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6 weeks 14 hours ago And ruin his chances for a

And ruin his chances for a medical redshirt? 

 

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15 weeks 1 day ago Damn, beat me to it.  I'll

Damn, beat me to it.  I'll add Doug Dutch, (WR), Kyle Ealey (TE, Baraka's roommate), Alex Mitchell (OL), Jeff Zuttah (OL), Brett Gallimore (OL), Justin Schifano (OL), Jim Presley (LB)
1 year 33 weeks ago It's not as though the

It's not as though the Indians were all gung ho about changing the name.  Most locals consider it to have been a political power play.  Not exactly a passionate fight by an overwhelming majority to change the name and exorcise their colonial demons. 

But their (Indian cities) renaming was not without controversy. Opinion polls at the time suggested local people were divided over the renaming.

"The weather will be just as sultry in Chennai as it used to be in Madras. But are we Indians so insecure in our independence that we still need to prove to ourselves that we are free?" asked Indian writer and UN diplomat Shashi Tharoor in a newspaper column in 2002.

Other commentators suggested it was a populist measure by local politicians.

2 years 13 weeks ago Doesn't NBC realize that by

Doesn't NBC realize that by delaying it they're just removing all the suspense from the prime time broadcast? This isn't Atlanta in '96 where everybody was clueless as to the results until whenever NBC decided to show them.

2 years 30 weeks ago Look, I'm not even

Look, I'm not even complaining. I just...I had to tell somebody.
2 years 30 weeks ago Saw Woodson in Fishbones in

Saw Woodson in Fishbones in January of '98 during the auto show. Got his autograph one of the car brochures, but whatever material it was didn't let the ink soak in and you can hardly see it anymore.

Also, my best friend from high school lived down the hall from Kelly Baraka and Kyle Ealey in '01. Talk about unmet potential. Too bad.
2 years 33 weeks ago I think the reason

I think the reason Northwestern is so far ahead is that no matter how many times they "upset" teams that are favored to win, people fail to give them the requisite respect, falling back on the "oh, it's just silly little Northwestern" mantra. I see Northwestern constantly singled out on message boards as a team that "doesn't belong" and "can't cut it" in the Big Ten. The reality is that, over the past 15 years or so, the Northwestern team people continue to expect to be awful has instead been average, with a few above average teams mixed in, including 3 Big Ten title teams.

2 years 33 weeks ago No, Mr. Intensity (you really

No, Mr. Intensity (you really are intense, aren't you), I do not think "others should grant them some credence than being more than (my) experiences". What I think is that others should grant the exact amount of credence appropriate for the experiences I've had. My OPINION, based on extensive time spent in developing countries, reactions received from Americans when they learn about the places I've been, and conversations with people in the tourism industry the world over - people who interact with thousands and thousands of tourists every year, is that A) as a proportion of population, Americans don't travel nearly as much as people from many other (not all) developed countries, and B) that ONE of (not the only) reasons for that is that many (not all) Americans have unsubstantiated fears about safety in developing countries.

Look, I'm not saying anything revolutionary here. Enough with the veiled insults and contrived exasperation.

2 years 33 weeks ago Small, but still significant

Small, but still significant and far larger than the number of Americans who do the same.
2 years 33 weeks ago I didn't say "all" or "none".

So, based on your post, we should never form opinions or hypotheses unless we do a large-scale targeted study? Shit, I guess we just debunked 99% of MGoBoard. It's over people. There's not point to us being here anymore.

I didn't say "all" or "none". I said more than comparative populations in other developed countries, specifically those in Europe. And I sure as heck never claimed to be God. Where in the world did that come from?

This is not, "I went to such and such a country this one time for a few days and there weren't many Americans there so clearly this means Americans are scared to travel."

This is, "I've spent significant periods of my life abroad and my observations, combined with those of hundreds of other travelers and locals I met, indicated a distinct trend in the way Americans travel (or don't)."

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