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It's the top headline. Yahoo.com just tweeted it 2 minutes ago. Just added it.

Sadly this hasn't even made ESPN yet, but Don Meredith passed away last night.

or notre dame wants in, or the big xii collapses and texas is interested in joining. there are scenarios where they could try to expand but they have to make a splash, not just throw in extra teams for the hell of it. Texas in around 3 years will be possible again.

Rosenthal's latest was that the teams were between 5/120 and 6/150. After the Werth signing he might get 12/210.

They have been trying to spend money and can't get anyone to bite. Don't think that's the right player to give that too though.

Between having the high ankle sprain all year and seeing his ankle bend the way it did today can't feel good.

Good hire. He's always wanted to coach in a BCS conference and now he's going to get his chance. He did a fantastic job of rebuilding SIU and he left NIU in a much better state than what they were at before he arrived. I'd rather them have him than Chryst. Leach would have been a bit scary but they never seemed interested in him. Leach wants the Miami job too, so not sure how interested he would have been in them till that's closed.

His 1st was very nice too. The 2nd was goal of the year material. He's quietly having a great season, not so quietly anymore I guess.

I love Jason Witten.

So Nebraska lost the 1st big xii championship and their last :-). Did Pelini go crazy at all?

So Zidane was guaranteed $3million for his support to Qatar, and since they won the bid he ended up receiving $15 million.

Bud Selig podcast about how Santo should be in the HOF and also they mentioned creating some sort of courage award based on everything he went through. http://espn.go.com/espnradio/player?rd=1#/podcenter/?id=5879887&callsign=ESPNRADIO&autoplay=1 There is one with Grace too http://espn.go.com/espnradio/player?rd=1#/podcenter/?id=5879793&callsign=ESPNRADIO&autoplay=1

I wouldn't be too sure that they wouldn't have given it to Cuba or something. A bermuda triangle WC would have been fun.

So should FIFA go back to a rotation for the WC? I forgot that based on the old rotation system that was in place, 2018 would have been ours.

Different situations. Our ceiling next year is a borderline playoff team - whether we got Dunn or not. The next year would be our best shot to have a good Dunn and a good team. After that, the possibility gets much higher that we have two bad contracts hindering our upside as we should be a very competitive team. With Gonzalez, he should be very good to great for the first 2-3 years of the contract at least - which lines up right with when this roster should begin moving upward rapidly. Also, I'm not terrified of paying Dunn at 33-34 years old. I can understand why you would want him and he definitely makes us better, I just don't see the reward being higher than the risk that he tanks for a year or two. Terrified? That's kind of crazy. The guy has patience and power. Those things tend to last. He may struggled in his mid-30's, but if you are terrified of paying Dunn at 34 you have to be terrified of paying pretty much any free agent in baseball. Exactly. I wouldn't say terrified as I wanted Dunn. I just want Gonzalez more, that 4th year is not so much a detramint on Dunn as it more so adds more value towards getting Gonzalez instead. If we get no one then avoiding Dunn was a huge mistake. That being said Dunn playing for the White Sox makes more sense for him personally than playing for the Cubs. If we matched the contract there is nothing to suggest that he would still choose the Cubs over the White Sox.

That is not a good call at all. That's terrible ownership. My guess is Hendry just didn't want to spend the portion of his budget on Dunn. But if Ricketts didn't authorize it then he's a much worse owner than I suspected. That and its no secret that Hendry is very interested in AGone. Plus I would take Fielder over Dunn as well. As long as we land one of those two next season passing on Dunn is a good thing. The 4th year on Dunn decreased a lot of my interest in him. He belongs in the AL and he went to the AL.

They will unless they are able to buy a new roster as mentioned a couple of pages back. Its 12 years away, but they will be lucky to get 1 point out of the group.

Horrible news. We all knew it would come sooner rather than later, but this sucks.

AJ's on his way North of the Border it seems... That sucks. He wasn't the best, but AJ provided some stability behind the dish. He was probably just tired of losing to the twins year after year. Looks like it's either Miguel Olivo or Tyler Flowers then. But now he is going to lose to the Yankees, Red Sox's and rays year after year.

One year stop gag till Adrian and who cares.

In that case Dunn better sign that and they can have him too.

As in Qatar paying for the new construction services the voters requested for their region ;-).

Its still not certain that Brazil will pull everything together for '14 with the US being the fall back option for that one. I imagine they will as they will be given every chance to do so, but they reportedly have a very long ways with probably 2 years to do so.

But TCU joined a major conference for 2012, shouldn't that make them eligible to play for the national title?

2018 Voting Results: 1st Round: England - 2, Holland/Belgium - 4, Spain/Portugal - 7, Russia - 9 2nd Round: Russia - 13, Spain Portugal - 7, Holland/Belgium - 2 So outside of England voting for themselves, England was only awarded 1 other vote out of 21. There was an agenda there by the voting committee.