Each week we will make college football picks and invite you to do the same in the comment section for a little friendly competition. At the end of the season we’ll tally up the results and see who should replace Lou “I cheat to win” Holtz on the College Game Day crew. Since gambling over [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Week 1 of Our Total Consciousness College Football Picks Challenge
Posted in Total Consciousness College Football Picks on August 26, 2008 | 20 Comments »
College Football Preseason Picks
Posted in Football on August 23, 2008 | 16 Comments »
So apparently College Football starts this coming Thursday and unlike my MLB and English Premier League preseason predictions I’d like to get this one out before the season starts. So I’m going to throw out the two teams that I think will be playing in the BSC “we make too much money to have a [...]
Thank You Bob Bradley
Posted in Soccer on August 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
After the US soccer team failed to advance out of the group stages of the Olympics I was going to write a post about how US soccer is held back by poor coaching. Briefly, my thesis was that the US has solid players but since the overall talent pool is shallower than other soccer crazy [...]
UGA + the Furer = Hilarious
Posted in Football on August 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
For those of you who are rabid college sports fans- particularly college football fans- you’ll understand that allegiance to one team often means unadulterated hatred for another, rival squad. Oh sure, you may say from time to time, ‘Hey, nothing but the best of luck to ya’ll’ or ‘I just hope both our teams are [...]
EPL Predictions
Posted in Soccer on August 17, 2008 | 13 Comments »
When I was in England for grad school one of the things I learned about the English people is that they gamble on soccer like champs. I mean they bet on things like who will score the first goal. You’ve got a 1 in 22 chance of that happening without factoring in the odds that [...]
2008 Fantasy Football Team Name
Posted in Football on August 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Fantasy football season is fast approaching. So as you mentally prepare your pre-draft rankings I ask that you don’t waste all your energy internally debating the value of Brian Westbrook and how late you could wait to draft a quarterback. For if you spend all your mental free time wrestling with such issues, you may [...]
Skip Carey Remembered
Posted in Uncategorized on August 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I already wrote a quick short piece about Skip Carey that appeared on The Stormy Present main page, but I was looking through some of the things on my computer that I started to write for this site and then got distracted and found a piece about how great a broadcaster Skip and Chip are. [...]
Secretly Watching the Olympics for a Soccer Fix
Posted in Soccer on August 5, 2008 | 5 Comments »
There are two reasons why I shouldn’t write a post about the U.S. Men’s Soccer team playing in the Olympics. The first is that everyone is too jacked up about the imminent arrival of football to care about soccer. The second reason is that a while ago I wrote some good stuff about how the [...]
Hillary Robinette and the ACC
Posted in Uncategorized on August 2, 2008 | 6 Comments »
***When we decided to do this it sounded like a great idea. Then I realized that I don’t know nearly as much about Duke football as the SEC, but I wrote something anyway.***
Trey and I were talking the other day about the ACC and Duke football. As a Tennessee fan, the conversation naturally led to [...]
