From Kyle Whelliston’s Conference Shootaround today: Sun Belt: While the local and national media fixates on Carmelo Anthony’s latest spoiled-bitch tantrum, there’s a basketball team in Denver that’s undefeated! In conference play, at least. After racking up nine losses in non-conference, the Princeton-inspired Pioneers have the Belt’s most efficient offense (1.11 points per trip), are shooting almost 61 percent from… Read more »
It was, by nearly universal acclamation of liberals and conservatives alike, brilliant. The pep-rally-like crowd reaction was inappropriate and jarring at times, but Obama cut through that with a speech that was simply pitch-perfect. Notably, two of its key lines — announcing that Rep. Giffords opened her eyes today, and the phrase “–it did not–” interjected into a discussion of… Read more »
As you may have heard, former Republican vice-presidential nominee and future presidential candidate Sarah Palin today decided it would be a good idea, on the very day of the memorial service for the victims of a deranged, ideologically incoherent lunatic’s murderous rampage in Arizona, to respond to her critics by accusing them of “manufacturing a blood libel” against her. In… Read more »
My mom sends along this photo of the view from my parents’ front door in Newington, Connecticut, after the latest #snowpocalypse to hit the Northeast: Wow. That’s a lot of snow. We don’t have nearly as much on the ground here in Denver, but it was still enough for Loyette and I to build her first-ever snowman:
It’s that time of year again: time for ridiculously early preseason college football rankings! SI’s Andy Staples, ESPN’s Mark Schlabach, and the Mercury News‘s Jon Wilner have all published their picks. Oklahoma is the consensus #1, with Oregon, LSU and Alabama ranked #2-3-4 in some order. After that, there’s really no consensus: the only other teams that appear in all… Read more »
I may have been rooting for Oregon, and I may mock the SEC and its insufferable fans mercilessly, and I may have been hoping for justice vis a vis Cam Newton, and I may have been slightly less than gracious in some of my tweets when it didn’t happen… but, in spite of all that, I’m genuinely happy for Auburn’s… Read more »
Randy Styles of South Bend, Indiana won the 6th annual Living Room Times Bowl Pick ’em Contest on Monday as Auburn beat Oregon for the BCS national championship. Styles, a.k.a. “wolfmanbc,” finishes with 45 out of a possible 60 points, and a 25-10 prediction record. Remarkably, when New Year’s Day dawned, Styles was just 12-10, but he was perfect in… Read more »
Since Brendan didn’t post anything, here’s a thread for commenting. You can watch on ESPN3.com if your internet provider supports it. UPDATE BY BRENDAN: I was just a little slow because I was putting the girls to bed. Stupid 6:30 games, grumble grumble. But… GO DUCKS!!! BEAT S-E-C!!! I’m live-Tweeting over at LRT Live and my Twitter feed.
In case you missed it, the Seattle Seahawks improved to 8-9 (the first NFL team ever to even have that record) and advanced to the second round of the playoffs after upsetting the defending Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints in Seattle on Saturday. The win was highlighted by an incredible 67 yard run by Seahawks Running back (and former… Read more »
At the beginning of the season, Denver’s goal was to win a conference championship. Less than a month ago, the Pioneers were 2-9, and that goal looked very distant indeed. But six wins later — including four conference wins, two of them on the road, most recently Saturday’s 66-57 escape at Louisiana-Monroe — DU’s original goal is suddenly there for… Read more »