St. Mary’s earns #1 TMM ranking ahead of date with DU
The Mid-Majority has just published its first State of the Other 25 rankings for 2010, and Denver’s next opponent — St. Mary’s — is ranked #1. Here is TMM’s write-up:
Category Archives: Blog & Guest Posts
Close the Washington Monument?
Bruce Schneier has a modest proposal: Securing the Washington Monument from terrorism has turned out to be a surprisingly difficult job. The concrete fence around the building protects it from attacking vehicles, but there’s no visually appealing way to house the airport-level security mechanisms the National Park Service has decided are a must for visitors. It is considering several options,… Read more »
Lisa Velte wins LRT Pick ’em Contest
Lisa Velte, a.k.a. “The Major’s Girl,” won the second annual Living Room Times College Football Pick ’em Contest, besting Brad Warbiany (a.k.a. “Old Gold & Black”) on a tiebreaker. Velte, whose identity as “The Major’s Girl” had remained a mystery until this afternoon, and Warbiany both finished with 252 points out of a maximum possible 340. The tie was broken… Read more »
Computer glitch puts LSU, Boise State in wrong order in final BCS standings
This is pretty incredible: The final BCS ratings show LSU ranked 10th and Boise State 11th. But I discovered a mistake that would switch the order of those teams. The Broncos should be BCS No. 10. Wes Colley’s final rankings, as submitted to the BCS, were incorrect. The Appalachian State-Western Illinois FCS playoff game was missing from his data set…. Read more »
I don’t think “Fight On” means what you think it means
Idiots:
LRT Pac-10 Power Rankings week 14
Here we are, the end of the regular football season for the Pac-10. Rivalry week was full of excitment, two schools playing for bowl berths, another for a spot in the National Championship game. Incredibly with USC’s defeat of UCLA (in the last Pac-10 game ever) all five road teams won. Not sure if thats ever happened before, I’m going… Read more »
Denver-Northridge liveblog
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I’m at Magness Arena and live-tweeting the DU-CSUN game (among other things) over at my main blog, The Living Room Times.
Liveblog: Championship Saturday, USC-UCLA and Denver-Cal State Northridge
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Since my tweets aren’t updating the right-hand column right now, due to server issues, I’m going to set up an all-day live-tweeting window here. It’s going to be a busy day of college basketball and football: Utah State-Georgetown is at 10:00 AM MDT; the Butler-Duke rematch is at 1:15 PM MDT; Oregon-Oregon State and Auburn-South Carolina start at 1:30 and… Read more »
We’re baaaack!
After almost 24 hours offline due to server problems, the Living Room Times is back. Hopefully we’ll stay that way. Stay tuned. If the site goes offline again, you can get updates at my Twitter stream. Oh, speaking of Twitter… the right-hand column showing my latest tweets will not be updating for the time being. The plugin that updates the… Read more »
CotW: Helping Conn College Sell Itself
So, two to three weeks ago, CNN Money declared my alum mater, Connecticut College, to be one of the top ten most expensive school in the nation with a price tag north of 50,000 dollars. To those of you wondering about my net worth, tuition has gone up about 2-3 thousand dollars every year since I graduated. And I had… Read more »