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How would you like a Fail Whale (Twitter) cake?

If you frequent Twitter, chances are you have probably ran into its infamous Fail Whale crash at some point in your lifetime. although, some sweet things can still come out of it. Take a look at the Fail Whale cake on Mashable, and let me know what you think:

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(Just add the above text after mashable.com for the full link.)

How would you like a Fail Whale (Twitter) cake?


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    Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by admin - January 22, 2011 at 4:01 am

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    With 'Craigslist Killer' dead, Lifetime focuses on ex-fiancee in original film

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    Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by - January 4, 2011 at 5:00 am

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    Two-Way Player Owen Marecic Takes Center Stage in Stanford Win …

    SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Owen Marecic dipped a tired arm into a box holding post-game snacks and only pulled out one bag. Certainly, he had earned two during Stanford‘s 37-14 victory over Notre Dame.

    Less than an hour earlier Marecic, who starts at both fullback and middle linebacker for Stanford, had scored two touchdowns on consecutive plays from scrimmage for the Cardinal. First, he bulldozed in from one yard out to put Stanford up 25-6 against Notre Dame midway through the fourth quarter. After a two-point conversion and the ensuing kickoff, Marecic jumped a Dayne Crist pass to the flat and raced 20 yards untouched to paydirt to put Stanford up 33-6.

    Two plays, two touchdowns for Stanford’s very own two-way player.

    According to Stats, Inc., Marecic is just the fourth player in the past seven years to score a touchdown on both offense and defense in the same game (the last was Utah‘s Eric Weddle, who had a rushing touchdown and two interception returns for touchdowns versus San Diego State on Sept. 23, 2006). The last time someone did it on consecutive plays from scrimmage? good luck finding out.

    “I don’t really think about that,” No. 48 said as he walked off the field, happy that the Cardinal are 4-0 for the first time in his lifetime after a 37-14 victory in South Bend. “It just feels great to get a win in a hostile environment.”

    Marecic’s line for the day: five tackles, three yards, 1/2 tackle for loss, one interception, two touchdowns and likely a handful of plays from scrimmage spent on the sidelines.

    “He’s a perfect football player,” Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh said of the 6-foot-1, 244-pound senior from Tigard, Ore. “Just never been around a guy like this in 30-some years of playing college, pro football and in coaching. He does everything right.”

    How often do you hear a coach describe anything or anyone as “perfect?” perhaps a play that is perfectly executed, but a player?

    “To really consider just mentally what that takes to learn both systems, offensively and defensively,” said Harbaugh, “to be able to go out there and execute and make plays? You know, he’s the perfect football player.”

    There’s that term again.

    “It’s uncharted waters,” said Harbaugh, who moved north of .500 for the first time (21-20 in three-plus seasons) since arriving at Stanford in 2007. “Nobody’s doing it except for him.”

    Nobody is now. of course, Stanford was once home to one of the great two-way players of all time: Ernie Nevers. And while his coach, Glenn “Pop” Warner never explicitly used the term “perfect” to describe the 1920s era standout, he did call him “the football player without a fault,” which is fairly synonymous.

    Marecic sports a frizzy blond ponytail and his skin has a chalky pallor. in street clothes he looks more like a budding concert pianist — albeit, a chiseled one — than a two-way starter on a team that should be ranked among the top dozen in the nation come Monday. his more celebrated teammate, quarterback Andrew Luck, gushed in awe when asked to describe the challenge of starting both ways from an intellectual standpoint.

    “It would be like going to law school and business school at the same time,” said Luck.

    “I think the biggest thing is that he’s playing the two most physical positions in the game of football: fullback and middle linebacker. Just got to take your hat off to him and enjoy watching it, because I sure do.”
    — Stanford head coach Jim Harbaugh on Owen Marecic Marecic is also a human biology major at Stanford, and in a recent quarter all of his grades were either A’s or A-minuses. As SI.com’s Michael Rosenberg wrote when profiling him, “(Marecic) can be your NFL team’s starting fullback in three years or your family’s doctor in 10.”

    Of course, heads are for more than just thinking, especially if you’re a football player. Marecic, who also started both ways at the same two positions at Jesuit High School in Portland, has broken three of his own helmets in the past year. After he cracked the third one, Harbaugh had him sign it. The headgear now sits in the head coach’s office.

    “I think the biggest thing is that he’s playing the two most physical positions in the game of football: fullback and middle linebacker,” said Harbaugh. “Just got to take your hat off to him and enjoy watching it, because I sure do.”

    Perhaps the only ones who do not enjoy watching Marecic, at least this weekend, play for Notre Dame. two weeks ago they were undone by a dual-threat quarterback, Michigan’s Denard Robinson, enjoying a record-breaking day (Robinson also scored two touchdowns against the Irish). On Saturday the Irish went from facing a player who could beat them two ways to watching a two-way player who could beat them.

    A few leftovers from Stanford 37, Notre Dame 14:

    • The Cardinal were 7-of-7 from the red zone against Notre Dame, culminating in five field goals and two touchdowns. For the season thus far, Stanford is an astounding 26 of 26 inside the red zone.

    • Play of the game? Trailing 19-6 early in the fourth quarter, the Irish faced a third-and-one on their own 49. Notre Dame attempted a low-percentage pass along the right sideline that Dayne Crist threw out of bounds. On fourth down an unblocked Chase Thomas stuffed Armando Allen for no gain. “Fourth down and a foot and a half from midfield,” said Brian Kelly, “and we can’t convert.”

    Said Thomas, “No one touched me. I think the running back (Allen) was as surprised as I was when we met.”

    • Stanford’s fan base may still be a brie-and-cabernet crowd, but what stands out about the Cardinal is how physical they are. The uniforms may be white and cardinal, but they resemble the bruising, brutish Michigan teams for which their head coach toiled in the 1980s.

    • If only from a headline writer’s perspective, how wonderful it would have been if Andrew Luck had signed with Notre Dame. “Luck … of the Irish” is almost too easy.

    • Notre Dame has now lost 11 straight times to ranked opponents. its last win against a ranked opponent was on September 9, 2006, when the Irish beat No. 19 Penn State, 41-17. However, they were ranked No. 4 entering that contest. The last time Notre Dame beat a ranked team that was ranked higher than it was on September 3, 2005 — Charlie Weis’ debut — when the team whipped No. 23 Pittsburgh, 42-21.

    • Linebacker Manti Te’o had 21 tackles for the Irish, and now has 54 after just four games. The school record for most tackles in one game (26) and most tackles in one season (187) are both held by former linebacker Bob Crable, and both came in 1979.

    • Te’o had 21 tackles. The other six starters among Notre Dame’s front seven combined for 22. Irish coach Brian Kelly on Te’o's performance: “He played with a will today. He had a look on his face, a toughness to him that he hasn’t displayed since he’s been a player here at Notre Dame.”

    • Notre Dame has lost seven of its past eight games. The worst stretch in school history came just three years ago, when the Irish lost 11 of 12 from the final two games of the 2006 season through the first ten games of the 2007 season.

    • Stanford kicker Nate Whitaker, a former Notre Dame player, connected on all five of his field goal attempts. He also converted both PATs, giving him 17 points to Notre Dame’s 14.

    • David Ruffer, the current Notre Dame kicker, converted both of his field goal attempts. Ruffer, a senior who is still not on scholarship, is 12 of 12 on field goal tries in his career.

    • Brian Kelly on his special teams play: “I think our field goal kicker has been outstanding, and our kickoff coverage is outstanding. The rest of those groups? Lousy. We’re going to have to take a good, hard look at what’s going on there.”

    • Notre Dame has now gone 1,670 snaps on defense without scoring a touchdown off an interception or fumble recovery. Stanford had such a TD in the fourth quarter.

    Two-Way Player Owen Marecic Takes Center Stage in Stanford Win …


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    Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by - October 3, 2010 at 12:00 am

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    Why You Should Support Tiger Woods

    I don’t condone what Tiger Woods did by any means and I firmly believe that any apology isn’t enough to make up for what he put his family through.

    However, as a sports fan I am rooting for him.

    I’m sure a lot of you are asking how can I support someone who completely failed as a role model and has more issues chasing him than Travis Henry has child support payments.

    Well the answer is simple, I love watching great athletes. That is what sports is about, right? Watching men and women compete at elite levels against each other.

    Tiger Woods isn’t just any athlete. Just like LeBron James isn’t just another basketball player. he is a once in a lifetime athlete. I’m not old enough to remember anything about Jack Nicklaus just like I’m too young to have watched and appreciated Michael Jordan.

    I am old enough to have watched Tiger from the start. I’ve watched him go from the charismatic kid that was going to change golf to the buff, focused machine that had the golf world in the palm of his hand.

    Every sport has great athletes, but it is extremely rare to find someone that changes the way we talk, watch, and analyze the sport. I don’t need to go into how much he has dominated since joining the Tour and I don’t need to remind you how insane it is that people routinely pick him against the field.

    Golf is about as unpredictable as it comes just because of the extraordinary amount of variables that go into a tournament. Every tournament is different just based on who is playing, how have they been playing, what course is it, how is the weather, have they made changes to course, and it goes on.

    Yet with all of these factors, Tiger rose above the variable. The answer just became “Well, Tiger is playing.”

    I’m not suggesting we go back to praising Tiger like we did or that we let him off the hook for his “transgressions.”

    I am suggesting that as sports fans, we enjoy and remember the fact that we are watching a once in a lifetime athlete. we are watching someone that has not only single handedly elevated the sport of golf, but elevated above the sport itself.

    We are watching Tiger Woods.

    Why You Should Support Tiger Woods


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    Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by - March 16, 2010 at 2:00 am

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