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Sounds like a leader to me. We definately need a leader at QB.
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Is this how every thread is going to be from now on?
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I CANNOT WAIT UNTIL THIS GODDAMNED GAME IS OVER.
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Buehler's in Jackson is OK. My wife and I just shopped there today. But I'd estimate that West Point Market has at least four times more shelf space devoted to micros and imports than Buehler's in Jackson.
I like to visit old restaurants and bars when I return to the area. I remember Yokono's is in the area..maytry that again for lunch on Monday after I stop at the WPM. Thanks
Yocono's was sold a few years back and is nowhere near the same place it was when owned by the family. They were shutdown for a while earlier this year for failing to pay their taxes. Larry's Main Entrance would be my choice of a Walhaven eating place.
any restaurant that doesn't accept credit/debit cards is asking for trouble.
Not sure what you mean there BY. Larrys take all forms of payment, did you mean Yocono's? BTW, Luigis only takes cash or checks. Good luck getting a table there on a weekend.
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Buehler's in Jackson is OK. My wife and I just shopped there today. But I'd estimate that West Point Market has at least four times more shelf space devoted to micros and imports than Buehler's in Jackson.
I like to visit old restaurants and bars when I return to the area. I remember Yokono's is in the area..maytry that again for lunch on Monday after I stop at the WPM. Thanks
Yocono's was sold a few years back and is nowhere near the same place it was when owned by the family. They were shutdown for a while earlier this year for failing to pay their taxes. Larry's Main Entrance would be my choice of a Walhaven eating place.
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Renegade Miami football booster spells out illicit benefits to playersIn 100 hours of jailhouse interviews during Yahoo! Sports’ 11-month investigation, Hurricanes booster Nevin Shapiro described a sustained, eight-year run of rampant NCAA rule-breaking, some of it with the knowledge or direct participation of at least seven coaches from the Miami football and basketball programs. At a cost that Shapiro estimates in the millions of dollars, he said his benefits to athletes included but were not limited to cash, prostitutes, entertainment in his multimillion-dollar homes and yacht, paid trips to high-end restaurants and nightclubs, jewelry, bounties for on-field play (including bounties for injuring opposing players), travel and, on one occasion, an abortion
I absolutely love this tread and I can't believe more people aren't posting. The more you read about this case, the more you realized how out of control college athletics has become on every level. Are the players corrupt, or has the arms race in the form of building one facility after another caused this environment? College kids are college kids (not just athletes) and if you put a free hooker in front of one of them (imagine the quality of hooker one can get in Maimi), there is going to be some sex going on in 99% of the cases. College kids are not able to resist the temtations presented to them. A kid who grows up in a ghetto, in most cases, is not going to turn down a ride on a million dollar yacht in Miami, or a free $1,000 per hour hooker, or a dinner at a high end steak house, or anything else ("Is there a bigger racial divide in American than the difference between the players playing college football and the high end donors?" Mrs. GP1, the luckiest woman in the world).
Universities have spent millions in building facilities. Ashland University just spent $20 on athletic facilities for a D II school....a D II school... and $70 million on school buildings...talk about a school that doesn't have its priorities straight. The money doesn't fall out of the sky...it has to be raised. At a school like Miami (and there are others like Miami), there aren't that many high end donors so if you find one, you let him basically do whatever he wants in order to keep up with the Jones. If you don't, you are finished.
What's the ncaa's solution to this problem it doesn't see as a problem? Create more rules preventing the kids who have no chance of turning down a free hooker from getting the free hooker. It seems to me that the arms race has created the problem, not the players. If the people at the ncaa had a combined half a brain, they would restrict the "building processes" at these schools that are at the core of the problem. The players aren't at the core of the problem. The problems are the athletic departments who haven't seen a stadium building project they would turn down and the ncaa who is obsessed with making college athletics bigger and bigger at any cost. Nobody will say it, but that's the problem. It's so out of control now that no control can be established and every off season we are going to hear these stories until the ncaa reforms or is eliminated. The main stories of college football are now about teams in a scandal and not, you know, actual college football. It's terrible for college football.
I agree with you 100%. The kids are not the problem. ESPN is an enabler for this crap. I watched their "Panel of experts" try and explain why the BCS should stay the other night, what a joke.
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Lee sure could get the fans at the Rubber Bowl excited.
I'm from the Bill Belichick school, I would have my 800 mm Nikon Telephoto lens on that wrist band, and have a print out before kick off. Maybe I'll try that this year.
Is that Nick Sparks in the photo?
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I wonder how many schools have their football practices open to anyone who wants to view versus how many are completely closed like the Zips? I recall when I attended Louisiana Tech back around 1970 that the practices were open. My dad and I would sit in the stands and watch Terry Bradshaw practice throwing unbelievable bombs that seemed to go almost goal line to goal line on the fly. Being able to attend those practices made us even more interested in attending the games.
A lot have closed practices. This isn't 1960 anymore.
I fixed it for ya!
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I'm with Zipwatcher on this one. It really puts all the emphasis on winning the regular season. At this point in time, I think it gives an advantage to any team in the West division that can run the table on the weaker teams in that division. Being able to play 2 games against Toledo, NIU and Eastern is not the same as playing 2 against the majority of the teams in the East.
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I posted this in the other thread, but this is big enough for its own thread. It will be interesting to see how the NCAA handles this one. Yahoo Sports rocks!
The NCAA has a checklist when it comes to major infractions cases and Shapiro can click through most of it quickly. There’s no denying his role as an official Miami booster – “an ardent, devoted, intense supporter,” the school website once described him. There is no question he owned part of Axcess Sports, which had signed Vince Wilfork and Jon Beason, Hurricane players who became first-round NFL picks.And there is no question Shapiro provided scores of Miami athletes with impermissible benefits from 2002-2010. In March 2011, he began working with a team of NCAA investigators and Shapiro said they call it, “the biggest case they’ve ever had.” Multiple media reports say NCAA investigators were on the Coral Gables campus Monday.
The most difficult issue for Miami, the one that will cause the NCAA hammer to drop harder and swifter than any other is this: did school officials know, or should they have known, of Shapiro’s actions?
“Everybody knew,” said Shapiro, who tried to hide specific actions but overall wanted to be seen as a big-time player on the scene. “The whole town knew. I didn’t care who knew. With all that I was doing (illegally), do you think I cared about the NCAA? I thought I was invincible. My mentality with Miami was, ‘what are you going to do about it?’
“And you know what? They didn’t do anything.”
Not even after he tried to fight the compliance director.
Renegade Miami football booster spells out illicit benefits to players
In 100 hours of jailhouse interviews during Yahoo! Sports’ 11-month investigation, Hurricanes booster Nevin Shapiro described a sustained, eight-year run of rampant NCAA rule-breaking, some of it with the knowledge or direct participation of at least seven coaches from the Miami football and basketball programs. At a cost that Shapiro estimates in the millions of dollars, he said his benefits to athletes included but were not limited to cash, prostitutes, entertainment in his multimillion-dollar homes and yacht, paid trips to high-end restaurants and nightclubs, jewelry, bounties for on-field play (including bounties for injuring opposing players), travel and, on one occasion, an abortion -
Add the Miami Hurricanes to the list of cheaters.
Renegade Miami football booster spells out illicit benefits to players
In 100 hours of jailhouse interviews during Yahoo! Sports’ 11-month investigation, Hurricanes booster Nevin Shapiro described a sustained, eight-year run of rampant NCAA rule-breaking, some of it with the knowledge or direct participation of at least seven coaches from the Miami football and basketball programs. At a cost that Shapiro estimates in the millions of dollars, he said his benefits to athletes included but were not limited to cash, prostitutes, entertainment in his multimillion-dollar homes and yacht, paid trips to high-end restaurants and nightclubs, jewelry, bounties for on-field play (including bounties for injuring opposing players), travel and, on one occasion, an abortion -
What was the final score?
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Dr Z, how did you create that code? Is it a font like a standard barcode?
ps: I found it.
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Not everything is about you and what happens to you.
From a guy who refers to himself as "The great GP1".
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Google sent me a few of those in sticker form to put around my business. It links directly to my website.
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Works on my Droid X2.
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Could one of the moderators please remove this spam.
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Evidence
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This is one of the better football threads I've read on ZN.O because it consists mostly of rational discussion about what goes on inside the team from a player perspective intead of the usual repetitive, boring trash talk.
Go to hell, you Suckeye-loving butt munch.
Glad you finally got that one figured out!
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My sons youth football team ends most practices with the Oklahoma Drill.
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Damn Dave, I think you're turning ME into a wild-eyed optimist! This could be the year Green wins the state?
ZIP, you're asking the wrong guy. We might make it to the final 8! We made the final 16 last year and didn't lose much to graduation.
Lots of senior talent and a deep bench.
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Who is the other Afro Rocking player I believe he is #3? And how is he fitting in?
Thats Nick Harney. He is a small forward who sat out last year to get his grades in order.
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Thanks for getting back to the topic, football.
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Good Marketing Strategy
in Akron Zips Football
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