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The seating chart for the Islanders-Devils preseason game in Brooklyn has reverted back to the original, non-horseshoe arrangement on the game's Ticketmaster page: (FWIW, the Barclays Center site is still showing the horseshoe)

New York Post: Bettman spotted at Barclays Center

I have to imagine if the Isles move here on any kind of regular basis (either temporarily while something's being built on Long Island or permanently) the Nets would be open to making some changes to the arena. Both sides have some incentive to make this work - the Isles keep their fanbase and massive NYC cable deal, and the Nets pick up a solid tenant to fill 41 (plus preseason and playoffs) dates on the calendar they don't have to find other events for.

Tickets for the Islanders-Devils exhibition game went on sale today - here's the seating map on the ticket page:

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Asbestos-Investigation-Nassau-Coliseum-Islanders-Long-Island.html

The Islanders would be leaving a lot of TV money on the table if they left the New York area:

WVU to the Big XII has gotten a little complicated...

West Virginia is joining the Big XII, according to the New York Times:

From CBSSports.com:

How many schools in the B1G play lacrosse? Oh, I almost forgot to mention Maryland's athletic department is flat broke, nobody at UM cares about football, and they don't have the tradition of a school like Indiana to make up for it in basketball. They DO have basketball tradition and the founder of Under Armour is an alumn. Maryland's basketball tradition is a fraction of Indiana's basketball tradition. Maryland isn't a blue-blood by any stretch of the imagination. It's still telling when Kevin Plank is your personal ATM and you still have a $1.2 million budget shortfall in the athletic department. Maryland's ADs Debbie Yow and Kevin Anderson have botched the football situation to where they're basically paying Ralph Friedgen $2 million a year to watch the Terps play on TV, or provide color commentary, or whatever it is Fridge is doing these days. The only advantage I'd see for any other school in the B1G in Maryland joining is Penn State finally getting a real rival in football. Maryland students and alumni have been begging and pleading with the AD to schedule a game with Penn State. UM-PSU in football is a big deal here, even though it has been decades since they last played. If Maryland does jump, Plank is gonna have to bust out his checkbook again. The ACC raised its exit fee to $20M last week.

If you're worried about Baylor engaging in protracted, pointless, expensive and vindictive legal battles, rest assured that their president is none other than Ken Starr.

Seeing any player in a blue Cowboys uniform is weird and jarring to me.

TCU to the Big East is apparently happening today, according to the New York Daily News.

Darryl Strawberry, Los Angeles Lakers.

Bumping this...it looks like Big Ten expansion is coming, and it's coming sooner than previously anticipated. From the Chicago Tribune: It looks like the writing's on the wall for the Big East as a major conference - or possibly even a football conference. If they lose three schools to the Big 14, it would seem to follow that the other football schools might also look to jump to stronger conferences lest they be relegated to mid-major status. If Syracuse is indeed one of the teams that receives and accepts an offer to join, I'd be tremendously disappointed to see the end of Big East basketball at the expense of football, and I'd likely have fewer opportunities to see my school play in my part of the country. But I'd be incredulous if my school passed up the money that would come with a move to the Big 14, and stayed in a conference that has shown no interest, ambition, or aggression in proactively adapting to the economic realities of college athletics.

The jersey for sale on NFL.com has a lower-case c.

k i understand that, but i know ive seen a knock off before The font G-Mac is wearing is Diamante Bold, slightly modified.

Now on sale at the Birmingham Barons online store:

Anybody having, or hearing about other people having, problems running Illustrator CS2 after the latest OSX Tiger security update? The damn thing shuts down in the middle of opening every time. My lazy ass needs to upgrade to either CS3 or Leopard, or both...

Did someone say free? http://www.fonts101.com/xt_search.asp?txtS...h&vt=Search

Maybe you could also add a Code of Conduct or repeat the one we see at registration?

js °, you wouldn't happen to have that with a collar, would you?

Awesome, joel. Thanks.

joel, do you have a helmet to go with your football template (i.e. the template you use in the contests on this board)? Many thanks.