Jake

Bennett in locker room with concussion symptoms.

They've all been correct. These announcers are annoying as f***, blatantly cheering for the Seahawks. Not mentioning Cutler as a top player in this game is asinine, he's been brilliant.

f*** Bennett

Da Bears

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 2, 2012 -> 09:40 AM) People are already bringing up the possibility of football related brain injury. Yeah hard for me to say whether it is that or not -- but it is not adequate to simply cast him off as "murderer" to me unless more evidence to the contrary comes out. My sense is that you don't do that unless you're mentally unhealthy. I'm not about to pin his number on my chest or something, but I don't think our society is programmed to fully understand what went down. It sounds to me like he just went crazy and unfortunately took someone with him to the other side. I will be interested in what further details come out.

If he was mentally healthy, I doubt he shoots wife. I see this differently than a normal suicide, but not exactly equivalent to a normal murder either.

KCTV5 confirms Belcher

FYI, the term "rape" is beginning to take on an expanded definition since people (primarily men) are preoccupied with the requirement for penetration for an act to be rape. Therefore, any other act is not in the same league. In truth, all these acts are different and just because a man doesn't put his penis in you doesn't mean you won't live in paralyzing fear that the next time they will. If things went down as she described, she would have forever lived in fear that yet another man or that same man would use her body against her will. She was willing to die instead of face that fear. This is just like politics where points that might get legitimately debated are completely nullified because one side is completely insensitive in their discussion of it.

QUOTE (knightni @ Nov 29, 2012 -> 03:03 PM) That was Briggs' quote. Maybe boners reminds him of his feelings for Marshall.

Andro doesn't do s***. Compared to legitimate steroids, you're looking at maybe 5% of the gains. The fact that they outlawed it was on a technicality anyway, but yeah those guys took it when it was legal and it hardly offered a performance advantage. In all likelihood, they could have easily achieved the same gain with a tweak to their workout program or diet.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Nov 29, 2012 -> 06:18 AM) So, does anyone know if mood stabilizers can just like...eliminate moods all together? My seizure medication is also a mood stabilizer and ever since it went into full effect I've felt like a large part of me has been missing. I've always been a very passionate and emotional person, yet it seems gone. I mean I asked out a friend two weeks ago and when she turned me down I quite literally felt nothing, whereas in the past I'd be upset for a while. Or I'm just not stressed out at all about all my tests, papers, and projects being due soon...which sounds good until the fact that I work best under stress. Hell, I went and looked at my poetry and I've written 3 poems since July, when I use to turn out two a month...and those past three were written without emotion. I dunno. It's just really, really weird. What's the medicine? Topamax turned my girlfriend into a depressed zombie.

QUOTE (flippedoutpunk @ Nov 29, 2012 -> 01:13 AM) Dang so Sherman and Browner from the Seahawks tested positive for Adderall eh? Yep, thats a hell of a performance enhancing drug. When youre on it, you can be the MVP of anything in life. The one semester that I took Adderall (As prescribed, mind you), I legit got straight A's in all four of my classes with EASE, and they were all 300 level history courses. Now that im off it, im a C average student with anti-social tendencies. Time to schedule an appointment. They are never informed of what they fail the test for. The players themselves would have leaked that info, likely to get away from steroid allegations.

Illinois really is just in a different league from these guys. We cut our turnovers in half and make free throws at an acceptable rate, it's a blowout. Nevermind the other room for improvement, like Tracy Abrams.

This team is really fun to watch. Last year, even when we were winning, it was excruciating.

JOE BERTRAND

Tech looks better than I anticipated, but Illinois even moreso so far

Illinois turning it on. Paul continuing Wooden campaign

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Nov 26, 2012 -> 01:09 PM) Illinois ranked #22 in both polls. I'd love to finish the year right around there Don't be such a pessimist! QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Nov 28, 2012 -> 11:05 AM) Illinois can beat anyone in the conference on a given night but the frontcourt isn't good enough to be a threat to any of those 4 over the long haul. Unless the light goes on for Egwu, and I think that is at least a year away, we just aren't going to get enough production inside and our rebounding isn't good enough to really be a true threat to finish in the top 4 in the conference this year with how strong the league is. The frontcourt could be a huge issue. I think they can defend, but the lack of rebounding is particularly confusing. I don't expect much offensively other than from Griffey, who has looked surprisingly good on offense. Depth at PG could be a problem. Abrams is another guy that looks much improved, but we still haven't seen him against real good competition as much as I'd like. He has no backup, and I don't like Paul/Richardson bringing the ball upcourt. And B-Paul looks like he wants a Wooden Award, we'll see if he can keep up anything like the pace he has so far.

QUOTE (Brian @ Nov 28, 2012 -> 04:42 PM) I doubt there is competition for Pettite so not sure why they would just give him 12 million. Not even close to being worth it. The competition is retirement

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Nov 28, 2012 -> 01:22 PM) Wrong. Not American views of labor in a nutshell. American views of labor from people who have had to deal with unions, however, absolutely. Like at a company I may work for now or have once worked for...if a power cord happens to not be plugged in, don't touch it...because it's a union electricians job. You're supposed to call them to come up to your office and plug it back in for you. If you do, they have the option to file a complaint which can lead to termination for breaking union labor agreements with the business. Like I said, s*** like this brings this opinion of them on themselves. You act like they made rules like that out of spite. It's always a response to an abuse. It's a vicious cycle.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Nov 28, 2012 -> 09:42 AM) ESPN asked twenty writers where Hamilton would end uo. Two said the Sox. One said five years, 125 mil. Other, four years for 81 mil. Link or insider?

mint.com is cool.

Whether the union started off with too high of wages at some point is debatable. The reasoning for rejecting the deal is absolutely sound, though. They had already taken massive cuts to wages and knew their long worked-for benefits were to be lost as well.

Yeah, I don't see any indication beyond inference that this is race related. Same with Trayvon.

George Schultz threatened to quit his job as SoS several times when he disagreed with his POTUS's position. The 'Saturday Night Massacre' in the midst of Watergate is an example of TWO people quitting their job to avoid doing something shady. The third guy did the deed and immediately resigned afterwards.