http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/ncaa/

Sports Illustrated doesn't put its top story in BOLD print. More 'cover up' in the world of crime.

No doubt, Holmgren will have something to say to the Hawks offense about coming out lazily in the 2nd half and allowing themselves to be pushed around by the Cards D. That forced the Seahawks defense to close the game out for the Hawks -- not the scenario you're expecting to rely on -- which, fortunately, they did. This same scenario won't cut it next week when the Giants are in town.

And Brad, if Jeff Reed does do it for your FF team tonight, will it constitute the beginnings of a foot fetish for you?

Brad:

Just wait till October 1. That's the night the Seahawks play the Bears, and I'm predicting Bears win 21-6. Want me to liveslog it from a bar in Chicago?

Bill

Lloyd: Maybe so Last year Arizona kicker Neil Rackers was my top scorer. I think it's safe to say I'm not very good at this whole FF thing.

Bill: 21-6? Don't let Grossman's 4 TDs yesterday cloud your vision.

By "world of crime", I assume you're referring to the NCAA itself?

Brad:

It's not the 4 TDs: it's the 4 TDs to 4 different receivers. Our tight ends lost some weight and remembered how to catch. We have two deep threats. Hard to defend an offense with that much flexibility.

But Grossman will probably blow out his knee sometime in the next 13 days, so you're probably right.

Bill

At least you're not down by 40 with only your defense to play tonight.

It seemed like a good idea at the time to draft Shaun Alexander first, Steve Smith second, Clinton Portis third, and Terrell Owens fifth.

That Husky win was HUGE.

Hooray for the return of the sports report! You're wrong about the Husky win, though...it was BEAUTIFUL. If I could make sweet love to it, I would.

Washington State won as well—if you care about that sort of thing.

:) The most grudging acknowlegment ever.

Go Cougs!

Bill, remember you are talking about REX FREAKING GROSSMAN and the Chicago Bears here. Very impressive showing yesterday, but I'm putting my money on fate intervening yet again and keeping Chicago as the little team that could(n't).

And thank you Eli Manning for your performance on my ff team yesterday. Some day I may just drink a toast to your whiny hillbilly ass.

P.S. to The Seahawks "O"... each game is four quarters. Try showing up for each one. It’ll help with the whole "winning" thing when you play good teams.

Down 11 with the kicker to go is not as dire a position as you make it out to be (depending on your league scoring of course) Just hope for some good red zone defense and a good wind. 11 is very doable for a kicker.

We will never be rid of George Bush and his frat-boy style of government while people still care about major league football games. The revolution will not be franchised.

Dear Gurldoggie:

Not only will the Revolution not be franchised, it won't be. Period.

By the by, did you vote for Nader in 2000? If so, thanks for George and his frat boys. Especially if you lived in Florida at the time.

Cheers

Bill

@12 -- it is if your kicker misses four field goals, lol.

I'm not sure if the oversight was intentional, but you failed to mention the M's announcement of Fan Appreciation Night (Fri 9/29) and Kids Appreciation Day (Sun 10/1).

Ha-ha, ok. Well, for those who still care, the 10/1 game is the final game of the season. I shall attend, if only to see how far I can move down, seats-wise. And -- not to be too optimistic -- the M's still have a shot at acheiving their goal of playing .500 ball this season. They're 7 games under, with 13 games left, 9 of which are against the Rangers and A's.

Don't get rid of Beltre. And finish strong, M's!

I think (hope) you're being sarcastic Gurldoggie, but for those who feel that way... GASP, people can enjoy sports and be involved in politics
(even lefty liberal ones) at the same time. I know crazy isn't it?

That Noam Chomsky thinking, that people aren't intelligent enough to engage in entertainment and politics, is classist bullshit at its worst.

Nice new "Sports" logo, btw. I kinda miss sports-related stuff going under "homo".

Pope:

Right on. Me, personally, as a Cubs and Bears season ticket holder who also subscribes to eight different theatres, hate the bullshit idea that any interest in sports means one is an idiot.

I actually think that the Revolution won't happen till Kids These Days, like Gurldoggie, stop wasting their time and brain cells on the tattoos and piercings and indie movies and live music that distracts them from forming revolutionary cells and arming to Fight the Man.

Go Bears.

Bill

Corporate sports is what makes America great. Those islamo-fucks can't stop our football games, or our baseball games. Liberal bitches like girldoggie need to wake up, step into a locker room and smell the jock strap.

...crickets.

Football rocks. There, I said it. I'm also a liberal who frequents hipster clubs, listens to edgy music, has a tattoo. FWIW...I'm also very active in local politics, and care about the environment, indie movies and theater.

We need to start the leftist-liberal football appreciation club. :-) I'm tired of hiding in my apartment when I want to watch a football game.

I'm completey serious about the inherent facism of football.

Football is theatre for the masses, encouraging every work-a-day Joe to succumb to glories of national identity while engaging in a proxy battle. Every weekend there are some 3,000,000 people watching football games, along with the people who don't watch but are interested in it.

Football is a very effective way to reach mass society, by people actually watching the games, or by reading the sports pages, or listening to other people talk about it. Across the country people are eager to fit in. The national league creates a sense of national identity that borders on religious fanaticism. The State encourages this identity by granting media monopolies to the NFL. The President talks up football at news conferences, and makes a point of standing with the winners every year at the Superbowl.

And just like in a fascist state, victory, and the propaganda opportunity that it provides, is the be-all and end-all. Winning is absolutely and completely important. Football teams and political parties are best when they are ruthless about using players and tactics.

I've got no tolerance for any of it. We will not be free of fascist politics if we surrender to the inanities of football. It all must be stopped.

Winning is everything in everything, not just sports. Football is no more fascist than any other contest, be it American Idol or Olympic curling or who Rings the Most on Friday night at the Comet.

Winning, for instance, in politics--hey, isn't that what you want in your revolution? To win? Does that make you a fascist?

wtf? i'm a gay, pinko, leftist and all, but fuck you gurldoggie. Florida football is the greatest possible way to spend a saturday, especially when it's a come from behind win against Tennessee.
unfortunately, my alma mater fell short. furman, a Div 1AA team, fell just short against UNC. so close, yet so far away.

Gurldoggie you need to be gang fucked by a Football team, then you'd appreciate how awesome sports are in America. Everyone in America fucking loves football. It's healthy, it's fun, and it's the best way to hang out with your friends. Your political theories about sports are sophomore level bullshit. Seattle is a football and sports loving town and The Stranger is THE newspaper for sportslovers. Dan Savage has season tickets to Mariners. Anti-sports lesbian bitches should read some other publication.

The only thing that fuels pro sports is the thousands who gladly pay for tickets and satellite TV to watch them. The demand fuels the supply.

The Huskies are just getting their two wins in early before laying another egg against the Pac 10. Fresno State ain't much and neither is San Jose State. Plus, Isaiah Stanback is overrated and a poor man's poor man's Michael Vick. Teams will figure out his schtick and he'll be back to making embarrassingly bad plays in the clutch in no time.

Don't thump your chests yet, chronically drunk Cougar fans: your team isn't all that great, either. Enjoy your 9-7 win at FumbleFest 06 ERRRR the Apple Cup.

The Mariners... the big name that gets dealt this offseason won't be Beltre... but Sexson. You heard it here first. Also, expect the Mariners' blockbuster signing of the winter to be Japanese pitching ace Daisuke Matsuzaka. That kid is absolutely amazing and will make Hideo Nomo look like Joel Pineiro.

Also, how about half the Duquesne basketball team getting shot? Man, what a tough break. That team came off a bad 3024 season and got a veritable All Star team of good players on bleh teams (including Hakeem Olajuwon's nephew, IIRC) to transfer over, so this was gonna be a breakout year for that team. And many of them were among those shot.

Best wishes for a full recovery and apprehension of the suspect(s).

3024 should read 3-24, as in 3 wins, 24 losses.

Hope so, Gomez. I like Sexon just fine, but when I see Beltre -- after the team's out of contention -- in the dugout chewing on Betancourt for getting thrown out at third after unwisely trying to stretch a 2 rbi double, that's a guy I love on our team. He plays the right way -- up or down, and he's good for the kids.

Not to mention The Slide into second to break up the double play, bracketed by his two hr's to beat the Yankees at Safeco after that horrible road trip. I vote for Beltre.