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I used to make a lot of videos with my friends when I was a kid (I guess I still do: here and here) and sometimes we did things that we were conceptually cool but turned out quite poorly. So maybe you get why I’m showing you this. The video below is from Trinity (MA) University’s baseball . . . → Read More: What’s with the head thing? GET HIM! STEAL HIS SOUL! I’m not a Yankees or Angels fan, but I really enjoyed this picture of Hideki Matsui being welcomed by his ex-teammates to receive his 2009 World Series ring. Link: . . . → Read More: Godzilla Returns They're both good at basketball! If you’re interested in the NBA, you know playoff spots in the West and East still aren’t settled with only a few days to go. If you want to see the odds of each team ending up in various playoff spots, check out this page at Cool Standings. Lakers/Thunder is set, and . . . → Read More: Oh cool, the Sonics are playing Minneapolis Tiger planned to tone down the outbursts in competition when he returned to golf this spring: He called winning golf tournaments “irrelevant.” He talked about finding his “inner peace.” He promised to be less excitable on the golf course, so forget those tantrums and fist pumps. Let the video below stand as proof that you can say whatever . . . → Read More: If You’re Competitive, You’re Competitive A player on my softball team was asking if he had to wear a certain jersey color: “Another question–what color is our jersey (if any)? ss” My response: “We have a pretty unique jersey style actually. We wear purple shirts airbrushed with our favorite Japanese pop band eating our least favorite fruit-based dessert confection. It is preferred that each member of the band . . . → Read More: Someone make me a t-shirt Okay, now that my heart has restarted after the Texas/Nebraska game, let’s talk about actual matchups for a playoff. First, let me tell you what I like and don’t like about these matchups: If you won your conference this year and you played reasonably well, you’re in. Conference champions are starred below in the rankings. Only . . . → Read More: CompuDrew final rankings: If only… In the Wall Street Journal, John Paul Newport compares why we watch sports to why people read tabloids (link): Sports coverage fundamentally is about documenting effort and celebrating triumph. Yes, fans and commentators will tee off on losing coaches (like Charlie Weis of Notre Dame) or bonehead jocks who underachieve (the New York Knicks). But their disappointment . . . → Read More: Sports vs. Tabloids (link) I got some good feedback after posting my playoff system proposal last week. One thing that makes this year really strange in terms of proposing such a system is that there have been three distinct classes of playoff worthy teams this year and I think the case could be made that a cutoff after the first . . . → Read More: CompuDrew Rankings – The Three Classes Let’s take a quick look at the current CompuDrew ratings. Part 2 of my playoff proposal is below (read Part 1). So based on Part 1, the top 7 conference champions make the playoffs, as well as the highest-ranked at-large team (I called it a wildcard last week, but I’ll use the popular college football term). Those . . . → Read More: CompuDrew – Playoff Proposal Part 2 Here are the latest CompuDrew rankings. The first part of my playoff proposal is below. Before I detail my playoff system, I should let you know that its biggest strength lies in appeasing all of college football constituencies: the teams, the schools, the conferences, the bowls, and most importantly, the fans. CompuDrew Playoff Proposal Part 1 Who makes the . . . → Read More: CompuDrew – Playoff Proposal Part 1 |
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