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I wish you luck!  I'm not sure of the best way to meet NBA players at games (I would suppose get there early during warmups), but for college I discovered, if you go to the "away" games, the visiting team usually comes back on the court after the game to meet with their families and such.  I was lucky enough to get a picture with Vic and Cody after we beat MSU back in 2013 (in East Lansing).   

OliviaPope40, did you ever get to meet Cody?

Vic Sophomore Win Shares: 3.9 Troy Sophomore Win Shares: 3.7   Vic Junior Win Shares: 6.8 Troy: ?     Source: Victor: http://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/victor-oladipo-1.html Troy: http://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/troy-williams-2.html

One sport that has greatly benefited from technology, while keeping their own version of "umps" is tennis.  Tennis players get a set number of challenges to argue calls from the chair.  It got rid of all ambiguity and has sped up the game considerably.  You don't have players feeling cheated or bit**ing at the chair for ten minutes at a time ruining the flow of the game.   Why not give each batter 1 or 2 "challenges" per game.  And give the pitcher say 1 or 2 an inning.  It wouldn't slow the game down at all since the strike/ball call from the computer system happens in real time.  

How'd you like it?  I'm personally on a massive Jack Reacher kick.  I've gotten through 18 books of the series this year.  

Is it worth reading all of the follow ups to Ender's Game?  I have read Enders Shadow (really good) and Shadow of the Hegemon (good); Shadow Puppets (meh) but nothing past that.  

Ahhhhh...okay.  Sounds better

Really good article about the benefits and potential problems of replacing umpires with machines: http://grantland.com/features/ben-lindbergh-possibility-machines-replacing-umpires/   A very interesting point from the article: However, there’s also the fact that fans screaming from the rooftops for robot umps would prefer to forget: Even an automated strike zone would have to have a human element, because the cameras and computers aren’t fully self-sufficient. The difficulty of computerizing calls varies greatly depending on pitch location, so as McKean says, “There’s going to be somebody running that machine that’s going to make judgments.”

Fivethirtyeight has had some good articles on umps and their % accuracy.  It's right about 91%: http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/playoff-umps-are-screwing-up-a-tenth-of-balls-and-strikes/

Did this happen during their national championship season?  And if so, what's the percentage chance they lose their title.  .001%?

Use the "Snipping Tool".  I'm assuming that was loaded onto windows xp.  Nice and easy tool to use.

Any word how it went/is going?

How about....play for a guy that's an adulterer and can't last more than 15 seconds?? Which really makes one question his decision making.  I mean...have an affair and all the **** that comes with it....for 15 seconds????? If it's Jessica Alba, 2 seconds is worth it...but 15 seconds for Karen Sypher...blah  http://deadspin.com/5599052/rick-pitino-lasted-15-seconds-and-other-things-of-note     EDIT: I forgot how crazy that whole story was:  http://www.masslive.com/sports/index.ssf/2010/07/rick_pitino_karen_sypher_whisp.html Supposedly Pitino gave her 3k and Sypher used it for an abortion.  And the whole cheating thing went down in an ITALIAN RESTAURANT.  

True.

Scott Walker dropping out.  I never thought he'd win but I'm surprised he gave up so soon.

I thought that was a picture of a Purdue co-ed

I have to admit, I didn't know much about her.  After reading some of the other posts on the board (thanks to MartintheMopMan and jmsgws) I did a little bit of research and came upon this interesting Forbes article: http://fortune.com/2015/08/14/carly-fiorina-president-2/   They basically trash her.  Certainly makes her look inept as a CEO.     She also helped run Lucent into the ground: http://recode.net/2015/09/16/a-few-things-to-know-about-former-hp-ceo-carly-fiorina-before-tonights-republican-debate/

Anybody else recognize this comic?  Seems right for this presidential election: (BTW, sorry it's so big, not sure how to resize it in the post)

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Utterly and completely agree.  10 game suspension would have been more than fair.  I get that an example had to be made...but 10 games would have been more than sufficient.  I feel bad for Emmitt.  What he did was dumb, but the consequences were much greater than what his transgression deserved.  If I'm a teammate and close friend of Emmitt, and I know what other players have been getting away with in the past (ie, multiple failed drug tests, fake IDs, etc), then I'm quite resentful of Crean.     Basically, Emmitt is being punished because Crean was weak on Yogi, Standford, Hanner and Troy. 

I'd say we SHOULD go 13-5 or 14-4. 

wtf Holt

Anyone seen the Man From U.N.C.L.E?  And if so, what'd you think about it?  

Agreed.  I have all the comics ever made (in those comic book collections), great bathroom reading material lol.     Below may be my favorite comics of the series:    https://www.pinterest.com/pin/85075880435139992/