UConn James

Well, factor in that Jax's 2nd will probably be in the upper tier as they are up-and-coming, and Tenn's 3rd will be in the lower tier since they've dumped a lot of their good players. So, if you go with the reasonable gamble, they won't be that far apart. Then, you figure how much TH might help which team he goes to. Do you really want to give him to a team where he might be the one missing piece and have an Antowain Smith again, or do you send him to a team that probably will not threaten your chances at the playoffs? I'd send him to Tenn, too.

Another of today's articles states, "the Bills linebacker corps is very deep." Besides the starters... oh wait.... Besides Spikes and Fletcher, no. No it's not. The unspectacular Jeff Posey, and untested Crowell and Haggan do not depth make. Ezekial has a good shot at making the team, and Fletcher's eventual replacement should be drafted in the 1st or 2nd next year. This from the "Sports Xchange," which is probably yet another website started by amateurs. I've never clicked it b/c besides their just being wrong in their conclusions, on the front page I've noticed several times they're factually wrong, and add in that they're usually a day late and a dollar short. But the ones you cite are from established newspapers. Too bad many either don't have copy editors anymore or have one for the whole section. Then they wonder why fewer people buy newspapers.

I was at the Bills-Lions game in '97, and what to my surprise during halftime, they had the UConn marching band, that was up there for a UConn-Buffalo game the previous day. That was really cool. NCAA does have better halftimes (better even than during the Super Bowl which is just fake pop-ish music act rather than a real football halftime), that's for sure. NCAA has more games, more parity, and it's purer football. What an NFL player does on Sunday for 400K, ~60 percent of these kids do for tuition, room and board. It can be a crisp 60 degrees with yellow, red and orange leaves in full color, but it's just not autumn w/o Keith Jackson, the voice of college football. Man, I hope he never retires. "Whoa, NELLY!"

He's now going under the name Crap Throwing Monkey / DC Tom.

If you read David Sedaris, being addicted is when you're on your hands and knees with a straw, snorting the contents of the living room carpet up your nose in the off chance a few grains fell to the floor.

Preach it! Now is the time for Bush to show that he is not a Wade Phillips clone. Sticking up for your friends is admirable, but sticking up for them when they've f-ed up at their job is disingenuous. Not all of the evidence is in the light of day, but it's pretty clear that Rove did some skeevy, and possibly criminal, things for political retribution and now he's trying out his Sgt. Schultz impression.

Oh, come on! You're trying to spoil everyone's fun spouting off all the stereotypes. I've heard them described as "our most productive partner in the GWOT." Despite all of the crap they get, they are still very good friends to us. They lost an entire generation of young men to WWI fighting the precusor to Hitler while we and others were sitting on the sidelines. I guess that doesn't count for much.

Yeah, but where's he going to hold th..... Oh! Ohhhhh....

Yeah, the weapons they used weren't bombs, so they can't possibly be called "bombers." They are to be described only as "terrorists." Stick to the approved lingo!

You have to be thinking that MM and TC drafted him with a specific goal in how to use him. I'll wager that RP will be a thorn in the side to a few teams, esp. the ones that are thin in experienced DBs. Let's face it, the rules are slanted toward the offense. No shame in trying to take advantage of that.

I'd be Get-Out-of-Town surprised if we didn't target the families of the cartel leaders in the 'War on Drugs.' And why not? They did the same thing.

U.K. memo: U.S. hopes to halve Iraq force I sense the admin is trying to allay decreasing public support by leaking that there is an 'exit strategy' but making sure not to say it themselves. Has me kind of unsure about the "As the Iraqis stand up, we will stand down" quote, tho. 2007? I thought the training was 12 months. Having a consistent, small force seems to be more or less containing things in Afghanistan... a country that's twice the size of California. NEXT!

Just as I was reading this, it was reported that the last man's body has been found. Downed US Seals may have got too close to Bin Laden With all of the firepower they faced, they ran into something important.

I'm not sure about "high-level policy" (maybe by tacit understanding) but there were provinces where the chickens were VC. An uncle who was 1/2 mile from the DMZ when Tet came down has told me he didn't discriminate in certain places. If it moved, you shot it. Just the way it was.

I read what the blogger says about labeling them 'anticapitalists' instead of 'anarchists' but I think 'anarchists' is right on for these people. What's got me wondering is why you put 'radical leftists' in the headline. By definition, anarchists belong neither to the left nor right; their aim is to have no government control. What you're saying is like saying bin Laden is a 'radical' Libertarian. I just went to my brother's police graduation last month, and I tell you, that picture is really disturbing. I hope he's all right. Is it all right to wish that a huge bout of both-ends flu hits those anarchist circles?

Bernie Kerik? Wouldn't surprise me......... Is America ready? I don't know. If people go to see it, I guess we are. And then maybe some better ones can be made. Because the plotline here sounds like a lot of narrow filler dialogue and very short on any meaningful commentary or overarching story. Kind of like his other movies. Here's the question -- would you show a point-of-view pan-up camera shot following along as the plane crashes in? How do you show something like that?

I would add, Fez -- train them, but don't train them all of the little ins and outs. You always want to be the only guy who knows everything. In this day and age, unfortunately, you need all the job security you can get. As for the bellyaching, call me when you put in half days working construction and stone walls. Rain or shine. Slam your finger b/w two stones? Too bad, work on. Some days, I can't wait to find a desk job.

Players report on 29 July. Practices start the next day. Camp Schedule

I thought that was Jim McNally. Bottom row, second in from left. I don't have your experience w/ ya-yas, but I'd say those are B's.

Plus, they have to build a hella-expensive stadium exclusively for baseball/softball that will be absolutely useless to countries other than US, Japan or Canada (and then again, there's the Expos' Olympic Stadium) after the Games are done. Why waste that money? Anyone who's any good in other countries is in America in the pros or farm teams, and therefore ineligible. Like someone else said, if it's good baseball you want, wait for and watch the baseball World Cup. You don't get good baseball in the Olympics.

The WGR report w/ a link on the frontpage includes a Jags person saying they're intrigued by TH's small cap number and that they'll get an extra push out of him b/c he's in the final year of his contract.... Well, if they're sure he'll want to stay there (he's from Florida, etc.) then it's not much of a gamble and provides extra motivation to do well. I don't know 'bout other people, but I'd want to get my potential starting RB in asap to start learning the playbook before camp started. Esp. for someone w/ a reported learning disability. Hearing about Taylor's knee, a 3rd-to-possible-2nd looks to be a fair, mutually beneficial trade.

What I have a problem with are people who lash out at an omission based on time/space consideration. Not everyone is FFS. You made it perfectly clear that you thought the guy's statement was wrong, wrong, wrong. When you call him a coward, pu**y, commie, etc. (for a statement that is empirically realist in nature, that you can never really stop terrorism 100%), I think assuming that you disagreed with the guy is more than reasonable.

I think Jim McNally showed this year that he doesn't need the big name prospects to mold a good player. If JM wanted a highly rated OT in the 2nd or 3rd, I think TD would've gotten him one instead of nabbing a WR and TE. I also think TD knew beforehand and learned even more from the MW pick that picking high up in the draft doesn't guarantee a single thing other than that you'll be paying up the nose for someone who's got a 1/3 chance of being any good as a pro.

You're the one who lashed out with a charge of cowardice when the guy said that we must all learn to accept that terrorism in this world will happen, and that we need to deal with it (I don't know the context of what he said otherwise, and that's not what was being spoken about). That, to me and other readers of English, means that you didn't agree with him, and that you don't accept that a certain level of terrorism will happen. I didn't put words in your mouth. You did.

Yeah. The 2-ton diamond safe in my basement is filled with.... candy. Lots and lots of candy.