| Notebook | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 10:59:11 AM by Blog57 Team | | PASADENA, Calif. -- Oregon State missed an opportunity to run its longest winning streak during coach Mike Riley's tenure to five games and become bowl eligible Saturday with its 25-7 loss to UCLA at the Rose Bowl. "Honestly, I think we just came in a little relaxed," OSU free safety Bryan Payton said. "We tried to pick it up, but it ended up being a little too late for us. We're not really worried about trying to get our seventh win. We're just trying to play the way we can. If we play like we can, we'll get the win easy. UCLA just came out and played well." UCLA coach Karl Dorrell was asked if he thought Oregon State overlooked his team. "That's not any of my concern, what they're thinking," Dorrell said. "We worked overtime on getting our players ready to play.... | |
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| | | Brainy patterns of thinking (Jen Waters / THE WASHINGTON TIMES) | | Posted Thursday, November 02, 2006 11:06:59 AM by Blog57 Team | | Allen Stairs is teaching people to think twice. Because how a person acts is based on what he or she believes, being able to think critically is extremely important, he says. Mr. Stairs is challenging the students in his Art of Thinking class, a six-week Smithsonian Resident Associates program, to examine their thought processes. "If people are thinking badly, they will be taken in by silly claims," says Mr. Stairs, an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Maryland at College Park. "If they are people in positions of influence, it might not only be unfortunate for them, but for a lot of other people as well." Thinking -- reasoning, creating plans, devising strategies, instituting sound judgment, making decisions, acting out plans and accepting feedback about strategies -- can be a complicated practice.... | |
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| | | Noles not thinking about last place | | Posted Saturday, October 28, 2006 1:14:02 PM by Blog57 Team | | The Florida State Seminoles have dominated the Atlantic Coast Conference since joining the conference in the early 1990s. But take a look at the conference's standings, and it takes a while to find the Seminoles in the Atlantic Division. That's because while the rest of the division is wide open, Florida State is last with a 2-3 record, with two of those losses coming at home. The Seminoles will try to bounce back today at Maryland (5-1, 2-1). "I can't worry about (being in last place)," Florida State head coach Bobby Bowden said during his weekly teleconference. "That's the worst we've done and all that, but I don't dwell on that part of it. That's just not me. You can't be a coach and worry about things like that." • WAKE FOREST AT NORTH CAROLINA John Bunting won't return as the Tar Heels' head coach after the season.... | |
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| | | Candid Fletcher finally admits big picture is not looking good | | Posted Monday, October 23, 2006 6:55:08 AM by Blog57 Team | | DUNCAN FLETCHER?S acknowledgement that the World Cup may be coming too soon for England is extraordinary on two counts. Firstly, it is a candid verdict from an ordinarily reticent coach. Secondly ? and more importantly ? it makes for a damning indictment of muddled thinking in the one-day game. .... | |
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| | | Stanford's defense slowly improving | | Posted Friday, October 13, 2006 7:00:38 PM by Blog57 Team | | When Stanford defensive coordinator A.J. Christoff said two weeks ago that his guys were getting better, it seemed like wishful thinking. The Cardinal had just given up 468 yards -- 228 passing, 240 rushing -- in a blowout loss to Washington State. But in the past two games, losses at UCLA and Notre Dame that dropped Stanford to 0-6, Christoff's unit hasn't been quite the pushover it was through the first four. Although the defense is still a long ways from being average -- let alone dominant -- it is improving. ``I think we are starting to really come together and play as one unit,'' said linebacker Michael Okwo, who has averaged 12 tackles per game since returning from a broken thumb four weeks ago. ``We just have to be more steady in our play and keep one another on the same page.'' The defense figured to be a work in progress after losing five players from last season, including four who were drafted by the NFL.... | |
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| | | Thinking, talking dirty at Valanni | | Posted Wednesday, October 04, 2006 2:57:18 AM by Blog57 Team | | Sure, you've played trivia games before. You've debated with your friends over what year the musical, "Grease" came out and who the Philadelphia Eagles lost to in Super bowl XV. It might be easy to remember these facts off the top of your head, but add a couple beers to the mix and it's not so simple. That's part of the reason why "Kinky Quizzo," a naughty twist to the usual game, is so much fun - the questions are just as challenging as they are entertaining. Every Tuesday, "Kinky Quizzo" is held at Valanni Restaurant and Bar at 1229 Spruce St., and as soon as 11 p.m. rolls around, Jen Karwoski picks up the microphone and begins the show. The event consists of three rounds, each has 10 sex-related questions. Then there is a "Double Joker Box," in which teams can receive double points during a round they think they did particularly well in.... | |
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| | | Back and battle-ready | | Posted Sunday, September 24, 2006 7:00:18 AM by Blog57 Team | | It didn't take Carson Palmer long last January to start thinking about getting back on to the football field. One day after undergoing knee surgery to repair two torn ligaments and a busted kneecap, the Bengals' star quarterback started his rehab with that one goal in mind. Football was the farthest thing from Ben Roethlisberger's mind in June. Lying in a Pittsburgh hospital bed following a motorcycle accident that left him with a broken jaw and broken nose, the Steelers' star quarterback realized things could have easily been much worse. Much worse. Palmer and Roethlisberger will be at Heinz Field Sunday, leading their teams against one another in an early season AFC North battle. The Bengals are 2-0, while the Steelers are 1-1. The last time they played was the day Palmer had his left knee damaged.... | |
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| | | Tigers fans are on edge | | Posted Thursday, September 14, 2006 11:05:19 AM by Blog57 Team | | DETROIT -- I've watched games from the Comerica Park press box. And I've stood in center field with the rugby boys being exposed to the fans' perspective. I've been there as you've worn your rally caps, chewed your rally gum and acted out your superstitions (such as the guy who must walk in front of the statues of Willie Horton, Ty Cobb and Al Kaline to bring the Tigers good luck -- "Excuse me I have to do this," he says as he barges through the laughing crowd). Many have cheered the Tigers louder this season than at any point of their lives. Now it appears to be slipping away. And you do not deserve this. This city does not deserve this. We've been teased enough. The Tigers' 10-game lead had shrunk to two heading into Wednesday's game against the Rangers during one of baseball's worst free falls.... | |
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| | | Brenly thinking about his next act | | Posted Sunday, September 10, 2006 9:20:29 AM by Blog57 Team | | Bob Brenly gazed at the diamond and amethyst encrusted ring earned five years ago this November and considered what it has given him since: admiration and respect, perhaps. Surely a few free drinks and assorted perks along the way. But it's the sense of contentment that may be its biggest blessing as the 52-year-old Cubs broadcaster ponders the possibility of returning to the dugout as a major-league manager. .... | |
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| | | Literary mind games and crimes in a fantastic world | | Posted Tuesday, August 29, 2006 8:57:08 AM by Blog57 Team | | THE thing about characters from nursery rhymes is that they always do the same thing. It's written into their DNA. According to Mary Mary ("quite contrary"), a detective sergeant in the Nursery Crime Division of the Reading, England, police force, "We call them PDRs. Persons of Dubious Reality. Refugees from the collective consciousness. Uninvited visitors who have fallen through the grating that divides the real from the written. They arrive with their actions hardwired due to their repetitious existence." "Characters from cautionary tales are particularly mindless," she continues. "They do what they do because it's what they've always done — and it's our job to stop them." .... | |
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