Jaxxson Mayhem

Ah.

What do you mean worst? And yes, it's Burton.

Good win for Duke over maryland tonight. Went cold as fuck during the 1st part of the 2nd half, but kept the lead and eventually started to get hot again.

It's Kaley Cuoco. Most known from 8 Simple Rules to Dating My Teenage Daughter and The Big Bang Theory.

Agreed. More time for on TV.

What was screamin a's opinion on the bonds case? Did it differ from his opinion on Clemens?

If he didn't let you out, you could always sub-lease it if the landlord allows it.

Nope. Screamin' a smith is a fucking jackass who's mouth should be sown shut and be banned from any form of TV or Radio.

.........................................................So Clemens' wife wanted the shots for youthfulness..........................

No. Fucking. Way. They want to have a discussion in the records as to what "It is what it is" means.

PhD = Pile it Higher and Deeper Greatness. And that last dude w/ the son who sent the text messege, just sonned Clemens.

Awesome. His PhD is a mail in one.

It's what ya all been waitin fo', ain't it?/ What people pay paper fo', damnit/ They can't stand it, they want somethin new/ So let's get reacquainted, became the hood favorite/ I can't even explain it, I surprise myself too/ ABC Likely to be back with new episodes in the spring * Desperate Housewives * Grey's Anatomy * Samantha Who? * Ugly Betty * Boston Legal * Brothers & Sisters Probably won't be back until next season * Private Practice * Pushing Daisies * Dirty Sexy Money On the bubble * Women's Murder Club * Cashmere Mafia * Carpoolers Dead? * Big Shots * Notes From the Underbelly * Cavemen The rest * Lost * Eli Stone * October Road * Men in Trees * According to Jim All the above have multiple new episodes left. * Miss/Guided (seven episodes) hasn't yet premiered NBC Likely to be back with new episodes in the spring * The Office * 30 Rock * Law & Order * Law & Order: Special Victims Unit * My Name Is Earl * Medium * ER Probably won't be back until next season * Heroes * Chuck On the bubble * Friday Night Lights Dead? * Bionic Woman We await details on... * Life * Las Vegas * Scrubs * Lipstick Jungle CBS Likely to be back with new episodes in the spring * Two and a Half Men * How I Met Your Mother * The Big Bang Theory * NCIS * Criminal Minds * CSI: Crime Scene Investigation * CSI: Miami * CSI: NY * Without a Trace * Cold Case * Ghost Whisperer * Numb3rs On the bubble * Moonlight Dead? * Cane We await details on... * The New Adventures of Old Christine * Welcome to the Captain * The Unit * Shark * Rules of Engagement * Jericho (seven already shot episodes to air starting Tuesday) * Swingtown (hasn't yet aired) Fox Likely to be back with new episodes in the spring * Back to You * 'Til Death * Bones Probably won't be back until next season * 24 On the bubble * Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Dead? * K-Ville We await details on... * House * Prison Break CW Likely to be back with new episodes in the spring * Gossip Girl * Smallville * Supernatural * The Game * Reaper * One Tree Hill (multiple new episodes already shot, more probable) On the bubble * Aliens in American and Everybody Hates Chris both have multiple new episodes left to air but more have not been ordered yet; no additional "Girlfriends" will be produced this season. Dead? * Life Is Wild HBO Strike proof * In Treatment (First season airing now; all episodes were completed before the strike) Likely to be back in late 2008/early 2009 Writing to resume immediately after the strike ends on * Entourage * Big Love * Flight of the Conchords * Tell Me You Love Me On the horizon * True Blood (Two episodes were completed before the strike; this series is expected to debut in the fall.) * 12 Miles of Bad Road (Five episodes shot on another new series; no air date scheduled yet.) Showtime Likely to be back in late spring/early summer * Weeds (Scheduled to go in production in April) * Secret Diaries of a Call Girl (Eight episodes of a new half-hour comedy series have already been shot) * The Tudors (Ten episodes of season 2 have been shot; season 2 is scheduled to debut March 30.) * State of the Union (Tracey Ullman's new show, is set to premiere March 30 with five episodes.) We await details on... Production schedules and debut dates unavailable. * Dexter * Californication * Brotherhood FX On next month * Dirt (The strike-shortened seven-episode season begins airing in March.) * The Riches (The strike-shortened season begins airing in March.) Strike proof * 30 Days (The documentary show was unaffected by the strike; a six-episode season airs in early summer) * The Shield (Production on all 13 episodes of the seventh and final season are completed, but awaiting final edit. Will air sometime after the summer.) Back in late 2008/early 2009 Writing on all the shows is set to resume as soon as the strike ends. * Damages * Rescue Me * Nip/Tuck * It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Clemens is gettin emotional.

If you missed any... Editor's Note: Jayson Stark is blogging live during today's congressional hearing. Check back frequently for updates throughout the day. 11:49 a.m. ET OK, it's party time. Rep. Davis told McNamee about a long list of people who didn't recall Clemens attending the fabled Jose Canseco party in Miami where McNamee claims Clemens and Canseco first talked about steroids. McNamee didn't back down. He gave vivid detail of a woman running after a child in a green bikini. And when he asked who that was, he said he was told, "Roger Clemens' nanny." "I know Roger showed up a little bit later," McNamee claimed. Asked how he knew, McNamee gave an answer that indicated he and Clemens talked many times about what a fabulous time they'd had at that party. "We had numerous conversations," McNamee said, "about how great that party would have been if we didn't have a game that night." Is it possible Clemens showed up so late, after playing golf, that no one else remembers him being there? That's the question. Right? 11:41 a.m. ET Curt Schilling had the bloody sock. Roger now has the bloody pants. Rep. Davis reported that McNamee had testified that Mike Stanton once noticed that Clemens was bleeding through his dress pants -- which caused him to start carrying band aids around, presumably for his bleeding BUTT. Yikes. Prompting the following surreal exchange: Rep. Davis: "Mr. Clemens, do you recall bleeding through your pants in 2001?" Clemens: "I do not." You can't make this stuff up. 11:37 a.m. ET First big exchange involving McNamee: Rep. Tom Davis grilled McNamee about the infamous taped phone conversation, in which Clemens asked him to "tell the truth." "Why didn't you just tell Mr. Clemens ... `Roger, I did tell the truth?' " Davis asked. McNamee: "Because ... I realized I was being taped. ... But if you listen to it and know my jargon, I did say that. I said, `It is what it is' ... meaning, `I did tell the truth.' " Anyone who re-listens to the tape of that conversation will have that same impression -- that they both knew this was being taped and that each, in his own way, was trying to trap the other. That, I've long thought, is why so many things went unsaid that day. 11:29 a.m. ET And obviously, Rep. Cummings doesn't believe any of Roger's story. Any of it. Three direct questions from Rep. Cummings: • "Mr. Pettitte said he had 'no doubt' about his recollection. ... Why would he tell Congress that one of his closest friends was taking an illegal performance-enhancing drug if there was any doubt in his mind?" • On Pettitte's wife, Laura, also saying Pettitte had told her that Clemens had admitted using HGH: "If that conversation never happened, why would Laura Pettitte remember that conversation?" • "What possible reason would Mr. Pettitte have to fabricate a statement about you, his friend?" Clemens' answer: "Andy would have no reason to." Wow. Elijah Cummings' 15 minutes won't go down on Clemens' career highlight reel. Wouldn't you say? 11:20 a.m. ET But here's a more dubious portion of Clemens' account of their discussion of HGH. So what was that conversation about that Pettitte referred to? Clemens gave an answer way out of left field. He said he recalled talking to Pettitte about a TV show in which three older people said they'd used HGH and improved their quality of life. They may indeed have had that conversation. But could Andy Pettitte possibly have come away from that discussion thinking he'd just heard his friend, the living legend, Roger Clemens, tell him he'd actually used HGH. Tough to believe. 11:18 a.m. ET Rep. Cummings kept right on bearing down. "Mr. Clemens, do you think Mr. Pettitte was lying when he told this committee you admitted using Human Growth Hormone? Clemens: "Andy Pettitte is my friend. He was my friend before this. He'll be my friend after this. And again, I think he has misheard." The example Clemens gave of why he was sure Pettitte had "misheard?" Clemens said he was "shocked" when he heard that Pettitte had used HGH. And they were so close, he's sure that "if Andy Pettitte thought I used HGH, he would have come to me and asked me about it." Plausible. Right? These men were, in fact, as close as two players could be. So that is indeed one of the big questions. If Clemens was using it, wouldn't he and Pettitte have talked about it extensively -- not just in two conversations, years apart? 11:07 a.m. ET More drama: Rep. Elijah Cummings started his questioning by making sure Clemens knew he was under oath -- "and you know what that means? Is that correct?" "Yes, sir," the Rocket replied. Rep. Cummings then praised Pettitte as being "one of the most respected players in the major leagues and one of the most honest people in baseball." "I would agree with that. Yes, sir," Clemens responded. But when Cummings then confronted Clemens with Pettitte's testimony that the Rocket had told him he'd used HGH, and asked Clemens if this was true, Clemens gave him a stern, "It is not." "So you did not tell Mr. Pettitte you used Human Growth Hormone?" "I did not," Clemens said. Again, whew. Anybody think Rep. Cummings believes a word coming out of Clemens' mouth? 11:01 a.m. ET Just a thought as the questioning of the Rocket gets rolling: Since he's under oath, any chance one of these Congressmen could ask Roger what the heck actually happened when he threw that bat at Mike Piazza? He didn't really think that was the ball, did he? Sorry to digress. Just thinking. 10:59 a.m. ET The big moment from McNamee's statement: "I never injected Mr. Clemens or anyone else with Lidocaine or B-12. I have no reason to lie -- and every reason not to." A moment later: "I told the investigators I injected three people -- two of whom I know confirmed my account. The third is sitting at this table." Whew. Is this really happening? 10:58 a.m. ET You body-language watchers should have a field day with this one. As Rep. Waxman was speaking, Clemens looked him right in the eye, while McNamee looked everywhere but at that podium. But as McNamee spoke, Clemens looked straight down at the floor, as if he were trying to make himself believe this man wasn't even speaking. Quite a show. 10:54 a.m. ET One more highlight from Clemens' statement: He took pains to make sure the committee knew he wasn't slamming their buddy, George Mitchell. Good strategy! "I'm not saying Senator Mithcell's report is entirely wrong," Clemens said. "I'm merely saying Brian McNamee's statements about me were wrong." Apparently, the Rocket has noticed that this committee is essentially the George Mitchell Fan Club. 10:52 a.m. ET The anger in Clemens' voice during that opening statement was unmistakeable. There was an edge in his voice and a look in his eye that didn't look the slightest bit contrived. Heck, he even admitted it. He was steaming as he read those words. "I've chosen to live my life with a positive attitude," he said. "Yet I'm accused of being a criminal. I'm not supposed to be angry about that?" Revealing words. 10:47 a.m. ET Rep. Waxman's opening statement covered so much ground, it's tough to summarize it all. But let's just say he didn't mess around. • He praised Andy Pettitte effusively for his honesty, saying "Mr. Pettitte's honesty makes him a role model, on and off the field." Again, this was an ominous sign for the committee's willingness to believe Clemens' side of the story. • Rep. Waxman made it obvious somebody is going to be charged with perjury once this hearing concludes -- because "it's impossible to believe this was a simple misunderstanding. Someone isn't telling the truth." • He said that if Brian McNamee isn't telling the truth about Clemens, that's "inexcusable." But if Clemens isn't telling the truth about McNamee, "he's acting shamefully." And Rep. Waxman reiterated he doesn't see how there's any gray area. One is lying. One is telling the truth. "And I don't think there's anything in between." • Rep. Waxman said, unequivocably, that McNamee's accounts were "bolstered" by the testimony of Pettitte and Chuck Knoblauch. Again, not good news for the Rocket. • Rep. Waxman did scold McNamee for failing to tell investigators the whole truth on two occasions -- once when he was questioned about the infamous Florida date-rape incident several years ago, the other when he failed to tell prosecutors the full extent of how often he injected Clemens and McNamee because, in McNamee's words, he was trying not to hurt the guy." Waxman then said, firmly, "That's no excuse." • Finally, Rep. Waxman went through a long list of areas in which Clemens' account was "in direct conflict" with the testimony of McNamee and Pettitte. Waxman particularly singled out Clemens' alleged conversations about HGH with Pettitte -- one in 1999 or 2000, the other in 2005. In the first, Pettitte testified that Clemens told him he'd used HGH. In the second, Clemens claimed Pettitte had misunderstood and that he'd actually said his wife had used HGH. Waxman said Clemens and McNamee agreed that McNamee had injected Debbie Clemens in 2003. And that, Waxman said, "makes it impossible" that Clemens could have told Pettitte three or four years earlier that his wife was the HGH user, not him. So unless the Rocket can explain his way out of all those "inconsistencies" clearly and convincingly, that perjury charge is going to be almost inescapable. Isn't it? 10:28 a.m. ET Here's a shocker. Rep. Waxman said he wanted to cancel the hearing and just issue written reports. But Clemens' lawyers helped talk him out of that, saying it would be "unfair" to cancel the hearing without giving Roger a chance to testify publicly. Whew. Careful what you wish for. 10:15 a.m. ET An attorney I know told me before the hearing to watch for signs that the committee favors one side or the other going in. How about this for a sign: Within the first two minutes of his opening remarks, Rep. Henry Waxman called the Mitchell report "impressive and credible." That tells you exactly what Rep. Waxman believes, and, more importantly, whom he believes. Wish Roger luck trying to change his mind. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/blog/index?...sional_hearings Jayson Stark's Live Blog

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McNamee is gettin ate.

February 12, 2008 - In 2004 EA Sports shocked the world of videogames by announcing a deal with the National Football League that gave them the exclusive rights to publish games under the NFL brand. Gamers everywhere cried foul over the agreement that essentially took one of our most beloved football franchises, NFL 2K, out of the yearly grudge match. The original deal was signed through 2009 but today EA Sports announced that it's completed negotiations with the NFL and NFLPA (NFL Players' Association) to extend the exclusive license through the 2012 season. IGN: So how does everyone at EA Sports feel about extending the NFL license through 2012 rather than the original 2009 season? Peter Moore: Couldn't be more delighted. It allows myself and my teams to further invest in football on a longer-term investment horizon, to get after some new extensions of the NFL brand into interactive entertainment on top of our core Madden franchise which will be celebrating its 20th anniversary this coming season and allows us to invest a little more globally as well. The NFL is very interested in increasing its global footprint around the world and sees us as an important partner in distributing games and being able to educate people as to how the game is played and allow them to have a broader base than just the North American that they enjoy right now. IGN: Speaking a little more on the creative side and gearing your answer towards the consumer: how does this exclusivity deal benefit them to make Madden... Peter: ...as good as it was this year! IGN: Right, right exactly, but I mean back in the day with 2K and Madden it just seemed like their was more of a creative push for forward-thinking innovation. Moore: Well, to be clear, remember it wasn't EA that demanded the exclusive relationship. The NFL requested it and did a research process for exclusive bids and so EA bid, as did other companies, and we were very fortunate to be able to get that exclusive arrangement. So, I want to make that very clear because I think there are some misconceptions sometimes that EA demanded the exclusive licensing for the National Football League and nothing could be further from the case. I think what's happened since then we've continued to invest; once you do get an arrangement like this clearly there's a price to pay for that and you need to make sure that you're continuing to build your franchise so that you can sell more copies so that you can obviously defer your costs from being the licensor. This year, and I jokingly said, "As good as this year," because it's been a phenomenal year and it's going to allow me with the team back at Tiburon in Orlando to now have a five-year strategy to not only continue to build on the MetaCritic ratings that we've enjoyed this year for Madden but also what kind of brand extensions can we do around the National Football League that, quite frankly, will bring in people that might classify themselves as non-gamers but are big football fans. It's a big untapped market for us. I look at it from two levels: I think of people who look at playing a sports game as way too complicated, we have under-indexed on sports on the Nintendo platforms and we need to change that. And I also think that we need to bring football fans into our industry because I think it's a relatively easy portal to bring people into interactive entertainment because, you know, there's literally 120 million -- according to the NFL -- football fans and yet I can probably only count 10 million Madden Nation fans. So somewhere along the line there's something that I'm not offering that big group of people that I need to change. And you know the NFL is a huge proponent of doing that. We'll get better access to NFL Network and NFL Films content that might ease people into it but, you know, we've gotta bring more football fans into our industry and that's our commitment as EA Sports to do that. IGN: I know that just recently EA Sports and EA in general has been gearing their efforts a bit more towards the casual market. Does this deal have any impact or ramification on that at all? Moore: I wouldn't characterize it as "casual" because that's such a loaded term. I use the term around here of approachability. As a guy who has been around for a few years I watch people who look at a videogame console and then look at the people playing it and they stand back. It's not that we're getting people to sit in the couch and get the controller in their hands and having a go. I think that people are just intimidated by what we do as an industry because it just feels too hard. And then you look, in particular, and we're more guilty than anybody of this, you look at some of the menus that pop up during a sports game and it looks like the heads-up display on the space shuttle. I mean, you don't know whether you're calling a cover-two defense or accidentally blasting off into orbit. It's too complicated. Now, having said that, there's no intention of dumbing down the games for the 10 million people that love and actually thrive on the complexity of what we do in sports games and in Madden in particular. But I think we've gotta find, and we started doing this with Family Play, alternate entry points for consumers that love the idea of playing a football game but it's just too complicated for them as it currently stands. IGN: You just mentioned Family Play on the Wii. Are we going to see a more family oriented approach branching out from the Wii and workings its way onto Xbox 360 and PS3 but maybe slightly less over-handed than what's on Nintendo's system because of the different target audiences for the respective systems? Moore: The answer to your question is yes, and details to follow, but I think what we've learned is that, you know, I'm probably the best example, my son who is now 21 and a senior at Cal he and I have been trying to play Madden against each other for the better of a dozen years and it ranges from him toying with me and making me think I'm playing against to him absolutely crushing me. There has never been a way that I can have fun playing against him and this goes back to the PlayStation. And so Family Play allows me to, at least it allows me to think I'm having a good game but having different control mechanisms and recognizing skill levels is something we at EA Sports and I think the industry as a whole has gotta do if we're going to bring in broader consumers. It can't just be a dumbed down version of the game. IGN: Right. Well, today we're obviously talking heavily about exclusivity and deals and whatnot. With Backbreaker showing -- I take it you're familiar with Backbraeker a little bit? Moore: Oh yea. IGN: Well they seem to be pushing technology forward a little bit, I don't want to say more so than Madden has, but they're hoping to reinvent the way football is played on consoles and they're doing this through new technology. I'm sure you're away of the new technology they're putting into it. Any aspirations of one day signing that technology to use in Madden or looking elsewhere for new technology ideas? Moore: Yeah, I mean one thing we are working on -- again, no announcements here -- but I can tell you that we continue to look at physics engines and we're still not quite in the world of football videogames in true physics with regard to a player hitting a certain player at a certain angle and a certain speed and what have you, I think we're very good... IGN: Definitely. Last year's game was as good as it has ever looked. Moore: I've seen some things, and no announcements yet, but I've seen some things that will continue improving [on that]. It's the one thing that we look at every year, "How do we improve the physics of collision? How do we make it feel like it's truly a football game?" It's sometimes the one Achilles heel when you're watching a videogame versus watching the real game, I think we've got the graphics down pretty good but the physics are still, because it's such an interesting game in regards to the different angles you get hit at, it feels like no two tackles are ever the same and, you know, we've gotta be able to replicate that within our physics engine and we're on that. And with that, I've gotta run unfortunately. http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/851/851316p1.html

So it really doesn't have much to do with weed.

As postin in the strike thread. Boooooooooooooo

But whats it about? 1st I thought it was about them selling their new drug, but now it's about running from someone who they happened to see kill someone?

That made it look like a very, very weird movie.

Another great performance from Purdue. Big win over Michigan State tonight.

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