Archive - October, 2009

Where Cheerleaders Are Men

October 28 0 Comments Category: NCAA 2009

No. 4 Iowa keeps the BCS training rolling as it hosts football powerhouse Indiana. As this year has shown in the Big Eleven, don’t look past any team (Purdue), because when you do … well, you all saw what happened. Hawkeyes by 21. Nebraska at Baylor should be an easy pick, but after last week’s fiasco, [...]

Short and Sweet

October 27 0 Comments Category: NCAA 2009

Let’s get down to business. It’s a major NCAA violation to put your team’s uniform on another squad and send it to play Texas Tech in Lubbock … but that’s basically what Texas A&M did, as the team that took the field Saturday night was not the same team that showed up in Manhattan, Kansas. [...]

Slower Than He Looks

October 21 3 Comments Category: NCAA 2009

Before we begin, a word of caution. Last week in my picks league, in selecting games against the spread, I got last place… dead last… as in there’s no recovery… as in an eighth grade cross country meet getting blown out in the last quarter mile as my dad walks up to the coach and [...]

The Least Worst Team

October 18 0 Comments Category: NCAA 2009

There’s a line from the HBO series, The Wire,  in reference to a football game that goes, ”Neither team is winning – one team is just losing more slowly.” Truer words have never been spoken, especially regarding this year’s Red River Shootout, as both teams combined for eight turnovers (five for OU, three for the Texas) and -16 [...]