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This new gametracker is pretty difficult to follow. How about they kill the fanfare, and just make it reliable?

It's tempting. The day off on Monday makes it sound even better. What time is tip-off?

While I haven't seen the team play this year, based on previous seasons, I'm not sure that I would expect to have been playing the ball into space for Patterson much. He seems like someone who is more comfortable to have the ball played directly to his feet or chest. Has he evolved as a player, or is there such a lack of other scoring talent that he's the only guy who can (potentially) stretch the field?

Fair enough. That sort of fraud, however, is part of the catalyst for the above described individual borrower fallout. He may not have been the broker, but in that example, he was the incentive. Evil still.

I hope this guy gets nailed to the wall, come sentencing time, and not only for shady dealings in the school side of his life. While jacking with kids' futures is sufficiently effed-up, that mortgage fraud is pretty nasty on its own. The stuff that scheming brokers and underwriters pushed through is ruining people financially, and will for a long time coming, just so that they could boost their numbers or increase their kickbacks. The debt loads that unwitting homebuyers are now stuck with is out of control; evil brokers used tricks like bait & switch, teaser rates, flat out lies, etc, etc to get bonuses and scheme their way into kickbacks. We've all read about the macro effects in the financial press and normal news media, but I don't know if I've seen enough about the individuals that were completely screwed by d-bags like this guy. Not to mention that giving borrowers loans for greater than 80% of their home's value is so very highly correlated with default and foreclosure that its disgusting to think that this guy did it for "kicks". And I now feel better for getting that off of my chest.

At least they're using their heads on this one; sloppy, nasty food and open late. I bet it's jamming at about 12:10 am on Thursday mornings. The service idea, however, isn't quite the way to go. I, however, am still looking for venture capital funding to subsidize my multi-million idea of opening a Taco Bell in that space or another on Laclede, and I'm looking for managers for shifts from open at 10 am to close at 6 am.

That makes for a tough situation not too far off. With the young guys leaving, this team is going to be in a perpetual rebuild phase; those JC guys will graduate, and nobody is going to be there to take over. And, of course, that makes for an instant RPI drain.

naw, those three would have been driving the car...drunk.

Agreed, BRoy. But...if Irons' name is cleared anytime soon, we'll know where the V machine has been...

ok, when I typed Holmes last night, I meant Hayes. I sat next to Holmes in Sociology 101 last fall (which was awesome to take as a senior, highly recommended) and that's just what popped into my mind. Hayes, unlike Holmes, did show some flashes of finishing ability and good breakaway speed on the flank. Most of the time, I hated to see him coming off of the bench behind Patterson. Hell, at least Hayes is FIT. So, apologizing for my gaff, has Hayes been playing?

No matter how good the defense is, or how much you want to knock the goalkeeping, we won't win many games if we play through the attacking half of the field like we have since Vedad headed for Europe. Jimmy Holmes showed some finishing promise late last year, but he didn't have consistent minutes and didn't have much of a supporting cast. I gues what I'm saying is...if we don't score (again) in these games, it won't matter if I'm in goal. Those of you who were there...where did Holmes play?

No matter how good the defense is, or how much you want to knock the goalkeeping, we won't win many games if we play through the attacking half of the field like we have since Vedad headed for Europe. Jimmy Holmes showed some finishing promise late last year, but he didn't have consistent minutes and didn't have much of a supporting cast. I gues what I'm saying is...if we don't score (again) in these games, it won't matter if I'm in goal. Those of you who were there...where did Holmes play?

Agreed! The new format is much, much easier to read.

did you just call the Admiral classy? Did that really just happen? I think those new radio commercials with the girls earning money to go shopping made it jump that shark... "Everybody is just so nice there..."

Sorry Diane...but I think I missed the "positive" while working on the 4-day stomach flu plan...

Successfully hosted College Cup? Did they forget about the couple of hundred people that they gave the Norwalk virus to? That experience made the next 4 days awfully miserable...

do the streets perhaps say that beer is only a buck in the new arena?!?!?!?!?!?

That story was also linked-to on deadspin.com. Deadspin is a fun sports blog that covers a whole range of topics...one of my favorite sites ever.

Exactly-That's why schools use ACT scores to establish benchmarks for their kids. But look out...you just opened a can of worms on this board.

I think they moonlit on Scooby Doo for a couple of episodes

haha, I have actually thought the exact same thing before. New York and Chicago both have fantastic papers, and both have multiple papers competing for the same readers.

His dad is Chuck Goudie, journalist/news reporter in Chicago. I graduated from Benet with his older sister.

haha, not really, because I've never seen a dime.

Like Metzy, I also wrote for the UNews for four years; I just wrote a farewell column (but not the one referred to above)...I also covered the College Cup for CSTV.com. My thoughts also echo every bit of what Metz has said. I however, won't go so far as to group all of the editorial board members into that same group. Two members of the ed board quit when the Editor In Chief moved publication back a day. They had told her that it would force them to quit, and in an ironic Biondi-like fashion, she did it anyway. To say that the paper deserves to be shut down would be going WAY too far. The editorials published in the past year, however, went beyond provocative and appropriate. They instead were provoking and a waste of space. I lost interest when the EIC put the student stipend (non-) issue in each of the first 7 or 8 issues (at least). She used the forum to put the interests of 3 students (herself included) in front of the interests of 11,000 students. After reading that all year, I'd want to restructure the advisory of that paper. I will add, however, that additional funds would vastly improve the quality of the paper. One of my friends who worked there was hired at an agreed-upon rate which was not honored, for whatever reason. Oops. Cashflow was the reason given for why he was grossly under-paid. Further, I have been promised in each of the last four years that I would begin to be paid for my contributions. Never happened. Oops again. That said, the UNews was a great forum for me to develop my writing and have a bit of fun. As we all know from this board, what's more fun that getting your ideas out into a public forum? While the paper has seen (much) better days, eliminating it would be a gross error on the part of the University. I'd find it hard to believe that there is any institution of higher learning that does not have a sanctioned newspaper. Long live the UNews!

and so does cliche. But I certainly do appreciate reading your work Nate.