Archive for September, 2004

Picks for a new week….

Posted on September 30, 2004 at 1:44pm by Micah Fries No Comment

Let’s try this once again! Cincinnati at Pittsburgh – Bengals (Roethlisberger vs. Palmer Part 1) Indianapolis at Jacksonville – Colts (Even the Jaguars can’t stop this offense, and even the Colts can stop this offense) New England at Buffalo – Patriots (It’s gonna be a while before this train is derailed) N.Y. Giants at Green…

Presidential politics….

Posted on September 30, 2004 at 1:28pm by Micah Fries No Comment

The election is coming and I haven’t chimed in about it yet. I guess I need to add some commentary to this experience don’t I? I’ll have to admit that I’m not horribly enthused about either candidate. George W. Bush is certainly to be commended because at least we have no doubt where he stands…

No, ESPN Gameday has not called….

Posted on September 29, 2004 at 3:38pm by Micah Fries No Comment

Contrary to my stellar record in football prognostication ESPN, SI nor Fox Sports have called me for an interview!

Mired in centrism……

Posted on September 29, 2004 at 3:23pm by Micah Fries No Comment

Well, according to ESPN.com I am centrist in the world of sports politics. I thought this was an interesting little piece by espn.com page 2. I checked my position in each area that they listed and found that after considering 44 topics I came in in favor of Old School sports 22 times and in…

what the heck, here’s college too….

Posted on September 24, 2004 at 1:45am by Micah Fries No Comment

A select few college picks…. BYU at Boise State – BSU Purdue at Illinois – Illini Maryland at Duke – Terrapins Mississippi State at LSU – Tigers Louisville at North Carolina – Tarheels Clemson at Florida State – Seminoles (as much as I hate it) Iowa at Michigan – Hawkeyes (and watch Lloyd Carr get…

not much of a student but I’ll take the good grades

Posted on September 23, 2004 at 10:58pm by Micah Fries No Comment

I’m not much of a student, there that’s my confession. I’ve always been at least marginally intelligent and so it’s been easy to convince most people that I was a good student when I really never have been. In college for instance I think most people thought I was very studious when in fact I…