We resume.
ESPNFC reports that Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich wants to make a decision on manager Jose Mourinho based on the Liverpool match Saturday taken in conjunction with the Dynamo Kiev and Stoke matches this week. If the decision is to fire Mourinho the new manager would have the international break to get acclimated in the job.
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The Atlantic Coast Conference has determined that last night's kickoff return for touchdown by Miami should not have counted!, that the game officials made four errors in judging the play good, the ACC has suspended the officials for two games but will not overturn the result.
The loss is impactful for Duke, it diminishes Duke's chances of playing for the conference championship.
This is a terrible debacle for Duke, the officials are only human and made mistakes that human beings make; it was a confusing 48-second play with players running all over the place, difficult to follow, yes, yes, all of that, it is a terrible debacle for Duke.
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And that is all she wrote for this Happy/Sad-urday. Have a fun and safe Halloween night, everybody. October is his-tor-y and it was a banner month for readership at Public Occurrences, 4,017 pageviews, the highest total since March, 129/day. Thanks.
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IOWA STATE :) Texas :(
24-0! INexplicable.
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The Notre Dame player threw a pass on the final play, probably preceded by a bunch of running around to kill time and then just heaved it down the field or out of bounds. A superb game for both teams. No losers here. Inspired effort by Temple.
GAME OVER: Notre Dame wins 24-20. Don't know what ND did on that final play but they didn't pull a Michigan or Florida State.
4th and one at the ND 44, FIVE SECONDS LEFT. DO NOT PUNT!!
4th and 1 ND at near midfield. DON'T PUNT IRISH! Temple needs a TD.
3rd and 4 ND, 46 seconds left.
Interception ND at their own 36. 2nd and 9.
4th down Temple at their own 47 yard line. 2 yards to gain, 1:40 left to play!
Temple leads 20-17!! Notre Dame has the ball on the Temple...Oh no! ND just scored a touchdown. They lead 24-20 with 2:09 left. Time for Temple but they need a touchdown, a 3-point field goal won't do it.
That's what it was. ESPN's headline:
"8-lateral play gives Miami a 30-27 win over No. 22 Duke"
And the first paragraph on their game summary:
DURHAM, N.C. -- Corn Elder took Miami's eighth lateral of a wild final kickoff return and brought it back 75 yards for a touchdown that gave Miami a 30-27 victory over No. 22 Duke on Saturday night.
Oh! Poor Duke, poor good man, good coach David Cutcliffe.
Holy SHIT! This now is ESPN's summary of Miami's winning touchdown:
(0:00 - 4th) Ross Martin kickoff for 39 yds , Dallas Crawford return for a loss of 5 yards , Corn Elder return for 1 yd , Jaquan Johnson return for a loss of 7 yards , Mark Walton return for 7 yds , Jaquan Johnson return for a loss of 4 yards , Tyre Brady return for a loss of 8 yards , Corn Elder return for a loss of 7 yards , Dallas Crawford return for 6 yds , Corn Elder return for 91 yds for a TD.
It looks like Miami played hot potato with the ball on the kick off. They kept lateraling it from player
to player--losing 30 yards in the process, too!-- but then got the ball into the hands of Corn Elder who
ran it 91 yards for the TD!!!' ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME??!!!! Look at the game clock. The play began with zero seconds left?!!
If that is the truth and the whole truth, OH! THE HUMANITY FOR DUKE!!! Oh my GOD! David Cutcliffe. Duke's coach, is one of the finest gentlemen and coaches in the game. I am glad Miami won but no schadenfreude for Duke and Coach Cutcliffe here, only unendurable freude. Oh!What the fuck happened in the Miami-Duke game???
Temple has scored to tie Notre Dame 17-17 in the fourth quarter. Over 10 minutes left to play.
Okay, now ESPN has a Miami score as the last of the game. They describe it thusly:
ESPN, that doesn't tell like the story of how they scored. All the activity they list adds up to minus-four yards.
MIAMI :) Duke :(
My goodness, one week after losing 58-0 at home to Clemson and losing their coach as a result the "Hurricanes" won at 22nd ranked Duke 30-27. God bless the Miami kids. What an inspiring result. I cannot determine what happened that Miami won. ESPN has it as a final bur the last scoring play is given as a Duke touchdown to make it 26-24 Duke. Did Miami run the kickoff back for a TD? I don't know.
It's Football Time in Philadelphia!
And at half time it is ninth-ranked Notre Dame du Lac 14 and Temple du Ghetto 10. GO GHETTO OWLS!
We have basketball scores: OKLAHOMA STATE :) 70 Texas Tech 53; CLEMSON :) 56 North Carolina State 41.
"IOWA:), Iowa, Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall..." "Maryland, :( my Maryland...", you lost again.
FLORIDA :) "Jaw-ja, :( Jaw-ja, Jaw-ja on my mind..." but barely on the scoreboard.
Two weeks ago Georgia Tech :( lost to Pittsburgh on a last minute field goal; last week they beat Florida State on a last second blocked field goal, today Tech reverted to Wreck and lost to VIRGINIA, :) two wins-five losses before today.
PURDUE :) Nebraska :(
Purdue is one of the worst teams in the country, had a 1-6 record coming into this game and they laid
55 on the "Cornhuskers" today. Coach Mike Riley is a very nice man and had success at Oregon State, a very tough place to have any kind of success, before being hired to replace Bo Pelini at the end of last season. Pelini was an insulting, vulgar, temperamental man but he won, Pelini won at least nine games in each of his seven seasons at Nebraska and never lost more than four. Today was Reilly's sixth loss, with only three wins. Riley brought the pass-happy style of football he used at Oregon State to traditional run-oriented, defense-minded Nebraska. Today his quarterback passed for over 400 yards and four touchdowns and four interceptions also. It is a clash of styles reminiscent of Bill Callahan's disastrous time as head coach of Nebraska. The man who hired Riley is Athletic Director Shawn Eichorst who Nebraska hired away from the very un-Nebraska University of Miami in 2012. I don't know why Nebraska ever veered away from its cultural and football roots but they have done it twice in ten years.
I have read that Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich does not want to axe manager Jose Mourinho, partly because he just signed Mourinho to a new contract this past summer and would owe him the remainder on the contract. I thinks it's for $6 million per year. Five or six years, I'd guess. Understandable! But really? How about Mourinho resigning? He doesn't want to walk away from $6 mil per. Understandable, too. This is the "death embrace." I read today that the Chelsea fans were vociferously behind Mou today with signs and chants. Very surprised to read that. Twenty-eight percent of the season...that's not much. Time but no signs. No signs of a turn around. The death embrace continues.
WATFORD :) West Ham United :( West Ham is in third place! Tough, tough loss for the Hammerheads here at home to a club in 13th place. Bad loss.
LEICESTER CITY :) West Bromwich Albion :( The Foxes are in fifth place! Only one point behind ManU. Their club doctor as I recall was pictured only on the golf course. Go links.
Manchester United :| Crystal Palace :| Draw. At Old Trafford. Bad result for United. Second draw of the week for them, the first to Championship side Middlesbrough in the Cap1, and both 0-0. They slip to fourth, five points behind City. United are a very up-and-down club.
GOD'S RIGHTEOUS ANGELS IN BLUE :) Norwich :( City and Arsenal are level on points and City top the EPL table on a net four-goal advantage. My Arsenal friend predicted before the season that the title would come down to these two clubs.
ARSENAL :) Swansea :(
The Gunners murdered the Swans inSwales Wales.
LIVERPOOL :) Chelsea :(
Jurgen Klopp's first four matches as manager of LFC went 0-0, 1-1, 1-1, 1-0. Today he took his side to Stamford Bridge and thrashed the defending league champions 3-1.
There were rumors this week past that Jose Mourinho would be managing this match for his job. Twenty-eight percent of the season has now been played, Chelsea are in 15th place with six defeats and 11 points from 11 matches and were soundly beaten at home by a desultory Liverpool club. What more might Roman Abramovich require? For the survival of each cleave asunder man and club in this death embrace. Good God.
Thursday
Two scholarly tackle football games tonight involving ranked teams, 3-3 West Virginia at 7-0, fifth-ranked Texas Christian. Poor West Virginia, I feel so bad for them. These two schools are in the same conference now, they were, briefly in the same conference a few years ago. The Big East folded, a victim of conference realignment and WVU was left searching for a new home. It did not have quite the academic reputation, nor the political clout, to gain an invitation to join the Atlantic Coast Conference and the money wasn't enough for it to join the new American Athletic Conference so WVU scrambled and found a landing in the Texas-centric Big XII Conference. It was a hard landing. It's nearest conference rival is 870 miles away. The time demands placed on the West Virginia kids playing sports is outlandish, the travel expense for the university is extraordinary. There is not a natural rival. They might as well be playing in China. TCU landed on its feet in the Big XII where it's got three other universities just in Texas to play and two more in adjacent Oklahoma. So here it is, the not quite backyard brawl between Morgantown, West Virginia and Fort Worth, Texas. This should not be much of a game, TCU is far the better football team this year.
The other game tonight is 6-1 North Carolina at 6-1, #23, Pittsburgh, and this should be a good and close game. As just one idiot blogger I was surprised that North Carolina was not ranked when the Sunday polls came out. They have won six straight games and being ranked would have imbued this game with more luster. Then I was very surprised to see the betting line, North Carolina was favored from the beginning and is currently a three point pick, despite being unranked and playing a ranked opponent on the road.
How to explain this? Different folks, different strokes. The folks who make the polls are professional pencils. The folks who make the lines are professional bookies. Put your money where your mouths are, pencils. The same cognitive dissonance existed last week when #5 Utah went to unranked Southern California who had just fired their coach. USC was made a 7 point favorite! And they won by 20.
Finally, from 1,000 miles away I took it as given that this game would be sold out. There is so much excitement about Pitt football right now, this is a nationally televised game in the uncluttered Thursday night spotlight, I never gave a thought that this Event wouldn't energize the 'Burgh to fill up the Ketchup Bottle. The Ketchup Bottle is only going to be 3/4 filled, apparently.
The glass slipper has got to come off sometime, Pitt is not going to finish 11-1, might as well be tonight. No, it is not going to be tonight. Often wrong, always certain: Pittsburgh will win the football game.
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They're playing with William Pitt the Elder's signature in pink on their helmets.
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Cato, you fool, this is neither the time nor the place!
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NORTH CAROLINA :) Pittsburgh :(
TEXAS CHRISTIAN :) West Virginia :(
That concludes this special Thursday edition of Happy/Sad-urday. Until Saturday, arrivederci.
ESPNFC reports that Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich wants to make a decision on manager Jose Mourinho based on the Liverpool match Saturday taken in conjunction with the Dynamo Kiev and Stoke matches this week. If the decision is to fire Mourinho the new manager would have the international break to get acclimated in the job.
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9:46 AM - 1 Nov 2015
A classless response from a university that has long shamed college athletics by its behavior....
The Atlantic Coast Conference has determined that last night's kickoff return for touchdown by Miami should not have counted!, that the game officials made four errors in judging the play good, the ACC has suspended the officials for two games but will not overturn the result.
The loss is impactful for Duke, it diminishes Duke's chances of playing for the conference championship.
This is a terrible debacle for Duke, the officials are only human and made mistakes that human beings make; it was a confusing 48-second play with players running all over the place, difficult to follow, yes, yes, all of that, it is a terrible debacle for Duke.
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And that is all she wrote for this Happy/Sad-urday. Have a fun and safe Halloween night, everybody. October is his-tor-y and it was a banner month for readership at Public Occurrences, 4,017 pageviews, the highest total since March, 129/day. Thanks.
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IOWA STATE :) Texas :(
24-0! INexplicable.
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The Notre Dame player threw a pass on the final play, probably preceded by a bunch of running around to kill time and then just heaved it down the field or out of bounds. A superb game for both teams. No losers here. Inspired effort by Temple.
GAME OVER: Notre Dame wins 24-20. Don't know what ND did on that final play but they didn't pull a Michigan or Florida State.
4th and one at the ND 44, FIVE SECONDS LEFT. DO NOT PUNT!!
4th and 1 ND at near midfield. DON'T PUNT IRISH! Temple needs a TD.
3rd and 4 ND, 46 seconds left.
Interception ND at their own 36. 2nd and 9.
4th down Temple at their own 47 yard line. 2 yards to gain, 1:40 left to play!
Temple leads 20-17!! Notre Dame has the ball on the Temple...Oh no! ND just scored a touchdown. They lead 24-20 with 2:09 left. Time for Temple but they need a touchdown, a 3-point field goal won't do it.
That's what it was. ESPN's headline:
"8-lateral play gives Miami a 30-27 win over No. 22 Duke"
And the first paragraph on their game summary:
DURHAM, N.C. -- Corn Elder took Miami's eighth lateral of a wild final kickoff return and brought it back 75 yards for a touchdown that gave Miami a 30-27 victory over No. 22 Duke on Saturday night.
Oh! Poor Duke, poor good man, good coach David Cutcliffe.
Holy SHIT! This now is ESPN's summary of Miami's winning touchdown:
(0:00 - 4th) Ross Martin kickoff for 39 yds , Dallas Crawford return for a loss of 5 yards , Corn Elder return for 1 yd , Jaquan Johnson return for a loss of 7 yards , Mark Walton return for 7 yds , Jaquan Johnson return for a loss of 4 yards , Tyre Brady return for a loss of 8 yards , Corn Elder return for a loss of 7 yards , Dallas Crawford return for 6 yds , Corn Elder return for 91 yds for a TD.
It looks like Miami played hot potato with the ball on the kick off. They kept lateraling it from player
to player--losing 30 yards in the process, too!-- but then got the ball into the hands of Corn Elder who
ran it 91 yards for the TD!!!' ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME??!!!! Look at the game clock. The play began with zero seconds left?!!
If that is the truth and the whole truth, OH! THE HUMANITY FOR DUKE!!! Oh my GOD! David Cutcliffe. Duke's coach, is one of the finest gentlemen and coaches in the game. I am glad Miami won but no schadenfreude for Duke and Coach Cutcliffe here, only unendurable freude. Oh!What the fuck happened in the Miami-Duke game???
Temple has scored to tie Notre Dame 17-17 in the fourth quarter. Over 10 minutes left to play.
Okay, now ESPN has a Miami score as the last of the game. They describe it thusly:
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0:00
R. Martin kick for 39 yds,D. Crawford return for -5 yds,C. Elder return for 1 yd,J. Johnson return for -7 yds,M. Walton return for 7 yds,J. Johnson re
| 30 | 27 |
MIAMI :) Duke :(
My goodness, one week after losing 58-0 at home to Clemson and losing their coach as a result the "Hurricanes" won at 22nd ranked Duke 30-27. God bless the Miami kids. What an inspiring result. I cannot determine what happened that Miami won. ESPN has it as a final bur the last scoring play is given as a Duke touchdown to make it 26-24 Duke. Did Miami run the kickoff back for a TD? I don't know.
It's Football Time in Philadelphia!
And at half time it is ninth-ranked Notre Dame du Lac 14 and Temple du Ghetto 10. GO GHETTO OWLS!
We have basketball scores: OKLAHOMA STATE :) 70 Texas Tech 53; CLEMSON :) 56 North Carolina State 41.
"IOWA:), Iowa, Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall..." "Maryland, :( my Maryland...", you lost again.
FLORIDA :) "Jaw-ja, :( Jaw-ja, Jaw-ja on my mind..." but barely on the scoreboard.
Two weeks ago Georgia Tech :( lost to Pittsburgh on a last minute field goal; last week they beat Florida State on a last second blocked field goal, today Tech reverted to Wreck and lost to VIRGINIA, :) two wins-five losses before today.
PURDUE :) Nebraska :(
Purdue is one of the worst teams in the country, had a 1-6 record coming into this game and they laid
55 on the "Cornhuskers" today. Coach Mike Riley is a very nice man and had success at Oregon State, a very tough place to have any kind of success, before being hired to replace Bo Pelini at the end of last season. Pelini was an insulting, vulgar, temperamental man but he won, Pelini won at least nine games in each of his seven seasons at Nebraska and never lost more than four. Today was Reilly's sixth loss, with only three wins. Riley brought the pass-happy style of football he used at Oregon State to traditional run-oriented, defense-minded Nebraska. Today his quarterback passed for over 400 yards and four touchdowns and four interceptions also. It is a clash of styles reminiscent of Bill Callahan's disastrous time as head coach of Nebraska. The man who hired Riley is Athletic Director Shawn Eichorst who Nebraska hired away from the very un-Nebraska University of Miami in 2012. I don't know why Nebraska ever veered away from its cultural and football roots but they have done it twice in ten years.
I have read that Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich does not want to axe manager Jose Mourinho, partly because he just signed Mourinho to a new contract this past summer and would owe him the remainder on the contract. I thinks it's for $6 million per year. Five or six years, I'd guess. Understandable! But really? How about Mourinho resigning? He doesn't want to walk away from $6 mil per. Understandable, too. This is the "death embrace." I read today that the Chelsea fans were vociferously behind Mou today with signs and chants. Very surprised to read that. Twenty-eight percent of the season...that's not much. Time but no signs. No signs of a turn around. The death embrace continues.
WATFORD :) West Ham United :( West Ham is in third place! Tough, tough loss for the Hammerheads here at home to a club in 13th place. Bad loss.
LEICESTER CITY :) West Bromwich Albion :( The Foxes are in fifth place! Only one point behind ManU. Their club doctor as I recall was pictured only on the golf course. Go links.
Manchester United :| Crystal Palace :| Draw. At Old Trafford. Bad result for United. Second draw of the week for them, the first to Championship side Middlesbrough in the Cap1, and both 0-0. They slip to fourth, five points behind City. United are a very up-and-down club.
GOD'S RIGHTEOUS ANGELS IN BLUE :) Norwich :( City and Arsenal are level on points and City top the EPL table on a net four-goal advantage. My Arsenal friend predicted before the season that the title would come down to these two clubs.
ARSENAL :) Swansea :(
The Gunners murdered the Swans in
LIVERPOOL :) Chelsea :(
Jurgen Klopp's first four matches as manager of LFC went 0-0, 1-1, 1-1, 1-0. Today he took his side to Stamford Bridge and thrashed the defending league champions 3-1.
There were rumors this week past that Jose Mourinho would be managing this match for his job. Twenty-eight percent of the season has now been played, Chelsea are in 15th place with six defeats and 11 points from 11 matches and were soundly beaten at home by a desultory Liverpool club. What more might Roman Abramovich require? For the survival of each cleave asunder man and club in this death embrace. Good God.
Thursday
Two scholarly tackle football games tonight involving ranked teams, 3-3 West Virginia at 7-0, fifth-ranked Texas Christian. Poor West Virginia, I feel so bad for them. These two schools are in the same conference now, they were, briefly in the same conference a few years ago. The Big East folded, a victim of conference realignment and WVU was left searching for a new home. It did not have quite the academic reputation, nor the political clout, to gain an invitation to join the Atlantic Coast Conference and the money wasn't enough for it to join the new American Athletic Conference so WVU scrambled and found a landing in the Texas-centric Big XII Conference. It was a hard landing. It's nearest conference rival is 870 miles away. The time demands placed on the West Virginia kids playing sports is outlandish, the travel expense for the university is extraordinary. There is not a natural rival. They might as well be playing in China. TCU landed on its feet in the Big XII where it's got three other universities just in Texas to play and two more in adjacent Oklahoma. So here it is, the not quite backyard brawl between Morgantown, West Virginia and Fort Worth, Texas. This should not be much of a game, TCU is far the better football team this year.
The other game tonight is 6-1 North Carolina at 6-1, #23, Pittsburgh, and this should be a good and close game. As just one idiot blogger I was surprised that North Carolina was not ranked when the Sunday polls came out. They have won six straight games and being ranked would have imbued this game with more luster. Then I was very surprised to see the betting line, North Carolina was favored from the beginning and is currently a three point pick, despite being unranked and playing a ranked opponent on the road.
How to explain this? Different folks, different strokes. The folks who make the polls are professional pencils. The folks who make the lines are professional bookies. Put your money where your mouths are, pencils. The same cognitive dissonance existed last week when #5 Utah went to unranked Southern California who had just fired their coach. USC was made a 7 point favorite! And they won by 20.
Finally, from 1,000 miles away I took it as given that this game would be sold out. There is so much excitement about Pitt football right now, this is a nationally televised game in the uncluttered Thursday night spotlight, I never gave a thought that this Event wouldn't energize the 'Burgh to fill up the Ketchup Bottle. The Ketchup Bottle is only going to be 3/4 filled, apparently.
The glass slipper has got to come off sometime, Pitt is not going to finish 11-1, might as well be tonight. No, it is not going to be tonight. Often wrong, always certain: Pittsburgh will win the football game.
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They're playing with William Pitt the Elder's signature in pink on their helmets.
They're the Pink Panthers tonight. I love the Pink Panther.
Pitt, that's not it.
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Pitt, I wish to have speaks with you....
Cato, you fool, this is neither the time nor the place!
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NORTH CAROLINA :) Pittsburgh :(
TEXAS CHRISTIAN :) West Virginia :(
That concludes this special Thursday edition of Happy/Sad-urday. Until Saturday, arrivederci.