I don't think it's necessary to do away with sudden death... the problem is that a team that gets the ball on its 30 yard line only needs to advance the ball 40 yards in order to be in field goal range of any kicker.

So get rid of the field goal in overtime. To win, you need to score a touchdown (or a safety, which will be a rare case). Field goals don't count.

As we've seen with someone like Condoleezza Rice, for a woman in higher office, sexuality is scrutinized as much as policymaking.

This is a bad joke, right?

If Condoleeza weren't working for the most incompetent president of all time and doing a lousy job herself (example: she was present at the briefing regarding Al Qaida's plans), I don't think anyone would care if she had three arms and green skin.

Fact is, she's incompetent. The person she works for is incompetent. Her sexuality is irrelevant.

2008 can't get here fast enough.

Like Sean, I am biased towards the Mac, and I strongly recommend AppleScript as a BASIC-like language. It is versatile enough to do all manner of simple "Hello, World" apps, but it is powerful enough to allow the programmer to control other applications in extremely useful ways. In addition, AppleScript Studio allows the programmer to use AppleScript to write applications with modern GUIs.

There is plenty of information about both AppleScript and AppleScript Studio on the Apple developer site: http://developer.apple.com

Tom Dempsey's record-setting 63-yard field goal (a game-winner) was itself a fair-catch kick, although this fact is not mentioned in his Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Dempsey . (Sorry, I can't find a reference to this fact on the web.)

Anyone with a chemistry background will recognize that this is about as likely as polywater: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywater

As JRoth said, "I suppose that King doesn't need this thread to turn into a player worthiness discussion"... but as a Twins fan, I have to defend Justin Morneau as a worthy AL MVP.

The Twins were going absolutely nowhere early in the season. While Joe Mauer had been hitting well, he wasn't scoring many runs. However, once Morneau started hitting (and Liriano moved to the starting rotation), the Twins started playing excellent ball. They spotted a double-digit game lead to TWO teams, and won the division anyway.

I know that Jeter got a lot of support for MVP, and I honestly don't remember who King supported (whether it was Jeter or even Joe Mauer). But Mauer and Jeter got their lofty batting averages as (mostly) singles hitters, and their performances didn't really affect their teams. However, Morneau's sudden burst (and sustenance) of production led DIRECTLY to the Twins shaking off the cobwebs and tearing off long winning streaks.

That's what makes a player valuable... to me, at least.

Teams that make the BCS bowls– and the conferences that those teams are in– get the tall dollars from those bowl games. So what incentive do they have of getting their members to play difficult games?

For instance, suppose the ACC and Big 12 unilaterally formed an agreement to have their best teams play each other. (Don't hold your breath.) Half of those top teams would end up with a loss, and if they then lost another game along the way, there goes their BCS bid, and both the school and their conference would lose money, as would the other teams in those conferences. (Of course, the evil that is the BCS gets some of the blame here; what else is new?)

Only if the NCAA steps in and FORCES top teams to play each other will we see top teams play each other before conference play begins. Given how long it took them to implement the terribly flawed BCS, that should be, oh, 50 years or so...

It's definitely a puzzling choice when you consider that, each of the last few seasons, Favre has jerked around the Green Bay Packers and their fans, holding them hostage while he and the media do their pointless "will he or won't he" dance.

"Embodies the spirit of sportsmanship and achievement"? Give me a break.

My first choice in the primary was Bill Richardson, and my second was John Edwards. After it became clear that neither of them would win, though, I was ambivalent about my choice between Clinton and Obama.

What eventually made me cast my lot behind Obama was that Hillary was never able to admit that she was wrong about voting for the Iraq war resolution. Eight years of a leader who can't admit he was wrong is plenty for me.

I admit that this is awfully late in the cycle to explain my choice, but I'm really sick of all the Hillary camp's whining. All the votes have been counted. Hillary has even endorsed Obama. And yet there still seems to be a refusal to get behind Obama and make sure there isn't another four years of republitard rule.

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To expand on MacK's point about the victims having to pay for rape kits in Wasilla, here is a link to a discussion about the (very high) per capita number of sex offenders in Wasilla and Alaska in general:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6988705

http://kdka.com/local/attack.McCain.Bloomfield.2.847628.html

"The Constitution is the law. Period."

The authority, Snopes, has an article on it:

http://www.snopes.com/travel/airline/toilet.asp

In addition, Mythbusters also completely busted this myth.

Pardon the expression, but *flush*.

So what exactly IS your pick, King? Or do you think it will be a tie?

I know it isn't an iPhone app, but the web monkeys at ESPN.com put together a good interface for iPhone users. I haven't used any of the apps from the article, but if I want to get the basketball scores and I'm not near my computer, ESPN's iPhone site is a simple way of getting the information I want.