Magnetic Curses

why does any olympic athlete that anyone thinks is hot have to have a face like ivan drago? If Ivan Drago looked like that I'd go gay. you'd sleep with ivan drago? awesome.

Needs a battery of drug tests ASAP. There is no way anyone should be winning races by jogging while everyone else is busting a blood vessel running as hard as they can I do find it interesting that, as they were saying on the broadcast, Bolt and Spearman were very even runners for years and then - all of a sudden - Bolt gets a whole lot faster than Spearman. Not accusing him, but something seems odd with that. last year at the world championships, tyson gay EASILY beat bolt in the 200m finals. this is when bolt had a reason to run hard, staring at tyson's back, and bolt couldn't have run faster than a 19.85. now, all of the sudden, a year later, he's running that race a half second faster and coasting to victory. there's no way, there's just no way.

why does any olympic athlete that anyone thinks is hot have to have a face like ivan drago?

i was just thinking that. i thought it was the qualifiers for the x-games, but i forgot the olympics were going on.

i'm a bit partial to elenora lo bianco from the italian volleyball team.

come on guys, thinking a 16 year-old girl is attractive is not creepy IF you contact them on im and pretend to be their grandpa and ask if you can come for a visit and you promise you'll bring alcohol but the alcohol isn't really alcohol it's chloroform but you only have chloroform so you can pretend, from time to time, that you're kidnapping yourself. if that's the case, there's nothing creepy about it at all.

I never could imagine when I would truly root against the Bears, but if Rex gets another job and starts against the Bears. I might. well, the meatballs rooted against grossman and the bears, so i could see myself doing the same at that point. if rex were available, the vikings might have been wise to give him a look.

That's just plain ignorant to say. i don't know how on earth you could say that. i never thought i'd see the day when bears fans pined for the days of john shoop, but everyday is like that, now.

Is it online? jim lefebvre, one of the strangest firings in cub history. was ryno still with cindy back in 93?

I know that I'm in the minority on all of this admiration about Dunn, but I would never call Dunn a "great hitter". A "great hitter" would be able to make contact with the ball more often than Dunn does. Juan Pierre makes lots of contact. yeah, contact is overrated. it really depends on what kind of contact one makes.

re-sign dempster, his k/9 and g/f ratio suggest to me that this is not a fluke. his babip is perhaps a bit low, but he gets a lot of ground balls, so i dismiss it

but excellent reaction, you got a giggle.

Splendid post, my good sir. Hup-hup. it's like a crazy person going on meds and getting well, and then feeling so well that they forgot why they took the damn pills in the first place and going off of them. Oh, well, personally, I th-BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH?!?? reed=crazy platoon=medication

Splendid post, my good sir. Hup-hup. it's like a crazy person going on meds and getting well, and then feeling so well that they forgot why they took the damn pills in the first place and going off of them.

we have one of the productive platoons in the game in cf, and now we want to break it up because we look at reed's numbers against lefties and assume they'll be the same against righties? bad, bad idea. reed has been so good at the plate because he has been used correctly.

i think that we should go to the shotgun and run the no-huddle. it will help cover up our deficiencies on the offensive line and allow orton an extra second to get rid of the ball. i've been a staunch opponent of the "magic shotgun" in the past, but it looks like our only chance. orton has run this before and has done so effectively, i don't see why it's not worth a shot. if the offense is as bad as advertised, and we're doing nothing to compensate or change, then turner needs to go.

i don't think you understand how universities work. they run themselves like businesses, right or wrong Wrong It may be the wrong way of doing things, but it's how they do it. When I was at DePaul, our university president was famous for writing a book called "How to run a university like a business". It's how things are done. It's why they underfund programs that don't bring any money into the university. It's why they hire "professors" who have zero teaching skills but make a lot of money publishing. It's just how it works. Like any other less than ideal situation, you have to work the system to get what you want out of it but universities should not be run like businesses, they should be run like nationalistic, xenophobic factories for the blonde-haired and blue-eyed.

i know that was dempster but this is ridiculous. when are we going to get a hit w/ risp? when? it has to happen, doesn't it? maybe not against florida.

another runner stranded in sp.

of course.

every call to the marlins. the next close one needs to go our way.

nyet something you want to tell us about yourself?

nataliia dobrynska, hot hot hot.

he passed exceptionally well in the ohio state game, and was good in the usc game, which wouldn'e been nearly such a beat down if willis hangs on to the touchdown pass instead of getting stripped from behind at the 2. that game would have been decidely different if he hangs on and scores or at least goes down without fumbling. as far as ball state, that was a bad game for him passing-wise, but i have confidence that any of our running backs in any particular order would have done the exact same thing. people act like illinois doesn't have a great offensive line. mendenhall was amazing as a collegian, that much is true, but he was a running back in an offense that pounded the ball behind a superior line--he's replaceable.

I don't think I am. Mendenhall got nearly 300 touches last year and averaged over 6 yards a carry. That's more than PJ Hill, Knowshon Moreno, or Jamaal Charles. Juice was the QB and only got about 430. Juice's completion percentage and INTs were not appreciably better as the season progressed, and he'll likely be facing more passing downs without Mendenhall. I don't doubt the ability and athleticism of the Illinois receivers, I doubt the ability of Williams to consistently get them the ball. I think counting on marked improvement from Juice without as strong a running game is pretty optimistic. pierre thomas was the starter in 06, and averaged 6 ypc splitting time with mendenhall. i'm not worried about the running game. we have dufrene (6.3 ypc last year), pollard, and jason ford (remember the name) who will all get time and offer their own different looks as running backs. the illini won't struggle for yards on the ground. juice only rushing for 430 last year isn't really the point. in the big games where they needed him to run, he got the tough yards. against the vaunted defense of ohio state, he sat on the ball the entire 4th quarter in a hostile environment because that's what they needed him to do. he may break the 500 yard mark this year, but he'll run just enough to be threat while the other backs get enough carries to lead the conference again, behind the big wall up front. in his last 4 games last year, down the stretch, he put up very good numbers, and 2 of those games were aginst top 5 competition. if the running game isn't as strong, he'll throw more, and the illini will be fine. in his first 5 games he posted completion percentages 50 or below, then only once the rest of the way. in those last 4, he had one game below 60, and that was aginst osu, where he threw 4 tds and then parked it in the 4th. as far as not expecting him to progress from his sophomore to junior campaigns, well, i can't really offer anything more than what i've heard and what i've seen. i'm telling you that the kid is getting it and ready to go. Don't forget about Leshoure either. I think the running game, and the offense as a whole, will be just fine for the Illini this year. i would have liked to have seen leshoure redshirt and then move to FB, he's a large one.