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I am pulling for MU to win enough games to move off the 8 or 9 seed. There is no one in the SEC tournament they can't beat. If they keep trending in the right direction I think they run the table and win the SEC tournement. Then again it is MU and like Pinkel says "We do what we do"....so we could lose the next 3 games.

Yeah, I don't think there are any better options out there and not a great year to draft quarterbacks. I kinda think they got the best of what was available. If Alex Smith plays like he played under harbaugh he should be fine.

Plenty of rain up my way as well. Glad to see my favorite river getting a good soaking.

it is nice to watch a team play solid team defense. Great win for the billikens.

Yep, I have some free stuff coming as well. Thanks!

I do both, but my fishing partner is as hard core as I am so we generally have no problem staying on the creek all day. It is always a great time. It is true there are probably more oppurtunities to catch fish or big fish if you fish alone, but it is just not as much fun when no one can witness it.

The naming of the winter storms by the weather channel is annoying and ridiculous. Use the NWS...much more accurate without all the annoying hype. The NWS also has a written summary twice per day for your area. Enter your zipcode and then click on forecast discussion toward the right. It is very helpul in deciding on those tweener days if you should fish or stay home. .

I had 1 inch of solid sleet, 3 inches of snow and then freezing rain to top everything off. This morning everything was pretty icey, but the main roads were fine for me....yesterday took me about and hour and half, but I left before it got really bad. Lot's of people complaining to MODOT about the roads, but people were warned to stay home. It seems like everyone waits until it starts getting bad then everyone leaves to go home at the same time. Traffic piles up and MODOT can't plow the roads.

well crap...just when my pessimism was getting the best of me mizzou sucks me back in. slu looked freakin awesome. between these two games and the hockey game my remote was on overload...so was my beer consumption...gonna be hurting tomorrow. and when pressey plays under control...much different team.

I agree. Pressey needs to make the smart play instead of the flashy play. Part of the reason Mizzou didn't take advanatge of the inside play is Oriakhi was on the bench for a considerable amount of time in foul trouble. Al, is right Bowers' is not himself...not sure what is going on with that. Just eyeballing it I thought Mizzou was more effective with Bell at point gaurd....would be enteresting to see if any stats back that up. This team is starting to get the feel that it can't quite get over the hump. 1 step forward and 2 steps back. The do have a lot of close losses which if they figure out how to close them out may help them come tourney time. I really wonder if Pressey's stock has fallen a bit this year.

the officials were bad, but pressey did turned it over twice on two possessions in the last minute. he has done that at ucla, a@m, lsu, and now arkansas. the refs missed 3 calls that i saw in the last minute or so so it was a double whammy.

the officiating was brutal no doubt

pressey killed mu AGAIN.

yes, but unfortunately i don't follow it like i used too. i need fox soccer plus. i hear with enough money and the right people you can influence the outcome of hundreds of games. the US loss to honduras was not a great start

The one thing about Anderson's teams is when the system is working It looks great and they can run you out of the gym pretty quick(think Mizzou over Memphis a few years ago). But man when it is not working it can be kind of painful to watch. I think Mizzou could really struggle at Arkansas. It is not really a good matchup IMO. We have one guy that can handle the ball.IT will all come down to how Pressey handles the pressure and if he can keep it up for 40 minutes. This is the game in which we will really miss Dixon.

my very first rod was a 6 weight and while mine wasn't great for everything it was good for almost everything. if i had only rod to fish bluegill, trout, and bass that would be my choice.

pressey threw that ball so far out out of bounds it landed in lawrence. awful.

spin hardly...more like reality. it WAS KU that said they didn't want to play. Both schools will renew the rivarly at some point...too much interest and money not too. i miss the rivarly, but struggle to come up with another basketball rivarly that MU had in the big 12 that can't be replaced and with anderson at Arkansas that is taylor made to develop.

It is KU that is unwilling to play MU so we are ready whenever KU wants to renew the rivalry. I am sure they will play again and it will be sooner than most would think. I sure I am in the minority, but with the excpetion of KU what great basketball rivalries are we missing from the Big 12? I am just fine playing Kentucky, Florida, and Arkansas.

1) Handgun 2) Kayak 3) River 4) Fly Rod 5) Horny Toad 6) Olive/Brown bugger 7) Black/yellow 8) Black 9) Lures 10) Trout

I am not sure which loss was worse SLU to Rhode Island or Mizzou to LSU. At least Mizzou was on the road, but those are two just awful losses. I feel better about SLU and the win over Butler was huge. MU better be figure out how to play on the road or they just might end up on the bubble.

Yeah, I wished i spent more time fishing, but enjoyed what time I was able to fish. I think the brookies are pretty high up from what i was told. Nice area though. Suppossedly the Brown's can get quite large, from what i have read, but no luck on any of them either. I read some interesting information on the food sources and the acicidty of the water contributing to the small fish. The lenght limit is 7 inches for Rabinows...nuts. I can't hear the song for some reason (think my speakers are busted on my work CPU), but parts of the video look a bit similar. Yikes!

This is way late, but last October my wife and I had our honeymoon in the Smokey Mountains. We stayed in Gatlinburg and had a great time taking in the sights and sounds of the surrounding area and the park itself. We took a couple hikes each day with Rainbow falls and Abrams Falls (a must see IMO) being the most scenic. I did a little fishing and the wife enjoyed the hiking and the local antique shops. Below is synopsis of what we saw and the areas we visited. Cades Cove: This area is probably the most popular place in the park. This is an area that sits between two mountain ranges and the 11 mile loop is a great place to see wildlife, but get there at dawn if you can. If you are staying outside the park this requires you to leave about 45 minutes before sun up if coming from Gatlinburg...probably 20 minutes if coming from Townsend. The afternoons and evening are very crowded and you will spend 2-3 hours driving the 11 mile loop during the peak season. At dawn we just zipped through and that is when we saw a few black bears. We also beat the traffic to the Abram Falls Trailhead which is about halfway through the Cades Cove area. Abrams Falls: Abrams Falls as I mentioned above was probably our favorite place to visit. The trailhead is in the Cades Cove area and runs along Abrams Creek and ends at the falls. The falls were awesome and probably 100 feet across and 25-35 feet high emptying into a gorgeous pool about 200 feet long. The hike is about 5 miles before the falls and as a bonus the trail runs along Abrams Creek. This was the area that I decided to fish...up and down the trail then at the falls. I caught 4 little trout at the falls (You can wade about halfway up to the falls from the downstream side) and 3 more along the trail beside the creek. They were all little rainbows between 5-8 inches. Of all the creeks in the Smokey Mountains Abrams Creek is considered to be one of the best and it certainly looked that way. It is larger than most...and has plenty of good habitat. If you can spend time hiking away from the trailhead a bit you would have the whole section to yourself. The stream has brook trout and some large browns although the brook trout are higher up above the falls, and I saw no way to get past the falls from my location. Don't over look the meadow section to the left of the trailhead...everyone goes right along the trail. Cherokee, NC: Not sure I like this area at all. Everyone is different, but the dancing Indian's outside the shops and the fact I was nearly killed by a drunk driver didn't leave me wanting to come back. Something about a dancing man dressed in Indian garb sectioned off by orange cones and a string as his dance floor...did not strike me as entertaining, nostalgic or traditional. My wife loved the antique shops, but they were all the same and I would have rather been fishing! We took the Blueridge parkway on our way back and entered the Smokey mountains in a remote area..As we were driving up along a ridge we ran into a heard of Elk hanging out along the road. We were literally in the middle of about 50 of them with several huge males within 5 feet of the car. Pretty cool and definitely made the day. Soon after we pass the Elk along the road we spot a gravel road and a sign says 26 miles to Cherokee, NC (ok for car use). We decided it would be a good opportunity to see other wildlife and drive though the mountains. Needless to say for the entire the 26 miles my wife was terrified we were going to drive of the mountain. We saw no additional wildlife of any kind besides a few squirrels. It was a pretty, but stressful drive and you really needed an off road vehicle for that drive. It took us 3 hours to go 26 miles and we barely made out before dusk. And the exit was right by the dancing Indian…although he was must have turned in for the evening. Gatlinburg: Our home base for the week was Gatlinburg. It is touristy and if you want a quiet place to stay this is not it, but the kids and wives would love the shops and tourist attractions. There are all kinds of shop's, food, and things for the family to do and see. Old smokey moonshine was fun...from what I remember...free samples and then more free samples and I was plastered. Overall we had a great time and many sights to see. The fish are going to be small (4-8 inches), but you have a chance at a brook trout and the brown trout do get quite large on some of the creeks. There is a ton of water in the park...I mean a ton...and some very scenic streams to fish, but not all of it holds fish...so do a little research if you go off the between path. October is crazy packed, but with the fall colors is was pretty awesome. I would certainly recommend it as great family destination and a neat place to fish....just don't go expecting any large fish. It will probably be very crowded during the summer and fall. There are plenty of hikes and we enjoyed the horseback riding as well. Clingmans Dome and Newfound gap overlook are excellent sightseeing locations as well. You can camp in the park, but there are no cabins in the park itself, but plenty nearby. You can also stay in Townsend or Cosby for a quieter less crowded atmosphere. If you want to go back country your options are pretty limitless for both hiking and fishing.

Thanks for the pic...I was wondering what it looked like after seeing the gauge last night. Good to see it getting flushed out!

Hopefully it cleaned out some of the moss that seemed everywhere on the upper sections. I was surprised when I saw that gauge last night...didn't think 2.5 inches of rain woud blow it out that much, but really dropping out now...2.59 and 374 CFS...just goes to show you how dry it has been. As nortrad said we really need a wet spring