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Louisville never beat Georgetown. HOYA SAXA

if anyone is selling, i am looking for one ticket! email - eomea6@gmail.com

11. HALF-LIFE 3 CONFIRMED

doesnt matter, closed your stadium(s) and have a meaningful degree.  enjoy being middle of the pack in the ACC and your conference tournament at the greensboro colisseum; at least until the BIG/SEC decimates that conference as well.

ncaa football sales are nowhere near the sales of madden.  marketing is much more important for the ncaa football franchise than for madden. i am almost positive they are going to think long and hard about who is on the cover and what impact that may have on sales.

hoya saxa! 

1) flying up to syracuse tonight, headed to the last ever big east gtown-cuse game at the carrier dome tomorrow. hoya saxa! hope i make it home alive.

2) backpacked in europe last year if that counts

3) no

4) bacon grilled cheese

has anyone managed to figure out what novak is yelling?  we should get that fangraphs guy who did the lipreading of the umpire/manager arguments on this.

theory: this story started to implode during the runup to the heisman ceremony. i posit that the heisman committee wanted to fly in te'o's family and probably the family of his dead girlfriend for the ceremony (you often see large family contingents at these events) as it would have been a heartwarming story (especially if he had won).  committee either reaches out themselves or asks teo to get in touch. thats when everything unraveled.  the "mystery phone call" from his dead girlfriend's number on dec. 6th was probably a fabrication to deflect attention from what really caused this to come to light

goin to barclay's tonight to see my hoyas shred indiana, then to MSG tomorrow night for the michigan game - hoping they put up big numbers on pitt (they should). 

just think. if OSU didn't get that bowl ban, the new BCS standings coming out tomorrow would most likely have ND as #1 and OSU as #2. and i would kill myself.

this thread is awesome. go giants!

also: im pretty sure barry zito had pine tar on his hat. kept touching a very shiny part of his bill before each pitch. really showed up as it got dark and the lights came on.

all of the WS games are 8pm starts.

yankees live another day!!!!! yeah!!!

yes, you are correct, but that game 7 has a very big asterisk next to it.  if JV was pitching game 1 rather than 3, you would have your best pitcher available for a game 4 or game 5 - two games which are much more likely to happen than a game 7.

ill take two Sabathia/Fister matchups over two Sabathia/JV matchups anyday.  And there's the prospect of JV only getting one solid start (maybe 2, but on short rest)

flying to Dallas in the AM and taking the first taxi I can get at DFW to the stadium.

looking to purchase 1 ticket to M-Alabama Sep 1st.  email me at eomea6@gmail.com if available.

EDIT: Acquired

i enjoy the company of women, but i would sleep with mr. ronaldo if propositioned. he is dreamy.

It was a trilogy. I do not speak of that failed abortion that was ressurection. And while alien 3 is questionable, the directors cut makes it a lot better.

I am so torn about this movie. The alien trilogy shaped my childhood and are among my favorite movies of all times. The instant this movie was announced I was beyond excited and have been been following everything about this movie for the past year. With Ridley directing I was so confident that he would revive a franchise that had been killed by resurrection and avp. I was going into this with really high hopes and a fanboy mentality, and I've seen it twice already.



That being said, i was extremely disappointed. Visually, the movie is stunning and worth seeing in IMAX 3D for some of the shots - this is the first movie that I think has done 3D justice. The script, however, is just god awful. Dialogue is littered with cheesy one-liners that had me wincing throughout the entire movie - this stuff can be forgiven in a mind-numbing action flick like the avengers, but Prometheus has some pretty heavy and cerebral themes that this ridiculous dialogue is so distracting and self-defeating. The subplot with vickers and the old man was totally unnecessary, and there are so many plot holes that are unfilled or tied together sloppily. Character development was so bad that trying to figure out some of the character's motivations for some of theirs actions is nearly impossible.



I blame lindelof for this train wreck. His insistence on mystery for the sake of mystery, sloppy plot holes, and terrible character development are better left for his hack work on TV with jj Abrams. Keep your polar bears and lowest-common-denominator plot devices out of my beloved alien franchise. If they do make a sequel, I sincerely hope Ridley chooses someone who can handle the material to write the treatment.

deutschland vor! cant wait for die mannschaft to punch ronaldo in the mouth on saturday.

Had the day off today so slept in. Studying for the LSAT all day today an tomorrow then headed to Mexico-Wales game at MetLife stadium on Sunday. More studying on Monday. Real freedom begins June 12

wat.

this is why i love the bundesliga.

it was their most modestly priced receptacle.

That's the intent of writing the copy like that. Without pinpointing which Johnson it is they suck in all of those fans checking to make sure it wasn't the Johnson they cared about. More eyeballs = more ad revenue.

I'm flying from NY to LA tomorrow for coachella. Can't wait!!!

ive been to rangers ballpark many times and have been there on days when both the rangers and cowboys have been playing.  you do not need to get these passes.  the whole place is a parking lot between cowboys stadium lots  and the ballpark larts - there is literally nothing else there but the lots and the stadiums.  you should have absolutely no problem getting parking day of - especially since the Rangers will be in Cleveland that day.  

im going to coachella weekend 1 this year - anyone else? 

i went to the final four in 2007 when i was a senior at georgetown and we were matched up against ohio state.  taking the bus down from DC with other (drunken) students and the excitement leading up to the game and the agonizing nervousness are unlike anything i have experienced before in sports - i went to all six games of the world series as my yankees clinched in '09 and stormed the field my freshman year at michigan (i transferred to gtown after that year) when we beat OSU in 03 but nothing compared to those heartpounding 40 minutes in atlanta, despite the loss.  it hurt quite a bit to lose that one, not just because it was the final four but we just had to lose to fucking ohio state.  i was miserable the rest of my time in atlanta and while i went to the final and saw Florida beat up on OSU, I kept imagining what it would be like to have my team in the final for one of these games now that i'm old enough to appreciate it.  

really hope i can see gtown win one these things and michigan to do the same in football though i'd have to have a difibrulator ready should it ever happen.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOVE IT!

Cinci has been great down the stretch. Beat gtown and cuse. I would watch out for them.

upvote for awesome avatar.  cant wait til june.

HOW DOES DANNY HART SIT DOWN WITH BALLS THAT BIG?!

fuck that game. weve been losing bad on the road to mediocre opposition all year.  pittsburg and now this. ugh. at least michigan won so my night wasnt a complete downer.

video i took on sunday of my idiot cousins losing their shit when the giants won the superbowl.  they are from jersey, if you couldn't tell from the situation look-a-like and over-the-top antics.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzkzjLEIfrw

i submitted it to tosh.0 and it made it on the show tonight to close out the show.  

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saw this comment on the NY Times article and really liked it. thought i would share:

"The people backing this bill are the same people who told us the VCR would make it impossible to make money with movies and that the audio cassette would be the end of recorded music. iTunes and Netflix show that people are willing to pay for content if you make it convenient, and lots of people would rather pay for a high-quality, consistent product than brave the internet backwaters to obtain pirated content. Sadly, it's still difficult to get a lot of media legally even if you are willing to pay, because the entertainment industry would rather drag their feet than embrace the future. Now they want the government to step in and fix it for them, breaking the internet in the process. If the MPAA and RIAA put the money they've spent lobbying for this bill toward innovating and creating a compelling digital product or a reasonable distribution model, then the music and film industries would be thriving. Instead they've doomed themselves to obsolescence while Apple and Netflix eat their lunches. I can understand why record companies and movie studios are scared, but we've all known the shift to digital distribution was coming for some time and this situation is very much their own making."

EDIT: I'm a new yorker and have already contacted my senators and congressman.  urge everyone to do the same

dad went to UM for undergrad and law, so grew up rooting for the wolverintes.  went to UM for one year before transferring to georgetown.  no football at georgetown so my wolverine rooting intersts were never challenged.  would be very conflicted if gtown were ever to play michigan in basketball though.

they are either the apparel sponsor of the BCS and/or The Sugar Bowl, and thus get rights to the official championship apparel, regardless of team. 

im blocked out down here.. my esp3 access doesnt work in mexico apparently.... ugh.

.... Georgia possibly?

Hoya Saxa! Can't be happier with this Georgetown team - after losing so many star players and seniors last year, everyone had us pegged for a rebuilding year with 10 freshman and sophomores on the team. Two victories over Memphis, and beating both Alabama and Louisville in their home courts has me thinking we could be on track for a great year, at the very least they've already exceeded my expectations. Hope they can keep the momentum going!

i visited North Korea last year and wrote a diary about it on here.  after that experience of seeing just how important Kim Jong Il was to the fabric and (relative) political stability of that country, his death is certainly not good news.  from what I have read, this is much sooner than had been anticipated, and his son has yet to gather the support of the military (and the rest of his family) to make for a smooth transition (Kim Jong Un is still in his twenties, and many generals who fought alongside Kim Il Sung are not pleased that some spoiled kid with no experience could legitimately take power).  I seriously think this siutation is prime for a coup by the miltary, and it could get pretty ugly pretty fast.  this is bad not only for North Korea, but for its regional neighbors as well - ROK, PRC, and Japan.  I would be very nervous if I was over there - the threat of civil war (god forbid even nuclear) is certainly looming in the background.  i certinaly hope this gets resolved quickly and smoothly - the sudden collapse of the North is much more dangerous than many may think.

Republic of China (ROC) = Taiwan



People's Republic of China (PRC) = China

speaking of expensive jerseys - "authentic" jerseys for Japan NPB (baseball) teams can cost upwards of 600 dollars.  unbelivable.

can someone put together two nice concise quotes from danielson from 2006 and from today's game clearly pointing out his hipocracy on this issue? 

scratch marks on the helmet.  think players intentionally do this before games? i dont think theres anything sharp enough of helmets or jerseys to do that type of damage during gameplay, but i could be wrong.

anyone have the link to the atlantic article brian speaks of?

ahem. the proper name is "Korea DPR"... 

1) The Game (check, x4)

2) Yankees-Red Sox (check, x20)

3) Argentina-Uruguay (check, x1)

4) World Series (check, x12)

4a) World Series Game 7 (check x1)

5) NCAA Basketball Championship (check x1)

6) BCS Championship (one day...)

7) Indy 500 (check x1)

8) El Classico (one day....)

9) World Cup Game (one day....)

10) Olympic Hockey Gold Medal Game (one day...)

11) Japan Series (one day...)

12) Yomiuri Giants-Hanshin Tigers (check x4)

13) Superbowl (possibly this year...?)

14) Stanley Cup Final (one day...)

Washington State PA DJ has got it together - just heard 'Pumped Up Kicks' by Foster The People over the PA.  if you're going to do piped in music, thats the way to do it.

outside of the mfriendly bars, if there are enoguh people what about organizing an official mgoblog NYC watch party at one of the afformentioned establishements? i would be all for this.

EDIT: Tickets acquired! Thanks mgoblog!

Actually, if you look at M's growth by 29.8% over the past three years compared to the other BigTen schools, there is quite a discrepancy, with most schools experiencing only about 9% growth and Purdue (19.9%), Indiana (11.0%), and Iowa (14.2%) the only schools in double digit growth (Ohio State only recorded 7.1% growth in that same period of time.   I may be wrong here but dont all schools recieve the same share from BTN? If that is the case it would be a moot point as far as growth is concerned.  

double post

HOYA SAXA!! showin' those PLA punks what 'murica is all about.

CONCACAF Gold Cup 2011's official (well, I think its official anyway) facebook page made mention of a USA-Mexico friendly in November at Azteca.  I would love for this to be true - anyone hear any rumors along this line?

https://www.facebook.com/pages/2011-CONCACAF-Gold-Cup/101971083191514?sk=wall&filter=2

i have an authentic 2010 world cup game-worn North Korea soccer jersey signed by the entire team. not kidding.

I work in sports broadcasting for a major international player, and I can tell you that there is absolutely NO WAY this would ever happen.  broadcasters and sponsors would riot, with advertisers pulling their ads, sponsors pulling out of contracts, and broadcasters demanding a renegotiation of the broadcast rights fee were this to actually happen, and they most certainly would be successful.  this would mean lost revenue for all opponant schools, and yeah you get the picture.  too much money is at stake for the NCAA to even consider something like this.  

Ambien and Red Bull

Butler did not beat Georgetown in 2009.  FYI.  I was at that game and the Hoyas prevailed, 72-65.

... except for this guy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Wilpon

良かったね！ホークコーチを熱心に応援しましょう！

flying in from new york city.

nothing compares to being on the field at The Stadium last year, congratulating hideki matsui the moment the yankees clinched the world series. nothing.

Yes, I did make it onto the USS Pueblo, and they made sure to show us this ridiculous propoganda video about the event.  While I think a lof of the claims that the DPRK made about the boat's transgressions were ridiculous, it is fairly certain that the boat WAS in north korean waters and was clearly involved in espionage activities.  Robert McNamara in Fog of War is even says that he believes the boat was in DPRK waters.  

in total, including my roundtrip flight to beijing (all tours to the DPRK originate from China), it ended up costing me about 4000 USD.  The trip to North Korea was 1440 Euros, and that included meals, lodging, flights to and from pyongyang, transportation, the guides, and admission to everything except the mass games which cost me an additional 80 euros. 

as for my reasons , i lived in Asia for four years, minored in Korean studies, so I have always been fascinated with the Korean peninsula/situation.  Made it to South Korea over 10 times, but had always been interested in the "other half", and after reading extensively about the country (if you're interested - Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader by Bradley Martin and The Cleanest Race - How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters by BR Myers are fantastic books on DPRK), finally made the decision to just go. 

While i certainly believe that the current regime in Pyongyang has not done much to help its people and is the cause for much of the suffering and poverty in the northern half of the peninsula, I really wanted to make my own opinion about the north rather than just relying on what a bunch of western, non-korean scholars and journalists have to say about it.  I came away from the trip still convinced that the regime has really held the country and people back, but at the same time I believe there is a sincere desire for reunification on both sides, and really makes one lament what happened in Korea right after the war... and I think the US and Russia deserve at least part of the blame for dividing and installing such polarizing regimes.  For the most part people there were very nice and friendly and much more open-minded than I had expected.  It was a great trip, and if you are interested in Korean history/culture and are willing to be open-minded about the situation, I think it is definitly a trip worth taking.

see my post below.  100% legit. took lots of pictures. i only saw what they wanted us to see so they weren't worried about us taking pictures of anything sensitive. 

hmmm.... its my first time making one of these, but they all show up on my computer when i view the diary entry... not sure what the problem might be.  anyone have any ideas?

Mich/OSU in November at The Shoe.  First time to Columbus.  Pumped, but praying I make it back alive.

i was there! bummer of a game, but that stadium is beautiful.....

i have mostly baseball jerseys, but here you go:

Michigan Football - Steven Threet #10 (Adidas Home)

Michigan Football - Chad Henne #7 (Nike Home)

Michigan Football - Mike Hart #20 (Nike Away)

New York Yankees - Hideki Matsui # 55 (Authentic Home 2008 - Signed)

New York Yankees - Alex Rodriguez # 13 (Authentic Home 2008)

New York Yankees - Joe Dimaggio # 5 (Replica)

New York Yankees - Away Jersey (Authentic 1999)

Detroit Tigers - Todd Jones # 59 (Replica Home 2006)

Washington Nationals - Away Jersey (Replica 2005)

Boston Red Sox - Daisuke Matsuzaka # 18 (Authentic Away 2008 - w/ Opening Series Japan Patch)

Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks (NPB) - Away Jersey (Replica 2007)

Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks (NPB) - Home Jersey (Replica 2007)

Tokyo Yomiuri Giants (NPB) - Marc Kroon #42 (Authentic Away Alternate 2009)

Tokyo Yomiuri Giants (NPB) - Seung Yeop Lee #25 (Authentic Home 2008)

Hanshin Tigers (NPB) - Craig Brazell #67 (Authentic Home 2009)

Hanshin Tigers (NPB) - Kyuji Fujikawa #22 (Authentic Home 2007)

Chunichi Dragons (NPB) - Masahiro Araki #2 (Replica Home 2009)

Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters (NPB) - Away Alternate (Replica 2009)

Hiroshima Toyo Carp (NPB) - Marty Brown #71 (Authentic Home 2009)

Saitama Seibu Lions (NPB) - Away (Authentic 2009)

Rebublic of Korea - 2006 World Baseball Classic Jersey (Authentic 2006)

Doosan Bears (KBO) - Lee Won-Seok #48 (Authentic 2009)

LG Twins (KBO) - Home (Replica 2009)

As for jerseys I want, I really really want an Eiji Sawamura #14 Replica Yomiuri Giants jersey. 

Worcester.

non-michigan related, but as a member of the sports media, i was lucky enough to be on the field at yankee stadium last season the minute after the yankees clinched in game six. my favorite keepsake from that is a half-eaten bag of sunflower seeds i got from the dugout.

nice.

1.) Ohio State
2.) Boston Red Sox
3.) The People's Republic of China
4.) Syracuse
5.) Villanova
6.) New England Accents
7.) Natto (fermented soy-bean... its gross, trust me)
8.) Michigan State
9.) Anything from Filthidelphia/Pennsyltucky
10.) Seafood

http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=5646923

1/2 irish, 3/8 polish, and 1/8th lithuanian.

now residing in fukuoka, japan.

no mexicans, but quite a bit of wanna-be cholos -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDAaNs3Vb4c

just pointin out that spellings of names can and do change in some languages. my name's edward but in Japanese it becomes edowaado, and in chinese it becomes even more busted.

favorite album by DJ Krush.

been reading for a year and a half now. forget exactly how i stumbled across mgoblog, but I think I heard it mentioned somewhere in the freep's user comments (i know.. i know..)

picture is from the front of the georgetown basketball student t-shirts (georgetown grad & basketball fan)

not alumni, but transfered to gtown after freshman year (would have been LS&A 07 if i had stayed). Now living in Fukuoka, Japan. Oh and this blog is a godsend as it is unbelievably hard to get football news out here.

Best -

2008 Capital One Bowl
2004 Michigan State
2003 Ohio State

Worst -

2001 Ohio State

GEORGETOWN!!!!! (alma mater)

how about that patriot league?

"Enter Sandman" when Mo enters from the 'pen.

honestly? you're in new york and you want jimmy johns?!?!?!?! there are a plethora of other much more delicious options for subs out there.

new jersey is a million times better than ohio. at least in New Jersey NYC, Philly, and DC are a stones throw away. Oh and Trenton/Camden is the greatest city ever.

Pomfret School (CT) Class of 2003

University of Michigan 2003-2004
(Transferred after freshman year)

Georgetown University Class of 2007

My highschool sucked at football (Hockey was huge)

concur. something like that irishenvy one would be great. this is the best site for michigan news in my opinion, and would be even greater with a message board facelift.

hear hear. bunch of scumbag coke-addicts.

It's not up there yet, but it should be soon.

http://mgovideo.com/

duh.

the giants are better. BIG BLUE!

i didn't bother to check but does the MDen carry them? I live in Japan and they've shipped me stuff before.

whether this is fact or not, i would think even the slightest mention of this possibility in the mainstream media cannot help us in recruiting. if you were a recruit considering michigan and then heard this, it would have to make you waver a bit. maybe im wrong, I hope I am wrong, but this is not good - even if its completely false.

i totally agree.

as in "the Ohio State University"

thanks for the info... wasn't quite sure about the broadcasting situation (I guess I could have looked it up...), but I'm a bit more relieved knowing that its going to air on ABC now.  Praying to god I get that game, or my Japanese neighbors are going to be in for quite a surpirse at 2 am when I am screaming like a mad hen at my computer in profane english.