CanadianChris

Ha! Still a Leo.

Ames is listed as being from Trinidad and Tobago, so he's not as played up as a native Canadian would be.

And it's a shame too, because they're a casualty of the superconferences of today, and the fact that they were left out in the cold when the SWC disbanded. If they had joined the Big XII instead of Baylor, they could still be a top-level basketball power.

That's a question that needs redefining. Neither Oklahoma nor Illinois have had historically great programs on par with a UCLA, a Kansas, a North Carolina, etc. They're both currently good programs who have become good relatively recently. I submit that the best team never to win a title is Houston.

Absolutely. Fans turned away from baseball in droves after the Black Sox scandal. It took Babe Ruth to bring them back.

Matt Hasselbeck has agreed to terms with the Seahawks. This leaves Seattle free to franchise Shaun Alexander if they so choose.

The long count in the Tunney/Dempsey fight comes to mind, as does pretty much anything Don King's ever done. Also, the Jones debacle in 1988 that I already mentioned...Jones absolutely destroyed his opponent, only to get shafted by the hometown judges.

One half does not a game make, as the Jayhawks are showing right now. If nothing else, this team has plenty of heart. Two halves made as OU strung together 2 great halves and dealt Kansas their third straight loss! YES! I don't understand this OU team. They lose to some bad teams but then seem to be able to take the great ones. They got killed for a good portion of the second half. They hung on late, but that was NOT a good half of basketball.

One half does not a game make, as the Jayhawks are showing right now. If nothing else, this team has plenty of heart.

Rate the Cubs' chances of making the playoffs.

1. Uday Hussein's Iraqi Olympic regime 2. Munich Olympics 3. Black Sox 4. Si Hun Park d. Roy Jones, Jr. at Seoul Olympics 5. Holyfield/Tyson II (the ear fight)

According to ESPN, the season is re-cancelled.

I'd love to see NBC draw decent numbers with the NHL by the time the current TV contract expires, just to show Disney that a properly promoted league can actually get ratings. They won't even try. They still have XFL flashbacks and the NHL could, if put on prime-time Saturday nights, draw even worse numbers. -=Mike Well, they already have a contract. I wouldn't think they'd intentionally tank their coverage.

If that happened, Bill Simmons would a) actually watch, and b) think he'd died and gone to unintentional comedy heaven... Don't forget c) think that the producers stole his idea from when he was going to run ESPN6.

If it was an aneuryism, he'd likely be dead by now. Those tend to be unbelievably fatal and if he suffered one, they are virtually impossible to fix. You're thinking of a ruptured aneurysm. Aneurysms don't just spontaneously show up; they're usually around for months, if not years. They're not fatal until they burst, but you never know when they will burst. It's like walking around with a time bomb in your head. My mother-in-law has one that was just recently discovered after she hit her head after a fall while curling, although the doctors say it's probably been there for years, if not decades. If they're large enough, though, they cause the symptoms described in the article. John Olerud suffered through similar symptoms until doctors discovered he had an aneurysm and removed it.

I want Dikembe Mutombo on this show.

I'm not a big fan of incentive-based contracts, whether they're individual or team incentives. Individual incentives tend to turn players into me-first, stats-obsessed guys, and team incentives make players just want to get traded to better teams. It's just human nature.

Sounds like a brain aneurysm. Hope they can fix whatever it is.

Hah. The hell? Is it 2010 already?

The players had to strike during the season, because that was when they had the most leverage. If they wait until after the season, the owners would have already made their playoff revenue, and their response would've been, "Yeah. Whatever. Let us know if you're coming back. Or not, we don't care."

A closer would be nice. I'd say a shortstop, but I'm intrigued by Russ Adams (at least at the plate -- he needs to get a lot better in the field quickly).

I'd love to see NBC draw decent numbers with the NHL by the time the current TV contract expires, just to show Disney that a properly promoted league can actually get ratings.

I think it's more that the Jayhawks were choking bitches under Roy Williams. Kansas won a national title the last year Roy Williams was not coach (before last year). I think this is the year they could go all the way.

Pandamonium CBS Saturday Supercade Teen Wolf Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling (maybe not so obscure on this board) Ghostbusters (not the Real Ghostbusters)

^ Holy nine hours ago, Batman.