USC Wuz Robbed!

Is that really bold? Oregon State IS worse than USC. So a loss to USC looks better than a loss to Oregon State.

But you said they'd drop 3/4 spots, meaning around #5. They won't. edit: But that's a moot point. They need that touchdown to even think about where they're ranked in the top 5.

Because White Sox have packed it in. Guess that fishing trip sounded more appealing than baseball in October.

Even if they win this game, this should drop them 3-4 spots, IMHO, because this Oregon State team isn't very good and already got smacked around by Penn State this year. Uhh no. They were the runaway #1 heading into the game. They lose some voters but they will still remain #1 or drop to #2/#3, no further, assuming they win.

No.

Fourth director selection, a guy Laurence Olivier credited as the guy who taught him how to act for the big screen, he's gonna be a guy I'll pair with some of my lesser talented actors to get the best out of them: William Wyler I now own two of the winningest Academy Award directors in John Ford and William Wyler. Go me.

The whole draft was ridiculous. Some people here are better off not being studio heads.

Why not? With the Bears' "bend too much that you can score TDs on us, but we won't give up that big play break!" defensive philosophy, McNabb can easily shred them for a blowout victory.

I don't think Red Sox will lose. It feels like Tampa will destroy the Twins and Boston will beat the Angels like always, then I think the "experience" of Boston will help them defeat Tampa in the ALCS. Then clearly the AL is sorta kinda very much so better than the NL, so Boston will end up winning it all.

Three actually. HarleyQuinn, SFAJack and yourself. But it's funny to see only one undefeated team on top of an AFC division whereas each NFC division hosts an undefeated team thus far. And while HQ owns the best PF (temporarily), I own the best PF/PA difference. Nice.

Tom Wilkinson

Doesn't matter. Now I get to see my favorite Japanese wrestler on hopefully a weekly basis.

I had a guy ride a bike around the neighborhood, and he stopped by in front of me to ask if I wanted some weed. Due to the questionable nature of the approach, I politely declined.

Well what if my pick ends up being the guy he would have replaced Downey Jr. with? I highly doubt that would happen, but since he's the guy who started the draft and all, I have no problem waiting 2 more hours to make my pick. Then you'd think he'd have picked him/her to begin with. Just pick, dude. It's akin to someone missing the 12 hour period. He is then eligible to make the pick any time, but the draft moves on without him. And the next picker doesn't piss his pants out of fear that the guy who missed his pick might take the same guy. You know?

I had figured that EHME still made his pick, and would have to amend it but that the next person was now eligible to pick.

Brady Quinn is starting? I thought DA was still the starter but with the idea that if he does poorly this week, he'd be yanked fast.

Already picked. Try again.

Tanahashi coming in makes me want to watch TNA.

LOL. Ok. Yeah BYU or Utah should definitely go in over USC, Oklahoma, Missouri, Georgia, Penn State, etc.

THURSDAY USC at Oregon State FRIDAY Connecticut at Louisville SATURDAY Virginia at Duke North Carolina at Miami Northwestern at Iowa Purdue at Notre Dame Colorado vs. Florida State (in Jacksonville) Fresno State at UCLA TCU at Oklahoma South Florida at N.C. State Alabama at Georgia Illinois at Penn State Virginia Tech at Nebraska Stanford at Washington Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the Alabama/Georgia game? 42 Tiebreak #2: How many passing yards will Oklahoma's Sam Bradford have against TCU? 245

Ok then.

What does this even mean? In a post Benoit world, you should understand what that means. I still don't have a clue what you are talking about. Please enlighten me. He is presumably making fun of my use of the "Post Benoit world" comment in relation to not believing wrestlers. Why he still carries out that "joke" is beyond me.

Kiffin HAS to pass the buck because the buck wasn't his to begin with. He was practically just the "face" of the coaching staff. A prop for Al Davis to say "Yeah we have a head coach." There was never any intention of letting Kiffin try to do what he would have wanted to do. And like others said, there's nothing in it about him wanting complete control of the Raiders. He just would want to be consulted with when they make personnel moves. The whole "Kiffin/whoever is the head coach is to blame" mentality is why the Raiders are forever going to be stuck in mediocrity or until Al Davis dies. And to say "Well how come a co-offensive coordinator from USC should expect some control?", well that comes with the concept of being hired as a NFL head coach. So silly of him to think he'd get to try to do his thing. He needs to know his role and shut the hell up, right? Well no... don't hire the guy if you don't want him to do anything.

He would if he could. Seriously.

Because how do you coach when you're expected to do everything someone else's way. That's fine and nice if Al Davis has forgotten more football than Lane Kiffin has learned, but that just means Al Davis has forgotten a lot of football. I understand that he had to go, and I even said I was glad he was fired, but it's really sad to see how the fans has turned on Lane Kiffin, when those same fans were disgusted by the parade of "Davis puppets" that was hired in recent years. You have to understand that when you go through something like 8 head coaches in the last decade or so, the problem is yourself (as the owner). Clearly when you sign up to be the Oakland Raiders head coach, you are going to be inevitably either be facing off against Al Davis like Lane did or be his puppet. Most of those "good" Raiders coaches was in the 70s/80s. The only recent guy on that list is Gruden, and he also basically got sent out for some draft picks. If the Raiders fans are mad that Kiffin called Davis and Ryan to the carpet for that opening week loss, well... it WAS Davis and Ryan. Davis for not allowing Kiffin shit and Ryan for putting together some of the worst defensive coaching I've ever seen. Then to have Davis try to say it's all on Kiffin, clearly he's going to want to respond. Like you said, he wasn't the best fit, but it's a shame, because if not for Al Davis being the owner, I think Kiffin would have really been great for Oakland.