I have an idea for a book that would be entitled, No Other Option. Basically, the book would look at a high school team, Wofford, and Georgia Tech and talk about how and why all these schools run the option. The core of the book’s message would be that the wishbone option offense is the [...]
Archive for October, 2008
No Other Option
Posted in Football on October 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Week 10 of Total Consciousness College Football Picks (with Halloween Trick or Treat Bonus Pick)
Posted in Total Consciousness College Football Picks on October 29, 2008 | 19 Comments »
After an amazing weekend of games in week 9, this week the matchups sort of calm down. But before we get to that here are the scores thus far with the points from last week in parentheses:
Mao 223 (13), Lauren 214 (17), Jeff 213 (17), Jim 195 (13), Trey 180 (3), Jared 177 (3)
All fairly [...]
Week 9 of Total Consciousness College Football Picks
Posted in Total Consciousness College Football Picks on October 21, 2008 | 19 Comments »
Here are the cumulative scores with last week’s point total in parentheses:
Mao 210 (11), Lauren 197 (35), Jeff 196 (19), Jim 182 (53), Trey 177 (28), Jared 174 (31), Derrick 108 (0)
As you can see Lauren sprung into 2nd and Jim actually picked every game right except for the 1-pointer (in which he had South [...]
Would a Rays World Series Title Change Baseball?
Posted in Uncategorized on October 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
In light of the Cubs ignominous departure from this postseason, my one consolation has been watching the Rays continue to defy expectations and win the American League crown. They face a tough task in the National League champion Phillies. The two questions that arise now are, can they win, and if so, would their victory [...]
Week 8 of Total Consciousness College Football Picks
Posted in Total Consciousness College Football Picks on October 14, 2008 | 18 Comments »
Arg. I don’t even want to do this anymore. I spent Saturday night getting drunk so that I could forget the fact that I picked all the losers. Here are the standings so far, and please feel free to wave as you pass me by:
Mao 199 (33), Jeff 177 (27), Lauren 162 (31), Trey 149 [...]
MLB Season Review
Posted in Baseball on October 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Force is strong with me. Here’s what I predicted at the start of the baseball season:
AL playoff teams: Angles, Red Sox, Indians, Tigers.
NL playoff teams: Diamondbacks, Cubs, Braves, Phillies.
Ok, so I completely misjudged the AL central, but who in their right mind saw the White Sox coming out of that division? Plus, the Tigers [...]
Clemson Rumor Mill
Posted in Football on October 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »
One of the benefits of working for a newspaper is you run into other writers for newspapers and they pass along rumors from their newsroom and you do the same. As a result you get first dibs on rumblings concerning local sports teams.
So tonight, 24 hours removed from Clemson’s lose to Wake Forest, the rumor [...]
Week 7 of Total Consciousness College Football Picks
Posted in Total Consciousness College Football Picks on October 7, 2008 | 16 Comments »
Remember, the winner of this will receive total consciousness on their deathbed, which is nice. Here as the scores so far with the points accrued from last week in parentheses:
Mao 166 (33), Jeff 150 (35), Trey 146 (31), Lauren 131 (35), Jared 130 (19), Jim 94 (9), Derrick 87 (0)
As you can see Mao is [...]
Strategy of scoring as few runs as possible backfires
Posted in Uncategorized on October 6, 2008 | 6 Comments »
The Cubs, in an effort to win their first World Series title in one hundred years, adopted the bold strategy of trying to score as few runs as possible. Alfonso Soriano – one of five Cub players to hit 20 or more home runs this season- led the assault by going 2 for 14 in [...]
I Wanna Hear the Song (But Which One?)
Posted in Baseball, Commentary & Analysis on October 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Cubs and I have had a tumultuous relationship over the last couple of years. I’ve always been a Braves fan, but as a kid I liked coming home from school and catching the Cubs on WGN, listening to Harry Caray, and watching as they blew a lead in the 9th.
But then something happened that [...]
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