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Chicago Blackhawks 2012 Playoffs
Exile on Waveland replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Other Sports
Again!!! Now win this freakin' game. -
Chicago Blackhawks 2012 Playoffs
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I have an important meeting tomorrow morning . . . ugh. Oh well. -
Chicago Blackhawks 2012 Playoffs
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Ha second straight playoff game with a late goal to force overtime . . . let's hope this one ends better. -
Chicago Blackhawks 2012 Playoffs
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YES!!! -
Chicago Blackhawks 2012 Playoffs
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That's going to be a hard series for the Blues to win, I think. Also . . . Hjalmarsson . . .ugh. -
I tend to agree with that. I'd argue ESPN has played a major role in college basketball's popularity as well. How many games a week would they air back in the early 90s? (Legit question, I have no idea) Back in the early 90's, when ESPN was just ESPN, they'd air around 200 games a year. Mostly on Saturdays. CBS would air a Saturday game a week, and then they'd get the NCAA tournament. ESPN had games on every weekday night (excepting Fridays -- though Thursday nights may have been off and on, or not always double headers) in the early 1990s. "Big Monday" has been around since 1987. There was also "Super Tuesday" and "Slam Bam Jam Wednesday" (or something like that, then "ACC Wednesday") in the 1990s. There wasn't the overlap with multiple channels as there is now, but you could still spend your weeknights watching college basketball on ESPN. There was also local coverage of teams, meaning you could flip back and forth between your local team(s) and whatever ESPN was showing (though ESPN had exclusive rights, at least in my area, similar to now). ESPN definitely has played a major role in college basketball's popularity.
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I think they'll be right around 70. If I had to guess I'd go a couple wins short of that.
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I would have been the second he signed his deal.
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I honestly have no idea who the fourth string goalie is (i.e., the goalie who will "merely" be the back-up in an FA Cup Seminal Derby). Their fourth stringer is on loan to Hull, so I guess they are going to put one of their academy kids on the bench and just pray (both Bedford and Mersin are only 17) According to this (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2128214/Liverpool-recall-Peter-Gulasci-Hull-amid-keeper-crisis.html) they are going to recall Gulasci from Hull. Either way, not exactly the goalie situation you want at Wembley.
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I honestly have no idea who the fourth string goalie is (i.e., the goalie who will "merely" be the back-up in an FA Cup Seminal Derby). Liverpool's third-string goalie just got yellow carded. My heart sank for a second. They got the call right but I was hoping for a red just to see who they would put out there on Saturday. Ha ha, I wasn't. (I don't think Liverpool is going to beat Everton anyway, though, unfortunately.) I'm not real sure though . . . I think there's an argument that it should have been a red. It denied a goal-scoring opportunity, right? Either way, that was a crazy, entertaining game. Not exactly what one would have expected.
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I don't think I'll ever understand how that team competed so well in Big 10 play. They not only won 1 game, but they had chances to win 5-6 others (most notably blowing IIRC was a 6 point lead to Michigan in the final minute). When the Iowa win finally came, it was considered to be finally finishing a game out rather than just a random occurrence. But that team had a lot of streaky inefficient shooters/scorers (Roth, Dumes, Jones, Story). When they were shooting the ball well, the team hung around. When they struggled, the team got absolutely destroyed. Yeah, that team was surprisingly competitive in the Big Ten for a 1-17 team with that poor of a roster. Sure, they took some beatings (31 at Illinois, 28 at Michigan State, 24 at Wisconsin and Ohio State). However, they were close a number of games: five-point loss at Iowa, six-point overtime loss to Michigan (as you mentioned, completely blew that game), four-point home loss to Minnesota, two-point loss at Northwestern, eight-point loss at Minnesota, three-point loss at Penn State, and a five-point loss to national runner-up Michigan State.
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I honestly have no idea who the fourth string goalie is (i.e., the goalie who will "merely" be the back-up in an FA Cup Seminal Derby). Liverpool's third-string goalie just got yellow carded. My heart sank for a second.
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Malik Story? Huh? He played a lot as a freshman, would have likely played a lot the rest of his career, and IU was under no scholarship crunch at any point during his career. He transferred to be closer to home. Bobby Capobianco was (seemingly) an unfortunate circumstance that I'm not entirely comfortable with, as I've said many times on this board. But it's still only one.
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I honestly have no idea who the fourth string goalie is (i.e., the goalie who will "merely" be the back-up in an FA Cup Seminal Derby).
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Is that worse than my IU buddy claiming that Jordy Hulls is going to give up his scholarship and pay to play so nobody else loses a scholarship next year? Rumors of someone giving up their scholarship have been around the program for at least a year (and, no, I don't just mean around message boards about the program). I'm not saying it will happen, I don't think it will, but someone going off scholarship isn't outside the realm of possiblities.
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Someone on the internet probably thinks Nerlens Noel is a lock for IU. 3...2...1...before SSR quotes me in his signature with "Nerlens Noel is a lock for IU."
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Which is pretty silly, I think. Michigan State certainly has a good roster -- and Gary Harris is a great talent who I think will be an impact player -- but they weren't the second best team in the nation last year and lose Draymond Green (who was basically everything for them). What does Gary Harris have to do with MSU? He'll be pouring in buckets in Bloomington Har har har. It'd be funny if anyone that posts on this board every said he'd definitely commit to IU, which I'm nearly certain did not happen (frankly, I have tons of IU fans as friends and all thought it was a long shot that he'd come to IU . . . but I'm sure someone somewhere said elsewise on the interwebs somewhere). There is some "insider" on the Scout IU board who called Gary Harris to IU a lock. Of course he also broke the news of Matt Painter going to Missouri and said Watford was good as gone too. :stickman: Someone on the internet probably thinks Nerlens Noel is a lock for IU.
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Which is pretty silly, I think. Michigan State certainly has a good roster -- and Gary Harris is a great talent who I think will be an impact player -- but they weren't the second best team in the nation last year and lose Draymond Green (who was basically everything for them). What does Gary Harris have to do with MSU? He'll be pouring in buckets in Bloomington Har har har. It'd be funny if anyone that posts on this board every said he'd definitely commit to IU, which I'm nearly certain did not happen (frankly, I have tons of IU fans as friends and all thought it was a long shot that he'd come to IU . . . but I'm sure someone somewhere said elsewise on the interwebs somewhere).
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Ok, so who's scholarship is getting whacked? Who is scholarship?
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Which is pretty silly, I think. Michigan State certainly has a good roster -- and Gary Harris is a great talent who I think will be an impact player -- but they weren't the second best team in the nation last year and lose Draymond Green (who was basically everything for them). Edit: I also suspect people are underrating Wisconsin here. They lose Jordan Taylor, but he wasn't actually that great for them this year, and Sam Dekker is likely going to be really good right away.
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Yes yes yes.
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Give it another 6 weeks or so. Once he and Rizzo arrive watching these games will be a lot more interesting. Oh yeah, I'm not ranting and raving that he and Rizzo should be up now. I'll just have a lot more fun watching the games when they are up.
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I'm ready for Brett Jackson too.
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Excellent.
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I keep having this nightmare scenario play through my head: 2012: We were too bad last season to make it worth adding a big-time contract. 2013: Ditto 2014: We almost made it to .500, but there's only a couple of impact players on the market, and the Dodgers and Yankees went to insane numbers on them and we should be thankful we didn't try to match that. 2015: Attendance has been down the last few years because of all the awful teams, and we still don't have the cable megadeal like those big market teams, so we have to be prudent. And/or the current management team proves as smart as we all hope/think they are, succesfully build from within, and enter the free agency season "one player away!" And the best player on the free agent market is . . . Alfonso Soriano II. That would be a bit different though, because we'd have a lot of cheap, young talent on the team when we added Soriano II. Plus this front office would never add a player with those type of flaws and demanding contract. Considering (some of) the current front office's rather spotty record in free agency, I wouldn't be so sure. Regardless, you all but made my point for me. If you wait for the perfect player at the perfect time, you're not likely to sign anyone.