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I can't see St. Joseph's being seriously considered for the Catholic League as I wouldn't think 'Nova would give up their ownership of the Philadelphia market in that league. Nova has no ownership of the market. It is extremely provincial. In my opinion, only Temple has a significant fan base of non-affiliated people, with the other 5 schools followed by their alumni and not cared about by most others. IMO having St Joes in the same conference would benefit both schools.

Adding basketball schools when you are a football league is insanely stupid. If Georgetown, Villanova, and St. John's wanted to join the ACC, these things would have to happen: -Georgetown's football program (which is currently in the FCS) would have to upgrade their stadium to FBS standards; same with Villanova. -St. John's would have to relaunch their football program, which they discontinued in 2002. Neither of these things are happening. Villanova was prepared to go FBS, but by the time they finally decided, the Big East took the offer off the table. I think that would be a mistake though. As for the stadium situation, they could share Franklin Field with Penn while deciding what to do about their own stadium (which IMO is not much, because that area can't support the traffic that a big-time program would bring in.)

So along with these questions, if these 4 super conferences are able to start dictating the rules (which I think they could be able to do) and become the defacto governing body for college athletics (at least football), could we see the end of Division 1 and 1-AA (FBS and FCS or whatever) as we know it, since for all intents and purposes, the 64 teams in the super leagues are really the 1st division? Like aren't FCS and FBS NCAA sanctioned designations? Couldn't the NWO of college athletics just say "look - it's us and only us."?

I know next to nothing about college sports, nor do I really care (from a competition standpoint), however, I appreciate the history of these conferences and find it fascinating that the world is changing so drastically in the past few years since I can remember how big a deal it was when the Big 10 expanded for Penn State, and now that kind of thing is happening every other day. So keeping in mind that I don't know much, I will pose three questions in the form of an enumerated list. Please answer: 1. Could these 16-team "super leagues" just make up their own rules, have their own conference semi-final and championship games, then agree with each other to sell the rights to games against the winners of the other super leagues? Like what could the NCAA do about it if these leagues just wanted to go rogue and govern themselves? 2. I realize there's existing TV deals that the NCAA signs (and presumably the conference leadership agrees to) but if say the "Big 10" were to dissolve or close up shop, would that void a deal? Then they just come back as Big 10 2.0 or something like that (same with the other super leagues?) It seems like there could be ways that everything that's currently in ink could be thrown out if these leagues wanted to do things on their own. 3. I was wondering why the season starts before labor day but ends around Thanksgiving, creating (in some cases) a 6+ week layoff for some big-time bowl teams. I guess it's because as you get in to finals weeks, many schools have them on Saturdays which could create conflicts for students and faculty who attend games, and the athletes themselves (though i'm sure their schedules could be worked around.) Is there a better reason? If #2 were to happen, there would have to be some December games, unless the "playoff" started in January, right?

There was a poster on here who actually worked with Reebok that would occasionally post 50% off codes that would work for a day or two on their site. I only own one modern authentic jersey (Eagles Brian Dawkins bought in 2008) and it cost like $130 directly from Reebok.

Isn't there more fly wire? Or is it just stretched long on field?

I would argue to the death (literally - I won't stop arguing until your body can't take it anymore and you just spontaneously combust) that replicas were made better back in the mid '90s. The Logo Athletic, Wilson, Reebok, and whatever else there was back then were crap. I'd see kids at school all the time with jerseys that you couldn't even make out the numbers on, or logos screened over top of seams because of poor QC, etc. Also, replicas for the most part didn't have NFL shields on them (once that started in '92.) They'd have a AFC or NFC logo on the collar. Sure for $30 they were fine, but certainly not higher quality than today's.

I remember seeing fake jerseys at flea markets and kiosk-type "stores" back in 1990. I don't know if they came from China or not (given the political climate, which I certainly wasn't in tune with back then, I'd say maybe not), but they certainly existed. You didn't see as many back then because you didn't see many of any type of jersey. Merchandising wasn't nearly as mature as it is now, and you had to go to a specialty store to find a real "authentic" jersey (which cost $60 - $80) and then get it custom lettered... and in some cases, numbered.

It's awesome now on iPad. I have some issues with rich text in the fast-reply box, but I used to have to "pinch and zoom" in order to accurately touch the "view first unread" square on the left. Now there's enough of a target for a full finger or thumb. I think the rich text thing is an iOS6 bug. The same thing was in one of the old iOSs and then was fixed in a point release.

Actually not true. If you work for a company that sells those jerseys and offers a bonus based on sales, then you are losing money based on someone buying a counterfeit instead of a legit jersey. Or a counterfeit instead of a t-shirt. Or supporting a bogus business and allowing it to exist. Yeah nice Hypothetical, but that's not how the NFL works. The NFL owns the rights to ALL the logos and licences them to Nike for the uniforms. The logo's are designed either in house by designers on a fixed wage, or by an outside agency who are paid a one off fee. Actually not true. If you work for a company that sells those jerseys and offers a bonus based on sales, then you are losing money based on someone buying a counterfeit instead of a legit jersey. Or a counterfeit instead of a t-shirt. Or supporting a bogus business and allowing it to exist. 9ersSteve, that's a really stupid post. Think about it - teams / leagues have a budget for designs, and a percentage of that budget is allocated to paying the artists or design firms for their work. If they're not selling as much legit stuff due to people buying fakes, then eventually the apparel and license deals go down, and all of a sudden the revenue generated by coming up with a redesign is lower, which means that the budget is lower, which means that the designer gets paid less. Honestly, to think that everyone involved in producing a design isn't affected by IP theft is ridiculous at best. In the long term yeah you're 100% correct, but people were talking in here like designers recieve a percentage of every jersey sold, in real time, and that's not the case. That was what I meant by that statement, sorry if I wasn't 100% clear on that. But with that said lets be honest here, Nike or whoever the manufacturer is would be likely to take DRASTIC action against counterfieters LONG before the trickle down in losses made a serious dent in what they pay designers, for two reasons. 1. they pay designers a MINISCULE amount compared with the profits they generate from the goods they sell with the designs on them, so 2. If they ever lost the kind of money required to reduce the amount profit they make to the point where budgets for design are slashed they'd have far bigger things to worry about than paying designers! The facts are, Authentic jerseys are priced high, in order to make them a luxury item, the result is that it leaves them open to having their goods counterfieted. It's NOT RIGHT, but that is the cause. Does it harm the design industry?YES. But I'd argue the harm it does affects smaller designers FAR more. Nike/Reebok/Addidas etc etc's INACTION with regards IP theft (because right now it's not hurting their balance books enough) means that counterfieters think it's OK to steal ANYONE'S work! Smaller designer's are losing out thru IP theft of their work and there's NOTHING THEY CAN DO, because if BIG COMPANIES let it slide then the courts dont take IP THEFT SERIOUSLY ENOUGH! As a result you end up with situations like Davidson posted about this morning where HIS designs are ripped off again! Now I dont want to speculate as to Davidson's financial situation but I bet he cant afford to lose out on the time and what should rightfully be his money in the way Nike can! Becuase (in this case) Nike dont (or wont) do anything about it, you can bet Davidson has little hope of stopping those using his work without permission, or seeing any money for his work if they do keep using it. If you ask me THAT is the real harm that's being done to the design industry in this. Intelectual Property is not being protected in the way it SHOULD, because it isn't affect big companies profit lines, and that is WRONG. This is something big corporations COULD do a number of things to stop, TOMORROW if they wanted to, but wont, because there's no real financial benefit in it for them and that's all they care about. At the end of the day they're screwing the designers of the world too, they're just doing it in different ways. 9erssteve Well I don't really disagree with that assessment, except that do we know that adidas, Nike, etc. aren't doing anything about the counterfeiters? For all I know (which admittedly isn't much) they are, it's just that it's a losing battle. Ultimately, in business, you are correct - eventually it gets to the point where while you are still obligated to fight it, you still need to accept that you can't beat it and then counter it by caving in - i.e. lowering prices, etc. However - it's possible that they've already done this. Maybe the prices are already factoring in the sweet spot where people will still buy their stuff as opposed to settling for a fake. You may not think it, the kid who doesn't have $300 might not think it, but maybe they've run the numbers and realized that if they raised an auth to $400, then a disproportionately high percentage of people would then switch to fakes, but at $300 they keep a high-enough percentage of customers to turn a big profit. Remember - what is "high priced" is all relative. To a high school kid, yeah - $75 is "high" for a football jersey. To the bulk of their customers, Nike may feel that they're priced just right to balance the desire to save a buck and buy a fake vs the desire to buy a legit item.

Actually not true. If you work for a company that sells those jerseys and offers a bonus based on sales, then you are losing money based on someone buying a counterfeit instead of a legit jersey. Or a counterfeit instead of a t-shirt. Or supporting a bogus business and allowing it to exist. 9ersSteve, that's a really stupid post. Think about it - teams / leagues have a budget for designs, and a percentage of that budget is allocated to paying the artists or design firms for their work. If they're not selling as much legit stuff due to people buying fakes, then eventually the apparel and license deals go down, and all of a sudden the revenue generated by coming up with a redesign is lower, which means that the budget is lower, which means that the designer gets paid less. Honestly, to think that everyone involved in producing a design isn't affected by IP theft is ridiculous at best.

Wrong number font for one thing. Also, I think the "z" used to have angles on the top right and bottom left.

Really? I don't think that's even that close. The NOB font is wrong, as is the number. Look at the 4. Maybe the blank jersey is real (doubt it though) but the lettering is not.

it looks terrible indeed . i buy from http://www.weiketrade.hk and never have a problem. I don't know what the various terms mean, but this is supposedly a Nike "Elite" jersey. Right off the bat, I noticed that it's the same template as the RBK jerseys, even though all Nike replicas that I've seen (including Eagles) are in the new Pro Combat or Speed Machine (or whatever the F they're calling it) template. Also, it looks like the center part might actually be mesh while the rest is solid, even though the Nike replicas don't show that much of a difference between the shoulders and body since the mesh is much heavier and almost solid. the jersey seems ok my bad - I thought "Nike Elite" was their $75 replica line, and "Nike Game" was their "authentic" line. If I had that reversed, then yeah, that's a solid knock off (or a pic of a real jersey.) It would be a poor knock off of a Nike replica though.

Obviously fake.

it looks terrible indeed . i buy from http://www.weiketrade.hk and never have a problem. I don't know what the various terms mean, but this is supposedly a Nike "Elite" jersey. Right off the bat, I noticed that it's the same template as the RBK jerseys, even though all Nike replicas that I've seen (including Eagles) are in the new Pro Combat or Speed Machine (or whatever the F they're calling it) template. Also, it looks like the center part might actually be mesh while the rest is solid, even though the Nike replicas don't show that much of a difference between the shoulders and body since the mesh is much heavier and almost solid.

Actually, the entire site is messed up on my IE 8 machine. The search bar is in the middle of the main banner, the reply buttons are in the wrong place, and there are many other alignment issues. It could be my browser since it's work controlled and they could have put some update on that messses things up, but again, I'm not seeing this with any other site.

Is anyone else seeing that the fonts on the main page (not the actual posts but the main home page) are large when viewed in IE 8? I've checked my IE settings and they're normal, and I'm not seeing this with any other site.

Why on earth would they contract when they could just back down and sell to Quebecor and charge a relo fee that would be bigger than any expansion fee that they would collect?

He has to know that the day of reckoning is coming for the Coyotes... if he plays the contraction card, at least he can gain something through his embarassment. He'd never consider contracting them because that just can't be done in modern major-league sports. He'd face all kinds of challenges from the union, which isn't smart considering where they are in their negotiations. He'd also hear it from the other owners, because they have owners ready to step up and buy the team (and pay a hefty relo fee), just not in Crapdale.

And, as is the tradition, the fans of Kansas City will manage to make the fans of Phoenix look spectacular by comparison. I pity any team that would actually move there. Not turning up to a meaningless preseason game between two teams who have no historical basis in the city ≠ not turning up if there was a team based in the city, playing full on competetive hockey I totally agree. It's a good way to evaluate the facility and the city itself (like lodging, etc.), but attendance is nearly meaningless. Maybe if it was a regular-season game with superstar players, but I don't blame anyone for not showing up to watch pre-season exhibition between teams that they have no rooting interest in. I don't think anyone is sitting around caling his buddies saying "dude, we got to get tickets - this is our chance to prove ourselves as a viable market!!!". Slap a local city name on a sweater and people seem to rally behind it more... in places other than Chelm-dale.

umm... is this real? He was a coach or something for the Dodgers. The clip is probably from a practice or pre-game. I don't think he actually played for anyone other than the Red Sox, Yankees, and Braves.

Gods there's a lot of things wrong about that picture. 1. It's Patrick Ewing. In a baseball uniform. 2. That's about the most obscure (and ugliest) Mets home uniform wordmark since it was only worn for 2 seasons. 3. He's wearing plain white socks - no stirrups or colored socks (stirrups or one-piece faux stirrups would have still been more common back then.) 4. Are those even baseball spikes? 5. The Upper Deck patch on his sleeve.

I just don't get it. I don't understand how any Coyotes fan can defend this. Because if you're not a citizen of Glendale, it's really not your problem? In a way, it is though. It is setting a very dangerous precedent.

Speaking of Barkley in the wrong uniform - why does the 76ers' banner for Barkley's retired #34 have the Iverson-era "76ers" script? Barkley never came close to playing in those uniforms. http://www.nba.com/sixers/history/retired_index.html It was changed a few years ago. It's the classic logo now.