As you may have gathered from some of my tweets, I went to today’s Colorado-Iowa State game, with Kristy. It was fun! And Colorado won! (!!) Final score was 34-14. The clear highlight, though, was the up close & personal look we got at Ralphie — shortly after his pregame run around the field — when, en route to our… Read more »
They’re getting ready at DU’s Magness Arena for the big announcement this afternoon that the University of Denver is joining the WAC. I’m told there will be some pageantry, and I know there are already University of Denver/WAC t-shirts floating around. Anyway, here’s what the court at Magness Arena looked like a little over an hour ago: I’m getting ready,… Read more »
I just wrote an e-mail to Stewart Mandel’s podcast about the possibility of Boise State, having been leap(horned)frogged in the polls and BCS standings by TCU, being left out of not just the national title game, but the big-money bowls altogether. This is the same fear as last year, except: 1) It’s more likely to actually happen, because it doesn’t… Read more »
With everything else that’s been going on — the election, college football, the start of basketball season & my DU blog project, a busy month at work — I’ve barely been paying attention to the countdown to the theatrical release of Part 1 of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, now just 12 days away. But that doesn’t mean I’m… Read more »
With Rossi conceding to Murray in WA-SEN, and BrendanLoy.com projecting that Blumenthal will win by double-digits in CT-SEN (he’s leading by 10.7% with 96% of the precincts reporting), plus another error corrected, things are finally coming into focus in the Living Room Times 2010 Midterm Election Prediction Contest. The bottom line: Kevin Curran is the current leader, but TheSplenda is… Read more »
The “paper of record,” and the headline of the day:
I wrote earlier, of the LRT Election Prediction Contest, that I hadn’t had time to “make the standings chart pretty.” Well, now I’ve made it pretty! You can see for yourself: HTML version, PDF version. It shows every contestant’s pick for every question, colored green if correct, red if incorrect, or gray if the result is unknown as of yet…. Read more »
I don’t have time to do a full analysis of scenarios, or make the standings chart pretty, so I’ll open-source it — if anybody wants to try and figure out the various scenarios, here are the full current standings, plus everyone’s picks on the uncalled or possibly recount-bound races (AK-SEN, CO-SEN, WA-SEN, CT-GOV, IL-GOV) and miscellaneous questions (the closest Senate… Read more »
All day long Tuesday, my tweets will appear, in real-time, in the window below. So will Becky‘s, Nate Silver‘s, Drudge_Siren‘s, and, just for fun, the Big Ben Clock‘s. Election Day 2010 (You’ll need to initially hit “Click for Live Updates” to get things moving.) To join in the conversation, tweet something @brendanloy, and/or with the hashtag #lrt10, and it’ll appear… Read more »
Two weeks and six days ago — i.e., exactly three weeks before tomorrow’s elections — I posted a series of “bold predictions” on Twitter. Mostly, they mocked the myriad, easily predictable ways in which the media and the punditry and the Interwebs always, always get things wrong when it comes to elections. Anyway, I thought I’d re-publish them now, and… Read more »