A few random observations before we get to an expanded edition of this week’s football picks: The Bears Are Horrible… and the NFC is Even Worse – There was no logical reason for the Bears to have beaten the Packers this past Monday night. They played as if though they were ready to pack it [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Random Observations on the World of Sports and Frank the Tank’s Football Parlay – New Year’s 2009 Edition
Posted: December 26, 2008 in Big East, Big Ten, Chicago Bears, Chicago Bulls, College Basketball, College Football, Illinois Fighting Illini, NBA Basketball, NFL Football, SportsTags: ACC, Alabama Crimson Tide, Alex Legion, BCS Bowl Picks, Beanie Wells, Big 12, Bob Stoops, Boston Celtics, Braggin' Rights Game, Capital One Bowl, Cincinnati Bearcats, Clemson Tigers, Dallas Cowboys, Florida Gators, Frank the Tank's Football Parlay, Gator Bowl, Georgia Bulldogs, Green Bay Packers, Houston Texans, Iowa Hawkeyes, Jim Tressel, LSU Tigers, Miami Dolphins, Michigan State Spartans, Minnesota Vikings, Missouri Tigers, Mountain West, Nebraska Cornhuskers, New York Giants, New York Jets, Ohio State Buckeyes, Oklahoma Sooners, Orange Bowl, Outback Bowl, Pac-10, Penn State Nittany Lions, Philadelphia Eagles, Rose Bowl, SEC, South Carolina Gamecocks, Sugar Bowl, Texas Longhorns, USC Trojans, Utah Utes, Virginia Tech Hokies
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Auto Bailout is Pointless
Posted: December 5, 2008 in Business, PoliticsTags: auto bailout, bank bailout, Big Three automakers, Chrysler, Congress, financial bailout, financial industry, Ford, General Motors, GM, Honda, labor unions, Mercedes-Benz, Toyota, UAW, Wall Street
As the economy turns, Detroit auto executives are back on Capitol Hill arguing their case for a bailout of their companies. While Congressional leaders have developed a nasty habit of putting on ridiculous publicized corporate CEO scalpings to feed to the rabid proletariat which really don’t address the actual economic issues at hand (such as [...]
Derrick Rose is the Truth
Posted: December 2, 2008 in Big Ten, Chicago Bears, Chicago Bulls, College Basketball, College Football, Illinois Fighting Illini, NBA Basketball, NFL Football, SportsTags: Aaron Gray, ACC, ACC/Big Ten Challenge, Ben Gordon, Chris Bosh, Clemson Tigers, Derrick Rose, Dywane Wade, Gus Frerotte, Kirk Hinrich, Larry Hughes, LeBron James, Luol Deng, Michael Jordan, Minnesota Vikings
I know that my 3.4 regular readers love my rants, and boy oh boy, there’s a lot to rant about between the mauling of the Bears at the hands of Gus Frerotte on Sunday evening, the Illini football team failing to become bowl eligible even though they had enough NFL prospects to have been reasonably [...]
