Portsmouth hires Eugene Collins as Basketball coach

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slideshow After a long process, the Portsmouth High School boys varsity basketball coaching position has been filled.

Eugene Collins, an ‘84 graduate of Portsmouth and a 19-year coaching veteran, was hired Thursday night at a school board meeting.

"I think in time that Eugene is going to do a wonderful job," Portsmouth Athletic Director Joe Albrecht said.

Albrecht said coaching candidates came down to Collins and Piketon head coach and MVP of Portsmouth's 1978 state championship team Jeff Lisath, but added that Lisath chose to remain at Piketon.

"To him, his family and his situation, Piketon means a lot to him," Albrecht said. "When he did tell me he wasn't going to (take the position), we knew right away that Eugene was going to do the job," Albrecht said.

Collins will replace Josh Shoemaker, who stepped down from the position to attend graduate school. Shoemaker, with Collins as an assistant coach, led the Trojans to a 9-11 record last season.

Collins spent the first 18 seasons of his coaching career at Shawnee State under Jim Arnzen, Geno Ford and current mens basketball coach Jeff Hamilton.

He stepped away from SSU to enjoy watching his son’s high school basketball career before being talked into the assistant position at his alma mater.

"I'm excited," Collins said. "Being an alumni of Portsmouth and playing back in the 80s when things were pretty good and having a child in the program, I'm really excited."

Despite the sub-.500 record, the Trojans showed some promise last year. This season, almost all of that team's contributors are gone.

"We lost a lot of kids," Collins said. "We had six seniors last year and we lost primarily our whole starting lineup."

With the Southern Ohio Conference rejecting Portsmouth's bid to enter the league earlier this year, the Trojans will likely be in the SEOAL South for the long haul. Even with the bigger schools on the schedule, Collins said Portsmouth can compete.

"My attitude is you play the game and the game is decided between the lines and not necessarily with numbers," Collins said. "The biggest thing is that we're going to be young and until we determine who is going to play, it's going to be a process that will take a little time."

Also at the meeting, Portsmouth hired Dan Stanley as its new head volleyball coach.

JOHN STEGEMAN can be reached at jstegeman02@hotmail.com

Grandparents and Softball book- UK forum thread

This old mind forgets if I had mentioned my newest (seventh- it is only me doing the counting) book: Grandparents and Softball-Girls Love Softball. Anyway, I am adding it to the book titles at the end on this blog with this post. This book should have good regional advertising very shortly. It is small (58 pp on 5x8 format), but I think readers involved with kids' sports (particularly girls' sports) should enjoy it. Don't be the last in your neighborhood to buy it at your local book store.

;>)

Sam

Plymale and UK Basketball e-mails

And another from Jack P:

Sam thanks for sharing with me.I think maybe one of the sadder things
about celebrity is that you never really get to know the people you
found interesting and I am speaking from the viewpoint of the
celebrated. I had a Government finance class once in one of the old
quonset huts behind the commerce college at OSU Alex Grozas brother
,LOU was in the class. Heck of a nice guy, seemed to work hard at
being even nicer, but the strain was obvious.... You're right !! I do
consider you a GOOD,,,,YOUNG.....76.

Thank you, Dave.

Ernie Rigrish did play football at Eastern. I learned only when I interviewed Bill Berry and his son, Jeff, for my "Softball" book, that Bill was Ernie's step father and Ernie was raised in their family. Sarah Rapp also e-mailed me to remind us that Lawrence Daniels was a kicker for Eastern.

If one could check it out, it would be close between Ohio U and Eastern for the number of Portsmouth athletes who played for them. Marshall might be third, but I think only of Steve Duncan, but, of course, Dave Hamilton and Terry Gardner were on the first Marshall team after the fatal plane crash (We Are Marshall). Steve graduated Marshall the year before the crash. Miami of Ohio might well be first though and Cincinnati would be a consideration. I think only of Pat James at UK and no UK basketball players from our area. Adolph Rupp was definitely after Larry Hisle, but he chose professional baseball and Ohio state.
The old P'Town area has fond athletic memories, does it not.

Sam



----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Miller
To: Sam Kegley
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 10:40 PM
Subject: Re: =========MAYBE.


hey sam. I enjoy the contact between you and Jack. being an old mabert rd boy. I used to chase rays punts up and down the street. I seem to temember ernie rigerish went to eastern, While bruadcasting Marshall and we were at eastern, I thought I saw his picture on a wall.I was also trying to chase his sister Phyllis. LOL. dave miller












Jack,

You consider me young, but remember I am 76. Jones, Beard, Groza, Rollins, and ?. I had to go to one of my collection of UK Basketball Guides and reading glasses to get James Line. It was 1948 and they won everything but lost to Phillips Oilers, the AAU Champs. They were an important part of the 1948 USA Olympic Team. Adolph rupp helped coach the Olympians. The USA won eight games and the World Championship in London, England. I was sixteen then and highly into sandlot basketball at Highland School courts against the likes of my good friend, Dick Klitch and other fine players, many of whom did not make the highly touted Portsmouth Trojans. Dick only made the Trojans in his senior season and did an outstanding job.

The One UK fellow made AA one year and didn't start the next( perhaps that was sophomore Jim Line, due to the outstanding players returning from the big war in the late forties. The basketball history which has entertained jeanie and me throughout our years (we have been married fifty-seven years) melds together in my mind.

I might even put Issel and Pratt and Macy and Mashburn on the same team at times due to my melting pot of memory.

I have met Wah Wah a couple of times in Lexington. And Marvin Akers (UK43) and his wife became our friends while we served on the UK National Alumni Board together.

Most of the UK players I have met would probably not remember this Mound Park Urchin.

Thanks for the memories, Jack.

Go Cats!

Sam

There are great hopes among the wildcatnation fans www.wildcatnation.net for SamKat and all for John Calipari and the future of our Wil;dcats.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack H Plymale"
To: "Sam Kegley"
Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 9:24 PM
Subject: Re: =========MAYBE.


> Sam , of course Ray Pelfrey and Walt Green are old team mates of mine
> Walt was two years younger. Smokey was a few years older . I don't
> know how many. I had offers from Eastern. Rome Rankin called me twice
> and wrote me twice.I ,truely,was not that good but there weren't a
> lot of guys available then and I wasn't either for long. Ray went to
> Auburn first then back to Eastern. If Ray is not the best, all around
> athlete I ever knew, he is second or third. One of the reasons we had
> such a good football team in 1944 is that Jim Fout and Doc Yeagle
> could control Pelfrey. He had hugh respect for both of them, and was
> afraid Doc would kill him at any time.( Can you name UK's fabulus
> five(not fab five0 in2 minutes. You already have Wah Wah Jones and
> Ralph Beard
>
> On 5/25/09, Sam Kegley wrote:
>> I have been truly happy with the job Calipari is doing, Jack. His dribble,
>> drive, motion offense is much bertter to the likes of Adolph's style.
>>
>> Several old Trojans played football for Eastern Kentucky- Smokey Gibson,
>> Ray Pelfrey, Walt Green, etc. Most of them became UK Wildcat fans.
>>
>> Ralph Beard died fairly recently.
>>
>> Sam
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jack H Plymale"
>>
>> To: "Sam Kegley"
>> Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 7:08 PM
>> Subject: =========MAYBE.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > I expected, at least, a whoopee or two when the apparent,Leaning to
>> > Lexington, culminated in the coraling of the cream of the crop in high
>> > school basketball, but all I have had ,so far ,is overstated silence..
>> > I'll use that phrase in lieu of smugness.You are in touch with a
>> > fellow traveler Sam. Everybody in that geographic area longs for the
>> > return of the glory days of " The Col".That old bouncyball may not be
>> > my first love, but there is no lover of athletic events who was not
>> > thrilled by the way the Wildcats of old did it.The whole area kinda
>> > smiled in their reflection. When I read about the great point guard
>> > signing with UK. the first name that came to mind was Ralph Beard.
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Jack P.
>> >
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Jack P.
>

Rust Never Sleeps

Thanks to Jay, my older son, for calling my attention to this fine article.

Dr. Mars Fontana was properly considered one of the foremost corrosion experts in the world with LaQue of France. Denison granted me the privilege of attending his corrosion course at Ohio State. Dr. Fontana was a great and humble gentleman who had remarkable abilities in seeing through the chaffe and obtaining the wheat. He granted me an A (he had a reputation of giving all his OSU metallurgy students A's in the course). Dr. Beck was Dr. Fontana's sidekick, who became a cherished friend of mine and I interviewed him for his story in my book "Acquaintances With Integrity". Both Dr. Fonatana and Dr. Beck are now deceased.


Rust never sleeps
Preventing corrosion, replacing metal costs $400 billion a year
Sunday, May 24, 2009 3:34 AM
By Kevin Mayhood

THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH


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Neil Thompson of Dublin-based DNV, the country's largest private corrosion lab, looks for ways to thwart rust.


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State inspectors Matt Beedy, left, and Mike Brokaw check out a bridge on Rt. 315 over 3rd Avenue.


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Rusted, busted and hard to maintain
• Ohio maintains 14,000 bridges.

It would cost

$4.2 billion to repair all of the corrosion on them. Franklin County maintains 362 bridges.

• Columbus maintains 4,000 miles of water lines in the city and suburbs. Every year, the city fixes 500 to 600 breaks.

• Statewide, there are 7,670 miles of natural gas transmission lines

and 54,000 miles of distri-

bution lines.

• Columbia Gas

maintains 19,161 miles of natural-gas pipes

in 60 counties. The company estimates

that 4,000 miles of pipes are made of

steel or cast iron.

• The U.S. military spends $20 billion

to $30 billion annually fighting rust on ships, planes and other machines.

Sources: Columbia Gas, various government agencies

Rusted, busted and hard to maintain Rust doesn't differentiate between a swing set, a jumbo jet or a bridge that carries thousands of commuters every day.

If it's made of metal, it will rust.

Steelworkers use chemistry and intense heat to turn iron ore into the backbone of buildings and bridges. Despite its great strength, steel is one unstable metal.

It's only a matter of time before the elements repatriate the stable form -- the crumbly reddish-brown flakes of oxidized iron.

Corrosion wears away steel, aluminum, copper and tin. All metals, save for the nobles -- gold, silver and platinum -- succumb to rust.

Rust is a tough, expensive problem that plagues everything from artificial heart valves to the Golden Gate Bridge. The direct cost of preventing corrosion and replacing metals tops $400 billion annually in the United States, according to estimates.

"This is the battle with Mother Nature that we'll never win," said Rudy Buchheit, chairman of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Ohio State University.

Buccheit and Gerald S. Frankel, director of the Fontana Corrosion Center at Ohio State, investigate how corrosion weakens beams, pipes, jets and ships, and what can help delay the inevitable.

They warn that this country's bridges, bombers and high-pressure gas lines are operating on borrowed time.

But what is rust? In the simplest terms, corrosion is an electrochemical reaction, Frankel said.

"It's as if you hooked up the two ends of a battery with a wire."

To rust, a steel beam requires water, which contains electrically charged atoms and molecules, just like battery acid.

At one spot on the beam -- think of the negative terminal of a battery -- iron atoms release electrons and combine with oxygen, turning into rust. The electrons travel to another spot on the beam -- think of the positive terminal of a battery -- and combine with hydrogen ions and then oxygen, forming water.

How quick is the process?

Take the Golden Gate Bridge. When workers finish painting one end, it's time to start scraping the other.

Neil Thompson, with Dublin-based DNV Columbus, the country's largest private corrosion lab, said there are some tricks that help postpone the rust process.

For example, the zinc coating on a galvanized steel bucket oxidizes, protecting the steel until the zinc is used up. Chromium in stainless steel helps protect against rust, but it, too, eventually wears out.

One of the best ways to stall rust is to place steel rods in a strong base, such as concrete. The steel could last hundreds of years, Thompson said.

But in bridges, chloride in road salt migrates into the concrete and jump-starts corrosion.

The Ohio Department of Transportation spreads thousands of tons of salt on the state's highways and more than 14,000 bridges each winter.

"About 80 percent of potholes on bridges are due to corrosion," Thompson said. "The product of corrosion is iron and oxygen, and that has six to eight times the volume of the steel.

"It expands and cracks the concrete."

ODOT calls it a "vicious cycle."

"We sacrifice structure but gain safety," said Mike Brokaw, a bridge inspection engineer with the department's central Ohio office.

If the department were to repair all corrosion on Ohio's bridges, it would need $4.2 billion, said Scott Varner, a department spokesman.

"The problem is, once it starts, it spreads like wildfire," said Jim Pajk, Franklin County bridge engineer.

Franklin County, which maintains 362 bridges, recently spent $3 million to replace the steel-reinforced concrete deck on the Greenlawn Avenue Bridge.

The state, county and municipalities strip and overlay damaged decks and seal them against salt penetration. With that, a well-maintained bridge deck will last about 40 years, Pajk said.

Bridges are just a part of the picture. Water, oil and natural-gas pipelines crisscross Ohio and the nation.

Columbus owns about 3,000 miles of water lines and maintains an additional 1,000 miles in the suburbs, said Rick Westerfield, administrator of the city's Power and Water Division.

"Is corrosion the main issue for us? It may well be," Westerfield said.

The city repairs 500 to 600 water main breaks per year.

Westerfield said most underground water pipes are designed to last 60 to 100 years. New pipes are coated -- inside and out -- to keep corrosion away.

And the city's water plants add 1.5 milligrams of zinc orthophosphate to each liter of water. The compound, deemed safe by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, forms a protective coating in the lines and household plumbing.

Each year, Westerfield said, the water division spends $15 million to rehabilitate or replace less than 1 percent of its pipes.

"We're funded at a rate that's assuming the pipes will last more than 100 years."

Across the state, there are 7,670 miles of natural-gas transmission lines and 54,000 miles of distribution lines.

Columbia Gas has 19,161 miles of pipe in 60 counties.

"About 4,000 miles are pipes of steel or cast iron, put in the ground pre-1940 and are near the end of their useful life," company spokesman Ken Stammen said.

Columbia is in the midst of a 25-year, $2 billion program to replace the old lines with plastic or treated metal pipes.

The costs of dealing with corrosion are staggering. But the alternative is worse.

Corrosion has been blamed in natural-gas pipeline explosions, collapsed bridges and crumbling parking garages. Oil spills from ruptured pipelines have damaged wildlife, natural resources and drinking water supplies.

The military estimates that it spends $20 billion to $30 billion annually to fight corrosion of its ships, planes and other machines.

Small wonder the Department of Defense has provided $1.9 million in grants to the University of Akron to create the country's first four-year undergraduate program in corrosion engineering.

The major will be offered as early as in the fall of 2010, said George Haritos, dean of the College of Engineering at Akron.

Meanwhile, scientists are continuing to seek better corrosion protection.

Battelle, for example, has made a coating of nanomaterials that, layered between the primer and top-coat on airplane skins, lights up when corrosion is present.

An early-warning system could enable airlines and the military to make cheaper repairs and reduce flight risk.

Doug Hansen, a senior scientist at the University of Dayton Research Institute, is leading an effort to grow the material that forms oyster shells on the wings of planes, artificial joints and implants.

His team has manipulated oyster blood cells to deposit a thin, salt-water resistant coating of mother-of-pearl on aluminum. At Sheffield Hallam University in England, researchers recently announced that they had encapsulated spores from certain bacteria in a coating that protects aluminum alloys from microbial corrosion, a particular menace for sea vessels.

msomerson@dispatch.com

"The problem is, once (rust) starts, it spreads like wildfire."

Jim Pajk
Franklin County bridge engineer


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Jack Plymale - Passing Thoughts

Jack,

Profundidity is your blessing, good friend Jack.

Kruschev said he could take us without firing a shot. Osama believes that and is doing so before our very eyes.

God help America... and in the ultimate end, I believe He will. It was just impossible to create Heaven on earth among us humans, but the USA became very close due to Christ-centered, open-minded leaders who stressed "principles".

Thanks again!

Sam

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack H Plymale"

Sent: Saturday, May 23, 2009 10:51 AM
Subject: Passing thoughts


> H.L. Mencken is credited with the statement that ,"you will never go
> broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people." It
> could very well be that the different radical groups like the weather
> underground, black panthers, Students for a democratic society( where
> there are/ were interlocking directors, in many cases) have seen it
> impossible to violently overthrow the U,S. government and have
> conjured up other methods to accomplish the same end, like complete
> financial insolvency. The friendship of our president with William
> Ayers, through the years, would certainly leave the door open for that
> kind of thinking.With the vast national debt incurred during the Bush
> administration and the present guys astronomical spending program can
> do nothing but leave us a weakened nation for who can tell how long,
> maybe irrecoverably weakened.In any case pure vindictiveness on the
> part of ,thus far frustrated, guy like Ayers and his close association
> with Obama through the years is surely a cause for apprehension.
>
> --
> Jack P.

We have obtained PagePlus cell phones and they are now activated:

Jeanie- 614-653-0505

Sam- 614-653-0525

We cannot access in Southern Ohio, most of WV and most of KY.

It is a pay as you go plan.

Sam

Cristo Redentor and my spelling Correction

Blank CORRECTION:

Sadly for me, most of you will neither see nor read my latest book- "Grandparents and Softball". Hint- It may be purchased locally from major bookstores at about $11. It is my first try at fiction and is subtitled: "Girls Love Softball". I send this story on Cristo Redentor because I, quite inadvertently, misspelled the name three times in one paragraph on page 55 of the small book.

My real claim to fame, which I am darn near the only person aware of, is as Scioto County's Spelling Champion (Ohio) among grade schoolers in about 1944 or thereabouts. Things are never as good as we remember and probably never were- or some cliché" close to that.

Sam


July 9, 2007—The 105-foot-tall (38-meter-tall) "Christ the Redeemer" statue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, was among the "new seven wonders of the world" announced July 7 following a global poll to decide a new list of human-made marvels.
The winners were voted for by Internet and phone, American Idol style. The other six new wonders are the Colosseum in Rome, India's Taj Mahal, the Great Wall of China, Jordan's ancient city of Petra, the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu in Peru, and the ancient Maya city of Chichén Itzá in Mexico.

The contest was organized by the New7Wonders Foundation—the brainchild of Swiss filmmaker and museum curator Bernard Weber—in order to "protect humankind's heritage across the globe." The foundation says the poll attracted almost a hundred million votes.

Yet the competition has proved controversial, drawing criticism from the United Nations' cultural organization UNESCO, which administers the World Heritage sites program (pictures of the newest World Heritage sites).

"This initiative cannot, in any significant and sustainable manner, contribute to the preservation of sites elected by [the] public," UNESCO said in a statement.

—James Owen