We started this site back in March of this year and since then we’ve be churning out some interesting and some self indulging posts on sports, politics and society. Over at the Society page I already did a sort of best of 2008 for posts on our society page, so I figured why not do [...]
Archive for December, 2008
2008 Highlights
Posted in Uncategorized on December 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Bowl Picks Update
Posted in Total Consciousness College Football Picks on December 29, 2008 | 6 Comments »
We are 13 games into bowl season and currently Missouri is playing Northwestern. So I figured we should let everyone who participated in our TCCFP: Bowl Edition know how things are shaking out. As of right now the standings are as follows:
Olivia –> 20pts (she admitted that she made her picks based on which team [...]
Total Consciousness College Football Picks: Bowl Edition
Posted in Soccer, Total Consciousness College Football Picks on December 14, 2008 | 34 Comments »
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If you’re bored and want to play around with some what-if scenarios, check out the link after the list of games. We came up with a spreadsheet that calculates total points, winners, losers, and all that good stuff. Just make sure when your using it to use the same abbreviation for the team as is [...]
There’s at least one smart person in Texas
Posted in Uncategorized on December 10, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Congressman Joe Barton of Texas’ 6th district just won reelection. Yes he did overwhelmingly beat his opponent on Nov 5th, but that’s not what I’m talking about. Barton introduced a bill into the House today that would esentially kill the BCS. As referenced at Deadspin and NBC Barton is the ranking Republican on the House [...]
Total Consciousness College Football Picks Wrap-Up and Bowl Plans
Posted in Total Consciousness College Football Picks on December 10, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Our Total Consciousness College Football Picks regular season finished like this:
Mao 351, Jared 286, Jim 281, Lauren 279, Jeff 269, Trey 222
First of all, thanks to everyone who played along with our picks each week. We had a lot of fun (until Jeff and I started losing).
Mao won the regular season, but total consciousness is [...]
Week 15 of Total Consciousness College Football Picks
Posted in Total Consciousness College Football Picks on December 3, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Well as you can tell by the fact that each of our three sites, Politics, Society and Sports, has a nice new opinion piece/post on it, I’m back. And since I’m back, why stop doing the Total Consciousness College Football Picks just because the Duke season is over. Wofford’s season is also over after they [...]
It’s the Economy Stupid
Posted in Commentary & Analysis, Football on December 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Neither Tennessee nor Clemson are in the market for new coaches anymore. The Vols are going to replace Phil Fulmer, a guy who played at UT and then coached his alma mater to a 152-52 record and one National Championship, with 33 year old Lane Kiffin who has never been a college head coach and [...]
What’s the Best Playoff System?
Posted in Commentary & Analysis, Football on December 12, 2008 | 4 Comments »
As the post below says, a Congressman from Texas has proposed a bill that would essentially make it illegal to call something a National Championship if it is not the result of a playoff (I am generally not in favor of government intervention in private matters, but really this is the only way that the [...]
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