2014 FIBA: Basketball World Cup Match and Daily Updates

FIBA WORLD CUP
ESPN will open the 2014 College Football season with Sam Houston State at Eastern Washington in the new FCS Kickoff today, Aug. 23, at 3:30 p.m. ET on ESPN. The only college game of the day, and the first Contest of the season, will match traditional Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) power programs that finished the 2013 season in the FCS Coaches poll (No. 3 Eastern Washington and No. 13 Sam Houston State) and are expected to be in the preseason FCS Coaches top 25 poll.

Sam Houston State of the Southland Conference at Eastern Washington of the Big Sky Conference will be the first game of an extensive schedule of FCS coverage across multiple ESPN platforms in 2014. The 2013 season included 58 regular-season games exclusively on ESPN3; all 23 games of the FCS Championship on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and ESPN3; College GameDay Built by The Home Depot originating from North Dakota State; and multiplatform coverage of matchups against Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) programs.

lthough the B.C.S. was ridiculed and reviled, it is unclear whether the committee will do a better job separating the country’s fourth-best team from the fifth-best than the B.C.S. did picking the second and third. There are also new logistical questions. ESPN's coverage of the FBS - the most extensive among media networks with more than 400 games - will begin with matchups across multiple platforms on Thursday, Aug. 28, and conclude with exclusive telecasts of the inaugural College Football Playoff. Schedule details are being finalized.

In an office in Irving, Tex., there is a jar that as of early August contained about $17. The College Football Playoff’s staff members had decided to donate a dollar every time one of them referred to the new system as the college football playoffs. They planned to use the money to buy drinks, having quickly wised up to the fact that the plural was incorrect: Unlike previous years, when several bowl games collectively made up a murky postseason, this year there is only one playoff.

In the current climate of NCAA uncertainty, where smaller Division I athletic departments are more concerned about their future viability than getting into the facilities arms race, granting such a request with a snap of the fingers is practically unheard of. But at Liberty, a private evangelical school suddenly flush with cash and immense athletic ambitions, there is almost no amount of dirt officials won't move or concrete they won't pour these days to help break into the big time.

In the middle of a $500 million makeover of this campus, which sprouted up from the Blue Ridge Mountain foothills in 1971 under the name Lynchburg Baptist College and endured nearly 40 years of financial hardships and political controversies attached to its late founder, Jerry Falwell Sr., is a sparkling set of new athletic facilities that touch nearly all of Liberty's 20 varsity sports.

Its baseball stadium, which opened last year, has player and fan amenities that would put most of the neighboring SEC and ACC schools to shame. Its half-finished softball complex promises to be just as spectacular. In the past five years, new practice or playing facilities have gone up for soccer, field hockey, lacrosse, golf, track, basketball, volleyball and tennis.

Taking This One to the Grave - Pretty Little Liars 5 ep 12

Taking This One to the Grave

With Alison leading them down a dangerous path and "A" barring them from telling the police the truth, Aria, Emily, and Spencer feel trapped and are desperate to find a way out of this mess. With nothing else to lose, could the PLLs lose everything by putting their faith in a possibly untrustworthy ally? Meanwhile, Alison begins to build up her own army now that the PLLs have turned their back on her

Ashley, she did really die. They showed her body at the end lol... What I don't understand is what was her body doing with "A" when the cop said Mona died. Does that mean they assumed she died but the body was missing?

The writers said before they werent following the books....but then Mona was A ...like the book. Soooo dont rule out the twin theory.Yeah I got that. I just found it stupid that they still had her as her sister only is a secret love child of her mother. They have both parents have an affair in the show.

I am actually loving this evil Ali! lol But Mona she had to go, she thought she could take down Ali, but the REAL A would not allow that.  Someone pls give me theories on what just happened in this episode .. Clues , something !! Rip Mona I hope your faking your death girl ! Stay strong

I'm shocked by the episode not because of what happened, but that the writers didn't mislead us a ton beforehand...So, what appeared to probably happen, actually did. I don't think they've ever done that before.

Is anybody else annoyed that every person who enters Rosewood is connected to all this I mean come on.

Scream For Me - Prettly Little Liars S5 E8

Scream For Me

Hanna’s insecurities and current situation continue to plague her when Alison moves into the Marin house while her Dad is out of town. Now forced to live with the one person she is trying to avoid, Hanna retreats further into abusing alcohol and ends up in a sticky situation. Meanwhile, Aria drops the ball on her maid of honor duties when Ella returns to town to plan her wedding and Spencer and Emily pursue a dangerous lead, trying to solve the mystery of the dead girl in Alison’s grave.

I totally get it! I think Wren could be A too. 

Yes, his whole behavior is suspicious. On the other hand, I would be disappointed if Toby was A. I guess i want it to be somebody older and more elegant. 

THen again, it could make sense that A has been part of the A team... a minion. But it makes more sense A would stay invisible.

wow you really hate Toby haha

Honestly, I only like Toby when he's good to Spence, when he makes her feel reassured, which you are right, is kind of superficial at best since none of them can ever feel safe.

I think there might be something really shady still going on with Toby, he knows a lot more than he is saying, I mean come on, he was working with one the As ! How could he not know anything more ? 

Anyway, if this first theory turns out to be wrong, there will be something going on with his mother and the whole mystery around her death at radley, and that will surely break Toby and Spence apart. They've been at it for several seasons now, and I for one believe they both deserve someone else in their lives. 

But if that was to happen and Wren were to come back to Spencer's life (even if it is by manipulating Melissa), it would be a lot worse than Spoby keeping at it... 

Because I think Wren is one of the A's I'm sure of it. I don't know to what lenght or with whom he was/is working, but I find it really weird that Melissa (who we now know for sure works with Mona at the very least) saw him in London after everything that happened between them and that he delivered news to her about her sister... Pff that's not plausible. AND Toby was there !!!!! I'm so sure they saw each other there... Well I'm rambling, I'm sorry, but there isn't another show on air these days that excites me as much as PLL does !

Okay, this is off topic. But I found this online about Toby published by prozacpark in tumblr, and I had to share: 

"The reason that I have *always* been iffy on Toby, and have started despising him in the last season is because Toby is the only one of the boyfriends/girlfriends, who consistently not only EXPECTS Spencer to pick him over the OT4, but he ACTIVELY PUNISHES HER when she fails to respond to him in a way that he thinks is his due.

He did the same with Emily in the brief period where he was pursuing her. After which, Emily literally dropped off of his radar to such a degree that he only remembers her when he needs something from her. He encourages Spencer to abandon Emily to go help him, because Toby is one of those men who only cares about a woman that he’s actively in a relationship with/pursuing. Or his dead mother. He’s literally the personification of all the issues I have with fictional white cishet men all rolled into one incredibly atrocious package.

Like, take a moment to reflect on Toby’s behavior these last few episodes. This last season, this whole fucking SERIES, really. Yeah, he was abused, and harassed, and bullied, and all of those things are horrible. But, hi, I stop feeling bad for you when you expect those issues to take such precedence that you not only ignore others’ suffering/pain, but ACTIVELY work to make it WORSE because you’re just too focused on your own pain that no one else’s matters.

Manpain, Toby has tons of it. Back when I wrote my Manpain meta, I described two forms of Manpain, metanarrative kind, where the narrative values the pain of the white male cishet protagonist over the suffering of others, and the narrative kind, where the said male character values HIS suffering over the others because he genuinely thinks that whatever is happening to him is more important than anything else.

Toby is one of the few who suffers from the second kind (that I have come across, anyway!), and I just can’t stand it. 

Remember the time Toby chased Emily down a deserted hallway and into a classroom when she was fucking TERRIFIED because it was JUST SO important for him to FORCE her to see his side of things.

Remember when Spencer asked Toby to go to a dance with Hanna, where yes, they lied to him, but he had every reason to think that Hanna had reasons to be anxious/worried, and he still ABANDONED Hanna at the dance. 

Then he is pissed off about that for several episodes in a row, culminating in a scene where he stalks into Spencer’s house, where Hanna tries talking to him, and he just holds up his hand, indicating that she should not start with him (he’s too good to even acknowledge her with words, really), and moves on to fighting with Spencer. During which, he grabs her phone from her hand to keep her from calling Jason, forcing her to listen to him first. 

This is not the only incident of Toby doing something physical to make sure someone is listening to him. When Emily is about to confront A, and Spencer is going to meet her, Toby comes in, mad about them keeping secrets, and physically blocks her way out of the door, pushing her inside, and then grabs her arm to turn her around so she would talk to him. When Spencer turns to leave again, he grabs on to her hands and holds on for the entire duration of the rest of the scene, forcing her into a conversation she doesn’t want to have and doesn’t have time for, and she tries pulling them away from him at least twice during this sequence. 

Incidentally, this is the exact same way he forces Emily to listen to him during Homecoming, by grabbing her hand/arm forcefully and PHYSICALLY forcing her to stay in that conversation, regardless of how terrified she was. 

Because again, Toby’s manpain is the most important thing happening at any given moment, as far as he’s concerned.