Archive for October, 2009

Sort-of-1/3-through-the-season predictions…

Otherwise known as Week 5 predictions! Of course, the term “Week 5″ has probably been copyrighted by ESPN by now so I wanted to avoid any potential repercussions.
So it’s the 5th week of the NFL season, and while it’s certainly been a wacky year already, not much has changed. Yes some teams predicted to finish [...]

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The ‘Fighting Sioux’ are really the least of our concerns.

So the sports controversy of the day is the potential name change for the University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux. I get it and I wholeheartedly agree. But isn’t it slightly ridiculous that we’re focusing on the Fighting Sioux when there’s a pro football team called the Redskins? The Fighting Sioux, while understandably offensive, is [...]

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