Category Archives: Sports

Then and now

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Once upon a time, say five years ago, my ritual on the night before any given Saturday of college football season (at least one with an ND home game) would have been something like this: Go out with friends to Corby’s, have a bunch of drinks, talk football and law nerdery and miscellaneous nonsense, then head to The Backer, have… Read more »

Pick ’em contest & Liveblog bleg

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First of all, one final (?) reminder. To join the 1st annual Living Room Times College Football Pick ‘em Contest, click here, then enter Group ID number 16830 and password irishtrojan. Deadline is 11:55 AM EDT tomorrow (Saturday). Secondly, is there anyone who’s going to a game tomorrow — particularly the USC or Notre Dame games — and who would… Read more »

Football Live Chat underway

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I’m hosting an informal, opening-night-of-football Live Chat (mostly for testing purposes) here. Come on by! Go Boise State!

Fearless predictions

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With the season getting underway in less than seven hours, I’d better publish these now… • Notre Dame will go 9-3. They’ll barely survive a scare from Nevada, then lose one out of the Big Ten trio (Michigan/MSU/Purdue), then beat Washington to come into the USC game at 4-1. There will be much talk of waking up the echoes. It… Read more »

Again with the reminders, oy

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1. Tonight, starting at 10pm EDT (8pm MDT), come to my informal Boise State-Oregon Live Chat, and help me test a variety of chat-platform options (and a couple of live-scoreboard widgets). Heck, you can check ’em out now if you like, but I figure “testing” will be easier if we have at least a handful of people together at the… Read more »

Don’t forget…

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…to enter the first annual Living Room Times College Football Pick ’em Contest! The deadline is 11:55 AM EDT on Saturday, but you can already make your picks now. Just click here, then enter Group ID number 16830 and password irishtrojan. (As I mentioned yesterday, contestants are encouraged, in choosing their “Pick Set Name,” to use a name or handle… Read more »

Announcing the Living Room Times College Football Pick ’em Contest!

This season, for the first time, I’m going to host a season-long college football pick ’em contest through Yahoo Sports. Each week, contestants will predict the outcome, against the point spread, of every Saturday game involving a Top 25 team. The deadline is 5 minutes before kickoff of the first such game (generally noon EDT, or 10am MDT). I decided… Read more »

Can a non-BCS team win the 2009-10 national championship?

College football season is almost underway — the first games are on Thursday, and opening Saturday is one week from today — and it could be a banner year for that favorite Brendan Loy hobby-horse, the mid-majors’ endless quixotic struggle to “bust the BCS.” In the wake of Utah’s virtuoso performance last January vs. the OMG-It’s-A-War conference’s runner-up, Alabama, and… Read more »