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About those great expectations…

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As I wrote in my season preview, Denver coach Joe Scott set up a non-conference schedule that was bound to result in some early losses for the Pioneers. That was part of the plan: to learn from the early missteps, and get better in time for conference play. But there were supposed to be some wins mixed in with the… Read more »

The Pioneer Post is now Pioneer Pulse

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As I explained yesterday, I belatedly discovered (with considerable embarrassment) that the original name for my University of Denver men’s basketball blog, “The Pioneer Post,” was already taken by another, stats-based blog about DU hoops. The folks who run that site gave me permission to keep using the name, but upon consideration, I decided to change it anyway, to avoid… Read more »

TheSplenda wins LRT Election Contest

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A Democratic concession today in Texas’s 27th congressional district brought the GOP’s net gain in the House to a minimum of 62 seats — and thereby clinched victory for TheSplenda in the Living Room Times 2010 Midterm Election Prediction Contest. TheSplenda narrowly edges out Kevin Curran (kcatnd) and John Presper (Joe Mama) by a single point, presently 107 to 106… Read more »