Rivals' All-Camp Offense
Rivals puts out its All-Camp offensive teams. Some player of note: Garnett and Magnuson are second-team and Shane Morris, Ben Braden, Steve Elmer, and Jordan Payton are honorable mention.
http://highschool.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1250085
August 18th, 2011 at 11:28 AM ^
There's a rising sophomore on the second team at running back! Two class of 2013 guys made first team OL.
August 18th, 2011 at 11:28 AM ^
but this is necessary. You don't change the word just to fit your apostrophe. Apostrophe goes on the outside. The word doesn't become singular in this case, nor does it lose the purpose of its original s. Rivals' All-Camp Offense, the Jones' house, Kovacs' interception.
August 18th, 2011 at 11:42 AM ^
I made a mistake. It is corrected now.
August 18th, 2011 at 11:35 AM ^
Not necessarily necessary...just saying.
August 18th, 2011 at 11:40 AM ^
That actually depends on the style of grammar that you're using. In this case it differs between MLA and Chicago. The OP could have written it as, "Rivals's" also.
August 18th, 2011 at 11:49 AM ^
at the end of a singular noun ending in "s."
Unless you're using a style guide that is wrong.
August 18th, 2011 at 1:04 PM ^
says...
http://zannr.hubpages.com/hub/AP-Style-Basics
"possessives - The main AP exception to Strunk and White's Elements of Style involves forming the possessive of a singular proper noun that ends in "s." AP says merely add an apostrophe. Examples: Otis' cookies, Amos' ice cream, Charles' chips."
I write for a newspaper, so I use AP. Chicago is a pain in the dick, quite frankly.
August 18th, 2011 at 1:17 PM ^
Shouldn't this be more based on how you pronounce it? If it ends with an s that sounds like a z and is more than one syllable, then don't put the extra s after the apostrophe because it'd be pronounced Rivalses. In your examples:
Otis's reads Otises, which is fine. Amos's reads Amoses, which is also fine. Charles's would read Charleses, which is awful, so leave off the extra s.
If we're talking about Taz, and he's got a nasty dust tornado, that's Taz's tornado.
August 18th, 2011 at 12:56 PM ^
this at approximately 0% necessary, and 100% annoying.
August 18th, 2011 at 1:05 PM ^
100 percent necessary and only 100 percent annoying if you're not a stickler for proper use of the English language.
August 18th, 2011 at 11:35 AM ^
This was posted last week or the week before
August 18th, 2011 at 11:37 AM ^
I hadn't seen this before, but of the 15 campers that Rivals rates as 'strongest' nationwide, three are committed to U-M (Braden, Godin, Pipkins) and Danny O'Brien is on there, too. Tremendous strength.
August 18th, 2011 at 11:50 AM ^
Here is the defense http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/pipkins-named-rivals-all-camp-team-1st-team
And here is the offense http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/magnuson-gets-little-bit-love-rivals
August 18th, 2011 at 11:58 AM ^
My apologies. I saw the defense thread, but must have missed the other thread and didn't see it on a search.
August 18th, 2011 at 11:53 AM ^
Sounds like Ben Braden will probably get a 4th star.
August 18th, 2011 at 1:21 PM ^
If you have a Scout membership, you can see and Allen Trieu scouting report of Ben Braden's performance at Rockford's scrimmage...
here: http://hsmichigan.scout.com/2/1096783.html
In short summary:
Pros: strong and athletic in pass pro, can dominate in run blocking at will, massive frame
Cons: mean streak
He will get his 4th star, IME.
August 18th, 2011 at 1:40 PM ^
Does listing mean streak as a con mean that he doesn't have one? Because if he does, I don't see it as a bad thing at all.
August 18th, 2011 at 1:49 PM ^
Trieu said he needed to be more nasty on the field, that at his size and with his altheticism, he should punish the sorry souls who get in his way. Or something to that effect.