CINCINNATI, Ohio – A three goal explosion in the third period by the Elmira Jackals was enough to give the club a 4-1 win over the Cincinnati Cyclones on Friday night. Defensemen Brandon Roach and Nathan Lutz each had a goal and an assist to pace the victory. Michael Teslak stopped 20 shots to take the victory.

Elmira scored the only goal of the first period when defenseman Nathan Lutz fired a shot from just inside the blueline for his sixth goal of the year. Brandon Roach and Pierre-Luc Faubert had the assists. The shots on goal also favored the Jackals, 11-4.

The second period did not have any scoring, but Elmira had three power play chances to Cincinnati’s one. The shots on goal again went the way of the Jackals, 11-5.

The Cyclones tied the game at 1-1 at the 2:33 mark of the third period, as Justin Johnson netted his eleventh of the campaign. Johnson scored in a goal mouth scramble to level the scores as Ben McLeod and Breet Beauchamp handed out the assists. The Jackals scored the final three goals of the game to pull away with the decision. Roach (his ninth at 6:06), Chris Korchinski (his 19^th at 8:27) and Mike Sgroi (his ninth at 13:58 on the power play) rounded out the scoring. Cincinnati won the shots battle in the third period, 12-11. For the game, Elmira outshot Cincinnati, 33-21. The Jackals were two-for-five on the power play while the Cyclones were one-for-four with the extra attacker.

The Cyclones are now 31-21-5 on the season, while Elmira is 30-21-5. The Cyclones play host to Elmira Saturday night in the final regular season meeting between the teams. These are also the final weekend games for the Cyclones until Fan Appreciation Weekend (April 3-4). Tickets are just ten dollars each. Saturday’s game features one dollar pulled pork sandwiches and is Go Green Night.

With the crowd of 4078, the Cyclones are averaging 21.9 percent more fans than 2007-08 through 29 home games. That is the second-largest improvement from last year through 29 games of any professional hockey team in North America (Tulsa-CHL is up 27.0%). Last year, Cincinnati’s season attendance improved 36.8 percent over 2006-07—the biggest increase in all of professional hockey. The Cyclones are averaging 2866 per game, having welcomed 83,111 fans this season.

DAVIDSON, N.C. – The University of Cincinnati baseball team fought off a late rally from the Davidson College Wildcats and earned its first win of the season with an 11-10 extra-inning win Friday evening at Wilson Field on the Davidson campus. Senior Mike Spina (Newberry, Fla./Newberry) and freshman Dorian West (Cincinnati, Ohio/Princeton) drove in four runs apiece leading UC to its first win of the 2009 campaign.

Cincinnati (1-3) got on the board quickly with five runs in the top of the first inning. With one out, senior Cameron Satterwhite (Cincinnati, Ohio/Moeller) doubled the right field line, before Spina reached base courtesy of a walk. A Wildcat error allowed junior Lance Durham (Forest Park, Ohio/Roger Bacon) to reach base, loading the bases for sophomore Justin Riddell (Lexington, Ky./Lexington Catholic).

Riddell smacked a double into centerfield bringing home Satterwhite and Spina, giving UC a 2-0 lead. In the first start of his career, West belted a three-run home run to extend the Bearcat lead to five, 5-0. The home run was West’s first career round tripper.

Davidson (4-2) scored three runs in the bottom of the first inning and two runs in the third to tie the game at five, but the Bearcats responded with four runs in the fourth to take a 9-5 advantage. With one out, junior Jimmy Jacquot (Swansea, Ill./Belleville East) singled to kick things off and moved to third base two batters later on a single by junior Jamel Scott (Dublin, Ohio/Dublin Scioto). After Satterwhite walked to load the bases, Spina cleared the bases with a grand slam down the left field line to put the Bearcats in front, 9-5.

The Bearcats entered the eighth inning with its four-run lead still intact, 10-6, but a four-run Davidson rally in the eighth inning knotted the game at 10.

The game headed into extra innings after both teams went scoreless in the ninth inning, marking the first extra inning game for the Bearcats this season.

In the top of the tenth inning, a Satterwhite double, a Spina walk, and a Durham walk loaded the bases for the Bearcats with nobody out. Junior Beach Brooks (Winter Haven, Fla./Winter Haven) catapulted UC in front with a pinch-hit sacrifice fly to right field allowing Satterwhite to cross the dish. However, a strike out and a fly out ended the threat.

Sophomore Dan Jensen (Centerville, Ohio/Centerville), who came in to the get the final out in the eighth inning, retired the side in the Davidson half of the tenth inning to give Cincinnati an 11-10 triumph.

Spina and West both knocked in four runs apiece, while Satterwhite went 2-for-5 and scored four runs. Jensen pitched 2.1 innings of relief without giving up a hit to earn the win.

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***The remaining 3 games UC has scheduled in Davidson have been cancelled, due to poor weather. UC now heads to Oxford Ohio for a March 4th game against Miami, OH.

No. 10 UM Takes Opener Over No. 12 Baseball, 8-5

In front of 4,714 fans at McKethan Stadium, No. 10 Miami (4-1) used a pair of home runs and a career-high five RBI by senior Jonathan Weislow to hand No. 12 Florida (5-1) an 8-5 defeat on Friday night in the opener of a weekend series. Weislow (2-for-4) cranked a game-tying two-run dinger in the fourth off Gator senior Patrick Keating (Harrisburg, Ill.) (1-1) and moved the Hurricanes ahead with a three-run blast in the sixth. Tonight’s game marked the first two round-trippers of his career.

Get this,…Tom Brady married this!….SUCKER!

FIRST!,..he tears his knee up in game one on the 2008 season, and has to sit out! THEN!..then he gets TRICKED into marrying THIS!…..WOW!, this poor guy just CAN’T catch a break!….Imagine having THAT making you eggs in the morning. Yeah,..and we all thought Pro-athletes had it made!….

poor bastage!

Tiger Woods pulled a Huggins, he lost in the second round, but did you really expect him to win this thing?  Tiger came in on Wednesday and played ok.  He won the holes that he needed to in his match to win it.  He struck the ball well, and his opponent Brenden Jones said that he wouldn’t bet against Tiger.  Jones also said that Woods hits shots that nobody else on tour can hit.  In the first round match, Woods hit a 3 iron from 237 yards to 5 feet.  I saw the video on that shot, and how he makes a 3 iron land that soft is beyond me.  It was beyond Jones as well.  Woods finished the match in 16 holes, and played adequate golf.  He finished with 2 Eagles, 3 Birdies, 8 Pars, and 3 bogeys, no where near a perfect round, but he got it done when he needed to.

Tigers second round match, well that was not so easy.  He faced 32 ranked Tim Clark of South Africa.  Clark isn’t a superstar by any stretch of the imagination, but he did win the 2008 Austrailian Open, which makes him a threat.  Clark put a pounding on Tiger, easily winning the match 4 and 2.

The WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship is up for grabs.  All four number 1 seeds have been eliminated.  Look for “Tits” Mickelson as the favorite for the rest of the weekend.

Check out more pictures and the story at The Enquirer.

This is why everyone loved Huggy-Bear, because he keeps it real!  He’s a brilliant basketball coach and he wears his heart on his sleeve.  Sure he made a few mistakes, took a few chances on some kids that didn’t pan out, and he had a few drinks and got behind the wheel of a car.  But hell, who hasn’t done that at some point.

I personally hated to see Huggs go, but not so much because he was leaving, it was because of the way he had to go.  I understand coaches, players, and staff come and go.  That’s just how it is.  But Z-Bitch was just looking for a reason to get rid of him, and unfortunately, Bobby gave it to her.

Oh well, that was a long time ago and it was great to have Huggins back in the nati.  The tribute to Huggs was great, a lot of former players flew in or drove in for the special occassion and it was certainly deserved and in my opionion, way over due!

You may not like the game, but you have to love and respect the Coach!  Good luck Huggs and remember, no matter where your travels take you, the fans in Cincinnati will always love you!

PS - We’ll always root for you, as long as your not playing against the Bearcats!

PSS - Congrats to Cronin and the Bearcats for beating WVU last night and inching closer to that NCAA bid!

The bitter taste of another losing Bengals season is slowly starting to fade, low expectations for the upcoming draft are in full-swing, but we actually have something else to think about and be excited about now. 

Reds Baseball.

The Reds beat the Devil Rays yesterday 7-0.  I know it’s only pre-season, and this win does absolutely nothing for me.  I’m excited because this is a new year, with a lot of young talent, with speed, and probably most importantly - WITHOUT the big Ego’s.

I’ve said it several times here, I’ve always been a Griffey fan and his ego was warrented.  But he is older, injury prone, and he is finally back to end it in Seattle, where it all began for him.  That’s good news for the Reds.  Because it means they don’t have that 1 big super star.  They have a Team full of young guys trying to make a name for themselves, they have a chip on their shoulder with something to prove.  I realize alot of the experts don’t think they can even play .500 ball this year.  But I think they are wrong.  You just can’t sleep on cocky young guys with something to prove.  While I don’t think they are World Series bound (yet), I think we will have a lot of exciting baseball this year.

No more watching the white Shaq lumbering around out in left field like he’s pissed off he has to go chase a ball.  No more watching Griff pull a hammy while hustling and diving after a short fly ball that he would’ve easily caught standing up just 5 yrs. ago.  The pitching staff looks hungry and poised to prove a lot of people wrong.  Brandon Phillips is the clearly defined club-house leader that will not allow the piss poor attitudes and careless work ethic that has plagued this team for so long.

This isn’t the year that they stand on the mountain top, but don’t be surprised either.

Reported by: The Sun

A SEX-MAD Russian died after guzzling a bottle of Viagra pills to keep him going for a 12-hour orgy with two women pals.

The women had bet mechanic Sergey Tuganov £3,000 (Roughly $4,300 US) that he wouldn’t be able to satisfy them both non-stop for the half-day sex marathon.
But minutes after winning the wager, the randy 28-year-old dropped dead with a heart attack, revealed Moscow police.
One of the women, named only as Alina, said: “We called emergency services but it was too late, there was nothing they could do.”

Is this a case of Russian Roulette? or just Roulette?  Either way, Sergey went out with a bang!
Apparently Sergey thought he was “The Chosen One”.  Why else would he down a bottle of Pfizers Pfinest? Someone should’ve told him that only UFreak can pop Viagra like Mentos and live to talk about it. 

Let this be a lesson to MLB, performance enhancing drugs may get you to the big contract, but you might not get to cash the check. 

The Jack McBrayer Response To The Internet Response To The Republican Response To The President’s Address To Congress

Hmmmmm

…ok, The “Golfer” I could understand, but the rest of us?….even Left-Gomez “DOC” would be a better option than this hideous freak she “stays with”!…

I know she’s generally drunk or high on a variety of elements throughout her day, but can she really think THIS is the BEST she can “DO”?….damn, even Ellen gets hotter tail! (I don’t really know that, just guessing!….)

Lisa Lampenelli on Jay Leno with Simon Cowell. I’m still laughing!

We all saw Phoenix on the Tonight show, here’s Stiller’s impression! Hilarious.