tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9848838010182511082011-04-21T20:06:36.539-05:00This blog is dedicated to the last two bastions of chance and happenstance: college football and the political landscape.Dr. Norris Camachohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07877336393911255401noreply@blogger.comBlogger181100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-984883801018251108.post-90451461387298489362008-10-03T18:08:00.005-05:002008-10-03T18:43:56.938-05:00

10/2/08--Once again, politics rears its ugly head where least wanted: this time invading on the sacred Thursday Night timeslot, right up against a clash of Big East Titans....(too dramatic? Sorry, too much campaign ad osmosis.)I decided to watch these two matchups side-by-side and found several chilling similarities. First, both Pitt and South Florida started out vastly overrated, so I couldn't

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This is notoriously late, due mostly to the beginning of the College Football Season. If only Obama had decided earlier than August 23 to name his running mate, I might have had more time to construct this insightful comparison, hopefully just the first of many (the second is already in the works.) As it stands, we have a couple of guys named Joe representing the state of Delaware. If that's not

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You got the silver you got the gold You got the diamonds from the mine Well that's all right, it'll buy some time.Today is a landmark day for FootPolitics. Not only have I just successfully (in my mind) combined the gravelly insight of Keith Richards, the absurdity of the Olympics, the crazed scramble to name NCAA's second-best football squad, and the exponentially more absurd frenzy

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7:20 P.M.Suddenly North Carolina and Indiana are playing a pre-determined meaningless part in the presidential election process? This doesn't jive with the footpolitics motif.Today's primaries had potential. They really did. Sadly, though, the Hoosiers and the Tarheels had made a pre-determined effort to become college football bystanders years ago. Sure, the 'Heels made a great run in the

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7:30 PMAt last. After 6 weeks of inaction, the primary season has finally resumed. Pennsylvania gets to make a rare appearance as possible partial decision-maker in this year's ever-exciting race to the White House. And, as could well be expected, there have been plenty of football connections that have popped up along the way.Hillary of course tried to tout her Penn State relations, but JoePa

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1. Hillary's Bosnia 1996 "Misspeak"What?? Instead of blazing rockets showering down on you and sniper fire directed at you from the moment your aircraft crossed the border, causing you to scamper about in bullet-proof clothing to the nearest armored car, you really had an open-air press-conference at which an 8-year old girl read you a poem. Turns out the poem was nice, and in English, even

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Brent Musberger's got nothing on Footpolitics.7:21 P.M.That's right folks, Primary Tuesdays are back. And this one could be for all the marbles. The "Granddaddy of Them All" if you will. What? That one's taken? What about "The Lonestar Showdown"? No? OK, I've got it: how about simply "The Game"...what?!? Shit.Enough of this nonsensical skullduggery. Musberger calling a key primary night

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Yes, its that time of year again. We all must make that most crucial of decisions that will ultimately reveal who will be the face of America next year, and possibly for many years to come. I'm talking of course of the always-present debate over who should adorn the cover of EA Sports' NCAA Football. Now that they are releasing a Wii version this summer, they are letting us peons vote for our

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Three years ago tonight, Hunter S. Thompson ended his own life with one of his beloved pistols.He had broken some part of his leg some weeks before, and the prospect of him walking again was bleak. It was ultimately too much for him to handle. And as deplorable as suicide is, there is something to be said about a man who began his note with the phrase "football season is over."But it was not

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7:42 P.M.If you thought last Tuesday was boring, tonight will be even worse. Instead of the Eastern Seaboard primaries of Our Nation's Capitol, Maryland, and Virginia, we have Wisconsin, Hawaii (Democrats only) and Washington State (again...somehow).McCain is hoping to force Huckabee into a mathematical improbability that not even Tim Tebow could overcome with a headful of snow, and even if Obama

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7:47 PM CSTIn a most humbling turn of events, it seems that now even CNN is willing to admit that Obama will surpass Clinton according to "their count" of the delegates. Obama has drubbed Hillary in Virginia to the tune of 63%-36%, Maryland has extended their polling hours by 90 minutes due to high turnout, McCain scrapes by Huckabee once again in Virginia, and Clinton has chosen this moment to

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Just a few more contests remain until you will finally know the outcome of what you have been striving for all year, or in some cases all your life. Sure, things could be better. Maybe you know you're not going to win it all, but are still trying for those around you and those who believe in you. So the last thing you want to do is make a change before you've had a chance to ultimately prove

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A Live Interpretation of the Primary Returns7:08 PMCNN's election coverage homepage has a huge red box with big letters listing early projected winners: Romney wins Massachusetts, McCain wins Connecticut and Illinois, Obama wins Illinois, Clinton wins...Oklahoma. All with 0% of precincts reporting. Georgia now has 5% reporting, but CNN projected Obama an hour ago. If they know the numbers, why

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My esteemed colleague Jason Foster raised an interesting question the other day: is Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney of Massachusetts somehow related to legendary Utah State University head coach and football stadium namesake E. L. "Dick" Romney?On the surface, the notion is intriguing for several reasons. Romney is a relatively uncommon name (just the 23439th- most common,

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(Coaches' Poll, that is)It seems a bit ridiculous to think that there are certain governments in this world that have a more logical grasp on how to conduct polling exercises than the NCAA does, but sometimes these things happen.Take, for example, the USA Today Coaches Poll. It seems that for some reason only half of the F...B...S (did I get that right?) coaches are voting each week for the

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VS.This may be one of the greatest internet campaigns ever:AT&T All-America Player of the YearLet me hit the highlights:AT&T announced today the winner of the 2007 AT&T All-America Player of the Year, the only major college football award chosen exclusively by fans. Fans across the nation have made their voices heard and voted Texas Tech wide receiver Michael Crabtree as the best college football

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7:17 PM:In an attempt to put my finger on the pulse of New Hampshire's political leanings, I decided to check out CNN's extensive Democratic exit poll. In doing so, I noticed a number of bizarre things:3% of the state is Jewish, yet none of them had opinions. Presumably they went to the voting booth since they were they were exit-polled (since they were identified as being Jewish), yet none of

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Now that LSU has successfully rescued tens of thousands of couches in the Central Ohio region from certain incineration, the nation (at least in my ideal world) turns its hungry attention to that other bloodier sport known as Presidential Politics.Tonight, the entire world will tune in to see what a couple hundred thousand disgruntled syrup farmers, bed-and-breakfast owners, and granite merchants

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