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http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2007/03/xbox-360-black.jpg That looks pretty slick. Any specific date for that release and will it be more expensive than the original?

I see the Dolphins making a run at Carr, just like they did with Harrington. I don't believe Culpepper is fully healthy, and he's also getting up there in age. If he goes there, Carr should have an early shot at starting behind a line that is atleast a little better than Houston's. He'll also get to work with Cam Cameron who previously got to work with Brees and Rivers. Haven't the Dolphins rumored to be interested in Trent Green also? It's like they're trying to set a record for most quarterbacks acquired in two years. Hey Miami, Aaron Brooks is looking for a job too!!

For the sake of my bracket, I hope you pick the Final Four 100%.

Too bad for UCLA that they have to play Florida next (assuming Florida beats Oregon which I believe they will).

This is a win-win game for me. Either UCLA wins and some of my friends are screwed in their brackets because they have Kansas winning it all or Kansas wins and I get points for the win.

Mata's got four fouls.

Let's see if he's still whining about Gilbert being a chucker. While that quote was a bit ludicrous, Kobe is shooting 46.7% this year while Arenas is shooting 42.1% but Kobe's taking half a shot more per game. And in his recent streak of 50+ point games, Kobe's worst shooting night was 48.6% and his other three were all well above 50% so he's not just chucking up shots just to do it.

And if the ref calls a flagrant foul, like it would normally be called in rec league, high school, college, or NBA, Xavier wins the game too. You can't control the what the refs are going to do and can't assume anything. You can control making your own free throws. Xavier didn't make theirs, too bad for them. I don't buy that. Like if the ump makes a bad call on a play at the plate to end the game... you can say "well you shouldn't have given up the hit in the 9th" or "should've scored more runs", but when a ref screws up, he screws up. Why even have a flagrant foul rule if you're going to let a guy push an opponent down to the ground? I guess he needs to pick him up and crack him over his knee to get a flagrant foul in that spot. First, like I said before, every single foul at the end of a game when a team is trying to comeback is an intentional foul yet they never call them. If you want to call this an intentional foul, you have to call all of them intentional. Second, the free throws didn't happen in the middle of the game. If the Xavier player makes both, they are up 4 with 9 seconds left, and there is no way OSU is going to tie the game up especially since they can't move the ball to half court on a timeout like you can in the NBA. I hate the cop out on the refs when that team easily could have won the game if they did what was in their power. This isn't like the Georgetown-Vanderbilt game when the Georgetown player traveled at the end and it wasn't called. The Vandy defenders did everything they could to prevent Georgetown from scoring and the refs didn't call the traveling. But if Xavier makes both the free throws instead of just one, the game is over and there is no debate. Xavier would have advanced. EDIT: Not to mention that Xavier was lucky the refs didn't call a foul on the skirmish under the basket right before the Oden foul.

QFT And a lot of bottles of Jack from pockets will be appearing I prefer the camelback approach coupled with pre-gaming, but that's just me. :lol: What does camelback mean? http://www.camelbak.com/index.cfm It's a "hydration" system. We used them a lot in the military. Much better than water bottles...helps keep your body temp down if you keep the liquid cold to start out with. I know a lot of people who used them while skiing/snowboarding for both water or alcohol.

That was in the NCAA tournament a year ago if I recall. Yeah, that was hilarious and it was last year.

And if the ref calls a flagrant foul, like it would normally be called in rec league, high school, college, or NBA, Xavier wins the game too. You can't control the what the refs are going to do and can't assume anything. You can control making your own free throws. Xavier didn't make theirs, too bad for them.

I don't buy this. After playing and coaching for many years, I just don't think "acting" jobs happen that often, especially in the heat of a moment of a tight NCAA game. Things are happening too quickly to stop and think like that. Now, once players hit the ground, sure some acting goes on. But its giving Xavier's player a ton of credit to think that in a split second upon being hit he decided to put on the act while flying out of bounds. Yeah, I don't think he was acting-but I do think the way his body was positioned it set him up for a harder fall then Oden actually pushed him with. It also needs to be taken into account that this was at the end of a long scramble where there were at least a couple trips and pushing that the refs swallowed their whistle on, so they already were letting some contact go. Plus, you can call an intentional foul on most fouls at the end of the game because a team is only fouling to send a guy to the line. Isn't that what an intentional foul is? Like you said CCP, the refs were being very lenient and could have called a foul on Xavier during the scramble so it was fair to only call a regular foul on Oden.

Yeah, for some reason they didn't say as much when Greg Oden basically picked a guy up and threw him out of bounds, but that wasn't a flagrant foul. But whatever, traveling doesn't exist any more, so they shouldn't have called it there. Happily, despite Tennessee's collapse and aTm's narrow loss yesterday, I can still win my pools if UCLA wins the championship - which won't happen because I picked them. But it's nice to have a rooting interest other than rooting against the best paid team in the nation. The Xavier guy did quite the acting job on that play though. Oden pushed the guy but not nearly hard enough to send him flying like he did. The Xavier player went flying like a Mexican soccer player. And that play shouldn't even matter because if Xavier makes its free throws, they win the game.

Hopefully we won't let you down, but KU is a better team. I also have 7 out of 8 Elite 8 teams - missed on Memphis (sadly, I had Texas A&M all the Final Four). Even though I have Kansas in the Final Four, I will be pulling for UCLA and Memphis because it will pretty much screw everybody else over in the pool I'm in with some friends. Almost all of them have either OSU or Kansas winning it all so if both of them lost, it would all but secure victory for me.

This is Kobe's league and everybody else is just playing in it. Fourth straight 50+ point game tonight for Kobe. Only Wilt has done this before. Unreal.

Butler is reeling right now and Florida is up 1. No field goals in over 7 minutes for Butler.

Seven straight for Georgetown and they're down 5 now.

Bad starts for the favorites today. Florida and Georgetown are losing.

Go Florida, UNLV, UNC, and Georgetown!!

Not a smart move by CBS.

That would require him to take a break from eating.

I'll take him in Oakland. Hasn't he suffered enough? Probably.

I'll take him in Oakland.

At least it's red. It's a fantastic shirt. If the US plays Mexico in the final I'm finding some sort of anti-Tricolores shirt to wear. It needs to have some reference to 'dos a cero' in it, of course. http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=477415&page=12 Awesome shirt. I'm considering ordering one.

I'll feel much better if Florida loses tomorrow, but with my luck they'll probably go all the way. :cry: At times like this, I hate sports. Why couldn't I have grown up loving Duke, the Yankees and the Patriots? My life would be so much easier. I apologize to everyone on the board for these horrible words, I'm just in a very depressed mood right now. Exactly how I felt about 4 hours ago... You'll get over it eventually. I'm already partly over it. But usually, the morning after is the worst. Hopefully I don't break my hand from punching a wall. The morning after is terrible, especially for me. I have a 45 minute drive to work and I always listen to the local sportstalk station. In the morning, all they'll be talking about is the game tonight. Thus I have to either relive every moment of this game or not listen to sportstalk (probably what I'll do). Then, when I get to work, being the sportswriter, I'm expected to discuss the game with whoever wants to and, while that's normally an enjoyable part of the job, it'll suck in the morning. The good thing is, my boss (an OSU fan) is on vacation so I won't see him again until Monday. Luckily I don't have to wake up till noon tomorrow. I'm going to try to avoid reading the paper too. It's going to be depressing though on campus. Depressing for you? We won nine freakin games this year! :lol: Heh, we only won five games and that was fewer games than the football team won.