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It wasn't long ago that free throws were an item on the Wyoming Cowboys' laundry list of problems.But after a 26-of-27 day from the line led to a 72-64 win over Utah in Laramie on Saturday, free-throw shooting is one quandary that can be considered fixed."We work on it a lot," UW coach Heath Schroyer said after the Cowboys' second consecutive win. "We shoot them every day for 15 minutes or so."And I think the guys are starting to value how important they are."UW senior forward Joseph Taylor echoed that sentiment and pointed to one game where he found out the hard way just how important free throws can be.Taylor was just 1-for-6 from the charity stripe in the Pokes' first meeting with Air Force, a costly overtime loss at home in which the team made just 13 of 22 attempts."I missed that shot at Air Force," he said.
Pat's Beside the Point
Only three pictures hang in the office of Cavaliers coach Mike Brown at Quicken Loans Arena. Two are of his family. The other is of his players joining hands high in the air, an action and a picture that he says represents ''team.'' Brown starts an All-Star Game assessment of his team by talking about the ways he can improve as a coach. He continues by praising his players for winning despite more injuries than they would like to count. This is the same coach who works the sideline markers at his son's grade-school football games and who greets everyone by first name. This coach preaches defense, but spent part of the offseason in Europe studying ways to improve the offense. He's not afraid to let players suggest plays in key moments or to let them call a play that will take precedence over his during a game.
The Legacy of Bush II
They are quite candid about it, even acknowledging their mean spirit in accomplishing it. Their leading strategist in Washington - the same Grover Norquist – has famously said he wants to shrink the government down to the size that it could be drowned in a bathtub. More recently, in commenting on the fiscal crisis in the states and its affect on schools and poor people, Norquist said, "I hope one of them" – one of the states – "goes bankrupt." So much for compassionate conservatism. But at least Norquist says what he means and means what he says. The White House pursues the same homicidal dream without saying so. Instead of shrinking down the government, they're filling the bathtub with so much debt that it floods the house, water-logs the economy, and washes away services for decades that have lifted millions of Americans out of destitution and into the middle-class.
Iraq Casts Shadow on Ohio, Texas Votes
In an Associated Press-Yahoo News poll in December, nearly half of all respondents said they would be more likely to vote for a candidate who supports immediate withdrawal of troops, while just over a third said they would be less likely to do so. Only 15 percent said a candidate's war position would make no difference. Backing for the war divides sharply along partisan lines. A staggering 92 percent of Democrats in that poll said they opposed the war while 65 percent of Republicans favored it. Another result could bode ill for McCain: 77 percent of independents also said they oppose the war. That swing voting group is critical in the general election. The change in public sentiment about the war over the last five years is evident in McConnelsville, Ohio. As the war began in March 2003, this sleepy Appalachian town bid farewell to what was then the largest single deployment of Ohio Army National Guard troops in a single unit, some 433.
Lombard astronaut longs for a sushi bar, Chicago-style pizza in space
If his astronaut gig doesn't work out, Lombard's Dan Tani said he can always get a job as a hot dog taster. In a quirky interview Thursday based on questions submitted by Daily Herald readers, Tani relaxed a little bit and joked around about some of his experiences over the past three months in space. Yes, he wants to get home. His expected eight-week tour turned into a three-month stay with a hazy return date, and was marred by the tragic death of his mother, Rose. .
BACK IN IRAQ: THE 'WHORES OF WAR'
Senator John Warner, former head of the Senate armed services committee, once called Blackwater the "silent partner in the global war on terror". Scahill went on to call Prince a "neo-crusader, a Christian supremacist, who has been given hundreds of millions of dollars in federal contracts this is a man who espouses Christian supremacy, and he has been allowed to create a private army to defend Christendom around the world. He refers to Blackwater as the FedEx of the Pentagon. He says if you really want a package to get somewhere, do you go with the postal service or do you go with FedEx? This is how these people view themselves." Although the company was set up in 1996, it wasn't until 2004 that the world really took notice of it. On March 31 that year, four Blackwater mercs foolishly drove through Fallujah - an insurgent stronghold.
Ex-mobster a big hit warning college, pro athletes about gambling's ...
FAIRFAX, Va. -- It's clear right away - long before the woman sitting up front asks, ''Did you shoot anyone?'' - that this guy with the straight-out-of-central-casting Brooklyn accent and gold chain is not your typical college lecturer. It's clear from Michael Franzese's life story - the 17 years in the mafia, the millions upon millions of ill-gotten gains, the ''Yuppie Don'' nickname, the prison term - that he is a breed apart from the professors usually addressing this crowd. And it's clear, from the wide eyes and dropped jaws in a George Mason University auditorium on a recent evening, that these kids in their gray hooded sweat shirts are listening intently, drawn in by Franzese's message and mien. They're hearing Franzese deliver the same, simple points he makes to college athletes and coaches, to NBA rookies and Major League Baseball players and umpires, to professional tennis players and NFL veterans.
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Umbria Announces Webinar on "Making Social Media Work"
Umbria CEO Janet Eden-Harris hosts Forrester Research Senior Analyst Peter Kim to conduct a webinar entitled "Web 2.0 Meets Marketing 2.0: Making Social Media Work" on November 7 at 3:00 pm EST. The webinar explores the importance and growing influence of social media, and how organizations can leverage social media to inform marketing programs including product development, advertising, and competitive analysis. To register for this webinar, visit http://www.umbrialistens.com/forms/landing/webinarNov7.php
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OUR VIEW: File a lawsuit and fix Fairhaven
That the family of a former Fairhaven High School student who was subjected to a twisted form of hazing and then essentially forced to flee his tormentors and enroll in private school should demand compensation from the town is not surprising. We urge the Marujo family to file suit to get this long-shrouded and disgraceful incident out in the open. If the town and its insurance company simply agree to pay the $1 million the Marujos are seeking, the events that harmed Matthew Marujo and the culture that sanctioned those events will never really be known. .
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