Tinker:
The little league football game that made time stand still
Remembering the battle of Franklin vs Alamonaster...For the 9th ward neighborhood football championship:
Franklin Ave & Almonaster Ave New Orleans, LA 70117
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Almonaster won 6 to nothing: On a late last minute long pass that bounced around from hand to hand. Until a speedy young man reach out and grabbed the football crossing the goal line.
The 9th ward neighborhood grown ups carried the lucky pass receiver around like Attila the Hun - cheering, shouting, elated. The 9th ward neighborhood stopped all the daily neighborhood business. Taking time to tell all the young kids that played in that hard hitting little league football game. Great show guys. That was a lot of fun.
Now in the advanced technology of our college football stadiums world. We now have the big time thrills and spills of big time college football.
And
Why the LSU Tigers Won!!
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USA Today sports
Miles did not hesitate in recruitment of Cam Cameron
Glenn Guilbeau, USA TODAY Sports
Story Highlights
- LSU head coach Les Miles reached out to Cam Cameron the day Cameron was fired by the Ravens
- Miles and Cameron coached together under Bo Schembechler at Michigan in the 1980s
- Cameron's contract details were not released
On Dec. 10, 2012, the day Cameron was fired by Baltimore head coach John Harbaugh, Miles reached out to Cameron.
"I texted him immediately," Miles said Friday after LSU introduced Cameron as its new offensive coordinator in a press conference. "I think it fell together exactly right. How it came together benefited us. I wanted to bring in somebody who could make us better."
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Cameron, the Ravens' offensive coordinator since 2008 who played a major role in the development of just crowned Super Bowl champion and most valuable player Joe Flacco, was let go by Harbaugh reportedly for not listening to other coaches as the offense grew stagnant.
Miles has hired him to breathe life into an offense that has not had a consistently decent passing game since 2007. Cameron will replace Greg Studrawa, who was LSU's offensive coordinator and offensive line coach in the 2011 and '12 seasons. Studrawa will remain as the Tigers' line coach.
Steve Kragthorpe, who was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease in July of 2011 but stayed on as LSU's quarterbacks coach the last two seasons, will leave coaching and be reassigned in LSU's athletic department, Miles said.
Miles and Cameron coached under head coaches Bo Schembechler and Gary Moeller at Michigan in the 1980s and 1990s and have remained close friends.
"It's an amazing thing how well you can know somebody," Miles said. "I was all smiles because I realize what Cam Cameron can do for us. This is an excellent opportunity for Coach Cameron to help us. We were not just going to say, 'We'll be better next year.' This move is designed to put us in line with a championship."
LSU reached the BCS national championship game in the 2011 season with a 13-0 season behind a spectacular defense and special teams but fell 21-0 to Alabama.
"I can't tell you how honored and thrilled I am to be a part of this program," Cameron said to open the press conference. " It's one of if not the greatest football program in this country. I'm glad to be a part of it and looking forward to do my part, and getting my family down here."
Prior to his stint with the Ravens, Cameron was a very successful offensive coordinator with the San Dieog Chargers from 2002 through 2006 when he coached quarterbacks Drew Brees and Phillip Rivers, whose younger brother Stephen is a backup quarterback to LSU starter Zach Mettenberger. Cameron was also a head coach at Indiana University and for the Miami Dolphins, where he went 1-15 in 2007.
"Les, thanks for bringing me here," Cameron told Miles from the podium. "We've got a great foundation that we can build from. I need to know everything that Zach knows. I've seen a lot of LSU's games. It's a great system. It's my job to adapt and adjust and bring my expertise. We'll let it evolve. I need to get some of the whys from him (Zach). We're going to test every limit he has."
Contract details were not released, but Miles said he looks forward to Cameron being at LSU for more than a year.
"We've tied him to his desk. He's not going to be allowed to leave here," Miles joked before turning serious. "You know what, he's made a real commitment to being here."
Cameron interviewed for the offensive coordinator post with the New York Jets after being fired by the Ravens but did not get the job.
"Knowing the guy, he's not a short term thinker," Miles said. "It's a foregone conclusion that he will have annual opportunities (for other jobs). But I feel he will live out a good piece of time at LSU."
Cameron, who was a groomsman in Les and Kathy Miles' wedding in 1993, was asked if coaching with such a close friend as Miles could have its down side.
"When you love somebody, it's easy to look each other in the eye and know you love each other unconditionally," he said. "There's no downside to it because the relationship always trumps everything. For me and my family, it doesn't get any better than this."
Glenn Guilbeau also writes for Gannett Louisiana
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LSU Football - Geaux Tigers!!!
| LSU Sports | LSU introduces Cameron as Offensive Coordinator |
| Times Picayune | Cam Cameron stepping into familiar setting |
| Tiger Sports Digest | Cameron ready to build on LSU offense |
| Baltimore Sun | Cam Cameron says he wouldn't trade time with Harbaugh for anything |
| LSU Sports | Video (35 min, 31 sec): Cam Cameron press conference (w/ Miles' comments) |
| LSU TigerTV | Video (22 min, 29 sec): Cam Cameron's introductory press conference |
| ESPN Blog | Cameron brings diverse past to LSU |
| Bayou Bengals Insider | Video (6 min, 57 sec): Cam Cameron on Ravens, QBs and recruiting |
| LSU Reveille | Cameron to take reigns of LSU offense |
| Times Picayune | With 10 years of recruiting success, are the Tigers as good as it gets? |
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http://www.sbnation.com/2013/
Meet the man who painted LSU tiger stripes on a Lamborghini
By Spencer Hall on Feb 15, 4:54p 29
Don Domingue painted tiger stripes on a Lamborghini, and the rest is SEC fan history.
Spencer Hall: You attended LSU, correct?
Don Domingue: Yes.
SH: And your job?
DD: I don't really have a job. I have some businesses. They don't require that I be there on a regular basis. I used to have a job as a financial consultant for 25 years.
SH: That works. You now have the free time to do things like buy a Lamborghini Gallardo. How long have you had the car?
DD: About a year.
SH: New or used?
DD: Bought it used with 9,000 miles on it.
SH: Did you buy it knowing you were going to paint it in LSU colors?
DD: No. I drove it a while, and saw the yellow when I was watching a football game and noticed that the helmet color was the same color as my car, and I just put two and two together. I thought my car would look cool with some purple tiger stripes if I took it to the game. Just so happened we had three home games in a row coming up--Alabama, Mississippi State, and Ole Miss--and I thought I'd put the stripes on, go to the home games, and then after a few months take 'em off. I didn't realize the reaction they would get. Nobody wanted me to take the stripes off after that.
SH: When you went to the people who did the paint job: did they think you were insane, or did they just nod along and do it?
DD: Yeah, they kind of questioned it. But they weren't gonna refuse money, you know?
SH: What was the first time the reaction to the car made you think, "Whoa, I've done something here?"
DD: When I drove up at night and these people were surrounding me in every direction, and flashes were going off, and I was like "Man, what's going on?" Kind of felt like I was a movie star or something. I went to Mardi Gras, and the Super Bowl, and it was the same thing. Everyone just turns their head and starts taking pictures. There are like forty people around me taking pictures right now.
SH: You're a Saints fan and have a black Mercedes. Is that getting its own treatment?
DD: Someone did ask me about that, and I said it as kind of a joke. But how do you do a Saints car? Put Fleur-de-lis all over it?
SH: Have you heard from anyone at LSU about it? Like, coaches, players, administrators?
DD: No. I thought I would at least get some special parking privileges or something, but no. In fact, one of the campus policemen pulled me over out of bumper to bumper traffic and accused me of driving drunk. I haven't had a drink in years and years. I had to do a field sobriety test, and passed, of course. They said would have to ticket me for open container because my passenger had a drink in a koozie. It was a Sprite. The cop started stuttering and let us go. So getting pulled over chugging down Nicholson, that's it. A problem is what I got from LSU.
SH: So you're saying campus police will harass anyone, even a successful alum in a school-themed Lamborghini?
DD: Exactly.
SH: Do you have to shoo people away from the car sometimes?
DD: Most people are really polite, ask permission to take pictures, etc. Anyone can take a picture of it. But there are some people who aren't. One of the stripes in the back was torn off by some vandal when I wasn't watching. At Mardi Gras, when I parked and went inside to use the restroom, someone told me that someone jumped up on the roof and was dancing on top of my car. People just run up and jump up on the hood sometimes. No one's damaged it yet, though I have found footprints on the door from where people have tried to kick a dent in it. There's a lot of jealous people out there.
SH: Would you risk an SEC road trip with it? Would you drive it to Tuscaloosa or Oxford?
DD: Probably not. That's a long drive, and the mileage on this thing would bring the value down a lot. Home game are good for that. Now, if someone could carry it behind a motor home or something, well, sure. I'd do that.
SH: How fast have you gone in it?
DD: I'd rather not incriminate myself.
SH: Was it on I-10?
DD: I'm not saying, but that'd be a good guess.
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