USC and UCLA Football. The two teams seemed to have started a little tradition within the past few years; namely, calling each other out for a little, um, friendly battle.[The first clip above is from this year's USC victory in the crosstown showdown.] By no means do I want the two teams to escalate the situation into a full out brawl, but the trash talk does add to the game’s competitiveness as a whole. As long as the two teams don’t hate each other’s guts to the point of wanting set up a South Central style shootout…

The same type of taunting between the two teams happened last year as well [as shown in this second clip]. No one got hurt fortunately and that’s the way it should stay.

The USC-UCLA football rivalry. While there’s nothing but city pride at stake when they play, it has to be one of the most treasured rivalries in all of college football. Their games don’t lack any excitement whatsoever. After all, it’s a battle for Los Angeles.

If I had to pick between college football and professional football, the former is absolutely more exciting. Every college game is like a do-or-die playoff game. You never know what to expect because some no-name team can come out of nowhere and take down the top team in the country.

Rick Neuheisel calls several timeouts in the late seconds of one of the most boring USC/UCLA games of all time and suddenly we have some excitement. Pete Carroll thinks Slick Rick is being insulting and decides to teach him a lesson – “You want to extend this game, Rick? Go play defense!”  Then Barkley lobs a 48 yard bomb and adds another 7 to the scoreboard. Follow that up with some taunting and you’ve got the makings of a melee on the field.

Neither coach showed much maturity or class in their actions but I think Rick would have been smart to let the clock run out. What was the point, Neuheisel?  GO home – you lost!

From Los Angeles Times – The USC-UCLA football rivalry, never lacking for compelling plot points, just got a lot more interesting.

Borrowing a style used against him two weeks ago, USC Coach Pete Carroll poured it on an already beaten UCLA in the final minute at the Coliseum on Saturday night.

Up by two touchdowns and with the ball and game in hand, USC scored on a long pass to make the final score 28-7 before a crowd of 85,713.

“It’s just the heart of a competitor, just battling,” Carroll said.

UCLA had just called a timeout, and would have used two more to try to get USC to punt and get the ball back.

But on the next play, USC quarterback Matt Barkley faked a handoff into the line, stepped back, and found Damian Williams with a 48-yard bomb for a touchdown that nearly led to a brawl between the teams after players left the bench area and went onto the field.

“They have every right to throw the ball deep,” UCLA Coach Rick Neuheisel said. “It’s our job to cover it.”

The ending took away some shine earned by the USC defense, which had broken down spectacularly in losses to Oregon and Stanford.

USC players had spent two agonizingly long weeks answering questions about their toughness and fortitude.

The criticism never seemed to stop in the wake of the unit’s performance in a 55-21 loss to Stanford at the Coliseum, a victory the Cardinal punctuated by attempting a two-point conversion when the score was 48-21.

So USC linebacker Malcolm Smith led a defensive charge against UCLA. The No. 24 Trojans intercepted three passes and recovered a fumble en route to their third consecutive victory over UCLA, their 10th in 11 years.

“Not saying anything bad about them but they really weren’t a tough offense,” said Smith, who had 15 tackles and returned an interception for a touchdown. “Hopefully this just carries on.

“We are kind of back to that attitude. Just be the players we’re supposed to be.”

Junior tailback Allen Bradford rushed for two touchdowns as USC improved to 8-3 overall and 5-3 in the Pacific 10 Conference with representatives from the Holiday, Emerald and Poinsettia bowls looking on.

The Trojans’ possible bowl scenarios will become clearer Thursday night after Oregon plays Oregon State for the Pacific 10 Conference title in Eugene, Ore.

USC concludes its regular-season schedule next Saturday against Arizona, a team that will test a Trojans defense that regained its confidence against the Bruins.

“We talked about it all week, the last two weeks really, just how we wanted to bounce back and play really hard,” middle linebacker Chris Galippo said. “That’s how it should look every week.”

Smith’s 62-yard interception return for a touchdown in the first quarter started USC on its way in the 79th game between the crosstown rivals.

Safety Will Harris’ third-quarter interception set up the second USC touchdown and Josh Pinkard’s fourth-quarter interception ended a threat.

UCLA pulled to within a touchdown when fullback Chane Moline took a direct snap and scored on a two-yard touchdown run with 5 minutes 41 seconds left.

But the Trojans answered with a 73-yard drive that Bradford capped with his second touchdown run.

Save for the splash of color created by both teams wearing their home jerseys, the game was devoid of style points.

UCLA had hoped to hit the Trojans when they were down.

The Bruins, who lost their first five conference games, were riding the momentum of wins over Washington, Washington State and Arizona State.

UCLA’s defense led the conference in interceptions and tackles for losses, and the unit mostly did its part Saturday.

But UCLA’s offense never really threatened to score in the first three quarters as the Bruins finished the regular season 6-6 and 3-6 in conference play.

UCLA quarterback Kevin Prince completed 10 of 22 passes for 90 yards with two interceptions before suffering a shoulder sprain.

Kevin Craft came on to engineer the 13-play, 65-yard scoring drive but he could not produce a miracle finish.

Barkley completed 18 of 26 passes for 206 yards with an interception and one controversial touchdown.

But the Trojans’ defense won the game by controlling the Bruins.

“They tried some pretty cool things and we were able to adjust and keep things in order,” Carroll said.

Smith’s interception return for a touchdown gave USC a 7-0 lead in the lowest-scoring first half between the teams since 1976.

The Trojans outgained the Bruins, 140-138, in the first two periods but neither Barkley nor Prince could engineer a scoring drive.

After the teams traded possessions to start the game, USC went three and out the second time it got the ball.

But the Trojans’ inability to move the ball actually ended up setting the stage for perhaps the most important sequence of the game.

Smith was called for a personal foul after Terrence Austin’s fair catch, giving the Bruins a first down at USC’s 45-yard line.

On third down at the 39, Smith stepped in front a Prince pass in the left flat and sprinted down the sideline in front of the Bruins bench for a touchdown that gave USC a 7-0 lead with 6:31 left in the first quarter.

USC put itself in position for another opportunity when Ryan McMahon downed Jacob Harfman’s punt at the Bruins one-yard line late in the period.

Prince got UCLA out of trouble with a 17-yard third-down completion to receiver Taylor Embree, but the drive stalled at the 44.

Williams’ 24-yard punt return gave the Trojans a start at the Bruins’ 48, and Barkley’s 28-yard pass to tight end Anthony McCoy moved the ball to the 25.

But cornerback Alterraun Verner intercepted a pass intended for Williams, ending the Trojans’ best threat of the half.

By Gary Klein
Los Angeles Times

Bom galera, como vejo muita gente com dúvidas sobre o ProRat, eu criei esse tutorial para tentar evitar essas dúvidas. Então vamos ao tutorial!

Obs.: Nesse tutorial não vou usar nem um tipo de programa para proteger o servidor (ex: Themida, EXE Protectot, etc..) para evitar que o arquivo se corrompa e evitar que ocorra algum outro erro.

Vamos precisar:

• ProRat
• AvKill
• Binder
• ResHacker

Todos os tools (programas) citados acima podem ser baixados aqui!
Senha de Descompactação: www.invasao.com.br

Após ter baixado as ferramentas, extraia em algum lugar, lembrando que antes de baixa-los, desative seu anti-vírus ou qualquer outra proteção residente, porquê como o ProRat é uma ferramenta hacker, o anti-vírus vai detectar…

Agora já baixou, vá até a pasta do ProRat e execute-o, a primeira coisa que vamos fazer é bota o idioma do programa para Português, para ficar mais fácil o entendimento. Veja a imagem:

Agora que o programa esta todo em português, vamos criar nosso servidor (server). Clique no botão Criar depois selecione a opção Criar Servidor ProRat (342 Kbayt)

Aqui vou criar um servidor de conexão direta, então não vou precisar do NO-IP e sim do IP da vítima que mais à frente veremos como obte-lo. Então em Notificações desmarque todas as opções!

Clique em Configurações nessa área você configura a senha do servidor, o nome da vítima e etc…A senha aqui eu vou deixar a padrão que é: 123456 caso queira mudar, fique a vontade.

Você também pode fazer com que o servidor assim que executado exiba uma mensagem de erro falsa, eu acho isso desnecessário, mas caso queira é só marca a opção: Dar uma mensagem de erro falsa e clicar no botão Mensagem que fica ao lado da opção, depois vai aparecer uma janela, ai você digita a mensagem e da OK…Vou deixar essa opção desmarcada!

Em Juntar com Arquivo, não precisa usar isso, isso nós vamos fazer com o Binder.

Na área Extenções você escolher qual vai ser a extenção do servidor. A unica extenção que suporta ícone e a EXE então eu vou optar por essa mesmo.

Na área ícone, selecione um ícone à seu gosto, é só clicar no ícone que quiser, caso não tenha nem um que você goste, você pode clicar no botão Escolher ícone e selecionar seu ícone. logo em seguida clique em Criar Servidor e de OK na mensagem.

Pronto! Servidor criado:

Agora nós vamos junta-lo com outro arquivo, mas antes vamos junta um AvKill com outro arquivo. Como dito no inicio do tutorial eu não vou usar programas para proteger o servidor, então primeiro vou manda o Av Kill para a vítima…Esperar um tempo até que o anti-vírus dela seja finalizado e depois vou mandar o servidor ProRat.

Então vamos juntar o AvKill com um outro aqui qualquer, aqui eu vou juntar com imagem, então para isso precisaremos de um binder. Então vá ate a pasta do binder e execute-o, aparecerá a seguinte janela:

Copie o código e clique em Enter Serial!

Espere o Binder abrir, após isso clique em Add Arquivo e selecione o AVKill (OBS: eu botei 2 AvKill’s, um esta em batch (.bat) e o outro esta como *.exe), eu vou usar o que esta como *.exe pq ele roda em qualquer versão do Windows já o em batch (*.bat) não. Mais isso fica a critério de vocês.

OBS: o AVKill em EXE roda em modo oculto já o em batch não!

Agora clique em Add Arquivo e selecione outro arquivo, pode ser imagem ou arquivo…Aqui eu botei um imagem. Depois clique em Alterar ícone. Como eu vou juntar o AvKill com imagem, então eu vou botar um ícone de imagem para disfarçar

Depois clique em •Juntar, digite o nome do arquivo, selecione um extensão e clique em salvar. Aqui eu botei extensão *.exe e o nome: Arquivo1

Vai aparecer a seguinte mensagem, de OK nela!

Agora vamos limpar o arquivo que nós juntamos no binder, clique com o botão direito em cima do arquivo e em seguida clique em Remover. Faça isso nos 2 arquivos!

Agora vamos adicionar nosso servidor com outro arquivo…Pode ser qualquer um…Aqui eu optei por imagem também. Repita o mesmo processo que eu explique acima…Sobre adicionar o AvKill + Imagem…Escolher o ícone…
Aqui eu salvei como Arquivo2. Salve com o nome que vc quiser!

Agora vamos tirar meu nome das informações do arquivo, então abra o ResHacker, vá em Arquivo, Abrir e selecione o arquivo que foi gerado pelo binder que no meu caso foi (AvKill + imagem).

Vá até Version Info e apague os nomes: 4EveR, X, 1.00, 1.00, THiaG04EveR, THiaG04EveR.dll

Agora vá em Arquivo e clique em Salvar. Faça o mesmo com o arquivo em que foi juntando o Servidor e a Imagem, e salve também. Feito isso zipe o arquivo em que esta o AvKill e a imagem e mande para a vítima.

Agora vem a parte de pegar o IP da vítima, vc pode fazer isso usando este programa Aqui ou pelo famoso MS-DOS. Eu vou fazer pelo DOS mesmo, então envie o arquivo à vítima, imediatamente vá em Inicia, Executar e digite cmd e de ENTER, vai aparecer a tela preta do DOS então digite exatamente:

netstat -n

OBS¹: Feche todas as páginas da web que estão abertas em sua maquina, pois vai aparecer o IP das páginas também, ai vai confundir tudo…
OBS²: Não acredite nesses caras que falam que o IP da vítima é sempre o que começa com 200 ou 201 ¬¬ Isso é furada! Nem sempre começa com 200 ou 201.Aqui no meu caso o IP da vítima é o: 192.168.0.126Dica: Va tentando os IP’s de cima para baixo, como eu fiz. Geralmente o IP da vítima é o ultimo que esta escrito ao lado: ESTABLISHED

Depois é só colocar o IP la no ProRat e clicar em Conectar

Se tudo ocorrer bem vai aparecer a janela para vc botar a senha, ai vc bota a senha que vc configurou la na criação do servidor. Dite-a e clique em OK.
Pronto Conectado !

Bom e por aqui fica o tutorial espere que tenham conseguido entender alguma coisa. Tentei ser o mais detalhado possível.

The NFL and NCAA each has one team it could call its “Team of the Decade.” For the NFL, it’s surely the Patriots and for the NCAA, it has to be the University of Southern California. That’s not surprising, since nearly every decade can be marked by the esteemed play of one particular team. What’s unique about the representative teams for each level of football this decade is the similarities shared by both squads.

Total domination

Let’s get the easy part out of the way. The Patriots have 109 regular season wins since 2000 (second behind the Colts’ 111), 6 AFC East division titles, 14 playoff wins and 3 Super Bowl victories (both tops this decade).

Southern Cal has 94 regular season wins since 2000, 7 Pac-10 championships, 6 bowl game wins, and at least a share of 2 national championships.

It’s safe to say that both teams have set a track record by which all other teams measure themselves.

Coaching

Both teams have been symbolized by their head coaches — Bill Belichick (took over in 2000) for the Pats and Pete Carroll (2001) for USC. Ironically, Carroll preceded Belichick as the Pats head coach.

Of course, the coaches couldn’t appear to have more divergent personalities and approaches to how they manage their teams. I won’t go into it much since it doesn’t help the point of this post, but the perceived differences are clear: Belichick is aloof, methodical and boring. He hides in his hypothetical PatCave before games and draws up gameplans to destroy the competition while being notoriously frank with the media. Carroll is gregarious, charming, invites celebrities to stand on the sidelines during games and plays pranks on his players. While he’s just as diligent and prepared as Belichick, he represents himself in a far different manner.

Anyway, both coaches have clearly used the success of their teams to become the masterminds of their respective leagues. Players want to go to bat for them and they seem to have no problem in recruiting top-notch talent. (The Pats get tons of veterans who want to be “coached” and win a Super Bowl or two.)

Transcendent teams that ultimately failed

During their decade-long reign, the Pats and USC each produced a season which seemed transcendent at the time.

The Pats’ 2007 squad went 16-0 in the regular season, and it was their first eight weeks that transformed them into a likeable team of overachievers (how they were perceived since their massive Super Bowl upset of the Rams during the ‘01 season) into the Evil Empire of the NFL. They scored 331 points in those first eight games for an average of 41, never scoring fewer than 34. Their average margin of victory was 26 points. They became the first team since the ‘72 Dolphins to make it undefeated through a regular season, with Tom Brady (50 passing TDs), Randy Moss (23 receiving TDs) and their offense (589 points) setting all-time NFL records. (To make it even more dramatic, Brady and Moss set their TD records on a 65-yard pass, catch and run in the 4th quarter of their last regular season game.)

The Pats used their undefeated regular season to stretch their consecutive games won steak in the regular season to 19, ultimately lengthening it to 21 after Week 2 of the ‘08 campaign.

Southern Cal’s 2005 team was equally legendary in their throttling of the competition. They went 12-0 during the regular season, never scoring fewer than 35 points and reaching 50-plus points seven times. Their roster was absolutely stocked with NFL players. As in, at least 27 players. A couple of them didn’t play, like freshman Mark Sanchez, but that team had talent bursting at its seams. There were seven first-round NFL draft choices and 10 second-rounders. The QB (Matt Leinart) and one primary RB (Reggie Bush) were first-rounders and the other primary RB (LenDale White) and both starting WRs (Steve Smith, Dwayne Jarrett) were second-rounders. So, you could say this team had talent.

Southern Cal had won 34 straight games (including bowls) before the loss to Texas. In other words, they didn’t lose a game from Oct. 4, 2003 until Jan. 4, 2006. Of course, they actually won 38 straight regular season games before falling to Oregon State, 33-31, on Oct. 28, 2006.

Of course, both teams that year ultimately failed because each lost their championship game on a last-second defensive collapse (Eli-to-Plax vs. the Pats, Vince Young’s rush TD vs. USC). The Pats and Southern Cal were heavily favored to win their respective games (if not in Vegas then at least in the minds of fans), but they appeared to run out of steam after a season full of media adoration/hatred. For the Pats, they were the high-octane offense that trounced its opponents in an unsporting way. For Southern Cal, they were the team with a squeemish defensive backfield that had faced only one really good team (Notre Dame) before the Texas match.

On both accounts, it appeared to be an incredibly odd and anti-climatic way to end what had been such a memorable season.

The irony of those teams shouldn’t be forgotten either. Both teams, at their peak, were offensive monsters with the defenses ultimately holding them back. Yet the head coaches (Belichick and Carroll) had earned their coaching reputations through their defensive mastery.

Defections

Each team has struggled to remain atop their respective league since those championship game losses. The Pats missed last year’s playoffs despite winning 11 games (without Brady, who tore his knee in the first eight minutes of the first game) and their bad luck since that Giants Super Bowl game crested with the Colts game a couple weeks ago. I don’t care to break down Belichick’s 4th-down call since it’s been analyzed approximately 3,419 different ways.

As for Southern Cal, they’ve continued to lose random Pac-10 games through the years (Oregon State ‘06; Standford, Oregon ‘07; Oregon State ‘08) before this season’s washout. They lost to Washington and were routed by Oregon and Stanford.

A lack of player talent hasn’t been what’s hurt both teams. They still have top-quality players. Instead, a breakup of their coaching staffs is what has potentially ended their dynasties.

Look at the Patriots’ coaching staff from their 2003 season, the last campaign in which they won the Super Bowl.

• Outside Linebacker coach: Rob Ryan (left after ‘03 for Oakland)
• Offensive Coordinator: Charlie Weis (left after ‘04 for Notre Dame)
• Defensive Coordinator: Romeo Crennel (left after ‘04 for Cleveland)
• Defensive Back coach: Eric Mangini (left after ‘05 for New York Jets)
• Dir of College Scouting: Thomas Dimitrioff (left after ‘07 for Atlanta)
• Def. Coaching Asst.: Josh McDaniels (left after ‘08 for Denver)
• VP of Player Personnel: Scott Pioli (left after ‘08 for Kansas City)

That’s a lot of coaching and management talent to leave in the span of five seasons. The Belichick Tree has grown in the NFL to the detriment of the Patriots.

As for Southern Cal, check out their 2004 coaching staff, the year before their landmark season:

• Offensive Coordinator: Norm Chow (left after ‘04 for Tennessee)
• Asst. Head Coach: Ed Orgeron (left after ‘04 for Ole Miss)
• Wide Receiver coach: Lane Kiffin (left after ‘06 for Oakland)
• Eventual Off. Coord.: Steve Sarkisian (left after ‘08 for U of Washington)

Kiffin would also serve as an offensive coordinator, so the Trojans eventually lost Chow, Kiffin and Sarkisian in the span of four seasons. That’s a huge coaching drain on the offense, no matter what level of talent is brought in. USC’s caliber of talent in ‘05 was just so great that they were able to mask the losses of Chow and Orgeron for one more run.

I’ll finish here because this post is getting out of hand. It’s evident how many similarities Southern Cal and the Patriots have shared. They were each the unofficial Team of the Decade at their level of football. Both have defensive-minded coaches who presided over legendary offenses during the peak of their dynasty. Despite gut-wrenching championship game losses and a mass defection of coaching talent, both have still remaine very competitive, albeit less than dominant. We’ll see how they recover for the new decade.

SubSeven

Sub7

Sadly, this once famous and feared program was picked up early by Microsoft. SubSeven (in the early years) ride the line between a RAT; remote administration tool; and a having program. The same has happened with the program NetBus. Nowadays, the beautiful blue interface that defines Sub7 against others, is officially classified as a hacking program. Another sad thing is that Microsoft was/is so good at identifying it. Shucks.
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Sub7’s way of gaining access is simple in theory. Let me restate this, IN THEORY. what you need to do is infect someone with a virus by which Sub7 gains access to the computer through. If this makes no sense, let me offer an anology. A thief shoots a grappling hook to the top of a building he is about to rob. This is our server, our access method. This grappling hook is then permanantly attached to the roof so the thief can gain acces to it at any time. This is the act of accidently installing the server that the hacker sent to you (the victim).

So. In review, you make an access point (the server), and don’t worry. It’s not as hard as you think. They (mobman) made a specialized program to make the server. For our example today, we are going to name the server after our victim, John Doe, (creative right?). The program that edits these servers (EditServer.exe, we seem to lack creativity in the hacking world…) looks and is sortof complicated. One must know some things already about what the features are. THIS PROGRAM IS NOT FOR THE SCRIPT KIDDIE. Once you have edited the server, start up Sub7.

Once you have done this, go to ‘Connection” then Server options, or Server or something. Find your server. Then type in the target IP adress, and port number. Click connect. You should have access to thier computer if they are online. Have fun.

As usual, Sam Farmer takes a great angle in today’s Times. I wish I could have the accompanying graphic, but the folks at the Times didn’t convert the file into pdf to scan in. I mean, it’s only 2009 so who needs technology, right? Either way, see below for Farmers picks of the best players in the NFL from USC & UCLA at their respective positions.

Offense

Backfield: There are four USC quarterbacks in the NFL, and Cincinnati’s Carson Palmer (first in 2003), Arizona’s Matt Leinart (10th in 2006) and the New York Jets’ Mark Sanchez (fifth in 2009) were top-10 draft picks. UCLA’s Maurice Jones-Drew was overshadowed by USC’s Reggie Bush in college, but he now leads the league with 13 rushing touchdowns.

Line: There are two tackles, two guards and a center in the league — all Trojans.

Receivers: The tight ends include something old (USC’s Billy Miller of Houston, a 10-year veteran), something new (USC’s Fred Davis, in his second year with Washington), something borrowed (UCLA’s Spencer Havner of Green Bay, a converted linebacker) and something blue (Bruins blue — Marcedes Lewis of Jacksonville). Out wide the choices are fewer. USC’s Steve Smith is Eli Manning’s favorite target, with 65 catches and five touchdowns for the New York Giants. USC’s Dwayne Jarrett (Carolina) is in his third pro season and hasn’t scored a touchdown.

Kicker: Last season, Dallas didn’t have a touchback. With USC’s David Buehler handling kickoffs, it has 17.

Defense

Line: Four USC products anchor the interior of NFL defenses as starters — Sedrick Ellis (New Orleans), Mike Patterson (Philadelphia), LaJuan Ramsey (St. Louis) and Shaun Cody (Houston). UCLA’s Kenyon Coleman (Cleveland) gets the nod at end, opposite USC’s Lawrence Jackson, who has four sacks for Seattle.

Linebacker: Brian Cushing (Houston), Rey Maualuga (Cincinnati) and Clay Matthews (Green Bay) were starters at USC a year ago, as was Kaluka Maiava, who is playing a major role in Cleveland. USC’s Lofa Tatupu is Seattle’s best defensive player, but he is injured. Former Trojans star Junior Seau is back with New England.

Secondary: USC’s Troy Polamalu is having an injury-plagued season, but he will wind up in Canton. Terrell Thomas, another former Trojan, has three interceptions for the Giants. UCLA’s Chris Horton has 37 tackles and a forced fumble for the Redskins, and former Bruin Matt Ware has an interception and a forced fumble for Arizona.

Punter: UCLA’s Chris Kluwe (Minnesota) has punted for a net average of 38.4 yards.

In addition, Farmer has another excellent piece on Bruin & Trojan Hall of Famers. . .and those who will be.
There are 11 former USC players and four former UCLA players in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. They are:

USC: Marcus Allen, Morris (Red) Badgro, Frank Gifford, Ronnie Lott, Ron Mix, Anthony Munoz, O.J. Simpson, Lynn Swann, Willie Wood, Ron Yary, Bruce Matthews.

UCLA: Troy Aikman, Tom Fears, Jim Johnson, Bob Waterfield.

Nine of note

Nine outstanding players from each school who are not in the Hall of Fame:

Junior Seau: Prototype for modern linebacker, member of the NFL’s All-Decade team for 1990s.

Carson Palmer: Heisman Trophy winner is the centerpiece for turnaround of Cincinnati Bengals.

Willie McGinest: A defensive cornerstone of New England’s three Super Bowl champions.

Troy Polamalu: Pittsburgh’s mane man is widely regarded among the NFL’s best defenders.

Tony Boselli: First-ever pick of the expansion Jacksonville Jaguars and the expansion Houston Texans.

Keyshawn Johnson: One of two receivers taken with the No. 1 pick in the NFL’s modern era.

Don Mosebar: All-Pro anchor of the Raiders offensive line was just the third center in franchise history.

Jack Del Rio: Spent 11 years as an NFL linebacker for five teams and now is coach at Jacksonville.

Joey Browner: Minnesota Vikings safety was selected to six Pro Bowls.

Jonathan Ogden: Baltimore left tackle was a nine-time All-Pro and 11-time Pro Bowler.

Carnell Lake: Star safety finished his career with 25 sacks, 33 takeaways and five touchdowns.

Ken Norton Jr.: Linebacker won three consecutive Super Bowls — two with Dallas, one with San Francisco.

Kenny Easley: Seattle safety was 1983 defensive player of the year and is on NFL’s All-Decade team for 1980s.

Maurice Jones-Drew: Jacksonville’s bowling-ball back currently leads NFL with 13 rushing touchdowns.

Donnie Edwards: Fourth-round pick of Kansas City intercepted 28 passes, four shy of NFL record for linebackers.

Don Rogers: 1984 defensive rookie of the year showed spectacular promise before his untimely death.

Freeman McNeil: Remarkably consistent tailback averaged at least 4.0 yards a carry in each of his 12 seasons.

Max Montoya: Four-time Pro Bowl guard for Cincinnati and Raiders played in both Bengals’ Super Bowls.

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Overview

Throughout the last couple of years, scareware (a.k.a. fake security software), emerged quickly as the single most profitable money-making strategy for cybercriminals to leverage on. Due to aggressive advertising practices used by the cybercrime syndicates, thousands of users fall victim to the scam on a daily basis, with the syndicates themselves earning loads of dollars in the process.

What is a Scareware?

Scareware, also known as rogueware or fake security software, is a legitimately looking application that is delivered to the end user through the internet traffic derived from compromised web sites, malicious advertising, or keywords hijacking in order to serve scareware. It’s objective is to trick the user into believing that their computer is already infected with malware, and that by purchasing the application will help them get rid of it.

Once executed on a computer, some scareware will not only prevent legitimate security software from starting, but it will also prevent it from being updated. This is to ensure that the end user will not be able to get the latest anti-virus updates. To worsen the situation, it will also make its removal a cumbersome process by blocking system tools and third-party applications from executing.

There had also been cases where scareware with elements of ransomware that encrypt an infected user’s files, and demanding a purchase in order to decrypt them.

How to spot Scareware?

As scarewares are usually used by syndicates, they tend to use a standard template for distribution. Hence, scareware sites all share a very common set of deceptive advertising practices, which can easily help you spot them before making a purchase.

For instance, most scareware sites try to make their sales pitch more realistic and credible by using “non-clickable” icons of reputable technology web sites and performance evaluating services, such as PC Magazine Editors’ Choice award, Microsoft Certified Partner, ICSA Labs Certified,  Westcoast Labs Certified, Certified by Softpedia, CNET Editors’ Choice, and ZDNet Reviews. None of the real services are aware of the scareware’s existence.

Another popular social engineering tactic are the fake comparison tables or charts, where the scareware clearly outperforms some of the leading security companies’ software.

Since most end-users won’t really go about double-checking these claims, and with the impulsive buying urge created by a potential warning of data loss, most end-users fall into the trap of installing the fake security software. The attached screenshot shows how three different scareware brands (Virus Shield 2009, Windows Security Suite and Malware Destructor 2009) are all using the same template claiming their superiority over legitimate security software.

The wide range of tactics used leads us to the most common fear-driven social engineering tactic of simulating a real-time antivirus scanning in progress dialog, which in reality is nothing else but a static script pretending to be running a real virus scan.

The scanner’s results are fake and in fact the software had absolutely no access to your hard drive. Therefore the claims that “You’re Infected!; Windows has been infected; Warning: Malware Infections founds; Malware threat detected” should be treated as a fear generating tactic.

Another key trait of a scareware site is the professional site layout, as well as the persistent attempts to rebrand the template and divert the end user’s attention from the previous brand’s increasing bad reputation across the web. When combined, these would result in an efficient social engineering scam that continues entrapping thousands of victims on a daily basis.

What can I do to avoid Scarewares?

1. Use legitimate internet security softwares. TotalVirus.Com is a good website that maintains a list of recognised legitimate security softwares. Never use a security software that you’ve never heard before, regardless of its price or recommendation on the Internet. My personal choice is Norton 360 which you can also get online ( USA version | South Asia or Singapore version ).
2. Always reject an offer from the Internet or email to scan your hard drive for malicious codes or viruses. If you have installed a legitimate security software, you have full control on when you want to do a scan. There is no necessity to accept any offer to have your hard drive scanned.
3. Always make sure your legitimate internet security software has its real-time auto-protect scanning feature turned on. This is one way to ensure stoppage of 99.9% of scareware infections as no one internet security software is perfect.

What can I do if I have been attacked by Scareware?

1. If you managed to realise it at the point of time when the fake security scanning just started, shut down your web browser immediately and unplugged your network cable ( if on wireless, turn the WiFi switch off ). Chances are the infection may not have commence.
2. If you are not able to shut down your web browser, or your apps aren’t responding, you might be infected by the scareware already. Try typing the keys [Alt] (holding the key down) and [F4] together on your web browser. If this doesn’t work, download and unzip this Windows shortcut onto your Windows desktop. It can be a handy tool to force shutdown your Internet Explorer when you suspect an infection in progress.
3. The following free resources can provide tools and advice you will need to attempt removal.
   • Malwarebytes, a very reliable anti-malware company, offers a free version of Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware, a highly rated anti-malware application which is capable of removing many newer rogue applications.
      
   • 411 Spyware – a site that specializes in malware removal. I highly recommend this site.
      
   • Bleeping Computer – a web site where help is available for many computer related problems, including the removal of rogue software. This is another site I highly recommend.
      
   • SmitFraudFix, available for download at Geekstogo is a free tool that is continuously updated to assist victims of rogue security applications.

So, I’m sitting here considering my dating life, and it occurs to me that men have it sooooooo much easier than women on just about every conceivable level; however, there is one specific level where the complete and total injustice of the disparity between the two is just astonishingly revolting.  Let me explain…

In order to get ready for any given date, all men, all across the country fuck around all day long, well into the evening, and then possibly take a nap.  Upon arising from said constitutional, they will energetically scratch themselves,  almost assuredly burp, and wander clumsily into the bathroom at which point their preparation begins in earnest, to wit, they shit, they shave and they hopefully shower, in that order.  Preparation se fini (French for fucking done).

Now my friends, for women and how they prepare for a date…

14 days before said date – We crash diet, read we eat nothing but a handful of grapes, maybe a lettuce leaf and possibly water.  This process goes on for the next 13 days until the date.  Also at the commencement of this timeline, which for our purposes is DAY 14, we also do the following:

1.    Start tanning.   2.  Set an appointment to get our hair colored and highlighted, for DAY 7 on the countdown to the date, and then low lighted, glazed, cut and styled and DAY 13 before the date.  3.  We also set subsequent appointments, to get a mani, a pedi, a salt glow scrub, a bikini wax, a leg wax and underarm wax, botox, possibly collagen, and definitely a facial, all for every evening after work the entire week before said date.  4.  We also set an appointment to get our nails refreshed the afternoon of said date at the same time that we are getting coiffed.

13 days before said date – we are now starting to feel lighter from the crash dieting, so now the crazy extra workouts start, marathon sessions in the sauna and steam room, fully clothed in latex to get maximum sweat benefit, while of course wearing a pound of lotion on our hands and feet so that the steam and heat can help the product penetrate better.  Bear in mind we also have a hair mask on our head made from anything under the sun the the media has sold to us with the promise of silky locks.

12 days before said date – We are still doing the dieting, the crazy workouts, the beauty treatments in preparation of the other beauty treatments, and we’ve now more than likely enlisted the help of half a dozen friends to come over to the house and help us sort through our closet.

11 days before said date – Again all of the above is still going on but now our tempers are a little short because we’re fucking starving, and have come to unanimous conclusion with the aforementioned half a dozen friends that we have nothing appropriate to wear.

10 days before said date – See above, ibid.  We are now starving to death, pissed off because we have nothing to wear, and behind the wheel of a potentially deadly weapon on the way to the mall with an arsenal of credit cards in our pocket and half a dozen friends in tow.  At the mall, we have all unanimously come to the conclusion that we need not only the perfect outfit, but the perfect shoes, the perfect accessories, and of course the perfect lingerie, on the off chance that we’re feeling benevolent enough to let Romeo get some.

9 days before the date – See above, ibid.  Starvation has evolved into a near psychotic obsession with EVERY food, candy, and potentially edible item commercial that comes on the TV.  We’re pretty much at this point Pavlov’s dog because we’re salivating at the thought of tossing back those yummy pureed prunes that we just saw on the Gerber Babies commercial.  BUT we’ve lost 8 pounds so there will be none of that and we immediately call the trainer and schedule some more extra workouts, to which he is entirely to enthusiastic about and we are now wondering exactly what we would need to make a voodoo doll of the energetic little fuck, becaus ehe’s a man and what the fuck does he know about getting ready for a date when his biggest concern is whether or not his fucking underpants are in fact clean AND bright white, and not yellow in front and brown in the back.

8 days before the date – See above, ibid.  Moreover, we go get our hair colored with our grapes, our lettuce leaf and our gallon of bottled water in tow, and happily collapse thereafter onto the aesthicians table to be waxed and facialed to within an inch of our lives.

7 days before the date – See above, ibid.  We’ve lost 12 pounds, we’re deliriously happy, our outfit rocks, our hair is glorious, and we are looking pretty fucking fine in that Victoria Secret number we bought, so all is well with the universe.

6 days before the date – See above, ibid.  We go get our botox, possibly a little collagen, and maybe some plumper in our lips because a girl can never have to fetching of a trout pout.

5 days before the date – See above, ibid.  We’ve decided that we want to lose 5 more pounds before the date so we start tossing back prune juice and prunes like it’s a fire sale in the dried fruit department and juice department.

4 days before the date – See above, ibid.  Back to the aesthicians table we go to get our salt scrub, and to get any stary hairs tweezed, and any last minute waxing done below the neck and set an appointment for 2 days before the date to get our hair rewashed, restyled and blown straight as well as for the eye brow designing.

3 days before the date – See above, ibid.  The prunes and prune juice are working, we’ve lost 2 more pounds, nevermind the fact that we’re pissier than a longtailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs, we’re lightheaded and we’re convinced that the personal trainer is trying to kill us, and no we can’t fucking do JUST FIVE MORE YOU FUCKING MUSCLEBOUND HALF WIT… then we realize the entire weight room is strangely silent and figure out that in our haze from being near starving, we actually DID in fact say that out loud rather than just thinking it…

2 days before the date – See above, ibid.  We go in for our salt glow, our eyebrow waxing, the mani and pedi, and we look absolutely stunning.  All is good with the world.

1 day before the date – See above, ibid.  We’re a nervous fucking wreck and absolutely freaking out the little bastard will cancel after all the fucking work we’ve done to look hot, and be desirable, so we commence to have a nervous breakdown in the presence of the half a dozen friends who have come over to help you prepare your makeup and lay out your clothes.

MORNING OF D DAY – See above, ibid.  With a gaggle of your friends in tow, back to the salon you go for a refresh of the mani and pedi, to tweeze any stray hairs, to have falsie eyelashes carefully applied and a professional make up, and to have your do blown straight.  Then you proceed to get driven home by your gaggle of friends who will then commence to help you prepare for the date that mind you is still some 10 hours away.  BUT preparations must be made, clothes must be laid out, we must decide if any last minute shit needs to go be gotten, and determine if the perfect outfit, is in fact, PERFECT.

Now if you’re a woman reading this you’re thinking MOTHERFUCKER because you know your date is probably lighting farts with a gaggle of his friends, and probably scarfing a triple Tommy Burger, and chugging a beer, and that the one trip he’s made, god bless his heart, is to the drugstore for the Magnum Trojans (He’s way too optimistic but bless his heart for setting his sights high) that he’s hoping he might get to use.  So as I said you’re good and pissed because all you have is a handful of grapes, two lettuce leaves and maybe some cucumber water and have put a good 100 miles on your car driving all over fucking town, $750 on the AMEX, and logged something like what has to be 1000 miles on the treadmill and the stairstepper trying to get your ass to perk up, in an effort to get ready for this asshole, and he better so be taking you to a nice fucking restaurant and not some dive, because god help you, you’ll tear off his arm and beat him to fucking death with it, if you see one chick  wearing a belly shirt and daisy dukes and the word HOOTERS is emblazoned on the napkins.  You will absofuckinglutely go BATSHIT.

Having said that, the time has come, 15 minutes before your date begins, you look smoking hot, you feel even better, and the doorbell rings – he’s early, brownie points, maybe this won’t be as bad as you think it will… but then as you step down onto the porch and turn to lock your door, you see four pairs of eyes looking at you like they are about to cry from your sofa, and  you look at Mr. Right Now and you think, fuck this date better be good and if I decide that he’s getting lucky he better be one fucking spectacular lay, because I could be sitting on that couch with those four pairs of eyes, in my flannels and my fuzzy slippers, a mug of hot cocoa, watching a marathon of Iron Man, X-Men Wolverine (NOW HE’S HOT), and anything with Jonathon Rhys Myers in it,  for what has to be the tenth time, and not dealing with the drama of all this shit and some pervy little man who’s more than likely gonna try and maul you, probably has sweaty palms, and more than likely can’t string together a coherent sentence without the use of dude, homie, pimp, or god help you, aight (WTF DOES THAT MEAN?????????????????)  and is he really all that cute???  Is that a fucking combover??????????????????   Is he wearing a Member’s Only Jacket?????????????????? OMG, he showed up driving a moped… FUCK ME SIDEWAYS, AAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH…

Now, I ask you how anticlimactic is that???

I tell you being a girl is exhausting, and blind dates, are simply NEVER a good idea…

UK cybercops cuff ZeuS Trojan suspect pair: “UK cybercops cuff ZeuS Trojan suspect pair”

(Via The Register – Security.)

According to the USC Ripsit Blog, Ben Malcolmson lays out a scenario for how USC could still win the Pac-10 and play in the Rose Bowl.

You can read the scenario here.

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It looks like fraudsters used the run up to the October tax deadline to ramp up a scheme to gather private information from people. At the same time a more dangerous scam was coming across from America. What was happening and what can be done?

Tax refunds?

HMRC reported a record 83,000 scam e-mails in September. In one day alone a massive 10,000 reports were made. Given that these are only the e-mails reported, the actual numbers are probably even higher. It’s more than a bit worrying.

One scam says something like “You have a tax refund, click here”. It directs the person to a website asking for credit or debit card details. These sites only live for a couple of hours before they are closed down and replaced by a new site. Although several have been shut down, they are fiendishly hard to track.

The second fraud was perhaps more worrying.

A US scam appears to be moving to the UK. In the States an e-mail claiming to be from the American federal tax authority, IRS, threatening fines and penalties actually had a Trojan attached.

Andrew Brandt of US internet security company Webroot wrote a great blog about it.

Phishing and Trojans 

Sending fake e-mails to gather personal information is commonly called “phishing”. Crooks send millions of emails pretending to be from a well-known respected organisation such as a bank. The e-mail scares the recipient into visiting a genuine-looking but fraudulent website where data is captured. 

A trojan is a computer program that installs itself on your computer and without you knowing can send your personal details, passwords and usernames etc to the criminals who sent the e-mail.

Both are tools used by criminals for identity theft.

What to do? 

Fortunately, it’s easy to spot – HMRC will never send an e-mail regarding a tax refund. They will only ever send you a letter in those circumstances. As John Harrison, head of customer contact at HMRC says: “We never use e-mails, telephone calls or external companies in these circumstances.”

So, if you have an email purporting to be from HMRC saying you are owed a tax refund, it’s a scam. Simple as that.

If you are concerned about an e-mail you have received, the important thing is never to open it or click on any link it contains. Just delete it.  

HMRC have a really informative and up to date web site with details of the latest scams and frauds. Click here for more information.

Alternatively, simply send the e-mail immediately to phishing@hmrc.gsi.gov.uk without opening it and then delete it. They’ll deal with it.  

A more in-depth version of this article appears on msn money.

USC’s is making plan to play in a bowl game fit for the fifth best team in the Pac 10. Yes, it’s probably going to be a bowl game played while you’re still picking up wrapping paper and figuring out if Dick Clark will actually appear to watch the ball fall. Yes, a crap 2nd rate bowl is in Carroll’s team’s future.

Stanford’s running game was a perfect juggernaut for USC weak and porous run defense. Little confidence and continuing struggles with losses, added up to the largest opponent score for a USC home game 100 years. All the records are out the window and Pete Carroll’s staff needs to find a way to plug the holes, literally. Stanford, well-coached and brimming with confidence after a win over ranked-Oregon last week, deserves a tons of credit for their execution – excuse me, for executing the Trojans at the Coliseum.

From the moment I got into Eugene I could feel it in the air…There was an energy, an excitement, a tension. Something special was going to take place on Halloween, and the entire city was buzzing with anticipation.
Everywhere I went, people said ‘GO DUCKS!’ to each both in greeting and parting. Every car had an Oregon sticker or flag, every business had a Duck logo. People were ready, and I certainly wasn’t the only one who had traveled a great distance to participate.

USC was coming to Eugene to play the Ducks, and to add to the already epic event ESPN’s College Gameday was set up to broadcast live from outside Autzen Stadium for the fourth time, which is considered a great honor and prestigious thing for Gameday to broadcast from your campus. The previous three times they had visited Oregon people camped out to start gathering at 5am by the stage, and I expected this one to be no different.

The day before the game I went to go see a movie, then drove past the stadium just to take in a bit of the ambiance. I noticed a buddy of mine hanging out in front of the stadium gates, so I stopped for a while. He and a few other die-hard Duck fan students were camping out all night in front of the Autzen gates so that they would be first in line for the student section….That was going to be a long day, seeing as how kickoff wasn’t until 5pm Saturday.

I hung out for a bit with the recognizable pit crew fans, met a few of the ESPN crew setting up for the next day’s broadcast, and had my legs and torso prominently featured on the local news while they filmed segments of the fans camping out for the big game.

The pit crew guys pose for local news cameras outside Autzen’s south gate

I hadn’t been in Eugene for the previous three Gameday broadcasts (2000, and two in 2007), and I didn’t want to miss another. So Saturday morning on Halloween I woke up at 4am and dressed in all black, as the students had called for a “Blackout” in the stands for the game of everybody wearing black. I parked on campus near Mac Court and made the long hike through dorms and offices across campus and across the river to Autzen Stadium. There were a handful of other people also roaming around at 4am, all meandering in the general direction of the stadium. It was drizzling a little, and it looked like it would be an on/off rainy day all day…typical Oregon weather.

I made it to the stadium around 5am, and started hiking around the exterior fence making my way to the north side of the stadium where the ESPN Gameday set was located, in the parking lot of the Cas Center. As I was walking past my buddy Max got up and started walking towards the nearby bathrooms, he looked rather dazed having been camping out at the gate since 3pm Friday. He spotted me and said “Kurt, is that you?”
“Yup, on my way to the Gameday broadcast, and I at least got to sleep a couple hours.”
“Shit,” he said, “I haven’t slept at all all night.”
Well duh, that’s what you get for camping out when its raining. Could’ve just as eaisly showed up at the gate at 5am and still had the same spot in line.

As I walked around the exterior of the stadium and practice fields, I could start o hear a slight rumble. It was 5am, it was dark, it was raining, and there was a party going on in Eugene. The lights were on inside Autzen Stadium so that the area would be lit for the broadcast starting at 6am with a couple live check-ins on Sportscenter.

I made my way to the set amongst a crowd of Duck fans, most of whom looked like they hadn’t slept at all and were already properly lubricated. “It’s going to be quite a day” I kept thinking, win or lose the amount of alcohol consumed and partying done on the premises will be epic.

I approached the set and looked for the best openings in the crowd to see how close I could get.

After a couple failed attempts to squeeze in close, I managed to find an opening and push through to second in row behind the outer fencing with a clear view of the stage. Most people bring signs to Gameday broadcasts, but I just had a Duck flag with me I planned to wave when cameras came by.
Over the PA some jerk kept shouting at people not to push through the one small entryway to the inner pit area closer to the stage. He kept saying that they will shut the broadcast down if people don’t stop pushing…Yeah right, that’s as dumb as parents saying they will turn the car around on roadtrips if you don’t stop hitting your sister. Oops sorry, ESPN is not going to broadcast their program to millions for the first time in 15 years and earn millions in ad revenue because a couple Duck fans are crowding the gate…uh huh, sure.

The rain started falling harder, and ESPN was blasting dance/hip hop music through their PA adding to the overall party atmosphere. This was a happening, no doubt about that.
First out on the stage came Kirk Herbstreit, who flashed a couple Oregon ‘O’ hand signs to the crowd and people went nuts.

Gameday doesn’t come to the west coast, or at least barely ever come out west. The reason is obvious, time zones. It’s a lot to ask for a large rowdy crowd to appear at 5am. But they like coming to Oregon because they know that Gameday in Eugene gets chaotic, even if it means gettingpeople out to the stadium at 5am.

First out on stage was Kirk Herbstreit. He turned to the crowd and gave a couple Oregon ‘O’ had signals and people went nuts, then he sat down and did a live check-in with Sportscenter.

A couple minutes later Lee Corso made his first appearance, carrying USC helmet in his hand, which he then promptly threw on the ground and stomped on in front of the raucous crowd, then held up a Duck helmet and kissed it before he sat down. The otehr guys eventually joined him and they filmed the second Sportscenter live check-in before teh start of Gameday.

Lee Corso throwing a USC helmet on the ground

After that it was just a couple minutes before the start of the show, and people were really crowding in. There were probably 2,000 people squeezed into the small parking lot next to the Cas Center, with the Oregon marching band on the ramp behind leading to Autzen. Oddly, the two guys in front of me decided to leave right before the start of the show, so I quickly squeezed my way in to a spot along the outer fence by the walkway right below a sign with some sort of Korean pun on Masoli (Oregon’s quarterback).

While the crowd got more excited, ESPN had a couple people roaming around looking at all the signs and confiscating anything they thought shouldn’t appear on TV. Some were obvious for confiscation, but a few really mild ones surprisingly were taken away.
Gameday host Chris Fowler addressed the crowd before the start of filming and did point out one in particular though, “OUR DICKSON YOUR ENDZONE” (referencing Oregon TE Ed Dickson).

The crew made their final preps for the two-hour broadcast, and the crowd started a low rumble in the excitement.

Then…Showtime!

Local news was on-site also filming some segments during the show…

During the next two hours the crowd cheered, the rain poured, and I waved my Duck flag with pride every time the camera swept by. I was shot for an extended close-up, but I guess ESPN decided not to use my ugly mug, so I was only seen long-distance on some wide sweeping shots.

Cheerleaders were lifted up, the Duck crowd surfed, everyone booed when they did an extended segment on Texas WR Jordan Shipley’s shitty guitar/singing skills…

But during the broadcast the best moment came early on.
After the first commercial break ended somebody came out of the Gameday bus wearing the Duck mascot head while the Duck walked behind them. The gameday crew asked who was wearing it, and emerging was Oregon head coach Chip Kelly. The fans went nuts, absolutely crazy, all chanting “CHIP! CHIP! CHIP!” I mean seriously nuts, look at the Duck fan literally feeling up Chip’s man breasts…

After a while my eyes started to wander around the crowd, checking out all the different signs. One guy had made a motorized sign that showed Corso lifting the Duck head on and off his head, very cool. I liked the more random signs, like ‘MATT BARKLEY READS TWILIGHT’ and ‘I LOVE SCOTCH’.
But my personal favorite sign was the following:

The show went on, they spent a stretch of it previewing the USC_Oregon game…

And later they further dissected the big game.

Eventually the show came to its big traditional climax, when Lee Corso puts on the mascot headgear of which team will win for the game being played where Gameday is broadcasting from. This year they’ve been having guests with ties to the host university appear on set to make picks, and for Oregon no surprise it was Nike co-founder Phil Knight.

They made their picks, then the big moment came. The previous three times Gameday has been in Eugene Corso has always put on the Duck head, would he go 4-for-4?
This time rather than just wear the head he went all out, leaving the stage to put on the Duck head and ride off in the distance on the Duck Harley.

Once the cameras shut off people started heading off to their various tailgate parties. I hung around for a minute, then started hiking west towards Alton Baker Park. Suddenly I was walking stride for stride next to Lee Corso, fresh off the Duck Harley and being escorted to his limo. I chatted with him for about 30 seconds, he thanked me and all the Duck fans for another great showing in Eugene and I said thanks for always picking Oregon when you’re here. He got into his limo and left, and I made a long hike along the river towards the park. One event was done, but I had another one to get to…

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Prior to College Gameday announcing that they would be in Eugene, another event was slated to happen that morning near the stadium. Kenny Wheaton, an Oregon Ducks legend who made the iconic play in the school’s history that is replayed on the big screen before every game right before the team takes the field, was holding an event for his charity the Kenny Wheaton Foundation.

Kenny Wheaton October 22nd, 1994 made the biggest play in Oregon history, “The Pick.” The call ‘Kenny Wheaton’s gonna score!’ is one of the most famous phrases in Duck history.

These days he’s now retired from football, after spending years in the NFL and CFL. He’s held various charity events to help funds for his foundation, which aims at helping kids. At 9am on gameday Kenny was holding the first annual Kenny Wheaton Foundation 5k run/10k walk.
I might’ve participated, but I had already walked a 10k just going from my car to the stadium to the starting line of the run over in Alton Baker Park and my legs were already screaming at me.

So I stood around the finish line , where the man himself Kenny Wheaton and a few others in charge of the equipment were chatting. Eventually I stepped in and introduced myself, and Kenny turned out to be a really down-to-earth super nice guy. To be in a town where he is considered a superhero and legend, it would be understandable for him to have a bit of an ego, but he was really cool.

Me with Kenny Wheaton

While waiting for the first few runners to complete the course, I was surprised to see Doug Coake ride up to the finish line on the Duck Harley. The same Duck Harley that carried Corso off at the end of Gameday. The same Harley that always leads the Duck football team out of the tunnel at Autzen Stadium. After a quick chat, Doug graciously let me sit on the Harley for a minute for a photo.

I stood by the finish lie applauding the runners and walkers as they crossed the line. Among those participating were a couple former Oregon athletes, Reggie Jordan (a linebacker on the same Oregon team Kenny Wheaton played on in the mid-90s), and Kenya Wilkins, a former point guard for the Duck basketball team.

Me with Reggie Jordan

Reggie Jordan making a big play in the 1995 Rose Bowl

Me with Kenya Wilkins

After a while of giving both Reggie and Kenya crap for having so many kids beat them around the course, I made a little donation to Kenny’s foundation and then left the park. College games were underway around the country, and it was a long time until the Duck game would start.
I walked over to The Cooler, a barn-like bar that has been around for decades, a pace where back in the 1970s Oregon track legend Steve Prefontaine used to bartend at.
I watched a couple games on the various screens, had some food and drinks, met some cool Duck fans and a really cool Trojan fan that I chatted with for a while.
After a couple hours I made my way back to the stadium to try to find some of the tailgate parties my buddies were attending.
Surprisingly the Gameday set was completely gone, they had already torn it down and now people were tailgating where just a few hours earlier there was a massive TV set.
I made my way around the stadium just roaming and taking in the ambiance…

The eternal flame outside the Moshofsky Center (called ‘The Mo’, Oregon’s indoor practice facility) with the Cas Center in the distance

Students camped out in front of the main gate

The weird 3d tic tac toe game by the Cas Center was where the Gameday set was placed

The Cas Center, the main offices of the Oregon athletics department, and includes the locker rooms and weight rooms/treatment facilities for the team.

I roamed the parking lots for a while trying to find some people I knew, but couldn’t track anybody down. It started raining pretty hard and the new task was to try to keep my ticket dry so that the barcode could be read, otherwise I couldn’t get into the stadium.
All the hiking and early morning started hitting me, and I found a quiet spot to relax a bit next to the Mo Center entrance while I waited for them to open the doors for what is called “the world’s largest indoor tailgate party.”
Oddly while just sitting there Ryan McKay and his wife Sofia walked by, friends of my brother’s whom I hadn’t seen in years. We chatted for a bit and they invited me to their tailgate party over by the Boy Scouts parking lot. I declined for the moment because I wanted to go into the Mo, which would be opening shortly, but said I might stop by later.

Eventually they opened up the Mo, and I found a seat inside near all the TVs so I could watch more of the games on that day. In the background ESPN College Gameday radio was also on campus broadcasting from inside the Mo, yeah this game was a big deal. A band was setting up soundchecking off to the side and people were in line to get food and drinks when the festivities started.
Several hours before the game the team arrives, and walks through the crowd in the Mo on what they call “The March To Victory.”
They announced the team had arrived, and everybody lined up to create a path.

I was kind of surprised how small they were. On TV and in the stands players seem bigger than life, but close up they’re still just college kids and not that much bigger than me…except Na’Derris Ward, that dude is freakin HUGE!!! Absolute mountain of a man.
I knew about 75% of the team by face recognition alone along with all of the coaching staff and most of the cheerleader, which considering the size of the team roster is both very impressive and quite sad.
Tailing right behind the team was the coaching staff, then the recruits on campus visiting and being trailed by the marching band.

I followed the band out of the Mo, and I guess I slipped through unnoticed by security because unknown to me I was required to get a handstamp when I left. I made my way into the parking lot to once again try to find some friends’ tailgate parties, but after a complete loop of the stadium no such luck.

I tried t then go back into the Mo, and was stopped by security. No handstamp, I couldn’t be allowed back in. What handstamp? There wasn’t anybody giving handstamps when I left! Doesn’t matter, no handstamp and I can’t get in.
I walked away wondering if my ticket was now invalid too having not gotten a dumb little handstamp when I left the Mo, and did another loop of the parking lot looking for people…nothing. It rained again, hard, and I tried to tuck my ticket away into a pocket that wouldn’t get saturated.
Eventually I headed off to the offsite Boy Scouts parking lot to look for the tailgater McKay was at…Well, I didn’t find theirs, but I did randomly walk right into a tailgate party that my buddy J-Hall and his wife Erin were attending.

It was a chance to get out of the rain and just sit down for the first time since 4am, so I just snagged one of the chairs to the side and let my mind go blank for a couple minutes.
After a while I said goodbye to the Halls and started moving back towards Autzen Stadium, and yet again my legs started screaming at me…Wow I must’ve been really out of shape or tired, because I was about to collapse and it wasn’t even gametime yet.

I made y way to the southgate, which already had people flowing into the stadium, and grabbed my soggy ticket. They scanned it and it beeped as invalid. I tried to play dumb saying maybe it can’t read it because the ticket got a little wet, but they saw through that and asked if I had already entered, then demanded to see my handstamp.
No handstamp, can’t get in.
I was about to erupt. I had driven a thousand miles and spent a lot of money on this ticket, and now I can’t watch the game because of a stupid little handstamp.
After arguing with the person at the gate for about a minute, she eventually relented and stamped my hand and let me through.

Got to my seat, I was in the far SE corner along the endzone…Not a bad seat, but then again at Autzen Stadium it’s one of the few places where really there isn’t a bad seat in the house. I snapped a few photos and relaxed while waiting for the game to start. The student section was almost completely full, and from all the way on the other side of the stadium I could recognize my buddy Max, front row as always in the student section, no doubt he’d get plenty of face time on the big screen and the TV broadcast, he always manages to end up on camera.

I spotted that down below me ESPN had set up a small temporary set in the corner endzone, and Kirk Herbstreit was prepping for some pregame check-in on ESPN.

As the band went through the pregame rituals, I could see the stands were filling up fast. It was estimated that this would be the largest crowd to ever shoe-horn their way into Autzen Stadium, and if so then it would also be the largest single gathering of people in the history of the state of Oregon.

Soon it was time for the team to come on the field, and the crowd was pumped. Clearly, this indeed would be the largest crowd ever (reported to be 59,600 and change).
The highlight video played on the big screen while the crowd got excited, then out came the team led by the Duck Harley…”Hey, I was just sitting on that” I told the person standing next to me, who just gave me a perplexed look and went back to ignoring me.

Gametime.
It was here.
I had driven a thousand miles. Poor Max had camped out all night, but it was finally here.

The Ducks struck first, scoring a touchdown.

Odd formation where Oregon considered going for 2 after the first touchdown of the game, but when USC covered the formation they moved in to kick an extra point.

Then USC scored. Then Oregon scored. Back and forth it went, neither team really stopping the other.

At halftime Oregon led 24-17, but it was still a wide open game.
But then the second half started, and the rout began.

USC would get a field goal, but 20 would be all they scored, as Oregon ran over, around, and through USC’s defense on their way to a 47-20 blowout.

Oregon racked up 614 yards of offense, the most given up by USC since 1946. 391 yards of rushing was the most USC had given up in a decade, and 27 points was the worst loss USC had experienced since 1997.

Throughout all of it, it was a non-stop party. People were standing, screaming, partying. Quite a scene, really. Though oddly the guy standing next to me just stood with his hand on his chin with a confused look, never cheering except for a minor golf clap after Oregon would score. This would be where I get the opinion of ’southside Autzen fans’ and it was epitomized by this guy. Thankfully I more than made up for this douche never cheering, and the student section was in full party mood as the noise levels forced me to wear earplugs for much of the game. Nobody had seen USC collapse like this before, and nobody expected Oregon to just so precisely roll over them like USC was an ant.
It was stunning.
It was amazing.
It was epic.
It was the BEST Halloween party I had ever been to, with 60,000 people having the time of their lives.

As the time ticked down with the game no longer in doubt, the steady roar grew louder and louder. We watched the clock slowly tick down, while they played on the big screen a video asking fans not to go down on the field until 5 minutes after the game has ended…yeah right, EVERYBODY’s storming the field as soon as the clock hits zero.
Students started pouring over the walls as Oregon safety TJ Ward intercepted a pass as time expired and people went nuts.

Fans swarmed the field. The Duck, in the very center of the pack, was lifted up and started crowdsurfing. Oregon QB Jeremiah Masoli was lifted up on people’s shoulders and carried around the field in what had to be one of the highlights of his life.

It was pure, unadulterated honest jubilation.
I asked the guy next to me to take a photo of me with the scoreboard behind me for posterity, then quickly made my way through the crowd to join in on the party taking place down on the field.

Down on the field it was chaotic. The mass of people in the middle of the field all jumping up and down screaming and carrying around Masoli on our shoulders and congratulating every player still out there.

When that started to die down I noticed that back in the corner endzone ESPN was setting up a temp stage, so I headed over there and joined the circle of fans huddling around.

Then there was a rumbling form the people behind me, and a police officer started shoving his way through. Chris Fowler was already at the desk, and walking right next to me was Kirk Herbstreit pushing his way through the crowd being escorted. He had a huge smile on his face while people cheered, and as he brushed by me I punched him in his right shoulder really hard, as revenge for the times he’s picked against Oregon on Gameday.
He made his way to the set and people settled in again as Fowler and Herbstreit began their prep for the postgame show.
Then once again everyone behind me turned around and started getting excited. And just like before, a police officer pushes right by me, this time escorting Oregon head coach Chip Kelly. As he was rushed by everybody started chanting ‘CHIP! CHIP! CHIP! CHIP!’ while I gave him a pat on his back as he made his way to the set.

Fowler and Herbstreit getting ready to interview coach Kelly

After the interview Chip was escorted off set by police to go back to celebrating with his players and coaches. Everybody hung around and eventually they turned the cameras back on for Fowler and Herbstreit to do another post-game wrap up on ESPN.

After that ended they started tearing down the set and eventually people started leaving.
I slowly started making my way out of the stadium, but my legs weren’t cooperating much on the stairs. Somehow hiking and standing all day led to my knees basically shutting down, causing me to walk with a weird limp where people probably thought I was doing my frankenstein impression. I walked like that from the stadium back across the bridge, through campus, slowly making my way back to my car. All around people were shouting and dancing and cars honking their horns in celebration, as if Halloween isn’t a festive enough time for people to go nuts this win just added fuel to the fire.

Eventually I made it back to my car, after detouring a bit to check out the party going on over at Taylor’s and Rennie’s, two of the landmark hangout spots on campus…it was crazy. it was packed. it was ridiculous.

Being exhausted and awake since 4am I didn’t hang long, and got back to my car and back to the house. It had been a long day, but one thing I was absolutely certain about….BEST. HALLOWEEN. EVER!!!