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QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Apr 4, 2013 -> 09:30 AM) Auburn paid players, changed grades etc. http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/...ccording-report Yawn, wake me up when they get free tats.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Apr 4, 2013 -> 04:26 PM) Fischer is an odd one as Wisconsin never even offered a scholarship and his coach (Steve Showalter) is one of Bo Ryan's good friends. http://www.postcrescent.com/article/201303...-s-Luke-Fischer A lot of speculation is that the Badgers have been really badly burned by offering tall white Wisconsin players so Bo Ryan was taking a wait and see approach. Regardless its extremely odd that Wisconsin never even offered a guy who went on to win Mr. Basketball. I think the other one was Jeronne Maymon, but that was because his father was insane. Sometimes coaches miss. OSU never offered hometown Burke either.

The fact we don't have a power play is ridiculous

Handzus fits in well with that line. 3-3 on draws so far.

QUOTE (illinilaw08 @ Apr 4, 2013 -> 08:58 AM) My biggest concern with GOT as a TV show (and I love the TV show) is what happens if/when they catch up to the books? Martin has apparently given the creators an idea of where the books are going in case he dies before the books are finished, but I would absolutely hate to have the show pass the timeline of the books because it takes Martin forever to finish a book. Off topic for TV, but I thought the quality of books 4 and 5 was lower than that of the first 3. He said he was fairly certain the show would pass him by. The winds of winter isn't out till 2014. Then another 2-3 years for the final chapter.

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Apr 4, 2013 -> 09:57 AM) Who are Jon Snow's parents? I thought it was fairly obvious Snow is the third dragon. Not sure I needed a spoiler on opinion.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Apr 4, 2013 -> 09:09 AM) I agree. Book 3 was the peak. Since then it's been downhill. I think that's mainly due to the fact that nothing has happened the last 2000 pages (4 and 5). Did anyone else watch the grantland video with Andy Greenwald interviewing the two writers of the show? They were telling the story of how they sold Martin on doing the show at HBO as opposed to a movie, and apparently they spent hours and hours talking about the books and the various storylines. Martin at one point asked them who they thought was Jon Snow's mother, something that's never been brought up in the books. Apparently they answered correctly although Martin didn't really tell them they were right, he just sort of seemed happy with their answer. Anyway, I got to looking online and the fan speculation about that is pretty off the wall. I have no idea where/how people came up with the common answer. Nor does it really make any sense to me: http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Jon_Snow Completely disagree. Books 4 and 5 had tons of stuff going on if you paid attention. A dance with dragons was stellar.

I miss going to blockbuster

QUOTE (Brian @ Apr 3, 2013 -> 11:17 AM) Michigan recruit, Zak Irvin, wins Mr Basketball in Indiana. Osu recruit Marc Loving mr basketball in Ohio.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Apr 3, 2013 -> 05:28 PM) NO Honestly I understand from a business perspective why they are doing it this way, I just wish it was different/feasible to do it all in one, long season. Sigh. I'm still going to watch every episode (probably multiple times), and enjoy them immensely. Yeah it sucks. Nothing will ever be able to live up to the books for me, some of the best reading I've ever enjoyed. I'm actually reading them again right now. I'd honestly watch any length of movie, series, whatever if it could capture what the books looked like in my head. Waiting for this next one has been incredibly frustrating.

Two terrible home run calls today by Hawk

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Apr 1, 2013 -> 10:14 AM) Is it too much to wish that they would just expand the season to accomodate the book? It's HBO, they can do whatever they want to do. Yes. People need to completely forget about the book when watching the show. Forget it ever happened. It going to be similar but not nearly the same. Appreciate it for what it is. For me I wish there was a way to translate his writings to TV or movies better since his books are just unreal, but I've had to cope with the fact its basically a cheap knock off.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Apr 3, 2013 -> 02:15 PM) It's as relevant here as anywhere else. Kevin Ware said he didn't feel pain and thought it was just an ankle when he went down. Said Pitino went to to help him up and he knew it was bad when he saw Pitino's eyes (after Pitino realized what happened). Its going to heal quicker and easier than a torn out knee. I understand it was gross, but it's not that devastating these days. Brian Hartline went down with a similar injury and won the hurdles state championship the next spring, and went on to be a pretty good athlete in college and the pros.

QUOTE (Brian @ Apr 2, 2013 -> 10:43 PM) Okafor has been retweeting Illinois fans begging him to choose Illinois. Sort of funny Part of the game. You should see some of the football recruits these days, just playing fanbases against each other.

I have hawks ones, love em

Alford stated that Iowa execs forced him to intimidate that coed that was raped.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Apr 1, 2013 -> 04:06 PM) wtf http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-dad...09137--nhl.html But he does win faceoffs. Haven't watched him all season but all we did was give them their pick back.

If that's a strike then the one to flowers wasn't. You can't give him 6 inches off both corners.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 1, 2013 -> 04:01 PM) What made the Sox get rid of the murals on the outfield walls? They're actually just finishing up the one of me.

Good trade for us. Looks like Bolig sent down.

Flowers was called out on a pitch 6 inches off the plate, Sale couldnt buy a strike right over the plate. WTF.

DeShaun Thomas is better than Bjorn Borg from gonzaga, but whatever. He's also reportedly for sure going pro but hasnt announced it yet.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Apr 1, 2013 -> 01:44 PM) Steve actually wrote a review lol http://flapship.com/directv-genie-review/ I got a techno boner. If I move forward with this house I am looking at in little italy this is going to be installed immediately, especially since I plan on putting a 100 inch projection tv in the basement.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Apr 1, 2013 -> 01:42 PM) Anyone have the DirecTV Genie yet? I was wondering this as well, two of the places I've put an offer on in the last couple of weeks have the flexibility for that and I would love to have less wires and boxes around the house.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Apr 1, 2013 -> 12:47 PM) Good point, didn't think about that. There should most definitely, at the very least, be an asterisk, footnote, mention, etc. in any article. People loved the fab five so much though that they forget Michigan paid for them.