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Week 13 Match-ups to Make Picks For - Part 1 THURSDAY Arizona State FRIDAY Nebraska Hawaii SATURDAY Virginia Tech Maryland Tennessee Wake Forest West Virginia UCLA Kansas State South Carolina Kansas

I'll probably have them up earlier - I work Wednesday night.

Week 12 Games to Make Picks For THURSDAY Oregon FRIDAY Hawaii SATURDAY Michigan Maryland Georgia Arkansas Notre Dame Penn State Purdue Wake Forest Utah Boston College West Virginia Oklahoma Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the Ohio State/Michigan game? 55 Tiebreak #2: How many passing yards will Boston College's Matt Ryan have against Clemson? 275

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Week 11 Games to Make Picks For THURSDAY West Virginia SATURDAY Indiana N.C. State Michigan Kansas State Tennessee Alabama Tulsa Georgia Cincinnati Virginia Florida USC Kansas Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the Auburn/Georgia game? 38 Tiebreak #2: How many rushing yards will Michigan's Mike Hart have against Wisconsin? 110

Week 9 Games to Make Picks For THURSDAY Virginia Tech New Mexico FRIDAY Boise State SATURDAY West Virginia Michigan State Purdue USC Florida South Florida Clemson Texas A&M Tennessee Ohio State Arizona State Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the USC/Oregon game? 55 Tiebreak #2: How many passing yards will Arizona State's Rudy Carpenter have against California? 200

MLB: 1. Make the National League adopt the DH. I don't think this will stop smallball - look at the Angels. I think it will add a little more excitement because the hitter is less likely to be an automatic out than the majority of pitchers are. 2. The All-Star Game will count no more. It's an exhibition so the fans can see the best players in the game and should not count for anything other than that. Best record will determine home-field advantage for the World Series. I'd even go a step further and allow the fans to vote for the starting pitcher. 3. Install Questec in all ballparks.

THURSDAY South Carolina FRIDAY Louisville SATURDAY Wisconsin Kansas State Maryland TCU Georgia Oklahoma Nevada Virginia Tech LSU Ohio State Rutgers Nebraska Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the Florida/LSU game? 43 Tiebreak #2: How many passing yards will Oklahoma's Sam Bradford have against Texas? 200

AL Most Valuable Player 1. Alex Rodriguez, NYY 2. Magglio Ordonez, DET 3. Vladimir Guerrero, LAA 4. David Ortiz, BOS 5. Grady Sizemore, CLE 6. Ichiro Suzuki, SEA 7. Curtis Granderson, DET 8. Victor Martinez, CLE 9. Jorge Posada, NYY 10. Carlos Pena, TBD NL Most Valuable Player 1. Jimmy Rollins, PHI 2. Matt Holliday, COL 3. Prince Fielder, MIL 4. David Wright, NYM 5. Eric Byrnes, ARZ 6. Chase Utley, PHI 7. Chipper Jones, ATL 8. Jake Peavy, SDP 9. Miguel Cabrera, FLA 10. Hanley Ramirez, FLA AL Cy Young 1. C.C. Sabathia, CLE 2. Josh Beckett, BOS 3. John Lackey, LAA NL Cy Young 1. Jake Peavy, SDP 2. Brandon Webb, ARZ 3. Cole Hamels, PHI AL Rookie of the Year 1. Daisuke Matsuzaka, BOS 2. Brian Bannister, KC 3. Dustin Pedroia, BOS NL Rookie of the Year 1. Ryan Braun, MIL 2. Troy Tulowitski, COL 3. Hunter Pence, HOU AL Manager of the Year 1. Eric Wedge, CLE 2. Mike Scioscia, LAA 3. Joe Torre, NYY NL Manager of the Year 1. Lou Pinella, CHC 2. Bob Melvin, ARZ 3. Manny Acta, WSH

"Playoffs" "Playoffs? PLAYOFFS? We're just trying to win a game!"

Week 4 Games to Make Picks For THURSDAY Texas A&M FRIDAY Oklahoma SATURDAY Illinois BYU LSU Penn State Wake Forest Houston Kentucky Pittsburgh Iowa State Georgia Arizona State UCLA Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the South Carolina/LSU game? 45 Tiebreak #2: How many rushing yards will Arkansas' Darren McFadden have against Kentucky? 150

Shit...forgot. Week 3 Games to Make Picks For SATURDAY Virginia Florida Michigan Washington Southern Miss Arkansas Mississippi Louisville Georgia Tech Boise State USC Hawaii Florida State Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the USC/Nebraska game? 56 Tiebreak #2: How many passing yards will Tennessee's Erik Ainge have against Florida? 200

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THURSDAY Oregon State SATURDAY Nevada Nebraska Oklahoma Alabama Michigan Boise State Georgia Missouri North Carolina Texas Indiana LSU Arizona State Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the Virginia Tech/LSU game? 38 Tiebreak #2: How many passing yards will Texas' Colt McCoy have against TCU? 225

Week 1 Games to Make Picks For THURSDAY Oregon State FRIDAY Washington SATURDAY Colorado State Connecticut Virginia Georgia Tech Boston College Mississippi Arizona Georgia Kansas Purdue Tennessee New Mexico Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the Tennessee/California game? 56 Tiebreak #2: How many receiving yards will Oklahoma State's Adarius Bowman have against Georgia? 110

I believe it was Dave O'Brien and Sutcliffe calling the game. Congrats, Barry. I'm not really excited over it. I was watching more to say I saw it than being excited over it. At least he did it in the one place where he would be cheered. Barry is also 83 hits away from 3,000 - does he play one more year? So who's hotter, Glavine's wife or Bonds' daughter?

Definitely back as UCLA.

Kent, Drew, Martin and Anderson - the last two off Trevor Hoffman. Nomar hit a walk-off HR in the 10th to win it.

I've been thinking about reading it again. Great book. Nice look into the world of fantasy baseball. It's funny what he does to encourage his players.

Since someone has to... '27 Yankees

Obviously you gotta hit the Strip...you'll be kind of in the middle with Harrah's - next to Bellagio, Caesar's Palace, Wynn and the Flamingo. Bellagio has the water show every ten minutes, T.I.'s pirate show runs every hour or so. I like the southern end of the Strip with MGM Grand, NY/NY, Excalibur, Luxor and Mandalay Bay. There's Stratosphere if you want to go on "the world's highest roller coaster". Downtown has the Fremont Street Experience...basically it's a pedestrian mall that has live entertainment. Check websites and see who's headlining...my brother and I were able to see David Copperfield at the MGM Grand last time we went. Most of the casinos also have some kind of show going on. If you like nature Red Rock Canyon is about an hour or so (not sure) from Las Vegas, and Lake Mead is also about an hour or two away. There's also aerial tours of the Grand Canyon that get advertised at welcome centers.

I remember one Mora speech with him telling the press "you don't know. You think you know, but you DON'T KNOW." That was the one I remembered him by until the classic "playoff" speech.

Maybe even Green Bay if Favre does indeed retire. The Pack isn't incredibly impressed with Aaron Rodgers, though he seems like he might be good enough. Schaub would be a good insurance policy, especially since he's already familiar with Jeff Jagodzinski, Green Bay's offensive coordinator who was the offensive line coach for Atlanta before this season. Jagodzinski is on his way to Boston College to become their head coach.

No kidding. Show me something I can use, not another Real World ripoff.

Alomar's one of the best second basemen of all time. His two black marks are the sudden decline after the trade to the Mets, and the John Hirshbeck spitting incident. Barring that, he has been a member of two World Series winners and several playoff teams, was a great offensive and defensive player (10 Gold Gloves), and has made 12 All-Star teams. He was considered to be the best second baseman in baseball throughout his career, and has good stats - even though the decline curbed his chances for 3,000 hits. I think Alomar will be and should be a first ballot HOFer, but I'm curious to see if the spitting incident comes into play.