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QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Feb 1, 2018 -> 12:37 PM) Lebron going to Golden State would suck but I'm not going to worry about it right now. I love watching basketball. Just love it. Such a fun sport...if only I could go to more games in person. Too cheap to buy tickets and no longer work in consulting where I have big expense account haha. Am left to about one game a year. Heck I've enjoyed watching the Bulls this year (when Dunn and Lauri are on the court). I can't say they are enjoyable at all when Jerian Grant plays. I'm starting to hope we can pull of a trade for a New Orleans 1st round pick and than work the Cavs to get the Nets pick. No idea how to do it but Cavs might get desperate enough and maybe we can take on some contracts from Pelicans to facilitate something for them. Probably unrealistic for both to happen but I think we might be able to come up with something interesting to get the Nets pick. What the hell do the Bulls have that the Cavs would be willing to give up for the Nets pick other than Lauri? It is beyond unrealistic.

From the article: "Allswede told Outside the Lines that about seven years ago, an attorney from the university's general counsel's department came to her office to try to reassure her that coaches were taking allegations of sexual violence seriously. Allswede says the attorney told her how Dantonio, the football coach, had dealt with a sexual assault accusation against one of his players: He had the player talk to his mother about what he had done." Are you f***ing kidding me? And the Payne/Appling story is ridiculous too. Classy Izzo didn't punish them at all either.

QUOTE (flavum @ Jan 22, 2018 -> 12:06 AM) https://twitter.com/NotMrTibbs/status/955299343895969792 Looks like Edgar is a borderline call this year. He'll get in next year if not Wednesday. It'll be interesting to see if Johan Santana and Andruw Jones fall off the ballot, which I have no problem with. Santana and Jones are both significantly better than Vizquel who is inexplicably getting a lot of support.

QUOTE (knightni @ Jan 23, 2018 -> 11:42 AM) Should WR be the #1 target for the Bears in round 1? Or OL, or DB? If they trade down I'd be fine taking a WR in round 1. I really don't like the idea of taking a WR in the top 10 though, particularly since there isn't a truly standout WR in the draft this year.

So it looks like a lot of Russia's top athletes will not be permitted to compete in the Olympics (good, they shouldn't be allowing Russia to compete at all). I would call their bluff, if they don't want to accept punishment for basically every medal they have won being tainted then don't let them compete at all going forward.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Jan 17, 2018 -> 05:48 PM) Losing may not be a huge deal. If they get into the 10-13 range, they can put a package together to move up. The Bulls 1st round pick and hopefully another 1st round pick they get for Niko. A bunch of those teams at the top of the draft need more than one guy. This isn't the NFL. Teams don't move down from the chance to get a superstar by adding a mid-late first round pick.

Tua is going to be a college football legend when is done. That kid is going to be unreal. Throws a gorgeous ball and latest string in the pocket with good footwork. Plus he's a great athlete and will be playing with awesome supporting casts.

Bama kicker with an incredible choke there. Can't leave it up to the kicker in college football, Bama should have played for a TD.

Georgia dominating Bama right now. Jalen Hurts f***ing sucks. Missed 2 wide open TD throws and 0 pocket presence. Any pressure at all and he automatically runs out to the right.

Alabama's defense decided not to leave it up to the offense and put this one away themselves.

Wonder if Saban has the balls to bench Hurts for Tua. With decent QB play Bama would have this one wrapped up already.

Oklahoma getting completely dominated up front now. If Oklahoma's OL doesn't turn things around this game is going to get away from them.

7 on Georgia should not get another carry all game. Chubb or Michel gets that last first down easily.

Georgia's coaching staff being dominated. Why not call timeouts to give yourself time to answer and score? Kicking the long FG was laughably dumb. Michel and Chubb only having 8 combined carries is a joke with how easily they've ran the ball.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Dec 23, 2017 -> 06:55 PM) There's something wrong with Hoffman getting in so easily while Billy Wagner doesn't stand a chance. There's also something wrong with him getting in super quickly while it's taking a long time for Schilling and Mussina who were substantially better pitchers and way more deserving. With that said I hope Hoffman gets in this year just so his votes can go to guys who are way more deserving than he is since he will get in eventually anyways.

QUOTE (danman31 @ Dec 23, 2017 -> 10:19 PM) Harris is also a freshman, but he decided he wanted to take over and his game just isn't there yet. I'm honestly not sure it ever will be, but it definitely isn't now. He is a good athlete and has some upside but it is really tough to be good when you can't shoot at all.

QUOTE (bmags @ Dec 23, 2017 -> 11:54 PM) Mizzou won 8 games last year. You think our beat players are seasoned vets? I'm not a Cuonzo fan but a lot of people overstate how bad his coaching is. I think he is probably a slightly below average head coach who doesn't maximize his talent. But he is also a far cry from guys like Kim Anderson or John Groce who are pretty much complete disasters. With that said, Missouri's best players this year are seniors and their 3 leading scorers are 2 seniors and a junior, so yes, I would say that is the case. Except for Barnett their most talented players are freshmen however.

QUOTE (danman31 @ Dec 21, 2017 -> 06:49 PM) That's a great point. It seems like the plan was to have one movie focus on each character and their death. 7 was Han and his death. 8 featured a lot of Luke and included his "death." If 9 was supposed to be all about Leia, damn that sucks, but we can only assume she will die in it. Kathleen Kennedy indicated 9 was going to heavily feature Leia.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Dec 20, 2017 -> 03:34 PM) Parsons. Woodbey they want, but hes probably flipping to USC and staying home. Sorry, I meant 5*s OSU lost in the last week. I was wondering if you were referring to Woodbey as one of them.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Dec 20, 2017 -> 02:05 PM) Oh they stopped recruiting him awhile ago, not who I was referring to. That story was accurate, but not accurate. Woodbey? OSU's class is still absurdly good but for a while it looked like they had a shot at an all time great class (on paper). Still a class everyone else in the Big 10 would kill for. Hell, most schools in the Big 10 would kill to have as many 4 and 5* as OSU has this year over a 5 year period.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Dec 19, 2017 -> 03:55 PM) But therein lies the problem, they didn’t throw it out. They kept stuff they liked and then created a problem of story expectations They did throw it all out as canon though. The only things that were created pre-2014 considered canon are the six saga films, the Clone Wars movie and TV series and a Darth Maul comic.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Dec 19, 2017 -> 03:36 PM) I think a big problem is that 30 year gap of (what is now) non canon world building that people really liked. I think scrapping most of it was a mistake, there were very good stories in the books and they did justice to the characters as they grew older. Now we have a new canon that has elements of the books, but only fragments like Ben Solo going bad. There was a lot of really really really terrible stories too. There was some great stuff but also some unbelievably s***ty stuff as well. That makes it really tough to sort through what should be included and what shouldn't. If they want to keep making movies they needed to throw out that stuff.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 19, 2017 -> 03:22 PM) To be fair, those were generation changing movies. No one has made a Star Wars impact of a movie since Star Wars. A few might have visited the neighborhood, but none of moved in. These movies were to movies what The Beatles are to music. It is pretty much impossible at this point for anything to have that impact unless there is an entirely new technology that comes along that completely changes the way we watch movies.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Dec 19, 2017 -> 03:19 PM) I enjoyed the movie for the most part, but have also given up on the idea that Star Wars will ever be special again. They’ll continue to recycle the same story lines over & over (this started with episode 6), they’ll continue double-down on the cheese & tone-breaking humor, they’ll continue to ignore character development for all but a handful of characters, and they’ll continue to make lore & background info generally less important. These movies have become Disney family-fun popcorn films and that’s fine. I think people need to accept that the magic from A New Hope & Empire Strikes Back is pretty much gone and not to take it personally. These are at least far better movies than Lucas’ new trilogy. Can’t really expect much more from Disney TBH. The thing is the lore and background info really wasn't a big part of the original trilogy either. Those movies were fantastic movies (among my all time favorites) that were incredibly different than what had came before but it isn't like the world building is anything that special in those movies. Instead, you had 30 years of people other than George Lucas world building and providing background info on those characters. I agree these won't have the same magic but that is always going to be the case when you have a long movie series.

QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Dec 18, 2017 -> 03:35 PM) Until they revealed that the First Order had a magical computer that can track where any ship goes even after light speed (wtf?), I thought Hux had a spy on the Resistance ship who was signaling their location. Holdo, who was bein all shady and telling everyone that the plan was to have no plan, was my initial suspect. The hyperspace tracking was actually set up in Rogue One. That is one of the projects Jynn reads off when they are looking for the Death Star file.