Hangman

One of the most influential and yet primarily unknown bands of all time. I'd never heard of them until Rage Against the Machine covered "Kick Out the Jams" on their "Renegades" album that came out probably 17 years ago.

Glad you gave him a shot and liked what you heard. Doesn't matter how you got there as long as you got there.

As long as the player isn't touching out of bounds when they are also touching the ball, it's not an issue in basketball to my knowledge.

I had no idea. My perception of you has changed. :lol2:

Boo!

I'm a male who supervises 8 female direct reports and 0 males. My department as a whole has 4 men (including myself) and approximately 50 women. With this, I have always taken sexual harassment very seriously and take every step to ensure nothing I do or say can be misconstrued. I don't directly address female dress code violations. I get a second opinion of a female supervisor and ask that they handle it on my behalf. I make sure to never be alone in a room with a female employee. I always request a female supervisor sit in on private coaching sessions so we can have a third party record of what happened. I want to avoid any he said/she said. I offer to do the same for them when they have to coach their male employees. Not hiring women would just never be an option for me. And given that my company has a female Chairman/CEO, I don't think it's an option for anyone in the company, fortunately.

I'm a sucker for any Christmas song sung by Darlene Love, but my favorite is probably "All Alone on Christmas".

Seahawks had Russell Wilson, Jimmy Graham, Earl Thomas, and Bobby Wagner... Little surprised about Graham (though he's scored a lot of TDs), but I guess the NFC is not that great at TE. Kyle Rudolph was probably his closest competition outside of Ertz who also made it. The other three Seahawks, though... Very deserving.

Chris Cornell is the one that continues to punch me in the gut repeatedly.

This is one of my favorite venues I've ever been to, and I've been to a lot.

Lost tonight watching a Christmas episode of "The Office".

As everyone knows, I'm a Seahawks fan and have been for the last 20 years. They were the team I randomly adopted as my own when NFL Gameday 98 was bundled with my PlayStation console. As I grew and became obsessed with Pearl Jam and other "grunge" bands from Seattle, it only further cemented them as my team. I was able to attend my first game this year on my first visit to the city, and it just felt like the perfect match. My wife and I are already planning our next trip to the Pacific Northwest. Go 'Hawks!

Saw it at the shop in Pikeville a couple of months ago. Probably long gone by now, but I'll look for it next time I stop in.

I flew 2,500 miles to watch the Seahawks play the Texans in the game of the year, and with two minutes left and the 'Hawks down, I was okay with that because it was such a good game. Thankfully they won and I didn't go all that way to watch a loss, but I just want to see a good football game. And hopefully Seattle wins. :lol2:

As an aside, Cat Stevens is one of my favorite artists ever.

Me too. Hope it meets my expectations.

Bias aside, I agree on Wilson. He runs around and makes plays he has no business making with almost no protection. Any other QB would have a hard time not getting sacked on almost every dropback with the small window of protection Russell is given. He's responsible for almost every yard the team has gotten this year, with no run game to support him. His career will be shorter than it should've been because of the work he has to do on almost every single dropback to get away from the defender who goes untouched to hit him.

I've used both and have no real preference. Never had a bad experience with either.

My angle here isn't necessarily for the improvement of college basketball, because it's ultimately a NBA rule and it's their call what happens. And as I've said, anything that happens to impact the college game as a result is circumstantial at best. However, their remains talent at the mid-major level because they aren't recruiting the one and done talent. They are recruiting four year players who can play all phases of the game. The players have time to gel and grow together and it makes the teams better. The playing field would be leveled, and it could lead to more excitement. Would it for sure? I have no idea. But as an advocate for the players, I'd much rather they be able to go straight out of high school than forced into having to attend college even longer than the current mandatory year.

That may be true. But the guys that come to school may be more likely to stay longer, and that may help the college product. Teams starting over every year is tough for sure.

To piggyback off of this, the vast majority of those guys in 2004 and 2005 are either still in the league or hung around the league a while. The biggest bust of the bunch may be Robert Swift from my memory... Telfair was up there as well, probably. Go back and re-visit those classes and you'll see guys like Hakim Warrick, Ronny Turiaf, Sean May, Rashad McCants, etc. that stayed in school and had similar NBA careers than the high school guys who supposedly didn't belong. Guys like Gerald Green and Shaun Livingston have have their struggles but they've established themselves as solid bench options. And if Livingston had suffered that freak leg injury as a college senior? Likely never heard from again. Andrew Bynum played 9 years in the league before his knees did him in at 27. I'm sure he's glad to have those 3 years of NBA salary that he may have lost if he'd had to wait until following his junior year. I love college basketball. Not as much as I once did, but I still love it. But it's too self-serving to want these guys to have to spend time in college if the NBA scouts believe they are talented enough to go on to the league. Some will boom, some will bust, and some will be mediocre. And that's exactly what will happen if they all go to college.

Happy Thanksgiving, all.

I refuse to choose. I love them both.

How would the NCAA enforce such a rule? If you get an academic scholarship and quit after your freshman year, oh well. But if you're on athletic scholarship you have to stay whether you want to or not? Do you only hold those accountable who have the decision to go to the NBA? What if college life just isn't for them and they'd rather try a trade? Come on. Only the NBA can change the rules here. The NCAA impact is just circumstantial.

Saw something that said Burfict kicked a defender but I'm not watching so no idea. Did that happen? Was it blatant?