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Big, big hitter.

Now: likelihood that the Band actually gets to go?

Like two bowl trips in one year.  Lucky bastards.

To the point that the call/nocall anomalies, dependent upon player, have affected the style of play and made for lazy players in the top league; players of great skill end up playing for the foul, not playing for the basket.

Sounds like soccer as well, actually.  Thanks, Sterbende Schwan.

QED.

Massive second to fried pickles. Spears, thank you, not chips - both are tasty, but spears maximize the pickle-y happiness.

Love it.

That is the reason to love baseball. Hearing that our heroes are gearing up down south is always good news to the rest of us freezing our asses off up here. I get as anxious as the next guy through relatively meaningless June games, but baseball is always exciting in February, March and April.

Yeah. Exhausting just by sheer volume of work performed. I remember almost falling asleep at Taco Bell after finishing.

Obviously glad I didn't.

for Johnny at RBUAS to declare a new bringer of light.

one of the last nights of intensive summer band rehearsals, freshman get taken up to the stadium not knowing there their headed

Keep it that way. Don't post on this.

Offer him pudding.

Who is conducting Hockey Band anymore? Does Boerma know a little more about hockey than football (hopefully)?

I'm not super confident in the offense getting one play right at this juncture.

I have even less confidence in the offense, then the defense, getting several plays right in OT. We know now that it stopped raining before OT, but that is not a given. It is the rain.

Four, count 'em four sacks this year.

Are we too young/small/whatever to start rolling this number up? Small is out - Roh is the smallest at 238. Leader VanBergen is 271. Most men on the line are between 260-280.

'splaination? Is Greg Robinson not blitzing as much as I seem to remember in those halcyon days of yore? What do we do to create better opportunities to get to the quarterback?

I get chills every time I hear Schembechler say it.

Welcome to South Africa.

BANHAMME-

oh. Yeah, you're right.

Band still needs to go back into the northeast corner, though.

You will already be dressed for cold. I was always most shocked by that quick drop in temperature in the end of September and early October, about the time the leaves change.

I am more interested in what we will do to combat the shadows themselves, really. I could see some Yankee Stadium lights on the pressboxes - low profile, inobtrusive, hopefully doesn't make the Stadium look like the field at Pioneer (like those drive-in carts that they used to truck in).

But remember, the average guy on the street gets his news from the Freep. I cannot tell you how many times I have had to explain the term "noncountable hours" to my friends and coworkers in the past two weeks. I am sure we all have lived the same experience.

Now, the explaination for noncountable hours I lifted straight from these pages, which lifted its explaination straight from the NCAA's pages, and for that I am grateful to the community here and to Brian. Cheers, and come ask me for your pint of reward when you see me in the back corner of Ashley's.

Not good enough for gameday.

Details under the arm just do not generally come out as nice as uniform designers think they will when looking at their computer screens. Stretch fabrics have helped this to some extent (in that there is rarely a handful of loose material just hanging there in the armpit any more), but I'll be darned if I won't think that yellow features under the arm will come off as being sweat stains.

That said, I have some soccer shirts from European teams that carry the three stripes down the shoulders, and those do not shock and frighten me. I am not advocating this for Michigan gear, o all-seeing M-Den overlords... The point is that adidas can be very creative in placing their brandmark, since it can simply be a design element. Good call on their part for having simple stripes as a trademark.

Pizza House Pizza House Pizza House.

They never run out of seating now that the most recent renovation is done, the pizza is yummy, the beer is cold, and you can sit there till 4 in the morning if your liver can take it.

The Ohio Highway Patrol is a totally different animal. I remember watching one OHP officer clip a drunken OSU student as he ran past... just got this satisfied smirk on his face as the kid planted his face in the grass.

Kid was too drunk to care. Just a golden moment.

the first time I got to poke someone between the shoulders.

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The reason USC-UCLA works (and it really does work) is that UCLA has those powder blues - way more contrast than our navy against red (OSU or Wisky), green (MSU), burgundy (UMinn)... virtually anything in the Big10.

Where else could they have it? Do we think that UConn feels so weak as to agree to a home and neutral?

Yankee Stadium has shown itself as a venue, albeit unlikely. No chance that the Meadowlands would fill for a middling BigEast team, regardless of opponent (Ryan Field does not fill when Michigan comes to town). I am not so familiar with the area - are there other reasonable venues?

Yes, Hiller, mea culpa. Good call, phil.

I still cannot imagine that he is that bad, though, considering that the Illinois pass D was middle-of-the-pack amongst the Big Televen. Not bad, per se.

I think Michigan Arrogance might have hit the point more squarely, though, that he has lost his favorite three WR since last year. Eating words has never given me indigestion.

but do we have something to worry about with young safeties going up against a 3000-yard passer in the first game?

Miller had six 300-yard games last season, one of which was a victory over Illinois...

was that they did not forget to add that the $20 overdraft fee was forgiven.

Yeah, the BBC came across some lame guy that got hit when he got a pack of smokes... he tried to make some point that now he is really careful about his spending habits, like the mis-charge came as a result of his failure to follow a budget.

Eh.

and the interaction with the programming community that makes me sad that all the further I got with programming was 101 and then I fell into ChemE.

Cocktails on an epic scale.

My only worry with a new stadium is that it would be the Palace in downtown Detroit: nice, but not a great deal of character. The Palace is a stumpy Pringles can in a field.

Maybe it is just too many years at Yost speaking, but hockey needs a little different environment. Olympia would be amazing to see again. Obviously, Ilitch still owns the name.

Finally: yeah, tax money would still be spent in this pursuit. $115M of the $300M that CoPa required was funded with public dollars... I would have a hard time imagining that a hockey club could independently sign that bill.

Blue. I actually liked the Nike whites before the switch, then adidas put the yellow apron straps on and... oh well.

I have faith in adidas, but it always seemed to me that Nike always followed more of a "less is more" philosophy which meshed nicely with a more traditional jersey design. Actually, let me rebut myself. Different colored shoulders, NikePox, whatever that tribal tatoo design was... well, Nike does better when well reigned in by the powers that be.

This non sequitur now finished, I would follow exmtroj and get the nice replica with tackle twill rather than the cheaper screened version. Blue, though, of course.

I was half expecting kittens all weekend long.

The ESPN article makes some waves about the lack of drafted players on Air Force. Am I correct in assuming that they are also bound to the two years military service? Are NHL teams particularly averse to waiting for service academy players, especially given the list of relatively unencumbered talent from juniors?