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The lead can change an unlimited number of times in both basketball and baseball games. In soccer, a 2-0 lead is basically insurmountable. In baseball, every at-bat is a one on one confrontation and there's no such thing as a draw. Most of every soccer game is played laterally at mid-field and most scoring attempts end up with the ball rolling out of bounds.

All of us youngins are leaving because the older generations voted for and followed the wrong people. I'd like to thank all the local politicians and union leaders for completely eliminating my desire to ever again live where I grew up. Truly remarkable.

Darn, there goes my first two answers. Pretty much all of their talking heads are awful (with the important exception of their baseball guys). All the stupid catch phrases have to go. Supposedly Stuart Scott said something about watching Bonds pass Ruth with his kids and having tears in his eyes as it happened. Number one, that didn't happen. There's no way. Number two, why would you try to put something so preposterous over on your audience? Also, there's this red head reporter, Rachel Nichols, they always send to the basketball games who is really horrible. She sounds like a computer. Her voice inflection is terrible. And sometimes when the lighting is off or her make-up is wrong, she goes from cute girl to scary zombie monster thing. On the flip side, I loves me some Suzy Kolber and Erin Andrews.

Yeah we do. First World Cup game in history with a chance of something interesting happening.

Well, of course our players didn't enjoy the game. They're American! They were probably bored out of their minds.

The November elections basically boil down to which brand of dumbass do you want in Congress for the next two years.

It's just so.....accurate.

Well done. Requiring students to actually learn or earn their grades could hurt their self esteem. And that high self esteem is going to come in handy when they can't find a job.

Based on what we know about Nagin.... ...he'd do nothing. Then, later, after the sh-- has hit the fan, he'd blame everyone else. Then he'd get re-elected.

I watched the first 20 minutes of the Sweden-Trinidad game today and NOTHING HAPPENED. How can you have a sport where nothing is happening most of the time? Soccer is like watching hockey except it takes 5 minutes for the ball to go from one end of the field to the other and if we're lucky, we get one scoring opportunity every 10 minutes. Most of the players don't even run - they're either jogging or standing around while watching 2-3 players do something at any one time.

I don't think this thread could ever end up longer than the Retatta thread. I don't think Paul would even want that.

Popular != good Soccer is popular because it's the most simple game in the world. Get a ball. Kick it. That means no matter how poor and pathetic your country is, you can still play because you can find a ball somewhere.

They showed this guy (briefly) in the Sportscenter piece.

Is there anyone left that Andrew Sullivan doesn't think is a fascist? That guy's emotions only range from "offended" to "horrified".

I saw it. It was completely beyond anything you could have imagined here in the year 2006. Apparently it's cool to be a nazi again.

Here it is, the "al Zarqawi is Dead" music video remix: Sabotage! God bless the internet.

They met through "It's Just Lunch!" "Adolf, someone just moved into town who could really be your type. He's a husky Jordanian who loves the outdoors, loves kids (as human shields), and hates Jews!"

I love that he died in an air strike. That means the last thing he said was probably "So two infidels walk into a bar -- hey, wait, do you guys hear something?" I also got a kick out of watching the Iraqi security guys march-dance around in the streets with their guns. I believe a loose translation of what they were saying (thanks to my one semester of Arabic) was "If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands *clap clap*"

Classic!

Happy birthday, guys!

Larry Quinn himself said months ago that blue and gold was coming back. The latest info I'm hearing is from a couple of proven people over at sportslogos.net (they've been right about just about everything in every sport over the past couple seasons). It's a "slightly tweaked" blue and gold and both the Ducks and Sabres are getting complete overhauls that should be unveiled at the draft. Supposedly the Sabres third jersey will be their old road uniform. Other NHL changes include the Bruins using a vintage jersey as their alternate and Atlanta taking their current third (which is horrible) as their home.

The caption used to be: "Not yet indicted, still under investigation."

18 minutes away from the SC Finals.....I keep thinking that too.

I hated last year's Bills team. Never got the sense that they gave a crap. The organization was in completely disarray.