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A different perspective on the big game

MArc over at Quit That! has a slightly different perspective on the Michigan Ohio State game (just check out his site design!). As an example he tells this story today: After Michigan coach Bo Schembechler passes away and enters the Pearly Gates, God takes him on a tour. He shows Bo a little 2-bedroom house [...]

Kinsley on Books and Awards

Here is a shocker: I actually enjoyed a Michael Kinsley column. Curse You, Robert Caro! By Michael Kinsley, in which the author details the travails of judging the National Book Awards, is actually rather entertaining and even interesting in parts. I particularly found this paragraph fascinating: Many years ago, I conducted an experiment of placing a [...]

State Legislators wager over OSU – UM game

Here is an example of how serious the Ohio State Michigan game is taken around here: Lawmakers place friendly bet on Ohio State-Michigan game. Householder and Michigan House Speaker Rick Johnson, also a Republican, agreed Thursday to back their loyalties with song. The speaker from the losing state has to sing the winner’s alma mater. [...]

Blogger Bowl 2k3 – Week 12

Another tough week in Blogger Bowl 2k3. This weeks matchup is against Ben Domenech’s San Juan Pirates who are on a roll having won four in a row. I need a win badly to stay in the playoff hunt. Accordingly I am going out on a limb and starting Kordell Stewart at QB. He looked [...]

The Biggest Game of the Year

Those of you who are not big college football fans might not realize that the biggest college football game of the year is upon us. At “high noon” Saturday it comes down to this: Michigan versus Ohio State. This is it folks. This is where all the talk all the hype all the work ends. [...]

Kickers fighting?

Okay, this is getting ridiculous” Sauerbrun calls whole Gramatica line ‘idiots’. What we have here is a punter and a couple of kickers talking trash. Hello! You guys are kickers! The rest of the NFL must be laughing until it hurts as these guys embarrass themselves. One of the kickers is the dufus who actually [...]