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Alex C:
Sometimes I think he's just too rangy to be as fast as he is and remain healthy the way at middle line backer-- he's like 5 inches taller than Ray Lewis but has always been listed as maybe 5 or 10 pounds heavier, tops. I mean, it's cool that he could play sideline-to-sideline as well as he did, due to being so goddam fast, but I always kinda thought he was secretly mediocre at just filling in gaps without getting clobbered by a 300 pounder. So now he's got a ton of running back type injuries from running around like a maniac and an arthritic back from getting murdered by guards. And I always sorta liked Julian Peterson better anyway.
scarred:
Urlacher's definitely not the tank he used to be, and in recent years Urlacher's definitely let many ballcarriers out of his grasp. Hopefully Peppers will make our defense a little less reliant on Urlacher's less-than-stellar hole-filling ability, but Lance Briggs was always better at that anyway. Now that he can go back to his original position and we don't have to rely on the flimsy, green Nick Roach to fill the gaps, I think our secondary will be a lot stronger.
Inlander:
While everyone's been distracted by the World Cup, Wimbledon has just hosted the most ridiculous game of tennis ever played. John Isner has just defeated Nicolas Mahut in five sets. The final scoreline: 6-4, 3-6, 6-7, 7-6, 70-68. 70-68. SEVENTY-SIXTY-EIGHT. The game went for a shade over eleven hours, spread over two days.
Unbelievable.
(Incidentally, the Guardian Online has, as ever, a highly amusing live blog of the match, if you can summon the energy to read the entire thing. The match went for so long that it had to be live blogged in two parts: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2010/jun/23/wimbledon-2010-tennis-live & http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2010/jun/24/wimbledon-2010-isner-mahut-live.)
amok:
The last set alone was significantly longer than every single match in Williams' title-winning Wimbledon last year put together.
evilbobthebob:
My favourite moment from that match was the scoreboards all breaking when they passed 50 games apiece, because IBM didn't think that would ever happen
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