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msf · « **Reply #200 on:** February 22, 2012, 07:46:07 pm »

I hear ya Dave, I hear ya. That is what I am afraid of.

WshflThinking · « **Reply #201 on:** February 22, 2012, 08:25:52 pm »

Quote from: dave23 on February 22, 2012, 10:19:44 am

That kind of thinking is what brought Tic Price to Memphis...

Don't be stupid...

Right, just be smart

AndyMacFAIL · « **Reply #202 on:** February 26, 2012, 01:02:09 am »

Rose signs 'lifetime' contract with Adidas
Deal reportedly worth $260 million

By K.C. Johnson, Chicago Tribune reporter - 10:53 p.m. CST, February 25, 2012

ORLANDO, Fla. — Two months after signing a five-year, $95 million contract extension with the Bulls, Derrick Rose has really struck it rich.

Rose said he signed a "lifetime" contract with Adidas, which a source confirmed is for 14 years and $260 million. CSNChicago.com first reported that figure.

"Man, it's definitely a blessing," Rose said. "They've been with me since the beginning and stuck with me and I'm happy I'm a part of them for the rest of my life. They've been doing everything promotional-wise to make sure they put me out there, marketing me great all over the world. That's all I needed from them."

more at: http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/basketball/bulls/ct-spt-0226-bits-bulls-all-star-chicago--20120226,0,7611985.story

AndyMacFAIL · « **Reply #203 on:** February 28, 2012, 04:54:09 pm »

Junior Hockey on Cusp of a Revolution: Trying to Stop Fighting

By JOHN BRANCH - Published: February 27, 2012

FRESNO, Calif. — Viewing fighting as a safety issue in light of increasing concussion research, and unwilling to wait for the National Hockey League to propose changes, USA Hockey and Hockey Canada are seriously considering rules that would effectively end fighting in nonprofessional leagues as soon as next season.

The rules would apply to dozens of leagues stretching from near the Arctic Circle to south Texas. Even the three top junior leagues in Canada, major fight-friendly feeder systems to the N.H.L., are considering immediate ways to make fighting a rarity, not an expectation.

“The appetite is there,” said David Branch, the president of the Canadian Hockey League, which oversees the Ontario Hockey League, the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and the Western Hockey League. “The time is certainly right to move forward.”

Hockey has long been a rare team sport that widely condones the interruption of a game so two or more players can trade punches. But for boys starting at age 16 or so, from the rough-and-tumble junior leagues to the N.H.L., fighting has usually been minimally penalized (often with five minutes in the penalty box) and thus widely practiced, condoned, even celebrated.

That may change soon. The increased recognition of the long-term dangers of brain trauma, across all sports, has forced hockey’s leaders to consider ways to reduce blows to the head.

more at: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/28/sports/hockey/fighting-in-amateur-hockey-leagues-may-be-on-way-out.html?_r=1&ref=sports

josephc · « **Reply #204 on:** February 28, 2012, 05:10:25 pm »

Hmm.... It'll take a long time to take the fighting culture out of the game.

I have MANY thoughts on this, but no time right now. I'm sorry to keep you all waiting on pins and needles, but I'll try to formulate some cohesive thoughts and string them together in a post soon.

WshflThinking · « **Reply #205 on:** February 28, 2012, 05:13:55 pm »

Take as long as you like. I can wait a long time.

Fury · « **Reply #206 on:** February 29, 2012, 12:30:02 pm »

Fighting in hockey is idiotic and detracts from the game action.

aka Loveland · « **Reply #207 on:** February 29, 2012, 02:39:50 pm »

All it takes is international rules at the Olympics and it's gone, Mere seconds.

josephc · « **Reply #208 on:** February 29, 2012, 02:42:47 pm »

Now take those half dozen Olympic games, add 82 more (regular season), and another 4~28, complete with the year's worth of emotional build-up / incidents building up.

You'll get a lot more stick swinging, guys taking head shots / cheap shots at star players, etc.

Also, this happened in a "no fighting" format:

ISF · « **Reply #209 on:** March 02, 2012, 02:48:30 pm »

Thank jah:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/breaking/chi-report-lowery-out-at-siu-20120302,0,6366311.story

msf · « **Reply #210 on:** March 02, 2012, 04:44:15 pm »

I gotta think Weber may end up back there

BlackSox · « **Reply #211 on:** March 08, 2012, 02:28:11 pm »

Illini to hire Reggie Theus?

msf · « **Reply #212 on:** March 08, 2012, 06:29:53 pm »

Hope not, I honestly doubt it.

WshflThinking · « **Reply #213 on:** March 09, 2012, 09:44:09 pm »

Now where is Shoeless hiding now that Weber has been fired?

ISF · « **Reply #214 on:** March 13, 2012, 03:45:45 pm »

Brandon Marshall is a Bear:

http://espn.go.com/chicago/nfl/story/_/id/7682163/2012-nfl-free-agency-miami-dolphins-trade-brandon-marshall-chicago-bears

WshflThinking · « **Reply #215 on:** March 13, 2012, 08:20:24 pm »

Hopefully "Super Mario" will be too.

ISF · « **Reply #216 on:** March 21, 2012, 02:09:28 pm »

Was Shaka Smart to say no?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/college/chi-shaka-smart-illinois-basketball-20120321,0,2903156.story

WshflThinking · « **Reply #217 on:** March 21, 2012, 03:45:01 pm »

Figured that was coming

msf · « **Reply #218 on:** March 21, 2012, 04:51:19 pm »

I heard his middle name is "notso"

WshflThinking · « **Reply #219 on:** March 22, 2012, 05:39:22 pm »

I heard he is from Wisconsin and hates Illinois

AndyMacFAIL · « **Reply #220 on:** March 22, 2012, 09:43:24 pm »

Real Madrid building $1 billion resort island in the United Arab Emirates

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/soccer-dirty-tackle/real-madrid-building-1-billion-resort-island-united-170935374.html

msf · « **Reply #221 on:** March 29, 2012, 02:19:47 pm »

Extremely happy with John Groce being named new Illini hoops coach. A coach who wants an athletic team to get after em on D and attack on offense with dribble or pass penetration and kick outs for 3-pointers. How refreshing.

BlackSox · « **Reply #222 on:** March 29, 2012, 03:00:58 pm »

How does one pronounce his last name? "Gross" (like Grace but with an O), or "Gro-chee" (as in rhymes with Jim Croce)?

msf · « **Reply #223 on:** March 30, 2012, 07:36:23 am »

Gross is how it is pronounced, watched his presser, more like Self than Weber, that is for sure. I think we are going to really like this guy.

AndyMacFAIL · « **Reply #224 on:** March 31, 2012, 05:34:17 pm »

Examining Fans’ Rights to Jeer at Games

By BILL PENNINGTON - New York Times - Published: March 28, 2012

At a North Carolina State men’s basketball game last month, the former Wolfpack stars Tom Gugliotta and Chris Corchiani were ejected from the arena — at the request of a referee — for protesting the officials’ calls. Gugliotta and Corchiani were seated behind the scorer’s table, and officials from both teams and others seated nearby said neither one used vulgarity or threatened the referees.

But in a game hosted by a public university, the episode raised a rarely asked question: Is a fan’s protest — known in some sports law circles as fan speech or cheering speech — a form of expression protected by the First Amendment?

In other words, do fans have the right to bellow at referees all game long, as long as they do not run on the court or menace the officials? Even if the fan is seated in the front row and the referee can hear every word?

The question is apparently still open to debate, despite more than 150 years of American public sporting events. Legal experts say few precedent-setting court rulings deny, interpret or establish a fan’s right to rail at a referee. Hostile or excessively disorderly fan behavior is not tolerated by security officials at games, or for the most part by the court system, because it is deemed dangerous or disruptive to the group. But in the middle of a sporting event as fervent as the N.C.A.A. tournament, with passionate crowds and high stakes, what exactly defines disruptive?

“It isn’t yelling or screaming; that is part of the game,” said Howard Wasserman, a law professor at Florida International University who has been writing about fan behavior and the First Amendment since 2001. “For better or worse, you’re allowed to go to a sporting event and express yourself just as you’re allowed to go to a political rally and say what you want.

red more: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/29/sports/examining-fans-rights-to-jeer-at-games.html?_r=1