Thursday’s heartbreaker at Louisiana-Lafayette and Saturday’s pratfall at North Texas, combined with other results around the Sun Belt, doomed Denver to a #3 seed in next week’s Sun Belt Tournament in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and a first-round game against East cellar-dweller Florida International (of Isiah Thomas fame) instead of a bye into the quarterfinals. That’s a real bummer, considering Denver… Read more »
Randy Styles, who became a father Saturday morning, earned a perhaps slightly less momentous (heh) but still notable achievement Sunday night, as he won his second consecutive Living Room Times contest — following up his win in the LRT Bowl Pick ’em Contest with a victory in the LRT Oscar Pool. Better watch out for Randy in the upcoming NCAA… Read more »
Starting tonight at 6:00 PM Mountain Time (or a little thereafter, depending on kids’ bedtimes and such), I’ll be live-blogging the Academy Awards — and live-updating the results of my 7th annual Oscar Pool. Click here for the liveblog! Or, follow along below… but really, you want to click the link for the separate liveblog page, because that’s where the… Read more »
All right, kids… the Academy Awards are this Sunday, so it’s that time of year again… the 7th annual Living Room Times Oscar Pool is underway!! Complete rules are at the entry page. The deadline to enter is Sunday at 5:30 PM Mountain Time. The pool is, of course, free. The prize? Eternal glory! As always, contestants are urged to… Read more »
Today’s unexpected and heartbreaking home loss to South Alabama, in which Denver blew a 15-point lead, badly damaged the Pioneers’ hopes of winning the Sun Belt West Division, and put at risk their chances of finishing in the Top 2 and thus earning a bye to the conference tourney quarterfinals in Hot Springs next month. The defeat dropped DU into… Read more »
Click to Play My video from the wild Colorado-Kansas State ending last Saturday
As detailed in my liveblog, Denver walloped struggling Louisiana-Monroe, 65-37 at Magness Arena on Friday — and in the process, took back sole possession of the Sun Belt West Division lead, thanks to Louisiana-Lafayette’s win over Arkansas State. Here are the AP story and the Denver Post story on the DU-ULM game. Both include the money quote from leading scorer… Read more »
I kid, but this is terrible: Someone has intentionally applied lethal amounts of herbicide to the soil around the famous Toomer’s Corner oaks on the campus of Auburn University, university officials said Wednesday. They say there is little chance they can save the trees, which are an icon of the campus. HROOM, HOOM!!! As B. Minich tweets, “That’s horrible. Where… Read more »
George H.W. Bush got the Presidential Medal of Freedom yesterday. Here he is, from the official White House Flickr account, meeting beforehand with Obama in the Oval Office: I’ll always have a soft spot for 41, who, as vice president, wrote (or at least signed…or had somebody stamp his signature on…shh, don’t shatter my childhood delusions) a letter to me… Read more »
