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Pick It Standings Week 09: Another Halloween Candy Hangover

Yesterday was the first Halloween at the new place and I have to say that the trick or treater representation was mega weak.  Me and my lovely lady had two big ole bags of variety candy and we only about 5 kids show up.  As of right now, we are through one bag.  I’m not sure I can make much more as the thought of gnawing down another Charleston Chew is starting to make me sick.  There was plenty to be sick about for college football around the Kansas City area as well as the Pick It and Stick It sets so let’s bring a glass water for this

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The Brooksider Let Us Down

So I’m sitting here on Halloween Sunday watching  a bit of The Evil Dead and I wished that I was doing that yesterday instead of hanging out at the Brooksider.  The former barspot of the year is on the last lap of some renovations and the changes were not all for the good.  Me and my crew headed out there for some Missouri and Nebraska action and we went away with a let down feeling in our stomach.  The feeling was both for the game and the bar.

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Barspotting: The Brooksider is for Big Games

Can you believe it?  Yes, it’s a barspot this week!  I’m finally done with road trips and now I’m ready to sit my behind down at a Kansas City bar and watch some great games this weekend.  Missouri had a historic win and this weekend I feel like I need to throw all of my support behind the Tigers and watch the game at the legendary Brooksider.  They have the biggest plasma screen television around and I’ll be there to watch that and the Kansas State game.   Come on out and join me in the fun while we kick old stool.

When: Saturday, October 30 2010
Time: 11:00 AM
Where: The Brooksider Sports Bar & Grill, 6300 Brookside Plaza, Kansas City, MO 64113


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Notes:  You know, it’s kind of light week.  All eyes will be on the Big 10 and Big 12 this weekend as the night games look pretty weak.  First off the road to the Big 10 title still goes through Iowa as Michigan State looks to stay undefeated.  It’s their 2nd time away from home and they barely escaped Northwestern last week.K  This should be a close one.  The one we’re going to see is Missouri and Nebraska.  One on hand you have the Tigers coming off their biggest win ever and on the other you have a farewell tour of a team bolting to the Big 10.  This one should be close too.  Come on out Saturday and help us spectate.

Crib Sheet: Nice With Pumpkin Spice

Halloween is Sunday and we are cooking up various items around the place with pumpkin in them.  The roasted pumpkin seeds with cinamon and nutmeg were awesome but so where the pumpkin muffins.  Grab your favorite pumpkin related food and check out this week’s Crib Sheet:

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Crib Sheet: The Road is Never Done

So I just found out today that I have at least 2 more road trips to go this year for the KCCGD crew.  This year has been by far the most travelled and will be the most Stadiumspotted.  It’s a nice change of pace from the last couple of years as we have begun to run out of new and cool places to Barspot.  One of the new road trips just happens to be tomorrow night.  Tune in tomorrow to find out here, but you won’t have to think hard if you want to guess.  In the meantime, let’s catch up to the news items in this week’s Crib Sheet:

  • Coach Mark Dantonio of Michigan State had his health issues and that apparently inspired a fan to postpone surgery to watch the battle for Paul Bunyan’s Trophy last Saturday.  Major Hester put off getting a pacemaker installed to watch the battle.  Okay, that’s hardcore.  I would pick life over college football, but it would be close.
  • Looks like the move to the Big 10 will support a stadium expansion for the Nebraska Cornhuskers.  The newly approved plan will cost about $56 million and put the capacity at around 90,000 seats.  How much do you want to bet that they will try to build Memorial Stadium up to be bigger than the Big House?
  • Meanwhile, the Rose Bowl has expansion plans of its own.  The $152 million expansion will keep the lease going with the bowl through 2043.  They have an upcoming BCS National Championship Game so they need to spruce things up a bit.
  • But while the two stadiums have expansion competition going, the locker room just got better for the Nebraska Cornhuskers.  Ndamukong Suh donated about $2 million and as part of that, the players get iPads installed in the locker room.  Man they need to put that in the toilet, not the locker.  You’re not going to get much use out in the open with those things.
  • Baylor receivers Willie Jefferson and Josh Gordon got busted with pot after they were found passed out in a Taco Bell drive through.  The whole 4th meal thingy from the Bell targets potheads anyway so it was a no brainer that these guys were found with weed.  They’ll more than likely miss a couple of games.
  • Neither of those two were involved last week in one of the shortest kick returns in history.  Texas Tech hit an onside and it didn’t go 10 yards.  Terrance Ganaway nabbed it and ran 38 yards for a touchdown.  It wasn’t the shortest, but it was awesome to see the special teams fail on the Red Raiders.
  • Don’t dump on Texas Tech too much though, they are getting kick ass camouflage uniforms for a game against Missouri in November.  Any kind of camo works for us as we miss the old Army ones.  If you want to dump on uniforms, check out Texas A&M’s refresh.  It’s almost exactly the same.  Yawn City.
  • Floida quarterback John Brantly played with broken ribs and thumb against LSU last Saturday.  That’s pretty tough, especially for a quarterback.  You know what’s tougher?   Virginia Tech offensive lineman Greg Nosal didn’t realize he lost the tip of his pinky in his glove and continued to play the game until it was out of reach.  His pinky tip was on ice and was reattached after the game.  Football is tough, real tough.
  • This bit of news is confusing so bear with me on this.  A former agent said an agent friend of his, Gary Wichard, used ESPN’s Mel Kiper, Jr. to recruit college players.  Kiper’s released statement says he talked to players by going through agents.  I’m having a hard time finding where the fault is.  I think it’s the fact that agents are pushing players to Kiper and his Big Board.  But I don’t know it’s players after college or during.  This does smell fishy.
  • College football is cyclical.  Power programs come and go and the traditional ones always swing around back into power.  Much like the seasons, power programs have summers and winters.  For Penn State’s winters, that also includes the usual cries for Joe Paterno to retire.  This guy is going to die on the field, in anything to fulfill my prediction.  He’s not going to retire and Penn State will be good in a couple of years.

Pick It Standings Week 06: Part Design Part Luck

This week’s standings are in and we are still figuring out just how to work the angles.  Starting out, it made sense that we made the picks a little more hardcore.  Picking just one team over the other seemed way to simple to the kind of fans that lurk around these parts.  Oh, we’re glad we set it up the way we did, but we sure are reminded today that we can’t fall asleep at the wheel.  The weekly picks by design are supposed to affect the overall but it doesn’t seem that way.  Much like Les Miles crazy fake field goal that eventually put LSU over Florida.  Pick It and Stick is part design, part luck.

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Pick It and Stick It: The Mourning After

The big game last night didn’t end up so well for this Kansas State fan. Hey, that’s okay. We tooled to Aggiveille and hit up the Hibachi Hit, which later lead to the vaunted Hibachi Butt. Maybe it was the mixture of great cajun food and the Carbomb we had at O’Malley’s Alley. Who knows? But it was great to see the old stomping grounds, even though the Wildcats were run over by Taylor Martinez and the Nebraska Cornhuskers. More on that with Monday’s post. Until then, we have some picks for the weekend we need to go through. The healing process begins with pickens.

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Stadiumspotting: Thursday Night Lights

This will be the first off day stadiumspotting for us and we’re super excited.  Kansas State hosts Nebraska for probably the last time ever and they are both undefeated.  The electricity will be huge in the Little Apple and we will be there to cover it.  Chances are we will make our way back to a bar Saturday but we’ll go ahead and tweet the location when we decided where.  Until then, it’s half day action at work then a split time of driving and football watching.  This Purple Yeti is more than pumped for the biggest game of the year for the Wildcats.

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Tailgaters Sports Cafe Shuffled Us In and Out of Minneapolis

Okay so this will be a lil weird.  Barspotting found me outside of Kansas City again Saturday for the second week in a row.  This time, I was in Minnesota.  Minneapolis to be exact.  So prior obligations held me up north and by some crazy chance I was able to stumble into a sports bar up there to catch at least one football game.  Among the lessons learned on this trip was that regional football coverage can sometimes cramp your football watching style.  Well that and onion rings alone can be pretty tasty.

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Pick It And Stick It: Gopher More

Okay so in case you’ve heard we are heading up north.  Yup, it’s gonna be chilly but hopefully not as chilly as some of the picks we have this week.  There’s only 25, our lowest of the year so far, and we’re feeling the pinch of lower confidence points.  Pick well, every one.  Dig down deep and go for more.  You’ll need to be spot on for this set and probably the rest of the sets.

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Crib Sheet: More Bacon Please

The only other thing this week’s Crib Sheet needs is bacon.  Grab some and check it out:

  • Notre Dame’s Dayne Crist played the rest of the first drive of the game against Michigan with blurred vision out of his right eye.  It was just enough blurry vision to keep him out of the rest of the first half.  It was a great game and we wonder what the score would be like if he was healthy for the whole game.
  • The Heisman Trust will leave Reggie Bush’s recently forfeited trophy vacated.  It was the 0nly thing to do.  We wonder how many other Heisman winners will give up the trophy because of money they took?
  • Oh by the way, speaking of illegibility, Texas tailback Vondrell McGee is out for the rest of the year due to academic illegibility.
  • If it will ever happen, Liberty Mutual will give $1 million to a charity for a penalty free college football game.  The last time it’s happened was way back in 1986.  Not a bad bit of promotion juice for an insurance company.
  • Much like Wrigley Field of baseball, the Big House will get permanent lights for night games.  Will we ever see the docket of Big 10 games go well into the night?  Since the Big 10 Network is around you can bet on the conference trying to expand all of its games throughout the day and weekends.
  • Speaking of stadiums, the Richmond Spiders will actually get to play a home game in their own stadium for the first time in 82 years.  It seems the city owned the place they were playing at and it wasn’t even on campus.  This should help Richmod realize its full potential and become a powerhouse in football for years to come.
  • We see some players go from college football to major league baseball but it’s rare when the other way happens.  Welp it happened with Nick Doscher.  He’s playing at quarterback for Wagner College after a stint as catcher in the farm system for the Kansas City Royals.  This guy must be able to manage the game because of his catcher status.  If he was a pitcher we would guess he would throw all over the place in a passing attack.
  • Phil Fulmer put the full frontal audible attack on Lane Kiffin last week.  He used to be Tennessee  head coach before Kiffin came on.  He’s wondering how Kiffin uses his mojo to get the cush coaching jobs.  It’s a good thing he used his smack talk on his now current CBS analyst gig.  Let the media war begin.
  • The Chick-fil-A Kickoff will now have two games starting in 2012.  We already knew that Tennessee will take on N.C. State but now Auburn will take on Clemson, too.  All this does is make me more hungry for Chick-fil-A sandwiches.
  • Here’s a lesson:  When you talk with an ESPN reporter, more than likely you will be on record.  Washington head coach Steve Sarkisian learned the hard way when he talked about Reggie Bush and not apologizing for the Heisman/eligibility problem.  Serves Sarkisian right.  He was an offensive coordinator during this debacle and he should get some negative rub it too.
  • Michigan State head coach Mark Dantonio was so thrilled about his overtime fake field goal for the win against Notre Dame last week that he had a heart attack.  He’s okay, but we think he needs to lay off the coffee a bit.  Notre Dame’s not looking to good this year anyway.
  • Houston, we have a problem.  (I’ve been waiting so long to say that!)  The Cougars quarterback Case Keenum and his backup Cotton Turner are out with season ending injuries.  Keenum has a bum knee and Turner has a broken collarbone.  Houston lost to UCLA in a blow out and they probably won’t recover from these damages.
  • Missouri defensive end Aldon Smith is out two weeks with a broken leg.  A broken leg?  That sounds like more than a two week thing.  Is this guy some kind of cyborg or something?
  • Colorado head coach Dan Hawkins was so pumped about the Buffaloes games against Hawaii that he head butted a player and cut himself.  They needed that emotion to come from behind and win but we’re not sure if it will save the Hawk’s Big 12 campaign.
  • The olny Ohio player to show some emotion and gusto against Ohio State was the mascot.  He jumped Brutus Buckeye and now he’s banned from being a mascot again.  It also turns out that he planned to do it all along.  Now that’s some mascot grudge.
  • Looks like there is a deal in place for Colorado to jump ship to the Pac 10 in 2011.  It’s been a back and forth report regarding the Buffaloes.  The move will be costly but not as costly as Nebraska’s.

Barspotting: Farmageddon At The Other Place

It’s amazing to think how long we have been doing this blog.  Three years.  That’s dedication, homes.  One of the very first places we barspotted was The Other Place.  It was a great time and now it’s time again to head back over there.  What better place to watch Farmageddon other than Arrowhead than deep into one of the few Iowa/Iowa State bars in the area.  Yeah, we could go to Kite’s or Lucky Brewgrille for the Kansas State side of things but The Other Place is so much better and it’s been a long time since we’ve been there.  So let’s re-live some good times and meet us out there Saturday to watch Farmegeddon blow us away.

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Big 12 Bowl Preview and Predictions

Alrighty,  we are in the 1st quarter of bowl season and fortunately we don’t have any Big 12 bowl games until next week.  So we have the opportunity to preview and predict what’s coming up in the next couple of weeks for the Big 12.  We’ll talk briefly about the match up and go into our expert predictions.  Chew on this while you are doing your last minute shopping on Amazon.  Oh and please pick us up something nice while you’re at it.

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Crib Sheet: Working That Turkey Out

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We’re getting back on the treadmill to work off last weekend’s Turkey gauntlet.  The timing is perfect as he have lots to feast on this weekend with conference championships going on all over the place.  Hopefully the belt won’t be too tight to enjoy the big games filling up the screens.  As an appetizer to the weekend, we have a Crib Sheet spilling over with news this week. So without further ado, here’s this week’s Crib Sheet:

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Pick It Standings Week 08: Post Traumatic Grill Syndrome

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Another week of football came and went and in between the drizzles, the greasy smells, the turning leaves, and bands hitting the bricks, we gots ourselves some pick it standings sizzling on the grill.  So let’s munch on these tasty numbers and see what they turn up.  Let’s hope they don’t turn our stomach.  No room for leftovers, however, as we are merely just practicing for Thanksgiving.  It’s still a month away, you know.

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