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You keep saying no benefit, but $15M to a conference is clearly a benefit. Also, it's not turning down a home game. Nearly all teams play at least one non-con game on the road per year. Just schedule your home-and-home with NIU instead of Arizona St. or whoever.

Clearly it's not a no win situation. Beating them knocks them out of a BCS spot and opens up one for potentially yourself or even someone else in your conference. If you lose to them you're probably not good enough to get into a BCS game anyway.

I hope everybody enjoys the games tomorrow on Thanksgiving, or as I like to call it, 'Dave Williams Day'.

Maybe 'gardener' means he's going to be an assistant to Roger Bossard?

If everybody wants to keep NIU out of the BCS, then why doesn't a Top 20 team grow a pair and go up to DeKalb and beat them? That would solve the problem. I have no sympathy for Baylor, Oregon, Michigan State, or whatever team ends up being the one who doesn't go to a BCS game because of NIU. Iowa is the best team that NIU has beaten because Iowa is the best team that will play them.

I don't know if any of you have ever had the displeasure of driving back and forth between Indianapolis and South Bend, but today a newly-built US 31 bypass of Kokomo opened, reducing the US 31 stoplight count by 15. My trip to visit family for Thanksgiving just got about 15 minutes shorter!

All-time ranks from baseball-reference.com: T-4th in sacrifice flies with 121 10th in walks with 1667 14th in OPS at .9740 T-18th in home runs with 521 T-19th in adjusted OPS+ at 156 20th in OBP at .4191 36th in offensive WAR with 79.8 42nd in total bases with 4550 51st in position player WAR with 73.6 There is no reasonable excuse to exclude this man from a ballot.

My Mom was in Hawaii during the 2005 World Series. That epic 5 hour, 41 minute Game 3? Over before 9pm.

Second biggest myth about JR is that he uses the Sox to fund the Bulls.

OK, I know we've done some rules trivia for baseball before, but here's one for football: Team A leads Team B 28-27 with :05 left in the 4th quarter. Team A has 4th and 8 from its own 16 yard line. Team A punts the ball. Team B has a returner who signals for a fair catch at his own 39 yard line as the clock expires. Team B, in an attempt to prevent an untimed fair catch free kick, deliberately interferes with Team A's returner and prevents him from making the catch. What should the officials do? A) A fair catch interference penalty of 15 yards is enforced on Team A, but since time is expired the game is over. B) A fair catch interference penalty of 15 yards is enforced on Team A. Once a ball is kicked the kicking team assumes the role of defense, the penalty occurred after the kick, and the game cannot end on a defensive penalty. Therefore Team B will be allowed one untimed down from the Team A 46 yard line, but they will not have the option of a fair catch free kick. C) A fair catch interference penalty of 15 yards is enforced on Team A. Once a ball is kicked the kicking team assumes the role of defense, the penalty occurred after the kick, and the game cannot end on a defensive penalty. Therefore Team B will be allowed the option of a fair catch free kick from the Team A 46 yard line, but they will not have the option of one untimed down. D) A fair catch interference penalty of 15 yards is enforced on Team A. Once a ball is kicked the kicking team assumes the role of defense, the penalty occurred after the kick, and the game cannot end on a defensive penalty. Therefore Team B will be allowed their choice of a fair catch free kick from the Team A 46 yard line OR one untimed down from the same spot.

If the state athletic association had any stones, they'd suspend the football program for a year. That might be an even stronger message than the criminal charges.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/11/25/schoo...tcmp=latestnews

Best prank ever! http://www.youtube.com/embed/HG_wfMK7dko?rel=0

I caught the end of something on the history channel that had this guy who used the Zapruder and other films to show that Oswald did indeed fire three shots with one missing its target. He showed how the "magic bullet" could have hit both Kennedy and Connally. He also showed that there was a stoplight in the way of the first shot, which is why it missed, and why a guy standing a block away claimed to have been hit. There was a chunk of concrete near the bystander that looks like it got hit by a stray bullet. Anyway, I'm not doing all this justice but if this airs again or is available online, it's worth checking out.

Then don't be in a conference!

Everybody I've talked to said that her allegation was that he groped her breast (with her bra still on). Nobody said anything about an ER trip, though I have no idea what an ER visit is going to help if that was the allegation.

He wouldn't understand the insults anyway. He complains about the laziness of government employees, some of whom built the roads he uses to make his living.

Whatever, maybe I worded it poorly. Lots of people are victimized every day and nearly all of them don't commit suicide just because the investigation isn't all neatly wrapped up within a couple days.

No, she didn't go to the ER.

Very true, but forcing Wal-Mart to pay higher wages isn't going to keep them from treating their employees like crap.

The real Kate Upton would never sleep with me, but the fictional Kate Upton puts out for me twice a day.

You're phrasing that in a way that attempts to minimalize the impact, but that's still pretty significant.

If the job involves such a low level of skill that experience does not make you significantly better at your job, then you shoudn't make more just for being there longer.

There is a HUGE difference between a .305 OBP and a .340 OBP.

Yes, because when I go through the Drive-Thru at McDonald's, my first thought is, "I sure hope the person taking my order has 6 years experience instead of 6 months."