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Archive for November 6th, 2009
Women’s Soccer Not Immune to Dirty Play
Posted by Brett Kincaid on November 6, 2009
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The SEC Shows Backbone
Posted by Brett Kincaid on November 6, 2009
Florida head football coach Urban Meyer has been fined $30,000 by the SEC office for comments critical of its officials to reporters. This is the first fine levied by the conference since its new “get tough” policy was enacted. In a further surprise, Urban and the Gators did NOT threaten to leave the SEC to start its own conference.
“As I stated last week, I have great respect for Commissioner Mike Slive and the Southeastern Conference and I respect this decision,” Meyer said. “There was no intent to criticize an official after being asked about a situation that occurred last Saturday and I apologize for my remarks.”
Somewhere Lane Kiffin is really laughing a lot. Thanks to his comments a couple weeks ago, the SEC started fining coaches who crossed the line. And his good buddy Urban gets to write the first check.
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Young Hogs
Posted by Brett Kincaid on November 6, 2009
Thanks to Chris Low at ESPN for this breakdown of SEC starters. It turns out the Hogs are at the top of the SEC in underclassmen at starting positions. Eleven of Arkansas’ starters are either freshmen or sophomores. The Hogs leads the league and tied nationally at the top with 6 freshmen starters this year.
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Lincecum High on Life
Posted by Brett Kincaid on November 6, 2009
San Francisco Giants ace and 2008 NL Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum likes to smoke lefties. He got pulled over for speeding last week and had to give up his bud. Three grams of weed results in only a misdemeanor offense in Oregon (and most places).
Anyone that has seen this dude at all is not surprised in the least. I think his #1 hobby is hacky-sack.
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Ft. Hood Update
Posted by Brett Kincaid on November 6, 2009
Military, FBI, and local law enforcement investigators in Texas continue to search for clues regarding yesterday’s shootings at Ft. Hood military base. Thirty-nine-year-old Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan remains in stable conidtion after being shot and subdued during yesterday’s rampage. Thirteen people have now died as a result with 30 more people being treated with gunshot wounds.
It is hard to know what to say about this. You will certainly hear wild claims from both the left and the right today. I think it’s probably best that we all take a breath, focus on the soldiers’ families, and deny our instinct to rush to judgment about how and why this happened. It sounds like Maj. Hasan was quite troubled for a long time. Once the dust settles here, I do think a full review of how the military “cares for the caregivers” (quote from NPR report this morning) is in order.
For now, though, I’ll just say a prayer for those hurting.
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Bad News for Conway
Posted by Brett Kincaid on November 6, 2009
Just as the booming city prepares to open the new Hewlett Packard facility and its white collar jobs, Conway got news that almost 500 manufacturing jobs would be lost. Navistar, the parent company of IC Corp, announced they would cease the school bus manufacturing facility in Conway. The layoffs are expected to take effect starting January 4th.
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Arkansas Poll Released
Posted by Brett Kincaid on November 6, 2009
The University of Arkansas political science department has released the 2009 Arkansas Poll with few surprises. Of course, the senior Senator from Arkansas may be a bit surprised to learn that few people like her.
43 percent approved of Lincoln’s job performance, compared to 46 percent in 1999, 55 percent as recently as 2005 and 54 percent a year ago; 34 percent said they disapproved of the senator’s job performance.
Some other interesting nuggets suggest that 3/4 of the respondents are not following the US Senate race very closely. The state is pretty divided about the public option for health care, too. It sounds like there still needs to be some more education about that that really means.
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