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this is getting embarrassing.

nice offensive line. brett favre shouldn't be bitter; he gets to play behind a great O-line with the best RB in the game and rodgers is getting murdered.

i pulled the goalie (loaded up on SP trying to get wins/K's in the last 3 days) and still failed. congrats on the win.

And one of those big-pay games a year is fine. But Penn State also played Temple and Akron. Michigan played EMU and WMU and also plays Delaware State. Michigan State played Montana State and CMU and has a game with WMU left. And that's just a few Big Ten teams for sampling. There's no reason to have three little boys on a team's schedule year in and year out. if you don't play little boys, you're playing a lot more home-and-home series, or 2-for-1, which reduces the number of home games you play, which costs your athletic department a lot of revenue. penn state can't bring in west virginia or maryland to play in happy valley every year. There's no reason to have 3 "buy" games and 8 home games in a 12-game schedule. PSU isn't the only one to do it this year. In fact, UM has done it the last 3 times ND played at Ann Arbor (05, 07, 09). You schedule 3 buy games and a home-home with a BCS team. Then you 7 home games one year and 8 the next. oh i agree with this, but this year is an outlier for us. it's our first year since going to a 12 game schedule that we've had 4 home games, and we have a road game in each year of 2010-12. most years we have a home-and-home with a bcs opponent, a 2-for-1 with temple (works for both schools - we get a virtual home game on the road and all the penn state grads in the philly area get to go to see psu close to home; temple gets 60,000 fans more than they usually get for a home game) and then two relative turds at home. my point was that it's not realistic to play only one turd a year and still maintain at least 7 home games a year, which penn state will not give up. most bcs programs will require a home-and-home (we have that with syracuse right now and alabama, rutgers and virginia coming up), and even some of the good non-bcs programs (tcu, utah, fresno st, boise st) will require at least a 2-for-1. it'd be nice if we didn't play temple every year, but psu's alumni and the temple AD like the arrangement, so it probably isn't going away.

how dare he not make the playoffs with a roster getting paid about 35 million dollars, in a division with the phillies and mets and braves payrolls averaging about 120 million.

i know the 49ers have become pretty good, but man the rams [expletive] suck.

And one of those big-pay games a year is fine. But Penn State also played Temple and Akron. Michigan played EMU and WMU and also plays Delaware State. Michigan State played Montana State and CMU and has a game with WMU left. And that's just a few Big Ten teams for sampling. There's no reason to have three little boys on a team's schedule year in and year out. if you don't play little boys, you're playing a lot more home-and-home series, or 2-for-1, which reduces the number of home games you play, which costs your athletic department a lot of revenue. penn state can't bring in west virginia or maryland to play in happy valley every year.

say penn state is paying eastern illinois $500,000 this year; that money goes a long way toward supporting non-revenue sports at eastern illinois (in other words, every sport, since football loses money there too). meanwhile, say penn state makes $70 a ticket and sells 100k tickets; that's $7M for the school plus whatever they make on concessions, clothing, etc. it's not exciting to watch penn state play eastern illinois, but the money penn state's football team makes every year is enough to support all non-revenue athletic programs. so maybe the system isn't great for college football, but for ncaa sports in general i think it's a very good thing.

that is not much better than average, regardless of who was playing WR for the bears. his career completion percentage is 55.7%; only 3 starting QBs in the nfl were worse than that last year and only 11 out of 32 qualifying QBs had completion % under 60 last year and he's way worse than average in yards per pass. i know you love purdue and all, but get a grip. orton is lousy.

who is doing a better job shutting down the chargers' offense, norv turner or the steelers?

I was thinking the same thing, but from my side of the ball. Penn State's "Hi-Def Offense" has turned into HB Dives and dump passes over the middle that's because our offensive line usually gives clark about 0.5 seconds to throw the ball.

holy cross has an nfl prospect

is there really trade speculation surrounding david wright and king felix?

i know you're not supposed to speak ill of the dead, but john henry williams is the one who had his dad wearing a hitter.net hat instead of a red sox hat at the 1999 all star game. most people don't believe that ted wanted to be put in this ridiculous cryonics lab, but rather wanted his ashes scattered over the gulf of mexico. basically john henry williams manipulated his sick dad and tried to make money off him. [expletive] john henry williams.

yeah he plays the style that i want them to get away from - he'll take too many dumb-ass penalties. he was bailed out this time because gleason instigated a fight after the hit on whitney, but it was just a dumb hit - the puck was gone and whitney was near the boards, facing the other way. then in the second he took a stupid high-sticking penalty. the annoying part is that carcillo has real talent and could be a player like scott walker or something, but he's too dumb to do it. hopefully they'll just bench him for a game or two when he has games where he subtracts more than he adds.

55-24 shots and a loss... yikes.

i'm sure cincy @ cleveland and oakland @ houston will be terrific games. hopefully the vikings lose and brett favre throws about 35 INTs in that game. i heard sao paolantonio on espn radio while driving home today - normally i like him - but this time i wanted to vomit. he was talking about it being the biggest mnf game in history and one of most memorable regular season games ever, how it's a storybook that a guy climbs off his tractor on a farm and tries to beat his old team (never mind that he has been playing continuously in the nfl for over 15 years; it's not like he retired to be a farmer for 5 years and then says "hey i want to go back into the league) and then said that favre's td pass to lewis is one of the most memorable plays in nfl history. give me a [expletive] break.

would he have really? Going to bid for Olympics aren't things Presidents are expected to do, even if they are from the city. why? the other three heads of state went. our president never going just sends the message that we think we're better than everybody, which i'm pretty sure we're trying to avoid after the bush administration. and our president going clearly sent a better message. i think it did. he spent long time in chicago, a lot of people from chicago and the midwest wanted the games and he went to lobby on their behalf, just as the other heads of state also went to lobby for their own nations. then chicago lost. i think it's better to have gone and lost than to stay home and lose, because of some silly notion that american presidents are "better than that"

how many of those people were subsequently murdered?

would he have really? Going to bid for Olympics aren't things Presidents are expected to do, even if they are from the city. why? the other three heads of state went. our president never going just sends the message that we think we're better than everybody, which i'm pretty sure we're trying to avoid after the bush administration.

It's only LOL if you're an Obama sycophant that can't admit when mistakes are made. It's the US president doing something unprecedented and getting egg on his face. It doesn't reflect poorly on him as a person, but it's a miscalculation by the White House and a waste of political capital. i think it's just unprecedented because the olympics have become massive business and now heads of state attend all the time. plus he's from chicago and there was extra pressure on him to attend; if he didn't go and chicago was voted out on the first ballot people (republican) would bitch that the city's most famous son wouldn't even take a day out of his schedule to support his city, while the other heads of state supported their nation, and the slight cost america the games.

nice integrity, oregon.

hopefully michael phelps if somebody steals michael phelps' organs in rio, i will give him or her a high five i doubt he'll be swimming at age 31. i suppose he will be there either way, though.

chicago would've been fun. i'm just glad madrid didn't get it... europe doesn't need to be hosting the olympics every time. and lol @ people saying this reflects poorly on obama. i guess it also reflects poorly on the other two heads of state that showed up and didn't bring home the games.

yahoo western conference picks someone picked phoenix to make the playoffs. if that happens i will crap a brick.