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3/18 Episode of Poor Man’s PTI: The most wonderful day of the year

The first day of March Madness is the best day of the year. It beats Christmas, New Years, Thanksgiving and any other day you can think of. And the 2010 version did not disappoint. OTs, upsets, buzzer beaters. All that within the first 6 hours. We discuss the first day and more.

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This week’s topics include:

  • March Madness
  • Keys to winning your pool
  • Vin’s new theory on picking against certain schools
  • Texas Rangers manager all coked up
  • Tiger Woods sexting
  • Miscellaneous: Agassi vs Sampras, Chuck Knoblauch, David Beckam.

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3/11 Episode of Poor Man’s PTI: Special Guest Gregg Doyel

This week, we welcome National Columnist Gregg Doyel from CBSSports.com to talk a little March Madness. This episode, as always, is rated R so potentially NSFW.

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This week’s topics include:

  • March Madness
  • Derek Anderson shooting his mouth on his way out
  • The return of Tiger Woods
  • Ben Roethlisberger in trouble again
  • Torii Hunter and his imposters
  • Cleveland.com: Lebron suspension details
  • The Taxonomy of Bitches
  • Miscellaneous: sex offending draft prospect, Mike Tyson vs Evander Holyfield (again), and the Oscars.

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College College Basketball

NCAA May Have Just Crossed the Line from Absurd to WTF?

This is the NCAA. This is the NCAA you and I pretend to love because, really, what would we do without college football? You breath and die by the fall, right? I know I do.

But I also know that this is the NCAA.

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General Sports

April 2 2009 episode of Poor Man’s PTI

Ryan and Vin run through this week’s top stories focusing mostly on the NCAA tournament and jail time. You can download this week’s podcast directly (running time 90 mins) or subscribe to the feed.

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This week’s topics include:

  • Recap of the NCAA tourney and Final Four talk
  • Donte Stallworth vs Plaxico Burress: who will spend more time in jail
  • Michael Vick’s construction job
  • Jay Cutler to the Bears
  • 2009 MLB betting odds
  • and a tremendous audio guess the state
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College Basketball

How’d it get so sunny in Philadelphia?

I used to (and still do) daydream about what would have happened if Joe Carter doesn’t hit that home run, if Ronde Barber doesn’t intercept that pass, if Robert Horry doesn’t make that three in game 2 of the 2001 Finals, if Scott Stevens doesn’t leave Lindros in a crumpled heap on the ice.  I daydream because I can only hope for those things not to have happened in a (better) alternate universe.

But now things are different.  I think about the wicked line drive off the bat of Zobrist that hangs just enough to settle easily into Jayson Werth’s glove.  In my nightmares, that line drive gets past Werth for extra bases.  I think about Levance Fields’ desperation 75 foot heave that clangs off the  backboard and  ricochets harmlessly to the floor.  In my nightmares, that ball goes straight into the hoop.

It’s so much better to imagine the worse case scenario knowing that in reality, the good guys win. As some wise man once said (on this site, no less), it’s easier to write joy and anger.

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General Sports

March 26 2009 episode of Poor Man’s PTI

We discuss the top news stories of the week along with a breakdown of the NCAA tourney. You can download this week’s podcast directly (running time 60 mins) or subscribe to the feed.

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This week’s topics include:

  • Ryan Moats and the worst officer in Texas
  • The Wonder Years
  • Charlie Villanueva’s in game twittering
  • brackets brackets brackets
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College Basketball

Breaking Down March Madness

This was my Monday night at Costco….

 

Meltable Cheddar Cheese……going to need some of that…….chili…..better grab three cans…..buffalo wings…..that’s a check……blue cheese dressing…..gotta go back and get some blue cheese dressing……hmmmmm….mozzarella sticks…welcome aboard…..jalapeno poppers….gotta get some sour cream…..tortilla chips….are we sure two bags are enough…..salsa…..a given…..guacamole…..that’s a check…..wow…….tough decision…….Yuengling……..Sierra Nevada Pale Ale……Yuengling…..Sierra Nevada…….Yuengling….Sierra Nevada……gotta go with the Yuengling…..better stop and apologize to the Sierra Nevada and promise them a trip to my refrigerator at the A’s impending World Series victory……..

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College Basketball

Sweet Sixteen 2009

By Trevor Freeman

With March Madness right around the corner….God Bless the NCAA Tournament, we decided to do a little preliminary analysis for those of you pining for the moment that the bracket is revealed.  Over the past month, I have sat down and watched as much college basketball as humanly possible.  I formulated the sixteen teams that I think look Sweet Sixteen worthy.

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College Basketball Philadelphia Eagles

Favor: The Gift and The Curse

By: Maurice K Dixon

It’s nice to know when some pick your team, but it makes me a little uneasy when all pick my team as the next one to cut down the last arrangement of nets. Honestly, I don’t have an issue with the experts’ opinions. I have issues with the increasing expectations because they add to the pressure, which if mishandled could evolve into shortcoming.

The North Carolina Tar Heels (college basketball’s outright No. 1 at the start of the season) or “my boys” – the group of talented ball players I have repeatedly referred to in first person (we) over the years – are expected to win it all. The analysts have all said it. The columnists have all written it. The magazines have all printed it on the front pages.

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College Football

11-1-08 College Football Picks

Well, a 2-4 record last week was not what I was looking for. I will be the first to tell you that I am upset with my performance last week, and will look to redeem myself this coming Saturday. First, a message from the excuses department. The real key factor to my losing record past saturday was my 0-3 start to the day. I was flabbergasted when I saw the final stats. Boston College, Northwestern, and Cincinnati combined for a whopping 14 turnovers. On top of that, they were -13 in the turnover margin. You can’t win games nor cover the spread with this kind of a performance. I felt somewhat better when I saw that ESPN “experts” had similar picks to myself, but then quickly went back to a sigh of despair when I thought about my 0-3 morning. Now back to regularly scheduled programming. Bare with me this weekend, as I will bounce back like I have time and again.

Once again, I will be using the lines given by Sportsbook.com. I will post one pick against the spread in each of the “Big Six” conferences, along with a breif analysis. Allow me to use the moniker given to the 2008 USA Olympic Basketball Team, as I will call this “Redemption Weekend.” (Lame, I know, but what do you expect from a guy in my position?)

Enough with the past, on to the November 1st picks…