This is my rifle. There are many like it, but this one is mine. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. Without me my rifle is useless. Without my rifle, I am useless. I must fire my rifle true. I must shoot straighter than the enemy who is trying to kill me. I must shoot him before he shoots me. I will. My rifle and I know that what counts in war is not the rounds we fire, the noise of our burst, or the smoke we make. We know that it is the hits that count. We will hit. My rifle is human, even as I am human, because it is my life. Thus, I will learn it as a brother. I will learn its weaknesses, its strengths, its parts, its accessories, its sights and its barrel. I will keep my rifle clean and ready, even as I am clean and ready. We will become part of each other. Before God I swear this creed. My rifle and I are the defenders of my country. We are the masters of our enemy. We are the saviors of my life. So be it, until victory is America's and there is no enemy. - Marine Corps Rifleman's Creed.
Judge Cofield was arrested and charged with a DUI after she ran her BMW into a state trooper’s vehicle. A recent video was released showing Judge Cofield referring to the arresting officer as “Negro Washington.” She then asked the officer “if a Negro was sent to arrest a Negro.”
Blalock drove to the Seventh District Police Station on Alabama Avenue S.E. in May 2007. He pulled a handgun from the trunk and started firing, shooting in the air outside the station. Five shots. He shouted, according to court records, “The police should leave us alone and let us sell our weed!”
Blalock complied with demands to drop his gun—and he did not stop there. He dropped his pants, standing naked before officers wrapped him up in a towel. Police seized 23 bags of marijuana. Blalock told police he wanted to “throw weed” and shoot the gun to get recognition from a record label.
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ESPN has devised a system to determine the most prestigious college-football programs of all time. The ESPN system begins with the 1936 season and awards points for national titles, major bowls, Heisman winners, bowl wins, conference records, and top-5 finishes in the AP poll. The system also penalizes teams for postseason bans, probation, and television bans.
USC has confirmed it has hired former quarterbacks coach for the Denver Broncos Jeremy Bates. Bates will be the quarterbacks coach and assistant head coach/offense for the Trojans.
Coach Pete Carroll, says Bates is one of the brightest minds in the NFL, and
There’s no doubt he’s going to be a big-time head coach. Denver had a fantastic year in offense last year. (Former Broncos coach) Mike Shanahan said Jeremy was instrumental in developing (Broncos quarterback) Jay Cutler.
In his first year with the Broncos during the 2006 season, Bates was an offensive assistant and worked with Offensive Coordinator Rick Dennison in coaching the offensive line. The Broncos were one of only three teams in the NFL to have two running backs post at least 670 rushing yards with Tatum Bell (1,025 yds.) and undrafted rookie Mike Bell (677 yds.) both enjoying productive seasons.
As quarterbacks coach for the Jets in 2005, Bates instructed a unit that was forced to use five different passers because of injuries. Despite the adversity, New York’s quarterbacks helped the club improve toward the end of the year with first year starter Brooks Bollinger posting an 87.7 passer rating and leading the team to a 2-2 record in its final four games.
Bates, 32, was promoted to assistant quarterbacks coach for the Buccaneers in 2004 and worked closely with Head Coach Jon Gruden and Quarterbacks Coach John Shoop in the instruction and preparation of the team’s passers. In that capacity, Bates helped Brian Griese lead the NFL in completion percentage (69.3) in 2004 and set Buccaneers single-season records in that category along with passer rating (97.5) and yards per passing attempt (7.83).
Bates began his coaching career with Tampa Bay as an offensive quality control coach from 2002-03. Tampa Bay’s offense in 2003 was arguably the most productive in franchise history as Bates assisted a unit that set single-season records in total offense (340.8 ypg.) and passing offense (237.8 ypg.). In addition, the club ranked among the league’s top 10 in both categories in the same year for just the second time in Buccaneers annals.
In his first season in the NFL’s coaching ranks, Bates worked with a Buccaneers offense in 2002 that was pivotal in the franchise winning its first-ever World Championship with a victory over the Oakland Raiders in Super Bowl XXXVII. Tampa Bay’s offense was particularly dominant in the postseason, averaging 35.3 points and 334.0 yards per game in three playoff contests that year.
Bates, who attended Sevier County High School in Sevierville, Tenn., began his collegiate playing career as a quarterback at the University of Tennessee in 1995. He transferred to Rice University, where he was a two-year letterman in football from 1996-99 and was a second baseman on the school’s baseball team.
Bates’ father, Jim, is a veteran NFL defensive coordinator who was the Broncos’ assistant head coach/defense in 2007. His brother, James, was a linebacker and defensive captain on the University of Florida’s 1996 national championship team and does television play-by-play for the Mountain West Sports Network.
I attended the 2005 Rose Bowl Game. To this day I can not look at a replay of Vince Young running in the game-winning touchdown. The 2005 Trojans were a great team, but they just could not stop Vince Young.
Sooner fans suffered the same fate in the 2009 BCS Game. There was no stopping Tim Tebow. Sam Bradford, and the rest of the Oklahoma team, played a great game. The did not lose the game, they were just beat by one of the best college players to ever play.
Don’t fall into all the Chokelahoma and fire Stoops talk. There is not a better coach in the country you could hire, even if you made the mistake of firing him. Coach Stoops is a great coach, one of the top 5 in the game. You just went up against Superman.
Yes, this is a prediction actually raised by a global warming alarmist in the WaPo
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Admittedly, it’d take a lot of tension for this to turn into a military conflict, but anyone convinced that the United States and Canada could never come to blows has forgotten the War of 1812. And not all this sort of resource conflict will occur between friendly countries.
And you thought those Canadians were mad when we took their hockey teams. yojoe out
According to the great Wired blog Epicenter, Microsoft will offer a beta version of Windows 7 to the first 2.5 million people to visit the Windows 7 page.
threw for two early touchdown passes to lead his White Team to a 27-16 victory over the Black Team on Sunday night.
“It really felt good out there,” he said. “It was a fun game with a lot of great players.”
Barkley, from Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana, Calif., hit Marlon Brown of Memphis for a 71-yard score on the game’s first possession, then followed with a 35-yard TD pass to Jamal Reid.
No matter the score, this was a great game. Two storied programs, both in the top ten college football programs of all time. Two great coaches. JoPa is JoPa, and Coach Pete Carroll is on his way to be one of the best ever. There was nothing but class displayed by both teams.
The final score was 38-24, with USC on top. But, if there was a program and a coach to lose to it would be Penn State and JoPa.
Taylor Mays was one of many Trojans having a huge day on defense.
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2008 was the year of Judge Elizabeth Halverson. First Judge Halverson was removed from the bench for misconduct, then she was attacked by her husband, Her husband pleaded guilty to domestic battery and she lost her reelection bid.
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