Entries from January 2008

January 31, 2008

Duke and Carolina Renewing Its Rivalry Another Year

The boys in Durham are playing a new style of Duke basketball. They’re more athletic than I’ve seen them in years. This year the Blue Devils have rejuvenated the 2-3 zone and completed their destiny to pull-up 3s in fastbreak opprtunities. In other words, they have held their own this year. With the loss of [...]

January 24, 2008

Who in the World is Torry Holt?

Forget it. Greg Jennings, Anquan Boldin and Chris Chambers don’t form the mold of the most underrated wide out in the entire NFL anymore.
Not when the guy that is the most consistently successful on and off the field, injury or not and has made a name for himself that people refuse to pay attention to.
There’s [...]

January 24, 2008

Remind me to never pick the NFC East again!

This is what I wrote during summer 2007 about the New York Giants when I was completing my 2007 NFL season previews and predictions:

3.) New York Giants
How do you start off a season 6-2 but barely enter the playoffs? Ask Tom Coughlin. The 2006 season started off as a dream for the Giants. They were [...]

January 22, 2008

Party Like It’s February 3, 2002

(Prescript: This is the first time since (I believe?) 1972 since a New York and Boston team has gotten it on in a league championship game.)
February 3, 2008 (Six years to the day the underdog Pats defeated the mighty Rams.)
The New York Patriots
The New England Rams
No, Troy the homertistic Rams fan didn’t just authorize two [...]

January 6, 2008

Make the NBA Better?! More Like Making it Worse!

Everyone has their problems with the NBA. There’s always people that, when they hear the words, “the NBA sucks. Overpaid players, they act like celebrities, rules suck, too much Hollywood involved,” yaddee-yaddee-yah, they instantly begin to hate the league and everything that follows. Come on. I think someone needs to dig Edgar Cayce out of [...]

January 6, 2008

Ranking The Five Worst Teams In The NBA

This is what happens to you when you’re practically sound asleep at 1AM typing on your keyboard on a desk that’s not so steady.
I apologize for the bundle of spelling errors that are gonna pop up as this blog post goes on. Anyhow, here’s my little unique perspective of terrible, or ‘not-too-good’, NBA teams, summing [...]

January 4, 2008

Hokie, Hokie, Hokie Ha!

Virginia Tech.
- No legit QB.
- A coach that can’t seem to get his guys together and win a streak of Bowl games
- Inconsistent defense
I could go on and on about the Hokies. Especially how they just lost 24-21 to the Kansas Jayhawks, a team that no one had on their radar before the season started. [...]

January 3, 2008

Troy’s Football Musings (1/3/08)

Third post of the day. I truly feel like writing a lot today. I also feel that I owe this blog more because of the duds I put up in May and June; I could add August, but it was my vacation month and I was oh-so busy (which is why I missed out on [...]

January 3, 2008

West-by-God-Virginia Laying the Smacketh Down on Oklahoma

After weeks and weeks of hearing nothing about WVU, hearing all too much about Rich Rodriguez’s new job as the head ball coach at Michiga, and the fact that the Oklahoma Sooners were still having to downplay last year’s loss to Boise State, every state’s majority, except West Virginia, in the U.S., on the ESPN.com [...]

January 3, 2008

The Demise of the Big 3 and the 2007 Boston Celtics

Remember, you heard it from a Celtic guy right here first of all, folks.
Over the last week or two (or three), I’ve gotten a few e-mails from some guys that are “Celtics fans.” Their e-mails contained the same kind of content (could have been the same guy writing each e-mail on separate mailing accounts) including [...]