March 2010

Congratulations son! Now you can sit on the couch all day watching soap operas with your old man.

City Ninja #10: Unemployed College Graduate.

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If there’s one thing that I love this time of year it’s the chance for a good thunderstorm and the excitement of tornadoes (you just never know when one will level your home…and given an infinite amount of time it will happen eventually). But what I love even more are the random summer-like days we get in February, March & April.  After a long cold winter those days are awesome, even if they’re not around to stay for a few more months.

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March Madness 2010, Day 8

by Brian Groce on March 28, 2010

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Elite Eight action concludes this afternoon & evening. Here are your match-ups:

2:20 pm (6) Tennessee vs. (5) Michigan State
5:05 pm (3) Baylor vs. (1) Duke

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March Madness 2010, Day 7

by Brian Groce on March 27, 2010

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Elite Eight action tips off this evening. Here are your match-ups (winners in bold):

4:30 pm (5) Butler: 63 vs. (2) Kansas State: 56
7:05 pm (2) West Virginia: 73 vs. (1) Kentucky: 66

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March Madness 2010, Day 6

by Brian Groce on March 26, 2010

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Sweet Sixteen action concludes this evening. Here are your match-ups (winners in bold):

7:07 pm (6) Tennessee: 76
vs. (2) Ohio State: 73
7:27 pm (10) Saint Mary’s: 49 vs. (3) Baylor: 72
9:37 pm (9) Northern Iowa: 52 vs. (5) Michigan State: 59
9:57 pm (4) Purdue: 57 vs. (1) Duke: 70

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March Madness 2010, Day 5

by Brian Groce on March 25, 2010

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Sweet Sixteen action tips off this evening.  Here are your match-ups:

7:07 pm (5) Butler vs. (1) Syracuse
7:27 pm (11) Washington vs. (2) West Virginia
9:37 pm (6) Xavier vs. (2) Kansas State
9:57 pm (12) Cornell vs. (1) Kentucky

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NFL Changes Overtime Rules

by Brian Groce on March 24, 2010

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It’s a rare occasion that you can make a good move and a bad move at the same time, but the NFL managed to pull it off.

Yesterday the NFL announced that for the 2010 season the overtime rules would be changing. BUT, they’d only be changing for 12, or 37.5%, of the 32 teams in the league, for a cumulative 11 games.

First the rule change.

  • If the team winning the coin toss kicks a field goal on their first possession, the other team gets the ball for a possession in order to either try to tie or win the game.
  • If the team winning the coin toss gets a touchdown on their first possession, the game is over.
  • If the teams are still tied after they each have had one possession, the old (a.k.a. “normal”) sudden death overtime rules apply (the first to score wins).

Now to when the changes take effect.

These rules will only be used during the playoffs due to injury concerns.  But this is extremely flawed as it:

  1. Sends the message that player safety isn’t important during the playoffs. (And I’d debate that reasoning as a cop out regardless.)
  2. Could possibly ruin other teams playoff hopes and/or seeding.

I agree that the new concept is better than the old, but I still like college rules better. And if you’re going to do it, do it. Don’t halfway commit to it.

There are my thoughts. What are yours?

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City Ninja #9: National Health Care

by Brian Groce on March 24, 2010

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Light one up for “National Health Care” because the government will pay for our medical bills later on! WOO-HOO!!!

City Ninja #9: National Health Care.

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March Madness 2010, Day 4

by Brian Groce on March 21, 2010

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Sixteen teams play for the remaining eight Sweet Sixteen spots next weekend. Winners in bold.

12:10pm (8) Gonzaga: 65 vs. (1) Syracuse: 87
2:20pm (10) Georgia Tech: 66 vs. (2) Ohio State: 75
2:30pm (5) Michigan State: 85
vs. (4) Maryland: 83
2:40pm (10) Missouri: 59 vs. (2) West Virginia: 68
2:50pm (12) Cornell: 87
vs. (4) Wisconsin: 69
4:50pm (6) Xavier: 71
vs. (3) Pittsburgh: 68
5:00pm (5) Texas A&M: 61 vs. (4) Purdue: 63
OT
5:15pm (8) California: 53 vs. (1) Duke: 68

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