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I see Wooden as the key to our season. Wooden and Williams together down low set us apart from basically everyone in the league.

And we swept UTA yesterday as well. Go Ladies!

I think we have a decent shot. We are really good at home, have been for a few seasons. It'll be tough though. If I were gonna bet on the game, it'd be the Jags. Since I'm not - I'm picking us.

Indeed. The new coach seems to be a winner.

I'm not sure the odds are that good with USA and WKU still to come.

If you take out JJ's 2nd year and last year - all of his records are right around .500, can't argue with you. And I am a big JJ fan. I'm glad I'm at work, otherwise I woulda thrown something at the end of that game. This might've been even more disappointing than our the FAU game.

And this is why I said it was too early to tell if this squad is better than last year's. We had a TON of tough road losses last year, but most of them were nailbiters - literally last second type of deals. This squad is totally melting down in the stretch. We really miss guys like Watson and Davis.

60-58 MTSU 1:11 to go

51-47 NT Under 8 minute TO

North Texas 48 MTSU 40 10:15 to go 2nd half

39-33 NT Under 16 minute TO

I prefer the green look overall. Black is a nice change of pace on OCCASSION. At the half NT 31 MTSU 29

29-18 North Texas 3:48 to go 1st half Willingham, White, Williams playing well

NT 20 MTSU 14 7:57 in 1st half, media TO

15-12 North Texas 11:25 in the half, media TO

11-6 Mean Green 14:48 to go in the half...media timeout. I'm at work, but I'll try and give score updates.

11-4 NT 15:37 in the 1st half. MTSU got off 4-0 and we ran off 11 in a row.

Way to make a Men's thread about Slinker.

With our upcoming schedule, I too feel this is a must win. At least we have USA and WKY at home though....I'd have very little hope if those were road games.

We're just 2 games back of UALR and we beat them the 1st time. It's still anyone's race really.

The 1st half was worth a contract extension.

I think Dano wasn't nominated for a variety of reasons. First off Daniel Day-Lewis is such a commanding presence I think many people almost failed to see how good the rest of the ensemble(not just Dano) was. A sort of related argument to that is with some of the other nominees - they were widely seen as the best facet(or at least most memorable) of their respective film. Also most of the guys who were nominated have been around the block awhile, so they have a natural "base" of support. I mean Hal Holbrook for instance has been in the biz for like a million years. All sorts of people in the industry respect him and his work. Also Dano's performance really works for some people and not for others. You mentioned one way....alot of folks just didn't like his character. Others I know just felt Dano overracted his ass off. So you throw a mix of five factors in and I think it helps explain why Dano might not have recieved enough support. He was likely close IMHO given the obvious respect the AMPAS had for the film overall.

Okay here they all are. Every year I try and see as many of the nominees in all the categories as I can. My best year was 2003 I think - I only missed the foreign films and Documentary short subjects. Being in LA, obviously I can find alot of the smaller things that are almost impossible to find elsewhere. I have alot to catch up on, so I'm sure my thoughts will change in the days and weeks leading up to the big night. OSCAR NOMS Best motion picture of the year "Atonement" (Focus Features) A Working Title Production: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Paul Webster, Producers "Juno" (Fox Searchlight) A Dancing Elk Pictures, LLC Production: Lianne Halfon, Mason Novick and Russell Smith, Producers "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.) A Clayton Productions, LLC Production: Sydney Pollack, Jennifer Fox and Kerry Orent, Producers "No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) A Scott Rudin/Mike Zoss Production: Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Producers "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) A JoAnne Sellar/Ghoulardi Film Company Production: JoAnne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Lupi, Producers TWBB and NCFOM are both stunning achievements. I thought TWBB was slightly better, but both would be more than deserving. Most history points to either of these winning, but keep an eye on Juno which by the end of the day might outgross the other 4 combined. Until Crash the Oscar for BP had finished in the top 25 boxoffice for the year going back about 2 decades and Juno is the only film that has that chance. Achievement in directing "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Miramax/Pathé Renn), Julian Schnabel "Juno" (Fox Searchlight), Jason Reitman "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.), Tony Gilroy "No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage), Joel Coen and Ethan Coen "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax), Paul Thomas Anderson The DGA(Director's Guild of America) award will make this all but final, but the Coens have to be considered the frontrunners. The DGA have bestowed their award onto the eventual winner of the Oscar BD something like 55 times in 60 years. They are just about the best bellwether there is of what the Academy will do in this category(and a few of the times they've missed, they've instead predicted Best Picture like in 2002 when Rob Marshall won for Chicago - with that film doing the same at the Academy Awards, but Roman Polanski winning the Directing Oscar). Performance by an actor in a leading role George Clooney in "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.) Daniel Day-Lewis in "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) Johnny Depp in "Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount) Tommy Lee Jones in "In the Valley of Elah" (Warner Independent) Viggo Mortensen in "Eastern Promises" (Focus Features) Daniel Day-Lewis should have this in the bag. On the other hand, the AMPAS(Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) doesn't hand out 2nd LEAD ACTING Oscars often, so I do leave open the slight chance of an upset. Most likely by Depp who is on his 3rd nomination without a win, so he is the most "due"(Clooney & Jones also have Supporting Awards and this is Mortensen's 1st nom - and most times you don't win for your 1st). Performance by an actor in a supporting role Casey Affleck in "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" (Warner Bros.) Javier Bardem in "No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Charlie Wilson's War" (Universal) Hal Holbrook in "Into the Wild" (Paramount Vantage and River Road Entertainment) Tom Wilkinson in "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.) Bardem has all the buzz and momentum. However, I'm gonna keep an eye on Holbrook and Wilkinson as they are respected vets without Awards. Performance by an actress in a leading role Cate Blanchett in "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" (Universal) Julie Christie in "Away from Her" (Lionsgate) Marion Cotillard in "La Vie en Rose" (Picturehouse) Laura Linney in "The Savages" (Fox Searchlight) Ellen Page in "Juno" (Fox Searchlight) Probably between Christie and Cotillard with Ellen Page in close pursuit. Laura Linney could benefit from being the only American in the race(Page is Canadien). Performance by an actress in a supporting role Cate Blanchett in "I'm Not There" (The Weinstein Company) Ruby Dee in "American Gangster" (Universal) Saoirse Ronan in "Atonement" (Focus Features) Amy Ryan in "Gone Baby Gone" (Miramax) Tilda Swinton in "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.) This is actually where Julia Roberts would've ended up for Charlie Wilson's War Censored, not in lead. The tea leaves say this should be between Blanchett and Amy Ryan. Not sold on either because of various factors. Swinton has been around awhile and Ruby Dee even longer. This is probably the toughest category in the top 8 to call right now. Adapted screenplay "Atonement" (Focus Features), Screenplay by Christopher Hampton "Away from Her" (Lionsgate), Written by Sarah Polley "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Miramax/Pathé Renn), Screenplay by Ronald Harwood "No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage), Written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax), Written for the screen by Paul Thomas Anderson Between TWBB and NCFOM - gonna give the edge to Anderson because they'll want to honor both films. Original screenplay "Juno" (Fox Searchlight), Written by Diablo Cody "Lars and the Real Girl" (MGM), Written by Nancy Oliver "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.), Written by Tony Gilroy "Ratatouille" (Walt Disney), Screenplay by Brad Bird; Story by Jan Pinkava, Jim Capobianco, Brad Bird "The Savages" (Fox Searchlight), Written by Tamara Jenkins Cody has been racking up wins, but Gilroy is respected. He also started the Bourne franchise, which is also nommed for a few awards(much like the '93 Spielberg pairing of Schindler's List and Jurassic Park where both got multiple noms and awards). So I could see him being honored in this category since his chances in the Top 2 awards are so slim. I'll do more of the awards at a later date.

Talk about getting your money's worth.

Also saw that. Very River Phoenix.