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Time for our annual Survivor Football challenge. Just like in past years, we have a group on Yahoo. Go here to sign up - http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/survival/15975 Our group is called ---> DBR Survivors Our group ID# is ---> 15975 The password to get into the group is ---> Duke Sign up quickly as the first game is a week from Thursday.

Who is having a tail-a-gate before the AL game? Who wants to prepare a plate of forbidden foods for me? Lord have mercy, it is 17 days away! GO DEVILS!!!!

Don't know if there is a FF thread allready but thought I should start one. I got a question for everyone... Who do you take 3rd overall? Obviously Chris Johnson and AP are 1-2. Who comes next?

Because I am an old man and do things like read newspapers and read the obits on Wiki, I was saddened yesterday to learn of the relatively early death, by cancer, of Alain Corneau, who directed, among other things, the searingly beautiful Tous les matins du monde (1991), a fictionalized version of the life of the baroque composer Sainte-Colombe. He won the 1992 César, which is like our Oscar for...

Hard to believe...but the time is near for the summer movie release period. A week from Friday things start off with Iron Man 2....and then it's pretty much non-stop until August. Time to make your picks for the top 5 movie grossing films (U.S. Only). This year, I actually think will be tough. Where do films like Sex and the City 2 rank? How will all the kid 3-D movies play out? Is there...

Anybody going to the Forever Duke party on campus? Last year, I stocked up on 80's era nostalgic Duke PE stuff. It's also a lot of fun to see the kids showing up for school, especially the real "kids" -- watching Freshmen arrive on campus is a neat way to recapture some love for the school.

Just thought that with today's news, it's time to start our season-long discussion of the Braves. The news: the Braves announced that Jason Heywood will open the season as the team's starting rightfielder -- after the majority of offseason speculation was that Heywood would start in the minors. I'm watching the the ESPN broadcast of the Braves-Tigers today (Friday) and Heywood has already...

Any fans? The Champions League is getting hot and heavy...Defending champion Barcelona drops the first leg to Inter 3-1. Ribery gets tossed in the 1st leg against Lyon (in progress). It's certainly a different landscape than last year. Chelsea and ManU are sitting 1 and 2 in the Premiership, not entirely unexpected. Arsenal and the Spurs are sitting at 3 and 4, respectively. NOT TO...

So this week I found out the most popular iPhone App was Type and Talk -- which other than making your iphone cuss at people is pretty worthless. With so many productive and useful apps, this disturbs me (I still enjoy playing with the Type and Talk - making it say "chicken &^$%er" to my wife). What are your favorite apps?

Anyone interested in some Panthers talk? I dont know of any site with a board like this for the Panthers so I thought it would be cool to start a thread here and see if anyone is interested... I know I dont have any control but I'd prefer that only serious Panther fans join in converstion with thier opinions and any cool information they find about the team on the net or in the paper. Some...

So now that a whole passel of people have stopped regularly using Facebook (after that initial nostalgic push), what social sites / ideas pass muster that you expect to keep up with for a long time.

So I was at a wedding the other day, one of the groomsmen, and the time came for the garter belt toss. Well it came near me, and competitiveness as well as cat like reflexes overcame the common sense of backing away and I snatched it out of the air. Well, this oversight could be forgiven...however I looked down only to see that it was a tar heel themed garter belt!!!!!!!!! My friends are...

This year, there has been a plethora of rookies that have established themselves as good Major League ball players. This has been one of the better Rookie of the Year races (NL mainly) in a long time. I wanted to get you guys' opinions on who you think should win rookie of the year in each league. Here are some candidates: NL - C Buster Posey (.330 BA, 10 HR, 52 RBI, .872 OPS) - 1B...

Hello Duke fans! Making my first trip to Durham this week, and I can't wait to see the campus. If anyone has any suggestions on places/bars we should visit let me know!

Well, who would have thought that the "Now" Franchise would make it to 35, but they did. And Michael Posner is on Now 35, released today. How cool is that?

I checked the "Stats" page on ESPN and just noticed that there are five players who are in the top five in their league for Average, HR, and RBIs: In the NL, Albert Pujols is 3-1-1; Colorado's Carlos Gonzales is 1-5-3; and Cincy's Joey Votto is 2-3-2. In the AL, Miguel Cabrera is 2-2-1, while Texas's Josh Hamilton is 1-4-5. IIRC the last triple crown winner was Carl Yastremski in 1967....

as disappointed as i was with the small number of available movies for instant viewing on Netflix, i gotta say, blockbuster's last ditch campaign to try to compete was laughable... We still have our blockbuster account and sometimes, the movie sitting on the shelf from Netflix just isn't what we're in the mood for, so we went down to BB last night to peruse some alternates. because we...

bruce that is... just curious.....i heard he was checking out some bands around the area... http://ui32.gamespot.com/479/702headbanginstick_2.gif