I thought I'd dump out the DORP numbers through last night's play.

TEAM
ORP
oORP
DORP

LA Lakers
31.2%
24.1%
7.1%

LA Clippers
31.6%
24.9%
6.7%

Philadelphia
29.8%
24.7%
5.1%

Dallas
31.7%
27.0%
4.7%

San Antonio
31.8%
27.4%
4.4%

Denver
32.1%
28.0%
4.1%

Cleveland
30.7%
28.0%
2.7%

Golden State
31.8%
29.8%
2.0%

Charlotte
29.1%
27.2%
1.9%

Miami
26.5%
24.7%
1.8%

New York
28.5%
27.3%
1.2%

Houston
26.6%
26.0%
0.6%

NO/Oklahoma City
27.8%
27.6%
0.2%

Phoenix
25.2%
25.2%
0.0%

Detroit
26.4%
26.7%
-0.3%

Indiana
25.0%
25.8%
-0.8%

New Jersey
30.4%
31.2%
-0.8%

Orlando
29.6%
30.4%
-0.8%

Chicago
25.2%
27.3%
-2.1%

Toronto
30.1%
32.3%
-2.2%

Seattle
26.4%
29.1%
-2.7%

Utah
25.8%
28.8%
-3.0%

Sacramento
25.8%
28.9%
-3.1%

Portland
25.8%
29.0%
-3.2%

Washington
28.5%
31.8%
-3.3%

Milwaukee
24.0%
27.8%
-3.8%

Boston
24.1%
28.8%
-4.7%

Minnesota
24.6%
29.3%
-4.7%

Atlanta
25.3%
30.1%
-4.8%

Memphis
27.7%
33.5%
-5.8%

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Tonight's Rose Bowl pits Number 1 USC v. Number 2 Texas in a battle of unbeatens. If you are a college football fan, this is the matchup you had to want, I would think.
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The Twins have done pretty much all they are going to do for a while and we've chatted about the Batista signing enough.
The Wolves have been playing like crap and haven't played since Sunday.
The Vikings are done, Tice is out.
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Turns out rookie punter Chris Kluwe spent the final weeks of the season punting through a far more serious injury than almost anyone knew.
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Mason got his extension. From the Strib:
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A tough day for Mike Tice, for sure. I do feel bad for him.
But.
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In 2005, SBG, the Mag had 92,069 hits from 59,512 unique visitors. My counter shows "unique visitors" but I also watch the hits, because I want to know if people are coming back or reading comments.
Here are my stats, month by month.

Month
Hits
Visitors

January
2852
1885

February
4717
3418

March
6411
4896

April
6184
4604

May
5849
4216

June
10867
7034

July
7841
5155

August
8059
4886

September
6716
4210

October
10744
6011

November
10726
6113

December
10882
6910

As you can see, June was my biggest month in terms of vistors, but [...]

Happy 2006 from SBG and Lucy.