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Big Ten tournament gets an auto bid. So regardless of who wins they are in. Many tourneys have auto bids.

I watch it all the time, more than I watch ESPN. /shrugs To each their own, but if you want Big 10 information and coverage your going to get a lot more on BTN.

I really doubt 5k per hour prostitutes have a lot of diseases. Its exactly the reason they are paying 5k instead of walking the streets with $100 bill.

Id say 18 and Life is a pretty solid song, maybe Ill Remember You. Have fun, sounds like a blast.

Fine for me, with advance notice i can make time

Im not going to call him amazingly awesome. Ill say that he got the job done that SHOULD be done. I dont congratulate teams on achieving the bare minimum, if Wisconsin was fighting for a NCAA berth I wouldnt be in here saying Bo Ryan is coach of the year. Some experts did not even pick Wisconsin to make the tournament, yet I picked them to win the big 10 (along with pomeroy). I dont come in here saying Bo Ryan is an insanely awesome coach, I leave that type of praise for guys like Wooden, Dean Smith, people with multiple championships. I guess we differ on how we throw around compliments.

I was at the NU @ Wisconsin game (yes it was in evanston but it was mostly Wisconsin fans). Yay for Big 10 champs, seems that my predictions this year in terms of Big 10 were pretty accurate. (I said Wisconsin would finish #1 and that Indiana would finish closer to 3rd than first, completely missed on Purdue but so did everyone).

And you can act like its common knowledge but most people do not realize that states generally vote by historical trends. No one has really brought up some names of states likely to flip, which is what this discussion should be about. Which states will the Democrats win that they lost before? I just dont really see that many states where its likely to flip, thus my belief. /shrugs I could have also said that whatever way Ohio goes the election will go as Ohio has only gone for the wrong candidate once (Nixon over Kennedy)

Once again you are not placing what I said in context: UNLESS YOU GET A CANDIDATE WHO CAN SUCCESSFULLY FLIP ONE I didnt state it as if it were a fact, I merely stated that if the results remain the same from the last election to this election, the Republicans will win. It is up to the Democrats to flip a state. I dont know how this is strident, it is fact based on the last 2 elections. So once again, if the Democrats do not flip a state that has voted Republican in the last election, the Democrats will lose. Thats not a prediction, thats not strident, it is a cold hard fact. As for the electoral college, no I dont agree with it but your argument is not really the reason. Just because states go a certain way most of the time, does not mean that the electoral college has disenfranchised the minority. In fact I believe that there are only 1 or 2 times that the electoral vote has differed from the popular vote (Bush v Gore being the last). My problem with the electoral college is that it makes votes disproportionate, if you look at a state with the least population it gets 2 votes regardless of how many people those 2 votes represent. Where as if you look at a big state they get a proportional vote dependent on how many people, in almost every case the big states electoral vote comes out to represent more people than the small states vote. Therefore at the end of the day the small states have less electoral votes, but the people who live in the state actually have more influence per person.

Good get for Wisconsin on Diamond Taylor, Im pretty sure he was one of the top targets for Wisconsin this year and that they only have 1 spot left. They signed some guy named Breuswitz from Minnesota as well, they must really like what they see because they had chances for some other highly rated players but seem to have passed on them for him.

Northside, What part of "almost" did you miss. Yes in every election there are going to be different results, but at the same time most states follow trends and do not switch from one side to another often. Lets look at Illinois: http://www.270towin.com/states/Illinois Notice the big blocks of blue and red. California: http://www.270towin.com/states/California Ny: http://www.270towin.com/states/New_York Since 1988 (20 years) not once have either of those states gone Republican in a Presidential election, yet you claim that states often change. You then say 50% to 66% of the states dont change (notice I said almost once again so now your basically just starting to agree with me lol). I stand by what I said, most states historically vote the same way over blocks of time. That does not mean that when fundamental shifts occur in political philosophy that the state will blindly follow a party, but it does say when all things are considered and when looking at a span of 20 years (end of Reagan till now) not many states have significantly changed. Iowa has gone Republican once in that time period, and Im sure i could find a few other examples of states changing, but for the most part they remain constant. What that says is unless Hillary or Obama can flip a state that has gone Republican over the last 20 years, the chances of them winning are not very good. The electoral votes per state has not drastically changed and if anything I believe that the red states gain more electoral votes each time at the expense of the blue states due to population increases. Im not sure why you brought up Bonds, that has nothing to do with this as and my guess is just to try and distract the point and make some issue about something else you disagree with me on. At the end of the day, my opinion is my opinion, and you cant argue predictions or what I think will happen. I am a democrat, I voted for Gore and helped Wisconsin go Democrat in that election, but just because I want something to happen does not necessarily mean that I believe it to be true. There is a site with the voting record of every state, you can do research instead of throwing around 50%-66% because honestly 2 out of 3 states voting the same is a lot of damn states. And VP does play a role, which is why Democrats like guys like Edwards from the South who can maybe flip a state.

Pratt im not going to lie I just skimmed your article but my guess is that you have stumbled on the fact that states almost always vote the same way, and unless you get a candidate who can successfully flip one (like Clinton with Arkansas or if Gore had won Tennessee) the results are already in, and Republican's will win. The even bigger problem for Democrats is that McCain could flip a Democratic state.

How much are they paying? I do some trademark stuff at my office but I like litigation better so itd have to be a pretty sweet deal. The problem for most lawyer positions is that they always want 1-2 years experience minimum as an attorney (not law clerk). Its hard to get those first years of experience because not many places want brand new attorneys. I got my job from where I clerked, but thats not an option for everyone.

I still watch it every week. Just hard to talk about because almost everything would be a potential spoiler.

Nice work OSU, Wisconsin owes you one.

If you listen to the description they give about the book its pretty interesting as to why some one would want to buy it...

There are costs associated with that stuff, the problem is its basically impossible to try and balance it all just by costs. How do you charge some one for going down to the Daley Center and looking up free case information? How do you charge some one for going down and taking a look at their parents probate case? Or how do you charge for all of the free internet stuff, forms, case information. What about all the property index number information you can pull up on the web from the recorder. The problem is many of the services the county provides are free.

Well I look forward to beating you in multiple leagues Zoom so take that.

Well that division is problematic (let alone the cost.) There is no way that the super rich areas are going to want to be affiliated with Mount Prospect (Prospect County), so if you really were going to split my guess is that Prospect would be split even further so that the towns bordering the lake and Chicago would not have to be associated with those towns on the wrong side of the tracks. (For this purpose wrong side of highway, whatever floats your boat). That half of the division already tried to form "Lincoln County" but it gained little traction. As for the rest there is a better chance of some of those areas merging with other counties like Dupage than forming their own. But thats just my opinion on the subject, I really could care less as I live in Chicago and thus have to pay it no matter what.

The county does more things than people give it credit for. If you go to "City Hall", 50% of it is county. Places like the Cook County Recorder, Cook County Hospital, etc are all paid with County money. The Cook County court system (not just the jails but the entire system) is paid by Cook County. And I really dont think people who live in Kenilworth, Wilmette, consider themselves to be part of Chicago, and I really doubt that they will be moving to Indiana in the near future. You talk about Old Orchard, but look at Northbrook Court. Its built on Lake Cook Road, but on the Cook side therefore meaning that it has higher sales tax. The nicer car dealerships are on the Cook County side (Cadillac, Bentley) when they could easily move 2 blocks north and have their customers play Lake County sales tax... People pay a premium to live in Cook County, they are free to move if they dont like it.

That sucks, ive never looked for a job so I guess im lucky. Doesnt your bride have any connections? If I remember correctly she went to my high school... Good luck, if you were a paralegal maybe I could help but not much sales in my office.

I bet I could drink a lot for my weight class.

My nice one is charcoal gray double breasted from Brooks Brothers. My next one I was thinking about going to Macy's and trying to find a good designer suit on sale that's three button, probably black or navy. I personally think charcoal is king but i want some variety.

I watched Kimmel every night for like the first half year he was on. Oh Snoop as a co-host drinking that I will never forget. {edit} Wow Jimmy had a lot of celebs, didnt know he had that type of pull, but I guess when you see something as hilarious as that even people like Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt want to be a part of it. Just brilliant, my favorite late night comic.

Except that he played in a spread option offense, with zone read as his primary running play. To my knowledge almost no team in the NFL runs the zone read, so Mendenhall is like a frosh in college in terms of RB scheme development. Since he did not play in a pro-style running offense it is possible that it will take Mendenhall the longest time to adjust to the NFL. That is why, regardless of how well he does at the combine, he will be looked at some what suspiciously. His time in the 40 is what I expected, if he would have run worse than a 4.5 he would have probably fallen out of the first round entirely.