Tinker:
Alan Simpson should be buried deep down underground so the crap out of his mouth fills up his resting place. Which equals the amount of the smell coming from his mind. Finely becomes unable to reach the working press ears who love his stench. Freeing the general public from his repulsive talk. What a creep. Alan Simpson just kept betraying everyone who ever voted for him.
Becoming a guy making wisecracks to the press. Trying to hide behind his press celebrity covering up Simpson breaking the trust of his voters. He was and is what the kids call a snitch. That the working press was more then glad to keep reporting what he said to the American people. Bosom buddies playing with ink.
I long since stop liking him after recognizing who he was, because of what he does. Just another double crossing dirty rat. There is nothing really wise about Alan Simpson.
Do you see any politician with both substance and character that you respect enough to vote for lately?
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On the other hand we do still have a lot of other people to feel glad about. Like LSU RB Jerry Hill;
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| Bowie Knife | |
|---|---|
 "Bowie Knife" |
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| Type | Knife |
| Place of origin | Louisiana[citation needed], USA |
| Production history | |
| Designer | James Bowie |
| Designed | 1830 |
| Produced | 1830 through present |
| Specifications | |
| Length | 12"–30" |
| Blade length | 6"–24" |
| Blade type | Clip-point |
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LSU
Five LSU Tigers newcomers most likely to see the football field in 2013
Zane Brown | February 22, 2013 at 1:16 pm | 0 Comments
LSU
Tigers head coach Les Miles might just be pointing in the direction of a
handful of true freshmen and junior college transfers in 2013. (Derick
E. Hingle-USA TODAY Sports)Spring practice is on the horizon, and considering the huge hole left in LSU’s roster by early entrees into the NFL draft, there are sure to be some furious battles for open spots. Given Miles’ penchant for playing freshmen, many of the newcomers have a great shot at getting some playing time in 2013.
A handful of these new signees are already enrolled in classes, and will participate in spring drills. The debate will likely continue on into the summer, but here are five newcomers, including both freshmen and junior college transfers, who are most likely to see the field for LSU next season:
[Related: Grading the LSU Tigers' incoming 2013 recruiting class]
1. Kendell Beckwith – LB, Jackson, LA; 6-3, 228
When he wasn’t riding horses, or chopping firewood, Beckwith was playing quarterback for East Feliciana High School. Recruited strictly as a defensive player, it’s not certain whether Beckwith will stay at linebacker, or put his hand on the ground as a pass rusher. What is certain, however, is that Miles was more than delighted to fend off Nick Saban and Alabama, who heavily pursued the elite talent.
2. Fehoko Fanaika – OL, San Mateo, CA; 6-6, 340
Fanaika hails from sunny California, but this massive junior college offensive tackle decided early on to play his college ball with the big boys of the SEC. LSU eventually won out over Florida and Georgia, and the Tigers may already have a starting position waiting for Fanaika at one of the tackle spots. Being on campus this spring as an early enrollee can only help his chances.
3. Quantavius Leslie – WR, Raymond, MS; 6-4, 191
Were it not for some academic qualification concerns, Leslie would easily be at the top of this list. The junior college transfer brings some much needed size to LSU’s wide receiving corps, and will be greatly welcomed by senior Tiger quarterback Zach Mettenberger. If Leslie does indeed qualify, he’s almost a lock to start. The move would then allow either Odell Beckham or Jarvis Landry to move into the slot.
4. DeSean Smith – TE, Lake Charles, LA; 6-4, 222
Smith may have the biggest upside of any player LSU signed. With basketball-type athleticism, he’s sure to provide a big, favorable target for future quarterbacks Stephen Rivers, Hayden Rettig, and Anthony Jennings. But when considering LSU’s lack of proven depth at tight end, it won’t be a surprise to see Smith hauling in passes from Mettenberger this coming fall while the backup passers carry clipboards.
5. Frank Herron – DE, Memphis, TN; 6-5, 260
LSU had to fight off a scary, eleventh-hour push from Texas to secure Herron’s services, but this prototypical, five-star defensive end was a must-have for the Tigers. With the losses of Sam Montgomery and Barkevious Mingo to the NFL Draft, there will be much ado about replacing them as the season inches ever closer. Herron will very likely factor into the mix.
In today’s win-at-all-costs college football landscape, nothing is set in stone, and no player’s job is safe. If a freshman is good enough to beat out a seasoned veteran, then he’ll play, and it’s just that simple. No major program has taken this approach to heart more than LSU, where Miles has described the playing of freshmen as a “modern necessity”. The 2013 season looks to be no different, as the LSU recruiting train keeps rolling along.
Where is LSU in our way too early preseason 2013 top 25 rankings?
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Dandy Don's LSU Sports Report
Good morning, Tiger Fans. I hope that all of you had a great weekend.
In just 10 days, Coach Miles and his LSU football team will begin spring practice, and I can hardly wait. Last year all the buzz heading into spring practice was about Zach Mettenberger and his potential to transform LSU’s offense. This year the buzz is all about new offensive coordinator Cam Cameron and his potential to do the same. I remain cautiously optimistic that Coach Cameron’s hiring will translate into a significant improvement in LSU's offense and will prove to be a huge feather in Coach Miles’ hat. We’ll all get a first look at the offense under Coach Cameron in a little less than seven weeks when LSU plays its annual Spring Game in Tiger Stadium on April 20. As of now there has still been no announcement about the time of the Spring Game.
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Auburn dismisses Devaunte Sigler
Updated: March 1, 2013, 9:19 PM ET
Associated Press
AUBURN, Ala. -- Auburn has dismissed defensive tackle Devaunte Sigler for violating undisclosed team rules.
SEC blog
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Sigler was a junior who played in 18 games in his career with 12 tackles. He played in five games last season and had two stops.
Sigler played a bigger role in 2011 when he appeared in all 13 games and had 10 tackles and a sack.
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| Thompson Submachine Gun, Caliber .45 | |
|---|---|
 M1928A1 wartime production variant. |
|
| Type | Submachine gun |
| Place of origin |  United States |
| Service history | |
| In service | 1938–1971 (officially, U.S. military) |
| Used by | See Users |
| Wars | Banana Wars[1] p. 187–188</ref> Irish Civil War[2] World War II[3] Chinese Civil War Greek Civil War[4] Korean War[3] Vietnam War[3] The Troubles[5] Bosnian War[citation needed] and numerous others |
| Production history | |
| Designer | John T. Thompson |
| Designed | 1917–1920 |
| Manufacturer | Auto-Ordnance Company (originally) The Birmingham Small Arms Company Limited Colt Savage Arms RPB Industries |
| Produced | 1921–present |
| Number built | 2,700,000 approx. |
| Variants | See Variants section |
| Specifications | |
| Weight | 10.8 lb (4.9 kg) empty (M1928A1) 10.6 lb (4.8 kg) empty (M1A1) |
| Length | 33.5 in (850 mm) (M1928A1) 32 in (810 mm) (M1/M1A1) |
| Barrel length | 10.5 in (270 mm) 12 in (300 mm) (with cutts compensator) |
| Cartridge | .45 ACP (11.43×23mm) |
| Action | Blowback, Blish Lock |
| Rate of fire | 600–1500+ rpm, depending upon model |
| Muzzle velocity | 285 m/s (935 ft/s) |
| Effective range | 50 metres (160 ft) |
| Feed system | 20-round stick/box magazine 30-round stick/box magazine 50-round drum magazine 100-round drum magazine (M1 and M1A1 models do not accept drum magazines) |
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The Daily Reveille
Mic'd Up Les Miles rumor: a lesson to journalists
Photo by Lauren DuhonSam McGaw @sammcgaw
There are rumors that LSU head football coach Les Miles will step down
on Monday after allegedly having an affair with a student. Hmm...
Les Miles
LSU football head coach Les Miles talks about the 2013 recruiting class on Feb. 6, 2013, at a press conference in the Athletic Administration Building.
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March 3, 2013
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Micah Bedard
If you’re not first, you’re last.
Ricky Bobby’s dad was most likely under the influence of drugs when he uttered that phrase in “Talladega Nights,” but it definitely applies to the world we live in today. Journalism has not been given an exemption to the rule.
The rush to be the first to break a story has become more addictive in the journalism realm than Blue Magic in “Breaking Bad.”
Regardless of if the intention was to break a story, a prime example of how rumors gain traction came up Saturday night when a Western Kentucky University broadcast news student and Bleacher Report contributor Sam McGaw tweeted out a rumor he read about LSU football coach Les Miles.
“@sammcgaw: There are rumors that LSU head football coach Les Miles will step down on Monday after allegedly having an affair with a student. Hmm...”
McGaw stated in additional tweets that he read about the innuendo on an online message board. The problem? The site was Bamaonline.com, devoted to LSU’s biggest rival.
Now Mr. McGaw certainly wasn’t the first person to make this assertion about Miles, true or not, and certainly won’t be the last. But he should have known better.
I couldn’t believe the 165 Twitter accounts that retweeted McGaw and the 30,000-plus people who hit the follow button on his Twitter account. People believe anything they read on the Internet, especially when it’s from someone who is employed in the media industry.
When all those blog enthusiasts and message board mavens saw someone with a journalistic background who found the assertion plausible enough to send it out to the masses, they took the bait, hook, line and sinker. If you’re going to tweet something out, rumor or not, about a 59-year-old man having an extra-marital affair with a student, you better have sources to back it up.
After seeing McGaw’s tweet and other rumblings of the Miles rumor, a reporter here at The Daily Reveille contacted LSU Sports Information Director Michael Bonnette about the ordeal. He sent a text message in reply saying LSU doesn’t comment on online rumors, and there was and is no news conference scheduled for today.
Although I’m not a journalism major, I’ve been involved with both the print and broadcast aspects of Student Media at LSU for more than two years, and I’m smart enough to know you have to take message boards for what they are: places that give fans the opportunity to bring up whatever comes to mind when they wake up in the morning.
If I were to report news from an LSU message board, I could have reported actress and former Brown University student Emma Watson was at the LSU baseball game Friday night when she was nowhere to be seen.
McGaw’s assertion would have been fine if he was just an average Joe trying to stir up trouble, but as a journalist, he should have seen these repercussions coming his way.
Saturday was a warning to anyone trying to make a name for themselves in today’s journalism business: You are what you tweet. Journalists have to think of the impact of the information they send out on social media because they will be held accountable and reputations will be damaged if what they report turns out to be false.
Even if the outlandish rumor does turn out to be valid, McGaw’s and others’ assertions on the Miles fiasco would be like finding a needle in a haystack. Sourcing stories and reporting news shouldn’t revolve around message boards and hearsay.
McGaw retroactively tweeted multiple times he hadn’t talked to any sources or done any research into the matter. He just put out a rumor he heard about on the Internet.
If he is indeed right, it’s just a one-in-a-million occurrence and shouldn’t set precedence for aspiring journalists from here on out.
-------------------------Ricky Bobby’s dad was most likely under the influence of drugs when he uttered that phrase in “Talladega Nights,” but it definitely applies to the world we live in today. Journalism has not been given an exemption to the rule.
The rush to be the first to break a story has become more addictive in the journalism realm than Blue Magic in “Breaking Bad.”
Regardless of if the intention was to break a story, a prime example of how rumors gain traction came up Saturday night when a Western Kentucky University broadcast news student and Bleacher Report contributor Sam McGaw tweeted out a rumor he read about LSU football coach Les Miles.
“@sammcgaw: There are rumors that LSU head football coach Les Miles will step down on Monday after allegedly having an affair with a student. Hmm...”
McGaw stated in additional tweets that he read about the innuendo on an online message board. The problem? The site was Bamaonline.com, devoted to LSU’s biggest rival.
Now Mr. McGaw certainly wasn’t the first person to make this assertion about Miles, true or not, and certainly won’t be the last. But he should have known better.
I couldn’t believe the 165 Twitter accounts that retweeted McGaw and the 30,000-plus people who hit the follow button on his Twitter account. People believe anything they read on the Internet, especially when it’s from someone who is employed in the media industry.
When all those blog enthusiasts and message board mavens saw someone with a journalistic background who found the assertion plausible enough to send it out to the masses, they took the bait, hook, line and sinker. If you’re going to tweet something out, rumor or not, about a 59-year-old man having an extra-marital affair with a student, you better have sources to back it up.
After seeing McGaw’s tweet and other rumblings of the Miles rumor, a reporter here at The Daily Reveille contacted LSU Sports Information Director Michael Bonnette about the ordeal. He sent a text message in reply saying LSU doesn’t comment on online rumors, and there was and is no news conference scheduled for today.
Although I’m not a journalism major, I’ve been involved with both the print and broadcast aspects of Student Media at LSU for more than two years, and I’m smart enough to know you have to take message boards for what they are: places that give fans the opportunity to bring up whatever comes to mind when they wake up in the morning.
If I were to report news from an LSU message board, I could have reported actress and former Brown University student Emma Watson was at the LSU baseball game Friday night when she was nowhere to be seen.
McGaw’s assertion would have been fine if he was just an average Joe trying to stir up trouble, but as a journalist, he should have seen these repercussions coming his way.
Saturday was a warning to anyone trying to make a name for themselves in today’s journalism business: You are what you tweet. Journalists have to think of the impact of the information they send out on social media because they will be held accountable and reputations will be damaged if what they report turns out to be false.
Even if the outlandish rumor does turn out to be valid, McGaw’s and others’ assertions on the Miles fiasco would be like finding a needle in a haystack. Sourcing stories and reporting news shouldn’t revolve around message boards and hearsay.
McGaw retroactively tweeted multiple times he hadn’t talked to any sources or done any research into the matter. He just put out a rumor he heard about on the Internet.
If he is indeed right, it’s just a one-in-a-million occurrence and shouldn’t set precedence for aspiring journalists from here on out.
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FSU, Boise State set up series
Updated: March 4, 2013, 1:59 PM ET
By David Hale | NoleNation
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Florida State and Boise State will play a home-and-home series in 2019 and 2020, the schools announced Monday.
Under the weight of heavy criticism for a weak nonconference slate in each of the past two seasons, Florida State was looking for a marquee opponent for a home-and-home series, and athletics director Randy Spetman said the Broncos provided an ideal fit.
"Boise State has an excellent football program, and we feel this will be an out-of-conference game that will be exciting for fans of both schools and appealing to TV networks," Spetman said in a statement released by the school.
Boise State will travel to Tallahassee in 2019 for a game scheduled for Sept. 7. Florida State makes the return trip to Idaho on Sept. 14, 2020. The two schools will exchange $400,000 guarantees for the games.
The Boise State series is the latest in Florida State's push to boost its national cache and spark attendance at home with more high-profile nonconference competition.
The Seminoles will play Oklahoma State in Dallas in a neutral-field kickoff game during the 2014 season.
"We've listened to our fans that they want to see a little different level of opponent to make sure they come to town," Spetman said. "That's what they want to see us playing. You can't do it all in the first year because we schedule out ahead of ourselves, but we're making some adjustments."
For Boise State, the games continue a strong history of nonconference scheduling, which has included kickoff games against Oregon, Virginia Tech and Georgia in recent seasons.
David Hale is a regular contributor to NoleNation.
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LSU Football - Geaux Tigers!!!
| Shreveport Times *1 | Guilbeau: NFL combine a combination of nothingness |
| LSU Reveille | Compliance Office monitors athletes' activity |
| The Advocate | LSU going online with a Web-based, distance-learning initiative |
| Arkansas News | Arkansas Notes: Bielema aims to 'overwhelm' state with club appearances |
| USA Today | USA Football seeks more help from NCAA |
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| Everything Alabama | Video (5 min, 27 sec): Brent Musberger talks at Alabama banquet (LSU comment) |
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| Everything Alabama | Video (6 min, 46 sec): Saban on spring practice, recruiting deregulation, more |
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FEHOVA Gun and knife show in Hungary 2013
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NBC
Sports
How one man gave the
NFL its modern mythology
Steve Sabol's NFL Films opened America's eyes to the 'elusive magic'
of the sport that rules today's entertainment landscape
/ Courtesy NFL Films
Steve
Sabol was "uniquely qualified to make football movies," according to
his father, Ed. That may help explain why NFL Films turned into such a
success.
THE BIG READ
BY JOE POSNANSKI
updated 9:00 a.m. ET March 1, 2013
It will help, I should say, if you read these words in the baritone of John Facenda. Here, to help you tune up, say this word: “Lombardi.” Say it again, only deeper. “Lombardi.” Stretch out the BAR in the middle. Lom-BAR-di. Again. Good. Try to hear that voice.
Above the orchestra, a film screen hangs by wires. The screen is blank, a plain white, but soon images will flicker upon it, images of quarterbacks being blindsided, running backs dissolving and reappearing like ghosts, footballs spinning slowly as they float against a white and blue sky, football images that inflamed the imagination of the man being honored in the theater.
You often hear of people being called “true believers,” but these are rare creatures. Steve Sabol was a true believer.
The orchestra begins to play a sweeping song called “Molder of Men.” The screen shows a photograph of Steve Sabol, 10 years old, wearing a football outfit straight out of 1953. This night is a tribute to Sabol, president of NFL Films, who died in September, a couple of weeks before his 70th birthday. But, even more, it’s a story of how we got here, to this complicated place where professional football, with all its excitement and violence and beauty and danger, (or as Sabol himself would say, with all its guts and glory) became the most American of all things.
A Steve Sabol quote appears on the screen.
“Life is great,” he said. “Football is better.”
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He was born Stephen Douglas Sabol in October of 1942, two days before Sid Luckman and his Chicago Bears beat the Cleveland Rams in front of 17,000 or so stragglers at the old Rubber Bowl in Akron. That was a good football crowd in those days. There was a war going on. And pro football was barely twitching in the American consciousness, many miles behind baseball
and boxing and track and college football. But Steve Sabol had been born and he was going to change all that.
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Sure, that’s an odd thing for a fourth grader to wonder, but Steve Sabol was an odd fourth grader. He saw football as pop art. The mud and torn up grass and snow was the canvas. The quarterbacks were commanders of ships. The running backs were ballet dancers and bulldozers. The linebackers were gladiators. The coaches were professors … or generals … or circus clowns. Yes, he wanted his art to convey all the colors and textures and rhythms of what football stirred up inside him.
Steve Sabol’s first great football artwork was … himself. Talk about pop art. He was a good enough football player in the 1960s to go to Colorado College and play occasionally — take that for what it’s worth. More telling, much more telling, he was a good enough promoter to convince Sports Illustrated to write a 2,500-word story about him … even though he was an occasional player at Colorado College.
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Steve Sabol and his father, Ed, during the 2004 Sports Emmys. NFL Films has won 107 Sports Emmys since its founding in 1962.
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but football players are so dull,” he griped to Sports Illustrated.
See: He already knew his calling. Football needed mythology. He gave
himself a spectacular backstory. He said he was from Possum Trot, Tenn.,
and he talked about playing football with alligators, and he wrote a
whole story about his legendary achievements in the Colorado College
game program, which was easy enough to do because he wrote the whole
game program. Before he left college, his father Ed had convinced NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle to sell him the rights to film the 1962 NFL Championship Game. He won those rights for $5,000 (a record) and by convincing Rozelle that he could sell pro football to the public. That would lead to the company called NFL Films.
When Steve Sabol left college, he went to work for his father. Sudden Death Sabol was ready to give pro football its mythology.
* * *
Steve Sabol never hid his intentions or his motivations. He saw it as his life’s goal to make everyone see pro football the way he saw it — as the greatest thing in the entire world. Of this, he had no doubts, no uncertainty, no hesitation. This is what it means to be a true believer.
His first big effort for NFL Films was the seminal film, “They Call It Pro Football,” made in 1966. “It starts with a whistle and ends with a gun,” John Facenda said at the beginning of that movie, which changed everything and is now listed in the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress.
“It was our Citizen Kane,” Steve Sabol said. He was 24 years old and ready to spill everything he loved about football, everything he believed about football, everything he cherished about football onto the screen. It would be big, it would be bold, it would be over the top — that was how Sabol did things.
“For the audience crawling in the stands,” the narrator, John Facenda told the viewer, using Sabol’s words, “the drama begins with a slap of leather and the song of men in motion.”
“The forward pass in the hands of the pro quarterback is a bolt of lightning that can strike anytime, anywhere.”
“These are the runners — the racehorse halfbacks and locomotive fullbacks. Theirs is the speed and the fury, and to them must go the glory.”
“This is the part of the game rarely seen by the spectator. The shattering impact of a block. The mountainous size of an onrushing defender. The splintering force of a forearm shiver. One ton of muscle with a one-track mind.”
“Pro football. They play it under the autumn moon. And the heat of a Texas afternoon. In the ice-bucket chill of a Wisconsin winter. In the snow, fog and wind. And thousands come to watch … or sleep. To cheer … or stand in silent adulation. And millions more sit at home before TV sets, pursuing the elusive magic of the golden game.”
That might have been the subtitle of a Steve Sabol’s book — “Pursuing the Elusive Magic of the Golden Game." Yes, everything in Sabol’s first big movie was outsized, overstated, overwrought and filled with emotion and passion. He had his cameras focus close-ups on the players’ muddy and bandaged hands (“The hands of combat!”). He had the cameras follow linebackers from their starting point all the way to the inevitable collision (“Search and destroy!”).
He showed the players faces — “always the faces,” he told his cameramen for the next 40-plus years. He played jazz music while showing the grace of Gale Sayers running. He showed Vince Lombardi at the chalkboard talking about the famous Green Bay Packers sweep (“If you look at this play what we’re trying to get is a seal here and a seal here and to try and run the play in the alley.”)
“This is pro football,” he had John Facenda say. “The sport of our time.”
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