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Two leaders for each division, with the exception of the Southeast (due to the Heat), who get three. I'm going to say this right now, and this has to be understood: all division leaders are expected to be on their best behavior and to represent OTR by displaying mature attitudes towards the community as a whole, engaging in basketball discussion, and encouraging others to do the same. Repeating from the other topic, DL's will be asked to... 1) move Gameday topics (no matter the teams or division, all leaders will be expected to help each day) 2) recruit for your division (bringing in fans for all five teams) 3) edit topic titles for those five team forums, open and close topics, merge topics Division Leaders will be monitored closely by Kyle and the moderators for a month or two into the season. In other words, they will be under a microscope, because eventually, some of them will be taking over an entire team forum by themselves (if we have enough to reach 30), and there may be one or two promoted to moderator sometime next year. There isn't much more to say beyond that. Each DL should be aware that the rope to hang themselves with is short. While it takes a little bit for members to be suspended, it will take less for DL's to be cut from the staff. The few, the merrier. That doesn't mean the DL's can't have fun, but I don't want to see them involved in flame wars, spamming for other sites (that will actually get you banned), or abusing power in the team forums. Here are the assigned Division Leaders. I did what I could to give everyone their primary or secondary options. Dash - Northwest Sun Tzu - Northwest ---------- Lkr - Pacific Prodigy - Pacific ---------- deestillballin - Southwest The Reason - Southwest ---------- STATCity - Atlantic TheHutch - Atlantic ---------- The Lone Granger - Central TheBullsInsider - Central ---------- Legacy - Southeast Built Ford Tough - Southeast Cobb - Southeast To the DL's, you'll see a Staff section near the bottom of the site. You'll also be able to move Gameday topics and make edits in your forums by Tuesday (more than likely, I'll have it set up tomorrow). EDIT: Nevermind, I did it tonight, haha. Thanks for applying, everyone. I really have a good feeling about all of you guys doing work, since you've been getting it done as posters recently (and some of you for a long time).

Wouldn't have mattered. LeBron's mind was made up long before that trade even hit the phone lines. Plus, Baron Davis? I can see why a prime Davis would keep him interested in Cleveland, but not today's Baron. Kaman? They probably would've had to deal Hickson and Varejao, along with Williams.

We have a problem. A lot of you want the same divisions (Pacific, mainly), and a lot of Atlantic requests. Just one Southeast (really?) and two Southwest requests (the primary position). It might come down to first come, first serve...and I'll also consider activity and how long you've been with us. A couple of you wanted any division, and I appreciate that. Of course, that's not meant to be a backhand for anyone else. I may need a day or two just to figure out how I'm going to go about this. I may change a few things.

I can do it from the ACP, actually. But the spam issue is our only concern, and it's a big one. We almost lost our host because of it (when I was mass emailing members about the board going back up).

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Hope nobody watched it. It sucked. Basically, Brock tried taking him down a couple of times, decided he was going to stand and out-punch him (I guess???) and got tagged on the left side of his face. It opened up something NASTY. Lesnar was on the ground most of the time after that, had gotten back to his feet before falling on his own, just to cover his face, and the referee stopped the fight before the first round ended. Cain Velasquez, 9-0, and the first Mexican-American MMA heavyweight champ.

I really didn't care who won the game, but once I saw Werth on deck, I was praying that Howard got that base hit, loaded the bases for Werth, who would crush a grand slam. Yes, fantasy land.

Whooooaaaa...

Howard time! Long overdue for a homer.

So much for Lincecum's 8th inning. He didn't last long.

Whoa...good trick by the Hornets. In other words, the longer you keep the pick, the more restricted it gets. And why? Because CP3 will be a free agent soon. So, in other words, New Orleans forces the Blazers to use that pick before Paul leaves the Hornets, because once he's gone, that pick could very well be a top 8...and it would be protected. Portland really didn't get anything out of this if they don't use that pick in two years and if the Hornets win enough games to have the 20th-30th pick in the first round.

Before the season starts...more than likely tomorrow.

Anybody watching? Utley was about to throw down, lol. And, funny enough, he was chill about the whole thing, wasn't trying to start anything...although him tossing the ball was sort of funny.

Bayless can log minutes at the two as well, so he won't be playing behind CP3 all the time.

Well, he missed 60% of his shots and didn't play much defense, and those are the two things he'll be asked to do in Miami.

He was baaaad last season, especially in the playoffs. But, maybe he can be 1/3 of what Mike Miller is.

Didn't he state that Kobe was his favorite player?