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Horse Racing: Kentucky Derby winner Orb to tackle Triple Crown

May 6, 2013 By Admin

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(Reuters) – The connections of Kentucky Derby winner Orb have already set their sights on trying to complete the Triple Crown after their colt pulled up well from his victory in the first leg.

Shug McGaughey, the Kentucky-based trainer of Orb, wasted no time declaring his intentions to run the three-year-old in the remaining two legs.

Speaking to reporters outside the winner’s barn at Churchill Downs on Sunday morning, McGaughey said he was already thinking about the next two races, the Preakness Stakes on May 18 and the Belmont Stakes on June 8.

“I’m looking forward to getting the process going again and seeing what happens and go from there,” McGaughey said.

“I said last week that I wished it had happened to me earlier so I didn’t have to worry about it anymore, but I’m not sure I believe that now.

“Yesterday was quite a day and today’s been quite a day so far. It’s been quite, quite a thrill.”

McGaughey said Orb was being flown to New York on Sunday and would remain there before being moved to Baltimore next week to finish off his preparations for the Preakness.

AGONISING WAIT

It has been 35 years since a horse last completed the Triple Crown. That was Affirmed in 1978 and the wait for another horse to win the three races has been agonizing.

Last year, I’ll Have Another won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness to renew hopes, but was scratched on the eve of the Belmont and never raced again.

What makes the Triple Crown so difficult to win is the makeup and timing of the three races.

They are each held in different states, over different distances, during a span of five weeks. And the winner invariably faces different opposition each time.

It is not uncommon for the horses which finish close behind the winner in the Preakness (1 3/16 mile) to save themselves for the 1 1/2 mile Belmont, the longest and most grueling of the three races. The Kentucky Derby is 1 1/4 miles.

The field for the Preakness will not be decided until just a few days before the race but only a handful of the 19 horses who contested the Derby are expected to back up.

Trainer Dallas Stewart, who prepared the Derby runner-up Golden Soul, said his horse was unlikely to race in the Preakness.

“At this point, I think we will pass on the Preakness and look at the Belmont,” Stewart said. “That would give us five weeks and hopefully we can get one of the three (races in the Triple Crown series).”

Revolutionary, which finished third for trainer Todd Pletcher, was also skipping the Preakness to save himself for the Belmont, as was his stablemate Overanalyze.

Normandy Invasion, which led the field turning for home and finished fourth, will not race in the Preakness either and was being aimed at the $1 million Travers at Saratoga.

Mylute, which finished fifth under jockey Rosie Napravnik, was a strong possibility to take on Orb in the Preakness as long as the horse was not fatigued.

“We need a couple more days to think about it,” said Todd Quast, the general manager of the farm which owns Mylute.

“When he came out of the Louisiana Derby he was so high that we worked him back eight days later. If he comes back with that kind of energy we have to seriously look at it.”

Doug O’Neill, who won last year’s Preakness with I’ll Have Another, said he would saddle up Goldencents in the Preakness even though the colt was well beaten in the Kentucky Derby.

Goldencents, which won the Santa Anita Derby, was among the favorites to win the Run For the Roses, but struggled in the wet and muddy conditions and finished 17th.

“We’re a go for the Preakness,” O’Neill declared.

(This story was corrected to fix race in 16th paragraph)

(Reporting by Julian Linden in New York, Editing by Gene Cherry)

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NFL News: Pat Summerall dead at 82

April 16, 2013 By Admin

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DALLAS (AP) — Pat Summerall, the deep-voiced NFL player-turned-broadcaster who spent half of his four decades calling sports famously paired with John Madden, died Tuesday. He was 82.

Susie Wiles, Summerall’s daughter, said her father died in Dallas.

”He was an extraordinary man and a wonderful father,” Wiles said. ”I know he will be greatly missed.”

Summerall was part of network television broadcasts for 16 Super Bowls. His last championship game was for Fox on Feb. 3, 2002, also his last game with longtime partner Madden. The popular duo worked together for 21 years, moving to Fox in 1994 after years as the lead team for CBS.

At the end of their final broadcast together, Madden described Summerall as ”a treasure” and the ”spirit of the National Football League” in a tribute to the partner that complemented the former coach so well.

”You are what the NFL is all about, what pro football is all about, and more important, what a man is all about and what a gentleman is all about,” Madden said.

As former teammate and broadcaster Frank Gifford put it in an accompanying video tribute: ”America is very comfortable with Pat Summerall.”

Summerall played 10 NFL seasons (1952-61) with the Chicago Cardinals and New York Giants. In his second career, he became a voice so familiar to several generations of sports fans, not only those of the NFL.

He started doing NFL games for CBS in 1964, and became a play-by-play guy 10 years later. He was also part of CBS’s coverage of the PGA Tour, including the Masters from 1968-94, and the U.S. Open tennis tournament.

When CBS lost its NFL deal after the 1993 season, Summerall switched to Fox to keep calling NFL games with Madden. He had hoped to keep working with CBS for other events like the Masters, but network executives saw it otherwise. At the time, CBS Sports anchor Jim Nantz said he was ”very saddened” that Summerall didn’t get to leave CBS under his own terms.

”He is CBS Sports. I always thought he could work here until he was 75 or 80 years old,” Nantz told The Philadelphia Daily News then. ”He’s been a much larger influence on my career than I think he realizes. There will be a piece of Pat Summerall on the air as long as I do golf for this network.”

A recovering alcoholic, Summerall had a liver transplant in April 2004. The lifesaving surgery was necessary even after 12 years of sobriety.

After an intervention involving, among others, former NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle, former CBS Sports President Peter Lund and former PGA Tour Commissioner Deane Beaman, Summerall checked into the Betty Ford Clinic in April 1992.

”I had no intention of quitting, I was having too good a time,” Summerall said in a 2000 Associated Press story. ”The prescribed stay at Betty Ford is 28 days. They kept me 33 because I was so angry at the people who did the intervention, the first five days didn’t do me any good.”

Summerall received the liver of a 13-year-old junior high football player from Arkansas who died unexpectedly from an aneurysm. Summerall had an emotional meeting with the teenager’s family the following year.

Summerall often shared his testimony with Christian groups and told his story when speaking before other organizations. In his 2006 book, ”Summerall: On and Off The Air,” he frankly discussed his personal struggles and professional successes.

Long before broadcasting Super Bowl games, 16 for television and 10 more for radio – in fact, before there was even a Super Bowl – Summerall played a role in what is known in football circles as ”The Greatest Game Ever Played,” the 1958 NFL championship. The Giants lost to the Baltimore Colts 23-17 in the NFL’s first-ever overtime game.

Born George Allen Summerall on May 10, 1930 in Lake City, Fla., he was an All-State prep football and basketball player there, and lettered in baseball and tennis. He played college football at Arkansas before going to the NFL.

After breaking his arm in the preseason as a rookie for Detroit, Summerall played five years for the Chicago Cardinals before four seasons with the Giants. While he was also a defensive back, Summerall was primarily a kicker, making 100 field goals and 256 of 265 extra points in his career.

When asked about his fondest NFL memories during a May 2009 interview with the AP, Summerall said there were things that stood out as a player and broadcaster.

”You always remember the days as a player. I was in four championship games before there was a Super Bowl, so I remember those very well,” he said. ”Broadcasting, I remember the last (Super Bowl) I did. Of course, I remember that. I remember the first one most vividly than any of the rest.”

Summerall was part of the NBC and CBS simulcast of the inaugural Super Bowl in Los Angeles on Jan. 15, 1967. After working the first half in the broadcast booth, he switched places with Gifford at halftime and was a sideline reporter during the second half.

”To look at the Coliseum that day and see that there were like 40,000 empty seats and the most expensive ticket was $12, it’s incredible to realize what was going on and what it’s grown to over the years,” he said during the 2009 AP interview. ”It’s sort of staggering to me.”

Summerall, who spent his final years in the Dallas area, living in Southlake, was a member of the North Texas Super Bowl host committee for the game played there in February 2011 in the $1.1 billion Cowboys Stadium that opened in 2009.

”It’s a little bit different in that, it’s in my neighborhood, it’s in my home,” Summerall said in advance of that Super Bowl in which Green Bay defeated Pittsburgh. ”It’s quite an honor just to be part of it.”

Summerall became a play-by-play announcer in 1974, and it was strictly by accident. He was working with Jack Buck, and CBS boss Bob Wussler thought the two commentators sounded too much alike. Summerall told Wussler that if a change was going to be made that he’d like to do play-by-play, and the following Sunday that’s what Summerall was doing.

His final play-by-play words beside Madden highlighted Summerall’s succinctness when calling the game-ending field goal.

”It’s right down the pipe. Adam Vinatieri. No time on the clock. And the Patriots have won Super Bowl XXXVI. Unbelievable,” Summerall said.

Sparse, exciting, perfect. A flawless summation without distracting from the reaction viewers could see on the screen.

After his final game with Madden, Summerall remained a full-time broadcaster for Fox one more season, doing primarily Dallas Cowboys games during the 2002 season. He decided to step down the following year when he realized he would spend most of the season away from home.

Summerall did a handful of NFL games for Fox and ESPN the next few seasons. He did play-by-play for Fox’s broadcast of the Cotton Bowl’s games from 2007-10, then for the bowl’s 75th anniversary in January 2011 conducted interviews as part of the pregame show and game broadcast. He also had voiceovers that were part of Masters broadcasts for CBS and game broadcasts on NFL Network.

Funeral arrangements were incomplete.

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AP Sports Writer Schuyler Dixon, AP Writer Gary Fineout and AP Television Writer David Bauder contributed to this report.

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Golf – The Masters 2013: Tiger Woods is left to ponder one simple question… What if

April 16, 2013 By Admin

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(PhatzRadio / AP) — AUGUSTA, Ga. — It was a Masters of “What Ifs” for Tiger Woods.

What if that wedge shot at 15 on Friday hadn’t hit the flagstick, zipped back into the pond and sparked the biggest Masters rules flap since Roberto De Vincenzo forfeited the green jacket by signing an incorrect scorecard in 1968?

What if Woods, who himself signed an incorrect scorecard after the second round, had decided to quietly withdraw from this 77th Masters instead of taking a controversial two-stroke penalty and carrying on in pursuit of his fifth title? What might that have done to help rehabilitate his battered public image?

What if a television viewer had never called in to report Tiger’s incorrect drop to begin with? What if Woods had not unwittingly told ESPN’s Tom Rinaldi that he had taken an illegal drop? What if the drop wasn’t illegal? What if, as side-by-side photos in Sunday’s Augusta Chronicle seemed to suggest, Woods was mistaken and that he actually did drop the ball close to where he had originally played, as the rule required?

What if he didn’t actually deserve to be penalized? Woods would have begun the third round just three shots back instead of five and the fourth round just two back instead of four. What if the greens at Augusta National weren’t slower than years past and Woods had a better feel for their pace? What if he had holed a handful more putts?

So how ’bout it, Tiger, what if …?

“Well, we could do that ‘what if’ in every tournament we lose,” Woods said after a disappointing final-round 70 that left him four shots out of a playoff on a damp, drizzly day at Augusta National.

He’s right, of course. “What If” can be a silly game. But still, the “what ifs” were as ubiquitous in this tournament as the azaleas at Amen Corner. You can’t not ask “what if”. It was that kind of a week for Woods. And now that it’s over? Well, the rules brouhaha will remain on our minds for days, maybe weeks, but then fade away. It will go down as a curious sidebar in Masters history, an odd Friday-into-Saturday happening, but not much more.

The story that will linger, at least until June and the next major, the U.S. Open at Merion, is what did we learn about Woods in this 2013 Masters? Early Sunday evening as a drizzle fell on Augusta National and the customary roars echoed through the pines, the prohibitive favorite didn’t win, or, for that matter, even genuinely threaten to win.

Woods had a number in mind for himself Sunday. He usually does. It was 65. (“I thought 10 would win it outright,” he said Sunday evening.) He was right: 10-under would have won it, and 9-under would have landed him in a playoff with Adam Scott and Angel Cabrera. When Woods’s putter let him down early — he said he left every putt short for “probably the first eight holes” — it led to a front-nine 37, which at one point had him a distant seven strokes off Cabrera’s lead. When Woods opened the second nine with three pars, then made a tricky, bending two-putt birdie at 13, it energized the fans sitting beneath a sea of green-and-white umbrellas.

“Four shots back now!” a voice cried after Woods’s birdie putt fell.

Woods is now 0-for-15 in the majors since the 2008 U.S. Open and winless at the Masters since 2005. But the fans love him no less for it. Even with a couple of Australians chasing the first green jacket for their sports-mad nation and loveable Brandt Snedeker looking for redemption after his 2008 Masters meltdown, Woods still remained the clear fan favorite. As he strolled past the grandstand above the 14th tee, no fewer than 17 patrons cried out his name. When he reached the crest of the fairway at the par-5 15th, thousands gathered down near the green strained for a glimpse, including a fan near the top of the greenside grandstand. “Jesus,” said the woman with a soft Southern twang, “please do not put that umbrella back up! Tiger Woods is coming through.”

And come through he did. When he knocked his second shot at 15 to 20 feet right of the hole, setting up a makeable eagle try, the gallery buzzed. This was it. A Tiger Moment in the making. Woods was at 4-under at that point, four back of Cabrera. An eagle would get him to within two and turn the tournament on its head. It was the kind of putt he used to make, not always, but often. The must-make. The legacy-builder. Woods missed it. High and right. Never had a chance. He tapped in for his birdie, but you sensed — and certainly Woods must have, too — that it was too little, too late.

“I certainly missed my share of putts today, actually this week,” Woods said later. “I also made a bunch too. So it’s one of those things where this golf course was playing a little bit tricky. We had four different green speeds out there and I couldn’t believe how slow they were the first two days. Yesterday, I couldn’t believe how fast they were, and then today it was another different speed again.”

Woods’s woes on the greens came as a surprise. Coming into this week, he was leading the PGA Tour in putting, and he has been “rolling his rock,” as he likes to say, about as well as he ever has. But as Johnny Miller said earlier in the week, the beguiling greens at Augusta National are a long way from Bay Hill or Doral, where Woods won last month.

With his round complete, Woods spoke to reporters under gloomy skies and a steady rain. Woods never hangs around long when chatting with the press, but in these dreary conditions it was hard to fault the guy for wanting to seek shelter. When the scrum disbanded, Woods and his two closest handlers, Mark Steinberg and Glenn Greenspan, escorted him into the clubhouse. Steinberg excused himself to track down another of his clients, Matt Kuchar, and Greenspan also slipped off, leaving Woods alone.

Woods ascended the spiral staircase to the second floor and ambled past a room full of members and guests who were so riveted by the closing moments of the CBS telecast that many seemed not to even notice him. Woods kept walking and disappeared into the champions’ locker room. That woody sanctuary must conjure plenty of wonderful memories for the four-time winner. But on Sunday evening, it must also have served as a place for quiet reflection.

What if…

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Guys’ one-minute guide to love

March 4, 2013 By Admin Leave a Comment

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(PhatzNewsRoom/ Match.com) — Are guys suddenly more open to getting — and giving — dating advice? It seems so! For whatever reasons, more men are weighing in with real advice for their fellow men.

In my article titled “Dating advice books for men,” I scoured the self-help and nonfiction bestseller lists and found a plethora of dating advice books written specifically for women. But I found only a handful for the guys, which I found troubling. Given the men I’ve spoken with recently, it seems that the male point of view on romance is rather underrepresented. So I took to the streets to interview real men, aged 18 to 66, to get their best dating tips.

We’ve come a long way from the days when men were silent on matters of the heart. Some of my interviews took only a minute or so, but as Long Islander Eddie, 32, told me: “Sometimes the best advice is the quickest advice, you know? It doesn’t have to be a soliloquy if it makes sense. Guys might actually prefer hearing quick tips — especially if they’re straight from the heart, from [another] guy who’s been there.”

So without further ado, here is my guys’ one-minute guide to love, including 10 top tips from men who share the one crucial piece of advice they believe other men need to know:

1. Don’t settle, but don’t commit halfheartedly, either. “My one piece of advice is this: Don’t settle, but don’t commit half-heartedly, either,” says Los Angeles native Larry, 45. “If you’re in, be all in. It’s easy to look around and think there’s something better to the point that it stops you from making a real commitment. But that’s immature; real men grow out of that.”

2. Don’t take love for granted when you find it. “Realize what you have when you have it,” says New Yorker Ethan, 32. “That’s really the key. So many guys just play with love and at love, not realizing sometimes when they have it in the palms of their hands and letting it slip away. They are either careless or disloyal. You have to hold on tight to a good thing — not too tight, but tight enough to keep it in your grasp.”

3. Life’s too short to fight constantly with your partner. “Limit the fighting,” Says Marylander Walter, 66. “My first marriage ended because we fought all the time, over mostly little things. Over some big things, too, but I’ve learned that life’s too short. I was a guy who was told to always win a fight. But the truth is that men also know how to be good losers with a mate. Being right doesn’t always get you what you want. You can win the fight, but lose the war.”

4. It’s up to you to make dating more exciting. “Keep it exciting,” says San Franciscan Matt, 18. “It’s up to you to not get bored. Don’t be a bore, either; plan stuff, keep your dates surprising, and have an occasional ‘wow’ factor — something over-the-top special.”

5. You don’t have to understand a woman in order to love her. “Loving her doesn’t mean you have to understand her,” says North Carolinian Al, 51. “Whoever told us we needed to understand our partner? I’ve learned that you can talk a problem to death and never solve it. Sometimes the best thing to say is nothing. Sometimes, [just] listening is enough. Acknowledging that you heard [what she said] doesn’t mean having to say you understand.”

6. Know what you want. “Know what you want,” says Washingtonian Mike, 39. “It takes a while to figure out what you want, but that’s what you have to do on your own. Figure it out! Only you know what will make you happy. You learn what your basic type is, who can make you happy — and also, you learn who you can make happy. That’s important, too.”

7. In relationships, having a space that works really matters. “Create a space that works for you and your wife or girlfriend,” says Florida resident Andrew, 35. “My dad told me the secret to his marriage of 40 years was [having] separate bathrooms. And now, after being married for five years, I agree with him. You have to create space where you both are really comfortable. Shared space is good, but you need your separate space, too. You want to know where size really does matter in a relationship? When it comes to where you live!”

8. Make sure you really know a woman before making a commitment. “Before you commit, make sure you really know her,” says New Yorker Frank, 44. “Make sure you see her during all moods, times of year, occasions, and with different people, your friends and family and hers. Because you never really know each other until that happens. Go slow, despite your wanting to have it all right away. It takes time to see each other in every light.”

9. Just be yourself. “Be yourself,” says Washingtonian Adam, 32. “It’s simple, but it’s true. Guys spend too much time trying to act the part and being comfortable when their dates act the part, too. It’s important to just be honest. If you want to date casually, say it upfront. Don’t hedge on important stuff like that. Let her know who you really are so she can make an informed decision for herself. Believe me — it’ll work out best for you in the long run if you do.”

10. Know when to walk away if things get bad. “When it’s bad, know when to walk away,” says 37-year-old Ken from Los Angeles, CA. “If it’s not right for you, don’t pretend that it’s OK. If your gut says something is off, pay attention to it. If you need to address something, address it. And if you give it your best shot and it’s not working, don’t beat your head against the wall. Don’t stay with a partner out of guilt or because you’re trying to be a nice guy. In the end, it never, ever works. You do no favors for the other person — or yourself.”

Dave Singleton, an award-winning writer and columnist for Match.com since 2003, is the author of two books on dating and relationships. Send your dating questions and comments to him at Hidden Email Address.

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Rugby Roundup: Six Nations: Italy 23-18 France / Dan Biggar apologises over Wales display

February 4, 2013 By Admin

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Italy (13) 23

Tries: Parisse, Castrogiovanni
Cons: Orquera 2
Pen: Orquera
Drop-goals: Orquera, Burton

France (15) 18

Tries: Picamoles, Fall
Con: Michalak
Pens: Michalak 2

(PhatzRadio / BBC Sports) — Italy blew the Six Nations wide open as they won at home against France for the second time in a row.

Italy took an early lead as number eight Sergio Parisse finished off a flowing counter-attack but France hit back as his opposite number, Louis Picamoles, powered over.

Luciano Orquera’s boot saw the hosts stretch clear but Benjamin Fall’s try and Frederic Michalak’s kicks put the visitors 18-13 up 10 minutes into the second half.

France looked set to pull away but Martin Castrogiovanni’s converted try put Italy back in front and Kris Burton’s drop-goal and some ferocious defence saw the hosts secure a dramatic victory.

The two nations may consider themselves friends and equals off the rugby pitch, but on the field of play it has always been a wholly unequal relationship.

Going into the game France led their head-to-head 31-2 and were in great form after a November clean sweep against Australia, Argentina and Samoa.

France had lost the last time the two sides met in Rome, with Italy pulling off a famous 22-21 victory in 2011, but French pre-match talk of a possible repeat seemed designed more to take the pressure off their team, rather than genuine fear of Italy.

However, the Italians were determined to prove they were more than deserving of the respect offered to them by their visitors.

Their pack has always been able to mix it with the best, with it including the likes of the world-class Parisse, but this time Italy’s backs stood up to be counted with Orquera turning in a man-of-the-match performance at fly-half and winger Giovanbattista Venditti proving a real handful.

Captain Parisse started the ball rolling, although Orquera was the architect of the score.

Luke McLean began a counter-attack and, when the ball came into midfield, Orquera saw he was up against France prop Nicolas Mas and took full advantage, slicing through the visiting defensive line.

Parisse was ranging up in support and had the pace to out-run the cover and cross for a cracking try, with Orquera adding the extras to get the game off to an explosive start.

The opening two matches of the championship on Saturday had both been exciting encounters, and it was soon clear this match was to join them.

France were rapidly on the scoreboard as Picamoles, who had been driven back by opposite number Parisse earlier in the move, this time got the upper hand and showed his immense power to go over for an unconverted score.

A drop-goal and penalty from Orquera put Italy 13-5 up but Michalak trimmed the margin with a penalty and then put France ahead after Fall finished off a fantastic French move.

Fall scores superb try for France

Ten minutes into the second half veteran play-maker Michalak, starting his first Six Nations game at fly-half for seven years, slotted a penalty to put France five points ahead and it looked as though the momentum was with them.

But Italy had other ideas. The hosts looked to have blown their chance of a try after failing to exploit an overlap inside the France 22, but from a ruck near the line, Orquera sniped around the fringes, somehow managed to free his arms from the gasp of two giant French forwards and fed Castrogiovanni to plunge over.

Orquera converted and when his replacement Burton added a drop-gal with 12 minutes to go, the hosts led by five points.

France had been under the cosh but they finally roused themselves and looked as though they might sneak victory with a late attack.

Italy saw prop Davide Giazzon yellow carded but managed to hold out when France subsequently went for a pushover try from a scrum, forcing the visitors to attack through their backs.

They were repelled in the right corner and when they spun the ball back to the left, Fall was swept into touch by a tide of white shirts.

Italy coach Jacques Brunel set his side a target of at least two wins in this year’s Six Nations, while captain Parisse said before the game that one day he wants to win the competition, adding “why not this year?”.

On the evidence of the Stadio Olimpico, that may not be the unlikely dream most imagined it to be at the start of the day.
Team line-ups

Italy: Masi; Venditti, Benvenuti, Sgarbi, McLean; Orquera, Botes; Lo Cicero, Ghiraldini, Castrogiovanni, Geldenhuys, Minto, Zanni, Favaro, Parisse.

Replacements: Pavanello for Benvenuti (71), Burton for Orquera (63), Gori for Botes (55), Giazzon for Lo Cicero (55), De Marchi for Ghiraldini (55), Cittadini for Castrogiovanni (62), G Canale for Geldenhuys (71), Derbyshire for Favaro (63).

Sin Bin: Giazzon (79).

France: Huget; Fofana, Fritz, Mermoz, Fall; Michalak, Machenaud, Forestier, Szarzewski, Mas, Pape, Maestri, Ouedraogo, Dusautoir, Picamoles.

Replacements: Trinh-Duc for Huget (71), Kayser for Fofana (52), Parra for Fritz (62), Bastareaud for Machenaud (62), Debaty for Szarzewski (52), Ducalcon for Mas (66), Taofifenua for Pape (58), Chouly for Picamoles (68).

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53566f2ad928216a636a1db82e83e5a6 Rugby Roundup: Six Nations: Italy 23 18 France / Dan Biggar apologises over Wales display

Six Nations 2013: Dan Biggar apologises over Wales display

(PhatzRadio / BBC Sports) — Dan Biggar has apologised to Wales fans over their poor opening in the 30-22 Six Nations defeat by Ireland.

Wales were 23-3 down at the break, but fly-half Biggar says they improved as the first period wore on.

“We have to start better. The first half wasn’t good enough,” he said.

“I still think we had enough opportunities to win that game in the second half”

Dan Biggar Wales fly-half

“We can only apologise for that, but that 10 minutes before half-time boosted us. It made us come out and play some good rugby in the second half, but we have to be more clinical.”

A charge down of a Biggar clearance by Ireland hooker Rory Best led to Ireland’s second try, by prop Cian Healy.

The Ospreys stand-off was winning his 12th Wales cap while making a first tournament appearance and said: “We were a little bit out of shape there.

“It’s one of those things, but the way we bounced back after conceding points was a positive for us and something we have to take going forward.”

Biggar hopes to retain the No 10 jersey for Saturday’s clash against France in Paris in the face of James Hook’s challenge.

He also hopes Wales’ pack can provide a better supply of possession to a back division he admits botched too many try-scoring opportunities amid their fightback.

“We can’t spurn the amount of opportunities we did in the second half,” said Biggar.

“So it’s frustration in there [the dressing room]. That’s the main thing and I’d love to hold on to that jersey for next week.

“As a collective unit we didn’t start well enough and ultimately that’s what cost us the game.

“But the way we bounced back after conceding points was a positive for us and something we have to take going forward.

“We could have quite easily thrown the towel in at 30-3 down after half-time and I think that 10-minute spell just before half-time really boosted us and made sure we had to put some width, some tempo on the game and play some rugby.

“Ultimately, we didn’t have the ball in the first half so it’s disappointing, but there are a lot of positives and things we have to put right for next week.

“I still think we had enough opportunities to win that game in the second half.

“Two chances, potentially 14 points, two-one-ones or three-on-ones even, which makes the scoreboard and timings a lot different.

“We took too long to wake up. You can’t get away from that – that’s probably what the papers will write and quite rightly so.

“But there are a lot of positives we can take into Paris otherwise it’s going to be a long trip.”
WALES SQUAD:

Forwards: Scott Andrews (Blues), Craig Mitchell (Exeter Chiefs), Adam Jones (Ospreys), Paul James (Bath), Gethin Jenkins (Toulon), Ryan Bevington (Ospreys), Richard Hibbard (Ospreys), Ken Owens (Scarlets), Matthew Rees (Scarlets), Ryan Jones (Ospreys), Lou Reed (Blues), Ian Evans (Ospreys), James King (Ospreys), Andrew Coombs (Dragons), Olly Kohn (Harlequins), Josh Turnbull (Scarlets), Josh Navidi (Blues), Aaron Shingler (Scarlets), Justin Tipuric (Ospreys), Sam Warburton (Blues), Toby Faletau (Dragons), Andries Pretorius (Blues)

Backs: Tavis Knoyle (Scarlets), Mike Phillips (Bayonne), Lloyd Williams (Blues), Dan Biggar (Ospreys), James Hook (Perpignan), Jonathan Davies (Scarlets), Jamie Roberts (Blues), Scott Williams (Scarlets), Alex Cuthbert (Blues), George North (Scarlets), Eli Walker (Ospreys), Leigh Halfpenny (Blues), Liam Williams (Scarlets), Lee Byrne (Clermont).

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Men Just Can’t Help Waiting Until Christmas Eve to Do Their Shopping

December 18, 2012 By Admin Leave a Comment

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(PhatzRadio / The Stir) — If men were smart, they’d do all of their Christmas shopping on Black Friday. Yes, fighting the insane crowds all jacked-up on caffeine. Trust me, it’s better than the usual alternative.

See, here’s a little secret: guys suck at shopping. We hate it. We’re not good at it and because of all that, we pretty much put it out of our minds.

“Thanksgiving’s here? Bah. There’s plenty of time to get my wife a present.” Rinse and repeat.

Suddenly, it’s Christmas Eve and you’re running around like a chicken with its head cut off, trying to find a store that’s open. And then when you do find one, good luck hunting down a retailer that actually isn’t sold out on the one item you know your wife would go absolutely nuts for.

Sure you can order things online, but again, guys wait until the last minute and when express shipping costs $25, that’s when you put the mouse down and head to the mall.

I’ve personally never had to worry about Christmas Eve shopping panics, but that’s only because I’m Jewish. If I celebrated Christmas, I just know I’d be one of those men frantically pacing around a drugstore looking for something better than a vaporizer to buy for my wife.

I do it every year for my wife’s birthday and Hanukkah too. I wait until it’s too late to order online and then when there’s only a day or two left, I head out to the local mall and literally spend hours going from store to store to store.

One year, I was so flustered, I ended up going into Hallmark and buying up a few nice picture frames. Then I went next door to Yankee Candle and lost an hour and a half of my life. My wife loves candles, so I figured that’d make a nice gift. But, oh geez, there are soooo many scents, which one would she like best?

I literally changed my mind 20 times that night and eventually grabbed a handful of pillars, including a “Birthday Cake” one. Candles and picture frames. Was I shopping for my wife or getting a bunch of Secret Santa gifts?

Needless to say, the gifts didn’t go over all that well. She smiled and said, “Oh. Candles. That’s nice.” And then she proceeded to “teach me” about gift giving to the mother of my children.

Have I learned my lesson? Yes. Will I wait till the last minute again? Most likely. It’s just in guys’ nature.

But I’ll tell you one thing: I’ll never buy another candle or picture frame again!

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15 Things Mothers Do That Drive Us Crazy (But We Would Secretly Miss If They Stopped)

March 11, 2012 By Admin Leave a Comment

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(Phatforums News / The Frisky) — Mothers have the unique ability to annoy us in a way that no other person can. The smallest gesture, the most subtle glance, the most seemingly innocuous comment is enough to send us into a fit of madness. Why? Because we understand her thought process, her subtext, what she really thinks of our new haircut … even though she doesn’t say it. Her belabored sigh is enough to tip us off. But we know that if mom ever stopped sending us 5-10 chain emails a week (even though we’ve repeatedly asked her not to), we would miss those chain emails. We’d miss them dearly. After the jump, we take a moment to appreciate all the little the things our mothers do that drive us nuts.

1. When I emerge from my room for an outing or event, she asks me if “that’s what I’m wearing.” Meaning she hates my outfit and I need to change immediately. But instead of just saying that she asks the question. Every. Single. Time.

2. And if that outfit happens to be foreign to her … forget it. Every time she sees me wearing an item of clothing that she has not personally seen before she asks me “Is that new?” It doesn’t matter that we only see each other a handful of times a year and most everything I wear is “new” to her. Doesn’t matter one iota.

3. When we’re riding in the car together and she stops suddenly, she flings her arm out in front of me even though I always wear a seatbelt. It’s like this motherly impulse that she can’t control. She usually follows this up by saying something like, “You are my precious cargo.” And I reply, “I am wearing my seatbelt.”

4. She asks me to ask my dad if we can go out to dinner, presumably because she assumes he’ll be more likely to say yes if I ask instead of her. It’s kind of like an adult game of telephone that I didn’t sign up for.

5. She stalks my Facebook page and mistakenly thinks that every male friend of mine is “cute” and “likes” me. Usually the men she fixates on are either gay or in relationships. Unfortunately, she neglects to stalk their pages enough to know that. So she continues to ask me about them.

6. She texts me my horoscope every day even though I don’t really believe in horoscopes and have told her so. Like she literally takes the time to copy it from newspaper to text message. Including how many stars the astrologer gave me for the day. She ends every horoscope text with, “Have a great day! Love, Mom!”

7. And speaking of her texts. Why does she sign every text message “Love Mom” like I DON’T KNOW IT’S FROM HER?

8. Still a fan of print, my mom clips out articles from newspapers and magazines and sends them to me in the mail. I want to explain to her about sending links via email, and how I hate paper, but I don’t have the heart. The only thing that would be more inefficient is if she sent articles via carrier pigeon.

9. She buys me huge bottles of vitamins that I never take. I know I’m supposed to take fish oil, but start me off with one, not 1,000.

10. She tells me jokes that are not funny. And I have to pretend to laugh so as not to hurt her feelings. Even though she thinks all my jokes are “mean.” I think it’s clear that one of us is lacking a sense of humor. And it’s not me.

11. She finds 7,000 things to say as I’m trying to get off the phone. It’s like my desire to get off the phone triggers a primal reaction to say everything she’s ever wanted to say to me. Does she not remember the very beginning of the conversation when I asked her how everything was? And how I had to leave soon to meet friends for brunch? Apparently, she does not.

12. And after she’s done saying all 7,000 things on her mind, she does the “repeat after me” at the end of every phone call, forcing me to summarize the most important points of the conversation and clarify any action items. At this point, I’ve missed the brunch with my friends.

13. When we’re shopping together and we get separated, she wanders through the store calling my name to find me. It’s as if I were a four-year-old and she lost me. How can she not know I’m in the cosmetics department. I’m always in the cosmetics department.

14. Once she’s found me in the cosmetics department, she will, without fail, have a really long, in-depth conversation with the sales girl. Because she does this with every cashier, server, and barista she meets.

15. If it’s anywhere in the range of two hours before dinner time, my mom seems genuinely disturbed if I’m having a snack. She views this as “spoiling dinner.” Even if it’s a handful of baby carrots that I’m snacking on. It doesn’t matter a lick to her that I’m starving to death. Only that I’ve “spoiled dinner.”

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The Number One Reason to Thank Your Ex-Boyfriends

December 8, 2011 By Admin Leave a Comment

(Phatforums News / The Stir) — Ex-boyfriend. The very term conjures up many things for most of us. Some of it may be good, but most of it is likely bad; otherwise, why would you have broken up? No matter how bad things got, though, the awesome thing about ex-boyfriends is that they pave the way to future happiness. Whether you have a small handful or a truckload of the dudes, each one likely helped you realize who you ultimately wanted to spend your life with, and for that, they are invaluable.

I often feel very fortunate that I met my husband when I did (age 10) and that we “re-met” later when we did (age 23), partly because I know for a fact I couldn’t have handled the anxiety around getting older and remaining single and partly because I had run out of boyfriends who didn’t work. From about the age of 19, I always had a serious boyfriend by my side.

Most of them were highly unsuitable, too. Still, they taught me everything I know about love.

I had a couple “things” in high school and even one guy with whom I stayed close friends (and occasional hook-up buddies) afterwards. But generally, I wasn’t in serious dating mode until my second year of college. And then it all started with a hot and heavy summer fling with Jason*. We met at a bookstore and he was older. For one amazing summer, I was totally enamored with him (he was less so with me), but he taught me a lot about the level of attraction I should feel for the man I was with because, let me tell you, it was high. We broke up in the fall, but I carried that sense with me and didn’t want to settle for less.

My first serious boyfriend (and love) was Max*. We had very good (read: VERY good) reasons for breaking up that included some serious controlling and paranoid behavior on his part. But when we were good, we were very good. No one else in my world liked him and, of course, they had good reason. But we were in love. Being with him taught me to trust my instincts on people more than others. Sure, eventually I agreed with my friends and family, but I made my own choices and got there on my own.

For the first year we were together, I learned about love and everything I wanted from love and what I wanted it to feel like. The second year was awful and our breakup was, too. But it’s nice to reflect on the positive side and how that eventually led to my current amazing marriage.

After Max, there was Chris. We only dated a few months, but he was so incredibly smart and politically involved. I never fell in love with him, but seeing someone who had a passion for something other than booze and partying and paranoia made me realize I could love someone who was also like me and like my family. They, of course, loved him. Nevertheless, we fought about “commercial foods,” which he didn’t enjoy. And since I love me some Frosted Flakes, we knew it could never work.

There was a little overlap between Chris and Dave, the next serious dude (I cheated. Lesson learned). And while Dave was undoubtedly the sweetest and most loving man I ever dated, we weren’t exactly intellectually compatible. He was creative and emotionally intelligent, but book smart he was not. Though I loved the way he treated me — buying me flowers all the time, allowing me massive freedom, constantly telling me he loved me — it was hard to be with someone who didn’t share my intellectual background. I grew up surrounded by books with a lawyer father who read The New York Times every single day with breakfast, discussed politics all day long, and is, as my grandfather once said, “a massive egghead.” It would have been hard for me to stay with Dave, and lucky for me, I soon “re-met” my husband.

He also had about the same number of seriously unsuitable exes and we were able to apply the good things to one another. My husband (Rob) has all the sexiness of Jason, all the love and attentiveness of Max, the intelligence, passion, and quick wit of Chris, and the loving, emotional intelligence of Dave. I don’t regret a single relationship, no matter how badly each ended because they led me to this. Ten years together we have an unshakable bond and the reason I knew it was right was because it had been so very wrong before.

**Names have been changed to protect the not-so-innocent.

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NBA, players to talk again Thursday after meeting for nearly 12 hours

November 10, 2011 By Admin Leave a Comment

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Billy Hunter, Executive Director of the National Basketball Players Association (R), and Derek Fisher, President of the National Basketball Players Association speak at a press conference after NBA labor negotiations at the New York Helmsley Hotel in the early morning hours of November 10, 2011 in New York City.
(November 9, 2011 – Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images North America)

NEW YORK (AP) — David Stern’s deadline passed without a deal, though the NBA and its players will talk again Thursday.

The NBA commissioner wouldn’t give any hints about what that means for hopes of ending the lockout.

“I would not read into this optimism or pessimism,” he said. “We’re not failing. We’re not succeeding. We’re just there.”

Players and owners met for more than 12 hours on the 132nd day of the lockout, an important one after Stern warned that if players didn’t agree to the league’s latest proposal by the end of the business day, a far worse one would be coming.

Instead, he “stopped the clock” and said the backup offer would only go into play if this round of bargaining breaks down.

As usual, neither side offered many specifics, though union executive director Billy Hunter said the sides never got around to discussing the split of basketball-related income.

Besides that, there are still a handful of issues related to the salary cap system that players want addressed before they might agree to the league’s demands for a 50-50 split of revenues.

“I can’t characterize whether they showed flexibility or not in certain system issues,” union president Derek Fisher said. “Obviously, we’d have a deal done if the right flexibility was being shown. The fact that we don’t have a deal lets you know that there’s still a lot of work to be done on the system.”

The parties plan to return at noon Thursday to resume talks.

“We can’t say there was significant progress today,” Fisher said. “We’ll be back tomorrow … and we’ll see if we can continue to make the efforts at least to finish this out.”

Stern had set a 5 p.m. ET deadline for players to accept the league’s latest proposal or have it replaced by a much harsher one that would drive the sides even farther apart.

He said the offer was not pulled at that time because the league was “trying to demonstrate our good faith. Stern added that the understanding was the offer potentially would be pulled at the end of this series of negotiations, whenever that might be.

Failure to make a deal likely would increase the calls for the union to decertify so the players can file a lawsuit against the league in court, a risky and lengthy tactic that likely would doom the 2011-12 season. Union officials have downplayed the idea, but players might have no other leverage once the more severe proposal is put into play.

The current offer calls for players to receive between 49 percent and 51 percent of basketball-related income, though the union said it would be impossible to get above 50.2 percent. Players were guaranteed 57 percent of BRI under the previous collective bargaining agreement.

Though they called this deal unacceptable, they might not see another one nearly as favorable.

The next proposal would call for a 53-47 revenue split in the owners’ favor, essentially a hard salary cap and salary rollbacks, which the league originally sought but had taken off the table. Both proposals were sent to Hunter on Sunday.

Stern and Deputy Commissioner Adam Silver were joined Wednesday by Spurs owner Peter Holt, the chairman of the labor relations committee, and lawyers Rick Buchanan and Dan Rube. Besides Hunter and Fisher, vice presidents Roger Mason Jr. and Maurice Evans, economist Kevin Murphy and attorney Jeffrey Kessler represented the union.

Kessler took part just hours after saying he regretted telling the Washington Post that owners are treating players like “plantation workers” during the ongoing lockout. He said he planned to call Stern and apologize.

Besides the revenue split, the sides still are divided on elements of the salary cap system, mostly relating to the spending rules for teams that are over the luxury tax level. Players want those teams to remain options for free agents, whereas the league thinks talent would be more evenly distributed throughout the league if payrolls were more balanced.

Players indicated after their meeting Tuesday that they would be open to reducing their BRI take if owners made some changes on the system issues. Players offered to go to about 51 percent Saturday, with 1 percent going into a fund for retired player benefits.

But the league has placed as much importance on the system as the split, making it difficult to find compromise on the handful of items that remain unsettled. Owners believe there won’t be the competitive balance they desire until payrolls are more equally balanced.

A month of games already has been canceled. Hunter said Tuesday he had heard Stern also planned to cancel games through Christmas without a deal Wednesday, though Stern later told NBA TV that “we have made no such plans, and we have had no such discussions.”

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Guy Talk: Learning To Be A Husband, Not A Son

September 7, 2011 By Admin Leave a Comment

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(Phatforums News / The Frisky) – Not so long ago, my wife and I were talking to a recently-divorced friend of ours. She’s younger than we are, in her early thirties, and as far as she’s concerned, she’s never tying the knot again. Not because of an objection to the institution, but because she’s convinced that most men marry for one reason: they want to be taken care of emotionally.

“I got tired of thinking about someone else’s needs all the time,” our friend said. “I’m prepared to take care of a baby. But I don’t want my first-born to be my second child.” When she heard that, my wife turned to me and gave me a grin. She knows my history.

In three previous marriages and a handful of other long-term relationships (I haven’t been single for long since I was 16), I found myself—like so many men—taking on the parts of the “naughty boy” and the “helpless child.” Time and again, I turned wives and girlfriends into mother-figures, and the result was inevitably disastrous.

Sara and I had created an ugly quid-pro-quo: I’d let her micromanage what I ate and wore, where we went, and who my friends could be. In return, I’d get to evade responsibility and resent the hell out of her for treating me like the little boy whose part I stubbornly insisted on playing.

I know that I’m not the only man who found “courtship” easier than “relationship.” Over and over again, I devoted time and energy to “getting the girl,” and when I succeeded, soon felt vaguely let down and confused about my role. Like so many men, I was good at the chase, and lousy at maintaining the relationship I’d worked so hard to get started. After I’d been dating someone new for a few months, I invariably began to become increasingly childlike. I figured out that most of my partners were students of my emotions (it’s what we raise women to do), and most of them were eager to make the relationship work. So they were the ones who took over the “feeling work” of the relationship while I settled into amiable uxoriousness.

When I lived with wives and girlfriends past, I’d quickly cede control over our living arrangements. What went where, and what got done when were decisions I wanted my partner to make. I thought I was being accommodating, telling myself and her “You know, honey, you care more about this (the color of the sheets, what kind of plants to have outside, what we have for dinner) than I do; why don’t you decide?” And my wife or girlfriend would make a decision, and whether I liked the decision or not, I didn’t have much to say about it either way. When pressed for my opinion, my favorite response was “Whatever you want, darling.” Of course, I liked having everything done for me. My wife or girlfriend maintained the relationship, kept things running, and in the cases where we lived together, made the major decisions about the house. I said loving things, made money, bought flowers occasionally, and did my best to be faithful. That, I figured, was my part.

Now, as the son of a feminist mom, I was always very big on doing my share of the housework. I was a loyal washer of dishes, a frequent doer of laundry (I actually like doing laundry), and a good grocery shopper. But I thought of what I was doing as “doing chores,” in much the same way I did chores as a child. I did not take responsibility for making decisions about the household, even as I seemed to be—to the outside world—an equal partner in the running of the home.

In early 1995, on the downslope of a disastrous second marriage, I remember having what Twelve Steppers call a “moment of clarity.” My wife and her sister and I were having lunch, and I stepped into the kitchen and opened the fridge. I then poked my head back into the dining room and asked my spouse, “Honey, can I have a Sprite?”

The two women gaped at me; my sister-in-law laughed awkwardly. I realized in an instant how utterly pathetic the question sounded. I was 27 years old, already a college professor on my way to tenure. And yes, I’d married a world-class co-dependent woman who was so anxious about my addictive personality that she’d decided to try to control as much as she could of my behavior. But she could only control what I willingly ceded to her. Sara and I had created an ugly quid-pro-quo: I’d let her micromanage what I ate and wore, where we went, and who my friends could be. In return, I’d get to evade responsibility and resent the hell out of her for treating me like the little boy whose part I stubbornly insisted on playing.

That marriage didn’t make it to a second anniversary.

One of my friends once told me: “Hugo, relationships are like stoplights at an intersection. In order for the traffic to flow, both sets of lights have to work. Sometimes the light for the east and west bound traffic has to be red; sometimes the north-south. There’s got to be partnership in setting limits; each set has to take responsibility for yellow, red, and green — or there’s chaos.” In my past, like a child, my basic approach to everything was “green.” In every area of my life, I waited for my partner to flash the yellow or the red light. She (whoever she was) was the one who would decide “how far we went” sexually, emotionally, financially, geographically. We would always both end up resenting the hell out of each other for the other’s role. I would always end up seeing my wives and girlfriends as controlling, mothering, and judgmental; they would always see me as irresponsible, dishonest, and childlike.

And I’d end up doing things like asking a wife’s permission for a Sprite, resenting the hell out of the fact that I felt I had to ask, and getting back at her (and restoring what I thought was my dignity) by cheating on her.

It took a lot of emotional, spiritual, and therapeutic work—and three divorces plus a fourth marriage—but I finally did get myself to the point where I could set good boundaries, self-soothe, and show up as an equal. I can flash yellow and red as well as green at my spouse. I’ve learned the importance of giving my wife the chance to be occasionally uncertain or even work, and relax into my certainty. That’s what it means to be a husband, not a son.

Though my case may be extreme (not many men are thrice divorced by 35), there are plenty of other straight guys out there who outsource their self-care and the boundary-setting to wives and girlfriends. Research shows that it’s women (not men) who are taking an increasingly dim view of marriage worldwide. And though there are many other reasons for declining marriage rates around the globe, one is surely what our single friend cited: women’s lack of interest in having their first-born be their second child.

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