Doug Mataconis, a 41-year-old attorney in Bristow, Virginia, won the 5th annual Living Room Times Bowl Pick ’em Contest tonight by correctly picking the BCS champion, Alabama. Mataconis, pictured at right in his Facebook and Twitter profile photo, is an alumnus of Rutgers and George Mason, a blogger at Below the Beltway and The Liberty Papers, and a prolific tweeter…. Read more »
Official start time is 6:00 PM Mountain Time, but I’m “launching” early so people can start chatting, if they so choose. Liveblogging will begin in earnest at 6. If you see a triangular “play” button, click it to get started. Then, to join the “chat,” you’ll need to click the icons next to where it says “Login to comment during… Read more »
David K. (Texas) vs. Mataconis (Bama) Pick ’em Contest co-leaders David K. and Doug Mataconis picked different teams in tonight’s BCS Title Game — David predicted a Texas win, Doug an Alabama win — so all of the contestants 1 point back are mathematically eliminated, and it’s a two-man race for the 5th annual contest championship, to be settled based… Read more »
2009 may have been Taylor Swift’s best year ever, but Beyonce had one of the best years of all time. OF ALL TIME!!!
Heading into the final game of college football season — the BCS title game between Florida and Alabama tomorrow night — David K. and Doug Mataconis are tied for the lead in the 5th annual Living Room Times Bowl Pick ’em Contest with 21-12 prediction records, and six contestants — Esteban Coca, Jon Schuman, Neil Waechter, Charles Fenwick, Brandon Allen,… Read more »
Stop by tonight at 6:00 PM Mountain Time (8pm Eastern) for a Living Room Times live blog/chat during the BCS “National Championship” Game!
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Well, almost everybody. Of the Top 15 contestants in the 5th annual Living Room Times Pick ’em Contest, only one — Brian Dupuis, tied for 9th place with an 18-14 record, 2 points behind co-leaders David K. and Doug Mataconis — picked Troy to beat Central Michigan in the GMAC Bowl, which just got underway.
Somewhat poetically, the Hartford Courant homepage features side-by-side photos of, and stories about, Connecticut’s soon-to-be-former senior senator, Chris Dodd, and the man who will almost certainly be sworn in as his replacement — and the state’s new junior senator — in almost exactly one year, Richard Blumenthal: Blumenthal, the state attorney general for approximately the last 164 years, has held… Read more »
PROBLEM: Boise State wants to move its game vs. Virginia Tech at FedEx Field in D.C. to Labor Day, for increased national exposure, but it is currently scheduled to play Toledo five days later in Boise. Chris Petersen can ask his former boss, Dan Hawkins, about what can happen to teams that play Toledo on five days’ rest. PROBLEM: If… Read more »