As your friendly neighborhood VD5 member and Florida Southern alum, I was wondering who would be heading over to the Lakeland Center to check out this matchup.

Should be a good time.  I was impressed with Florida Southern's ability to hang on early last season, similar to how they held on to almost beat Miami earlier this year.

In the end, I think USF's bigs will be too much to handle, but I absolutely can not wait to be there to find out.

Anyone else?

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This thread serves almost entirely as a forum for SRQ to humblebrag about all the cool happenings at the All Star Game.  

Other topics include (but are not limited to):

- Plussin' (If you don't know, you ain't plussin')

- Male on male on male group webcam chats

- Matt Joyce sightings

- Interesting and unique ways for Chris Berman to meet his demise

- Rick Scott

- Craft beer

- Strategies on how best to clean craft beer off of a rather new couch

- Oly Bongo and his desecration of everything that is sacred and 'Merican

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You've asked for it... here it is! 

The place where we intelligent basketball fans can discuss obvious #1 pick Jimmer Fredette, his hustle, the multiple wives in his future, and the soon-to-be-forgotten bench players who will be drafted after Him.

Polls, caption contests, and visual analysis of Rays minor league players are also welcome. 

Kotchman and attendance talk is obviously taboo.  And terrible.

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What news could make us all squeal with glee?

Carl Crawford signs with the Astros and promises to sit out any interleague or World Series games against the Rays?

Better.

James Shields rented 'How Stella Got Her Groove Back' last night... and figured out how to get his own groove back?

Even better.

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As I was watching the Indycar race at Texas tonight, I thought of a few things that maybe haven't been brought up in a while.

Look, I fully realize that the Indy/Stock rivalry(ha) has been going on for quite some time... but I was curious if anybody out there had some new takes.

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I've been on multiple SBNation blogs for a while now.  So I'm not sure if this should have been a FanPost or FanShot... but if I can gather my thoughts enough, I think I may be able to make it worthwhile either way.

As many of you who watched tonight's festivities surely noticed... Jimmie Johnson received arguably one of the more passionate responses during a couple of occasions this evening.  Let's look at why after the jump.

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