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The Final Four are Here!

March 29, 2009

And I only picked one of them!  AARGH!!! 
I am completely doomed in my office pool as Louisville was supposed to defeat Pitt for the Championship.  Alas, no.  Both fell this weekend.  The only one I picked in the Final Four was UNC… who was supposed to lose to Pitt next Saturday!  It’s never going to happen [...]

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Leaving the Lights On Tonight

March 28, 2009

“Earth Hour” dweebs around the planet want to have a billion people worldwide turn their lights off between 8:30 and 9:30 this evening to protect us all against the horrors of “global warming.”  Of course, they’ll claim a momentous victory even though after their friends, contributors to the ‘global warming” hysteria in Greece and other snotty privileged developed [...]

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Orrin Hatch Targets BCS

March 26, 2009

College football’s method of determining a national champion has been the subject of debate for decades.  One side argues that the current system represents a tradition that should be preserved and guarantees one of the most meaningful regular seasons in all of sports.  Others argue that the current system is too subjective and excludes too [...]

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Coach K Stuffs Obama

March 19, 2009

I laughed when I heard about this story from the AP this morning regarding what legendary Duke Blue Devils Mens Basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski said about Obama’s picks:
“Somebody said that we’re not in President Obama’s Final Four, and as much as I respect what he’s doing, really, the economy is something that he should focus on, [...]

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A-Rod Goes Under the Knife

March 9, 2009

Alex Rodriguez had hip surgery today and is expected to miss 6-9 weeks.  As a Yankee fan and fantasy baseball A-Rod owner, I hope he has a speedy recovery.
I won’t defend him if he resumes doing what he did back before he became a Yankee or the next time he dates the elderly though.

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Standing Firmly Crooked on Freedom of Religion

March 2, 2009

A football coach from East Brunswick High School in New Jersey, Marcus Borden, was reprimanded for being involved in a student-led prayer a few years ago.  The incident took place during a team dinner before a game in 2005.  A cheerleader present at this dinner didn’t like how the coach was nodding his head during the student-led prayer.  She [...]

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Providence Beats #1 Pitt

February 25, 2009

Unranked bubble team Providence College defeated #1 Ranked Pittsburgh in NCAA Men’s Basketball last night, 81-73.  It was one bright shining moment before Emperor Zero took the stage to play Caesar for an hour (I was waiting for San Fran Nan to hover the laurels over Zero’s head and whisper “Remember thou art mortal”). 
This was [...]

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First Sign of Spring — Play Ball!

February 14, 2009

Today is the day that pitchers and catchers report for spring training, the first real sign (to me) that spring will soon be here.  As an avid baseball fan, the very sound of that news brings with it a whole host of memories, emotions, and nostalgia.  It’s a time of year when all teams have [...]

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Stop the Presses! Brett Favre Retires… Again

February 11, 2009

Where have I heard this before?
That’s right, every single NFL post-season since Noah was trying to tick off “two emus” from his list! 
Though this time I think it’s for real.  Maybe. 
Thusly, I’m not getting all nostalgic.  I’ve already done that at the end of last season and what did that get me — Favre ended up at [...]

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That Pesky Pro-Bowl

February 8, 2009

As I write this, the 2009 NFL Pro Bowl is at halftime.  It’s 14-10 AFC, which I like since I’m an AFC fan generally. 
The Pro Bowl is one of the only All-Star games which 1) has no consequences relating to the season, or 2) takes place at the very end of the season.  Football is a unique sport [...]

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Pittsburgh Steelers Win Super Bowl XLIII

February 1, 2009

The upstart Cardinals ended up losing to the favored Steelers 27-23 in Super Bowl XLIII tonight.  The game was looking like a blowout as the score was 20-7 going into the 4th Quarter.  The Steelers were taking advantage of everything the Cardinals were doing.  The Cards had some lucky breaks, but that last second 100-yards pick-six at [...]

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The Super Bowl “Flu” Epidemic

February 1, 2009

Long have there been calls to make Super Bowl Monday a holiday since absenteeism and productivity resulting from the Super Bowl “flu” can be costly: last year 4.4 million late-ins and an estimated 1.5 million extra absences were phoned in.  Some have also estimated that $16 million per minute lost during the week preceding the Super Bowl on people running [...]

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NBC Bans Pro-Life Ad During Super Bowl

January 31, 2009

Here’s the ad in question.  I personally think it’s pretty awesome:

NBC stated that it does not intend to air political advocacy ads during the Super Bowl.  That’s their prerogative.  Yet, they told PETA that they might get their ad on if they edited it to coincide with NBC’s ethical standards a little bit more, but on the [...]

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Petraeus to Toss Coin at Super Bowl XLIII

January 29, 2009

Centcom Head and Iraq Redeemer David Petraeus will be part of the Super Bowl XLIII coin toss Sunday night.  Here what Petraeus had to say about it:
“It is a privilege to represent our Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen in the coin-toss ceremony…. And it is an honor to thank the NFL commissioner and the [...]

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Good Food for Super Bowl Sunday

January 29, 2009

My wife, MrsSal, has started her own blog, primarily focused on recipes, but also on other “Domestic Pursuits.”  In celebration of Super Bowl XLIII, she has collected 10 appetizer recipes for the big game, calling it her “2009 Super Bowl Appetizer Extravaganza“  There is some great food here, so check it out, and enjoy the [...]

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The Arizona Cardinals are in the Super Bowl!!!

January 18, 2009

Is this a sign of the apocalypse?  Perhaps, but it is nonetheless true:  the Arizona Cardinals (one of the perennial laughing-stocks of the NFL) are going to play the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XLIII on February 1!
Both Conference Championship games were exciting in different ways.  If you’re an offensive person, you liked the first [...]

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Arizona Cardinals in NFC Championship Game

January 11, 2009

That’s no typo!   As perennial losers for nearly all of my life, any success  that the Arizona Cardinals are a part of comes as a huge shock.  Last night they were on the road in the Eastern Time Zone (they were 0-5 this season in the EST) to meet the 12-4 Carolina Panthers.  No one gave them [...]

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Arizona Cardinals Win a Playoff Game!

January 3, 2009

No, I’m not joking! 
I just finished watching something I may tell my grandkids one day — I witnessed the Arizona Cardinals actually win a home playoff game 30-24!  1947 was the last time the Cardinals hosted a playoff game, so I’m not totally kidding about that. 
I’m not a Cardinals fan by any stretch, but they’ve been [...]

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Goodbye 2008!

December 31, 2008

I’m kind of glad to see this year go.  While fun was had, disappointments and external events put a particular funk on this year as I look back on it.
The biggest story of the year happened on my birthday when America chose to embrace our new status as an Obama Nation.  We deserve what we [...]

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Meadowland Mauling Killed the Patriots

December 28, 2008

The football gods are still inflicting more karmic mayhem on the New England Patriots.
After the Spygate fiasco, the football gods waited until the last possible moment to exact their revenge against the Pats — waiting until the last three-minutes of the Super Bowl to take the possible undefeated season out of reach by losing to [...]

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Giants’ Burress Shoots Himself in the Leg

November 29, 2008

File this one under “Huh?” 
A day after being ruled ineligible to play in tomorrow’s game against division rival Washington Redskins due to a hamstring injury, New York Giants’ wide receiver Plaxico Burress accidentally shot himself in the leg and was rushed to the hospital.  There aren’t too many details at this point.
OK… 
Plaxico Burress. He caught [...]

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Eagles @ Bengals: The Game Nobody Won

November 16, 2008

For the first time since 2002, an NFL game ended at the end of sudden-death overtime without a winner.  The Philadelphia Eagles played the Cincinnati Bengals for 75 game minutes, ending in a 13-13 tie.  In a way, as a big NFL fan, it is kind of neat because it’s so unusual. 
However, I’m not a fan of [...]

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Jets Best Pats 34-31 in Overtime Thriller

November 14, 2008

AFC East division rivals, the New York Jets and the New England Patriots met last night in Foxboro and the result was great football! 
Check out the last play of regulation with 0:08 on the clock:

Talk about a crazy ending!  Yet, the game was a tale of two halves:  the Pats weren’t playing offense in the first half, [...]

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Phillies Win World Series

October 30, 2008

Congratulations to the Philadelphia Phillies, who won the World Series last night, defeating the Tampa Bay Rays 4 games to 1.  It is their first World Series title in 28 years. 
I’m not a Phillies fan (readers of this blog know my loyalties lie with the Yankees), but I’ve always had an admiration and respect for [...]

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Patriots’ Pyrrhic Victory

October 21, 2008

Last night’s 41-7 victory over the Denver Broncos was a relief to many New England Patriots fans who wanted to see if Matt Cassel had some real potential after five games.  Check.  The Pats fan was also interested in seeing how the Pats defense would handle the Broncos’ pass offense.  Check.
But the price of these small successes [...]

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Fins End Pats Streak

September 21, 2008

I guess when a football streak comes to an end, you might as well make it memorable!  I won’t be forgetting this one soon.
The last time the New England Patriots lost a regular season game was December 10, 2006, against the Miami Dolphins.  So, the Dolphins showed up to not just beat the Pats at home [...]

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Tom Brady is Hurt

September 7, 2008

I’m sure all of you with Tom Brady on your fantasy teams were hoping for more than one quarter out of the two-time Super Bowl MVP and the man who holds the single-season touchdown record for quarterbacks at 50, but football is a contact sport and people get hurt.  But why did it have to be [...]

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Didn’t Like the Call? Just Kick the Judge!

August 24, 2008

The latest controversy to arise out of Beijing deals with when Cuban Angel Matos disagreed with a judge’s enforcement of the rules during a tae-kwon-do medal round against Kazakhstan and decided to kick the judge in the face, spit on the mat and leave the arena. 
Here’s why Matos was mad:  He was up 3-2, but needed to [...]

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Sweet “Sixteen”?

August 14, 2008

I’ve been watching some of the Olympic coverage on part of Obama’s media network, NBC.  All the human interest stories make me puke so I tend to flip around between “Family Guy” reruns and “Hannity and Colmes” before finally settling on the Olympics, which had the US Women’s Gymnastics team going up against China and Russia the other [...]

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NFL’s New Rules for 2008

August 13, 2008

NFL.com is reporting that a few rule changes discussed in March will indeed be going into effect next season.  Among them, I liked these two: 

They are getting rid of the “force out” rule — one has to honestly make the catch and come down with it in-bounds, regardless of whether the defense has knocked you [...]

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