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McNamara just hit the shot of the year right there. A running 3 with .3 to go to put Syracuse into the next round of the Big East tourney. ONIONS!

I don't disagree with anything you said but never underestimate the power of the "big people" vote in America. Fatties from coast to coast will try to keep her in the contest since she's the only female that "looks like" most of the people watching. Yes, that's a sad commentary on American women, but I think she's got a better chance going deep into the contest than the teenagers especially since Lisa and Paris will be competing for votes too and neither seems to get that the judges would like them to sound 17/16 instead of 37/36. Mandisa's voice is stronger than both of them put together, but it'll be interesting to see how things shake out since there's never been a season where the guys were expected to dominate from start to finish. I know Frenchie was in Rent for a while here and spiked sales initially, but going the Broadway route just about equals death for anyone's musical career. To be fair though, unless Clay puts out a new decent selling record soon almost everyone on AI will have been a bust aside from Kelly Clarkson & Carrie Underwood (even though I think she's a dime a dozen country singer).

Let me just play devil's advocate and ask why someone who hasn't watched wrestling for 20 years and likely has cable or digital TV, a DVR and access to the internet would watch SNME simply because wrestling's back on channel 4 in NYC for example? Why is Saturday night on NBC any different than Thursday/Friday night on UPN or Mondays on USA/Spike TV over the last decade or so?

Mandisa and Katharine are likely to be the only 2 females in the top 6 and personally, I think she has a better chance at longterm success than anyone on the show in the right setting because she's clearly never going to be a pop star. I'd definitely buy something of hers in the gospel arena because she can clearly sing and she's open about her love of Jesus. That didn't answer your question directly, but I see that she has a potential career where the previous "Mandisas" really didn't. She reminds me of Frenchie from season 2, who I think would have won hands down had she not been DQed right before the semis or finals.

Aside from "competitive spirit" why would he leave the division as champ and risk possible losses to some/most/all of the guys you listed? I think there's a good reason to drop a class and dominate, it's safer, the pay is just as good and the record stays solid. I don't think anyone really wants to see a dominant entertaining champ move up a class and possibly be mediocre just because there are "dream matches" to be had. If he gets KTFO'd in the first one it pretty much renders the rest moot. If this was boxing and the big money was in the higher weight class I could see the logic, but there's no reason for him to even consider going back to 205 right now. Similarly there's no reason for a guy like Matt Hughes to move up to 185 and he's been far more dominant in his weight class than Ace has been.

I think he was trying to say that he liked Pickler as a person better, even though she's not the greatest singer. Either that or as was mentioned he just really wants to fuck her like almost every other straight man watching the show.

She is awesome. She's not a great singer but is just fun to watch.

She had to have been the "best" in practice to get the coveted last spot. I'd also guess she's got a much larger fanbase. Ayla's getting better every week, she needs to show some cleavage if she wants to go far in the final 12 though. I think she just bumped Melissa to # 3 tonight.

To catch up on tonight's show. . . I like Paris less and less every week. Lisa was simply OK and will get stale in a week or two if she doesn't switch it up. Melissa has been 2nd best tonight but is going home. Kinnik is dead. Lastly, I want to fuck McPhee SO hard right now.

When the Montreal Expos became a farm club for most teams in the mid '90s to raid for their talent it exposed the huge problem in baseball. Something like that will never happen in any of the other major sports, but baseball continues to allow it to occur. How can you justify outpricing the market by $63 million dollars as a good signing because you got the best player in the league? They paid over $100 million in salary and a buyout for 3 lousy seasons of use for a guy who didn't get them more than 73 wins in any year while he was there. I don't know about you but that sounds like a worse deal to me than a $65 million/5 yr deal for Park even though that was probably one of the top 10 worse MLB contracts ever as well. This is the last post I'm going to make in this thread because quite honestly talking about baseball and its antiquated system of 10 haves and 20 have nots isn't worth this much effort.

They nearly lost at HOME to a team that won't be in the NIT and if Morrison isn't POTYC Adam Morrison in every game I would not be shocked at all to see them get beat by some scrub team who gets raped by the 6/7 seed in the 2nd round.

I didn't say they couldn't spend money, I said they couldn't spend ENOUGH money to get the big name free agents. What huge star is going to go to Kansas City to play baseball for a sub .500 team when he can get 10-15 million per from the Yankees/Mets, Dodgers/Angels or Red Sox? The A-Rod $252 million deal turned out to be the worst big time signing ever, and I think that pretty much scared off the mid to small market teams from going way above market value to get/keep someone. Back to the Royals, Beltran left for a reason, as did Damon and unless KC develops some sort of unbelievable nightlife or somehow lucks into 10-20 5 tool prospects at once, I don't see their chances of being contenders changing.

If Morrison doesn't score around 30 in every NCAA tourney game, the Zags will lose, and yes that's even including their first round matchup against a 14+ seed. The rest of that team is the drizzling shits and will lay down under that kind of pressure.

Those teams suffer from bad management/drafting. They have the ability to compete though because they aren't competing against a bunch of teams with 10 times the resources and 5 times the payroll. Bidwell doesn't spend money (notice how the LA Clippers have done better when they actually put some money back into the team), the Texans are a newer franchise who got burned by guys like Carr not panning out, and the Lions keep drafting WRs in the 1st round without a franchise QB. It's hard to win in any sport with stupidity coming down from on high, but a team like the Jets can be a Super Bowl contender one year and end up in the outhouse the following one without having 10-15 years of darkness all but guaranteed because of the system. A few good drafts and a FA pick up of a cap casualty/caretaker QB like a Kerry Collins type could get them right back into the playoffs. On the other hand, a team like the Florida Marlins for example can make a run to the title and then have to dismantle the team completely. The Royals will never be able to spend enough money to lure big name free agents and the Yankees never have to have a draft pick pan out because they just buy the best guys that are available by throwing more money at them. Yes, it's fun to see the Yankees fail, but ask yourself this question. . . are they a WS favorite every year because they have the best management, or are they a WS favorite because they can and will outspend everyone every year? Even if they don't win it all you can pencil them in for 90 wins and a playoff spot because they have a virtual all star team and will add pieces midseason when some small market team sells off their best player for a prospect and some cash because they have no hope of signing him when free agency comes. The NBA product sucks because 90% of the guys entering the league now have no fundamentals and get by solely on athletic ability. For all intents and purposes the NBA is now the Rucker League with better athletes and a small portion of guys in the league solely because they can shoot, and another small group of 6'10+ stiffs who stick around because they're 6'10 or taller. The few teams who don't play that style (Spurs and Pistons) are deemed "boring" by the modern fan, while the other superstar first teams don't appeal to old school fans.

I don't know. I liked it, but I think where it might fall flat for some was that there was a pretty elaborate set up to get Ted and Victoria together, then three or four episodes where they were basically background characters getting no development and then BOOM, they're split up. Hard to really care too much about that when you aren't given time or reason to get attached to that story. I think that pretty much sums up the problem I have with the show. I don't like Ted and don't care about him because he seems like quite the whiny bitch. I don't see them breaking up the one established couple, and they can't make Ted happy for too long without revealing the mother for the reason you mentioned in that a long build up for a shitty payoff happening regularly kills viewer interest. So that leaves a lot of him whining like Ross pre hooking up with Rachel on Friends, but no one else can carry a multi episode storyline because they don't really have any developments to the other characters yet. Other than that episode when Lily and Marshall went to visit his parents there's nothing to them except being a couple who have been together forever. Yeah, Lily teaches kids and Marshall's in law school but what can they really do with that? Robin only seems to work when it's convenient to skip out on hanging out with Ted, and was only really fun or interesting when she was Barney's wingman for the night. Barney's easily the best character on the show but they can't tie him up with a relationship because that ruins his whole "gimmick", and I don't think him in the workforce would be funny at all. I'd guess they will go the tried and tested route of Ted finally finding out Robin's into him in the season finale, but the next season will begin with her falling in love with someone else or them dating for about 6 episodes before breaking up. I think the best thing to do would be to have Robin and Barney hook up during the middle of next season and let Ted have to deal with that as the two people who are anti-relationship fall in love. At least that way his whining actually serves a purpose instead of making me want to hit him in the Adam's apple. I don't want to see Victoria come back, but it seems like they may have left that as an option when he said that the long distance thing only made things worse but that's a story for another time.

Dude, they lost to the Devils and their nefarious trap on the road and the best team in the league (pointwise) by a goal each. If they were dropping blowouts to Pissburgh or the Caps I could see the need for panic. I think they should be able to rebound after a little lull here.

The Zags win after both teams blow layups in the final 30 seconds. A guy that had to be at least 6'8 blew a bunny from point blank range. It was like watching a WNBA game.

No, they really don't. At all. Aside from maybe Ted Lilly who is nothing more than a servicable back of the rotation guy, what "big time" Yankee prospect was sent off somewhere and became a stud in the last 10 years? They overhype their farmhands, trade them off and then just go out and buy legit prospects/all-star type players from other teams.

My guess is if you never talked to or despised someone they have to know that. I know if I saw someone who couldn't stand me in the street, the last thing I would do is bother stopping them and trying to chat them up. Something like this happened to me with this girl who was a HUGE bitch to me back in HS. I think we had perhaps one lengthy conversation but that was only because my whole table had to do a project in Chem. Lab as opposed to just me and my usual partner. She stopped me, offered me a fake hug and started telling me about her husband, and her house, and her job and her 2.3 kids, blah blah blah, all the while I'm thinking "does it look like I care, and if so how do I change that?" We weren't friends, we never spoke but now 10 years later she wants to give me more of a conversation in Union Square in the middle of rush hour than we had in SIX YEARS of school together. To me that's just being fucking retarded and people like her should be cockslapped.

Coach K has done this almost every year I can remember. I forget who said it (maybe Kornheiser or Wilbon) but they mentioned that they don't understand how Duke gets all of these McDonals's All Americans to go there and then they play about 7 or 8 guys all year and burn out the starters about this time every year. When you have Hill, Hurley and Laettner it's one thing, but when it's a fading JJ Redick, a stupid foul trouble prone Shelden Williams and three jabronis it's not gonna work. Paulus has got to be the worst starting point guard I've ever seen on a # 1 team in America. He can't shoot, play D or pass very well and yet there he is. I think Duke will be lucky to stay out of double digit losses next season if they play a decent schedule since no one who will be there can shoot and the coach will once again burn up the starters in the first half of the season.

Is 'The Crow' really running like a scared bitch as sherdog is reporting?

Unless Dick Vitale gets fired, the answer to that one is a resounding no.

It seems JJ Overredick is running out of gas down the stretch. If he keeps playing like shit Duke will likely be the first 1 seed to lose in the NCAA tourney.

Maybe I should have held off on Duke getting rolled at home. I still think they'll lose since JJ is ice cold, but they at least made a run at it.

After losing to FSU and getting rolled by UNC at home, does Duke still get a one seed if they lose early in the ACC tourney?