Monthly Archives: September 2009

Lots of Quick Quizzes Today…

September 15, 2009 – 12:20 am

The people who do PR for the women’s tennis tour sure have had their work cut out for them in the past week. First, they had a great feelgood story running about teenager, Melanie Oudin, making a run in the US Open. Oudin was bounced out of the tournament and the headlines then turned to [...]

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Early Football Season Impressions

September 14, 2009 – 10:53 am

I know that the football season is very young and that lots of things can happen between now and January 2010; nonetheless, I have a couple of impressions from the early weeks of the college season and the first weekend of real NFL Football. 1. Terrelle Pryor has not improved his passing mechanics even a [...]

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Mythical Picks – NCAA – Weekend of 9/12/09

September 11, 2009 – 5:28 am

I have a friend who is a huge college football fan – – almost to the exclusion to other sports save college basketball which runs a distant second. He often says that this first week of September is the best time of the year for him except for one thing. The beginning of college football [...]

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Erin Andrews Revisited…

September 11, 2009 – 12:58 am

Erin Andrews was on the sidelines for one of the NCAA football games last weekend – – I only caught a glimpse of the game so I am not positive but I think it was the South Carolina/NC State game. Whatever… Seeing her on TV brought to mind the lack of any resolution with regard [...]

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Mythical Picks – NFL – Weekend of 9/13/09

September 10, 2009 – 12:20 am

Finally, the exhibition season is over and the games actually mean something. Fantasy football freaks can wind themselves up into a frenzy and fans everywhere will find ways to make wagers in earnest on a variety of NFL games starting this week. There is no way to know for sure, but I doubt that the [...]

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NFL Pre-Season Predictions – 2009 Season

September 9, 2009 – 8:41 am

A sufficient number of pages have flipped on the calendar to allow me to dim the memory of my putrescent predictions on last year’s NFL season. And showing that I did not learn from last year’s episode of being foolish enough to rush in where angels fear to tread, let me begin my headlong dash [...]

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The “Four Fives Pitcher” – Not A Good Thing

September 8, 2009 – 9:50 am

After another week on the road, it is time to comment on a potpourri of stuff. To begin, as we go into the homestretch of the baseball season, I want to define for you a really bad affliction for any baseball team. I call it the “Four Fives Pitcher”. This is a pitcher who: a. [...]

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Mythical Picks – NCAA – Weekend of 9/5/09

September 3, 2009 – 12:39 am

Despite the utter lack of an outcry for me to bring this feature back for another year, I am going to do it anyway. The reason is simple. I enjoy writing these things. I doubt that I will be able to do one of these every week of the college football season. I still have [...]

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More Bad Ads

September 2, 2009 – 2:35 am

Greetings from Minneapolis. As I suspected last week, my time for research to put together rants for this week has been limited by social engagements last weekend in Minneapolis and by the time spent during this week getting around Minneapolis to see the sights here and to get a feel for the city. [For the [...]

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