With Ohio State’s win over Arkansas, the sixth annual Living Room Times Bowl Pick ’em Contest is down to just three contestants with a chance to win, and just two bowls that matter — the Cotton Bowl on Friday and the BCS title game on Monday. If Texas A&M wins the Cotton Bowl and Oregon wins the title game, David… Read more »
A few thoughts about Stanford’s impressive Orange Bowl win over Virginia Tech last night: • In retrospect, how big of a game was Stanford-Oregon? Wow. • The Pac-10 can now finish no worse than 2-2 in bowls. (Thanks, Huskies!) Hopefully Oregon makes it 3-1. • I hope Oregon beats Auburn convincingly, so the final polls are #1 Oregon, #2 TCU… Read more »
Last night’s crushing loss to Stanford by Rachel Dulitz‘s favorite team, Virginia Tech, didn’t quite dump Dulitz from the catbird seat she’s occupied since December 26 atop the LRT Pick ’em Contest. But it made her lead precarious, and left her potentially hours from elimination. The contest’s top four contestants — Dulitz, Randy Styles, Jeff Freeze and David K. —… Read more »
With seven bowls to go, five contestants remain mathematically alive to win the 6th annual Living Room Times Bowl Pick ’em Contest. They are the current Top 5 in the standings: Rachel Dulitz (currently in 1st place), Josh Rubin (tied for 2nd), Randy Styles (tied for 2nd), David K. (tied for 4th) and Jeff Freeze (tied for 4th). Nobody else… Read more »
Rachel Dulitz surged into a 6-point lead in the Living Room Times Bowl Pick ’em Contest on Friday, improving her prediction record to 16-6 with a 3-1 day, and increasing her distance from the rest of the field. Her nearest competitors are just 12-10.
Rachel Dulitz maintained sole possession of the lead for the fourth straight day in the LRT Bowl Pick ’em Contest with a 3-0 record Wednesday, improving her impressive prediction streak to 7 out of the last 8 bowls — during a time period when the average contestant has only gotten between 3 and 4 of those 8 games right —… Read more »
Rachel Dulitz yesterday maintained the lead she’s held since Sunday in the 6th annual Living Room Times Bowl Pick ’em Contest, but her 4-bowl winning streak ended and her 2-point lead shrank when Iowa stunned Missouri. Now, several different scenarios — including my not-quite-3-year-old daughter, “Loyette,” taking a share of the lead — are possible today, with three bowl games… Read more »
Two nights after leapfrogging the competition in a “Jewish Christmas miracle” when Tulsa beat Hawaii in Honolulu, Rachel Dulitz took sole possession of the LRT Bowl Pick ’em Contest lead when Florida International beat Toledo in dramatic fashion Sunday in the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl.
Tulsa’s surprise 62-35 win over Hawaii in a Christmas Eve shootout — on the Warriors’ home turf in the Hawaii Bowl — lifted Rachel Dulitz and Andrew Hunter, previously in a 14-way tie for fifth place, into a three-way tie for first place with Randy Styles in the 6th annual LRT Bowl Pick ’em Contest. Styles had been a perfect… Read more »
Geno Auriemma to ESPN interviewer (and, long ago, his very first basketball superstar) Rebecca Lobo, after the Huskies’ 89th consecutive win: I don’t want my team to compare themselves to anyone. This stands on its own. I’m not John Wooden and this isn’t UCLA. This is Connecticut, and for us, that’s enough. And then he grumpily gave out a Wii… Read more »