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It's funny to see TSM's priorities. When Saban chose to leave Miami he was ripped in post after post for a good solid week. He calls people from Louisiana "coons" and no one makes a peep. I didn't bother because few, if any, people outside Louisiana or South Florida gave a shit until the last two days. Besides that, i've seen enough threads about this at the LSU boards to bother with it here.

The games that have given me big scares while playing were Resident Evil 1 and Resident Evil 2, as well as Alone In The Dark 1, which is the first big "survival horror" game in the US. The thing about RE 2, though, is that one of the big scares is a cheap one... If you pick up the First Aid Spray in the interview room at the police station, a Licker will attack you by jumping through the one-way glass. HOWEVER, there is no Licker present in the room behind that glass... it only appears if you pick up the object, which is just cheap on a design level. Alone In The Dark had a lot of freaky things in it, which included little gremlins which would break through windows into the rooms, zombies which would appear when you opened certain closed doors, a book that would kill you if you read it outside of a certain area, and more. In other words, a lot of the stuff that Resident Evil did on the PS1 and Saturn, but nearly 4 years before RE 1 was ever released. The game holds up well over time, story-wise, but the 386-486 era polygon graphics don't hold up nearly as well. It's the kind of game that could really use a new overhauled engine to re-create the first game instead of making a bunch of shitty sequels. (The first AitD game was only released on three platforms... MS-DOS, Mac, and 3DO. Since it never received a proper console release, it's perfect for a "Resident Evil: Director's Cut" style re-make if Infogrames wanted to do it.)

I don't think most of us are calling him a "potential superstar" as much as saying that it's hard to judge how good he is when he's got a bunch of goddamn matadors as his offensive line. (As in "They all say 'Ole!' and let the bull rush right past them") If the Texans ever get a decent O-Line and Carr still sucks, THEN it's time to scrap him. IMHO, the Texans wouldn't be nearly this bad if they hadn't traded picks with New Orleans 2 years ago. New Orleans moved up 3 slots to get All-Pro LT Jammal Brown, who's anchoring their O-line, while the Texans got DT Travis Johnson and a high 3rd round pick in 2006, which turned out to be OT Eric Winston. Johnson has 21 tackles in 2 seasons while Winston is their starting RT as of now. While not exactly a one-sided bad deal like, say, any deal involving the Knicks, they could have gotten Brown to anchor their offensive line for years without switching picks then still gotten a fat boy to stuff the middle later in the draft.

Pink Floyd's The Wall (1 disc version) In The Flesh (3:16) Another Brick In The Wall 1 (3:21) The Happiest Days Of Our Lives (1:46) Another Brick In The Wall 2 (4:00) Goodbye Blue Sky (2:45) Young Lust (3:25) Another Brick In The Wall 3 (1:48) Hey You (4:40) Vera (1:35) Bring The Boys Back Home (1:21) Comfortably Numb (6:24) The Show Must Go On (1:36) In The Flesh (4:13) Run Like Hell (4:19) Stop (0:30) The Trial (5:13) Outside The Wall (1:41) 52 minutes total, down from 1 hour 20 minutes Editing this one is a natural choice, as a lot of the music is good but Roger Waters made this overly auto-biographical at the expense of the album's flow. This cuts out tracks I either find redundant (The Thin Ice, Empty Spaces, Nobody Home, One Of My Turns, Don't Leave Me Now) or think they just plain suck (Mother). Goodbye Cruel World (0:48) was cut because it only fits if it's at the end of a side or an album. Having a single-album version makes putting this between Brick In The Wall 3 and Hey You unnecessary. Thoughts?

Worst comes to worst, they'll offer $4,500,001 to Nick Saban. That'll hold them over for two years until they can find a coach who will stay.

That's a plus in that I won't have to see him on the football field. It's a minus in that I won't get to see someone like Champ Bailey smack the shit out of him on the field. Maybe this will see Dwayne Bowe go to a winner at the end of the 1st round, such as New England, San Diego, or Chicago.

Cleveland's got enough holes to fill that they could take almost anything at #3 except a WR or TE. In fact, given their holes at various positions, I'd talk with the Minnesota Vikings about moving down to #7, netting them extra picks in the bargain. (Minnesota would jump for the #3 position if they thought that Calvin Johnson would still be there. It's a possibility since the Raiderslikely won't take him at #1 and Matt Millen would be torn into small chunks by the Detroit fans if he took yet another WR at #2)

Im sure they could fill it with people willing to pay $100 for a ticket to stand there and chant "Fuck you vince" for 3 hours thus making one of the biggest PPV disasters of all time. I bet they move it to..Montana or something. I recommend Pine Bluff, Arkansas, as the location. Everyone can see it coming anyway, so they might as well give the wink-wink sign.

They were both on his non-throwing hand. Obviously, injuries don't explain some of the poor decisions he was making on the field at the end of the year, but I'd assume there has to be some sort of correlation there. Hasselbeck's a top 5 QB and he looked absolutely dreadful on several occassions. Does the fact that Hasselbeck is currently f*cked up and will likely be late into camp this year affect Seattle's draft plans this year? Or are they happy with Seneca Wallace as their backup QB?

I'm not amazed... 1. From what I heard, Terkay was originally signed to a developmental deal BECAUSE of that NCAA match with Angle. 2. Cornette has done storylines based off this kind of stuff quite a few times. He believes that storylines are believable if you can see that the wrestles are into them deeply. Doing an angle like this makes that intensity easier for the wrestlers to pull off in interviews, as it's based on something that's really happened with them rather than some theoretical "The heel pissed on my leg" situation. 3. WWF doesn't like to build off of "real history" in doing angles unless it involves Mick Foley (Ric Flair feud), Triple H (Clique "Curtain Call" incident), and/or HBK, OR unless it's something like Matt Hardy and Edge where the fans insist on it so much that they turn characters like Lita and the WWE can't do much about it. They can be given certain things on a solid gold platter (Vader and Foley over Foley's missing ear, Angle and Terkay's match in the NCAA tourney, etc.) and will not use those because they didn't happen within the WWE. Instead, they try to come up with a way to do it in the WWE so that they can take credit for it instead of building off what already exists.

As well it should be seeing as it is one of the most kick ass movies of all time. I also would like to say its not fair not to count Shrek or Mulan(even though Mulan was a failure). Eddie Murphy was as much of the reason why Shrek was so popular as anyone else. As a matter of fact, Myers was the straight man in those movies. Eddie was a driving force to the success of both those movies. Would you count Lion King towards Jonathan Taylor Thomas and/or Whoopi Goldberg's grosses, or Toy Story to Tom Hanks and/or Tim Allen's grosses? Lion King is easily comparable to Mulan, except in gross, while Toy Story has the same all-star cast doing voices that Shrek had. I'm willing to give you Mulan since I'd definitely consider Aladdin to be Robin Williams' movie alone. The Shrek series, though, is a tougher one because it's not just Murphy and Myers, but also Cameron Diaz, John Lithgow, Antonio Banderas, and others.

This movie looks entirely stupid, but I'm positive it will be a big hit for him. I don't know the numbers, but I wouldn't be surprised if his bad comedy films (like the Nutty Professor movies, or the Doolittle movies) were bigger money-makers than his classic comedies like Coming to America or Trading Places. People love crap like this because it's safe, and Eddie can do this sort of easy comedy very well. That would be correct if you didn't adjust for inflation, or the fact that a lot of his "kid movies" are so special-effect intensive that the cost highly exceeds those of his "dirty" comedies. *US* totals only for his live-action films. I'm *NOT* counting voice-work for Shrek or Mulan towards this. Eddie's glory years- 48 Hours pulled about $78 million in 1982. Trading Places pulled about $90 million in 1983. Best Defense pulled $20 million in 1984 (Film cost unknown, but Eddie's co-star role paid at least $1 million) Beverly Hills Cop pulled about $230 million in 1984-1985. (#46 of all-time in the US) Golden Child pulled $80 million in 1986 Beverly Hills Cop 2 pulled $150 million in 1987 Coming To America pulled $130 million in 1989 Eddie's downturn years- Harlem Nights pulled $60 million in 1989 Another 48 Hours pulled $80 million in 1990 Boomerang pulled $70 million in 1992 Distinguished Gentleman pulled $46 million in 1992 Beverly Hills Cop 3 pulled $43 million in 1994 (Below the $50 million budget) Vampire in Brooklyn pulled $20 million in 1995 Nutty Professor and beyond- Nutty Professor pulled $130 million in 1996 Metro pulled $32 million in 1997 (Below the $55 million budget) Dr. Dolittle pulled $145 million in 1998 Holy Man pulled $12 million in 1998 (Below the $60 million budget) Life pulled $64 million in 1999 (Below the $75 million budget) Bowfinger pulled $67 million in 1999 Nutty Professor II pulled $123 million in 2000 Dr. Dolittle pulled $113 million in 2001 Showtime pulled $38 million in 2002 (Below the $85 million budget) Pluto Nash pulled $5 million in 2002 (Below the $100 million budget) I Spy pulled $34 million in 2002 (Below the $70 million budget) Daddy Day Care pulled $104 million in 2003 Haunted Mansion pulled $76 million in 2003 (Below the $90 million budget) Dreamgirls has made about $50 million already in 2006-2007, before the big Oscar push If you go by gross totals alone, the Dr. Dolittle and Nutty Professor series all made a comparable amount to Beverly Hills Cop 2, with Daddy Day Care coming up just short of that. However, if you adjust for inflation, all of Eddie's 1980s movies but Best Defense likely grossed over $100 million in today's dollars, with Beverly Hills Cop 1 likely grossing in the $300-400 million range. That would be the equivilant of something like The Passion Of The Christ today, which grossed $370 million on a shoestring budget ($30 million) comparable to what Cop 1 cost in 1984 ($15 million). The numbers also show that Eddie has consistently grossed LESS than the budget on most of his recent pictures, with Daddy Day Care and Bowfinger being the only ones to perform well outside of his flagship franchises. That's showing that his ability at the box office is dropping for the most part, as he's incapable of getting his budget back on most of his projects. In short, Eddie used to be pure money in the 1980s and hasn't completely recovered from his long string of underperforming films between Coming To America and Nutty Professor, although he's still able to put together a decent gross every once in a while. It just takes a LOT of shine off of him, considering he was such a shooting star when he jumped from SNL to the movies.

Even though that may be exactly what happened, the fact that the school will be losing a bunch of highly recruited players after a year just looks REALLY bad. If the transferring players bomb out at the other programs while Arkansas continues to be good, then the bad image will rest on Springhill HS for producing such a bunch of little-bitch football players. If Arkansas returns to being mediocre while those players succeed at Tulsa, USC, and elsewhere, it makes Arkansas look bad for not being able to keep them.

Jesus Christ, WTF is in the water up there? Something more than a disagreement about the offensive system has to be going on, as this makes 2 of the 3 huge stars from that HS, along with their coach, to be moving on after a single season. The way things are going, the NCAA is sure going to be taking a look at the Arkansas program to see if there was something going on that shouldn't have. If nothing else, this whole episode is going to cost Arkansas in recruiting for years to come, as it shows that they have had top-tier recruits but weren't able to keep them happy. If people start wondering why they jumped ship so quickly, they may be less likely to sign with the Hogs instead of another program in the SEC or Big 12.

The problem is that Eddie's 4 classic films all were made within a small period of time. 48 Hours, Trading Places, and Beverly Hills Cop were done in the course of about 3 years. Coming To America was done about 4-5 years after Cop. The output since then has been pretty abysmal by the standards of those four films. To contrast with another superstar from the 1980s, Arnold made a bunch of blockbusters from the early 80s (Conan the Barbarian, The Terminator) through the end of the 80s and start of the 90s (Running Man, Total Recall, Predator, T2). He made a misstep when he did Last Action Hero, but made up for it with True Lies. Arnold's only made a few movies since then, mostly bad, but some of the films like T3 and Eraser are still watchable, which is more than I can say for a lot of the post-America movies by Murphy. They're even comparable in that they got paid a shitload of money to do a huge bomb (Pluto Nash for Murphy, Batman And Robin for Arnold), but Arnold's part in the disaster that was Batman And Robin was far smaller than Murphy's in Pluto Nash. (B&R was an ensemble piece and the least-bad portions of it tended to be Arnold's, writing non-withstanding. Uma Thurman, Alicia Silverstone, and George Clooney all gave performances that helped turn a bad film into a truly awful one.) Murphy also gets less of a pass for HIS bomb because he should have learned the lesson the FIRST time, when he was paid a shitload of money to help save Best Defense. Doing it a second time gets a lot less sympathy and forgiveness, ESPECIALLY since he'd made a point of trashing Best Defense every chance he got in the 80s and talking about what a mistake he made. If he'd really thought he'd made a mistake, he wouldn't have gotten himself back into that situation. In short, Eddie had a run in the 80s that was very good, one of the most lucrative in box-office history. However, his own bad decisions since then have seen his career go up and down, never getting back to the level he was at right after he released Coming To America. Other stars from that time period with comparable success have also had hard times, but they've had a much better idea of projects to go after and they've been less likely to repeat stupid mistakes like Eddie has.

The two highlights of Harlem Nights were the Eddie-Della fight ("You shot my pinkie toe, Quick!") and the bit with Arsenio and his gang chasing Eddie, whom he though had killed his brother. ("You made me shoot my boy in the back of the head, Quick!" The rest of that movie was pretty underwhelming given the cast in it(Eddie, Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx, Della Reese, Danny Aiello, Arsenio Hall, Damon Wayans, and others).

I said Golden Child was "underwhelming", not "bad". I said that Best Defense was friggin' HORRIBLE. Metro sucked and Vampire In Brooklyn sucked for the most part. (Vampire was good when Eddie was playing a minor character, like the preacher or the stick-up guy) Life was good to watch once, but it grates on you after a while because it's a sob-story with a few comic bits tossed in. (The bits with Can't-Talk-Right and the warden's daughter were great, but most of the Eddie and Martin bits sucked.) Distinguished Gentleman is one that I like a lot, but it suffers from some clunky plot devices in the last reel or two. I haven't seen I Spy, so I can't judge it. My main point is that he made his comeback in Nutty Professor and he's done a few OK movies since then, but most of them have sucked. Holy Man, Pluto Nash, Dr. Dolittle, Dr. Dolittle 2, and Haunted Mansion were the low points of his post-Professor career. The sole high-point of the *LIVE ACTION* portion was Bowfinger, which was made by his performance as Jiff, NOT as his main role as Kit. The biggest high-points were probably his voice performances in Mulan, Shrek, and Shrek 2, but those are in a different category from his live-action stuff.

"Look, kids, a falling star! Quick, make a wish!" - David Spade More proof that Eddie sold his soul around 1997 when he made his comeback. If his career had ended after Coming To America around 1989, he'd have been remembered as an all-time great in comedy. People would have overlooked the horrid Best Defense and underwhelming Golden Child and talked up Beverly Hills Cop 1 and 2, Trading Places, 48 Hours, and Coming To America.

Who the fuck do they think they are? A bunch of Iron Sheiks? What, they were screaming about how they were going to break LT's back and f*ck him in the ass?

DT Glenn Dorsey, a consensus 1st-round pick, has opted NOT to enter the draft and, instead, return for his senior year at LSU. The decision was made due to leg injuries that Dorsey feels would have negatively impacted his draft value. As it stands now, he won't need surgery but it is questionable whether he'll be ready in time for LSU's spring practices in a few months.

The Saints get two monkeys off their back by going to their 1st NFC Conference Championship Game, as well as beating one of the teams that's historically beaten them in the playoffs. (They lost to the Eagles circa 1993. They've also lost to the Vikings twice (1987 and 2000), as well as Da Bears (1989?) and the Falcons (1991?)) Let's see if the Saints have to go marching to Soldier Field or if they get to stay at home...

HUGE stop by Fujita. Do the Iggles go for it or kick the FG?

If there's grass on the field, play ball.

The Saints need to play off the line a bit... They're stuffing the box like they're on a "date" with Paris Hilton.

The Saints have a lot of famous names out there. I knew they had a Will Smith, but not a John Holmes.