Have a trip out of town planned that will take me away until next Monday I suspect, but in any event I appreciate everybody stopping by. Getting linked on Deadspin ain’t a bad way to get started on a new blog and I thank Will Leitch for that. (Plus a lot of other nice places, [...]
Archive for September, 2006
See ya next week
Posted in Vandermint on September 29, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
NFL Week 4 Pick of the Week
Posted in Gambling, NFL on September 29, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Washington (Plus 3) over Jacksonville
The Skins really need this game, Brunell will want to beat his old team, and Jacksonville has had three emotional games in a row: the season-opener against Dallas (everybody gets up for Dallas), the Monday Night slugfest with the Steelers, and the big divisional road game at Indianapolis. I think their [...]
The (7th? 8th?) Coming of Mike Tyson
Posted in Boxing, Mike Tyson on September 29, 2006 | 1 Comment »
So Tyson is going to start fighting exhibitions. On PPV.
That’s pay-per-view. That means people are going to pay money to watch a fight on television that doesn’t count. They already have those–it’s called professional wrestling. (Except I kinda doubt Tyson will be squaring off in a “Hell in a Cell” match.)
There’s really only 3 ways this can [...]
Someone’s awake over at ESPN.com. Slow, but awake.
Posted in Boxing on September 28, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Last night I read an intriguing interview with Roberto Duran over at ESPN.com that was prefaced with an otherwise boring introduction, but for this line:
Widely considered the best pound-for-pound fighter of all-time, the Panamanian won world titles at four different weights and fought in five different decades.
Do what now? So I get all geeked up about it [...]
