Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Sunday, November 22, 2009

College Football

By Ron Beasley



For the last seven years the University of Southern California has dominated the PAC10 college football league.



PAC10 That domination came to an end in the extremly deep and competitive PAC10 this year.  In what has to be the thriller of the year Oregon Quarterback Jeremiah Masoli led the Oregon Ducks to a come from behind to overtime victory against Arizona.  Now Masoli is something else and is the player of the week.:



Masoli is the master of improvisation, time and again pulling plays out of thin air. Saturday night, he helped the Ducks make their greatest escape yet this season and kept them chugging toward a Rose Bowl showdown with Ohio State.







The Civil War game between Oregon and Oregon State is on December 3 and will be nationally televised for good reason.  While it's not the first time this game has determined who goes to the Rose Bowl it is the first time that the winner regardless of who wins goes to the Rose Bowl.



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  1. SteveNovember 22, 2009 at 1:30 PM

    Sadly the high level of competitiveness in the Pac-10 will probably be overlooked by the national sports media. Perhaps another strong bowl season by the conference will help enhance its reputation.

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  2. Ron BeasleyNovember 22, 2009 at 3:40 PM

    Don't forget the Pacific Time Zone is so far away and who would really think those dirty hippies on the left coast could play football.

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