UConn James

We should know by now that Buffalo sports teams don't listen to what the overwhelming majority of the fans want (e.g. Back to the Blue and Gold Crest). Gone are the days of having an easily-identifiable, traditional, sharp-looking tartan to wear into battle. We get the banana slug and pinstriping up the yin-yan. By the by, Marv said he won't be handling this stuff; football only for him. It's Russ Brandon who controls the business/marketing of the team. If what Chris Brown reports is true, then Russ Brandon is neither a good businessman, nor a good marketer.

Zidane is known for largely ignoring the media. Word on the street is that Materazzi used a racial slur (a little ironic considering the statements each team has read before each match). Happened a lot after they won in '98 and I wouldn't be surprised if it's true. Still, ZZ shouldn't have reacted like he did.

Well said.

Oooooh-la-la!!

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Goes to show that one shouldn't make presumptions of nationality based on an ascribation that any nation has the right and duty to protect itself when it's being attacked and its citizens held hostage, regardless of what the UN might say about it from their ivory tower. No, prol'y not.

Could you send a memo to the Hartford Courant? They've been using 'zeitgeist' about 15 times a week.

Whatever gave you that impression? No, stiff-upper-lip and keep-the-bats-in-the-belfry WASP New Englander.

There's been talk in soccer about putting a chip in the ball. Then again, there's been talk of doing that for a lot of sports --- hockey, baseball, and football (where I think it would make the most sense, it being a game of less-than-inches).

Not a penalty kick, but the No-goal in the France - Korea match had the potential to upset a team that is now playing in the final. Ended in a 1-1 tie rather than a 2-1 victory. The Korean keeper was inside the goal by a step and the ball bounced off his hand that was at his side. On replay, the ball had crossed the line, yet it happened so fast on the field that everybody was standing around with a expression and then play resumed.

Challenge-based instant replay approved for U.S. Open

I.e. how the US Open uses the Hawkeye replay thing to check close line calls. Stodgy Wimbeldon is rumored to be considering using it next year.

What does that have to do with anything? It's a proper definition is all that matters. To wit, what about 'icing'? - stuff on a plane - stuff on a cake - a call in hockey Is one definition/usage of the word more acceptable than another b/c of its arbitrary order in the dictionary?

It'll be interesting for sure. First wide-open race (meaning no incumbent or sitting VP running) since the '50s, iirc. Lots will be fleshed out on which direction the parties will be headed. Quite a few good candidates have been mentioned from both sides, and quite a few people who shouldn't be President of a McDonald's men's room. I'm still a registered Repub yet haven't voted that way in awhile (been meaning to change it for a few years now but our primaries don't mean jack-schitt anyway). Several times I've written in "None of the Above." I think there's about a 12% chance of getting that real fiscally-conservative candidate rather than said crazy baptist minister. Just the way it is now.

It just chooses not to.

Not for nothing, but after a resolution to the environmental impact stuff he had concerns about, Teddy is backing the wind farms now. It's actually Mitt Romney ® as the most notable who doesn't want the turbines out there (even tho they can't be seen from shore probably 80% of the time, and when they can, they're specks). More on all this here.

Well, you learn more from a failure than you do from a success. Meanwhile, his country can't grow friggin' rice b/c everyone's busy goose-stepping to scare the Bogeyman in KJI's mind. Had the missile stayed up, if it were me I would have given an order to shoot it down (as it was ABC was reporting that a finger was on the button) even if it wasn't headed toward our mainland.

I think the Dutch have something similar to the non-fruit version. It's called 'ollie bollen' (not enirely sure of the spelling --- that's just how it was pronounced by my grandparents when they used to make it over the stove). There's a mix of batter, to which they usually put in some raisins and it's rolled up in about meatball-sized balls and fried in oil. I think it probably does call for powdered sugar, but my grandmother has diabetes, so that means no one else can have sugar in their house either. I'll have to get that recipie. That was always a special day when they made those.

Is that Italian for "Sure, I'll provide a full-size link for the chick in my avatar"?

Due to my geographic locale, I am stuck watching the Patriettes a lot. Bellichick, the addition of Brady and circumstance tapped into something that was in the players. The different combination brought out something that was there the whole time. It's not some diatribe that 1+ 1=6. Houston, huh? Did you work for Enron, sparky?

Yeah. Mass emails to Disney saying: "PLEASE Disney, claim copyright infringement! For the love of God, ple-a-se!!!!"

Madden '07.

You forgot "paradigm."

Weird, as opposed to pathological.