In a race to see if ReadingRamber can win the Triple Crown hit for the cycle of wanting a beer with/hate/love/indifference, or if we trully are indifferent towards Screen Name 20, a one-off race between the two to decide.

In the Blue Corner we have Screen Name 20, weighing in at 17 posts and 1272 comments.

In the White Corner we have ReadingRamber, weighing in at 153 posts and 6357 comments.

In the words of the famous Apollo Creed:

 *DING DING*

I know I (and others) have complained about this before, but it doesn't seem to be that widespread of a problem (or at least enough to urge others to complain).


The issue I have is that whenever a post contains an embedded video, the comments section loses all the nice functionality (mainly that I can't mark comments as read, or automatically scroll through).  This wouldn't bother me so much, except that if someone replies to an earlier post, I have NO idea where that post is, since everything is still highlighted for me (unless I browse away, and then back).

I figured I would poll people to see if this is a browser specific thing, or if it is something else that only affects a subset of users (such as operating system, but that would have made this poll too complex, though if this poll isn't conclusive, then perhaps I will do another one with OS).

I currently use IE8 on Vista, but I also had problems with IE7 on Vista.

I don't know if I should be posting it here, because it is only very loosely related to Penn State sports, but since during the NIT run we've seen the ShamWOW commercials probably 100 times I felt the need to inform you guys.  I hate to bump relevant posts off the main page, though, so I will take it down if need be.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0327092sham1.html

First off, Vince is 44?  No friggen way.  Second off, he needs to pay to get tail?  I'd have to imagine there are some girls out there that would get with him just for the novelty factor.  Third off, you think for $1000 she wouldn't try to bite off your tongue...that's some freaky $#!T.

via i.cdn.turner.com

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http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3995384

likens it to only going 5 MPH over the speed limit, opposed to going 50 MPH over.  Says that penalties are like "killing a flea with a hammer".

I guess it comes as some big surprise to him that a MAJOR cheating scandal at his university, in which dozens of athletes (including many of his own football players) were involved, would draw significant penalties from the NCAA.  I mean it is almost like the NCAA think they are an organization representing some sort of institutions where learning is encouraged and academic fraud is frowned upon.  Odd...

This is all old stuff, but I hadn't seen it posted anywhere else yet, so I thought I'd add it.  Anyway, it is from SNL, with Will Forte singing a song about why he loves the BCS, and other things he loves as much as the BCS.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/52186/saturday-night-live-update-bcs-song?c=66:236

Also, ESPN writer Ivan Maisel wrote an article

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/bowls08/columns/story?columnist=maisel_ivan&id=3829520

In which there was this line:

The BCS has a rule that locker rooms must be open to the media after a game. Penn State coach Joe Paterno refused to open the Nittany Lions' locker room after the Rose Bowl loss to USC. No one connected to the BCS with whom I spoke has any idea how to enforce the rule or what the penalty is.

And I recall that during the game Lisa Salters was peeved that JoePa didn't do his contractually obligated pre-game interview:

http://www.blackshoediaries.com/2009/1/5/708013/joe-paterno-has-no-time-fo

I love how the BCS has these "rules" in place that are purely media and $$ driven.