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Here are the top two games of the college football scene for this week. 9/12 Friday, 8 PM ET #12 Kansas Jayhawks @ #19 South Florida Bulls A premier matchup of two teams wanting to prove they belong in the football scene now. Kansas will be trying prove their outstanding season last year is no fluke while South Florida wants to make a legit claim to being the Big East team to beat with loss of West Virginia. Look for this to be a higher scoring game than predicted, as each team have special quarterbacks in Todd Reesing (KU) and Matt Grothe (USF). But KU has the better defense and returns a highly experienced team that has been tested last year. So with that said, Kansas will win this game 31-27. 9/13 Saturday, 8 PM PM ET #4 Ohio State Buckeyes @ #2 USC Trojans A great treat we get this weekend as the Buckeyes travel to the Colisuem to take on the Trojans in this clash of titans. Stingy defenses, high powered offenses, what more could you ask for in a championship atmosphere game. USC however, has the advantage, getting to rest its players an extra week more than Ohio State, who doesn't have a 100 percent Chris Wells. USC also never loses these type of games at home, and has had more prep time. Still, Ohio State is as talented as USC and has a great coach as well. We finally get to see a Pete Carroll team face off against a Jim Tressel team. This game will a back and forth slugfest and should not be decided until the final minutes. I am going to give USC the nod, a 28-24 victory over the Buckeyes.
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Winning teams in bold: Washington @ New York Giants Detroit @ Atlanta Seattle @ Buffalo Jacksonville @ Tennesse New York Jets @ Miami Kansas City @ New England Tampa Bay @ New Orleans St. Louis @ Philadelphia Houston @ Pittsburgh Cincinnati @ Baltimore Dallas @ Cleveland Carolina @ San Diego Arizona @ San Francisco Chicago @ Indianapolis Monday Night Games: Denver @ Oakland Minnesota @ Green Bay Notables: Donovan McNabb, Plaxico Burress My teams: 1-2, Seattle lost, Pittsburgh won. Minnesota lost.
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My running times improved a great deal over the last track seasons, though it never really hit me how much. My mile time was fairly low, but I had nothing to compare it to, as I hadn't run the mile in track before. With my second cross-country season here, I have a meter with which to compare my times. If we divide my current 5,000-metre time from this year by two, it is smaller than my best 2,500-metre time from last year. I'm keeping better pace for twice the distance.I'm running my 5K in a time of 21:19, which is about 6:53 per mile. My best mile track time from this last Spring was 6:10. I'm keeping a somewhat similar pace for thrice as long!
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Week 1 is done with and here is my week 2 top 25 poll. 1. Georgia Bulldogs 1-0 2. USC Trojans 1-0 3. Ohio State Buckeyes 1-0 4. Texas Longhorns 1-0 5. Missouri Tigers 1-0 6. Florida Gators 1-0 7. West Virginia Mountaineers 1-0 8. Oklahoma Sooners 1-0 9. Auburn Tigers 1-0 10. LSU Tigers 1-0 11. Texas Tech Red Raiders 1-0 12. Kansas Jayhawks 1-0 13. Arizona State Sun Devils 1-0 14. BYU Cougars 1-0 15. Wisconsin Badgers 1-0 16. Alabama Crimson Tide 1-0 17. South Florida Bulls 1-0 18. Penn State Nittany Lions 1-0 19. Wake Forest Demon Deacons 1-0 20. Illinois Fightin' Illini 0-1 21. Oregon Ducks 1-0 22. Clemson Tigers 0-1 23. Nebraska Cornhuskers 1-0 24. Utah Utes 1-0 25. Virginia Tech Hokies 0-1 Receiving consideration: Oklahoma State, Fresno State, and UCLA
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Well, this weekend, the NFL season starts. So with that said, in the next few days, my NFC and AFC previews will be coming along, which will include an NFL power poll, predictions, break down of the AFC and NFC conferences, a game of the week preview, and a little surprise for those who are football fans. So stay tuned... Another note: Later on today, this weeks College game of the week preview will be up. ~Da Mista Mike, BZPower's Football Guru~
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Well, the first week of college football is pretty much in the books. (18th ranked Tennessee plays at UCLA on Monday). So here are the results. My week 2 poll will be released Tuesday with the conclusion of the game mentioned earlier. 1. Georgia won over Georgia Southern 45-21. Not surprising, Georgia dominated the whole game, with most of Southern's points coming in garbage time against Georgia's bench. 2. Ohio State won over Youngstown State 43-0. Ohio State won easily, but at what expense? They lost Chris Wells, who is a Heisman trophy candidate and will be muchly needed for their game against USC. Hopefully he will be able to bounce back. 3. USC won over Virginia 52-7. Wow. No team goes to Virginia and just completely pounds the Cavaliers into the ground. This team looks awfully good right now. 4. Missouri won over #19 Illinois 52-42. Missouri's offense is no doubt elite. The defense has some big problems though, giving up over 450 yards of offense to Illinois and 42 points. That will need to be fixed quick if they want any hope of making it to the national championship game through the treacherous Big XII Conference. And the loss of Maclin is a huge concern, who is no doubt Mizzou's game breaker. 5. Texas won over Florida Atlantic 52-10. Texas made a clear statement today. They are back. After a shaky first half on defense, while the offense was perfect, in the 2nd half, Texas defense stuffed Florida Atlantic's superb passing offense, which comes a season after Texas' pass defense was a laughing stock. And this young secondary just got tested to the max this week. In a couple of weeks, this team will be the team NO ONE will want to play. 6. Florida won over Hawaii 56-10. Florida looked crisp today. The offense was amazing, the defense was swarming. If they play like this every week, they will be unstoppable. 7. West Virginia won over Villanova 48-21 Pat White led his team to victory, tossing 5 touchdown passes. The Mountaineers offense hasn't lost its touch and the defense is solid. Will they break through this year? 8. Oklahoma won over Chattanooga 57-2 Oklahoma shows its offensive power and suffocating defense. They may be the 2nd best team in the Big 12, and its not 2nd to Missouri. 9. Auburn won over Louisiana-Monroe 34-0 Auburn's defense remains superb despite losing Will Muschamp as defensive coordinator and the offense looks good. But they are stuck in the SEC. The Supreme Epic Conference, with as many legendary match ups this season. 10. Clemson lost to #23 Alabama 10-34 Goodbye national title hopes. 11. LSU won over Appalachian State 41-13 LSU wasn't allowing a repeat of what happened to Michigan last year. 12. Texas Tech won over Eastern Washington 49-24 Where is that improved defense? 13. Kansas won over Florida International 40-10 Looks like last year was no fluke 14. Arizona State won over Northern Arizona 30-13 Arizona State struggled quite a bit. Don't look like defending conference champs. Maybe they are still getting their heads cleared from the crushing they got from Texas in the Holiday Bowl. 15. BYU won over Northern Iowa 41-17 They looked like the solid choice for BCS Busters, until Utah won at the Big House. The Mountain West is in for a wild wild season. 16. Wisconsin won over Akron 38-17 Looks to ride on the legs of PJ Hill, one the best running backs in the nation the past 2 years. 17. South Florida won over Tennessee-Martin I see another Big East challenger. They do have West Virginia's number, winning 2 straight against them. 18. Tennessee @ UCLA, Monday 19. Illinois lost to #6 Missouri 42-52 Tough loss for Illinois, but they are a legit team, just need to improve on defense, the offense is just fine. 20. Virginia Tech lost to East Carolina 22-27 How dissapointing, they are supposed to be the ACC's next best team outside of Clemson. 21. Penn State won over Coastal Carolina 66-10 The Nittany Lions look to hunt down Ohio State for the Big 10 title. 22. Wake Forest won over Baylor 41-13 This now looks like the best team in the ACC. 23. Alabama won over #10 Clemson 34-10 Can the SEC get any tougher? Oh wait, it just did. Here comes a rising tide. 24. Oregon won over Washington 44-10 The uniforms always will look hideous, but with the way they play, they at least are able to make themselves look good. 25. Nebraska won over Western Michigan 47-24 Now that is more like Nebraska football. Still not lookin' like Blackshirts yet though.
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Here is part one. Picking up the bottom half of my top 10, we start off with... 6. Florida Gators Tebow's last year? Possibly so, after already wrapping up the Heisman in his sophomore year, Tim Tebow returns with another talented Gator squad to lead his team into the 2008 season with high expectations after an average 9-4 season in which many players were young and inexperienced. That squad returns with a year under their belt in the toughest conference this past decade, and a slightly easier schedule, although that trip to SEC East opponent, Georgia, looks like it will have major implications in the national title race. If Florida has any hopes of being a title contender, they must be the team that can knock off Georgia, while run the table in the SEC for at least a 12-1 regular season. If they can manage that, they should easily find themselves in the national title game in January. Week 1 Game: Hawaii @ Florida: PREDICTION: Florida wins 48-3 7. West Virginia Mountaineers 2 words, offensive juggernaut. With Pat White and Joel Devine leading what is considered the scariest offense on the eastern coast, the Mountaineers look to lock up their 3rd Big East title in 4 years. Even with a new coach, nothing changes as the offensive coordinator took over the vacant spot left by Rich Rodriguez's bolt for Michigan. This conference is West Virginia's to lose, although they do have back to back trips against Louisville and Pittsburgh, West Virginia has the luxury of hosting South Florida in conference play. There are two games to circle on the calender though for West Virginia, the road trip to Colorado and a highly anticipated match up with Auburn, whom is making a rare far road trip. West Virginia has the tools to get to the national title, but being in a weak conference, it would take more than just running the table for them, they would need a lot of teams above them to fall if they want any hope of getting into the big game. Week 1 Game: Villanova @ West Virginia: PREDICTION: West Virginia wins 63-10 8. Oklahoma Sooners Ugh. Whether I like it or not, they are this good. A mammoth offensive line returns for the sooners, along with Sam Bradford, who broke many NCAA Freshman passing records, along with explosive running back DeMarco Murray. Despite the departure of Malcolm Kelly, the offense will remain good. As always, the matchup with the Texas is seemingly the road to the national championship and this year is no different. The advantage Oklahoma gets is that it avoids road trips to its tougher conference opponents, getting Kansas and Texas Tech at home. They go undefeated, they will be in the title game without a question, for this conference is the toughest in the country next to the SEC. Week 1 Game: Chattanooga @ Oklahoma: PREDICTION: Oklahoma wins 59-0 9. Auburn Tigers A new offense has been put in for Auburn to fully utilize its best players, which was shown during their bowl game. Even with a new starting quarterback, the Tiger defense will carry the team while the quarterback is broken in. Good thing is that the schedule plays into Auburn's hands this year, getting to host LSU, Tennessee, and Georgia, but still has to take road trips to cross-state rival, Alabama and to West Virginia, a game that can surely mix things up in the national title race. As stated above, win the SEC, you are in the national championship game. Same goes to Auburn. Week 1 Game: Louisiana-Monroe @ Auburn: PREDICTION: Auburn wins 52-3 10. Clemson Tigers The 3rd team to be ranked with Tigers as a mascot? Seems the theme this year is to stay in the hunt. And this year looks to be the year where Clemson finally gets a shot at the big prize. With a loaded offense and a talented defense, Clemson looks to be the one team in the ACC that has any hopes to get into the title game. If Clemson wants any serious consideration, they will have to be dominant and consistent week in and week out, because one loss on their schedule will eliminate them completely, with the upper teams looking to keep pace in tougher conferences where one loss is excusable. Clemson only has two tests, their season opener against Alabama and a road trip to Wake Forest, who is slowly becoming an ACC power. Week 1 Game: Alabama @ Clemson: PREDICTION: Clemson wins 27-14 The best of the rest: 11)LSU 12)Texas Tech 13)Kansas 14)Arizona State 15)BYU 16)Wisconsin 17)South Florida 18)Tennessee 19)Illinois 20)Virginia Tech 21)Penn State 22)Wake Forest 23)Alabama 24)Oregon 25)Nebraska
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Yes, yes, yes, game day is almost upon us. This year is a new year, which is going to be good (and less crazy hopefully). So with that said. My top ten poll to start the season. 1) Georgia Bulldogs Yes, everyone's unanimous number one. Who can not agree? Virtually the whole team returns along with quarterback Matt Stafford, with more to prove after being snubbed out of the championship game last season. No doubt clearly they were the best team towards the end of the season, which was capped off with a dominating 41-14 win over Hawaii in the Sugar Bowl. Even with a daunting schedule that includes road trips to South Carolina, Arizona State, Auburn, and LSU. If they take 3 of 4 of those games, including winning the rest of their games and winning the SEC, they will be in the Orange Bowl playing for the national Championship game. Week 1 Game: Georgia Southern @ Georgia: PREDICTION: Georgia wins 44-3 2)Ohio State Buckeyes 3rd time the charm? Thats what it looks like this year with Ohio State returning its young team from last season. In what looks to be Jim Tressel's most talented team in his tenure at Ohio State, a national championship is once again in reach for them. With Todd Beckham and Chris Wells returning, the offense is sure to be explosive and the defense is always tough. With the rest of their conference in transition, the only true road block they have in conference is the fightin' Illini of Illinois. And not to overlook their nonconference matchup with USC, which is no doubt the biggest nonconference game this season. Look for the winner of this game to find itself playing Georgia in the national championship game. Week 1 Game: Youngstown State @ Ohio State: PREDICTION: Ohio State wins 37-0 3)University of Southern California Trojans Another year, another new quarterback/running back tandem, still in the national title picture. That is the standard at USC, to win a national championship. Even though the program has dropped a bit since 2005's legendary squad (Even though they lost to Texas in that legendary game, had it been any other year, they would've won), they are always a talented team to be cautious of. Despite Mark Sanchez's knee injury, which seems to be healing quite well, this team is going to be powerful and will no doubt keep its iron fist clenched on the Pac-10. Other than their game with Ohio State next week, which should be a great one, USC faces no real challengers except for Arizona State and Oregon at home, which shouldn't cause too many problems for the Trojans. A Pac-10 championship and a possible national title appearance should they beat Ohio State awaits USC. Week 1 Game: USC @ Virginia: PREDICTION: USC wins 31-13 4)Missouri Tigers The number 4 team is the Misso-wait a second who are these guys? Thats right, after stock piling talent under Coach Pinkel for the past few years, the Tigers finally broke through big time last year, reaching the top ranked spot before being crushed by Oklahoma in the Big 12 championship. That team returns with some young faces but should gain the needed experience quick in what is the best first week match-up. With Chase Daniels (4306 yards passing, 33 touchdowns to 11 interceptions) returning, the offense is sure to create fire works this season in the spread-pass heavy Big 12. With only 2 true marque matchups in the conference (@Texas, Kansas in a neutral site), Missouri should easily runaway in the Big 12 North, although the game with Nebraska is a bit of a wild card game. No doubt, should they be able to run the table and go undefeated and any of the other top teams slip up, this team will find itself in the National title game for the first time in school history. Week 1 Game: Illinois @ Missouri: PREDICTION: Missouri wins 34-20 5)Texas Longhorns Mediocrity is the best way to sum up the Longhorn's efforts since their national championship in the 2005 season. 2 losses to Texas A&M in a row, including the humiliating defeat of last year where the final score wasn't even as close as it really was. So with the fire Mack Brown lit seems to have carried over very effectively, along with the additions of Will Muschamp and Major Applewhite to the coaching staff, this team has a fire in them that we haven't seen since 2005. The best players will finally play, and there will be accountability held for the players. Colt McCoy hopes to bounce back from his Sophomore slump and return the Longhorns to supremacy once again. Even with the departure of Jamaal Charles, the Longhorns remain deep as always at running back and are expected to receive big contributions from Vondrell McGee and Fozzy Whitaker. With momentum and a drive now, the Longhorns look to win the Big 12 championship and just maybe the national championship. They will have plenty of games to make statements in what is possibly the toughest conference, more so than the SEC this year. The Longhorns have games against Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Texas Tech as well as tricky trip to Colorado where the Buffs knocked off Oklahoma last year. Week 1 Game: Florida Atlantic @ Texas: PREDICTION: Texas wins 42-17 Part 2 will be coming later with bottom half of the top 10.
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My cross-country running team just finished its second annual (apparently) 200-mile relay. We run around two counties in an attempt to raise publicity and raise money for the Lance Armstrong Foundation. This year we had seven guests from another school come to run with us. Because we had nearly twice as many runners as we did last year, we decided to run the legs with two runners at a time (with some exceptions). Though it causes the time to be slower, I really enjoyed being able to ease the pain with conversation and get to know these runners better. Last year our relay brought the team closer together, and now this year it seems like we're expanding to bring the entire cross-country community in the state together. Of my four legs, only one was with someone on my team. The others were all with girls from the other school. I think I found a few new friends (along with finding out how horribly one of my teammates and I get along).
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I went to another Brewer game. This time the Brewers took on the Pirates, and came away with a sweep winning the game 11-6! It was an good afternoon, nice weather, nice breeze, and awesome game. I've given up posting the details of the games cuz I know that bores you all to death. Anyway, it really allowed me to think about something that has been on my mind, which is something I really needed. Kudos to those who know where this blog entry name is from. Kohaku
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Hopefully the Pens can pull out a win. : D
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Yo <3 el pengiunes. 3-2 OT victory today woot. : D If Dok actually liked hockey, it would be a showdown between me and him...because it's Pittsburgh and Philly in the finals.
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Mendenhall...Sweed... Booyah. : D
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I'd just like to say congratulations to Ernie Els, co-creator of the world-famous Bionismile kit, for his recent victory at the Honda Classic! Congrats Ernie!
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I'm going to the game tomorrow Anyways go Pens!
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We start with last Saturday. It was the nineteenth of April, two days after a Thursday track meet. Since the weather was finally nice, my girlfriend and I were able to go to the soon-to-be-torn-down tennis court (stupid skate park) and play a little. Apparently, I thought I needed to impress her, but that's not what I was thinking consciously. Clearly my couch knows more about me than I do. So anyway, I half succeeded in jumping over the net right at the beginning. The half that didn't succeed however, made the left side of my body get a little beaten up. Three marks: nose, chin, knuckles. As people have asked what I did I've explained with "I half succeeded in jumping over something" and they respond with "Oh, at track?" and I have to say no. So yesterday I changed all that. Since I had had no training with them, I decided not to do hurdles as I wanted to. If they were the last thing, I would say "What the heck" and do them. But where they're first I don't want to kill myself before the other races. A friend was really counting on a few new scratches, too. And I got them. Three more, all slightly worse than the others. But, it was during the 1600 run, and thankfully right at the beginning. Distance is nice because if someone falls or gets cut off, it has no huge impact in the rest of the race. So I fell in the first 10 metres. They really could have restarted for that, because it was in the first 100 metres, but whatever. This is how it happened. Apparently the guy right behind me was a little closer than I remembered, and the look over my shoulder didn't realize that. So, as much as I'd like to blame him, it really is my fault that he ended up stepping on my heels, and thus causing my to fall and roll off the track. I got my hands scraped, but no skin was taken off. They were just blackened on the rubber, and they hurt the worst. My head got a knock, but that stopped by the end of the race. The more permanent marks are to my shoulder and hip. I also got a mark on my knee, without ripping my tights! The marks in those particular places make it impossible to move anything but my neck without either pulling them or rubbing them with clothing.
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As some of you are aware I was at a Brewer game today. And as the title implies I got a ton of free stuff. However, I want to say a few things first. First, Brewers lost to the Philadelphia Phillies, score was 3-1. Second, I must congratulate member Dust. His school's choir, of which he is a member, sang the National Anthem. And I must say they did a fantastic job! *Virtual round of applause* My section was 123 at the game. And the Party Section of the Game was 122. Once again it was a section over. >_< That's the third time it's happened. On to the free stuff! Clicky! Let's see we got some: 2 U.S. Cellular washcloths2 U.S. Cellular backpack things.U.S. Cellular Lanyards with pictures. My father and I both had out picture taken.2 Chevy hats2 Associated Bank bottle things. These have an odd story. At the table they had spin the wheel game. And I got a question one. My dad spun it and got the exact same question on it. Needless to say it was an easy win. Baseball Bingo. They had a game where you circle the plays that happened in the game. One card was pretty good. The other one we only got three things circled... the entire game! Fun was had by all. Also, this. Kohaku
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So, despite that stomach ache, I managed to do so totally well (for me...that's not saying a whole lot; but it's really a sport about personal improvement anyway). I took a sixth place in the 1600 metre run, cutting 14 seconds off of my previous time. Passing one person every strait stretch seems to be a working strategy, even if you miss the 7th one. So I'll get a ribbon-y thing for that. I hadn't run an 800 metre run since last year, so I really had no sense of pace for that. I realize that if I had been thinking I could have probably taken first. But I don't really care, since I've never had my own thing to take second in except when there were two or three people. So I'll also enjoy a #2 ribbon for that! Would be #3, but my leading teammate couldn't run. And of course my 4x100m relay team did awful. I like relays, but I prefer longer relays, where the hand-offs are not significant. Plus, if you could tell already, short distance isn't my thing anyway. I was on a 4x400m team, but it got cut *shrug*. I might be able to pull a medley team together, which would rock. I'd run 800m, and I'd just need to find someone for 400m and 200m (x2). Anyway, life's good. Muscles are sore and sleep is short (I can't sleep past 9:00 anymore, and I don't go to bed early enough for that).
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There is another one today, and I'm not too thrilled with myself. My legs are all fine (OMG), but I've had this stomach ache off-and-on since 6th hour yesterday (that's 14:00). It's back now after eating breakfast so who knows what might happen later. I guess we'll have to see. I wouldn't be too happy if I ended up throwing up, but it does get attention.
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5. Or five for those of you who like words that are numbers instead of just plain numbers. The number shall be explained in this entry. I went to the Brewer Game, and saw them sweep the Giants. The Brewers are now 5-1. They also had the Prince Fielder bobble head, we got one of him in his standard jersey and in the pinstrip jersey. The latter being rare. Then we had to get a Ryan Braun Rookie of the Year Bobble head... searched three of the shops found it in the third... they had five left. There is limited number, 2007 of them. The one we have is number 191. Plus... if you know me the number five is a lucky number for me... I'm sure by looking at my profile you can see why. Kohaku
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It's baseball season, and well like always, I will blog about the Brewers. I figured I'd give a list of the games I'll be attending, of course the list is subject to change. All games are at Miller Park. Date - Team - Time of Game (Central Time) 4/6/08 - San Francisco Giants - 1:05 6/1/08 - Houston Astros - 1:05 6/22/08 - Baltimore Orioles - 1:05 7/6/08 - Pittsburgh Pirates - 1:05 8/24/08 - Pittsburgh Pirates - 1:05 9/7/08 - San Diego Padres - 1:05 When I say the list is subject to change I mean more games will be added to it. Kohaku
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Sorry guys, but this place is going to be mostly Penguins/Hockey mania for the next couple of months. WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT >=( But first place in the Eastern Conference! Yes! And did you see Crosby? In the first period he was flying up and down the ice. So much for that injury.
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It was announced today that one one of Football's greatest Quarterbacks has decided to retire. The great #4, Brett Favre, has had a great career with the Green Bay Packers. It is sad to see a great athlete such as Favre go. Honestly, I thought he would return... And I will admit that I would have loved to see a game in person. He is an athlete who I had a lot of respect for. FAREWELL FAVRE! Kohaku
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The Pens got Hossa! Stanley Cup time!
