Archive for March, 2007
« Previous Entries2007 Cubs/Sox Bets
Thursday, March 29th, 2007Many of friends are Sox fans. This leads to the inevitable bickering back and forth about whose team is better and yadda yadda yadda. We usually end up making a wager or two, or three on the team’s performance. These last few years have been costly in that regard.
The hosts of the local […]
HR Derby
Monday, March 26th, 2007I got this entry form a for a Home Run Derby fantasy contest from a coworker. There is a list of home run hitters broken into six groups based on last year’s totals. You pick 1-3 players from each group, to form your team and add up their home run totals at […]
Busted
Sunday, March 18th, 2007Aside from the Illini loss, things were going quite well for me this tournament. I was actually winning both brackets I entered, and my 10 of my first sweet sixteen teams had made it that far.
And then, just a little behind schedule things went to hell. Wisconson, who was my dark […]
So Angry
Friday, March 16th, 2007This was shaping up to be a great tournament. Duke and Notre Dame lost in the first round. The Big 10 was 4-0, and Purdue and Illinois both had comfortable leads late in the second half of their games. And the suck happened and the Illini choked.
I was watching the game at […]
NCAA Picks
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007Ok, here are my picks, more or less. I filled out a few brackets for different pools this year, so some of them may be slightly different, but they’ll be close to this. I think if anything I didn’t pick enough underdogs this year. I don’t know. If past years are […]
Bracket Time
Sunday, March 11th, 2007I watched the selection show for the first time tonight. This is the first year since I’ve really started paying attention to college basketball that the Illini have been on the bubble. I’m glad they were in the second region announced, because I don’t think I could take it if they were in […]
Dancin’ Illini
Saturday, March 10th, 2007Like most people, I love rooting for the underdogs this time of year. The more bubble busters in the tournament the better. There’s nothing so great in sports as watching some tiny little school that no one’s heard of out of some tiny conference upset one of the cocky high seeded juggernauts. […]
RB Merry-Go-Round
Friday, March 9th, 2007Is it me or have there more off season moves in recent years than any other time you can remember? Maybe its just because I’m playing fantasy football now so I’m paying more attention but this is ridiculous. Is any team planning on starting the same back they had last year?
Bears Trade Thomas […]
Wood and Prior: Not Injured?
Monday, March 5th, 2007This just in.
Kerry Wood and Mark Prior both pitched today, and while it is still to early to tell, so far neither one has been reported as injured. One of them pitching and not getting hurt is a rarity in itself, but both of them? On the same day? That’s […]
Bears Trade Jones
Monday, March 5th, 2007According to ESPN1000 and espn.com the Bears have traded Thomas Jones to the New York Jets. The deal also includes the Bears 2nd round pick (63 overall?) and in return the Bears get the Jet’s second round pick (37th overall I believe).
While I’m a huge Thomas Jones fan, and it doesn’t seem […]