Banedon

It's been such a busy week at work, I didn't take the time to fill out a bracket...so it's fun to root for all the crazy upsets.

A good beekeeper would make the bees act nice. Talk nicely and carry a big can of Raid.

You tell me. Take the high road? How when a supposed moderator of this forum does stupid stuff like this. How is this moderation? This is a perfect example of what I am talking about on this board. A freaking moderator decides to not be nice and agree that being nice is better than anything else but call out the poster who is trying to call out he other people not being nice. Thank you for proving yet again why something needs to change around here. All I am asking is for people to be nice to each other. Please respect this and moderate the discussion rather than continue to fuel the fire. Obviously I am asking for trouble, but this cannot stand from a moderator. I made a post to put an end to all of this yet it doesn't end. Rather, a moderator decides to continue the argument for no good purpose for the board If he wants to question the integrity of my posts that would be fine but in public serves no purpose but to condone the bullies You sir, were the first person to say something "not nice" in this thread. You decided to start flinging insults at the message board as a whole, because they dared to mock a book description. You did no such thing. You said "why not be nice?"....indicting everyone but yourself as being "mean". If I said "Why not be smart?" to you, would you perceive that as putting an end to things? There's nothing wrong with having an opinion that doesn't coincide with the majority. But be prepared to defend your opinion, and it's probably best not to throw insults at the entirety of the message board, and then complain about the response. If someone swats a beehive, who's fault is it when they get stung?

Noah expected to play vs Nets. Heh.

The motivation is avoiding injury. They think that somehow this will reduce injury. I'm not quite sure how, but that's the justification. b/c a receiving team is less likely to bring a ball out of the end zone if they get it at the 25 on a touch back? seems like you could figure out what the average return yardage is on kicks in or near the end zone and give the receiving team that yardage on a touch back. Fewer kick returns means fewer violent collisions. I assume that's the thinking. Yeah, I remember reading that now. It was in the same PFT article that talked about the rule change too... It was a busy day at work yesterday, and my brain wasn't quite firing on all cylinders.

The motivation is avoiding injury. They think that somehow this will reduce injury. I'm not quite sure how, but that's the justification.

Well, kinda...but it'd be like the last 2 minutes, when coaches can't challenge. If the replay official thinks it requires review, he'd buzz the ref. So replays would only be in effect on those scoring plays that were debatable.

Not necessarily true. Decertification would mean that there'd be a lawsuit when the owners try to lockout, and there's a strong chance that it'd be ruled that the owners would have to abide by the previous CBA. It'll be messy, but there could be football without a CBA.

1 for 3. I don't want Rogers or Solder. I don't think Solder will be there for the Bears to pick anyway. Yeah. I doubt he'll be there. And I want nothing to do with Rogers. I'd take Rice in a heartbeat if I his health is ok. And now Kiper has the Bears taking Solder.

Reinsdorf is pumped:

Broke it playing pickup basketball, which is apparently not a violation of his contract.

It's a few days old. Somebody posted a youtube video of it looping repeatedly.

wtf....Tiki Barber is unretiring.

Hmmm...their SBnation blog doesn't seem to be too rough. Heh, they had a bullet point in the recap ripping the Bulls and how easy they are to defend and would struggle to get out of the first round if they depended on Rose so much, but it appears the author deleted it. Ha...excellent.

Hmmm...their SBnation blog doesn't seem to be too rough.

i read that a couple days ago. the only part of the analogy that doesn't work for me is that his writers would have had no way of knowing going into it that typing away on a computer would have caused early death, whereas football players absolutely know. What I took from that was the parallel of pretending to care about employee safety while simultaneously asking for the employee to do more of this known unsafe activity. But admittedly, that wasn't my favorite point.

Peter King actually linked to a Bill Simmons article today, and it really is well done. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/110304

heh....I just read that the one "make" in that 1-18 in the final seconds stat....was a dunk by Lebron to send a game with Memphis into OT, which Miami ended up losing. Fantastic.

I've been to Miller a few times, though it's been a while. It's super easy to get to...right off the interstate...and has good parking. I'd just drive. I live up there for a summer (back in the old County Stadium days) and always found Milwaukee very easy to get around.

The NFLPA is going to agree to it, so maybe players don't think the world will end either.

I think he's taking a break from the board at the moment. I think/hope he'll be back.

Another 7 day extension. It could all fall apart, but they might actually avoid a works stoppage, which is damn near a miracle.

So...you don't like it because change is bad? That's not a very good reason to not have 18 games, imo.

Apparently another week extension is "all but a done deal" per SportsBusiness Journal....and per Michael Silver, that means that both sides view that as "an almost ironclad statement that a deal is forthcoming – and a work stoppage will have been averted."