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SPORTS WEEKEND RECAP Last night, with the “G” Men mounting a ferocious comeback against Jerry’s boys, completed a wild weekend of sports. PED’s, fights, comebacks, awards, upsets, playoffs, and record setting performances highlighted the last 3 days. Let’s start with the sad story of Ryan Braun, this past season’s NL MVP. Just when you MAY [...]
Behind Blondie Park
THE WEEKEND SPORTS WRAP-UP In the wacky world of sports, this weekend was a mixture of great finishes, comebacks, more of the same, a blast from the past, and the circus called the BCS. Let’s start with a blast from the past…. TIGER wins his first tournament since 2009!! I saw a glimmer of [...]
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After much anticipation and weeks of speculation…former Florida coach Urban Meyer will be the next head football coach at Ohio State University. According to sources the official announcement will be made at 5:15 p.m. Meyer, 47, who coached at Florida for six years will be returning to his roots. His college coaching career began in [...]
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LSU vs. ALABAMA – GAME OF THE CENTURY, PART 2 The 2011 BCS National Championship game will be between LSU and Alabama. Since the Tigers overtime victory several weeks ago, the talking heads have all said that they DO NOT want to see a rematch. They have tried to create every scenario in which it [...]
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL WEEK 13 RECAP I said last week that this could be another topsy turvy week in college football or chalk would be the norm – chalk was the norm! Now it boils done to 2 key games this upcoming week – the SEC Championship game and Oklahoma vs. Oklahoma State. If LSU wins, [...]
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL WEEK 10 RECAP #1 vs. #2 – THE GAME OF THE YEAR – THE BIGGEST GAME EVER – AN INSTANT CLASSIC!! The hype surrounding this game has been heard for weeks. Every pre game show, every half time segment, every T.V. station has been playing up this matchup and rightfully so. Rarely does [...]
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WEEK 7 COLLEGE FOOTBALL RECAP Going into yesterday’s games, there were 13 undefeated teams in my Top 25 so something had to give. Sure enough, Michigan, Georgia Tech, and Illinois all went down. Al Groh, the former head coach at Virginia, now the Defensive Coordinator at Georgia Tech, had to take the defeat the hardest! The [...]