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Our old pal Nocioni got traded to the Sixers today for Sam Dalembert.
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Is Blanco the fattest man to ever score a goal at the World Cup?
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I bet Cutler is an incredible practice player. And he's usually pretty good at the noon starts. It's those damn prime time games.
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Looks like the big bombers who spray it aren't going to contend. Tiger's gonna struggle I think. When he won in 2000 he had that stinger 2 iron off the tee down to perfection and for some reason he doesn't use it any more. Toms, Choi, Weir, Poulter, Johnson, etc. That's a lot of short dudes with precise ball striking.
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They'll use it on at least Bosh or Amare I would think. I suppose they would still have enough room next year though. They've been selling their fan base on this offseason for at least 3 years...they're gonna spend.
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Yeah I could understand if there was some big geographic difference but there isn't and you're probably breaking up some rivalries. The CA schools don't really have rivalries with any of the Pac NW schools (maybe Cal and Oregon) but USC/Cal and UCLA/Cal is pretty decent. Even Stanford and USC has gotten pretty snippy.
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I hope there's a bunch of injuries and we end with an Adam Morrison/Brian Scalabrine duel for the championship.
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You don't think NY is going to use up all its cap space this year?
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Anyone got any opinions on the draft? We're picking 17th. NBAdraft.net has us taking Hassan Whiteside and Drafexpress has us taking Damion James. That's weird. Whiteside is intriguing--we do need a big man and he's a legit 7 footer with insane shot blocking numbers. He'd be a nice piece to have to go up with the Dwight Howards and Bynum/Gasol/Odom combos of the world. But we really, really need a shooter for the 95% of the games that aren't against those teams. James Anderson is the perfect fit, IMO.
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Yeah I read the California schools are going to be broken up. I don't like that. I would put CU and Utah with the Oregon/Washington schools and put the CA schools with the AZ schools.
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I guess I was thinking of quality of their football programs with my last post. In terms of value to a conference, Texas is alone at #1. But OU is still head and shoulders above any other team in the conference. I think you can reasonably refer to them as the top 2 in the conference. Historically OU's football program is better than Texas'. Since 1945 OU has the best winning percentage out of any football program, most wins, most weeks ranked #1, most weeks ranked in the top 5, weeks ranked #1 in the BCS, Weeks ranked in the top 5 of the BCS, and the most all-americans. OU has 7 national championships, Texas has 4 (i think) Ou has 42 conference championships, Texas has 32 OU has 142 All-americans, Texas has 129 OU has had 5 heisman winners, Texas has 2 OU has 21 players in the College hall of fame, Texas has 11 OU also has the record for most consecutive victories with 47, a record that will never be broken. But Texas brings more money to a conference because the size of their state and all the viewers in that state. So in terms of bringing money, Texas is number one. In terms of the actual football team, OU is by far number one. OU also played in the greatest college football game of all time. I don't think they put that one in the brochure though :cool:
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Don't forget Ron Mercer.
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yeah, i think hyperbole has made it more difficult, but foulacy's ultimate conclusion is right: there is no big 3 in the Big 12. OU/Texas are alone at the top. Well, Texas is alone at the top. Certainly historically and in the last few years. Though OU had a pretty good run there. I think the separation between Texas and OU (currently) is significantly smaller than that between OU and the rest of the field. They made the BCS title game 2 season ago. I guess Texas has a more recent championship and just played for one but there is barely separation there. It's like Alabama vs. Florida.
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Doing what the Pistons did last offseason is basically the exact template to avoid. They felt obligated to use their cap money and ended up giving it to Ben Gordon and Charlie Villanueva instead of being players this year (ignore that it's Detroit). And they were still really bad, although not as bad as they should've been for drafting purposes.
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Not on the football field.
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At the same time, I am also nervous that Wade will snag Bosh, LeBron will go to NYK, and the Bulls will, as you correctly say, overpay for Joe freaking Johnson, and have a nice little 50 win team that won't get anywhere in the playoffs. Amare, Johnson, Boozer and David Lee are all gonna see nice paydays, but I don't think any of those four make the Bulls championship caliber. Basically, I'm really, really, really wanting us to snag LeBron or Bosh, or I'll be sadpandaland. I think the Bulls could be a 50 win team even if they didn't sign any of those guys, drafted a good shooter, and stayed healthy. But yeah David Lee and Joe Johnson ain't putting you over the top regardless. Much better to hold on to the cap space and hope for Melo or some other big fish becoming available through trade than give a non-star superstar money. We've already done that with Deng.
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A&M isn't on Texas or OU's level. Texas Tech has gotten more nationwide attention in the last 5 or so years than A&M has.
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Re: NHL (Blackhawks included) offseason thread
SpongeWorthy replied to Prizefight's topic in Other Sports
I'm always surprised when preseason hockey starts up again. The offseason seems like nothing when you don't follow the sport much. -
Utah is a nice program. Those games are gonna be a bear for anyone in the Pac 10. Although adding CU and Utah doesn't seem like the economic game changer that people said was the conferences primary motivation. I wonder where the Pac 10 championship game will be held now. Vegas would be great although they don't have the stadium for it.
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nobody is saying paul is better right now Are we talking because of his health? A healthy Chris Paul is way better than Rondo.
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Some people complain about specific NFL games being low scoring. I like a good battle in the 20s rather than a 13-9 game personally.
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A buddy of mine insists that the 1970 Brazil team would dominate every international team these days. He's on a big kick about how the level of play is down in international soccer. What do you soccer geeks think?
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Stanley Cup Champion Chicago Blackhawks Thread!!!!!!
SpongeWorthy replied to chuckywang's topic in Other Sports
I thought it was common knowledge that hockey players love to blow off some steam and get bombed. Isn't that part of the charm? -
If Pelini is the right hire I don't see any real reason that NU can't be in national title discussion every once in awhile. They won't be an annual powerhouse like Texas or OU but they can be top dog if everything breaks right.
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what does this mean? who is the conference killer? Texas. i guess, but texas is bigger and better than everyone else and they expect to be treated accordingly. and why shouldn't they? in tv deals, baylor and iowa st apparently stand to rake in $15M a year while texas could net $25M a year - really, texas is worth more than that and the dregs of the conference are worth less. texas has pretty much every conference in america chasing after it, and stands to make a lot more money in the big ten and sec or be a much better academic fit in the big ten or pac 10. texas isn't the big xii killer as much as the demographics of the conference and turds like iowa st, baylor, kansas st and texas tech which add little or nothing to national interest in the conference. Every conference has several schools who add nothing. Washington State, Oregon State, Arizona State in the Pac-10, Missisippi St., Ole Miss, Vandy, South Carolina in the SEC, Northwestern, Minnesota, Penn State in the Big 10, and yet all of those conferences manage to keep from the brink of destruction. And half the schools you mentioned weren't in the last conference that Texas killed. Nice slip in of PSU there. Even among the schools you listed I would say Wazzu, Miss State, and Minnesota are another level of add-nothingness. Oregon State is consistently decent. ASU has hot chicks. Vandy and Norhtwestern have great academics.