Monthly Archives: January 2010

Next Stop For Lane Kiffen?

January 14, 2010 – 10:54 am

When Lane Kiffen was 31 years old, he had never been a head coach at any level of football. Al Davis hired him to be the head coach of the Oakland Raiders at that point only to fire him abruptly in the midst of Kiffen’s second season in Oakland. Adding that firing and a 5-15 [...]

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TV Tidbits

January 13, 2010 – 12:03 pm

I have two TV tidbits to talk about today – – and I will try to make that the last alliteration of the day. According to TNS Media Intelligence, CBS has sold “nearly all” of its 62 commercial slots for the Super Bowl game. The price is down this year from last season’s average price [...]

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Premature Articulation

January 12, 2010 – 12:11 pm

Please note the date at the top of this offering. We are not two full weeks into the New Year yet. The NFL playoffs have only just begun and will go for about 4 more weeks; the college basketball season has just abandoned random games and settled down to initiate conference competition. Notwithstanding those facts, [...]

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To The Green Bay Packers: Thank You!

January 11, 2010 – 9:16 am

If you are a fan of pro football, you have to take a moment today and say “Thank you, Green Bay Packers.” I do not care if you are one of those fanboys who paints his face in the colors of some other team and makes an ass of yourself on TV shouting like a [...]

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Homage To Miss Peggy Lee…

January 8, 2010 – 10:37 am

Miss Peggy Lee once recorded a song where part of the lyrics went: “If that’s all there is, my friends, Then let’s keep dancing.” Those lyrics kept going through my head for most of the second half of the Alabama/Texas game last night for the BCS Championship. When Colt McCoy had to come out of [...]

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Mythical Picks – NFL – Weekend of 1/10/10

January 7, 2010 – 3:53 pm

Here are the Hits and Misses from last week’s Mythical Picks: 1. I liked the Colts +7 at the Bills. The Colts lost by more than 3 TDs in a blizzard. Miss! 2. I liked the Browns to cover a one-point spread. They did. Hit! I also like the game Under 38. It went Over. [...]

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Annoying Ads

January 7, 2010 – 1:06 am

With the NFL Playoffs about to begin, that means the Super Bowl is only a month away – – and that means new advertising campaigns for lots of companies that will buy time on the pre-game programming and during the game. Those new campaigns cannot come soon enough for me because there are some mighty [...]

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NBA Doings Today…

January 6, 2010 – 12:46 pm

There is a bunch of NBA nonsense that I have to comment on today. Let me start with the Gilbert Arenas/Javaris Crittenton contretemps. Obviously, there is a legal process ongoing here and that has to play itself out with regard to the legality of having those weapons stored in the District of Columbia sans registration [...]

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Fiesta Bowl…

January 5, 2010 – 10:56 am

I had read in several places that folks were predicting that the BoiseState/TCU game in the Fiesta Bowl might draw the lowest TV ratings of any BCS bowl game in history. I cannot find the overnight numbers just yet; but if they were indeed very low, it would be a shame. The game was a [...]

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Economics Today

January 4, 2010 – 9:50 am

It will not be long before you will be reading articles and columns that will evaluate the state of the economic recovery in terms of retail sales over the Holidays. Since I do not know what those articles will say or predict, let me assess a couple of bleak aspects of economics within the sports [...]

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