| Player | NYG/GB | SD/NE | Record | Points | Total Points |
| Rob | Giants | Pats | 2-0 | 150 | 350 |
| notafan | Packers | Pats | 1-1 | 75 | 225 |
| dolphinfan | Packers | Pats | 1-1 | 75 | 175 |
| Babcbris | Packers | Chargers | 0-2 | 0 | 75 |
Las Vegas isn’t just a place for single party goers anymore. Vegas has quickly become one of the top family vacation destinations in the United States. Las Vegas attractions offer something for everyone. Attractions in Las Vegas include theme parks, roller coasters, museums, national parks, and more.
With endless dining options restaurants in Vegas offer some of the best dining experiences in the world. From 5-star French cuisine to casual and quick fare you’ll find it all available to you. 80
There may never be a better chance to make a property investment than now particularly in Las Vegas condos. In addition to the attractions and continuing increases in property values the median price for condos is down 5.1% compared to last year and sales of Las Vegas Condos are up 14% from a year ago.
We are now just days away from the big game and while everyone has their own opinion we are only interested in knowing what the guys who are fans of the specific teams have to say. Enter Pats Pulpit – the amazing New England Patriots fan site. New England fans have had a lot to cheer for this season and with the Super Bowl looming you get the feeling that this one could be the most important one of all time to them.
Tom from Pats Pulpit (PP) was kind enough to take some time out of what is no doubt a crazy week to answer a few questions for us. Thanks Tom!
Is there too much being made about Tom Brady’s ankle injury?
PP: Yeah, undoubtedly. Even in the walking cast, Brady wasn't limping that badly, and with two weeks between games, it shouldn't be a big deal. Continue...
In 2000 Tiger Woods won nine tournaments including three straight majors. Now in 2008 he appears primed to shatter that mark. Tiger’s win at Torrey Pines, in the Buick Invitational, over the weekend was the 62nd of his career which is good enough to tie him with Arnold Palmer for fourth place on the tour list.
"He's just much better," said Fred Couples, who posted his first top-10 finish since the 2006 Masters. "It's fun to see. I've been on tour for 28 years, and I've never seen this stuff."
"I'd say this is the best I've seen him play," Stewark Cink said. "The last couple days, off the tee, the control he had was just really very impressive. The Tiger that we saw a year and two years ago, hitting it sort of all over the place, I think that's a thing of the past. He's got it geared down and he came out and played really well."
"You'd like to think it's surprising, but it's not," Charles Howell III said. "It's Tiger."
"I'm starting to get better," Tiger said. "I'm hitting shots that I never could hit before, even in 2000. People think, 'Yeah, you played great.' But I made everything. I'm actually hitting the ball better now than I did during that stretch."
If you saw the following advertisement in the Sunday Paper would you give it a second look? Zenni Optical: Sell Rx Glasses $8 with case!
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Four-Time All-Start Chuck Knoblauch has U.S. Marshalls searching for him to serve a subpoena from a House panel investigating steroids in baseball. Knoblauch failed to respond to a request for him to appear at a deposition scheduled by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Because of that federal marshals were sent to serve a subpoena but as of Wednesday night he was nowhere to be found.
With the hire of Bill Parcells as Miami’s head of football operations the NFL world should have seen this coming from a mile away. One coach after another is defecting from the Dallas Cowboys’ staff and heading for South Beach. But I wonder if they are they truly heading to greener pastures?
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The NFL playoffs have been far short of upsets with the Dallas Cowboys and Indianapolis Colts among the teams sent packing. It can be said though that no team has ruined more playoff brackets than the New York Giants who have won on the road at Tampa Bay and at Dallas. Now the Giants must travel to Green Bay to play the Packers on the frozen tundra. Here to give us a heads up on the Giants and some general opinions on the game itself is Ed from Big Blue View. Thanks for your time!
Give us a quick update on the Giants secondary?
BBV: The Giants' secondary is a mess. Kevin Dockery will not play. Sam Madison suited up Thursday, but did not practice. I doubt he will play. Aaron Ross practiced, but apparently can't really use his right arm (he dislocated the right shoulder, twice). So, they are in trouble back there.
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| Player | Sea/GB | Jax/NE | SD/INDY | NYG/DAL | Record | Points | Total Points |
| Rob | Packers | Pats | Colts | Cowboys | 2-2 | 100 | 200 |
| notafan | Packers | Pats | Colts | Cowboys | 2-2 | 100 | 150 |
| dolphinfan | Packers | Jags | Colts | Cowboys | 1-3 | 50 | 100 |
| Babcbris | Packers | Jags | Colts | Cowboys | 1-3 | 50 | 75 |
Like so many other things in life we want our investments to be safe and secure. Yet at the same time we want them to produce a high yield for us as well. There are literally thousands of investment options available but not many of them have the track record of precious metals like silver.
Above ground stockpiles of silver bullion are rapidly shrinking because the world demand for silver has exceeded annual production every year since 1990. It’s simple supply and demand and because of it and these other factors silver is the perfect investment for the person looking to play it safe and still receive a high yield.
We are just under a month away from when the cars start running for real at Daytona but drivers Clint Bowyer and Juan Pablo Montoya participated in the Goodyear tire test at Texas Motor Speedway becoming the first two drivers to run the new car on the 1 1/2 -mile, high-banked track.
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More and more people are going to the internet for entertainment purposes. Once used primarily for research and data gathering the World Wide Web has become on of the top sources for time killing.
One of the new growing trends for online activity is playing Backgammon against other online opponents. The spirit of competition is what drives people to sports and it is that same spirit that drives people toward online competition in games like backgammon.
BG Prime teaches you backgammon basics and prepares you for competition. They you’ll learn everything about the game that you would want to know like rules, strategy, etiquette and much more. All for free
The good news for the LA Lakers is that center Andrew Bynum will make a full recovery. The bad news is that it will take him at least eight weeks to do so. Bynum is averaging a double-double as the center for the Lakers and suffered a subluxation of the patella and a bone bruise of his left knee during Sunday night’s game against Memphis. His 10.2 rebounds led the team and his 13.1 points were third behind Kobe Bryant and Lamar Odem.
With rumors swirling that Kwame Brown will take over the starting spot the Lakers are automatically losing 5 points and 9 rebounds just in stats alone. Most importantly LA is losing a big physical body inside who takes up space and plays aggressive. While Brown is a big body and does take up space being described as physical and aggressive are easily debated but the Lakers have no other options."Unless Wilt [Chamberlain] comes back from the dead, I don't know what else we're going to do," Lakers Coach Phil Jackson said when discussing Brown. "He's going to have to handle the starting job."
The Lakers, who are 9-1 in their last 10 games, trail the Phoenix Suns by a half a game and have a 4.5 game lead on the Golden State Warriors. If there ever was a time to not give up any ground this would be it. However, without their big man I don’t see any way Los Angeles can avoid it.
Who hasn’t seen the video of the young man in his room pretending to be fighting an imaginary foe with a broom stick as a light saber? How about the countless videos shown of guys wiping out on skate boards, motorcycles and other extreme sport stunts? With the rise of internet video we have the opportunity to be entertained in our homes, offices or wherever there’s a computer and any hour of the day. It’s really like you have the production controls for any one of the funny home videos shows. 91
Now, thanks to YawpBox, you can be a star by submitting created content online that could be used in a television show. YawpBoxTV will be the first television show where the content is completely generated by the users of a social networking site. Basically you submit it and the world will see it. 52
We love to see ordinary people do things that make us laugh, cringe and wonder how in the world they did that. The reason why is because we, being ordinary people ourselves, identify with the people we see in the videos making it all the more entertaining. 57
Lex and Terry have set out a challenge to the nation to create specific user generated with the specific purpose of broadcasting it to the nation. You can check out their categories under the Lex & Terry challenge section at YawpBox.com.
This game looks like a mismatch in so many different ways but for some reason I feel like Jacksonville has a chance. The Patriots have so many offensive weapons and different formations to use them in that they are almost impossible to stop unless they stop themselves with turnovers and penalties.
Read the complete preview and cast your vote for how you think will win the game.
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Eli Manning did accomplished something last weekend that New York Giants’ fans have been waiting four years to see. He led the Giants to a win in the playoffs. Now Manning and company must travel to Dallas to take on Cowboys in this weekend’s prime playoff match-up. To help up gain some insight on the game and on the NFC’s top seed Dave from the outstanding Dallas Cowboys fan site Blogging the Boys agreed to answer a few questions for us. Thanks for stopping by, Dave!
Here’s how it all finished out in my book. Let me just say that I believe that this has been one of the greatest college football seasons in the last 40 years. I’m only 33 but I can’t remember more upsets in any one season than we saw in 2007. The BCS was a mess, which is what I was hoping for, sparking even more significant talk of a change in the system. Do we have a legitimate champion? No, but we have the best thing possible at this point.
1. LSU – There was no such thing as a perfect season this year in college football but the Tigers did win the strongest conference in the country before taking the sacrificial bait from the Big 10.
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As always feel free to leave your thoughts as to where I'm right or wrong.
I recently read a statement about the Denver Broncos that I immediately disagreed with but it was one of those times when I wasn’t sure why I disagreed. The quote was that the Denver Broncos were only of the most successful franchises in the NFL. Now, when I think of the NFL’s most storied and successful franchises I think of the Dallas Cowboys, the San Francisco 49es or even the Pittsburgh Steelers but not the Denver Broncos. Is that fair?
Denver has won ten AFC West Division championships, six conference championships but only two Super Bowls. Any sports nut could tell you that is an impressive resume but my opinion is that it doesn’t stack up among the NFL’s elite. If you were to take a quick look at the greatest players in Denver Broncos history you’d find that that seven of the ten division championships, five of the six conference championships, both Super Bowl wins come during the era of one player, John Elway. Perhaps the answer to our questions is that the Broncos have produced some of the best players of all-time but don’t yet have the team accomplishments to be labeled one of the best franchises of all time.
| Player | Wash/Sea | Jax/Pitt | NY/TB | SD/Tenn | Record | Points |
| Rob | Seahawks | Jaguars | Giants | Chargers | 4-0 | 100 |
| Dolphinfan | Redskins | Jaguars | Bucs | Chargers | 2-2 | 50 |
| Notafan | Seahawks | Steelers | Bucs | Chargers | 2-2 | 50 |
| True2OSU | N/A | N/A | Giants | Chargers | 2-0 | 50 |
| Babcbris | Redskins | Steelers | Giants | Titans | 1-3 | 25 |
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Continuing in our playoff coverage we’d like to introduce Jimmy from the Tennessee Titan’s fan site Music City Miracles. The Titans are matched up against the San Diego Chargers in the Wild Card and will try to accomplish something on the road that they couldn’t at home, beat the Chargers.
Sunday’s game won’t lack any drama as these two teams obviously have a strong dislike for one another. Jimmy sheds some light on the Titans for us.
The AFC South put three teams into the play-offs. Is this the toughest division in the NFL?
Jimmy - I think so. You have the perennial power in the Colts, a Jaguars team that appears to have finally made all that potential payoff on the field, an up and coming Titans team, and an up and coming Texans team. The AFC South is one of only two divisions in the entire NFL where everyone was at least .500 (NFC East), and the AFC South's winning percentage was better than the NFC East's (.657 to .625).
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With the NFL playoffs set to start on Saturday we’re doing our best to bring you great coverage on key match-ups and players from some of the best bloggers on the net. Joining us today is Seattle Seahawks blog Field Gulls.
Seattle will get the NFL playoffs rolling on Saturday by hosting the Washington Redskins, who may be the hottest team in the NFC. The writer of Field Gulls shares some insight with us on the Seahawks and their match-up with the Skins.
Do you have any fear that division strength is going to hurt Seattle's chances for a playoff run?
FG - I think you mean, am I afraid that Seattle is not a real contender because they fattened up in a weak division? Not really. They stomped the guts out of a number of NFL teams, many bad, but there's no such thing as an Oberlin in the NFL. Even bad NFL teams are relatively strong. There's no proof that a team has to beat quality opposition to be a playoff contender. Now, I don't think they will win the NFC - they might. And I highly, highly doubt they'll win the Super Bowl. Beating New England would be among the all time upsets in history. I fully expect a triple digit positive playoff point differential for the Pats. 103. 109.
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Chris Armstrong, Wired editor-in-chief and Long Tail author, recently did an interview with 123-reg blog. In it he discusses the concept of the Fremium model where businesses and corporations give something away in order to attract the attention of advertisers.
Armstrong points out that Google is leading the way with the Fremium Model because every product they put out is either free or comes in a free version. “It started with search and then software and services of various sorts and now they’re rolling out telephony and communications. They’re a sort of tsunami of ‘free’, which disrupts every industry it touches,” Armstrong said.
You can read the entire exclusive interview at 123-reg blog.
Hi, I’m Matt and I’m crazy about football. It doesn’t matter what level of football either. If the put on pads and a helmet than I am a fan. I also follow basketball and baseball intently and have a slight lean towards college teams over the pro game. By the way, I love talking sports.
That’s me and I know that there are thousands of people out there just like me. You love talking sports and have an opinion and My Opinion on Sports provides you the platform to share it. We don’t have an agenda and we’re not going to bribe you with prizes and referral bonuses. What we will do is share a passion for all things athletic and engage you in intelligent conversation. So give us a try. It’s all free and all fun!
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All picks must be made in the forum and must be posted before that weekend’s play-off games begin. Following the Super Bowl we’ll announce the winner and they’ll receive a team logo hat of their choice.
Ifbyphone - free click to call and custom voice mashups could change the way bloggers communicate with their readers and the way businesses connect to their clients. Check out the press release and then definately give the product a look. Who knows, maybe it will change your blog or business relationships.
Chicago, IL: December, 2007 - Ifbyphone, a voice infrastructure and applications development company providing enterprise class services to Small and Medium sized Businesses (SMB’s), has just released a solution destined to revolutionize the web to voice space: Phone-Me-Now, a zero configuration click to call application. To introduce Phone-Me-Now to hundreds of thousands of businesses that will be able to use it as a sales tool, Ifbyphone is making it available free of charge for 6 months and providing the first 100 minutes per month of usage for free as well.
This patent pending solution can be integrated in less then 60 seconds into any website, email or hyperlinked document and requires no experience to configure. It's literally the Internet’s first instant voice mash up tool.
"While many companies provide click to call services we were troubled by how complex they are to use. Users had to cut and paste HTML or javascript, rendering these services outside of the technical reach of thousands of businesses. Once we designed this patent pending solution we configured our existing smart click to call services to work with the Phone-Me-Now interface." says Irv Shapiro, Founder and CEO of Ifbyphone. The zero configuration Phone-Me-Now service is literally the Holy Grail of web to telephone integration and ease of use.
Using Phone-Me-Now is as simple as typing: www.phone-me-now/your-business-number into any web site, Word Document, Powerpoint Presentation, Spreadsheet, PDF or email. When a reader clicks on the link they are prompted for their telephone number and the Ifbyphone systems call your business, calls the reader and conferences the call. Phone-Me-Now works with any telephone number you register on your Ifbyphone account.
"We wanted to eliminate any barriers to basic click to call, and know that Phone-Me-Now will immediately set an industry standard for rapid deployment. If the Internet is all about speed and response, what could be a more appropriate Killer App for 2008 than Phone-Me-Now, which puts a business owner in instant voice communication with their customers," adds Shapiro.
Free Phone-Me-Now accounts can be updated to additional Ifbyphone packages that include:
- Click to Call with Custom Dialog Forms
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- Backend Database Integration
- A Complete Call Management API
All Ifbyphone solutions work with any telephone system and are fully portable if a company moves from one telephone transport vendor to another.
About Ifbyphone:
Ifbyphone is a hosted voice application and platform company with a simplified approach to the deployment of stand-alone and web-integrated voice services for small and medium sized businesses (SMB). Combining advanced telephony and web services, Ifbyphone's web-integrated voice applications turn the small business telephone into a powerful tool, increasing lead generation, improving sales conversion and enhancing the customer experience. Ifbyphone makes it easier for customers to connect with you from online and off. All of Ifbyphone's applications are accessible via a click on a Web site, an inbound call to a toll free number, an outbound call or with the help of a programmable API. Our configuration and deployment tools look and feel just like Web applications, and require no previous knowledge of telephony programming or terminology. Previously available only to large enterprises, Ifbyphone is delivering these converged voice and web solutions at affordable monthly fees, with no major upfront costs. The company's services are available online and through a network of SMB value-added resellers.
