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So I was a little drunk when I posted this last night. I just saw the Celtics drafted a SG and the name didn't register with me till this morning when I was sober. JR Giddens!? F'n JR Giddens!? Boy better get his head screwed on straight and not underachieve like he did when he was at Kansas. How did he do after he left Kansas? Damn 5 Jayhawks taken. I know my KU grad friend will be happy about that. I'll be rooting for Arthur this year, but he'll be on a pretty crappy team.

You ran? You ran 10 minute miles? Yes, according to the treadmill that was how far I went. Now, I personally think the treadmill is off on the mileage. Because when I run on the street it takes me a little longer to bust out a few miles. So it was probably around 4 or a little under 4 miles if I was on the street. Yeah CC I knew about the calorie thing, I thought it was when you were really starving your body though. I didn't think less than 2000 would cause that. According to that link my BMR is 2482.14. That's if I just lay in bed all day. Cool, I should really be losing more inches though. Damn. There must be hidden calories somewhere.

Maybe NO was hurting for cap space and couldn't afford whoever they were going to draft? Poor Arthur. I hope he has a monster rookie season. He was the best player from the national champions in the draft, and he gets shuffled the most out of all of them.

Dude that's like 10,000 calories. What do you mean Jorge? Are you saying there's probably calories I'm not factoring?

These trades are making my head hurt. Hopefully it'll all be sorted out so I can read about it in the morning. I like what the Celtics did in this draft, they got backup help where they needed some.

What the fuck? Arthur still isn't drafted? When I was covering sports in Kansas I had a JUCO coach that was close to the KU program tell me that Arthur (he called him Shady) was the thing that made KU go. He also said he was the best player on that team. It seems a lot of people thought it was Rush, but I never thought Rush was out of this world. He was alright. He plays good defense and can shoot the 3, but he's very streaky with that shooting. Arthur can do a lot of things under the basket, someone is going to steal him.

Damn, Arthur is still there but Rush has been selected? Arthur was better than Rush. Poor Shady..... And I think Arthur was the key for KU this year. He always put up great numbers, but they weren't flashy numbers.

So Yi gets traded a year after getting drafted? The NBA Draft always cracks me up. There's so many trades. Guys play one year and get drafted somewhere else or they get drafted and never even make it to that team. I guess it's just the way the league works though.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_calorie...uff_just_living Is that accurate? The average person burns between 2000-2500 a day just living? I ran on the treadmill for 45 minutes today (went 4.5 miles) and it said I burned like 530 calories. I'm sure that number is just an average. But if you multiply your weight by 13 then I (according to this) burn like 3354 calories a day just living. That doesn't make much sense because I eat between 2000-2500 calories a day (i need to get it under 2000). So I should be dropping weight like crazy according to that. I've heard even lower numbers. Like the average person burns 500 calories a day just living, that seems a little low to me. Anyone heard anything else on this?

The 19.99 tournament pass isn't bad actually. Well after reading further it appears that's the starting price. Damn, Tri-Nations is 70 bucks? Just pay 30 more and get everything! But, Air New Zealand is only 40. It's kind of a dead period for Rugby. Air NZ and Tri-Nations are about to start, but everything else like the Guinness Premiership and such don't start until end of August-September. I'd be better off waiting.

We have a place called Dan McGinnis(i think that's how they spell it) Pub, but I don't think they show any. I'll figure something out. If I get a regionless DVD player I can just order old Six Nations, Tri-Nations, etc. DVDs since they're all over Amazon.uk. Most of them are highlight films with like one full game (kind of like the championship DVDs made here).

Soccer season is nearly year round. Club season starts in August and in most leagues end in June. In some not. In the Russian league they start after the winter and run until October or November. International tournaments take place throughout the summer. African National Teams run their Cup Tournament in the winter, and they take their players for a month every two years, which always pisses clubs off. Throughout the regular club season there are usually one week breaks in season where qualifying for the Euro takes place, or the World Cup. I kinda went on a tangent there. And contract problems are even worse in soccer, at least. Player movement is ridiculous. If you want to follow rugby better, I've got a question. You got DirecTV or Dish Network? A Brit is going to have to say whether or not Setanta's coverage of Rugby is any good, because I don't know. Actually, I did some reading, and Setanta North America shows lots of Rugby. If you don't mind paying 14.99 a month for one channel that shows only Rugby and Soccer, I'd get it. Mostly soccer though to tell you the truth, and they show everything during weird hours. http://www.setantaus.com/en/NA/Our-Schedules/ How do they not get burned out playing year round? Rugby is brutal and IMO so is soccer. I figured it'd take a toll on your body. Maybe that's why I was reading about this popular player for the London Wasps retiring at 33. Unfortunately I have cable and I'm not a big fan of satellite. I wish I could watch games as they happen. I mean I can get to know the teams and leagues, but it's hard to get to know the players without being able to watch it all the the time. Especially if they hop around a lot. I mean I could get a Magners League championship DVD and see a player I really like, and then find out he's not on that team anymore. I should move to England.......but then I'd miss out on NFL and CFB. lol

Another thing that strikes me comparing the European sports to American is the amount of time they play. I don't know about soccer, but it appears in rugby the guys in England, France, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, and whoever else play nearly year around. All of their leagues are from August to May. And then, they take time off to play in the international special stuff. Like the Heineken Cup, it matches up teams from like six countries. The number of teams from each country varies. But, it happens in the middle of the regular season. Can you imagine the NFL stopping for a month because all the division leaders are going to go play in an international competition? It certainly appears the Europeans take their sports more seriously, and it seems they're willing to play it much more and much longer. Are soccer seasons this long? The teams that compete in Super 14 seem to adhere to a more normal schedule and don't appear to interrupt their regular season to play in an international competition. Man, after doing my studying I really think I like the way European sports are handled a lot more. Do you guys deal with the whining and crying over contracts like they do in American sports? I was telling a friend about the way they do Rugby in Europe and how it compares to American sports and he said "Well god forbid somebody love to play their sport."

I foresee something like this happening to Kevin Love on a nightly basis in the NBA Who exactly is Love going to be able to guard in the NBA anyway?

Yeah, I say I want to watch some Guiness Premiership and Air New Zealand, but I can't find any DVD's of it. They have them at AmazonUK, but I don't have a regionless DVD player. In the US Amazon all they have is some Tri-Nations, some Six Nations and a lot of World Cup. I wouldn't mind getting ahold of this year's six nations DVD and some Super 14. The London Wasps won the Guiness Premiership this season. What a name, the Wasps. Why can't any American sports have cool names like that?

And there's another thing that sucks about liking an international sports I barely get to watch, how do I pick a favorite team? I mean in international competition of course I'll support the Eagles since that's my home country. And I like the All-Blacks just because of the badass persona. But if I were to say pick up Guiness Premiership DVDs, or Heineken Cup DVDs.....how do I pick a favorite team then? Any international sport fans run into the same problems?

Is the 360's DVD player regionless? If I ordered a UK DVD would it play on the 360?

Well I think another thing that throws me off is the differences in terminology. Such as in England the big time domestic Rugby league is the Guiness Premiership. But, it's called a competition instead of a league. And it's only been around since 1987. And teams can be promoted and demoted each year. That's just another of the differences that kind of throws me off. I mean I'm trying to picture an NFL team having a bad season and a minor league team (if there was such a thing) having a good year and them switching places for the upcoming season. Also whilst the way rugby is conducted in Europe may confuse my tiny American mind, it makes a lot more sense in New Zealand. You have two leagues: an amateur one and a professional one. Teams in them compete for a league championship. Each one is also assigned a national Super 14 team. The Super 14 draws players from any of the teams they are assigned and they compete in that championship against teams from Australia and South Africa. Then players from the whole country are drawn to play for the All-Blacks in the Tri-Nations and World Cup. For some reason that just seems to make a little more sense to me. I think it's that the European leagues have a ton of international and domestic competitions. I wonder how the players find time to do them all.

This is getting way too much play on ESPN. I hope Kobe doesn't say a word about it and it just dies quietly.

Well how do international basketball leagues work as compared to the NBA? Are there any that are as big in their country as the NBA? I figured the monopoly and just the general American lifestyle would come into the reasoning behind the differences in sports leagues.

Here's a question for some of our international posters, or maybe even VX can help me with it. I played rugby in college, and I'm getting ready to play for the local club here in OKC. However, I've never been one to watch rugby because it's just not shown on TV around here. Lately I've been watching what I can and studying up on it. And there's one thing I've noticed. With American sports it seems you can go to the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, MLS, etc. and determine the professional version of that game and who plays it and what not. International competition (except in soccer) appears to be a real afterthought. Then you come to Rugby and it seems the main thing is international competition with the Rugby World Cup, Tri Nations, Six Nations, etcs. And they don't seem to have individual leagues like the NFL, etc. in their own home countries. There seems to be leagues with clubs competing in each country and they compete annually for a trophy, but that just seems to be an afterthought to international competition. Is America the only country where we have our domestic sports with huge leagues and we don't care for international competition? Because I'm just really not seeing this in other countries. Maybe some international soccer fans can explain how domestic competition over in Europe, etc. works compared to in America. I assume that and Rugby are close to the same as far as the competition goes.

Hmmm......I haven't had any sites pull that on me with FireFox. This website used to work on FireFox up until the other day. I just thought it was weird. Because I IM'd a friend on the site and asked her if she could access it and she said yes.

Well Enterprise called today and.......*drumroll* scheduled a third and final interview! ARGH! I thought the second interview was it and I was getting ready to get hired. The person who I did my onsite view with told me I was hired and they'd call me Monday or Tuesday (she didn't have the authority to hire me, but i figured she'd at least have insight). Now I have to wait till Friday to do another interview. I suppose if I've made it this far there's a good bet I'm getting hired though.

I dl'd it. It seems about the same to me. I wish I could get my Fubar account to load. I want to look at some naked girls on there dammit! For some reason it just won't load on my computer anymore, won't load on my parents comp either (we are using the same connection). I think it has something to do with their ISP or something. I dunno, I suck at computers.

I appreciate true MMA and I didn't like this at all. So I guess if you appreciate true MMA you don't *have* to like this season. Then again it could be argued that true MMA is what you see skilled guys like Anderson Silva and Rampage doing. Not a couple of newbies flailing wildly or rolling around doing stuff that would easily get them destroyed by any real vet. Who gives a fuck if they are newbies... If they provide entertaining fights, then why criticize? Who the fuck watches TUF and except these fighters to hang with the cream of the crop of their respectable divisons ASAP? That's never been the point of TUF, aside from TUF 4. The whole point of TUF is to build up these fighters from scratch so in a few years they can be at the elite level. Did anyone expect Forrest Griffin, Rashad Evans, Nate Diaz, etc. to be able to hang with the best in the world as soon as TUF ended? Fuck no... Sometimes the lower-tier provide better fights then the main event level fighters... Hell the J-Roc/War Machine fight at the TUF finale was better then the majority of the main events that the UFC provided last year. Do you have some sort of stake in this show? I've never seen someone get so angry just because someone else wasn't entertained by a show. I thought this season sucked. I've been bored out of my brains everytime I watch it. This is a thread to discuss the show. I can come in here and say what I didn't like. The title doesn't say "Only positive things about TUF VII". Sorry if you don't like that, all I can really tell you is to get over it or ignore it. And I thought J-Roc/War Machine sucked. I don't watch to see two guys get gassed and start swinging wildly.