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Remember when everyone was all "hurfdurf Chris Randle is a terrible SAM put him back at the corner." I think an adjustment that gets both Randle and Adams on the field is a good idea...

Loved Willy's game ... but I cringed every time he did one of those Buck Pierce headfirst dives at the end of a run. We gotta get Pete Rose in here to teach Drew how to slide.

No doubt that Jon Byner was a funny man but Super Dave Osborne was the real star of Bizarre. Guy was a live-action muppet.

We could have a questionable police killing thread every week on MBB.

Let's table Marve vs. Brohm for now and move on to Wayne vs. Shuster. I always thought that Shuster was the funnier man. It's way harder to be the setup man than to deliver the puckish punchlines. Shuster had to play within the system, whereas Johnny Wayne got to freelance and ad-lib all the time.

If someone starts quoting Marve's stats in the chatroom

I've noticed Willy having to step forward or reach out to grab slow snaps, that can't help but throw off his timing. Wonder how many plays are disrupted by a non-crisp snap?

Is it just me or are Picard's shotgun snaps terrible? When they're on-target, they're slow. When they're fast, they miss Willy's hands.

Casey Bramlet was the worst I've ever seen. Mind you, the guy was hardly set up to succeed, he came in midseason and was thrown to the wolves by Kelly. But he looked like a toddler out there.

Good news, everyone! According to Ed Tait in the WFP, Matt Dunigan will be doing the color on today's broadcast.

Not complaining. Just wondering if the official missed it or if the head office decided not to make that call when there's an actual PI. I'm real curious to see what kind of in-season adjustments they make to the officiating.

Officials just ignored a receiver calling for a PI penalty. There was a PI penalty on the play, but I thought that calling for one was an automatic unsportsmanlike even if there was PI flagged.

Oh man, it is great to see a legit football team in Ottawa. I was a Rough Rider season ticket holder during their last two awful years, and those are some great fans there.

Can't let a team like Calgary up off the mat like that.

Ottawa secondary stepping up...

Doesnt that take them nicely to their out clause? It means that the issue is settled until expansion is completed. Wonder what kind of deal the NHL cut with Glendale to protect its expansion revenues from the Coyotes?

Sorry, but this is horseshit. When you criticize Ms. Held's choices, you are deflecting blame from the cop who massively overescalated the situation. Let's set aside her suspicious death for now, because no one here has any idea what happened in her cell. Tell me, at what point does she do anything that warrants physical assault, a taser threat, an arrest, and jail time? The blame belongs with the cop. Not with the victim. The cop shat the bed on this one. http://www.texasstandard.org/shows/current/10-things-about-the-sandra-bland-traffic-stop-every-texan-should-know/ dissects his mistakes in some detail.

I bet we see a different Stoudermire this week.

yeah, this stinks from every angle. Compare how Sandra Bland and Clive Bundy got treated during their run-ins with American law enforcement. All I can say is that I hope it gets investigated properly. Jesse Williams has an epic rant on this: http://www.salon.com/2015/07/23/jesse_williams_brilliant_twitter_epic_on_race_and_police_a_select_segment_of_americans_are_granted_the_privilege_of_being_able_to_resist_said_tyranny_scream_at_it_punch_shove_or_elude_it/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

I think it's simpler than that. If the Coyotes are on the market and available, that's one less $500MM expansion cheque for the NHL to cash. The market for half-billion-dollar NHL franchises is super soft. The NHL contacted a number of potential ownership groups and only two could get a bid together. Kansas City, Markham, and Seattle were all supposed to be in the mix but none of them emerged. I really suspect the league announced expansion when they did because the Coyotes are likely finished in Arizona and the league needs to grab the sweet expansion money before they formally come onto the market. The timing looks right: expansion was announced less than two weeks after Glenndale terminated the Coyotes' lease. If I were a prospective NHL owner, I'd say to hell with expansion and wait for the Coyotes to finally get evicted. I'd get a far better team for less money.

Chapdelaine would be the next guy up if Chamblin got fired, right?

Interesting (if stale) article about the NBA in Seattle that has NHL ramifications: http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/04/30/kings_staying_in_sacramento_to_wring_out_more_stadium_subsidies.html According to the article, the NBA rejected moving the Sacramento Kings to Seattle because the proposed Seattle arena would have been mostly privately funded, whereas Sacramento was building its new NBA arena with public money. The league didn't want a precedent on the books of a team owner funding his own arena. They like public money too much for this, and they also like having Seattle as an empty chair for when the music stops again. (mods, feel free to tell me to shut up about Seattle)

I think people don't realize just how big a deal Bruce Jenner was in the 70s. He was one of the most famous non-pro athletes of that decade. I grew up in the deep sticks with two TV channels (weather and reception permitting) and two shitty local radio stations and no daily newspaper and I knew who he was.

I really like what she said at the ESPY's. "If you want to call me names, make jokes, doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is I can take it. But for the thousands of kids out there who are coming to terms with being true to who they are, they shouldn’t have to take it." For me, that's the real story. I remember back in the 90s when Freddy Mercury came out (sadly, just before dying of AIDS) and that really helped change how my crew thought about GLB people. I wonder how many people out there will be similarly affected by Caitlynn Jenner. (no, we didn't realize that Freddy was bisexual before it became public. We were a sheltered bunch.)

Monday night Seahawk games here are an absolute disaster. The stadium is downtown so you have a bunch of people trying to get into downtown right around rush hour. If you ever try that again, look at parking in Everett or another northern place and catching the Sounder train down -- I think they run the commuter trains on game days.... Anyway, bonne chance to Quebec! Vive les Nordiques nouveau!