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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 14, 2012 -> 08:17 AM) Apple's stock price hit $500/share yesterday. Corporate earnings growth in the U.S. last quarter is estimated to be about 7%. If you strip out Apple, that number would only be 2.9%. Jebus. I remember when my friend bought it at $90/share in March 2009.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Feb 13, 2012 -> 07:51 PM) I keep telling 2k5 he doesn't have to worry about balta catching him. He doesn't listen. SS2k5 posting fake "celebrity" deaths. Bastard!

So I know that NK loves to be ridiculously opaque, but is there anything to be gained by not officially saying he isn't dead? The longer the silence, the more likely it is SOMETHING happened, even if he's not actually dead. Unless they just want to f*** with the rest of the world, which would be about par for the course.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Feb 10, 2012 -> 04:00 PM) You have a backer: http://nymag.com/daily/sports/2012/02/sorr...e-terrible.html As I told a friend, he makes the mundane exciting, but for 90% of the broadcast he's average at best. Put him with Jackson, Mr. "I'm going to say the team needs to do X, which is always wrong, and then continue to talk about it as if that's what they're doing, even though they're not," and it's a pretty terrible tandem. I love Gus Johnson, but Jim Jackson is terrible. Almost as bad as Shon Morris!

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Feb 10, 2012 -> 12:54 PM) Do you mean Lou Brown? Yes, yes I do.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Feb 10, 2012 -> 08:48 AM) Probably not, and I agree that IU played a better game. It's just upsetting because it was a great, even first half, and when things got chippy the refs could have pulled Zeller and Leonard aside to tell them to stop (or call a technical or something) and move on. Their little scrum didn't need to change the otherwise clean, physical game that was being played by everyone else. Instead the refs reacted like the normally do - they start blowing the whistle on bulls*** calls. Someone flops hard and they react accordingly without seeing that it's a flop. They were anticipating calls that second half in an attempt to alter the style of play. I mostly agree with this, and I only qualify my agreement because you seem to either not realize or gloss over the fact that in the Leonard-Zeller battle over the course of the game, Leonard was the one doing more stupid, overt stuff. That push at midcourt early in the first half? EASILY could have been a flagrant. The key word in those last two sentences is "overt." I'm not saying Zeller wasn't ragging on Leonard or whatever, but if he was it was in a way that was much harder to discern. Like it or not, the refs are going to call (or maybe give the player a talk) the player that they see doing all the overt acts. Leonard lost his cool way too much. It wasn't as obvious last night, but watching over the course of the season Zeller has consistently been very good about doing nothing more than smirking in disbelief if there's a bad call on him. Doesn't talk, whine, whatever, he just keeps playing the game (while being cognizatnt of how many fouls he then has, and how the game is being called). I haven't seen all the Illini games so I can't comment if Leonard is normally like that, but last night he certainly was acting immature. I thought the play that most epitomized the matchup of the big men last night was when early in the 2nd half Leonard turns it over/gets blocked/misses the shot (I honestly can't remember) and starts whining about the call to the ref. In the mean time, IU pushes the ball up the court, Zeller races all the way down the floor and slams it in (and gets the And-1 because a pointless foul by Myke Henry). I'm not even saying Leonard didn't have a right to be upset (as I said, I can't exactly remember the preceding play), but even if he did, wait for a dead ball to talk to the refs! He had more important things to do at the time, like you know, guarding his man.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Feb 9, 2012 -> 02:27 PM) How NOT to write a cover letter: If I were the person that received that cover letter and resume, I would keep it on my desk long enough to go to a custom stamp-making website, order one that says "DOUCHE" in bolded red lettering, have it shipped to my office, and stamp it on every page of the document. Then I'd piss on it, a la Lou Gramm.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Feb 9, 2012 -> 10:18 PM) Illini fans are generally no better or worse than anyone else in terms of refs. Eh, my problem with complaining about refs is that personally, I try really really hard to not let it affect how I view the game. This means I strive to be cognizant of the calls my team gets and the ones they don't get, and people who complain about the refs often forget about all the calls their team DID get. My other thing is that it's very, very rare a bad call actually gives a team points. They often give a team a chance to score points, but it's up to the team to capitalize on that opportunity, and I try not to take that away from the players. Yes, I realize that the more chances a team has, the more likely it is they'll score more...but my point is that there still a critical element of a team performing well enough to capitalize on those opportunities. I agree that IU got the benefit more often than Illinois tonight. But if anyone tries to tell me that would make up the 13 point difference, I'll laugh them out of the room.

Northwestern really sticking it to Iowa here.

QUOTE (fathom @ Feb 9, 2012 -> 09:23 PM) Refs lost control of that game. Thought they gave IU benefit of the doubt on a lot of drives, but Leonard absolutely lost his cool at times tonight. For Illinois to win, they needed Paul to show up and he didn't. Oladipo is a fantastic defender. He seemed a bit tired in the second half though, picked up some dumb fouls.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 9, 2012 -> 09:04 PM) Wtf is a bench warning? Maybe they were saying something? It didn't look like they were crowding the court or anything.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Feb 9, 2012 -> 08:50 PM) Gus Johnson is horrible. Why do people like him? Because he's awesome?

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Feb 9, 2012 -> 08:38 PM) Lol, refs have lost control You're not complaining about that Leonard call are you? He clearly moved on the screen, and it was right in front of the ref. That'll get called every time. Pritchard (or Sheehey, couldn't see which) did the same thing on the next possession.

Dumb foul by Zeller. That's his 3rd. Also, what's the rule with that Sheehey out of bounds play? The Illini player clearly didn't mean to take his feet out from under him, but he did anyway. Wow, dumb move by Leonard, that was right in front of the official, and it's his 4th.

DUMB foul by Leonard, and he pushed through Sheehey to get there. That was a clean strip by Paul too I thought, should have just had it out of bounds.

QUOTE (He_Gawn @ Feb 9, 2012 -> 08:30 PM) LOL serves Leonard right. My twitter feed blew up saying Leonard pushed Zeller during the timeout on the way back to the bench and the refs had to talk to Leonard before play resumed... Next play? Zeller and one plus an elbow to Meyers face. Didn't see that, but Leonard did looked pissed. That's the first missed free throw for EITHER team.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Feb 9, 2012 -> 08:28 PM) 6-0 run and the ball when it should have gone the other way Well, on the Illini possession immediately following that, Maniscalco was out of bounds when he saved it and Illinois scored, so that's square, I guess.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Feb 9, 2012 -> 08:26 PM) Quite the swing there ?

Leonard definitely got the better of the matchup in the first half, but so far this half it seems like he's letting Zeller and Watford get in his head.

Dammit Elston. He sort of double-clutched at the last second. If he goes up strong for the dunk, like he should have, that would have been a foul on Leonard instead of a clean block. Also, that ball definitely hit the rim, but I think it bounced off Zeller out of bounds, unless it clipped one of the Illini players.

QUOTE (Boogua @ Feb 9, 2012 -> 08:02 PM) How good is IU from the line? 16-16? Jesus Christ. IU has been very good from the line all year (but not never-miss good), wouldn't surprise me if they lead the B1G in that category.

QUOTE (He_Gawn @ Feb 9, 2012 -> 07:57 PM) Man.. Sam Mani(whatever) and Danny moore just do not belong on this court.. Pretty much. I wish Moore would shoot every once in a while just to make opponents think he MIGHT do it. I honestly can't remember the last time he shot.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Feb 9, 2012 -> 07:23 PM) They can review being in the circle? Or did they just talk? I think they can review it, since it's a hard and fast "If any part of the foot is on the circle, it can't be a charge" rule.

QUOTE (He_Gawn @ Feb 9, 2012 -> 07:06 PM) Nice speech Bruce.... That really fired everyone up.... Yeah, it was uh...not exciting. If I hear an Eric Gordon chant I'm driving back down to Bloomington tonight to slap the current students. Nice push Leonard, it tripped up your own teammate.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Feb 9, 2012 -> 02:58 PM) Me neither! It's the girlfriend's favorite restaurant...she is paying Go with her to LA.