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Who is setting up the March madness brackets? OPEN Thread...


Monday morning open thread ..... Anyone have time to set a site pool? I would but am pretty busy early this week... I am game if anyone has time....

What else is on your minds that is going on in our world.....

Have a good week...

Da..........

Formidable Forvm IV: Just Say No To 96!


*Commissioner M. Scott Eiland ascends to the podium*

We are once again approaching that blessed time when millions of people waste tens of millions of hours of productivity in guessing what men's college basketball teams will do in the upcoming event known fondly as March Madness. While many will engage in this activity with some amount of money at stake, we in the Formidable Forvm League will be doing it solely for bragging rights, with the prospect of extreme ridicule should our prognostication be less than stellar--who's up for it? ]:-)

How Big Was That Win?


That win being USA Hockey's win over Canada Hockey yesterday in Vancouver. It was USA hockey's first Olympic win over Canada Hockey since 1960. But that's just window dressing*.

Take a look at the bracket.

Another pretty good day


He may be a shadow of the player he was, and he probably won't hit a lot of homers or have a great batting average this season, but every time I think of Ken Griffey, Jr. in a Mariner uniform, a smile comes to my face. He's a great guy to have around. When it becomes all too obvious that his playing days are over, I hope our very capable GM keeps him on as a coach, somewhere somehow. With Junior and the addition of Cliff Lee, I have a glimmer of hope that my beloved M's can win a pennant this year.

The Olympics are Here! The Olympics are Here!


Seems like it's at least worth a diary. Watched the opening ceremony, or parts of it, with the Lovely Deanna, a Canadian from Vancouver so there's a rooting interest in the house....

Highlights?

The Canadian rep's stirring speech during which he invoked "the magic of television", ie "Tonight, thanks to the magic of television..." (Wow. And it's even in color!)

The same speaker when he referred to "human champions." (When are the animal Olympics anyway?)

4th Annual Forvm Meaningless Super Bowl Prop Bets Diary


Once again, I am posting a diary to allow the inhabitants here to win bragging rights by making the most correct WAGs about random or almost completely random occurrences associated with today's national event. Without further ado. . .

--who will win the coin flip?

--which team will be penalized first?

--which team will kick a field goal first?*

--will the combined score of the two teams at halftime be an odd or an even number?

--(Tie-breaker) what will be the final score?

*--picking "neither" and being correct counts double!

NFL 2009 Playoff Week 3 and Super Bowl Preview


(disclaimer: I like Seattle and the New York Giants, I dislike New England, I hate Denver and Dallas, and I'm pretty much neutral on the rest.)

Two great games that were much closer than the previous playoff games this year - and now we know that Super Bowl XLIV will feature the New Orleans Saints vs. the Indianapolis Colts. A better match-up than most years, and it looks to be an offensive free for all.

BTW, I will not discuss the Pro Bowl. I think it's one of the stupidest things the NFL ever did, and to hold it a week before the Super Bowl only makes it even stupider.

Australian Open tennis picks


Courtesy hobbesist

Men's:
QFs - Federer d. Davydenko, Djokovic d. Tsonga, Roddick d. Del Potro, Nadal d. Murray
SFs - Djokovic d. Federer, Nadal d. Roddick
F - Nadal d. Djokovic

I'm tempted, based on current form, to take Davydenko over Federer - but I just can't do it. Not really sure who's coming out of the 1/8 where I picked Tsonga; he's as good a guess as any. Del Potro's a bit beat-up at the moment, so I wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't even make it to the quarters, and I just don't believe in Murray as a GS-caliber threat anymore.

NFL 2009 Playoff Week 2


(disclaimer: I like Seattle and the New York Giants, I dislike New England, I hate Denver and Dallas, and I'm pretty much neutral on the rest.)

A great weekend, not quite the blowouts of last weekend although most of the games this week did turn out to be one-sided by the end. Still, most of them weren't really decided until the 4th quarter and the Jets-Chargers game was in the balance right up to the last few minutes.


The Bruins are struggling and the Sox will rely on pitching and defense in the upcoming season. But the contact sport playing out in the Commonwealth may very well mirror the 2004 ACLS where the underdog ended a long standing curse.

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