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What You’ll Be Watching This Weekend

Friday, October 26th, 2007

Friday Night Lights, 9pm ET Friday, NBC
Wait, you’ll be watching what? Oh, I’m sorry. I thought this blog was about sports - not television shows about teen angst and drama with a small smattering of high school football. Curses, NBC! And damn you, Nielsen families, for not watching this show last season!
#10 South Florida (6-1) […]

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Checks and Balances in the BCS

Friday, October 26th, 2007

Everyone has a bone to pick with the BCS standings. And usually, it’s about overrated teams getting a pass from the pollsters at the expense of talented upstarts. There’s a consensus that Ohio State didn’t deserve to be #1 two weeks ago when South Florida was unbeaten (except in Ohio, where knowing the strength of your schedule is about as […]

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What You’ll Be Watching This Weekend

Friday, October 19th, 2007

Louisville (4-3) at Connecticut (5-1), 8pm ET Friday, ESPN
Forget USF and Rutgers; UConn is truly establishing the Big East’s legitimacy with their 5-1 record. Also, Vinny Testaverde is the best quarterback in the NFL, and Paris Hilton is disease-free. Louisville should firmly make their mark as loss #2 in UConn’s 7-game losing streak… mark down […]

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Number Two Gets Flushed Again

Friday, October 19th, 2007

If we could take a break from the Joe Torre madness for a second (hey, how dare the Red Sox overshadow this momentous news by daring to extend the series!) to turn our attention to some college football, three straight number twos have now taken the pipe.
In case you weren’t paying attention, or you think […]

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The Versus ‘Curse’?

Monday, October 15th, 2007

I would like to start off by saying that it feels great to get the opportunity to spew whatever trivial sports knowledge I know in a place where perhaps people will read it, if for no other reason than that they read Chris’ blog.
My first foray into this realm begins with the cable network Versus, […]

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