Category Archives: Blog & Guest Posts

Dulitz extends lead, improves to 11-3

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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 »

Programming note

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We’re just about 10 percent done with the 2010s, but as you may have noticed, my “Defining Days of the (Last) Decade” blog series remains unfinished, stalled at #3. But not for long!! I’ve finished writing #2, and will soon be done with #1 as well. I’ll be publishing them exactly one year to the day after I originally planned… Read more »

Dulitz leads Pick ’em; Loyette threatens

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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 »

CotW: A Call for a Global Warming Related Moratorium (In Brief)

Okay, I’ll be quick here. I have no interest in engaging anyone about the science of global warming, if it is a danger, and/or if we caused it. I have my ideas on this and I am sure you have yours. And for this moment, that’s all well and good. Right now, all I want is a little sanity.  A… Read more »

Awesome time-lapse footage of blizzard

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As the Northeast continues to dig out from the Great East Coast #Snowpocalypse #Snowmageddon #SnOMG Blizzard of 2010 — or, as they call it in Buffalo, “December” — here’s an awesome time-lapse video from Belmar, NJ, which was right smack in the middle of the heaviest snow bands, and received a whopping 32 inches of the white stuff: December 2010… Read more »

Rachel Dulitz takes Bowl Pick ’em lead in wild Pizza Bowl finish

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.

Merry Christmas!

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I wish all of you, Living Room Times readers, and your families and loved ones, the very happiest of holidays. Merry Christmas!!!

Dulitz, Hunter tie Styles atop Pick ’em

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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 »

UConn women set all-time NCAA record for longest winning streak

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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 »

Zak, Styles tied for Bowl Pick ’em lead

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Louisville’s win in the Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl means “WOLFMANBC” (a.k.a. Randy Styles) and “DARMOKANDJALAD” (a.k.a. Casey Zak) are now tied for the lead in the 6th annual LRT Bowl Pick ’em Contest with perfect 4-0 records. (Standings visible to non-contestants here.) One of the co-leaders is guaranteed to take sole possession of the lead Thursday: Zak if Navy wins… Read more »