Archive for the ‘Tomfoolery’ Category

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Top Ten Tuesday: The Mock Draft

This weekend is the 2010 NFL Draft, which has a lot of football-starved people excited. ESPN has pulled Mel Kiper out of storage (when not analyzing draft projections, he goes into sleep mode like a computer) and he’s been pontificating on who is going to get picked when. So I figured I would join in [...]

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Mascot Madness: The Finishing Four

This is it. Two grueling blog entries have brought us to our final competitors in determining which NCAA Tournament team’s mascot would win in a 65 team royal rumble. You can find the results of the first two rounds here and the regional semis and finals here. The four teams we have left are the [...]

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Mascot Madness: The Rounds of 16 & 8

We’re back with the Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight of Mascot Madness (to see how the first two rounds played out, you can check that out here). As always the rules are simple: we pick the team whose mascot would win in a fight. Will it be an all humans-with-weapons Final Four or will an [...]

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Top Ten Tuesday: Really Old Things

On tonight’s episode of Lost we’re supposed to learn about the ageless Richard Alpert, that mysterious man of the island. Richard has been around for several centuries (it’s a long story…one we’ll hopefully learn more about tonight). So in honor of Ricardo, today’s Top Ten Tuesday is going to cover some really random, really old [...]

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Mascot Madness: First & Second Rounds

In yesterday’s Top Ten Tuesday, we counted down different ways that you could fill out your NCAA Tournament Bracket besides going through all the work of figuring out which team is best for each game. #1 on the list was “Mascot Battle” in which you just pick the team with the mascot that you think [...]

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Top Ten Tuesday: Alternative Ways to Fill Out Your NCAA Bracket

With this evening’s play-in game between Winthrop and Arkansas-Pine Bluff, the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament officially kicks off. One of the most time-honored traditions of March Madness is filling out one’s brackets in an effort to predict who is going to win the championship (from what I’m hearing, the early money is on the Jayhawks [...]