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Vegas Always Wins: How Loss Of Betting Slip Sinks Hopes Of Pro Gambling Career
I’m sitting in a crowded sports book with Vegas Kyle and Kevin taking in the NCAA Tournament. He really is called Vegas Kyle. Mostly because he’s a professional gambler, his name is Kyle, he lives in Las Vegas, and I can’t be bothered to learn his last name. More on him another day. ...
Random Thoughts on SEC Expansion from a Tired Georgia Bulldogs Fan Sitting in an Airport Far From Home
This weekend, the fine folks at the largest and fastest-growing network of fan-centered on-line sports communities hosted the first (hopefully, the first annual) SB Nation blogger convention in Las Vegas. My wife and I, who celebrated our 14th wedding anniversary last week, went out to Sin City for...
Where Should the Pac-12 Championship Game Be Held?
The Pac-10 is about to be the Pac-12 in a year, meaning that some fundamental things about the conference will be changing next season. With the heads of the Pac-10 families meeting, we've decided to take a look at the upcoming pressing alignment issues and wonder what you think we'll happen,...
Pac-10 looking at Las Vegas for title game
Joe Schad over at ESPN had some interesting news about the potential of the Pac-12 title game being played in Las Vegas and other possible locations. Beyond Vegas, the conference is looking at Glendale (Arizona), Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, Oakland and San Diego. It doesn't appear there...
Thursday Afternoon Bites
You know what sucks? Being an IT worker who is on call 24 hours a day. This week it's my turn to be on call, and it really sucks some time, energy, and life out of you. In lieu of a big, focused, single-topic post, this is all I can offer for now. Enjoy. Because that's all that was wrong with...
Bowl Breakdown
Since the season is nearly 3/4 over it is time to start looking at the bowl situation of the the conference. The conference has 4 bowl tie ins. Here is the current record of all the conference teams as of today. Mountain West Standings The teams with an * most likely to become bowl eligible...
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