| Wake Forest's Ghee has a secret weapon
Brandon Ghee makes a video copy each Sunday of the Wake Forest game he played in the previous day, sends it through the mail or via his parents to his older brother Patrick, and waits for the phone to ring. “It usually doesn’t take long,’’ said Ghee, a graduate of Jack Britt High School. “Sometimes he gets back to me that Sunday night.’’ Patrick Ghee always offers a quick critique of his brother’s performance during those calls. Patrick does so from a perspective of experience. He was Wake Forest’s starting safety the last two seasons and participated in training camp with the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks over the summer. “He tells me if I’m not hustling or gives me tips on backpedaling,’’ Brandon Ghee said.
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Renney wants some levity during Rangers' break
With Ottawa making the first significant pre-deadline NHL trade yesterday, the Rangers had one more thing to absorb as they began a five-day break before returning to action Saturday.
The Eastern Conference-leading Senators acquired forward Cory Stillman and defenseman Mike Commodore from the Hurricanes for defenseman Joe Corvo and forward Mike Eaves, a move that appears to strengthen Ottawa more than Carolina. Should the seventh-place Rangers (28-24-7) finish eighth in the East, they likely would face Ottawa in the first round of the playoffs.
But that's jumping the gun; the Rangers have five games before the Feb. 26 trade deadline and 18 afterward. The eighth-place Boston Bruins and ninth-place Buffalo Sabres have four games in hand and each of them will play two this week, so the Rangers could be in ninth place by Saturday.
Filed under: MilwaukeeBrewers
The Brewers bullpen seems to be improved on paper. Doug Melvin spent a lot of time on that in the offseason signing Riske, Mota, Torres, and the biggest name signing of Gagne. I trust Doug Melvin, I really do, but that doesn't mean that these signings don't make me a little twitchy. All of these guys with the exception of Riske are coming off of seasons that weren't their best. They can't afford the nice house in good condition, so they go for the same size house that is in forclosure down the block. They get it, get in there, and see what the previous owners left and how much work they have to do to it to get it back into a condition they can live with. So far they have had a pretty good track record with their "house flipping ventures." I have my reservations that it will last right now. According to a jsonline.com article, it almost seems like the fact that they didn't have good years last year is what made them so enticing to Melvin.
Party Politics Republican
CBS 60 Minutes to run Siegelman story on Sunday. On Sunday, CBS's 60 Minutes will air its long-awaited report on Alabama's incarcerated former governor Don Siegelman, reportedly one of its "best pieces of domestic expos journalism." Justice Department prosecutors opposed the Siegelman investigation, in which Bush administration political operatives - including Karl Rove - allegedly interfered. Must see TV. Wednesday, February 20: Rightwing Previews Its Anti-Obama Attacks: "Shady Chicago Socialist' RNC's 'swift boat' list for Obama attack: The first [slide] called for pointing out what the GOP views as a seeming incongruity between Obama and the mantle of commander in chief. The second point harkened back to Obama's days in the Illinois state Senate, noting how his "pattern of voting 'present' offers many openings to question his candidacy." The third offered hope to the GOP faithful that "we can..." Monday, October 1: Christian Conservatives Consider Third-Party Effort Alarmed at the chance that the Republican party might pick Rudolph Giuliani as its presidential nominee despite his support for abortion rights, a coalition of influential Christian conservatives is threatening to back a third-party candidate in an attempt to stop him.
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