Monday, November 19th, 2012
The robber barons were the men who helped grow the American economy into the world's giant. Many of our finest universities bear some of their names -- Duke, Stanford, Vanderbilt.
They just happened to build it on the backs of underpaid immigrants and the occasional child laborer, which was all fine ...
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Thursday, December 17th, 2009
An underrated part of the argument for a playoff in college football is that, though the bowl season builds to a crescendo in early January, there is nearly a week of crap leading up to it. And this is after about two weeks of no college football other than the ...
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Saturday, December 5th, 2009
Week 14 Picks
Record: 141-72, 98-112-3 AS
Friday, December 4, 2009. 8 pm ET
Mid-American Conference Championship
Ohio (9-3) at Central Michigan (10-2) (-13.5)
Pick: Central Michigan
Final: CMU 20 Ohio 10
The greatest quarterback in the history of the MAC and one of the best in the history of college football won his final conference game ...
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Friday, December 4th, 2009
This week, I say screw the rankings. Everyone is just competing for a conference championship or simple pride. Rankings don't matter until after.
Record: 141-72, 98-112-3 AS
Friday, December 4, 2009. 8 pm ET
Mid-American Conference Championship
Ohio (9-3) at Central Michigan (10-2) (-13.5)
It's not Dan LeFevour's swan song, but it's his last shot ...
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Saturday, September 5th, 2009
11:50 am: Morning! Finally, the first Saturday of college football season and...there's nothing but crappy games on at noon ET. Damn. I'll probably be rotating between Minny/Syracuse and Penn State/Akron, though I'm not thrilled with either game. The 3:30 games, however, are loaded and should be a hell of a ...
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Friday, September 4th, 2009
The 2009 season has officially started, and as I type this, I have no idea how my first set of picks turned out, but I don't really care that much. There's a hell of a long way to go in week one and I probably need the redemption. This is ...
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