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Yeah, I think this is awful. I don't understand why anyone can think this is a good deal....MLB and NHL show their games online for a (reasonable) price. You can pay ala carte to watch a large number of college sports online. The NFL and DirecTV are in the stone age, and it looks like that isn't going to change any time soon. This is pretty much awful news

I've seen it a few times now, people think we are going to lose to Arizona. They are the freakin cardinals! If we can't beat them, we won't beat anybody good, and we'll be a bad team. Here is my prediction: If we beat the Cardinals, we'll have a winning record (or 8-8). If we don't, we'll have a losing record.

Dude, _every_ player in the NFL was an amazing player in high school. Thats why they are pros, because they were always the best player on the team, in town, in the state, in college. Being the best at every level an athlete plays at is the basic requirement for being a pro. That doesn't mean he will be the best against other professionals.

Looks like it worked.... http://buffalo.bizjournals.com/buffalo/sto...25/daily21.html Great, now another eyesore downtown. That area was actually looking fairly promising, I was at this new bar (WJ Morrissey's) there a few weeks ago and it seemed like the area had some potential when the casino was finished...

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?...e=ESPNHeadlines Apparently, Jay Mariotti agrees that local news coverage is dying, and online is the new reality for sports news. Or, are there other reasons for him leaving?

WBFO kept reporting it as true even after various media outlets pointed out the hoax. Its sad how the media here just follows whatever story someone else prints, without doing any fact checking whatsoever.

Tim, I'm wondering if you can shed more light about how the NFL views a market... I know you are a mainstream media guy, but this is 2008. Where do I get my bills coverage? Right here! I don't go to the Buffalo News first, or ESPN, or anything like that. I go to the Stadium Wall to see what my fellow fans are talking about, not what the media talks about. If someone posts a link here, I'll probably follow it, but the discussion happens here. This is where we go Monday morning to talk about the game, we don't sit around the break room looking at a dead-tree copy of TBN. I hope the NFL is wise enough to know that most of the content generated about their product comes from places like this, not places like the News. Yes, people voice their opinions louder here, the content is not polished or professional, but there are quite a few posters on the board who I give a lot more respect to than certain people in the mainstream media. I hope the NFL has people who follow fan sites like this one, to gauge the general sentiments of its fans. It doesn't come from comments on ESPN.com, it comes from real online communities like this one.

I think the difference is the NFL is far more popular and marketable in 2008 than it was in 1998. Most of the stadiums built in the late 90s were in the ~$200 million range...stadiums being built today are pushing $1 billion. I don't care how rich of a city we are talking about, 10 years ago a billion-dollar stadium in the NFL would have been unthinkable. Now, they know fans will cough up big $$ just to be seen at the game, and corporate interests use tickets as a sales tool. So no, I don't think winning builds a new stadium, I think marketing and popularity does.

Yeah, there is an energy input in this instance. No perpetual motion or cold fusion or anything here....just good old-fashioned tuning-fork like resonance.

Only if you placed the actual power source (whatever generates the magnetic field) in the road. The question then is....who pays for the energy? While this is a really cool technology, it isn't a perpetual motion machine and still requires an energy input. Could be cool though if your garage charged your hybrid's battery overnight. You would never have to mess with a plug.

To some extent....this is already done. You are exposed to magnetic fields all the time just by being on earth.... This would be more like sitting in a really low-power MRI machine all day. Much of the research around MRI side-effects would be applicable to this technology as well, and I think they are basically considered harmless. This is a very clean, efficient method of "transmitting" energy. The difficulty is in creating the "generator" portion that lives in the device.

No, this is different....basically you have some wall unit that generates a magnetic field at a resonant frequency of a little vibrating generator in your device. The magnetic field keeps the generator going as long as you are near it. Tesla was sending actual electricity through the air, this is much safer.

Obviously, they think that Farve and some old, washed-up free agents are going to turn a 4-12 team into a playoff team. So, they assume that the Jets will go 2-0 against Buffalo. We assume that Buffalo will go 2-0 against the Jets....so if we think the Bills will be in the 9-7 neighborhood, they will think 7-9. Sounds about right to me...

The article doesn't have much detail, but are they basically saying they are generating power at the device level with a resonant magnetic field? If so, this is something that we've known is possible for a long time. Its cool to see that there are some practical working applications now, but this isn't a huge discovery.

I used to take the greyhound to Ithaca a lot before i had a car..... It sucks, but its the only way to get there.

Ah, gotcha. In that case....I don't see any problem at all with listening to music while working. In the professional world, she'll probably have a job where that is fine (and even helpful in drowning out office noise). Sometimes I wish schools did a better job of developing skills instead of developing kids abilities to follow orders...

Don't mean to nitpick, but I think this may be saying something about the state of education.... How is it that the teacher had a say in how your daughter did her homework? Are kids doing their homework in class these days? I'm by no means an old guy (graduated HS under 10 years ago), but homework was done....at home. Can you clarify what you meant here?

Thats why they want to change it to 18...so that people don't binge drink themselves to death. Underage people will drink more out-of-control because its something they aren't allowed to do. If they were allowed to, the binge drinking will hopefully subside. They were talking about this on NPR last night. One of the proponents of lowering the age made the point that the entire reason its 21 in the first place is because of drinking and driving, and that completely ignores the fact that there are issues around the drinking that have nothing to do with cars. So, why don't they just make zero-tolerance laws for people under 21? If you have a drop of alcohol and you get caught, your license is gone until you are 21. Otherwise, enjoy yourself responsibly at 18.

Nah, I heard an interview with him about this not too long ago....the words don't mean anything, he just thought they sounded cool. There are tons of theories about it, but they aren't true. Incidentally, for whatever reason this song is in the warmup music for almost every NFL team.

CHS == elitist? I think you should pay a visit to our friends over at Amherst and Colvin... Great to see some positive news from my alma mater...so far this year we've only heard about famous alumni passing on.

But was that him on the Steelers long TD pass who just let the guy catch it? He could have either 1) gone for the ball, or 2) put his shoulders squarely into the numbers of the receiver. I know it is preseason and nobody wants to get hurt, but that was a hospital pass and the receiver should have paid for it.

Well, to be fair, they are currently tied for last place...

Make sure you have 2 paddles in the boat.... Once I was stranded (engine died, and I haven't the foggiest idea how to fix it). It was almost dark and there was nobody within earshot. Only 1 paddle means you have to pass it to your buddy on the other side of the boat every couple of strokes. I always make sure there are 2 now. On a related note....Keep your wallet open. Boats are a money pit! The more informed you are about how your boat works, the less likely you are to break it and need to dump another few thousand bucks into it.

NPR had a story yesterday (or maybe Monday?) about why all the records are being broken. Basically, the gist of it is that records are made to be broken, so they always will...but there are some good reasons why it is happening now. The new swimsuits supposedly can shave 2% off a swimmer's time, which is over a second for every minute they swim. Also, the pool in Beijing is 3m deep, where as olympic standards are 2m. So, there is much more water to absorb the turbulence created by a pool full of swimmers, so the water is much calmer than in past olympic pools. They didn't quantify the difference this makes, but they seemed to imply that this made an even bigger difference than the swimsuits, hence we are seeing records broken by 4-5 seconds. Now, Phelps is swimming in the same pool in the same suit as the other guys _right now_, and beating them, so yes, he is the best swimmer there is right now. But breaking world records with the above factors is probably somewhat expected during these olympics.