's International Inc. corporate office did not immediately return a call for comment. Wendy's is the third-largest hamburger chain.
Words of Wisdom
Peggy Noonan is always good. Here's a bit:
Terri Schiavo may well die. No good will come of it. Those who are half in love with death will only become more red-fanged and ravenous.
And those who are still learning--our children--oh, what terrible lessons they're learning. What terrible stories are shaping them. They're witnessing the Schiavo drama on television and hearing it on radio. They are seeing a society--their society, their people--on the verge of famously accepting, even embracing, the idea that a damaged life is a throwaway life.
Our children have been reared in the age of abortion, and are coming of age in a time when seemingly respectable people are enthusiastic for euthanasia. It cannot be good for our children, and the world they will make, that they are given this new lesson that human life is not precious, not touched by the divine, not of infinite value.
Once you "know" that--that human life is not so special after all--then everything is possible, and none of it is good. When a society comes to believe that human life is not inherently worth living, it is a slippery slope to the gas chamber. You wind up on a low road that twists past Columbine and leads toward Auschwitz. Today that road runs through Pinellas Park, Fla.
Terri Schiavo may well die. No good will come of it. Those who are half in love with death will only become more red-fanged and ravenous.
And those who are still learning--our children--oh, what terrible lessons they're learning. What terrible stories are shaping them. They're witnessing the Schiavo drama on television and hearing it on radio. They are seeing a society--their society, their people--on the verge of famously accepting, even embracing, the idea that a damaged life is a throwaway life.
Our children have been reared in the age of abortion, and are coming of age in a time when seemingly respectable people are enthusiastic for euthanasia. It cannot be good for our children, and the world they will make, that they are given this new lesson that human life is not precious, not touched by the divine, not of infinite value.
Once you "know" that--that human life is not so special after all--then everything is possible, and none of it is good. When a society comes to believe that human life is not inherently worth living, it is a slippery slope to the gas chamber. You wind up on a low road that twists past Columbine and leads toward Auschwitz. Today that road runs through Pinellas Park, Fla.
Viktor to Speak
Washington, DC — Word has come in that the President of Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenko, has been invited to address a combined meeting of the Senate and House during his visit to the U.S. in early April.
President Yushchenko is expected in Washington on April 3rd for a private session with U.S. President George Bush on Monday, April 4th.
President Yushchenko is expected in Washington on April 3rd for a private session with U.S. President George Bush on Monday, April 4th.
It Must Stop
This doctor, who supports starving those in a persistent vegatative state, says Terri's not a "vegetable".
Schiavo
This is right:
"In taking jurisdiction over Terri Schiavo's case from the state courts, where conservative Republicans would have previously said it belonged, and handing it to federal judges, the Republican Party arrogated to the federal government breathtaking new powers that would have made Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan wince."
The starve Terri crowd has won the legal battle, but have lost the moral one. It's time for Jeb to step in. Send in the marshalls, reinsert the feeding tube, and then suffer the legal and political consequences.
"In taking jurisdiction over Terri Schiavo's case from the state courts, where conservative Republicans would have previously said it belonged, and handing it to federal judges, the Republican Party arrogated to the federal government breathtaking new powers that would have made Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan wince."
The starve Terri crowd has won the legal battle, but have lost the moral one. It's time for Jeb to step in. Send in the marshalls, reinsert the feeding tube, and then suffer the legal and political consequences.
Wednesday, March 23, 2005
Keep Talking, Big Boy...Keep Talking
When reminded of UK's stock of tall timber, which includes the tallest player in school history and another 7-footer, Bogut said: Bring 'em on.
"It won't wear me down," he said during a teleconference yesterday. "Every time a new player comes in, I'll go at him. I really like that situation. If they run three or four 'bigs' at me, if one guy comes in not ready, I'm going to punish him."
"It won't wear me down," he said during a teleconference yesterday. "Every time a new player comes in, I'll go at him. I really like that situation. If they run three or four 'bigs' at me, if one guy comes in not ready, I'm going to punish him."
Schiavo Musings
Fred Barnes of The Weekly Standard and a Fox News contributor writes:
True, there is an arguable federalism issue: whether taking the issue out of a state's jurisdiction is constitutional. But it pales in comparison with the moral issue.
This gets to the crux of the matter: What happens when the law contradicts morality. Are we obligated to disregard unjust laws? What is an unjust law? Is civil disobedience moral?
Are Terri Schiavo's Constitutional rights being violated? The courts have - to this point - said no. Are we morally bound to adhere to the courts decision?
True, there is an arguable federalism issue: whether taking the issue out of a state's jurisdiction is constitutional. But it pales in comparison with the moral issue.
This gets to the crux of the matter: What happens when the law contradicts morality. Are we obligated to disregard unjust laws? What is an unjust law? Is civil disobedience moral?
Are Terri Schiavo's Constitutional rights being violated? The courts have - to this point - said no. Are we morally bound to adhere to the courts decision?
Michael Moore Can't Be Happy
Iraqi special forces backed by US troops have killed 84 insurgents in a raid on a lakeside training camp near the city of Tikrit, officials say.
A 240-strong Iraqi commando unit engaged in heavy fighting before seizing the camp, 160km (100 miles) north-west of Baghdad, on Tuesday.
Iraqi officials confirmed that at least seven Iraqi commandos died, alongside insurgents from a number of countries.
Correspondents say it is the heaviest blow to the insurgency in months.
A 240-strong Iraqi commando unit engaged in heavy fighting before seizing the camp, 160km (100 miles) north-west of Baghdad, on Tuesday.
Iraqi officials confirmed that at least seven Iraqi commandos died, alongside insurgents from a number of countries.
Correspondents say it is the heaviest blow to the insurgency in months.
What?
This can't be true. It can't be. It can't be.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The trust fund for Social Security will go broke in 2041 - a year earlier than previously estimated - the trustees reported Wednesday. Trustees also said that Medicare, the giant health care program for the elderly and disabled, faces insolvency in 2020.
The new projections made in the trustees annual report were certain to be cited by both sides in the massive battle to overhaul Social Security, which President Bush has made the top domestic priority of his second term.
The go-broke date for Medicare was delayed by one year, compared to the estimate that trustees gave a year ago.
The insolvency dates represent when both trust funds will have exhausted the government bonds that have been building up to take care of the pending retirement of 78 million baby boomers.
I bet you the trustees are Republicans who hate old people.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The trust fund for Social Security will go broke in 2041 - a year earlier than previously estimated - the trustees reported Wednesday. Trustees also said that Medicare, the giant health care program for the elderly and disabled, faces insolvency in 2020.
The new projections made in the trustees annual report were certain to be cited by both sides in the massive battle to overhaul Social Security, which President Bush has made the top domestic priority of his second term.
The go-broke date for Medicare was delayed by one year, compared to the estimate that trustees gave a year ago.
The insolvency dates represent when both trust funds will have exhausted the government bonds that have been building up to take care of the pending retirement of 78 million baby boomers.
I bet you the trustees are Republicans who hate old people.
More Great News Out of Middle East
This is awesome:
The Palestinian Authority security forces are foiling just as many terror attacks as Israel, the head of the research division of Israel Defense Forces intelligence, Brigadier General Yossi Kuperwasser, told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Tuesday.
Israel handed over security responsibility for the the West Bank town of Tul Karm to the PA on Monday night. At around 8 P.M., armed Palestinian policemen began patrolling the streets of the town, the second in the West Bank to be handed over to the PA.
Last week, the Palestinian Authority assumed security control in Jericho. Talks on the handover of a third West Bank city, presumably Qalqilyah, are expected to begin in the coming days.
You know, someone should ask Jessie Jackson and Jimmy Carter why Yasser Arafat couldn't have done this 20 years ago. Oh, right. He was a murdering, thug terrorist with the support of clowns like Jesse Jackson and Jimmy Carter.
The Palestinian Authority security forces are foiling just as many terror attacks as Israel, the head of the research division of Israel Defense Forces intelligence, Brigadier General Yossi Kuperwasser, told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Tuesday.
Israel handed over security responsibility for the the West Bank town of Tul Karm to the PA on Monday night. At around 8 P.M., armed Palestinian policemen began patrolling the streets of the town, the second in the West Bank to be handed over to the PA.
Last week, the Palestinian Authority assumed security control in Jericho. Talks on the handover of a third West Bank city, presumably Qalqilyah, are expected to begin in the coming days.
You know, someone should ask Jessie Jackson and Jimmy Carter why Yasser Arafat couldn't have done this 20 years ago. Oh, right. He was a murdering, thug terrorist with the support of clowns like Jesse Jackson and Jimmy Carter.
Hee Hee
Howard Dean's now quoting Jesus:
In his speech, Dean told the audience how, under his leadership, the Democratic Party will be made stronger.
The party allowed its opponents too often to define debates and control issues, such as faith and family values, Dean said.
''We need to talk about values and not be afraid of them,'' he said, going on to make two biblical references.
In the first he said Jesus' directive to ''love thy neighbor'' didn't mean one could choose which ones to love. He then remarked that Republicans never brought up the scriptural verse saying it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven.
''We should never let anybody tell us we don't respect faith,'' he said.
In his speech, Dean told the audience how, under his leadership, the Democratic Party will be made stronger.
The party allowed its opponents too often to define debates and control issues, such as faith and family values, Dean said.
''We need to talk about values and not be afraid of them,'' he said, going on to make two biblical references.
In the first he said Jesus' directive to ''love thy neighbor'' didn't mean one could choose which ones to love. He then remarked that Republicans never brought up the scriptural verse saying it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven.
''We should never let anybody tell us we don't respect faith,'' he said.
Congrats to Travis
This doesn't strike me as a real good fit (southern boy with few recruiting connections in the northeast), but here's hoping it works out:
A source close to the situation said yesterday that Travis Ford was so close to landing the University of Massachusetts men's basketball head coaching job that discussions had gone beyond the interview process, and into the negotiating stage.
The secretive, unpredictable nature of the UMass job search has been such that perhaps nothing can be taken for undisputed fact until the new coach is formally introduced. And sources say Kent State coach Jim Christian - who was believed to be the front-runner as late as Sunday night - was told this week he was not out of the picture yet.
But two sources said Ford was visiting UMass this week, and that only a last-minute snafu over details might derail his candidacy.
A source close to the situation said yesterday that Travis Ford was so close to landing the University of Massachusetts men's basketball head coaching job that discussions had gone beyond the interview process, and into the negotiating stage.
The secretive, unpredictable nature of the UMass job search has been such that perhaps nothing can be taken for undisputed fact until the new coach is formally introduced. And sources say Kent State coach Jim Christian - who was believed to be the front-runner as late as Sunday night - was told this week he was not out of the picture yet.
But two sources said Ford was visiting UMass this week, and that only a last-minute snafu over details might derail his candidacy.
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
International Decade for Water
PARIS (AFP) - A UN-backed International Decade for Water has kicked off with addresses, media-friendly demonstrations and awards aimed at drawing attention to the plight of the world's most plentiful but most abused resource.
Placed under the banner "Water for Life," the decade seeks to lobby support for the United Nations (news - web sites)' Millennium Goals, which hope to halve the number of people without access to clean drinking water or sanitation by 2015.
Some 2.4 billion people have no toilets or sewers, and 1.1 billion do not even have drinkable water.
Does this 1.1 billion include Terri from Florida?
Placed under the banner "Water for Life," the decade seeks to lobby support for the United Nations (news - web sites)' Millennium Goals, which hope to halve the number of people without access to clean drinking water or sanitation by 2015.
Some 2.4 billion people have no toilets or sewers, and 1.1 billion do not even have drinkable water.
Does this 1.1 billion include Terri from Florida?
"We Don't Need Something More. We Don't Need Something Better."
Pretty good comments from Eugene Peterson regarding The Church:
Galli: Repentance, dying to self, submission--these are not very attractive hooks to draw people into the faith.
Peterson: Repentance, dying to self, submission—these are not very attractive hooks to draw people into the faith.
I think the minute you put the issue that way you're in trouble. Because then we join the consumer world, and everything then becomes product designed to give you something. We don't need something more. We don't need something better. We're after life. We're learning how to live.
I think people are fed up with consumer approaches, even though they're addicted to them. But if we cast the evangel in terms of benefits, we're setting people up for disappointment. We're telling them lies.
This is not the way our Scriptures are written. This is not the way Jesus came among us. It's not the way Paul preached. Where do we get all this stuff? We have a textbook. We have these Scriptures and most of the time they're saying, "You're going the wrong way. Turn around. The culture is poisoning."
Do we realize how almost exactly the Baal culture of Canaan is reproduced in American church culture? Baal religion is about what makes you feel good. Baal worship is a total immersion in what I can get out of it. And of course, it was incredibly successful. The Baal priests could gather crowds that outnumbered followers of Yahweh 20 to 1. There was sex, there was excitement, there was music, there was ecstasy, there was dance. "We got girls over here, friends. We got statues, girls, and festivals." This was great stuff. ....
So how should we visualize the Christian life?
In church last Sunday, there was a couple in front of us with two bratty kids. Two pews behind us there was another couple with their two bratty kids making a lot of noise. This is mostly an older congregation. So these people are set in their ways. Their kids have been gone a long time. And so it wasn't a very nice service; it was just not very good worship. But afterwards I saw half a dozen of these elderly people come up and put their arms around the mother, touch the kids, sympathize with her. They could have been irritated.
Now why do people go to a church like that when they can go to a church that has a nursery, is air conditioned, and all the rest? Well, because they're Lutherans. They don't mind being miserable! Norwegian Lutherans! ...
But many Christians would look at this church and say it's dead, merely an institutional expression of the faith.
What other church is there besides institutional? There's nobody who doesn't have problems with the church, because there's sin in the church. But there's no other place to be a Christian except the church. There's sin in the local bank. There's sin in the grocery stores. I really don't understand this naïve criticism of the institution. I really don't get it.
Frederick von Hugel said the institution of the church is like the bark on the tree. There's no life in the bark. It's dead wood. But it protects the life of the tree within. And the tree grows and grows and grows and grows. If you take the bark off, it's prone to disease, dehydration, death.
So, yes, the church is dead but it protects something. And when you try to have a church without bark, it doesn't last long. It disappears, gets sick, and it's prone to all kinds of disease, heresy, and narcissism.
Galli: Repentance, dying to self, submission--these are not very attractive hooks to draw people into the faith.
Peterson: Repentance, dying to self, submission—these are not very attractive hooks to draw people into the faith.
I think the minute you put the issue that way you're in trouble. Because then we join the consumer world, and everything then becomes product designed to give you something. We don't need something more. We don't need something better. We're after life. We're learning how to live.
I think people are fed up with consumer approaches, even though they're addicted to them. But if we cast the evangel in terms of benefits, we're setting people up for disappointment. We're telling them lies.
This is not the way our Scriptures are written. This is not the way Jesus came among us. It's not the way Paul preached. Where do we get all this stuff? We have a textbook. We have these Scriptures and most of the time they're saying, "You're going the wrong way. Turn around. The culture is poisoning."
Do we realize how almost exactly the Baal culture of Canaan is reproduced in American church culture? Baal religion is about what makes you feel good. Baal worship is a total immersion in what I can get out of it. And of course, it was incredibly successful. The Baal priests could gather crowds that outnumbered followers of Yahweh 20 to 1. There was sex, there was excitement, there was music, there was ecstasy, there was dance. "We got girls over here, friends. We got statues, girls, and festivals." This was great stuff. ....
So how should we visualize the Christian life?
In church last Sunday, there was a couple in front of us with two bratty kids. Two pews behind us there was another couple with their two bratty kids making a lot of noise. This is mostly an older congregation. So these people are set in their ways. Their kids have been gone a long time. And so it wasn't a very nice service; it was just not very good worship. But afterwards I saw half a dozen of these elderly people come up and put their arms around the mother, touch the kids, sympathize with her. They could have been irritated.
Now why do people go to a church like that when they can go to a church that has a nursery, is air conditioned, and all the rest? Well, because they're Lutherans. They don't mind being miserable! Norwegian Lutherans! ...
But many Christians would look at this church and say it's dead, merely an institutional expression of the faith.
What other church is there besides institutional? There's nobody who doesn't have problems with the church, because there's sin in the church. But there's no other place to be a Christian except the church. There's sin in the local bank. There's sin in the grocery stores. I really don't understand this naïve criticism of the institution. I really don't get it.
Frederick von Hugel said the institution of the church is like the bark on the tree. There's no life in the bark. It's dead wood. But it protects the life of the tree within. And the tree grows and grows and grows and grows. If you take the bark off, it's prone to disease, dehydration, death.
So, yes, the church is dead but it protects something. And when you try to have a church without bark, it doesn't last long. It disappears, gets sick, and it's prone to all kinds of disease, heresy, and narcissism.
Sophisticated Europeans
Aren't you glad Europeans aren't racist goons like the hayseeds in this country.
ZURICH, Switzerland -- The president of soccer's governing body stressed Monday that racism must be eliminated at stadiums, his comments coming one day after Real Madrid star Ronaldo threw a water bottle at fans for insulting him and his mother.
"Fighting this scourge is one of our most important tasks," FIFA president Sepp Blatter said in a statement. "Whether associations, teams or players at each and every level, we all have a duty to ensure that our conduct does not lead to anybody being marginalized."
Ronaldo was replaced in the 85th minute of Sunday's 1-0 home victory over Malaga in the Spanish league. He was putting on his jacket when a piece of gum was spit at him and fans yelled racist remarks. "They insulted me and my mother and I had a bad reaction," the Brazilian star said.
Many Madrid fans jeered the players, upset that one of the world's most glamorous teams most likely will end the season without a trophy for the second straight year. Madrid trails Barcelona by 11 points with nine games left.
There has been an upsurge in racist conduct by Spanish fans this season. Last month, a referee stopped a game between Malaga and Espanyol because fans were taunting Espanyol's Cameroon goalkeeper Carlos Kameni. Also, Spain coach Luis Aragones was fined this month for a comment about Arsenal star Thierry Henry and an outburst regarding Britain's colonial past.
ZURICH, Switzerland -- The president of soccer's governing body stressed Monday that racism must be eliminated at stadiums, his comments coming one day after Real Madrid star Ronaldo threw a water bottle at fans for insulting him and his mother.
"Fighting this scourge is one of our most important tasks," FIFA president Sepp Blatter said in a statement. "Whether associations, teams or players at each and every level, we all have a duty to ensure that our conduct does not lead to anybody being marginalized."
Ronaldo was replaced in the 85th minute of Sunday's 1-0 home victory over Malaga in the Spanish league. He was putting on his jacket when a piece of gum was spit at him and fans yelled racist remarks. "They insulted me and my mother and I had a bad reaction," the Brazilian star said.
Many Madrid fans jeered the players, upset that one of the world's most glamorous teams most likely will end the season without a trophy for the second straight year. Madrid trails Barcelona by 11 points with nine games left.
There has been an upsurge in racist conduct by Spanish fans this season. Last month, a referee stopped a game between Malaga and Espanyol because fans were taunting Espanyol's Cameroon goalkeeper Carlos Kameni. Also, Spain coach Luis Aragones was fined this month for a comment about Arsenal star Thierry Henry and an outburst regarding Britain's colonial past.
Schiavo Update II
From today's WaPo:
Attorneys for Robert and Mary Schindler argued that allowing their brain-damaged daughter to die before the federal courts can review her case would violate Congress's will and lead to the "damnation of her soul" because it would conflict with her religious beliefs.
Is there some theological concept I'm unaware of? How does someone else ending her life lead to the "damnation of her soul"? Is this a Catholic teaching that I'm unfamiliar with?
Attorneys for Robert and Mary Schindler argued that allowing their brain-damaged daughter to die before the federal courts can review her case would violate Congress's will and lead to the "damnation of her soul" because it would conflict with her religious beliefs.
Is there some theological concept I'm unaware of? How does someone else ending her life lead to the "damnation of her soul"? Is this a Catholic teaching that I'm unfamiliar with?
Title IX Clarification from the Dept. of Education
Finally, some common sense has been inserted into this bad law.
Under the third compliance option, an educational institution is in compliance with Title IX's mandate to provide equal athletic participation opportunities if, despite the underrepresentation of one sex in the intercollegiate athletics program, the institution is fully and effectively accommodating the athletic interests and abilities of its students who are underrepresented in its current varsity athletic program offerings.
An institution will be found in compliance with part three unless there exists a sport (s) for the underrepresented sex for which all three of the following conditions are met: (1) unmet interest sufficient to sustain a varsity team in the sport(s); (2) sufficient ability to sustain an intercollegiate team in the sport(s); and (3) reasonable expectation of intercollegiate competition for a team in the sport(s) within the school's normal competitive region.
Thus, schools are not required to accommodate the interests and abilities of all their students or fulfill every request for the addition or elevation of particular sports, unless all three conditions are present. In this analysis, the burden of proof is on OCR (in the case of an OCR investigation or compliance review), or on students (in the case of a complaint filed with the institution under its Title IX grievance procedures), to show by a preponderance of the evidence that the institution is not in compliance with part three.
Under the third compliance option, an educational institution is in compliance with Title IX's mandate to provide equal athletic participation opportunities if, despite the underrepresentation of one sex in the intercollegiate athletics program, the institution is fully and effectively accommodating the athletic interests and abilities of its students who are underrepresented in its current varsity athletic program offerings.
An institution will be found in compliance with part three unless there exists a sport (s) for the underrepresented sex for which all three of the following conditions are met: (1) unmet interest sufficient to sustain a varsity team in the sport(s); (2) sufficient ability to sustain an intercollegiate team in the sport(s); and (3) reasonable expectation of intercollegiate competition for a team in the sport(s) within the school's normal competitive region.
Thus, schools are not required to accommodate the interests and abilities of all their students or fulfill every request for the addition or elevation of particular sports, unless all three conditions are present. In this analysis, the burden of proof is on OCR (in the case of an OCR investigation or compliance review), or on students (in the case of a complaint filed with the institution under its Title IX grievance procedures), to show by a preponderance of the evidence that the institution is not in compliance with part three.
Schiavo Update
Michael makes a pretty compelling case:
PINELLAS PARK - Angered by the latest political developments in Washington, Michael Schiavo said Saturday that it isn't just the Florida governor who should visit his wife to learn about the case.
Jeb Bush's brother, President Bush, should visit Terri Schiavo, too, he said.
"Come down, President Bush," Schiavo said in a telephone interview. "Come talk to me. Meet my wife. Talk to my wife and see if you get an answer. Ask her to lift her arm to shake your hand. She won't do it."
She won't, Schiavo said, because she can't.
He made a similar offer to the governor last week, saying lawmakers interferring in his wife's life know nothing about the case. So far, Gov. Bush hasn't responded to the offer.
President Bush has indicated he will sign any federal legislation to keep Terri Schiavo alive.
Weary after an emotional visit with his wife, Schiavo said he is astonished that politicians want to interfere in such a private matter.
"Instead of worrying about my wife, who was granted her wishes by the state courts the past seven years, they should worry about the pedophiles killing young girls," Schiavo said, referring to a local case. "Why doesn't Congress worry about people not having health insurance? Or the budget? Let's talk about all the children who don't have homes."
He said U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who is leading a charge to extend Terri Schiavo's life, is a "little slithering snake" pandering for votes.
"To make comments that Terri would want to live, how do they know?" Schiavo said of the members of Congress who want to keep his wife alive.
"Have they ever met her?" Schiavo said. "What color are her eyes? What's her middle name? What's her favorite color? They don't have any clue who Terri is. They should all be ashamed of themselves."
Schiavo said he was going to stay at his wife's side through the entire ordeal and said he wouldn't
back down in his fight to have her wishes carried out.
"Terri died 15 years ago," Schiavo said, referring to the collapse and cardiac arrest that doctors say virtually destroyed her brain. "It's time for her to be with the Lord like she wanted to be."
PINELLAS PARK - Angered by the latest political developments in Washington, Michael Schiavo said Saturday that it isn't just the Florida governor who should visit his wife to learn about the case.
Jeb Bush's brother, President Bush, should visit Terri Schiavo, too, he said.
"Come down, President Bush," Schiavo said in a telephone interview. "Come talk to me. Meet my wife. Talk to my wife and see if you get an answer. Ask her to lift her arm to shake your hand. She won't do it."
She won't, Schiavo said, because she can't.
He made a similar offer to the governor last week, saying lawmakers interferring in his wife's life know nothing about the case. So far, Gov. Bush hasn't responded to the offer.
President Bush has indicated he will sign any federal legislation to keep Terri Schiavo alive.
Weary after an emotional visit with his wife, Schiavo said he is astonished that politicians want to interfere in such a private matter.
"Instead of worrying about my wife, who was granted her wishes by the state courts the past seven years, they should worry about the pedophiles killing young girls," Schiavo said, referring to a local case. "Why doesn't Congress worry about people not having health insurance? Or the budget? Let's talk about all the children who don't have homes."
He said U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who is leading a charge to extend Terri Schiavo's life, is a "little slithering snake" pandering for votes.
"To make comments that Terri would want to live, how do they know?" Schiavo said of the members of Congress who want to keep his wife alive.
"Have they ever met her?" Schiavo said. "What color are her eyes? What's her middle name? What's her favorite color? They don't have any clue who Terri is. They should all be ashamed of themselves."
Schiavo said he was going to stay at his wife's side through the entire ordeal and said he wouldn't
back down in his fight to have her wishes carried out.
"Terri died 15 years ago," Schiavo said, referring to the collapse and cardiac arrest that doctors say virtually destroyed her brain. "It's time for her to be with the Lord like she wanted to be."
Monday, March 21, 2005
Is Satan Lucky?
An Indiana pet store owner says he sees the image of Satan on the shell of a turtle that was the only survivor of a store fire in October.
You be the judge.
You be the judge.
NBC Gets Religion
In times of turmoil, people often turn to religion for aid and succor. So, too, it seems, do the networks. Suffering from a "Friends"-less prime-time lineup and generally lackluster ratings, this spring a beleaguered NBC is finding God - and delivering him to viewers - in a six-episode series based on the apocalyptic prophecies laid out in the Book of Revelation.
With a premiere set for April 13, NBC's "Revelations" follows the efforts of Sister Josepha Montifiore, a globe-trotting nun played by Natascha McElhone, and Dr. Richard Massey, a Harvard astrophysicist (and religious skeptic, of course) played by Bill Pullman, to determine whether the end of the world is indeed near.
...From the get-go, it is clear that "Revelations" will be a far cry from the inoffensively ecumenical brand of spirituality typically found in prime-time offerings like "Touched by an Angel," "Highway to Heaven" or "Joan of Arcadia." "We felt what needed to be done is a television show that expressed itself as Christian," said Gavin Polone, an executive producer of, and the driving force behind, "Revelations." "We're very clear about that here. The words 'Jesus Christ' or 'Christ' are used three times a minute."
Can you say Jesus Christ on network television?
With a premiere set for April 13, NBC's "Revelations" follows the efforts of Sister Josepha Montifiore, a globe-trotting nun played by Natascha McElhone, and Dr. Richard Massey, a Harvard astrophysicist (and religious skeptic, of course) played by Bill Pullman, to determine whether the end of the world is indeed near.
...From the get-go, it is clear that "Revelations" will be a far cry from the inoffensively ecumenical brand of spirituality typically found in prime-time offerings like "Touched by an Angel," "Highway to Heaven" or "Joan of Arcadia." "We felt what needed to be done is a television show that expressed itself as Christian," said Gavin Polone, an executive producer of, and the driving force behind, "Revelations." "We're very clear about that here. The words 'Jesus Christ' or 'Christ' are used three times a minute."
Can you say Jesus Christ on network television?
Big Ratings for Cat Fight
Viewers agreed. A 5.6 overnight rating average for the first three days was up 6% from last year's 5.3 average. More important, the rating ties 1993 for the best three-day average since CBS took over the entire tournament in 1991.
CBS' surge was capped by the 7.8 overnight for Saturday night's final games — Kentucky over backyard rival Cincinnati and West Virginia's double-overtime upset of Wake Forest — tops in the tournament since an 8.9 in 1993.
CBS' surge was capped by the 7.8 overnight for Saturday night's final games — Kentucky over backyard rival Cincinnati and West Virginia's double-overtime upset of Wake Forest — tops in the tournament since an 8.9 in 1993.
I'll Have to Read More of USA Today
From Howard Kurtz:
The veteran Gannett editor has also imposed strict rules on the use of anonymous sources, which some reporters say go too far and limit their ability to compete on stories. No information attributed to a "senior administration official" has appeared in USA Today since December, largely because of Paulson's crackdown. Even such formulations as "Democrats opposed to Bush's Social Security plan" are barred unless some names are included, and the use of unnamed sources has dropped about 75 percent.
To grant someone anonymity, Paulson says, "you have to go to a managing editor, identify that source -- which was at the heart of the Jack Kelley mess -- explain why we trust that source and how it moves the story forward." Paulson also runs Jones's picture on the editorial page, inviting feedback -- because, he says, past complaints about Kelley never reached or were dismissed by senior editors.
The veteran Gannett editor has also imposed strict rules on the use of anonymous sources, which some reporters say go too far and limit their ability to compete on stories. No information attributed to a "senior administration official" has appeared in USA Today since December, largely because of Paulson's crackdown. Even such formulations as "Democrats opposed to Bush's Social Security plan" are barred unless some names are included, and the use of unnamed sources has dropped about 75 percent.
To grant someone anonymity, Paulson says, "you have to go to a managing editor, identify that source -- which was at the heart of the Jack Kelley mess -- explain why we trust that source and how it moves the story forward." Paulson also runs Jones's picture on the editorial page, inviting feedback -- because, he says, past complaints about Kelley never reached or were dismissed by senior editors.
UT Update
From Mike DeCoursey:
Tennessee is aiming big early in its coaching search, attempting to attract interest from Texas Tech's Bob Knight. Knight, by joining Pat Summit, would give the Volunteers two of the most successful coaches in college history, but there's a question of whether Knight's age (64) and extremely high profile would be detriments--and whether the move would be a significant upgrade for him. You also can expect a push for Cincinnati's Bob Huggins, although that might be a tough sell to the UT administration. The Vols would do well to focus less on name value and more on a coach who could elevate the program from the ground level, somebody such as Charlotte's Bobby Lutz or Murray State's Mick Cronin. . . .
Tennessee is aiming big early in its coaching search, attempting to attract interest from Texas Tech's Bob Knight. Knight, by joining Pat Summit, would give the Volunteers two of the most successful coaches in college history, but there's a question of whether Knight's age (64) and extremely high profile would be detriments--and whether the move would be a significant upgrade for him. You also can expect a push for Cincinnati's Bob Huggins, although that might be a tough sell to the UT administration. The Vols would do well to focus less on name value and more on a coach who could elevate the program from the ground level, somebody such as Charlotte's Bobby Lutz or Murray State's Mick Cronin. . . .
More Media Spin
This is classic.
Aren't you glad that you read more than the headline:
"45 killed in insurgent attacks".
Or, indeed the opening paragraph:
"At least 45 people have been killed in insurgent attacks across Iraq as Washington defended its decision to go to war on the second anniversary of the US-led invasion."
...of this Agence France-Presse story. Because when you get to the second paragraph, you read:
"Twenty-four Iraqi insurgents were killed and six coalition soldiers wounded in a firefight in a Baghdad suburb overnight, the US military said."
That is, more than half of the people killed in insurgent attacks were the insurgents themselves. Actually, when you read on, you discover that another five insurgents died in two separate attack, which means that the number is realy 29 out of 45.
Aren't you glad that you read more than the headline:
"45 killed in insurgent attacks".
Or, indeed the opening paragraph:
"At least 45 people have been killed in insurgent attacks across Iraq as Washington defended its decision to go to war on the second anniversary of the US-led invasion."
...of this Agence France-Presse story. Because when you get to the second paragraph, you read:
"Twenty-four Iraqi insurgents were killed and six coalition soldiers wounded in a firefight in a Baghdad suburb overnight, the US military said."
That is, more than half of the people killed in insurgent attacks were the insurgents themselves. Actually, when you read on, you discover that another five insurgents died in two separate attack, which means that the number is realy 29 out of 45.
Sunday, March 20, 2005
I LIke Our Chances Against Utah
Why? Check out the minutes played by Utah's starters:
STARTERS
A. Bogut, F 40
M. Jackson, G 40
J. Hawkins, F 37
B. Markson, F 34
R. Chaney, G 25
If you think Cincy got tired, wait until you see these guys.
STARTERS
A. Bogut, F 40
M. Jackson, G 40
J. Hawkins, F 37
B. Markson, F 34
R. Chaney, G 25
If you think Cincy got tired, wait until you see these guys.
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