It was an interesting Saturday. Lots of action. Thankfully, I got to watch a lot of it.
Nebraska beat Missouri 24-3. The famous Blackshirts defense showed up finally. Missouri couldn’t score more than one field goal. It was a good game to watch. The west coast offense is slowly taking roots in Lincoln. I’ll give them another year or two to get good at it. They had 10th anniversary celebration for the 1994 championship. Got to see a lot of familiar faces: Tom Osborne, Tommy Frasier. Those two years, ‘94 and ‘95 when the Huskers won the championship back-to-back, they were just an amazing team. No other team could even think of beating them. Next week, Huskers visit Iowa State in Ames, IA. It should be an easy win for Nebraska.
Texas easily beat Colorado 31-7. Didn’t get to watch the game; not even highlights.
Some big highly ranked teams lost and other few almost lost but, recovered in the end. #5 Florida State was beaten by unranked Maryland. Must have been a big shock to Bobby Bowden. North Carolina won against #3 Miami with a last second 40-yard field goal by a freshman kicker. This was the first time ever that they beat a team ranked in top 5. #16 Texas A&M lost to Baylor. I didn’t think Baylor could beat any team. This was a big surprise. Purdue lost another game (3rd in a row) after being ranked in top 10 just a couple of weeks ago. This time Northwestern beat them by a field goal.
The biggest averted upset was that of Oklahoma. They barely managed to win against Oklahoma State. 38-35. It would have gone to overtime, but OKState kicker missed a field goal in the last seconds of the game. Michigan State almost beat Michigan too. That game went to 3 overtimes before Michigan won it 45-37. Michigan was behind 27-10 when 6 minutes were left in the game but, came back to finally win it.
Overall, it was an exciting day for College football. Hope to see more this in the coming weeks.
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How pathetic!!! Is there something wrong with the scorecard of Indian second innings? The bottom half of the batting order scored more runs than the top half. Interesting, eh?!
India 2nd innings (target: 543 runs) R M B 4 6
A Chopra b Gillespie 1 16 0 0
V Sehwag c Clarke b Warne 58 94 8 0
*R Dravid b Gillespie 2 6 0 0
SR Tendulkar c Martyn b McGrath 2 14 0 0
VVS Laxman c McGrath b Kasprowicz 2 9 0 0
M Kaif c Gilchrist b Kasprowicz 7 8 1 0
+PA Patel c Gilchrist b Gillespie 32 53 6 0
AB Agarkar not out 44 61 8 0
A Kumble b Gillespie 2 17 0 0
M Kartik c Gilchrist b McGrath 22 27 4 0
Z Khan c Martyn b Warne 25 17 2 2
Extras (lb 2, nb 1) 3
Total (all out, 53.3 overs) 200
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Total Lunar eclipse on Oct 27, 2004.
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Why do all the conservative stuck-ups have this repressed sexuality? And itt comes out in the ugliest form possible. The latest scandal is the Bill O’Reilly sexual harrasement case. Check out these pages (here and here) from the complaint filed by Andrea MacKris against Bill. Highly entertaining!!!
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ABC News: Some Prison Inmates Will Get Flu Shots
Why??? There are so many senior citizens around the country that are scrambling to get flu shots and the vaccine is being wasted on prison inmates. A 79 year old woman died of heat-stroke in California after standing in line for flu vaccine for 4 hours. Is this messed up or what?!?!?
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Took a break in writing the update last weekend as I was busy and didn’t get to watch any football. Last weekend, I was in front of the TV again.
Nebraska lost to Kansas State as expected. Thankfully, it wasn’t a complete blowout. The next game is against Missouri. Last year, the Huskers lost against them. I don’t have my hopes too high. They are definitely going to lose against Oklahoma in coming weeks. I would be very happy if they win all the other games, but, Missouri and Colorado seem to be tough opponents to this weak Husker team.
Texas made it past Texas Tech. Last year, TT scuttled the Longhorns’ hope of getting into a BCS bowl. This year Texas is poised to be in the top 6 BCS rankings at the end. Hope they win against Texas A&M at the end of the season. They play Colorado next week. It should be a one-sided game with Texas winning with a huge margin.
There were no big upsets this weekend. Most of the ranked teams won their respective games. Michigan(#13) beat Purdue(#12) by 2 points. #20 Florida lost to Mississippi State. That was a shocker. Florida hasn’t been the same since the departure of Steve Spurrier. Not that I liked him very much, but, he was doing a good job at Florida. Now, after getting fired as the headcoach of Redskins, don’t know if he’ll coach again. Also, Notre Dame (#24) lost to Boston College. Yipee! Another losing season and they will fire Ty Willingham. Hopefully, he will go to a better school. He is totally wasted at ND.
Watched Miami playing NCstate on ESPN. The NCstate kickoff was returned by Devin Hester for 100 yards and scored a touchdown on the first play of the game. That was fun to watch.
USC shutout Washington 38-0. It is time for Rick Neuheisel to get his ass fired.
Iowa beat Penn State 6-4. Pathetic!!! Penn State scored only on two safeties. That is just ridiculous. The final score of the first game in the baseball world series was higher than that.
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This recipe was so good that we had to share it.
Serves 2.
1 lb bluefish fillet
1 small onion, minced
2-3 cloves of garlic, minced
2 tblsp olive oil
3 tblsp capers
1 large tomato, diced
2 tblsp chopped fresh dill
1 tblsp balsamic vinegar
Lightly saute onion and garlic in olive oil. Preheat the oven to 500F. Place the fillet in a lightly oiled baking dish with the skin-side down. Cover it with onion-garlic mixture and tomatoes, then capers and dill. Drizzle olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Roast for 15-20 minutes or till the fish becomes opaque.
2003 Rosemount Estates Shiraz is OK. Much better than the 2002 vintage but, not as good as 2000 which was the best year.
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V has been away on a business trip since Tuesday. This was my first chance to be a single parent to Ashwini for an extended period of time. I thoroughly enjoyed my time with her, but it made me realise how much work and planning iis involved in taking care of a toddler. At this age (20months), Ashwini doesn’t realise the consequences of her actions. She needs to be looked after constantly to keep her away from doing something that will hurt her. With two parents around, one can pay attention to her while the other can be free to do cooking etc. My respect for single parents (especially single moms) went up by another notch. It is so hard to do anything without planning it out first. Even going to the bathroom for a minute or two is difficult.
V is coming home tonight. Both Ashwini and I will be very happy to see her back. Hopefully, she’ll bring us something from San Diego.
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Cheney calls camouflaged Kerry’s goose hunting ‘October disguise’
This election is just getting ridiculuos. Both the sides are jumping on any and every issue they can find to blast the other side. Kerry was quick to blame the current administration for the flu vaccine shortage when they couldn’t have done anything about it. Here is a jab by Dick Cheney at Kerry’s goose hunting trip.
Kerry has a camouflage jacket but bought a new one for the outing because he was on the campaign trail. Cheney seized on the fact that the jacket was new.
“Which did make me wonder how regularly he does go goose hunting,” the vice president said.
What is he trying to say here? Just because Cheney regularly pumps bullets into hapless innocent animals for fun, he is a better man? Maybe he needs to keep handling his guns regularly as a surrogate for his body part that doesn’t get enough blood from his failing heart.
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Everyone knows about the massive shortage of flu vaccine in US, this season. Shutting down a plant owned by Chiron in UK was the main reason for this shortage. This has given rise to some interesting responses from the state and local authorities. In Oregon and California, the health care workers found to administer flu vaccine to someone who does not meet the criteria to be on the approved list, could face fines and/or jail. Pretty soon, senior citizen standing in line to get a flu shot is going to be a common sight across US.
Thankfully, Ashwini already received her flu shot last week. Anyway, she is on the approved list (6-24 mo. old).
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