DECEMBER 22 UPDATE
COMMITMENTS
Courtney Golden, Senior, Casa Roble High School Softball Pitcher from Orangevale Ca., verballed to Humboldt State
OUTFIELDER NEEDED
Florida Tech (DII) is looking for a competitive outfielder to start in January. For more information please call Coach Hanover at (321) 537-1096 or email ehanover@fit.edu. Scholarship money is available.
PITCHER NEEDED
Concordia University Nebraska – need additional Pitcher for this season.(Spring 2006)
2005 GPAC Champions! NAIA Regional qualifier last 3 years.
Looking for steady performer who would like to attend a small Midwestern Christian liberal arts college (1400 students). Strong in Pre-Med, Pre-Law, Liberal Arts, Business and Sports/Health related fields. High graduation placement rates. We are located in Seward, Nebraska (population 6500) which is 25 miles from the State Capitol of Lincoln, NE. (population 300,000) and 75 miles from Omaha (population 750,000) Preferably good student and committed athlete. Partial scholarship and need based money available.
Coach Frank Greene
Concordia University Nebraska Bulldog Softball
2005 GPAC Champions!
800 N Columbia
Seward, NE 68434
MORE ON 43 FEET
Rick Pauly, head coach at Spartanburg Methodist College sent some data (in Powerpoint which I have to massage into Front Page), which indicate that NCAA statistics pre and post the intro of the 43 ft. pitching distance don't support any real disadvantage to the pitcher or advantage for the hitter. It's very interesting, Rick says, that the real hitting increases are coincident with the intro of the optic yellow ball. Yet strike outs per 7 innings keep rising.
Scott Hillman, Asst. Coach, Banshees 18's
High School softball (and tournament ball at 16 & 18 A) is the only sport, (boys or girls) at that age level, where the field dimensions are different in high school than they are in college (or the pros, for that matter). It seems rather ridiculous, not only that this is the case, but that there is so much aversion to this change. Will it mean an adjustment by the pitchers? Undoubtedly. But the adjustment will be made. I'm sure you will agree, based on your own experience, that when girls are told they can't, they won't. But, when told that they can, they do. This argument by coaches is no different than rec league coaches arguing about rule modifications that change the way the game is played. Young ladies (much to the surprise of many men, but much fewer women) have always responded well to the challenges that are placed in front of them. There is no reason to believe that will change with the pitching distance being moved to 43 feet.
DOG WISDOM
VARIOUS SOURCES: Freud, Thurber, Tyler, Heinlein, Twain, Barry, Pastoret, Caras, Landers ,Rogers, Williams, Billings, Rooney, Acklam
If your dog is fat, you aren't getting enough exercise.
The reason
a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail
instead of his tongue.
Don't
accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that
you are wonderful.
If there
are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go
where they went.
There is no
psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your
face.
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
We give dogs time we can
spare, space we can spare, and love we can spare. In
return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made.
Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.
I wonder if
other dogs think poodles are members of a weird
religious cult.
A dog
teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around
three times before lying down.
Anybody who
doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a
dog.
If I have
any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs
I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
My dog is
worried about the economy because Alpo is up to $3.00
a can. That's almost $21.00 in dog money.
Ever
consider what our dogs must think of us? I mean, here we
come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul -- chicken, pork,
half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!
Women
and cats will do as they please, and men
and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
If you pick
up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will
not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
You can say
any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that
says, 'Wow, you're right! I never would've thought of that!
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
If you
think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in
your pocket and then give him only two of them.
My goal in life is to be as good of a person as my dog already thinks I am.
SPY NOTE: At an early age, I was given for Christmas James Thurber’s Fireside Book of Dog Stories. One story, The Voice of Bugle Ann, became a landmark case in Missouri on the matter of justifiable homicide, eg, the deliberate killing of a prize coon hound.