CanadianChris

Incredibly, the view from out my window is worse. I can't even see across the street.

677 isn't that much. I'm amazed by the people who think there will be less than 500. I'm not sure, but I think 312 would be a record low for a college game.

So much for New England getting the second pick, I think.

I love being right. Hedberg was pulled at 8:21 of the second after letting in 5 goals on 24 shots.

Hedberg's going to be eaten alive if he starts tonight in Ottawa. I haven't heard who the starter is yet.

Is there a less sympathetic figure in the league than Brian Burke?

With Castro, his death will count whenever it's announced, unless it's announced that he's been dead as of some other date. Also, you don't have a BEST BET.

If Seattle was the visiting team, absolutely.

The really bizarre thing about this year is that I'm leading in my straight-up money pool with three weeks to go. New Orleans Tampa Bay Baltimore Cleveland Green Bay Jacksonville New England Seattle Tennessee Indianapolis San Diego Dallas N.Y. Giants Minnesota

Denver - 24 Broncos Bengals

Just heard that Mac-Andre Fleury is out 6-8 weeks. As if the Pens didn't have enough problems in goal. Nice defensive effort by the Sens tonight, currently shutting out Carolina 3-0. Emery went out with some kind of injury 5 minutes in, though.

I played the one on their website three times, and the three winners were LSU, Kansas, and Illinois (?!?).

Wow, I am stunned that I forgot about these.

Most liked: - Ottawa makes the Stanley Cup finals (ldo) - Boise State beats Oklahoma in the game of the year - Padraig Harrington beats Sergio Garcia in a playoff at the Open Championship - Alexei Yashin gets run out of the NHL Most hated: - Sports media/talking heads. It's gotten to the point where the media now makes the news more often than just reporting it, with Kirk Herbstreit's "exclusive" of Les Miles' supposed agreement with Michigan being just the latest example. - fox college football coverage. Awful. - Rory Sabbatini. Just shut up already. - The Suns/Spurs series. A great series forever marred by a pair of unnecessary suspensions. I hated David Stern's sanctimonious posturing after the fact, too.

Not much of a Thursday night game, unfortunately. The Broncos need to win to have any shot at making next week's game against the Chargers meaningful, while Houston is all but mathematically eliminated from playoff contention already, being behind three other teams and having a very poor conference record. Look for Denver to try and run the ball down the throat of one of the league's poorer rushing defences, while keeping the Texans' pass-oriented offence at bay.

I hate cheering for Baltimore. But how perfect would it be that the '72 Dolphins see someone go 19-0 and see their own team be the first to go 0-16 in the same year?

Vader was told by the English speaking producer to 'ham it up' when the host asked the "Is wrestling fake?" question. He did, and apparently it went too far for the hosts liking, and he filed charges. In that respect, it started out as a work, but it turned very real, including the arrest and detainment. And as WWE 24/7 is now remidning me, it lead to Ken Shamrock cutting "incredible" promos where he called Vader a bully, then called out Mike Tyson for God knows what reason, citing he was a bully too. Was this before the Tyson/Holyfield bitting incident. Didn't WCW want to bring in Tyson before that fight and WWE mocked them after the fight? It was about two months before the bite fight. Funny that WWE would mock WCW for that, then bring Tyson in themselves six months later.

Is anyone besides Ripper watching this game? And by that, I mean in America, not just TSM.

Second one I thought of, after Hampton. Others: Chan Ho Park (5yrs/$65M), Larry Hughes (5yrs/$60M).

I'm actually more surprised Al's only 26 than I am that Czech's only 21. Happy birthday, boys.

Nah, the Colts are just going to run it from here on out. I think they might not even make 55.

That wasn't really drama, and they picked really shitty flights besides. Seconded on Vyxsin's rack.

Dunno about that, but I know he's salivating at the proepect of finally having a team sack up and finish off an 0-16 season.

Neither of those two teams was playing a truly dreadful team the week they lost. And, for anyone looking ahead to the Giants game, there's a pretty decent chance the Giants will have locked up the fifth seed by then, with no chance of moving up or down, and will have absolutely nothing to play for themselves.

Then there is no hope.