It almost certainly won't be the most entertaining sports event of the day, but maybe we'll get lucky again (this recent trend of Super Bowls that are actually good games has been weird, but pleasing.) I am in the very rare position of picking the...
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I'll somewhat reluctantly take the Colts -7.5 (pretty sure Colts will win, worry about the spread against the Jets defense, but also see some Sanchez picks if Jets are behind.
Keith Brooking. Aww, a professional team playing another professional team in a playoff game continued to play football in the fourth quarter, boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo.And now.
Jets +2.5 at Bengals. I'm generally inclined to think "Never, ever, EVER back a crappy QB on the road" is a good rule. I'm inclined to make an exception, however, when 1)in a given state of health and offensive context the much more accomplished veteran...
Annalee Newitz writes that "[w]hether Avatar is racist is a matter of debate," but it isn't: the film is racist. Its fundamental narrative logic is racist: it transposes the cultural.
Speaking of the culture of celebrity and media saturation, an ironic aspect of the ridiculous levels of worshipful coverage that Brett Favre has gotten over the years is that it.
Somerby notes the unfortunate parallels: Undying love of conventional wisdom: Many sports pundits have seemed genuinely angry about the fact that Belichick did something unconventional. (Trent Dilfer, come on down! And take your meds!) In political journalism, the pundit class is often happiest when They...
My throwaway intuition notwithstanding, there seems to be good evidence that Belichick was right. [via Neyer.]...see also Beaudrot. I also think Belichick was right not to concede a touchdown --.
From the Jacksonville-Jets game:"It included a Jets defense trying to allow a touchdown to give Jacksonville the lead and the Jaguars refusing to score it. And it had nothing to.
One explanation for why people who advocate transparently idiotic policies that result in national disasters (the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, our current health care system, our drug laws, our prisons, our current financial crisis) generally don't lose their pundit credentials is that what gets...
Joe Posnanski points out the rather amazing statistical quirk that Washington's NFL franchise won't play a team that will have won a game until the seventh week of the season.
Malcom Gladwell asks a very good question.I'm a huge college football fan and like my NFL fix too. This article is to put it mildly extremely disturbing.I don't know whether.