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If used correctly steroids can help out a player a lot though. They can, but 'roids don't help players connect with the ball and guess pitches. For steroids to be effective you still need contact. They also don't help pitchers throw strikes -- they still have to be able to hit their spots (for the most part). If we're going to ban those who did (or are even accused of doing) steroids, then we definitely need to kick out everyone who stole signs (an action which helped a player know what a pitch was, enabling them to make better contact) as well as every pitcher who used pinetar, spit etc. (actions which unnaturally made it harder to a hitter to make contact). I'm fine if we're going to do that, but if we're going to talk about taking action, lets be consistent. They actually can help you guess pitches, indirectly. Steroids make you stronger which will increase your bat speed. A faster bat means you can wait to swing that extra split second - which is everything in hitting. That extra split second could be the difference between recognizing a curveball and not recognizing it. So if somebody is just a bit slow, steroids can help them a lot. Obviously steroids aren't going to make your eyesight better and, don't get me wrong, professional baseball players are very good, hence the reason they are professional. But in a league full of professionals, little things distinguish you from another player and steroids can do that.

Hooray for local blackouts!! No Raiders for me.

Oh my goodness. A 60 yarder for the victory? Amazing.

But he gets it on another rush anyway.

Bush should have had a touchdown but he bobbled the ball and ran out of bounds.

UC Davis got their first win of the year yesterday over Jackson State who I thought was a decent team. They should savor this victory because they will be few and far between this year. The team is still getting used to the new offense and the shooters aren't making shots yet. Gonna be a long year.

WVU front seven: DE: 6-3, 250 DE: 6-4, 290 NT: 6-4, 295 LB: 6-1, 245 LB: 6-1, 215 LB: 6-2, 225 LB: 6-2, 230 Wisconsin front seven: DE: 6-2, 260 DE: 6-6, 234 DT: 6-4, 282 DT: 6-5, 311 LB: 6-2, 214 LB: 6-2, 220 LB: 6-2, 232 Wow, those look pretty similar don't they. Are you going to call Wisconsin's front seven "skinny assed" now too?

Florida will make the National Championship game but Michigan deserves to. There are three types of voters out there: 1. Those who actually think Florida is better and will vote them #2. 2. Those who don't want a rematch and will vote Florida #2 because of it even if they think Michigan is better. 3. Those who don't care about a rematch and will vote Michigan because they think Michigan is the better team.

Minor nitpicking but LSU isn't guaranteed to be in the Rose Bowl yet. If Florida goes to the title game Michigan will face USC in the Rose. Also, Oklahoma will be going to the Fiesta Bowl.

I really feel sorry for Louisville. Even if they kill Wake Forest it will be like when Utah beat Pitt a couple years ago and the excuse from small conference haters was Pitt sucked (which was true). Either way nobody gave Utah credit and I don't see Louisville getting any credit if they win this game.

I didn't want a rematch and have voiced that opinion since the OSU-UM game. But UM is more deserving than Florida. I just don't think Florida is that good of a team and they haven't done anything to prove to me that they could make a serious run at OSU.

I have to give it up to Oklahoma. After Bomar was kicked out my expectations for them plummeted and yet they find themselves in the Fiesta Bowl as the Big 12 Champion. I won't even mention "that game" for IMB!'s sake.

It's funny. I could change the word "East" to "Ten" and the statement would still be true. great. now you too. mmmk. no it would not. name me the Big East equivalents of Minnesota, Indiana, and Iowa. you cannot. why do you guys keep this up? it's really the silliest sustained argument in favor of an untennable position I can remember in all my time on this board. Yeah, I don't get that either. Ohio St. and Michigan are both really good, Wisconsin is good (that's three BCS teams right there). Are South Florida, Cincy, and Pittsburgh better than Penn St., Purdue, and Minnesota? I don't think so. It wasn't a comparison to the Big East. I was simply pointing out that the Big 10, after OSU, UM, and maybe Wisconsin (we'll find out after their bowl game), is just a bunch of crap. Obviously those three teams bring up the overall rating of the conference and they are what makes the Big 10 better than the ACC and Big 12, but the rest of the Big 10 isn't good this year. With that statement, I'm not saying the Big East is better or worse than the Big 10.

then how are you watching the Big East? You realize that you can watch more than one game per day right? EDITED because I was thinking one thing and wrote another.

It's funny. I could change the word "East" to "Ten" and the statement would still be true.

Pat White isn't even playing for WVU. Rutgers has a chance.

Rutgers? Louisville? Rutgers? Louisville? Rutgers is gonna lose. Louisville then.

I DON'T CARE! AND STARTING COWAN WAS THE RIGHT DECISION! THIS IS SO EFFING AWESOME!!!!!! So you like Dorrell now?

Hey Raisin, I know you're on a high right now but I have to do this. Dorrell and his staff just secured his job for the next couple years.

Or punt it over his head.

Now it comes down to how good does Florida look against Arkansas.

Unbelievable. I can't believe USC is going down.

Clear backward pass.

I'm all for saying ND just isn't that good. Our opponents sure seem to want people to think that based on the crapfests that GT and USC are submitting. Maybe it's just true. ND barely beat a horrible Michigan State. They've been beated by the only good opponents. I just don't see anything to justify ND being all that good. Georgia Tech is the only decent team they've played, and GT is no great shakes. I'm not even going to dignify Michigan State. You and everyone else know the Spartans played better in the first 3 quarters of that game than most teams have played all year. It's not our fault JLS can't coach a team with a big lead, nor can he recover from a tough loss. GT I'll give you, that was a rough performance for ND, but everyone else was playing I-AA teams that week so it's hard to hate on them too much for it. Maybe Michigan State looked so well is because ND just isn't that good. Maybe, but I seriously doubt it. Moo did this in 2005 too, remember - play out of their heads against ND and crap out the rest of the season. The man makes a good point. MSU did play one of their two best games (or parts of games) of the year against ND - the other was the NW comeback. If I had to guess, I would say it was a little bit of both MSU playing better against ND and ND not being as good as expected. Michigan State was a bad football team. They had the ability to move the ball on offense but rarely did. Their defense was terrible. And it took Michigan State to go out of their way to turn the ball over for ND to win it. Right. If MSU wasn't such a terrible team, they beat ND and ND has three loses and aren't even in the BCS picture. ND isn't a great team. They may not be a terrible team, but they aren't the 12th best team in the country either. I'm not saying ND is a great team. But MSU played much better against ND than they did in virtually every other game and they did the same thing last year as well. MSU should have won that game, but they didn't.

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