The Case Against Ohio State
As the first lights from the dawn of the 2008 College football season begin to peek over the horizon, let’s look at the one team that will most assuredly, NOT be playing in Miami for all of the (mythical) marbles. (more…)
TALB’s Insanely Inaccurate Preseason College Football Preview
It’s not even June yet. Most college footballers are home trying not to run afoul of their local constabulary. Yet the flood-gates of preseason power rankings are about to open. Stewie Mandel may have been first off the blocks, but the rest are just biding their time. With that in mind, TALB thought this would be a great time to toss some chum into the water. But in a way that only TALB could do it. (more…)
TALB Open Source College Football Ranking (TOSCFR)
For the 2008 college football season TALB intends to embark on a quest to come up with a better ranking system. It is a “computer” ranking by definition. This is a work-in-progress, and is considered “open source”. Anyone can take this methodology, and fold/spindle/mutilate to make it better. And more specifically, a developer with the talent and the time can probably make this a reality more so than I could. [Posted as a "page" so it stays on the front. Comments enabled there.] (more…)
Repeat?
The 2008 NFL Schedule was unleashed on the world this week. Let’s take a gander at the Bucs’ slate, shall we? The schedule features a brace of Sunday Night collisions, and one foray onto the Worldwide Leader’s Monday telecast. (more…)
Opening Day
Yesterday was opening day for our favorite sport, Major League Baseball. And it was glorious. Of course, the Washington Nationals opened up play the day before in their shiny new shrine to America’s Pastime. Just think, as wonderful as it is that baseball is back, there are only 161 games left. Let’s take a look around the league on this first day of April. (more…)
Playoffs - Changes?
Hey there. How’s it been going? Me, same old. What’s that? Oh… yeah it’s not that kind of blog. Today, let’s talk about the playoffs. Both of the pro and “armature” variety. The NFL is looking (finally) to resolve the old problem of having bad division winners at home against good wild-cards. And, lo and behold, the NCAA may actually consider talking about looking into a Division I-A playoff. (more…)
Buh-Bye
I know that you were all waiting to read this. My traffic spiked on the day that Favre announced his retirement. You know me so well. But my paying job had me tied up all week. So, here you go; TALB’s reaction to the retirement of Brett Favre (more…)
