Campus Chatter Week 3

I’d say I am switching things up this week but switching things up would require me actually having a concrete format. We are just days away from the launch of V3 and I really don’t see any reason to stick to something now. I promise you once the blog format is in full [...]

Pancakes In the Age of Enlightenment: Week One Is Here

WEEK ONE PICKS!!
If you read my prediction for Thursday’s Steelers/Dolphins game, you’ll know I’m batting 1000. Everything happened just the way I said it would. The Dolphins lost because they couldn’t keep Willie Parker under 100 yards, and they couldn’t stop the Steelers from busting a big pass play. I’m expecting to go at least [...]

Pancakes In the Age of Enlightenment: You’ll All Be Lining Up To Suck My Nose

The format of this website is changing significantly in about a week, when IP V3 starts up. What you will get from me during this NFL season is probably something new every day during the football season.
The format of V3 means I will have to tighten things up a little, and my postings [...]

REAL Football: News Blitz - European Championship Qualifiers

Howdy Sports fans,
Here I am for this special mid-week edition of The Real Football Rant and Chant to give you all the results from Wednesday’s European Championship Qualifiers. Well, let’s not hang around here’s the results:

European Championship Qualifying
Group A
Azerbaijan 1 - 1 Kazakhstan
Armenia 0 - 1 Belgium
Finland 1 - 1 Portugal
Poland 1 - 1 [...]

Campus Chatter Week 2

Before I begin things today I’d like to thank Eric Szulczewski for plugging me in his column last week. I’ve been reading Eric for years now and he is someone who I think very highly of so for him to shout me out was pretty cool. I sent him an email regarding a [...]

Riding the Pine: Power Rankings

Riding the Pine…Power Rankings
Here are the most updated power rankings. Records and stats are thru games played Monday, September 4.
- Record is based of wins and losses (on pace for is winning pct times 162).
- Pythagorean is based off Bill James’s theory for record by runs (scored and allowed). The standard deviation for [...]

On The Blue Line: Really? No One Likes Hockey?

I’m practicing for what’s to come
Pre-season sucks
As my summer has dwindled the only thing to look forward to now is the beginning of the new NHL season which is only about a month away. Until then, some pre-season action will have to do. Unfortunately, the pre-season has hardly done anything to make people look forward [...]

Pancakes In the Age of Enlightenment: Midnight Is Where the Day Begins

The other day, while eating lunch, I saw a middle aged Mexican man wearing a Buff Bagwell WCW t-shirt. Then, in the evening at the gym, I saw a heavy set Asian guy wearing an X-Pac t-shirt. You tell me what the odds of seeing people wearing a Buff Bagwell shirt and an X-Pac shirt [...]

REAL Football: The Lowdown on Tevez and Mascherano

Howdy sports fans,
Yes this is late and yes I’m very, very sorry but it couldn’t be helped. Why? Well because nearly all my Saturday and Sunday was taken watching football or playing table football or reading a biography of Jose Mourinho so I simply had no time to write IPSports best (and only) football column. [...]

Campus Chatter Week 1 Preview

Finally, opening weekend has arrived. No more hype, no more lists; just football. There are a mixed bag of games this weekend, ranging from great to good to downright inhumane. With Tropical Storm Ernesto looking like it will not only turn back into a hurricane but also potentially be hitting Gainesville, FL [...]