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This is just silly, you cant compare OSU's schedule to Missouri because OSU's is just more difficult. Who has Missouri beat? Illinois on the first game? If the game was played tomorrow do you really think it would be the same result? Was it the same Juice Williams who played OSU that played Missouri? Do you think that Mendenhall only runs for 33 yards? Illinois had 5 turnovers that game, only 119 rushing yards, and almost beat Missouri. Against OSU, Illinois had 0 turnovers and ran for 260 yards. Now either: A) Missouri's defense is just that much better than OSU. B ) Illinois a young team drastically improved as the season progressed. So now you are left with Missouri having 0 good wins (beating Kansas who has literally not even played another top 25 team does not count). Ohio State beat, Wisconsin, Penn State, Michigan. As for Big 10 teams cant compete with the spread offense, that is some what ironic because the spread offense has been in the big 10 for years in Indiana and Northwestern. I dont really see NU or IU winning a lot of games, so it must be something more than "Just the spread offense." OSU has the talent to beat the spread, they just play in the Big 10 and therefore have to be more concerned with power running games and high talent offenses than a team like Missouri. I guess we will see, I just think that there is a big difference between Big 10 talent and Big 12 talent.

And thats why Wisconsin is playing soft. If they play physical Duke flops all over and its a foul.

Not only is Wisconsin sucking on offense, Duke is shooting well from 3. Basically this is Wisconsin;s worse nightmare, a well coached team that is more athletic. Height means nothing because they cant contain the three and it actually is worst case scenario because Wisconsin does not really score in bunches. Atleast Duke is ponly shooting 5-17 from the field and my guess is that Wisconsin will just get more physical if they start losing more so perhaps Krabbenhoft can get into a scrum. Outside of that perhaps Duke would like to schedule a game at Camp Randall? Dear Marquette, Keep thinking that playing in Maui is the same as Cameron Indoor. And if you guys shoot as well as Duke from beyond 3, I have no doubt that you will kill Wisconsin... You guys have a lot of sharp shooters like that Taylor King right?

So instead of switching to Winscosin Duke, we are going to get to watch free throws for the next 5 minutes and Indiana undoubtedly win. Great call, they should switch back if it gets to 1 possession but come on.

Who has Missouri beat? They won the first game of the season against Illinois and now thats their top win? And dont say Kansas either, because that team absolutely played no one. The end of OSU's schedule: PSU, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan was far and away more difficult than Colorado, Texas A&M, KState, Kansas. Each of the teams OSU played were ranked in the top 25 at one point in the season. Of WVU, Missouri, and OSU, I feel OSU deserves the BCS title shot the most. If OSU played WVU's schedule I cant even imagine how they would lose. WVU only beat Cinci by 5 points and they arent even on the same plane of existence as OSU.

Judging by the facts it seems plausible. Taylor was shot in the leg and hit the femoral artery. That suggests that the person who shot Taylor was not going for a kill and instead trying to incapacitate him. The scene that plays in my mind is: Taylor comes home. There is an intruder/intruders at the residence. They panic and shoot Taylor in the leg, then run.

Its been weird here to hear the ESPN announcers giving Wisconsin a chance at Cameron Indoor tonight. I dont know if they can win, Duke usually gets a lot of calls and Wisconsin usually gets a lot of calls. The problem is tonight I think Duke will get the majority of calls and Wisconsin is not going to have its "Wisconsin makes more ft's than the other team takes." If Wisconsin can control the glass and Hughes can play well, Wisconsin definitely has a chance. If Wisconsin gets in foul trouble, Hughes plays like he did against Georgia for the first half, Wisconsin could lose by double digits.

Really sad a lot of players have been getting robbed in their own homes lately.

That recruiting chart shows that scouts are really good at telling the difference between top talent (top 10) and the rest. Once you get down to the 10-40 classes it seems much harder to tell whats going to happen.

Taylor may have brain damage, really horrible to hear. Hopefully everything turns out allright.

http://asp.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/sa....aspx?year=2007 Well the facts are the Sox outspent the Dodgers and the Cubs. So even if you compare the Sox to every other team in the league only 3 significantly outspent the Sox, and 2 of them significantly outspent every other team by over $25mil. The thing with Mariotti is he does not do research. He is a lazy writer and in less than 1 minute I was able to find figures that basically disprove his entire premise. He is a bitter little man who has an axe to grind with the White Sox. Jay has a great job, a job many of us would do for free, so it sickens me when some one being paid to do it cant even do a remotely decent job. Throwing money away at old players will not do anything for the White Sox. Last year had the Tribe not blown their chances, the World Series would have been comprised of 2 teams that payroll combined was less than the White Sox. But the White Sox are to cheap to win.

I like Jones, and I think that playing at the Cell could really help his offensive numbers.

Im sorry but how can the White Sox be cheap when they have a payroll in the upper half of all baseball teams? There is a difference between being cheap and being prudent. I was getting nervous about Hunter being on the Sox and having some of those years be 13 mil, let alone 15. The risk was to high in my opinion, and there was almost no way to get the necessary reward.

Seriously, if MJ comes all the way to watch his son play some basketball, are you going to be the coach who keeps him on the bench? Free Jeffery Jordan.

Mehlhaff won on reputation. This year was not his best kicking year, he missed some important field goals. 83% is not that astounding for short to medium range, those 4 fg's hurt.

Good luck Jon, thanks for the memories.

Dear MU, Please do not lose before coming to the Kohl Center. Sincerely, The unranked Badgers

Tony Gwinn's head became huge. Was that guy on steroids? I dont change my morality, I stand by what ive said. Bonds is no worse than any other, and the fact people come in here and want to destroy him just based on allegations sicken me. Guilty until proven innocent, and should he be proven guilty I will say that he had his day in court and lost. But until that day, I will uphold the American principle of giving people the ability to defend themselves. You do realize Bonds attorneys were not even allowed to be present during the grand jury.

Wcsox, I disagree, the owners are responsible. The owners knew, and they should be held accountable. First Bonds has not been convicted of lying. I dont believe that he lied per the definition of perjury, but that is my opinion. The fact is the only reason you are compelled to testify at the Grand jury level is the secrecy of the proceeding. The fed gave Barry a big middle finger by compelling him to testify and then leaking the transcripts. Bonds could not use the 5th, that is why the whole process is a sham. They brought him in knowing only 2 things could happen: A) Bonds admits to using steroids, they leak it and destroy his career. B ) Bonds denies using steroids, they leak it, and destroy his career by going after him for perjury. He didnt have the Big mac option of going "I dont want to talk about the past". So lets call a spade a spade, it was a set up to destroy him. Bonds did the only thing he possibly could have done to try and save his baseball career, denying using steroids. If he admits, he never breaks the record, he never gets to play the last few years. Bonds never used steroids illegally. Ive already dispelled this myth, but according to the statute you need to "knowingly" possess or use. Bonds defense is he did not know what they were. Hence why the govt is not prosecuting him for using illegal drugs. It would be like prosecuting me for using a drug my Dr. proscribed and then it turned out to be LSD. I cant be convicted for unknowingly doing something. (Thats different than ignorance of the law by the way, ive already had do argue against that.) So at the end of the day Bonds had a catch-22. Perhaps tell the truth and never play baseball again. Deny the truth and live to fight another day. I guess I dont blame him for choosing the one he had a fighting chance.

Well the MLB and MLBPA are in charge of baseball. It seems that they should be the ones who should be held responsible. If they had a policy of looking the other way, then they should be held to pay. if baseball encouraged it, then they should face the music. They shouldnt get to make millions off Barry and then sell him to the wolves. As for coming down, its only the fed, and they are doing it only because they are pissed about Bonds not telling them what they want to hear. If Bonds just told the feds what they wanted 4 years ago, it all would have been swept under the rug. I guess I dont stand up for the govt bullying people into giving testimony they want to hear. /shrugs I also think that Bonds should not have had to testify in front of the Grand Jury originally because the entire point of a Grand Jury is that you are promised all evidence and testimony will never be revealed to the public. Bonds never had the safety, he knew that if he testified that it would be leaked, and it was. If our legal system is so corrupt that a man cant even get the most basic security of the Grand Jury, dont we have bigger problems?

So trade deadline day: Ive was offered: Ryan Grant for Stephen Jackson (I have grant) Kind of torn on this one, any opinions, or is it like I think a coin toss.

Yeah I know, I just always found that a strange one. Hung actually does include; 4. to put to death by suspending by the neck from a gallows, gibbet, yardarm, or the like. And the only way you can be put on a cross is to be "hung from a cross". I always hate how hanged sounds, it just bad.

Shouldnt it be "hung". Hanged just doesnt sound right there, I think bad grammar should be hanged!

huh? Organized crime RICO cases they always go after the small fish first because they need them to flip on the bigger fish. IE Vick, they went after his buddies first, and then when they all agreed to flip they went after Vick. Look at the Chicago Family Secret's trial, they only went after those guys because they already had lower guys who were willing to testify. You are right, the best way to build a case is from the ground up. Establishing authority has nothing to do with this case, Bonds is not being held accountable for what anyone else is doing. This is purely that the case was getting stale, as it is now it already is very old for a perjury trial. They needed to do something, and its kind of strange that they finally brought charges in San Fran the year when barry left San Fran. Almost like there was some sort of connection. I dont know of any case where the Fed goes after the "big fish" to then catch the "small fish". The fed always gets small fish, and then turns them on the big fish. Hence why they went after Balco first, and then Bonds second. They thought that they could get Anderson (small fish) to testify.

Texsox, Actually I don’t follow that ethic. I just also don’t get on a soap box and pretend that I have never cheated in my life. Ive looked at my friends plays in madden a few times, I took money from the bank in monopoly while my friends were out of the room, I stacked the deck in Candyland… So what they are games, baseball is a game. It is for fun, for entertainment. So perhaps I just don’t value the game of baseball like others do. To me its just a sport, and when baseball itself became addicted to steroids, it is very hard for me to blame just one person. To me it is all or nothing, either baseball goes after every player with the same vigor as Bonds, or it doesn’t. And that has nothing to do with the Fed, it has to do with things like “asterisk” etc, things that never were contemplated with Big Mac and Sammy. If Bonds records all go away, does Big Mac become the record holder for most Hr in a season? We replace a cheater with a cheater, and in the end, who cares. Everyone was cheating, you cant change the past. You cant change your mind about whether or not you wanted players using steroids. Baseball wanted players hitting more hr’s, it wanted fans, it wanted big monster players. It got what it asked for and now it wants to clean its hands because the game is popular again. So I guess you have never cheated at any game Texsox? Here is an interesting quote. I have never said cheating is okay because others cheat. I have said that it is hypocritical to only hold 1 individual accountable for cheating when it was commonplace. Either baseball needs to go after every player that cheated in that era, or they go after none. You just don’t go after 1 guy. As to “legal defense”, not sure where you pulled that from but if you actually read my posts youll see that Ive basically outlined what Bonds defense will be. He didn’t knowingly use steroids. Who cares what the tests say, who cares that he tested positive in 2000, he didn’t know he was doing it. Just like Merriman, just like every other player who tests positive; “It must have been in some supplement I didn’t know.” It wont matter that he failed, that’s not the case. The case is did he during 2000, or 2003, or whenever he was taking the cream and clear know it was steroids. It doesn’t even matter if he found out in 2006, all that matters is at the time of the occurrence what was Barry Bonds state of mind. Not to mention they will have to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt, meaning that even if for one split second you believe that maybe Barry didn’t know, you have to find him not guilty. And in a he said she said case, its very hard not to have any doubt.