At Eugene, Oregon:
Quarterback Marcus Mariola threw for a career-high 456 yards and four touchdowns and ran for another score as the #2-ranked (in both the Associated Press and USA Today/Coaches polls) Oregon Ducks (3-0) mauled the visiting Tennessee Volunteers (2-1; they would be ranked 39th in the AP poll, 44th in the Coaches' poll) 59-14 on Saturday.
Don Nelson, the younger brother of Ozzie Nelson and a writer for the classic 1952-66 television sitcom series, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, passed away on Tuesday of an aortic aneurysm on Tuesday at his Studio City, California home at age 86.
Mr. Nelson had Parkinson's disease.
A jazz saxophonist who, for a brief time, worked in Ozzie's orchestra, Don was co-writer on his brother's family's lone feature-length film, 1952's "Here Come The Nelsons." The movie helped set the stage for the ABC Network TV series (itself a video version of a successful radio show), which launched that fall.
Don wound up outliving all four principal cast members; brother Ozzie (who passed away from liver cancer in 1975), nephew Rick, whose trademark catchphrase "I don't mess around, boy" was dreamed up by Uncle Don (plane crash, 1985), sister-in-law Harriet (1994), and older nephew David (2011).
A sex-change operation?!
Naw, just a rebranding of an existing cable network.
At Winnipeg, Manitoba:
Will Ford ran back a kickoff 98 yards for a touchdown helped spark the Winnipeg Blue Bombers (2-8) to a 25-13 Sunday Canadian Football League home win over the Saskatchewan Roughriders (8-2) in the inaugural edition of the Banjo Bowl played in front of a sellout crowd at Investors Group Field.
At San Francisco:
In the National Football League regular-season opener for both teams, quarterback Colin Kaepernick threw for a career-high 412 yards and three touchdowns, two to Vernon Davis and one to newcomer Anquan Boldin (who caught 13 passes for 412 yards) while Frank Gore ran for the game-winning TD with 5:47 remaining in regulation as the San Francisco 49ers defeated the visiting Green Bay Packers 34-28.
Following their lopsided Saturday victory at Virginia, the Oregon Ducks remained at #2 (with one first-place vote) in the Associated Press (media) poll while climbing up a spot to the same position in the USA Today/Coaches rankings (also with a first-place vote), trailing only Alabama in both polls.
Despite their home win over Hawaii, the Oregon State Beavers remained unranked with nary a vote for support in either poll.
At Portland, Oregon:
Kalif Alhassan (45'+1), Rodney Wallace (83'), Will Johnson (87'), and Diego Valeri (90'+3) provided the scoring as the Portland Timbers busted open a tight game and dominated visiting Toronto FC 4-0 in Saturday Major League Soccer play. The victory, with goalkeeper Milos Kokic picking up the shutout in place of international-duty-bound Donovan Ricketts, was the Timbers first ever in four tries against the Reds.
Portland will visiting Chivas USA at the StubHub Center in Carson, California next Saturday.
Quarterback Sean Mannion threw for 372 yards and four touchdowns----two of them to Brandin Cooks---as the Oregon State Beavers (1-1) bounced back from their upset defeat to Eastern Washington with a 33-14 Saturday home win over the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors (0-2).
At Charlottesville, Virginia:
De'Anthony Thomas ran fro 124 yards and three touchdowns while quarterback Marcus Mariota threw for two scores and ran 71 yards for another on Saturday as the Oregon Ducks
(2-0; #2 in the Associated Press poll, #3 in the USA Today/Coaches rankings) manhandled the Virginia Cavaliers (1-1; they would be ranked #39 in the AP poll) 59-10 on the road. The Ducks, one week after gaining a school-record 777 yards in their annihilation of Nicholls State, picked up 557 yards against the Cavaliers.
1950's-era PSA from the National Safety Council.
Here's a made-for-television Mr. Magoo cartoon from UPA in 1960, "A Day At The Beach." In this one, our nearsighted hero thinks he, his houseboy Charlie, and his cat Bowser (whom Quincy mistakes for a dog) are going to the beach. This cartoon, in its' original undubbed version, was directed by Ray Patterson and written by ex-Disneyites Al Bertino and Dick Kinney. Jim Backus, of course, stars as the voice of Mr. Quincy Magoo.
In this rare find from 1956, here are The Bop Chords with "When I Woke Up This Morning."
Lead vocal on this Holiday Records recording by Ernest Harriston.
From circe 1958, a commercial featuring various brands of Nabisco snacks.
From the circa 1964, here are NFL players Don Meredith (Dallas Cowboys), Ron Kramer (Green Bay Packers), Charley Johnson (St. Louis Cardinals), and Roman Gabriel (Los Angeles Rams) in a commercial from Personna Razor Blades.
One question: Just what were Cuckoo Razor Blades?
In the newest Associated Press (media) poll, the Oregon Ducks, following their Saturday annihilation of Nicholls State, climbed past Ohio State into #2 in the rankings, trailing only Alabama. The Ducks remained at #3 in the USA Today/Coaches poll. As for Oregon State, following their upset home defeat at the hands of Eastern Washington, the Beavers, who were ranked 25th in both polls coming into this past weekend's action, wound up with no votes whatsoever in either poll.
Here is the February 19, 1957 CBS Network telecast, Do You Trust Your Wife?, hosted by Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy. Later that year, the show changed networks (to ABC) and hosts (Johnny Carson) and by 1958 was renamed Who Do You Trust?
In a commercial shown originally during the closing moments of a 1963 CBS Network telecast of The New Phil Silvers Show, here's Phil with how to get Post Toasties out of an ear of corn.
Hell, Andy Griffith and Bugs Bunny did the same.
Here's a 1957 commercial for Charmin Paper Towels, a Proctor and Gamble product.
At Regina, Saskatchewan:
Kory Sheets, Taj Smith, and Geroy Simon each scored a pair of touchdowns as the Saskatchewan Roughriders (8-1) reached the midway point of their Canadian Football League campaign with a 48-25 home domination of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers (1-8) before a sellout crowd of 44,910 fans at Mosaic Stadium.
Sir David Frost, the British television personality best remembered for his 1977 televised interviews with former President Richard M. Nixon, passed away on Saturday of an apparent heart attack at age 74, while aboard the Queen Elizabeth cruise ship, where he was scheduled to give a speech.
Mr. Frost was a regular on the BBC's satirical comedy series That Was The Week That Was. After the BBC took the show of the air, Sir David came to America and became, first a regular, then the host, of NBC's version of TW3 (1964-65).
He later hosted a syndicated TV talk show.
It was in 1977 that Sir David conducted his interviews with former President Nixon. When asked about his abuses of presidential power, Mr. Nixon came up with this answer, "Well, when the president does it, that means it is not illegal."
In his last years, Sir David conducted interviews with newsmakers for Al Jazeera English.
