High School Football

Area High School Football Schedule

(photo courtest of the Star Beacon)

Edgewood at Lakeside (98.3 The Bull)

Conneaut at Champion

Geneva host Orange

Jackson-Milton at Grand valley

Pymatuning valley travels to Garfield

Brookfield at Jefferson

Perry vs Madison

Factoid Friday

Next Thursday (9/23) is the official start of the fall season however, it seems like fall right now. So, today I give you "factoids" about fall.



• Trees take water from the ground through their roots & take carbon dioxide from the air. They also use the energy from sunlight to produce sugar which together is called photosynthesis.

• Because of its wide verity of trees, the Eastern United States, especially the North Eastern U.S., is one of the best places in the world for viewing fall colors.

• Bright red & purple colors come from anthocyanin (an-thuh-'si-uh-nuhn) pigments, like in maple leaves, are formed from trapped glucose.

• Brown colors come from a waste product called tannin, orange colors comes from carotene ('kar-uh-teen) & the yellows from xanthophyll ('zan-thuh-fil)

• The leave colors red, yellow & brown are in the leaves all year long & only become exposed when the green chlorophyll disappears in the fall.

• Mulching fall leaves where they fall lets them decompose so that they can release their minerals back to the underlying soil.

• Maples, Oaks, Elms, Birch & Ash trees are just a few of the trees that give spectacular colors during the Autumn season.

• Fall colors are best when late summer is dry & autumn has bright sunny days & cool nights below 40 °F.

• Fall days become shorter & many plants stop making food. That is when the green chlorophyll starts to disappear from the leaves.

• Most leaves fall from trees because the ends of the branch are sealed off near the leaf stem to protect the tree through the long winter months.

• Composting fall leaves is an excellent way to improve yard & garden soils. Mixing green & brown materials together is the basic rule.

• An acre of trees can grow 4,000 pounds of wood in a year, using 5,880 pounds of carbon dioxide & giving off 4,280 pounds of oxygen in the process.

Interesting Stuff On the Web

www.songfacts.com/

Great site to get all kinds of "songfacts."

At songfacts.com you can get information...fact on things like songs covered by the Carpenters.

You can even learn all the songs that have their own dance like The Electric slide, The Stroll and The Twist.

Music lovers will love this site...songfacts.com

Interesting Stuff I Found On The WWW.

Interesting stuff on the world wide web

songza.com

At this web site you can create your own radio station.

At songza.com you can create a station to motivate a sports team.

Have all you old classmates go to songza.com and create a station like the one you listened to when you were back in school.

songza.com...Interesting Stuff I found on the WWW.

Where are the best driver?

Allstate insurance has released it's annual "Allstate America's Best Driver Report" and though Cleveland was not in the top ten, the city fared well coming in at #37 on the list.

According to the report, if you drive in Cleveland your likely to have an accident every 10.8 years.


So, where was "America's Best Drivers?" Ft.Collins, Colorado where they where 31.2% less likely to have an accident than the national average.

The worst, Philadelphia, PA where they were over 53% more likely to have an accident than the national average.

Factioid Friday.

With Ohio State whipping Marshall the start of the college football season is underway so today I give you factoids on College Football!



The first college football game took place in 1869 between Princeton and Rutgers University. Each team had 25 players on the field, and no forward passing was allowed. Rutgers won by a score of 6 to 4.

College football’s largest margin of victory came in 1916, when Georgia Tech defeated Cumberland by a score of 222 to 0. The game was cut short by 15 minutes.

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2. Field goals in college football were originally worth five points. This was decreased to four points in 1904 and three points in 1909.

The frst Orange Bowl was played in 1935 between the University of Miami and Manhattan College. To save money, the Manhattan College team took a three-day boat ride to Miami.

Irvine “Cotton” Warburton is the only member of the College Football Hall of Fame to receive an Academy Award. He won for his film editing work on 1964’s Mary Poppins.

Chief Osceola, the Florida State mascot who rides out and plants a flaming spear at midfield before each home game, has been approved by Florida’s Seminole Indian Tribe.

In the 1940s, college bowl games included the Raisin Bowl, Salad Bowl and Oil Bowl.

Michigan holds the record for the most bowl appearances (31).

Question of the day

What movie did you expect to hate but now watch everytime it's on?

Or what movie did you once hate but now enjoy?

Post your comments here or email me at gakuhn53@roadrunner.com

Are you a finacial NERD?

Are you a financial Nerd, Geek, Dweeb or Dork. Gobankingrates has the full article and it's fun reading.

The financial "nerd" is someone who has used his or her intelligence to make smart decisions about money and become wealthy.

The financial "geek" is smart with finances, willing to work hard, but also interested in making sure that his or her money does some of the heavy lifting as well. A financial geek wants to save money and live frugally, but also knows that spending on a few pleasures is acceptable.

the financial "dweeb" claims to know a great deal about finances (and other topics besides). However, in spite of all the financial dweeb's vaunted knowledge, he or she can't seem to get ahead.

A financial "dork" sits in the basement, following every move of the financial markets, plotting trend lines and using "advanced" systems of analysis to make forecasts.

WHAT'S UP WITH THAT?

This from Cincinnati...A dude named Frankenstein went crazy, beating his head repeatedly on the partition inside a police cruiser after he was arrested at a Toby Keith concert.

When asked by a judge why he went crazy Frankenstein said "I had been drinking and don't really remember anything"

Keith's hits include a song that states: "You ain't much fun since I quit drinking'."

WHAT'S UP WITH THAT?

WHAT'S UP WIITH THAT

How much would you pay for say...John Lennon's toliet? (supposedly clean)

How about over $14,000 that's how much the porclin chain went for at auction on Saturday.

Here's the story...The toilet once resided in Berkshire's Tittenhurst Park, where Lennon lived from 1969 to 1971. At some point during his tenure there, Lennon had the toilet replaced with a newer one. He instructed builders to "put some flowers in it or something."

Builder John Hancock instead stored it in his shed for 40 years. The toilet went to auction after his recent death.

The toilet was only expected to fetch about $1,500 instead...$14,470.

WHAT'S UP WITH THAT?>\

WHAT'S UP WITH THAT?

Steeler's Defensive back, Troy Polamalu's hair is now worth a million dollars.

Head and Shoulders announced Tuesday that it has insured Polamalu’s trademark curly mane for $1 million through Loyd's of London. No details were released on what would have to happen to Troy's hair in order for anyone to cash in on the policy.

Mariah Carey famously took out a billion dollar policy on her legs in 2006. Bruce Springsteen’s voice is insured to the tune of $6 million and Tom Jones reportedly insured his chest hair (yes, chest hair) for upwards of $6 million.

WHAT'S UP WITH THAT?