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That’s The Worst Thing Ever
Eastern Michigan 24 Bowling Green 21 The worst part? I can’t make any goddamn EMU jokes for at least, like, a year. Read more...
Published 3 days ago

MACSploitation Week 6
I wonder what it’s like to play your main rival when it’s not the final game of the year. Sure, Toledo and Bowling Green weren’t always the last game, so it shouldn’t be too hard to fathom, but it’s still an odd feeling. When a team doesn’t mind going 1-11 as long as that one win is... Read more...
Published 3 days ago

Quickly, To The Observatory!
SportsByBrooks has this new morning feature called the “Speed Read,” and it’s worth mentioning that I’m going to be pitching in a couple times a week on it. Case in point: this morning. Looky. Read more...
Published a week ago

MACSploitation Week 5
Image by hail2thesuss via FlickrThe G…. Game of the Week? Between two 2-2 teams, an undefeated team trudging along after the horrific Dante Love collision, and WMU trying to improve to 4-1 against Temple, the televised/featured MAC Game of the Week is freaking Eastern Michigan and Northern... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

Sports Blogging Yields Poor Bail Money
What you see before you is the end-product of scheduling a sports panel at BlogWorld Expo on a Sunday morning in Las Vegas. Having six people on a panel is a smart move, which guarantees a 50 percent retention rate. It also guarantees me some sweet elbow room. In conclusion, you now know why I... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

Reason #216 Not To Bet On NASCAR
Winding down a rousing weekend in Vegas, I decided to take my first venture into a sportsbook with the following wager: 4½-1 odds! That’s a pretty good payoff if it happens. And how’d he/I do? All right, I kind of deserved that. Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

MACSploitation Radio: Week 3
Fifteen minutes of your life will be wasted well spent on this. From the Buffalo-Temple game to Ball State’s potential undefeated run to people picking Western Michigan basketball over LSU football. And I think I got the sound levels a little better controlled. But not much. Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago

Willy-Roosevelt, The Most Overlooked Of The Roosevelts
In case you missed it on Saturday, the game of the day might’ve been the touchdown swaps by Buffalo and Temple in the final minute. Drew Willy’s the guy who threw it. Naaman Roosevelt is the receiver. Temple gets to be the team that loses on the final play in consecutive weeks. Temple, in... Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago

NFL Week 2
DJ Gallo might have something here with his NFL weekly wrap article. �-� ESPN Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago

That’s Not Funny, ESPN
Perhaps I ought to be grateful that with a 1-2 start, BG is still projected as a bowl team by one guy who works for a major sports news organization. Fair enough. But some things in life just shan’t be lived through again. Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago