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They are also the NBC Hockey announcers, which is I'm sure how they got the Olympic gig. Mike Emrick and Eddie Olczyck are both American.

Dubai is not a country, it's a city. The country is the United Arab Emerates. Despite the name, it is my understanding there is a significant number of non-Islamic, non-Arab people in the country. I had a friend in college from the UAE and he was of Christian-Indian descent. According to him, there was a huge number of Indians of various religions in the country. The oil industry and the development of Dubai is a big draw for highly educated, highly technical Indians. The culture, at least in the region he was from, is extremely Westernized, as you can tell by looking at Dubai. Take that for what it is worth. So yes, one has to wonder...

Playoff hockey is almost always a very low scoring affair. It's better the Sabres know how to handle that situation than the opposite. The dispute is between Versus Network and DirectTV. How could the NHL influence that one way or another?

The guy who started this topic is from Pennsylvania. It even says so below his name.

Sabres home games are in HD in Rochester on MSGHD. Channel 1043 on Time Warner. The away games are generally not available in HD.

Only two teams were eliminated. I think I'm going to get really sick of the poker players. They are incredibly self-absored. I'm already sick of the Bahston couple. The only thing I liked about the poker players was when one them said she thought the Boston "lawyer" was too dumb to actually be a lawyer. I agree.

The problem is not with Time Warner. It's with Fox Sports. It has been like this all summer with baseball.

That's not true. All five of the long throws (TD to Evans, near-TD to Evans, TD to Owens, drop by Owens, rainbow to Evans right after the Owens drop) were to the right sideline.

You are very wrong about this. The Bill's routinely let the clock get under 5 seconds, just as if they had huddled.

I was a freshman at UB. On the bus from the Ellicot Complex to the Student Union for my first class of the day, I had heard that a plane had just struck one of the towers. Like everyone else, I pictured a little Cessna and didn't give it much thought. It wasn't until my buddy Mark burst into that English class late and out of breath from running in with the news that we all fully understood the severity. We let out of class very early and I was standing in a crowd in the Student Union with a bunch of class mates when the second plane hit. The TV reporter was talking with the second tower in the distant background and the impact was visible in the background. The reporter didn't seem to realize for a short time and kept talking. It was incredibly surreal. I remember the rest of the day being incredibly lonely. We huddled in the RA's dorm room watching the news together. Most of close group of friends were from Rochester and Buffalo but we had quite a few people in the hallway who from that area who were concerned about friends and family. I went home that weekend for the first time and it was an incredible relief to be with my family then. I was fortunate enough to have no friends or family involved that day. I didn't even know anyone who lived or worked in NYC so there wasn't even much worry. It didn't seem to occur to us to worry about who was on the planes. Still, occuring as it did only two weeks into my college career, that day had a profound impact on my college memories. I loved it at UB and have a ton of great memories but I doubt any of us will be able to separate those memories from the 9/11 ones.

I just want to know what the weird obsession with birds is all about....

Interesting attempt at "logic" here. The league would not be denying the Patriots the use of Seymour during the first game. They traded him. They voluntarily gave up rights to him and should have no expectation of receiving services from him ever again. It does not matter if the trade gets voided by the league today, Tuesday, or in Week 16, the Patriots are not being "disadvantaged" by the league.

http://www.snopes.com/medical/disease/cancerupdate.asp It's not true.

It's interesting that the article puts almost no emphasis on reprinting w/o permission, lack of proper credit, or plagiarism. It certainly makes it seem like the sole intent here is to squeeze revenue out of linking to articles. I can't see how a judge will rule in favor of this during the inevitable lawsuit, but even if it were, how is this a sound business decision? How will this result in anything more than a sudden drop in web traffic to AP news stories as they now will undoubtedly not show up in a Google search (and we all know how important that is). It's amazingly counter-intuitive.

Glad to see I'm not the only one just noticing this. My sister-in-law is just out of college and addicted to this show and this season my wife ended up DVRing most episodes for her to come over and watch as my in-laws were having some TV/Cable issues that were slow to resolve. As you said, I am far from a prude, but I was surprised when the show not only implied that she slept with two of the three (and would've with the third if not for some "technical difficulties") but that it's pretty much expected and standard operating procedure. I'm trying not to make this political but it's hard not to laugh at people who use the "sanctity of marriage" argument when opposing gay marriage when show's like this have settled into our popular culture. It's a little surprising some conservative talking head hasn't tried to make an issue out of this.

This isn't what I would call a convincing argument. There isn't an NFL starter (or even a good NFL back-up) on those lists. How many people were in each group? Six? What was the average speed? You need a better context for the data. The context right now says Edwards has a slightly stronger arm than some guy named Paul Thompson and slightly weaker arm than Drew Stanton. Great.

The puck went off his chest. The reverse angle clearly showed that.

Syracuse? Syracuse is smaller than Rochester and Albany. NYC Population > Buffalo > Rochester > Albany > Syracuse

How you can you watch that replay and say his hand was empty when it started forward? The ball is clearly in his hand through most of his throwing motion. Obviously, it's close enough to warrant a replay. I could not have cared less who won and I was astonished it wasn't reviewed. The worst part was Al Michaels turning into NFL corporate shill. What is this "the replay booth confirmed it was a fumble" crap? Really? The last 30 seconds of the Super Bowl is a good time to start making up new rules? Seriously?

Paille didn't score. In fact, I'm not sure Paille ever touched the puck. I believe the goals were scored by Stafford, Paetsch, Roy, Hecht, Connolly, Vanek, Spacek, Stafford, Stafford, and Connolly. Great games by our two top lines. Stafford, Connolly, and Vanek were amazing while Roy, Hecht, and Pominville were just slightly less amazing.

Total agreement. My wife and I pay about 13% (that's net after income/property taxes/etc). That was by design because we plan on having my wife stay at home when we have kids. We already lead a pretty lean lifestyle and it's allowed us to build a very nice nest egg which is nice, in case one of us gets laid off.

If the Cons ever did what? Hold an inauguration?

Not true. Since the ball was first touched by the receiving team while the receiving player was inbounds (ticked off his finger tips), the ball was live and any subsequent touching of the ball by a player out of bounds (such as if the ball bounced back up and hit the receiving player in the arm or leg after his foot was out of bounds) would stop the play and the ball should be spotted where it was touched. Thus, the ruling on the field was correct if you believe the ball was touched a second time. I was not convinced of that though and I was extremely dissapointed that the play was unreviewable for some reason (Could've sworn I've seen that situation reviewed during Bills games once or twice...).

I loved his second goal last night. That was a "f*** you" goal if ever I saw one. He was mad at someone and he picked the corner of the net like it was nothing.

I saw 2 football wins my entire time at UB ('01 - '04 seasons). The comparison then to now is incredible. Talent like Willy, Roosevelt, and Starks was just a dream.