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  Gridiron - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gridiron football -- either the field on which the football game is played, or the game itself.
A gridiron is also a type of grill that can be used to cook meat or other food over a fire.
A gridiron pendulum is a part of a pendulum clock as designed by John Harrison
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gridiron   (140 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: The Gridiron Menu: A Buffet of Guffaws   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
For last night's Gridiron Club dinner, the president was absent but accounted for down at the ranch.
He was treated to an evening of skits lampooning Halliburton, the hunt for Osama, gay marriage, presidential advisers, Democratic primary candidates and a certain former first lady, who was portrayed in Elizabethan neck ruff as Her Royal Highness Hillary.
Gridiron member Jack Nelson, former bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times, offered a composite review, based on representative sampling with more than the usual margin of error.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A37501-2004Mar7?language=printer   (1298 words)

  
 GridIron Software   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
“GridIron’s mission is to get distributed computing out of the lab and into mainstream use,” said GridIron co-founder, President and CTO Steve Forde.
GridIron has also chosen to follow an innovative business model, offering GridIron under an open license patterned closely after the open source movement.
GridIron’s mission is to foster mainstream adoption of high performance computing by making it profoundly simple to develop and use software applications with the added speed of distributed computing.
www.gridiron-networks.com /corporate/news/xlr8_release.asp   (534 words)

  
 Bayside Ravens Gridiron Club   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Ravens are a Bayside based club formed in June 2000, competing in the Gridiron Queensland competition for the first time in 2001.
Gridiron Queensland held it's Annual Awards Night on Saturday, with a number of Ravens earning individual honours for their performance in 2005.
Don't forget that Gridiron Queensland is the official Australian DIstributor of Schutt Sports quality equipment, with a range of helmets, shoulder pads and personal pads available at great prices, including the sensational new Schutt DNA helmet.
eteamz.active.com /baysideravens/index.cfm   (1754 words)

  
 Gridiron Challenge: Frontpage
The 2005 version of Gridiron Challenge is back.
Gridiron Challenge is but one of the many great games ESPN.com offers for the football season.
If the college game is for you, play Thursday Night College Football Challenge, or College Pickem.
games.espn.go.com /gridiron/frontpage   (199 words)

  
 Gridiron   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Anyone who has seen a gridiron -- and that includes most governors, senators, congressmen, mayors, college presidents and civic and business leaders in the past sixty years -- knows the distinctive format: humorous topical lyrics to familiar songs and a script written in rhymed couplets.
Proceeds from the Gridiron go into a trust fund that provides scholarships for jounalism students at the area colleges.
The schools that have benefited from Gridiron scholarships in recent years include The University of Tulsa (at the University Center at Tulsa) and Tulsa Junior College.
www.tulsapressclub.org /events/gridiron.cfm   (334 words)

  
 Gridiron Gourmet Barbecue Sauce
Proceeds from the sale of the Gridiron Gourmet BBQ Sauce and Charlie Sanders' book "Tales From the Detroit Lions" will be donated to the Family2Family Foundation.
The NFL has given approval for the use of their logo, and Gridiron Barbecue Sauce is available at Detroit Lions' souvenir stands as well.
Gridiron Barbecue Sauce has become so popular in the Michigan area that many restaurants and hospitals have begun using it on a regular basis.
www.sitedevelopers.com /gridironbbq   (521 words)

  
 7.30 Report - 4/8/1999: Gridiron comes to Australia
Before he was paid $1 million a year by the San Diego Chargers just to kick a ball in a three-hour game of gridiron, he used to play for Melbourne in the AFL.
PETER FITZSIMONS: When I first saw gridiron and when I first looked at it, I was staring at it for about three hours.
DOUG QUINN: We've got to continue to be in the schools, we've got to continue to work with the governments and those kind of people, to really raise the awareness of it and the participation of the sport of American football.
www.abc.net.au /7.30/stories/s41614.htm   (1092 words)

  
 GridIron Software   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
GridIron's unique application-embedded approach requires no special skills for end-users to deploy and yields tremendous benefit with as little as two computers, allowing the benefits of grid computing to be realized for the first time in non-traditional markets, such as digital content creation.
GridIron XLR8 features a unique, patent pending peer-to-peer architecture that allows the computers to discover each other and automatically set up a processing network, distribute work, and recover from failure.
GridIron is a software development company whose mission is to bring the power of high performance computing to the mainstream by making it profoundly simple to develop and use software applications with the added speed of distributed grid computing.
www.gridironsoftware.com /corporate/news/xlr8_adobe_release.asp   (571 words)

  
 GridIron Rathole Drilling: News
Utilizing an intuitive, clean design, Gridiron's Web site visitors have quick access to the Company's contact information as well the ability to browse industry news headlines through an xml feed from Rigzone, a leading resource for the oil and gas industry.
Gridiron’s field operations staff has over 20 years of experience in the rathole business and are capable of meeting all on-site conditions and demands.
Gridiron's vision of success is based on expert performance, quality workmanship, professional service, pro-active safety standards, superior business acumen and operational efficiency through the use of well-equipped, modern rigs.
www.gridiron.ca /pressrelease.asp   (322 words)

  
 New GridIron X-Factor Release Extending Use of Grid Computing for Improved Digital Video Production Now Available
GridIron X-Factor is an extension for Adobe After Effects that provides faster preview processing and rendering of motion graphics and effects for film, video, DVD and the Web.
GridIron X-Factor 1.5 accommodates network storage configurations and allows the benefit of faster processing and rendering to be realized without requiring compute nodes to have high-capacity disc drives.
GridIron X-Factor 1.5 is available for both Windows and Macintosh(R) OS X. GridIron is a software development company whose mission is to bring the power of high performance computing to the mainstream by making it profoundly simple to develop and use desktop software applications with the added speed of distributed grid computing.
www10.dcccafe.com /nbc/articles/view_article.php?section=CorpNews&articleid=166141   (995 words)

  
 gridiron football --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Gridiron football evolved from English rugby and soccer (association football); it differs from soccer chiefly in allowing players to touch, throw, and carry the ball with their hands, and it differs from rugby in allowing each side to control the ball in alternating...
Though the IRFU still referred to their sport as rugby football, the member clubs played a gridiron style of football.
The gridiron football played in Canada closely resembles the U.S. game, but it developed independently, and, overshadowed by ice hockey, it never achieved equal national importance.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9108490?tocId=9108490   (776 words)

  
 OKC Gridiron -- Welcome
Jane Hall, a Gridiron member since 1998, is an actress and all-around trooper.
Sue Perry, dragged into Gridiron by her husband in 2000, works for NBA Oklahoma Christian Home in Edmond.
After being on the periphery of Gridiron for years, helping her husband with tickets and scholarships, Jean Schmidt was formally inducted into membership in 2005.
www.okcgridiron.org /cast.htm   (838 words)

  
 Hoosier Gridiron
Hoosier Gridiron provides this publication, free of charge, to hundreds of college football coaches throughout the United States to use in aiding their recruiting efforts.
Attending a Hoosier Gridiron Combine provides participants with the opportunity to be viewed by college coaches while performing a series of athletic testing events and while participating in various football position demonstration skills.
Hoosier Gridiron is the only high school football combine in the Midwest to have the participation of NCAA staff members.
www.enter.hoosierdiamond.com /Gridiron.htm   (662 words)

  
 Read Easy Rules of Gridiron   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Australians seeing the game for the first time often feel confused as Gridiron is a highly technical game.
Simply put, the defenders work to cover the offense while the offense tries to beat the defensive coverage.
Gridiron Australia Limited recognises and thanks the NSWGFL for the use of these Read Easy Rules
www.gridironaustralia.org.au /rules.htm   (759 words)

  
 Gridiron: UTS Union
UTS Gridiron Football Club is a well-organised club that competes in the NSWGFL (NSW Gridiron Football League), Australia's premier gridiron competition.
UTS Gridiron is one of the best equipped and organised gridiron clubs in Australia, offering members access to high quality equipment, coaching and facilities.
Membership is not exclusive to UTS students or graduates, so if you are interested in being a part of "The UTS Gridiron Experience", don't delay, e-mail us today at info@utsgridiron.com, or phone us on 0500 556 667.
www.utsunion.uts.edu.au /sport/clubs/gridiron   (456 words)

  
 Gridiron Australia National Championships 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Gridiron Australia recently announced that current NSW State Head Coach, Paul Manera has been appointed Head Coach of the Australian Outback Senior Team for 2005/2006.
It was an improvement over their 4th place finish in 2001 but well short of their efforts in 1996 where they claimed the inaugural Gridiron Australia National Championship, both tournaments held in Canberra.
Gridiron Australia has the great pleasure in announcing that Director Stephen Komnacki and Director Peter Farrar have been appointed to the National's Organising Committee.
eteamz.active.com /ganationals/index.cfm   (1739 words)

  
 Gridiron
The 43rd annual Gridiron Show honoring Gov. Kathleen Blanco was held Oct. 2, 2004 at Xavier University.
Gridiron Show Director Ken Ferguson, playing Edwin Edwards, who infiltrates a debate with Dick Cheney, declaring that "no one is better prepared to be President of Vice than myself"
The Gridiron Show could not be presented without its dedicated cast, some have been players in the show for more than a decade.
members.cox.net /pressclubneworleans/Gridiron.htm   (299 words)

  
 Search Results for gridiron - Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Gridiron football evolved from English rugby and soccer (association football); it differs from...
The cup was first awarded in 1910 by Earl Grey, governor-general of Canada, to represent the...
cup awarded annually to the outstanding college gridiron football player in the United States as determined by a poll of sportswriters.
www.britannica.com /search?query=gridiron&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT   (330 words)

  
 Gridiron guests worthy of endurance award - The Washington Times: Entertainment - March 14, 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Welcome to the 120th annual Gridiron Club Dinner, where hambone journalists get to do three hours of vaudeville skits, supposedly "to singe but never burn" the high-level government officials they cover.
The annual white-tie roast at the Capital Hilton is a must-attend event for the president of the United States (every president since Grover Cleveland has shown up) and his spouse, who are forced to endure endless barbs while appearing to be entertained.
While the Gridiron traditionally sets the high bar for so-called Washington "roasts," Saturday night's event never came close to that telling moment -- although we are here to report the highlights nonetheless.
washingtontimes.com /entertainment/20050313-091431-3533r.htm   (739 words)

  
 Biff's Gridiron Diary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
This is his first novel, and his interests include gridiron and social outings.
When asked if he thought he would ever be using his Classical English skills to edit a gridiron player's memoirs, he remarked "[it's] like some kind of dream, that I don't seem to be able to wake up from".
He was unavailable for comment at time of publication, but through lawyers has communicated a desire for a "quick and easy settlement, having always desired a large ocean-going craft of some type".
www.geocities.com /biffsdiary   (213 words)

  
 GridIron Heroes
When you first hear the words "Gridiron Heroes" a picture of football's greatest players is most likely the very first image that appears in your mind.
For these young men and their families most days begin with grueling regimens that require assistance in having to do the most basic functions of life.
Paralysis, difficulty in breathing, and many more serious health concerns are but a few of the challenges our "Gridiron Heroes" face every day.
www.gridironheroes.org   (223 words)

  
 The Tiger Gridiron Club - a support group for the LSU football program
The Tiger Gridiron Club is a support group for the LSU football program.
The Tiger Gridiron Club is a unique way to support the LSU football program while building friendships with other loyal Tiger fans.
The Tiger Gridiron members were invited to the August 20th scrimmage in Tiger Stadium.
www.tigergridiron.org   (745 words)

  
 Columnist's Gridiron Dinner Behavior Irks Bush Officials -- 04/02/2002
But one national columnist and critic of President Bush and his policies reportedly couldn't abide by the long-standing spirit of the Gridiron Club festivities, and his behavior at the March 9 event still has some Bush administration officials buzzing with criticism and disbelief.
In disputing the eyewitness accounts of his appearance at the Gridiron Club Dinner, Krugman claimed he was the target of "witch hunting," and said criticism of him was "silly."
While the question of Krugman's Gridiron behavior may be subject to debate, his criticism of President Bush and his policies is well documented.
www.cnsnews.com /ViewNation.asp?Page=\Nation\archive\200204\NAT20020402a.html   (925 words)

  
 Cyclone Gridiron Club - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Cyclone Gridiron Club is now offering membership payments via automatic debits from your checking account.
The Cyclone Gridiron Board is making an effort to expand the CGC tailgates and to have opposing fans join us at the tailgates.
Volunteers are needed for the Cyclone Gridiron Club Golf Classic on Friday, June 4th.
www.cyclonegridironclub.com /news.default.asp   (437 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Journalists, politicos attend annual Gridiron Dinner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Bush's closing remarks underscored a feeling among Gridiron members that current topics of the day do not easily lend themselves to levity.
The Gridiron Club, consisting of 60 Washington newspaper bureau chiefs, columnists, reporters, cartoonists and editors, exists only for the annual roasting of politicos.
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, a heart surgeon from Tennessee, used a model and a pointer to demonstrate how the legislative journey compares to the human digestive system — starting at the mouth, or introduction of legislation, and ending at the other end — where everything comes out.
www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2003-03-08-gridiron_x.htm   (485 words)

  
 Cyclone Gridiron Club - Home
The Club wants to provide its members and other Cyclone fans with as many travel opportunities as possible to watch the Cyclones and/or travel with the coaches.
Join the Cyclone Gridiron Club for a pre-game tailgate when the Cyclones host the OSU Cowboys at Jack Trice Stadium on Saturday, October 22nd.
This Saturday the Cyclone Gridiron Club Tailgate will be located in Lot S-4 which is south and just to the east of the
www.cyclonegridironclub.com   (341 words)

  
 CNN.com - The Gridiron Club roasts national leaders - Mar. 8, 2003
On a night full of laughs and lampooning, thoughts of a looming war were not straying far from center stage for much of official Washington.
In white tie and tails, President Bush and other political leaders convened Saturday for the 118th annual Gridiron dinner, a ritual songfest that features journalists with outlandish costumes and untrained voices lampooning the leaders and topics of the day.
Since the Gridiron was founded in 1885, every president, save Grover Cleveland, has shown up for a ribbing.
cnn.com /2003/US/Northeast/03/08/gridiron.ap   (543 words)

  
 Gridiron Goblins
Now alumni and fans can enjoy these festivities even more with Gridiron Goblins™, pumpkin carving templates that feature college and university logos, mascots, coaches, and more.
In just three years, Gridiron Goblins™ raised nearly $50,000 for Community Service programs sponsored by the University of Notre Dame Alumni Association.
Template images are the original design and property of Gridiron Goblins, LLC and may not be reproduced or resold without written permission.
www.gridirongoblins.com   (223 words)

  
 Football Coaching Magazine - GRIDIRON Coach Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In its 14th year, GRIDIRON Coach is the oldest football professional journal of its kind!
st published in 1991, GRIDIRON Coach is a bi-monthly publication that focuses on providing top notch editorial for the football coach, player and enthusiast.
The articles are written by coaches and are generally adaptable to any football program.
www.gridironpublications.com   (171 words)

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