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Sprint football

Sprint football is a varsity sport played by United States colleges and universities, under standard American football rules. Since the 2022 season, the sport has been governed by the Collegiate Sprint Football League and the Midwest Sprint Football League.

In sprint football, players must weigh less than 178 lb (81 kg) and have a minimum of 5% body fat to be eligible to play. The end result of these weight restrictions is an emphasis on speed and agility rather than on size and strength.

Competition
As of the upcoming 2024 season, nine schools play in the CSFL and seven in the Midwest Sprint Football League. Of the nine CSFL members, six are private universities (two being schools in the Ivy League) and two are national military academies. All seven MSFL members are private institutions. CSFL member Mansfield University of Pennsylvania is the only state university or college currently playing sprint football.

CSFL
All CSFL teams are located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. Eight schools joined in the 21st century, one in 2008, six in the 2010s, and one in 2024. Five will be active in sprint football in the 2024 season. Of these new members, three no longer sponsor the sport, Franklin Pierce University, which joined in 2012, transitioned to full-sized football in NCAA Division II after the 2018 season, Post University, which joined in 2010, did the same after the canceled 2020 season, and Alderson Broaddus University, which joined in 2019 and also fielded a full-sized football team, dropped all athletics and departed the CSFL in 2023. Of the other 21st-century arrivals, no other current members also field a full-size varsity football team. The other four teams (all of which have been in the CSFL since 1957) have full-size football teams that compete in NCAA Division I, the service academies in FBS, and the Ivy League schools in FCS. Each team plays a seven-game season. It is not uncommon for the CSFL teams to play against full-size junior varsity or club football squads from other schools in the early part of the season (in 2015, for instance, Navy faced the Longwood Lancers).

Army, Cornell, Princeton, and Penn all hold alumni games in which sprint football alumni return to campus for a full-contact scrimmage against the varsity squad. The alumni games serve the dual purpose of raising funds to support the team and maintaining alumni interest in the program. Typically, the alumni have to donate a monetary weight penalty (e.g., $2 per pound) for weighing above the 178-pound limit. In 2017, when Caldwell joined, the CSFL was split into two divisions, the North and the South. On December 7, 2017, St. Thomas Aquinas College was announced as the tenth team in the league, to begin play in the 2018 season. After that season, Franklin Pierce left to play full-sized football and was replaced by Alderson Broaddus. However, in 2023, Alderson Broaddus' authorization to grant degrees was revoked, and they were required to drop all athletics, including their sprint football program. The newest CSFL member is Molloy University, a Division II member which will add the sport in the 2024 season.

As of 2023, only one charter member of the league remains, the Penn Quakers. The Princeton Tigers dropped the sport after 2015, following 16 consecutive years of winless seasons (an organized football record) and changes in league membership, and shifted its resources to club football. A number of other Ivy League schools have historically had sprint football teams, including the Yale Bulldogs, Harvard Crimson, and Columbia Lions, all of whom had dropped the sport many years earlier; of the Ivy League schools, only Penn and the Cornell Big Red remain.

For its first 83 seasons, the CSFL did not sponsor playoff or bowl games (a tradition due in no small part to the Ivy League schools, who, like the rest of the Ivy League, abstain from all football postseason play to encourage academic performance). The season championship was decided solely by the regular season record; if multiple teams were tied atop the standings, all of them shared the championship. Since Navy's and Army's respective admissions to the league, those two schools have dominated the league; of the 72 seasons of lightweight football since Navy joined, they and/or Army have won at least a share of the league title in 76 of them, including stretches of 20 consecutive seasons from 1955–74 and 17 straight from 1983–99. Since the 2017 season, a championship game has been held on Veterans Day weekend.

Although CSFL and MSFL teams are considered varsity teams and official school-sponsored sports for the purpose of the NCAA, sprint football teams do not fall into the same divisional structure as other NCAA sports and thus do not follow the same rules or restrictions on athletic scholarships as traditional college football squads are bound to follow.

In April 2020, the CSFL chose Dan Mara, also Commissioner of the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) as Commissioner. In July of that year, the league voted to not play a fall 2020 season out of concern over the COVID-19 pandemic, over the objections of Army and Navy, who indicated an intent to continue play without the other eight teams. In addition to a single Army-Navy game in the fall, Caldwell and St. Thomas Aquinas played a single game in spring 2021. The league resumed normal operations in fall 2021.

MSFL
The MSFL was formed in 2021, with play starting in 2022, by six private institutions in the Midwest and Upper South. The league has its own bylaws and championship, but uses the same weight limits as the CSFL. The creation of the MSFL was touted as "the largest single-year expansion of the sport in nearly 90 years." Of the inaugural members, all are Catholic except for Midway University. The only NCAA Division I member is Bellarmine University, which was transitioning from NCAA Division II when the MSFL was formed. Quincy University, a Division II member, is the only charter MSFL member that also plays full-sized football. Three other charter members are NAIA members. Fontbonne University is the only charter member that no longer plays the sport; the NCAA Division III member played in the first two MSFL seasons before announcing its closure at the end of the 2024–25 academic year.

The league added two members, both private institutions, after its first season. Oakland City University, an NAIA member that does not play full-sized football, announced on July 19, 2022 that it was adding sprint football for the 2023 season. In the process, it became the MSFL's second non-Catholic member, instead being affiliated with the General Baptist churches. Exactly three months later, Walsh University, a Catholic institution and NCAA Division II member that plays full-sized football, announced it would also add sprint football for 2023.

The most recent change in MSFL membership was the departure of Fontbonne after the 2023 season. While it has yet to issue an official release regarding the dropping of sprint football, it was not included in the 2024 MSFL schedule.

Weight limit
CSFL rules, also used by the MSFL, require that players must weigh no more than 178 lb, a figure that has slowly increased from its original 150 lb as the weight of the American college student has increased over the course of the league's existence. League rules specify official weigh-ins four days and two days before each game. Players must weigh 178 lb four days and 2 days prior to game day. Players are allowed to gain weight back after meeting the weight limit

Notable players

 * Hoodie Allen (Steven Markowitz), American rapper, played defensive back at Penn.
 * Joseph Robinette "Beau" Biden III (1969-2015), US Army veteran (Bronze Star) former Attorney General of Delaware, and eldest child of Joe Biden, played at Penn.
 * Antonio Buehler, civil liberties activist battling police corruption, Founder of Peaceful Streets Project. (United States Military Academy)
 * Jimmy Carter, former US President, played for the United States Naval Academy.
 * C. J. Chivers, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author; played for Cornell
 * Zach Iscol, US Marine Corps veteran (Bronze Star), entrepreneur, candidate in the 2021 New York City Comptroller election; played for Cornell.
 * Robert Kraft, billionaire businessman and owner of the New England Patriots and the New England Revolution. (Columbia University)
 * Richard W. Mies, US Navy Admiral (Defense Distinguished Service Medal); played for Navy
 * Donald Rumsfeld, former Secretary of Defense, played sprint football for Princeton and was a captain.
 * Vincent Viola, billionaire businessman, philanthropist. (United States Military Academy)
 * Brian Bulatao, former CIA Executive Officer (COO), businessman (United States Military Academy)

Notable coaches

 * George Allen, Pro Football Hall of Fame coach, most notably with the Washington Redskins, was an assistant sprint football coach at the University of Michigan in 1947.
 * Jack Cloud, College Football Hall of Famer, former NFL player (in 1990); Cloud came to the Naval Academy in 1959 and spent the next 32 years in Annapolis coaching football, and the head lightweight (now called sprint) football coach from 1958–61, 1963–72, and 1980–82, in addition to teaching in the Physical Education Department.
 * Dick Harter, college and NBA head coach, coached at Penn from 1958–1964.
 * Tim McGuire, American football college coach; defensive coordinator for Navy
 * Jack McCloskey, college and NBA head coach, coached at Penn from 1954–1955.
 * Sean Morey, former NFL player, coached the Princeton sprint squad for its last two seasons of existence.
 * Tony Franklin, former OC at Cal, Kentucky, Auburn, among others, offensive coordinator for Army West Point 2022.
 * Mike Siani, played wide receiver for the Oakland Raiders and Baltimore Colts; was the quarterbacks and wide receivers coach for Princeton.
 * Eric Tipton, College Football Hall of Famer, Major League Baseball outfielder (1939–1945); Tipton was an assistant baseball and football coach at the College of William & Mary for 18 seasons, and then was the head baseball coach and Lightweight football coach at the United States Military Academy.
 * William Wagner, Head Coach of Sprint Football at University of Pennsylvania from 1970-2019. During nearly five decades at the helm of Quaker Sprint Football, Wagner amassed 136 career wins and led his program to five Collegiate Sprint Football League titles. Wagner also served as an assistant coach for the UPenn baseball team for 35 years of his tenure.

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Puerto Ayora

Puerto Ayora is a town in central Galápagos, Ecuador. Located on the southern shore of Santa Cruz Island, it is the seat of Santa Cruz Canton. The town is named in honor of Isidro Ayora, an Ecuadorian president. The town is sometimes mistakenly referred to as Santa Cruz. Puerto Ayora is the most populous town in the Galápagos Islands, with a population of 12,696.

Climate
Puerto Ayora has a protected location, along the shores of Academy Bay, where a refreshing breeze often provides pleasant weather. Temperatures vary between 18 and 29 C. The hot season usually runs from December to May.

Infrastructure
Puerto Ayora has the best developed infrastructure in the archipelago. The larger of the two Galápagos banks, Banco del Pacifico, is located in Puerto Ayora. The walkable downtown area of Puerto Ayora is a small strip of hotels, restaurants, tour companies, gift shops, clothing stores, marine stores, tourist shops and night clubs. The main Avenue is named Avenida Charles Darwin and begins on the main dock of Puerto Ayora and finishes at the Charles Darwin Research Station. The Town Hall (Alcaldía) is on Avenida Charles Darwin as well. Puerto Ayora is the best place in Galápagos for communicating with the outside world via numerous cybercafes with Internet access or telephone offices.

Puerto Ayora emergency medical facilities include a new hospital opened in 2006 and the island's only hyperbaric chamber. There is a Health Center (Centro de Salud) in the northern part of Puerto Ayora as well.

Most of the locals live in the northern part of the town where various schools, a market hall and a sports center were built. Most of the shops, hardware stores and grocery stores there can be found in Calle Baltra and Calle Durán. The stadium is in the northwest of the center close to the bus station. Fresh water is at a premium on the island and in this town. Locals practice water conservation and typically collect rainwater during the rainy season. There is a desalination plant on the island. Many facilities have separate water systems with varying degrees of use/quality. For example, water used for cleaning/showering may not be drinkable.

Sights
Home to both the Charles Darwin Foundation and the Galápagos National Park, Puerto Ayora is the center of the Galápagos conservation efforts. Island visitors may visit the Charles Darwin Research Station to learn the history of the islands and future conservation plans. Iglesia de San Francisco is a modern church which was built in 1968. Iglesia de Edén and Iglesia de la Calle E are modern churches in the northern part of Puerto Ayora with colourful wall paintings which are worth a visit as well.

Excursions
Tortuga Bay is a short walk from center of Puerto Ayora where you can view Marine Iguanas, birds, Galapagos Crabs and a natural mangrove where you can spot Whitetip Reef Sharks and the gigantic Galápagos tortoise. The Itabaca Channel is located between two islands in the Galápagos, Baltra Island, also known as South Seymour Island, and Santa Cruz Island. The Itabaca Channel is used by water taxis who take people from Baltra to Santa Cruz.

Academy Bay is a busy harbor, normally full of boats cruising the islands, passing private yachts and local fishing boats. This bay is a good location to spot brown pelicans, golden rays, Marine iguanas, herons, lava gulls, Frigatebirds, Galápagos sea lions, and large numbers of Blue-footed boobies, which fish by spectacular plunge diving. North Seymour Island is an hour away by boat and has a wide array of animals with no people living on the island.

Transportation
Flights from continental Ecuador fly into either San Cristobal or to Baltra Island just off the north end of Santa Cruz. Two airlines that provide this are Avianca and LATAM Ecuador. The typical means to reach Puerto Ayora from the Baltra airport is a bus ride to the Itabaca Channel where a ferry ride is taken to Santa Cruz Island. Then another bus, courtesy vehicle or taxi is taken to Puerto Ayora. From the Puerto Ayora docks water taxis wait to take passengers to their boats or to west Puerto Ayora. The municipal bus station (Terminal) is in the northwest of the town.

There are also daily speed boats which take passengers to or from Puerto Ayora and the other inhabited islands of San Cristóbal or Isabela.

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Talk:Krillin

Proposed Merge
I propose that Krillin be merged with List of characters in Dragon Ball. Looking at the article, there is no outside information, and there is little content, besides a very long plot summary. Any relevant information can easily be merged into the list. DBZROCKS  Its over 9000!!!  00:07, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

 * I support this merge. Since Krillin was given a pass in September 2008, the article has not seen significant improvement, and no notability has been established at all. It is still just an article of excessive plot summary. While some may say there is no deadline, that doesn't mean articles have forever to be fixed and at this point, I say time's up. -- AnmaFinotera  (talk · contribs) 00:36, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

 * Endorse merge - clearly it hasn't improved much since last year's discussion. Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 01:09, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

 * Support There is nothing like a eternal free pass without paying a price. Seems that no one made the required effort to bring the required evidences of notability to secure this article but no none bothered to so. Per consequence i support the merge. --KrebMarkt 12:01, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

 * Comment Frieza has less notability than Krillin does and he still has his own page.-- FUNK A MATIC      ~talk   13:43, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment Except that Frieza has established notability. This can be expressed through his appearances in other media section, as well as his reception section. Krillin posseses none of these these sections. DBZROCKS   Its over 9000!!!  19:23, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

 * Comment I've gone ahead and added the needed development and reception sections. It's not much but it's a start. Sarujo (talk) 10:17, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment except without any appearences in other media besides video games, Kuririn just doesn't have enough infomation. DBZROCKS   Its over 9000!!!  19:23, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment It was my understanding that these articles thrived alone on their development and reception section. On the Budokai merger discussion you're stating that the only thing that matters was development. Here you're implying that's not the case for with merger. So I'm confused. But if you want more cameos and guest spots, I know where to go. Sarujo (talk) 04:54, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

 * Oppose, I made some quick search and added two reviews to Krillin's article. It seems somebody also added some more. I will be searching for more reception later.Tintor2 (talk) 14:59, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Postpone Merge?
I think, that in light of the work that the article has been recieving as of late, we should hold off on a merge. It seems like required information can be added. However, there should be no objections for us to return to a merge discussion should the article be unable to supply enough infomation to warrent keeping its own article. DBZROCKS  Its over 9000!!!  00:26, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

 * By how I see it, this article has as much reception as Vegeta. I ll try to add other stuff such as merchandise or more publications, but now Im having some issues with my computer which avoid me from opening more than one window.Tintor2 (talk) 00:43, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
 * The only problem I'm seeing is appearences in other media, so far there really isn't much that isn't directly related to Dragon Ball. DBZROCKS   Its over 9000!!!  00:45, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

 * But that isnt related with WP: Notability, is it?Tintor2 (talk) 00:47, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Its still important for fictional characters, as it helps establish notability. DBZROCKS   Its over 9000!!!  00:49, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

 * Yes, but most series like Bleach and Naruto dont have that kind of stuff and the notability is justified with the reception. By the way, I remember that Naruto's author, Masashi Kishimoto, said that his favourite character from DB was Krillin, but I can't find that. Tintor2 (talk) 00:53, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Both Bleach and Naruto character articles indeed have these sections, and while yes, notability is justified with simply a large enough ammount of reception from a variety of reliable third party sources, appearances in other media sections are always in good character articles. DBZROCKS   Its over 9000!!!  00:58, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

 * This article has the appearances in other media, and while most of it is about Dragon Ball, that is the type of section the Naruto and Bleach articles have.Tintor2 (talk) 01:00, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Additional information about conception and creation is also needed. I don't know exactly where that could be found however. DBZROCKS  Its over 9000!!!  01:03, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

 * Me neither, I only know about why gi was orange just like Goku's. It seems Toriyama didnt reveal too many things about the creation of characters.Tintor2 (talk) 01:09, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

 * Oppose merge. After taking a look at the new reception and other media sections, I think that it is more than evident that Krillin is notable. -- LoЯd  ۞pεth  06:26, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

 * Support merge Becomes a secondary character as the series progresses. Does not have enough info on reception or creation ... Yamcha article had more creation and conception and reception data and was erased. SSJ 5 (talk) 22:45, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

 * Importance in the series is not something needed to have an article. Most of the Yamcha's info from conception and reception were original research and contained unreliable sources.Tintor2 (talk) 23:31, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

 * "OTHERSTUFF" is never an argument for deleting or merging an article. Supporting Krillin's merger only because Yamcha was merged too is not an argument. How much is "enough info on reception and creation"? Who determines that? As Tintor has pointed out, the creation and reception sections in Yamcha's article were mostly OR, while Krillin's clearly pass verifiability. -- LoЯd  ۞pεth  16:46, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

 * Enough info is at least 30% of the entire page. And how is OR bad (And not most of it was OR btw, only a portion, and only a couple of sources were unreliable)? Also I fail to see where Krillin is mentioned in some of the refs (for example http://www.mania.com one)? Also one of the main arguments of the ppl supporting the merge was "he was not important later in the series" ... Good grief. SSJ 5 (talk) 01:03, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

 * Then read better. When was OR good? What merge are you talking about? The one from Yamcha?Tintor2 (talk) 01:08, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

 * Rules of the wikipedia are not to be taken in all seriousness ... A large quantity of articles have OR and they are doing just fine. And yes, I'm talking about Yamcha article. Also, I am reading the ref and I can't find Krillin in the article. SSJ 5 (talk) 01:13, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

 * They are doing fine? An article must avoid OR if it has to pass a GA review. If the content is not sourced, it should be deleted.Tintor2 (talk) 01:17, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

 * Yamcha article passed GA with OR. I don't see the problem. SSJ 5 (talk) 01:21, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

 * It seems the reviewer was not very experienced.Tintor2 (talk) 01:56, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

 * Can't comment on that, but one would think that Wikipedia chooses its staff carefully. As I said not all rules are to be blindly followed. SSJ 5 (talk) 03:17, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

 * The GA reviewers were not chosen by anybody. In the GA page nominations, it says the reviewer can be anybody who has not worked in a nominated article, but they must follow the GA criteria, which it seems it did not follow causing the article to be delisted some time later.Tintor2 (talk) 15:01, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

 * Comment: there is important information here that must not be ignored: first, as I've already said, the argument "because we have/don't have an article on X, then we must/must not have an article on Y" is not valid in deletion and merging discussions, in other words, Yamcha not having an article is not an argument for merging Krillin. Second, which Wikipedia policy or guideline states that a reception section must be "30% of the entire page" in order to avoid merging? And finally, Yamcha's article was not merged while being a GA: it first losed its GA status and then it was merged because of the vast amount of OR and lack of clear notability. -- LoЯd  ۞pεth  18:21, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

 * The article lost the GA after a fight over it by some folk, I won't go into it, and gained GA status while it contained OR. Two or three people approved of it (as a GA), now that I remember. Notability was discussed heavily and it was decided that it was not important enough to spot us from making a good article. But please enough about this; its not the subject here. SSJ 5 (talk) 19:50, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

 * Then why did you bring it here? Otherstuff is not a valid argument.Tintor2 (talk) 19:58, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

 * We've gone into deep discussion of Yamcha's article and OR. That's why it needs to stop. And I don't see this Otherstuff anywhere as Wiki official policy. Provide a link please. SSJ 5 (talk) 21:35, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

Tada. If you want to keep discussing OR, start a discussion at the wikiproject which is more suitable.Tintor2 (talk) 21:49, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

 * I didn't use that exactly, but I see that I was misunderstood. I tried to say that Yamcha had more info, and was deleted, and thus Krillin, with much less info, should be erased too. I wasn't arguing overall importance of characters or articles (I'm tired of it, to be frank). Anywayz, I'll take the OR to AM project page. SSJ 5 (talk) 23:21, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

 * No problem. By the way, if you get some reception that could be used, you could start a discussion to rebuild Yamcha's article.Tintor2 (talk) 00:34, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

 * Ah, cool. I'll give it a shot. How to I get the info from the previous page? SSJ 5 (talk) 01:01, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

Reception dispute
"In a review for the Broly Triple Feature, Matt Rox stated that he did not understand why Krillin appeared to be the only character to fight Broly in all three movies." - cannot find review - link reference does not work - just watched Broly the Legendary Super Saiyan because of this and Krillin never fought Broly in it. Needs to be removed. False information. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.89.242.227 (talk) 10:50, 2 April 2011 (UTC)

 * That was my fault. The statement was suppose to say "Krillin appeared to be the only character not to fight Broly in all three movies". Also in the future please put all new discussion you create at the bottom. Thank you. Sarujo (talk) 15:43, 2 April 2011 (UTC)

Title
Should the title not be Kurririn instead of Krillin as that was his original name in the manga ie the source material — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eggilicious (talk • contribs) 09:01, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

 * There's the issue with common name that dictates that we have to use Krillin as apposed Kurirrin. That's why the Goku and Gohan articles don't use the Son surname. Sarujo (talk) 15:57, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

Kuririn?
Pretty sure his english name is Krillin in the anime and Manga. As far as I can tell, Wikipedia uses the english names if one is available in the original source material. I'll move it if no one has a reason not to. Magicksthefool (talk) 23:27, 21 April 2015 (UTC) 23:21, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Not a mistake, the official English version of the manga spells it Kuririn. Xfansd (talk) 23:40, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

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WIP-FM

WIP-FM (94.1 MHz) is a commercial radio station licensed to serve Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The station is owned by Audacy, Inc. and broadcasts a sports radio format. The WIP-FM offices and studios are co-located in Audacy's corporate headquarters in Center City, Philadelphia, and the broadcast tower used by the station is located in the Roxborough section of Philadelphia.

WIP-FM is the flagship station for the Philadelphia Eagles Football Network and the MLB Philadelphia Phillies Radio Network. The station has local hosts days and evenings, with Best of 94 WIP airing on Saturdays from 6-8am, and Sundays from 5-6 30am, though it's also sometimes aired other times if there's no other host that's able to fill in when someone's out, and/or on holidays from 2-6am in place of John Johnson.

WIP-FM broadcasts using HD Radio. Its HD2 subchannel is a simulcast of co-owned 1060 KYW's all-news format. The HD3 channel carries a classic rock format that had been once heard on 94.1 when it was WYSP. The HD4 channel was known as "Eagles 24/7", with continuous programming about the football team.

Beginning as WIBG-FM
In 1948, the station signed on as WIBG-FM. It was the sister station of WIBG, and mostly simulcast the AM station, including the 1960s when WIBG was one of Philadelphia's leading Top 40 stations. However, it was hard to hear the FM station outside of Philadelphia and its close suburbs, because it was only powered at 10,000 watts on a 180-foot tower, well below the standard for other Philadelphia FM stations. In the mid-1960s, WIBG-FM began to experiment at night with a prerecorded progressive rock format without announcers.

In 1968, owner Storer Broadcasting shut the station down while attempting to get Federal Communications Commission (FCC) permission for an increase in power. WIBG-FM was a restricted Class B station at the time. It was limited in range to avoid interfering with WKOK-FM in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, also on 94.1 MHz, 106 miles away (see Signal Note below). In 1969, WIBG-FM's call sign was changed to WPNA when Storer sold WIBG (AM) but kept the FM station. The station remained silent for two years.

Sold to SJR Communications
Having been unsuccessful in getting the Sunbury station to agree to an FCC waiver, Storer sold WPNA, along with WCJW in Cleveland, Ohio, to SJR Communications for a combined $1.4 million. (SJR stood for "San Juan Racing," referring to the company's lone U.S. holding: a horse racing track in San Juan, Puerto Rico.) SJR changed the call sign to WYSP ("Your Station in Philadelphia"), and quickly made a deal with the Sunbury station that allowed WYSP to increase its power. The station became a full Class B. The effective radiated power (ERP) was boosted to 39,000 watts and the tower was increased to 550 feet in height above average terrain (HAAT).

On August 23, 1971, WYSP went on the air. The format consisted of live announcers playing big band and easy listening music from half-hour-long reel-to-reel tapes that were produced in-house. The WYSP studios were located in the Suburban Station Building at 16th and JFK Parkway in Philadelphia. A new RCA transmitter and circular polarized five-bay Gates antenna were installed at the transmitter site.

Album rock format
At 6 a.m. on August 6, 1973, the easy listening and big band music abruptly stopped, and WYSP began playing album-oriented rock (AOR). The entire announcing staff was fired (despite attempts to unionize), and five new announcers were hired, including Tom Straw and Dean Clark. The music included popular cuts from top-selling rock albums by artists such as Jimi Hendrix, Chicago, and Crosby Stills and Nash. Radio consultant Kent Burkhart was signed up. He hired Dick Findley from WEBN in Cincinnati to be the Program Director, music director, handle the promotions, and host middays. With promotional help from artists like Aerosmith, Jimmy Buffett, and Charlie Daniels, the station took off. After a series of concerts in the park, high school hops and public involvement, the station beat rock competitor WMMR by more than 2 to 1 in the ratings. It was at that point in 1975-1976 that the station peaked. New consultant Ken Abrams began "The Fox & Leonard Morning Show" (Sonny Fox & Bob Leonard), the first two-man morning show on AOR radio.

In 1974, WYSP became Philadelphia's "quad" station, piping its audio through a Sony Quadrophonic encoder, which provided "ambience" effects to the rear channels of the handful of quad radios in the market. Due to a compatibility problem with regular mono radios, and a lack of interest from the listening public, the quad encoder was quietly dismantled in 1976.

In 1977, the station moved its transmitter to its current location at the Philadelphia master antenna farm in Roxborough.

In June 1979, Program Director Steve Sutton was hired to put a failing WYSP back on track. Assembling a line-up of Jerry Abear, Sean McKay and Bill Fantini (6-10a), Denny Somach (10a-2p), Randy Kotz (2-6p), Gary Bridges (6-10p), Cyndy Drue (10p-2a) and Trip Reeb (2-6a), the station broke artists like Tom Petty in Philadelphia. Sutton hired popular Eagles linebacker Frank LeMaster for mornings during football season. The station was loud, uptempo and cutting edge. Production, including outrageous spots and promos, came from Jay Gilbert and later, R.D. Steele, making WYSP unique. The station was hugely creative, generating syndicated shows picked up by other album rock stations around the country.

In 1981, WYSP was acquired by the Infinity Broadcasting Corporation. Infinity had been buying FM rock stations in large cities. It already owned WKTU in New York City, WBCN in Boston and KOME in San Jose.

Classic rock format
In the fall of 1981, WYSP became one of the first radio stations to switch to "classic rock." Account Executive Jim Sacony gave general manager Frank X. Feller a reel-to-reel tape with a sample of what the classic rock format would sound like. The featured artists on the reel to reel were The Yardbirds, The Zombies, The Young Rascals, Van Morrison, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Steppenwolf and The Byrds.

Feller liked what he heard and directed Program Director and Midday DJ Dick Hungate to team up with station consultant Lee Abrams to come up with a plan. They wanted to better compete with the two more-established rock stations, 93.3 WMMR and 102.1 WIOQ. The actual on-air description, "Classic Rock," was thought of in a strategy session, in which other adjectives such as "timeless" and "vintage" also were discussed by Hungate and Abrams. Hungate created a playlist of older rock tracks based upon his previous Philly experience as music director of WMMR in 1978–79. For the on-air playlist, Hungate used metal file boxes and color-coded 3" X 5" index cards to manually rotate titles depending on each song's popularity.

Hard rock format
In 1995, WYSP abandoned classic rock for a new contemporary hard rock format during a period when former WMMR morning host John DeBella joined the station. WYSP returned to classic rock again a few years later, but ultimately switched back to a current, hard-rock format.

Purchase by CBS Radio
In 1996, Infinity Broadcasting merged with CBS Radio. CBS already owned rival rock station WMMR, and the Infinity merger left CBS one station over the FCC's ownership limit at that time. WMMR was sold to Greater Media. This left empty space at the KYW-AM-TV studios on Independence Mall, which served as the headquarters for CBS' broadcasting operations in Philadelphia. On April 5, 1997, WMMR and WYSP switched studios, with WYSP moving to 5th and Market Street near Independence Mall in Downtown Philadelphia and WMMR moving to Bala Cynwyd.

Talk shows added to rock format
Over its years as a rock station, WYSP sometimes added talk-intensive or talk-based shows during the daytime hours. In 1986, WYSP was the first affiliate when The Howard Stern Show began syndicating from its New York City home base. Stern was often the top show in the ratings when he was heard in mornings from 6-10 a.m. on WYSP. (Stern left for Sirius Satellite Radio in 2005.)

Over time, other syndicated shows made WYSP their Philadelphia home, including Opie and Anthony and Don and Mike. While some shows proved successful in their time slot, the station did not retain many of them, usually replacing them with the music format.

Free FM
On October 25, 2005, CBS Radio switched WYSP and several other Stern affiliates to the "Free FM" format. From its inception until early 2007, WYSP featured hot talk on weekdays from 6 a.m. to 7 pm. A mix of talk and music was heard from 7 to 10 pm. WYSP aired all music after 10 p.m. and around the clock on weekends.

For many years, WYSP simulcast Philadelphia Eagles NFL games, while co-owned WIP was the primary flagship station. From April 2006 to October 2007, the station carried Opie and Anthony's syndicated talk show in the morning, after David Lee Roth's syndicated Free FM morning show failed to garner good ratings.

At 11:59 p.m. on March 16, 2007, WYSP D.J. Jacky Bam Bam (now with WMMR) signed off at the station's studios at 5th and Market Streets, also shared with KYW, KYW-TV, and WPSG, before switching over to the new studios one block away, located on the 9th floor at 4th and Market. (KYW (AM) is also located in the same building, but on the 10th floor.) The first all-talk broadcast from the new studios, the 9 a.m. Barsky Show, was broadcast on March 19, 2007, with minor, but correctable problems.

On November 20, 2006, WYSP added the Scotty and Alex Show to replace Couzin Ed. While they continued to play music, their show was part of the mostly-talk Free-FM format. On April 17, Scotty and Alex stopped playing music. WYSP also began to carry the syndicated Loveline and John and Jeff shows, effectively ending weekday music programming.

Philadelphia's FM Talk Station
During the week of June 18, 2007, WYSP stopped calling its talk format "Free FM." New imaging was slowly rolled out which referred to the station as either "94-1 WYSP" or "94 WYSP." During the week of June 25, a new "94 WYSP Talks" logo was unveiled on the station website, wiping clean any reference to "Free FM" from the station's identity. On August 13, during the first "Eagles Radio" broadcast of the year, new imaging began to refer to the station as "Philadelphia's FM Talk Station." A similar nickname also began to be used by corporate sister station KLSX in Los Angeles.

In June 2007, long time music programmer Gil Edwards was let go, further evidence that WYSP was committed to talk programming. Edwards lobbied for a return to rock before leaving but was rebuffed by management.

On September 11, 2007, an article was published in the Philadelphia Daily News reporting a format change at WYSP was imminent. Paul Barsky brushed the article off as rumor, as did Matt of the Matt and Huggy Show and Kidd Chris. Scotty and Alex referred to their show that night as their "last" show, claiming that not many radio shows get to do a final broadcast. They hoped to return the next day, but it turned out that night's show really was their last.

On September 12, 2007, Paul Barsky stated that he had re-signed with the station, and his show continued as normal with guest Donovan McNabb of the Philadelphia Eagles. Promos for the station would later be heard featuring McNabb announcing that "The Rock Is Back," which had been recorded the day of his appearance. At the start of Kidd Chris' broadcast, he discussed the topic of the format change, revealing that Scotty, Alex, Matt and Huggy had been fired, the Barsky Show was no more, and that Chris himself had lost members of his show (later revealed to be co-producer "Monkeyboy" Dave Eitel and producer Brad Maybe).

Return to rock
The following day, Opie and Anthony broadcast their show from the WYSP studios. They joked about the lack of secrecy about the format change. Articles about the switch appeared in that day's Philadelphia Daily News and The Philadelphia Inquirer. Opie joked about the "94 WYSP, The Rock Station" sweatshirt Anthony was wearing and the tearing down of a "94 WYSP Talks" poster in the studio.

At 5 pm, WYSP switched back to an active rock format, without the alternative lean previously heard during WYSP's last months as a music station. Only Opie and Anthony in the morning drive slot and Kidd Chris as the afternoon host remained. The first three songs on the return of WYSP's rock format were Welcome to the Jungle by Guns N' Roses, Back in Black by AC/DC, and Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana.

On October 23, 2007, WYSP ceased airing the syndicated Opie and Anthony Show, replacing them with music. October 23, 2007, was also the last day Kidd Chris's show aired in the 3-7 PM slot. He ended his show with "Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey, and music took over his time slot the next day. For nearly a month, he was in talks with the station for a new contract, and was expected to return in the morning slot. On November 25, WYSP's website announced that Kidd Chris would be returning the following day, with his show airing from 6-10 a.m., Opie and Anthony's old time slot.

Kidd Chris remained the morning host for seven months until May 16, 2008, when CBS terminated Chris and WYSP program director John Cook due to an offensive song called "Schwoogies" which first aired on March 21 and several times there after. The song referred to African-Americans in slang terms that station management determined to be highly offensive.

On August 25, 2008, WYSP returned to the classic rock format it shed in 1995, using the slogan "The Rock You Grew Up With from the 70s, 80s, & 90s." WYSP's version of classic rock had a harder direction than that of the market's other classic rock station, WMGK, WMMR's sister station. Former "Partridge Family" TV star Danny Bonaduce was named the new morning drive host for WYSP, with his program beginning on November 10, 2008.

Sports talk format
WYSP's sister station, WIP, had been airing a popular all-sports format since 1988; by 2009, it had to compete with an FM sports rival, WPEN-FM. Speculation had grown that CBS would want an FM counterpart to capitalize on WIP's popularity.

On August 18, 2011, CBS Radio announced that WIP would begin simulcasting its sports format on 94.1 FM, starting on September 6, thus ending music on 94.1. The change actually took place on September 2, four days earlier than announced. On its final day, Howard Stern called into the station to discuss his time on WYSP with host Spike Eskin. At 3:00 p.m. that day, WYSP ended its music format with "Fade to Black" by Metallica as its final song. The WYSP classic rock programming was then moved to its HD-3 subchannel. The station switched its call sign to WIP-FM.

Shortly after WIP-FM began its simulcast with WIP (AM), the two stations began to sometimes split, with certain sporting events not heard on both frequencies. Most Philadelphia Phillies broadcasts, heard on WIP-FM in 2012, were also carried on the AM dial by co-owned WPHT, while WIP (AM) aired other sports programming. The syndicated Nick & Artie Show was added to 610 AM's programming in February 2012, while local programming continuing on WIP-FM. The simulcast ended entirely January 2, 2013, when WIP became a full-time affiliate of CBS Sports Radio, with local sports programming continuing to air on WIP-FM.

CBS station trades and Entercom ownership
On October 2, 2014, CBS Radio announced that it would trade 14 radio stations located in Tampa, Charlotte and WIP (AM), to the Beasley Broadcast Group in exchange for three stations in Miami and two FM stations in Philadelphia, WXTU and WRDW-FM. WIP-FM was not affected by this transaction, remaining with CBS.

On February 2, 2017, CBS Radio announced it would merge with Entercom. The merger was approved on November 9, 2017, and was consummated on November 17.

Current on-air staff

 * Ruben Amaro Jr.
 * Larry Andersen
 * Joe Conklin
 * Ben Davis
 * Joe DeCamara
 * Ray Didinger
 * Hugh Douglas
 * Howard Eskin
 * Scott Franzke
 * Jack Fritz
 * Sonny Hill
 * Ron Jaworski
 * Seth Joyner
 * Glen Macnow
 * Jody McDonald
 * Al Morganti
 * Mike Quick
 * Ike Reese
 * Merrill Reese
 * Rickie Ricardo
 * Jon Ritchie
 * Eliot Shorr-Parks

Former staff

 * Michael Barkann (now with NBC Sports Philadelphia)
 * Tom Brookshier (Mornings)
 * Tony Bruno
 * Craig Carton
 * Angelo Cataldi (Mornings; 1988–2023)
 * Garry Cobb
 * Pat Croce
 * Big Daddy Graham (Early Mornings)
 * Jim Jackson
 * Keith Jones (Mornings; 2002–2023)
 * John Kincade
 * John Marzano
 * Mike Missanelli (1992-May 1, 2003; July 5, 2005 – March 20, 2006)
 * Hollis Thomas

Signal note
WIP-FM is short-spaced to two other Class B stations:

WQKX 94KX (licensed to serve Sunbury, Pennsylvania) also operates on 94.1 MHz and the distance between the stations' transmitters is 93 mi as determined by FCC rules. The minimum distance between two Class B stations operating on the same channel according to current FCC rules is 150 mi.

WNYC-FM WNYC 93.9 FM (licensed to serve New York City) operates on a first adjacent channel (93.9 MHz) to WIP-FM and the distance between the stations' transmitters is 82 mi as determined by FCC rules. The minimum distance between two Class B stations operating on first adjacent channels according to current FCC rules is 105 mi.

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Padarn Beisrudd

Padarn Beisrudd ap Tegid (lit. Paternus of the Scarlet Robe, son of Tegid) was the son of a Bishop named Tegid ap Iago, who may have been born with the Roman name of Tacitus. Padarn is believed to have been born in the early 4th century in the Old North (or Hen Gogledd) of Roman Britain. According to Old Welsh tradition, his grandson, King Cunedda, came from Manaw Gododdin, the modern Clackmannanshire region of Scotland.

One traditional interpretation identifies Padarn as a Roman (or Romano-British) official of reasonably high rank who was placed in command of the Votadini troops stationed in Clackmannanshire in the 380s or earlier by Roman Emperor Magnus Maximus. Alternatively, he may have been a frontier chieftain in the same region who was granted Roman military rank, a practice attested elsewhere along the empire's borders at the time. His command in part of what is now Scotland probably lasted until his death and was then assumed by his son Edern (Edeyrn=Eternus). Edern was the father of Cunedda, founder of the Kingdom of Gwynedd.

The coat of Padarn is one of the Thirteen Treasures of the Island of Britain. The coat is said to perfectly fit any well-born nobleman, but not a churl. The Life of Saint Padarn confuses this Padarn with the saint, and contains a story about how King Arthur tried to steal his tunic and became a Christian afterward.

In literature and film
In M J Trow's fictional Britannia series, Padarn Beisrudd is one of the central characters. He is given the Latinised name of Paternus and portrayed as a limitanei soldier guarding Hadrian's Wall.

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Ohio State Route 778

State Route 778 (SR 778, OH 778) is a short north–south state highway in northern Ohio. The southern terminus of SR 778 is at SR 101 approximately 9 mi northeast of Tiffin. The highway's northern terminus is at SR 19 about 3 mi south of Green Springs. The route was created in 1942 and has not changed since.

Route description
Existing entirely within Seneca County's Adams Township, SR 778 has an AADT of 1150. The route's short journey begins at the intersection of SR 101 and County Road 43 (CR 43), and travels north, taking over for the county road. The two-lane connector route travels north, arriving at its endpoint at the intersection of SR 19 and CR 44. As SR 778 enters the intersection from the south, SR 19 forms the northern and eastern legs, and CR 44 uses the western approach to the intersection.

History
First appearing in 1942, SR 778 was designated along the short alignment that it currently occupies between SR 101 and SR 19. The route has not seen any significant change since its inception. The road was repaved in 1983 and 1995.

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Star (magazine)

Star is an American celebrity tabloid magazine founded in 1974. The magazine is owned by American Media Inc. and overseen by AMI's Chief Content Officer, Dylan Howard.

History
Star was founded by Rupert Murdoch in 1974 as competition to the tabloid National Enquirer with its headquarters in New York City. In the late 1980s, it moved its offices to Tarrytown, NY and in 1990 Murdoch sold the magazine to the Enquirer's parent company American Media, Inc. (Murdoch now owns the New York Post, which, although it has more of a regional, news-centered focus, still has significant celebrity coverage.)

Originally an unstapled, inexpensive, supermarket tabloid printed on newsprint, Star was hugely successful but remained in the shadow of its longer-established stablemate. Along with the Enquirer, its circulation declined with the advent of celebrity-driven television shows such as Entertainment Tonight and Hard Copy.

In 1999, AMI was bought by investors fronted by David Pecker, who personally pledged that Star would never relocate to Florida, the home state of all the country's other tabloids. However, it took Pecker less than a year to renege on his promise and Star was moved into AMI's headquarters in Boca Raton, Florida, sharing the building with the Enquirer and AMI's other recently acquired titles The Globe, National Examiner, and Sun. Editor Phil Bunton was replaced before the move when he angered Pecker by telling the New York Post: "It's going to be open warfare. How we're going to all work together I don't know. It's like having the Bosnians, Croats, the Jews and Arabs all together in the same area." Virtually all Star's staff of experienced tabloid journalists refused to make the move south. Four years later, Pecker appointed former Us Weekly editor Bonnie Fuller to oversee the paper and, at her demand, he moved it back to New York in the summer of 2003.

At the beginning of 2004, Star gained new life by switching to a more traditional magazine format with a higher grade of paper and, denying its tabloid roots, put itself into competition with a new breed of entertainment magazine typified by Time Inc.'s People, Fuller's former publication, Wenner Media's Us Weekly, and the German-owned magazine publisher Bauer's In Touch Weekly. However, its page layout remains tabloid-derived, with sections including "Worst of the Week", which points out the most amusing celebrity fashion disasters of the previous week, "Stars Without Makeup" section which compares photos of stars with and without makeup, and "Knifestyles of the Rich and Famous" section, which illustrates suspected incidences of plastic surgery with before-and-after photos.

As of 2015, Star sells for US$4.99 per issue with reduced rate subscriptions varying from 26 to 52 issues.

Controversies
Star received attention in 1991 in for running a story about KISS drummer Peter Criss, claiming that he had become homeless and was a habitual drunkard and was living on the streets of Santa Monica, California. In fact, Criss was healthy and happily married at the time. Star had instead interviewed and photographed a homeless man who had passed himself as Criss for years. The real Peter Criss was mourning his mother at the time and was distressed to learn that his friends and associates believed he had fallen on hard times.

In 2011, the actress Katie Holmes sued Star magazine for libel after the tabloid published a story about her that suggested she abused drugs. The original lawsuit was for $50 million, but the case was settled before going into court for an undisclosed amount of money. The publisher took matters into print again publicly apologizing to Holmes and disclosing that a substantial donation was going to be done under her name to a charity of her choice.

It was said by Star magazine's chief editor that brand loyalty is the most important focus for their industry. This being said, people are only intrigued by the "juiciest dirt", leaving the cover page to be where the most gossip, dirt, and biggest celebrity news is to be shown, leaving the audience wanting more. Star has been accused of publicizing any news that is presented to them, regardless of whether or not it is true. This left Jennifer Aniston stating that "if you cooperate with one of the magazines, their competitors become vengeful and attack clients. There is no upside to working with them…. Their tactic is to make up stories that are so damaging", which is why she no longer holds interest in talking to reporters, specifically from ''Star magazine.

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Kelly Shoppach

Kelly Brian Shoppach (pronounced SHOP-ick; born April 29, 1980) is an American former professional baseball catcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Boston Red Sox, Cleveland Indians, Tampa Bay Rays, New York Mets, Seattle Mariners and Pittsburgh Pirates.

High school career
Shoppach attended Brewer High School in White Settlement, Texas, and was a student and a letterman in baseball and football. In football, he played quarterback, running back and linebacker, was a three-time all-district selection and as a senior, he was named the district's most valuable player.

College career
Shoppach attended Baylor University, where he played three seasons of college baseball for the Baylor Bears baseball team. For the Bears, he hit .333 (168-for-505) with 26 home runs and 121 RBIs. He recorded a .993 career fielding percentage, with seven errors in 953 total chances. In 2000, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Harwich Mariners of the Cape Cod Baseball League.

Shoppach began his junior season in 2001 by being named the Most Outstanding Player of the Houston College Classic. He hit .397 with 12 home runs and 61 RBIs in 69 games for the season. He also posted a .998 fielding percentage with only one error in 406 chances. After the season, Shoppach received the Johnny Bench Award as the nation's top collegiate catcher.

In addition to being selected "Big 12 Player of the Year", Shoppach was named First Team All-America in 2001 by Baseball America, Baseball Weekly, Louisville Slugger/Collegiate Baseball and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association.

Boston Red Sox
The Boston Red Sox selected Shoppach in the second round of the 2001 Major League Baseball Draft. In 2004, playing for the Pawtucket Red Sox in the Class AAA International League, Shoppach appeared in a career-best 101 games behind the plate for Pawtucket and threw out 35 of 101 potential base stealers (34.7 percent) on his way to a spot on the International League's end-of-season All-Star Team. He also set a single-season home run record for Pawtucket catchers with 21 and also hit one as a designated hitter. His 22 homers matched his previous career total over two years and 208 games. Shoppach added career bests with 62 runs scored and a .461 slugging percentage.47 of his 93 hits (51 percent) went for extra bases.

On May 26, 2005, Shoppach was recalled from Pawtucket. He was hitless in 15 at-bats with seven strikeouts.

Cleveland Indians
On January 27, 2006, Shoppach was traded from the Red Sox to the Cleveland Indians, along with third base prospect Andy Marte, pitcher Guillermo Mota, a player to be named later, and cash considerations. The Indians in turn sent outfielder Coco Crisp, catcher Josh Bard, and pitcher David Riske to the Red Sox. The Indians received minor league pitcher Randy Newsom from the Red Sox to complete the trade.

He did better in 2006 after the trade. He went 27 for 110. On June 26, 2007, Shoppach hit a pinch-hit three-run walk-off home run to defeat the Oakland Athletics 8–5.

On July 30, 2008, Shoppach became the second American League player in history, and eighth player overall in Major League Baseball, to record five extra-base hits in a game. He had three doubles and two home runs (including a game-tying HR in the ninth inning) against the Detroit Tigers. He came to bat twice in extra innings with a chance to get a sixth extra-base hit, but he was intentionally walked in the 10th and struck out in the 12th inning. The Indians lost, 14–12, in 13 innings.

On April 16, 2009, Shoppach drove in the first-ever run at the new Yankee Stadium, his fourth-inning double driving in Ben Francisco.

Tampa Bay Rays
On December 1, 2009, Shoppach was traded from the Cleveland Indians to the Tampa Bay Rays for pitcher Mitch Talbot.

On July 26, 2010, Shoppach caught a no hitter thrown by Matt Garza of the Tampa Bay Rays.

In the 2011 offseason the Rays signed former Red Sox teammates Manny Ramirez and Johnny Damon.

On September 30, 2011, Shoppach, in the first game of the 2011 American League Division Series against the Texas Rangers, hit two home runs, accounting for 5 RBIs.

Return to Red Sox
On December 13, 2011, Shoppach signed a 1-year, $1.35 million contract with the Red Sox with up to $400K in incentives. He began serving as the backup to Jarrod Saltalamacchia, replacing retired Red Sox Captain Jason Varitek and allowing prospect Ryan Lavarnway to return to the AAA Pawtucket Red Sox to further his minor league development.

New York Mets
On August 14, 2012, Shoppach was traded from the Red Sox to the New York Mets for a player to be named later, later identified as Pedro Beato. On August 17 he had his first home run as a Met.

Seattle Mariners
Shoppach signed with the Seattle Mariners for 2013. The Mariners also signed former teammate from the Mets Jason Bay. He was designated for assignment on June 14 after Henry Blanco was signed. In 35 games with Seattle, Shoppach batted only a .196 batting average. He was given his release on June 20.

Washington Nationals
Shoppach signed a minor league contract with the Washington Nationals on July 3, 2013, and went to Triple-A Syracuse. He opted out of his contract and became a free agent July 31.

Pittsburgh Pirates
Shoppach signed a minor league contract with the Pittsburgh Pirates on August 12, 2013, and was assigned to Triple-A Indianapolis. He was released August 28.

Second stint with Indians
Shoppach signed a minor league contract with the Cleveland Indians on August 30, 2013. He became a free agent after the 2013 season.

Awards and highlights

 * Portland Sea Dogs player of the year (2003)
 * International League All-Star (2004)
 * Red Sox Minor League Defensive Player of the Month (April 2005)
 * 2005 Pawtucket Red Sox Player of the Year
 * Led AL in Hit By Pitch (2009)
 * Caught Matt Garza's no hitter (July 26, 2010)
 * 8th player to record five extra-base hits in a game (July 30, 2008)

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