Monthly Archives: March 2013
Live Blog: Elite 8 and Opening Day
Four Elite 8 games over the next two days and baseball’s Opening Day the day after that. I’m relaxing on Spring Break and ready to watch it all, so I’ll be dropping in periodically over the next 55 hours or … Continue reading
2012 MLB Preview: BSB-Style
(UPDATE: Below in red is a recap of the 2012 preview. Keep a lookout for the 2013 preview, which will begin shortly…) The beginning of April gives us one of best sports “transitions” of the calendar year. With the promise … Continue reading
Just How Sweet is Sweet?
So, we are down to 16 teams. We can all rank the remaining teams based on how good we think they have been all year or what we expect them to do going forward. And, we will all have similar … Continue reading
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CTC Day Thirteen: A Nearly-Perfect Stumpf Wins the Final Day, but No One Catches Mac, who Takes the 2013 CTC Overall Title
Stumpf was a UNC win away from a perfect Day Thirteen. Bry was a UNC win away from the 2013 CTC Overall Title. But, Miami came through, won the ACC, and Mac is our 2013 CTC Overall Champion! Defending champion, … Continue reading
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2013 CTC: The SEC (FINAL)
Has this been the worst season in the history of the Southeastern Conference? No, seriously. And, this is the season they expanded to 14 teams, including adding a really good program, Missouri, and a decent program, Texas A&M. And, they … Continue reading
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2013 CTC: The Big Ten Conference (FINAL)
For a while, I thought that this conference might be the best conference I had ever seen. And, it still might be, but the bottom falling out of Northwestern, the injury to Penn State’s Tim Frazier, and the disappointing play … Continue reading
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2013 CTC: The Atlantic Coast Conference (FINAL)
In my basketball developmental years, the only “conference power” debates that could reasonably be had revolved around the second-best conference. There was no contest who the best was – the ACC. Now, while the conference is still elite, it is … Continue reading
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2013 CTC: The Atlantic Ten Conference (3/17)
Well, for one year, we got to experience a truly fascinating conference. The 16-team A-10 this year may not have lived up to the highest of expectations, still gave us a pretty incredible season for one season. With newcomers VCU … Continue reading
Day Twelve: GrossSr Thoroughly Dominates Day Twelve, but the Overall Title Contenders are Trimmed to Just Two
GrossSr has a ridiculous Day Twelve, scoring 131 points more than anybody else in the field. It is enough to take him all the way to 3rd place (from 14th), but it isn’t enough to keep him from a shot … Continue reading
Day Twelve Running Scoreboard
As the 2013 CTC winds down, we want to track the race for the overall crown as the scores unfold. Albany beats Vermont 52-49 No one had Albany, but Vermont losing costs a few contenders (Primm, Doogan, and RDoc) 24 valuable … Continue reading
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