An overtime win on a 68 yard pass to santana moss? Brilliant!


I'm listening to all the games on internet radio up here so I dont exactly get the whole experience, but as soon as that game ended i quit working and walked to my house to drink some beer. Go skins!

Look for the oldschool Skyline GT-R 4 door!

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Hey, who's got one? Since the trans is out, I was going to rebuild the axles. No sweat if no one has one. I would need it for a week and I'm in Centreville, VA so...

Absolutely amazing show guys. I can't thank Dryft Motorsports enough for letting us use their lot and dyno!!! Enjoy the pics and post those that you took.

So I just heard that JMU is cutting 10 varsity sports teams

Quote:September 29, 2006

HARRISONBURG ÔÇö James Madison University's Board of Visitors voted today to approve a plan to bring the JMU Athletics program into compliance with Title IX.

The plan will take effect July 1, 2007, when the following varsity teams will be eliminated:

Men's
Archery
Cross Country
Gymnastics
Indoor Track
Outdoor Track
Swimming
Wrestling

Women's
Archery
Fencing
Gymnastics

With 28 varsity teams, the JMU Athletics program ties for the rank of seventh in terms of the number of teams among all 327 Division I schools nationally.

"The JMU Athletics program is unusually large for a public university of our size," said Joseph Damico, rector of the JMU Board of Visitors. "With so many teams, we faced an insurmountable challenge coming into compliance with Title IX. Fundamentally, that is why the Board voted today for this plan."

The proportionality requirements of Title IX mandate that collegiate athletics programs mirror each school's undergraduate population in terms of gender. As of the fall semester 2006, JMU's proportions place it fundamentally out of compliance with federal law:

Overall Enrollment
Female 61%
Male 39%

Athletics Participation
Female 50.7%
Male 49.3%

Jeff Bourne, JMU athletics director, said, "We explored every avenue in search of an alternative to this action. Lamar Daniel, a well-known consultant on Title IX compliance, has worked closely with us and he believes that this plan is our most viable alternative for reaching compliance with Title IX."

Once this plan is fully implemented, total participation in athletics will move to 61 percent female and 39 percent male, in alignment with current student enrollment. The university will then have 18 intercollegiate sports:

Men's
Baseball
Basketball
Football
Golf
Soccer
Tennis

Women's
Basketball
Cross Country
Field Hockey
Golf
Lacrosse
Soccer
Softball
Swimming
Tennis
Track, Indoor
Track, Outdoor
Volleyball

This decision affects 144 student-athletes currently participating in these sports, as well as three full-time and eight part-time coaches.

"Now that the Board has voted to enact this plan, our main concern is with our affected student-athletes and coaches," said Bourne. "We are taking great care to preserve the financial guarantees already made to our student-athletes. If you are a student-athlete on an affected team and you are receiving a scholarship, you will continue to receive that scholarship until you graduate."

Currently, eight students on the rosters of the 10 affected teams receive a total of $13,500 in scholarships. Access to sports-medicine and academic-advising programs also will be available to them. Any affected student-athletes who decide to transfer to another program will be provided with full assistance regarding the transfer process. Affected coaches will receive severance packages appropriate to the university's policies and procedures.

All of the financial resources recovered from the implementation of this plan will be redirected to provide the full complement of NCAA scholarships for women's golf, tennis and swimming. Partial scholarship funding will return to men's golf and tennis, with a plan to enhance to full funding by 2011.

To view online the press conference held Friday afternoon to announce the plan, go to <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://media.jmu.edu/special/8_924.asx">http://media.jmu.edu/special/8_924.asx</a><!-- m -->. Attending are JMU President Linwood Rose, Board of Visitors Rector Joseph Damico, Associate Athletic Director Sheila Moorman, BOV member Wharton Rivers Jr., and Athletic Director Jeff Bourne.

So I signed up for the free NESBA "Intro" sessions during the 10/21 event at VIR's Patriot Course. Anyone want to join me?

I can't remember when the last was that both Formula 1 and GP motorcycle racing championships have come down to the wire like they have this year. It has to have at least been a decade since we've had such a title chase in both series.

F O R M U L A 1

In Formula 1 Renault's Fernando Alonso and Ferrari's Michael Schumacher are separated by a mere 2 points with three races in the championship left to go. This weekend's China GP at Shanghai, next weekend's Japanese GP at Suzuka which Mikey and I will be attending, and the season finale at Brazil's Interlagos circuit.

A few weeks ago after his win at Monza, 7 time world champion Michael Schumacher announced his retirement from Formula 1. These are the last three races of his career and everyone is waiting with baited breath to see if he can unseat current champion Fernando Alonso for his 8th driver's title.

Of course, just about every time you talk about Ferrari there is some sort of controversy and here we are, talking 'bout some controversy. The first big issue was that the FIA outlawed Renault's mass damper system, ruling that it constituted a movable aerodynamic device. The mass damper was a suspended weight in the nose of the Renault that controlled the pitch of the nose and thus the angle of attack of the front wing. Renault had been using the system for quite some time when out of the blue the FIA decided to make it illegal.

The next major scandal was a qualifying penalty given to Fernando Alonso for "blocking" Felipe Massa's qualifying run. Here is a video of the incident:

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The penalty dropped Alonso from 5th to 10th on the grid. Many saw this as the FIA trying to hand Michael Schumacher some extra help in winning the championship and indeed the penalty did seem farcical. However the FIA metted out a similar penalty to Jacques Villeneuve for "blocking" Giancarlo Fisichella (Alonso's teammate) in qualifying. It was a questionable penalty then, but you didn't see anyone at Renault protesting the unfairness of the penalty at that time. My interpretation is that it was a BS penalty in both cases, it just so happens that it went against Renault instead of for Renault this time.

So here we are, its down to crunch time and the championship is close. Renault has sort of been on their back foot ever since losing the mass damper and I'm willing to bet that Ferrari will be very strong at Suzuka since Japan is where their tire supplier Bridgestone is based. One has to wonder if it comes down to the last race for the title and Schumacher is leading will he try to take out Alonso the way he deliberately took out Damon Hill back in 1994 (and Jacques Villeneuve in 1997)? Schumacher has proven on many occasions that he is not only among the best of all time (if not the best) but also among the most ruthless.

Whatever the outcome, these last few races are not to be missed. Will Schumacher retire as an 8 time champion or will Alonso be celebrating a back-to-back?

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"If there is one more item of Uzbek propaganda claiming that we do not drink fermented horse urine, give death penalty for baking bagels, or export over 300 tons of human pubis per year, then we will be left with no alternative but to commence bombardment of their cities with our catapults," Borat said."

So I was driving along and BAM!! it hit me, I need a new hood and front bumper, then I was thinking might as well get a new front radiator support, then for the hell of it, I think ill buy a paint job for the rear bumper off of some lady's car. Oh now your thinkin..... Yep I got into an accident. It was raining, and a truck pulled out in front of her, she slammed on the brakes, I wasnt paying attention like a good driver and slammed on my brakes too late. So I banged up my car pretty good.

The car will be at the MM car show, can I get most damaged? This sucks, I guess you guys are right, the DSM is never operational lol.

Just got this email from a friend of mine:

NEVER KNEW THIS BEFORE.
> I wonder how many people know about this?
>
> A 36 year old female had an accident several weeks
> ago and totaled her car.
>
> A resident of Kilgore, Texas, she was traveling
> between Gladewater & Kilgore. It was raining, though
> not excessively, when her car suddenly began to
> hydroplane and literally flew through the air. She
> was not seriously injured but very stunned at the
> sudden occurrence!
>
> When she explained to the highway patrolman what
> had happened he told her something that every driver
> should know - NEVER DRIVE IN THE RAIN WITH
> YOUR CRUISE CONTROL ON. She had thought she
> was being cautious by setting the cruise control and
> maintaining a safe consistent speed in the rain .
>
> But the highway patrolman told her that if the
> cruise control is on and your car begins to hydroplane --
> when your tires lose contact with the pavement, your
> car will accelerate to a higher rate of speed and you
> take off like an airplane. She told the patrolman that
> was exactly what had occurred.
>
> The highway patrol estimated her car was actually
> traveling through the air at 10 to 15 miles per hour
> faster than the speed set on the cruise control.
>
> The patrolman said this warning should be listed,
> on the driver's seat sunvisor - NEVER USE THE
> CRUISE CONTROL WHEN THE PAVEMENT
> IS WET OR ICY - along with the airbag warning. We tell
> our teenagers to set the cruise control and drive a safe
> speed, but we don't tell them to use the cruise control
> only when the pavement is dry.
>
> The only person the accident victim found, who
> knew this (besides the patrolman), was a man who had
> had a similar accident, totaled his car and sustained
> severe injuries.

I've never really thought about that before, is it true? Traditionally I've rarely used cruise control, but lately since I commute a lot on 81 I set it pretty much every day. Haven't used it in the rain yet though... if this is the case I'll have to remember it before I do!