Snakes In My Pants

The #2 in America is 2-6 since October 1.  Let that sink in for a second. 
It happened again on Saturday night when the feel-good story of 2007 ended with Mizzou’s win over #2 Kansas in Arrowhead Stadium during the “Border War.” 
The talking heads will tell you this is the year of parity and point out [...]

This Saturday, Notre Dame plays Navy in South Bend.  At 1-7, the Irish are 3 point favorites at home against the Middies who they have beaten each of the last 43 seasons, going back to the Roger Staubach-led 1963 Navy team’s victory.
 
This game means much more than the sustainment or end of the longest winning [...]

Where does America’s most underachieving star athlete land?  Only time, and a LOT of money, will tell.  But here is my guess at the probabilities of every team:
Anaheim          25%
Chicago Cubs   20%
San Francisco    12%
Yankees            7%
Boston             6%
Mets, Philadelphia  4% each
White Sox, Detroit, Milwaukee 3% each
Cleveland, Florida, San Diego  2% each
Toronto, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Atlanta, St. Louis, Arizona, Houston  [...]

Another topsy-turvy week on the college gridiron.  No MAJOR upsets, several small ones like BC over V-Tech on a Thursday night in Blacksburg or Kentucky going down to Mississippi State.  On to my rankings:
1. Ohio State
2. LSU
3. Oregon
4. BC
5. Oklahoma

Well, things settled down a bit this week as only South Carolina and USF fell prey to the big upset.  Bob Vanasse disclaimer:  Jeff Sagarin’s predictor rates BC #18 in the country, playing the 51st hardest schedule out of 119 teams and that is why BC is only ranked 6th in my poll.  On to my rankings:
1. [...]

For once, MLB appears to be doing what is in the best interest of its long-term viability.
After nearly a decade of getting crushed by the press, and hack bloggers like myself, MLB is doing right by America’s young fans.  This season’s LDS games involving East Coast teams will start between 5-7 EST.
Finally, someone with a [...]

And the hits just keep on coming . . . with Notre Dame’s historically and epicly bad 2007 season, which will get worse before it gets better, the sharks are once again in the water.  It’s like a broken record.  They said Notre Dame can’t win and should join a conference in 1964 before Ara Parsegian [...]

The fun of the BC-ND series is playing (and winning) against a program with quality academics and quality athletics. Half of that equation has fallen on hard times, or to paraphrase the Ricky Ricardo character from I Love Lucy, “Char-lie you have some ’splaining to do”. Blanked by THIS Michigan team? Not [...]

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”  Dickens’ words could easily be resurrected to describe the 2007 edition of America’s most popular college team:  the University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team. 

Today, the last of the nations 119 Division I-A football teams begin fall practice.  The first games are in a mere 24 days.  It’s time for a comprehensive look at the 2007 season.
WARNING:  This will be long.