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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Second-year Sacramento State basketball coach Brian Katz might want to fast-forward his team's progress, but knows it's a slow process. "… being realistic about it, I think there'll be some times when we struggle," he said of the upcoming season. No one wants a repeat of last season. So as Brian Katz puts in another layer of the foundation, the second-year Sacramento State men's basketball...
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
Sacramento State senior guard Antonio Flaggs called last season, which included a 14-game losing streak, "a wake-up call to reality." Don't let it happen again. That's the rallying cry as Sacramento State's men's basketball team opens practice tonight for the 2009-10 season. The Hornets learned plenty from a 2-27 season that included a 14-game losing streak and nine losses by 20 points or...
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The Vinyl Word (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
In this, my 400th post would you believe, I'm tackling the sixties and listing the 75 great soul men of the decade. There are many to choose from but these, in my humble opinion, are the creme de la creme. So here goes, starting with my top ten, and then moving on to others of note: 1. Sam Cooke (who else at number one?), 2. Otis Redding, 3. James Carr, 4. Wilson Pickett, 5. O V Wright, 6. Al Green,...
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Anecdotal Evidence (Free subscription) | 12/09/2009
Charles E. Pierce Jr. has a fine appreciation of Samuel Johnson, in particular his moral fable Rasselas , in today’s Wall Street Journal . Here’s a sample: “I was introduced to Johnson—and read `Rasselas’ for the first time—almost 50 years ago in an undergraduate course at Harvard taught by Walter Jackson Bate, the great Johnson scholar. I was moved by the struggles...
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Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Washington » The ending of the recession is reviving global trade, increasing U.S. imports by a record amount in July and boosting foreign demand for American goods for a third straight month.
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Structure & Surprise (Free subscription) | 29/08/2009
John Keats loved the poetic turn. Perhaps this goes without saying. Countless significant poets love turns, employing turns beautifully and strategically in their poems. But it’s especially important to acknowledge Keats’s love of the turn because of how it stands as a challenge to something else Keats is much more famous for valuing in poetry: negative capability. A number [...]
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Victorian Paintings (Free subscription) | 20/08/2009
[Collecting Limpets] signed W.Jackson l.r. oil on canvas 37 x 28" . late 19th c
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You Don't Say (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
Every few decades we are invited to rediscover Samuel Johnson — Joseph Wood Krutch’s biography in 1944, Walter Jackson Bate’s in 1977, and now, at the tercentenary of his birth, Jeffrey Meyers’s Samuel Johnson: The Struggle (Basic Books, 528 pages, $35). Johnson compels the modern reader more for his personality than his work: His monumental accomplishment, the first comprehensive...
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 26/07/2009
The Pembroke Pines Optimist Bengals 8-and-under baseball team won the USSSA Kendall Craze VII Tournament in Homestead.<p/> The Bengals beat All Sports Academy 9-4 in the finals. Starter Kevin Barreneche allowed two runs and struck out two in three innings. He also went 1 for 1 with three walks and scored three times.
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Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
A 52-year-old Crownsville man died after he called for help while swimming in the Severn River on Friday, according to Maryland Natural Resources Police. Gregory Lon Jackson had gone canoeing with Anthony Michael Roney, 23, of Crownsville in the Severn River near Round Bay. When Jackson asked for help for swimming around 9:45 p.m., Roney kept Jackson afloat with a life jacket, said Sgt. Art Windemuth,...
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About Last Night (Free subscription) | 04/06/2009
I don't read many biographies outside of those written by co-bloggers. Most times I've tried, I've not gotten past the...
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 17/04/2009
Sacramento State signed two more men's basketball recruits Thursday, landing 6-foot-5 guard-forward Walter Jackson from San Joaquin Delta College and 6-7 forward Duro Bjegovic from Highland Community College in Freeport, Ill. Jackson, who had previously given a verbal commitment to the Hornets, earned all-state honors after averaging 8.3 points, 10.6 rebounds and 4.5 blocked shots for Delta, which...
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 17/03/2009
Walter Jackson, a 6-foot-5 all-state forward from San Joaquin Delta College, has verbally committed to play basketball for Sacramento State, Mustangs coach Rich Ressa said Monday night. He averaged 10 points, eight rebounds and more than four blocks this season for Delta, which finished 29-6. Sac State sweeps in tennis The Sac State tennis teams swept Northern Colorado at Rio Del Oro Racquet Club....
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