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27 August 2010
Hello, friends. The response to the pre-weekend thoughts from last week was so overwhelming, I feel as if I have no choice but to appease our (four) readers and do another this week. I could come up with some witty banter for this italicized part, but I feel like I only have so much witty banter to give, and that needs to be used for the non-italicized parts of this post. If you thought this was going to be written in non-bullet point form, you were sorely mistaken.
College football starts in less than week. Feel the excitement. I'm sure I'll rue this decision later this fall, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that an SEC team will not play for the National Championship this year. Yeah, I said it. Sure, it's been five years since an SEC team hasn't played for the title, but I see the conference as a step down from what it's been the last half-decade. I think SEC teams are going to beat up on each other and won't have the records to get into the NC game. I'll go ahead and predict Texas beating Ohio State for the title. Feel free to bring this up in early January when Alabama wins its second title in a row. But really, as long as Boise State, TCU, BYU or any other team that plays in a non-BCS conference isn't playing for the championship, we all win.- It's that time for non-nerds to become nerds. Yes, it's time for fantasy football. It's a time when guys who have social lives and have talked to women before become just as nerdy as those with comic book collections. Look, I'm not ashamed I play fantasy football. Fantasy football is fun, lets you make fun of your friends and usually wins me money. I love fun things, making fun of my friends and winning money.
- The WNBA Playoffs have begun. Brubaker emailed me yesterday to ask why we hadn't done a preview for the WNBA Playoffs. Here is your WNBA Playoffs preview: The WNBA Playoffs have begun. They will end sometime in the next month (I think).
- Miami Hurricane Basketball is going to be thriving soon. Some members of the Heat went to play pickup hoops with the Hurricanes yesterday. John Calipari is the best recruiter in college basketball, but even he can't say, "If you come play for us, you'll get to play pickup with LeBron, Wade, Bosh and friends during the summer." Frank Haith is sitting on a goldmine at Miami and couldn't coach his way out of a wet paper bag.
- Speaking of the greatest athlete in the world... Per usual, I was thinking about everyone hating LeBron. I was told this week that no one cares that he switched teams, but it was how he did it that makes people not like him. I guess that's fair, but it should be noted that the guy is 25 years old and "The Decision" lasted about 80 minutes. If I were judged solely on 80 minutes of my life when I was 25, I could be called any number of things, the least of which being arrogant.
- Stop making a big deal about moving the Michigan/Ohio State football game. This game is already the biggest rivalry in college football, it doesn't matter when it's played. Ten million people would still tune in and watch if they played it at 4AM on a Tuesday. Seriously, I will listen to anyone talk about why the game shouldn't be moved if they can do so without referencing the past. Thankfully, no one can do that, so I don't have to listen to anyone else's opinion. Things change, usually for the better. Get over it, mouthbreathers.
- The Little League World Series comes to an end this weekend. Georgia and Hawaii play this afternoon and the winner gets to play Texas in the American Championship on Saturday. Japan and Chinese Taipei square off tomorrow in the International Championship. I'll go ahead and pick Texas over Hawaii in the American Championship and Chinese Taipei over Japan in the International Championship. Chinese Taipei will be crowned World Champions on Sunday. That team is loaded.
- Take this weekend to get ready for football. Do what you need to do to get ready. The next five months full of weekends will be taken up by football, beer and football. Prepare yourselves.
