Player Profile: Phil Coke

On December 9, 2009, Coke was traded to the Detroit Tigers as part of a three team trade that sent Curtis Granderson to the Yankees.

The Tigers signed Coke to a new contract on February 7, 2011. After spending all of his previous time in the major leagues as a relief pitcher, Coke was moved from the bullpen to the fifth spot in the starting rotation to start the 2011 season. On June 30, after accumulating a 1–8 record, Coke was moved back to the bullpen.

On January 16, 2012, Coke signed a one-year, $1.1 million deal with the Tigers to avoid arbitration. He can earn an additional $50K in appearances or starts, depending on whether he'll be a starter or reliever for the 2012 season.

2012 Top Baseball Names

1. Hunter Pence

2. Prince Fielder

3. Chipper Jones

4. Elvis Andrus

5. Robinson Cano

New Curt Schilling Business Ideas

1. Think tank

2. Food truck

3. Virtual Reality

4. Laundry Mat

5. Non-profit

1. ukelele

2. mojito recipes

3. herb butter

4. Curt Schilling

5. molasses cookies

6. Avengers

7. Mark Ruffalo

8. Nike Free run +3

9. bocce

10. Paul Pierce

Sewing Birds

All Time: Vlade Divac

Success Secrets!

Robin Gibb

 1949-2012

1976

1. Apple Computer Company is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.

2. The punk rock group The Ramones release their first self-titled album.

3. Rocky wins the Best Picture Oscar and the original  Bad News Bears debuts.

4. The Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars, taking the first close-up color photos of the planet's surface.

5. The Irish rock band U2 is formed after drummer Larry Mullen Jr. posts a note seeking members for a band on the notice board of his Dublin school.

6. The Cincinnati Reds sweep the New York Yankees in four games to win the 1976 World Series.

7. Microsoft is officially registered with the Office of the Secretary of the State of New Mexico.

8. Jimmy Carter defeats incumbent Gerald Ford, becoming the first candidate from the Deep South to win since the Civil War.

9. The first megamouth shark is discovered off Oahu in Hawaii.

10. Bob Marley and his manager Don Taylor are shot in an assassination attempt in Kingston, Jamaica.

 

Game of the Month: Discus

Video: discus

Car of the Month: Lada 2107

Aviation: Gustave Whitehead

The aviation event for which Gustave Whitehead is now best-known reportedly took place in Fairfield, Connecticut on 14 August 1901. An unsigned article written as an eyewitness report in the Bridgeport Herald newspaper said Whitehead piloted his Number 21 aircraft in a controlled powered flight for about half a mile up to 50 feet (15 m) high and landed safely.^{[10][note 4]} The feat, if true, preceded the Wright brothers by more than two years and exceeded their best 1903 Kitty Hawk flight, which covered 852 feet (260 m) at a height of about 10 feet (3.0 m).

Need to know: Rockets!

1. Rockets were originally invented to transport information.

2. Slow rockets are referred to as "tubes".

3. Underwater rockets are called "torpedoes".

4. Fireworks are rockets used for entertainment.

4. The term "dud' refers to a rocket that does not fire.

5. The most elusive rocket is in your pocket.

Future Planet Names

1. Centron

2. Vestra

3. Yart

4. Quintaba

5. Bortha

High Five: How to end a slump?

1. Drink water upside down.

2. Greenies!

3. Do the opposite.

4.  Boo!

5. Hold your breath.

Home: Yale Light

House Plant of the Year

General Zoology (1943)

Survival Tips: Wig Wag

High Five: Best Baseball Moustaches!

1. Rollie Fingers

2. Don Mattingly

 

 

3. Keith Hernandez

 

4. Dennis Eckersley

5. Mike Schmidt

4 Home Run Club!

Josh Hamilton hits four home runs in one game.

One of only 16 players in major league history to accomplish this feat.

North Carolina sucks!

Survival Tips: Ojibwa Bird Snare

Science: centromere

Star Spotlight: Eddie Albert

Prior to World War II, and before his film career, Albert had toured Mexico as a clown and high-wire artist with the Escalante Brothers Circus, but secretly worked for U.S. Army intelligence, photographing German U-boats in Mexican harbors. On September 9, 1942, Albert enlisted in the United States Navy and was discharged in 1943 to accept an appointment as a lieutenant in the U.S. Naval Reserve. He was awarded the Bronze Star with Combat "V" for his actions during the invasion of Tarawa in November 1943, when, as the pilot of a U.S. Coast Guard landing craft, he rescued 47 Marines who were stranded offshore (and supervised the rescue of 30 others), while under heavy enemy machine-gun fire.

1. radio-active wolves

2. Neil Young

3. Washington Capitols

4. Ill Communication

5. pancake breakfast

6. Kraft Suspense Theater

7. Eddie Albert

8. Junior Seau

9. I'll Have Another (horse)

10. pomsky

Fenway Park

Adam Yauch 1964-2012

"MCA" bassist and MC of the Beastie Boys

Inspirational Poster