Month: August 2005

SDSU women’s basketball schedule is out

South Dakota State releases its women’s basketball schedule for 2005-06. Here it is.[*1] Times/dates subject to change:

DATE(S) OPPONENT/EVENT LOCATION TIME
Nov. 4 Minnesota-Crookston (exhib.) Frost Arena 7 p.m.
Nov. 11 Upper Iowa (exhib.) Frost Arena 7 p.m.
Nov. 19 Nebraska Lincoln, Neb. Noon
Nov. 20 Drake (Iowa) Des Moines, Iowa 2:05 p.m.
Nov. 25, 27 Coors Rocky Mountain Invitational Fort Collins, Colo.
Nov. 25 at Colorado State Moby Arena 7 p.m. MT
Nov. 27 UC Irvine Moby Arena 2 p.m. MT
Dec. 2 Middle Tennessee State Frost Arena 7 p.m.
Dec. 4 Wisconsin-Milwaukee Frost Arena 2 p.m.
Dec. 8 Wisconsin Madison, Wis. 7 p.m.
Dec. 10 Southern Illinois Carbondale, Ill. TBA
Dec. 16 Texas State Frost Arena 7 p.m.
Dec. 18 Alabama Frost Arena 2 p.m.
Dec. 21 Marquette (Wis.) Milwaukee, Wis. 7 p.m.
Dec. 28 Colorado Boulder, Colo. 7 p.m. MT
Dec. 30 Long Beach State (Calif.) Long Beach, Calif. 5 p.m. PT
Jan. 2 Idaho State Pocatello, Idaho TBA
Jan. 10 Kennesaw State (Ga.) Frost Arena 7 p.m.
Jan. 14 San Jose State (Calif.) San Jose, Calif. 7 p.m. PT
Jan. 19 IPFW Frost Arena 7 p.m.
Jan. 22 Brown (R.I.) Providence, R.I. TBA
Jan. 26 Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Frost Arena 7 p.m.
Jan. 28 Florida International Miami, Fla. 7 p.m. ET
Feb. 1 Southwest Minnesota State Frost Arena 7 p.m.
Feb . 4 North Dakota State Frost Arena 7 p.m.
Feb. 11 Texas-Pan American Edinburg, Texas TBA
Feb. 13 Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Corpus Christi, Texas TBA
Feb. 18 North Dakota State Fargo, N.D. TBA
Feb. 24 IPFW Fort Wayne, Ind. TBA
Feb. 28 UC Riverside Riverside, Calif. 7 p.m. PT
Mar. 3 Central State (Ohio) Frost Arena 7 p.m.

Tennessee women’s basketball schedule is out

The Lady Vols have posted their schedule[*1] . Times/dates subject to change:

Date Day Opponent Location TV Outcome/Time
11/06/2005 Sun Dalhousie – Canada (Exh.) Knoxville, Tenn. 3:00 PM
11/10/2005 Thu Carson-Newman (Exh.) Knoxville, Tenn. 7:00 PM
11/20/2005 Sun Stetson Knoxville, Tenn. 3:00 PM
11/21/2005 Mon UT-Chattanooga Knoxville, Tenn. 7:00 PM
11/24/2005 Thu Gonzaga/Maryland/Mich. State St. Thomas, V.I. FSN TBA
11/25/2005 Fri Gonzaga/Maryland/Mich. State St. Thomas, V.I. FSN TBA
11/26/2005 Sat Gonzaga/Maryland/Mich. State St. Thomas, V.I. FSN TBA
12/01/2005 Thu Texas Knoxville, Tenn. ESPN2 7:30 PM
12/04/2005 Sun Stanford Palo Alto, Calif. ESPN2 3:30 PM
12/07/2005 Wed George Washington Washington, D.C. 7:00 PM
12/15/2005 Thu Louisiana Tech Knoxville, Tenn. 7:00 PM
12/20/2005 Tue Princeton Knoxville, Tenn. 7:00 PM
12/28/2005 Wed Temple Philadelphia, Pa. 7:00 PM
12/31/2005 Sat Notre Dame South Bend, Ind. 2:00 PM
01/02/2006 Mon Old Dominion Knoxville, Tenn. 7:00 PM
01/05/2006 Thu South Carolina Columbia, S.C. 7:00 PM
01/07/2006 Sat Uconn Knoxville, Tenn. CBS 2:00 PM
01/12/2006 Thu Georgia Knoxville, Tenn. 7:00 PM
01/15/2006 Sun Mississippi State Starkville, Miss. 3:00 PM
01/19/2006 Thu Vanderbilt Nashville, Tenn. 8:00 PM
01/23/2006 Mon Duke Durham, N.C. ESPN2 7:30 PM
01/26/2006 Thu Kentucky Lexington, Ky. 7:00 PM
01/29/2006 Sun Alabama Knoxville, Tenn. 3:00 PM
02/02/2006 Thu Mississippi Oxford, Miss. 8:00 PM
02/05/2006 Sun Arkansas Knoxville, Tenn. 3:00 PM
02/09/2006 Thu LSU (Rivalry Week) Knoxville, Tenn. ESPN2 7:30 PM
02/12/2006 Sun Vanderbilt (February Frenzy) Knoxville, Tenn. ESPN2 5:00 PM
02/16/2006 Thu Georgia Athens, Ga. 7:00 PM
02/19/2006 Sun Alabama Tuscaloosa, Ala. 3:00 PM
02/23/2006 Thu Auburn Knoxville, Tenn. 7:00 PM
02/26/2006 Sun Florida Knoxville, Tenn. 3:00 PM
03/02/2006 Thu SEC Tournament N. Little Rock, Ark. FOX TBA
03/03/2006 Fri SEC Tournament N. Little Rock, Ark. FOX TBA
03/04/2006 Sat SEC Tournament N. Little Rock, Ark. FOX TBA
03/05/2006 Sun SEC Tournament N. Little Rock, Ark. ESPN2 TBA
03/18/2006 Sat NCAA Tournament Campus Sites ESPN/ESPN2 TBA
03/19/2006 Sun NCAA Tournament Campus Sites ESPN/ESPN2 TBA
03/20/2006 Mon NCAA Tournament Campus Sites ESPN/ESPN2 TBA
03/21/2006 Tue NCAA Tournament Campus Sites ESPN/ESPN2 TBA
03/25/2006 Sat NCAA Tournament (Regional) Campus Sites ESPN/ESPN2 TBA
03/26/2006 Sun NCAA Tournament (Regional) Campus Sites ESPN/ESPN2 TBA
03/27/2006 Mon NCAA Tournament (Regional) Campus Sites ESPN/ESPN2 TBA
03/28/2006 Tue NCAA Tournament (Regional) Campus Sites ESPN/ESPN2 TBA
04/02/2006 Sun NCAA Final Four Boston, Mass. ESPN TBA
04/04/2006 Tue NCAA Final Four Boston, Mass. ESPN TBA

Snookums and I will try to make the Connecticut game and the LSU/Vanderbilt weekend.

Delta edges closer to bankruptcy

Delta Air Lines is exploring bankruptcy financing[*1] :

The Atlanta-based airline is holding the discussions with lenders including GE Commercial Finance, which provided restructuring money in 2004, the Times said, citing both airline employees and members of the financial community. It said GE Commercial declined to comment.

Northwest may be close behind on the road to bankruptcy[*2] .

“We think the risk of bankruptcy is too high to continue to hold the stock,” Standard & Poors analyst James Corridore wrote in a research note advising investors to sell. He’s also not swayed by Northwest’s $2.1 billion in cash.

None of the “main line” airlines with their extravagant labor contracts and relatively inefficient operations (compared to, say, Southwest) are a good bet to survive much longer.

BAC 0.08 is unconstitutional

So says a Virginia district court judge[*1] .

Virginia’s law is unconstitutional because it presumes that an individual with a blood-alcohol content of 0.08 or higher is intoxicated, denying a defendant’s right to a presumption of innocence, Judge Ian O’Flaherty ruled in dismissing charges against at least two alleged drunken drivers last month.

Gee. Presumption of innocence. Who’d a thunk it?

via Fark[*2] .

Sole flying U.S. Constellation blows engine, may not fly again

The Save a Connie folks have a big engine repair bill[*1] :

Officials of the Airline History Museum at the Wheeler Downtown Airport were devastated by the blowout, which occurred during routine maintenance checks on the ground.

Three cylinders in the No. 2 engine failed, spewing gallons of oil and fire that “stuck like napalm” to the plane’s metal skin, disfiguring the plane.

“It was a black, black day,” said Foe Geldersma, president of the Airline History Museum.

The engine failure meant scrubbing a visit to an air show last weekend in Rockford, Ill., and another scheduled for Labor Day weekend in St. Louis.

The nonprofit museum board and members are all volunteers, and many of them are former pilots. Rebuilding the Wright R3350 engine would cost more than $120,000 and wipe out their reserves.

The Airline History Museum[*2] in Kansas City could use some help here.

Hamas to Israel: Thanks for Gaza, we’ll keep killing you

Hamas renews “Death to Israel”[*1] vow:

Hamas, which is dedicated to Israel’s destruction, showcased its leaders and political message on the heels of a Palestinian Authority-organized Gaza beachfront celebration on Friday of the planned Israeli pullout.

There already exists a Palestinian state. It’s called Jordan. Why do they need two? None of this is about Palestinian independence, it’s about the extermination of the Jews.

Iraqis say they’ll meet constitution deadline

Iraq closes in on a constitution[*1] :

“The meetings are still going on and we have gone forward,” Talabani told reporters. “There is a meeting today and another meeting tomorrow and God willing we will finish the job tomorrow” — one day ahead of the deadline for parliament to approve the charter.Talabani said the meetings are concentrating on federalism in Shiite areas of central and southernIraq, as well as the role of Islam in the state.

Progress is made more by little incremental steps than by grand great events. Iraq struggles toward freedom.

Iran “astonished” by unanimous nuke vote

Iran’s President Rafsanjani is astonished[*1] that the world is nervous about Iran’s nuke program:

“It was astonishing and really strange…that eventually what Europeans and America wanted was approved with unanimity. How is it possible?” Rafsanjani told worshippers at Friday prayers at Tehran University.

“We didn’t think that an international organization, before the eyes of the whole world, would sanction that Iran should stop everything,” he added in a sermon broadcast live on state radio. “The decision was a cruel one.”

They sound remarkably like the schoolyard bully when his behavior is finally called out by the Principal. “You’re cruel, it’s not fair!”

Gee, you don’t suppose committing acts of war aganst everybody and generally trying to export Islamofascism to the world kinda gets people’s attention?