January 27, 2007
Posted at: 12:01 pm by Timothy Haroutunian
Categories: Sports and Leisure
In a moment of uncertainty, the officials during the AFC Championship game called a pass interference penalty on Patriots Corner back, Ellis Hobbs. It gave the Colts the ball on the 1 yard line in which the got the touchdown. However, it is unclear whether the Colts would have scored any way, but that is not the point. The point is that the Patriots were not given the chance to stop the Colts offense and prevent them from scoring. If they stopped the touchdown, the Colts would have gone for the field goal. Now, if they got the field goal, the score would have been tied 34-34 and Tom Brady would have either played it differently and won the game or the game would have gone into overtime.
The following is from the news release on the situation:
In a recent posting by Vic Ketchman, Jaguars.com senior editor, Ketchman responded to a fan’s posting about the play, writing, “You are absolutely correct. Face-guarding was discontinued several years ago and I completely missed it.”
Apparently, Ketchman had already responded to questions about the play, attributing the call to face-guarding just like Simms and countless fans across the nation who tuned in to watch the most viewed AFC Championship game in over 20 years.
There is no NFL rule against face-guarding.
“I talked to Dean Blandino in the league office and he confirmed what you’re saying,” wrote Ketchman. “Ellis Hobbs should not have been flagged for pass-interference. He didn’t make contact with the receiver and in no way did Hobbs impede Reggie Wayne’s ability to catch the pass. Blandino confirmed that the incorrect call was made. … Referee Bill Carollo made no reference to face-guarding in his explanation, but CBS analyst Phil Simms did. Apparently, he, too, doesn’t know the rule no longer exists. The next time you hear a TV analyst say, ‘he wasn’t playing the ball,’ think of the Hobbs play, then turn down the sound.”
The Patriots may have been screwed out of a super bowl spot, but there is always next year. It will be hard waiting till August/September to see the Patriots play again.
afc, championship, colts, ellis hobbs, football, new england, patriots, super bowl
January 26, 2007
Posted at: 10:54 pm by Timothy Haroutunian
Categories: Sports and Leisure
Starting off very slow for Maria Sharapova, Serena Williams led 5 – 0 with breaks in between service games. Sharapova is not doing good today on her shots, especially on her serve. When serving, she has been hit many double faults and most of the actually played balls were on second shots. I have never seen Maria play this bad in any tournament. Finally in game 6, Sharapova came alive when she scored to make it 5-1. However, in game 7 Serena took over and won the first set 6-1.
Sharapova starting the second set, opened with a double fault and then Serena broke Maria leading 1-0. Williams with 2 double faults, Sharapova had a chance for a break but couldn’t pull it off. Williams led by a double break 3-0 in the second set. Sharapova could do nothing right all match and was now losing 4-0. However, like last set being down, Sharapova took a service game making the score 4-1. That didn’t last too long because Williams took the next game making her 1 game away from the Championship. Maria led game 6, 15-0 but Serena came right back 15-15. Sharapova took next serve as an Ace along with the two serves after taking another game. Serena led 4-2 going into game 7 of the second set. In game 7, Serena led 40-0 and serving the Championship point. On the next serve, Serena Williams won the Australian Open Championship 6-1, 6-2 winning in 1 hour and 3 minutes.
Maria Sharapova did not look like she was focused today, especially in that first set. She was not running for the ball as much as she normally would. Sharapova did horrible on second serves and with low numbers, Sharapova had no chance at the title even though she is #1 in the world and Serena is ranked #81.
Congratulations Serena Williams – Good Luck Maria Sharapova in all other Tournaments.
Australian open, maria sharapova, serena williams, sharapova, tennis, tennis finals, williams
January 26, 2007
Posted at: 8:30 am by Timothy Haroutunian
Categories: Armenia, Entertainment and News, Rants and Randomness, Tech and Web
This is a cool website that allows you to display your visited states and countries. I know that I haven’t traveled very far, but I plan on extending these locations in over the next few years.
armenia, cayman islands, countries, england, georgia, jamacia, mexico, states, traveling, united states, us, visited, world
January 25, 2007
Posted at: 7:56 am by Timothy Haroutunian
Categories: Rants and Randomness, Tech and Web
DreamHost has released the One-Click Install of WordPress 2.1 (Ella). Ella was released by wordpress 3 days ago and there are some very interesting additions.
I have not installed Ella on Armenian Eagle yet because I want to test it on my other blogs so that I can see all of the new features. Even though for me there are only a few features that are really exciting, for many who use wordpress, most of these features will be amazing. Good job wordpress and keep it up.
Here are the new features in Ella:
* Autosave makes sure you never lose a post again.
* Our new tabbed editor allows you to switch between WYSIWYG and code editing instantly while writing a post.
* The lossless XML import and export makes it easy for you to move your content between WordPress blogs.
* Our completely redone visual editor also now includes spell checking.
* New search engine privacy option allows you take you to indicate your blog shouldn’t ping or be indexed by search engines like Google.
* You can set any “page” to be the front page of your site, and put the latest posts somewhere else, making it much easier to use WordPress as a content management system.
* Much more efficient database code, faster than previous versions. Domas Mituzas from MySQL went over all our queries with a fine-toothed comb.
* Links in your blogroll now support sub-categories and you can add categories on the fly.
* Redesigned login screen from the Shuttle project.
* More AJAX to make custom fields, moderation, deletions, and more all faster. My favorite is the comments page, which new lets you approve or unapprove things instantly.
* Pages can now be drafts, or private.
* Our admin has been refreshed to load faster and be more visually consistent.
* The dashboard now instantly and brings RSS feeds asynchronously in the background.
* Comment feeds now include all the comments, not just the last 10.
* Better internationalization and support for right-to-left languages.
* The upload manager lets you easily manage all your uploads pictures, video, and audio.
* A new version of the Akismet plugin is bundled.
2.1 also includes over 550 bug fixes.
2.1, dreamhost, ella, one-click install, version 2.1, wordpress
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