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3/3 Episode of Poor Man’s PTI: No Honor Codes Here

Post author By Editor
Post date March 4, 2011
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Vin and RJ discuss all the sports news that’s available during the sports dead zone that is early March.

You can download this week’s podcast directly (running time 75 mins) or subscribe to the feed.

If you use iTunes, just click here and then click subscribe and iTunes will take care of the rest.

This week’s topics include:

Jamarcus Russel is broke
Carson Palmer is rich
Ashley Cole shoots someone
Holy Family University basketball coach
Brandon Davies is wrecking the NCAA Basketball Lines
Misc: Charlie Sheen channels AI

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Hope you guys enjoy the podcast. If you did enjoy it, please give us a good rating on itunes so we can rise up in the rankings. If you didn’t, send us an email ([email protected]) and give us some suggestions. Thanks for listening.

Tags College Basketball, NFL lockout, podcast, poor man's pti

Boston Celtics

On the Fence (‘Cause Not to Offend)

Post author By BostonMac
Post date February 27, 2011
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By Ryan McGowan

“Only a Sith deals in absolutes.” –Obi-Wan Kenobi, Revenge of the Sith.

I hate when one of my teams makes a big trade. If only because I’m pretty much guaranteed to want to poke my ears out after a few days of listening to the reactions on sports radio, especially when said trade happens in the dog days of February when the only other option for discussion is whether the Red Sox will start Felix Doubront or Stolmy Pimental in the exhibition opener against the BC Eagles.

Tags Boston Celtics, Jeff Green, Kendrick Perkins, Nate Robinson

NFL General

Super Bowl XLV Picks and Prop Bets

Post author By Editor
Post date February 3, 2011
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By now you’ve read and listened to almost everyone pick the Super Bowl. Since no one but RJ has any interest in this year’s Super Bowl, we’ve decided to spend the majority of this year’s Super Bowl Podcast on what really matters: the prop bets. From Christina Aguillera drawing out every note in the National Anthem to who the winning coach will thank first to which QB WAG is going to get airtime first (the smart money is not on Jessican Szohr), we’ve got you covered.

This year’s Super Bowl Odds and Prop Bets are from our friends at Betus.

You can download the podcast directly (running time 45 mins) or subscribe to the feed.

If you use iTunes, just click here and then click subscribe and iTunes will take care of the rest.

Tags 2010 NFL Picks, football, gambling, NFL, office pool, picks against the spread, podcast, poor man's pti

College Basketball

A slightly biased, completely justified analysis of Klay Thompson’s case for Player of the Year

Post author By JDWC
Post date January 25, 2011
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This article comes about due to a recent piece I read on Yahoo! about BYU’s Jimmer Fredette being a “worthy candidate” for college basketball’s annual John R. Wooden (Player of the Year) award. I have no problems with that assertion and even support it. The main reason for my aversion to the article is my undying faithfulness to the Washington State University basketball team; especially Klay Thompson, and the limited amount of consideration he is getting for the award.

Don’t get me wrong, he is on the midseason list of 30 finalists and any coverage of Cougar basketball this season has been chock full of praise for the junior shooting guard (one announcer even raved, “Thompson might just be the best pure shooter in the nation.”). And yes, I am biased. I’m a senior at WSU and a huge fan of the basketball team. Waking up before dawn and camping out in the snow to be first in line for the games is a regular occurrence for me.

Tags Derrick Williams, E'Twaun Moore, Isaiah Thomas, Jared Sullinger, Jimmer Fredette, Kemba Walker, Klay Thompson, Kyle Singler, LaceDarius Dunn, Nolan Smith

NFL General

2010/2011 NFL Conference Championship Games Picks and Podcast

Post author By Editor
Post date January 21, 2011
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Ryan and Stat Boy join Vin on the “no vested interested in the games” sidelines this week as both New England and Atlanta both fall in the divisional round. For those of you who aren’t bitter about last weekend’s results and can stomach the games, the championship Sunday games are usually much better than the Super Bowl. We discuss Green Bay at Chicago and NY Jets at Pittsburgh.

You can download the podcast directly (running time 45 mins) or subscribe to the feed.

If you use iTunes, just click here and then click subscribe and iTunes will take care of the rest.

Tags 2010 NFL Picks, football, gambling, NFL, office pool, picks against the spread, podcast, poor man's pti

Uncategorized

Sports Chained to Big Business, Gambling & Corruption

Post author By Diane M. Grassi
Post date January 20, 2011
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By Diane M. Grassi

The title of this report may come as no revelation to avid sports fans, business movers and shakers, and the politically connected, but every once in a while, it is worth taking stock of those most prominent in a field ripe for deception, deniability, and its penchant for unaccountability.

While the names Tiger Woods, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, and Derek Jeter need no introduction, even to non-sports fans, few people would ably recognize the name Ted Forstmann. Forstmann reigns over arguably the most powerful agency in all of sports and Hollywood and represents the individual interests of the likes of Messrs. Woods, Federer, Nadal, and Jeter.

Tags ATP, business, College Athletics, College Basketball, College Football, education, IMG, MLB, ncaa, NFL, pga, Sports Industry, Ted Forstmann, Wall Street

NFL General

2010/2011 NFL Divisional Round Picks and Podcast

Post author By Editor
Post date January 14, 2011
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The Divisional Round – where all the bye week teams assert their dominance over the poor suckers that had to play last week. The team that’s rested should have no problem with the first round winners, right? Not so fast.

Recent history has shown that the away team has a great chance of upsetting the home favorites. In the last 10 games in the divisional round, the road team has won 5 times. So which teams have the best chance of upsetting the well rested home teams? (Hint: It’s not the Jets.)

You can download the podcast directly (running time 47 mins) or subscribe to the feed.

If you use iTunes, just click here and then click subscribe and iTunes will take care of the rest.

Tags 2010 NFL Picks, football, gambling, NFL, office pool, picks against the spread, podcast, poor man's pti

MLB

2010 All-MLB Team

Greatest inventions of all time: the wheel, the camera, Velcro, In-N-Out Burger. Over the last couple years, we can add one more thing to that list; MLB Network. For baseball fans, it is the Mecca of analysis, highlights and coverage. As I sat watching the 2010 Year in Review show yesterday, trying not to throw the remote through the screen as they continually showed those filthy, rotten San Francisco Giants celebrating their World Series victory, I found myself curious as to how they compiled their “All-MLB team.”

First of all, they had to choose just nine position players, one designated hitter, one utility player, one starting pitcher, one reliever and one closer to round out the team. From both leagues combined. Still, they made some…curious choices. In what was such a memorable year for baseball, how do you limit yourself to that tiny roster? So even though it may be more blasphemous than bringing a nun to a strip club, I decided to say, “I can do it better.” I’ve allowed myself a 30-man roster, plus a “backup” starting rotation (give me a break, it was the Year of the Pitcher) in choosing my All-MLB team for 2010:

NFL General

2010/2011 NFL Wild Card Round Picks and Podcast

Post author By Editor
Post date January 6, 2011
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The real season starts and we’re gearing up for a Super Bowl run. Now, despite Peter King already crowning his favorite team, the New Patriots, Super Bowl champs, there’s still a lot of football to be played. (True fact: in 99.7% of word association studies, Peter King is linked to the word douche.) We break down each of the Wild Card games and make early picks for the whole bracket and Super Bowl winners.

You can download the podcast directly (running time 60 mins) or subscribe to the feed.

If you use iTunes, just click here and then click subscribe and iTunes will take care of the rest.

And if that still isn’t enough NFL Super Bowl Picks for you, check out the articles from betus.

Tags 2010 NFL Picks, football, gambling, NFL, office pool, picks against the spread, podcast, poor man's pti

General Sports

Obliged to the Obligation

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Post date January 4, 2011
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“And for that I found myself in a stupor of wonderment as I pondered the situation of the family tradition gone terribly wrong.”

Let’s face it. Being a fan in New England for the past six or seven years hasn’t really brought on feelings of bereavement. Around these parts, the chatter among us usually consists of where we are watching the big game and what time everyone is going to the parade in Boston after another championship is clinched by the illustrious sports town.
Now, hold on a second. Let me get back to where the “where we are watching the game” part. To some, the big game is code-word for bars; at least the people I know. It doesn’t matter that the experience of another New England victory (besides Super Bowl XLII…still can not rid the vomit taste from my mouth) will more than likely end up in severe loss of funds due to dollar drafts which always grow into rounds of expensive drinks; bruised and/or broken extremities; and the possibly of some dramatic type of run-in with the law enforcement. To summarize: they never get to see the actual game and miss out on history.