Big 3 Sports

Musings...20061003

This paragraph makes me wonder...

"For a team (the Raiders) whose offensive coordinator was running a bed and breakfast a year ago, it's only fitting that one of its starting offensive linemen majored in hotel administration at Cornell University."

1. The Raiders O coordinator was running a what last year? No wonder they have more sacks and penalties than completions.
2. Ivy League schools have "hotel administration" as a major? Kinda like taking only PE classes at Grinnell... oh, sorry Stu.

Other interesting news...

THE CARDS ARE CHOKING!! Get these guys a lifeline! The good news for the Cards is they've got a 4-game homestand against the Brew Crew to wrap up the season. The bad news is they have one more game against the Padres and they were 1-2 against Milwaukee last week. The 'Stros have 5 road games, two agianst the Pirates, three against the Braves...
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Anyone have an opinion on whether Ryan Howard's juicing? He's got 58 homers and if he's not juicing his numbers are more impressive than the 60s and 70s Bonds, Sosa and McGwire hammered out. On the downside, his 175 Ks are pretty impressive as well. He's a career .305 hitter with 280 hits... but has 288 Ks a .314 average.
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Is Pujols going to wear a black or grey suit at his Hall of Fame induction? He's settled in nicely at .330, .650, 45 and 130... ridiculous. Contrary to Howard he's only whiffed 49 times this year. After 6 seasons in the bigs he'll have 250 HRs... not sure what the record is but, ARod had 148, Bonds 142 and McGwire and Griffey 172, Aaron 179, DiMaggio 198, Mays 187, Sosa 95...the Babe 49 (he was a pitcher)... Pujols is ridiculous.
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I watched the Rutgers-South Florida game (TiVo'd and Slinged it)... Rutgers hasn't been ranked since 1976, gonna have to give credit to the announcers, but the announcers lost quick cred by calling Rutgers RBs and TE the "best in the nation" within the first 1:30 of the game... gonna have to work on those ESPN2 guys.
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It is apparent that the QB from Iowa suffers from the contagious disease of Hawkeye vision. Apparently he wasn't able to see anyone on the field other than his beloved Hawkeyes, even when there were 4 Buckeyes within 5 yards of his "open" Hawkeye". It's a common disease, affected about 20% of the Grinnell campus.
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Is Mizzou looking for a pat on the back after a 28-13 win over an 0-5 team? You won't get one for 2.5 vs. 5.1 yards per carry, 0 vs 2 turnovers and a 14-yard drive after a muffed punt at the end of the first half... You've got to do better than that at home against a team with 9 straight losses.

Apparently AP thought it was more impressive than Rutgers 2 point win against South Florida and granted them a leap frog to 23... congrats Tigers. Texas Tech's in the top 25 now too, so we'll see how tough they are this weekend.

Is 28-13 against Colorado better than 27-24 against A&M, 22-20 against South Florida, or a 21 point loss to the #1 team in the nation ... who knows, but it certainly doesn't sound impressive... especially when compared to #18 Clemson's 51-0 against a 1-2 LA Tech team, #20 Cal's 41-13 against a 2-1 Oregon State team or #12 Notre Dame's 35-21 against 4-0 Purdue. That's why the BCS applies complex (and flawed) math to this shit...

If Mizzou beats Texas Tech and A&M and you've got an argument, right now we're just speculating.
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The season still has a lot of football... just saw the Wake Forest is also 5-0 with a big time high school schedule that ends with top 25's in 4 of the next 6 weeks. Boise State's 5-0 too and doesn't have a ranked team on the schedule. Rutgers hasn't beat anyone and won't have to until Louisville and West Virginia come around in November. The other unbeatens will face each other at some point so we'll see.
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Is it inappropriate to call him T.O.D. now?

posted by Big 3 Freak @ 2:36 AM