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  • ..:JJP: Thanks PawPaw, sound advice there. Gocco is a bit pricey I know, but unfortunately I just don’t have the space...
  • PJ Chmiel: The only way to tell if the bulbs are useful is probably to try a couple of the decent-looking ones on a screen...
  • Fes: Can’t ask him. He was in Vietnam, not Thailand. :(
  • ses: greeks can play basketball???? :lol:
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  • Fes: Chinese takeout is usually safer than Thai takeout in Bang-cock, right?

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Phelps & the Olympic Rest


Beijing 2008

Just some rants about Michael Phelps amazing victory and commentary other on some other unsung olympic events.

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Basketball World Beaters & the Blitz


Beijing 2008

Team USA explodes against Spain and Germany in lopsided victories to close out Olympic pool play undefeated.

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Hellenic Beat Down


Beijing 2008

Team USA got a measure of redemption today by avenging a loss to Greece back in 2006 by beating them 92-69.

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Team USA defeats Angola


Beijing 2008

If the USA men’s basketball team hopes to reclaim Olympic gold again they better get their jump shooting game back in rhythm.

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Beijing 2008


Today the long anticipated olympics in China finally began and of course the worlds spotlight is on Beijing right now.

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Broadway Brett


Legendary quaterback retired last season only to unretire for this season and be traded to the Jets. What a dumb-ass.

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Pudge in pinstripes


The Yankees score Pudge Rodriguez yesterday to replace a hole at catcher to catch teh Devil Rays and Red Sox in the AL East, while the rest of the rest of the penant contenders try to finalize their own mid-season deals.

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Bobcats logos = fart


Is it only me or doesn’t the NBA’s Charlotte Bobcats have one of the worst team sports logos ever?

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2008 All Star Game at Yankee Stadium


Yankee Stadium's final season.

As the final season of Yankee Stadium in half over the famed “House that Ruth Built” ballpark gets in the spotlight in style for this year’s All-Star game festivities.

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¡¡¡ Arriba España !!!


Euro2008 final score championship match

Spain defeats Germany to end a 44 year drought of earning a football championship, and I watched the entire game in an Irish pub overrun by Spainards.

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KG finally reaches the NBA’s promise land


Kevin Garnet, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen are all NBA champions for the first time.

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Willie Randolph axed


New York Mets Manager Willie Randolph was fired today. I think it’s a lot of b.s. but the Mets feel that a change needs to happen and that this was to move to make. Expect that the did it in a less than classy way for a classy type person…buy firing him after a west [...]

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Italy beats France, again!


The Euro Cup of 2008 is all the rage here in London despite England’s national team not even making it to the tournament (sorry lads) but Italy and France were at it again and this time around the French got shutout by Italians 2-0. I watch some of the game at a pub near Oxford [...]

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Tiger Woods: 14 down, 4 more to go


Tiger wins the 2008 U.S. Open in dramatic playoff style, bringing him closer to tying Jack Nicklaus record.

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Celtics comeback win drops Lakers 3-1


The Lakers are all but finished in this year’s finals as they blow a 24 point lead on the Celtics.

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Lakers vs Celtics in the 21st century, plus other NBA rants


Lakers vs. Celtics classic video game

The Lakers matchup against the Celtics in the NBA finals once again and as much as I’m a K.G. fan I shutter at the thought of Boston winning another professional sporting championship title.

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Hope & Despair in the NBA Today


As one door closes another opens as the Seattle Supersonics look to move to Oklahoma City with the blessings of most NBA owners amid news of Knicks head coach getting the pink slip.

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NY Giants Super Bowl ring design revealed


The New York FOOTBALL Giants have a whopping 1.5 carat design for their Superbowl 42 championship rings.

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Farve Retires


An NFL icon calls it a career today.

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Giant Imperfection


The Giants pull off the mother of all Superbowl upsets, and against a previously undefeated Boston team no less.

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Free Agents signed


Ace pitcher Johan Santana is traded to the NY Mets, while C-Webb makes a come back to the Warriors rejoining Don Nelson.

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Giants win NFC!


The New York Football Giants reach their 4th Super Bowl on an overtime field goal at frigid Lambeau field.

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G-men beat them ‘boys!


The Giants serve the Cowboys a loss in their third meeting of the year and somewhere Jessica Simpson is feeling guilty about it all.

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Knicks game at MSG


Before you even enter Madison Square Garden you see a guy selling “FIRE ISIAH!” t-shirts…that’s how it is at the garden.

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The Wrath of MSG


The New York Knicks stink it up on the hardwood again, this time at home at MSG suffering a 26 point beat down by the Golden State Warriors and 3 quarters of fans chatting “FIRE ISIAH!”.

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@$%# Boston!


The Colorado Rockies World Series debut is greeted by a Boston Red Sox sweep much to the dismay of this diehard Yankee fan. Denver could have at least offered SOME DRAMA instead of getting completely bitch slapped by the Fenway nut-house.

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