Author: Editor

Ahhh Thanksgiving. Perhaps the best holiday in all of history. Whoever thought of the Thanksgiving day football game was a genius. This year’s games are the best in recent history. Division leaders in Dallas and Denver going head to head? Perfect. And with a suddenly struggling Atlanta team visiting Detroit, we have a potential upset brewing. Here we go with the Week 12 NFL Picks. Happy turkey days, folks!

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If you want to see how well we did last week against the experts from ESPN, Fox, Sportsline, etc, check out this great spreadsheet from Tokar.

A bit of a shakeup near the top as some fraudulent teams (Cincy, Carolina, Atlanta) fall in the rankings. And we finally listened to the Chicago fans and put the the Bears in the top 10.

Comments? Gripes? Suggestions? (Other than the suggestion the cabbie gave Luke Wilson in Old School.) All welcome. Here we go with the Week 11 NFL Power Rankings.

Last week wasn’t such a great week to pick games. But really, did anyone expect the Bucs, Vikings and the Packers to win on the road? It sure made for a great week of football watching. We’ve got some upsets baked in this week so let’s see if the trend continues.

As always we have a podcast to go along with the picks this week. If you enjoy the podcast, please go to the yahoo directory and vote for us.

If you want to see how well we did last week against the experts from ESPN, Fox, Sportsline, etc, check out this great spreadsheet from Tokar.

When 3 of the teams in the Top 10 lose to inferior opponents, you can expect a shake up in our Power Rankings. The top three (Indy, Pitts, Denver) don’t change but we have Cinci and Seattle moving up. This week’s big game of Colts at Bengals will go a long way in determining whether Cinci belongs up there. Meanwhile, the Giants and Falcons deservedly drop in the ranks.

Not much changed at all in the week 9 power rankings. Almost every team ranked above their opponents won. And the week was filled with matchups of top 15 vs bottom 15 teams so nobody went anywhere. Things are more interesting when the power rankings get shaken up so let’s hope for some big upsets next week.

Editor’s note: OK, I realize that this isn’t exactly column worthy (Sportscolumn blog is coming soon!) but I couldn’t pass up a chance to post a story that is about 99% of red blooded males’ fantasy.

According to Tampa Bay Online and Fox Sports, Kristen Owen, 22 and Angela Keathley, 26, were having sex with each other in a bar called Banana Joe’s. But that isn’t a crime. (And if it is, we have problems.) What is a crime is punching the woman behind you in line after she started complaining about the long wait. When police got there, one of the cheerleaders was belligerent and resisted arrest. Other members of the Panthers cheerleader squad came to bail them out. Sadly, no sex broke out.

UPDATE: It turns out that the other cheerleader in question was Renee Thomas and not Kristen Owen. She gave the police the wrong name.

Ok, I’m done being a perv now. Pics of the cheerleaders after the jump.

Can you believe it’s week 9 already? This season is going by way too quickly. The good news is that after a hard start, we are hitting our stride. Once again, we beat the ESPN experts .732 to .675 correct. If you want to check out how we stack up against almost every site that picks games, check out this nifty spreadsheet from Tokar.

If you’re using these picks for advice on your office pool, go with BostonMac aka Ryan McGowan. He’s been on a tear lately. Aside from his homer pick of Patriots over Colts this week, the rest are solid.