drdanny

August 30, 2001 at Northern Illinois doesn't count?

Uhhh.... Why would MLS expand to Frisco, Texas. They already HAVE a team. FC Dallas has played there since 2005.

Talk about revisionist history! Ok, first, the AP has NOT stopped crowning national champions. It HAS demanded the BCS not use their poll due to its unlawful use. http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/2004-12-21-ap-bcs-withdrawal_x.htm Second, this happened in December 2004 AFTER USC AP national Championship (for which the AP gave them a trophy signifying their recognition of USC as national champion http://usctrojans.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/010504aaa.html). Third, the NCAA does not recognize the BCS as any different than any other poll in their Official 2006 NCAA Division I-A and I-AA Records Book http://www.ncaa.org/library/records/football/football_records_book/2006/2006_d1_football_records_book.pdf. In fact, they do not list BCS champions, only the champions of BCS components (as well as many non-BCS polls). You will also find a list of national poll champions and a list of consensus national champions. For the year 2003 BOTH LSU and USC are listed.

NFL rules say you may not dress every player on your roster. Some players each week are designated as inactive. You may keep a third quarterback as an inactive player. However, in an emergency, he is allowed to play. If he goes in, the other two quarterbacks may not play. If you want to use three quarterbacks, a coach may place all three on the active roster, dress them, and play them as he pleases. It is only when the QB is declared as inactive and still plays that you may not put a previous QB in the game.

I would not worry about USF being in green Saturday. NCAA rules say "Players of opposing teams shall wear jerseys of contrasting colors, and the visiting team shall wear white jerseys. White jerseys may be worn by the home team when the teams have agreed before the season." So unless USF agreed to let UCF wear white before the season, USF will be in white. http://www.ncaa.org/library/rules/2006/2006_football_rules.pdf

I would disagree about these being referee decided games. The referee strongly influenced the US-Italy game, but the US gave no indication of being able to score to decide that one. The Portugal-Holland match got away from the referee, but I did not see that his calls benefitted Portugal. As for SK-Switzerland, the second goal was the biggest dispute, and the referee got it right.

South Korea has already been eliminated.

The argument that proves my point. "Tampa has no history" (they are not a good team) Blah blah blah. "New York has a history" (they have won something) Blah Blah Blah You CLAIM to love your team, but lets see what arguments you use to move away. 1. going to college: When most students go to college, they have a local address and a permanent address. That means, for the 3+ months that college is not in session, the student does not live in the college town. They have two residences, and have not really moved. I am not talking about these people, IF they return after they finish their degree. 2. job replacement: I suppose every job is NY is filled and no new job will ever open again. I never knew that. : Otherwise, someone who loved a team could find another job to stay with his beloved city. 3. weather: LMFAO This is priceless. "I love my team, but it is too cold." Some love. If you love a team, you find a way to stay. When you love something, you are willing to make sacrifices for it. If you are not willing to make sacrifices for it, you do not really love it. So, you take up the new team in the new town. What are you going to tell your children/grandchildren when they want to go to a baseball game? "Grandpa (Dad) loves the Mets, so he won't take you to a local game, except once every 4 or 5 years for interleague play." Or maybe, "Grandpa (Dad) loves the Mets, but he can't take you to see them play, because he doesn't like the weather in NY". How about "Grandpa (Dad) loves the Mets, but will take you to see a team he doesn't like and you shouldn't either." The bottom line is if you want to keep the support, keep the location as well.

Both games are played simultaneously. There was a fiasco in the 1982 World Cup. Since then, on the last day of the group stage, both fixtures in each group are played at the same time.

Thanks!

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Pro teams and colleges are two completely different entities. Apples and oranges. It is quite sad that you cannot see a difference between a university, whose primary reason for existence is to educate, and a professional baseball organization, whose sole purpose is to play baseball and make money doing it. A college educates you, the Yankees do not. I give a donation to USF every year, and would do so regardless of whether USF had any athletic teams or not. I do not donate to any professional team, and would consider anyone who does so to be daft. As for Major League Baseball meaning only one league, I guess a rose garden has only one rose in it as well :

Wouldn't the US also advance if 1. CR beats Italy 2. US beats Ghana 3. Total sum of goal differential of US win and Italian loss is greater than or equal 6 Then CR wins the group with 6 pts, US is 2nd by goal differential with 4pts, Italy 3rd also with 4, Ghana last with 3. It is not likely, but no less so than beating Ghana by 4.

I always laugh at this argument. "My team means so much to me I will love them wherever I move to." Do they mean enough for you not to move? No, of course not. This argument is simply a sham for "my old town's team is better than this town's and I am a front-running phony so I will stick with the old team." Great example, with the Yankees in the American and the Marlins in the National, but somehow being "2 teams in the same league." :

Italy won't get first if they tie and Ghana win. Ghana would have 6pts and Italy 5. They must win to be assured of 1st.