Jeff has been tabulating the scores and is now including the amount of points you got last week (in parentheses) along with the total points. Last week we all made basically the same picks but Mao and Lauren gambled better than everyone since the games that they missed were all for low point values. Well, [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Week 6 of Total Consciousness College football Picks
Posted in Total Consciousness College Football Picks on September 30, 2008 | 15 Comments »
Anybody Can Have a Bad Century
Posted in Uncategorized on September 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Well, the regular season is (for the most part) over, and the playoff schedule is set. This turned out to be a great season for a number of reasons. Primarily, for me, the Cubs were the best team in the National League. Other highlights: Rays win their first division title, Yankees are not in the [...]
PAC-10 Pains
Posted in Uncategorized on September 26, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Allow me to drop some King James (the Bible, that is, not the ’savior’ of the NBA) inspired truth bombs on you, and announce that, verily, the Pharisees (football pundits everywhere, especially ESPN) did try to name their own ruler (USC), attracting the wrath of the football gods, who smited the Trojans with great anger.
Of [...]
Week 5 of Total Consciousness College Football Picks
Posted in Total Consciousness College Football Picks on September 23, 2008 | 13 Comments »
Last week will be hard to top since there were tons of great games topped off with an amazing LSU victory over Auburn. The best part of that game, by the way, was the sideline reporter pointing out that the LSU quarterback that got knocked out of the game with a concussion (pun intended) ‘looks [...]
The Future of Sports Media
Posted in Commentary & Analysis on September 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Last night Mike (mao) and I engaged in a 45 minute question and answer session about sports (the audio can be heard at his blog The AD Hall, which is linked from The Stormy Present Sports, and I encourage you to check it out). In the course of the conversation we eventually got to the subject of the [...]
Week 4 of Total Consciousness College Football Picks
Posted in Total Consciousness College Football Picks on September 17, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Last week was a tough one for everybody, but Jim earned the dubious distinction of being the first person miss so many that he actually accrued negative points for his week 3 picks. The standings thus far are as follows:
Mao 97, McFeely 95, Jared 87, Trey 83, Derrick 73, Jeems 56, Lauren 46 (only played [...]
Week 3 of Total Conciousness College Football Picks
Posted in Total Consciousness College Football Picks on September 9, 2008 | 27 Comments »
Sorry for the delay in posting this. First things first, who the hell is the person that made their picks last week under the name anonymous? Here are the scores through the first two weeks of the season assuming that last week’s picks by anonymous were Jared (but if that is incorrect let us know):
Jeems [...]
Week 2 of Total Consciousness College Football Picks
Posted in Total Consciousness College Football Picks on September 2, 2008 | 14 Comments »
As I write this I’m listening to the Duke Fight Song for the 10th time today. What a crazy opening week! Duke won, Clem(p)son steadfastly refused to play well (I guess you have to respect their commitment), my boys at Texas A&M lost to freaking Arkansas State, and it all ended with UT getting beat by [...]
The Merkle Curse
Posted in Baseball, Commentary & Analysis on September 23, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Today, September 23 2008, is the 100 year anniversary of what I believe is erroneously called “The Merkle Boner.”
Let me set the scene. The Cubs are playing the New York Giants at the Polo Grounds on this very day in 1908. These two teams were in a tight race for the National League pennant and [...]
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