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FSU receives four years' probation TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Florida State may have to forfeit some of coach Bobby Bowden's 382 wins and will be on probation for the next four years as part of its punishment for a widespread academic cheating scandal. The Seminoles will have to give up two scholarships this recruiting season and one the following year. Other sports will lose scholarships and have victories -- including three NCAA national championships in track and field -- threatened. The NCAA said 61 Florida State athletes cheated on an online test from the fall of 2006 through summer 2007 or received improper help from staffers who provided them with answers to the exam and typed papers for them. The NCAA said the school must vacate all wins in contests in which athletes involved in the cheating participated. That could involve up to 14 football victories. Florida State President T.K. Wetherell said the university would consider appealing any efforts to strip it of wins or titles. "We did not allow anyone who we knew was ineligible to compete," Wetherell said in a statement from the school. "Our position throughout the inquiry was that as soon as we knew of a problem, they didn't play." The 79-year-old Bowden, who has often stated he wanted to reach 400 wins before calling it a career, was not available to comment on the NCAA report. The men's basketball program will lose one scholarship for two years and the women's program will be down two for two years. Other programs were hit with fractional reductions. The cheating took place in football, baseball, softball, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's swimming, men's and women's track and field and men's golf. The committee called the Florida State case "extremely serious" because of the large number of athletes involved, and cited unethical conduct by three former staff members and a failure to monitor by the university. The cheating occurred mainly through online testing for a single music history course in the fall of 2006 and the spring and summer semesters of 2007. It included staffers helping students on the test and, in one case, asking one athlete to take it for another. Florida State played in the 2007 Music City Bowl without two dozen players, including several starters. The Seminoles were defeated by Kentucky. Many of the same athletes were held out of the first three games last fall as part of their punishment. Dennis Thomas, commissioner of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, said the infractions committee didn't consider the venerable Florida State coach when contemplating penalties. "The committee does not get into whether or not you have a famous athlete or a famous coach or if a record is involved," Thomas said. "The committee adjudicates the facts." Thomas said the school would decide which athletes were ineligible in which games, in effect determining what games it might have to forfeit. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/football/ncaa/03/06/fsu-probation.ap/index.html

Unless you're a touring pro, the tread is never going to wear out. The sun is the main enemy of the trailer tire. I would say yours are definitely due for a change.

Reel spool is overfilled or there wasn't enough tension on the filler spool when filling the reel.

What line?

1. PLine CXX 8 lb. 2. PLine CXX 12 or 15 lb.

I do not understand the premise of this line. :-?

Hmmm, Zebco or Daiwa...

Hmmm, Zebco or Shimano...

Kelly Jordon

Saw them for the first time yesterday. Have to say that they're not a bad looking rod. Other than the split handle, I can't say that I see any advantage to them over a Premier. The 6'8 M/XF spinning rod feels heavier than a 6'6 M Premier. The reel seat on the spinners is quite nice. The cork on the handle needs to be about an inch or so longer. When St Croix released their first split handle rod, I knew they had shortened the cork a bit too much. It's fine for palming, but if you don't palm your reel, it's too short. Probably would have walked out with one of the spinning rods yesterday had there been a salesperson at the counter and had I not just bought two reels.

Give it another month so it has time to show up on the $1.99 rack. Bought my ticket for the TN Smokies home opener yesterday. Ryne Sandberg's first game as the Smokies manager. First row behind the Smokies dugout. Perhaps I can finally get some use out of the MLB ball I bought in Atlanta 7 years ago and never got signed. Hope Ryno doesn't mind signing stuff as I've got a ton of stuff I want to get signed this summer. HOF program, cards, etc.

What kind of ingredients do I have at my disposal? Salt, pepper, panko, peanut oil?

There's a good rule to follow when dealing with guns. Never sell one

If you don't have a schematic for the reel, find one ASAP. Never tear a reel down without the schematic.

That line will glow under a blacklight, just not in the same manner as any mono.

Strength and the word 'thin' don't belong in the same sentence.

The key to a good blacklight line is a certain fiber optic quality. Mono has that quality, braid doesn't. There isn't anything there to transmit the light.

Letterman is as funny as a hemorrhoid.

I DVR'ed the first show last night. I'm not a big late night TV fan, so I'm obviously not part of the target audience. I'll stick with King of the Hill and Seinfeld repeats.

Doubtful. The Sufix Flourescent Neon Fire braid is advertised as glowing under a blacklight, but it didn't live up to that claim. You had to fish with the line on the light to see any glow.

Richard Cheese's version of Down with the Sickness is 10x better than the original. :-/

Disappointing, but then again I've never found Fallon to be more than an unfunny dummy. Still more funny than that hack Conan.

I pay for McNuggets, I'm getting McNuggets dammit. Come between me and my McNuggets and we're gonna have problems.

http://www.bassresource.com/bass_fishing_forums/YaBB.pl?num=1234086142 One drop of oil per bearing, a drop or two of oil on the worm gear. Lightly grease the gear teeth.