Unconfirmed reports have suggested that due to the ever increasing energy prices, and the current political trends by business' to BE GREEN, Fox Sports has been struggling to discover new ways to improve on it's green record while saving significant bucks on energy costs.
An imaginative young system administrator at Fox has come up with a way to combine the traffic generated by hyper-addicted sports fanatics into a heating and cooling money savings bonanza.
By hooking a USB driven fan to the mainframes, this young admin has been able to reduce the amount of energy used to heat and cool the control rooms. To further reduce the need for external heating and cooling this fan has been set to increment much as a page counter. With each visit to a Fox Sports web site, the USB fan engages thus reducing the over-all consumption of or reliance on external heating and cooling. The results have been a significant savings to Fox Sports.
It seems there is currently a delay from the time the page "hit" is registered and the fans engage, thus allowing the system to heat up. The result of these delays are the classic whoops! pages we have all been seeing. It is rumored that as versions 2 and 3 of the software are written, the Whoops! notifications will be seen less and less.
I spent several minutes this evening thinking up my questions to ask the Bulls Head Coach, Turner Gill. I had to keep in mind that he is in a position that would preclude him from answering a majority of questions so I tried to make them "safe"
If you had the opportunity to interview Turner Gill, no holds barred, what questions would you ask?
We have all seen the fantastic reruns of the big D the Blackshirts used to be. A new short displays the type of effort displayed by the new bend and break d of Callahan an Cosgrove...
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Watch it again, now think of what you saw this year... what is the real difference?
I'm stuck here in bed rest most of this week ( My first post op visit is Thursday), and even though I am half baked on meds, I am bored out of my skull. As such, I am looking for a topic. I do love my Huskers as most of you already know, but I guess blogging is more than a play by play run down of the worst coached team in history. I can only write of my desire to see that coach strung up so many times.
Since this blogging thing is supposed to improve my writing skills, and I am currently surrounded by many bright, creative and intelligent people here at Fox Sports, I thought why not enlist the help of the community in grooming my skills?
I am thinking I would like to try to do a bio.
Any suggestions on a person, or team, or whatever would be great. As I said, I would really like your impressions of my writing, and your suggestions to make it better or more (I don't know) entertaining? commercial? intelligible? What ever you feel would make it better.
No matter if you are born here in Nebraska, or move here, at some point something inside you makes you proud to say, I am a Nebraskan and the Huskers are MY team. I say MY team in the possessive, because that is how WE Nebraskans feel about OUR Huskers. Every last one of us, even if we move away and root for a local team, or go to a different school and root for our school, no matter where we go, or what situation, when we look inside the answer that comes out is, the Huskers are MY team, just as Nebraska is MY home.
Through and with OUR players, of any sport really but in particular OUR football team, Nebraskans and players have developed a sort of symbiotic relationship. Nebraska's pride motivates and invigorates us, and WE inherently expect to see that reflected on the field of play by OUR team. Over time this symbiotic relationship became the foundation for OUR traditions. In honoring OUR tradition, by doing their best on the field of play, OUR teams can be proud of themselves, even through the disappointment of the accessional but rare defeat. By motivated play and invigorating performances, Nebraskans recognize that OUR teams have done their very best, and no matter the outcome, can take pride in OUR teams accomplishments.
This relationship is not an easy one to live with. Obviously it will not always be amicable as our expectations are high for ourselves and our team. But this relationship, this tradition, has given Nebraska and Nebraska's players the confidence to say, no matter how stacked the odds against us, we can win! Together we have created an environment that expects and achieves excellence, and together we will get better day by day, until we can't be beat - we won't be beat!
To our Coaching staff. Coach Bill Jennings had many fine qualities as a man and a coach. He was an excellent recruiter, with excellent players, but he could not find a way to win. Unable to find the winning formula Coach Jennings resigned after the 1961 season. It was an act of honor and gallantry that benefited the team when he resigned. While few remember him as being a winning coach, many respect him for his selfless act that lead to the beginning of the longest winning streak in modern history. Coach Jennings may not have found the way to win, but he did not allow his teams or Nebraska to be embarrassed. Since Coach Jennings resigned we have seen three generations of Nebraskans enjoy success. Since your arrival, we have seen the end of every record that matters, and the worse loss in the 117 year history of this team. Please take the high road and resign for the benefit of our team.
To Nebraskans. Nebraska has lost something far more important than a football game. We have allowed the stewards we put in place to protect our traditions fail. The cause of the failure, be it egotism, ignorance, or incompetence, must be corrected. Nebraskans have a duty to protect and preserve the traditions that have made us great. Namely, to provide our players with the best, so that they can be the best. We have already begun the process of cleaning up this mess by replacing Mr. Steve Pederson with Dr. Tom Osborne. We need to make sure that we do not stop there. It is abundantly clear that the current coaching staff is incapable of providing the instruction and leadership our players need to be successful. If this staff should selfishly refuse to do the honorable thing and resign at the end of this season, we are left no viable option but to dismiss them at whatever cost.
To the players and recruits, it is a distinct honor and privilege to be asked, and to play for Nebraska. Nebraska has a tradition of giving it's players the best in order to become the best. Do not expect that tradition to change. Do not worry about the score nearly so much as the effort you put in to achieving it. Consider the honor that has been bestowed upon you to play for Nebraska, and expect and accept only the best from yourself and your teams. By achieving this goal, by expecting and accepting only the best from yourself and your team, you will always be a winner, and more often than not, the score will reflect that.
To our competitors. We thank you for your words of encouragement and support during our programs darkest hours. We congratulate you for the victories you have won these past four seasons. We look forward to meeting you in our future confrontations on the field of play, and we hope you will not begrudge us when we win.
Except for four years she spent recouping from injury, Hingis has been a staple of the tennis circuit. She has spent all of her early teen to adult life under the scrutiny of the press, the tennis officials, and her fans. During that time she has entertained the fans of tennis while winning countless events along the way. Now in the waning years of her career, as she prepares to exit the sport, someone at a lab discovers cocaine in her system.
To prove her innocence she submitted hair samples for examination that can trace her use of any drug over a far longer time span than a single urine sample, and was found to be clean. With these results, she now has to realistically look at her situation. If she fights the lab for making a wrong report, she faces years of headache and stress, and would more than likely be retired due to her physical inability to stay competitive, before any ruling is made. What if anything is to be gained by attempting to play distracted, when she knows in her heart she is no longer at the top of her game, and she hasn't been for some time.
I applaud her decision, as hard as it may have been for her, to retire now. I'm sure she has no desire to be questioned at every match, win or lose, if drugs had anything to do with the out come. In being honest with herself she recognizes her declining physical skills, and realizes she has far fewer chances at ever claiming another major, let alone winning with her mind not into the game.
Hingis has had a long run. Fans have literally watched her grow up from being a somewhat gawky teenager into a fine young woman in her late twenties. Along the way she has delighted her fans and inspired countless other young women to join and excel in the sport.
I hope she fights the claims of the lab and clears her name, but it really was time to retire to coaching, or maybe some private time that she hasn't experienced since before she was a teen on a podium.
At Foxsports.com you have limited options when it comes to adding media to
your presentations. You can embed code for video or images, however any image
that requires a rollover effect using JavaScript or CSS appears to fail as the
code is stripped when the blog is posted.
For example: You can place an image hosted at an off site into your blog.
Using code like this:
<a href="this makes a link to an out side page or object in a new window thanks to the target being _blank"
target="_blank"><img border="0" src="This should be the actual web address of your image"
width="240" height="180" alt="Your text description of your image."></a>
Your image can be a static .jpg type like the one above, or an animated .gif
such as the one below.
Or you can embed a video from an outside source such as this video of an old
classic Stanford game:
Find and watch the video you want to use. When it is done copy the code to embed it into your page. Right click the text in the embed section, copy, then toggle the html view of your page, and past it right into your page. Your page
may
not show it until it posts (mine did) however I think a place holder the size of it will appear when you
switch back to wysiwyg mode.
Your code looks like this...
<object width="425" height="355">
<param name="movie" value="The address of your movie.mov"></param>
<param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param>
<embed src="the address of your movie.mov"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355">
</embed>
</object>
Go back to WYSIWYG by clicking the toggle HTML again, your video should be in your blog.
Finish what your doing, save it, post it as usual.
One thing I have found to be frustrating is the inability to use
benign code to insert CSS rollovers
For example:
Using CSS you can make a rollover just like you did in the day
using JavaScript. I understand why JavaScript is disabled what with it's ability
to be abused. Another consideration is JavaScript also required 2 images, and preloading
images making it a real pain.
This is why I attempted to use CSS instead of JavaScript to put in my image, no
preloading of images required, and CSS is essentially harmless to your computer.
code for CSS rollover is really easy if you don't know how,
here...
The CSS code above would show the left side of the image to begin, then the right
side when you moused over it, and back again when you moused out. Unfortunately
FoxSports.com blog site strips the CSS code, so the effect will not work.
The necessary alternative is messy but our only resort. Use two
images, the first will link to the second so it will open in a new window. The
code for how to do that is shown in the first example above. Click on the Dallas
Cheerleader to find out what your hot date from closing time at the bar looked
like in the morning.
Want to embed windows media player...
You must use the class ID (CLSID) for the media player you
intend to use. This is for windows media player only.
I'm sure there are many other things you could use, but these
are the easy ones. I am fairly new here too, perhaps one of the old timers knows
of a better way to go.
Nebraska Head Football Coach Bill Callahan has finally done it. There is no more reason for speculation, he has proven beyond all doubt, in my mind, that he is the worst coach in Husker history, if not the worst coach in sports period.
Saturday, October 27, 2007, Bill Callahan blames his players for a loss that was clearly not the sole fault of his players.
By now everyone knows that Nebraska has been suffering the worst football season since 1961, and that Big Red fans, better known as the Husker Nation, have been screaming at the top of their collective lungs for Bill Callahan's removal from the team.
I firmly believe that politics and money will keep Bill Callahan safe to the end the season. The honorable thing for Callahan to do at that point in the minds of most Huskers fans, based on his obvious lack of performance on the field, and his continued embarrassment of his players and the state, would be to resign. Unfortunately, Bill Callahan somehow managed to push through an unprecedented contract extension at the beginning of this season for a record sum of money, with an athletic director that has already been fired, and he has made it clear he has no intention of walking away from that money gracefully.
Callahan's comments to the press have been glaring examples of self promotion, or as I see it, passing the buck. Callahan has absolutely no intention of walking away from that money, and considering his poor abilities as a head coach at the college level, and his burnt bridges to the professional leagues, this may indeed be his last stand. By holding out for every dime he can get, he will make enough money to support his future. We are, after all, talking about millions of dollars here.
I believe our players, our University, our State, and our fans deserve a reasonable return on our investment in Bill Callahan. I believe that Bill Callahan has not delivered the goods we have been promised. I further believe that Bill Callahan has damaged the reputation of our players, our University, our State, and our fans, with his lack of production and his public comments. I also believe that Bill Callahan would resign if he had even an inkling of class, but I just don't see this happening.
When this season comes to an end, the Husker Nation will need sufficient ammunition to ensure that Bill Callahan is not here next season. This may not be as easy as it would at first seem. There are many facets to being a college football coach. Recruiting, graduation rates, program preparation, game day preparation, and a bevy of other less chronicled duties that go with the job. In other words, wins and losses, a major concern for any teams fans, are only one measurement of a coaches effectiveness. As such it is important that the Husker Nation bring to the negotiation table specific information that addresses the short comings of Bill Callahan's performance.
This information should relate to his coaching duties and his responsibilities as a representative of the University and the State of Nebraska. What the Husker Nation really needs are documented examples that establish and prove Husker Nation's position that Bill Callahan should not be allowed to retain his position as head coach at the University of Nebraska beyond the end of this season. By collecting this information into a single overwhelming body of evidence, then presenting this evidence to those who are in the position to effect change, the Husker Nation can rest assured that none of the information is overlooked in the decision making process.
Who knows, maybe my views are entirely biased and Callahan deserves to continue his reign as our worst coach in the new millennium thus solidifying his place in history with an exclamation mark, and by association ours (If he hasn't already) as the worst team in modern history. With that I leave it to you, the Husker faithful, to propagate the comments of this blog with the reasons you believe Bill Callahan's option should or should not be renewed next season.
Parity is the hot buzz word of late. Greatness is a perceived advantage, not an actuality. With parity in college football, the once great houses are no longer that, any team can be great. If parity has indeed infiltrated the land, why do we grade our recruiting classes? Isn't the fodder recruited all the same due to parity? How is it we still have preseason polls? If all teams are equal due to parity they should be listed in alphabetical order - Preseason poll finished. Why do wins against one school or another apparently account for more or less in the polls? They all have the same chance to win due to parity; as such ranking anything other than wins and loses is open to personal bias and speculation. There are no great upset wins or loses. There are no David's or Goliath's. Vegas odds for every game are simple (1-1) - right?
The consistency of potential to achieve is not equal to the reality of accomplishment on the playing field. The intangibles, so often debated by the likes of Madden and other seeming overachievers, have far greater consequence than parity can account for. The hearts of men are not equal. The desire to win, the motivation of individuals, the dynamics of team sport, all carry intangible qualities that can take parity players from perceived equality to greatness or see them drown in shallow water. Parity ends with the statement all players are human. It is in the desire to achieve that we recognize our potential greatness. It is from inside we bring forth the spark that propels us to victory. It is in the heart of men that we find our leaders and winners.
There is no such thing as parity in sport, as all men are not equal.
I am on day 3 post op, and for the most part I am recovering "normally". My pain levels have been just that, level. They have not gone down at all.
I wanted to take a moment to discuss a drug used just prior to my being taken into the surgical unit. Versed is a drug that is given to people to relax them or make them forget. This medication has taking a strong foothold in the health care industry and is being used in procedures as wide as dental to surgical. I imagine there are quite a few people in the world who can honestly say, "Dude I don't WANT to know everything that happened during my last colonoscopy!" However, I can see where having no memory of a procedure may be exactly what the doctor ordered. In a world of litigation what better way to protect your interests than to deliberately rob your patient of his or her ability to remember the procedure?
Furthermore, how can a patient with no memory and as it turns out, little or no ability to resist direction, be in control of their health care? I told my nurse, that I didn't really want it. She said it would be a good idea and gave it to me anyways before I could object. I felt a bit upset that she flatly ignored my wishes, then I felt the wave hit me, and knew from that moment on I would not remember anything, and I don't. I remember being asked questions about my care up until that wave. From that point on, I was a mindless puppet. I have no memory of any event until much later in the evening, several hours after my surgery was complete. If the point of this medication was to relax me, I have no idea how well it worked as it was given in such a high dose as to obliterate nearly 12 hours of memory. I have vague memories of being in my room during the evening, along with lost time, as though I was trying to come out of it and only sporadic moments registered. This was the case until around 9PM.
I remember my wife telling me that I had complications, and that the nurse wouldn't, or couldn't tell her what those complications where, and that my surgery lasted nearly twice as long as predicted. I think the only reason I remember this early conversation with my wife, was that I felt very bad for her. I imagine the stress would have been hard for her to deal with, and it seems that the answer she received about the "complication" did little to ease her mind. In other words, my care of her feelings stand out. I cannot recall the conversation, I can remember the main point. I think I picked up on her voice and the worry conveyed in her tone. Her concern for me, and mine in turn for her where strong enough to cut through the lingering effects of the drug, thus allowing me to form a sketchy memory. I have sporadic memory of telling someone who was trying to wake me up to leave me alone. This doesn't surprise me a bit. I would tell a drill sergeant to take a hike if he woke me from a deep restful sleep. In fact, I have! I can recall walking earlier in the afternoon, and being given soup, when what I really wanted was a nice thick hot juicy rib eye. I remember putting on a nicotine patch to quell my desire to smoke, I just don't remember when I did it.
What I don't recall is spending an entire afternoon with my wife and kids there. I don't recall answering questions about how I felt, and or what I wanted. Did I watch TV? Did I rob a bank? Did I make any life altering choices? I have absolutely no clue, and if you came up to me and told me I did do those things, I would call you a liar first off, then I would have to admit, I really don't know what I did.
This frightens me. I consider myself to be at least average in intelligence, and fairly stable in personality, but what happens to people who have hidden personality disorders, or who lack the critical thinking skills necessary to make reasonable choices about their care? The liability as I see it, is entirely upon the staff and hospital to protect people influenced by mind altering chemicals from themselves. The problem is, how do the care givers know when the medications have actually worn off? What happens if a patient becomes combative as a result of this disorientation? I can see this as a very real possibility. Also, who will protect the patient from predatory staff members in the hospital setting. As I said earlier, the drug makes you extremely vulnerable to persuasion. A situation many young women have come to regret as the street use of these drugs are commonly used in date rape scenarios.
I think it may be in the best interests of the health care professionals to stop doping their patients for every little thing. The patients may become violent and with no personal restraints to hold them back, dangerous to your health! Furthermore, I have seen no policy or assurance from providers to protect patients who have been doped.
I want to make one thing perfectly clear, so there can be no doubt or confusion of my intent. The staff on the floor was OUTSTANDING! They seemed to anticipate my needs and had everything ready. They had fantastic personalities and I thoroughly enjoyed my interaction with them. I can only hope I did not act the #### while under the influence of these medications, as I knew the majority of the staff personally, and under normal circumstances I would treat them with nothing but respect. At the time of my discharge the floor was very busy, and while there where concerns that I did not get discharged in 24 hours, the staff handled these issues with the insurance company, and even under fire, acted as a friend to me and my family. I thank them very much for their professionalism and fine care. Don't worry ladies, if your reading this I didn't forget, 5lbs of gourmet fudge is on the way just as soon as I can get back to my kitchen.
I am out of surgery and I have walked the floor with less pain AFTER surgery, than I had going in. Granted part of the reason may be that I am on a PCA pump loaded with morphine, but the abnormal gait is gone and it feels fantastic to walk without help.
I popped in for just a second. I'm tired and doped. I will update more when my body gets the rest it needs. Thanks to all of you that showed your support.
I have been NPO now for about 3 hours. My alarm will go off in about 2 hours, and then I will get myself ready to go. I check in at 06:30 for my surgery. You know, I have such high hopes of success; you would think I would be over the top with nerves. I probably would be except my doctor prescribed me the Pill.
You know I have been fired up about the Huskers. Callahan acting the fool, Pederson's ego-ectomy, the sound bites proclaiming the return of Dr. Tom, the general up rise of nearly every man woman and child over the age of 4, and you would think with me going under the knife in just a few hours I would be more worried about that than my Huskers.
The truth is I am hoping I will be so much better after this surgery that I will be able to go back to being the physical hard hitting kind of guy most people don’t take me for. You see, I have had these terrible reoccurring nightmares that I really don’t mind, of Dollar Bill bumping into me in a bar, and for whatever reason, he gets into it with me, and I release the last 4 years of frustration on him. Oh I know, I know, I could never do that, but in my dream anything goes. I punctuate each phrase with a nice steady combination:
Praise the Lord and pass the can!
For opening your mouth and making denigrating comments about Oklahoma.
POW!
For cracking that pie holed face and making crude comments about another teams quarterback in the press.
BIFF!
For draining the will to win from the young men you are supposed to coaching to win
BAM!
For running your mouth and ruining the reputation of the fans of this great school.
WAP!
For destroying the walk-on system at the University!
CRACK!
For destroying the longest winning season streak in the history of college football!
ZAP!
For ruining our teams record of most consecutive post-season bowl appearances!
CHUNK!
For denigrating the traditions that players and fans have held since long before you were deposited!
KAPOW!
For boldly lying to the players, alums, and fans, of UNL on how you would make this team better than it had ever been before!
ZAP BOOM!
And lastly for making my dear wife’s grandmother cry when she saw what you had really done this season.
KNOCKOUT!
Okay, I embellished the last one, but it was a LOTR moment. :o)
After reviewing this post, I'm going to have to remember to ask the Doc for some more of them pills...
I offer my sincere condolences to the Litteken family, Adam’s friends and the Cottleville community. I can only hope that they can come together and heal from this senseless tragedy.
At times like these I find myself with a lack of words to properly describe the feelings of empathy and sadness that fill me, the depth of those feelings, as painful as they are for me, must be overwhelming to Adam’s parents and close friends, and make my words seem shallow and diminutive to my own ears.
With this said, I hope that the Litteken family will excuse the remainder of this blog, and know that all persons of good spirit support them now in their time of tragedy.
I am appalled and ashamed by the reprehensible comments posted by members of our very own FoxSports community.
DetroitRed, “a message to all the racists who cant wait to delve off topic when its a black guy...sorry he wasn't black”
racefanwfo, “hockey s.u.c.k.s. who cares if the little #### died”
I found these examples on the first 7 pages, along with other posts by our community calling for the death of these posters, while the rest offered support for the Litteken family.
While the three posts I copied from above are bad enough, we have others calling for their death, and discussing racism, and spouting words of hate and disrespect for humanity. As the Litteken family was actually there reading these horrid comments, along with Adam’s classmates, and friends, I decided not to post my comments about our FoxSports community members on the actual story above.
I would expect that an overwhelming majority of our posters, had a true wish to offer words of encouragement and support to those affected by this tragedy, however many of them tainted their posts with comments of hate for posters such as the three I quoted above.
I am not suggesting for one moment that the comments of these three, or any others who may follow their rancid footsteps are to be accepted. I too am angry with them, and pity them for their soulless callow existences, but I do not think that our community members need sully Adams memory with the posts.
I don’t know what if anything can be done to undo the damage that has already been meted upon Adam’s family and friends, they have after all already seen the posts, and for that I am truly ashamed of our community, and offer whatever apologies one could make for the disrespect our community has shown.
I am asking our community, and FoxSports, what if anything can we do to prevent this from happening in the future?
I would suggest as a beginning that these posters, the three I noted above, and any others like them, have their accounts terminated at the earliest opportunity, and that such actions as necessary and reasonable be taken to block their ability to return.
I would further suggest that community members that wish to post comments of support not make mention or reference to the posts of these social malcontents while doing so. At least this way, our community moderators can edit and remove the filth deposited by them without having to remove your good intentions.
There is a time and a place for bawdy fanaticism, and strenuous debate laced with colorful language, and testosterone fueled banter, this is not one of them.
I am open to the ideas and suggestions from our community members and FoxSports, on what we as a community can do about these situations, and I hope this blog may inspire the debate necessary to facilitate positive change for our entire community.
tennis circuit. She has spent all of her early teen to adult life under the scrutiny of the press, the tennis officials, and her fans. During that time she has entertained the fans of tennis while winning countless events along the way. Now in the waning years of her career, as she prepares to exit the sport, someone at a lab discovers cocaine in her system. 
