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MVP: Shaun Alexander Offensive POY: Shaun Alexander Defensive POY: Mike Brown (Bears Safety. Most important player on the best defense. He missed the game against the steelers. You could tell.) Comeback Player Of The Year: Coach Of The Year: Lovie Smith WR Of The Year: Larry Fitzgerald QB Of The Year: Carson Palmer RB Of The Year: Shaun Alexander Offensive ROY: Cadillac Williams Defensive ROY: Odell Thurman (Shawne Merriman may have more 'stats' but Thurman in many ways is the intensity of the revamped Bengal defense and is going to have a HUGE impact in the playoffs.)

I can't stand bill rafferty either. I like his voice for announcing and play-by-play but I can't stand his over-the-top cartoonish exaggerations on exciting plays, it's like he takes all the good he can do and totally drops the ball with it. I don't understand the brent musburger hate...he's not great anymore, but he certainly isn't that terrible and I like his pacing quite a bit. I think Harold Reynolds is my favorite studio guy by FAR. He'd be awesome in a color guy role also, with the right complementary team.

...And then he leaves toronto...that franchise's last chance to suceed involves them keeping Bosh and adding pieces around him, and I don't think they can do that. If Chris Bosh leaves that team and goes and becomes a true superstar on another team, it's the end for them.

Lantana 7/10 Stars off slowly in that there isn't really a story to the movie till about halfway through, then it picks up and really has some punch to it. I think the ending was slightly too rewarding for the one main character and I don't think they played enough with certain plot threads (Man in the diner/ran into him jogging coincidence, the heart condition) but in all a very enjoyable slow-paced drama.

Once he gets out of toronto he's going to be really dangerous. He's going to be the most sought after free agent when he's ready to leave the raptors. Everyone is going to want him.

Joe Buck is the worst announcer in the history of all mankind. Dick Vitale is the worst color guy ever. Does Theisman count as an 'analyst' if so, then he's the worst there, and Tony siragusa is the worst field level guy.. That's the worst team ever Joe Buck Dick Vitale Theisman Tony Siragusa That team could ruin any sporting event EVER.

...Why would you want to memorize the levels and do them 'in the right order' I had the most fun in mega man games doing them out of order and challenging myself to beat the bosses however I could. More fun

I'm looking forward to this, i just wish there was an xbox versiob with 720 p support. I'll just have to go with the gamecube one.

Yeah that was awesome. The whole show was really good, the story behind the matches was simple...and put the focus on the MATCH, not the story. Plus it guarentees us 6 matches Which makes me wonder...if the WWE had 6 actual matches (or more even) on every card and kept the stupid angles to a minimum and made their storylines tie in with the matches better (Tournaments, Beat the clock, actual 'rankings' to determine contenders) they could really put out a decent product...

What torrents/emulator i wasn't aware of a good free psx emulator...especially one that could play a game like Valkyrie Profile.

There are apparently a LOT of very bitter Packers fans around here...especially considering this is what their 2nd down year in a row, after 10 years of consistent success including super bowl victories... Imagine if Cardinals fans were that bitter...sheesh

You can look at most teams drafts and say the same thing (Except maybe the Steelers in the mid 90's, their drafts were awesome, burt all their players ended up being stars on other teams.)

Play Kevin Jones because Buffalo plays Cinci (Which is still fighting for first-round bye) while Detroit is playing a BAD New Orleans team with a BAD run defense. I'd play the Washington defense just on account of the fact they're in a playoff race and philadelphia isn't. Furthermore I can see the Redskins giving some trouble to the onconsistent Giants offense.

Kaman is more important to the Clippers than Maggette right now (Especially when you add that Artest is going to want S-H-O-T-S Shot shots shots, while Kaman is really keeping them solid on the inside). I don't see why maggette is far-fetched if you consider Artest is really the better player. To match salaries it'd probably be like Maggette & Wilcox for Artest & Jeff Foster or Scott Pollard. But the truth is Artest keeps tanking his own trade value every day.

Who could they give up to get him. Maggette? I think that would be kinda fair...in a way that might be the best possible player the Pacers could get though, I could see him sliding right into their team and really making them better.

See Kobe CAN win in the playoffs without Shaq...if he can go off for 62 EVERY game. They could win. He didn't even really play in the 4th quarter, that's the scary part.

I don't think there are very many people that agree with Magic Johnson that Artest should be kicked out of the league altogether (I certainly don't, I think his suspension last year was exactly the right punishment) It's impossible to say what someone would do in a tense bar situation. I've gotten into a bad situation (not having beer thrown on me, but similarly aggressive) and totally ignored a drunk guy before.

No, T-Mac isn't goofy looking like that, he's just sleepy looking. Always looks ready to take a nap. But you did make me laugh out loud This one girl who was here the other day was like 5'6" and 110 lbs but I was scared as shit of her because of that odd look in her eyes, and the way she would stop mid-sentence and like get a twitch in her neck. Scary that stuff.

I guess it's just impossible for me to buy Artest's situation as provocation to violence. I'd be more sympathetic if the guy had shouted a racial slur, that would be more provocation to me (More than enough to be honest). You're right Magic wasn't 'provoked' and there's no way to rationalize or excuse his actions. But at least I actually believe he's apologetic for his behaviour. I don't even think Ron Artest really is. I mean look at Jermaine O'neal. He outright slugged a guy in the face...with good reason because the stupid fool ran onto the court to engage the players in an aggressive way. He was IN THE RIGHT...and got suspended for it. But he still maintains an apologetic attitude for the situation and admits his fault in the situation, even though he was in the right. I just don't like Artest's attitude, it rubs me the wrong way. I can't buy anything he says, because he only believes it while he's saying it. You just need to watch his eyes to see how off-kilter he really is. He's a bit goofy, looks just like some of the clients that come into my office, just odd enough to realize something isn't right in their head. And that scares me.

Here's a question... (more curious than anything) Now most people agree that cheating is bad (Everyone here says it's worse than the artest situation, and even my one friend said that) Most people don't care much about violent responses to situations that don't really require it. Why is violence a crime, and cheating not? Should that be changed. Do you think cheating should be criminally prosecutable? Even if it's just a girlfriend? Would that change your viewpoint on it if it were outlawed. would that change the way people look at that uber-popular show desperate housewives (a show that makes it money glorifying cheating)? I know this is incredibly off-topic, but I just got curious. (I have to ammend this whole previous argument...I don't totally disagree with you guys. What Magic Johnson did is a total douchebag thing to do and not something I condone...but I just can't fathom comparing it to violence. I just don't understand anyone who answers conflicts with violence when another resolution is presentable or the violence isn't necessary. )

Spite and hatred? Artest had a bottle/cup thrown at him as a joke/jab. An ATTEMPt to rile him up. when someone attempts to get you angry enough to attack them, and you attack them...they win. When their efforts fail THEY get angry and YOU win. It's a game man...but death threats from clinically mentally unstable people AREN'T a game...especially when you don't have metal detectors at your office. Maybe I just have a different way of handling other people. I don't understand the purpose of anger directed towards people....now me, I get angry at inanimate objects all the time. When i spill things, when a dvd won't work, when my computer goes down, when my glasses break (my number one irritant)...THAT upsets me...why? It's out of my control...with people, you can control their behaviours if you just act accordingly. I've been cheated on...it sucks, I was angry...but at the same time I'd rather be cheated on then attacked violently. The reality of this argument, is I find unprovoked violence more reprehensible than adultery because I think unprovoked violence is the most serious flaw with the human race. I hate it. It's the crutch that will leads to us blowing up the world in 20-30 years, because we get ANGRY instead of rational. Plus I think Ron Artest is a lunatic who IS going to kill someone someday.

Have you ever asked yourself why you don't like Adultery? Why it bothers you. Why you find it 'unacceptable'? Is Magic Johnson's family dead. Does his wife have HIV? I don't believe so, so why is that even an issue. It's pretty obvious he didn't have sex with her after he got HIV, so why are you even bringing that up. He didn't 'endanger her life' Why do you CARE about someone throwing a plastic cup at you. You act like it endangers you. You, and everyone else in this lame-ass world cares too much about what OTHER people do and not enough about their own behaviours, responses, and actions. "OH MY GOD THAT PERSON THWEW A BOTTLE/PLASTIC CUP AT ME, WHY WOULD HE DO SUCH A THING IT MUST BNE TO HURT MY PRIDE AND MY IMAGE I MUST GET MY PHYSICALLY CONFRONTATIONAL REVENGE I AM A FUCKIN GIANT APE" Is that what goes through your head? I receive at least one death threat a week where I work due to the nature of my clients, if I had the immediate violence response that most people seem to have, I'd probably have killed 50 people by now. And why isn't adultery acceptable? There are sure as hell worse things that go on that ARE acceptable.

You can actually determine the type of person I am because I -prefer- someone to cheat on their wife than to 'beat the shit out of someone he thought that person threw a bottle at him' I'm not rationalizing it. I just don't care that he did it. I've never cheated on anyone in my life. I thought about it, but I made the decision to inform the person rather than not. I can understand his motives. Perhaps not the EXTENT of his cheating, but his reasons. I CANNOT understand, I CANNOT condone anyone ever assaulting someone for something as trivial as a plastic cup full of beer being thrown on him. Lets examine what this says about you. You insinuate that you AGREE with Ron Artest that in his decision to assault someone for a cup of beer. So you're saying if we were in a bar and you jumped up and laid on the bar (the equivalent of Artest laying on the announcers table) and I tossed a cup of water on you (since i don't drink when I'm out) that not only would you attack me, you'd feel JUSTIFIED in your attack? You'd feel like you were CORRECT to attack me? Smashing a video camera is a violent act of aggression on someone elses property. Once again...cheating on your wife IS NOT A VIOLENT ACT. It's not. It's a vaguely immoral (by SOME standards, not even all) action that most people don't like. But it doesn't violate someone elses property rights, someone elses physical well-being. Can you even comprehend the raw brutishness of favoring violence but being down on wife-cheating. That's such a classical christian viewpoint that it's disgusting. Up with violence, down on making a mockery of marriage. Lets put it like this. Violence kills people. Cheating on your wife makes more babies violence = Death Cheating = Life Life > Death Cheating > Violence. Oh and as for ROn Artest's 'charity'...money isn't what I was talking about when I mentioned charitable contributions. Magic Johnson has set up programs, facilities, businesses in urban areas. He's a businessman who tries to imnprove the lives of those less fortunate...not just hand money out to a city/neighborhood for them to screw it back up.

Honestly, cheating on your wife is not very high on my list of morally reprehensible acts. It's an individual choice that affects two people's relationship. I personally believe if you don't want to be with your wife, you should TELL her first...but I'm not going to begrudge a man his freedom of choice. It may not be the 'right thing' but it certainly isn't something I have any right to judge. On the other hand I feel adequate in judging someone with violent and aggressive tendencies because there's a chance they could threaten MY safety at some point, or someone who I actually care about. Furthermore, while THEY may not threaten me, indulging in the legality of aggressive tendencies allows for other people to feel they can get away with aggressive physical confrontation as a solution to their problem without criminal prohibition. And I don't like that idea. Plus Magic Johnson has made ammends for many of his previous mistakes in life visa-via apology and charitable intentions/contribution. Artest has made the most insincere apologies in the history of the world, and promoted his really bad record label at every opportunity through his conflict. He's batshiat crazy, Magic Johnson just made some bad life decisions.