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Comparing Elite North American Professional Sports to European Soccer doesn't work. The NHL, NFL, MLB and NBA are the top leagues in their respective sports. They don't have comparable leagues anywhere in the World. The champions of these leagues are the best club team in the world, no debate. If the Green Bay Packers played the BC Lions 100 times the Packers would win 100 times. Ditto if, say, Moscow Dynamo played the Bruins. In European Soccer there are many comparable leagues. So they pick top teams in each league England, Portugal, Italy, Spain, Germany etc. And they have a tournament to decide the top Club team in Europe. I think they even have a tournament with Champions of different Football Federations. Toronto FC is part of the CONCOCAF Champions League. They're still Alive I believe. They have a game against the LA Galaxy early next year in that tournament. And yes, instead of using Best of 7 series' they use home and home series' where they they take the combined score in both games to decide the winner. They also put more weight on Goals scored in the opponents Stadium.

You need to win four best of 7 rounds to win the Stanley Cup not 3. And I know exactly how the playoffs will go next year. You have 4 conferences of 7 or 8 teams. Top 4 teams in each conference make the playoffs. They play two in-conference rounds and 4 conference winners are re-seeded based on their regular season record and two more rounds are played to decide the Stanley Cup. Sports aren't you thing dood.

Same deal with protesting Israel when so many nearby countries are much worse regarding human-rights. It's slacktavism.

I saw interviews of her, post throne speech stunt. I seriously doubt she's some political savant.

Not my criticism it's cybercoma's. I'm not really all that concerned with the instances of injuries in MMA. No one is saying it isn't a violent sport. The question is, do they have no right telling kids about the peril's of bullying.

Well it calls your study into question if they can't even get the math correct.

Kay. Why cuz like Hitchens says, she told people to embrace their poverty? I'm not Catholic and I haven't researched the evils of Mother Theresa so I'll yield to your expertise on this.

I don't mind the sound it makes. The newer onces are silent. I also think the Avatar thing is lame but oh well. I'm not as interested in the movies, Netflix is pretty good. But I accidentally deleted my wife's recording of New Girl last week. If there was an onDemand option for TV shows included in my Live bill that's pretty awesome. They better not raise the price of Live though.

Advocating Mother Teresa in public school is wouldn't be separating church and state. I could see protests happening for that.

Apparently an evil 1 percenter private landscaping company has donated their time and effort to re-sod the park Pro Bono. I'm sure the City's Outsider workers are thrilled about this. http://www.680news.com/news/local/article/307272--st-james-park-restoration-to-begin-this-week-after-sod-donated

What was the downside of this event that you were expecting? Sounded pretty harmless to me.

Well what type of injuries are we talking about? Black eyes eyes and cuts? OR concussions and ACL tears sprained fingers. UFC fighters have a fight once every few months. Their fight is usually only 15 minutes too. Anyway this issue is currently moot. The event the Star was raging about happened yesterday. I haven't heard reports of MMA riots happening in Toronto schools as of yet this morning. But it's early. http://www.torontosun.com/2011/12/06/ufc-fights-bullying

Part of this re-vamped Dashboard includes Bing Searches and Youtube so I'll assume there's some internet browsing capabilities.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2011/12/05/auditor-general-ontario-spending.html?cmp=rss I don't want to read the link, it'll just depress me.

Rogers does cable TV too, it's not just a cell provider. You can only get Cable provided by Rogers in the immediate GTA. Otherwise it's something like Shaw or Cogeco, no where near as good. Microsoft is clearly partnering with Rogers to provide content. Not sure what's in it for Rogers but I suppose they have access to a larger customer base than they have access to now, It also does an end-around to get to Bell customers. They can always sell ads that go on the interface as well as before each onDemand video starts.

UFC is definitely an acquired taste. I like watching some of the PPV's. There are certain fighters I try to follow. But lots of gyms are teaching MMA for fitness purposes similar to how they have boxing gyms.

Ever used Netflix? It's unlimited onDemand Movies/TV with a $8 charge. The movies and shows aren't very current though. Rogers onDemand is basically like Hulu in the US but you pay for it with your cable subscription. You can stream mainstream Television shows (commercial free) onDemand. Well with this system, apparently, you get Rogers onDemand included with your Live Gold subscription. A Gold Subscription comes to less than $7/month so it's by far the cheapest way to receive content online other than, of course, if you steal.

$14/bottle is cheap to you? You must really be a hipster.

They still don't have a date for this, I'm hoping this month. An XBOX Live Gold Membership costs like $60-$70 a year. I get it so I can do online gaming (Battlefield 3 is Fantastic). You can always buy content on Live but it has this ridiculous points system (With set levels) that makes you pre-pay for points instead of buying the products you want. (Like iTunes) You can currently buy current shows onDemand but it's pricey, similar to Apple TV. But if you can get Rogers onDemand included with your Live membership, it'll be very difficult to justify your cable bill. Granted the bandwidth will be pricey. Also nothing can really compete with The Movie Network (at $19/month) unless you're a thief. If Bubber Miley was pissed about DVRs then he must be really pissed about this. They also say their offering a free movie service. This might mean Netflix is now useless to me. I'm very curious to see what these changes will mean for getting content.

Well again this thread isn't about the price we pay. That's an outrage but can't do much about it. But if you're going to charge the public high rates that go to the gumint's general revenue then WTF not try to get a deal. Quebec does it.

Quit tarding my thread.

I'm just assuming you have Dome issues with Shady being such a Lions fan. Nothing to prove that though. As a Packers fan I have no idea why you care, in any way, what the Bears do.

Well fine, precedents can be set. But pick your argument. You're either upset that the Ford's want to bring in Pro Athletes into school or you're upset that he wants to bring MMAers. Again prove to me MMA has anything to do with bullying. Bullying if far more psychological than physical.

When was the last time you saw a wine at the LCBO from China? Our favourites come from Chile and South Africa. Aussie Wine is popular too. Canadian Winemakers really price themselves out of the market, Usually when things are made within 100 miles of where it's being sold it's cheaper. I bought a 1.5L of Jackson Triggs last week cuz it was on sale though. Most of the time I buy Canadian Beer and Canadian Whiskey. Screetch is sometimes my choice from over the far better Jamaican brands.