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This was mentioned in another thread here, and I totally agree with you, euless. I believe Baylor will be a serious contender for a bowl this year. Their schedule is not horrible, and if they can get decent QB play, and a bit of luck, I can see them in the FW bowl, or something. They will definitely give aTm all they want, and I can see them catching Okie Lite, Kansas/KState/Colorado napping. Morriss is a very good coach, and will have them prepared every week. He has taken that program a long way very quickly.

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And from ESPN: "But as the NBA playoffs roll on — and the unfortunate, game-changing calls mount — Bavetta will be right there in the middle of it all. He'll blow his whistle and come flying out from under the basket as we wait to see if it will be a block or a charge, half-knowing that the call will undoubtedly be contradicted by replay. Bavetta will plant his feet close together, put his hands on his hips and thrust his groin forward in his slightly pornographic signature move. It's a block. (Except, of course, that the defender was set and his heels were three feet outside the circle.) When he was being profiled as the ABC News Person of the Week earlier this year, Bavetta said, "I've always considered myself as a grade-B actor — someone who is down in the credits, also starring. The players are the stars of the performance, and the game is the performance." Words to ref by. Too bad Dick Bavetta ignores them."

For those wondering about Dick Bavetta...from Wikipedia: Dick Bavetta has been given the nick name Dick "the fix" Bavetta for his part in many questionable calls throughout the NBA playoffs in his tenure. This is from an article from a Utah paper: "Apparently not just Utah Jazz fans hate seeing Dick Bavetta in a referee's uniform prior to a game. Bavetta, as many Jazz fans will never forget, was the guy who waived off a Howard Eisley 3-point shot in Game 6 of the 1998 NBA Finals — won by the Chicago Bulls by just one point. Eisley's shot, replays clearly show, beat the shot clock, but Bavetta disagreed. He's been a top enemy of Jazz fans ever since — although, truth be told, Bavetta has seemingly bent over backwards to give the Jazz the benefit of the doubt ever since then." But Dallas' Jerry Stackhouse doesn't like the 31-year veteran referee, either. "Somebody saw Bavetta get off the bus . . . and I thought, 'Oh, (expletive).' I knew what was coming," Stackhouse told The (Fort Worth) Star-Telegram. 'It's tough to come on the road in this environment and have to play against the refs, too. (Expletive) Dick Bavetta. I'm tired of his (expletive). It's like the game is about him. He just needs to call the game and call the fouls.'" "Knick" Bavetta was the nick name given to Dick Bavetta by Miami Heat point guard Tim Hardaway during the 2000 NBA Playoffs.

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Great, great series. NBA makes me yawn, but I love the playoffs. Ridiculous calls for SA during the first half. Bad ones at the end, too. Two great teams battling it out.

For those that haven't seen this...it's priceless.

For those who haven't seen it...some interesting comments and observations on the spread offense, and "changing the mindset". Link

Nutt at Arkie, and Franchione are both higher on the meter than listed.

Ginobli rushed to the hospital... Heheheh...

GG: That had to be aNm students. Must have been one of their animal "husbandry" projects.

Their website lists their Top 25. Here's the Top 10: 1. OU 2. ND 3. USC 4. OSU 5. Florida 6. West Virginia 7. Texas 8. California 9. Auburn 10. Louisville (Hint: Temporarily change the date of your PC, and refresh their page, and you'll see the entire list.) Athlon

KingDL is right. I spent a lot of time in the retail construction arena, and that area is not big enough, or traveled enough to put something the size of a supermarket in, plus the location is not optimum for that. I believe that the type of tenants will be pretty close to what's there now, but in a different form, obviously.

Interesting that the "tradition" of announcing SR scores on the PA system did not begin at UT, nor did UT "adopt" SR as their pet team. "Often the climactic college football score, the Slippery Rock grid result invokes a laugh – or at least a smile – from fans in stadiums from Ann Arbor to Austin and from Chapel Hill to Berkeley." In fact, it's done all over the country--and has been for decades. Original Link **************************************** EXCERPTS: 1. Where’d they get that name, anyway? Slippery Rock is the name of a college, a town – it’s about 50 miles from Pittsburgh – and a creek. Legend has it that in colonial times, soldiers were being chased by the local Seneca Indians. The troops, wearing heavy boots, were able to cross the creek, but the Indians, wearing moccasins, slipped on the rocks in the creek bed. They named the creek Wechachochapohka – “a slippery rock.” In one version of this tale, George Washington is the colonial who benefits from the Indians slipping on the rocks. Washington did spend time in the area, but his place in this story is generally believed to be apocryphal. The school and its football team have gotten all sorts of national publicity because some people thought Slippery Rock was a funny name. According to school lore, the attention started in 1936, when there was a dispute as to whether Pittsburgh or Minnesota should be ranked No. 1. A sportswriter used comparative results to show that Slippery Rock should be No. 1. The logic went like this: Slippery Rock beat Westminster, which beat West Virginia Wesleyan, which beat Duquesne, which beat Pitt, which beat Notre Dame, which beat Northwestern, which beat Minnesota. 2. How does a 7,000-student, Division II school get its football scores on TV? In the 1950’s, the University of Michigan public-address announcer began a tradition of giving Slippery Rock scores. The crowd reaction (“The audience loved it.”) made an impression on an Associated Press writer named Dave Dials, who later adopted the practice when he hosted the Prudential College Football Scoreboard show on ABC. “Sometimes at the end of the show I found myself with a little extra time and they would give me the ‘stretch’ sign,” Dials, now retired, said from his home in Ohio. “One day I gave a Slippery Rock score, and the switchboard lit up. So the next week I made it a point to do it again. “Any time I had the time – and I generally found the time to do it – I would mention Slippery Rock. It got to the point where people expected it.” 5. Is the football team any good? For its level (NCAA Division II), yes, Slippery Rock has won four straight Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Western Division titles. The 1999 team finished the regular season ranked a school-record No. 2 nationally. The team currently is ranked 23rd in the American Football Coaches Association Division II pre-season poll. 8. What’s Slippery Rock’s mascot, a pet rock? Funny. Close, too. The school used to have a mascot named Rocky, a student dressed up like a rock. Asked what constitutes “dressing up like a rock,” SID McComas said, “Basically, putting on an old sweat suit.” Last year, however, the school updated the mascot. The new one is Rocky II, and instead of a rock, it’s a lion. “He’s the leader of The Pride of Slippery Rock University,” McComas said. 9. What other “rock stuff” do they do? Former Slippery Rock President Robert Aebersold used to pass out rocks with the inscription “Slippery” to visitors. SID McComas recalls that when he was a graduate student at the school in the 1980’s, “Our basketball teams, when they would introduce the starting lineups, the starters would take a little rock over and give it to the opposing player. It was painted green (the school colors are green and white) and had ‘Slippery Rock’ on it.” 10. Can I get some Slippery Rock stuff? It’s still up in the air whether Slippery Rock will be able to sell memorabilia at Pro Player Stadium. However, the inventory of the school’s bookstore is available online at the Slippery Rock Web site (www.sru.edu). “We ship all over the world,” said store manager Tom McPherson, a Slippery Rock employee for 33 years. Or, if you simply see someone wearing a Slippery Rock hat or T-shirt, you could make them an offer. They’re used to it. SRU students often stock up in the bookstore before spring break, then sell the stuff on Florida beaches. Football coach Mihalik said then when he ran off the field after the South Florida game, fans in Tampa Stadium asked him “for my hat, my shirt – anything that said Slippery Rock.” Who could blame them? Everybody wants to own a piece of the Rock. # ROCK PRIDE #

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Right. Mack is the devil. He recruits these ne'er do wells purposely in order to advance his nefarious purposes here on earth. Someday--Sooner than later, he will reveal himself as the antichrist. Major Applewhite will rule at his left hand. All will fall under his mind control/satanic spell--witness Ramonce's behavior last weekend as proof. The signs are everywhere. Ignore them at peril of eternal damnation--which he desires.

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Young is a senior this year. UT is loaded at RB. Taylor has been in trouble for a while, but his loss will hurt the horns, no doubt.