Monthly Archives: November 2008

Tuesdays With The Sorries – 11/18/08

November 18, 2008 – 10:13 am

Henry Ward Beecher was the brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe and a prominent abolitionist preacher in the mid 1800s. One of his more famous aphorisms is: “Affliction comes to us … not to make us sorry but wise.” Well, it is Tuesday and we have some examples from last weekend where teams – and one [...]

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The Camel News Caravan Is On The Air…

November 17, 2008 – 10:01 am

At the dawn of the television era when Uncle Miltie ruled the airwaves and Harry Truman was still giving them Hell in Washington, the network evening news program was The Camel News Caravan – sponsored by Camel cigarettes. John Cameron Swayze hosted and he would begin by intoning the line, “Hopscotching the world for headlines [...]

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Mythical Picks – NCAA Weekend of 11/15/08

November 14, 2008 – 12:13 pm

Without Mythical Picks last week, I had a form of “R&R” so I am back this week rested and relaxed and ready and … Enough of that nonsense. Linfield College achieved its 53rd consecutive winning season in football two weeks ago. Last week, the Western Oregon University Wolves visited McMinnville Oregon and beat the Linfield [...]

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Mythical Picks – NFL – Weekend Of 11/16/08

November 14, 2008 – 12:08 am

I took a week off from these picks to visit my grandson. I’m sure some of you think that the real reason for the missing weekend was that I needed a break from the mediocrity of my picks. Not so! If that were the case, I would have stopped doing these a couple of years [...]

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Bottom Feeders And Surprises

November 13, 2008 – 10:20 am

In October 1980, the Philadelphia Phillies won the World Series; four months later the Philadelphia Eagles played in the Super Bowl. In October 2008, the Philadelphia Phillies won the World Series; might that portend the appearance of the Philadelphia Eagles in the Super Bowl? Before the horde of skeptics out there rises up to shout [...]

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Recommended Reading…

November 12, 2008 – 10:12 am

David Whitley had a very interesting column in yesterday’s Orlando Sentinel. I commend it to your reading…

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Hot Stove Baseball Underway…

November 12, 2008 – 9:12 am

Baseball’s off-season is officially in session; trades have begun to happen; offers to free agents are starting to appear in the papers; the only thing missing is someone calculating the days left until pitchers and catchers report. Trust me; I’m not going to do that… None of the trades made so far have been of [...]

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Tuesdays With The Sorries – 11/11/08

November 11, 2008 – 1:02 am

Fifty years ago, Dion and the Belmonts sang Don’t Pity Me. That made a lot of sense because they went on to a five-year run as a highly successful “doo-wop group”. However, that song would not be particularly appropriate for some of the pathetic football performances turned in by various teams over the past weekend; [...]

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Football Stuff Today

November 6, 2008 – 12:08 am

In the absence of Mythical Picks this week, let me clear my clipboard of football items that have marginal interest at the moment. I do not want to mix in any “old information” when I decide on the sorry performances of the upcoming football weekend. To start on an upbeat note, Linfield College beat the [...]

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Administrative Note

November 4, 2008 – 2:47 am

There is no way I will have the time to do either NCAA or NFL Mythical Picks this week. My long-suffering wife and I will be traveling to Ann Arbor to visit our grandson – and his parents too of course – so the time for writing and research will be severely limited. I will [...]

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