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http://simononsports.blogspot.com/ - This is me ranting about sports... It's what I do.
Here is a quick chart which shows the progression from week to week on who is garnering all of the #1 votes. The only team to garner a #1 vote outside of Texas, Bama and Florida was USC in week 2.
NCAA Football
Florida Gators
Southern California Trojans
Here's a simple chart surrounding the ascensions up the AP poll for Cincy who started unranked, Boise St. who started #14 and TCU who started at #17. They now are ranked 4, 5 and 6 respectively.
NCAA Football
Boise State Broncos
TCU Horned Frogs
The Degrees of Loss Separation is a simple concept, I go out and find a highly rated team with some losses playing against a crappy team with lots of losses. Next I find a chain of losses which proves beyond a shadow of a doubt (not at all) that the underdog is going to pull the major upset and ...
NCAA Football
Michigan Wolverines
Ohio State Buckeyes
Just for fun, here's a collection of youth hockey checks. Kids of all ages knocking the crap out of others for the amusement of the masses.
And finally these kids, who went for the big hit but kind of missed.
NHL
Blogging the Offseason is a 30 team series in which I ask a blogging representative from each MLB team a series of ten questions about their desires and thoughts surrounding the offseason. Check out all of them here.
Today's team NL is the Atlanta Braves and our guest is Stoeten from the ...
MLB
Toronto Blue Jays
What an absolute garbage weekend for college football. The #1 and #2 teams are ducking competition and there is no showcase games whatsoever. This might be a good Saturday to run errands. Hell even the normally interesting Michigan vs. Ohio State game is completely irrelevant. The Buckeyes ...
NCAA Football
Oregon Ducks
Michigan Wolverines
Clemson Tigers
Texas Longhorns
Arizona Wildcats
I think we all have heard that Vernon Wells has a bloated contract and that he is incredibly un-tradeable. This morning I decided to take a look at just how bad the remainder of Vernon Wells contract is, and well its really really really bad.
Vernon Wells signed a 7 year 126 million dollar ...
MLB
Vernon Wells
Toronto Blue Jays
Woo more Thursday night football that I can't watch because I don't get the NFL Network. Woo.
1. Carolina Panthers (-3 1/2) vs. Miami Dolphins
No more Ronny Brown means no more diesel wildcat. All wildcat will now be run with the 130 pound gazelle Pat White. It won't be very effective and ...
NFL
Miami Dolphins
Philadelphia Eagles
Denver Broncos
New York Giants
Ireland was defeated by France yesterday in the final stages of World Cup Qualifying thanks to a blatant handball by French striker / pansyman Thierre Henry. How blatant of a handball was it? Take it away Thierre:
"It was a handball, but I'm not the ref,'' he said on BBC Radio Five Live. ...
Soccer
France
World Cup
ESPN
So I'm getting ready to build up The Big 5 post for this week and the first thing I see when looking at this weekends schedule is a glaring travesty. What the hell are Florida and Alabama doing in late November playing Florida International and Chattanooga respectively? It appears as if both ...
NCAA Football
Florida Gators
Alabama Crimson Tide
Blogging the Offseason is a 30 team series in which I ask a blogging representative from each MLB team a series of ten questions about their desires and thoughts surrounding the offseason. Check out all of them here.
Today's team NL is the Atlanta Braves and our guest is Gondee from the ...
MLB
Atlanta Braves
I think sometimes I make charts to piss myself off. The below chart tracks the week by week yardage totals for the NFL's top 5 QBs. Three of these 5 QBs have played the Jets (Schaub, Brees and Brady). Of these QBs all but Brady had their lowest output of the season against the Jets, and Brady ...
NFL
New York Jets
I decided to come up with a compilation of people getting hit in the balls. Why? I don't know. I think it honestly had something to do with them adding the more tag on Blogger and me wanting to celebrate. So here goes you lucky bastards, lots of videos of lots of people getting drilled in the ...
Other
Here's a quick look at the Preseason AP poll compared to the current AP poll. Movement is tracked with arrows. Those in the preseason poll no longer ranked are X'd and those in the rankings who were not preseason ranked are O'd.
What you notice is the big Big East hating that went on in the ...
NCAA Football
Pittsburgh Panthers
TCU Horned Frogs
Texas Longhorns
Southern California Trojans
Seriously? The Defensosaurus Rex is a Crier ? That's not very intimidating.
NFL
Rex Ryan
New York Jets
Blogging the Offseason is a 30 team series in which I ask a blogging representative from each MLB team a series of ten questions about their desires and thoughts surrounding the offseason. Check out all of them here. Today's team NL is the Pittsburgh Pirates and our guest is Pat from the ...
MLB
Pittsburgh Pirates
Before you yell and say where is so and so team, please read my polling philosophy and then yell afterwards. Its looking like the fine toothed comb review of the rankings may be waiting for another week. So here's a quick sum up. TCU jumped Cincy thanks to a combo of Clemson's continued ...
NCAA Football
North Carolina Tar Heels
Wow You Guys Suck: Cleveland Browns, Boy am I glad that the Browns were on monday night football with their zero offensive weapons and miserable offensive line. That was so entertaining. Runners Up: the Chiefs and the Raiders cause no one watched that game to have any idea what happened. ...
NFL
New York Jets
Cleveland Browns
Cincinnati Bengals
Iverson played 3 games for the Memphis Grizzlies because God only wanted him to play three games for the Grizzlies. Now God sees that he's fixed the Grizzlies and God wants him to be a starter for someone not the Memphis Grizzlies. God Knows what he's doing.
