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I want an Alaskan Malamute so bad.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Feb 3, 2012 -> 05:50 PM) Well, in the past, you motivated yourself through the desire to compete and perform at sports...now that you don't play sports competitively anymore, you can try shifting your motivation, right? What are some other things men enjoy besides kicking the s*** out of other men at sports? I have often used women as motivating tools... QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Feb 3, 2012 -> 06:01 PM) Shack, y2hh, I understand what you guys are saying but for cutting some belly fat it does work. And my best advice for anyone is to figure out what is best for you. I eat a ton of protein but supplementing my diet with protein shakes has allowed me to add muscle while trimming down body fat. Also, shack your last line is the best motivator of all and has been my primary motivation since I've gone fitness crazy. Women are always motivation. I've been away from my "gf" for a while now, so I've been using my next visit as motivation.

Well I certainly got a ton of information that I was seeking. My current goal isn't really gain, it's primarily to be more focused and workout with greater intensity. It was so much easier for me to workout like I wanted when I was an athlete but now it just seems like I'm missing the focus that I once had. I mean, I'm still motivated to get into better shape but I'm missing that "I want to add 3mph on my fastball and throw 7 innings" goal.

Nick Leddy cannot legally drink alcohol yet.

I made a Hans Zimmer playlist to listen to while a workout. It's incredible. If anyone has any suggestions, pleas let me know. I've got music from Inception, The Dark Knight, Pirates of the Caribbean, Lion King, Cool Runnings, The DaVinci Code and Gladiator.

Anyone take any supplements before working out? I know people that have taken NO Xplode and Jack3d and heard good things about both.

The Rexall Place can f*** off.

I tweeted this a while back, the Hawks would be VERY wise to look into the price for Miika Kiprusoff.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Feb 2, 2012 -> 10:07 PM) He might not be any better, but why can't Q give Sami Lepisto a chance? Thank God the Oilers won't make the playoffs, cause they seem to own the Hawks this year. I'd much rather see Lepisto than Scott. And there's NO REASON why O'Donnell shouldn't be playing every night. He's had like 2 weeks of rest with the All Star break and played like 7 straight before that. Lepisto has actually had pretty good +/- numbers in his limited playing time.

I'd trade Leddy, Bickell and as many draft picks as needed to get a top-4 dman.

Leddy and Hjalmarsson. Ugh.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Feb 2, 2012 -> 04:44 AM) Senior barcrawl means hit got kray tonight, btw look up what that reallly means. Youn wont beileve it. Except the rumor that it had to do with British crime twins is false. At every concert during their tour, the stages had a CRAY on them as opposed to KRAY. It's also been said that they got it from a previous Young Jeezy song. And Jay Z has also used "that s*** crazy" numerous times instead of CRAY during live performances. Whoever did the research certainly came up with a pretty damn good coincidence though.

QUOTE (danman31 @ Feb 2, 2012 -> 12:42 AM) To be honest, the atmosphere is way overrated in a lot of these leagues. The Serie A plays in half full stadiums. EPL can have great atmosphere for the derbies, but the big clubs charge way too much for the drunken idiots to be a majority. I'm not saying the passion isn't amazing and I'm not saying you need hooligans to have a great atmosphere, but great atmospheres aren't everywhere for every game in international football. Plus, I'll take college football against anything in the world in terms of pure volume. In terms of stadium size the US is unmatched. The US has 48 stadiums (says wiki) of 70k+ capacity for pro/college football. That's more than the entire planet does for soccer stadiums. NFL doesn't always have a great atmosphere, but many college venues do for every game and they fill these places. I love soccer and I love the passion the rest of the world has for the game. I played it, loved it and then discovered a whole different world to the sport. The drama involved in promotion/relegation and a minnow taking on a big name in Europe is something we don't have the way our sports work. That doesn't mean we don't have the same passion for sports in this country. It's just that we don't have that passion for soccer unfortunately. You seem to have misunderstood a couple of my points. When I said pure volume I meant in regards to how many soccer leagues and matches are going on at any given point in the world compared to how many professional events happen at any given point just in the United States. And the atmosphere I'm arguing about is in regards to all sports, not just soccer. Watch some of the top tier basketball leagues in the world and compare that to an NBA game. NBA fans are comatose in comparison. And college football doesn't count in this argument for two reasons: 1, it's not a professional sport. 2, they have a built-in fan base of students that will always be there. Look at the top college football stadiums by capacity, look at what town it's in, and then see if there are any professional teams there.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Feb 1, 2012 -> 11:31 PM) A friend of mine did something like that once to a toilet. It was at one of those wing places and he simply didn't make it all the way to the toilet, although it was all in the stall. I don't get how this can happen. I mean, if I'm hammered, I tend to lose control of my vomit. But s***ting all over a bathroom stall? Really?

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Feb 1, 2012 -> 10:53 PM) I don't understand why people are so perplexed about DGB and Mizzou. 1) It's his home state school. 2) Mizzou has been a consistent winner in NCAA football the past few years. 3) They are an offensive juggernaut. 4) They consistently put players into the NFL and high draft picks at that (Aldon Smith, Sean Witherspoon, Jeremy Maclin to name three). 5) They lose their No.2 WR and top TE (who basically was a WR in college) 6) He has a stud QB throwing to him. 7) Mizzou was the first school to offer him. Do I need to keep going...? All that and there were still better options for him. Consistent winners doesn't mean BCS title contender.

I'm craving more tennis. I've watched the 5th set of Rafa/Nole like 8 times already.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 1, 2012 -> 07:27 PM) With free agency in pro sports, it is much harder to have that attachment to teams, as players move around a lot more. That reason couldn't be further from the truth. There's an incredible amount of activity in star players going from team to team in soccer and it doesn't effect the fans one bit.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Feb 1, 2012 -> 07:18 PM) OK, one person nearly died. Those are a few fights between drunken idiots, not entire sections of fans storming the pitch/field. That's not entire groups of fans trying to get to another section, causing the stadium to collpase, trapping tons of fans. The idiots of Vancouver are an opposite example, but they also weren't attacking opposing fans. Plus, they are Canucks fans, they don't really count. I get all your other points about how much larger & more important soccer is to the rest of the world, and I agree. In fact, that's my point. We see the occasional fistfight at a Cubs/Sox game or people talk about how Philly fans are so rough if you go to a game there. Fact is, soccer fandom is way more intense, which does lead to more hooliganry & criminal activity, and unfortunately more tragedies. Then I think we're on the same page to an extent. The pure passion displayed by fans of soccer teams around the world is unparalleled. Now, I'm not saying you can't be passionate about a sport without being a dumbass, but watch an NBA game and then watch just about any European basketball game and then compare what the atmosphere in the stadium is like. American sports fans are incredibly tame. Hell, look at Japanese baseball fans compared to the MLB. I wish American sports teams had some of the same rituals, intensity and passion as the rest of the world displays.

Is there any doubt that Cool Runnings is the best movie of all time? You're right, there isn't.

Florida State's defensive line is going to be insane, again. They also got like 3 top-150 cornerbacks.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Feb 1, 2012 -> 06:59 PM) How many American fans have died as a result of violence at sporting events?? In America, you can sit anywhere you want at an opposing team's stadium. In many European stadiums, you have to sit in a certain away section guarded up from the rest of the fans for protection. I know that in Poland, there are groups of fans that follow their team around specifically to fight the other team's fans, not even to watch the actual game. Brian Stow nearly died at a baseball game? How many fights have you seen at Cubs/Sox games? Raiders/49ers? Hell, look what happened in Vancouver last year.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Feb 1, 2012 -> 03:43 PM) Unfortunately for that industry I'm sure their pay and opportunities is some of the best out there. I'm sure it is, yet I've met countless people who once worked there and decided to leave because they didn't like it.

QUOTE (GoodAsGould @ Feb 1, 2012 -> 06:10 PM) You have to know that soccer matches in general can get really rowdy; before, during, and after the game......Now obviously there have been ugly incidents for all sports including throughout America but typically soccer fans are on another level than anything close to football fans in America. The problem, and I guess you can say the main difference, is that there are far bigger fan clubs throughout the world than there are in the US. And too often, the fan clubs are pretty much tied to some sort of criminal activities. QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Feb 1, 2012 -> 06:12 PM) They didn't kill each other. Seriously though, you would never see the crap that goes on at certain soccer games in the US. Obviously, the US has their fair share of awful fans everywhere, but yeah, soccer hooligans can take it to another level in comparison. America is a very young country with little history. If soccer ever got as popular here as it did in the rest of the world, there is no doubt that you'd see similar things happen. Soccer is a religion. And with how often nationalistic and government issues get involved, it's liable to boil over. Lord knows it's still going on in the Balkans, and of course it's going to happen in places that have undergone such incredible governmental changes like Egypt has.

Why the hell did Green-Beckham pick Missouri? And why the hell did Darius Hamilton pick Rutgers?

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Feb 1, 2012 -> 04:47 PM) It's impressive how civil American sports fans are compared to soccer fans all across the globe. This makes ZERO sense. How civil were the fans for the Pacers/Pistons brawl at the palace? American sports are on a much smaller scare compared to, you know, THE REST OF THE WORLD. There's hundreds of soccer leagues in the middle of the season right now, and this one riot is supposed to make it seem like a frequent occurrence? Yes, it happens, but it's also because it's the top sport in most countries around the world and the pure volume of soccer matches outnumbers anything that happens in the US. EDIT: After reading some other articles, it looks like this group of hooligans is notorious in Egypt.