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In this week's round of school stupidity: Louisville set to give Bobby Petrino $500k academic bonus - for a season he wasn't the coach for Petrino's contract calls for him to get $500k if the team's APR (Academic Performance Rating) is 935 or greater the previous season. For 2013, it's expected to be well north of 935, so Petrino gets a bonus, despite the fact he wasn't hired until January - after the 2013 season was over. Charlie Strong, the coach at the time, won't get anything since he's no longer a Louisville employee. The players who actually earned the grades, of course, won't get anything either. Seriously, where do I sign up for a gig like that?

The very FIRST fucking chest I came across in the game couldnt be opened without points from the companion app.I used the app quite a lot with AC4, so that's not a huge deal to me, but I dread all the other stuff they're gonna cram down my throat. Yeah, the companion app for AC4 was very useful. I don't like idea off forcing its use though...

Best Buy has 50" TVs for 200...

They've had two different AC teams for quite awhile now.

I'm pretty sure this is the dumbest idea ever but am highly flattered nonetheless.

Well, they kinda have to file the grievance. They say there was an explicit agreement in place for proceeding after the legal stuff was done and that the NFL isn't following that agreement. If they don't file the grievance, they can be sued by the player. Hearing is going to be on the 17th. Per the CBA, the league has to make a ruling within 5 days of the hearing. If the league says he needs to go for 6 games, his season is done anyway. Though people are saying that it's going to be less after the NFLPA and the league talk things out. Probably not going to be worth them putting him on the field by the time he gets back anyway. Ah, well. McKinnon is doing just fine so far. If the standard is 6 games, then he shouldn't miss any more time, IMHO. Just fine him 6 game checks, since he already sat out 8+ games.

Well, they kinda have to file the grievance. They say there was an explicit agreement in place for proceeding after the legal stuff was done and that the NFL isn't following that agreement. If they don't file the grievance, they can be sued by the player.

So my dad has been a mess physically for a long time. He had nerve and pain issues that forced him to retire early 7 years ago and was diagnosed with Parkinson's somewhere in there as well. Four years ago, he had a heart attack and damn near died. The doctors are still trying to figure out how he didn't. After that, his health dropped significantly. This year, he got diagnosed with kidney cancer. He went in for surgery a couple months ago and had a long recovery. He's been in a rehab facility for a couple weeks. In the meantime, my mom has been his sole caretaker except for the few weeks my brother & I were in town (while she was having cancer surgery). It's basically been four years of no sleep for her since Dad gets up every couple hours during the night. Anyway, his time in rehab has convinced her she can't take care of him. And she's definitely right about that. So she's basically made the decision dad needs to go in a home, something my brother &I both agree with. So why is this in "stuff" and not "son of a"? She went to the rehab place this morning to talk to him about it - something that's tricky since he's only lucid for periods after his Parkinson's meds are taken. She was expecting him to be upset and combative. He wasn't. Somewhere along the line he'd figured out he was going to be impossible to care for and he was basically just waiting for mom to tell him he was going in a home. He was cool with it and that's a really good thing. I'm sure on some level he's depressed about not going home. But this really is the best thing for both of them. For one thing, it means my dad will get good care. For another, it means my mom will be able to continue having some of the freedom she's had the last few weeks not having to care for Dad 24/7. She may even visit us in Spokane and see our house, which she's never seen. So, yeah, "stuff". Not good, not bad, just life.

Guys making obscene amounts of money won't skew the median. That's now how "median" works. A median of $63,000 means half the lawyers are making more than $63,000, half are making less. The top guys making eleventy billion dollars instead of just a billion wouldn't move the median one penny.

Dan Marino's physical limitations and poor technique in the running game puts him behind Young for sure. To be clear, I mean his physical limitations as impacts a quarterback's performance in the running game.I say that as a guy who - literally - got a Dan Marino jersey in the mail today. I can't complain too much about your rankings though.

Eh, I think 8 years is enough. And he was still elite when he got KO'ed out of the league. And he was easily good enough to start (the second go-round) before he did. I can hear arguments for Brady, Manning, Elway, Montana or whoever but I don't think any of them had the full package that Young brought to the table. Brady & Manning couldn't run. Elway wasn't as accurate. Montana didn't have the arm strength. You know who's got a great argument? Aaron Rodgers, once he gets a couple more seasons under his belt.

Catching up on the weekend's Wings games: Wings vs Rangers - hey look, Gamecenter stopped screwing me over. Fun game marred by horrendous officiating. Games like this make me wonder what the NHL's review process is for its officials. They missed a goal (later fixed on replay), which is understandable. They called a terrible embellishment on Abdelkader and then followed that up by NOT calling embellishment on Martin St. Louis in OT. St. Louis went full on "flying through the air Bobby Orr-style" after getting...uh..."tripped"...maybe...by Pavel Datsyuk. Naturally, New York scored on the power play. All of those were bad enough but the two worst were a couple of non-calls. First up was Johan Franzen nailing a Rangers player in the head with a punch/elbow, dropping him like a rock. Seen by multiple officials, no call. Brutal no-call. Worse than that was a one-handed slash to the face of Danny DeKeyser. ALL FOUR officials saw the play and no call was made on the slash, which left DeKeyser laying facedown bleeding all over the place. How that doesn't get called is beyond me. Just terrible. Anyway, the rest of the game? A high-speed, high-action game with a dramatic ending in regulation. Great stuff. Bad outcome for Detroit but a fun game nonetheless. The nut punch is the Wings lose stellar backup goalie Jonas Gustavsson for a couple months after he got hurt on the game winning goal. Wings vs Devils - Completely dominant first period for Detroit as they roll to a 4-0 lead. They hung on as New Jersey punched back and shut things down in the third. Good win. Wings vs Tampa - 30 minutes of just hanging on for dear life from Detroit to start the game before the tide started to shift. Tampa is a lot of fun to watch, so much talent all over the place, and guys that know what they're doing. They don't mess around, they shoot the puck when open, they move the puck crisply, and so on. Definitely a lot Detroit could learn from their offense. Game goes to OT, which Detroit dominates but can't score. Then to the shootout...with Jimmy Howard in net. You know how that goes, with Detroit again getting embarrassed in the shootout. The laugh this time comes from Darren Helm. Helm - who couldn't score on a breakaway if the net was empty - shoved the puck so far ahead of himself on his initial rush that he nearly didn't recover it at all. By then he barely could get a shot off. Pathetic. Anyway, if Detroit has to lose to a team, I'm picking Tampa. They're a helluva lot of fun to watch. Stamkos is an amazing talent. They've got Tyler Johnson, who I saw play multiple times here in Spokane. And they've got my all-time idol as their GM. So yeah, that lessens the sting a little bit. So...some good things from these three games for Detroit. Better offense - 10 goals in 3 games. The power play picked up and is clicking now. But the PK has dropped off, the overall defensive effort is down just a bit, and shootouts continue to be a joke. Detroit's in 3rd place at 7-3-5 but the reality is they've lost over half their games. That's not good. But the games continue to be really entertaining, not the skates-stuck-in-sludge affairs we saw the last couple years from Detroit.

I got a feeling it's going to be $14.99, maybe even $9.99, for Black Friday somewhere.

The list of guys Young was NOT better than is really, really, really, really short. If I'm writing that list, it's blank, but I'm the only one who feels that way.

My mind is blown that these two futility stats don't somehow have the Lions featured in them anywhere.

Another documentary: Good Game - Documentary covering professional gaming, specifically StarCraft 2 and Team Evil Geniuses. Promising premise but bad execution. It's a sloppy mess structure-wise with no clear direction of what the movie is trying to do. That's combined with bad technical execution that includes not using off-camera microphones for interview subjects, so everybody sounds really hollow. In the end, this is a big disappointment. 4/10.

In John Wick , Keanu loads his new puppy into his muscle car and then goes and does this mind-clearing thing where he tears around a construction yard doing donuts and slamming on the brakes at high speed. All with a little puppy not buckled into anything. So where was the dog?

Shit, that sucks. Was rally hoping things were looking up when he went home

"Donovan McNabb Answers Your NFL Rules Questions" would be the greatest show ever.

Neat little moment in the Lions game - Landry of the Dolphins one-hand catching a booming kickoff by Sam Martin. Like a palm catch, as easy as somebody catching a soft-toss tennis ball.

Seattle last year "greatest defense of all-time"according to some: 14.4 points and 273 yards per game. Detroit this year: 15.8 points and 284 yards

I'm totally ok with it. I don't hold a guy's school against him once he turns pro.I do but it's Duke basketball.That's totally understandable once you make an exception for Grant Hill.

I'm totally ok with it. I don't hold a guy's school against him once he turns pro.

Whoooo! Stafford with a great throw rolling left for the go-ahead TD after Megatron lazily refused to come back for a throw on the previous play.

FU NHL Gamecenter. National broadcast games get locked from streaming for 48 hours after the game ends. That's all well and good. But here it is 77 hours since the Wings/Rangers game ended and it's still locked. Yeah, I know the outcome but I wanna see the game anyway. I paid for it, I wanna see it,