Sports - 30 July 2007

2007-07-30 14:32:44 · 10 answers · asked by KATHLEEN M 2 in Baseball

That I just got reported for telling someone they were being put on Iggy? For asking a slanderous question? Want details, just ask.

2007-07-30 14:30:25 · 13 answers · asked by schizophreniabeatsdiningalone 5 in NASCAR

I am looking for an inexpensive pistol that I can carry when I am hunting. I hunt in an area with lots of bears and just would feel more comfortable with a pistol in tote when I am bow hunting. I doesn't have to be big enough to kill a bear but not a .22 caliber.

2007-07-30 14:26:55 · 11 answers · asked by bagthebuck 1 in Hunting

2007-07-30 14:23:35 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in FIFA World Cup (TM)

2007-07-30 14:20:02 · 15 answers · asked by Twig81 1 in Football (American)

i have a dream of playing minor league baseball and maybe majors. (there was a girl on AAA ball, almost majors) and since I'm a girl i feel its almost impossible does anyone have any good quotes/passages/phrases to keep me going to my goal cause i know i'll get made fun of.

THANKS SO MUCH!!

2007-07-30 14:17:44 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Baseball

2007-07-30 14:15:10 · 20 answers · asked by knowhim3am 2 in Football (American)

I hope so at least maybe we can win the wildcard if not the NL Central.

2007-07-30 14:13:58 · 6 answers · asked by brothalove1987 1 in Baseball

If you look at my questions you'll see one where I said Danny should be fired. Now I am eating my words. I should have keeped my faith in the Celtic Pride.

KG + Paul + Allen = CONTENDERS

2007-07-30 14:13:45 · 10 answers · asked by say_what!!! 4 in Basketball

does a youth rifle make the bullet go any shorter then a regular rifle?

2007-07-30 14:11:19 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Hunting

2007-07-30 14:10:20 · 19 answers · asked by knowhim3am 2 in Basketball

i would

2007-07-30 14:07:25 · 5 answers · asked by I'Nardo 2 in Wrestling

But you've got to admit that Jeff Gordon is the premiere driver of his era. Over the last 10 years, everytime you look on ESPN, there's Jeff Gordon winning this race, winning that race. Some people don't like him. But hey people don't like Barry Bonds either and he's still about to be the new HOMERUN KING! He seems to make more money than anyone. Stats say that he's won more championship cups than anyone of this era. He has more endorsements than any of the other drivers. What do the haters think about that?

2007-07-30 14:02:39 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in NASCAR

...IWho are the top 3 all round..... cricketers
in current......iCC.....( ODI )....Allrounders Rankings?

2007-07-30 14:01:43 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cricket

with your right or left hand when firing... I'm new to archery?

Thank You

2007-07-30 13:56:28 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Hunting

LBJ...he is a great athlete and is a great dunker... and off the field he is always in the news...saturday night live, a great espys performance and he evens sings in the song main attraction....


i got a lotta lotta lotta lotta lotta lotta dough


what do you think

2007-07-30 13:51:36 · 8 answers · asked by tj 1 in Other - Sports

2007-07-30 13:49:34 · 18 answers · asked by fizznik 3 in Tennis

Thanks for your help. Quantity of teams in your answer and noting the years those teams were a top passing team are key for a best answer.

2007-07-30 13:49:33 · 9 answers · asked by Zloar 4 in Football (American)

2007-07-30 13:45:59 · 12 answers · asked by Chris Wifey 2 in Brazilian Football (Soccer)

2007-07-30 13:44:39 · 20 answers · asked by Chris Wifey 2 in Brazilian Football (Soccer)

what is the best handgun in the range of $500-700? I prefer something concealable but accurate. Also, what type of ammunition is the best in term of stopping-power? Thanks.

2007-07-30 13:42:02 · 16 answers · asked by John K 1 in Hunting

http://www.nba.com/lakers/news/070730_signkarl.html

How do you feel about this.

2007-07-30 13:40:16 · 8 answers · asked by FOOLISHNESS 4 in Basketball

2007-07-30 13:35:41 · 10 answers · asked by satch 1 in Baseball

2007-07-30 13:35:16 · 18 answers · asked by Affy 2 in Football (American)

2007-07-30 13:30:50 · 18 answers · asked by hadesson12295 1 in Football (American)

In games they usually decide which pitcher won/loss or sometimes they don't choose any. I want to know how they decide the winner/loser or why they don't choose any sometimes.

2007-07-30 13:17:22 · 6 answers · asked by The Dominican 3 in Baseball

yeah, it was tight.
lol
i wasZ there & he killed it.
anyone like tony stewart?
i like him, jeff gordon & busch.

2007-07-30 13:16:26 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in NASCAR

2007-07-30 13:15:59 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Sports

I recently moved to an area that is full of ITF point style fighters. My problem is that I have trained for 3 1/2 years in WTF, and I want to stick with that style. Nothing against ITF, it's just not for me. But the place that is closest (WTF style) reeks of business first. The closest place after this one is an hour away. A little farther and I could train in the Houston area with the Lopez group. I wouldn't be allowed to compete while there, because "it's selfish to use your training" for competetion. Reality is that a majority of the students look like they would get killed. So that puts me in a bit of a pickle; train there until I find a better fit, or just tough it out for a few more months. I really need a school though so I can prepare to compete next year.Thanks for any help!

2007-07-30 13:13:19 · 5 answers · asked by tkdg13 2 in Martial Arts

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Bill Walsh, the groundbreaking football coach who won three Super Bowls and perfected the ingenious schemes that became known as the West Coast offense during a Hall of Fame career with the San Francisco 49ers, has died. He was 75.

Walsh died at his Woodside home Monday morning following a long battle with leukemia.

"This is just a tremendous loss for all of us, especially to the Bay Area because of what he meant to the 49ers," said Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Montana, the player most closely linked to Walsh's tenure with the team. "For me personally, outside of my dad he was probably the most influential person in my life. I am going to miss him."

Walsh didn't become an NFL head coach until 47, and he spent just 10 seasons on the San Francisco sideline. But he left an indelible mark on the United States' most popular sport, building the once-woebegone 49ers into the most successful team of the 1980s with his innovative offensive strategies and teaching techniques.

The soft-spoken native Californian also produced a legion of coaching disciples that's still growing today. Many of his former assistants went on to lead their own teams, handing down Walsh's methods and schemes to dozens more coaches in a tree with innumerable branches.

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"The essence of Bill Walsh was that he was an extraordinary teacher," NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said in a statement. "If you gave him a blackboard and a piece of chalk, he would become a whirlwind of wisdom. He taught all of us not only about football but also about life and how it takes teamwork for any of us to succeed as individuals."

Walsh went 102-63-1 with the 49ers, winning 10 of his 14 postseason games along with six division titles. He was named the NFL's coach of the year in 1981 and 1984.

Few men did more to shape the look of football into the 21st century. His cerebral nature and often-brilliant stratagems earned him the nickname "The Genius" well before his election to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1993.

Walsh twice served as the 49ers' general manager, and George Seifert led San Francisco to two more Super Bowl titles after Walsh left the sideline. Walsh also coached Stanford during two terms over five seasons.

Even a short list of Walsh's adherents is stunning. Seifert, Mike Holmgren, Dennis Green, Sam Wyche, Ray Rhodes and Bruce Coslet all became NFL head coaches after serving on Walsh's San Francisco staffs, and Tony Dungy played for him. Most of his former assistants passed on Walsh's structures and strategies to a new generation of coaches, including Mike Shanahan, Jon Gruden, Brian Billick, Andy Reid, Pete Carroll, Gary Kubiak, Steve Mariucci and Jeff Fisher.

Walsh created the Minority Coaching Fellowship program in 1987, helping minority coaches to get a foothold in a previously lily-white profession. Marvin Lewis and Tyrone Willingham are among the coaches who went through the program, later adopted as a league-wide initiative.

Walsh was diagnosed with leukemia in 2004 and underwent months of treatment and blood transfusions. He publicly disclosed his illness in November 2006.

Fellow Hall of Fame coach Marv Levy, who hired Walsh to his first college coaching job, last spoke to him about six weeks ago on the telephone.

"I asked him how he was doing, and he said he had come off a certain type of a treatment and he felt much more energy," Levy said. "But he told me then, he said, 'Marv, I don't have long.' He said it honestly. He was vibrant. Understood it. And yet, I was sad to hear it."


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Born William Ernest Walsh on Nov. 30, 1931 in Los Angeles, he was a self-described "average" end and a sometime boxer at San Jose State in 1952-53.

Walsh, whose family moved to the Bay Area when he was a teenager, married his college sweetheart, Geri Nardini, in 1954 and started his coaching career at Washington High School in Fremont, leading the football and swim teams.

Walsh was coaching in Fremont when he interviewed for an assistant coaching position with Levy, who had just been hired as the head coach at California.

"I was very impressed, individually, by his knowledge, by his intelligence, by his personality and hired him," Levy said.

After Cal, he did a stint at Stanford before beginning his pro coaching career as an assistant with the AFL's Oakland Raiders in 1966, forging a friendship with Al Davis that endured through decades of rivalry. Walsh joined the Cincinnati Bengals in 1968 to work for legendary coach Paul Brown, who gradually gave complete control of the Bengals' offense to his assistant.

Walsh built a scheme based on the teachings of Davis, Brown and Sid Gillman -- and Walsh's own innovations, which included everything from short dropbacks and novel receiving routes to constant repetition of every play in practice.

Though it originated in Cincinnati, it became known many years later as the West Coast offense -- a name Walsh never liked or repeated, but which eventually grew to encompass his offensive philosophy and the many tweaks added by Holmgren, Shanahan and other coaches.

Much of the NFL eventually ran a version of the West Coast in the 1990s, with its fundamental belief that the passing game can set up an effective running attack, rather than the opposite conventional wisdom.

Walsh also is widely credited with inventing or popularizing many of the modern basics of coaching, from the laminated sheets of plays held by coaches on almost every sideline, to the practice of scripting the first 15 offensive plays of a game.

After a bitter falling-out with Brown in 1976, Walsh left for stints with the San Diego Chargers and Stanford before the 49ers chose him to rebuild the franchise in 1979.

The long-suffering 49ers went 2-14 before Walsh's arrival. They repeated the record in his first season. Walsh doubted his abilities to turn around such a miserable situation -- but earlier in 1979, the 49ers drafted quarterback Joe Montana from Notre Dame.

Walsh turned over the starting job to Montana in 1980, when the 49ers improved to 6-10 -- and improbably, San Francisco won its first championship in 1981, just two years after winning two games.

Championships followed in the postseasons of 1984 and 1988 as Walsh built a consistent winner and became an icon with his inventive offense and thinking-man's approach to the game. He also showed considerable acumen in personnel, adding Ronnie Lott, Charles Haley, Roger Craig and Rice to his rosters after he was named the 49ers' general manager in 1982 and the president in 1985.

Walsh left the 49ers with a profound case of burnout after his third Super Bowl victory in January 1989, though he later regretted not coaching longer.

He spent three years as a broadcaster with NBC before returning to Stanford for three seasons. He then took charge of the 49ers' front office in 1999, helping to rebuild the roster over three seasons. But Walsh gradually cut ties with the 49ers after his hand-picked successor as GM, Terry Donahue, took over in 2001.

He is survived by his wife, Geri, and two children, Craig and Elizabeth.

Walsh's son, Steve, an ABC News reporter, died of leukemia at age 46 in 2002.

2007-07-30 13:07:15 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Football (American)