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Bowl Pick It and Stick It 2009: Chucking Gutter Bowls

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Here we go!  Bowl season starts tomorrow and we got your Bowl Pick It and Stick It ready to go!  It’s the somewhat the same format as the regular season.  For each of the 34 bowl games, you will need to assign confidence points.  So for whoever you think will win the strongest, should get the highest confidence points and vice versa for the weakest.  What’s different is the you need to pick the winner straight up.   There is no spread points to play off of for the bowls.  So head on over to Yahoo! Fantasy Sports and sign up!  We’ll go over the bowls after break but first, here’s the info:

Group Site: http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/bowl/
Group ID: 18316
Password: homer

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Pick It and Stick It: Nose Goblins are the Worst

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It’s starting to feel spooky here around the KCCGD headquarters as we are getting geared up for college football AND Halloween Saturday.  There are already some scary and shocking things going on.  Just talk to Virginia Tech about the game last night.  Talk about a nightmare.  North Carolina pulls out the last second upset.  We wouldn’t be surprised if some other strange, supernatural things happens to some other teams come Saturday.  Remember, if they ask for trick or treat, say treat.  No trick plays will turn out good.  Here’s the the picks:

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Pick It and Stick It: Double Barrellin’ It

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Ridin’, ropin’, buckin’, bustin’, and pickn’!  Get used to it folks.  The closer and closer we get to the Red River Rivalry the more we don the chaps and start spittin’ some chaw.  Soze what wez got here is one of the best rivalries in the land.  It may not be number one with a bullet but it certainly will place at the state fair.  And in this here game’s place, that would be the Texas State Fair.  So hold on to yer hats, buckaroo, there’s gonna be a shoot out come high noon tomorrow!

Favorite VS Underdog Spread Time  (in CDT)
(7)Ohio St. @ Purdue 13.5 Sat, Oct 17 at 11:00 am
Wisconsin VS (11)Iowa 2.5 Sat, Oct 17 at 11:00 am
(3)Texas VS (20)Oklahoma 3 Sat, Oct 17 at 11:00 am
(15)Nebraska VS Texas Tech 10.5 Sat, Oct 17 at 2:30 pm
@(14)Penn St. VS Minnesota 17.5 Sat, Oct 17 at 2:30 pm
(1)Florida VS Arkansas 25 Sat, Oct 17 at 2:30 pm
(6)USC @ (25)Notre Dame 10 Sat, Oct 17 at 2:30 pm
(23)Houston @ Tulane 17 Sat, Oct 17 at 2:30 pm
(12)TCU VS Colorado St. 22.5 Sat, Oct 17 at 3:00 pm
(4)Virginia Tech @ (19)Georgia Tech 3 Sat, Oct 17 at 5:00 pm
(18)BYU @ San Diego St. 17 Sat, Oct 17 at 5:00 pm
(17)Kansas @ Colorado 9.5 Sat, Oct 17 at 6:00 pm
(9)Miami (FL) @ UCF 14.5 Sat, Oct 17 at 6:30 pm
(2)Alabama VS (22)South Carolina 17 Sat, Oct 17 at 6:45 pm
(16)Oklahoma St. VS Missouri 7 Sat, Oct 17 at 8:15 pm
(24)Utah @ UNLV 16.5 Sat, Oct 17 at 9:00 pm

Arlight, enough cowboy poetry.  Let’s get to the plate of beans for the weekend.  Usually the Red River Rivalry is a close one and the spread makers deems it so this year with a measly 3 points.  The rest of the Big 12 action may be in the shadow but there’s still some potential barn burners.  Take a looksie at Missouri and Oklahoma State.  Or even Kansas and Colorado.  But enough about that.  The other big rivalry is USC and Notre Dame.  This should put whoever wins back on the map to the BCS title.   A map that’s currently shared by Virginia Tech.  They will have a hard time holding onto it when they face Georgia Tech.  Pick well, peeps, and enjoy the games!

Barspotting, College, Football

Barspotting: Check Out These Hooter’s

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It was bound to happen.  It could only be so long before we found out way there.  And so, thanks to your voting, we will be barspotting for KC College Gameday at Hooter’s.  If you don’t know what it is, then you probably never will be there.  Essentially it’s vehicle for putting women in tight clothes and making them overly friendly.  Word around the street, though, is their wings and cheese fries are top notch.  Being the guy magnet it makes no apologies to be, they also have sports packages available.  So we’re gonna find out this week if Hooter’s is a great place to watch sports as well as the talent.

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Pick It Standings Week 06: Bored with Florida

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The weekend of football left us a little deflated.  There was much hype going into the Florida vs LSU game but it ended up being pretty boring.  The other games on the docket were pretty uneventful.  It’s saying something when the most exciting game of the week came from the Big 10 of all places.  The pick it standings this week reflect that.  There were lots of easy calls and people missed most of the same picks.  Ho hum.  The next week should spice up at bit, especially with the Red River Rivalry coming our way.

Favored Aub Kan OHSt Tex FLSt Fla Iowa
Spread 2.5 19.5 16.0 32.5 3.0 7.5 8.0
Underdog Ark IASt Wis Colo GT LSU Mich
Team Name Points
Mangino
is FAT!!!		 Ark
(5)		 IASt
(4)		 Wis
(7)		 Colo
(15)		 GT
(3)		 LSU
(2)		 Mich
(1)		 113
Daniel
Thomas is the man!		 Aub
(13)		 Kan
(3)		 OHSt
(8)		 Tex
(5)		 GT
(11)		 Fla
(1)		 Iowa
(4)		 110
Katpak Aub
(14)		 IASt
(5)		 Wis
(6)		 Colo
(9)		 GT
(4)		 LSU
(3)		 Iowa
(2)		 104
krizzou Aub
(4)		 IASt
(17)		 OHSt
(11)		 Tex
(14)		 GT
(13)		 Fla
5)		 Mich
(15)		 98
Snyder
In Syder		 Aub
(10)		 Kan
(9)		 OHSt
(3)		 Colo
(4)		 GT
(2)		 LSU
(1)		 Iowa
(6)		 88
King
Of Pop Had A Va-J-J		 Aub
(16)		 Kan
(3)		 Wis
(7)		 Tex
(11)		 FLSt
(5)		 Fla
(4)		 Iowa
(1)		 83
KSU
finally makes a bowl again		 Aub
(6)		 Kan
(12)		 Wis
(8)		 Tex
(2)		 GT
(15)		 Fla
(3)		 Iowa
(10)		 81
KSOFM Aub
(3)		 Kan
(15)		 OHSt
(7)		 Tex
(11)		 FLSt
(13)		 LSU
(14)		 Iowa
(16)		 60

You may notice the results are a little slim.  Well we don’t include the picks where everyone else chose the same.  So for instance, this week everyone picked Virginia Tech, Penn State, Oregon, Alabama, Miami, and BYU.  They missed South Carolina, Oklahoma State, and TCU.  With that out of the way we once again point out Krizzou being the lone rebel and going with Baylor against Oklahoma.  Good call by Mangino is Fat!!! for picking Arkansas.

Rank Pick Set Name Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 11 Week 12 Week 13 Week 14 Total Pts
1 KSU finally makes a bowl again 125 138 149 133 84 81 0 0 0 0 710
2 Katpak 97 137 163 114 78 104 0 0 0 0 693
3 Mangino is FAT!!! 111 124 155 132 57 113 0 0 0 0 692
4 King Of Pop Had A Va-J-J 91 121 149 151 57 83 0 0 0 0 652
5 KSOFM 111 123 154 108 88 60 0 0 0 0 644
6 krizzou 100 113 141 132 46 98 0 0 0 0 630
7 Daniel Thomas is the man! 104 109 0 123 95 110 0 0 0 0 541
8 Purple Yeti 119 0 155 85 73 88 0 0 0 0 520
9 Polly want a Tinkle 0 0 0 96 73 0 0 0 0 0 169

We’re almost at the middle of the season and the pack is starting to break away.   Minus any major upsets, it looks as though it will be a three person race between KSU finally makes a bowl again, Katpak, and Mangino is FAT!!!  There’s a battle brewing for the cellar, too, between the Purple Yeti and Daniel Thomas is the man!  But there’s still plenty of season left over and now that many of the Top 25 teams won’t have that many weekends off, the points should bump up.  Get ready, because the BCS standings are coming out next week.

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GameDay: SEC is the Big Brother of College Football

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Now this is a Big 12 and Kansas City blog but today we are going to dip into the hype and look at the SEC.   Everyone in the country says the Southeastern Conference is the best college football conference on the planet.  Many people, especially around here pooh-pooh that notion.  But when looking at the numbers and opening conference play this week, it’s kind of hard to argue against that.  The SEC has 4 undefeated teams.  Every other conference has at most 2 (including the Big 12 and the Big 10).  Now you might complain that the non conference schedule for the SEC has been weak, but they handled teams like Virginia Tech and the some what surprising Washington.  Even so, they didn’t trip up like the other conferences and beat the teams they are supposed to.  Yet they still get the ire of others.  That kinda reminds me about how little brothers look at big brothers.

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J. Murphy’s Brings Out the Irish in Every One

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Western Europe meets the western Kansas City area as we trucked way the heck out to Shawnee to view Saturday’s selections at J. Murphy’s Irish Pub and Grille.  The games lined up for the afternoon seemed like a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.  The traditional fare sprinkled the joint so well we were waiting for a Contra Dance to bust out.  And the food, well the food was all it was cracked up to be, Irish wise.  But there was so much more than really cheesy Irish references (which we will stop as of now) at J. Murphy’s.

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GameDay: BCS and Quick Return Programs

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Believe it or not, I’m a big supporter of the current BCS system.  Anymore I see major complaints coming from sports writers who lack the creativity to come up with something compelling.  Either that or they think they control college football like baseball writers.  At any rate, the major beef from them nowadays comes in the form of mid-conference teams not getting a fair shot.  You see Utah and Boise State lifted up high as a examples that the system doesn’t work.  I’m not so sure about that but there is something that’s happening this week that is making me take a second look.

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Pick It and Stick It: Wiping It Clean

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Okay, everybody is fairly settled in on the new changes for Pick It and Stick It.  Now we get a chance to turn our focus from the rules of the game on to the actual game itself.  Usually you see pick sets float around the office or in the college dorm.  Typically on top of that you will see a wager attached to sweeten the deal.  What we like to do here is get feedback from you to see what the wager or prize should be.  Now it can be a pitcher of beer, or it could be making the loser(s) wear the other team’s colors.  So read on through and drop us a comment to let us know what you want as the prize for the champion this year.

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Barspotting: J. Murphy’s Law

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So the voters spoke and we’re feeling Irish this week at J. Murphy’s.  It’s not March yet, but we have a feeling it’s going to end up like it by the time we get done here.  So let’s run down the stats on the bar.  Green decor. Check.  Beer (with Guinness).  Check.  Irish Whiskey. Check. Corned Beef and Cabbage. Check.  All football games. Check.  Looks like they meet the requirements for an Irish sports bar.  Come out with us Saturday to find out if the proof is in the Shepard’s Pie.  Erin go bragh!

When: Saturday, September 26, 2009
Time: 12:00 pm
Where: J. Murphy’s Irish Pub and Grill, 22730 Midland Dr, Shawnee, KS 913.825.3880


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Games:

Notes:  It’s a somewhat of a trap game for Missouri as they head to Nevada Friday night.  Kansas hopefully will turn their punches toward Southern Miss and not the basketball team when they host the Golden Eagles.  Virginia Tech plays another game of the week when they host newly resurgent Miami.  The Illibuck Trophy is up for grabs as Illinois heads to Ohio State and hope for an upset like last time.  Speaking of upsets, Iowa hopes to do the same thing this year to Penn State like they did last year and derail their national title hopes.  The Shillelagh Trophy is up for grabs when the Fighting Irish take on the Purdue Boilermakers.  Texas Tech takes a long road trip to Houston and look to duke it out against the newly christened cinderella Houston Cougars.  Finally New Mexico and New Mexico State meet for the 100th time this weekend in the Battle of I-25 and the Maloof Trophy.

Here’s the voting results from facebook:

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It’s not Atlanta, but We’re Doing the Dirty Birdie’s

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Some weeks, you don’t know what you’re going to run into when you pick a place you’ve never been to before.  So when we strolled up to Birdie’s Pub and Grill,  we weren’t expecting much.  They didn’t have a website and the only information we got about the place was on Google Maps.   Walking in, however, things turned completely different.  Yes, it was bigger, but for some aspects it wasn’t necessarily better.  The goal of the week was to watch some Nebraska vs Virginia Tech and head to a BBQ.  We accomplished the mission.  Here’s the report.

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Pick It and Stick It: Spreading It Thin

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It’s another Friday and it’s time for another Pick It and Stick It update.  This weekend we have a couple of intriguing match ups and some obvious picks as well.  The picks were all done and set way back Wednesday for the Purple Yeti.  Let’s hope everyone else remembered.  I guess that’s the ‘Stick It’ portion of the fantasy league.   Some of you may be wondering wht the ‘Spread’ portion of the table means.  The ‘Spread’ is how many points the favored team must win by to get a win.  This helps out immensely when a sure blow out is about to happen.  This also helps out the folks in Vegas to justify booking those kind of lopsided match ups.  So without further ado, here’s this week’s pick set:

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Barspotting: A Little Birdie’s Pub Told Me To Go There

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This week’s barspot brings a suburban locale.   Usually in suburbs around this time, you smell the freshly mown lawns and the first scents of fall.  You even hear the birds chirping.  In that spirit, we will watch the action at Birdie’s Pub.  Um let’s see here.   Another way to think of this place is that we are going to a golf players fantasy sports bar.  So while we see the golf season wind down, we can see the college football season pick up.  Okay, now we’re just blabbing on.  We really don’t know what’s in this place because we’ve never been there before.  Hopefully, the local crowd won’t chirp to much while watching the games.  We also hope that Birdie’s does better than par for the barspotting course.  Now bring on the beer cart babes.

When: Saturday, September 19 2009
Time: 1:00 pm ish
Where: Birdie’s Pub, 8889 W. 75th Street, Overland Park, KS 66204, 913.648.4011


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Games:

Notes:  Alrighty some of the better games are happening tonight and tomorrow.  The Georgia Tech and Miami game should be good but we’re not sure if a fight will break out or not.  We know the Battle for the Milk Can can be rough and it’s up to Fresno State to spoil Boise States frothy pour toward BCS busting run.  The Governor’s Cup is up for grabs when Louisville heads to Kentucky.  Too bad both programs are a little blah right now.  Kansas will handle Duke better than the basketball contest.  The O-Rourke-McFadden Trophy (a leather helmet) is what Boston College and Clemson will be shooting for Saturday.  The Trophy first showed up just last year.  Missouri will roll.  Florida will take out its frustrations on Lane Kiffin’s smack talk against his Tennessee team.  In what will be the game of the week, we will see two great defenses pound on each other with Nebraska going to Blacksburg to take on Virginia Tech.  Due to a scheduling difference, Texas Tech agreed to play Texas this weekend.  For us it means an early treat and a revenge game for the Longhorns’ Colt McCoy.  UTEP and New Mexico State ride the Battle of I-10 to vie for the Silver Spade.  Finally we get Kansas State heading to UCLA.  So the starting QB is out with a broken jaw and 4 other players are suspended from UCLA for this game.  I still think this game has home victory written all over it.

Once again here are the facebook pool results:

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Crib Sheet: Need More Cowbell

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It’s another week of college football news and we are getting into a rhythm.  Most of the news churns up and out on Saturday and Sunday now.  I would say the amount of news tripled since the start of the season.  But we are taking it all in and making some sweet music for you to kick back and zone out on.  Let’s just consider this the greatest hits collection from the week.  Like any good compilation we have peaks and valleys then finish off with a strong note.  And no Kanye.  Now that’s what I call Crib Sheet!  Rock on below:

  • Steve Sipple from HuskersExtra.com talks about how the Cornhuskers are scheduling weak opponents and acceptance of such philosophy.  Welcome to what the Kansas State Wildcats did every year.   Now everyone is doing it.  Hey, at least they fill a slot in with a quality opponent.  They have Virginia Tech coming up.
  • Speaking of the Wildcats, Bill Snyder 2.0 just inked a 5 year, $10 million dollar deal with program.  They had to sign a new one with the new school president and athletic director.  But five years?  He can probably leave whenever and take a paper pushing job with the department when he’s done.  Hopefully he will have turned the program around in three.
  • Apparently swine flu is breaking out all over on football teams across the country.  They need to start washing their hands and behind their ears before practices and such.  Weren’t players supposed to be bigger, faster, and tougher in the new millennium?  Since when did a flu cause a freak out?  Man up, players (but don’t shake my hand).
  • Erin Andrews, resident ESPN sideline hottie, told her story on Oprah last week.  For those of you who don’t know, or listen to the news, Andrews was filmed nude by a peeping tom in some hotel room a couple of weeks ago.  She stated that she thought her career was over.  Um, she’s seriously mistaken.  If anything her nudity made her more popular.  Just talk to every Hollywood actress out there.  They dip into the nude pool when their careers are threatened.
  • Just in cased you missed it, Stephen F. Austin barely beat Texas College 92 – 0 last weekend.  That’s right.  Not 9, not 2, but 92 points.  It’s nice to see some joystick scores on the field every once in awhile but this is ridiculous.   Texas College should’ve hit the restart button.
  • The power went out before the half of the Montana vs UC-Davis game over the weekend too.  It took some time for the UC-Davis staff to get it up and going.  The home field advantage wasn’t enough, however as Montana went on to win 17-10.
  • Even though highly touted Colorado is 0-2, Dan Hawkins job might be safe.  ESPN Big 12 blogger Tim Griffin talks about how broke the Buffaloes are and why buying Hawkins out could hurt more.   That’s real good news for every other team in the Big 12 North.
  • You’d figure after losing a close game that you can talk about it with a little class. But Notre Dame’s Charlie Weiss dashes all hopes of respectfully losing by blaming the Big 10 officials in their last second loss to Michigan last week.  The schedule is weak enough for the Domers to finish with a double digit win record.  Focus on that Weiss.
  • Oklahoma fans from around the globe are supporting Landry Jones and his pencil thin mustache.  Even the American Mustache Institute chimed in for their support of the molestache.  Considering how he’s played on the field so far, there shouldn’t be any complaints about that mouth hugger.
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Pick It and Stick It: Flicking Off A New Year

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Welcome to the first Pick It and Stick It for the 2009 college football season!  We are mixing things up this year and introducing confidence points for the picks.  Last year, we had fun doing it by the spread but the competition was way apart (as in Purple Yeti).  So now we are upping the ante a bit and making everyone assign confidence points.  What does that mean?  It means that you win the points you set for when you choose a winner of a match up.

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