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Haven't they been "investigating" the bats for 5+ years now? Its the same team that was investigating USC.

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Exactly. He clearly has some great physical gifts, but a lot of people had Locker as the #1 QB prospect and suggested he could have gone #1 overall in the most recent draft. He's pumped up as the #1 QB prospect for the upcoming draft...I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now. He clearly has good raw ability, but #1 overall? Off of one decent season passing? Why? What's funny is that many of the same scouts/analysts/armchair quarterbacks who were so high on Locker and his career 53% completion percentage would downgrade Mallett over his accuracy. Like I said, I don't get it. I'm much higher on Luck than Locker. I like Luck more too. I haven't seen a lot though, but he seems very accurate. Locker could use the Aaron Rodgers treatment in the NFL and sit for 2-3 years and be good.

Almost a funny disaster in College Station today. Oh well, the whole Big 12 is down this year.

I don't feel like the season has crept up on me, but it's going to take some getting used to watching with the vast majority of the pressure off. Sure, I want the team to repeat. But I just feel a little more complacent, or I guess content. I hope the team isn't of the same mind though, of course. And I'm sure Q isn't. There is a lot that is going to push the returning Hawks to complacency no doubt. We'll get a good grasp on how mentally tough this team is. When you are under 25 years old and you've already achieved the ultimate team goal, it's very possible that even if their intentions are good, they can't mentally give the same bit of extra effort to win. Combine that with a fact that they have a ready made excuse if things start to go wrong (all the turnover), and I wouldn't be surprised if they had a really down year (really down meaning 5-6 seed in West). That said, there is a lot to look optimistically about this season too. The core players are all back. The defense is mostly back. The key returning players have limitless confidence that they can be a top team in the league, they've been through these battles before, they know what it takes. Bolland is hopefully back for the entire season instead of only 1/3rd of it, we'll likely have a lot of young hungry players working hard to earn PT. With no Huet, our goaltending should be reasonable stable throughout the year. The key is really depth. They could realistically compete for a repeat if they stay focused and get lucky with injuries. If they do have considerable injuries, it's gonna be a struggle to even make the playoffs because there is a huge dropoff of proven talent at a certain point. But I just can't see a team with Kane, Toews, Bolland, Sharp, Brouwer, Hossa, Keith, Hammer, Seabrook and Campbell being anything but a dangerous team. I don't see Toews being a guy who becomes complacent or lets his teammates become it either.

I don't have very good feelings about Texas going to Lubbock tomorrow night. Vegas seems confident though making us a 14 point favorite.

He said he planned on retiring after 2012, though. I could see it potentially hurting his trade value, but I doubt that significantly. He already probably doesn't have much trade value – not enough to warrant dealing him, that's for sure. It really doesn't hurt it at all. Any team trading for him is not looking for any kind of extention, and would play out his contract to see if they even wanted to keep him anyways.

Z is one guy I could actually see doing this.

1st home game too. I think the Cowboys will fix some of their offensive problems. Like Raw said they moved the ball well just failed to score

Lots of goals today. United draw to Rangers is nice for them. Inter also drawing is a surprise.

The next two years will determine if Nadal has any chance. The peak age in Men's Tennis has dropped a lot over the past decade, and Nadal's past injury problems will weigh on him if they continue. Its not realistic for him to win 6 majors over a two year period, but he is half way there and thats a huge reason for why Federer is where he is.

The Texans putting up 34 points last week and Schaub only getting me 10.6 points pissed me off. I don't really believe Washington's defense is all that great despite. Young had a pretty good week last week, going against the Steelers worries me a little bit. So Schaub vs. Washington or VY against the Steelers. Right now its Schaub for me.

I can't wait to see Durant in 4-5 years. Happy he got the gold medal today.

Awesome game. Just need a goomd UT showing now.

thank you

lol - so we know our coach broke rules seriously enough to take a penalty of $1.5M...but we're going to hang onto him anyway. Great! I can't believe Bruce Pearl would bend the rules. Afterall he felt so strongly about them being upheld in the past he was willing to illegaly tape record a teenager's phone call at 2 a.m. He needs to contact Sampson on how to cheat better.

For my WR/RB/TE position should I start Dez Bryant, Jordan Shipley, Golden Tate, or Jermaine Gresham? Leaning towards Bryant, but no preseason doesn't help at all. I think Shipley could be a surprise in the slot though and could get some return yards.

dumbass keeper http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/blog/dirty-tackle/post/Why-goalkeepers-shouldn-t-be-too-quick-to-celebr?urn=sow-268819

Thank you. Was wondering what they were doing.

The #1 gets the easier of the opponents. Just like the NCAA tournament. The better you are, the easier the opponent you earn. That would be fine except how does a #2 get scheduled to play a #5 from the very beginning of the tournament in the quarterfinals. Wouldn't they be facing a #7 seed 3vs6, 4vs5? They don't reshuffle based on seeds left.

I don't really understand how they do the brackets any more but how does the #1 seed get the #8 seed in the quarterfinals where the #2 seed gets the #5?

That was the most useless article in college football history.

Getting paid for that sport, I'm pretty sure. Different sports, plus Weinke and even Ricky Williams were not on scholorship but more considered walk-on status. Still even at that it is tricky, going back to that professional skier who also played at Colorado not being able recieving endorsement money. Johnny Evans or something like that.

i agree with all of this wholeheartedly. But is that a precedent worth setting? He wasn't eligible to play, if this was decided during the actual season he would have not been eligible to win the award in the 1st place. Giving it someone else is pointless, but Bush shouldn't get to keep it.

It would be V-Y's otherwise, would it not? One report was to not have a winner for that year. To me that would be a little strange to do, its not a huge deal either way.