The students are in classes, but still no rosters posted on the university site
for 2012. What the hell is going on?

The Wildcats hit threes early and often, never trailed and won by 25. Lauren Burford found her stroke and finished with a career tying 19 points on 6 of 9 from beyond the arc. Caroline Coyer and Rachel Roberts added 13 points apiece and Laura Sweeney had 12 points.

Team shot over 50% in total and over 51% in their 15 made three balls, but only 5 of 10 on free throws; go figure. Fifteen turnovers kept the game from truly being a total rout. As anticipated, Jessica Wamala finally got her shot to go, nailing a three in the final minute to get in the career scorebook for Nova.

Team wins Lady Runnin' Rebel Tournament. All tournament team and MVP to be provided shortly. 4-1 on the season with the real home opener on Thursday against Lehigh and the Big Five opener against LaSalle on Sunday.

Go Wildcats!

Update: Rachel Roberts and Laura Sweeney made the all-Tournament team with Sweeney named MVP
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No matter where you fall on this issue, I just can't figure out what it is exactly that the Senate GOP want out of this. I guess, in a perfect world, impeachment of the President would work. But at this point in time, when the President has the most political capital he will ever hold from here on out, what do they realistically expect?

Is the plan to stall Rice, leading to a Kerry nomination which would hopefully lead to a Scott Brown special election win? That's the only thing that even remotely would make sense. John McCain and Lindsay Graham are two of the brightest bulbs out there - and also two of the most politically astute.

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Fat Cat GOPers might not like him, but even liberal New Jersey loves the man and his performance post Hurricane Sandy. In fact, his approval ratings and his performance post Hurricane are higher than that of the President.

But doing a good job as a Republican Governor in a blue state doesn't matter. It's all about the hugging.

Approval Ratings

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Narwhal vs. the Orca

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Goes back to my point that they still don't know who exactly attacked the compound.

DNI

Don't have to watch the whole thing - but it's a good watch. But at least watch Steve's opening remarks. Rings very true.

Steve Schmidt

Everyone played and scoring was spread out. Every player on Bloomsburg is from Pennsylvania.

Not much of a game story to report - Nova came out firing, hitting 15 of their first 21 shots to take a 25 point lead by the ten minute mark. The threes were falling, cutters were getting feeds and making layups and the two big girls (6-7 and 6-3) that Lafayette put out there had no impact on the game whatsoever. I think the 39 point winning margin is the most in at least 10 years. We took Providence by 83-48 in that magical year of 2002-2003, but that was only a 35 point margin.

Emily Suhey started in place of Taylor Holeman, but everyone saw action in this one. Laura Sweeney led the scorers with 17, including a three and added six boards. Lauren Burford hit 3 of 5 from long range to finish with 11 points and 5 assists. Rachel Roberts matched that on 4 of 5 shooting and Devon Kane had 10 on 3 of 5 from the field. The first half shooting totals were 7 of 11 from three point range and 17 of 29 overall. Nova led by 29 at the half and Lafayette never mounted a charge in the second half. Harry seemed to have the team working on the inside game for most of the second half, rather than continuing to shoot threes.

Sweeney hit the 600 career rebound mark in the Minnesota game and with her six in this game is within 4 of moving into the top ten in Nova career rebound leaders. Quietly efficient and almost always productive, she may finish in the top five or six in both the rebounding and career points leaders by the time this season is over. Quite an accomplishment.

Exhibition game vs. Bloomsburg State on Monday night. Not sure why this is an exhibition game when we played D II Philadelphia U. last year as regualar season game. In either case, D II games do not count toward the RPI detemination or the NCAA tournament selection. Nova's early season RPI stands at 69 with a strength of schedule of 93, so somewhere along the line we will need to beat more than a few good teams, especially in the Big East, in order to merit consideration for an NCAA tournament spot. The final RPI may actually mean something for us this year.

Probably just a coincidence that his resignation came a couple of days after the election rather than a couple of days before, right?

Could not access the other thread: Starting a new one here.

His story of military fraud breaks at the same time as Petraeus/Allen fiasco.

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A report by the Defense Department inspector general found that Ward used military vehicles to shuttle his wife on shopping trips and to a spa and billed the government for a refueling stop overnight in Bermuda, where the couple stayed in a $750 suite. The report detailed lengthy stays at lavish hotels for Ward, his wife and his staff members, and the use of five-vehicle motorcades when he traveled to Washington.

The report also said Ward and his wife, Joyce, accepted dinner and Broadway show tickets from a government contractor during a trip during which he went backstage to meet actor Denzel Washington. The couple and several staff members also spent two nights at the Waldorf Astoria hotel.
Other charges were that Ward often extended his overseas trips - particularly those to the U.S. - for personal reasons, resulting in "exponential" increases in costs.






http://www.abcactionnews.com/dpp/news/national/gen

The Championship game of the Minnesota Best Buy Tournament was as disappointing as the opening night game was encouraging for Nova. Minnesota had to battle through two overtime periods to beat off a poor Washington team the day before and had three players log 43 minutes or more. Yet when they faced off against Nova, we were the team that looked tired and ragged in the second half.

The game opened with Nova getting numerous scoring opportunities but with at least 4 missed layups, three missed foul shots and shooting only 1-4 on three pointers (by Sweeney) in the first ten minutes we were in danger of getting buried early in this one. Nonetheless with less than a minute to go in the half we were only down by 7 with the ball. A three by Burford didn't go, and then after a turnover and a time out, an excellent final offensive set ran off the clock and yielded a wide open three by Leer from the corner, which also didn't go to end the half. Nova just never could put anything together offensively the whole game.

Four minutes into the second half we got back to within 6 on a three ball by Pearson, but that was the last gasp as Minnesota got a 12-5 run to put the Gophers (it's never any fun to lose to a team named the Gophers) up by 13 and eventually as many as 19 points.

Caroline Coyer led the Nova scoring with 13 points, many coming after she picked up 2 quick fouls in the first half. With the depth at guard this year, I guess Harry didn't feel the need to sit her for the rest of the half. Rachel Roberts added 12 and Laura Sweeney 9. Emily Leer again was productive in 16 minutes before fouling out, shooting 3 of 6 but missing all three of her long balls. Sweeney sat most of the second half after apparently spraining an ankle, although she did later return to the game. Overall three point shots were 6 out of 27, inlcuding only 2 of 13 in the first half, 9 of 30 overall first half shooting. This is a game I thought we would win going in, but that kind of start will not win many games. Lost the board battle by 39-27 and it looked even more lopsided than that. Jessica Wamala got a three point shot off at the basket in garbage time but missed and is still looking for her first career points. I think she will get quite a few more opportunities this year, hopefully at the end of wins instead of losses.

Attached link will take you to Minnesota's website for photos, video, game quotes.

Washington State must have had an awful flight home from there after losing in double overtime and then overtime to start the season. They basically had two regulation games and three five minute games over the weekend and couldn't win one of them.

I will have a report on the Lafayette game available sometime on Thursday night.
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Minnesota website video, photos, quotes

7,000 more signatures needed before the White House must give an official response to the secessionists in Texas.

Because nothing says "Patriot" like secession!

VU makes nationals. I have a ton of respect for Marcus.

Mid-Atlantic Results

VU women were selected as an at-large qualifier. Didn't expect it so this is good news. Women get another chance. Maybe someone steps-up and has a Tully moment ...

NCAA Qualifiers

I went to church today at St. Paul's in Princeton, which for those who do not know is about as liberal as San Francisco or
NYC's Upper West Side.
When it came time for the homily the young priest stated off by saying he was going to talk about what Catholics
should consider when voting.
I was starting to think uh-oh.
Before he even got stated his view, one man angrily started walking out and Father McClain defused the situation by ad libbing
"unless you have already voted".
Father McClain basically then went on to say he would vote for who ever defended life.
When he was done he got a standing ovation. I was almost moved to tears.
I have never been prouder to be a Catholic.

Above the fact Obama is a domestic policy, foreign policy, and economic nightmare, the number one reason I vote Republican
is my pro-life views.

Obama dropping like a rock on Intrade the past couple of days. Maybe he should have used a Stratego reference instead of Battleship.

The Nova women opened the season in fine fashion at the Minnesota Best Buy Tournament today by putting up lots of points and denying the Jackrabbits many good scoring opportunities.

Nova came out strong in the first eight minutes, putting up 19 points, but after a three ball at the 12:30 mark by SDU, we only led by 19-15. From there it was a total wipeout, with the Wildcats outscoring the opposition by a 29-8 margin to take a 44-25 margin into the lockerroom. Scoring came from threes, inside feeds a even a couple of fast breaks (really!). The defense completely stifled SDU for the last 12 minutes of the half. Sweeney had 16 by halftime and finished with 23 I think.

The second half started a little sloppy for Nova with a few poor passes, missed shots and poor shot selection for the first seven minutes. After letting SDU get the lead down to 13, a few quick buckets built the lead back up to 20 and Harry was able to get everyone in the game by the end. Sweeney led all scorers and looks fully recovered from her broken hand.

Harry went with a complete new five after the first media timeout, including the first action for Caroline Coyer and Kauvanna Edwards. Coyer saw quite a bit of action and scored her first career points in the first half, Edwards got hers as the game wound down. Harry has redshirted Coyer's sister Katherine, Kendell Burton and Brandi Teague.

Almost 100 friends and family of Heather Vulin attended and led the Nova cheering section, just about equalling the number of fans that SDU brought in. Minnesota struggled to beat a poor Washington team in the first game, taking three overtimes to do so. Hopefully they are good and tired for the 1 p.m. CST start tomorrow for the championship. There was about 4,500 in the house for the first game so the Nova fans will be outnumbered in that one.

I believe we outrebounded them (really!) and had a number of blocked shots. Probably a bit more turnovers than Harry would have liked. More info to come as soon as boxscore becomes available.

Added Notes -

SDU had won 19 straight season openers prior to their loss today. They have made the NCAA tournament all four years since fully becoming Division 1 status.

Sweeney scored 24 on 10 of 13 shooting and cleared 6 boards. Nova won the rebound battle by 2. Kane hit 3 of 5 threes to finish with 13 points (5 of 7 overall). Taylor Holeman had four boards and 3 blocks in only 13 minutes. Leer had 7 points and two blocks in 14 minutes. Team had 19 assists and 11 turnovers with 6 total blocks and 12 steals. The defense caused 18 turnovers and limited SDU to 34% shooting.

In the opening game, Minnesota really looked sluggish and could not put Washington away. Almost all of their scoring came from two players - the sophomore guard who was Big 10 frosh of the year last year (34 points) and a forward with 29 points. If we can shut them down we should be able to come home with another tournament championship.

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Not a FoxNews person but she has been terrific the past few days.

I appreciate when someone takes on the golden geese of their own party. She's made Karl Rove look silly - not easy to do considering he was the mastermind behind the W electoral victories.

Do you really believe Hillary is too old to run for President in 2016?

Now Boehner is willing to consider new revenue to avoid the fiscal cliff--its the will of the people. of course, he was willing last time, too, but he was put in his kennel by tea partiers. will it be different this time?

sees the light

His religion aside, I suspect I could vote for this Republican next time around if the Democrats fail to nominate a particularly appealing successor to President Obama.

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