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I am going with the Lightning on this one. If they can contain Jarome Iginla and play some rock hard defense for 60 minutes, I think they can win the Cup. Big ifs though. Nonetheless, my money's on Tampa Bay, and with my history of losing bets, I would not be surprised to see this one go south on me too

Table Tennis is sport.

Poker isn't, I don't hear you complaining about that.

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What are you talking about? Poker owns j00

Table Tennis is pretty cool too. Spelling bees, however...they suck.

I don't know where you'd find any, but I'd love to find some as well.

Buddy Rice has won the 88th Indianapolis 500. The race was called after 179 laps due to rain. Here is the unofficial order of finish.

1. Buddy Rice

2. Tony Kanaan

3. Dan Wheldon

4. Bryan Herta

5. Bruno Junqueira

6. Vitor Meira

7. Adrian Fernandez

8. Scott Dixon

9. Helio Castroneves

10. Roger Yasukawa

11. Kosuke Matsuura

12. Alex Barron

13. Scott Sharp

14. Dario Franchitti

15. Felipe Giaffone -1

16. Jeff Simmons -1

17. Al Unser Jr. -1

18. Tomas Scheckter -1

19. Tora Takagi -1

20. Richie Hearn -2

21. Sarah Fisher -3

22. Robby McGehee -3

23. Buddy Lazier -15

24. Marty Roth -51

25. Darren Manning -75

26. Sam Hornish Jr. OUT

27. Greg Ray OUT

28. PJ Jones OUT

29. Jaques Lazier -91

30. Mark Taylor OUT

31. Ed Carpenter OUT

32. Larry Foyt OUT

33. A.J. Foyt IV -153

I'll post an article to go along with this when it becomes available.

I was kinda' surprised to see Buddy Rice win from the pole. I woulda' thought he'd run into some bad luck.

Discuss

As a Bolton supporter, I am excited about the prospect of Rivaldo @ Bolton, but I am fed up with waiting. Rivaldo shouldn't have taken this long in the first place. If he doesn't join us, I will be pretty angry...unless Bolton then try to go after Kluivert

EDIT: Getting back on topic a bit...if Boro can sign Kluivert, it would be one of the biggest steals in awhile. Kluivert is a world class player who makes any team instantly better.

This looks very good. Hopefully you get a good partner.

I want Davids to go to Bolton. He'd make them contenders for Champions League football in an instant. Maybe Allardyce can make another huge move here.

This is pretty good. I like how you write each show. Keep it up

Why do Tottenham fans ALWAYS expect a world class manager? It makes me laugh that the likes of Trappatoni, Antic and O'Neill are all demanded by the spurs fans. They need to realise that there just a mid-table club, they can only attract decent players and good managers because there in London.

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Exactly. Until they pull their act together, they have to settle for lesser managers. Which is why I think Erik Thorstvedt would be a prime choice. I think he'd ask for little

Call me crazy, but I'd like to see former Spurs goalie Erik Thorstvedt become manager. idk why, but I like the idea of former players eventually becoming managers

Might as well bury Millwall now, eh Man U?

I couldn't see Millwall winning to begin with, but I woulda' thought they'd make it respectable. This is just a flat out horsewhipping.

Yes. I think Jack Klugman is still alive.

idk...I'll look into it though. Maybe it was.

EDIT: Yes. It was indeed the Tony Randall referred to by Homer.

NEW YORK (May 18) - Tony Randall, the comic actor best known for playing fastidious photographer Felix Unger on "The Odd Couple," has died. He was 84.

Randall died in his sleep Monday night at NYU Medical Center of complications from a long illness, according to his publicity firm, Springer Associates. The actor developed pneumonia after undergoing heart bypass surgery in December.

He is survived by his wife, Heather Harlan Randall, who made him a father for the first time at age 77, and their two children, 7-year-old Julia Laurette and 5-year-old Jefferson Salvini.

Randall was hospitalized after starring for a month in "Right You Are," a revival of Luigi Pirandello's play by the National Actors Theatre, which he founded.

In a tribute to the actor, known for his work on stage as well as television, lights at all the Broadway theaters were to be dimmed at 8 p.m. Tuesday.

Randall joked in September about how he envisioned his funeral: President Bush and Vice President Cheney would show up to pay their respects but they'd be turned away, because his family knows he didn't like them. During a speech to the National Funeral Directors Association, he said funerals should be planned as a celebration of life and "a touch of humor doesn't hurt a bit."

Randall won an Emmy for playing Unger on the sitcom based on Neil Simon's play and movie. The show ran from 1970-75, but Randall won after it had been canceled, prompting him to quip at the awards ceremony: "I'm so happy I won. Now if I only had a job."

The show's charm sprang from Randall's chemistry and conflict with Jack Klugman as sloppy sportswriter Oscar Madison, with whom he's forced to share an apartment after both men get divorced.

Before that, Randall was best known as the fastidious "best friend" figure in several Rock Hudson-Doris Day movies, including 1959's "Pillow Talk" and 1961's "Lover Come Back."

The actor became a fixture on David Letterman's late-night talk shows, appearing a record 70 times on the "Late Show" alone. He made fun of his own prim image by taking part in Letterman's wacky antics, including allowing himself to be covered in mud.

And in 1993, when Conan O'Brien took over the time slot at NBC that Letterman had vacated for a new show at CBS, Randall was a guest on O'Brien's debut episode.

After "The Odd Couple," Randall had two short-lived sitcoms, one of which was "The Tony Randall Show," in which he played a stuffy Philadelphia judge, from 1976-78.

From 1981-83, he played the title role in the sitcom "Love, Sidney," as a single, middle-aged commercial artist helping a female friend care for her young daughter.

The show was based on a TV movie in which Sidney was gay; in the TV show, the character's sexual orientation was implied, but never specified. This occurred more than a decade before the much-hyped coming-out on "Ellen" in 1997, which made Ellen DeGeneres' character the first openly gay central figure on a network series.

For his television work, Randall got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1998.

In an effort to bring classic theater back to Broadway, Randall founded and was artistic director of the nonprofit National Actors Theatre in 1991, using $1 million of his own money and $2 million from corporations and foundations. The company's first production was a revival of Arthur Miller's "The Crucible," starring Martin Sheen and Michael York, which hadn't been staged on Broadway in 40 years.

The next year, Randall's production of Ibsen's "The Master Builder" didn't exactly draw raves. AP Drama Critic Michael Kuchwara called it "deadly earnest - and dull."

Subsequent performances included "Night Must Fall," "The Gin Game" and "The Sunshine Boys," in which Randall reunited with Klugman, in 1998. Randall also starred in his company's Tony Award-winning staging of "M. Butterfly."

The actor also was socially active, lobbying against smoking in public places, marching in Washington against apartheid in the '80s, and helping raise money for AIDS research in the '90s.

Born Leonard Rosenberg on Feb. 26, 1920, Randall was drawn as a teenager to roadshows that came through his hometown of Tulsa, Okla.

"One night, the entire town turned out to see the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo perform Swan Lake and Sheherezade," he wrote. "I - and most of the audience - had never seen a ballet before. We stood and cheered, thinking it was a 'once in a lifetime' event."

Randall attended Northwestern University before heading to New York at 19, where he made his stage debut in 1941 in "The Circle of Chalk."

After Army service during World War II from 1942-46, he returned to New York, where he appeared on radio and early television. He got his start in movies in 1957.

He was married to his college sweetheart, Florence Randall, for 54 years until she died of cancer in 1992.

"I saw her in a bank - I never saw another girl in my life. She was gorgeous, the most beautiful girl I ever saw," Randall said in a TV interview in 1995.

Later that year, he married Harlan, who was 50 years his junior. Randall met her through his National Actors Theatre; former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani performed the ceremony.

Credit: Associated Press

I loved watching old reruns of the Odd Couple, and seeing what this guy would do next. Such a shame.

RIP Tony Randall

Wow. Double-edged tragedy for Benfica this year.

RIP

I haven't seen him, but from what you guys are saying, he sounds like he needs a beating. Let's see Audley face someone like Vitali Klitschko. That should shut him up.

I liked Battlebots on Comedy Central

I found Bill Dwyer's commentary and Sean Salisbury's analysis mildly interesting, but I was mainly there for the scrap metal destruction

5. Aston Villa - Played 37 - 56pts (GD +6)

6. Newcastle - Played 36 - 54pts (GD +12)

7. Bolton - Played 37 - 53pts (GD - 6)

Answer = Yes. But you'd have to be very, very lucky.

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Not with our goal differential

*sigh* Next year is Bolton's year, don't you forget it!

Question for the true EPL followers...can Bolton still get 5th and a UEFA Cup place? If so, what needs to happen? I'd check the standings, but I can't be arsed to do that right now.