Lag/Hang up/Slow Play

When playing videos or live stream on the Pac-12 website it will play for a couple seconds, hang up for at least 30 seconds, play for a couple seconds, etc. I have the latest versions of Adobe Flash Player in Chrome, IE, and Firefox and the problem is consistent across these browsers. Hardware acceleration is enabled and I have Windows 7, 32-bit. I do not have the same problem when playing videos on Youtube.
Thanks for the help,
Tim

My guess is Coach Miller's boys (I'm in Tucson) are so popular that EVERYONE's trying to watch them and the servers are overwhelmed. I can't get a video to even start for the UCLA highlight feed. I KNOW my Flash Player's working, so it HAS TO BE the site.

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