League 1, 2

1. Montezuma's Revenge - 103
2. class of 87 - 101
3. rickysanchez - 99
4t. Clean Cut Media - 98
4t. Takimoto - 98
4t. Josh in Portland - 98
7. tmoran3020's picks suck - 97
8t. gigglingone's picks - 96
8t. goshatgo - 96

Montezuma's Revenge is still in first on the heels of a particularly strong showing two weeks ago, but can he hold on with his lead dwindling?

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Beaver with Sour Cream

Ingredients

• 2-4 pounds of cut beaver
• 1/2 cup flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon paprkia
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup sour cream
• Oil to cover
• 1 onion

Clean beaver and soak overnight in salted water (1 tablespoon salt per quart of water).  Drain, cut up, and roll in 1/2 cup flour seasoned with 1 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon parika.  Fry in fat until browned.  Then cover the beaver with sliced onion.  Sprinkle onion slices with 1/2 teaspon salt.  Add 1/2 cup water.  Cover skillet tightly.  Simmer for 1 hour.  Add 1 cup sour cream in last 15 minutes of cooking time.  Serves 2-4.

I don't know about you guys, but I often enjoy beaver on the weekends.   

This is your open thread for Cal-Chico State. After the jump,  some details on tonight's exhibition matchup.

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Tonight is the Nets' home opener (and hopefully the last one that will require me to connect from subway to train to bus in a span of 40 minutes) and if Wednesday's opener against the Timberwolves in Minnesota is any indication, I'm in for a long year.

For three quarters, the great Minnesota center had an uncomfortably close view of Lopez’s coming-out party, as his young opponent dominated him in every way imaginable, while the rest of the Nets helped make Big Al look like ... well, a guy coming off ACL surgery.

But right around the time they fell into a 16-point hole, Jefferson and the Wolves held Lopez scoreless in the fourth quarter, held the Nets to one field goal in the last 6:51 minutes, and yielded a grand total of two points in the last 3:13.

And that gave Damien Wilkins the opportunity to provide the finishing touch, as he hit a short follow at the buzzer to cap a 24-6 blitz to the wire and lift the Wolves to an improbable 95-93 victory at Target Center.

Thrilling, really.  I'm totally psyched to watch them go 12-29 at home this year.

Devil Curry Recipe

INGREDIENTS

Not sure what the hell is up with the formatting there.  Anyway, use this for tonight's game between North Carolina and Virginia Tech.  What the hell are the Tar Heels doing on Thursday night here again already?  Anyway, let's go...Hokies?  I guess.

League 1, 2

1. Montezuma's Revenge - 92
2. class of 87 - 88
3t. Clean Cut Media - 87
3t. I just blue myself - 87
3t. Josh in Portland - 87
3t. tmoran3020's picks suck - 87
7t. HydroTech - 86
7t. NorcalNick'sPicks - 86
7t. rickysanchez - 86
7t. AERose - 86

It's over.  Montezuma's Revenge has killed us all.  Fun facts after the jump!

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NO RECIPES FOR EATING TERI HATCHER, THANK YOU VERY MUCH

From Western Hunting:

Jack Wemple's Mountain Lion Steak Surprise

• 2 Mountain Lion Steaks (1 lb), cut 1-inch thick
• 1 cup milk
• 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
• Garlic powder
• Johnny's Seasoning Salt
• 1/2 can of beer
• Flour
• Vegetable oil

PICK'EM STANDINGS

League 1, 2

1. Montezuma's Revenge - 77
2. Moscow Doug - 76
3t. tmoran3020's picks suck - 75
3t. I just blue myself - 75
3t. AERose - 75
6t. HydroTech - 74
6t. Clean Cut Media - 74
6t. Yleexotee - 74
6t. BearsNecessity - 74
10t. class of 87 - 73
10t. Easy-So-Feel-Me - 73
10t. Oski4Heisman - 73

Fun facts after the jump.  And don't forget to let us know here if you want to join the CGB Fantasy Basketball league!

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I mentioned off-hand during this past Saturday's game against UCLA that it might be time to make up a new Cal drinking game.  After all, there's only so many times we can run the ALAMAR!!!!!!! meme into the ground, and we also needed something that everyone who doesn't camp in our open threads can participate in during game days.

Hm, Let's Try That One Again! - Take a swig of beer if:

• Jahvid Best goes for more than 10 yards
• Shane Vereen goes for more than 10 yards
• Marvin Jones or Verran Tucker catches a pass
• Nyan Boateng is on the field, meaning the offense has the Nyan in it
• A screen pass goes for more than 7 yards
• Tyson Alualu gets a sack
• Derrick Hill blows up a play
• Syd'Quan Thompson does what SQT does
• Any linebacker makes a successful play

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Given the success of our fantasy baseball, fantasy football, and college fantasy football league, we thought it would be a good idea to see if there's any interest in putting together a fantasy basketball league. Avi recommended that we use ESPN as our platform this time (as opposed to Yahoo) due to more bells and whistles, but the downside is that I can't just post the league name and password here and have people sign up - I have to explicitly send out invites. How boorish.

Anyway, if you want in, please say so in the comments below and I'll send an invite to the email address you signed up for the blog with. If you want that invite sent to another email address because you don't check the address you signed up with, please email us directly using the icons at the bottom of the blog. The league settings and live draft date have yet to be decided upon, though I'd prefer we do that ASAP given that we're less than two weeks away from the opening of the NBA season. Go Nets.

A bit of an awkward situation here, as Bruins are Bears.

Bear Sausage
30 lbs. ground bear meat 
6 tsp. red pepper 
12 lbs. ground pork butt 
15 tsp. garlic salt 
3 lbs. slab bacon, ground 
7 1/2 tsp. pepper

Mix all together. Fry in pan for breakfast sausage, good on pizza, and 
makes great meatballs as well.

What's nice about all of these recipes is that you can't exactly go buy bear meat at your local supermarket.  Use this as tonight's open thread for the USF/Cincinnati game.   Go Bearcats!