Earlier this week, the college football season officially got under way and we gave you The Blue Workhorse Preseason Top 25 (which will be updated weekly). However, the season gets going in earnest today as 23 of the AP Top 25 open their season, including two Top 25 matchups (#24 Alabama vs #9 Clemson & [...]
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The college football season officially starts tonight. North Carolina State will be taking on The Old Ball Coach Steve Spurrier and his South Carolina Gamecocks; Oregon State opens with Pac-10 conference for Stanford; and the first ranked team, Wake Forest, will play as well.
But before the season gets under way, we give you the official Top 25 from The Blue Workhorse, and later, we will give you our predictions for conference champions, the Heisman trophy winner, and maybe even a surprise team or two that may be flying under the radar now only to be clearly on the BCS scene at the end of the season.
Just as the ESPN or USA Today polls are compiled, we’ve polled our 4 top college football writers and given each vote a point value (#1 ranking = 25 points, #2 ranking = 24 points ….. #24 ranking = 2 points, #25 ranking = 1 point). We then tallied all of the points and tabulated the top 25 teams.
We’ve got the national powerhouses, the contenders, the possible BCS spoilers, and 25 teams that each want to hoist the glass football at the end of the season, so welcome to the first edition of The Blue Workhorse’s weekly NCAA football rankings.
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Imagine if our future president does his job well. What if by 2010 he eliminated poverty, the economy boomed, and every nation in the world decided to be nice…and because of all that, the President was impeached. Told he could no longer be the President because he did his job too well.
If that ever happened, President McCain or Obama could find solace in calling up Jericho Scott, who would then be 11 years old.
Scott, after all, is facing the same dilemma right now. No, Scott is not the President, but the 9-year-old has been removed from his “job” because he does it too well.
“Nine-year-old Jericho Scott is a good baseball player — too good, it turns out.” (AP - John Cristoffersen)
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I’m not much on gymnastics, but I was able to catch some of the women’s competition from Beijing. It was apparent the Chinese and the American teams were the class of the female field. On the day of the competition, the Chinese women performed best and were the deserving recipients of the team All-Around gold.
A few days after the completion of the meet, rumors began spreading about the ages of some of the Chinese gymnasts, claiming some may be too young to be eligible to compete in the Olympics. This concept made absolutely no sense to me, because I always believed the Olympics are designed to determine who the best athletes in the World are. If a 14-year-old girl can put together a better floor routine than anyone else in the world, she deserves to be the gold medalist.
I will never be convinced that putting a 14-year-old athlete in an event open to the best athletes of any age in the world is giving someone an unfair advantage.
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It’s official.
I’ve gotten caught up in football fever.
I usually don’t get too excited about football until late October or November. Sure, I actively watch the beginning of the college and pro seasons Saturdays and Sundays, but I’m usually engulfed in the baseball pennant races and playoffs.
Not this year, though.
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In the Sunday Sports Selection series, we showcase a sports-related product (gadget, book, film, equipment, etc.) that we have enjoyed and think you may find of interest as well.
I anxiously await its arrival every year. Once I start seeing the advertisements pop up, the my anticipations begin to mount. I’m, of course, referring to the newest version of the NCAA Football gaming franchise produced by EA Sports.
In my opinion, EA Sports is the premier producer of sports-related video games. From the Madden NFL franchise to NBA Live to NASCAR to boxing to FIFA, Electronic Arts is the leader in the video gaming world, and as far as college football, they own the monopoly being the company with exclusive licenses with the NCAA.
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For a professional women’s softball player to become nationally known, the typical criteria is:
A. Be a dominant pitcher
OR
B. Be attractive
It really helps if both of the criteria can be met (ala Jennie Finch or Cat Osterman). However, one player is breaking the mold.
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