UConn James

Joe, No. 3 is absolutely true and let it be your motivation. I'm close friends with a woman who was raped at 10, twenty years ago, by her sister's drug dealer. It never goes away is right. If you can prevent this POS from doing the same thing for a long stretch of time, you do it. There is no such thing as rehabilitation for sexual predators. Push the prosecutor who is handling the case. Tell him/her that you want this to go to trial; no plea deal unless it's too good to pass up. If they don't want to go to trial, write two letters a week to the D.A. expounding upon, "If you let this dirtbag back on the streets in five years, in ten years, he will rape again. I know it. You know it. And when it does happen, the responsibility will be on your shoulders. And I will do everything in my power to see that you are fired and have it proclaimed from the rooftops that you let it happen. I will make dragging your name through the mud my mission in life."

Let's look at history.... Rodney Thomas rushed for nearly 1,000 yards in 10 starts the year before the Oilers/Titans drafted Eddie George. Never heard his name again.

He's hosting the NFL QB Challenge that's airing this weekend on CBS. I watched it yesterday. That's when you know you're hard up for football season to start already.

Double-edged sword. If we were more technologically advanced, then we wouldn't have any wagons to circle!

What about candor? I wouldn't like someone playing f--karound with me like Tenn has done somewhat since the draft, but Jax especially has done in the past few days. They say they're interested in a trade and that it's almost a done deal, but when it gets right down to it, they only offer the (conditional?) 2nd a day late and a dollar short. I wouldn't want to deal with people like that either.

Excelling on ST and playing defense well in relief or injury replacement are entirely different spheres. Ask Coy Wire 'bout that (Oh, come on, Coy. We still like you!). I know those people who say Posey's been disappointing and I'm not one of those; he holds his own at least. Maybe with a more consistent backfield, he can be set loose more. I love Stamer's playing style, Haggan and Crowell may have great expectations, but until they see some extensive game time, you can't say we're "deep." At this juncture, it rings like TD saying a few years back that Travis Brown could be our very own Tom Brady.

Except that they call a water fountain a "bubbla."

Granted, he's serviceable, but still unspectacular from what was expected of him. Simply trying to point out the lamebrain-ness of the reporter saying that our LB corps is "very deep." The Ravens are very deep. The '85 Bears were very deep. Having two stars and then that big dropoff doesn't make you deep. That's not the meaning of "deep."

Plus, an important point, was it just that the 2nd was the "conditional" one that he was looking for and not a hard 2nd? If the conditions aren't met, then you're about 20 picks behind Tenn's.

Well, factor in that Jax's 2nd will probably be in the upper tier as they are up-and-coming, and Tenn's 3rd will be in the lower tier since they've dumped a lot of their good players. So, if you go with the reasonable gamble, they won't be that far apart. Then, you figure how much TH might help which team he goes to. Do you really want to give him to a team where he might be the one missing piece and have an Antowain Smith again, or do you send him to a team that probably will not threaten your chances at the playoffs? I'd send him to Tenn, too.

Another of today's articles states, "the Bills linebacker corps is very deep." Besides the starters... oh wait.... Besides Spikes and Fletcher, no. No it's not. The unspectacular Jeff Posey, and untested Crowell and Haggan do not depth make. Ezekial has a good shot at making the team, and Fletcher's eventual replacement should be drafted in the 1st or 2nd next year. This from the "Sports Xchange," which is probably yet another website started by amateurs. I've never clicked it b/c besides their just being wrong in their conclusions, on the front page I've noticed several times they're factually wrong, and add in that they're usually a day late and a dollar short. But the ones you cite are from established newspapers. Too bad many either don't have copy editors anymore or have one for the whole section. Then they wonder why fewer people buy newspapers.

I was at the Bills-Lions game in '97, and what to my surprise during halftime, they had the UConn marching band, that was up there for a UConn-Buffalo game the previous day. That was really cool. NCAA does have better halftimes (better even than during the Super Bowl which is just fake pop-ish music act rather than a real football halftime), that's for sure. NCAA has more games, more parity, and it's purer football. What an NFL player does on Sunday for 400K, ~60 percent of these kids do for tuition, room and board. It can be a crisp 60 degrees with yellow, red and orange leaves in full color, but it's just not autumn w/o Keith Jackson, the voice of college football. Man, I hope he never retires. "Whoa, NELLY!"

He's now going under the name Crap Throwing Monkey / DC Tom.

If you read David Sedaris, being addicted is when you're on your hands and knees with a straw, snorting the contents of the living room carpet up your nose in the off chance a few grains fell to the floor.

Preach it! Now is the time for Bush to show that he is not a Wade Phillips clone. Sticking up for your friends is admirable, but sticking up for them when they've f-ed up at their job is disingenuous. Not all of the evidence is in the light of day, but it's pretty clear that Rove did some skeevy, and possibly criminal, things for political retribution and now he's trying out his Sgt. Schultz impression.

Oh, come on! You're trying to spoil everyone's fun spouting off all the stereotypes. I've heard them described as "our most productive partner in the GWOT." Despite all of the crap they get, they are still very good friends to us. They lost an entire generation of young men to WWI fighting the precusor to Hitler while we and others were sitting on the sidelines. I guess that doesn't count for much.

Yeah, but where's he going to hold th..... Oh! Ohhhhh....

Yeah, the weapons they used weren't bombs, so they can't possibly be called "bombers." They are to be described only as "terrorists." Stick to the approved lingo!

You have to be thinking that MM and TC drafted him with a specific goal in how to use him. I'll wager that RP will be a thorn in the side to a few teams, esp. the ones that are thin in experienced DBs. Let's face it, the rules are slanted toward the offense. No shame in trying to take advantage of that.

I'd be Get-Out-of-Town surprised if we didn't target the families of the cartel leaders in the 'War on Drugs.' And why not? They did the same thing.

U.K. memo: U.S. hopes to halve Iraq force I sense the admin is trying to allay decreasing public support by leaking that there is an 'exit strategy' but making sure not to say it themselves. Has me kind of unsure about the "As the Iraqis stand up, we will stand down" quote, tho. 2007? I thought the training was 12 months. Having a consistent, small force seems to be more or less containing things in Afghanistan... a country that's twice the size of California. NEXT!

Just as I was reading this, it was reported that the last man's body has been found. Downed US Seals may have got too close to Bin Laden With all of the firepower they faced, they ran into something important.

I'm not sure about "high-level policy" (maybe by tacit understanding) but there were provinces where the chickens were VC. An uncle who was 1/2 mile from the DMZ when Tet came down has told me he didn't discriminate in certain places. If it moved, you shot it. Just the way it was.

I read what the blogger says about labeling them 'anticapitalists' instead of 'anarchists' but I think 'anarchists' is right on for these people. What's got me wondering is why you put 'radical leftists' in the headline. By definition, anarchists belong neither to the left nor right; their aim is to have no government control. What you're saying is like saying bin Laden is a 'radical' Libertarian. I just went to my brother's police graduation last month, and I tell you, that picture is really disturbing. I hope he's all right. Is it all right to wish that a huge bout of both-ends flu hits those anarchist circles?

Bernie Kerik? Wouldn't surprise me......... Is America ready? I don't know. If people go to see it, I guess we are. And then maybe some better ones can be made. Because the plotline here sounds like a lot of narrow filler dialogue and very short on any meaningful commentary or overarching story. Kind of like his other movies. Here's the question -- would you show a point-of-view pan-up camera shot following along as the plane crashes in? How do you show something like that?