You could make a good case that the most significant event of LSU’s 41-3 win over North Texas last night came with just 1:10 remaining in the blowout and most fans closer to home than Tiger Stadium. That was the point at which Jordan Jefferson made his LSU debut. Jefferson’s appearance (an incomplete pass, a [...]
Archive for September, 2008
SEC Week 3 Predictions
September 13th, 2008
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I hear they’ll play football in Baton Rouge tomorrow night. At least I hope that’s the case. I also hope things aren’t as bad as the might be down on the Texas coast. But to football. The Mean Green – they are not good. LSU will win the game, but having lost a tune-up for [...]
The odd existence of TigerGumbo.com
September 10th, 2008
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Three weeks ago, word came out that Scott Rabalais, the veteran LSU beat writer for The Advocate (The Baton Rouge daily, not the national gay newspaper) was leaving the paper to join an unknown outfit called TigerGumbo.com. At the time, tigergumbo.com was little more than a “coming soon” page. As the football season crept closer [...]
Google Suggest and the Presidential candidates
September 9th, 2008
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As an adjunct to something else I’m working up, there are some interesting dynamics that come up when you start looking at how Google Suggest views the Presidential candidates and their running mates. Putting in the first names (presumably one would start a search for a candidate by putting in their name) of the four [...]
SEC Week 2 Recap
September 9th, 2008
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The second weekend of SEC football offered just enough crazy to make me really ready to get in to conference play. It also offered just enough upsets and near-but-not upsets to make my picks look really bad. But I was damned close picking Ole Miss to win and Arkansas to lose, so I feel good [...]
Ike may leave LSU ill-prepared for Auburn
September 8th, 2008
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The path and timing of Hurricane Ike’s trek to the gulf coast may well mean LSU loses a second-straight warmup game in preparation for Auburn Sept. 20. Needless to say, this would not be good. The Tigers were expecting – and counting on – three low-key warmup games to get a new quarterback and a [...]
SEC Week 2 Predictions
September 4th, 2008
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It’ll be a quick one to get in under the South Carolina / Vandy wire. And LSU is suddenly not playing this weekend, which takes the interest level down quite a lot. No. 24 South Carolina at Vandy: I’ll go with the Cocks until they prove me wrong (or play somebody good) and avoid the [...]
CNBC’s Mark Haines on ‘one-sided crap’
September 4th, 2008
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From Squawk On The Street this morning – awesome flip-out by host Mark Haines over a Republican consultant’s answer to a question on trickle-down economics. Long form: Short form focusing on the kicker line – “I find that one-sided crap insulting”. Right on, Haines. And it’s both sides. When is the media going to get [...]
SEC Week 1 Recap
September 4th, 2008
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Coming fast and furious with a scant three days between the last SEC game (Tennessee) last week and the first one (Vandy / South Carolina) tonight. So to recap Week 1 predictions here: – I already wrote a good bit about LSU’s QB trials in Week 1. Suffice it to say the Appy game showed [...]
Nice Time/Newsweek matching cover thing on UCLA win
September 2nd, 2008
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Noticed this (looking for new polls …) just now on ESPN.com and Yahoo Sports: It’s nice to see new media picking up the habits of old media, but unlike Time & Newsweek, somebody could actually change a headline or picture if they cared about this me-tooism. I suppose they don’t.
