This has not been the year for me as far as football is concerned. In Fantasy Football, I drafted Peyton Manning and Matt Schaub at quarterback. Manning was just supposed to miss 2-3 weeks and wound up missing the entire season. Schaub suffered a season-ending injury at the midway point in the season. I replaced Manning with Jason Campbell, whom suffered a season-ending injury mid-season. I wound up with Carson Palmer and Tyler Palko/Caleb Hainie at quarterback. In the bowl games, I put quite a few points on Georgia Tech over Utah (Tech was up 14 in the 4th), Georgia over Michigan State (Georgia was up 16-0 and also 27-20 in the final minute of the game) and Stanford over Oklahoma State (Stanford led 14-0 and 38-31 late in the 4th and with a 34-yard field goal as time expired, would have won). Georgia Tech, Georgia and Stanford all wound up losing in overtime (triple in Georgia's case). I surrender. Whatever I did to piss off the football gods, I sincerely apologize. I suppose part of me should be grateful, because 3 of the 6 games today were great (Michigan State/Georgia, Oklahoma State/Stanford and Oregon/Wisconsin) another was pretty good (Ohio State/Florida) and the other two were average (Penn State/Houston and Nebraska/South Carolina). Keep the good games a-coming, but not at the expense of my picks! ...if that's at all possible...
After its first week, I gave The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore a B+ grade. While I didn't think the show appeared to be perfect by any stretch of the imagination, I also liked the Daily Show meets Politically Incorrect vibe I got from it, and thought, with the proper adjustments, the show would indeed provide a great fill-in for The Colbert Report . In the show's succeeding weeks, however, I've been less impressed by it and think that if it doesn't make certain adjustments, it could be in jeopardy of losing many long-time viewers of the show's time slot. One major issue I think the show's had to this point is a lack of direction. It's been unable to decide whether it wants to be a comedy show with serious conversation sprinkled in or a serious show with comedy sprinkled in. It's almost as if the show's writers want to give The Nightly Show a Real Time with Bill Maher feel. The problem with that idea or format is the fact Real Time is an hour lon...
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