Seeing as how we haven’t done a post here since the last Iowa game of consequence, we figured it was time to have something else besides us belaboring our ID theft problem at the top of the blog. It was bad for business anyways. According to sources at Penn State, the Nittany Lions are headed to the Capital One Bowl where they’ll likely play LSU. This almost certainly puts the Hawkeyes into Glendale and the Fiesta Bowl. Presumably, they’ll hook up with the Fraud-cos of Boise State. More sources and explanations can be found here.
The rest of our BCS predictions and some other thoughts on the upcoming Bowl season after the jump.
Think I fixed it… not really sure. If I did, I’ll attempt to rehash what happened over the weekend. Suffice to say, that phishing scams are not very cool. Neither is sitting on the ball with 52 seconds left on the road in a tie game with a Rose Bowl berth hanging in the balance. Still bitter.
Jonathan Moxon played a solid game though. Throw us a comment if you can “see” this.
Points of Interest is the daily link dump for your morning or afternoon commute in and out of Souvenir City. We’ll be throwing together some other stops from out there in blogdome and the interwebs to peak your interest. Some of them will actually be what some might consider educational. Most of them, are going to everything but that.
A day off. It’s been nice. Really nice. But, it’s not a full day off because we’re going to work tonight. So, in the interim we’ve got a link dump to probably end the day. Depends if we’re feeling itchy about something hockey related. Not a whole lot going on except Sidney Crosby is in a career long streak of suck. Keeley Hazell has always been our favorite. One of the photos from this shoot is our desktop background.
Ever since we’ve been old enough to operate the magic box known as a television set, we’ve had cable. We never just had the network channels because we were not old enough to have lived during that time. However, when there were was just CBS, NBC and ABC, football coverage was drastically different than it is now. RedZone is the greatest invention EVER by the way. Not to get off on a tangent, but we had heard the name “Jimmy the Greek” but never knew the person or his role.
Jimmy the Greek was a superstar. He was the first guy to really publicize sports gambling. And ESPN did a phenomenal job of characterizing him last night.
You know what the World Series of Poker needs? What every other sport absolutely can’t stand, that’s what. Most other professional sports (for the record, poker is NOT officially a sport) strive for parity so that all of their teams/players have a chance at winning something and being involved. The NFL does a great job, as does the NHL and the NBA. MLB has a problem with higher payrolls. Well, poker needs less parity and more big names winning championships.
We only watched the Final Table of the WSOP last night because Phil Ivey was in it. After he got eliminated, we turned it off.
Well it was fun while it lasted. It’s pretty unlikely you’ll see the Hawkeyes before the jump in this college football poll the rest of the year. Even if they go into Columbus this weekend and beat the Buckeyes. Ricky Stanzi is likely out until the bowl game along with Adam Robinson and Dace Richardson. But, the Hawks aren’t the only team in the top 25. Not much changing at the top outside of Iowa dropping. Well… except Oregon being a COMPLETE AND UTTER FRAUD. Here’s your top 25:
Texas (best defense among the top 3 by the numbers)
Alabama (looked awfully slow in the first half on Saturday night)
Florida (without question, our pick to win the National Title)
Really? Did the GMs, owners and front office MLB people WATCH the MLB Playoffs this season? Or better yet, did they see the 4,860 game sample that was the regular season that had some easily fixed botched calls? Apparently, they didn’t or they’re just stubborn and refuse to adopt modern technology.
Yes, baseball games are quite long as it is, but wouldn’t you rather endure five more minutes of a game to ensure that it was correct rather than sit in your living room and bitch about that Joe Mauer foul ball for ten minutes? We would.
Ok…rhetorical question. We think it’s completely unnecessary. Nearly nine out of ten times that we hear something on the radio, read it in print or see it on TV regarding the NBA, it’s in regards to LeBron James. You know, there are OTHER players in the NBA. Other players that play on better teams. You know… like the boring Tim Duncan that no one wants to talk about? Dwight Howard, whose personality has really won us over.
Or maybe… Kobe Bryant? The guy that put another banner in the rafters at Staples.
Gold Gloves have to be the most discussed and debated awards that MLB gives out. There’s only so many stats that can be looked at (or will be looked at) by those who vote on the award. We’ve discussed our qualms with the BBWAA on this site before… we don’t think they objectively vote on awards. When it comes down to the Gold Glove though, most votes are just patterned after previous winners.
Yeah… so you’ve probably noticed that we’ve slowed out programming around these parts. Much apologies for that. NickJ across the pond in Europe, Lefty has seemingly disappeared as far as writing goes and mrejr is doing his moneyline picks. We have a few real jobs we’ve been attending to… but fear not!
Tomorrow, we already have four posts started for the day. We’ll give you a link dump to start the morning, have some programming on football, our final thoughts on the baseball season (commentary on awards coming out), hockey and yes, we will be watching the WSOP tonight. Ten post minimum tomorrow. Promise. With some standard road beef for your consumption.
Be sure to head to Beadlemaniacs to see what SportsNation voted as their site of the day. We’ll start contributing over there soon.
Seeing as how we haven’t done a post here since the last Iowa game of consequence, we figured it was time to have something else besides us belaboring our ID theft problem at the top of the blog. It was bad for business anyways. According to sources at Penn State, the Nittany Lions are headed to the Capital One Bowl where they’ll likely play LSU. This almost certainly puts the Hawkeyes into Glendale and the Fiesta Bowl. Presumably, they’ll hook up with the Fraud-cos of Boise State. More sources and explanations can be found here.
