Magus978

They're back underway at Celtic Manor after another lengthy delay due to torrential rains. Tournament officials confirmed that the remaining fourball and foursomes matches will be the only matches completed today, with the 12 singles matches pushed back to monday, giving the Ryder Cup their first ever Monday finish. They will start at 9:05 am Wales time.

As for the play today, keep the European flags on the leaderboard for all 6 matches. USA have to turn this around and fast. They can start with the 3 matches that they are only 1 down in. Luke Donald/Lee Westwood are Dormie 6 over Tiger Woods/Steve Stricker with 6 to play, so that's a sure point for Europe.

Play for saturday has ended with the foursomes matches still out on the course.

Europe leads in all 6 of the matches that will be finished on sunday before the singles.

USA leads in the points 6-4, but if things hold they will have a rough go of it to get 8 points in the singles to retain

Reserved Gran Turismo 5 yesterday and picked up GTA IV on the cheap. Just not feeling it as much as I did with Saints Row 2, though I'm sure that'll change once I take a few days to get accustomed to the controls.

Must remind myself to set my alarm for 11 am on November 3rd

We have a schedule change due to the rain and the long delays, in an effort to try and get a sunday evening finish.

The second session will be comprised of six foursomes matches.

The third session will be comprised of two foursomes matches and four fourballs matches.

These sessions will be followed by 12 singles matches.

That from ESPN's Jason Sobel. There won't be any players hidden for the rest of the competition. Everyone plays from session 2 on.

Update: 7:04 PM Wales time

All the matches are done for the night. USA leads in two matches, Europe leads one, and one is all square.

The sun has finally come out in beautiful Wales

lol

I was tryin' to be nice

Play has resumed at Celtic Manor after being suspended at 4:45 AM EST, accounting for a 7+ hour rain delay. This is going to create a logjam of matches over the course of the competition.

Current Standings

Match 1: Westwood/Kaymer 2 up Mickelson/Johnson (Through 8)

Match 2: Cink/Kuchar 1 up McIlroy/McDowell (Through 7)

Match 3: Poulter/Fisher 1 up Woods/Stricker (Through 5)

Match 4: B. Watson/Overton 2 up Donald/Harrington (Through 4)

The sun has finally come out in beautiful Wales, and it looks like we could get a little extra daylight to try and finish the fourball matches for today.

Quite honestly I'm shocked that they're playing in this weather. If it's any event on the PGA Tour, I'm pretty sure they would have just told the players not to even bother to show up for any playing today.

If the morning matches are this much of a trainwreck with the weather, I dread what we're going to see in the afternoon session.

Fourball is underway in a downpour at Celtic Manor. Here are the morning pairings as it rains sideways and the greens start to look borderline unplayable, even with the availability of squeegees.

Match 1

Phil Mickelson/Dustin Johnson vs. Lee Westwood/Martin Kaymer

Match 2

Stewart Cink/Matt Kuchar vs. Rory McIlroy/Graeme McDowell

Match 3

Tiger Woods/Steve Stricker vs. Ian Poulter/Ross Fisher

Match 4

Bubba Watson/Jeff Overton vs. Luke Donald/Padraig Harrington

Will the United States take the cup back with them, or will Europe find a way to seize the cup away from the Americans and keep it on European soil? Who ya' got?

The winner on "Super Sunday"...

Mother nature. Rain postpones the Men's final and pushes it to a monday afternoon finish.

Looking forward to FM 11 indeed. I just hope they make the editor a little less time consuming to use. Maybe a quick team maker where you input whatever information you want for your club, then the editor does the rest based on that information. All you really end up having to do is place them in a league and adjust from there.

Anyway, my newest game with newly promoted side Al-Sailiya (Qatar) is not going well. Haven't played a match yet, but when your best signing is Nik Besagno, you're going to have problems. BIG problems. Just hoping that I don't get destroyed in my matches this season.

I wonder if Rafa Benitez would accept the USA post...

He's just signed with Inter Milan. So no.

Fair enough. Anyone else that might be interested in the US post should it come available? All I know is that I do NOT want Bob Bradley to still be the manager when the USA play their next game in a few months or whenever. (Y)

A GOOD manager would have seen the threat that Gyan is. A GOOD manager wouldn't change the lineup around just for the sake of making changes. Bob Bradley is NOT a good manager. I hope Sunil Gulati & the rest of the US Soccer Federation finally realizes this and fires him. We need a mind like Jurgen Klinsmann or any of those other well known managers.

I wonder if Rafa Benitez would accept the USA post...

How about Raiden (Fatal Fury), or his face persona Big Bear (Fatal Fury 2 & Special)?

As echoed by everyone in the thread so far, at least she went without pain.

RIP Blanche

My predictions were worthy of a lol. A failfest. Only got Portsmouth's relegation right in the Prem, West Brom finishing runner-up & Leicester City in the playoffs in the Championship.

I'm sure my 2010/2011 predictions will be even worse.

Bought it today and went online for the first time, playing as USA of course. First match against Algeria, was mauled 3-0

In my defense, I felt the referee should have easily given me at least one, maybe two penalties. I kept wondering how this idiot was getting away with all the challenges he got away with. Hopefully my 2nd match online will go better.

Also started an offline World Cup with USA, had 2 points ripped away from me in the dying seconds against England. Last second corner goal from Gerrard to steal a draw even after I had fought back from going down 1-0 early. Altidore and Ching had my goals. Guess it's all a painful learning process. If anyone wants a free win against me sometime, add me on PSN. (Magus978)

1. Manchester United

2. Chelsea

3. Manchester City

4. Arsenal

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5. Everton

6. Aston Villa

7. Tottenham Hotspur

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8. Birmingham City

9. Fulham

10. Stoke City

11. Liverpool

12. Bolton Wanderers

13. Blackburn Rovers

14. Sunderland

15. Wolves

16. Wigan Athletic

17. West Bromwich Albion

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18. West Ham United

19. Newcastle United

20. Blackpool

Reasoning: None whatsoever. Just hate Liverpool. I enjoy seeing Rafa fail miserably, and I want to see more of it. Also dislike Newcastle, so here's hoping they go straight back down.

So much for whatever little credibility I had

United States

GK - Tim Howard

GK - Brad Guzan

GK - Marcus Hahnemann

DF - Jonathan Bornstein

DF - Carlos Bocanegra

DF - Steven Cherundolo

DF - Jay DeMerit

DF - Clarence Goodson

DF - Oguchi Onyewu

DF - Jonathan Spector

MF - Maurice Edu

MF - Landon Donovan

MF - Clint Dempsey

MF - Ricardo Clark

MF - Sacha Klejstan

MF - Stuart Holden

MF - Michael Bradley

MF - Jermaine Jones

FW - Jozy Altidore

FW - Charlie Davies

FW - Eddie Johnson

FW - Brian Ching

FW - Robbie Findley

I'd do a 4-3-1-2 with an attacking mentality, because I feel if we're going to do anything in our group, we need to look for some quick goals then sit on it.

Altidore --- Davies

Donovan

Dempsey --- Jones --- Bradley

Bornstein --- Onyewu --- Bocanegra --- Cherundolo

Howard

Probably would have Donovan act as an inside forward, Dempsey the main playmaker in midfield with Jones acting as a more defensive CM. England would probably tear that up, but I'm sure we could get wins against Slovenia & Algeria, thus getting us through to the last 16 on 6 points.

This is another fine day for the little guys. From relegation favorites to EPL-bound. Well done Blackpool! It'll be fun to see Holloway in the Premiership, even if it is for just one season.

BASEBALL

New York Mets

FOOTBALL

Manchester United

United States

AMERICAN FOOTBALL

New York Giants

HOCKEY

New Jersey Devils

New York Rangers

Andre Dawson has been elected to the Hall of Fame for the class of 2010. Bert Blyleven and Roberto Alomar fall just short.

Hall of Fame Voting (Player, Votes, %)

Andre Dawson 420 77.9

Bert Blyleven 400 74.2

Roberto Alomar 397 73.7

Jack Morris 282 52.3

Barry Larkin 278 51.6

Lee Smith 255 47.3

Edgar Martinez 195 36.2

Tim Raines 164 30.4

Mark McGwire 128 23.7

Alan Trammell 121 22.4

Fred McGriff 116 21.5

Don Mattingly 87 16.1

Dave Parker 82 15.2

Dale Murphy 63 11.7

Harold Baines 33 6.1

Andres Galarraga 22 4.1

Congratulations to the Hawk, Andre Dawson on getting into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Blyleven and Alomar SHOULD get in next year.

An absolute tragedy. He really was getting his life on the right track if we believe what we're being told by teammates of his.

I've gone and resized the obituary picture on ESPN.com for signature purposes. Feel free to use it if you wish.

RIP Chris Henry

1983-2009

Nah GoGo, I'm not power-levelling...yet

Maybe later

I'm in Thelanis now. Doing the Storehouse's Secret quest now. Archan Magus is my character's name there if that helps any.

EDIT: Just finished the Crystal Protection Quest, and will take a bit of a break now.

But what about your wife?! She's dead

Clearly the character rose from the dead and remarried because he's a self-righeous (sp?) prick