There is a billion dollars at stake. That’s like 10 or 12 times a million dollars. At least. Let’s just say it’s a LOT. Like graphing calculator type stuff. And, so I have spared no resource in preparing my NCAA March Madness bracket this year. Expert statisticians. Advanced metrics. Historical trends. Time travel. I took […]
Category: sports
Sour Purple Grapes
I hate Las Vegas. They beat us by exactly 31?! Unbelievable. For those that don’t remember or didn’t know or who still don’t care, my Furman University Paladins played two-time defending National Champions, North Dakota State Bison, in the second round of the Division I FCS football playoffs last night. They lost 38-7. I had […]
Sweet Home
In case you’ve been on hold over at the Affordable Care Act website for the last five days, the fate of a defending, two-time national championship team is on the line. A series of improbable events have put a dynasty in jeopardy. Its mascot, a rumbling, horned behemoth of a creature, hunted for millennia, looks […]
Sailing is Not a Sport
I realize that the future of the nation’s access to Hydrocodone and suppositories presently hangs in the balance, but an opportunity to explain one of my longstanding personal theories on a deep cosmic question has finally presented itself, in the sailing of the America’s Cup and historic victory of Team USA this week. What is […]
64
That’s how old Diana Nyad is now, as she makes her 5th attempt to swim the 103 miles from Cuba to Florida. She’s nearly there. I expressed my infatuation with her last year, here. I had so much fun at the turn of the millennium that I vowed, with the aid of bio-engineering and blood […]
Football Fantasy
The hardest fantasy football song ever written. This is for all the “girls” in my fantasy football league that I’m going to embarrass again this year at not-real football. [My apologies to real girls everywhere for using your gender so pejoratively. While I don’t think you’re less capable at fantasy football than men, all the […]
Man of the Cloth
Like a miniature Podcast Hadron Collider, my recently upgraded-to iPhone 5 nearly destroyed the known universe. Without warning, my two most severe passions circled back on each other at speeds approaching that of light, when the Sports Guy, Bill Simmons, this week, dedicated an entire podcast to the cinema career of Jodie Foster. Like two […]
My Favorite Player
I have three things to say about Alex Rodriguez. 1. He did this to himself. He isn’t very cool. He’s too rehearsed. He probably shouldn’t have chased big money contracts to Texas and then New York. He shouldn’t allow celebrity actresses to feed him popcorn from a bag, Constantine or, rather, middle school, style. He […]
Freedom Trail
If you’ve ever been to Boston you’ve probably been forced to walk, likely by a mom or wife, some portion of the “Freedom Trail” against your will. You have to wonder why one must abandon so much self determination to walk a trail named “freedom” but, anyway. The Freedom Trail is, of course, a walking […]
One Shining Moment
It took me most of the evening but I feel pretty confident about my pick: Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) v. The Nashville Predators SCAD cuts down the nets. Performed by ipoetlaureate. Music produced by djclutch. Today’s song blog here: [wpaudio url=”https://thefreshjunket.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/b620c-joey-brackets-11.mp3″ dl=”0″ text=”The Madness“]
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