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Joe Paterno, Rick Pitino and Mack Brown -- millionaires all and many times over. Their bosses? Go ahead. Try to name them. Even if you can -- Graham Spanier, James R. Ramsey and William C. Powers, for the record -- they're not household names. When it comes to their salaries, it's as though they're working in different worlds, not on the same campus. There are more than 90 football and basketball coaches making more than $1 million a year, including Brown, who tops out the football list at around $5 million at Texas, and Pitino, who brings in more than $7 million at Louisville. Meanwhile, there are only 10 presidents at the nation's 185 largest public universities taking home more than $725,000 annually. Call it an imbalance of priorities or tipping the scales, but it happens all across America when multimillion-dollar athletic programs become the face of a university instead of the other way around. "There's such an emphasis on building and expanding and paying top salaries that it's all tilted toward raising money," said Fisher DeBerry, who coached football for 23 years at Air Force and now serves as chairman of the American Football Coaches Association ethics committee. "Sometimes we lose the true essence of what we're doing out there. The true meaning of college sports is to help kids gain an education and become better people and find their place in society." If that's become lost on the schools, it's also lost on the public. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/wire?section=ncf&id=7274301

Hopefully he'll spend some of that money on some new threads... Damn. I didn't know he was with Rihanna.

MLB to test for HGH starting in 2012.... Story

The death of Steve Jobs was followed by an avalanche of superlatives - brilliant, genius, and visionary among the more common. He was likened to Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, and Thomas Edison. But in the case of Edison, there was one significant difference that went unmentioned. For more than a century, just one of Edison's inventions alone - the incandescent lightbulb - was manufactured at numerous locations in the United States, providing employment for millions of Americans across family generations. The Apple home computer, not at all. After only one generation, all the Apple manufacturing jobs in America disappeared, as the work of building and assembling the machines was turned over to laborers in sweatshops in China and other countries. Jobs that should have provided employment for Americans for decades to come were terminated. More here *To be fair I'm sure if outsourcing had existed back in Edison's day he would have jumped on that too.

Yes, it has a retractable roof. http://miami.marlins.mlb.com/mia/ballpark/webcam.jsp Well maybe all of those Heat fans will buy tix to see the Marlins since they won't be watching Bball in South Beach this season. http://www.google.com/search?q=miami+marlins+new+stadium&hl=en&biw=1024&bih=707&prmd=imvnsu&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=avLBTsTfJ-GV0QGjheGFDw&ved=0CDsQsAQ

If those accusations about Johnson are true, then he and Rhee make a perfect couple. We already know that her career as an educational reformer is that of a died-in-the-wool fake and liar. Rhee just hired the recently fired former head of the Philly school district, Arlene Ackerman, to push for school vouchers in Pennsylvania.

Oh no. I really hope this isn't true. Too much money, too many years, and from what I hear too much trouble.

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/7214380/joe-paterno-president-graham-spanier-penn-state

"With the benefit of hindsight, I wish I had done more."

"...with the benefit of hindsight, I wish I had done more." Joe Paterno 11/9/2011

The latest email(edited)from Promising Music... as new MPS re-issues from promising music will come not before March next year, we like to focus on our partner labels: We proudly present three new HGBS recordings We start off with two 180 gram vinyl releases. One is „Tribute To The Past“, a new solo piano album by Wolfgang Dauner, that we offer in CD DigiPak format already. The vinyl is strictly limited to 750 copies and each LP is hand signed by Dauner himself. The other is somewhat of a sensation, and solely available as 180 gram vinyl LP: When "Mr. Black Forest" Horst Jankowski recorded "Swinging Explosion" in 1971, MPS planned to release it as MPS 15310. Due to reasons beyond our knowledge this did not happen back then. The tapes were now found in the MPS vaults. They were in such a good shape that the HGBS label decided to release. As said: not on CD, but solely on vinyl. It's fully analogue, meaning: not only the old recording, but also the new mixing and mastering were done analogue. Truly "triple A". When the MPS Rhythm Combination & Brass, the big band led by Peter Herbolzheimer, toured in 1970 and 1971, MPS released a live double album entitled "My Kind Of Sunshine". HGBS augmented these recordings with selections of the "40 Years Of Bossa Nova" program that the German BuJazzO (National Youth Jazz Orchestra), again led by Herbolzheimer, played in 2005, and releases it as a double CD in DigiPak, with a 32-page-booklet.

I hope the Phillies choke on it. Why? What can you have against them? Goodie is pissed because Rollins had the nerve, the nerve, to steal 2nd when the Phillies were up by 6 runs in the top of the 6th in SF last summer. Supposedly there's some unwritten rule that only the SF Giants and their fans know about that says you can't steal when leading by 6 runs in the 6th inning. However, he's okay with a pitcher throwing at a batter's head and sees it as a perfectly acceptable form retaliation just as long as it's a SF pitcher doing the throwing and a non SF played getting beaned. Um. Never said it was OK to throw at anyone. What I said was, Cousins needs to eat dirt each and every time he's at bat vs. the Giants. Retaliation for sliding into Posey head first and off line, is IMO completely justified to plunk the SOB....and it is and has always been a part of the game. Being OK and justified are two entirely different concepts. If it was your guy who got nailed like that you'd be plenty pissed. And what that incident has to do with the no-class Phillies is beyond me. On point: I was pissed that their no-class manager dissed one of the best pitching staffs in the Majors in public. That steal was a total in-your-face show of disrespect for the Giants and the ensuing brawl started by the Philly players was a big bunch of bullshit, too. They got squashed out in the playoffs and justice was served...in spades. Look man, if you're going to get it wrong at least tell it right. If I'm going to get it wrong? Sigh. I knew I was going to regret engaging in a discussion w/ you. Okay look, you obviously need a little reminder so here it goes. The Phillies "no class manager" never "dissed" the Giants pitching staff. A reporter asked Manuel if he thought that Cain and Lincecum were great pitchers. He replied that he thought that they were "very, very, very, good" pitchers but not great. How is that a put down/"diss"?? Furthermore, the Giants manager Bruce Bochy backed up Manuel. "I guess what Charlie's point is, is longevity," Bochy said. "He's right. When you call somebody great, they've done it over quite a few years." The brawl was instigated when the SF pitcher(Ramirez) beaned the Phillies batter(Victorino) with the next pitch and the catcher(Eli Whiteside) tossed his mask and started hopping up and down like a prize fighter at the beginning of a bout. Squashed out of the playoffs? The Phillies lost a 5 game series 3 games to 2 following an epic pitching duel that they lost 1-0. How is that being squashed? Beaten yes, but squashed? No.

Unless you had knowledge of this whole event before it broke or are familiar with Penn State's football program I don't see how one could not be amazed by how Penn State/Paterno have handled this situation. As a causal(at best) college football fan who only knows of Joe Paterno's reputation as a class guy and one that had no knowledge of this investigation before Sunday night, yeah, I'm amazed.

R.I.P. Smokin' Joe. Philly loves ya.

I hope the Phillies choke on it. Why? What can you have against them? Goodie is pissed because Rollins had the nerve, the nerve, to steal 2nd when the Phillies were up by 6 runs in the top of the 6th in SF last summer. Supposedly there's some unwritten rule that only the SF Giants and their fans know about that says you can't steal when leading by 6 runs in the 6th inning. However, he's okay with a pitcher throwing at a batter's head and sees it as a perfectly acceptable form retaliation just as long as it's a SF pitcher doing the throwing and a non SF played getting beaned.

It just amazes me how badly Penn State officials have mishandled(and continue to mishandle) this situation.

I feel awful for the Rangers. Tough, tough loss. But if there is a silver lining I still think that as of right now - and that could change this off season once FA signing period begins - their chances for returning to the Series for a 3rd straight season are excellent. Except for Michael Young their core group of players is still pretty young. The window for them is still wide open.

Hipstamatic for still photos and 8mm for video.

This is an old quote/story but just in case you missed it....... Jobs had convinced Sculley, then-president of PepsiCo, to join Apple in 1983. Jobs wanted Sculley to help the declining Apple II — the first commercially successful line of personal computers — to continue generating cash flow for three more years while Jobs secured funds to launch the Macintosh computer line. “I actually turned Steve Jobs down as we were standing on the terrace of his New York City penthouse,” Sculley wrote in an email. “Steve had on his blue jeans and black turtleneck sweater. He paused, look down, then gazed directly at me and said, ‘Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life or come with me and change the world?’” http://thedp.com/index.php/article/2011/10/steve_jobs_leaves_lasting_legacy_among_penn_students_alumni_and_professors

Congrats to Texas on making it back to the World Series. Classy organization and fans.

No more Road Trips??!! Say it ain't so!! Unless they are going to offer on demand downloading http://www.dead.net/road-trips-vol4-no5

http://articles.philly.com/2011-10-09/news/30260473_1_inquirer-prestigious-band-musicians

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/oct/05/pentangle-bert-jansch-dies

Great article from AAJ http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=24210

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