Mark80

But at least they have hockey in the desert and have spent over $600M on a stadium that has achieved less than 60% attendance capacity in its 3+ years (and judging by the stands, actual attendance and it's corresponding impact on the surrounding area is much, much lower).

All of this blabble and you don't even provide one of these "indicators" to prove your point. Funny. You ask for a link from another poster and provide no link to support any of your claims. Funny.

Hopefully he knows how to drink responsibly. That school is one of the biggest partying schools in the country. Too many parents don't teach their children how to drink responsibly before they go off to college, ignoring the inevitable, and that is when drinking becomes dangerous. Congrats though, that's very cool.

Hey, isn't that the guy that Peter Gammons would say was going to with the Cy Young award every season and had only one season with an ERA below 4.00 (and only 3.85 at that)? Those are hideous.

Baseball - Athletics Yellow Alternative, Pirates Throw Back Style Alternative, Royals Light Blues. Hockey - Blackhawks, Canadians (as much as I hate them, it's a timeless sweater), Minnesota North Stars Football - Chargers baby blues, Bills (even if I weren't a Bills fan), Bears NBA - Hard to say because a lot of them change so often, but I've always liked the 76ers style and I like the new Cavs retro look.

Actually, for an average size man it's literally 2 and a half beers.

The stupidest thing I have seen on here in a long, long time.

Alright, I'm fully on board now. That shootout scene was great.

Yes, this is key. In this day and age it is exceptionally rare for no public funds to be used. The question is how much are we willing to give and what assurance do we have that we are going to see benefit out of those funds. This can be in the form of some sort of revenue sharing with the venue / concessions / parking or what Pittsburgh did with guarantees regarding increased tax collection in the areas surrounding the stadium. I don't see Mr. Pegula as having any chance of "holding the team hostage" and threatening re-location if he doesn't get a vastly one-sided deal, but you really never know. We just need to make sure that we are not putting ourselves into a situation where we are ignoring the real issues of the city in order to have a top of the line stadium. The city of Miami got completely owned in the Marlins stadium deal and they still have basically no attendance at their games at all. I mean, some of the perks that went into that stadium (that hideous statue in center field for example) are just completely laughable. I would be infuriated if something like that went down here. By no means am I trying to say anything negative about what they have done up to this point. They are city saviors. I'm just saying what they do concerning a new stadium will either further that legacy or put a significant dent in it. I'm expecting and hoping its the former.

Interesting take on this issue by John Oliver on Last Week Tonight last night. Thought it may be relevant to post since we, undoubtedly, are going to be having these debates in the very near future. While I certainly appreciate all that Mr. Pegula and his family have done and are doing for our city, I think the real man is going to show when it comes to these negotiations. Is he going to expect us to contribute hundreds of millions of dollars for a new stadium when there are still many pressing issues in our city and region that could use that funding when he is one of the richest owners in the NFL or is he going to open up his pocketbook, once more, and truly be our knight in shining armor? Some of the owners in this video must have gone to the FIFA school of negotiating to get some of their deals done (I'm looking at you Miami and Phoenix).

Classic.

It's form boys, top form!

Interesting. Serena was still only 17 at the time and undoubtedly not in her prime quite yet and Venus was only 18. Neither had won a major yet. But I found it pretty interesting how he was talking about how they just weren't used to the amount of spin that was on the ball and how much ground he could cover. I'm sticking with my original thought on this. No way Serena ever beats a top 20 guy, rarely could beat a 20-50 guy (which may be impossible after reading that), occasionally could be a 50-100 (maybe rarely now), and could beat guys ranked over 100 consistently (maybe occasionally now). Venus, however, was never quite as impressive as Serena. I don't think she could beat any ranked male except for on the very rare occasion. On a side note, watching the Semi's today I just find it unbearable to watch matches when one of the players is screaming on every single shot. Even someone as hot as Maria. It's just so annoying. I liken it to all the timeouts / fouls / commercials at the end of basketball games. Something that annoys me so much that it really affects the amount of the sport that I will watch.

It's not really a debate of who's better of the two, Serena is clearly the best. It's a debate on who was the most dominate and in that context you have to take into account their competition as they faced it in their times and Court's record is just more impressive to me than Serena's. However, if she played from the 80's on she probably wouldn't have won a single one! But with that being said, I still firmly believe that Babe Ruth is the all time most dominant athlete. Would hit more HRs than entire teams, was one of the best pitchers in the league before he turned into an outfielder, and heck, he even stole home 10 times in his career. Completely revolutionized the game like no other athlete in history, all while boozing and partying more than you or I could ever dream and without ever working out. Now that's impressive!

Wow, that's a pretty lofty statement. If by "decent" you mean professionals in general, well, yeah, maybe she could consistently beat some of them men ranked in the 100s, occasionally beat a guy ranked 50-100 and rarely beat a guy 20-50. But no way in hell she is beating a top 20 male player. It's a completely different level of play. There is a reason they are separated. Heck, she's completely exhausted after a 3 set match, the men still have 2 more to go potentially. People thought for a minute that Michell Wie could hang with the men in golf too, or that Danica was going to be a successful nascar driver...we all know how those have played out.

Margaret Court won 24 Grand Slam singles championships in the 60s and 70s and basically retired at the age of 31 to have kids (and retired temporarily during in the middle of her run because of a kid and came back and won 3 in 1973). And let's not forget about her 40, yes 40 doubles and mixed doubles Gland Slam championships. Serena has won 20 at she is 33 now and doesn't have any kids. Now, no doubt Serena would spank her in both of their primes, but dominating their own times, Margaret has to be seen as the best. But Serena is amazing, no doubt.

My main reason. Got to have a couple pints at the Cavern Club a few years back. Very cool.

You just have to pick one and roll with it. That's what I did and now love it. Love that it is on all morning on weekends, it's great to wake up to. Just make sure you pick a team that doesn't really have a shot at getting demoted. If you like dynasty type teams - Chelsea and Man U are your best choices right now. If you like great teams with a storied history but not too much success as of late (get on the bandwagon before they are elite again) - Liverpool / Arsenal are probably your best bets If you like teams that have had some tough history but are on top right now - Man City is your go to team If you like teams that really aren't going to be consistently at the top but may shock you sometime and should stay up at the EPL most of the time you should go with Everton, Southampton, Tottenham, New Castle, Aston Villa, Sunderland, Stoke. If you like teams that will get relegated and are OK with that just in hopes of an epic run one year - Queens Park Rangers, Swansea City, West Brom, Wolverhampton, Bolton Wanderers, Norwich are some choices. Heck, just look at their uniforms and pick the one which you like the colors the best. The rest of them you are taking a significant chance of starting to follow a team that you won't even be able to see any games of because they will often be relegated. Me, I chose LIverpool a few years back and haven't looked back since.

Sometimes I'm really embarrassed to participate in the same community as you idiots. So heartless and callus. Really, you should be ashamed to get so much joy out of making fun of this young man's tragic and accidental death. Like none of you have done anything stupid, sober or not, in your late teens early 20s? Give me f'n break.

Not so sure what's so convoluted about the plot. Vince Vaughn was a former dirty club owner, made cash, turned (mostly) legit businessman, got his cash taken by a dude who is now dead with the money gone and looks to be set on doing anything he can to staying in the position he worked so hard to get to (and probably did a lot of sketchy things to get there) with no desire to go back to the life he grew up in. The one cop is a former military guy who has some issues from some wartime event, McAdams was brought up in a crazy environment which clearly made her develop male trust issues, and Colin is a cop who killed the dude that raped and impregnated his ex-wife and is most likely the father of the kid he tries to call son who probably developed a lot of his bad habits coping with both the rape and his response to it. The industrial city is as dirty and corrupt as any industrial city most likely is with a mayor who is willing to play ball to keep the companies happy which keeps him in office (only need to buy off like 50 people to do so) and the state wants to prove it and is using the murder as an excuse to dig deep into it. Personally, I was way more confused through 3 episodes of season 1 than I am at this point in season 2.

http://footballiqscore.com/badge_js/200/6ac026877cfacc6211945e5f0fd91a5ce00561ff" 47 suckas. Cornell > Harvard.

I disagree, I'm starting to like it. As someone here (or maybe somewhere else) mentioned, a lot of people are holding this show to such a high standard because of the first season that they are not enjoying a really good show because it's not that first season. If this was just another show, with a different name, then I think it would have gotten a better reception out of a lot of people. Just look at it as a regular tv drama and it still blows away 90-95% of the other crap that is on tv. The first season, however, did that to 99% of them. Ballers is so dumb but since it's 30 minutes and there isn't really that much to watch during the summer I'm forcing myself to watch it. Don't really know for how much longer though.

Classic Norm.

1. Indy 5/2 2. Patriots 4/1 3. Denver 9/2 4. Bills 7/1 Just sayin'.

It's very easy to rip the audio off of youtube and you can find pretty much every song on youtube these days. That is my go to source at the moment.