2010 3A Football Playoff Brackets: Wade Hampton v. Chester

The 3A High School playoff bracket has been posted. The document is shown below. You may link to the bracket here.

The Chester Cyclones are 6-4. They lost their last game to rugged Fairfield-Central by just a point. This team will constitute a huge challenge for the Generals.

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Gamecocks v. Vols: The Battle Underneath?

When the Gamecocks take on the Volunteers on Saturday afternoon there is a shadow battle going on beneath the surface. Well . . . in the Volunteers case it is on the surface.

The Vols will be using high-tech Adidas football jerseys such as the one depicted to the left. Check out these comments from an article Lighter and tighter Adidas jersey may give opponents fits (link below).

“These can have a dramatic impact on the game,” said Darren Stefanyshyn, an associate professor of kinesiology at the University of Calgary, who tested the suit in the university's human performance lab.

Adidas reported the suits increasing speed, power, vertical leap and endurance in athletes. Stefanyshyn said each of these components was tested on athletes with different skill sets. “We tested each one and saw a definite difference,” he said. 

Two main principles are at work in these lighter and tighter suits: elasticity and compression. Though the definite reasons for success are still up for discussion, Stefanyshyn said the lab has determined the elastic benefits include increased blood flow and energy. The elastic component allows for the storage and return of elastic energy. Modifying the movement of the athlete also plays a pivotal role in increased performance. 

J. Pecklo, 2010 Medill Reports - Chicago, Northwestern University (Oct. 20, 2010)

The Gamecocks are an Underarmor team. Their tech is hidden below the surface. Many of the Gamecocks wear Under Armour 7622 Battle Shortsleeve Tees beneath their football jersey. The Battle Tees ad says, “The Squeeze Makes You Stronger” and it is equipped with “Anti-Odor Technology [that] prevents the growth of odor causing microbes.”

The Gamecocks have a clean-mean tech.

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Economic Liberty: Licensing

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Gamecock Fans Wait For Chance for Redemption

Tennessee has been winning in the SEC for decades. Considering the track record, it is not surprising that the UT coaching staff goes negative as soon as it encounters a South Carolina player who wants to stay home and play for the Gamecocks.

Kiffin was equally dogged. But when it was obvious that Jeffery wasn't going to Tennessee, Kiffin took off the gloves.


According to Jeffrey and Wilson, Kiffin told Jeffery that if he chose the Gamecocks, he would end up pumping gas for the rest of his life like all the other players from that state who had gone to South Carolina.


Jeffery was doing his best to stay awake at that point, but that comment from Kiffin woke him up. He clearly hasn't forgotten it, either.


"He said it, but it's not worth talking about," Jeffery said.

Chris Low, A peek into recruiting with South Carolina's Jeffery ESPN (Mar. 9, 2009). Get that? Pumping gas. Not the NFL. That's what South Carolina players can expect.

Now that the Gamecocks currently sit atop the SEC East Division, and winless UT on the bottom, the irony is delicious.

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Fiorina Ad Against Barbara Boxer

Some of these campaign ads are quite funny.

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A Few Good Debts: Dennis v. Pelosi Campaign Ad

Nancy Pelosi has refused to debate or acknowledge John Dennis, the Republican running against her for the San Francisco House of Representative seat in Congress. Here is a Dennis advertisement lampooning Pelosi's refusal to answer questions about policies she helped to implement.

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Media Research: Tell The Truth Campaign

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Vandy Center Logan Stewart Plans to Show The Gamecocks

Vanderbilt offensive center, true freshman Logan Stewart, is ready to make unidentified Gamecock fans eat their words on Saturday. Speaking of the Gamecocks, Logan expressed a desire to challenge the interior D-line of Ladi Ajiboye and Travian Robertson. I guess this qualifies for trash talk in the modern football media.

"I'm ready to get after them," said Stewart, who played the majority of snaps at center after Bailey left with a high ankle sprain at Georgia.

"I grew up in (South Carolina) and when you leave the state, a lot of people say stuff to you. So I'm ready to show everyone from my hometown why I came here."

J. Lockridge, Vanderbilt Commodores center is eager to face South Carolina (Oct. 20, 2010).

Stewart played prep football at Boiling Springs High School in Spartanburg County. He was offered by the Gamecocks, but turned down the offer to play for Robbie Caldwell, then the Vanderbilt O-line coach.

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Did Harry Reid Save the World?

Yes! According to him.

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Vandy Schedules Gamecocks as Homecoming Opponent

The Vanderbilt football program gives the Gamecocks little respect by scheduling them as a 2010 Homecoming opponent.

Homecoming is the tradition of welcoming back of former residents and alumni of an institution.

Because so many high profile folks are making a special trip, it is important that a school choose an opponent that the team can easily beat. A weak opponent is best because the football team will win the game and everyone here at Homecoming will be happy and in a good frame of mind for the festivities. A loss would be a downer, and a depressing situtation. Therefore, slating an easy game for Homecoming is really important.

There is not a lot of hoopla about Homecoming or the Gamecocks visit on the official Vanderbilt school athletic site. The Vandy schedule does not even list a Homecoming game.

However, if you delve far enough into the Vandy web site, you will find a link to a Nashville paper, The Tennesseean, that mentions it.

Entering Saturday's 6 p.m. homecoming game against No. 19 South Carolina, the Commodores (2-4) rank in ninth in the SEC in scoring defense (25.5), 10th in sacks (8), 11th in total defense (378.8) and last in run defense (191.8).

Jeff Lockridge, Vanderbilt's defense hasn't matched reputation (Oct. 21, 2010) (emphasis added).

Maybe Vanderbilt figures they have a better chance to slip through the Homecoming game against a conference opponent if you don't advertise it. There is some truth to that strategy. Scheduling a conference opponent as a Homecoming opponent gives the SEC visitor extra-added, red-meat motivation. The Gamecocks will want to prove to Vandy that they are no Homecoming cupcake.

You do not find information about the Vandy Homecoming until you reach Page 4 of the official Vandy Game Notes. There, you find an interesting graphic, which I have copied to the left. We learn from the graphic that Vandy loves to schedule the Gamecocks and Georgia as a Homecoming cupcake. Georgia has made them pay for the slight with a historical 7-0 record in Vandy Homecoming games since 1992. The Gamecocks are 5-1 over that same period.

Since 1992 (and including the 2010 game), Vanderbilt the school has scheduled the Gamecocks as the homecoming opponent seven times. The Gamecocks need to show these people that is a mistake.

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Senate Bill 510 Threatens Small Farmers, Farmers Market, Food Liberty

On September 29, 2010, the Senate passed a cloture motion to move the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510) for a vote before the full Senate. Because so many Republicans are cosponsoring this law, it represents a serious threat to food liberty and small farm businesses.

The proposed bill gives the federal Food and Drug Administration bureaucracy great discretion to control our food production. The raw milk example is provided in the video summary of the proposed law shown below.

There is no doubt regulations will hurt small farmers and independent farmers markets. The Obama Administration has installed former lobbyists like Food Czar Michael Taylor, a corporate lawyer for Monsanto, into positions to write regulations authorized by this law. This huge grant of discretion to unelected FDA bureaucrats who would work with men like Taylor would likely kill the remaining small farm business competition against the food giants such as Monsanto, ConAgra, and General Mills.

There are already eight Republican cosponsors lined up in support of S.510, a freedom and business killing law. How much lobby money have these Republican legislators taken from food monopolists for this vote?

Follow the link above to see if your Senator is on the list of cosponsors betraying the people.

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The State Versus The Internet

The Internet has been great for the concept of liberty. Truth is getting out and away from distortions of the MSM. However, the decentralization of "truth" is not a good idea in a tyranny. Thus, the U.S. government is moving to gain a strangle-hold over the Internet. LewRockwell.Com, a site worth bookmarking, has a good article about the government incursion against a free Internet. Paul Rosenberg, The State Versus the Internet, LewRockwell.com (Oct. 16, 2010).

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Gamecocks Control Eastern Division Destiny

Disappointing to lose a close game against Kentucky, which was 0-3 in the SEC until the past weekend. However, Kentucky is a tough place to win. Two of the three losses by Kentucky were on the road at Ole Miss and at Florida. Kentucky's home loss came against a 7-0, undefeated Auburn team that is looking like the leading contender for the SEC western division championship. Kentucky is still very much alive in the Eastern Division race.

Notwithstanding the loss to Kentucky, the Gamecocks still are in the driver's seat to win the SEC Eastern Division championship.

Four of the eastern foes, including preseason favorites Florida and Georgia, have three SEC losses already. Half the Gamecocks games are left so there is a long way to go for the Gamecocks in their football championship drive.

Should two teams end the season in a tie, then the head to head games determine the winner. If more than two teams are in a tie, the second divisional tie-breaker could be relevant. When head to head competition does not reveal the winner, it is chosen by comparing the tied teams' records in Eastern Division games. In the SEC football season, each team plays five intra-divisional games, and three games against western foes. So far, the Gamecocks are 1-1 against the Eastern teams, with three games remaining (Vanderbilt, Tennessee, and Florida). Spurrier believes the games against the divisional opponents are the most important on a team's schedule.

Arkansas at home is the Gamecocks last western foe. The Gamecocks are 1-1 against the other two western teams that they played this season. Beating the last western team on its schedule is not unimportant. It might allow the Gamecocks to avoid a tie, and therefore, help the team win an outright Eastern Division championship. The current standings are shown below.

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Dems Plan Secret Lame Duck Spending Bonanza

Democrat leaders are secretly planning to ram through a trillion dollar omnibus appropriations bill during the lame duck session of Congress. Votes in the session, which will take place after the election, will be cast by many legislators voted out of office. The winners do not get sworn into office until 2011.

Democrats opted not to pass the politically tough giant spending bills because of the elections. They continue to campaign for accountability in spending while secretly planning the betrayal of the American voters. They say, "Back when we were in charge with Bill Clinton, we balanced the budget." However, the truth is that in 1995 Gingrich's Republican House dragged the Clinton White House to a balanced budget, kicking and screaming all the way. Look it up.

More on the Dems secret spending bonanza at the following link. R. Berman and K. Burgardus, Budget battle brewing over trillion dollar lame-duck omnibus appropriations bill, The Hill (Oct. 16, 2010)

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Kentucky Wildcats Next

"There ain't no forgettin'."

Kentucky’s last win (30-10) against the Gamecocks was in Columbia ten years ago (on October 9, 1999).

Soon after that blowout Kentucky victory, Kentucky beat writer Billy Reed, a Herald-Leader sports columnist, asserted that the Gamecocks ought to be expelled from the Southeastern Conference. Reed asserted the South Carolina football program was inept. Reed wrote, “The Gamecocks have brought virtually nothing to the table in football. They are the SEC family's embarrassing cousin.”

The comments by Reed stung the Gamecocks and the Carolina family very harshly. The words were a bitter bill because at the time, the Gamecocks were suffering through Lou Holtz’ winless 1999 season. Even back then, as a new member of the SEC, the Gamecock family believed they brought some assets and value to this great conference. The 1999 Holtz team gave a good but futile effort and Reed's remarks were quite tough.

Now, Kentucky writers are whining about the losing streak, dredging up twenty-year old Spurrier quotes to fire up the Wildcat football team. See Spurrier beats — and beats down — Kentucky year after year.

Spurrier's old comments about UK are mild compared to what Reed said. Since Reed's remark, the Gamecock football teams over the decade have done their best to prove to Mr. Reed that his remarks about the Gamecocks were wrong then and they remain wrong now.

I recently found Mr. Reed on Facebook, and have written to request he provide a comment on whether he still stands by his 1999 comments about the Gamecocks. Reed responded and said he did not wish to get back into this issue.

The Kentucky writers have long forgotten Reed's cruel commentary. Two years ago, before the Gamecocks victory over Kentucky in Lexington, Mark Story posted a story for the Kentucky Herald-Leader Gamecocks' Grip on Cats Most Puzzling . Story compared Kentucky’s then eight game (now nine) losing streak to South Carolina with Kentucky's much longer losing streaks against Florida (22) and Tennessee (24), Story wrote, “But of all the negative losing streaks associated with University of Kentucky football, the most perplexing is that the Wildcats are oh-for-the-21st Century against South Carolina.” Story also wrote, "this one makes littlest sense."

Puzzling, perplexing, confounding . . . the Kentucky sports writers have forgotten about Reed.

However, as Josie Wales said in the classic Clint Eastwood movie, "There ain't no forgettin'."

This is one Gamecock fan who hopes the Gamecocks keep whuppin' the Cats. That's what Josie would do.

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Thunderstruck! Go Gamecocks

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Drug War Victim

The New Hampshire man in the video embedded below may be sentenced to seven years in prison for growing marijuana plants. The prison industrial complex is the only element of society that benefits from this kind of draconian law.

Federal law makes marijuana an illegal drug. The President refuses to prosecute the federal drug laws in California, where the state has legalized medicinal marijuana in conflict with federal law.

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Democrat Voting Tricks

With the election a short few weeks away, on October 9, the American Thinker published an interesting voting article. Ed Lasky, Democrat Dirty Tricks: A Primer on Stealing Elections, American Thinker (Oct. 9, 2010)

On O'Reilly a few days ago, a Democratic organizer debated Bill about the Nevada election. O'Reilly predicted Angle would beat Harry Reid. The Democrat operative confidently smiled. She said, "We are going to have a ground game like you won't believe." The ground game is the nitty gritty of successful politics, getting vote out.

Barack Obama is a master at community organizing. Dumb Republicans sneer at that qualification for President, but it is a really important qualification of any successful politician.

There are a lot of predictions of a huge Republican landslide coming. I think those predictions severely underestimate the Democrat organization's ability to turn out votes. Not all the votes will be legitimate, so the polling numbers of likely registered voters do probably underestimate Democrat strength.

The stimulus package dedicated billions of dollars to grass roots organizers such as SEIU, and ACORN groups. The money may not have all been blown. Expect the Democrats to mount huge campaigns to get people into polls to vote early and often. The article linked above summarizes some of the dirty tricks, but it doesn't clue you in to just how widespread the illegal voter fraud will likely be on November 2. Some of the categories in the article are described below:

1.The Department of Justice (DOJ)

Section 8 of the Voting Rights law requires the DOJ to require states purge the from registered lists people who have moved, are dead, or committed felony crimes. The DOJ's civil rights division is charged with enforcement of this law. Purging rolls decreases the likelihood of voter fraud by fake voters, such as those people registered during the fraudulent ACORN voter registration drives of 2008. In sworn testimony before the Civil Rights Commission DOJ personnel from the Civil Rights Division complained that the Holder Justice Department is intentionally disregarding its duty to purge rolls. That creates the probability that Democrat organizing groups will send in many people to vote multiple times under fake names, or others who are not eligible to vote, such as perhaps undocumented aliens.

The DOJ is also not enforcing laws that would compel State officials to make timely absentee ballots available to military personnel. The military tends to vote overwhelmingly for Republicans.

2.The Secretary of State Project

George Soros has been busy installing corrupt elected officials in this important gate keeper roll. Democrat Al Franken (MN) was elected in a narrow victory over Republican Norm Coleman during a recount. Jennifer Brunner, the Secretary of State who oversaw the recount which allowed many improper votes, gave Franken the narrow win. Brunner was a product of the Soros Secretary of State Project.

As noted above, in complicity with the Holder DOJ, Secretary of State offices are also ignoring laws requiring absentee ballots be sent to military personnel.

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South Carolina Alma Mata

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John Lennon 70th Birthday

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Blogcation

I'm going on a Blogcation. I'm working on finishing a piece on the EPA's proposed Tailoring legislation. Then, the blogcation starts.

The EPA . . . enacting legislation. This is the coming trend.

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Fiorina Ad Slams Incumbent CA Senator Barbara Boxer

Republican Carly Fiorina is running for one of the two Senate seats against Barbara Boxer. Her campaign advertisement sums up in a few seconds the arrogance of those in power.

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