_Laurie_ Posted December 30, 2007 Report Share Posted December 30, 2007 Oh Well...almost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonJonSurfer Posted December 31, 2007 Report Share Posted December 31, 2007 Maybe it will create a little positive energy going into the playoffs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Laurie_ Posted December 31, 2007 Report Share Posted December 31, 2007 I hope so... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonJonSurfer Posted January 7, 2008 Report Share Posted January 7, 2008 It was a good football weekend for my teams...The Giants and Rutgers Scarlet Knights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Laurie_ Posted January 7, 2008 Report Share Posted January 7, 2008 Gooooooo Giants! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawna Posted January 8, 2008 Report Share Posted January 8, 2008 my chargers are riding roughshod over the colts next weekend. Colts are still babies with lots of training and breaking to be had. Chargers are trained war horses that have seen battle and will not let their riders fail. San Diego Super chargers, San Diego Super Chargers, San Diego Super Chargers - CHARGE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farin Posted January 18, 2008 Report Share Posted January 18, 2008 Philipp Kohlschreiber beats Andy Roddick 6-4, 3-6, 7-6, 6-7, 8-6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Levis Posted January 18, 2008 Report Share Posted January 18, 2008 I watched the last bit of it... it was great! Kept me all and then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonJonSurfer Posted January 18, 2008 Report Share Posted January 18, 2008 Chess master Bobby Fischer dies at 64 By GUDJON HELGASON, Associated Press Writer REYKJAVIK, Iceland - Bobby Fischer, the reclusive chess genius who became a Cold War hero by dethroning the Soviet world champion in 1972 and later renounced his American citizenship, has died. He was 64. Fisher died of kidney failure Thursday in a Reykjavik hospital after a long illness, his spokesman, Gardar Sverrisson, said Friday. Born in Chicago and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., Fischer faced criminal charges in the United States for playing a 1992 rematch against Boris Spassky in Yugoslavia in defiance of international sanctions. In 2005, he moved to Iceland, a chess-mad nation and site of his greatest triumph. As a champion, he used his eccentricities to unsettle opponents, but Fischer's reputation as a genius of chess was soon eclipsed, in the eyes of many, by his idiosyncrasies. "Chess is war on a board," he once said. "The object is to crush the other man's mind." Fischer vanished after the 1992 match and occasionally re-emerged to give interviews on a radio station in the Philippines. During one interview, Fischer praised the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, saying America should be "wiped out," and described Jews as "thieving, lying bastards." Garry Kasparov, the former world chess champion from Russia, said Fischer's ascent in the chess world in the 1960s and his promotion of chess worldwide was "a revolutionary breakthrough" for the game. "The tragedy is that he left this world too early, and his extravagant life and scandalous statements did not contribute to the popularity of chess," Kasparov told The Associated Press. Fischer lost his world title in 1975 after refusing to defend it against Anatoly Karpov. He dropped out of competitive chess and largely out of view, emerging occasionally to make erratic and often anti-Semitic comments, although his mother was Jewish. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, president of the World Chess Federation, called Fischer "a phenomenon and an epoch in chess history, and an intellectual giant I would rank next to Newton and Einstein." Spassky, reached briefly at his home in France, said: "I am very sorry, but Bobby Fischer is dead. Goodbye." An American chess champion at 14 and a grand master at 15, Fischer dethroned Spassky in 1972 in a series of games in Iceland's capital, Reykjavik, to become the first officially recognized world champion born in the United States. The match, at the height of the Cold War, took on mythic dimensions as a clash between the world's two superpowers. Fischer played — and won — an exhibition rematch against Spassky on the Yugoslav resort island of Sveti Stefan, but the game was in violation of U.S. sanctions imposed to punish then-President Slobodan Milosevic. In July 2004, Fischer was arrested at Japan's Narita airport for traveling on a revoked U.S. passport and was threatened with extradition to the United States to face charges of violating sanctions. He spent nine months in custody before the dispute was resolved when Iceland granted him citizenship and he moved there with his longtime companion, the Japanese chess player Miyoko Watai. She survives him. In his final years, Fischer railed against the chess establishment, alleging that the outcomes of many top-level chess matches were decided in advance. Instead, he championed his concept of random chess, in which pieces are shuffled at the beginning of each match in a bid to reinvigorate the game. "I don't play the old chess," he told reporters when he arrived in Iceland in 2005. "But obviously if I did, I would be the best." Born March 9, 1943, Robert James Fischer was a child prodigy, playing competitively from age 8. At 13, he became the youngest player to win the United States Junior Championship. At 14, he won the United States Open Championship for the first of eight times. At 15, he gained the title of international grand master, the youngest person to hold the title. Tall, charismatic and with striking looks, he was a chess star — but already gaining a reputation for volatile behavior. He turned up late for tournaments, walked out of matches, refused to play unless the lighting suited him and was intolerant of photographers and cartoonists. He was convinced of his own superiority and called the Soviets "Commie cheats." His behavior often unsettled opponents — to Fischer's advantage. This was seen most famously in the showdown with Spassky in Reykjavik between July and September 1972. Having agreed to play Spassky in Yugoslavia, Fischer raised one objection after another to the arrangements and they wound up playing in Iceland. When play got under way, days late, Fischer lost the first game with an elementary blunder after discovering that television cameras he had reluctantly accepted were not unseen and unheard, but right behind the players' chairs. He boycotted the second game and the referee awarded the point to Spassky, putting the Russian ahead 2-0. But then Spassky agreed to Fischer's demand that the games be played in a back room away from cameras. Fischer went on to beat Spassky, 12.5 points to 8.5 points in 21 games. Millions of Americans, gripped by the contest, rejoiced in the victory over their Cold War adversary. In the recent book "White King and Red Queen," the British author Daniel Johnson said the match was "an abstract antagonism on an abstract battleground using abstract weapons ... yet their struggle embraced all human life." "In Spassky's submission to his fate and Fischer's fierce exultant triumph, the Cold War's denouement was already foreshadowed." The victory made Fischer the first U.S.-born world champion. Paul Morphy, an American, was regarded as the world's best player from 1858 to 1862, and William Steinetz, an Austrian immigrant to the United States, was an official champion from 1886 to 1894. ___ Associated Press Writer Jill Lawless in London contributed to this report. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miamisammy29 Posted January 18, 2008 Report Share Posted January 18, 2008 Eh, Fischer just wimped out. We've been playing chess by mail for the past 14 years, and I was just about to corner his king. And he bails on me! What a p*ssy! It reminds me of this one kid who used to "accidentally" pull the plug on the Atari when he was getting his a$$ kicked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Posted January 19, 2008 Report Share Posted January 19, 2008 The detention center he was in is just 5 miles away from where I live . A number of people around here took him magazines/ newspapers/books/ snacks etc. or took up petitions to try to get him sent to Iceland rather than the U.S. - even U.S. citizens here . I didn't go as I thought he was a loon . He even had a check up at my wife's hospital , though she didn't see him , either . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Levis Posted January 19, 2008 Report Share Posted January 19, 2008 What kind of final set ends in 10-8 ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c_s_1987 Posted January 24, 2008 Report Share Posted January 24, 2008 Muhummad Ali beat Rafael Nadal! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Laurie_ Posted January 25, 2008 Report Share Posted January 25, 2008 I'm wondering why our local radio station can't mention the word "Super Bowl" for their super bowl contest they are having...they have to say "The Big Game" that they can't name....they never said why they can't say it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miamisammy29 Posted January 25, 2008 Report Share Posted January 25, 2008 (edited) The term "Super Bowl" is copyrighted (oops, that's gonna cost me). It's a silly rule, but apparently they don't want other businesses making money off their copyright. I still do hear it on a lot of commercials, though. Edit: I'm surprised Lars Ulrich hasn't barred TV and radio stations from mentioning the word "Metallica". Edited January 25, 2008 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Levis Posted January 25, 2008 Report Share Posted January 25, 2008 Federer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farin Posted January 25, 2008 Report Share Posted January 25, 2008 on the bright side... it's a final with two underdogs... Novak Djokovic vs Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miamisammy29 Posted January 25, 2008 Report Share Posted January 25, 2008 Hey, the guy's gotta lose once in a while. Even Tom Brady loses once...every...couple years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonJonSurfer Posted January 25, 2008 Report Share Posted January 25, 2008 Hey, the guy's gotta lose once in a while. Even Tom Brady loses once...every...couple years. Predicting the future Sammy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miamisammy29 Posted January 25, 2008 Report Share Posted January 25, 2008 Giants 26-20. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Posted January 26, 2008 Report Share Posted January 26, 2008 What I dread is if the Patriots win the Super Bowl , and the Celtics take the NBA championship , there'll be no end to Mass. ego for ages ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonJonSurfer Posted January 26, 2008 Report Share Posted January 26, 2008 Their hopscotch team is in first place too. Giants 27 Pat 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viaene Posted January 26, 2008 Report Share Posted January 26, 2008 (edited) when is this superbowl thing and what sport is it? *forgive me for not having basic american knowledge Edited January 26, 2008 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonJonSurfer Posted January 26, 2008 Report Share Posted January 26, 2008 Sunday February 3rd. It is the National Football League Chanpionship game. This is the 42nd Super Bowl and it is shown on TV worldwide. New York Giants vs. New England Patriots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viaene Posted January 26, 2008 Report Share Posted January 26, 2008 oh so the winner is in some way the best football team in the world? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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