Archive for October, 2008
And I Thought Happiness was College GameDay in Lubbock, Texas
ESPN Confidential Memo to the GameDay crew: We regret to inform you that, despite the best efforts of Oklahoma State University, this Saturday’s match-up of undefeated Big 12 teams in Lubbock, Texas, has been selected as the location for this week’s edition of College GameDay. This will be the show’s, and probably your, first trip to Lubbock. We apologize for any inconvenience, but hope you enjoy the game between the University of Texas and Texas Tech University.
No More Exhibitionists!
Much ado is made of one prominent sports league’s pre-season games and their detrimental impacts on the regular season. Not only do the games suck, they also wreak havoc on rosters as players can be scrapped for several weeks of the regular season due to unnecessary injuries.
The NFL, you say. Nope. How ‘bout the […]
Dolfantasy Football, Drunkenness, and the State of Cubs Fans
Once I spent the entire content of the Fantasy Football Commissioner’s State-of-the-League address making fun of tha Don’s “Super-Duper Horses Ass Award” that I awarded him a few weeks ago. See, Tha Don was too engrossed in attending a Cubs’ game in Milwaukee that was moved from Houston due to Hurricane Ike. We all have read his wonderfully rich prose on that experience. But I called him one night, and maybe I should have reminded him that the hurricane might screw up some NFL scheduling, but tha Don was not able to update his roster that week and ended up losing …to a girl … by 2 points … as he started the Texans’ DeMeco Ryans, who was awarded a BYE after the Texans’ game was postponed due to the hurricane.
I’d Sooner be a Tiger than a Longhorn, Raider or Cowpoke
Normally by week seven of the college football season we’re getting pretty comfortable with the top teams in the nation, knowing that an upset can come at any time. However, the 12-game schedule has started to create some questionable rankings and scheduling practices that make it difficult to sort out a mess such as the […]
Cubdom in Need of a Raze
“To P.K. Wrigley and the World’s Championship yet to come.”
- Dedication in the 1946 book The Chicago Cubs, by Warren Brown
As a 13-year old I can recall sitting in seventh grade math class, daydreaming like any misanthropic pubescent teen should during pre-algebra. The Cubs had just dropped the last three games of the National […]
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