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1. Women Who Can Dunk and Duel (By Harvey Araton, The New York Times): Sparkplug Candice Parker speaks out after Tuesday night's dust-up at the Palace.
2. Danica Patrick plays her own sexist game (By Tom Knott, The Washington Times): This Times scribe has had enough of Patrick's self-victimization.
3. Stop picking on Beijing's Olympic mascots (By Seth Stevenson, Slate Magazine): Can you believe the Olympic mascots have been blamed for events like the Sichuan earthquake, the Olympic torch protests and the recent flooding?
4. The 7-foot-6 Vessel of China's Hopes (By Maureen Fan, The Washington Post): There's a heavy burden on the broad shoulders of Chinese national team centerpiece Yao Ming.
5. The balcony is closed (By Roger Ebert, The Chicago Sun-Times): It's the end of an era for the best-known living film critic. Here's a fond farewell.
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After a week off the Sprint Cup is at Historic Indianapolis Motor Speedway (no relation). Only champions win here. And champions to be. Never an upset winner at Indy (have I dragged this out long enough yet?). So even though neither of my picks has won this year, they have both won a lot, and at Indy.
Tony Stewart or Jeff Gordon. As easy as that. This is too big a race for both of these guys to let it go. One of them will win.
And if it turns out that Kyle Busch wins I promise to have some really good excuse ready.
Rickapolis-Bard of…
Annapolis , MD
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I'm with you on Gordon, Rick. Good read from Ebert.
Catch you all on Monday. I'm off to the 20th high school reunion.
KS Elwood
Merriam, KS
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I'd like to thank the unilingual Censotbot for the amount of swearing that was not ***-out in the "I am A Quebecois!" rant from the previous post.
MungoDM
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*Censorbot*
Darn, Barzhac'd again!
MungoDM
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Dang it, did anyone catch my story on the last post?
Kari - DaPrez
Geneva , IL
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Yup.....
MungoDM
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Yep, that's a lot of pills from one place.
Aimless Wonderer
Brooklyn , NY
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I don't watch the hockey game while doing it doggy style.
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Damn, that would be a conflict for me. You are either not paying attention to the hockey game or not paying attention to...you guys know what I'm talking about.
Kari - DaPrez
Geneva , IL
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That was a good article about Yao Ming and the Chinese basketball fans.
Mr Adams
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Dang it, did anyone catch my story on the last post?
Kari - President of Pagination | 07/25/08, 12:38 PM
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I caught it. And I am simply appalled by it. Around here, Vicodin can go for anywhere up to $10/pill.
DJ C - Pete 3:16
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I don't watch the hockey game while doing it doggy style.
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Kari, what isn't said, is that we wait until the intermission between periods, so it isn't DURING the hockey game.
MungoDM
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Damn, that would be a conflict for me. You are either not paying attention to the hockey game or not paying attention to...you guys know what I'm talking about.
Kari - President of Pagination | 07/25/08, 12:41 PM
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Why pay attention to hockey?
DJ C - Pete 3:16
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Dang it, did anyone catch my story on the last post?
Kari - President of Pagination | 07/25/08, 12:38 PM
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I caught it. And I am simply appalled by it. Around here, Vicodin can go for anywhere up to $10/pill.
DJ C - Pete 3:16 | 07/25/08, 12:42 PM
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$10 a pill?
I am in the wrong business.
Kari - DaPrez
Geneva , IL
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I am in the wrong business.
Kari - President of Pagination | 07/25/08, 12:43 PM
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That's subject to the strength of it, though. The 10/1000's can go for that much. The 5/500's are usually cheaper. $2-$5, depending on variables.
DJ C - Pete 3:16
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Damn, that would be a conflict for me. You are either not paying attention to the hockey game or not paying attention to...you guys know what I'm talking about.
Kari - President of Pagination
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good...with all that distraction you won't notice the coldness of the beer bottle on your back. And hopefully the chip bowl won't spill...
gill, again
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I don't watch the hockey game while doing it doggy style.
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Kari, what isn't said, is that we wait until the intermission between periods, so it isn't DURING the hockey game.
MungoDM --R&R in 5 | 07/25/08, 12:42 PM
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Ah. See, that's much better.
Why pay attention to hockey?
DJ C - Pete 3:16 | 07/25/08, 12:42 PM
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Well, obviously for the intermission, Chris. Duh.
Kari - DaPrez
Geneva , IL
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Rick, I think you are picking true long shots for Indy. I will pick... let's see... ummm... Carl Edwards to win!
Mr Adams
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Damn, that would be a conflict for me. You are either not paying attention to the hockey game or not paying attention to...you guys know what I'm talking about.
Kari - President of Pagination
If your not paying attention to the latter either you're not doing it right or you're doing it with Mr. Wrong.
Ten Duke
St Catharines, ON
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Well, obviously for the intermission, Chris. Duh.
Kari - President of Pagination | 07/25/08, 12:45 PM
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Turn off the TV for the entire game, and it's one really long intermission.
DJ C - Pete 3:16
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good...with all that distraction you won't notice the coldness of the beer bottle on your back. And hopefully the chip bowl won't spill...
gill | 07/25/08, 12:45 PM
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I...I have been rendered speechless.
Kari - DaPrez
Geneva , IL
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