Thanksgiving

For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

good for the goose ?

seems not........seems it is well within their 1st ammendment rights to bang on drums, shoot heroin, rape/grope youngens, piss aywhere they want, strip naked, etc etc......DOWNTOWN............BUT don't came anywhere near Mayor Mikes digs on 79th street..........as dead amy would say ....that's a NO - NO- NOOOOOOO

not dead yet

the mighty squids were left for dead after getting crushed by ND in south bend a few weeks.....dropping to 2-6 and seeing their 9th straight bowl appearance in serious jeapordy.....but alas they have won 2 in a row and if the can beat San Jose State on the road today it will bring them back to 5-6 with 1 game to play.......and who should be in a position to prevent that .500 record and a bowl bid?.....ARMY! of course.......could make for some interesting side bars when these foes take to the pitch @ Fedex field.........there is the business of SJ St first.....4:00 start on ESPN3 ...whatever the heck that channel is.

timing

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drinke like a vet

today, tomorrow and everuday.......Coast of Cannes, France circa 1988

WTF ?

If Paterno's crime was not going to the Police, well so be it.......But how can the eyewitness MQueary be exonerated for not stopping the assault or also going to the Police.....HOW is he still Coaching ?????

cultural differences

i remember standing outside the Apollo theatre back in 1995 when they arrested Jerry Garcia's Heroin dealer and convicted him of involuntary manslaughter and all us deadheads jumped up and down and cheered because justice had been served........maybe that was just a mescaline delusion.

Joe Frazier- Lite Beer Miller

click on the link.......Rest in Peace Smokin Joe Frazier, the Anti-Ali.....a true Champion, Sportsman, and dam good singer

ho hum

how anti climatic was the end of lSU-Bama?.......a 4 qrt defensive struggle decided by a field goal because they started in field goal position.....boring.......either get ride of OT all-together or go back to sudden death, normal kickoff rules......this made for TV drama sucks.

Breeders Cup Picks

okay.......they are printin cash over at MP......lets go get some......feel free topiggyback off my selections;



Marathon = Afleet Again.....start it off with a longshot

Juve turf = Wrote & Lucky chappy Irish connection

Sprint = Guant Ryan

Dirt mile = Jersey Town

Turf = St Nicholas Abbey O'Brien connection

Juve = Hansen over union Rags

Mile = hurts to go against goldikiva , but i like Tureallure

Classic = Mike Smith and Drosselmeyer, he deserves it....watchout for ex-flame Chantal & Game on Dude.


but I have been very wrong before.

winning is contagious

so the St. Louie Cardinals took their World Series Trophy to the Rams Vs Saints Game and lo and behold the winless Spagnolas notch their first victory over the mighty invaders from N~orlens......

Last Night, Cornball Larusa donned a Blues Sweater and took the trophy to the Checker Dome ( remember that arena) and inspired the blue Notes to rise up and beat the hated and heavily favored Canuckleheads de los vancoooover.

it's in that spirit of contagious victory that i am going to monmouth Park for the breeders and hope that Clancy's good fortune will ruboff on me and I actually hit a few races.......alas, i will be accompanied by the Great Cooler...the Jinx of Higgins.....it will be a battle of wills.....does Clancy force us to raise our game and pick a few winners......OR....more likely......Do we drag Dermott down to the muck and mire and loosing on photo finishes, tossed Jockeys and stewards inquiries....? time will tell

back in a few hours with my picks of the day.

ray of hope

so i flick on the hockey network at 3:30 this morning and they are talking about the legacy of Ron Hextall and i must admit.....i smiled the smile of a happy man for a moment whilst i thought that scumbag was dead.....turns out it was just one of their commercials for "Frozen in Time" about historic hockey moments and players.......oh well....your day is coming hextall.....drive a fuckin porsche already.

No surprises here

i am thinking ND's numbers s/b questioned....it's possible that Coach Kelly murders the kids who are not on pace to graduate....


Naval Academy Fourth In The Country For Graduating Student-Athletes
Navy graduates 96 percent of its student-athletes

John Dowd is a two-time Academic All-American


Oct. 25, 2011
For the seventh year in a row, the United States Naval Academy is one of the top schools in the country for graduating NCAA student-athletes.

Navy graduated 100 percent of its student-athletes in six of the 20 NCAA sports reported on and averaged 96 percent for student-athletes in all sports. Navy’s overall graduation success rate of 96 percent was tied for fourth among all schools in the Football Bowl Subdivision and was the best among the three Service Academies. The national average for NCAA Division I student-athletes is 80 percent. The graduation success rate measures those student-athletes that were enrolled from 2001-04 and graduated within six years.

"Our student-athletes continually strive to set the standard on the playing fields, in the classroom and in Bancroft Hall," said Naval Academy Director of Athletics Chet Gladchuk. "The support and encouragement they receive through the Commandant and his staff and the academic dean and all of our outstanding professors and instructors is extraordinary and provides tremendous motivation to be successful morally, mentally and physically. Our midshipmen clearly define the true meaning of student-athlete."

Highest Graduation Rates (All Sports/FBS Schools Only)
1. Notre Dame-99%
2. Duke-97%
Boston College-97%
4. Navy-96%
Northwestern-96%

good news for HIGHER learning

a whopping 25% of NYC high school graduates are actually prepared for collegiate level education in their freshman year......obviously we need to raise taxes, throw a few more billion at the problem, make smaller classrooms, blah, b;ah, b;ah.......and the UFT is laughin all the way to the bank because all of their contractual obligations are driven by graduation rate......CHECK !




sorry eggroll....it's a bad month for you guys on the blog....ever since i saw that photo in the NY Times of you and Rqandi Weingarten manning the soup line in zuccotti park, i couldn't resist.

for the record

YES...i do hate everyone and everything.....to quote the master Bobby brown..."it's my perogative."

Revenge of Declan

hey ND ?? subway alumni.....where are ya ? you know who you are......you who demanded that Charlie Weiss be fired, a good coach and decent human being....a guy who guided the Irish to 2 BCS appearances.....he had to go ...right?

now your team sucks and you have a murderous bastard at the helm......and a liar to boot....wake up the echos ? no , wake up the Dead.....Declan O'Sullivan will haunt you till Brian Kelly is fired or brought to justice.......good job moving the game to a night game for NBC , I am asure your millions $$ kept you warm in the 4th quarter...

plax

college gameday is in east lansing today....a sign in the background says PLAX WAS FRAMED .....that's hysterical...there is some hope for this crop of college kids.

belated wishes

a belated birthday greeting goes out to Brian Duffy who celebrated his birthday on the 18th, same day that Reginal Martinez Jackson cracked 3 homers to defeat the trolley dodgers of los angelees.....also the winning exacta of 10-18 when Giacamo won the Derby...one of the highest exactas in Derby History.

eggroll threats

Honorable eggroll is beside himself with anger over recent bloggin by yours truly, he called me at 3:00 a.m. ranting and raving like a madman, or a higgins.....about the unfair treatement i have offerded the teachers of this nation.....if i didn't know better i would have surmised that Das Strovika hand ended his two decade old boycott of Barley Wine Hopps and friends.....i told him, that like the Great Goofer pat Moran, I am binded by a strong urge to get the truth out....and a desire to go back to McSorleys and order 18 lights and 18 darks please....

question

when did the media grow weary of covering the deaths of our military overseas in combat?

i suppose that would be when President Bush left office...

remember that scumbag on nightline who for 30 minutes read the names of all the soldiers in protest.....his pretty fuckin quiet aint he.....