CanadianChris

Just a note -- Amazing Race 7 is slated to premiere on March 1.

There are 96 QBs in the league. Even if Vick is right behind all these guys (and Favre is debatable), wouldn't that still make him one of the best?

I don't think so. I didn't recall gays saying that it was their religious right to get married.

Michael Vick won at Lambeau.....yeah? Well so did Dante Culpepper and Byron Leftwich. I don't see anybody hailing them as the second coming of jesus.

I haven't seen the show, but I haven't heard many good things about it. Daniel Negreanu (a pro who had a cameo on the show) went on record as saying the show painted poker in the most negative light possible, and that it didn't resemble anything he'd ever seen in the poker world. And the funny thing is, ESPN wants to promote their own pro poker tour! How is this show going to help that at all?

Louisville was getting by on reputation alone for about the last 10 years of Denny Crum's tenure. Cincinnati has been the only real power in that conference since the early 90s.

Kahran, if you can get to them before they close, the game kiosks that were in malls before Christmas have SoC for 25% off, which worked out to be around $40. I picked up a copy myself a couple of weeks ago. I think the one in Carlingwood is still open, anyway.

To answer Dama's question, the committee takes a number of factors into consideration: - win/loss record - RPI - strength of schedule - quality wins (vs. RPI top 50 and top 25) - bad losses (vs. teams with 100+ and 200+ RPI) - conference strength - road/neutral court record - last 10 games - injuries The committee will usually take a 17-10 team from a brutal conference with some quality wins over a team that's, say, 22-5 but didn't beat anybody of note. A 22-5 team from a tough conference will get seeded higher than, say, if Penn won the Ivy League going 25-2. Anyone with ESPN Insider access should go check out Joe Lunardi's Bracketology column. He does a really good job of explaining where teams are and why they're there.

Are we doing the TSM mock draft again this year?

What, you expected OU to make up 14 places in a single week? Please. Actually, the reasonable thing would be for UConn to drop. They're coasting by because they won the title last year, but based on their play, they don't even belong in the Top 25 right now. I agree, but getting the voters to agree on that is impossible. They can't fathom that UConn isn't an elite team again this year, even though they lost the two leading candidates for NBA Rookie of the Year. UCOnn dropped two spots in the coaches' poll for losing to a top 25 team on the road, which is about what you would normally expect. The loss this week should drop them even further.

What, you expected OU to make up 14 places in a single week? Please. No one gives a shit about the college BB rankings, and they do NOT matter one iota for seeding in the tournament. The selection committee relies on a lot more reliable data than that.

Not a chance. They were still way behind at that point.

YEEEEEEESSSSSSS!!!! THERE IS A GOD!!!!!

My wife and I play Careers on a regular basis. Fantastic game...very underrated. We also got Peanuts Monopoly for Christmas, so we play that from time to time as well. And I'll usually beat my mom once or twice at Scrabble when I visit.

I think OSU has as good a chance as anyone, but I would still put Kansas as a favourite ahead of them. Kansas also has outstanding senior leadership and coaching, and I think their best players are better than OSU's best players. Simien, Langford and Miles are probably the best senior trio in the country. That said, OSU has an outstanding team that should make it to at least the Elite 8. If Duke can manage to snag a 1 seed, the best thing for OSU would be to get a 2 seed in that bracket, because they would just tear Duke apart.

I'll pick (E) -- bait and switch to something else.

Carmina Burana by Carl Orff.

Will they show the MLK tribute at the top of the show? If so, how many consecutive years will it have been?

Roberto Alomar signed a one-year deal with Tampa Bay. Texas avoided salary arbitration and signed Alfonso Soriano to a one-year, $7.5m deal.

Looks like I'm out. I deserve it for picking St. Louis. Oh well...I defended my division title and managed to work my way back from 6-6 to grab the top seed. Not a bad season.

So I now need NE -2.5 and for the game to go over 42. Go Pats.

I am in deep trouble. The only way I can win now is to cover one of two three-way parlays: 1) NE -2.5, MIN/PHI over 45, IND/NE over 30 2) NE -2.5, MIN/PHI over 33, IND/NE over 42

Other than that run on the first drive, Vick isn't the one making the D look bad. They've been overpursuing on EVERYONE, notably Dunn, playing what seems to be a prevent defense, and missing every tackle they attempt. The catch on 3rd and 10 where there wasn't a Ram within 10 yards of the receiver, and the whiff on Dunn on the third touchdown run were just atrocious.

He used to be an All-Star, then the front office traded Antoine Walker and gutted the team, seemingly causing him to sulk and put up subpar numbers.

The Rams defense is flat-out embarrassing.