Quote of the Day

I like my players to be married and in debt.

That's the way you motivate them.

(via Sports Blink)

Ernest "Ernie" Banks, a.k.a. Mr. Cub

Quote of the Day

The absolute bottom line in coaching is

organization and preparing for practice.

(via Stanford News Service)

William Ernest "Bill" Walsh

Quote of the Day

You don't have to think about doing the

right thing.  If you're for the right

thing, then you do it without thinking.

(via Academy of Achievement)

Marguerite Ann Johnson, a.k.a. Maya Angelou

Quote of the Day

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in

getting rid of false shame we have killed

off so much real shame as well.

(via The Ladies' Cyber Club)

Louis Kronenberger

Quote of the Day

The only correct actions are those that

demand no explanation and no apology.

(via NBA)

Arnold Jacob "Red" Auerbach

Catch-n-Release

Leon, Bobby, & Pat caught some big ones.  Reds were too big to keep (sorry, Eddie) and shark went back in after a few pics.

Quote of the Day

Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace

to peace and organized government.

(via schmoop)

Stephen Grover Cleveland

Quote of the Day

And two of the safest cities in America - two of

them - are on the border with Mexico. And, of

course, the reason is we've proved that

communism works.  If you give everybody

a good government job, there's no crime.

(via Miami Herald)

José Antonio "Joe" García, Jr.

Quote of the Day

Work like a slave;

command like a king;

create like a god.

(via OEN)

Constantin Brâncuși

Quote of the Day

A man with no enemies is a man with no character.

(via Once upon a screen)

Paul Leonard Newman

Quote of the Day

You will never change your life until you change

something you do daily.  The secret of your

success is found in your daily routine.

(via Let's Go Flyers!)

Bernard Marcel "Bernie" Parent

Quote of the Day

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.

Just get people to stop reading them.

(via Los Angeles Times)

Ray Douglas Bradbury

Quote of the Day

A lion runs the fastest when he is hungry.

(via Parda Phash)

Salman Khan

Quote of the Day

Life is a jest;  and all things show it.

I thought so once;  and now I know it.

(via Britannica)

John Gay

Quote of the Day

 

I think this [Obama] administration, if its

policies were pursued for an extended

period of time, would take us into decline,

but there's nothing wrong with this country

that a real president couldn't cure.

 

(via The Telegraph)

 

John Robert Bolton

Quote of the Day

We can only see a short distance ahead, but we

can see plenty there that needs to be done.

(via biography)

Alan Mathison Turing

How do we get 24 to high school state?

VS.

The California Interscholastic Federation will hold their first state championship in Clovis next year.  Read more here.

Early plans are for the meet to include 32 entrants in each event, with each of CIF's 10 sections getting a specific amount of guaranteed spots in each event.

Don't you wish TISCA had been pushing the UIL - seriously pushing - to get twenty-four (24) to Austin these past few years?

Such a shame that we only take sixteen (16) per event, leaving All-Americans at home.

The edge California athletes will gain over our kids will be tremendous.  More of their top swimmers will advance to their state meet without having to rest/shave to qualify.

With our new alignments (6A & 5A) and only eight (8) call-up slots available in each, many of our top kids will have to rest/shave for region - maybe even district!

Quote of the Day

Strategy is a constant reconciling of

possibilities, means, and ends.

(via Mail Online)

Bernard Christison Jenkin

Quote of the Day

 

We do not know the truth.  But sometimes

we get a glimpse of the shadow of the

truth.  And where there is a shadow,

somewhere there must be light.

 

(via Clan Lindsay)

 

Eric Mervyn Lindsay

Quote of the Day

 

Babies also have a civil right not to be

kissed by every passing politician.

 

(via indymedia ireland)

 

Joe Higgins

Quote of the Day

 

Power confuses itself with virtue and tends

also to take itself for omnipotence.

 

(via Gnostic Bent)

 

James William Fulbright

Résumé Fail?

How many of you coaches out there are generals?  Doctors?

Right, we have a few PhD's.

Okay, how many of y'all are medical doctors?

Wouldn't y'all be super duper impressed if the coach of your high school team were both a general and a medical doctor?  Quite a coincidence that he'd be coaching at Health Careers HS, wouldn't it?

via Swimmer's Daily:

Quote of the Day

Mathematics is one of the most basic - and

most ancient - types of knowledge.  Yet the

details of its historical development remain

obscure to all but a few specialists.

(via Mercury)

Ivor Grattan-Guinness

Quote of the Day

For harmony makes small states great while

discord undermines the mightiest empires.

(via ABC tribe)

Gaius Sallustius Crispus, a.k.a. Sallust

Warnin' Device fer Code Yellers (& Browns)

The Aggies have come up with a device to detect weewee and doodoo in pools.  Read more here.

Urobilin molecules are small and diffuse quickly so they easily occupy large volumes, such as lakes and reservoirs, for example.

When mixed with zinc ions, urobilin forms a phosphorescent compound which glows green under an ultraviolet light.

In some samples, low concentrations of urobilin cause the glow to become weak.

To tackle this, the researchers used a hollow cylinder called an integrated cavity.

Water is placed inside the cylinder where it interacts with zinc ions, and a laser light is beamed into the object and onto the sample through a small hole.

The light reacts with the urobilin compound in the sample, causing it to emit a glow even at low concentrations.

The detection results appear almost instantaneously.

Quote of the Day

Divided minds, getting lost on different paths,

are losing the huge advantage that would

result from their combined forces.

(via Wikipedia)

Jean-Baptiste Biot

Quote of the Day

Protest is when I say this does not please

me.  Resistance is when I ensure what

does not please me occurs no more.

(via Rote Armee Fraktion, a.k.a. Red Army Faction)

Ulrike Marie Meinhof

Quote of the Day

When a man retires and time is no longer a

matter of urgent importance, his colleagues

generally present him with a watch.

(via Spartacus Educational)

Robert Cedric "R.C." Sherriff

Quote of the Day

The aim of those who try to control

thought is always the same.  They

find one single explanation of the

world, one system of thought and

action that will (they believe) cover

everything;  and then they try to

impose that on all thinking people.

(via Living Legacies)

Gilbert Arthur Highet

Quote of the Day

There are three sides to every story:  your side,

my side, and the truth.  And no one is lying.

Memories shared serve each differently.

(via Wikipedia)

Robert J. Shapera, a.k.a. Robert Evans

Wisconsin-River Falls

The Falcon swim programs (M&W) have been suspended and may be headed toward extinction.  Read more here.  Thanks for the heads up, BG!

Sports cuts are nothing new at UWRF: 

The last time the UWRF Athletics Department sport module was changed was in the 2002-03 school year. That year the wrestling, baseball and women's gymnastics teams were suspended while the sports of men's indoor and outdoor track & field and women's golf were added.

Trading men's wrestling and baseball for track helped the Falcons to a net loss of male athletes.  Swapping gymnastics for golf on the ladies' side probably helped them maintain those numbers.

Thanks, Title IX Quota System!

While the 2003 cuts were mostly on the men's side (to satisfy Title IX lawyers), the latest sports dumps don't appear to be aimed at compliance.  Eliminating swimming will mean sixteen (16) men and seventeen (17) women will get the lead handshake.

Meanwhile, UWRF's "revenue" sport - foosball - will try to rebound from last season's 0-10 debacle.  Sure would be interesting to see how many buckets of red ink that program bleeds on an annual basis.

You can bet the foosball program's ninety-five (95) players and sixteen (16) coaches will cost the university many times what the swimming teams would.



p.s.  The new Falcon Center groundbreaking ceremony is set for tomorrow.  Nope, it won't include a pool.

Quote of the Day

To acknowledge the presence of

fear is to give birth to failure.

(via 3News)

Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry