The good, the bad, the ugly of Star Wars Ep 3 (spoilers!)
Great summary of all the great parts of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith countered and ruined by the huge amount of crappy parts.
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Play '20 Questions' with Darth
Let Darth Vader try to read your mind. Best part is when creepy Burger King guy came and whispered some help to Darth.
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The Inquirer hunts down the stock photo girl
And links to me!!
They track down the photographer but can't find the girl.
Comments are closed on this entry, head on over to the original post if you have something to say.
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Abusing Amazon images
Very interesting read on playing with Amazon's dynamic image tool.
(via Kottke)
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Cy Young winner Santana prepares with PSP
If only my copy of MVP Baseball would ACTUALLY SHOW UP! It was supposed to be here Monday, but stupid UPS sent it 330 miles from Mesquite to Port Arthur instead of the 20 miles to Plano. Morons.
(via Om Malik)
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How to Speed Up Publishing in Movable Type
I need to turn on background tasks and uninstall some plug-ins I don't use anymore (and a couple I've never used.)
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Dad?
Another great shirt from Threadless, too bad they don't have any larges in stock.
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$750 off Dell Inspiron notebooks!
Ridiculously good deal for $750 off of select Inspiron laptops priced $1499 and up. Make sure the pre-tax price is high enough and then use this coupon code VRSG541NMGQ800 while checking out.
(via CSB)
Update: The deal has already expired. 15,000 sure went fast.
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Ricky 'absolutely' set for Dolphins camp
I can't decide whether I want him to come back or not. I miss seeing him play and had no problems with him retiring, but I don't want him coming back only to quickly retire again. He apparently has a good report with Nick Saban and is in shape, but someone on ESPN mentioned he only weighed like 190. That's way too light for him to be ready to play.
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Cubs tell Zambrano to cut back on computer use
My biggest issue with the story was that Zambrano said he sepnt four hours a day emailing with his brother. Hasn't he heard of instant messenger?
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Great iPods in history
Part two of the Mike Davidson's iPod shuffle giveaways is chock full of hilarious entries. Make sure to scroll through all the comments to see them all.
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Dilbert on procrastination and unreasonable deadlines
Haha.
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Civ IV
This one's for Matt. Game looks good, although I spend enough time in front of a computer these days so I've sworn off PC gaming.
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A pinball RTS game
Weird and strangely intriguing, Odama is a real time strategy pinball game.
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NCAA 2006 Impressions
Great blog I found this morning from three guys who love sports gaming
and apparently work in the business. They've got an excellent write-up on some hands-on impressions of NCAA Football 2006. I can't wait. It'll most likely be the last game I buy for this generation of consoles.
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Evil Empire vs. Evil Empire
Nick Bakay compares Star Wars and the New York Yankees.
(via Orangebloods forums)
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Netflix + Wal-Mart = Love
Wal-Mart is offering its existing online DVD rental customers the chance to continue their subscriptions with Los Gatos-based Netflix at their current price for the next year. Those who don't sign up with Netflix by June 17 will lose their service. Wal-Mart plans to continue promoting the Netflix service on its Web site.
In return, Netflix will remind its subscribers that they can buy DVDs from Walmart.com.
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Bonds has another setback
It almost brings a teat to my eye.
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Return of the Dorks
Holy freaking crap this may be the funniest thing of all time.
When's the baby due?
Six weeks.
That's the last time he'll ever see female genetalia.
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Design for non-designers
Haven't read it yet, just linking so I remember to. Will edit this after that.
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Transparent custom corners and borders
Create a resizable box with rounded (or any shape) corners, custom borders, and a transparent shadow without having to use extra divs. Very slick and something I'm sure to put to use sometime.
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Google Opens Up Beta of AdSense for Feeds
The Weblogs, Inc. network has been running them for a while and I'm not impressed. They don't seem to be targeted very well and aren't really based on the post they're with at all. Half the ads they've run are for some anit-Bush website despite none of the sites being political at all.
(via ProBlogger)
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Is Star Wars Ep. 3 anti-Bush?
Dear Celebrities,
We do not give a shit what your political opinions are, regardless of which side you're on. Especially if you're freaking Canadian.
Sincerely yours,
Everyone
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Disch-Falk gets a new scoreboard
They're finally replacing the ancient scoreboard out UT's Disch-Falk Field. Looks like it'll either have 400 square feet of advertising or a motion-video screen is still coming.
I believe it's supposed to be ready for this weekend's series against Texas A&M.
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Nintendo Revolution images
By far the best looking of the three new next-gen systems.
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Microsoft’s Xbox 360 E3 event
I really wish they had shown this on MTV instead of that other crap.
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New Braunfels schools to randomly drug test
They're going to be drug testing in New Braunfels schools now. It's NBISD and not Comal ISD (where I went and taught) but it's still pretty big news. They'll be testing students who are involved in extracurricular activities, who purchase an optional school parking permit or whose parents request that their children be tested.
The penalties only include suspension from extracurricular activities and counseling but I'm sure parents are still pissed that anyone is parenting their children. If they don't raise them right then no one should!
Full article posted below because requiring registration and then disabling right-click is BS.
NEW BRAUNFELS - Students who are involved in extracurricular activities, who buy a school parking pass or whose parents request it will be subject to random drug tests in the New Braunfels School District beginning Aug. 1.
School board trustees, in a 5-0 vote, instructed the district staff to craft a policy for testing those students in grades 7 though 12.
Trustees Paul Fisher and Randy Rust were absent.
The policy will have to pass two readings, the first of which is scheduled for June 20.
Trustees said they want an aggressive program that will include testing for steroids.
"Hit and hit hard and make sure they know we mean business," said Trustee Ed Clark, who urged the board to set aside at least $50,000 for testing so students know there is a high probability they will be tested. "I also would not mind going beyond the extent of the rulings of the courts. ... Test all of them."
Court rulings limit testing to students who are involved in extracurricular activities, who purchase an optional school parking permit or whose parents request that their children be tested, which is what the board approved Monday night.
"I'm interested in doing what we can do legally now, where we know we are on safe ground," said Trustee Rob Johnson.
Trustees did not give the staff any direction on what the policy should include as far as consequences of positive drug tests.
However, Superintendent Ron Reaves said he will use the Fredericksburg School District's policy as a starting point.
For a first positive test, that policy calls for a 45-day suspension from extracurricular activities, completion of a drug awareness program and retesting. For a second positive test, it's a one-year suspension from extracurricular activities and drug counseling.
The San Marcos and Marble Falls school districts also have mandatory student drug testing policies.
San Marcos' policy does not include any suspension of privileges for a first failed test.
Only one resident addressed the board, although a public hearing held last year attracted mostly supporters of testing.
Monday, Pat Lynch Jr. urged the board to approve a program.
"I believe you can never fix a problem until you admit there is a problem," he said.
Trustee Lee Edwards said the goal of the testing is to give kids a reason to stand up to peer pressure to do drugs.
"If it stops 10 kids today, it's worth it," he said. "If it keeps one kid out of the emergency room, it's worth it. If it stops one teen pregnancy, it's worth it."
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PS3 links
I'm collecting all the Playstation 3 links from the first couple days of E3 in one place on my main weblog.
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Feed updated
If you were subscribed to my quicklinks
feed you need to update your reader with the new address. More details.
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Bagwell is done
Okay so he hasn't retired yet and he's still trying to come back, but I've got to think that Jeff Bagwell's career is over. As much as I've thought he was washed up the last three years, he was at least better than Jose Vizcaino who played first base in his place last night.
They were having an interesting discussion on Mike & Mike this morning, is Bagwell a Hall of Famer? What about Manny Ramirez or Frank Thomas?
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UT loses to Germany in robot dog soccer
At least we were better than all the other Americans.
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Columns & Grids
Dave Shea discusses our options as designers when setting up our layouts with columns.
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I'm guessing Lindsay Lohan and Nicole Richie aren't on their way to Krispey Kreme
Someone needs to buy Lindsay Lohan and Nicole Richie a sandwich. They are seriously skinny in a very unhealthy way.
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The guy who wears too much protective gear
Who NBA players in the playoffs would be if they were at your local gym.
(via Kottke)
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How dumb rich people end up in debt
Great title on this article about how a good deal of America's wealthy are just as stupid with their money as us poor folks. It doesn't matter how much you make, if you spend more than you've got coming in then your ass is gonna be in debt.
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Flickr switches from Flash to Ajax
Flickr has dropped their Flash display of photos and notes for an Ajax solution. Pretty snazzy and a little quicker loading too. I wonder how exactly they're doing the image notes now.
They've also made it possible to add a photo to a group or set, or to blog the photo without leaving the page.
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Xbox 360 Official Shots
Gizmodo has some Norweigan magazine scans of the Xbox 360 and it's controllers. Thing's I've deduced from the images:
- Xbox live headset will plug directly into controller
- The big green orb on the controller is more than a button, it some sort of 4-way thumbstick
- The system will come with a camera
- I have no idea what a
hukommelseskortporte
is, but it's got two of them
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Adsense Notifier extension
Another great Firefox extension that Berg pointed me to this morning, Mincus' Adsense Notifier. It shows your Google Adsense stats down in the status bar so that those of us who are little obsessive compulsive as well as money-hungry and can always know exactly how much revenue our ads are bringing in.
There are a decent number of options available to let you configure the tool, I've already got so much stuff in my status bar that I'm having it display just my page impressions, clicks, and earnings.
Very handy.
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Celebs saying their favorite swear words
Okay, so not safe for work but funny as hell. It's just some commercial for a TV network in England with celebrities saying their favorite cuss words.
(via forgetfoo)
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The Original Whizzinator
Minnesota Vikings running back Onterrio Smith was busted in an airport with paraphernalia intended to be used to beat drug tests. One of the items was something called The Original Whizzinator,
which is used with the dried urine he had with him. Apparently you attach it to your man area so it looked like your urine was coming out of your thing during the test.
Update: The testimonials are pretty hilarious.
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Natalie Portman shaved her head
She shaved all her hair off for a movie roll, doesn't she care about my feelings?
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The all new And All That Malarkey
Malarkey redesigns. I absolutely love the way he aggregated so much content into the home page without making it busy or confusing. Plus it of course looks fantastic.
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Web design trends
I like the plastic look and think it'll make sense for finalizing the design for the seven22.com logo and site design.
Update: Unfortunately, John has taken down his excellent site and therfore this link no longer works. (7/14/2005)
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DreamHost for 77 cents per month
Enter the promotional code 777 when ordering the Crazy Domain Insane!
package.
(via DMM)
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Do I Need a Jacket?
Not overly useful here because the answer is the same 9 months out of the year, but DoINeedAJacket.com will dumb down your weather forecast and answer that one simple questions for you.
(via GearLive)
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Next-Gen Consoles: Facts and Speculation
Everything Gamespot's got on the Xbox 360, PS3, and Nintendo Revolution.
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UT, A&M respond to supplement charges
Sounds like a sportswriter is trying to make a name for himself by reporting that Texas and A&M gave it's players power bars and caffeine. Alert the FBI!
Here's the full story (because site registration is BS):
After a newspaper reported that the two schools had bought nearly $120,000 of dietary supplements containing banned substances, the University of Texas said Monday that it had done nothing wrong and Texas A&M University promised to investigate and notify the NCAA.
I'm not concerned about any of it,DeLoss Dodds, UT's men's athletic director, said of Sunday's article in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. In a prepared statement, Dodds added,The NCAA has advised us that this is not an NCAA reporting issue.Meanwhile, Texas A&M will investigate and report itself to the NCAA for a secondary violation, said David Batson, A&M's director of athletic compliance.
According to the Star-Telegram report citing athletic department purchasing records, Texas A&M has spent nearly $30,000 on supplements that were banned by the NCAA in 2000 and Texas has bought $90,000 worth. Much of that money was used for drinks and energy bars that contain amino acids.
Amino acids may be the building blocks of life, but they do not appear to fit the NCAA's guidelines that schools may provide only non-muscle-building supplements in four classes: carbohydrate/electrolyte drinks, energy bars, carbohydrate boosters and vitamins and minerals. Under the rules, supplements also must have a protein content of less than 30 percent.
According to the Star-Telegram report, UT trainers spent nearly $49,000 on Promax energy bars and $29,500 on Metabolol II recovery drink, both of which contain added amino acids. UT also paid $282 for four cases of Jacked, an energy drink that contains caffeine, according to records cited by the newspaper.
Texas A&M, the newspaper reported, had bought eight products that contain banned muscle-building substances. The university's trainers also bought the appetite suppressant MNS Gold, which contains synephrine, a substance similar to ephedra.
Tina Bonci, co-director of athletics training/sports medicine at UT, said in a statement released by the university Monday that UT officials had received the NCAA's blessing years ago.
In 2000, we provided the NCAA a list of all products we were considering to distribute pursuant to the legislation, including the products in question, containing amino acids,Bonci said.The NCAA interpretation, based on the information they had at the time, stated that it was permissible to purchase and distribute those products to student-athletes.UT officials said the supplements were safe and not harmful to athletes.
More than five years ago the NCAA became concerned about creatine and other controversial muscle builders that were being distributed widely by some schools. The 2000 rule, however, became more aimed at not allowing bigger and richer schools to gain a competitive advantage by distributing supplements, even ones that are presumed to be safe.
Batson said that, from the standpoint of complying with NCAA rules, the supplement issue had been flying beneath everyone's radar.
I hadn't heard any talk about it at all,Batson said.Most people provide the power bars or the energy bars. Nobody thought there's any concern.One of the few such cases involved Virginia Tech, which last year admitted to a secondary violation of NCAA rules because its strength coach had arranged for players to buy creatine at a discount. The penalty in that case was minor.
Basically, what we've been told is just don't let it happen again,David Chambers, Virginia Tech's senior associate director of athletics for external affair, told the Roanoke Times & World News in November.
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Peace breaking out between Blu-ray and HD-DVD
I wonder if they'll be able to get whatever they decide on into the PS3. It should just be an optical drive swap, I wouldn't think that would be too difficult. It shouldn't effect anything else the way I see it.
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Rumored Xbox 360 Specs Released
I wonder if Microsoft is planning on suing on the people printing these leaks like Apple did for releasing info on the iPod Shuffle etc.
(via Gizmodo)
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Xbox Live Specs Released For 360
Considering how many free features they have on there (the ones marked with an asterisk), I'm wondering if I'll be purchasing a Live account for the 360.
(via Gizmodo)
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John Rocker update
He's playing with the independent Long Island Ducks and seems to be doing better off the field, however it looks like on the field he's still having trouble getting people out.
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The technology of the Wynn Las Vegas
PC Magazine checks out the unfulfilled promise (technology-wise) of the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas.
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U.S. appeals court throws out broadcast flag
Great news, our government took time out of their busy schedule to actually do something in the public's best interest. The court said the Federal Communications Commision had overstepped it's authority and struck down the broadcast flag.
The broadcast flag would essentially let the networks be able to tell you what you could or could not record.
Next step, dismantle the FCC altogether.
(via Omniquiti)
Update: PVRblog discusses the ruling and makes me want to build a MythTV box.
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Google Web Accelerator
No time saved yet, but it's certainly worth a try to see how it works. According to Google...
Google Web Accelerator uses various strategies to make your web pages load faster, including:
- Sending your page requests through Google machines dedicated to handling Google Web Accelerator traffic.
- Storing copies of frequently looked at pages to make them quickly accessible.
- Downloading only the updates if a web page has changed slightly since you last viewed it.
- Prefetching certain pages onto your computer in advance.
- Managing your Internet connection to reduce delays.
- Compressing data before sending it to your computer.
(via Google Blog)
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Winslow might have torn ACL
Sounds like Kellen Winslow Jr. may have torn his ACL and could miss the entire 2005 season. The Browns could void his contract and recoup almost all of his original signing bonus.
This and his other injury are costing him millions.
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Your dad throws like a girl
Toddlers have more trouble hitting slower pitches because slow balls actually appear stationary to a child.
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Feuding Hillbillies Pepper-Spray Infant In Wal-Mart Parking Lot
I just liked the headline Sploid used.
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DashboardWidgets.com
Damnit I can't decide if I should upgrade to Tiger (Mac OSX 10.4) or not. Argh...
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New scam: Pharming
I read about this when it was first published but I just now found the article on the web and wanted to link to it.
Attention Mom and Dad: Please refrain from using the Internet ever again.
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Fauxmosexuality
How to tell a metrosexual from a guy pretending to be a metrosexual because he thinks it'll get him laid.
(via Jeff Croft)
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Backpack now available
Backpack is now available from 37signals.
I was going to link to it yesterday but the overwhelming first day demand had the site running really slowly. I've just started to feel my way around and it definitely seems interesting, I'm not sure where this fits in with Ta-Da Lists and Basecamp for me yet. Other than the reminders, there seems to be a lot of overlap in Backpack, at least from the way I think I'd probably use it.
Getting organized is easy. Gather your ideas, to-dos, notes, photos, and files online. Set email and mobile reminders so you don't forget the little things. Easily collaborate with others.
In a couple of weeks I'll write more about my experiences with it and let you know what I think.
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Should Dilbert date a coworker?
Dogbert thinks Dilbert needs to lower his standards.
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Rivals actually has RSS feeds
Rivals.com has finally added something I've been asking forever for, RSS feeds of their content. Just excerpts (which it makes sense because it's premium pay content) but at least I'll be notified everytime there's an update.
Well it sure would be nice if they told someone about them. They're not using auto-discovery either, so there's absolutely no way to know they're there.
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Runaway bride's gift registry
I hope her guests saved their receipts.
(via Sploid)
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Abandoned amusement park
Wow, very very cool.
The fog really tops off the surreal atmosphere. I don't know where it is, but the site's in Japanese.
(via SixFoot6)
Posted in Photos
Stock footage additions, plus the original source!
An update to an update to an update.
The girl in the blue hat and shell necklace that first amazed us with her ability to go to school with Dell and Gateway at the same time, has shown up several more times in the last week. Plus, I finally got curious enough to look for the original source and was able locate it pretty easily.
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MeasureIt - Firefox ruler extension
Draw a ruler across any webpage to check the width, height, or alignment of page elements in pixels.
(via JoshuaInk)
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Rivals-exclusive shots of NCAA 2006
Rivals has posted 20 exclusive screenshots of the upcoming NCAA Football 2006, including several I found very interesting detailing the recruiting process.
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EA and Rivals.com team up on NCAA 06
Article from Rivals discussing NCAA Football 2006. A lot of the info was discussed before by IGN, but this one focuses on the changes to the recruiting process a lot more. Good stuff.
Sounds like recruiting is going to be more difficult this year and have a lot more variables to it. Damn soft verbals.
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OU baseball coach quits over racist remarks
I thought for sure he'd just be suspended for a couple of games, I'm glad Sooners' baseball coach Larry Cochell did what was right and resigned.
Now if we could only get black people to stop using that word too.
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IGN Xbox 360 FAQ
Everything IGN knows (or is at least pretty sure about) about the Xbox 360.
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