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Oksana Baiul: Princess of Figure Skating
The Kyiv Post has a great interview with Oksana Baiul, who talked a bit about her work with Ukranian organization Tikva: I joined the organization "Tikva," whose core mission is to care for the abandoned Jewish children of Odesa. I am on the board of directors and support them financially. A couple...
Are You Sitting Down?
Thanks to Ice Charades, I now know that I completely blew it by not letting all of you Long Islanders know about "Cold as Ice," starring Oksana Baiul, which closed the other day. It was playing in Bellport, and had I only known I would certainly have tried to attend while visiting family on the...
Yagudin as Putin!
That almost kind of rhymes! Olympic gold medalist Alexei Yagudin is making his stage debut playing Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (or a Putin-esque character) in the play "President on Vacation," according to RussiaToday: The director of the play, Irina Lychagina, says that the story is not...
How Did I Miss This?
Add another to the actor/skater mix: Irina Slutskaya. According to FigureSkatingMystery.com, the Olympic bronze and silver medalist recently made her theatrical debut in "Antigone Forever," a play. Here is a link to some pictures of Slutskaya working. According to the translated article,...
Previewing the FSU Offense
Having been at LSU while Fisher ran the offense to the 2003 national championship, I'm pretty familiar with what he likes to run out there. He's always been able to develop his quarterback into at least a solid, and potentially great, player under his tutelage (JaMarcus Russell, Patrick Nix, Matt...
Inside the Clemson Offense: Sprint Draw and PA Option
Looking over the film of the games, I noticed this play and the various play-action passes based off of it when I was thinking it was isolation. This play looks very similar to the Iso when the FB leads up the middle. One way to distinguish the two is by the quarterback's opening footwork. If he...
Inside the Clemson offense: The Iso
Also known as the greatest play in football. Why? Because its simple. Its the 2nd play that is taught to kids learning football after the FB Dive. So then it stands to reason if its simple, its also one of the easiest to execute. I make no secret that I love I-formation running, and with a good...
Inside the Clemson offense: HB Power/Trap
Each week we're going to try to highlight one or two specific plays that either resulted in scores or were run very often by the team. This week, since Clemson showed so much I-formation running for the first time in years, we'll go over the HB Power and the Trap. Since we havent covered offensive...
Defensive breakdowns against GT
There werent a terribly high number of critical defensive breakdowns in this game, it was more a coaching mistake that cost us. The defense only gave up 16 points against a good rushing offense that piled up 300 yards on the ground and 420 overall. The problem is that a few of the plays were run...
Inside the Clemson offense: Spiller's TD Play,Pro Wing X Over
Here we have a breakdown of the TD play to CJ Spiller last week. The PlayIn this "Ace X Over" or "Pro Wing X over" play, the number one receiver (X) runs inside to a deep post over the top to exploit the defensive coverage. X is normally the first QB read on the play, and is meant to draw the FS...
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