Buehrle>Wood

So assuming Simpson commits, the Illini have one scholie for '08. wonder where they go with it. There's still a few top guys out there. I'm wondering if they're going to start going after Verdell Jones hard. Heard he's coming for MM, which I believe would make it 2 visits in a row for him. Only Kansas and Illinois seem to be seriously recruiting him, and KU may even have cooled on him.

"My son is going as this(a skeleton), when my cub fan loving neighbors ask him what a scary skeleton he is. I am going to tell him, he isnt a skeleton, he is a baseball player from the last cubs world championship team." -SSI

I don't know where's its coming from, but speculation on the IB says the Illini will have two more verbals by Sunday, one of those being Stan Simpson.

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Oct 11, 2007 -> 02:49 PM) Does it pick up after the Windwaker storyline? I didnt know if they kept the storyline continuous since the character design and cell shading art used was the same as Windwaker. Yeah it does. It's the first direct sequel for Zelda.

QUOTE(IlliniKrush @ Oct 11, 2007 -> 05:44 AM) Rumor has it college gameday has contacted Illinois officials about possibly coming down for college gameday next week vs Michigan. I'm not banking Iowa as a win, just thought the mention of this even possibly happening is really cool. There aren't a ton of good games next week, and it is one of the Saturday night games. We'll see what happens. Aren't they on ABC too? So ESPN will probably make every effort to get it there.

If anyone has a Steam account and wants Half Life 2 and Episode 1 for free, PM and I will give it to you since I got an extra copy and Valve is letting those with extras give them away.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Oct 10, 2007 -> 01:38 AM) Why is upsetting in quotes? This is the first time Illinois has been ranked in 6 years. Not exactly a perennial powerhouse Well, for starters, at least for the UW game, it's hard to upset someone when you're 3 point favorites.

Apparently people are starting to notice Mendenhall: http://sports.espn.go.com/chat/sportsnatio...Id=35#topOfList

I turned it on mid way through, but this sounds like a Torre resignation speech.

Wait, what? Dallas won? WTF?

QUOTE(Buehrle>Wood @ Oct 8, 2007 -> 09:34 PM) When is HBK set to return? Shouldn't it be coming up? LOL

I was hoping it was a Chicago Raw tonight since those are almost always the best. But looks like they've moved on to Grand Rapids. Meh.

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Oct 9, 2007 -> 01:44 AM) I absolutely HATE Tony Gwynn's voice. GTFO

Yanks get a HUGE break. Happy?

QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Oct 9, 2007 -> 12:40 AM) Even though he gave up a homer - he looked like he was throwing a bit too hard - Wang looks so good already. It could be a really long night for the Indians offense. Or nottttt

When is HBK set to return? Shouldn't it be coming up?

QUOTE(Steve9347 @ Oct 8, 2007 -> 07:04 PM) The series to see who stands zero chance in the World Series against one of the Red Sox/Indians/Yankees. Rox are good enough to take down the BoSox if they get them IMO.

QUOTE(danman31 @ Oct 8, 2007 -> 05:32 PM) Hart was injured a bit or his numbers would probably be better. Stop the Mendenhall for Heisman talk. It's 5 games in and the guy won't be in the top 10. Right now he is riding on destroying Wisconsin, nice job. He's a good back. However, he got shut down by Penn St. and Missouri and destroyed Western, Indiana, and Syracuse. He will need to do what he did against Wisconsin against another good team before you can throw his name around in the same category as Mike Hart. He had 92 yards of offense vs. Missouri with 2 TDS on only 14 touches. Versus Penn State it was over 100 with another TD on 18 touches. Hardly "shutdown". This when Hart averaged 3.5 hard per carry against the common opponent.

The new Zelda is excellent.

QUOTE(Rex Hudler @ Oct 8, 2007 -> 01:39 AM) Problem is he is not even the best RB in his conference. You think Hart's better? I don't know. He only has about 60 more total yards than Mendenhall, and that's with about 65 more rushing attempts. Mendenhall is averaging over a full yard per carry than Hart and has two more touchdowns than him. I realize Mendenhall's rushing stats are skewed a little because they like to run 1 yard forward pitches to him, but he's certainly up there when discussing the best RBs in the country.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/usatpoll.htm How does one justify placing Wisconsin 4 spots ahead of Illinois?

AP Top 25 1. LSU (65) 6-0 1,625 2. California 5-0 1,538 3. Ohio State 6-0 1,511 4. Boston College 6-0 1,346 5. South Florida 5-0 1,339 6. Oklahoma 5-1 1,221 7. South Carolina 5-1 1,183 8. West Virginia 5-1 1,059 9. Oregon 4-1 1,047 10. USC 4-1 1,024 11. Missouri 5-0 966 12. Virginia Tech 5-1 910 13. Florida 4-2 822 14. Arizona State 6-0 752 15. Cincinnati 6-0 705 16. Hawaii 6-0 634 17. Kentucky 5-1 612 18. Illinois 5-1 595 19. Wisconsin 5-1 551 20. Kansas 5-0 336 21. Florida State 4-1 307 22. Auburn 4-2 248 23. Texas 4-2 136 24. Georgia 4-2 131 25. Tennessee 3-2 90

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ Oct 7, 2007 -> 05:09 PM) Mendenhall now ranks 5th in the NCAA in rushing yards, with a better YPC than anyone above him and better than anyone within 10 below him. He is also 2nd in rushing TDs with more receiving TDs than anyone tied or ahead of him. He'd be a serious Heisman candidate if he had any media hype whatsoever.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Oct 7, 2007 -> 05:42 AM) That's funny because they're having the exact opposite effect on me and most everyone else in the known Universe. That s*** is beyond annoying. Agreed. And despite seeing the commercial about 400 times, I still have no idea what the show even is. Is he just going to dress up as various celebrities for the entire show?