Week 12 thankfully has come and gone for college football. We say thankfully because many games looked like mismatches prior to Saturday and their scores looked liked mismatches after the game ended Saturday. There were a few notable exceptions though. Looking ahead rivalry week is upon us. Many games look like good matchups. We give …
Week 12 thankfully has come and gone for college football. We...
Boom! Abby lit up Vegas last week like fireworks on the 4th of July. One bet (Indiana -2) pushed while the four others that had bones wagered went off like roman candles. Her hunch bet popped yet again as well. Last Saturday night the sky was quite bright. For the season Abby’s bark is piercing. …
Boom! Abby lit up Vegas last week like fireworks on the...
Do you remember Chad? They say that everyone is famous for 15 minutes. Chad was that and then some. Hanging around for days, Chad was no dummy either. He chose warm south Florida in mid November just eleven months after we celebrated the year 2000 and the 21st century replacing 1999 and the 20th century. …
Do you remember Chad? They say that everyone is famous for...
Week 11 has come and gone in college football. Most teams have played ten games. Most teams spent Saturday reaffirming their positions in walk overs as another regular season end draws nearer. The latest AP Top 25 poll is out and it looks a lot like a week ago. Alabama rightfully remains the unanimous no. …
Week 11 has come and gone in college football. Most teams...
Targeting, as you know, is a rules infraction in college football that has gained a lot of attention this season. It actually became its own rule 10 years ago. However, the ejection of the offending player was added in 2013. It’s intent is worthy. It’s intent simply is to reduce head injuries. Who could be …
Targeting, as you know, is a rules infraction in college football...
Abby has spent the last five days licking her wounds from last Saturday. She also has barked incessantly about two half point bad beats that could have flipped the juice in her favor and sent her to the pay window. But, bottom line, as Jim Mora once infamously ranted, “we couldn’t do diddly poo!” …
Abby has spent the last five days licking her wounds from...
And, for some reason, all is now quiet on the “must take down offensive monuments front.” So, now that many “offensive” Civil War memorials have been taken down in several of our “united” states ,we ponder, ‘is society any better because of it?’ Did the ones we took down make our country a better place? …
And, for some reason, all is now quiet on the “must...
Analytics are woven into the makeup and strategy of major team sports today much more than ever before. It roots are in baseball way back when and it was designed to give the fledgling hobby of fantasy baseball a more cerebral look at who you were drafting and why. It was called sabermetrics originally. The …
Analytics are woven into the makeup and strategy of major team...
One of the many gifts that Boom Boom gave us was the torrent of quips about how one leads one’s life. He could say so much by saying so little. A statement at just the right moment resonated in my young, eager eardrums. How I interpreted or applied it was up to me. No more …
One of the many gifts that Boom Boom gave us was...
Week 10, which ESPN called “Separation Saturday,” is complete. We looked at it as the last chance to withdraw from a course however. Some did while others passed with flying colors. Below is a complete report card of the tests administered to date. We grade them one nugget at a time. Surely in Baton Rouge, …
Week 10, which ESPN called “Separation Saturday,” is complete. We looked...
