Derwood

there is a difference between not introducing the Santa myth to your kids and actively telling them that it's false when they discover it for themselves. if your kid hears about it from a friend or at school (and they will) and thinks it a cool thing, are you going to ruin his fun by flat out telling him it's not true? are you going to turn your kid into the a-hole in elementary school who ruins Santa for everyone?

you're missing the point No I understand the point that Christmas doesn't have to be religious but you are the missing the point that you don't have to celebrate Christmas. I have found memories from childhood and none of them involve Christmas. I know I had a good childhood and never resented or was upset that I didn't get to celebrate Christmas. The idea that Christmas is a must and any kid who doesn't celebrate it must be deprived is beyond idiotic. That's extreme ignorance of other traditions, religions and cultures. It's this type of thinking that leads to wars. You think people can't live without what you believe they need and eventually try to force it on people and they resist. Wake up realize there is more than one way to think about Christmas and that millions in this country alone grow up without it and turn out just fine. no, my original point was that my problem isn't that you don't celebrate Christmas, it's that you're saying that you're going to force a 3 year old to not believe in Santa. Let them believe what they want to. You're not even a parent and you already sound like the "my kid's will NOT read Harry Potter because there are witches in it" type of parent. i'll illustrate an example of what I mean. when my first daughter was born, my wife and I made a conscious decision to not make everything she wore pink, her nursery pink, etc. In other words, we weren't going to do the stereotypical gender color stuff. Now my daughter is almost 6, and she loves pink stuff, princesses, etc. We never said that she WOULDN'T ever wear pink, just that we weren't going to force it on her. you sound like the parent who will be saying "my child WON'T ________" a lot

0% that's the odds Meph joins this league and actually puts up or shuts up

i can't wait to see Maryland play Nevada in front of 12,000 fans

so you're completely tossing his counting stats in favor of a rate stat?

Something tells me it's more the Notre Dame part than the 6 win part that's bothering you. Nevermind that any team with 7 wins is already in a bowl. no, it's more of a "there are too many bowls already" thing. I'd feel a littel sorry for the ND players to end up with a losing season by losing to Hawaii (though they get a free trip to Honolulu, so....) the Indy Bowl will probably fold soon. they don't have a title sponsor anymore since PetroSun didn't pay them last year. they are already in debt a few million. it'll be replaced with something else. Right now, more than 1/2 of the FBS schools make a bowl game.

coach. in his presser today he said he's taking a year off and then might explore coaching

Something tells me it's more the Notre Dame part than the 6 win part that's bothering you. Nevermind that any team with 7 wins is already in a bowl. no, it's more of a "there are too many bowls already" thing. I'd feel a littel sorry for the ND players to end up with a losing season by losing to Hawaii (though they get a free trip to Honolulu, so....)

you're missing the point

now that most teams play a 12 game schedule, they need to bump the # of wins for bowl eligibility to 7. it's crazy that a team like Notre Dame can go to a bowl but end the year with a losing record

http://www.nba.com/media/bulls/schedule_0809.pdf Every WGN* with the asterisk is the national broadcast. thanks. seems like it used to be very Saturday night, but maybe i'm "misremembering"

Minnesota went 3-5 in the Big Ten and didn't play PSU or MSU

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so are there no national WGN games anymore?

hit would have been nastier had the other 49er not been behind him

noon eastern or central?

Who else would you prefer? 1 loss Boise State and Ball State teams that played your high school among other terrible teams? 2 loss TCU or BYU from the Mountain West? 3 loss Georgia or Georgia Tech who couldn't win their respective divisions? 3 loss Oregon or Michigan State(who OSU beat)? Boise State's undefeated. And yes, I'd prefer Boise over Ohio State. so you'd prefer a team whose toughest opponent was Oregon over a team who played in the 2nd best conference in the country and lost to two current BCS teams?

Meph LOL

I like PSU being the dog in that game. I hope no one takes their chances seriously

Remember that scene in The DaVinci Code when Sophie flashes back to seeing her grandfather in a bizarre, masked pagan sex ritual? Yeah, that was cubbiebum's childhood

does that mean Michigan St. vs. Georgia in the Capital One Bowl?

Maddux is my favorite player of all time. But Pedro is the best pitcher in the last 20 years. Certainly when he was on the mound. Greg might have him beat in total value because of durability, I guess. Pedro has a strong argument for best pitcher ever for when he was on the mound, though. an era at 2 for 1,000 innings? Pedro is not that good. I'd put Pedro's 1997-2003 against it

i haven't gone to church in years and we celebrate Christmas. this isn't a Christian vs. Non-Christian argument

disagree. I didn't say they'd win, I said they had a chance. I'm not sure what to make of USC. Obviously they're really good, but outside of Ohio State, they didn't play anyone good this year. also, never count out JoePa in a Bowl game.

what the eff