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Coach Pat Summit at 1,000 Wins

Pat Summit reached the 1,000 win mark in Division I college basketball tonight.... something nobody else has ever done.

She said she did it by getting great people on her team and letting them do their thing.  Yes Pat... that is the winning formula in most any area of competition be it business or sports, but I know you added your support, guidance, encouragement, and leadership too.

Here is a bit of trivia... I went to Grade School with Andy Landers, the coach of the Georgia team that was defeated tonight and we played basketball together.  He was a guard and so was I.  He was one year ahead of me so I guess you could say either me or Kenny Davis, the other guard on our team, took his place on the basketball team after he left grade school.

But don't feel too sorry for Andy because...

"No coach has beaten Summitt more than Landers, whose hometown is a short drive away from Knoxville and who used to scrimmage the Lady Vols when he was at a nearby community college. His Lady Bulldogs came in hot, having won four straight in a streak that included wins over Vanderbilt and Auburn after those teams had beaten Tennessee."

http://msn.foxsports.com/wcbk/story/9186724/Summitt-gets-milestone-1,000th-win&MSNHPHCP&gt1=39002

J. Cogburn

Rule Change for Football and Presidents

The new rule change for football, if instituted, will  be monumental.  It really is going to change the game, there is simply no doubt about it.  This is especially true in the end game when there is little time on the clock and the score is close.

Under the old rules a touchdown always counted 6 points regardless of which team made the touchdown and regarless of when the touchdown was scored, be it the first, last, or any play in between.

But the new rule is that if Team A has more fans than Team B, and Team A has a chance to win a historic game in the last 5 minutes of play, then any touchdown they make will count as many points as necessary to ensure they are in fact named the winner of the game.

Notice the key points in this:

• Must have the most fans

• Must be a historic game for some reason

• Must be in the final part of the game for the rule to apply

This rule change is being instituted in the best interest of football and to promote basic fairness.

Looks like we are going to have the same rule for Presidents.  Since Obama has refused to comply with a Supreme Court order to produce a certified birth certificate confirming he is a natural born citizen, as per the Constitution, perhaps the rules will simply be changed, i.e., the law ignored.  Why?

• Obama had the most votes.

• It is considered a historic election because he has dark skin

• He has played well enough to be in the final part of the election process.  The final part is when the electors actually cast their vote.

Ignoring the law will be in the best interest of the country and will promote basic fairness we're told.... wouldn't want to upset the "fans" now would we?

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J. Cogburn

Attendance at UT Football Game

Written on 09/14/08

Well they got greedy and started charging students $15 per game for the first time.  It made me angry and I'm not even a student anymore.

This game had more empty seats that I had ever seen in Neyland Stadium.  We shall see if this trend continues.  Of course next week is Florida.  If they have empty seats on that one then they have shot theirselves in the foot for sure.  If not, we'll have to see how the other games go this year to see if attendance is in fact down because of this.

"The upper level was another matter. It looked little more than 50 percent full except for the upper level student section, which was almost empty.

Actual attendance was estimated to be 80,000 to 85,000.

UT athletic director Mike Hamilton disagreed with such estimates, saying he believed the crowd was close to the announced attendance."

http://govolsxtra.com/news/2008/sep/13/attendance-dips-below-100000/

RWG

Ticket Prices at New Yankee Stadium

Written on 08/26/08

Check the ticket prices for the new stadium.... maybe we ought to fly up to New York and catch a game or two.... of course we'll want the premium seats based on these insane prices.

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/2008/05/03/2008-05-03_yankee_stadium_prices_are_insane.html

RWG

Tough Times

Written on 06/06/08

Times are tough.... even former heavyweight champion of the world, Evander Holyfield, is losing his home to foreclosure.  Poor guy has only earned $120 million over his career and now can't pay child support either.

 

It's obviously Bush's fault.

 

http://www.cnbc.com/id/24998497

 

RWG