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Archive for November, 2007

What You’ll Be Watching This Weekend

Friday, November 9th, 2007

Air Force (7-3) at Notre Dame (1-8), 2:30pm ET Saturday, NBC
You won’t enjoy watching this game, but you will enjoy the thought of NBC executives watching this game and picturing money literally flying out of their wallets. If that doesn’t get you excited, you can watch in search of the exact moment when Charlie Weis […]

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Separated At Birth (part II)

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

Bobby Kielty (Red Sox) & Jesse Plemons (Friday Night Lights)

One blasts first pitch fastballs over the fence in pinch hit appearances. The other blasts fools who touch his quasi-girlfriend Tyra Collette (Adrianne Palicki). Granted they’re 12 years apart age wise and both born in different areas (Plemons in Texas, Kielty in California).
One is an […]

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It Is My Money!

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

Because I care about you, our reading public, I lugged my laptop all the way to Chicago to submit these picks. And with a record like my pathetic 5-8, 2-2 in the Best Bets, you know to go the other way. A special “I hate you” goes out to the San Diego Chargers, who had me […]

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A Modest Plan To Help Save (Some of) The NBA

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

I don’t know if you heard, but the NBA is in trouble. What else is new?
Not helping matters is the alienation of two of what were once the league’s biggest and most loyal markets. First, Seattle, where despite the presence of an electric young player in Kevin Durant and the team’s seemingly impending move to Oklahoma […]

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Weather.com just a few weeks behind

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

Mosey on over to this Weather.com page, scroll down the page a bit and feast your eyes on this poll.
That’s right: Ten days after the end of the World Series, Weather.com wants to know who you think is going to win the Fall Classic. Vote Rockies just for the hell of it.
Next week, […]

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Opie & Anthony Give Pats Fans a Scare

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

If there’s one way to ruin a Patriots fan’s morning, it’s to dash their hopes of an undefeated season with one simple statement: Tom Brady has been suspended for four games.
That’s the statement that listeners to the syndicated Opie & Anthony radio show heard this morning, at least. Throughout the show, they referenced a […]

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The Darren McFadden Sweepstakes

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

Well, if you’re done rehashing all the things that we learned from The Most Important Regular Season Game In The History of the National Football League (The Colts defense is actually pretty good, Joseph Addai is very good, Randy Moss is really good, Tom Brady is looking pretty sharp and stylin’, Reggie Wayne isn’t quite Marvin […]

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I wouldn’t normally brag about having the good fortune to draft the guy who now owns the single-game rushing yardage record, but I do have to whine about things like this happening to me:
Hey Mr, Popularity,
This trade has been proposed to you in Free the Bengals .
Elmo’s Allstars: Frank Gore, Terrell Owens
Bone Smugglers: Adrian […]

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The Big Board Update

Monday, November 5th, 2007

So, it turns out that a couple of Jaguar players didn’t make the trip to New Orleans for their loss to the Saints on Sunday. LB Justin Durant and OT Richard Collier were a little preoccupied… because they were arrested on the same night! In unrelated incidents! Two for the price of one! So, let’s go to the big board…

52

(The […]

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Great Moments in Marathon Broadcasting

Monday, November 5th, 2007

Yesterday morning, during WNBC’s coverage of the New York City Marathon, all seemed right in the world of long-distance running. A former champion won the women’s race, and the men’s pack was led by a Kenyan.
Then, NBC Sports’ Al Trautwig made this jaw-dropping observation:
“The lead men’s pack is starting to look like an NBA franchise.”
The […]

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