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Cooper averaged 11 points and 10 rebounds per game last season, and tossed in 24 during Marshwood's 66-63 loss to Scarborough on Friday night. Dalecki averaged eight points per contest as a junior. Marshwood also returns senior point guard Ben Polichronopolous and senior guard Brendan Crosby. Crosby made 35 3-pointers last season. "We'll play up-tempo and try to make things happen that way," Zamarchi said. "Defensively we're gonna be tough. I see us making the playoffs, but a lot will depend on how we progress through the season and how the young kids step up." Traip Academy Coach: Jeremy Paul (fifth season). 2006 record: 14-7 (lost to Dirigo in Western Maine Class C semifinals). Returning starters: (1) Sr. F Trevor Higgins. Outlook: The Rangers look like they have the pieces for a successful season.
Robertses face more lawsuits
A former Oral Roberts University senior accountant filed a lawsuit Wednesday claiming he was forced to quit because he refused to stay silent about ORU and others allegedly requiring him to falsely list assets as expenses.
Trent Huddleston's lawsuit claims "he was directed, against his will and over his objections," to defraud the Internal Revenue Service, the Oklahoma Tax Commission and the public "in particular for the protection of . . . Richard and Lindsay Roberts . . ."
Richard Roberts is on a leave of absence as ORU president while university regents and independent auditors investigate allegations made in an earlier lawsuit by former professors John Swails, Tim Brooker, and Paulita Brooker. That suit claims the Roberts family misspent ORU and Oral Roberts Ministries money, among other allegations.
Zappa on 'Steve Allen': Meeting of the mad
The internet site YouTube is an ever-changing repository of video clips, both amateur and professional. A while back, bored, I searched for videos involving our local cities. Online Extra: Read more David Allen colunms
Not surprisingly, there are plenty - including at least one flat-out hilarious clip and one jaw-dropper involving Frank Zappa and Steve Allen. First, the hilarious one. It's a clip from the WB's "The Jamie Kennedy Experiment" documenting a prank at a ballgame at Rancho Cucamonga's Epicenter involving an intentionally awful version of the national anthem. A singer introduced as "international recording artist Wayne Logan" sings the anthem in full, then keeps going with a nonsense verse. Then a second, then a third. No one can figure out how to react.
Ponderings from PapaBear
There's a few sports related topics that have gotten under my skin over the last several days. This is a good day for a rant. Let's start with the Ohio State Buckeyes football team and their selection by the BCS to be one of the participents in the National Title Game. Since the day the selection was announced I've been hearing a lot of Buckeye bashing from various comments on blogs, articles, friends, and co-workers (I live in Texas). "They don't deserve it", "They had their chance last year", "They backed in", "They played a cream puff schedule", and on and on! They did back in. I won't argue that, but you can also say that about the LSU Tigers. They lost their second to last game of the season as did the Buckeyes and fell in the polls just like OSU did after the loss and I'm not hearing a word muttered about that team backing in.
Huckleberries Online
DFO: Idawa came "in from the cold" earlier today, identifying himself to me. He's a young man with deep roots in North Idaho who currently lives in the Seattle area. A top-notch dude. I was thrilled to get to know him a little via e-mail. It'll make his posts here more enjoyable in the future because I do. So, I'm going to lay down this challenge to the rest of you totally anonymous blurkers. I'd like to know who you are (via private e-mail, of course). It increases your standing on the blog in my eyes. And makes my blogging experience richer. Question: Are you ready to come in from the cold? .
The Anti-Freedom Agenda
It would pay for news broadcasts over satellite television, not just shortwave radio. It would not cut back on democracy assistance in neighboring Russia, or Ukraine, or other post-Soviet states. Most of all it would face the reality of a gathering anti-freedom bloc. Belarus's strongman, Alexander Lukashenko, was in Venezuela over the weekend, visiting Hugo Ch¿vez. This week Russia's Putin will make his first foreign trip since consolidating one-party rule in his sham election, to see Lukashenko. The three leaders have virtually nothing in common -- except that they see democracy, and therefore the United States, as a threat. The Bush administration consistently has expected Russia and China to cooperate in areas of mutual interest, as if the nature of their regimes were irrelevant.
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