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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Astronomers getting their first close-up glimpse of a giant asteroid about to whiz by Earth found a surprise bonus rock. A smaller moon asteroid is circling the larger space rock, an unusual but not unheard of space phenomenon.
The larger 1.7 mile-wide rock named Asteroid 1998 QE2 will be the closest to Earth on Friday at 4:59 p.m. EDT. Don't worry, though. It will still be 3.6 million miles away. NASA scientist Paul Chodas (Ch'OH'duhs) said it's one of the larger asteroids to swing by Earth and is the size of the space rock that wiped out the dinosaurs.
The smaller rock was discovered Wednesday night by astronomers using radar to look at QE2. The moon asteroid is about 2,000 feet wide. That's about average for such near-Earth objects.
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Hi, I apologize if I am posting this in the wrong place. I just joined for help with this problem. (A little background, I code for fun and am fairly new with Java)
I want to make a program that can accept input in a text box (The large ones, not the one line kind), filter out parts of the input, and export this output to a text file or other sort of data base.
For example, I would take the following info (say off a forum. a quick copy on paste of the general area)
"Jimmy N00b
Posts: 2
Re: Introduce yourself! ? Reply #1207 on: Today at 07:52:52 AM ? QuoteModifySplit Topic Name: Jim Age: 24 Location: New York City
Report to moderator "
And filter out these lines
"Name: Jim Location: New York City"
Then output in this format
"Jim - New York City"
Do you understand what I mean? I'm sorry if I am not clear. I have not tried to start writing this code yet, because I do not know if it is possible.
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Re: Question: Is input/output filtering possible with Java?
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I'm not sure off hand of the "simplest" way to approach this problem. But I think I could at least point you in the right direction by mentioning the use of Java's substring methods which would allow you to pick apart the text. I suppose you could use nested loops to increment to a delimiter for which to begin the text you want to extract and then increment until you find the end of this. Sort of a rudimentary parsing code I guess, that would work if the format of the input string was always consistent.
There's also a "replace" method in Java's string class which can be used to remove symbols and specific characters which could also be useful.
I'd say the problem is definitely possible though. A good bit of messing around to figure out what works best. I'll dig around and see if I can find any more useful information.
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Re: Question: Is input/output filtering possible with Java?
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You can create a JTextArea and use it with your JOptionPane dialog. Then after the user clicks the OK button, you can getText() on your JTextArea.
JTextArea area = new JTextArea(); JOptionPane.showConfirmDialog(null, area); System.out.println(area.getText());
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Re: Question: Is input/output filtering possible with Java?
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GeniusInc, on 29 May 2013 - 06:38 PM, said:
I want to make a program that can accept input in a text box (The large ones, not the one line kind), filter out parts of the input, and export this output to a text file or other sort of data base.
This is possible in any language that I know, don't see why Java would be different and thus your question
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URBANA, Ill. ? On this Memorial Day in Urbana, Ill., new NCAA singles and doubles champions were crowned. Ohio State junior Blaz Rola outdueled Virginia?s Jarmere Jenkins 7-6(8), 6-4, as Rola denied Jenkins of his triple-crown bid and a wild-card berth in the U.S. Open. In doubles, Jenkins bounced back along with partner Mac Styslinger to take the title 3-6, 6-2, 6-4 over Camillone/Holiner of Texas. ???
Rola earned his fourth straight set victory out of five matches along the way to his first NCAA Singles championship. In addition, it marked the first NCAA singles championship in program history. Now a two-time national champion and four-time All-American, Rola has 109 career singles wins which moves him into OSU?s Top-10.
It was competitively balanced in the first set, with both players holding serve all the way to the tiebreak where Jenkins fell behind 6-2. Rallying back, Jenkins won the next four points to tie it 6-6. However, Rola pushed back ahead and persevered 10-8 in the tiebreak.?
The first and only break occurred mid second-set and was the championship difference maker for Rola. After breaking Jenkins to go up 4-3, Rola served and advanced the lead to 5-3.? Jenkins then held serve to get within one, but Rola would not be denied, taking the set 6-4 and the championship.?
After 90 minutes of rest between singles and doubles, Jenkins with teammate Styslinger took the court for the doubles championship against Camillone/Holiner, who were the first Texas team to reach the doubles finals since 1995. Midway through the first set, storms rolled in, forcing the remainder to be played indoors.?
The Cinderella unseeded Texas team of Camillone/Holiner, who defeated the one and three-seeds to make it to the title match, stormed ahead to take the first set 6-3.? However, the Virginia duo weathered the storm and retaliated with a 6-2 second set. A drama filled third set ensued where Jenkins/Styslinger pulled away late to take it 6-4 and the championship. The twosome became the third Virginia tandem to take the NCAA doubles crown.??
Blaz Rola, Ohio State
?It?s unbelievable. The past champions that have won this tournament, John McEnroe, the Bryan brothers, for my name to be up there it?s just overwhelming. It?s unbelievable and I?m really happy.?
On the match: ?It was tough. The conditions were humid, it was very hot, the first set lasted over an hour and I think it took a toll on both of us. I?m really happy and relaxed that I won in straight sets, it would?ve been tough to play three.?
On the first set tiebreak: ?I was up 6-2 and I was serving for it, I hit a good serve, I hit a good forehand and unfortunately I missed the second ball. I thought it?s alright, 6-3, he two great shots. On my service game he came up big again so I was thinking ?oh my god, I missed four set points, come on?. I kept my mind relaxed and thankfully I came through in the first set it was a crucial point in the match.?
Jarmere Jenkins, Virginia
On doubles: ?I told Mac no regrets, just swing out. I felt like we had a chance in every one of their service games so even when we got broken in that third set I knew we were going to be fine. We had our set plays that we trusted and they came through for us.?
On singles: ?The last serve was definitely out. It made a mark out-of-bounds. I got to it as soon as he hit the ball but the umpire told me he couldn?t do anything about it. Tough way to go out but congrats to Blaz. He?s a tough competitor. I gave it my all. Don?t have many regrets except not taking one of those break points.?
Trying to get over singles ending: ?I didn?t. I definitely started off pretty slow in doubles because I was still thinking about it. It was my last college match ever. I didn?t want to go out not having control over the things I could have control over. I wanted to fight as much as I could.?
Mac Styslinger, Virginia
Ending freshman year with two trophies: ?It?s incredible. It?s an amazing start and I?m really glad to get this doubles win.?
What he was thinking during third set: ?Just think about one point at a time and not concentrate on winning or losing. Then the rest will take care of itself.?
Talking to Jenkins after his singles loss: ?He?s a competitor. I knew he was going to come out and work hard. He shows that he?s one of the best college players ever. He?s incredible. This tournament he really put it all together.?
Chris Camillone, Texas
?We?ve put everything out there in every match we?ve played. I don?t know how many times you can honestly say that?that you can really say you left everything out there. But I know Dave and I did. It really, really sucks to lose; but if you?re going to lose at that level, then that?s just too good today. We can?t play them tomorrow even though we want to, but it was a hell of an effort, and I am glad I was a part of it. I?m glad I could do this and do it for Texas.?
?If you would have asked us from January up until yesterday if we would have expected this, there?s just no way. It?s not a lack of confidence; it?s just how can you expect this, given our positioning, given our ranking, and given we didn?t really play together in the spring except for four matches? We?re staring down opponents like (top-ranked Tennessee duo Mikelis) Libietis and (Hunter) Reece and (fourth-ranked Virginia duo Jarmere) Jenkins and (Mac) Styslinger and (third-ranked Ole Miss duo Nik) Scholtz and (Jonas) Lutjen. It?s my last season. I would have ended it with a win; that would have been nice. But if I can?t get a win, I?m going to end it like this with Dave and my two coaches, doing this as much as I can for Texas. It sucks to lose 6-4 in the third. Virginia already has one, so we wanted to get one for us. Even the last game, we fought our butts off. It?s hard to put into words. It just sucks. I guess all good things have to come to an end.?
David Holiner, Texas
?We accomplished so much more than we set out here to do. We didn?t even pack enough clothes. We didn?t expect to even make All-American. We fought as hard as we could. We made All-American. We somehow made it to the finals. We almost ratted this match out. We put it all out there; we just came up a little short today.?
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May 29, 2013 ? Popular social media site Twitter may eventually resemble a broadcast medium like television or radio, with users reading messages written by celebrities and corporations rather than writing their own "tweet" messages of up to 140 characters, suggests a new study coauthored by Andrew T. Stephen, assistant professor of business administration and Katz Fellow in Marketing in the University of Pittsburgh's Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business and College of Business Administration.
In one of the first studies to use social media as a laboratory for social science experiments, Stephen and coauthor Olivier Toubia, the Glaubinger Professor of Business at Columbia University, questioned what motivates people to post tweets. Are Twitter users motivated by broadcasting their thoughts and opinions or, rather, by their desire to increase their social status by accumulating followers?
The results, published in the May/June issue of the peer-reviewed journal Marketing Science, provide insights into that question and have generated a surprising prediction of what the social network may operate like in the future.
To investigate the question, Stephen and Toubia identified approximately 2,500 Twitter users who were being followed by a range of other Twitter users, numbering from 13 to more than 10,000. All were noncorporate, noncelebrity users, and they were not tweeting for commercial purposes. Half the users were put into a control group, and the authors recorded daily data on the participants' number of followers and their tweeting activity over a period of two months.
Stephen and Toubia then hired undergraduate research assistants to create 100 Twitter accounts. Following Twitter's terms of service, the assistants added realistic-looking names and locations for these accounts, and they had the accounts follow one other as well as popular users like Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber. The assistants even sent out simple tweets -- "It's a pretty day today" or "The sky is blue" -- to further support the illusion that the accounts were operated by real people.
Over the ensuing two months, the assistants used the new accounts to follow the users in the test group, gradually increasing each user's list of followers by 100. The authors monitored these accounts to see how the increase in audience size affected the users' tweeting activity.
Users who had few followers initially showed no change in their tweeting habits. Similarly, "high-end" users -- those with as many as 10,000 followers -- did not exhibit much change, likely because 100 additional followers was "a drop in the bucket," Stephen said.
Among "mid-range" users, however, the authors noted significant changes in tweeting activity. "Users with 13 to 26 followers did increase activity," said Stephen, speculating that these users were encouraged by the increase in followers to post more to a suddenly larger audience.
But users with slightly more followers -- from 62 to 245 -- showed the opposite instinct, posting less as their followers increased. These users had already achieved some level of status, Stephen said, and wanted to preserve it by avoiding posting anything that would offend their followers. "As they get more followers," he said, "they want to be careful about what they post." These results indicated to the researchers that many users were more interested in gaining followers than in using Twitter to broadcast their views.
The trend of users posting less as they accumulated more followers led the authors to one of the more striking findings in the paper.
There is a natural tendency, Stephen explained, for active users to gain followers over time. Add to that the authors' finding that users will post less as they gain followers, and it's natural to conclude, Stephen said, that Twitter users are going to post less.
But commercial users, celebrities, and institutions like schools and sports teams, Stephen said, will continue to post information to the people who want it. "So what it becomes is another advertising channel, a broadcast medium, as opposed to a socially interactive one," Stephen said.
Such a change is prevented, for now, by the influx of new users to the social media service. If Twitter should reach a point when no new users are signing up, the shift away from an interactive platform toward a one-way conduit for information would become more likely.
In such a scenario, Twitter would remain a viable channel for corporations, celebrities, and other high-end users to communicate with their fans, Stephen said. They might utilize their Twitter feeds the same way they use mailing lists to announce products and promotions to their followers.
"Longer term," Stephen said, "to get value, they'll need the people who start following them to react to these tweets and to retweet them." But as his and Toubia's model suggests, over time, regular users will be less likely to do so. Marketers using Twitter will be challenged to offer rewards and other incentives to engage users and counteract the tendency to tweet less, keeping the social network truly interactive.
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The festival's top award, the prestigious Palme d'Or, will be handed out to one of 20 films in competition Sunday night in Cannes. Unlike in recent years, there's no obvious frontrunner for the Palme. Spielberg is presiding over the nine-member jury that will choose the winner of one of cinema's highest honors.
Critical polls have ranked Abdellatif Kechiche's lesbian coming-of-age tale "Blue is the Warmest Color" the highest. Prognosticators have also predicted Asghar Farhadi's domestic drama "The Past" will take the Palme. And others believe it will go to the Coen brothers' 1960s folk tale, "Inside Llewyn Davis." (The Coens won the Palme in 1991 for "Barton Fink.")
Other films are in the mix, too, including Paolo Sorrentino's rollicking Roman party "The Great Beauty," James Gray's 1920s Ellis Island melodrama "The Immigrant," and Kore-eda Hirokazu's switched-at-birth drama "Like Father, Like Son."
But it will ultimately come down to what Spielberg and his jury ? which includes Nicole Kidman and Ang Lee ? think was the top film at Cannes.
Last year, Michael Haneke's "Amour" was the far-and-away favorite, and went on to win best foreign language film at the Oscars and earn the rare best picture nomination for a non-English film. In 2011, Terrence Malick's cosmic rumination "The Tree of Life" won the Palme d'Or.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, center, Israeli President Shimon Peres, right, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas all shake hands during the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa at the King Hussein Convention Centre at the Dead Sea in Jordan Sunday May 26, 2013. (AP Photo/Pool, Jim Young)
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, center, Israeli President Shimon Peres, right, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas all shake hands during the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa at the King Hussein Convention Centre at the Dead Sea in Jordan Sunday May 26, 2013. (AP Photo/Pool, Jim Young)
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Israeli President Shimon Peres, left, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, right, participate in the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa at the King Hussein Convention Center at the Dead Sea in Jordan Sunday May 26, 2013. (AP Photo/Pool, Jim Young)
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, center, Israeli President Shimon Peres, right, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas share words the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa at the King Hussein Convention Centre at the Dead Sea in Jordan Sunday May 26, 2013. (AP Photo/Pool, Jim Young)
SOUTHERN SHUNEH, Jordan (AP) ? Secretary of State John Kerry declared Sunday he believes a potential $4 billion plan is emerging that could expand the Palestinian economy by up to 50 percent in the next three years.
It could also cut unemployment by almost two-thirds, and average wages could jump 40 percent, he said. But Kerry said it all depends on parallel progress on peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
Kerry has been working with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and global business leaders to devise economic plans to revitalize the Palestinian economy. He offered few specific details and acknowledged that his vision might easily be taken as fantasy in a part of the world that has suffered through decades of conflict, and where peace prospects remain dim.
"We know it can be done," he insisted. "This is a plan for the Palestinian economy that is bigger, bolder and more ambitious than anything proposed" in the last two decades.
Kerry, outlining his hopes at a business conference on the Dead Sea in Jordan, was unsparing in his bold economic predictions:
?Palestinian agriculture production could double or triple.
?Tourism could triple.
?100,000 new homes, many of them energy efficient, could be built in the next three years.
The former Massachusetts senator, who has been trying as well to restart direct Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, was to meet later Sunday in Amman with Blair, American hedge fund investor Tim Collins and the foreign ministers of Jordan and the United Arab Emirates.
He said he has been coordinating with leading business experts around the world and that the plan would explore new opportunities in tourism, construction, light manufacturing, agriculture, energy and communications.
"Is this a fantasy?" Kerry asked the crowd. "I don't think so, because there are already great examples of investment and entrepreneurship that are working in the West Bank. We know it can be done, but we've never experienced the kind of concentrated effort that this group is talking about bringing to the table."
He said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas support the plan, but he added that it won't truly take hold unless both sides make headway on restarting peace talks.
Abbas also attended the conference in Jordan, as did Israeli President Shimon Peres, though they offered two starkly different messages on the peace impasse. The Palestinian leader spent much of the time criticizing Israeli intransigence, while the Israeli Nobel Peace Prize laureate pressed his government's view that negotiations should begin immediately without preconditions.
Kerry allowed that barriers to commerce would have to be removed to spur economic growth. The Palestinians have long complained about limitations on movement and investment that have hampered its economic potential.
Kerry has made four trips to Israel and the Palestinian territories over the last two months in an effort to rejuvenate the peace process. He hasn't made any tangible success so far but insists he is engaged in productive talks with both sides.
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The harmonies they strike in this reality-inspired charmer are sweetly sublime.
You could drive an Abrams tank through the film's plot holes, but you'll likely be too busy enjoying yourself to bother.
"The Sapphires" feels like a movie you've already seen, but it's nonetheless thoroughly enjoyable, like a pop song that's no less infectious when you know every word.
"The Sapphires" sparkles with sass and Motown soul.
Sapphires is hardly a cinematic diamond mine. But this Commitments-style mashup of music and melodrama manages to entertain without demanding too much of its audience.
The mood is so charming and the music so inspiring that you continually cut it a break.
By-the-numbers in every sense of the word, the film tracks a tried-and-true sort of triumph while featuring renditions of soul classics so bursting with energy and joy you won't care that the originality meter is leaning on empty.
Even when it seems contrived The Sapphires is a feel-good movie in the most positive meaning of that term, thanks to the Motown music and O'Dowd's cheeky charm. Like the Four Tops, I loved every sugar pie, honey bunch moment. I can't help myself.
Unfortunately, it has been turned into a routine and uninspiring movie, following a tired, old formula the entire way.
A surefire crowdpleaser with all the ingredients for the type of little-movie-that-could sleeper success that Harvey Weinstein has nurtured in years and award seasons past.
You've seen this story before, but never pulled off with so much joie de vivre.
They can put a song across just like the Dreamgirls. What's not to like?
Exuberant but fairly formulaic.
Doesn't always mix its anti-prejudice message and its feel-good nostalgia with complete smoothness. But despite some ragged edges it provides a reasonably good time.
Director Wayne Blair -- another veteran of the stage show -- finds his footing during the film's many musical numbers.
Despite the prosaic plot and reserved approach taken by Blair, Briggs, and Thompson, it's tough to get cynical about such a warmhearted picture that strives to tell so uplifting a story.
A movie with enough melody and camaraderie to cover up its lack of originality.
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Customers' data counters reset for holiday weekend
Good news for EE customers in the UK this weekend -- the operator has announced that by way of apology for network issues earlier this week, all customers will have their data counters reset to zero. That means however much of your monthly data allowance you'd used, it'll reset to zero this weekend, allowing you to use an extra portion of data before your monthly billing date.
We've confirmed that our own account's meter was reset to zero as of this morning, and it looks like the changes apply to data-only contracts as well as regular phone customers. In fact, the reset seems to apply to all EE customers, regardless of whether you were affected by the recent outage.
To make up for the problem with our network earlier in the week, we're resetting your #4GEE data counters to zero. Happy Bank Holiday!
ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - Two freight trains collided at a rail intersection in rural Missouri on Saturday, triggering the collapse of a highway overpass when at least a dozen rail cars derailed and struck a support pillar, authorities said.
None of the seven people hurt in the fiery crash - two train workers and five people who had been in two cars on the overpass - suffered life-threatening injuries, Scott County Sheriff Rick Walter said in a statement.
"One train T-boned the other one and caused it to derail, and the derailed train hit a pillar which caused the overpass to collapse," Sheriff's dispatcher Clay Slipis said of the pre-dawn crash near Chaffee, about 15 miles southwest of Cape Girardeau, in southeastern Missouri.
The collision of the BNSF Railway Co and Union Pacific trains also sparked a fire when diesel fuel leaked from one of the train engines, Slipis said.
The crash came just over a week after a commuter train derailed in Connecticut, striking another train and injuring more than 70 people during the evening rush hour.
On Thursday, a truck crash triggered the collapse of a bridge in Washington state, sending two cars plunging into the frigid Skagit River and raising concerns about the country's aging infrastructure. Three people were rescued.
In Missouri, Wayne Woods told a regional CBS affiliate that he rushed to the scene as soon as he heard the crash to try to halt traffic as he called in the emergency.
"We heard the crash and we stepped outside and my son said the overpass was down. Then we heard a car's tires squealing like it was coming to a stop and then a crash and a horn continuously blowing," he told KFVS television.
"I got over there, the train was on its side. They got the guys out and lifted them down off the train and got them off the overpass. One was kind of bloody and the other one looked like he was pretty shook up," he said.
There was no immediate word on the cause of the crash, and the National Transportation Safety Board said it dispatched a team to investigate the train crash.
Television footage and news photos of the scene showed two cars sitting atop a caved-in overpass with rail cars jacknifed and toppled over below.
Union Pacific said its train had been primarily carrying auto parts from Illinois to Texas when it struck the side of another train, and that a Union Pacific engineer and conductor were slightly injured, according to spokeswoman Calli Hite.
The Union Pacific locomotive and about a dozen cars derailed in the crash, she added. She said the derailment was the second involving one of the company's trains on the same stretch of track in recent months, after a January 29 derailment that was weather-related.
BNSF said that its train, which was 75 cars long, had been hauling scrap metal from salvage facilities and was heading south when it was struck, and that none of the crew was injured.
(Reporting by Eric Johnson in Seattle and Tim Bross in St. Louis; Writing by Cynthia Johnston; Editing by Eric Beech, Jackie Frank and Peter Cooney)
Dortmund's Robert Lewandowski of Poland controls a ball during a training session at Wembley Stadium in London, Friday May 24, 2013. Dortmund will face fellow German soccer team Bayern Munich in the final of the Champions League at Wembley Stadium on Saturday. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
Dortmund's Robert Lewandowski of Poland controls a ball during a training session at Wembley Stadium in London, Friday May 24, 2013. Dortmund will face fellow German soccer team Bayern Munich in the final of the Champions League at Wembley Stadium on Saturday. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
Heavy rain falls during a Dortmund training session at Wembley Stadium in London, Friday May 24, 2013. Dortmund will face fellow German soccer team Bayern Munich in the final of the Champions League at Wembley Stadium on Saturday. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
Dortmund head coach Juergen Klopp reacts during a training session at Wembley Stadium in London, Friday May 24, 2013. Dortmund will face fellow German soccer team Bayern Munich in the final of the Champions League at Wembley Stadium on Saturday. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
LONDON (AP) ? It's time for the biggest game in club soccer ? brought to you by Germany.
This year's Champions League final will be an all-German affair played out before a global TV audience, as Bayern Munich takes on Borussia Dortmund at London's Wembley Stadium.
Here are 10 things to know about Saturday's game:
1. WHY IS IT A BIG DEAL?
Well, this is the Super Bowl of club soccer and the highlight of the season for European fans. The Champions League pits the best teams from Europe's major leagues against each other every season, starting with a 32-team group stage before the top 16 clubs advance to the knockout rounds. The tournament began in 1955, originally known as the European Cup, before changing name in 1992 when it was expanded to include more teams. With no World Cup or European Championship on this summer, this is the biggest soccer game of the year.
2. GERMAN DOMINATION
Many had expected Spain to have two teams in the final after Barcelona and Real Madrid both made the semis. Instead, Bayern and Dortmund showed that this is the year of German domination, beating the Spanish powers convincingly over two legs. Bayern dismantled Lionel Messi's Barcelona 7-0 on aggregate, while Dortmund beat Madrid 4-1 at home before hanging on for a 4-3 aggregate victory.
3. KEEPING IT DOMESTIC IS RARE
While Germany has always been one of soccer's biggest powers, this is the first time the country has put two teams into the final of the Europe's top club competition. In fact, it's only the fourth time that two teams from the same country clash for the trophy. The last time it happened, Manchester United defeated English rival Chelsea on penalties in 2008. Milan got the better of Italian rival Juventus in 2003, and Madrid defeated Valencia in 2000 in what was the first final between teams from the same country.
4. BUT BOTH TEAMS HAVE BEEN HERE BEFORE
In fact, Bayern is playing in its third Champions League final in four years, but is looking for its first title since 2001. The German team lost last year's final to Chelsea on penalties in its home stadium in Munich, and fell to Inter Milan in the 2010 title game. Dortmund has not made the final since 1997, when it won its only title in the competition.
5. WHICH TEAM IS THE FAVORITE?
Most people, including bookmakers, say Bayern. The Bavarian side desperately wants to erase the painful memories of losing last year's final in its own stadium, and has arguably been the best team in Europe all season. It obliterated the competition in the German league, where it finished a record 25 points ahead of second-place Dortmund, and its demolition of Barcelona was hugely impressive. But Dortmund certainly has a decent chance. The team won the previous two Bundesliga titles and is one of the few sides that can get under Bayern's skin. Both league games between the teams this season ended 1-1, and the last time they met in a final, Dortmund routed Bayern 5-2 to win last year's German Cup.
6. WHO ARE THE PLAYERS TO WATCH?
Both sides have a slew of star players capable of being the deciding factor. Bayern has the biggest wealth of talent, including the backbone of Germany's national team with players like Bastian Schweinsteiger, Philipp Lahm and Thomas Mueller. But the two biggest stars are French winger Franck Ribery and Dutch counterpart Arjen Robben. Either can decide the game in an instant.
Dortmund has decisive players too, like Germany international Marco Reus and Polish striker Robert Lewandowski, who scored all four goals in the 4-1 win over Madrid in the semifinals. But rising star Mario Goetze, who is joining Bayern next season, is out with a hamstring injury.
7. WHO ARE THE COACHES?
Bayern is led by the experienced Jupp Heynckes, a former Germany striker who now prides himself on the team's staunch defensive ability. This will be his last chance to lead Bayern to the title, as Heynckes is leaving the club at the end of the season and has given strong hints he will retire. The 68-year-old coach already won the Champions League in 1998 with Real Madrid.
Dortmund coach Juergen Klopp, meanwhile, has drawn wide praise for leading his team to back-to-back domestic league titles with a young team that plays an exciting and attack-minded style of soccer. Should Dortmund win on Saturday, the 45-year-old "Kloppo" will be one of the most in-demand coaches in Europe.
8. WILL THIS BE ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE BORING NIL-NIL GAMES?
Chances of that are slim to none. These are two teams that both want to attack from the start of any game, and neither is likely to change its style for the big occasion. In contrast to Chelsea's defensive-minded tactics in last year's final, don't expect Dortmund to sit back and be content with protecting its own net. You're more likely to see end-to-end attacking play ? and probably plenty of goals.
9. WHY ARE RELATIONS STRAINED BETWEEN THE CLUBS?
These teams were already big rivals after regularly dueling it out for domestic titles over the last few seasons, but tempers have been frayed even further following Goetze's decision to join Bayern, which is paying 37 million euros for the star midfielder. Dortmund also faces the prospect of losing Lewandowski to its biggest rival.
10. SO WHO'S GOING TO WIN?
Judging by statistics, the team that scores the first goal. In this year's competition, 82 games have been won by the team that scores first, with only 15 come-from-behind victories.
From the ?Who Doesn?t Belong and Whhhhhhyyyyyyy?? file, Pop Warner football will honor on Saturday night the Patriots, Patriots TE Aaron Hernandez, former Patriots TE Ben Coates, Redskins RB Alfred Morris, and Nancy Kerrigan.
The Bills? new defense is designed to create confusion.? (Unlike the team?s recent defenses, the confusion ideally will be experienced by the members of the opposing offense.)
Dolphins OT Jonathan Martin is ?excited? (calm down, Tebow) for the chance to play on the left side, and he has bulked up to help improve his performance.
When scouts went to Tennessee to watch wideouts Cordarrelle Patterson and Justin Hunter, they?d emerge curious about Jets WR Zach Rogers.
P Brian Moorman is more than a camp leg for the Steelers.
The Browns are shaking up their media relations department.
Ravens LB Elvis Dumervil already is emerging as a leader.
Here?s a look at whether Bengals CB Leon Hall is underrated.
Texans QB Matt Schaub says he?s his toughest critic.? (That makes me feel like less of a jerk.? Slightly.)
Titans WR Kendall Wright is determined to make more big plays in 2013.
Former Jaguars TE Pete Mitchell autographed a photo of himself being chased by Ray Lewis in creative fashion.
Colts G.M. Ryan Grigson will be honored next month by the National Football Foundation.
The Chiefs? offensive linemen are learning fast, thanks to having not one but two position coaches, Andy Heck and Eugene Chung.
Here?s a look at possible surprises on the Broncos? final 53-man roster.
Raiders LB Nick Roach said it?s obvious his teammates showed up for OTAs ready to work.
Former Chargers coach Sid Gillman is No. 18 on ESPN?s all-time list of coaches.
Redskins LT Trent Williams thinks the team?s offense doesn?t put QB Robert Griffin III at risk, because the plays on which he injured his knee weren?t ?called runs.?
Cowboys DT Josh Brent has been placed on a new portable alcohol monitoring system that requires urine and breath testing at regular and random intervals.
It?s still too early to know who?ll win the starting quarterback job for the Eagles.
When the Giants recently welcomed the Manchester City Football Club to the Timex Performance Center, defender Micah Richards passed on the chance to catch balls from the JUGS machine; ?I don?t trust my hands actually,? Richards said.
Vikings RB Adrian Peterson doesn?t believe in same-sex marriage, but he also doesn?t believe P Chris Kluwe?s support for it got him cut.
Lions S Ricardo Silva heard that people thought he was a little slow last season, so he has worked on getting faster.
LB Brian Urlacher says of the Bears organization:? ?There?s one person I could really take or leave.?? (Bill Swerski?)
A Janesville, Wisconsin couple has won the truck previously owned by Packers QB Aaron Rodgers.? (It?s a Ford, which is fitting, since the Fords and Rodgers separately own the Lions.)
Panthers QB Cam Newton has a new clothing line at Belk, the store with the name that sounds like an interrupted burp.
Retired Buccaneers DB Rond? Barber has gotten the key to the city of Tampa.? (There?s only one condition:? He can?t loan it to Tiki.)
Saints coach Sean Payton apparently spent plenty of time working out during his one-season suspension.
A Georgia man is accused of trying to alter checks written by Falcons WR Julio Jones and Falcons CB Christopher Owens.
Rams WR Tavon Austin took a few handoffs during practice on Friday.
Seahawks WR Justin Veltung can perform a 56-inch standing box jump.
With the Cardinals drafting LB Alex Okafor, LB Sam Acho once again will help mentor Okafor.
Decensae White, a star basketball player at San Francisco State University and a former college roommate of 49ers WR Michael Crabtree, has been arrested on suspicion of murdering rapper Lil? Phat, also known as Melvin Vernell III.? (And he?s where we emphasize that Decensae White, not Michael Crabtree, faces the murder charge.? Not Michael Crabtree.? Not Crabtree.? Not.? Crab.? Tree.)
DETROIT (AP) ? The Chicago Blackhawks began the year with a record-breaking start.
The NHL's best team during the regular season will have to finish the season strong to avoid flopping out of the playoffs in the second round.
Jakub Kindl scored on a power play in the second period, Daniel Cleary had an empty-net goal and Jimmy Howard made 28 saves to help the Detroit Red Wings earn a 2-0 win Thursday night that puts the Blackhawks on the brink of elimination.
After losing Game 1, the seventh-seeded Red Wings have surged into control of the second round series by handing the Blackhawks their first three-game losing streak of the year.
Is Detroit coach Mike Babcock surprised that his team that barely made the playoffs is a win away from the Western Conference finals.
"If you would ask me two months ago, I would be shocked," he acknowledged.
Game 5 is Saturday night in Chicago, where goaltender Corey Crawford is confident the team can win the first of three straight games.
"We've gone on streaks before," Crawford said. "We just have to keep playing hard and it's going to have to turn our way."
Chicago's chances will improve if captain Jonathan Toews can score and keep his cool.
He couldn't do either in Game 4.
When Howard wasn't using his glove or pads to deny Toews, Detroit's skaters were rattling him with a physical presence that made him uncomfortable.
"Eventually, something's got to give," Toews said. "We're too good a team. We've got too much talent.
"For as hard as we're working, something's got to go our way."
Crawford did a solid job in his net, but he couldn't kick his right leg out quick enough to stop Kindl's shot on a power play midway through the second period and he was on the bench in favor of an extra skater when Cleary sealed the victory in the final minute.
"The pressure is on them," Detroit defenseman Jonathan Ericsson said.
Yes, it is.
And, no one in the Windy City will want to extend the series more than Toews.
"We've got to find a way to force a Game 6," he said.
The Blackhawks desperately need Toews to score and lead after he extended his goal drought in a composure-crumbling performance.
Toews was called for three penalties in the second ? two for high-sticking ? and could've gone to the box a fourth time in the period for slashing Red Wings captain Henrik Zetterberg while an official stood between them.
"Emotions run high in some of these games, and my stick got a little loose there," he said. "I was playing hard. Sometimes that happens."
The Red Wings took advantage of the second power play Toews gave them when Kindl sent a low shot to the near corner from the top of the left circle.
"We'd like to keep him in the box," Ericsson said. "He's not as good for them in the box."
Chicago had killed its first 30 penalties of the playoffs and matched the 2001 St. Louis Blues' feat of playing eight postseason games without giving up a power-play goal, the longest such streak since 1988.
The Blackhawks had a power play with 4:45 left in the game when Kindl was called for hooking, but they couldn't tie the game.
Crawford made 25 saves and allowed one goal, after giving up seven goals in the previous two games.
Howard was just a little bit better, earning his first shutout of this postseason and the second of his career in the playoffs. He has helped the Red Wings win five of their last six games since trailing Anaheim 3-2 in the first round.
"He made a couple of big saves there," said Chicago's Patrick Sharp, who had five goals in five games against Minnesota and only one so far against Detroit. "We hit a few posts."
Kindl scored his first goal of his first postseason to help the rapidly improving Red Wings pull within a win of their first trip to the Western Conference finals since 2009 when they got past Chicago and went on to lose Game 7 in a Stanley Cup finals rematch against Pittsburgh.
"Biggest goal of my life so far," Kindl said.
Toews has gone 10 postseason games without a goal ? dating to last year's playoffs ? in what is the longest scoring skid for a former Conn Smythe winner since Claude Lemieux went 20 games without a goal from 2000 through 2009, according to STATS.
Toews, who has three goals in his last 30 playoff games, broke a tie for his second longest streak without a goal in the postseason and trails his 14-game skid that spanned 2010 and 2011.
Chicago coach Joel Quenneville insisted Toews, who he put on a line with Patrick Kane, is doing a lot of things and isn't the only one struggling to score.
"We just have to find a way to get more about of everybody," Quenneville said.
NOTES: Since winning the Stanley Cup in 2010, Chicago has lost in the first round twice and is a loss away from a second-round exit. ...... Chicago hadn't given up a power-play goal since April 22. ... Detroit D Danny DeKeyser, who broke his right thumb in the first round and was ruled out for the playoffs, said he is holding out hope that he can come back if his teammates can advance.
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GeniusInc, on 29 May 2013 - 06:38 PM, said:
