A Day or Two of Detox

Well my little brother turned 21 Thursday, party at Doug's Friday, Outdoor softball tourny Saturday, Cuse game and NASCAR Sunday taking it easy for a couple days sounds wonderful. The Moose Lodge Represented a 1-2 record beating the host Knights of Columbus. We lost 2 games by 1 and we had roughly 5 kids under the age of 12 on our team. Brian Mitchell was runner up of the MVP award he would of got it but was robbed by a stellar diving stop by a 15 year old girl stopping is perfect batting average. Better luck next year. Ahhhh Good times. Well back to work. PEACE.

Friday The 13th

Today is the creepy Friday the 13th which is cool because I can Tivo all the movies and watch them sometime. I don't really have anything cool to say so I will just post a couple Jason pictures, I mean come on who likes to read instead of just looking at pictures anyways.

UNC Beats Duke Again

Tyler Hansbrough and Danny Green become the first UNC players to ever win 4 games at Cameron. Here is the recap from ESPN.
"Lawson scores 21 second-half points to rally UNC

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Team Stat Comparison
NORTH CAROLINA DUKE
Points 101 87
FG Made-Attempted 34-62 (.548) 34-70 (.486)
3P Made-Attempted 6-15 (.400) 8-24 (.333)
FT Made-Attempted 27-31 (.871) 11-18 (.611)
Fouls (Tech/Flagrant) 17 (0/0) 23 (1/0)
Largest Lead 17 9

Game Leaders
NORTH CAROLINA DUKE
Points T. Lawson 25 K. Singler 22
Rebounds W. Ellington 7 K. Singler 6
Assists T. Lawson 5 J. Scheyer 4
Steals W. Ellington 3 G. Paulus 4
Blocks E. Davis 1 D. McClure 1
· Team Stats: North Carolina | Duke

Game Flow


2008-09 Season
DATE GAME LINKS
· Feb 11, 2009 UNC 101, @DUKE 87 Recap | Box Score
Mar 8, 2009 DUKE @ UNC 4:00 PM ET

Next 5 Games
NORTH CAROLINA (ET) DUKE (ET)
02/15 @MIA 7:45pm
02/18 NCST 8:00pm
02/21 @MD 3:30pm
02/28 GT 12:00pm
03/04 @VT 7:00pm
02/15 @BC 5:30pm
02/19 @SJU 7:00pm
02/22 WAKE 7:45pm
02/25 @MD 9:00pm
02/28 @VT 3:30pm

· Complete Schedule: North Carolina | Duke

Atlantic Coast Conference Standings
TEAM CONF W-L TOTAL W-L
#3 North Carolina 8-2 22-2
#5 Duke 7-3 20-4
#11 Clemson 6-3 20-3
#25 Florida State 6-3 19-5
Virginia Tech 6-3 16-7
#8 Wake Forest 5-4 18-4
Boston College 6-5 18-8
Maryland 4-5 15-8
Miami (FL) 4-6 15-8
North Carolina State 3-6 13-9
Virginia 1-8 7-13
Georgia Tech 1-9 10-13
· View expanded standings
Associated Press
DURHAM, N.C. -- After North Carolina sealed yet another victory for Tyler Hansbrough on Coach K's court, some Tar Heels celebrated by walking off with four fingers raised into the air.


Tarred and Feathered

North Carolina scored its fourth most points all-time against Duke as Danny Green and Tyler Hansbrough become the first pair of classmates to go 4-0 in their career against Duke in consecutive seasons at Cameron Indoor in the Coach K era at Duke. Duke allowed 100 points to an opponent for the first time since Jan. 5, 2000, against Virginia.
North Carolina
Most Points Scored vs. Duke Date
105 March 5, 1983
103 Jan. 22, 1983
102 Feb. 2, 1995
101 Feb. 11, 2009
99 March 4, 1995
97 Feb. 5, 1998
* -- Won all 6 games

"I told our guys, 'The streak is going to stop at some time,'" coach Roy Williams said. "'Let's just put it off for another year.'"

Thanks to Ty Lawson, they did.

Lawson scored 21 of his season-high 25 points in the second half while helping No. 3 North Carolina rally past Duke (No. 5 ESPN/USA Today, No. 6 AP) 101-87 on Wednesday night.

Hansbrough scored 17 points -- and hit another late 3-pointer -- while remaining perfect at Cameron Indoor Stadium for the Tar Heels (22-2, 8-2 Atlantic Coast Conference), who won their eighth straight while becoming the first team in nine seasons to hit triple digits against Duke.

They came on strong down the stretch, using late runs of 25-11 and 14-0 to first take the lead for good and then stretch it to 17. In the process, they snapped the Blue Devils' 14-game home court winning streak while claiming first place in the ACC standings.


Fast Facts

• The Tar Heels have won four straight at Cameron for the first time since Jan. 16, 1982, to March 2, 1985.

• After scoring just four points in the first half, Ty Lawson finished with a game-high 25 to lead UNC (first career 20 point game vs. Duke).

• Tyler Hansbrough finished with 17 points and now is second all-time on the ACC scoring list with 2,604 points.

• The Blue Devils struggled in the second half from 3-point range going just 2-15 (went 6-9 in first half).

-- ESPN research

Wayne Ellington and Danny Green added 15 points apiece. Green and Hansbrough joined former Wake Forest standouts Tim Duncan and Rusty LaRue as the only players to beat Mike Krzyzewski four straight times on the Cameron court that now bears his name.

"Each year it's been different," Hansbrough said. "Our freshman year, no one thought we could come in here and win. ... Tonight was one of those things where you didn't want to think about the record. We just wanted to come out and play."

Kyle Singler scored 22 points and Jon Scheyer added 20 to lead Duke (20-4, 7-3), which kept up with the uptempo Tar Heels for about 30 minutes before spiraling to its fifth loss in six meetings with the hated rival located 8 miles down Tobacco Road.

"In the second half, we kind of had the mindset that we were going to outscore them," Singler said. "But you're not going to outscore Carolina."

Gerald Henderson finished with 17 points -- but was just 1-for 9 in the second half, and that's when they let this one get away.

Duke led 56-48 in the early moments of the half before North Carolina took command, with Hansbrough hitting a short jumper with just under 18 minutes remaining. That started the Lawson-led 25-11 burst in which the efficient Tar Heels took the lead for good, coming away with points on 12 of 15 trips downcourt.

"We did not hit shots for a short period of time there," Krzyzewski said. "And they did, and they got away from us."

Then, Lawson gave North Carolina all the separation it needed a short while later, when he scored nine of the 12 straight points reeled off by the Tar Heels. His three-point play with 3:42 remaining put them up 88-71.

"We didn't think they could stay in front of us," Lawson said. "I just knew I could get to the basket."

That came two possessions after Hansbrough pulled up over David McClure and knocked down a 3-pointer; three seasons ago, Hansbrough hit a 3 at Cameron that he still insists is his favorite shot.

That put the Tar Heels well on their way to their first 100-point performance in the rivalry since their thrilling 102-100 double-overtime victory in 1995 -- also the last time Duke allowed triple digits at Cameron -- while helping them become the first visiting team to win here since they did it last March.

"We come to Duke to win these games," said red-eyed senior guard Greg Paulus, whose career will end without a home victory over the Tar Heels. "It hurts. It really does, and now I don't get another chance to do it at home."

Nolan Smith added 11 points for Duke, which allowed 100 points for the first time since a 109-100 victory over Virginia in January 2000. It lost for the third time in the five games that followed its first appearance at No. 1 in the nation since 2006.

For a while, though, it looked like the Blue Devils might be the first team to 100.

"The worst thing for us was to try to slow it completely down, and put your kids in a position where they're hesitant," Krzyzewski said. "You can't win when you're hesitant."

Duke shot 62 percent while coming on strong late during a first half that was rather miserable for the Tar Heels' top three players. Hansbrough, Lawson and Ellington were a combined 3-for-12 from the field, and Hansbrough, saddled with two fouls, was benched for the final 4:11.

Duke used a 22-5 run in which they hit 9-of-11 shots over a 5 1/2-minute span late in the first half -- a run capped by Singler's baseline jumper with 4:55 remaining -- to take a 40-34 lead.

The Blue Devils held North Carolina to two field goals over the half's final 7 1/2 minutes, then pushed their lead to 50-41 on Scheyer's free throw with 46.4 seconds left -- the first time the Tar Heels allowed a team to score 50 in a half since December.

But that was well before they got back to the fast tempo that helped them take an early double-figure lead. North Carolina jumped out to a 20-10 lead roughly 5 1/2 minutes in after some remarkably efficient play in which it scored on 10 of 11 possessions."

Been awhile

Well it's kind of been awhile since my last post been busy celebrating the Steelers 6th Super Bowl, UNC Vs. Duke tonight, alot of good college games on, work, and getting ready to celebrate my 24th birthday. Damn I am getting old. Well besides the MLB steriod scandal not alot of interesting stuff going on off the top of my head. So really this is a boring post, sorry. If your around stop in at Doug's Friday night to have some birthday beers with me. Peace.

Steelers Get 6th Superbowl

I know it's old news but to me it just never gets old. Are they the most successful NFL franchise? I think so and I bet several other people agree with me. Anyways I found some awesome pictures I wanted to share.

LEAVE BONDS ALONE

Prosecutors in Barry Bonds' trial intend to introduce notes seized from Greg Anderson's house and a clubhouse tape recording of the personal trainer discussing injections in an effort to get around his likely refusal to testify against the home-run king.


Among hundred of pages of documents unsealed Wednesday was a transcript of a taped conversation between Bonds' personal trainer and then-personal assistant discussing injecting the slugger, plus a list of current and former major leaguers, including Jason Giambi, who are scheduled to testify for the government at Bonds' upcoming trial.Prosecutors: Bonds tested positive
The court documents unsealed by a federal judge Wednesday in the government's criminal case against Barry Bonds included the results of 26 blood and urine tests. Prosecutors contend five are positive for performance-enhancing drugs. Three of the results were seized from BALCO and did not include Bonds' name; the government said it determined they belonged to Bonds through a BALCO log. The other two were taken by Major League Baseball. One later was retested by the government, which is when it came up positive.

• Nov. 28, 2000: BALCO urine test positive for methenolone and nandrolone

• Feb. 5, 2001: BALCO urine test positive for methenolone

• Feb. 19, 2001: BALCO urine test positive for methenolone and nandrolone

• June 4, 2003: MLB urine test positive for THG, clomiphene, exogenous testosterone

• July 7, 2006: MLB urine test positive for D-amphetamine

-- The Associated Press



Among the evidence was a positive test for amphetamines in 2006 in a urine sample Bonds gave to Major League Baseball.

Bonds' attorneys want all that evidence suppressed, and U.S. District Judge Susan Illston is to rule Thursday. Anderson, jailed several times for refusing to answer questions before a grand jury, appears to be at the heart of the government's case.

Steve Hoskins, Bonds' childhood friend and personal assistant, tape recorded a 2003 conversation at the Pac Bell Park clubhouse with Anderson in which injections are discussed.

Anderson: No, what happens is, they put too much in one area, and what it does, it'll, it'll actually ball up and puddle. And what happens is, it actually will eat away and make an indentation. And it's a cyst. It makes a big [expletive] cyst. And you have to drain it. Oh yeah, it's gnarly ... Hi Benito ... oh it's gnarly.

Hoskins: He said his [expletive] went ... that's why he has to, he had to switch off of one cheek to the other. Is that why Barry's didn't do it in one spot, and you didn't just let him do it one time?

Anderson: Oh no. I never. I never just go there. I move it all over the place.

The former San Francisco Giants star is charged with lying to a grand jury in 2003 when he said he never knowingly used performance-enhancing drugs. Federal prosecutors allege that Bonds knowingly used steroids, including a once undetectable designer drug.

His trial is scheduled to start March 2.

Bonds lawyers moved to suppress 24 drug tests from 2000-06; more than two dozen drug calendars; BALCO log sheets; handwritten notes; opinion evidence on steroids, human growth hormone, THG, EPO and Clomid; witness descriptions of Bonds' "physical, behavioral and emotional characteristics" -- including acne on his back, testicle shrinkage, head size, hat size, hand size, foot size and sexual behavior; recorded conversations that didn't include Bonds; and voice mails allegedly left by Bonds on the answering machine of former girlfriend Kimberly Bell.

Bonds' lawyers also want to prevent the jury from hearing evidence of at least four positive steroid tests they argue can't be conclusively linked to Bonds because of how they were processed.

According to records prosecutors took from BALCO, Bonds tested positive on three separate occasions in 2000 and 2001 for the steroid methenelone in urine samples; he also tested positive two of those three times for the steroid nandrolone. Prosecutors want to use those test results to show Bonds lied when he told a grand jury in December 2003 that he never knowingly used steroids.

In addition, a government-retained scientist, Dr. Don Catlin, said he found evidence that Bonds used the designer steroid THG upon retesting a urine sample Bonds supplied as part of baseball's anonymous survey drug testing in 2003, when the designer drug was not yet detectable. Federal investigators seized them in 2004 from the private laboratory used by Major League Baseball before they could be destroyed, which the players were promised.Unsealed documents
View the documents of evidence in the government's criminal case against Barry Bonds here:

Document 99
Exhibits A, B, C
Opposition
Opposition 2
Bonds exhibits




Catlin said the sample also tested positive for Clomid and foreign testosterone.

Included in the evidence was a letter from baseball independent drug administrator Bryan Smith that Bonds tested positive for an amphetamine during a drug test on July 7, 2006. There was also a letter from baseball commissioner Bud Selig to Bonds that Aug. 1 informing him of the positive test and telling him that he will be subject to six more tests over a one-year period.

The New York Daily News reported on that test on Jan. 11, 2007, saying Bonds attributed the positive test to a substance he had taken from teammate Mark Sweeney's locker.

The government said the Giants had Bonds give blood samples to St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center and to Chandler Regional lab, and the government obtained those test results. The government said liver enzymes and cholesterol levels in those results are indicative of steroid use.

The court documents also show prosecutors plan on calling to the witness stand Giambi of the Oakland Athletics, along with his brother and former major leaguer Jeremy Giambi. The government also plans to call Bobby Estalella, Marvin Barnard and Benito Santiago, all former Bonds teammates.

Anderson also worked with those players and maintained so-called doping calendars for them. Prosecutors allege that Anderson maintained a similar calendar for Bonds.

Documents taken from Anderson's house detail steroid distribution from Anderson to Bonds from 2000-03, according to a government brief. And Anderson also discusses steroids with Hoskins during that March 2003 clubhouse chat.

Court papers stated that Hoskins recorded the conversation on his own initiative with no government prompting. And federal prosecutors said that Hoskins will be a key witness at the trial.
Bonds

Bonds and Hoskins had a nasty falling out after slugger went to the FBI with accusations Hoskins stole from him.

According to Hoskins, the following excerpt took place between himself and Anderson in approximately March 2003 at Pac Bell Park near the defendant's locker.

Anderson: ... everything that I've been doing at this point, it's all undetectable.

Hoskins: Right.

Anderson: See, the stuff that I have ... we created it. And you can't, you can't buy it anywhere. You can't get it anywhere else. But, you can take it the day of and pee ...

Hoskins: Uh-huh.

Anderson: And it come up with nothing.

Hoskins: Isn't that the same [expletive] that Marion Jones and them were using?

Anderson: Yeah, same stuff, the same stuff that worked at the Olympics.

Hoskins: Right, right.

Anderson: And they test them every [expletive] week.

Hoskins: Every week. Right, right.

Anderson: So that's why I know it works. So that's why I'm not even trippin'. So that's cool.

Bonds' attorneys argue "there is simply no portion of what Anderson states in reply to Hoskins' questioning that unambiguously refers to Mr. Bonds."

Phelps Helps Make Marijuana Legal...

Not really but maybe he can help make it legal. Personally I don't use it but I don't care if people do. In my opinion it isn't really all that bad compared to the other stuff in the world. Anyways here is the article.
"Phelps says bong photo authentic:


Michael Phelps won eight golds in Beijing, breaking Mark Spitz's 1972 record of seven.TAMPA, Fla. -- Olympic great Michael Phelps has acknowledged "regrettable" behavior and "bad judgment" after a photo in a British newspaper showed him smoking marijuana.

In a statement released to The Associated Press, the swimmer who won a record eight gold medals at the Beijing Games conceded the authenticity of the exclusive photo published Sunday by the tabloid News of the World.

Phelps said: "I engaged in behavior which was regrettable and demonstrated bad judgment. I'm 23 years old and despite the successes I've had in the pool, I acted in a youthful and inappropriate way, not in a manner people have come to expect from me. For this, I am sorry. I promise my fans and the public it will not happen again."

An accompanying story in the tabloid said the photo was from a Nov. 6 party in South Carolina, a little more than a month after Phelps wrapped up his record haul in Beijing.

Phelps was charged with driving under the influence in Maryland in 2004, when he was 19. He was sentenced to 18 months probation and fined $250.

Under more flexible sanctions the World Anti-Doping Agency adopted for 2009, first-time offenders who commit particularly bad infractions can face suspensions of up to four years.

The current standard for first-time offenders is a two-year ban no matter the violation.""

Lack Of Posts

Steelers are in the Super Bowl and I have been caught up in that. No excuses just can't wait until 6:28. GO STEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELERS. If they lose you might not hear from me for a while.