The Dave Matthews Band New Album(Green Day)
May 31, 2009
The sudden death of saxophonist LeRoi Moore has had a transformative effect on the Dave Matthews Band. The group was well past the point of complacency when the band’s founding member died from injuries he sustained in an ATV accident last summer. But on their new album, produced by Rob Cavallo (Green Day, My Chemical Romance), the surviving musicians charge back with their most raucous and emotional set of music since their early ’90s heyday, veering from horn-infused rockers such as “Shake Me Like a Monkey” to unexpectedly tender passages such as “Lying in the Hands of God.” The propulsive single “Funny the Way It Is” is the kind of song that can win back fans who long ago wrote them off for Wilco, while “Alligator Pie” shows that the tragedy hasn’t robbed the band of its celebratory spirit. In a weird way, it’s never sounded more alive..
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND
BIG WHISKEY AND THE GROOGRUX KING
RCA
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”Janice’s Tender Buttons”
May 31, 2009
For the first time in 17 years, there will be a new face behind the “Tonight Show” desk, and we’ll be eagerly waiting to see what will happen on Conan O’Brien’s first night in the big-boy chair (June 1, NBC, 11:35 p.m. ET).
Does he let the Masturbating Bear run wild all over his shiny new Los Angeles,California, set, just to show the world that his absurdist sensibilities aren’t about to go into hibernation? Or does he play it safe with a new segment EW’s Dan Snierson made up called TrafficConan, in which he talks with drivers stuck in rush-hour gridlock? (We strongly vote for the first one.)
Whatever the case, a familiar face will aid him in his quest to build on the Allen/Paar/Carson/Leno legacy: That would be former “Late Night” sidekick Andy Richter, who’ll serve as announcer (and partaker in comedy bits). First guest/Conan pal Will Ferrell should put our host at ease — or at least make him appropriately uncomfortable — before Pearl Jam plug in as the musical guests.
Good luck, Mr. O’Brien: May you have this big gig all the way until the year 2000.
Here are more EW Picks for the week of June 1:
“I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!” season premiere (Monday, NBC, 8 p.m. ET) Stephen Baldwin, Janice Dickinson, Sanjaya Malakar and seven other D-listers abandoned in a remote Costa Rican jungle: dream come true? More like a reboot of the 2003 celebrity reality show. “I love the fact that I’m going to be shooting spitballs at Sanjaya and pushing Janice’s buttons,” says Baldwin, who’s traveling with underwear, socks and a Bible. “I’m praying the American masses will enjoy the antics of Stevie B.”
Movies
“Land of the Lost” (out Friday). Like many children of the ’70s, Will Ferrell was powerfully affected by the trippy kiddie sci-fi TV series from which this film is adapted, about a family transported to a bizarro world of dinosaurs, cavemen and menacing lizardlike creatures called (all together now, Gen-Xers!) Sleestaks. “It was creepy and weird, but at the same time I wanted to live in that world and wear the clothes they wore and fight off Grumpy the dinosaur with a stick,” Ferrell says. Now, he has his chance in this big-budget comedy-adventure reboot. Series co-creator Marty Krofft says purists will be pleased: “We’ve got the Sleestaks, Chaka, the theme song. If we hadn’t honored the series, the fans would have been totally pissed off.”
“Away We Go” (out Friday). “The Office’s” John Krasinski is Burt, who joins his pregnant girlfriend, Verona (Maya Rudolph), on a cross-country search for the right place to call home. Director Sam Mendes’ supporting cast includes such character actors as Allison Janney and Catherine O’Hara, but Krasinski says the film’s highlight is Rudolph’s turn as a tender woman adrift. “Every day on set she’d say, ‘I’m not an actress!’ ” the actor recalls. “But she turns in one of the best female performances I’ve seen in years.”
Music
“Neil Young Archives Vol. 1: 1963-1972,” Neil Young (out Tuesday). Obsessives expecting a trove of unheard songs might be disappointed in this endlessly delayed eight-CD set. There’s only a smattering of truly new material here, some of it more interesting than essential. Spring for the pricey DVD or truly extravagant Blu-ray versions — each a whopping 10 discs — and you’ll also get a warehouse’s worth of photos, lyrics, and audio and video clips. An impressive package, but fans will be paying big bucks for a lot of stuff they already own.
“Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King,” Dave Matthews Band (out Tuesday). Dave Matthews Band have faced the sudden loss of a founding member: Saxophonist LeRoi Moore died in August from injuries incurred in an ATV accident, midway through the recording of their latest album. His spirit — and his sound — looms large, however, on “Big Whiskey.” The GrooGrux King of the title references Moore, as does the figure at the center of Whiskey’s intricate cover art (drawn by Matthews himself); his sweet, solitary sax flourishes even bookend the album. Throughout, the spectre of death rarely recedes, but life — embodied by the proto-DMB revelry of “Why I Am” — still prevails.
“Secret, Profane, and Sugarcane,” Elvis Costello (out Tuesday). Elvis Costello sounds downright frisky at times on this acoustic set, which musically calls to mind 1986’s sublime, countryish “King of America.” (The two albums share producer T Bone Burnett.) “Sulphur to Sugarcane” in particular is a lusty delight, pinpointing the notable (alleged) qualities of ladies from different locales (“The women in Poughkeepsie/Take their clothes off when they’re tipsy …”).
DVD
“Defiance” (out Tuesday). In this true story of a WWII siege met with courage under fire, director Edward Zwick drops us into the Lipicza´nska Forest in Belorussia in 1941, just after the Nazis have invaded. Daniel Craig, with his craggy squint of pain, and Liev Schreiber, all stocky, bottled rage, are Tuvia and Zus Bielski, who decide to save themselves with an innovative strategy: They fight back.
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”The Cleveland Plain Dealer”
May 31, 2009
While Le Bron James is having one of the best playoff runs in NBA history, it’s worth flashing back to a year ago when the Cavs lost in seven games to the Celtics in the second round. Most fans recall when he scored 45 points in Game 7 at Boston. But that was a very, very frustrating series for James. He shot only 36 percent from the field. He averaged 5.2 turnovers. Yes, he scored 26.7 per game, but admitted he took a lot of bad shots to do it. In the first two games at Boston, he shot 8-of-42 from the field and had 17 turnovers. In 2007, when the Cavs were swept out of The Finals by San Antonio and James averaged 22 points, he shot only 35 percent and committed 5.7 turnovers per game.
That makes this powerful
demonstration all the more remarkable as he went into Saturday’s game averaging 41.2 points and shooting 50 percent from the field in the Orlando series. Magic coach Stan Van Gundy said there has been a tremendous upgrade from James’ MVP season to the playoffs. He said that outside of 3 feet, James ranked below the NBA average in shooting percentage from various spots on the court, be it midrange, 3-pointers, or wherever. “But in the playoffs, that has all changed,” Van Gundy said. “Our stats have been above average in most categories — and he remains the best finisher in the league.”
Heading into Game 6,
Orlando center Dwight Howard had been whistled for 27 fouls, 16 of them on James. He has not been able to block James’ shot, “because LeBron powers right into Dwight,” said Van Gundy. Most players fade away, or try to score by driving around Howard. That gives the NBA’s Defensive Player of the Year room to use his long arms and leaping ability to swat shots. But in Van Gundy’s words: “LeBron goes right at his chin and nose, gets hit — and still scores. He’s the best finisher in the game.” James simply says he’s not afraid to challenge anyone.
The Magic has claimed
officials won’t give Howard a break in the series, but the facts are he has been dealing with fouls the entire playoffs. In the first round against Philadelphia, he averaged 4.0 fouls per game. It was then 4.3 fouls in the Boston series followed by 5.4 against the Cavs heading into Saturday night. It’s higher in this series because James is not afraid to drive right at Howard. “I just attack,” said James. “If the refs call fouls, they do. If they don’t, they don’t. I don’t go to the rim and look for contact, I make my shot and then the foul happens. It’s not like I’m going in there looking for the foul and throwing up something crazy. I go in there, attack the rim and try to get the layup first.”
James entered Game 6
averaging 36.1 points, 9.3 rebounds and 7.3 assists while shooting 52 percent from the field. By far, it’s the best postseason showing of his career. Hard to believe he is still only 24, despite this being his sixth year in the NBA. “It’s going to be a long decade for all the rest of us in the NBA who have to deal with him,” said Van Gundy.
”First Edition Of The Minneapolis Marathon”
May 31, 2009
The first edition of the Minneapolis Marathon stepped off at 7 a.m. today from downtown with a larger-than-expected crowd for its two events.
Organizers had expected their field to be around 2,500 for the half-marathon and 1,000 in a 10-kilometer race.
But organizers told KSTP-TV this morning that about 5,000 runners showed up for the start.
This is the first year for the Minneapolis event. Stillwater had it’s first marathon earlier this month.
There are 10 marathons in Minnesota (if you count the Fargo Marathon, which dips into Moorhead), including two trail marathons.
Grandma’s Marathon and the Twin Cities Marathon are the big dogs. Grandma’s had a record 9,904 registered runners last year, and Twin Cities caps its field at 11,000. Grandma’s has a half-marathon (6,600 runners) and a 5-kilometer race the night before (1,500 runners); Twin Cities has a 10-mile race (6,500) and 5K (2,500).
Based on number of finishers, Twin Cities is the 10th-largest marathon in America and Grandma’s is the 11th. The world’s largest is the New York City Marathon, which had 37,790 finishers last year. An estimated 420,000 people ran marathons in the United States last year.
Grandma’s Marathon, which runs June 20, is at 85 percent capacity, with registration closing in two weeks. The Twin Cities Marathon, running Oct. 4, is expected to sell out well before October.
–Staff Writer Chris Miller contributed
The Christians Celebrate Pentecost Sunday 2009
May 31, 2009
Pentecost (Whitsunday), with Christmas and Easter, ranks among the great feasts of Christianity. It commemorates not only the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles and Disciples, but also the fruits and effects of that event: the completion of the work of redemption, the fullness of grace for the Church and its children, and the gift of faith for all nations.
After Jesus had ascended to heaven from Mt. Olivet, the apostles and disciples returned to the Holy City. They remained together in the Upper Room or Cenacle, the place where Jesus had appeared to them and which may well be called the first Christian church. About a hundred and twenty persons were assembled there. They chose Matthias as an apostle in place of the unhappy Judas; they prayed and waited for the Paraclete.
Ten days had passed, it was Sunday, the seventh Sunday after the resurrection. At about nine o’clock in the morning, as they were together praying fervently, the Holy Spirit descended upon them. Note how all the great theophanies in Christ’s life occurred during the course of prayer. After His baptism, for instance, when Jesus was praying the heavens opened and the Holy Spirit descended in the form of a dove; likewise, it was during prayer at night that the transfiguration took place on Tabor.
Surely too it was while Mary was praying that Gabriel delivered his message, and the Holy Spirit overshadowed her. Pentecost followed precedent. The small community of Christians had prepared themselves through prayer for the coming of the Paraclete. The same is true at Mass today, every day; through prayer we ready our souls for the advent of the Spirit.
The descent upon the apostles was internal and invisible in nature although accompanied by certain visible phenomena. There came a mighty roar, like the onrush of a violent wind. It came suddenly, from heaven; but unlike storms that strike a structure from without, this one penetrated and filled the room where the disciples were gathered. Therefore it was not a natural wind, it was a miracle peculiar to the occasion. A second visible sign consisted in tongues of fire that descended upon each one present. These fiery tongues gave visible evidence that the Holy Spirit had descended upon them.
Today at Mass, particularly at holy Communion, the power of the Holy Spirit will come down upon us; fiery tongues will not be seen, but invisible tongues of fire will not be absent. There was still another external manifestation of the Holy Spirit; the apostles and disciples were enabled to speak various languages.
After the roar of the wind many of Jerusalem’s pilgrims hurried to the Cenacle. Pentecost was one of the three festivals which obliged all Jews to be present in Jerusalem. Jews from distant lands, and Jewish converts from paganism too, attended these feasts. As a result, a colorful crowd speaking a variety of languages surrounded the house. Now the apostles, who so shortly before had hid in fear behind locked doors, came forth and courageously walked among the multitude speaking to each in his native tongue. It was indeed amazing! Galileans, and multilingual?
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“Usa Actress Stacey Lauretta Dash”
May 31, 2009
GRAND RAPIDS — Central Lake’s Jasmine Hines won a state title while Traverse City St. Francis and Manton each tied for 10th Saturday at the Division 4 state finals at Forest Hills Eastern.
Hines won the shot put with a throw of 39 feet, 1.25 inches. It was the same distance as Unionville-Sebawaing’s Abby Scharf threw, but Hines was ruled the state champ.
Potterville won the girls title with 51 points, followed by Fowler (43), Pewamo-Westphalia (37) and Morrice (34). St. Francis and Manton each scored 20 points.
Hannah Meachum led the Glads by finishing second in the pole vault at 10-6 and third in the 100 hurdles in 15.77 seconds. Morgan McCardel was fifth in the 1600 in 5 minutes, 18.09 seconds while Katy Olsen was seventh in the 800 in 2:25.21.
Manton’s Liz Baller was fourth in the long jump at 16-3.5, Stacey Baron was fourth in the 800 run in 2:24.22, Stephanie Ingraham was fifth in the 3200 in 12:02.98 and Sonny Jenkins was seventh in the 100 hurdles in 16.73 seconds. The Rangers also finished fifth in the 3200 relay (9:57.32).
Caitlin Reeves from Harbor Springs was second in the 800 (2:20.62) while the Rams finished fourth in the 3200 relay (9:55.28).
Grand Traverse Academy’s Rachel Zeppa was fourth in the 100 (12.96) and fifth in the 200 (26.69).
McBain NMC’s Brittannee Wilson was fifth in the 300 at 48.9, Tanis Rozeveld was seventh at 5-0 in the high jump and Jane Pearson was eighth in the 400 (1:01.03).
McBain was fourth in the 800 relay (1:50.3) and fifth in the 400 relay (52.07)
Inland Lake’s Brianna Ohlert was fifth in the pole vault (10-0) while Megan Bruniquel was sixth in the 100 hurdles (16.53) and Becky Rotter was eighth in the 200 (28.72).
Buckley’s Haley Baldinger was second in the 400 in 59.65, Pellston’s Taylor Friend was second in the high jump at 5-4, Onekama’s Jaylee Brown was fourth in the pole vault (10-3) and Glen Lake’s Dani Frost was seventh in the shot put (35-8.75).
In the boys’ meet, Bellaire’s Ethan Murray captured the 100 dash title in 11.15. He was also sixth in the 200 in 23.72.
Also winning a state title was McBain NMC’s Nathan DeKam in the discus with a throw of 163-2. He finished eighth in the shot put at 47-3.
Potterville won the meet with 64 points while P-W was second with 37.
St. Francis placed Adam Karpinski third in the pole vault at 13 feet while Ryan Farley was eighth in the event a 13-0. Corey Williams was seventh in the 800 (2:01.3).
Manton’s Ben Denomme was third in the discus at 142 feet, Darren Morris was sixth in the 300 hurdles in 40.96 and Ryan Bredahl tied for seventh in the high jump at 6-2
Tec Adams from Harbor Springs was second in the 1600 run in 4:20.68. Kyle Nowels was eighth in the 110 hurdles (15.58).
Ellsworth’s Ashton Fisher medaled twice, finishing fifth in the 1600 (4:25.97) and seventh in the 3200 (9:58.15).
Frankfort’s Scott Tousley was seventh in the 110 hurdles (15.56) and eighth in the 300 hurdles (41.68).
Gaylord St. Mary’s Clay Becker was third in the 200 dash (23.41). McBain was third in the 400 relay (44.52) while Onekama’s Jaron Llewellyn was eighth in the 800 (2:01.63).
”The Purpose of Pentecost”
May 31, 2009
Then there appeared to them tongues as of fire, which parted and came to rest on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit.
CHESAPEAKE (Catholic Online) – “When the time for Pentecost was fulfilled, they were all in one place together. And suddenly there came from the sky a noise like a strong driving wind, and it filled the entire house in which they were. Then there appeared to them tongues as of fire, which parted and came to rest on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in different tongues, as the Spirit enabled them to proclaim.” (Acts of the Apostles, Chapter two)
As we came to the close of the last millennium there were groups within the Christian community who claimed to have a special connection with the encounter that the early followers of Jesus had in the upper room on that great and glorious day. A modern “Pentecostal” movement was born. Out of it, much good has come. The Second Vatican Council in the Catholic Church began with a prayer for a “New Pentecost.” Since the Council, what are called the “ecclesial movements” have flourished in the Catholic Church, each with differing charisms and distinctive missions, but all clearly led by the Holy Spirit which was poured out on Pentecost and continues to be poured out.
In one of those movements, a few who had experienced the grace of an encounter with the Holy Spirit contended that they knew the criteria for judging the legitimacy of being “baptized” with the Spirit. This became a point of division rather than a call to unity. Some within Protestant traditions who spoke of a similar experience also focused on certain expressions of the presence of the Holy Spirit in the life of a believer to the exclusion of others. A smaller group among them even reduced Christianity to a formula for health and wealth and teeter on heresy, all in the name of the Holy Spirit. Still others interpreted what they called “biblical prophecy” in a timeline predicting when some kind of “end” was going to come. Unfortunately, such diversions can become a caricature of Christianity. They are far from the experience of the early followers of Jesus who gathered in one place expecting the fulfillment of the promise he gave them on that great day of Pentecost.
After all, was this encounter with the Holy Spirit in the Upper Room about a show of personal “power” in the sense of drawing attention to any individual or group? Was it intended to enable only a select few to “figure out” some kind of timeline so that they could “predict” events or write best selling Novels to explain “Bible prophecy”? Or, was it a call to all the all of the followers of Jesus Christ to become His Body, the Church on earth, and carry forward in time His ongoing redemptive mission until he comes again? Was their experience of the power of God a call to shows of such “power” before crowds or an invitation to live lives of sacrificial love, holiness and service on behalf of a world that God still loves – a world into which He still sends His Son through the Body of Christ?
The answer is clear from the biblical witness and has been borne out in the extraordinary missionary work of the Church. The purpose of Pentecost was the empowering of the Church with the very same power that raised Christ Jesus from the dead! That is still the purpose of Pentecost. The gifts of the Spirit were given to the Church for the common good and they still are. Yes, they can be manifested by individuals, but they always serve the Church. I believe in what are called the charismatic gifts. I have experienced them and thank God for them. However, that experience is not the end, but only the beginning of a continuing invitation into an ongoing communion with the Lord and participation in His Divine Life and mission.
By the end of the second Christian millennium “Pentecostal” movements were present in many major Christian traditions. I am old enough to remember the early days of what came to be known as the “Catholic Charismatic Renewal.” The first significant book on the modern experience of the charismatic gifts was written by Kevin and Dorothy Ranaghan and entitled “Catholic Pentecostals.” As the movement in the Catholic Church grew it was called “Charismatic” rather than Pentecostal. Like many enthusiastic movements in Church history, it had its “ups and downs.” However, those who had experienced its grace, who stayed faithful to the Church and received her ongoing guidance, found their home within her full life and became workers in the vineyard for this new missionary age. That movement is now viewed as one of the several “ecclesial movements” which both the late Servant of God John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI have called the “finger of God” for the mission of the Church in this age.
”A Real Girls”
May 31, 2009
There she was, sprawled comfortably on a couch at the Lazy B Ranch, nose deep in a Nancy Drew mystery, when her father summoned. Not now, Dad, little Sandra Day, future Supreme Court justice, pleaded, I’m just getting to the good part. But Dad whisked her off to a remote pasture where a newborn calf, its hindquarters half-eaten by a coyote and further snacked on by the vultures now circling overhead, lay in the grass, bloodied and bawling. Merciful Dad wanted little Sandra to see him shoot it between the eyes.
Yes, well, res ipsa loquitur and all that. Back to the couch and “The Secret of the Old Clock” or “The Clue of the Tapping Heels” or whichever tale her father had pried her from to witness that little life lesson, recounted by Sandra Day O’Connor in “Lazy B,” her memoir of growing up in the Southwest. Although at this point who really needed Nancy Drew, girl sleuth, for a character-building dose of you-go-girl gumption, when the real world so vividly offered plenty of opportunity for it just beyond the front door.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg did, it turns out. As a Brooklyn grade schooler she wanted to be either Nancy Drew or Amelia Earhart. She admired Nancy, she said a few years ago, because “she was adventuresome, daring, and her boyfriend was a much more passive type than she was.” And now it’s Sonia Sotomayor. Once upon a time Sonia put an impoverished Puerto Rican Bronx girl into Nancy Drew’s gumshoe pumps and sassy blue convertible before a diabetes diagnosis steered her to the less physical but still justice-minded Perry Mason.
It doesn’t take a big clue to deduce that there’s something between Supreme Court women and Nancy Drew of River Heights, Somewhere, U.S.A., the teenage star of a wholesome series of detective novels that have been in print in some version — dated and updated — since their inception in 1930.
What stuck with these judicial women might be a harder case to crack. It’s easier to start with what it probably isn’t, and that’s the formulaic plots. In a world of Sue Graftons and C.S.I.’s, the novels are neither the most complex nor particularly probable affairs. “Nancy Drew plots are based on coincidence,” Bobbie Ann Mason wrote in an admiring book about her, going on to describe one from “The Password to Larkspur Lane”: Nancy’s in the garden, picking larkspurs. Plane overhead drops message. Message is password. To Larkspur Lane. A bundle of tidy clues later, mystery solved. (She never solved murders. There were none.)
For all the obstacles she faces, just as often it’s comically smooth sailing: “Please send a plainclothes detective at once,” the authoritative teenager says into the telephone in “The Clue in the Crumbling Wall.” “I’ll meet him in the lobby here and explain everything to him when he arrives. How will I know him?” Answers the magically unquestioning voice on the other end of the line: “He’ll pretend to be lame.”
Was the writing the lure? “Hypers!” Nancy’s girl sidekick George is always exclaiming. As for Nancy’s dialog, “she said, smiling” accompanies a lot of it. Jo March, Laura Ingalls, Pippi Longstocking and Madeline, plucky heroines all, benefited from better prose. But in citing early literary influences, Justices O’Connor and Ginsburg and Judge Sotomayor named only Nancy, and so this brings us to the girl herself.
“The real allure of Nancy Drew is that, almost uniquely among classic or modern heroines, she can follow — is allowed to follow — a train of thought,” wrote Sandra Tsing Loh, reviewing Melanie Rehak’s “Girl Sleuth,” a biography of Nancy Drew’s creators, in The Atlantic. “The plot opens ever outward for her, her speeding blue convertible a metaphor for the sure-shot arrow of her intellect, the splendidly whizzing shaft of the maiden huntress Diana.”
“For clever girls of all ages,” Ms. Loh wrote, “it’s a rare treat to read stories in which our heroine’s emotions come alive not with the love of a good man but with the pursuit of a bad one.”
Could that be a requirement for the elusive judicial temperament? (A more relevant one might come from Jennifer Worick’s “Nancy Drew’s Guide to Life,” in which she extrapolates Miss Drew wisdom from the novels: “A soft, kindly approach to questioning prisoners can make them squeal.”)
Ms. Rehak, whose book tracks the two women who, under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene, most shaped Nancy Drew’s character, says that “Nancy was courageous and independent but she never used that independence in an overtly rebellious way.” Instead, “she used her freedom to have adventures, but they were always in the name of doing good and serving justice, so in that sense she remained a ‘nice’ girl.”
That sort of thing might have mattered more to women of Justices O’Connor and Ginsburg’s generation, but what about the younger Judge Sotomayor, who was more likely to face challenges related to ethnicity? What was in it for her?
A charge “rightly leveled” against the early books, Ms. Rehak says, “is that they were racist — all the villains were ‘foreign’ or ‘swarthy,’ and all the African-Americans were portrayed as second class in terms of intelligence, profession, etc.” She said that “one of the things I find so interesting about Sotomayor’s citing of Nancy is that even she, as a Puerto Rican child, just looked past all of that and took away with her the essence of Nancy.”
Caroline Reitz teaches a course called Sisters in Crime in the English department at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York and introduces Nancy Drew as an archetype. She says many of her students are “sort of Sotomayors, city kids often the first ones to go to college, often from different cultural backgrounds.” They tend to enjoy the unlikely Nancy Drew, she said, appreciating the lack of ambiguity in her world, since they themselves have “a much more complicated understanding of the criminal justice system today.” The students are preparing for criminal justice careers and often have relatives in the system, from inmates to police officers. For them, Professor Reitz said, “one of the things appealing about Nancy Drew is that she is not like an N.Y.P.D. officer; she doesn’t have to think about Miranda rights. At the end of the day she is her own boss. She can powder her nose and drive off.”
source: http://www.nytimes.com
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”The Fans Of Texas Baseball”
May 31, 2009
The Texas Longhorns and Boston College Eagles took a long road to history Saturday night, playing an NCAA record 25 innings before Texas took a 3-2 victory in a regional tournament game in Austin.
In a game that started lasted 7 hours, 3 minutes and ended at 1:05 a.m. local time Sunday, Texas reliever Austin Woods pitched 12 1/3 innings of no-hit ball and two Longhorns now share the NCAA record for at-bats in a game with 12.
The length of game eclipsed the previous NCAA record of 23 innings, set in 1971 when Louisiana-Lafayette defeated McNeese State 6-5.
“I’ve never been a part of anything like this,” Boston College coach Mik Aoki said. “In fact, nobody in college baseball has been part of anything like this.”
By comparison, the longest Major League game went 26 innings and ended in a 1-1 tie between the Brooklyn Dodgers and Boston Braves on May 1, 1920.
At 25 innings, the Texas-BC game matches the longest games played to a winning decision in Major League history. The White Sox and Brewers set the American League record by playing 25 innings starting May 8 and, after stopping for curfew, May 9, 1984, with the White Sox winning, 7-6. The Cardinals beat the Mets 4-3 on Sept. 11, 1974, in 25 innings. The White Sox-Brewers game is the longest game in terms of time, at 8 hours, 6 minutes.
This one ended when a single through a drawn-in infield by Travis Tucker scored the winning run in the top of the 25th. Texas reliever Austin Dicharry earned his eighth victory by pitching 5 2/3 innings of scoreless relief, striking out four and allowing one hit.
The Eagles, the home team on Texas’ field, tied the game in the sixth inning, 2-2. But neither team was able to get another run across until Connor Rowe walked to lead off the 25th, was sacrificed to second, took third on a wild pitch and then scored on Tucker’s single.
“I knew we were going to win as I ran down to first base,” Tucker said. “We scored one, and no way our pitchers were going to let them score in the bottom of the inning.”
Only the third pitcher the Longhorns used, Dicharry came in the game in the 20th. He entered the game in relief of Woods, who threw 169 pitches, 121 for strikes, in his 13 innings of work, allowing two hits, walking four and striking out 14.
“In my 41 years of coaching, the effort by Austin Wood was the best pitching performance I have ever seen,” said Texas coach Augie Garrido, the Division I leader in career victories.
Tucker got two hits and shares the at-bats record with Michael Torres, who got one. The Eagles used eight pitchers, with the loss going to Mike Dennhardt when Mike Augustine grounded out to Tucker in the bottom of the 25th.
Boston College (34-25) will face Army in an elimination game Sunday, with the winner playing Texas (43-13-1) afterward.
