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Three steps back this weekend
23 Oct 2011There have been a lot of bad weekends of football among Washington’s big three programs over the last three years, but few have been as embarrassing as this one. In order, the Huskies were revealed by seventh-ranked Stanford to be major pretenders to the Top 25, the Cougars opened the door for Paul Wulff to [...]
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- Tags: blowouts, huskies, stanford
Well, that didn’t take long. After five games of decreasing returns by Rex Grossman, “the genius,” Mike Shanahan decided to cut bait and switch his quarterback to John Beck. Needless to say, this move didn’t stir the passions of anyone involved, but it was the checkmate in the world’s most uninspiring chess match of mediocre [...]
OTPB NFL Picks: Conference championships
In: Football
22 Jan 2011The “real” NFL season ends this week with the conference championship matchups. No matter how you feel about the Super Bowl, football seems to be the last thing on the minds of those involved, so, more often than not, better games usually occur here. People have argued that this has been a topsy-turvy season, but [...]
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- Tags: jay cutler, jets, nfl picks, steelers, super bowl
OTPB Playoff Picks: Divisional round
In: Football
15 Jan 2011Modern sports has become too nice; today’s athletes are more comfortable hugging and tweeting than pushing and shoving. So thank goodness for the AFC playoffs, which finally has brought vitriol back into the sporting world. Is some of it manufactured? Sure, but you can’t help but feel a little jazzed when Antonio Cromartie calls Tom Brady [...]
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- Tags: nfl picks, playoffs, rex ryan, trash talk
Sometimes it’s pretty tough to be a sports fan. Sometimes, like the past few weeks, you have to wonder whether there’s any competence and integrity left in sports and whether it’s worth caring anymore. While the Mariners continue to stumble through an incredibly inept season that had many of us turning them off a month [...]
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- Tags: Bad calls, Perfect game, World Cup
This week in the Pac-10: Golden homers
In: Football
16 Oct 2009It’s time for the annual USC-Notre Dame hypefest, which continues to roll along even though the Fighting Irish are a shell of their former selves. Once again, people are speculating that the Irish can knock off the No. 6 Trojans, despite a highly suspect defense and questionable coaching. Yes, USC is not the USC of old [...]
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- Tags: jimmy clausen, pac-10 picks, usc
The UFL: Not a total train wreck, but still…
In: Football
13 Oct 2009So, out of a morbid curiosity combined with being a sucker for doomed football leagues, I tuned into the debut of the United Football League on Saturday night, as the New York Sentinels and Florida Tuskers (?) faced off for gridiron glory. And much like the late, yet unlamented XFL, the football wasn’t half bad [...]
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- Tags: sentinels, tuskers, ufl
OTPB NFL Power Rankings
24 Sep 20091. N.Y. Giants (2-0) Last week: 10th. Wins: Washington, @Dallas. Ex-Giant Plaxico Burress headed to the big house just two days after his replacements helped Eli Manning knock off the Cowboys in their new big house. 2. Baltimore (2-0) Last week: 8th. Wins: Kansas City, @San Diego. Way to knife through that gap for the [...]
Friday’s foul calls: Trimming the fat
19 Jun 2009In reading about Brett Favre’s interview with Joe Buck on HBO on Monday night, we learned that Buck’s show was hijacked by some guy named Artie Lange. We had no idea who the hell Artie Lange was until Howard Stern was mentioned. Then we vaguely recalled a slovenly, unshaven, homophobic, mysogenist redneck whose job is [...]
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- Tags: Lard-Ass Lange, tony romo
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