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BCS Top 25 Picks?

Guess What? Spencer from Major League Jerk has proudly accepted my invitation to give you insight on some of the hotly contested Top 25 matchups for this weekends games. Why am I dodging ...
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The Morning After: November 6th, 2009.

Good morning everyone! It’s gonna be cloudy here all day, but mild, and tomorrow it’s going to be warm and sunny! Hallelujah! It’ll be nice to have one nice weekend before the doom and gloom ...
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Not Sure What We Are Calling This Now – I Had the Idea First, Dammit!

When writing the previews for my blog this past August I predicted each NFL team’s record based on their schedule. I understand that this is a largely fruitless exercise but it gave me a way ...
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NBA Studs and Duds 11/5

Another version of the express S&D today because I was bust again and then the Stud list was extensive. Let’s just say this: There were a lot of good games last night. Think the opposite ...
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GatorTrey Fails Again (Bowl Projections)

It’s that time of the year again, the BCS is out, half the season is in the tank, and Ohio State has been mercifully beaten in a big game…Meaning? BOWL PROJECTIONS. A little ground rules. - I’m ...
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TWTWCFB: Game O’ The Week

  Two bigguns this weekend, one in Tuscaloosa the other in State College. The  top of college football has maintained a floating fortress of solitude over the much weaker “groundlings” that have littered the remainder of college ...
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The Weekly Spartacast – Episode #8: The Triumphant Return!

After a two week hiatus from the hallowed pages of Sparty and Friends, the Weekly Spartacast makes its return for your downloading and listening pleasure.  Sadly, it does not make a return with any new ...
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Obligatory World Series Post

2009 Champion New York Yankees The New York Yankees completed one of the most improbable *snickers* runs in the history of baseball.  After overcoming the hardest road ever to reach the World Series, the Yanks dismantled ...
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The Morning After: November 5, 2009

Good morning readers.  I hope you’re all having a good week thus far and aren’t clock-watching too awful much as we head toward the weekend.  Since I have nothing clever to say, I’d like to ...
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Seventh Inning Stretch: The Bad Picks Continue.

It seems like everyone is extremely busy this week, including me. I have a little paper to finish up for class tomorrow, so in an effort to save time I’m going to recycle KWSN’s idea ...
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NBA Studs and Duds 11/4

This is the express version of the S&D as I had too much to do today. All I will say is that this is the most unbalanced I’ve ever seen a day in favor of ...
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It Ends Tonight

Enough with the questioning of Pettitte going on short-rest. He will be fine. Pedro is the one that is going to get lit the hell up. The Yanks win #27 tonight. Not a Black Eye ...
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Pedro!

Con Pedro haciendo lo que probablemente será su última apertura de postemporada en el Yankee Stadium esta noche, me voy a dedicar un minuto de silencio a Internet hacia el hombre con más subestimado trapeador ...
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Texas moves to #1, USC tarnished

Week-10 was fairly boring in terms of upsets and excitement for most of the day, but then Oregon played Southern California and all that we knew about the Pac 10 was changed. Florida owned Georgia ...
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Are You a Doofus?

We all love sports. We also find ways of taking them way too seriously at times.  The question you have to ask yourself, are you a doofus?  ESPN’s Page 2 columnist Patrick Hrubey asked this ...
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Weekly Caption

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The Morning After: November 4, 2009

With no baseball or football last night I turned my attention to the several hours of Man vs. Food that we have recorded over the season. Due to my extremely important lifestyle I tend to ...
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Seventh Inning Stretch-I’m no prophet

I didn’t really have anything on my mind that I wanted to talk about today so I thought I’d review some of my predictions to see how bad they were. My just after the all star ...
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NBA Studs and Duds 11/3

There may have been only five games in the NBA last night, but that was enough to get seven Studs and five Duds on the board. The Bobcats and Nets played an awful game of ...
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Phillies and Yanks fans brawlin

Just a preview of the Yanks beating the Phils on Wednesday.
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Stop Talking – Just Win

I  standby Mark Dantonio in this football season of disappointment at Michigan State University.   Expectations were high at the start of the year, because there was significant improvement in the first 2 years until Dantonio.  ...
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NFL Power Rankings: Cardinal Sin

Just an awful weekend for picks. The majority only hit on 46% of their picks. But looking more closely; Green Bay (56%), Denver (54%), and Jacksonville (56%) were so close they could all ...
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The Morning After: November 3, 2009

Last night I had something very important come up that required my immediate attention, therefore today will be a somewhat abbreviated version of TMA. I was unable to watch most of the game that the ...
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MNF: Falcons @ Saints

First off, lets get this out of the way because it’s not worth as many words as MSM has wasted on it. We were outplayed in ever facet of the game yesterday, except stupid ...
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NBA Studs and Duds 11/2

I would like to announce that from now on the Monday S&D will not include wrap-ups of games  –  unless of course there is something  that needs to be covered — but will include the ...
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