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Baylor's schedule to this point is slightly worse than OSU's. However, if they beat OK St.on the road, TCU on the road, and Texas at home, that will be better than OSUs schedule, even if they beat Michigan and Michigan State in a B1G title game. They have 1 common opponent. Ohio State beat Buffalo 40-20. Baylor beat them 70-13. Has to count for something when you're splitting hairs.

It's called the CHAMPIONS Classic. Unless you want some Loyola Ramblers action, no one from the State of Illinois belongs in this field.

Franklin is going to get a big-time job (bigger than Illinois, like USC) this offseason and Tressel is still under show-cause, but Petrino could be intriguing. Didn't UofI run Petrino's brother out of town when he was the OC? Probably wouldn't help them with Bobby. Then again, Bobby is a terrible human being who probably has no feelings for anyone, including his brother. Can certainly coach the hell out of some college football, though, and would be an excellent hire for Illinois.

In fairness to the Braves, they pretty much did the city a favor by utilizing the Olympic Stadium, putting their own money into it to make it a bit more baseball friendly, and staying there for 20 years of OK attendance despite a very good team. That Olympic Stadium would have been built whether or not the Braves took it over afterwards. This, in my opinion, is far less egregious than the new stadium the Falcons are building right next to their existing stadium that is currently good enough to hold Super Bowls, the SEC title game, and other various college football games and has no additional redeeming quality such as moving to be closer to the fans, etc... You could argue that it will help them keep the SEC game and get a future Super Bowl, but those assumptions are a bit dubious. Overall, both scenarios seem unnecessary, but the football one would chap my ass a bit more if I lived there.

I wonder what it would have been like if the White Sox would have moved to DuPage county in the early 90s instead of rebuilding across the street. This is basically that scenario except the Braves aren't competing for anyone else's fans, just going to be more convenient to their existing ones.

Met Buster Olney at the Tampa Airport during Spring Training. Couldn't have been a nicer guy. Talked baseball with him for about 15 minutes. This was 2010 and he prophetically saw the end of Piniella coming quickly. Met Desmond Howard at O'Hare. Also an extremely nice guy despite having an overnight layover trying to get to Fargo for Gameday back in September. He texted my MSU friend a "Go Blue", which was fantastic. When I was 7 or 8, I played playground basketball against one of Kareem Abdul Jabaar's kids. First black person I ever met. Nice kid. Slaughtered me in hoops, though. But, the most pertinent story comes when the Cubs were in San Francisco in 2004. We went to Maddux's 300th win (randomly, trip had been planned for months) and then later that night were out at a dive bar by our hotel and the crew of Farnsworth, Bako, Rusch, and Mercker come rolling in already half in the bag. We shot the [expletive] with them for probably 2 hours. They all thought the team was going to win the WS, all loved Nomar, they all agreed that "#21" was the biggest douche on the team, and they all said playing for the Cubs was basically the best thing ever. Farnsworth ran the pool table all night and took some chick home (she was probably about a 6), Rusch and Bako were pretty low key and were texting their wives/family all night kind of just hanging out in the corner. Mercker, however, drank more beers than I could count, was completely shithoused, falling all over the place. He ended up blowing the game the next night on Sunday Night Baseball by allowing the tiebreaking run to score as an inherited runner. (http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SFN/SFN200408080.shtml. We lost out on the Wild Card by 1 or 2 games. [expletive] Kent Mercker.

LOL at Darwin Barney and.... Starlin Castro. :(

I think MSU/Wisconsin are probably 3/4 in the Pac 12 and Big 12. Not sure what to make of SEC this season. I know Alabama is an elite team. But after them it is kind of murky. Not sure where MSU would fit in there That's fair. I think MSU or Wisconsin would be on Ole Miss' level. So, you have Bama, Mizzou, Auburn, LSU, South Carolina, Texas A&M all better than MSU and Wisconsin and Ole Miss and Georgia (at this point) on the same level with Florida and Vandy just behind.

It's not just you. This season definitely seems to be somewhat lacking for drama by CFB standards. Plenty of time left for that to change, though. I noticed the NSBB action has been way down this year also. I have wanted to defend MSU at times this year but there really hasn't been any one to defend them to. A lot of it is that there is a pretty consensus top 4 teams and none of them have that mind blowing loss yet. College Football truly gets nuts when there's a huge upset toward the end of the season. Also, there are a lot of B1G fans on the board and the B1G is basically Ohio State and a bunch of garbage. No one is picking on a team like Michigan State because they are clearly the 2nd or 3rd best team in the B1G and, therefore, about the 5th-7th best team in the Pac 12, SEC, or Big 12.

Oh suck my dick, Jordan Cameron and Darren Sproles. Those combined 2.6 points in a PPR league really helped me out this week. [expletive].

He probably gave up some postseason grand slams.

That makes me way too happy. Yeah, hopefully he cut some artery and is out for the next 10 seasons.

DePaul beat Lewis University by 5 in an exhibition game. Same old shitty Blue Demons. This should be the end of the Purnell "Era".

Yeah, the line would have to climb to 14.5 for me to even waver about taking the Packers. This is free money. This has the potential to be 63-21. Take the over as well.

He's terrible. Doesn't see the puck at all. We may need a new backup goalie before long because if Craw were to miss a significant amount of time we could be in serious trouble. Who might be available via trade? Raanta has been OK at Rockford. If he puts together a nice string, he could be better than Khabi by 2nd half of the season. If Crawford gets hurt, though, it could be ugly. Oh, I thought Raanta was hurt. He was, but mostly preseason. Played 4 out of 8 games, including 4 out of the last 6. http://www.icehogs.com/schedule/game/ And, he has just been OK, maybe a bit worse.

He's terrible. Doesn't see the puck at all. We may need a new backup goalie before long because if Craw were to miss a significant amount of time we could be in serious trouble. Who might be available via trade? Raanta has been OK at Rockford. If he puts together a nice string, he could be better than Khabi by 2nd half of the season. If Crawford gets hurt, though, it could be ugly.

Care to give me a google map link of the location? I'm not too familiar with the area. Sure thing: Link It really is too bad it will never happen, because it's absolutely perfect. Walking distance from 3 El lines, a few blocks from LSD and 90/94, a long walk or short shuttle/bus from Union Station/Ogilvie, plenty of space for all the other revenue generating crap they want, and they could orient the view from the stadium with the skyline/Sears Tower. I've always been against moving the Cubs but if the city/neighborhood doesn't allow the team to start making renovations that will increase revenue then the team needs to go elsewhere. I'd love to see what the property values in Wrigleyville would be with no baseball being played there. TT's plan listed about sounds like a good solution. Build a replica of Wrigley there and tell the landlords in Wrigleyville to go [expletive] themselves. I don't give a [expletive] about moving them elsewhere (easily accesible) in the city, it's when people try and put it in Rosemont or Darien because they're angry they don't get to drive 10 minutes to a game from their suburb that's the problem. The White Sox should have moved there 20 years ago.

Ozzie would be a good fit for that team. Him and Cabrera are tight and if there's anything he can do is manage a team full of sluggers and pitchers who can throw complete games every playoff game.

Good for the Rams. maybe they can move on from that disaster. He has 14 touchdowns and four interceptions; he's hardly a disaster. He's 21st in QBR in by far his best season yet and is one of the highest paid players in the league. past of the disaster is his contract, but it's not like he's anything special.

Good for the Rams. maybe they can move on from that disaster.

The way this is playing out is making the Ricketts look extremely bad. I'm sure it will all end up being fine, but at this point in time, the Cubs are a laughingstock not only on the field, but off of it. If not for the Astros incompetence on the field and with the Comcast Houston debacle, the Cubs would be the worst organization in baseball (adjusted for market and resources).

Yeah, he's fantastic, even in his vampire/zombie like state. It's time. Just bring him back for something. Probably not a statue or jersey retirement, but put a flag on the roof with his name and have a ceremony for it. Without him and Woody, the Cubs would have been even more of a joke than they currently are. He made that team a lot of money.

So....he sucks.

He sucks. http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/stats/_/id/14937/shea-mcclellin And here are the DE drafted after him. Jones and Mercilus are far better. The rest also suck. Why, oh why, could we not have drafted Jones or Mercilus? Disclaimer that the Texans run the 3-4 and you could argue that Mercilus would have the same problems as McClellin does in the 4-3. http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/stats/_/id/14927/chandler-jones http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/stats/_/id/14936/whitney-mercilus http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/stats/_/id/14929/nick-perry http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/stats/_/id/14970/courtney-upshaw http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/stats/_/id/14952/andre-branch http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/stats/_/id/14959/vinny-curry

Also, the Chiefs game in 2011 where they scored on a Hail Mary with their like 9th string QB after Orton got injured earlier in the game. That was atrocious.