Archive for November, 2010
12
Nov
Posted by Tim in College Basketball Preview Palooza!, Sports, The Double Bonus. Tagged: 2003 kansas, 2006 florida, 2008 kansas, 2008 memphis, 2009 missouri, 2010 baylor, 2010 duke, college basketball preview palooza, great team performances, ncaa vault. Leave a Comment
I wrote—albeit briefly—about my love of the NCAA Vault late last season. For the uninitiated, the NCAA Vault contains every NCAA Tournament game from the Sweet 16 on played since 2000. That is 165 games in all. That is, in fact, too much for you to rationally sort through to figure out which games are [...]
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12
Nov
Posted by Tim in College Basketball Preview Palooza!, Sports, The Double Bonus. Tagged: 19 straight points, 2001 duke, 2003 marquette, 2003 syracuse, 2005 north carolina, 2008 davidson, bill raftery, carmelo anthony, college basketball preview palooza, dwyane wade, gus johnson, jason williams, lebron james, ncaa vault, sean may, stephen curry, verne lundquist, whatcha gonna do bout it?, yeah i stole the orlando magic logo. Leave a Comment
I wrote—albeit briefly—about my love of the NCAA Vault late last season. For the uninitiated, the NCAA Vault contains every NCAA Tournament game from the Sweet 16 on played since 2000. That is 165 games in all. That is, in fact, too much for you to rationally sort through to figure out which games are [...]
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11
Nov
Posted by Tim in TV. Tagged: alina looked good, benry's cardigan, brenda, chase is a little thick am i right?, holly, immunity is monogamous again!, individual immunity, it was my understanding that there would be no math tonight, jane bless her soul, judfabio, marty and alina havin' some trouble at the ponderosa, marty's plan isn't as great as he thinks it is, naonka goes off (and off...and off), playing stupid is pretty smart, purple kelly as "survivor-retarded", purple kelly in the final three?, sash, some potentially shoddy probability, survivor survival guide, Survivor: Nicaragua, the merge, whip v. whup, yeah she did, ziplines. 4 Comments
“I personally don’t think he can beat me physically, much less mentally. So I’m still playing my game the way I’ve been playing it.” —Jane “It’s just frustrating to play a game with people that are so stupid.” —Marty Back when the original La Flor and Espada tribes shuffled members, I wrote that the contrivance [...]
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11
Nov
Posted by John S in Real World/Road Rules Challenge, Sports, TV. Tagged: Abram is a real leader, Brad, Brad and Tori, Brandon from Cutthroat, Camila from Cutthroat, Chet's concussion, concussions, diplomatic immunity, Fred Willard, Laurel from Cutthroat, Melinda from Real World, Mike Lafontaine, MTV, MTV Cutthroat, Power Rankings, Rankings, Real World/Road Rules Challenge, TJ Lavin, Tori is a bitch. 6 Comments
“To me this is the worst decision I’ve seen so far this Challenge. I really don’t understand throwing in your guys’ best player over and over again when he keeps proving himself time and time again. I think it’s time for a change…but it’s not up to me.” —TJ Lavin “I wouldn’t have said that [...]
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10
Nov
Posted by Tim in Sports. Tagged: baron davis, Chris Bosh, dwyane wade, i don't get it: which ones are supposed to be funny and which ones are supposed to be funny because they're not funny?, lebron james, seth curry saves duke, the nba, zingers!. 1 Comment
The NBA season started like two weeks ago, but that didn’t stop Tim from boldly predicting records for all 29 30 teams. As you can probably figure out, what’s occurred during the season’s first fortnight had little to no impact on his prognostications. 30. Minnesota dumped Ramon Sessions and his four-year, $16 million contract in [...]
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10
Nov
Posted by Tim in Sports, Unabated to the Quarterback. Tagged: afc listicle, al davis, bernie miklasz, browns' trick play, chansi stuckey, chiefs plug of the week, irrelevance, jacoby ford, jets bash of the week, ndamukong suh, nfl films, oakland raiders, scott layden v. isiah thomas, sebastian janikowski, steve spagnuolo, the autumn wind is a raider, the giants' dismantling of the seahawks has lasted four years, the raiders are back but not really but kind of anyway, tom cable as the quintessential raiders coach, Unabated to the Quarterback. Leave a Comment
“Our task as men is to find the few principles that will calm the infinite anguish of free souls. We must mend what has been torn apart, make justice imaginable again in a world so obviously unjust, give happiness a meaning once more to peoples poisoned by the misery of the century. Naturally, it is [...]
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9
Nov
Posted by Tim in "We Take, Among Other Things, Umbrage", Sports. Tagged: Arrested Development, cuss words censored by asterisks, driscoll middle school, little kids, little-kid football, sportsmanship, the difference bewteen trick and deception, trick plays. 25 Comments
You know what’s f****d up? Little kids using trick plays to beat other little kids. I’m not talking about reverses and misdirections and flea-flickers; I mean actual deception.* I mean actual, “Let’s take advantage of those other little kids not being sure of the rules of football” deception. Way to exploit their naivete and compassion, [...]
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9
Nov
Posted by John S in TV. Tagged: Alan Sepinwall, Andy Richter, Conan, Conan O'Brien, Conan-to-TBS, david letterman, Jay Leno, Jay v. Conan, Jimmy Kimmel, Last season on Conan..., Late Night, Lea Michele, NBC, playing the victim, Seth Rogen, TBS, the Conan debacle, The Tonight Show. 1 Comment
If you haven’t been paying attention to this blog for the last 11 months, then you may not have realized that I was looking forward to last night’s premiere of Conan on TBS. I haven’t even minded all the commercials and the endless promotion during the baseball playoffs. The main reason for the excitement wasn’t [...]
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8
Nov
Posted by NPI in Monday Medley. Tagged: bruce baum, burce marder, buzz bissinger, Candid Camera, cfl, Citizens United, Comedy, Conan, Conan O'Brien, Conan-to-TBS, deadspin, Dick Ebersol, don't vote, erik voss, Jay Leno, Jay v. Conan, jerry seinfeld, Joe Posnanski, letters from a nut, New York Times, Sparky Anderson, splitsider, TBS, The Daily Show, The Simpsons, Ticketmaster, treehouse of horror, Woody Allen, zach galafianakis, zadie smith. 2 Comments
What we read on our 48-hour sabbatical from MSNBC… The long wait for Conan O’Brien’s new show ends tonight, with the premiere of Conan on TBS. Jay Leno will probably not be a guest. Speaking of Leno and late-night TV, October saw The Daily Show beat its network rivals in the ratings, while Leno fell [...]
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7
Nov
Posted by Tim in TV. Tagged: a streetcar named marge, alfred hitchcock, citizen kang, edgar allan poe, hands stuck in toasters, homer cubed, hungry are the damned, james earl jones, night of the dolphin, nightmare cafeteria, simpsons classics, the birds, the devil and homer simpson, the raven, the shinning, The Simpsons, time and punishment, treehouse of horror, zombie simpsons. 2 Comments
Tonight is The Simpsons’ 21st annual “Treehouse of Horror” episode. I suppose I’ll watch, which is a far cry from the days of yore when I built my expectations for the Halloween special way beyond reasonable levels. In retrospect, I don’t know why I always looked forward to Treehouse of Horror, because those episodes are [...]
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