Category Archives: sports

The Only Sporting Championship Worth Filling Out a Bracket For

Or whatev, but you know what I’m talking about. Today (or I suppose it’s now “yesterday”) was Selection Sunday and that means that it’s time for the Know-Nothing No Downside Not Too Much Upside Pool. That means that there’s no entrance fee, most people who play don’t actually watch basketball much, and the [...]

Brawl!

EB Games is doing a midnight release with a pre-release contest tonight for Super Smash Bros. Brawl. It’s not like I’m even much good at the game, but I am sooo excited! Smash Bros. is fun stuff. :) So yeah, guess where we’re gonna be at midnight? :)
Also Selection Sunday is 8 [...]

Super Bowl — Wow

Football’s another one of those sports that I really half watch just the championship. I mean, let’s admit it, it’s a snoozefest a lot of the time, and the whole “at least the commercials are good” is less and less true. There were a couple of good-ish ads (I dunno why myspace, sheesh). [...]

Repeaters

Well at least this year’s game wasn’t as boring as last year’s when UCLA checked out from the start. This year Ohio was behind the whole game, but now and then they evened up and it looked like there’d be some fun. Final score: Florida 84, Ohio State 75.
Only two people called Florida (which [...]

Final Four Down to Two

Ohio State 67 : Georgetown 60 and Florida 76 : UCLA 66, neither game close.

Kitty(!!!): 100
Yut: 98
misa: 90
Seth: 89
Steve: 88
Yut’s bro: 84
Lew: 82
mim: 76
Jimyo: 73
CT: 70
YB: 64

And the only person who picked everything correctly was … <drumroll> Kitty! (Which she pointed out yesterday, in what may have been the first basketball game she’s ever [...]

Easy Elite 8, Now With Extra Exclamations

Somehow three of y’alls picked EVERY single Final Four team correct. Somehow, one of those three was Jimyo! The one who got Utah and Ohio State confused he cared so little about college sports!!! Sheeeeesh! (Really, there’s no other word for it, is there?) =) See K, Jimyo got [...]

Sweet Sixteen Day 2

Last night, Steve and Yut called every game correctly. This year, you got rewarded if you picked completely safe and had the #1 and #2 seeds coming out of the Sweet 16, cos the only exception was Oregon, a #3 seed. Seriously, where’s the madness in that?! So yeah, I realized that [...]

Sweet(-ish) Sixteen Day 1

You know what I notice about this pool? Some of us always seem to do alright (misa! yut! lew!), most of us are middling, and maybe some of us do poorly (basically Jimyo, sorry dude, although YB is giving him a run for his money now), BUT THEN! Kitty and CT! What’s [...]

Round 2

Sorry for the slow updates, guys. I’ve been obsessively watching Bleach (anime series based on the manga) on YouTube — it’s just like when I was younger and I used to watch Asian series with my parents. It’d be like 50 tapes with multiple episodes per tape and once I got into it [...]

Alas, Maryland

Lew: 42 — all by himself at the top!
Yut: 40 — no faith in MD paid off, but no faith in the wrong Pac 10 team (UCLA) messed him up
misa: 39
Kitty, Yut’s brother: 37
me: 36
CT, Steve: 35
Seth: 31
YB: 30
Jimyo: 24 — exactly Lew’s score backwards!

Lots of really good games today, really close, strongly contested. [...]