tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61225522024-03-13T03:00:14.340-04:00The College Football IndexWhat career achievements do Jimmie Johnson, Barry Switzer and TJ Lambert all share? Name SEVEN Division-IA mascots that are clear-cut American white guys NOT including 'Cowboys.' Name 10 that include a color. You miss Trev, right? Besides the team he played for, what school is Quinton Coryott forever associated with? What do Northern Illinois, Troy State and Louisville have in common? Name the only US State with no College FootballPJ Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16132220858672600172noreply@blogger.comBlogger142125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122552.post-31439941866145904892015-12-24T09:05:00.000-05:002015-12-24T09:05:09.349-05:00Check out Jude and Tatum's early Christmas present
PJ Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16132220858672600172noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122552.post-17309174789603236002013-10-21T10:30:00.001-04:002013-10-21T15:18:58.545-04:003 Losses, 1 Space-Time Singularity
Bad weekend, CFB-wise, for my various rooting interests.
Carolina got the bad end of 2 game-changing breaks which
cost them 14 points in a 4-pt loss. But that,
I understand, is why they call them 'breaks.'
USC, on the other hand, apparently can't play football very well, so even though Notre Dame can't either, USC lost by almost
exactly the amount you are supposed to lose by when PJ Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16132220858672600172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122552.post-76754657933485974432012-10-14T14:27:00.001-04:002012-10-14T14:27:17.899-04:00week 6 - tebow halftime IND Passing C/ATTYDSAVGTDINTRAT. A. Luck9/17975.70145.5 Team9/17955.601 NYJ Passing C/ATTYDSAVGTDINTRAT. M. Sanchez9/13624.820119.2 T. Tebow1/12323.000118.8 Team10/14856.120 PJ Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16132220858672600172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122552.post-90355072300145230142012-09-26T12:15:00.001-04:002012-09-26T12:18:30.661-04:00An Act Common To The Game
Ironically, an "act common to the game."
In the aftermath of the Seahawks/Green Bay/referee Monday Night game, the NYT printed the NFL's own rulebook language that was in play at the time.
I enjoyed last night’s ending because it revolved around
two concepts that used to be passed down as verbal history (well, it revolved around one, but the one invokes the second): “ground PJ Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16132220858672600172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122552.post-75119161205147484782012-06-08T13:10:00.000-04:002012-08-10T13:28:13.730-04:0010 Interesting Things About Euro 2012
So today starts the Euro championships in soccer, which is
the toughest national-level trophy on earth to win in terms of sheer quality of
opponents.
…Possibly the craziest, least pleasant but wildest of wildcards to keep an eye out for is Racism. Racism is a very big deal in "World Football" (as they call it), which is to say, the
sport is in a multi-year, institutional, top to bottomPJ Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16132220858672600172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122552.post-68506279819253757292012-05-31T13:14:00.002-04:002012-05-31T13:45:40.748-04:002011 National Spelling Bee Running Diary
You're looking LIVE at the,
err, Hilton? Maybe the Sheraton? Anyway, we're in DC, though you couldn't tell from this boring convention hall. Why bother having this in DC if its not, ya know, at the Lincoln Memorial? Who would object to that? Kids come up the steps to spell words until one wins and they go Forrest Gump into the reflecting pool?
Out
come the PJ Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16132220858672600172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122552.post-61955071327621384742012-04-21T08:12:00.001-04:002012-04-21T13:22:24.935-04:0010 Reasons To Break Your No-TV Chastity Vow This Weekend
SATURDAY - Barcelona-Real Madrid, 3pm 2pm, some soccer channel you might not get; find a bar. (Also ESPNDeportes!!)
5 - Barcelona's soccer team is the defending champion of both the European Champions League and La Ligue, Spain's national league which is the best league in Europe, evidence for which is that Spain won the 2010 World Cup - and close to half the players on that team play PJ Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16132220858672600172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122552.post-61174969687822863702012-02-09T09:45:00.001-05:002012-02-28T14:14:24.452-05:0014 Carolina Silver Linings/Desperate Excuses, and A Quote From Buddha
With 5 full seconds left, when Rivers and Curry ran that screen
and Zeller switched onto Rivers, hand to God, three words were already pinballing around the walls of my brain:
“worst loss ever.”
Watching the actual shot go in – watching Zeller stand 6
feet back for it, hands at his side – felt like I was already watching the 10,000th of the numberless
replays that will be shown of Rivers' PJ Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16132220858672600172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122552.post-32701439791798962092012-02-05T23:08:00.002-05:002012-02-06T10:46:37.496-05:00Was Madonna the Most Washed-Up Super Bowl Halftimer Ever? Not even close.How washed up is Madonna? Pretty washed up. Her last true hit was 2005's Hung Up, and even then she was well down the "Hey, didn't you used to be Madonna?!"-slope of her arc. But though its easy and fun to make fun of Madonna, as a Super Bowl act, she was almost cutting edge. Compared to essentially all her fellow Super Bowl highlighters, she might as well have been Adelle (#1 hit PJ Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16132220858672600172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122552.post-41700627651756782922011-12-17T11:46:00.002-05:002011-12-17T12:21:57.029-05:00JaMarcus and Brady Quinn, or: The Case For Tebow (pre-draft)
A slightly-expanded for 2011 (weekend prior to Tebow-v-Brady, possibly the zenith of Tebow-time) email I sent to friends prior to the 2010 draft, when dissing Tebow was a full time thing.
Screw the draft and the NFL, etc. maybe i shouldn't be even looking at it.
But something is bothering me: someone is going to fail to take Tim Tebow. Probably the whole league is going to PJ Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16132220858672600172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122552.post-40212567545781195072011-12-11T21:48:00.006-05:002012-02-06T13:07:02.513-05:00Go 49ers!, or Your Tax Dollars At WorkCarolina won the NCAA men's soccer title today, beating in the final UNC-Charlotte ("go 49ers?" I'm going from memory here... let me look. OK its... 49ers! Nice! Just like Long Beach State, which will matter as we go along here).
Its a nice win, after things going so disastrously wrong for the more-famous women's team, who lost at home to UVA this year*, lost three games in a row at one PJ Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16132220858672600172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122552.post-3206346010870162922011-08-19T23:20:00.015-04:002011-12-17T12:25:34.493-05:00Lucky Number 13Nate Silver managed to drop an astounding stat into a column recently, which he often does, but then did not comment on it, which was even more bizarre because he so rarely lets one sail by.
His point was that one symptom of the NBA's labor problem - evidence that it has a real problem as opposed to just everyone wanting more money - is the clear, rigid Have/Have Not order in place.
He notes, PJ Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16132220858672600172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122552.post-46224649678374205232009-11-24T14:26:00.005-05:002014-10-25T23:23:26.347-04:00The Best Terrible Football Game You Ever SawI once did a long hiking/skiing trip across a glacier with a big group. It was 15 miles and 5 days long. One of the people on the trip knew nothing of trekking, so they thought it would be a good idea to bring a Jumbo-sized jar of peanut butter. It probably weighed 10 lbs. Of course, it got vetoed, but then somebody thought it would be funny to stick that 10lbs of peanut butter into the PJ Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16132220858672600172noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122552.post-48853993903582306612009-09-05T12:49:00.004-04:002009-09-05T13:07:00.835-04:00On the upside... They're BACK!!!!!!Click for full resolution, which is very readable.Did ya miss it? Click here:(HT to comments section on EDSBS)PJ Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16132220858672600172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122552.post-89338451505028981662009-09-02T23:26:00.006-04:002009-09-05T13:10:46.883-04:00Z is for Zack DumasToday it begins.PJ Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16132220858672600172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122552.post-32780098525554821052009-09-02T22:59:00.005-04:002009-09-05T13:08:44.160-04:00Y is for Harvard Beats Yale, 29-29There appears to be a documentary out now about the 1968 H-Y game, and with some justification. Consider:• Both teams arrived undefeated, the first such meeting since 1909.• Yale was the heavy favorite, ranked 16th, and led by QB Brian Dowling, a senior who had lost exactly one game as a starter dating to sixth grade (the Cincinatti City Championship game), and future NFL star Calvin Hill.• Yale PJ Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16132220858672600172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122552.post-53392586319538131482009-08-23T22:19:00.018-04:002009-08-24T08:58:57.953-04:00X is for, err...uhh....Xylophone??It's a tough one, X. You've basicly got energy drinks, late night workout tape and fat burners, Bill Gates' video game, all-wheel drive on an Infiniti and the fattest, laziest, too-much-too-soon generation ever.Yuck.Just kill me In College Football, X is wholly owned by Florida State, home to"athletic" "running" "mistake-prone" quarterback Xavier Lee, Wide Righter Xavier Bietta and incoming PJ Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16132220858672600172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122552.post-17297253509179600662009-08-22T22:17:00.009-04:002009-08-24T09:02:19.216-04:00W is for WishboneThe 1986 Air Force-Army game at West Point, both running the wishbone, which is to say two of the last wishbone offenses facing defenses who see it everyday in practice.A few things to note:- Army's offense produced four 500-yard runners (2 over 1,000) that year.- THere are two significant passes in this video. In one, the Army QB hangs one deep and gets his reciever blown up in the endzone, andPJ Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16132220858672600172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122552.post-29394240898381676892009-06-17T09:21:00.003-04:002009-09-05T13:10:29.211-04:00This week's Beano Cook podcast gemDiscussing birthdays with Ivan, Beano told the story of UNC's #1 most famousfootball player, Charlie "Choo Choo" Justice, who finished second in theHeisman voting twice, one of only 2 guys to do that.Out of high school, he was headed to Duke. But he got drafted, playedfor a service team and came back to NC married. So he went to ChapelHill and told the coach he'd come to UNC if his wife, SarahPJ Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16132220858672600172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122552.post-13085591917455880122009-06-03T11:39:00.010-04:002009-06-17T09:28:08.430-04:00V is for Video Games, V-necks, Vodka, and Various other clipsWhile trawling the backbays of YouTube in search of that perfect HD clip of Hakeem Nicks' behind-the-back catch in the Meineke Bowl, you run across some terrific stuff. Here's a collection:1 . Video Games - Glitches in NCAA 2009.Predictably, its not In The Game. It's In The Righteous Outrage."That is 385! That is near death!""The molecul-ah struct-shah of defensive tackle right der doesn' PJ Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16132220858672600172noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122552.post-14411373902073171542009-05-29T09:26:00.004-04:002012-05-31T10:34:13.509-04:002009 National Spelling Bee Finals(compilation of 7 running emails I kept during the last hour or so of the spelling finals on ABC)
(**to self: add that Ghenghis Khan/Conan quote about crushing enemies here)
Early Rounds
catching up a little late. Started tonight - the finals - with 11.
So far, an Indian girl from Vegas lost on a killer medical word with a hidden double-r in the middle. The color guy called it, said the PJ Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16132220858672600172noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122552.post-2039971650239176982009-05-25T01:06:00.009-04:002009-06-07T02:42:20.124-04:00Lax Championship IndexThe NCAA Lacrosse championship is later today, with Cornell taking on Syracuse. And you can never be totally sure about these things, but the odds are it's going to be great game.Why? Because year in and year out, lacrosse puts on the Championship show of any sport, which we'll prove as we go along (though at least one non-lacrosse player - Shaq - apparently, already knows).But since writing PJ Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16132220858672600172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122552.post-62357703487836951262009-05-24T19:47:00.005-04:002009-05-25T16:21:19.331-04:00Shaq-lax calls his shot on twitterUPDATE: The Index takes a look at some Lax history ahead of the Syracuse-Cornell final.PJ Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16132220858672600172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122552.post-15216504969306452422009-04-09T19:56:00.007-04:002009-04-09T20:50:16.662-04:00Crystal BlueFrom my favorite twittering coach:It was EDSBS that turned me on to Stewart, so HT to them. And I don't plan on rebroadcasting coach tweets here.But as it happens, this particular entry - besides being gloriously un-coachlike - reminds me a few weeks ago when M and I heard Crystal Blue Persuasion in the car and both immediatly assumed that it was a drug song. And if you listen to it - drippy PJ Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16132220858672600172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122552.post-46242867466830041262009-04-09T10:17:00.004-04:002009-04-09T10:46:03.446-04:00Kellen The PageMaybe I enjoyed the Bobby Jindal (JINDAAAALLLLLL!) eruption too much. But YahooCF popped up this morning with Boise State's Kellen Moore on the front page. He's on the left.PJ Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16132220858672600172noreply@blogger.com0