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did you hear this about Ole Miss football...
Posted on 5/31/09 at 8:38 am
Posted on 5/31/09 at 8:38 am
They come in to the 2009 season with the SEC west's only experienced QB other than the short guy from MSU. One of their toughest games could be early at South Carolina but Spurrier will live and die with his QB. Can Stephen Garcia who's done nothing other than make bad grades and bad decisions on and off the field play well that early on national TV on a Thursday night?
Alabama and Lsu are going to be tough but that will be played before an electric Vaught-Hemmingway crowd. When you look at college football the last few years, every team loses a game they shouldn't. Look at last year for instance. Southern Cal, Penn State, Bama, Florida, Texas were all at or near the top at one point and all lost to a heavy underdog as about 75% of teams in recent memory have. Can the Rebels avoid that type of loss? Can their defense and special teams be enough to beat Bama and Lsu if points are at a premium? Can they avoid an upset to someone they won't be emotionally up for such as Auburn, Tennessee or Vanderbilt?
Ole Miss should enter the season with All-American Defensive End Greg Hardy healthy and motivated after recovering from foot surgery and coming back for his senior season instead of entering the draft. Overpowering 5star nose tackle Jerrell Powe was cleared to enroll then a year later play after several years of attempts then lawsuits to get in to school. At 6-2 and 390 lbs he didn't see the field alot last year but he was down to 335 by spring and says he'll be at 315 by kickoff. With Lawon Scott and Ted Laurent in that interior mix as well as seniors Marcus Tillman and Emmanuel Stephens and junior Kentrel Lockett rotating at the ends the defensive line should be as strong as any in the country. With a lineback corp led by heavy hitting sub 4.4 Patrick Trahan who was all over the field this spring we could see the entire 2 deep of the front 7 in the NFL some day as well as a handful of members in a much improved secondary. Keep your eye on wide receiver turned lockdown corner Marshay Green who held Michael Crabtree to a weak Cottonbowl performance and was named player of the game.
The only question of offense is the right side of the line. #1 ranked prep school player 6-8 335 lbs Bobbie Massie will arrive after summer school and could immediatly fill the void Oher leaves. 6-7 310 lbs Jackson MS, OT Bradley Sowell started out slow this spring but by the end was much improved. Jevan Snead figures to be the first or second QB taken in the 2010 NFL draft. When you consider your 4th string tailback is a former Army All-American who had a surprisingly good spring the running back posistion appears in good shape. The teams #1 playmaker is a do-it-all tailback wide-out wildrebel quarterback senior fan favorite Dexter McCluster. The scarey thing is this offense would still be very good even without Dex.
The wide receiver corp has to replace speedy Mike Wallace but keep your eye on Jucarious Lucas, a senior who has worked his way up as a walk-on and battled an injury last season. He had a nice spring as well as Andrew Harris and Lionel Breaux. Keep your eye on incoming freshman Patrick Patterson who was one of the countries top 3 highschool wide receivers. Special teams should again be solid with kicker Josh Shene returning from a very good 2008 campaign .
In college football the last few years things never happen the way they are suppose to. Ole Miss could easily finish 3rd in the SEC west but I don't think they will. Florida could win another SEC title but I don't think they will either simply b/c that's what everyone thinks will happen. I think we'll see Ole Miss play Florida in the title game and I think if Ole Miss comes in healthy enough in some key posistions we are going to see an upset.
Alot of people like to talk about how the SEC has x number of coaches with national championships. I think after this year we'll have a new national championship coach, and it will be the immortal Houston Nutt. He was a little too good for an Arkansas fan base who desired more 5-7 seasons. Nutt has assembled quite a coaching staff led by former NFL then CFL QB and coach Kent Austin. It's always a plus when you enter a season with the same coordinators and scheme as the year before. Mike Markuson is regarded as one of the top offensive line coaches in the country. Nutt is a great players coach. His players play very hard, very physical and with alot of confidence and I think you should put your money on the mighty Ole Miss Rebels to win the National title.
Alabama and Lsu are going to be tough but that will be played before an electric Vaught-Hemmingway crowd. When you look at college football the last few years, every team loses a game they shouldn't. Look at last year for instance. Southern Cal, Penn State, Bama, Florida, Texas were all at or near the top at one point and all lost to a heavy underdog as about 75% of teams in recent memory have. Can the Rebels avoid that type of loss? Can their defense and special teams be enough to beat Bama and Lsu if points are at a premium? Can they avoid an upset to someone they won't be emotionally up for such as Auburn, Tennessee or Vanderbilt?
Ole Miss should enter the season with All-American Defensive End Greg Hardy healthy and motivated after recovering from foot surgery and coming back for his senior season instead of entering the draft. Overpowering 5star nose tackle Jerrell Powe was cleared to enroll then a year later play after several years of attempts then lawsuits to get in to school. At 6-2 and 390 lbs he didn't see the field alot last year but he was down to 335 by spring and says he'll be at 315 by kickoff. With Lawon Scott and Ted Laurent in that interior mix as well as seniors Marcus Tillman and Emmanuel Stephens and junior Kentrel Lockett rotating at the ends the defensive line should be as strong as any in the country. With a lineback corp led by heavy hitting sub 4.4 Patrick Trahan who was all over the field this spring we could see the entire 2 deep of the front 7 in the NFL some day as well as a handful of members in a much improved secondary. Keep your eye on wide receiver turned lockdown corner Marshay Green who held Michael Crabtree to a weak Cottonbowl performance and was named player of the game.
The only question of offense is the right side of the line. #1 ranked prep school player 6-8 335 lbs Bobbie Massie will arrive after summer school and could immediatly fill the void Oher leaves. 6-7 310 lbs Jackson MS, OT Bradley Sowell started out slow this spring but by the end was much improved. Jevan Snead figures to be the first or second QB taken in the 2010 NFL draft. When you consider your 4th string tailback is a former Army All-American who had a surprisingly good spring the running back posistion appears in good shape. The teams #1 playmaker is a do-it-all tailback wide-out wildrebel quarterback senior fan favorite Dexter McCluster. The scarey thing is this offense would still be very good even without Dex.
The wide receiver corp has to replace speedy Mike Wallace but keep your eye on Jucarious Lucas, a senior who has worked his way up as a walk-on and battled an injury last season. He had a nice spring as well as Andrew Harris and Lionel Breaux. Keep your eye on incoming freshman Patrick Patterson who was one of the countries top 3 highschool wide receivers. Special teams should again be solid with kicker Josh Shene returning from a very good 2008 campaign .
In college football the last few years things never happen the way they are suppose to. Ole Miss could easily finish 3rd in the SEC west but I don't think they will. Florida could win another SEC title but I don't think they will either simply b/c that's what everyone thinks will happen. I think we'll see Ole Miss play Florida in the title game and I think if Ole Miss comes in healthy enough in some key posistions we are going to see an upset.
Alot of people like to talk about how the SEC has x number of coaches with national championships. I think after this year we'll have a new national championship coach, and it will be the immortal Houston Nutt. He was a little too good for an Arkansas fan base who desired more 5-7 seasons. Nutt has assembled quite a coaching staff led by former NFL then CFL QB and coach Kent Austin. It's always a plus when you enter a season with the same coordinators and scheme as the year before. Mike Markuson is regarded as one of the top offensive line coaches in the country. Nutt is a great players coach. His players play very hard, very physical and with alot of confidence and I think you should put your money on the mighty Ole Miss Rebels to win the National title.
This post was edited on 5/31/09 at 8:53 am
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Posted on 5/31/09 at 8:39 am to wildrebeltime
Posted on 5/31/09 at 8:41 am to wildrebeltime
easy wild reb. one game at a time. right now its florida's championship to play for and everybody else's to steal from them.
Posted on 5/31/09 at 8:52 am to wildrebeltime
So did I miss the post where this jackass picked a side? Now he's an OM faithful...
Anyway...Did anybody see that the UT/BC game went 24 innings..Maybe somebody could break down inning by inning in this thread...
Anyway...Did anybody see that the UT/BC game went 24 innings..Maybe somebody could break down inning by inning in this thread...
Posted on 5/31/09 at 9:19 am to sugatowng
A little on Nuclear Fission:
Occasionally nuclear fission occurs without neutron bombardment, as a type of radioactive decay, but this type of fission (called spontaneous fission) is rare except in a few heavy isotopes. Most nuclear fission occurs as a "nuclear reaction"-- a bombardment-driven process that results from the collision of two subatomic particles. Nuclear reactions are contrasted with more common types of radioactive decay, which are spontaneous processes which proceed without bombardment. In nuclear reactions, a subatomic particle collides with an atomic nucleus and causes changes to it. Nuclear reactions are thus driven by the mechanics of bombardment, not by the relatively constant exponential decay and half-life characteristic of spontaneous radioactive processes.
A great many nuclear reactions are known. Nuclear fission differs importantly from other types of nuclear reactions in that it can be amplified and sometimes controlled via a nuclear chain reaction. In such a reaction, free neutrons released by each fission event can trigger yet more events, which in turn release more neutrons and cause more fissions.
The chemical element isotopes that can sustain a fission chain reaction are called nuclear fuels, and are said to be fissile. The most common nuclear fuels are 235U (the isotope of uranium with an atomic mass of 235 and of use in nuclear reactors) and 239Pu (the isotope of plutonium with an atomic mass of 239). These fuels break apart into a bimodal range of chemical elements with atomic masses centering near 95 and 135 u (fission products). Most nuclear fuels undergo spontaneous fission only very slowly, decaying instead mainly via an alpha/beta decay chain over periods of millennia to eons. In a nuclear reactor or nuclear weapon, the overwhelming majority of fission events are induced by bombardment with another particle, a neutron, which is itself produced by prior fission events.
Typical fission events release about two hundred million eV of energy for each fission event. By contrast, most chemical oxidation reactions (such as burning coal or TNT) release at most a few eV per event, so nuclear fuel contains at least ten million times more usable energy than does chemical fuel. The energy of nuclear fission is released as kinetic energy of the fission products and fragments, and as electromagnetic radiation in the form of gamma rays; in a nuclear reactor, the energy is converted to heat as the particles and gamma rays collide with the atoms that make up the reactor and its working fluid, usually water or occasionally heavy water.
When a Uranium atom decays into two fragment atoms, an energy of ~200 MeV is released. Of this energy, 168 MeV is the kinetic energy of the daughter nuclei, which fly apart at about 3% of the speed of light, due to Coulomb repulsion. Also, an average of 2.5 neutrons are emitted with a kinetic energy of ~2 MeV each. Finally, the fission reaction emits a ~30 MeV gamma ray photon.[citation needed]
Neutron and gamma rays emitted by fragments erase information about the fission process itself, making it difficult to study the reaction dynamics from the saddle point in the reaction coordinate to the scission point, where the fragments are released. Nevertheless there are a few fission events for which no neutron or gamma is emitted. These events are examples of so-called cold fission. [1]
In fission there is a preference to yield fragments with even proton numbers, which is called the odd-even effect on the fragments charge distribution. However, no odd-even effect is observed on fragment mass number distribution. This result is attributed to nucleon pair breaking.
A 3D representation of an induced nuclear fission event where a slow-moving neutron is absorbed by the nucleus of a uranium-235 atom, which fissions into two fast-moving lighter elements (fission products) and additional neutrons. Most of the energy released is in the form of the kinetic velocities of the fission products and the neutrons. Also shown is the capture of a neutron by uranium-238 to become uranium-239.
Nuclear fission of heavy elements produces energy because the specific binding energy (binding energy per mass) of intermediate-mass nuclei with atomic numbers and atomic masses close to 61Ni and 56Fe is greater than the specific binding energy of very heavy nuclei, so that energy is released when heavy nuclei are broken apart.
The total rest masses of the fission products (Mp) from a single reaction is less than the mass of the original fuel nucleus (M). The excess mass Δm = M – Mp is the invariant mass of the energy that is released as photons (gamma rays) and kinetic energy of the fission fragments, according to the mass-energy equivalence formula E = mc².
In nuclear fission events the nuclei may break into any combination of lighter nuclei, but the most common event is not fission to equal mass nuclei of about mass 120; the most common event (depending on isotope and process) is a slightly unequal fission in which one daughter nucleus has a mass of about 90 to 100 u and the other the remaining 130 to 140 u.[2] Unequal fissions are energetically more favorable because this allows one product to be closer to the energetic minimum near mass 60 u (only a quarter of the average fissionable mass), while the other nucleus with mass 135 u is still not far out of the range of the most tightly bound nuclei (another statement of this, is that the atomic binding energy curve is slightly steeper to the left of mass 120 u than to the right of it).
The variation in specific binding energy with atomic number is due to the interplay of the two fundamental forces acting on the component nucleons (protons and neutrons) that make up the nucleus. Nuclei are bound by an attractive strong interaction between nucleons, which overcomes the electrostatic repulsion between protons. However, the strong nuclear force acts only over extremely short ranges, since it follows a Yukawa potential. For this reason large nuclei are less tightly bound per unit mass than small nuclei, and breaking a very large nucleus into two or more intermediate-sized nuclei releases energy.
Because of the short range of the strong binding force, large nuclei must contain proportionally more neutrons than do light elements, which are most stable with a 1–1 ratio of protons and neutrons. Extra neutrons stabilize heavy elements because they add to strong-force binding without adding to proton-proton repulsion. Fission products have, on average, about the same ratio of neutrons and protons as their parent nucleus, and are therefore usually unstable because they have proportionally too many neutrons compared to stable isotopes of similar mass. This is the fundamental cause of the problem of radioactive high level waste from nuclear reactors. Fission products tend to be beta emitters, emitting fast-moving electrons to conserve electric charge as excess neutrons convert to protons inside the nucleus of the fission product atoms.
The most common nuclear fuels, 235U and 239Pu, are not major radio logic hazards by themselves: 235U has a half-life of approximately 700 million years, and although 239Pu has a half-life of only about 24,000 years, it is a pure alpha particle emitter and hence not particularly dangerous unless ingested. Once a fuel element has been used, the remaining fuel material is intimately mixed with highly radioactive fission products that emit energetic beta particles and gamma rays. Some fission products have half-lives as short as seconds; others have half-lives of tens of thousands of years, requiring long-term storage in facilities such as Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository until the fission products decay into non-radioactive stable isotopes.
Splitting the atom
Occasionally nuclear fission occurs without neutron bombardment, as a type of radioactive decay, but this type of fission (called spontaneous fission) is rare except in a few heavy isotopes. Most nuclear fission occurs as a "nuclear reaction"-- a bombardment-driven process that results from the collision of two subatomic particles. Nuclear reactions are contrasted with more common types of radioactive decay, which are spontaneous processes which proceed without bombardment. In nuclear reactions, a subatomic particle collides with an atomic nucleus and causes changes to it. Nuclear reactions are thus driven by the mechanics of bombardment, not by the relatively constant exponential decay and half-life characteristic of spontaneous radioactive processes.
A great many nuclear reactions are known. Nuclear fission differs importantly from other types of nuclear reactions in that it can be amplified and sometimes controlled via a nuclear chain reaction. In such a reaction, free neutrons released by each fission event can trigger yet more events, which in turn release more neutrons and cause more fissions.
The chemical element isotopes that can sustain a fission chain reaction are called nuclear fuels, and are said to be fissile. The most common nuclear fuels are 235U (the isotope of uranium with an atomic mass of 235 and of use in nuclear reactors) and 239Pu (the isotope of plutonium with an atomic mass of 239). These fuels break apart into a bimodal range of chemical elements with atomic masses centering near 95 and 135 u (fission products). Most nuclear fuels undergo spontaneous fission only very slowly, decaying instead mainly via an alpha/beta decay chain over periods of millennia to eons. In a nuclear reactor or nuclear weapon, the overwhelming majority of fission events are induced by bombardment with another particle, a neutron, which is itself produced by prior fission events.
Typical fission events release about two hundred million eV of energy for each fission event. By contrast, most chemical oxidation reactions (such as burning coal or TNT) release at most a few eV per event, so nuclear fuel contains at least ten million times more usable energy than does chemical fuel. The energy of nuclear fission is released as kinetic energy of the fission products and fragments, and as electromagnetic radiation in the form of gamma rays; in a nuclear reactor, the energy is converted to heat as the particles and gamma rays collide with the atoms that make up the reactor and its working fluid, usually water or occasionally heavy water.
When a Uranium atom decays into two fragment atoms, an energy of ~200 MeV is released. Of this energy, 168 MeV is the kinetic energy of the daughter nuclei, which fly apart at about 3% of the speed of light, due to Coulomb repulsion. Also, an average of 2.5 neutrons are emitted with a kinetic energy of ~2 MeV each. Finally, the fission reaction emits a ~30 MeV gamma ray photon.[citation needed]
Neutron and gamma rays emitted by fragments erase information about the fission process itself, making it difficult to study the reaction dynamics from the saddle point in the reaction coordinate to the scission point, where the fragments are released. Nevertheless there are a few fission events for which no neutron or gamma is emitted. These events are examples of so-called cold fission. [1]
In fission there is a preference to yield fragments with even proton numbers, which is called the odd-even effect on the fragments charge distribution. However, no odd-even effect is observed on fragment mass number distribution. This result is attributed to nucleon pair breaking.
A 3D representation of an induced nuclear fission event where a slow-moving neutron is absorbed by the nucleus of a uranium-235 atom, which fissions into two fast-moving lighter elements (fission products) and additional neutrons. Most of the energy released is in the form of the kinetic velocities of the fission products and the neutrons. Also shown is the capture of a neutron by uranium-238 to become uranium-239.
Nuclear fission of heavy elements produces energy because the specific binding energy (binding energy per mass) of intermediate-mass nuclei with atomic numbers and atomic masses close to 61Ni and 56Fe is greater than the specific binding energy of very heavy nuclei, so that energy is released when heavy nuclei are broken apart.
The total rest masses of the fission products (Mp) from a single reaction is less than the mass of the original fuel nucleus (M). The excess mass Δm = M – Mp is the invariant mass of the energy that is released as photons (gamma rays) and kinetic energy of the fission fragments, according to the mass-energy equivalence formula E = mc².
In nuclear fission events the nuclei may break into any combination of lighter nuclei, but the most common event is not fission to equal mass nuclei of about mass 120; the most common event (depending on isotope and process) is a slightly unequal fission in which one daughter nucleus has a mass of about 90 to 100 u and the other the remaining 130 to 140 u.[2] Unequal fissions are energetically more favorable because this allows one product to be closer to the energetic minimum near mass 60 u (only a quarter of the average fissionable mass), while the other nucleus with mass 135 u is still not far out of the range of the most tightly bound nuclei (another statement of this, is that the atomic binding energy curve is slightly steeper to the left of mass 120 u than to the right of it).
The variation in specific binding energy with atomic number is due to the interplay of the two fundamental forces acting on the component nucleons (protons and neutrons) that make up the nucleus. Nuclei are bound by an attractive strong interaction between nucleons, which overcomes the electrostatic repulsion between protons. However, the strong nuclear force acts only over extremely short ranges, since it follows a Yukawa potential. For this reason large nuclei are less tightly bound per unit mass than small nuclei, and breaking a very large nucleus into two or more intermediate-sized nuclei releases energy.
Because of the short range of the strong binding force, large nuclei must contain proportionally more neutrons than do light elements, which are most stable with a 1–1 ratio of protons and neutrons. Extra neutrons stabilize heavy elements because they add to strong-force binding without adding to proton-proton repulsion. Fission products have, on average, about the same ratio of neutrons and protons as their parent nucleus, and are therefore usually unstable because they have proportionally too many neutrons compared to stable isotopes of similar mass. This is the fundamental cause of the problem of radioactive high level waste from nuclear reactors. Fission products tend to be beta emitters, emitting fast-moving electrons to conserve electric charge as excess neutrons convert to protons inside the nucleus of the fission product atoms.
The most common nuclear fuels, 235U and 239Pu, are not major radio logic hazards by themselves: 235U has a half-life of approximately 700 million years, and although 239Pu has a half-life of only about 24,000 years, it is a pure alpha particle emitter and hence not particularly dangerous unless ingested. Once a fuel element has been used, the remaining fuel material is intimately mixed with highly radioactive fission products that emit energetic beta particles and gamma rays. Some fission products have half-lives as short as seconds; others have half-lives of tens of thousands of years, requiring long-term storage in facilities such as Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository until the fission products decay into non-radioactive stable isotopes.
Splitting the atom
Posted on 5/31/09 at 9:23 am to woopiginaustin
The Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show:
The first Westminster show was held in 1877. No other continuously held sporting event in the United States is older except for the Kentucky Derby, which was first held in 1875. The show originated as a show for gun dogs, primarily setters and pointers, initiated by a group of hunting men who met regularly at the Westminster Hotel at Irving Place and Sixteenth Street in Manhattan. They decided to create a kennel club called the Westminster Kennel Club specifically for the purpose of holding a dog show. The prizes for these first shows included such items as pearl handled pistols, of use to the hunters and terriermen who worked these dogs in the field. Since that time dog shows have drifted away from a focus on working dogs to a focus on the appearance of the dog alone.
The first show took place in May 1877 at Gilmore's Gardens (the Hippodrome) on the site now occupied by the New York Life Building, which also contains the AKC headquarters. The first show drew over 1200 dogs and proved so popular that its originally scheduled three days became four. It remained 3 or 4 days until 1941, when it changed to its current two-day format. Gilmore's Gardens at the time was an old railroad depot, which two years later became the first Madison Square Garden.
Dog breeds listed for the first show include the Long-haired Saint Bernard, the Esquimaux Dog, and the Siberian Bloodhound; most dogs had simple names such as Duke, Rover, Mungo, Nellie, and Rex, compared to today's fancier and longer dog names (although among today's call names there still number many Dukes, Nellies, Rexes and the like).
The advent of Westminster predates the creation of the AKC, so breed standards were still rough and hard to find. The Westminster Kennel Club was the first club admitted to the AKC after AKC's founding in 1884.
In 1905, with an entry of over 1700 dogs, Westminster surpassed even Crufts to become the largest all-breed dog show in the world.
In 2007, Westminster signed for Angel on a Leash to become an idependent charity. The Angel on a Leash is a organization that has specialized trained Therapy Dogs help lift peoples quality of life. Uno, the Westminster "Best in Show" dog helps with Angel on a Leash by visiting the many places that Angel on a Leash has signed with. [1]
[edit]Television
Television coverage of the event first occurred in 1948, and continues through the present time. Television condenses the showing of more than 2500 dogs in well over 150 breeds in multiple rings over two days into a usually two-hour show, primarily focusing on the General Specials (featuring winners from each breed competing for the title Best In Group) and the final Best In Show (chosen from among the winners of Best In Group).
In the United States, rights to coverage of the show are currently held by cable's USA Network. The first hour of the Monday show and all of the Tuesday show are broadcast on the network, with the final hours of the Monday show being broadcast on sister network CNBC due to USA's coverage of WWE Monday Night RAW. The final moments of the Tuesday night show are the selection of the Best in Show winner from among the seven Group winners. David Frei has been the primary commentator since 1992. His first cohost was baseball's Joe Garagiola, a sports veteran with a weakness for toy breeds. Other cohosts have included Mark McEwen, Lester Holt, and Mary Carillo. The broadcast of Westminster is one of USA's most popular programs with a viewership of millions.
Anne Rogers Clark was a fixture at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show since 1941. She was noticed first as a winning handler, then as a judge. Her 22 judging appearances from 1967 to 2005 at Westminster matched the record.
[edit]Requirements for entry
In 1884, the AKC began requiring that all dog participants be registered with the AKC. This eliminates hundreds of less-common breeds recognized by other kennel clubs both in the United States and abroad.
Because of the show's popularity and prestige, starting in 1992 the AKC limited entries by requiring that dogs must have already earned their breed Championship before appearing at Westminster. Still, in 2005, 2,581 dogs were entered.
Although not required, most dogs are handled at Westminster by professional dog handlers who earn good fees for being able to bring out a dogs' strengths in the show ring. Although few dogs have won more than once at Westminster, several skilled handlers have managed the feat with different dogs of different breeds.
[edit]Winning breeds
Breed judging for German Shepherd Dogs at the 2007 show
As of the 132nd Westminster Show (February 2008), Best in Show has been won by the Terrier Group 44 out of the 100 times that the prize has been awarded since 1907,[2] more than twice as many wins as any other group, even though only 27 of the 157 (or 17%) officially recognized AKC breeds are terriers. Only one Herding Group dog, a German Shepherd named Ch. Covy Tucker Hill's Manhattan has won best in show.[3] The 2007 winner of Best in Show was Ch. Felicity's Diamond Jim, aka "James", an English Springer Spaniel (Sporting Group),[4] and the 2008 Best In Show was a Beagle (Hound Group) named Ch. K-Run's Park Me In First, aka "Uno" - the first time a beagle has won best in show.[5]
Terrier Group: 44
Sporting Group: 19
Working Group: 15
Non-Sporting Group: 10
Toy Group: 9
Hound Group: 4
Herding Group: 1
The oldest dog to win Best in Show was a Sussex Spaniel named Ch. Clussexx Three D Grinchy Glee (aka Stump), at 10 years of age in 2009. The youngest dog to win was a Rough Collie named Ch. Land Loyalty of Bellhaven, at 9 months old in 1929.[6] One dog, a Smooth Fox Terrier named Ch. Warren Remedy won Best in Show three times (1907-1909), and six other dogs have won twice.[7] Dogs (males) have won best in show 67 times to 35 for bitches (females).[8]
[edit]List of previous show winners and breeds
Main article: List of Best in Show winners of the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show
Winners are often, although not always, retired, and can command tremendous fees for breeding. As of 2006, only 6 dogs had ever won Westminster twice, and only one dog has ever won three times. Fueling arguments that the AKC focuses only on dogs' appearance and not on their intelligence or suitability for particular work, only one dog who has won Westminster has ever also earned an obedience championship. Only two dogs have ever won both at Westminster and at Crufts.
The prestige of Westminster is so high that breeds winning Best in Show can actually become too popular, resulting in overbreeding, often by puppy mills or simply inexperienced backyard breeders, in an attempt to meet the increased demand for the breed. A serious decline in the quality of American Cocker Spaniels in the 1940s was generally thought to be attributable to the rare double win of a single Cocker Spaniel in 1940 and 1941. The Irish Setter was another dog that became the darling of the show ring. Critics pointed to the degeneration of the hunting abilities and trainability of this dog as proof that too great a focus on appearance of the coat to the exclusion of other characteristics could be detrimental to the long term health of a breed.
[edit]Dog names
Pretty Puppies
The first Westminster show was held in 1877. No other continuously held sporting event in the United States is older except for the Kentucky Derby, which was first held in 1875. The show originated as a show for gun dogs, primarily setters and pointers, initiated by a group of hunting men who met regularly at the Westminster Hotel at Irving Place and Sixteenth Street in Manhattan. They decided to create a kennel club called the Westminster Kennel Club specifically for the purpose of holding a dog show. The prizes for these first shows included such items as pearl handled pistols, of use to the hunters and terriermen who worked these dogs in the field. Since that time dog shows have drifted away from a focus on working dogs to a focus on the appearance of the dog alone.
The first show took place in May 1877 at Gilmore's Gardens (the Hippodrome) on the site now occupied by the New York Life Building, which also contains the AKC headquarters. The first show drew over 1200 dogs and proved so popular that its originally scheduled three days became four. It remained 3 or 4 days until 1941, when it changed to its current two-day format. Gilmore's Gardens at the time was an old railroad depot, which two years later became the first Madison Square Garden.
Dog breeds listed for the first show include the Long-haired Saint Bernard, the Esquimaux Dog, and the Siberian Bloodhound; most dogs had simple names such as Duke, Rover, Mungo, Nellie, and Rex, compared to today's fancier and longer dog names (although among today's call names there still number many Dukes, Nellies, Rexes and the like).
The advent of Westminster predates the creation of the AKC, so breed standards were still rough and hard to find. The Westminster Kennel Club was the first club admitted to the AKC after AKC's founding in 1884.
In 1905, with an entry of over 1700 dogs, Westminster surpassed even Crufts to become the largest all-breed dog show in the world.
In 2007, Westminster signed for Angel on a Leash to become an idependent charity. The Angel on a Leash is a organization that has specialized trained Therapy Dogs help lift peoples quality of life. Uno, the Westminster "Best in Show" dog helps with Angel on a Leash by visiting the many places that Angel on a Leash has signed with. [1]
[edit]Television
Television coverage of the event first occurred in 1948, and continues through the present time. Television condenses the showing of more than 2500 dogs in well over 150 breeds in multiple rings over two days into a usually two-hour show, primarily focusing on the General Specials (featuring winners from each breed competing for the title Best In Group) and the final Best In Show (chosen from among the winners of Best In Group).
In the United States, rights to coverage of the show are currently held by cable's USA Network. The first hour of the Monday show and all of the Tuesday show are broadcast on the network, with the final hours of the Monday show being broadcast on sister network CNBC due to USA's coverage of WWE Monday Night RAW. The final moments of the Tuesday night show are the selection of the Best in Show winner from among the seven Group winners. David Frei has been the primary commentator since 1992. His first cohost was baseball's Joe Garagiola, a sports veteran with a weakness for toy breeds. Other cohosts have included Mark McEwen, Lester Holt, and Mary Carillo. The broadcast of Westminster is one of USA's most popular programs with a viewership of millions.
Anne Rogers Clark was a fixture at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show since 1941. She was noticed first as a winning handler, then as a judge. Her 22 judging appearances from 1967 to 2005 at Westminster matched the record.
[edit]Requirements for entry
In 1884, the AKC began requiring that all dog participants be registered with the AKC. This eliminates hundreds of less-common breeds recognized by other kennel clubs both in the United States and abroad.
Because of the show's popularity and prestige, starting in 1992 the AKC limited entries by requiring that dogs must have already earned their breed Championship before appearing at Westminster. Still, in 2005, 2,581 dogs were entered.
Although not required, most dogs are handled at Westminster by professional dog handlers who earn good fees for being able to bring out a dogs' strengths in the show ring. Although few dogs have won more than once at Westminster, several skilled handlers have managed the feat with different dogs of different breeds.
[edit]Winning breeds
Breed judging for German Shepherd Dogs at the 2007 show
As of the 132nd Westminster Show (February 2008), Best in Show has been won by the Terrier Group 44 out of the 100 times that the prize has been awarded since 1907,[2] more than twice as many wins as any other group, even though only 27 of the 157 (or 17%) officially recognized AKC breeds are terriers. Only one Herding Group dog, a German Shepherd named Ch. Covy Tucker Hill's Manhattan has won best in show.[3] The 2007 winner of Best in Show was Ch. Felicity's Diamond Jim, aka "James", an English Springer Spaniel (Sporting Group),[4] and the 2008 Best In Show was a Beagle (Hound Group) named Ch. K-Run's Park Me In First, aka "Uno" - the first time a beagle has won best in show.[5]
Terrier Group: 44
Sporting Group: 19
Working Group: 15
Non-Sporting Group: 10
Toy Group: 9
Hound Group: 4
Herding Group: 1
The oldest dog to win Best in Show was a Sussex Spaniel named Ch. Clussexx Three D Grinchy Glee (aka Stump), at 10 years of age in 2009. The youngest dog to win was a Rough Collie named Ch. Land Loyalty of Bellhaven, at 9 months old in 1929.[6] One dog, a Smooth Fox Terrier named Ch. Warren Remedy won Best in Show three times (1907-1909), and six other dogs have won twice.[7] Dogs (males) have won best in show 67 times to 35 for bitches (females).[8]
[edit]List of previous show winners and breeds
Main article: List of Best in Show winners of the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show
Winners are often, although not always, retired, and can command tremendous fees for breeding. As of 2006, only 6 dogs had ever won Westminster twice, and only one dog has ever won three times. Fueling arguments that the AKC focuses only on dogs' appearance and not on their intelligence or suitability for particular work, only one dog who has won Westminster has ever also earned an obedience championship. Only two dogs have ever won both at Westminster and at Crufts.
The prestige of Westminster is so high that breeds winning Best in Show can actually become too popular, resulting in overbreeding, often by puppy mills or simply inexperienced backyard breeders, in an attempt to meet the increased demand for the breed. A serious decline in the quality of American Cocker Spaniels in the 1940s was generally thought to be attributable to the rare double win of a single Cocker Spaniel in 1940 and 1941. The Irish Setter was another dog that became the darling of the show ring. Critics pointed to the degeneration of the hunting abilities and trainability of this dog as proof that too great a focus on appearance of the coat to the exclusion of other characteristics could be detrimental to the long term health of a breed.
[edit]Dog names
Pretty Puppies
Posted on 5/31/09 at 9:28 am to woopiginaustin
woopig is the pic taken from your seat in Hog Heaven? if so look about 60 yards to the right and I'm there.
Posted on 5/31/09 at 9:31 am to blackrose890
No it's just an image I pulled from Google.
My seats are elsewhere.
My seats are elsewhere.
This post was edited on 5/31/09 at 9:32 am
Posted on 5/31/09 at 9:37 am to woopiginaustin
Ah, no biggie. You looking forward to closing the North endzone in 2012?
Posted on 5/31/09 at 9:38 am to blackrose890
I keep hearing about it but haven't seen any drawings or seating numbers.
Posted on 5/31/09 at 9:42 am to woopiginaustin
the drawings are still from the last upgrade (the year we wnclosed the south escapes me) the enclosing was supposed to happen in stages it just got pushed back until the Broyles Complex can be rebuilt the expansion is supposed to be to about 83k-87k depending on which report you listen to. It should help a lot in terms of home advantage as we can finally maintain a great deal of noise at field level.
Posted on 5/31/09 at 9:52 am to woopiginaustin
And the worst part about this 2009 season for Arkansas fans is after I watched spring Arkansas is not getting much out of their offensive line, or entire defense, Petrino gets tailbacks injuried at an alarming rate, and they are building their offense around a turtle footed QB who was ran out of Michigan after boasting a whopping 43% completion percentage.
Ark should win one they aren't suppose to, lose one they aren't suppose to, and finish with another 5-7 campaign.
Ark should win one they aren't suppose to, lose one they aren't suppose to, and finish with another 5-7 campaign.
Posted on 5/31/09 at 9:55 am to wildrebeltime
quote:
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Hi...I'm wildrebeltime...I'm a bitch
Posted on 5/31/09 at 9:56 am to sugatowng
quote:I'll have some of what he's drinking....
wildrebeltime
Posted on 5/31/09 at 9:56 am to wildrebeltime
flame flame go away come on back another day if I die while I sleep take that bag at me feet and feed to me one by one until at last the bag is gone. The turtle never wanted to leave home so God said to then you shall always have it with you. Mother Nature was extremely pissed about this overruling passed by the big guy so she combined several several animals and said "OH YEAH WELL IT'S PLATYPUS TIME! bITCH" thus was the big band and they all went to heaven in a little row boat clap clap.
I'm sorry did you say something wildrebeltime?
I'm sorry did you say something wildrebeltime?
Posted on 5/31/09 at 10:02 am to blackrose890
let me ask you folks with the Arkansas avators something. But first let me preface the question by saying I don't consider myself an expert, or a fortune teller, I am simply stating my prediction based on my experience level.
Is what I'm saying in this thread and past threads hurtful in some way to you? Ya'll are reacting like it's hurting your feelings for one person to come post his prediction
Is what I'm saying in this thread and past threads hurtful in some way to you? Ya'll are reacting like it's hurting your feelings for one person to come post his prediction
Posted on 5/31/09 at 10:03 am to blackrose890
Hottest Pole Vault girl ever?
Posted on 5/31/09 at 10:04 am to woopiginaustin
Hottest #5 ever?
This post was edited on 5/31/09 at 10:05 am
Posted on 5/31/09 at 10:07 am to wildrebeltime
We aren't hurt as everyone is entitled to an opinion we just think you're lame and an alter so we go out of our way to make fun of you since you have no one single poster to come to your defense whenever you feel the need to open your mouth and insert your foot. We are just getting a cheap laugh now-a-days as you seem to be an moron of an order so high it outclasses the heavenly cherubs. So in the end you're nothing to us and the game is afoot to frustrate you by either hijacking your threads or to laugh as you create numerous fallacies over and over again in your one way logic.
Thank you and enjoy the remainder of your life
Thank you and enjoy the remainder of your life
This post was edited on 5/31/09 at 10:09 am
Posted on 5/31/09 at 10:18 am to blackrose890
Blackrose,I think it makes alot of sense. So what's the most outlandish thing I've said? That Nutt is a better coach than Urban Meyer, or could be?
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