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Friday, January 13, 2012
Friday, January 6, 2012
Gingrich wants to urge black people at NAACP convention to demand paychecks, not food stamps (Star Tribune)
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Michigan beats Va. Tech in Sugar Bowl, 23-20
Michigan's Brendan Gibbons (34) is congratulated by Drew Dileo (26) after Gibbons kicked the winning field goal in overtime against Virginia Tech in the Sugar Bowl NCAA college football game in New Orleans, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012. Michigan won 23-20. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
Michigan's Brendan Gibbons (34) is congratulated by Drew Dileo (26) after Gibbons kicked the winning field goal in overtime against Virginia Tech in the Sugar Bowl NCAA college football game in New Orleans, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012. Michigan won 23-20. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
Michigan kicker Brendan Gibbons (34) kicks the game winning field goal in overtime against Virginia Tech in the Sugar Bowl NCAA college football game in New Orleans, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012. Michigan won 23-20. (AP Photo/Rusty Costanza, The Times Picayune)
Members of the Michigan football team celebrate after a 23-20 overtime win over Virginia Tech in the Sugar Bowl NCAA college football game in New Orleans, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
Michigan quarterback Denard Robinson (16) is stopped by Virginia Tech cornerback Detrick Bonner (8) during the fourth quarter of the Sugar Bowl NCAA college football game in New Orleans, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012. At left is Virginia Tech defensive tackle Luther Maddy. Michigan won 23-20 in overtime. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
Michigan quarterback Denard Robinson (16) reacts at the end of a 23-20 overtime win over Virginia Tech in the Sugar Bowl NCAA college football game in New Orleans, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) ? As Brady Hoke trotted across the Superdome field, his Michigan players celebrating all around him, a big bucket of ice water suddenly came splashing down on the coach's head.
It had been quite a while since the Wolverines won a BCS bowl and they were going to enjoy it.
"All the tough times we've been through makes it even more special," senior defensive tackle Mike Martin said. "To be the fifth team that ever in Michigan history has won 11 games in a season, it means a lot."
Brendan Gibbons drilled a 37-yard field goal down the middle in overtime, lifting No. 13 Michigan to a 23-20 victory over 17th-ranked Virginia Tech in the Sugar Bowl at the Superdome on Tuesday night.
The victory capped an impressive debut season for Hoke, who has led the Wolverines (11-2) back to prominence with their first BCS bowl victory since the 2000 Orange Bowl.
"I'm just real proud," Hoke said, noting that only five Michigan teams in 132 have won 11 games in a season. "Real proud of our seniors, real proud of how they took this football team last January and molded it and did a tremendous job,"
Denard Robinson highlighted an otherwise unspectacular night with touchdown passes of 45 and 18 yards to game MVP Junior Hemingway.
"It shows everything we put in from Day One, all the long days, long nights," Hemingway said, his voice cracking with emotion. "Man, I'm telling you, it feels too good, man. Too good."
Virginia Tech gave the Wolverines all they could handle and might have won if not for some key miscues.
"I'm about half-sick right now," Virginia Tech coach Frank Beamer said. "They weren't stopping us; we were stopping ourselves."
Virginia Tech (11-3) more than doubled Michigan's total yards, 377-184, and had 22 first downs to Michigan's 12, but settled for four field goals in regulation by third-string kicker Justin Myer.
However, Myer was unable to connect on his fifth try from 37 yards away in the opening possession of overtime.
Robinson finished 9 for 21 for 117 yards passing and threw an interception. He rushed 13 times for a season-low 13 yards.
"I feel like this was a team that didn't quit and we just kept fighting," Robinson said. "We held everybody accountable for what we had to do to win."
Virginia Tech first-year starter Logan Thomas was 19 of 28 of 214 yards with one interception.
Thomas scored Tech's only touchdown on a 1-yard keeper that tied the game at 17 ? after a 2-point conversion ? early in the fourth quarter.
Virginia Tech senior receiver Danny Coale had eight catches for 117 yards, and nearly made a spectacular diving catch for a touchdown in overtime. Coale held on to the ball for what was initially ruled a score, but the play was overturned on video review, which showed the receiver narrowly landed on the sideline.
"Danny's play is so close, and it seemed like there was just quite a few of those there tonight," Beamer said.
The result of that third-down play forced Tech to try for Myer's failed field goal.
Michigan then used three runs to set up Gibbons in the middle of the field.
As his kick sailed through, Gibbons sprinted toward the Wolverines' sideline and was mobbed by teammates while the Michigan band belted out the school's fight song, "The Victors," while Michigan fans, in rhythm, thrust a sea of maize pom-poms in the air.
Virginia Tech fell behind late in regulation after gambling on a fake punt. Michigan's Jake Ryan stopped it at the Tech 45, leading to a short drive that set up Gibbons' go-ahead 39-yard field goal with 4 minutes left.
That left just enough time for the Hokies to tie it, even though they had to start at their own 9 after a holding penalty on the kickoff.
Thomas marched the Hokies 83 yards in 3:58, setting up Myer's game-tying 25-yarder.
Hemingway staked Michigan to a 17-6 lead in the third quarter when he soared over Tech's Antone Exum for an 18-yard catch in the back of the end zone. The scoring drive was set up by an even more difficult grab by reserve Michigan linebacker Frank Clark, who leaped and reached high over his head to snag Thomas' pass at close range, returning the interception to the Tech 35-yard line.
"I was just trying to dump it over his head. He timed his jump perfectly and got his hands on it and came down with it," Thomas said. "He made a great play."
Tech cut it to 17-9 on Myer's 36-yard field goal, then tied the game after Thomas' 13-yard scramble on fourth-and-11 sustained the drive that ended with his touchdown.
Virginia Tech dominated most of the first half, taking a 6-0 lead on Myer's field goals of 37 and 43 yards, and could have led by more had the Michigan defensive line not stuffed Thomas on fourth-and-1 on the Wolverines 4.
Michigan then drove to midfield with the help of a roughing the punter penalty, setting up Robinson's first big play.
The quarterback yanked his leg from a defender's grasp and unleashed a long throw while scrambling right. Virginia Tech free safety Eddie Whitley went for an interception but mistimed it, allowing Hemingway to make the grab with no one between him and the end zone.
Michigan got the ball right back when Tech's Tony Gregory fumbled the ensuing kickoff return.
Michigan nearly botched a field goal attempt soon after, but holder Drew Dileo's pass to no one in particular was tipped into the hand of long snapper Jareth Glanda for a first down on the 8, setting up a shorter field goal for a 10-6 halftime lead.
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
5 Bold Predictions for the NBA Season
In the words of the great Shaquille O?Neal, the NBA is back, baby!? The season is only a few days old, and some teams? performances have already set the tone for what is sure to be a phenomenal season.
On Christmas Day, the New York Knicks beat the Boston Celtics in an absolute dogfight, while on the West Coast, Derrick Rose and the Bulls seemingly exposed the aging Los Angeles Lakers.
Speaking of Los Angeles, how about Chris Paul?s debut with the Clippers? Could it be that SoCal?s new NBA alpha dog wears a uniform that doesn?t feature purple and gold?
Either way, it?s sure to be a great season, and B/R?s own NBA guru, Josh Benjamin, has his own predictions of how the shortened season will play out.
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Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Tennessee Volunteers receiver DaRick Rogers tweets after the loss of coaches Justin Wilcox Peter Sirmon to Washington So ma...
9:00 PM: Following in Spud Webb's footsteps, Dennis Rodman reportedly plans to coach a topless strip club basketball team & is looking for talent: "You don't have to have too much experience, just know how to throw the ball into the hole."
8:45 PM: Oregon defeated Wisconsin 45-38 for the Ducks' first Rose Bowl win since 1917. The Ducks & Badgers also set a new Rose Bowl record for most combined points scored in the game.
8:30 PM: During his dad's post-bowl press conference, the toddler son of Houston Cougars coach Tony Levine picked his nose & ate what he found. Young Eli Levine may soon get a job with the Wisconsin football staff.
8:15 PM: Tennessee Volunteers receiver Da'Rick Rogers tweets after the loss of coaches Justin Wilcox & Peter Sirmon to Washington: "So many recruits lost today ... wish I could tell you otherwise fellas .. but that's whats goin on here."
8:00 PM: Baylor assistant AD Heath Nielsen tweets that Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III does not have a Twitter account & any that do exist are fakes.
7:45 PM: New York Giants defensive end Justin Tuck on the reputation of the Atlanta Falcons' offensive line: "Most people, you would call them dirt bags. But it is what it is .... You got to protect yourself and hopefully the referees have 20-20 vision this week."
7:30 PM: An MRI on Chicago Bears LB Brian Urlacher's knee revealed damage to his MCL & PCL, but no surgery will be necessary.
7:15 PM: SI's Peter King on Tony Dungy possibly being interested in any NFL or college job openings: "Doesn't want to coach right now. Trust me."
7:00 PM: Oregon & Wisconsin set yet another Rose Bowl record with 56 combined points in the first half, topping the 45 points Wisconsin & UCLA scored in 1999.
6:45 PM: After Wisconsin RB Montee Ball tied his NCAA single season TD record, Barry Sanders tweeted: "wow - I was actually trending on TWITTER... Makes an old man feel young again"
6:30 PM: Oregon RB De'Anthony Thomas set a new Rose Bowl record with his 91-yard TD run against Wisconsin, while both teams set another Rose Bowl record with 28 combined points in the first quarter.
6:15 PM: Twitvid & an animated gif of Wisconsin tight ends coach Joe Rudolph appearing to pick his nose & eat what he found during the Rose Bowl.
6:00 PM: The agent for New England Patriots offensive coordinator Bill O'Brien says that any talk of his client signing an imminent deal to take over at Penn State "is just off-base."
5:45 PM: Denver Broncos coach John Fox is asking fans not to sell their seats to Steelers fans for next weekend's home playoff game.
5:30 PM: Bob Anderson, a former Olympic swordsman who played Darth Vader during the original "Star Wars" trilogy lightsaber fight scenes, died Sunday at the age of 89.
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Sunday, January 1, 2012
Noel Rockmore, 'Picasso of New Orleans,' revisited (AP)
NEW ORLEANS ? In the four-block radius where he painted and drank himself into frightening stupors, Noel Rockmore was known by the denizens of the French Quarter as an outrageous Pablo Picasso-like figure who combined the mythological and the real. He produced some 15,000 oil paintings, temperas, collages and sketches over his career and then died in obscurity.
His life was that of an American outsider and a throwback to Europe's great expressionistic and hedonistic masters.
In the 1950s, when he was still in his 20s, his paintings hung in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art and the Hirshhorn Museum. He was a bright young American artist who had a taste for Rembrandt and figurative paintings, with the outlook of an American social realist.
Then, the art world changed: Abstract expressionism ? typified by the paint throwing of Jackson Pollock ? became the rave. Rockmore, who admired draftsmanship in painting, detested it.
Rockmore changed: He left his wife and three children, changed his last name and headed to New Orleans in 1959, where he would eventually get lost to the New York art world.
The story of Noel Montgomery Davis (his real name) is getting a long-overdue audience outside New Orleans, a city that is enjoying something of an art renaissance itself six years after Hurricane Katrina. From now until the end of January, his works are on view at the LaGrange Art Museum in Georgia. The retrospective is called "Creative Obscurity: The Genius Noel Rockmore."
"He was kind of an art hobo," said Ethyl Ault, interim director of the LaGrange Art Museum.
She said Rockmore was an overlooked genius. "Was it politics? Did he offend people? Why was he so popular in New York when he was younger, and then he leaves, changes his name and then goes on into his fairy tale land?"
The show is based on nearly 1,500 Rockmore artworks retrieved from storage units in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. For 25 years, Shirley Marvin, an octogenarian Baton Rouge patron, had been saving Rockmore artworks and memorabilia with the intention of making him famous one day.
But she had forgotten about the collection due to short-term memory loss, her family said. Marvin was one of Rockmore's most devoted fans. She saw genius in him ? like many others in New Orleans. The extraordinary collection was gathering dust when her son, Rich Marvin, took her down to New Orleans in October 2006, a year after Katrina, to get "a few paintings," as her mother described it. Instead, they found the units packed with remnants of Rockmore's life.
In the wake of the collection's discovery, Rich and his wife, Tee Marvin, have become Rockmore's biggest impresarios ? the agents Rockmore famously refused to have throughout his life as he willfully lived on the edge of the art world. He was notorious among art galleries for his temper and fits of outrage. His friends say he suffered emotional problems for much of his life.
The Marvins ? working with Rockmore's family and art dealers, collectors and museum curators ? have begun cataloging his works and promoting him. They estimate he produced about 15,000 pieces of art and conservatively 750 to 1,000 of those are masterpieces.
"At first we thought my mom was crazy," Rich Marvin said. "When a museum or gallery lines up his top 200 exquisite works, people will be as stunned as we are."
Rockmore was born in 1928 in New York to a family of artists. He was supertalented. A child prodigy, he played the violin well by age 8. After suffering polio at age 10, he turned to painting. He studied briefly at The Juilliard School and had a studio at the Cooper Union. Family friends included Ernest Hemingway, George Gershwin and Thomas Mann.
His 20s were prolific as he painted the bums of the Bowery district, monkeys and elephants in the backstage of the Ringling Brothers Circus and parables of Central Park and Coney Island. He was a social realist, akin to Depression-era American painters such as John Steuart Curry, but these early works contained themes and artistic styles that would stay with him: death, violence, sex, the surreal and the allegorical.
In retrospect, it was the ghoulish and morbid in Rockmore that defined him, making him a kind of American Hieronymus Bosch.
In the 1950s, Rockmore became fed up with the wave of abstract expressionists then taking hold of New York ? the flat tones and humanless canvases of Willem De Kooning, Pollock, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman. During this period he drank heavily and his wife kicked him out because of his wildness, his daughter, Emilie Heller-Rhys, said.
At age 31, he moved down to New Orleans and began working with Larry Borenstein, an art collector, and Allan Jaffe, a business school graduate and tuba player. In the 1960s, Borenstein employed Rockmore as a kind of resident painter for a new society he'd formed with Jaffe to preserve traditional New Orleans jazz music. The society would become Preservation Hall.
Rockmore was commissioned to paint the old-time musicians. He captured the mood, scent, touch and smoke of New Orleans jazz and its musicians ? Punch Miller, Percy Humphrey, Louis Nelson, Sweet Emma and Billie and DeDe Pierce, and scores of others.
His output was staggering. He'd become fixated by a subject ? New Orleans' Carnival traditions, the frenetic Port of New Orleans, the characters of the French Quarter, alien beings, ancient Egypt, voodoo ? and mined it artistically.
Some of his most cherished and memorable pieces are of the Quarter's Bohemians, fellow outsiders: Ruthie the Duck Girl; Gypsy Lou; O.M. (standing for "Old Man"); Mike Stark; Johnny White; and Sister Gertrude Morgan.
Yet, his life was pierced by that dark side.
"He was a brilliant artist, and I don't use those words lightly," said Stephen Clayton, a New Orleans art collector who did not know Rockmore and does not own any of his works. "He chose to come here, came to the Quarter, climbed in a bottle and never got out."
From his morning vodka, Rockmore kept going all day, muscling his way through sketches, wall-sized oils, nudes in charcoal, sculptures and mixed media and calling it quits at one of his favorite bars, often The Alpine, within shouting distance of the St. Louis cathedral and his bed.
There are stories of him trashing art galleries and studios. Handcuffing a woman to his stove. Sticking a mummified cat in one of his works. Going on lithium and alcohol binges that left him a wreck. Cursing at tourists viciously. Sitting in streets with his muddy tennis shoes and rumpled clothing, looking like a bum. Drawing on napkins, grocery bags and just about anything else he liked. Sitting in bars, drinking and trying to get women to go to bed with him.
One of Rockmore's closest friends, Andy Antippas, a former Tulane University poetry professor and art gallery owner, recalled going into Rockmore's apartment during one of his lithium binges and finding his studio in a state that resembled the home of Charles Manson.
"It was trashed," said Antippas, who found pages from Playboy magazine littering the floor and feces from his two dogs in the middle of his bed. "He'd obviously been sitting in one place and drinking and painting for hours."
"Noel was an autodidact of the highest order," Antippas said. "There was probably no artist more prolific than Noel ? except perhaps Picasso."
Antippas is like many Rockmore fans. He believes he was a genius, a master who ranks among the greatest.
In his home on St. Claude Avenue ? cluttered with books, paintings, decorated human skulls, African masks and paintings galore ? Antippas stood in front of a large subdued painting hanging on the wall near his desk. He looked at it and said he owned what he believed to be "one of the finest paintings, if not the best, painting in Western civilization, a nude portrait of his father. It's the only such painting ever done."
"He couldn't relate to the real world. He lived in his own world; he was driven by his own work," said Rita Posselt, a 59-year-old fine art photographer who lived with Rockmore between 1978 and 1984 and frequently posed for him. "He would wake up in the morning and go to bed at night, and in between those hours there was a lot of torment for him."
"He wanted somebody to recognize his talent, and he wanted important people in the art world, museums and such, to do so, but he didn't want to jump through hoops and parties to make it happen."
During his life, and still today, Rockmore was a kind of New Orleans project.
He is woven into the city. Anyone who has stepped into the gloom of Preservation Hall has seen Rockmores ? they're the haunting oil paintings of jazz greats on the walls. A Rockmore hangs in Johnny White's bar. It's a football scene, a token of appreciation for the bar owner, Johnny White, and typically Rockmore: There are three teams on the field. His paintings hang in the Old Mint, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and on the walls of galleries and homes throughout New Orleans. And who knows where else.
"My feeling was that Noel was the most democratic painter," Antippas said. "Every waiter, bartender, in the Quarter has a Rockmore. God knows how many Rockmores are hanging on walls throughout the city."
Rockmore died in 1995 at age 66 of an untreated infection. When he was taken to the hospital, according to friends, he was admitted as a "street person." According to his friends, he sat up on the gurney and declared, "I'm not a street person, I'm a great artist."
"I always say that he is America's Picasso," said Heller-Rhys, his daughter and an accomplished artist herself, as she stood during a recent visit outside the Skyscraper building, an 18th-century apartment building where Rockmore ? and many other artists, including Charles Bukowski ? stayed in the 1970s. "And America has to come to terms with that."
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