i am putting together a ROLL call for sweater nite 11 .....it will be a ships log of all crew members from our humble inception on that frosty cold FeBREWary night in 1999 to the modern age.......i have approx 80 names thus far of all the men ( and a handful of womanfolk) that have graced the hallowed parquet of the Halls of Sweater Nite......
pls send me an email with the names of anyone from your nuclear group that has attended so I may include them in the log.
my email is sn2ktomcat@yahoo.com
or contact dennis nolan NoMoreDrinky@nomascoldones.com
Thanks
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Saturday, November 08, 2008
Great Race for a Great Man
tomorrow morning on the hills and slopes of the Garden State Arts center parking lot is the third annual "Run with Dennis" 3.5 mile race the Late Lt Dennis Zllinski....I am running and I will be packing a cooler for the post-race if anyone is around...below is a recap of Denniss's life and untimely death.
Dennis W. Zilinski, II was born on December 23, 1981. He is the son of Dennis W. and Marion R. Zilinski, grandson of Anna Zilinski, brother of Douglas and his wife ToniAnn, Arizona, Michele and her husband David, Arizona, Tiffany and her fiancé James, New Jersey and 2Lt. Matthew J. Zilinski, NJARNG, New Jersey. Dennis has four nephews and two nieces.
Dennis’ greatest loves were God, his family, country, friends, swimming and the United States Army. Dennis was a very willing person who would drop everything to help you. His trademark was his wonderful smile, always beaming.
Dennis grew up in Middletown, New Jersey a member of the Middletown Reformed Church and attended school at Middletown Village, Thorne Middle School and graduated from Christian Brothers Academy, Lincroft. He received his nomination to attend the United States Military Academy at West Point and graduated in 2004. He also completed Airborne School while a student at West Point.
Prior to attending college, Dennis was a swimmer with the Red Bank YMCA for many years, and continued to swim at Christian Brothers Academy. While attending the United States Military Academy at West Point, he was the Captain of the men’s team as a Firstie (Senior) and was awarded the Class of 1923 Memorial Award for Outstanding Member of Men’s Team and the Captain Michael W. Kilroy Memorial Award for the Captain of the Men’s Swim Team.
Upon completion of Officer Basic Course in Ft. Benning, GA, Dennis was accepted into Ranger School and graduated in March of 2005. Being awarded his Ranger “Tab” was probably his highest achievement as an Army officer. He was so proud of his accomplishment. Dennis truly lived by West Point’s motto of DUTY, HONOR, and COUNTRY, and stood behind the nation’s mission 100%, ready to serve and protect the freedoms so many citizens cherish. He also lived by the Army values of LOYATY, DUTY, RESPECT, SELFLESS-SERVICE, HONOR, INTEGRITY, PERSONAL COURAGE.
After graduation from Ranger School, he was assigned to the 1/187th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) “Rakkasan”. He deployed with the 101st Airborne Division on September 17, 2005. Lt. Dennis W. Zilinski, II died in Iraq on November 19, 2005 as a result of a roadside bombing near Bayji, 155 miles north of Baghdad. Lt. Zilinski’s medals include: Combat Infantry Badge, Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Global War on Terror, Iraq Campaign Service Medal and the New Jersey Distinguished Service Medal.
At the time of his death, Dennis was engaged to Lt. Marie Cicerelle, who is also stationed with the 101st Airborne Division and they planned to married upon their return from Iraq in 2006. Marie continues to serve in the Army.
In an act of love, the Lt. Dennis W. Zilinski, II Memorial Fund has been established by his friends and his family. The first Lt. Dennis W. Zilinski, II Memorial Run/Walk was held in November of 2006. The second Run/Walk will be held on November 11, 2007 at the PNC Arts Center, Holmdel, NJ. Proceeds of the run/walk will be utilized to continue to sponsor programs for injured soldiers and for scholarships to Dennis’ high school.
Dennis W. Zilinski, II was born on December 23, 1981. He is the son of Dennis W. and Marion R. Zilinski, grandson of Anna Zilinski, brother of Douglas and his wife ToniAnn, Arizona, Michele and her husband David, Arizona, Tiffany and her fiancé James, New Jersey and 2Lt. Matthew J. Zilinski, NJARNG, New Jersey. Dennis has four nephews and two nieces.
Dennis’ greatest loves were God, his family, country, friends, swimming and the United States Army. Dennis was a very willing person who would drop everything to help you. His trademark was his wonderful smile, always beaming.
Dennis grew up in Middletown, New Jersey a member of the Middletown Reformed Church and attended school at Middletown Village, Thorne Middle School and graduated from Christian Brothers Academy, Lincroft. He received his nomination to attend the United States Military Academy at West Point and graduated in 2004. He also completed Airborne School while a student at West Point.
Prior to attending college, Dennis was a swimmer with the Red Bank YMCA for many years, and continued to swim at Christian Brothers Academy. While attending the United States Military Academy at West Point, he was the Captain of the men’s team as a Firstie (Senior) and was awarded the Class of 1923 Memorial Award for Outstanding Member of Men’s Team and the Captain Michael W. Kilroy Memorial Award for the Captain of the Men’s Swim Team.
Upon completion of Officer Basic Course in Ft. Benning, GA, Dennis was accepted into Ranger School and graduated in March of 2005. Being awarded his Ranger “Tab” was probably his highest achievement as an Army officer. He was so proud of his accomplishment. Dennis truly lived by West Point’s motto of DUTY, HONOR, and COUNTRY, and stood behind the nation’s mission 100%, ready to serve and protect the freedoms so many citizens cherish. He also lived by the Army values of LOYATY, DUTY, RESPECT, SELFLESS-SERVICE, HONOR, INTEGRITY, PERSONAL COURAGE.
After graduation from Ranger School, he was assigned to the 1/187th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) “Rakkasan”. He deployed with the 101st Airborne Division on September 17, 2005. Lt. Dennis W. Zilinski, II died in Iraq on November 19, 2005 as a result of a roadside bombing near Bayji, 155 miles north of Baghdad. Lt. Zilinski’s medals include: Combat Infantry Badge, Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Global War on Terror, Iraq Campaign Service Medal and the New Jersey Distinguished Service Medal.
At the time of his death, Dennis was engaged to Lt. Marie Cicerelle, who is also stationed with the 101st Airborne Division and they planned to married upon their return from Iraq in 2006. Marie continues to serve in the Army.
In an act of love, the Lt. Dennis W. Zilinski, II Memorial Fund has been established by his friends and his family. The first Lt. Dennis W. Zilinski, II Memorial Run/Walk was held in November of 2006. The second Run/Walk will be held on November 11, 2007 at the PNC Arts Center, Holmdel, NJ. Proceeds of the run/walk will be utilized to continue to sponsor programs for injured soldiers and for scholarships to Dennis’ high school.
Bobby Ace Weir
the election is over, and so it is time to begin healing our nation, with that spirit of forgiveness I am contemplating ending my ban on the Dead.....Bobby Ace Weir is playing this weds night at the NJPAC in downtown Newark....3 short blocks from the Newark Penn Train Station....lots of seats avilable for $50.......let me know if anyone is interested......
might b a racist
I might be a racist, but not in the way the genuine libber als would have u think.....I can live with a spoonjiah as president ...I would have voted for condeleeza rice and beans , or julius ceaser watts or even some negris from the south side of anytown.....but nerver a moslem....and that's what is most disturbing.....this freakazoid is first and foremost a towel head , jibberish chanting moslem.....and he hates Jesus Christ, the Pope and freedom ....in that order....he probably never had a pulled pork sandwhich or drank until he couldn't tell a cabbie where he lived....and that's anti-american and quite disturbing.....
after much strongarming from my loyal contingency , I have altered the settings on this BLOG...you no longer need a password or an acct to leave a comment.......so feel free to use this blog as a forumn to state your case.......unless of course your a nancy-boy from the west village who stumbeld on this site by accident because you were sweater shoppin......then keep your homosapean germs to yerself....
after much strongarming from my loyal contingency , I have altered the settings on this BLOG...you no longer need a password or an acct to leave a comment.......so feel free to use this blog as a forumn to state your case.......unless of course your a nancy-boy from the west village who stumbeld on this site by accident because you were sweater shoppin......then keep your homosapean germs to yerself....
Thursday, November 06, 2008
it's a beautiful day in the neighorHOOD
it warmed my heart to see my african brothers whooping it up in harlem tuesday night, bangin on the drums and dancing that special dance that only they can. it was a new begining for them and Hopefully an end for the rest of us.
* Surely now that an african American has reached the highest post in the land we can't sit here and say with a straight face that the deck is stacked against "them".
* Surely we can't say that the african Americans are facing an uphill battle to survive in this country.
* Surely our Colleges and Universities will stop tripping over themselves to give scholarships to any black student that bothers to take the SAT's
* Surely Affirmitive action and quotas will dissapear from our vernacular.
* Surely they will loose status as a "minority" and will finally be treated like every other race and creed that struggled to succeed in this land of oppurtunity.
* Surely the liberals will search out middle class white males and take up our causes and incessantly whine on our behalf.
* Surely now the african Americans will finally join society and live by our social norms and morees......they can't sit on the stoop drinkin 40's and complaining about "the Man" anymore....can they?
Yes siree it's a great day to be an American.....isnt it ?
I must admit I feel as though a great weight has been lifted off my shoulders....for the past 8 years I have defended my country, my Commander in Chief and my Military aginst verbal onslaughts both domestic and abroad. It is going to be sooo much easier to sit around and nitpick and find fault with everything the Govt does......what a great day in the hood.
lets just hope al-queda follows ossama obamas lead and spreads the wealth....why should NY get all the attacks....let Chicago experience the next one.
* Surely now that an african American has reached the highest post in the land we can't sit here and say with a straight face that the deck is stacked against "them".
* Surely we can't say that the african Americans are facing an uphill battle to survive in this country.
* Surely our Colleges and Universities will stop tripping over themselves to give scholarships to any black student that bothers to take the SAT's
* Surely Affirmitive action and quotas will dissapear from our vernacular.
* Surely they will loose status as a "minority" and will finally be treated like every other race and creed that struggled to succeed in this land of oppurtunity.
* Surely the liberals will search out middle class white males and take up our causes and incessantly whine on our behalf.
* Surely now the african Americans will finally join society and live by our social norms and morees......they can't sit on the stoop drinkin 40's and complaining about "the Man" anymore....can they?
Yes siree it's a great day to be an American.....isnt it ?
I must admit I feel as though a great weight has been lifted off my shoulders....for the past 8 years I have defended my country, my Commander in Chief and my Military aginst verbal onslaughts both domestic and abroad. It is going to be sooo much easier to sit around and nitpick and find fault with everything the Govt does......what a great day in the hood.
lets just hope al-queda follows ossama obamas lead and spreads the wealth....why should NY get all the attacks....let Chicago experience the next one.
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Africa wins
KOGELO, Kenya -- Barack Obama's Kenyan family erupted in cheers Wednesday, singing "We are going to the White House!" as their relative became the first African-American to be elected U.S. president, they proceeded to feast on chitlins, wild boar ribs and a local brew similar to it's American cousin "RIPPLE".
In the western village of Kogelo, where the president-elect's late father was born, police had to tighten security to prevent hordes of media and others from entering the rural homestead of Obama's step-grandmother, Shineeh.
Click here for photos....
But the elderly woman and several other relatives came outside Wednesday to cheer for Obama in a country where the Democrat is seen as a "son of the soil." They cheered, danced and sang "lets kill whitey" in the Luo language before heading back inside the compound.
Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki declared a public holiday on Thursday in honor of Obama's election victory, even though 98% of the nation is currently unemployed.
Across Africa -- where Obama is wildly popular -- people stayed up all night or woke before dawn Wednesday to watch the U.S. election results roll in. In the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, people chanted "Unga Bunga Bunga Obama!" as the results were announced on television.
"He's sooo black...and moslem!" said Rachel Ndimu, 23, a business student who joined hundreds of others at the residence of the U.S. ambassador for an election party that began at 5 a.m. "I think this is awesome, and the whole world is backing him."
Many people hope an Obama presidency will help this vast continent, the poorest in the world. Some are looking for more U.S. aid to Africa, others simply bask in the glory of a successful black politician with African roots.
Obama was born in Hawaii, where he spent most of his childhood sniffing glue and burning the uS Flag. He barely knew his late father. But that has not stopped "Obamamania" from sweeping the continent, and particularly Kenya, where charcoal sketches of him adorn billboards and minibuses.
Hundreds of chanting people marched through the streets of Kibera shineytown, one of Africa's largest slums, cheering Obama's win.
Samuel Ouma, 36, said Obama's victory alleviated some of the pain suffered in December after Kenya's disatrous presidential election, which unleashed weeks of violence here.
"We finally have got the stolen election," he said.
His friend, Kennedy Obdiero, added: "God has rewarded us triplefold."
Gibson Gaitho, 14, said he does not believe an Obama presidency will change his life much, but he said he is inspired by the rise of a man with Kenyan roots. "Who knows, maybe someday we can even play in the NHL."
"As Kenyans we feel like absolute spooks," said Gaitho, whose teachers at Mangu Unga Bunga Denis Nolan High School in Thika brought the students to watch the results as they poured out of big chimney in sky before heading back to class on a school donkey later Wednesday.
"But we know Obama will be working for Al Queda," said Gaitho, who was wearing his traditional orange jumpsuit.
On a much lighter note, millions of african't Americans awoke this morning and were terribly dissapointed to discover they were still black......"this can't be" cried former basketball standout Baskerville Holmes....."I looked in the mirror and there was a shine staring back at me"............president elect osama bib obamma said he'll gets rights to work on fixin it.
In the western village of Kogelo, where the president-elect's late father was born, police had to tighten security to prevent hordes of media and others from entering the rural homestead of Obama's step-grandmother, Shineeh.
Click here for photos....
But the elderly woman and several other relatives came outside Wednesday to cheer for Obama in a country where the Democrat is seen as a "son of the soil." They cheered, danced and sang "lets kill whitey" in the Luo language before heading back inside the compound.
Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki declared a public holiday on Thursday in honor of Obama's election victory, even though 98% of the nation is currently unemployed.
Across Africa -- where Obama is wildly popular -- people stayed up all night or woke before dawn Wednesday to watch the U.S. election results roll in. In the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, people chanted "Unga Bunga Bunga Obama!" as the results were announced on television.
"He's sooo black...and moslem!" said Rachel Ndimu, 23, a business student who joined hundreds of others at the residence of the U.S. ambassador for an election party that began at 5 a.m. "I think this is awesome, and the whole world is backing him."
Many people hope an Obama presidency will help this vast continent, the poorest in the world. Some are looking for more U.S. aid to Africa, others simply bask in the glory of a successful black politician with African roots.
Obama was born in Hawaii, where he spent most of his childhood sniffing glue and burning the uS Flag. He barely knew his late father. But that has not stopped "Obamamania" from sweeping the continent, and particularly Kenya, where charcoal sketches of him adorn billboards and minibuses.
Hundreds of chanting people marched through the streets of Kibera shineytown, one of Africa's largest slums, cheering Obama's win.
Samuel Ouma, 36, said Obama's victory alleviated some of the pain suffered in December after Kenya's disatrous presidential election, which unleashed weeks of violence here.
"We finally have got the stolen election," he said.
His friend, Kennedy Obdiero, added: "God has rewarded us triplefold."
Gibson Gaitho, 14, said he does not believe an Obama presidency will change his life much, but he said he is inspired by the rise of a man with Kenyan roots. "Who knows, maybe someday we can even play in the NHL."
"As Kenyans we feel like absolute spooks," said Gaitho, whose teachers at Mangu Unga Bunga Denis Nolan High School in Thika brought the students to watch the results as they poured out of big chimney in sky before heading back to class on a school donkey later Wednesday.
"But we know Obama will be working for Al Queda," said Gaitho, who was wearing his traditional orange jumpsuit.
On a much lighter note, millions of african't Americans awoke this morning and were terribly dissapointed to discover they were still black......"this can't be" cried former basketball standout Baskerville Holmes....."I looked in the mirror and there was a shine staring back at me"............president elect osama bib obamma said he'll gets rights to work on fixin it.
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
There you stood on the edge of your feather,
Expecting to fly.
While I laughed, I wondered whether
I could wave goodbye, (Buffalo springfield)
And so as a Nation we stand on the precipice of disaster and I wonder how many of us will never get the chance to say goodbye. 7 years after the most catstrophic attack on Amercian soil we stand ready to elect a terrorist sympathizer to be our president, a man who for 20 years sat in his pew and listened to his Rev Shout "God Dam America"........are we such a nation of self loathsome creeps, feeling so guilty about something in the past , so convinced we are going to hell that we insist on bringing the rest of the nation with us ? is that the majority in America this day ?
As the rest of the world slowly emerges from centuries of communism and socialism, of dictators and despots, and embraces the ideals of Capitalism and Freedom , we as a Nation seem willing to take a step back into the darkness........if it were not so serious , it would be comical.
forgive me if I do not get the chance to say goodbye in person.....and oh yeah, after we're gone....pls wear a button that proclaims "NEVER FORGET" the next tragedy.......which by the way barrack...it wasn't a tragedy, or tsunami or earthquake......it was x$@3!! MURDER.
Vote your conscience today friends....vote your conscience.
Expecting to fly.
While I laughed, I wondered whether
I could wave goodbye, (Buffalo springfield)
And so as a Nation we stand on the precipice of disaster and I wonder how many of us will never get the chance to say goodbye. 7 years after the most catstrophic attack on Amercian soil we stand ready to elect a terrorist sympathizer to be our president, a man who for 20 years sat in his pew and listened to his Rev Shout "God Dam America"........are we such a nation of self loathsome creeps, feeling so guilty about something in the past , so convinced we are going to hell that we insist on bringing the rest of the nation with us ? is that the majority in America this day ?
As the rest of the world slowly emerges from centuries of communism and socialism, of dictators and despots, and embraces the ideals of Capitalism and Freedom , we as a Nation seem willing to take a step back into the darkness........if it were not so serious , it would be comical.
forgive me if I do not get the chance to say goodbye in person.....and oh yeah, after we're gone....pls wear a button that proclaims "NEVER FORGET" the next tragedy.......which by the way barrack...it wasn't a tragedy, or tsunami or earthquake......it was x$@3!! MURDER.
Vote your conscience today friends....vote your conscience.
Sunday, November 02, 2008
Eagle Bank Bound.....
I am not sure about my loyal readers, but attending a College Football BOWL game is on the short list of things I have never done in my sports viewing life......The US Naval Academy has accepted an invitation to the Innaugaral EagleBank Bowl in RFK Stadium on Saturday Dec 20th at 11:00 A.M...........I AM going....even if i take amtrak and the metro solo....but I AM going.........take a week and think it over.....if we can scrape together 4, 6, or 8 guys we can make a trip out of it.....we could go down Friday Night after work , or even just drive down for the day Sturday........it is the Saturday before Christmas, so schedules may be tight....but if your interested, let me know soon........
*** as an added bonus....our opponent , although not yet named....will be from the ACC .......which could be very interesting......Boston College maybe ? Ga tech and Coach Johnsons yellow jackets ? Miami or Fla State ? Maryland??
*** as an added bonus....our opponent , although not yet named....will be from the ACC .......which could be very interesting......Boston College maybe ? Ga tech and Coach Johnsons yellow jackets ? Miami or Fla State ? Maryland??
never say die.
tounges will be waggin from coast this morn about the Black radiers ( black jerseys anyway) of Tex tech and their big upset of the #1 horns......and rightfully so , it was a mde for espn moment.
but lost in the shuffle was a group of young men that fought back from 20 points in the 4rth quarter.....7 points down in the final 40 seconds, without the ball....to gain their 6th win of the season and once again become bowl eligible.......maybe if spoertscenter expand to a 90 minute version they might sneak this score in there.....but I doubt it.
Temple 27, Navy 33
Preview Recap Box Score Play-by-Play Drive Chart Conversation Game Rating:Average Rating: 4.6 / 5.0 Please login to vote. 1 2 3 4 OT T
TEM (3-6) 7 0 14 6 0 27
NAVY (6-3) 7 0 0 20 6 33
Final3:30 PM ET, November 1, 2008
Navy Memorial Stadium
Annapolis, MD
Navy rallies from 20 down, finishes Temple in overtime
Team Stat Comparison
Associated Press
ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- Navy coach Ken Niumatalolo sat at the interview table, unable to formulate a proper explanation for what he had just witnessed.
"I'm kind of stunned right now," he said. "The way [we] won that game is just unbelievable."
The Midshipmen rallied from a 20-point deficit in the final 14 minutes, then used a 1-yard touchdown run by backup quarterback Ricky Dobbs in the first overtime to defeat mistake-prone Temple 33-27 Saturday.
It is believed to be the biggest fourth-quarter comeback in Navy history.
Dobbs threw for one score and ran for another to help the Midshipmen (6-3) become bowl eligible. After the game, Navy accepted an invitation to play in the inaugural EagleBank Bowl in the nation's capital on Dec. 20.
Two critical miscues late in the game cost Temple (3-6). Navy scored the tying touchdown on the return of a fumble by Owls running back Kee-ayre Griffin with 37 seconds left, and Temple tight end Steve Maneri dropped a fourth-down pass in the end zone during overtime.
Temple also botched a conversion in the fourth quarter and lost a fumble near the Navy goal-line late in the first half.
"We dropped a touchdown, fumbled the football, missed an extra point, fumbled on the 10-yard line in the second quarter," lamented coach Al Golden. "That's the difference in the game."
The loss ruined a fine day by Adam DiMichele, who went 21-for-28 for a career-high 340 yards and three touchdowns, including a pair of 49-yarders to Bruce Francis.
Ranked 118th in the nation in total offense, Temple amassed 409 yards. But it wasn't enough.
Navy trailed 27-7 with 13:41 left before mounting a stunning comeback behind Dobbs, who replaced injured starter Kaipo-Noa Kaheaku-Enhada with five minutes left in the third quarter.
First, Dobbs threw a 22-yard touchdown pass to T.J. Thiel with 9:16 left. Then, after a Temple punt, Eric Kettani capped a 64-yard drive with a 1-yard, fourth-down touchdown run with 2:52 to go. The conversion was blocked, keeping the score 27-20.
Navy decided against an onside kick, and Temple appeared to have held on after making a first down. But on third down with less than a minute left, Griffin tried to squeeze some extra yardage out of a meaningless play designed to eat up the clock.
Big mistake. Navy linebacker Ross Pospisil pried the ball loose and teammate Clint Sovie took it 42 yards for a touchdown. Matt Harmon's extra point was good, setting up overtime.
"Certainly we could have kneeled down, but you give it to the running back, tell him to put two hands on it. That's what running backs do," Golden said. "I told him to go down if he gets held up."
Pospisil said, "I was surprised they ran it. I thank God they did."
Said Sovie: "I thought he was down. I just saw the ball, picked it up and started running."
For an instant, Niumatalolo considered going for a two-point conversion to win it. Then he decided against it.
"I wanted to take them to overtime because we had them reeling," he said. "Things turned out well for us."
After a first half that ended tied at 7, the Owls took the second-half kickoff and went ahead when Francis slipped behind Ketric Buffin before making a diving catch in the end zone.
Later in the third quarter, DiMichele faked a dive on a third-and-2, dropped back and connected with a wide-open Francis for another 49-yard touchdown. On Temple's next possession, Griffin scored on a 16-yard run.
"Things looked very bleak there," Niumatalolo said. "But our kids continued to fight to the end."
Navy opened the game with a 79-yard drive that consumed more than six minutes. Kettani carried five times for 49 yards, converting a fourth-and-1 along the way, before Kaheaku-Enhada ran it in from the 2.
It was the ninth time in nine games the Midshipmen scored on their first possession.
DiMichele then went 5-for-5 for 69 yards during a 74-yard drive that ended with a 4-yard touchdown pass to Maneri.
The back-and-forth flurry ended there.
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Saturday, November 1st
Air Force 16 Final
Army 7
Temple 27 Final
Navy 33 OT
North Texas 51 Final
Western Kentucky 40
but lost in the shuffle was a group of young men that fought back from 20 points in the 4rth quarter.....7 points down in the final 40 seconds, without the ball....to gain their 6th win of the season and once again become bowl eligible.......maybe if spoertscenter expand to a 90 minute version they might sneak this score in there.....but I doubt it.
Temple 27, Navy 33
Preview Recap Box Score Play-by-Play Drive Chart Conversation Game Rating:Average Rating: 4.6 / 5.0 Please login to vote. 1 2 3 4 OT T
TEM (3-6) 7 0 14 6 0 27
NAVY (6-3) 7 0 0 20 6 33
Final3:30 PM ET, November 1, 2008
Navy Memorial Stadium
Annapolis, MD
Navy rallies from 20 down, finishes Temple in overtime
Team Stat Comparison
Associated Press
ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- Navy coach Ken Niumatalolo sat at the interview table, unable to formulate a proper explanation for what he had just witnessed.
"I'm kind of stunned right now," he said. "The way [we] won that game is just unbelievable."
The Midshipmen rallied from a 20-point deficit in the final 14 minutes, then used a 1-yard touchdown run by backup quarterback Ricky Dobbs in the first overtime to defeat mistake-prone Temple 33-27 Saturday.
It is believed to be the biggest fourth-quarter comeback in Navy history.
Dobbs threw for one score and ran for another to help the Midshipmen (6-3) become bowl eligible. After the game, Navy accepted an invitation to play in the inaugural EagleBank Bowl in the nation's capital on Dec. 20.
Two critical miscues late in the game cost Temple (3-6). Navy scored the tying touchdown on the return of a fumble by Owls running back Kee-ayre Griffin with 37 seconds left, and Temple tight end Steve Maneri dropped a fourth-down pass in the end zone during overtime.
Temple also botched a conversion in the fourth quarter and lost a fumble near the Navy goal-line late in the first half.
"We dropped a touchdown, fumbled the football, missed an extra point, fumbled on the 10-yard line in the second quarter," lamented coach Al Golden. "That's the difference in the game."
The loss ruined a fine day by Adam DiMichele, who went 21-for-28 for a career-high 340 yards and three touchdowns, including a pair of 49-yarders to Bruce Francis.
Ranked 118th in the nation in total offense, Temple amassed 409 yards. But it wasn't enough.
Navy trailed 27-7 with 13:41 left before mounting a stunning comeback behind Dobbs, who replaced injured starter Kaipo-Noa Kaheaku-Enhada with five minutes left in the third quarter.
First, Dobbs threw a 22-yard touchdown pass to T.J. Thiel with 9:16 left. Then, after a Temple punt, Eric Kettani capped a 64-yard drive with a 1-yard, fourth-down touchdown run with 2:52 to go. The conversion was blocked, keeping the score 27-20.
Navy decided against an onside kick, and Temple appeared to have held on after making a first down. But on third down with less than a minute left, Griffin tried to squeeze some extra yardage out of a meaningless play designed to eat up the clock.
Big mistake. Navy linebacker Ross Pospisil pried the ball loose and teammate Clint Sovie took it 42 yards for a touchdown. Matt Harmon's extra point was good, setting up overtime.
"Certainly we could have kneeled down, but you give it to the running back, tell him to put two hands on it. That's what running backs do," Golden said. "I told him to go down if he gets held up."
Pospisil said, "I was surprised they ran it. I thank God they did."
Said Sovie: "I thought he was down. I just saw the ball, picked it up and started running."
For an instant, Niumatalolo considered going for a two-point conversion to win it. Then he decided against it.
"I wanted to take them to overtime because we had them reeling," he said. "Things turned out well for us."
After a first half that ended tied at 7, the Owls took the second-half kickoff and went ahead when Francis slipped behind Ketric Buffin before making a diving catch in the end zone.
Later in the third quarter, DiMichele faked a dive on a third-and-2, dropped back and connected with a wide-open Francis for another 49-yard touchdown. On Temple's next possession, Griffin scored on a 16-yard run.
"Things looked very bleak there," Niumatalolo said. "But our kids continued to fight to the end."
Navy opened the game with a 79-yard drive that consumed more than six minutes. Kettani carried five times for 49 yards, converting a fourth-and-1 along the way, before Kaheaku-Enhada ran it in from the 2.
It was the ninth time in nine games the Midshipmen scored on their first possession.
DiMichele then went 5-for-5 for 69 yards during a 74-yard drive that ended with a 4-yard touchdown pass to Maneri.
The back-and-forth flurry ended there.
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in a desperate land..
of our elaborate plans, the end
of everything that stands, the end
no safety or surprise, the end.
I'll never look into youre eyes again.
Jim Morrison.
WHEN Barack Obama launched his presidential bid 18 months ago, many in Europe were attracted and amused by its exotic audacity.
Here was a 40-something African-American with less than six years of experience in politics, only two of them at national level, who hoped to win the world's toughest job.
Even more interesting was that Obama wanted to win as a European-style candidate, offering policies popular there a generation ago. Ideas such as redistributing wealth, increasing the government's regulatory role, backtracking on free trade and emphasizing "soft power" as the key foreign-policy tool had been popular in Western Europe until the late '70s, when the Thatcher revolution started to change the politics of the old continent.
European advocates of old-style "social market" tax-and-spend economics saw Obama as one of their own. "Greens" liked his opposition to drilling for oil, while the European Left as a whole marveled at his gamble to win the presidency in a conservative nation on a radical platform.
The European Left liked Obama's promise to abandon Iraq in expiation of "the original sin" of liberating it, and to acknowledge the Islamic Republic of Iran's moral equivalence with the Western democracies by promising to talks without preconditions. Obama's anti-war rhetoric, his promise of courting Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez (while attacking Alvaro Uribe the only openly pro-US leader in Latin America) and his close ties to pro-Palestinian figures also endeared him to the European left.
Nevertheless, few in Europe expected and even fewer wanted him to win.
The thrill was to see a US politician seeking to Europeanize US policies. The fear was that he might actually succeed.
Most Europeans want the US to remain American - that is, to be prepared to do the heavy lifting on their behalf, whenever needed. They like the fact that the US taxpayer spends four times more on the collective defense of the West than does his European counterpart. They like America's open markets, even as Europe clings to as many trade barriers as possible.
For more than six decades, Europe has enjoyed the privilege of being protected by the United States while indulging in anti-Americanism. If there was to be fighting, one always called in the Americans - and then, once victory was assured, damned them for being warmongers and "imperialists."
Thus, the prospect of the United States adopting the European model frightens many in Europe's elites. Today, the US is guarantor of peace, stability or at least stalemate in no fewer than 66 conflict situations across the globe. In many of those cases, Europe is a bigger beneficiary of US efforts than America itself. Remove the US from the equation, and Europe will be forced to do the job itself or retreat in the face of deadly enemies.
The last time a European power won a war on its own was in 1982, when Britain kicked Argentina out of the Falkland Islands. (Even then, it had substantial US support).
Ironically, the Americans may take the "European option" at a time when pro-US parties are in power in almost every part of the old continent. (The only major exception is Spain's mildly anti-American government.)
France and Germany have kicked anti-American leaders out of power and voted in Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel, the most pro-US major political figures Europe has produced since the '50s. In Italy, Silvio Berlusconi presides over the most pro-US government in his nation's history.
Earlier this month, as Russian President Dmitri Medvedev and the Rev. Jesse Jackson unleashed their anti-US rhetoric at the World Policy Conference in Evian, France, a number of European leaders from formerly communist states rose in defense of the nation that had helped them gain their freedom.
As the US election approaches, few European leaders want Obama to win. Sarkozy has expressed concern that an Obama presidency would enable Iran to speed up its nuclear program and build the bomb before a new strategy is developed in Washington.
Berlusconi has told his entourage of "uncertainties" that an Obama presidency might provoke on the international scene at a time of financial crisis and mounting Middle East tension.
Merkel has offered few clues about her preferences. But there are signs that she, too, regards Obama's positions on a number of key issues as "problematic."
The central and eastern European leaders are worried about an American "retrenchment" under Obama, allowing Russia to project power into the region as it did in Georgia.
Only the Left (in its diverse manifestations) and the anti-American Right root for Obama in the hope that he would (in the words of France's Socialist former Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine) put end America's role as " hyper-power," and, in the words of Spain's Socialist Foreign Minister Miguel-Angel Moratinos, inaugurate the "post-American era."
These are curious times. The old pastime of America-bashing notwithstanding, the American way of doing things has never been as popular in Europe as it is today. Yet many in Europe fear that Americans themselves might vote for policies that were tested and found to be failures in the old continent a generation ago.
of everything that stands, the end
no safety or surprise, the end.
I'll never look into youre eyes again.
Jim Morrison.
WHEN Barack Obama launched his presidential bid 18 months ago, many in Europe were attracted and amused by its exotic audacity.
Here was a 40-something African-American with less than six years of experience in politics, only two of them at national level, who hoped to win the world's toughest job.
Even more interesting was that Obama wanted to win as a European-style candidate, offering policies popular there a generation ago. Ideas such as redistributing wealth, increasing the government's regulatory role, backtracking on free trade and emphasizing "soft power" as the key foreign-policy tool had been popular in Western Europe until the late '70s, when the Thatcher revolution started to change the politics of the old continent.
European advocates of old-style "social market" tax-and-spend economics saw Obama as one of their own. "Greens" liked his opposition to drilling for oil, while the European Left as a whole marveled at his gamble to win the presidency in a conservative nation on a radical platform.
The European Left liked Obama's promise to abandon Iraq in expiation of "the original sin" of liberating it, and to acknowledge the Islamic Republic of Iran's moral equivalence with the Western democracies by promising to talks without preconditions. Obama's anti-war rhetoric, his promise of courting Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez (while attacking Alvaro Uribe the only openly pro-US leader in Latin America) and his close ties to pro-Palestinian figures also endeared him to the European left.
Nevertheless, few in Europe expected and even fewer wanted him to win.
The thrill was to see a US politician seeking to Europeanize US policies. The fear was that he might actually succeed.
Most Europeans want the US to remain American - that is, to be prepared to do the heavy lifting on their behalf, whenever needed. They like the fact that the US taxpayer spends four times more on the collective defense of the West than does his European counterpart. They like America's open markets, even as Europe clings to as many trade barriers as possible.
For more than six decades, Europe has enjoyed the privilege of being protected by the United States while indulging in anti-Americanism. If there was to be fighting, one always called in the Americans - and then, once victory was assured, damned them for being warmongers and "imperialists."
Thus, the prospect of the United States adopting the European model frightens many in Europe's elites. Today, the US is guarantor of peace, stability or at least stalemate in no fewer than 66 conflict situations across the globe. In many of those cases, Europe is a bigger beneficiary of US efforts than America itself. Remove the US from the equation, and Europe will be forced to do the job itself or retreat in the face of deadly enemies.
The last time a European power won a war on its own was in 1982, when Britain kicked Argentina out of the Falkland Islands. (Even then, it had substantial US support).
Ironically, the Americans may take the "European option" at a time when pro-US parties are in power in almost every part of the old continent. (The only major exception is Spain's mildly anti-American government.)
France and Germany have kicked anti-American leaders out of power and voted in Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel, the most pro-US major political figures Europe has produced since the '50s. In Italy, Silvio Berlusconi presides over the most pro-US government in his nation's history.
Earlier this month, as Russian President Dmitri Medvedev and the Rev. Jesse Jackson unleashed their anti-US rhetoric at the World Policy Conference in Evian, France, a number of European leaders from formerly communist states rose in defense of the nation that had helped them gain their freedom.
As the US election approaches, few European leaders want Obama to win. Sarkozy has expressed concern that an Obama presidency would enable Iran to speed up its nuclear program and build the bomb before a new strategy is developed in Washington.
Berlusconi has told his entourage of "uncertainties" that an Obama presidency might provoke on the international scene at a time of financial crisis and mounting Middle East tension.
Merkel has offered few clues about her preferences. But there are signs that she, too, regards Obama's positions on a number of key issues as "problematic."
The central and eastern European leaders are worried about an American "retrenchment" under Obama, allowing Russia to project power into the region as it did in Georgia.
Only the Left (in its diverse manifestations) and the anti-American Right root for Obama in the hope that he would (in the words of France's Socialist former Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine) put end America's role as " hyper-power," and, in the words of Spain's Socialist Foreign Minister Miguel-Angel Moratinos, inaugurate the "post-American era."
These are curious times. The old pastime of America-bashing notwithstanding, the American way of doing things has never been as popular in Europe as it is today. Yet many in Europe fear that Americans themselves might vote for policies that were tested and found to be failures in the old continent a generation ago.
I have offically distanced myself from "aunti Zeituni"
WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama's aunt, a Kenyan woman who has been quietly living in public housing in Boston, is in the United States illegally after an immigration judge rejected her request for asylum four years ago, The Associated Press has learned.
Zeituni Onyango, 56, referred to as "Aunti Zeituni" in Obama's memoir, was instructed to leave the United States by a U.S. immigration judge who denied her asylum request, a person familiar with the matter told the AP late Friday. This person spoke on condition of anonymity because no one was authorized to discuss Onyango's case.
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Information about the deportation case was disclosed and confirmed by two separate sources, one of them a federal law enforcment official. The information they made available is known to officials in the federal government, but the AP could not establish whether anyone at a political level in the Bush administration or in the McCain campaign had been involved in its release.
Onyango's refusal to leave the country would represent an administrative, non-criminal violation of U.S. immigration law, meaning such cases are handled outside the criminal court system. Estimates vary, but many experts believe there are more than 10 million such immigrants in the United States.
The AP could not reach Onyango immediately for comment. No one answered the telephone number listed in her name late Friday. It was unclear why her request for asylum was rejected in 2004.
Onyango is not a relative whom Obama has discussed in campaign appearances and, unlike Obama's father and grandmother, is not someone who has been part of the public discussion about his personal life.
A spokeswoman for U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, Kelly Nantel, said the government does not comment on an individual's citizenship status or immigration case.
Onyango's case -- coming to light just days before the presidential election -- led to an unusual nationwide directive within Immigrations and Customs Enforcement requiring any deportations prior to Tuesday's election to be approved at least at the level of ICE regional directors, the U.S. law enforcement official told the AP.
The unusual directive suggests that the Bush administration is sensitive to the political implications of Onyango's case coming to light so close to the election.
One of the sources acknowledged he was not a supporter of Obama or John McCain and said he has no plans to vote on Tuesday. He said that was not a motive for releasing the information.
Kenya is in eastern Africa between Somalia and Tanzania. The country has been fractured in violence in recent years, including a period of two months of bloodshed after December 2007 that killed 1,500 people.
The disclosure about Onyango came just one day after Obama's presidential campaign confirmed to the Times of London that Onyango, who has lived quietly in public housing in South Boston for five years, was Obama's half aunt on his father's side.
It was not immediately clear how Onyango might have qualified for public housing with a standing deportation order
Zeituni Onyango, 56, referred to as "Aunti Zeituni" in Obama's memoir, was instructed to leave the United States by a U.S. immigration judge who denied her asylum request, a person familiar with the matter told the AP late Friday. This person spoke on condition of anonymity because no one was authorized to discuss Onyango's case.
Click here for photos.
Information about the deportation case was disclosed and confirmed by two separate sources, one of them a federal law enforcment official. The information they made available is known to officials in the federal government, but the AP could not establish whether anyone at a political level in the Bush administration or in the McCain campaign had been involved in its release.
Onyango's refusal to leave the country would represent an administrative, non-criminal violation of U.S. immigration law, meaning such cases are handled outside the criminal court system. Estimates vary, but many experts believe there are more than 10 million such immigrants in the United States.
The AP could not reach Onyango immediately for comment. No one answered the telephone number listed in her name late Friday. It was unclear why her request for asylum was rejected in 2004.
Onyango is not a relative whom Obama has discussed in campaign appearances and, unlike Obama's father and grandmother, is not someone who has been part of the public discussion about his personal life.
A spokeswoman for U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, Kelly Nantel, said the government does not comment on an individual's citizenship status or immigration case.
Onyango's case -- coming to light just days before the presidential election -- led to an unusual nationwide directive within Immigrations and Customs Enforcement requiring any deportations prior to Tuesday's election to be approved at least at the level of ICE regional directors, the U.S. law enforcement official told the AP.
The unusual directive suggests that the Bush administration is sensitive to the political implications of Onyango's case coming to light so close to the election.
One of the sources acknowledged he was not a supporter of Obama or John McCain and said he has no plans to vote on Tuesday. He said that was not a motive for releasing the information.
Kenya is in eastern Africa between Somalia and Tanzania. The country has been fractured in violence in recent years, including a period of two months of bloodshed after December 2007 that killed 1,500 people.
The disclosure about Onyango came just one day after Obama's presidential campaign confirmed to the Times of London that Onyango, who has lived quietly in public housing in South Boston for five years, was Obama's half aunt on his father's side.
It was not immediately clear how Onyango might have qualified for public housing with a standing deportation order
obama inshallah
that's the chant from the caves of afghanistan to the streets of gaza, from pakistan, syria and iran.......it is arabic for "obama...God willing".
and our enemies may just get their way.
The end of the world would most certainly come from events with their genesis in Jerusalem......what happens if an American Presidents sends OUR armed forces in on the side of islamist extremist against the Isrealis ? can't happen ? who will stop him ? the Democratic Congress?
Like Joe Biden said, obama will be tested , and his reaction may surprise people....and it may seem like he is making a big mistake.......Joe is bracing us for the end....prepping us for an alliance with the Arabs against the Jews.....
obama inshallah.......get ready to die.....
and our enemies may just get their way.
The end of the world would most certainly come from events with their genesis in Jerusalem......what happens if an American Presidents sends OUR armed forces in on the side of islamist extremist against the Isrealis ? can't happen ? who will stop him ? the Democratic Congress?
Like Joe Biden said, obama will be tested , and his reaction may surprise people....and it may seem like he is making a big mistake.......Joe is bracing us for the end....prepping us for an alliance with the Arabs against the Jews.....
obama inshallah.......get ready to die.....
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