ConstableRabbit

What can I say -- NU plays to its competition, up or down. I completely understand your point. However, if Michigan is ranked, and Air Force is ranked, Northwestern should be ranked. Also, where's the love for Dan Persa?

670 in Chicago was saying that from the research they did, almost all injuries of the fifth metacarpal occur due to punching something. Haha yeah my roommate is a med student and he was laughing about that when i told him it was fifth metacarpal. Oh well, maybe he can get in better playing shape to avoid an on-the-court injury.

He probably punched something.

Umm, AirForce in the AP top 25? What a joke.

Bradley 3/21 pls.

What's wrong with that? I personally have a problem with alcohol in the workplace. Why is it necessary in a clubhouse? I'm not the players aren't drinking up pre-game, but the costs don't outweigh the benefits in my eyes. Do you personally have a problem with tobacco in the workplace?

happened to tony gwynn in 1996. http://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/NL/1996-batting-leaders.shtml i'll always remember the sportscenter episode where olbermann said "gwynn goes for the record books...and a calculator!," due to the explanation on how he won the batting title. Wow, Sammy #1 in Defensive WAR

Wow. Never knew that. Learn something new every day. Still seems like kind of a ridiculous rule, just giving PA's to players who never actually got them just to make them qualify for an award. I get why, but it seems wrong in a game ruled by numbers to give them away for technicalities It's not a technicality. It actually makes sense. Say a player bats .400 in 501 plate appearances. Why shouldn't he be batting champion? BTW, you're not "giving" a player PA's. His batting average will still be his batting average. You're just factoring in theoretical PA's just for the purpose of batting champion calculations. Ahhhhhhhhhhh, I got it now. So they're not actually adding AB's to it, just determining if his BA would be higher than the qualified leader if he reached a qualified status. Got it. I wasn't reading between the lines What if it's an extremely odd situation though... say a guy is batting .410 in 400AB (164H) and he needs 520AB to qualify. Theoretically his BA would be .315... if that's still higher than the league leader will they still award it to him even though he's 120AB behind qualifying, or do they cut it off at a certain point? Like do they only do this for guys who are within 30AB of qualifying? I don't see why that would be a problem. If you can go 0 for your last 120 and still be batting champion, the league is probably weak or your were incredibly hot over your first ~380 PAs.

Kind of reminds me of that Mike Fyhrie injury from 01 where he got his arm broken by a broken bat.

Man the average person has really poor reading comprehension. It's kind of scary.

Cutler also threw a ridiculous ball to DA in the endzone, which was inexplicably dropped. He had a damn good game.

Z is DEALING

http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/nba/news/story?id=5550421 Here we go again!

I had cautious optimism going into the season. Then, they looked bad in preseason and got a lot of really negative press. Now, I'm half expecting them to come out and hang 48 on Detroit. Can't wait for the season to start so I can know what to believe.

Simmons picking the Bears to go 3-13? That's just annoying.

Love the idea. It'd be a lot of fun to watch.

Abundantly? I'd say it might have been "moderately" clear, but certainly not "abundantly" :D

Since when does "likely better than most in the NFC" translate to "possibly in the top 50%" or "a pretty average QB right now"? When he says "likely better than most", he is absolutely saying that Hasselbeck is one of the best QB's in the NFC. Not sure how you can argue in his defense. Most = majority (or more than 50%). Therefore, "better than most" literally means "better than 50%". Okay, so if someone says "Adrian Peterson is one of the most dangerous running backs in the game today, all we can really take from that comment is that he's better than the middle point of runnings backs in the league? And if a guy makes 51 free throws for every 100 he tosses up there, I guess it's safe to say that it was odd that he just missed that shot, because he makes them most of the time. No. "One of the most dangerous" is different than "better than most". For "one of the most dangerous" to mean that he's better than the middle point of running backs in the league, it'd have to mean that all running backs in the league are "dangerous." "Dangerous" is an added qualifier -- it's ordinal vs. nominal. If a guy is a 51% FT shooter and he missed one it wouldn't necessarily be odd (sample size issue), but yes, it would be safe to say that he makes most of his free throws. I don't know why anyone would say "gee, he makes most of them" but they would be correct. Don't see why this is so difficult to understand...

Since when does "likely better than most in the NFC" translate to "possibly in the top 50%" or "a pretty average QB right now"? When he says "likely better than most", he is absolutely saying that Hasselbeck is one of the best QB's in the NFC. Not sure how you can argue in his defense. Most = majority (or more than 50%). Therefore, "better than most" literally means "better than 50%".

I only saw two questionable calls down the stretch. The block in the back looked clean on replay. The late hit was a terrible call but it helped VT. Their defense was awful on that drive and they probably weren't getting a stop anyways. It at least gave them more time. It was close but you could've given VT PI on that final drive. The DB clearly hit the WR's hands into his face.

If this game is any indication of their play, I don't see them beating Georgia Tech, UNC, or Miami. Or maybe BC. they've finished in the top 25 every year since 1998 except for 2003. i'd hold off on jumping to any conclusions from one quarter of football. Doens't have much to do with this season. They're not returning a lot of starters

God VT is pathetic looking

lol I was waiting for that.

If this game is any indication of their play, I don't see them beating Georgia Tech, UNC, or Miami. Or maybe BC.

I'd tell them to look at where VT is at the end of the season... they're not beating any team in the top 25 the way they're playing right now.