November 16, 2008
Congratulations to Vanderbilt (bowl eligible), Oregon State, Rutgers (4 straight wins), and Florida, who gave Steve Spurrier the biggest defeat (by margin of victory) in his coaching career. "You're so lame" awards go out to the ranked teams in the...
November 15, 2008
Today Michigan lost to Northwestern. Northwestern won, pushing the long-time Big 10 power's record down to 3-8. Yes, 8 losses. Never before in the 129-year history of Michigan football has their team lost 8 games in the regular season. Now,...
November 01, 2008
Alabama, Penn St., or Texas Tech?Of course Texas Tech, Oklahoma, and Oklahoma St. all still have to play one another, so how the Big 12 South will ultimately unfold remains to be seen....
October 24, 2008
Mike Smith had an exciting afternoon at Santa Anita. First he rode favored Stardom Bound to victory in the Juvenile Fillies, ahead of Dream Express and Sky Diva. Then he was along for the ride as heavy favorite Zenyatta won...
October 14, 2008
He tore one of his feet. His racing career is now over. And the Breeders Cup will now be looking for another headline draw as the much anticipated match-up between Big Brown an Curlin won't happen....
October 11, 2008
Some excellent suggestions about an event in desperate need of reform....
So the Mountaineers eventually pulled away from the abysmal Orangemen - another less than impressive victory over a lousy foe. Texas defeated #1 Oklahoma (yay!), even though Oklahoma's excellent QB threw 5 touchdown passes. And Rich Rod's Michigan team lost...
September 28, 2008
I'd say that so far the Jets' acquisition of the former Green Bay QB is working out well....
The son of Smart Strike won the Jockey Club Gold Cup (again) yesterday. That takes his lifetime earnings over $10 million and he's now the leading money earner ever, in terms of winnings, among horses based in North America....
September 23, 2008
So let's review. Every year Joe Torre was managing the team (1996-2007), they made the post-season. This year? No. Torre now manages the Dodgers. Are they likely to make the post-season? They are not in yet, but currently they lead...
September 14, 2008
Umm, why did our university just do this? 6 years? Look, last year's bowl win was nice and everything. Hey, it was great. But in his last outing he lost to East Carolina by 3 touchdowns. Yes, East Carolina by...
September 05, 2008
Okay, so it's only week two, and only 2 teams have even played in a conference game - but how often do Vanderbilt fans get to see positive headlines? Congratulations to them....
August 30, 2008
WVU beat Villanova 48-21, while Bowling Green beat Pitt, East Carolina beat Virginia tech, and Utah beat Michigan. I think it's safe to say people in Morgantown will be happy tonight....
August 26, 2008
So let's see, an attractive blonde who speaks English, is a great interview, wears skimpy outfits and gets wet beats the favored Chinese for gold - and NBC's coverage of him is akin to the proverbial crickets chirping? Nope NBC...
August 25, 2008
You know I guess I can see Tom Benson avoiding the top (bottom) 3. Barely. But's he's being far too kind to the Yorks. Between them and Al Davis it's a wonder that all NFL fans in the Bay Area...
August 16, 2008
I'm seemingly less interested in the Olympics than almost everyone I know. But when my longtime favorite picks up a gold, I take note. Especially when he celebrates like this.But while I'm happy for at least one athlete (well, at...
July 06, 2008
Federer had won the men's singles championship five straight times. But he failed to win a sixth straight title. Nadal beat him in the longest final ever played. Since I think they are both great, it's fun to see that...
June 09, 2008
In this weekend's sporting news we saw Rafa Nadal win his fourth straight French Open title, and an unknown post a shocking win in the Belmont Stakes. Nadal completely dominated Roger Federer to win his fourth straight French Open (Federer...
May 02, 2008
So several weeks ago I looked at the possible field, and settled on 5 horses to keep my eye on - Pyro, Big Brown, Fierce Wind, Elysium Fields and Georgie Boy. Now that we are actually one day from the...
April 21, 2008
Apparenly someone doesn't know anything about international sporting events in 1936....
March 23, 2008
March 16, 2008
IN the West, number 7, first game against number 10 Arizona....
March 13, 2008
How the hell did that happen? Well, Joe Alexander scored a career-high 34 points, but still ... that was unexpected. I presume Georgetown will crush the Mountaineers tomorrow. But then I expected the Huskies to win today, so maybe I...
February 27, 2008
Myron Cope, the legendary broadcaster from Pittsburgh who gave us the Immaculate Reception and the Terrible Towel, and the glorious "double yoy," has passed away at the age of 79. The test of being a real Stillers fan - and...
February 15, 2008
The British can. But the US Olympic Committee won't let the Americans. They don't want to offend the Chinese.Ugh....
February 03, 2008
Okay, make any comments you want to about the game or the ads here. And Moon, congratulations on your Giants' victory. I'd still argue that the Patriots are the better team, but on this given Sunday the Giants gutted out...
January 23, 2008
One of the country's winningest basketball coahes is in a bit of trouble. St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke said this morning that St. Louis University basketball coach Rick Majerus should be disciplined over his public comments supporting abortion rights and...
January 16, 2008
We are now a few days into the Australian Open. That being the case, tonight I'll note this bit of sports trivia. Roger Federer has played in the last 10 Grand Slam Finals. Yes - 10 straight Grand Slam finals....
January 07, 2008
Apparently, it's winding up now, and Armand's alma mater is beating the snot out of our neighbors. It's 60 degrees and a Monday in the second week of January already. It's all wrong. Shrug....
January 03, 2008
And yes, it's exactly who you'd think we'd hire the day after humiliating Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl....
The Mountaineers take the Fiesta Bowl! Viva! Viva!. And of course, come mierda RichRod. Cozy on up to that lawsuit to get used to the Ann Arbor winter....
December 17, 2007
While our current coach packs his bags to begin a career that'll hopefully involve many losses to the Buckeyes, talk is building about who'll replace him. The Daily Mail describes likely candidates here. Out of those I'd say Doc Holliday...
December 16, 2007
They avoided going 0-16 this season! They just beat the Baltimore Ravens in overtime, 22-16, and now have a record of 1 win and 13 losses....
December 09, 2007
Tebow wins the Heisman....
December 02, 2007
The match-ups are set. Does anyone care? There should be one or two interesting games (Georgia vs. Hawaii in the Sugar Bowl is the one I'm most interested to see), but it's a rather ho-hum affair, and of course the...
December 01, 2007
We're down 10-7 at the end of the 3rd quarter. Are we going to lose this thing?UPDATE: Yeah, I guess we are. The Curse of being #2 strikes again. Seriously - has the #2 team in the country lost more...
November 24, 2007
From the AP: Pat White has No. 4 West Virginia on the brink of playing for a national championship.White rushed for 186 yards and accounted for three touchdowns to lead the Mountaineers to a 66-21 win over No. 20 Connecticut...
November 15, 2007
Probably didn't happen at the Democratic debate. The live-blogging of that suggests most saw it as a tame affair that didn't move any of the major candidacies. But another race might well change tonight - the competition to get into...
November 03, 2007
Yeah, I know we're still in the 4th quarter of the Kansas game, but given how that game is going (and how the season's gone so far) I seriously wonder if Callahan will be fired before the game ends today....
October 28, 2007
If you haven't clicked on the footage of the end of the Trinity-Millsaps game you really should. It's incredible. Truly incredible. And the fact that this was done to a team coached by Mike DuBose makes it even a touch...
October 20, 2007
So we are seeing yet another week in college football featuring top teams going down to defeat. South Florida lost earlier in the week, and already today we've seen #23 Cincinnati lose to Pitt and #6 South Carolina lose to...
October 13, 2007
The early games have restored the natural order of the Big Ten - Illinois losing at football, and Ohio State and Michigan standing alone atop the conference standings. Both the Buckeyes and the Wolverines won by huge margins today, so...
September 30, 2007
That was bound to happen after yesterday's string of upsets. But still ... LSU as #1? South Florida #6? Boston College #7? Kentucky #8?South Florida is the highest ranked school in Florida, and 6th nationwide? Kentucky is ranked above Florida,...
September 22, 2007
Okay, West Virginia's overwhelming win today has got to be good for the Mountaineers. But the fact that the #2 team in the conference (Louisville) has been far behind the Orange Little Sisters of the Poor for much of the...
September 16, 2007
Okay, another post on a subject no one cares about, but for hours now I've been unable to get my head around today's Bengals-Browns game. Last week the Browns shipped their starting quarterback off to the West coast in a...
September 15, 2007
The Citadel is tied with Wisconsin at halftime, 21-21. If they upset the Badgers ... wow. On top of the Michigan upset that would have to make this the Southern Conference's best year. But hey, there are 30 more minutes...
September 08, 2007
They've entered the 3rd and the score is 3-2. Meanwhile the WVU-Marshall game is scarily close early in the 4th. Personally, I blame Gov. Manchin (D-WV)....
July 04, 2007
So let's see, South Korea and Austria came in second and third in the balloting for the 2010 Winter Olympics. So who would come in second and third in the balloting for the 2014 Winter Olympics? Why South Korea and...
June 07, 2007
I'm pulling for her to win the Belmont. No filly has won that race in over 100 years. That's one of those statements that I really can't quite get my head around. I mean during the entire lifetimes of my...
May 30, 2007
Well that didn't take long. In the worst performance the US team has ever posted in the Open era (which stretches back to the days of LBJ) every single one of their men lost in the 1st Round at the...
May 19, 2007
It should be a pretty day in Baltimore for the Preakness. I'm sticking with the two horses I liked in the Kentucky Derby - Street Sense (remember favorites tend to do really well in the Preakness) and Circular Quay. Steve...
May 01, 2007
As many of you know, I sort of follow it most years. It's kind of silly really as it's a terribly unrepresentative horse race - 20 horses running in one race is nuts - but at the same time it's...
As many of you know, I sort of follow it most years. It's kind of silly really as it's a terribly unrepresentative horse race - 20 horses running in one race is nuts - but at the same time it's...
April 15, 2007
He looked "spectacular" yesterday, winning the Arkansas Derby by a 10 1/2 length margin. But can he win the Kentucky Derby? He'll be breaking some long-standing Derby "rules" if he does. Were the lightly-raced Curlin to win the Kentucky Derby...
April 02, 2007
March 31, 2007
On this side of the Atlantic, the big horse race of the day was the Florida Derby, a key prep for the Kentucky Derby. Scat Daddy won that, and will try to follow in Barbaro's footsteps and follow a win...
March 30, 2007
So it's come down to 4. I'm sure Binky will be pulling for Florida. Any of the rest of you have an outcome you want to see - or predict will happen? I'm pulling for Georgetown to beat UCLA in...
March 29, 2007
It's WVU! The Mountaineers defeated Clemson, 78-73....
March 15, 2007
And then there were 16. Say what you will about the NIT, but the seeding of it seems to be done prettty well. In the first 16 games the higher seed won 13. As to those other 3, it appears...
March 11, 2007
To the surprise of probably no one, the WVU Mountaineers will not be playing in the NCAA tournament this year. To the surprise of some, neither will Syracuse. There will only be 6 Big East teams in the tournament....
March 07, 2007
I strongly disagree with this. Sure, hating Laettner has been the norm for almost 20 years, but to me Bobby Hurley always seemed the more worthy of intense loathing. And if not Hurley, Coach K himself....
February 22, 2007
The All England Club joined their peers in offering equal pay to women tennis players: "Tennis is one of the few sports in which women and men compete in the same event at the same time," club chairman Tim Phillips...
February 10, 2007
OK, I realize it's still very early in the second half - but right now the Mountaineers are leading the #2 team in the country 38-25. We could be in for an afternoon and night of some major celebrating in...
January 25, 2007
Mr. Practically Perfect in Every Way breezed past Andy Roddick to reach yet another Grand Slam final. And how about the run unseeded Serena Williams is having? She won in straight sets and will face top seed Maria Sharapova in...
January 11, 2007
It makes such perfect sense, as long as you take sports out of the equation. There are breaking reports out that David Beckham will soon be joining the LA Galaxy. Europe's #1 "we're so pretty and rich and fashionable" couple...
January 09, 2007
GO GATORS! Gators make it look easy The Florida Gators tonight obliterated the Ohio State Buckeyes to win the BCS Championship Game. "Upset" doesn't quite measure up in describing the No. 2 Gators' victory over the undefeated No. 1 Buckeyes....
January 06, 2007
I just clicked over to ESPN to see where things stood in the Colt-Chiefs playoff game, and what the fuck? I'm not surprised that the Colts are up 9-0, but all week long I've heard about how Larry Johnson was...
January 05, 2007
December 27, 2006
Coming in a few days late, as I only got back in town late last night. First, from what I've seen of the bowls so far the team that stood out most to me has been (surprisingly) Troy. Yeah, weak...
December 03, 2006
Great googly moogly! Mountaineers win!...
December 02, 2006
Oh yeah, my Gators just beat Arkansas. Whaddaya say, Armand?...
November 24, 2006
A&M beat Texas this afternoon - the first time they'd won that traditional game this millenium. What's more, Texas losing means that if favored Oklahoma defeats Oklahoma State, Texas won't even make it to the Big XII championship game. I...
November 18, 2006
When it comes to this week's college football upsets, I wasn't remotely surprised by Virginia Tech beating Wake Forest. And actually I'm not fall-on-the-floor stunned Cinci beat Rutgers. But I am definitely surprised by how badly Cinci beat Rutgers. How...
November 12, 2006
The Gators squeaked one out against that wily sumbitch Steve Spurrier. That's big....
November 09, 2006
Undefeated Rutgers just upset (formerly) undefeated Louisville! How high will they rise in the polls now? How high should they rise (doubtless higher than the "tradition"-minded polls will place them, but how high do you think)? In any event -...
November 05, 2006
Gomes dos Santos is the first South American to win the New York Marathon! Ole ole ole olaaaa.... Brasil.... Brasil.....!!!...
October 28, 2006
I don't want to count my upsets before they hatch, especially given that last weekend it seemed like half of the top 25 saved itself in the last 3 minutes of their respective games. That said, the Trojans are going...