Posts tagged with 'Duke'

    • Loser of the Week (Week 5)

      POSTED BY ROBERT REID, OCTOBER 01 2007 02:00 PM | PERMALINK

      Sometimes it takes divine intervention to beat college football's loser of the week, or Duke

      How much money is spent on wild, half-baked predictions from the barrel-chested reservoir of underworked college football analysts who bounce off whatever ESPN’s storylines are for the week? Actually, I don't want to know. Often college-football media's belligerent, don’t-dare-doubt declarative statements (eg ‘no one in the Big 12 can compete with Oklahoma, particularly in the north’) prove plain dumb....

    • Top Ten Worst Sports Fans

      POSTED BY KENNETH ENGLAND, AUGUST 27 2007 02:00 PM | PERMALINK

      10.) Cincinnati Bengals fans: Tigers can't change their stripes, and Cincinnati Bengals fans can't change how fickle they are. During the lean years of futility in the franchise history, in which the team posted 14 consecutive losing seasons, seeing a Bengals jersey on the street happened about as many times as Pete Rose turns down a bet ... very rarely. Now that Marvin Lewis has brought the Bengals back to the elite levels of the NFL, the city is awash in a hyperactive frenzy of orange and black in...