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A few moments ago, the moon — just over half a day from being the Full Wolf Moon — rose over the Superstition Mountains, which was turned a beautiful shade of orange by the sunset:
Out: “botched jokes.” In: “bad typos.”
Remember CNN’s segment about confusion between Obama and Osama? Well, apparently not everyone at CNN watched it…
The network has apologized for what Wolf Blitzer calls a “bad typo,” and the Osama campaign has accepted the apology.
Er, the Obama campaign, that is. Sorry… bad typo. ;)
Obama’s press secretary did note “that the ’s’ and ‘b’ keys aren’t all that close to each other,” but said he nevertheless doesn’t “think there was any truly malicious intent.” My guess? It was an in-house prank gone bad, probably a private joke between interns or some such. Reminds me of the time a student newspaper ran a front-page article with the byline “By George W. Bush,” then ran a correction the next day explaning that it was an inside joke that accidentally went to press.
In other Obama-related news, Hillary Clinton thinks his candidacy will fade. Oh, snap!
[UPDATE, 7/27: Due to the ridiculous volume of vile racist bulls**t on this thread, I’ve turned off comments for the moment.]
[UPDATE, 7/26: I just want to say that I utterly condemn and abhor the racist garbage that is being posted in comments on this thread. It’s unfortunate that the despicable riffraff from places like the white-supremacist site Stormfront.org have found their way here and are poisoning my site with their disgusting verbal vomit. Because I’m generally averse to censorship, I’ve decided — at least for the moment — to leave the racist comments up as a testament to their own ugliness, but I reserve the right to delete them later if I change my mind. In any event, I certainly don’t condone them in any way, shape or form.]
[UPDATE: For more on Ian and Chrissy, in addition what’s in the post below, see this post and this post (which contains a video of the proposal). For all of my college-football posts, go here. Or just visit my homepage for all the latest.]
Chrissy Popadics, a.k.a. the future Mrs. Ian Johnson, has a MySpace page. So does Mr. Johnson. Both contain pictures. For example:
Need I say more? (Hat tip: The 700 Level, via ESPN.)
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Here’s Boise State’s touchdown and Statue of Liberty two-point conversion in overtime:
(Hat tip: AOL Fanhouse.) And here’s the slow-mo analysis after the play:
P.S. Here’s the game-tying play in regulation, of which Pat Forde says “It was as shocking a last-gasp play as anything but Cal’s five-lateral slalom through the Stanford band. It might also have been the most daring last-gasp call (that worked) of all time.”
P.P.S. Over on Burnt Orange Nation, HornsFan complains:
In the wake of Boise State’s dramatic victory over Oklahoma, all that the stupid pundits can talk about is “Cinderella” Boise State beating the “Mighty Oklahoma.” Over and over and over, it’s “David” taking out Goliath. Mark May has now said three times how Boise State “played above their heads” to, in the words of the studio host, “pull the greatest upset in the history of college bowls.”
The only pundit making any sense at all is - of all people - Lou Holtz, who’s simply reiterating that Boise is just a talented, well-prepared team.
And that’s right. Boise whipped Oregon State, and four other bowl teams. They’re a damn good team, and instead of talking about this Fiesta Bowl like it was some one-in-a-million event, we probably ought to be asking, “Should Boise State have an opportunity to play Ohio State?”
Well, the Fiesta Bowl was a one-in-a-million event, but only because of how it ended, not because of who won it. If they played that game ten times, Boise State would win five or six of ‘em. They’re an excellent team, and that was NOT a battle of a “big dog” vs. an “underdog,” as the Fox announcers kept obnoxiously saying … it was NOT Rocky Balboa versus some oversized foe, as ESPN has been intimating … it was a heavyweight fight between two equals, with a coaching chess match thrown in for good measure, and Boise State won fair and square on both counts. They were the “big dog” last night.
Anyway, in response to HornsFan, commenter “billyzane” makes an excellent point:
[A] contributing factor to all this cinderella talk is that Boise effectively ran nothing but trick plays in overtime (plus the last TD in regulation). That’s a strong indicator that a team doesn’t think it can win straight-up (see K-State v. Texas).
But lost in that is the fact that Boise DOMINATED most of the game. It wasn’t even close. It was OU that needed the gifts and miracles to get back into the game. And Boise did it playing OU straight up. They’re a solid team, no question.
P.P.P.S. Here’s how the Idaho Statesman summed things up this morning:
Also… I quoted ESPN’s Pat Forde earlier. Well, his whole column about the game really says it best. Excerpt:
At the end of a game unlike any college football has ever witnessed, two of the great female icons in American culture staged a harmonic, hypnotic, borderline hallucinogenic convergence.
Boise State introduced Cinderella to Lady Liberty.
A head-to-toe, shining-beacon-to-glass-slipper miracle ensued.
More after the jump, or just click here.
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