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The blogs are full of talk-radio wannabes.
By comparison - and again, it's unscientific - Hillary Rodham Clinton, whose full name might not pack the partisan wallop it did from critics in the early '90s, appeared in blogs about 22,000 times last September and October, and nearly 109,000 times in January and February, a tamer, five-fold increase.
The phrase "Hillary Clinton," meanwhile, appeared about 77,000 times during the two months last fall and 443,000 times this winter, a similar, six-fold increase.
Beyond games with names, you could divine through the blogs the growing fervor of the campaign on the eve of Tuesday's pivotal Democratic primaries in Texas and Ohio.
Bloggers critical of Obama seemed to be attacking him with more zeal than his actual opponent, who inexplicably played nice on the final question of the debate in Cleveland Tuesday, when the moderator, Brian Williams, practically begged her to describe the biggest weakness of her opponent.
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Freshman Randy Fontanez was a solid starter for USF, pitching five innings, giving up one run while scattering four hits and striking out one, but did not factor in the decision. "Randy is a freshman and you've got to like what you see with him," added Prado. "It's a matter of those young guys like Fontanez gaining experience. We have a lot of those young guys and they're going to be great pitchers for us." USF opened the game in the bottom of the first when junior Brian Hobbs doubled to the gap in right center, scoring sophomore shortstop Addison Maruszak, who reached base on a single to left earlier in the inning. USF got back on the board in the sixth when Hobbs, who doubled to the right field wall in the previous at-bat, scored on a Corey Johnson double to cut the ISU lead to two runs.
Frail admits Jambos may apply for the InterToto Cup
Since Frail was handed full control of team affairs they have shown signs of improvement, winning their last two league outings against Hibs and Aberdeen to keep alive their slim hopes. Pushing their way into the top six prior to the league split is the club's immediate priority before they attempt to close in on the teams further up the table. Prior to this afternoon's matches, Hearts were 11 points behind third-placed Dundee United and five behind Falkirk in sixth.And, while Frail admitted that the InterToto Cup is an option the Jambos are exploring, he assured supporters that he and the players would still be striving to reel in United."It's a possibility," said Frail when asked whether the club would be applying for the competition before the April 8 deadline."There is a good standard of opposition in the competition so it's something that the club will look at."We would have to start training a couple of weeks earlier but football is now 12 months of the year and the plus would be that we would have competitive games."We would have to look at the early start but it can take you into the season and the start of it is probably not far away from when we started last year."It sounds strange to say that we've not given up hope of getting into Europe either but if we can put a wee run together then we can kick on."We're not making any grand statement .
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