UConn James

Link You've gotta be !@#$ing kidding me. And, sociology is the most useless major ever. I had classes w/ some players for UConn (sat next to Sue Bird in French ). Some of them took classes seriously, some not. Why do they bother calling them student-athletes? And, why don't they have some kind of program where the kids who don't want to do the academics can elect not to, receive a stipend and not waste everyone's time and enrollment/registration slots?

Well, to be fair, he did help sell its soul for the almighty dollar.

From the desk of Tom Donahoe:

I'm sure everyone will still watch when it's LA playing NY every week, b/c no one else is in a big enough market to deserve an NFL franchise. F%¢#ing ¢%¢$^¢%er!

You aren't going by the AP stylebook and dictionary definition of "destroyed." Destroyed means pretty much nothing is left standing. The WTC was destroyed. The Superdome's roof was damaged. The steel gridding is still standing; on the face, it does look pretty bad in that section, but who knows. They may just need new canvasing (probably not, tho). The engineers will do the postmortem of how it held up and what to do going forward. The language they used to describe the damage, especially "blown off" in the commonly used lexicon (which conjures images of an entire roof, framework, trusses and plywood in the next county over), was craptacular, as usual.

I wonder if the peoples of the world will send all kinds of money, aid supplies, and other such help to the U.S. I guess when you're the "world's lone superpower" everyone else is quick to feed at the trough of our kindness, but when the tables are turned....

Twenty monarchs/presidents/"presidents"/dictators-for-life with control over money enough for hundreds of millions of people, while hundreds of millions of people starve and serve their rulers' whims and sexual appetites. And people wonder why Africa is such a $%^ing mess. Still, 100K boobies must be a sight to behold. Then again, it's the boobies of the National Geographic variety....

No more a spoiler than saying that 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42 are numbers that you say when you count b/w 1 and 100. Aren't 3 and 7 and a bunch of others retired too? If those were the exclusive retired numbers, it might be something, but... On the most recent commercial I saw, it said "On the other side of the island, the survivors will discover there is a reason for everything that happens." Hmm.

That probably looks a lot worse than it actually is. My point was that the steel girdwork is still standing; it's the canvas and sheeting that's gone. The reports were that part of the roof was "blown off." The reactionaries were essentially saying that when half of the shingles blow off, a roof is utterly, utterly destroyed, even tho the beams are still standing.

Maybe it's God's way of saying he wants more open-air stadia.

Wow. Whenever hurricanes hit, I'm always reminded of the parable about the man who builds on sand and the man who builds on rock.

Well, let's make the minute distinction here. I can understand how Pete Hamill writes, "The best newspapermen I know are those most thrilled by the daily pump of city room excitements; they long fondly for a 'good murder'; they pray that assassinations, wars, catastrophes, break on their editions." It's like being a firefighter; you can't prove your mettle w/o a fire. It's kind of a dark way of thinking about it, but bad things in general are going to happen regardless of your existence, and they just want to be there to cover it. Doesn't make it sound less callous when it gets into specific case like you give, tho.

Well, if the cameras go on them, and everyone in the U.S. can see that they look pretty, they might be bumped up to the national broadcast and all the struggles and sleeping with the 70-year-old station manager will be WORTH IT!!! <GASP!> Truth? What's that?

Not the most stable construction material in the world, that's for sure. In light rain, there were leaks at Gampel Pavillion during games when I was at UConn. The thing being that the reactionaries with microphones are turning "might" into "has" when it's just not the case.... yet.

Oh, well, canvas ripping is almost the same as the canvas's rigging structure becoming unattached from the stadium's walls and hurtling across the state.

T-80, please change the headline. It's not true. .... Yet.... (Do they have Ms. Cleo in the studio?)

As I posted in the Katrina thread... "David Muir on ABC says the Superdome isn't holding up very well. Roof is leaking like a seive -- waterfalls -- and people are being moved to the endzones where there is some protection via the overhead seating in case the roof caves. There's still several hours before it moves through. Not good." -- Is there confirmation that it's actually blown off? The reporter, who covers weather events, said it was leaky all through, and it was like it was raining inside the dome, but they haven't cut in to say anything about part of the roof being gone. Then again, FAUX News is the only outlet that's Fair and Balanced. In fact, they're so balanced, they don't want to offend Untruth, so they put that in too. Anything to get people to stop and watch.

David Muir on ABC says the Superdome isn't holding up very well. Roof is leaking like a seive -- waterfalls -- and people are being moved to the endzones where there is some protection via the overhead seating in case the roof caves. There's still several hours before it moves through. Not good.

Kind of late in the day in cutting him loose to be sounding so magnanimous in a press release. If they weren't going to sign him, the honorable thing to do would have been to release him in June/July. He's pretty behind the curve signing with a new team now.

Maybe we were just spoiled having Sam Gash for those few years. With Shelton's age, FB should be a position TD thinks about in the '06 draft. I'm hearing good things about Matt Bernstein out of Wisconsin. Really in the mold of what this team has always looked for in a FB.

Step back everyone! This could get ugly!

I respected JMac until he put LS at LG to start last season. Kudos for him for having 86ed Pucillo, and kudos again to yanking LS. But he really needs to get some stones and admit to TD that he, in fact, can't make bricks without clay. They're asking him to do too much with too little, thinking it can be done via technique rather than having the physical tools and mentality to grade the road.

My guess is that when they didn't read "Here's my $200 donation to your worthy cause" within the first two sentences, it went to the Trash Bin. Good people, these evangelicals.

I think it's 'severely looked down upon' if not a finable offense for coaches to blow off a sideline reporter asking a question during the run to the tunnel. The NFL gets how many billions of dollars from the networks? I too think they're always stupid questions that are met with stupid answers (Yeah, of course the coach is going to tell the national audience what's working in his offense and what's not!). But what Lola wants to fill her airtime, Lola gets.

Pat Robertson's minions got their marching orders. PPP in five, four, three, two....