Lady Judith Francesca de la Samlð The Oracle at Acheron has generously accepted my challenge to continue the sports handicapping contests into the new year. We will begin an NCAA hoops handicapping contest starting with all of the games of the Week Ending January 13, 2008. We will each be required to have picked 20 sides and/or totals per week by the final tip each Sunday, each at 1 unit level stake. Picks may be submitted each day before the first tip or in advance for the week. We will find a (TBD) way of blending NCAA men's and women's games together for the Overall Championship for the following reasons: we want to be up to speed for both the men's and womens NIT and NCAA tourneys and we want to be able to bestow both a Men's (RICHARD "THE FIXER" PERRY FLASK) and Women's (THE JENNIFER CAPRIATI "WORKS") NCAA handicapping championship loving cup as well as The Big One: The TEXAS-WESTERN PLATE, in honor of that remarkable team which really brought basketball into the modern world.
We'll probably end up weighting the tourney picks much like we've weighted the NCAA bowls, but with some more wrinkles: tournament brackets with Kelleher scoring, i.e., extra credit given for choosing lower-seeded-over-higher-seeded winners. The precise values, multipliers, etc, TBD. As there are fewer women's NCAA basketball games available on Pinnacle, we'll probably split the 20-must into something in the order of 15-must-Men's/5-must-Women's.
With the hope of bringing Seres "Tommy-Gun" and "I-Much-Fear-Trouble-In-The-Fuselage" Fredrick Schwartz into the action, I am hopeful that we can do something similar with the PGA and LPGA tours. I'm thinking of basing it on all Majors, mini-Majors and tourneys with $6mm purses for PGA side of competition, all tourneys of value $2mm and up for LPGA side, using Pinnacle's head-to-head matchups and a requirement to choose portfolios of 5 golfers for the outright win in each.
For that matter, the competition really should be open to everyone. I'll entertain that idea but any Terrans who wish to compete must sign a blood oath to dance every dance. Unlike all of the chickenhawks (what a perfect word; both senses apply!), even though I ran straight down, I showed up every week during the regular NCAA grid season. I would expect nothing less of any other Terran competitior and I didn't even have to mention to any Hellion. Sportsmanship a must.
Man, woman and Hellion do not live by politics alone. Ah, yes, Right-Wing American narc motherfuckers need not apply.
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I down with the golf. Is that a knock or a ping coming from the fuselage? The again it could be Tomlinson's tail section rattling again. Oh the stories I could tell you that would lead me to scream "Don't tase me bro!"
Odd-Couple reference. Felix afraid to fly and in his seat he's trying to lip-read the mechanics and thinks one of them is saying that to the other.
Rad stories always welcome.
Some hardware to make it a bit more interesting . . .
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Wake me when the Final Four ends. Just kidding - I enjoyed Pitt's nipping of Duke this evening. So when do the handicapping lessons start, K?
Kelso, please forgive me for posting this in the sacred sports section, but I don't know how else to reach you. I love this joke, and hope you will too:
Jewish Samurai !!
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Once upon a time a powerful Emperor of the Rising Sun advertised for a new Chief Samurai Warrior. After a year, only three applied for the job: a Japanese, a Chinese and a Jewish Samurai.
"Demonstrate your skills!" commanded the Emperor.
The Japanese samurai stepped forward, opened a tiny box and released a fly. He drew his samurai sword and * Swish! * the fly fell to the floor, neatly divided in two!
"What a skillful feat!" said the Emperor. "Number Two Samurai, show me what you can do."
The Chinese samurai smiled confidently, stepped forward and opened a tiny box, releasing a fly. He drew his samurai sword and *Swish!* *Swish! * The fly fell to the floor neatly quartered!
"Ah-h-h, that is skill!" nodded the Emperor. "How are you going to top that, Number three Samurai?"
Number Three Samurai stepped forward, opened a tiny box releasing a fly, drew his samurai sword and *Swoooooosh!* flourished his sword so mightily that a gust of wind blew through the room and the fly let out a high pitched sound. But the fly was still alive and buzzing around!
In disappointment, the Emperor said, "What kind of skill is that? The fly isn't even dead."
"Dead, schmead," replied the Jewish Samurai. "Dead is easy. Now, circumcision .....THAT takes skill!"
Here are the rest of my plays for the Bowls . . .
PURDUE -8 CENT MICHIGAN [ ½ UNIT]
TEXAS -2.5 ARIZONA STATE [½ UNIT]
BOSTON COLLEGE -3.5 MICHIGAN STATE [2 ½ UNITS] 3RD OF 10 [9 OF 30]
HOUSTON +4 TCU [½ UNIT]
OREGON STATE -4.5 MARYLAND [3 UNITS ] 4TH OF 10 [12 OF 30]
CONNECTICUT +2.5 WAKE FOREST [½ UNIT]
MISSISSIPPI STATE +3 CENTRAL FLORIDA [2 ½ UNITS] 5TH OF 10 [14 ½ OF 30]
PENN STATE -5 TEXAS A&M [½ UNIT]
ALABAMA -3.5 COLORADO [½ UNIT]
CALIFORNIA -3.5 AIR FORCE [ ½ UNIT]
SOUTH FLORIDA -6 OREGON [5 UNITS] 6TH OF 10 [19 ½ OF 30]
FRESNO STATE +6 GEORGIA TECH [½ UNIT]
INDIANA +3.5 OKLAHOMA STATE [½ UNIT]
AUBRUN +2.5 CLEMSON [½ UNIT ]
TENNESSEE -2.5 WISCONSIN [½ UNIT]
ARKANSAS +3 MISSOURI [4 ½ UNITS] 7TH OF 10 [24 OF 30]
FLORIDA -10.5 MICHIGAN [ ½ UNIT]
TEXAS TECH -6 VIRGINIA [½ UNIT]
USC -13.5 ILLINOIS [½ UNIT]
HAWAII +7.5 GEORGIA [½ UNIT]
OKLAHOMA -7.5 WEST VIRGINIA [½ UNIT]
KANSAS + 3.5 VIRGINIA TECH [1/2 UNIT]
RUTGERS -10 BALL STATE [1 UNIT] 8TH OF 10 [25 OF 30]
TULSA -5 BOWLING GREEN [2 UNITS] 9TH OF 10 [27 OF 30]
OHIO STATE +4 LSU [3 UNITS] 10TH OF 10 [30 OF 30]
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