75 million, 75 million dollars, a lot to you and me, but not for a group of oil tycoons who shelled out 350 million in the first place. The Sonics are gone, and contrary to the naive viewpoint of the Seattle City Council, a team of that same name will not be playing in Seattle for quite some time. A written contract stating that the NBA constitutes a renovated Key Arena is not even close to a guarantee, especially when dealing with a league notorious for broken promises and crooked politics.  Why would David Stern put a team back in a city that would hang him in effigy if he ever set foot in it again. The Seattle City Council took the money and ran, asking for a few minor antiquities that the NBA and the Pro Basketball Club of Oklahoma City were more than willing to shell out in

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This will be my one and only post about Brett Favre, I have been intensely sick of the media constantly putting him on a pedestal for the last three years. Now, finally he retired, meaning Aaron Rogers, whose been waiting patiently for the last three years for Favre to retire, gets the chance to start. Instead, Favre teases and prods the media about coming back, and the media drowns him in glory. If Favre comes back, its not just annoying, it is a selfish act on his part. He is one of the few NFL players that has a long career, perhaps too long, seventeen years of injury free football in the NFL is no easy task. Its time for him to step aside and give someone else a chance, just like the Packers did for him. He's making this situation even more difficult for Rogers, who could put up better

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