Wasn't that just a magical effort by Rutgers today?
Time for Jersey City, After Dark
Monday, September 7, 2009
Rutgers football gameday!
It is not often a team plays a conference game to start the season. It's even more rare that the conference game is such a huge game and will have such an impact on the season going forward. Such is the case with Rutgers at home today vs Big East rival Cincinnati. Cincinnati is picked by many to win the Big East, but with a win today, suddenly Rutgers and their vaunted defense leaps into the favorite position.
A lot of people are saying the key to the Scarlet Knight's season is how do they replace the offense provided by departed starters QB Mike Teel and WR Kenny Britt. The 3400 yards plus that Teel threw for along with his 25 TD's don't just replace themselves. For as great a receiver Britt was he only caught 7 of those 25. Johnny thinks the key is how well new QB's Dom Natale and Jabu Lovelace redistribute that offense. Do these passes go to tight ends? Are the running backs more involved in the passing game? Another thing that will need to improve is the running game. Sooner or later your running game has to win a couple games for you. It must control tempo some Saturdays and must be able to bleed the clock on other Saturdays. Rutgers, if they have sights on a Big East title will HAVE to run better than they did last season. No Kordell Young early this year, that hurts.
If the defense is as good as advertised things are looking good. Head Coach Greg Schiano's front seven is as good as it's ever been at Rutgers. LB Ryan D'Imperio will be expected to lead the charges all season long and will have a GREAT first test in Cincinnati QB Tony Pike. It'll be a great cat and mouse game this afternoon between those two. The defense may have to pick up the offense at points early this season, this would be one of those days. Not lot of offenses come out in mid-season form in week one unless you're USC playing San Jose St. Here's hoping Rutgers employs a HAM defense this year; Hostile-Agile-Mobile.
Rutgers has a dream schedule this year. They get Cincy, Pitt, South Florida, and West Virginia at home. The league road games against the bottom feeders in Syracuse, Louisville and UConn. If Rutgers wants to sit at the adult table this Thanksgiving, meaning being taken SERIOUSLY as a BCS team, they HAVE to make hay at home. There is no reason they can't run the table in Piscataway this year.
Now, Johnny knows the Star-Ledger wants you to follow the game over there and comment over there but the Jersey City Desk offers you the ability to do something here you can't do on nj.com, swear. Fell free to let 'er rip in comments. If the refs make a bad call, say it don't spray it. If Schiano makes a questionable play call, have at it. You'll not be censored here.
Johnny hates Cincnnati head Coach Brian Kelly. He was a real dickhead at Central Michigan University, something Johnny knows something about. He acted like a perfect ass in his dealings with other MAC coaches. Johnny can't imagine he's improved that much and become a human being. Reason enough to root against the Bearcats we think.
Prediction:
Rutgers 24
Cincinnati 20
A lot of people are saying the key to the Scarlet Knight's season is how do they replace the offense provided by departed starters QB Mike Teel and WR Kenny Britt. The 3400 yards plus that Teel threw for along with his 25 TD's don't just replace themselves. For as great a receiver Britt was he only caught 7 of those 25. Johnny thinks the key is how well new QB's Dom Natale and Jabu Lovelace redistribute that offense. Do these passes go to tight ends? Are the running backs more involved in the passing game? Another thing that will need to improve is the running game. Sooner or later your running game has to win a couple games for you. It must control tempo some Saturdays and must be able to bleed the clock on other Saturdays. Rutgers, if they have sights on a Big East title will HAVE to run better than they did last season. No Kordell Young early this year, that hurts.
If the defense is as good as advertised things are looking good. Head Coach Greg Schiano's front seven is as good as it's ever been at Rutgers. LB Ryan D'Imperio will be expected to lead the charges all season long and will have a GREAT first test in Cincinnati QB Tony Pike. It'll be a great cat and mouse game this afternoon between those two. The defense may have to pick up the offense at points early this season, this would be one of those days. Not lot of offenses come out in mid-season form in week one unless you're USC playing San Jose St. Here's hoping Rutgers employs a HAM defense this year; Hostile-Agile-Mobile.
Rutgers has a dream schedule this year. They get Cincy, Pitt, South Florida, and West Virginia at home. The league road games against the bottom feeders in Syracuse, Louisville and UConn. If Rutgers wants to sit at the adult table this Thanksgiving, meaning being taken SERIOUSLY as a BCS team, they HAVE to make hay at home. There is no reason they can't run the table in Piscataway this year.
Now, Johnny knows the Star-Ledger wants you to follow the game over there and comment over there but the Jersey City Desk offers you the ability to do something here you can't do on nj.com, swear. Fell free to let 'er rip in comments. If the refs make a bad call, say it don't spray it. If Schiano makes a questionable play call, have at it. You'll not be censored here.
Johnny hates Cincnnati head Coach Brian Kelly. He was a real dickhead at Central Michigan University, something Johnny knows something about. He acted like a perfect ass in his dealings with other MAC coaches. Johnny can't imagine he's improved that much and become a human being. Reason enough to root against the Bearcats we think.
Prediction:
Rutgers 24
Cincinnati 20
Late night open thread
Have no fear Rutgers fans, we'll have you covered front to back tomorrow starting with out game day thread...
Time for Jersey City, After Dark
Time for Jersey City, After Dark
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Ah, love
Sometimes love is a walk down Broadway holding hands. Sometimes love is a romantic candle lit dinner. Sometimes love is a box of candy. And sometimes love is a 150 mile car chase through New Jersey with threats to crash the car if police don't stay back.
In what New Jersey State police are calling a lovers quarrel, Eleanor Valdenarro of Dumont led police on a 150 mile chase, with her jilted lover who resides in Jersey City, up and down the New Jersey Turnpike and all around the Garden State until it ended in the Firestone tire shop in Bayonne as love so often does. Her lover police said did not want to be in the car.
After Valdenarro had threatened to crash the vehicle if police didn't back off, police did keep a respectable distance until the wild ride ended. Valdenarro's being held on $23,000 bond and is being charged with criminal restraint, making terroristic threats and eluding and simply caring too much...
In what New Jersey State police are calling a lovers quarrel, Eleanor Valdenarro of Dumont led police on a 150 mile chase, with her jilted lover who resides in Jersey City, up and down the New Jersey Turnpike and all around the Garden State until it ended in the Firestone tire shop in Bayonne as love so often does. Her lover police said did not want to be in the car.
After Valdenarro had threatened to crash the vehicle if police didn't back off, police did keep a respectable distance until the wild ride ended. Valdenarro's being held on $23,000 bond and is being charged with criminal restraint, making terroristic threats and eluding and simply caring too much...
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Late night open thread
It's a college football Saturday scoreboard
First things first, Michigan State creamed Montana State 44-3. Nice going Sparty. On the other hand, Eastern Michigan laid yet another egg against a named team with a miserable 27-14 loss against Army. Eastern has had one signature win in forever and that was a 30-27 victory over San Jose State. Too bad that was back in the 1987 California Bowl. New big man on campus for Syracuse, former Duke basketball guard Greg Paulus, utterly blew the game in overtime versus Minnesota's Golden Goofers with an incredibly bad interception that cost the Orange a chance at any points. Welcome to Syracuse Greggy.
In other action Notre Dame and their coach "Front Butt"® Charlie Weis got it done in South Bend vs. Nevada. Ohio State pretty much shut down the betting line in next week's USC game at the Horseshoe by turning in an anemic effort vs Navy barely winning 31-27. Seriously, Ohio State showed America they'll only need to watch the first quarter next Saturday night before everyone can head off to a late supper. Oklahoma took the typical OU Sooner gack today in losing to BYU. So what if their Heisman QB was injured? OU was SUPPOSED to be third best in the country. The bigger the game the smaller the Sooner. #1 Florida beat down the Mississippi Widow's Home for the Blind, while #2 Texas had no trouble with some guys throwing the ball around the parking lot they found around a kegger.
NCAA Roll Call:
Around the Big East
Liberty 20
West Virginia 33
Youngstown State 3
Pittsburgh 38
(So in essence Pittsburgh beat the Penguins)
Connecticut 23
Ohio 16
Wofford 7
South Florida 40
Guess Wofford just didn't have it today...
Indiana State 10
Louisville 30
Louisville must really suck this year, Eastern Michigan beat Indiana State last year in their opener 52-0
Central Connecticut State 28
Lehigh 21
If you want the BOLD around your name Andy Coen, Lehigh head coach, you have to WIN.
Fordham 28
Rhode Island 41
Johnny said before this game the Rams would win, it was his lock of the year. It helped both teams are named Rams
William Penn 0
South Dakota 52
You could SO smell this beat down coming
Western Kentucky 7
Tennessee 63
Welcome to Division 1-A WKU
Stonehill 45
Wagner 42
A lot of Stonehill Alumni had been jamming our phone lines for this score
Jersey City Desk 27
Hoboken A&M 9
Johnny ran wild and intern Zoltron hit a 47 yard field goal
Tonight's Super Special Score of the Week
Texas A&M-Commerce 7
Southeastern Louisiana 41
Time for Jersey City, After Dark
First things first, Michigan State creamed Montana State 44-3. Nice going Sparty. On the other hand, Eastern Michigan laid yet another egg against a named team with a miserable 27-14 loss against Army. Eastern has had one signature win in forever and that was a 30-27 victory over San Jose State. Too bad that was back in the 1987 California Bowl. New big man on campus for Syracuse, former Duke basketball guard Greg Paulus, utterly blew the game in overtime versus Minnesota's Golden Goofers with an incredibly bad interception that cost the Orange a chance at any points. Welcome to Syracuse Greggy.
In other action Notre Dame and their coach "Front Butt"® Charlie Weis got it done in South Bend vs. Nevada. Ohio State pretty much shut down the betting line in next week's USC game at the Horseshoe by turning in an anemic effort vs Navy barely winning 31-27. Seriously, Ohio State showed America they'll only need to watch the first quarter next Saturday night before everyone can head off to a late supper. Oklahoma took the typical OU Sooner gack today in losing to BYU. So what if their Heisman QB was injured? OU was SUPPOSED to be third best in the country. The bigger the game the smaller the Sooner. #1 Florida beat down the Mississippi Widow's Home for the Blind, while #2 Texas had no trouble with some guys throwing the ball around the parking lot they found around a kegger.
NCAA Roll Call:
Around the Big East
Liberty 20
West Virginia 33
Youngstown State 3
Pittsburgh 38
(So in essence Pittsburgh beat the Penguins)
Connecticut 23
Ohio 16
Wofford 7
South Florida 40
Guess Wofford just didn't have it today...
Indiana State 10
Louisville 30
Louisville must really suck this year, Eastern Michigan beat Indiana State last year in their opener 52-0
Central Connecticut State 28
Lehigh 21
If you want the BOLD around your name Andy Coen, Lehigh head coach, you have to WIN.
Fordham 28
Rhode Island 41
Johnny said before this game the Rams would win, it was his lock of the year. It helped both teams are named Rams
William Penn 0
South Dakota 52
You could SO smell this beat down coming
Western Kentucky 7
Tennessee 63
Welcome to Division 1-A WKU
Stonehill 45
Wagner 42
A lot of Stonehill Alumni had been jamming our phone lines for this score
Jersey City Desk 27
Hoboken A&M 9
Johnny ran wild and intern Zoltron hit a 47 yard field goal
Tonight's Super Special Score of the Week
Texas A&M-Commerce 7
Southeastern Louisiana 41
Time for Jersey City, After Dark
Make sure to come back for the college football scoreboard "show" here Jersey City
We have a lot of fun with our take on the Saturday scoreboard show...
Hey, mayor, you can't get more supportive of Nidia Lopez than "we're confident she's a resident"
Mayor Jerramiah Healy really went to the wall for his candidate in Ward C, embattled (who isn't embattled on Healy's team at this point?) councilwoman and Florida resident Nidia Lopez. When asked about her residency Healy came out with this rock solid supportive comment:
"This matter is winding it's way through the courts and we'll await the resolution. Once again, we are confident that Nidia Lopez is a resident of Jersey City's Ward C."
Yep, nothing says I know for a FACT she's a resident and you stupid reporters get off my lawn like "This matter is winding it's way through the courts..." WHY is it winding it's way through the courts? How does that even happen? Did you not vet her? Did you not ask where she had paid taxes the last decade? Oy...
In more Jerramiah Healy news, Mr. Clean was visited by the FBI the day before all the busts happened. You can read about the tainted Mayor and the FBI here.
"This matter is winding it's way through the courts and we'll await the resolution. Once again, we are confident that Nidia Lopez is a resident of Jersey City's Ward C."
Yep, nothing says I know for a FACT she's a resident and you stupid reporters get off my lawn like "This matter is winding it's way through the courts..." WHY is it winding it's way through the courts? How does that even happen? Did you not vet her? Did you not ask where she had paid taxes the last decade? Oy...
In more Jerramiah Healy news, Mr. Clean was visited by the FBI the day before all the busts happened. You can read about the tainted Mayor and the FBI here.
Friday, September 4, 2009
Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with BLONDIE!
On remix and remade night we're going to start you off with a real treat. Nobody spent more time remaking and remixing their own songs than Debbie Harry and Chris Stein of Blondie. But this is the original version, the original REGGAE version of what would later become one of the biggest disco hits ever, 'Heart of Glass'. This song was such a hit during the disco era in many circles it came to be known as simply 'The Disco Song'.
Here's the original version from 1975 when it was known by the title 'Once I had a Love'
Here's the original version from 1975 when it was known by the title 'Once I had a Love'
Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with SHERYL CROW!
Say, have you ever heard the original version of 'If it Makes You Happy'? Not the one with the grinding guitars and hook and chorus you're so familiar with but the original COUNTRY version. Yep, Sheryl Crow has said the song 'If it Makes You Happy' was originally written in New Orleans as a country song. Tonight on remix night we'll give you an acoustic version with that original country flavor.
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