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Holy ****! I remember that cover! Actually my father may still have that.
Weren't they all "cheating" by hiding a card or something? I think Punch in his hat, Lou in his sock or something and Eddie I can't remember? I wonder how well my memory is?
Yes, that is exactly how I remember the cover, too!! I was going to mention it, but couldn't quite say what it was - basically a raucous poker game with card sharks who had cards up their sleeves. I think a few cigars might have been thrown in for good measure!
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He refers to the Bills and Bengals as "visionaries" for being the lone objectors to the new CBA, back in 2006.
Thanks. I'm really glad to hear somebody say something like that after all they did was make Ralph look like an old fool back then.
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That video won't work for me.......Why is Shefter calling the Bills visionaries?
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Happy Days in Buffalo...
1976, bi-centenial, OJ coming off another terrific season, Bob McAdoo NBA MVP, Sabres coming off a Finals appearance, to beat the hated Russians...French Connection is rocking, the Aud is not that far from being a "state of the art facility"
Two very fond memories I have of that time period would be some sort of weekend sports wrap-up show and how good it felt when all three teams had won all their games that weekend
The other one is probably a year or two earlier. There used to be this great local Buffalo sports magazine called Buffalo Fan, I believe. I know I still have copies somewhere. So, one of the covers has a drawing of Lou Saban, Punch Imlach and Eddie Donovan playing poker. It was so true that at the time we had three great talent evaluators playing all their cards right and building great teams. Such good times. I thought for sure championships were just around the corner.
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yeah, i read that after seeing another post that he had died. i've really been out of touch with hockey since the early 80's. his tory was pretty sad indeed, given what happened with his father and everything else. tough way to go. RM on the other hand, seemed like a stand up guy. he was fun to watch---
The story about his father is one of the most bizarre and self-destructive things I've ever heard. After knowing that, I wasn't that shocked when Spinner met a similar demise.
BTW, Spinner gave the speech at my school's sports night one year. The thing I remember most was that he talked about how hard you have to work and how hard he has to work - he said if I had half the talent of Rene Robert, I'd be the greatest player in the world.....In the world of tweeting, that would have made the rounds in an hour. The way it came out was he basically calling Robert a slacker.
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I'm so glad that I had front row seats on the glass two weeks ago for Pegula's first game. Little did I know that the pictures I took would be the last of the FC.
He had to have had the most wicked slapshot in the history of the Sabres, did he not?
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I have been so very impressed by how the Japanese citizens have been dealing with this tragedy. They are strong, civil, polite, and acting as well as possible for the situation. Polar opposite of looting and lawlessness that prevailed after Katrina. Japan does not need marshall law or FEMA
I caught a little report on this on CNN and the reporter said that is definitely the culture. She said that if you lose your wallet, 99% of the time, you can find it with all the money intact, at the police station.
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In my opinion...and this is ONLY my opinion...I think that even though this is the great melting pot, there is still a distinct African American culture just like there is a distinct hispanic/Mexican culture, greek culture, etc. My OPINION is that the value of education is simply not prioritized as it should be among certain cultures in the US and there is a lack of confidence that pursuing an education is the most effective way to improve one's lot in life. Education is simply not valued as it should be, and thus other ways of "success" are prioritized higher.
Particularly with our young folks who grow up in poorer socioeconomic areas of the country, education has GOT to be presented in a way in which it can be embraced and valued, and I think many of our leaders today simply fail to provide them the opportunity to do exactly that. I don't believe for a second that it has to do with skin color. A few years ago I read that the highest IQ ever recorded (at that time) was that of an African American female. Even though I tend to depart from Obama in certain areas in terms of his politics, I think this was the perfect time to have the first African American president. We need more visible AA leaders and achievers, and we have got to educate our young people of all ethnic and cultural backgrounds or this country is doomed. And that leads me to my last point: The family structure.
The traditional family unit is on life support. Kids today simply don't have that strong parental influence as many of us did in the past. I had the benefit of tight family structure as far as the eye could see when I was growing up, and I give that a LOT of the credit as to why I'm (arguably) a well-adjusted, successful person who has achieved educationally and professionally. I had parents who were married all my life and who were involved with me every step of the way. I had grandparents who were married for decades and who had a huge impact on my upbringing, and I even had extended family who further modeled the tight-knit traditional family unit. No divorces anywhere to be seen, education was valued across the board, many of the men had proudly fought in the World Wars, Korea, and Vietnam, and there was healthy communication and support among generations. I'm the richest man in the world because of that...I truly feel that way. And it makes me sad to think that that sort of environment is becoming more and more rare these days.
Anyway, the point is that I feel that the cultural influences on our youth is very, very powerful, and until we change our focus and learn to value healthier things, we're screwed.
Thanks for a truly awesome post. I could not agree more with every single thing you said..........The breakdown on the family plays such a big part in all this. I heard on an NPR show a month or two ago that in 1950, there were more black two parent households %wise than whites....I found that stunning.........Now both races are in steady decline in that category.
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Yes, because skin color is the only difference between those students. They all went to the exact same schools, got the exact same education had the exact same home life. No other factors played a part.
From The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education:
But there is a major flaw in the thesis that income differences explain the racial gap. Consider these three observable facts from The College Board's 2005 data on the SAT:
• Whites from families with incomes of less than $10,000 had a mean SAT score of 993. This is 129 points higher than the national mean for all blacks.
• Whites from families with incomes below $10,000 had a mean SAT test score that was 61 points higher than blacks whose families had incomes of between $80,000 and $100,000.
• Blacks from families with incomes of more than $100,000 had a mean SAT score that was 85 points below the mean score for whites from all income levels, 139 points below the mean score of whites from families at the same income level, and 10 points below the average score of white students from families whose income was less than $10,000.
You said you wanted facts, not anecdotal evidence, so there are some facts.
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Hahaha. Yes because anecdotal evidence with nothing at all to back it up are obviously "facts" and indicative of the entire country! "I have never seen a black valedictorian." I guess that means there has never been one!
That's not what he said. You want facts? SAT scores of college bound whites are about 200 points higher than college bound blacks:
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In our local sports section this morning there was a small article about Lindsey Vonn. I think there should be a Man Law that states anytime there's any mention of her in an article it must include at least one pic.
I thought there was. The Buffalo News has her picture just about every day. In the summer, they have Maria Sharapova just about every day......I applaud their editorial decisions.
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I thought my sleep was cut short.
That fraction of a second seemed like an hour!
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Not sure if I like that commercial. Dad says this micro-mini is way too short, but Ma doesn't care and saves the day. Strange message.
I actually think the mother is hotter than the daughter, but the daughter's legs do look good as she's walking away, as you said.
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"We are assuming that a meltdown has occurred"
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cnn added a timeline video to their web coverage yesterday
I tried that yesterday, and I think they had a link to the wrong video. It was definitely not a timeline.
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I love the daily paper too but I couldn't get my guy to deliver here on time in the morning so we canceled it except for Sunday. Bastard!!
The Buffalo News is at my door by at least 5AM every day! No more paper boy, though. Whoever delivers it - they drive their car!
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I'm looking forward to reading my Buffalo News now. The Internet is great with instant info, but I still don't even have a timeline on when this happened. Any story that you click on starts in the middle of the situation.
I hope papers never go away. They do more than this, but I think they are a great aggregator and editor - I go crazy trying to follow a story on the net.
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This Judge Dody guy. Where have I heard of him before? He wasn't all the way back in '87 was he?
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Meanwhile, in northern California's Del Norte County, a 25-year-old man was declared dead Friday afternoon after being swept out to sea off a beach while trying to photograph a tsunami launched by the massive earthquake near Japan, according to a Del Norte County, California, official.
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Decertifying then let's the players sue for anti-trust violations. The NFL would be in violation of anti-trust laws, but the players have collectively bargained that away....Now, that are decertifying, they are basically making a mess of the owners.
I heard that this time they might not get away with this, because it's obviously not really dissolving the union. It's a sham, and they really are still a union and will be in the future.
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It seems to me that if they decertify, then they shouldn't be able to recertify.
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Taylor couldn't get out of his own way trying to save the season in the last drive against Boise State. He was horrible.
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Can somebody explain to me the rise of Blaine Gabbert? I never heard of him until McShay said he's the number one QB, which I believe was the last week of the college season.
Adrian Peterson..."modern day slavery"
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On the subject of ridiculous racial statements, I haven't seen anybody post the whole Jalen Rose - Duke thing. On the espn 30 for 30 about the Fab Five this week, he said that he hated Duke and that the blacks who went there were Uncle Tom's (Totally changing the meaning - his meaning was that they didn't recruit blacks who weren't good citizens - only those with good grades, not in trouble with the law - the same as their standards are for whites)........I love Grant Hill's comeback (esp. the dig about being proud to never have lost to the Fab Five):
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=6224395