CanadianChris

Cal has to make it there first.

I never knew Jeff Loria was a Canadian. Don't blame the fans when the owner basically said, "Don't come watch this team!"

All of which doesn't answer the question... WHAT THE HELL WERE THEY DOING IN THE STANDS IN THE FIRST PLACE?????

So what the heck does this mean as far as who plays in the national title game? Do they keep it the way it is (and have four meaningless bowls instead of three) or do they redo the standings after the bowl games? Whatever...college football on fox is going to suck.

I can't conceive of a situation where Harper resigns before the next election. If he does, the Liberals will try and force an election themselves, to catch the party completely flat-footed. Whether he does well or not is another question, but Harper will be the man to lead the Tories whenever the writ is dropped.

Nah. More violence, more stealing, more French-speakers. I'll stay here, thanks just the same. -=Mike I'm sure Alberta will welcome you, its the closest comparison to the states. Speaking of which, I hope Harper wins the next election... Harper won't go for another election. If you mean by the Alberta election, you want Klein don't you? There WILL be another federal election before 2006 is out. I doubt the Conservatives are going to dump their new leader in the next 18 months.

Given they've beaten everyone they've faced by an average of nearly 30 points, I think they're pretty legit. As for Boise State...that's just the way the system works. They won all their games, and there's no one else in a major conference with fewer than 2 losses. That'll get them high enough in the polls to make some noise. Actual talent is, and always has been, irrelevant in deciding the BCS. I, for one, am just happy that some mid-majors are finally getting the chance to step up to the plate.

C'mon mike. THE DATA IS SHOWING TWO DIFFERENT THINGS. Of course you need to completely change the data because they're different to begin with. Naturally the Canadian rate is higher because it includes MORE types of crimes. I think you're just too fucking stubborn to EVER admit you're wrong. By the way Mike, maybe you should look at this site to learn how removing data will change the outcome! Give it up, Cerebus. Mike's powers of no-selling arguments about statistics are legendary.

The rules state that any mid-major ranked in the top 6 gets a BCS berth. Cal could be ranked 3rd and still get shut out. They might get screwed no matter what happens. I think there's very little chance that they can get a BCS berth at this point, even if every team ranked above them were to lose in the next two weeks. USC has the PAC-10 title locked up, even if they lose to UCLA. About the only way left is if either Georgia or Miami were to leapfrog Boise State.

Bottom line: Players can't go after fans. Period. They have to show some restraint and let some things slide that they wouldn't normally. Let security deal with abusive fans. Otherwise, every stadium gets an English-style fence and moat erected around the playing surface.

No, I say keep Alberta. The feds actually make money off them instead of giving it away.

I've been able to get instant life saving treatment at many different candian hospitals. For free. And my taxes were(I say were because I'm not required to pay taxes right now) never blown up to the sky. I've also never had to wait long to get treatments and surgeries either. For free. I've only had one instance of dealing with a 'bad' doctor, of course that time nearly killed me, but whatever. My personal experience says that our health system rules the balls. This is true. You will never wait for treatment for a life-threatening condition. The Canadian system is based on urgency -- the more urgent your case, the faster you'll be seen. The number of Canadians who perceive problems with wait times is actually quite low.

My AD scheduled me a bunch of creampuffs. He's fired.

Agreed. How many times have people differed by a small number of games only because one person targeted one weak game that was already posted on the opponent's side?

I hated the spreads this week. Throwing 3 points on every spread doesn't make it more or less likely that there's an obvious pick -- in fact, it makes taking all underdogs a winning strategy. There's a good reason Vegas makes millions year in and year out.

Sagarin has OU's SOS at 18th, while USC's is 9th. A function of the PAC 10 generally playing better teams than the Big XII. I might agree with you if you were speaking of the conferences as a whole, but there is no way Oklahoma, Texas and A&M "run roughshod" on USC, Cal and Arizona State. They'd be lucky to finish 1-2 in that series.

I won, but I don't think it helped me any in my quest for #2.

When has giving a pitcher big money before throwing a big-league game ever worked out?

Source: ESPN.com

There already IS a cap on rookie salaries. It was put in place in the last CBA. Fat lot of good it's done. And thinking that a 20% tax on salaries over $40 million (30% on $50mil, 40% on $60mil) would provide any meaningful relief is absurd. Brian Burke, who you apparently hold in such high regard, sees the proposal as "changing a side-view mirror on a bus that's going off a cliff." And given that salaries rose 6% LAST YEAR ALONE, you'd be a fool to think that salaries would hold firm over a 5-year period after a pitiful 5% rollback.

"My Secret Identity" is right, but it was syndicated. I've got two more: Alien Nation and It's Garry Shandling's Show.

Goddammit, Jock McBile is no more. RIP...and GET STUFFED!!

The only thing I took from this post was that Dama's real name is JR. How appropriate.

This is like piecing together every Bret Hart interview in the last three or four years.

Virginia Tech South Carolina Kansas State Virginia Michigan UAB Central Michigan Navy Troy Missouri Mississippi State Tulsa Colorado State Auburn Iowa Oregon State Florida State TB1: 28 TB2: 205