CanadianChris

I'm allowed just to pick the Thursday night game now and pick the rest later, right? I hope so, because I'm in a business centre in Vancouver and don't have any chance of doing my full picks until Friday: NY Giants -3.5

LOL, I would've been happy with one point, since I was mostly picking for myself. Thanks for the votes. 80s classics FTW.

Maybe I can make Czech's head asplode for real with yet another pool announcement. Yes, I even interrupted my vacation to set this one up. Rules are simple: Pick one team you think will win its game each week. If it does, you advance to the next week. If it doesn't, you're eliminated. The catch -- you can only pick each team once during the entire season. Last person standing wins. (Except last season, when both BX and 909 were eliminated on the last week, and there was no winner. I think they kept picking after that, but I have no idea what happened there.) Sign up here: http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/survival/20383 Password: tsm Deadline for each week is kickoff of the first game, so this week, it's Thursday night. Good luck.

From somewhere out in the wilds of Alaska... THURSDAY Miami of Ohio South Carolina Oregon State SATURDAY Virginia Tech Northwestern Wyoming Michigan Oklahoma State TCU Minnesota Mississippi Clemson California Missouri Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the Illinois/Missouri game? 52 Tiebreak #2: How many rushing yards will Clemson's James Davis have against Alabama? 128

I figured it out, it was my Logitech mouse that was somehow triggering it. I removed it and plugged in another mouse, and the problem hasn't returned.

Finishing 9-0 at home is pretty damn impressive. And Hakeem contained Chamberlain more or less while Payton abused Frazier defensively. The old saying is true, defense wins. Even online. I have no idea how that happened. Frazier was a terrific defender himself, I don't know how Payton got loose on him.

Anyone mind if I make my last pick? I'm the only one who needs a defensive tackle, and I'm not going to have much internet access for a couple of weeks after today.

Russia won the women's 4x100 after the Jamaicans were DQed on the second handoff. Not a good week for elite relay teams.

When I saw the score on ESPN's bottom line I thought it was a mistake. Team USA has been choking hard everywhere (except on the beach and the hardwood) since Phelps finished swimming. Well, you're sure not gonna like what happened on the track today. I heard about that, but I didn't expect us to beat Jamaica in either relay so I wasn't completely caught off guard. If we couldn't challenge them individually, I didn't see how we were going to beat them as teams. The softball squad had already beaten Japan twice in the Olympics and had given up a handful of runs in the last two entire Olympic tourneys. Getting beat 10-8 I could have seen, but 3-1 with a pitcher who had thrown over 300 (I think that was the # I heard) pitches the day before is crazy. Well, sure, but you still expect them both to medal, or at least make the final.

When I saw the score on ESPN's bottom line I thought it was a mistake. Team USA has been choking hard everywhere (except on the beach and the hardwood) since Phelps finished swimming. Well, you're sure not gonna like what happened on the track today. Those relays were brutal. USA track and field is in rough shape right now.

No kidding...a Jordan team losing straight three nailbiters and getting swept? Like that would happen in real life.

Are you serious? And I was just about to say about how interested I was in how the upcoming Wilt-Kareem matchup would pan out. None of those games were even close! Oh well, Wilt vs. Hakeem should be intriguing.

This was the one where HBK forfeited the IC title to Douglas. It was a complete pile of shit.

Good quality video of the 200m final: http://sportstrick.com/play.php?vid=1263

Probably not (I don't think it's far off, though), but a sport needs to have an international governing body to be considered for the Olympics. And yes, table tennis does have one.

I gotta be honest here...I'm actually surprised bowling ISN'T an Olympic sport. I mean, ping pong, badminton and beach volleyball are... Bowling doesn't have any kind of organization outside of North America.

You can cross me off the list of contenders for that last playoff spot. Kinsler being out for the season was the last straw.

The look on Horry's face after he makes that shot is just classic. Like, "Yeah, I made it, what, you thought that wasn't going down?"

Not quite. Only the top 5 off the world rankings are selected, along with the top 5 not already qualified off the Euro Tour Order of Merit. As of this moment, the European Ryder Cup team looks like this: Padraig Harrington Lee Westwood Sergio Garcia Henrik Stenson Robert Karlsson Miguel Angel Jimenez Graeme McDowell Justin Rose Oliver Wilson Soren Hansen

Last pick: Super Sprint (Arcade)

A sentimental pick for fullback -- certainly not the best available -- but when he was in his prime, this guy was an absolute beast: Craig "Ironhead" Heyward, FB

I'll take my coach now: Marv Levy Career Record 143-112 1988 Sporting News NFL COY 1993 UPI NFL COY 1988 UPI NFL COY NFL 1990s All-Decade Team Buffalo Bills Wall of Fame 4x AFC Champion (1990-1993) 2x Grey Cup champion I wanted an offensive mastermind with the way my offence developed, and Levy fit the bill like almost no other.

Yeah, the west coast just got bent over hardcore by NBC.

Gee, ya think?

What's even crazier is that the 200 is his best event and he just started running the 100 recently. If he ever learns how to get out of the blocks well, he'd run in the 9.4 range. I can't wait to see him run the 200. If anyone could touch Michael Johnson's record, he's the guy.