GA Russell

Oregon State's Mike Riley won the Grey Cup coaching the Winnipeg Blue Bombers fifteen or twenty years ago.

Hawthorn Hawks 115....Geelong Cats 89 In the fourth quarter, the Hawks pretty much shut the door on the Cats. Ten years ago I met some folks from Melbourne, and I told them that I was a Hawthorn Hawks fan. One told me that nobody roots for the Hawks except their fans!

After three, I think it's Hawthorn Hawks 89...Geelong Cats 72. It was an incredible see-saw battle with the score tied at 58 fairly late in the third, when Hawthorn scored five (!) quick goals. But at the very end of the period, Geelong scored two quick goals (the last on a penalty kick) to make a game of it again.

I should add that Ralph's Canadian Press obituary is clearly inadequate. I'm surprised that they didn't have a lengthy one already written up. I'll plan to post what I find tomorrow. ***** Winnipeg Blue Bombers 30....Edmonton Eskimos 23 http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home While the rest of America was watching the debate, I was listening to one of the most exciting games of the year! However, one of the reasons it was so close was all the miscues. Alexis Serna missed three makeable field goals. Jamie Stoddard dropped the snap on a convert. Ricky Ray lateralled to a lineman who dropped the ball and let the Bombers recover. The Bombers have now won three in a row, and for the moment are in second place with five wins.

New URL: http://xml.afl.com.au/live_audio.htm?media...s-wh_afl0live11

Interesting that he chose to release one song from last year's Carnegie Hall concert. Maybe he felt that the other songs were not good enough. Maybe he just doesn't like the power trio format anymore. He hasn't used it in decades, right? Allen, you're welcome to your opinion of course. But you haven't liked anything Sonny has done since he joined Milestone forty years ago, am I right? I think it's worth something that Sonny was voted Jazzman of the Year the past two years in the Downbeat Readers Poll. If you don't like the guy, so be it.

Thanks aparxa! I too use firefox, and I was having the identical problem.

We lost another one today. Ralph Sazio has passed away. RIP I met him and his wife at the 1978 Grey Cup game. He was a very nice gentleman. At the time, he was the president of the Ticats. The first CFL game I saw on TV was the 1962 Grey Cup game on Wide World of Sports. I believe that Ralph was the Ticats' head coach that game. I believe that the Argos' hiring him away from the Ticats was the turning point for the team, but in a bad way. Ralph was a football man, and I don't think that he appreciated how important promotion is. Prior to his joining the team, the Argos stunk every year, almost always missing the playoffs and finishing last, yet they sold out CNE Stadium, and along with the Als would have to share revenue with the other seven teams in the league. When Ralph joined the Argos, they became winners, and the attendance dropped through the floor. http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...lobeSports/home ***** Fred Williams Week 14 preview http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform...aspx?id=4182012 David Naylor Week 14 preview http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home

Tonight's the night! With a little research, I have learned that Geelong has been the best team this season, but that Hawthorn has the momentum now. The link to listen is on post #1. I expect the game to begin tonight at midnight eastern time. I plan to stay up till three to take it all in. When Australian rules football games are good (and they usually are not), they're fantastic!

Gee, do you think that BMG will get these?

I wish I could find a list of the many hits he was on. Has anybody seen one?

I've been listening to Pass It On since Tuesday, and I like it a lot. It sounds much more like an old Blue Note than any of the other Holland records I have, in part because the harmonies remind me of the mid-60s Blue Note sound. However, drummer Eric Harland uses a modern New Orleans polyrhythmic beat on some of the songs that I've never found on a Blue Note. Some of the songs are more free than others, but generally the album swings much more than any of Holland's ECM albums that I've heard. Much of the album is made up of songs previously recorded. Here's a list, with the other albums they were included on: Lazy Snake (Dream of the Elders) Equality (Dream of the Elders) Double Vision (Seeds of Time) Rivers Run (Triplicate) Processional (Extensions) Modern Times (Homecoming) I haven't heard that many Holland albums, but of the ones I have heard, Pass It On is the one most likely to be preferred by the posters here. By the way, I find that the time goes by very quickly when I listen to it.

Thanks for posting 7/4! I saw Frith with Skeleton Crew (with was her name Zena? and the other guy) in 1985 in Atlanta. I would have loved to have seen Henry Cow ten years earlier.

The Argos cut Tim Strickland today. http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home

Happy Birthday rel!

According to my Father-in-Law, 1960. Hey Chalupa, I remember the 1960 title game! Tell your f-i-l that I remember one play in particular, when Van Brocklin threw the ball after he crossed the line of scrimmage. When he did it, I thought to myself, Didn't he cross the line of scrimmage? And then the ref threw the flag! Funny what you remember years later from when you were a kid!

Here is some of the press release I received today: Expectations run very high at Sonny Rollins concerts, for both audiences and the saxophonist himself. Considered jazz's greatest living improviser, Rollins seizes the opportunity offered by each live performance to search for his "lost chord"; his audiences await nothing short of transcendence. An extraordinary double dose of Rollins in concert is due on October 28, when the tenor saxophonist's Doxy Records label (distributed by Emarcy/Universal) will release a new live CD compilation entitled Road Shows, vol. 1 as well as a DVD (Live in Vienne) of a 2006 European festival performance. Road Shows is the exciting inaugural release in a planned series of outstanding live Sonny Rollins recordings from the last 30-plus years. The seven tracks on the new CD, culled from the Carl Smith collection and Rollins's own personal soundboard tapes, were recorded in the U.S., Canada, Poland, Japan, France, and Sweden. Featuring the saxophonist with a variety of sidemen -- including, on one track, the Christian McBride-Roy Haynes trio that appeared with him at his 50th Anniversary Carnegie Hall concert in 2007 -- Road Shows captures the Saxophone Colossus in full flight, dazzling audiences around the world. Live in Vienne was produced by French television and offers an up-close glimpse at Rollins onstage -- in high-definition video -- as he unfurls a superb hour-long set before a euphoric crowd at the 2006 Jazz à Vienne Festival. The saxophonist, who famously spent two years (1959-61) practicing on New York's Williamsburg Bridge, above the East River, finds that "playing outside is always great. But Vienne, with its Roman amphitheater, is a particularly photogenic place, a beautiful venue. The little town is on the Rhône River. And it was warm that night -- just perfect weather." The Sonny Rollins Tape Archive In the late 1980s, Rollins began to record many of his concerts for archival purposes with possible future release in mind, and also to circumvent bootlegs, which have been a long-standing problem for the artist. "I was much less intimidated by the tape at live concerts" than in the studio, he admits. When the tape was always rolling, "it was much easier for me to get a natural performance." From the start the intention was to record all of Sonny's concerts. Due to unforeseen technical problems or permission problems with venues, however, it was not always possible, according to Road Shows producer (and Rollins trombonist) Clifton Anderson. Of the approximately 600 concerts Rollins has performed since the late '80s, Anderson estimates that as many as one-third are in their archive, in whole or in part. "There were performances that at the time they were done, I thought they might be acceptable at a later date in case I chose to release," says Rollins. "But I hadn't really listened; I filed it in my mind, and later had to stir my memory as to which ones might be good." When the time came to program the new CD, says Anderson, "we both remembered that the concert in Toulouse was a pretty good show, and Sonny remembered that Tama was a good performance, so I went back and listened to those in particular. That's how we arrived at our choices." Four tracks from the Rollins archive are included in Road Shows, vol. 1: "More Than You Know" (2006, Toulouse), which Sonny "brought out of retirement," not having played it since the 1950s, when he recorded it with Thelonious Monk; "Tenor Madness" (2000, Tama City, Japan), whose last appearance on a Rollins disc was the live G-Man in 1987; "Nice Lady" (2007, Victoria, BC), the first recording of a new Rollins calypso; and "Some Enchanted Evening" (2007, New York City), from his 50th anniversary Carnegie Hall concert with Christian McBride and Roy Haynes. Road Shows' remaining three tracks were selected from Carl Smith's collection -- "Blossom" (1980, Umea, Sweden), a fascinating, little-known Rollins original that "came and went pretty fast in the repertoire," says Rollins; "Easy Living" (1980, Warsaw), from Sonny's first trip behind the Iron Curtain ("the people were starved for music"); and "Best Wishes" (1986, Tokyo), previously recorded on his 1982 Reel Life album. For future Road Shows compilations, Anderson and Rollins will have not only their own archives and Carl Smith's to draw from. "People have also submitted things to us," says Anderson, "most recently a tape from Keystone Korner in the mid-1970s and a cassette from the Bottom Line. The bands are different, the material's different; the one common denominator is Sonny killin' through all of it." Rollins, for a chance of pace, is looking ahead to his next studio album, which he is planning to begin at the conclusion of his fall concert season (Brazil in October, Germany in November/December).

The Ticats have signed Kenton Keith. I guess this means that they have given up on Jesse Lumsden, who gets injured far too often for a running back. http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home

I forgot to mention a few things about the Sask-BC game last night. The Riders are still in first place (tied), but they have now lost four of their last six games. With the onset of autumn, the Saskatchewan winds were kicking up. I love those games played in Regina when its windy! It's not uncommon for kicking records to be set with the wind at your back, and for punts to go straight up in the air and come down at the scrimmage line when you've got the wind in your face. There was a bad call against the Riders which was replayed on the scoreboard. A few fans behind the BC bench started throwing beer cans and coins at the players. Wally Buono briefly took his team away from the bench area. This sort of thing can get ugly quickly if the ushers don't handle the situation immediately. I didn't know there was any ballpark left in North America that allows beverage cans in the stands. http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...lobeSports/home ***** Montreal Alouettes 40....Edmonton Eskimos 4 http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...lobeSports/home http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform...aspx?id=4181065 The Eskimos didn't show up. This may have been the worst performance by any team this year. Ricky Ray was eventually lifted for Jason Maas.

Here you go, paps! http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=46561

I haven't paid attention to Australian rules football all season, but I check tonight and see that my favorite team, the Hawthorn Hawks, is going to play in the Grand Final this Saturday against the Geelong Cats! I assume that the game will begin at Friday night 9:00 pm pacific time (12 midnight Saturday morning eastern time), and will be carried at the link cited above. Any thoughts, Kenny? http://www.realfooty.com.au/

Calgary Stampeders 34....Toronto Argonauts 4 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/sto...ory/GlobeSports http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform...aspx?id=4180891 http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/Gam...6827331-cp.html Pretty grim. I listened to the Argos broadcast of the game, and the announcers commented on the idea that the first place Als are now the fifth best team in the league. I attended my first CFL game in 1976, and I believe that the Western Division has been superior to the Eastern every year since then. The Stamps are in good shape. They are now tied for first with the Riders, and they have coming up two games against the Ticats and one more against the Argos. The Stamps were my pre-season pick to win the Grey Cup, but of course pre-season analyses aren't worth too much in the CFL, the way things change so much over the course of the year. For example, I liked them because of their QB tandem of Burris and Dickenson. Well, that's over! ***** British Columbia Lions 27....Saskatchewan Roughriders 21 http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home Great game, but with a huge number of turnovers. Michael Bishop was pulled late in the first quarter in favor of Darian Durant, who is now back from his rib injury. Paul McCallum kicked six field goals, one short of the team record set twice by Lui Passaglia. This time out, the Riders lost centre Jeremy O'Day to an MCL injury. That gives them 21 serious injuries, the same number as the points they scored tonight. ***** If the Eskimos win Sunday, they will move into a tie for first place with the Riders and the Stampeders.

Winnipeg Blue Bombers 25....Hamilton Tiger-Cats 23 http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform...aspx?id=4180680 http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...lobeSports/home The Ticats would have tied it with less than a minute to go with a short field goal, and they blew it with a bad snap from centre. The Ticats have now lost 10 games this season. A team can make the playoffs at 8-10, but I would say never at 7-11 since the crossover began. So one more loss for the Ticats and that will be it. ***** Doug Flutie, Pinball Clemons, Mike Pringle et al. are being inducted into the Hall of Fame this weekend. http://64.246.64.33/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=s...aspx?id=4180771 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/sto...ory/GlobeSports http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/New...6820526-cp.html

Amen. No, it's not BS. The government definitely did. I just don't think that it played a significant role in what was ultimately, for a while, an extremely profitable industry. Guy Why not BS? I'd really like to know. Chuck, Jim and Bruce, I read on Digg late last night that Larry Kudlow made the same point I was making about this govt coercion on CNBC's Morning Joe Show yesterday. As I see it, this was simply a case of a politican (Clinton) paying back a constituency without whose help he wouldn't have been elected (the blacks). As far as I know, this has been going on since the days of Andrew Jackson. I see it as politics as usual rather than some sinister racial deal. I suspect, though, that the problem in this case was that not only were the blacks able to take advantage of the new easier credit standards, but also speculators and house flippers; thereby significantly increasing the number of people who obtained loans who shouldn't have. I see another factor that I haven't heard any of the talking heads talk about, but one which I have been railing about for two decades. A huge number of Americans were looking at their homes as an investment. And with the consistent increase in real estate values since ca. 1945, people came to see the investment as one that couldn't lose. So they would agree to any price. I have heard commentators this week say that people bought "too much house" as if they were being extravagant. In fact, I think that the value of modest homes has been far too high. As I see it, a home is a consumer good, not an investment. And anybody who thinks that an investment is a can't-lose proposition is a fool.

Fred Williams Week 13 preview http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform...aspx?id=4180515