CanadianChris

Benefit of the doubt. The two-time defending champions are going to get a lot more leeway than a team with a history of choking in big moments, like it or not. EDIT: That's assuming someone actually said it in the first place, which I'm now starting to doubt.

The line he's on is just amazing. Spezza is having his breakout season, and Bochenski is playing pretty well. When they put Alfredsson on that line in place of Bochenski, they're virtually unstoppable.

They just said on Sportscentre that Heatley's 4-goal game was the first in nearly six years. Wow. EDIT: They misspoke. The last one was February 2004.

USC, VA Tech, Bama...who else is there?

If Texas loses to OK State, they don't deserve to be anywhere near the Rose Bowl.

5-0 Senators early in the 2nd. Belfour has been pulled. Heatley has a natural hat trick.

I would think his derogatory nickname would be much more obvious than that.

Battle of Ontario renews again tonight. 1-0 Ottawa already.

Well, that's good. I really didn't want to have to sweat the Marshall game tonight.

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Cincinnati over Syracuse 22-16 in the barn-burner I got to watch.

What's up with Texas Tech? Only 6 points against Baylor? That's awful.

Miami might burn those unis if Carolina can keep this up.

Exemplified??

Oh sweet Jesus...I get the Cincinnati/Syracuse game. Motherfucking local ABC affiliate. I don't understand why the Boston affiliate would carry Big East games anyway.

Columbus managed 53 shots on Dwayne Roloson, but only got one goal in regulation and overtime in a 2-1 shootout win over Minnesota. They play again tonight in Minnesota. Columbus is going to get killed.

You should be all right. Tech's going to put up 60 on the Bears.

Cena didn't decide to go to Raw. Neither did Angle. They were both drafted.

Was the Savage match the one where Honky Tonk Man and the Hart Foundation did the massive beatdown on Savage, with Elizabeth going to the back and bringing Hogan out to make the save?

Well, there's your new Big East. Five teams in the preseason top 20. This conference is going to be an absolute beast this year.

Denver - 27 Dallas Detroit Cleveland Cincinnati Jacksonville Carolina Oakland N.Y. Giants San Diego New Orleans Denver San Francisco New England Pittsburgh

A guy made a 50-yard FG for $1,000,000 at halftime of a CFL game last night. Anyone see it?

The huge problem they have right now is they won't have a big marquee win on the road. Texas going into the Horseshoe and beating tOSU was huge, especially at the time because it was a meeting of two top-5 teams, and probably clinched them a Rose Bowl berth if they win out, just because it stuck out, and will continue to stick out, so much in the minds of the voters. If Texas wins out, they have road wins over Ohio State, Missouri and Texas A&M to go along with convincing home wins over Texas Tech and Colorado. Not all world-beaters, but good teams. VA Tech's biggest road win would probably be West Virginia. Every win over a ranked team would come at home or at a neutral site (ACC championship).

Very true. Just looking at the Giants' World Series team, there were only TWO players under the age of 27 on the roster (Ryan Jensen and Yorvit Torrealba). That can't be Dusty's fault.

That's better.