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Meltzer confirmed something is happening. Said near beginning of show. Love all this vague stuff.

QUOTE (Brian @ Feb 22, 2016 -> 03:01 PM) Mark Calloway posting cryptic stuff on Facebook. Intersting. Hope it involves a big opponent for him then.

Apparently something big is going down on raw tonight. I'm not really sure what that entails.

He took down one of the strongest political families in US history. Then he took down the pope himself. Now Trump has set his sights on an even more corrupt organization: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/...779181986680832 When will people learn that you cannot stump the Trump.

Dean vs Brock should be great. Should be Ambrose's AustinWM13 moment if booked right.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Feb 12, 2016 -> 01:17 PM) Yea thats where I got Vic and Anthony's from. And i haven't been to downtown Las Vegas so we're going to make a night of it there. Yeah there's an insane amount of top of the line steak houses on the strip. I'm sure you can't go wrong really. Downtown Vegas is a different beast. It's way more low-brow than the strip, but a ton of fun. I always make sure to spend an afternoon or early night there. Everything is dirt cheap. 1 dollar drinks, 2 dollar tables. It's great. The light show is great at night. The zip line thing is fun, and relatively cheap (20 bucks I believe), but it takes a lot longer than you'd expect, even with a small line. I'd say the food is mostly garbage downtown, but I will say EAT is the best breakfast place I've gone to in all of Vegas. The famous heart attack grill is at the south end, but I wouldn't eat there. It's pretty funny to see regardless.

Raws in March leading up to Mania: Chicago Pittsburgh Philadelphia Brooklyn Good luck, WWE.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Feb 21, 2016 -> 09:14 PM) Two super fun matches to start the ppv and then hot f***in garbage since. AJ vs Jericho was good. But wwe ppvs are rarely bad. This is an exception so far.

1 game closer to Groce getting fired.

QUOTE (fathom @ Feb 21, 2016 -> 08:31 PM) The lack of selling the submission move by Charlotte was insulting Brie was amazingly bad in that match. Just horrible all around. Why that was given so much time, I don't know.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Feb 21, 2016 -> 03:04 PM) Didn't CM Punk recently have back surgery, or is scheduled to have it? Yeah. Unless his ufc "run" is the biggest work ever.

Don't think it's that surprising. We know Eaton and Garcia are 2 of the few players who can hit over 100mph. I do think it's funny people will still argue against Eatons arm simply because he's a small "grindy" leadoff man. He would easily handle RF if need be.

Ill post it tomorrow but I read a great thing on Drew's mid-major career vs Groce's time at Ohio. Basically it is what you should look for in hiring a mid major coach and Groce wasn't it.

QUOTE (farmteam @ Feb 19, 2016 -> 10:10 PM) If Groce were gone after this year, who would you guys want? All in on Bryce Drew. And he'd be so eassssssy to get.

You guys want a hot soxtalk.com exclusive story? Here you go: Kevin Durant pays child support in Chicago. No idea of the nature of the relationship, if it's just a money thing or what.

QUOTE (AustinIllini @ Feb 19, 2016 -> 12:42 PM) How does it feel to be the University of Illinois ozzfest? This had no bearing on Groce's fate. He's not a baby sitter. Whether you think it's fair or not, it absolutely will have bearing on it.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Feb 19, 2016 -> 10:12 AM) Which I think is really unfair. Why is that Groce's fault that a player makes a stupid decision? Groce should be fired for his results on the court, not some random act by a player in the middle of the night. He has no control over that. If this was the first time, and he was kicked off, fine. But it's not. For the second time in 6 months, your future of the program starting big is about to kicked off the team. Now we have nothing in that department. Can't build program stability when this is a reoccurring theme.

Have to think that seals Groce's fate.

Harper Lee

QUOTE (AustinIllini @ Feb 19, 2016 -> 07:00 AM) He has more sweet sixteen appearances than Illinois does since 2006. And hes a big part of that awful Illinois run. Despite the fluky tournament run, he was also a worse in season coach at Ohio, which is a terrible program to begin with, than the guy preceding him, and Illinois decided to hire him anyways.

It's not like Groce was a good coach before. He needs to go. Simply delaying the inevitable. The Illinois way to hang on to coaches for far too long.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Feb 18, 2016 -> 02:11 PM) I am going to quietly await one more move. Or is the next move the Bulls signing Joe Johnson? Joe Johnson is staying in brooklyn they reported today.

QUOTE (ChiSoxFanMike @ Feb 18, 2016 -> 11:07 AM) Why would the Kings do that deal? They'd essentially get half a season of Gasol for McLemore, Bellinelli, and a draft pick, no? The Bulls own the draft pick. You can put back the rwstriction although I dont think itll matter anyways. McLemore and Bellinelli for Gasol wouldn't be bad for them.

Does he really not start til late march? Ugh.

Bulls get Okafor, McLemore and Bellinelli Kings get Pau Gasol 76ers get Nikola Mirotic, Doug McDermott, the kings 1st rounder which they agree to unprotect, and Bulls 1st rounder. That gives them up to 6 first round draft picks, lol.