Monday, June 25, 2007

 

Daily Update 06/25/2007

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My Favorite Featured Story
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OMAHA, Neb. -- The first title was hard for Oregon State. The repeat seemed easy.

Oregon State ended one of the most dominant runs in the 61-year history of the College World Series with a 9-3 victory over North Carolina on Sunday night. The Beavers became the first team in a decade to capture consecutive national titles.

They did it by winning all five of their CWS games, including a sweep of the Tar Heels in the best-of-three finals. The Beavers (49-18) trailed for only one of 45 innings they played in Omaha, and they became the first team to win four CWS games by at least six runs.

"To be able to come to this tremendous tournament -- the best athletic event on the face of the Earth -- and to run through it pretty good, it's pretty special and it's a huge tribute to the guys," Oregon State coach Pat Casey said.

North Carolina (57-15) was runner-up for the second straight year after the first CWS finals rematch since Arizona State and USC met in 1973.

Oregon State is the first back-to-back champion since LSU in 1996-97 and the fifth overall.

To win last year's title, the Beavers had to stave off elimination in four straight games after losing their CWS opener 11-1 to Miami. Then they rebounded from a Game 1 loss in the finals to become the first true northern team since Ohio State in 1966 to win the championship.

There were plenty of trials this season after a 23-3 start. A May swoon left the Beavers in sixth place in the Pacific-10 Conference with a 10-14 league mark, and it nearly cost them a spot in the 64-team national tournament.

They got on a roll at regionals in Virginia and ended their season with 10 straight victories.

"We've had high expectations on us from everybody," shortstop Darwin Barney said. "But every team is gunning for you. Every game you have that bull's eye on your back. Our chemistry has never been questioned, not through the ups and downs. There was always trust and belief on this club."

Barney's two-run homer gave the Beavers the lead in the second inning Sunday, and Jordan Lennerton hit his second homer in two nights, a two-run shot in the eighth.

The Tar Heels didn't get much going against Oregon State's steady pitching and solid defense, and were shut down whenever they appeared on the verge of a big inning.

Mark Grbavac and Joe Paterson combined to retire the last seven North Carolina batters. Paterson got a called third strike against pinch-hitter Kyle Shelton to end the game and send the Beavers sprinting out of their dugout for the celebratory pile.

"It's crazy. It's just crazy," Casey said. "I just felt like we were going to win. There is something in that dugout."


The Beavers never trailed in any of their first four games at the CWS.

Their closest game here was their first, a 3-2 win over Cal State Fullerton. Victories of 12-6 over Arizona State and 7-1 against UC Irvine got them into the finals.

"When we got here, we were excited to get in that dugout and in that locker room," Barney said. "We feel very comfortable in there. This is home, baby. This is Omaha."

The Beavers knocked out North Carolina starter Luke Putkonen (8-2) in the second inning after Barney lined a pitch over the left-field wall. Another run scored on third baseman Chad Flack's throwing error.

Putkonen, a sophomore, went only 1 2-3 innings in the shortest outing of his career.

Tar Heels coach Mike Fox made a surprise move by bringing in closer Andrew Carignan, whose appearance in the second inning was his earliest in two years. Not even Carignan, who allowed no runs and only one hit in 6 1-3 CWS innings before Sunday, could stop the Beavers.

"Any time you can get to their bullpen in the second inning, that's saying something," Beavers left fielder John Wallace said. "We knew the closer couldn't go 7 1-3 innings. We tried to get on him early and we got him out of there in the fifth, and we kept putting it on after that."

Singles by Scott Santschi in the third and Wallace in the fifth stretched the lead to 5-2.

Dustin Ackley hit his second homer of the CWS and 10th of the season to pull North Carolina to 5-3, but Santschi's third RBI single and Chris Hopkins' infield hit made it 7-3 in the seventh.

Ackley's RBI single in the first put North Carolina up 1-0 and ended a streak of 61 innings over seven games in which Oregon State led or was tied. The Beavers hadn't trailed in a CWS game in 50 innings, since the fourth frame of Game 2 of last year's finals.

North Carolina's first three batters reached against Mike Stutes (12-4) in the first and third innings, but the Tar Heels came away with only one run each time.

Ackley homered in the fifth, and two more batters reached before Stutes induced an inning-ending groundout.

After Garrett Gore doubled in the sixth, Anton Maxwell entered and hit Josh Horton to put two runners on with the dangerous Ackley coming up. Ackley drove a liner into left field that Wallace snagged to end the threat.

In the seventh, Tim Fedroff tried to score on Seth Williams' hit to the left-field wall. But Wallace threw to Barney, the shortstop, whose relay home was in plenty of time to get Fedroff at the plate.

"It seemed to be the case the last couple nights that we couldn't get that big hit, whether it's with two out or with someone on base," Fox said. "If we could get one hit, it would spark the rest of us and maybe more would follow. It just wasn't meant to be."

Texas (1949-50), Southern California (1970-74) and Stanford (1987-88) also won consecutive titles.


My Favorite Story Trash News Story
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Paris Booted from Bad Boy Bad Girl Club
Posted Jun 24th 2007 3:03AM by TMZ Staff
Filed under: Celebrity Justice, Paris Hilton

Steve Santagati, author of "The Manual, A True Bad Boy Explains How Men Think, Date, and Mate -- and What Women Can Do to Come Out on Top," has officially kicked Paris Hilton out of the Bad Boy Bad Girl club. The hunky relationship savant has had it with Paris' shenanigans, and asked us to help him give Paris the boot:

Dear Paris,

You are hereby notified that your membership in the Bad Boy Bad Girl club has been revoked. You slipped over the edge into stupid and are no longer good at being bad, so we want you out and will not refund your dues. And by "dues" I mean the dues you paid by doing a sex video, starring in "The Simple Life," getting drunk in public, converting others to the club [Brittney and Lindsey, which, by the way, will also be receiving this notice], showing the world -- via the paparazzi -- your coochi, and all around acting without remorse or apology ... all wonderful things.

However, real Bad Girls don't drink and drive, real bad girls don't get caught, real bad girls don't go to jail [that's only cool if you're a guy], and real bad girls don't call Sarah Silverman a bitch. Moreover, we all know the rich don't do jail time, and if they do, they do it with class [see Martha Stewart for details]. Therefore, you're out.

Fortunately for the other members of the club, you can't buy your way back in. Feel free to re-apply, but for now you are on permanent suspension.

Sincerely,

Steve Santagati
President

P.S. Notifying you via TMZ is considered official.


My Favorite Press Release Today
Brought to you The Open Press

Online Poker Room - Absolute Poker - launches a Bad Beat Jackpot, adding a new spin to their Texas Hold'em poker game.

Miami, FL (PRWEB) June 24, 2007 -- Absolute Poker today announced the launch of Bad Beat Jackpot - a new spin on Texas Hold'em that lets players walk away with a hefty profit after hitting a 'bad beat' at the online poker tables.

"We're taking away the pain delivered by bad beats by throwing money at their victims," stated David Clainer, senior vice president for Absolute Poker. "Who knew losing big could feel so good?"

In poker, the term 'bad beat' refers to losing a hand that is clearly favored to win. But at the Bad Beat Jackpot tables, losing a seemingly unbeatable hand just got more lucrative.

Now, when seated at a Bad Beat Jackpot table, if a player loses a hand holding four twos (2222) or anything better, they'll win a piece of the Bad Beat Jackpot.

To kick off the new online poker game, Absolute Poker is putting $100,000 into the jackpot. To help it build, $0.50 will be collected from qualifying hands at Bad Beat Jackpot tables. The jackpot will keep growing until someone hits a qualifying bad beat, at which time a large percentage of it will be distributed among the bad beat victim and the players at the online poker table where the bad beat occurred (a small fraction of the jackpot will remain in the pot and another minuscule piece of it will be dedicated to administration costs).

Bad Beat Jackpot tables will be noted with the word "jackpot" written in brackets after the table name and will be categorized in red text. Complete details on Absolute Poker's Bad Beat Jackpot can be found at http://www.absolutepoker.com/badbeatpoker/

About Absolute Poker
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My Weather: Kansas City
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Today: Sunshine and a few clouds. High near 90F. Winds S at 10 to 15 mph.

Tonight: Mainly clear skies. Muggy. Low 71F. Winds S at 10 to 15 mph.

Tomorrow: Intervals of clouds and sunshine. High near 85F. Winds S at 10 to 20 mph.

Tomorrow night: Partly cloudy skies. Low around 70F. Winds SSW at 10 to 15 mph.

Wednesday: Scattered thunderstorms possible. Highs in the low 80s and lows in the low 70s.

Thursday: Scattered thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 70s and lows in the upper 60s.

Friday: Slight chance of a thunderstorm. Highs in the low 80s and lows in the upper 60s.

My Daily Horoscope (Virgo)
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Overview:
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