The eighth weekend of the college football season closed out
on Saturday, and we also closed out another weekend in our local ESPN College
Football Pick ‘Em Contest.
This week, when the dust settled after Saturday’s slate of
games, we had a two-way tie for first place with Drew Skipper and John Johnston
tied for the No. 1 spot. Ricky Taylor, Mark Peacock and Jeremy Matheny were
locked in a three-way tie for third place.
Justin Mixon, Travis Presley, Brett Loftin and myself found
ourselves in a four-way tie for sixth place. Clint Hyde, Darrell Burch, Vanessa
Sales and Calvin Casey were all tied up for the No. 10-spot.
With that said, if you didn’t do so hot in the contest last
weekend, don’t beat yourself up about it. As you’ve read here before, it’s a
marathon, not a sprint. We’ve got six more weeks to go, and the standings will
no doubt change a lot during the next month and a half.
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By my count, we’ve got five games this weekend featuring SEC
teams, and all five are head-to-head conference games. For what it’s worth,
here are my picks in those games. I like Vanderbilt over Arkansas, Georgia over
Florida, Missouri over Kentucky, Mississippi State over Texas A&M and South
Carolina over Tennessee. Last week: 6-0, Overall: 60-12
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Today (Thursday) is Oct. 25, a date that will live in infamy
in the minds of many Boston Red Sox fans. It was on that day in 1986 (when I
was just 10 years old) that the Red Sox lost Game 6 of the World Series to the
New York Mets. The winning run was scored in the tenth inning when a ground
ball went through Boston first baseman Bill Buckner's legs. Among baseball
fans, this incident is among the most famous moments in baseball history.
At that time, the Red Sox had not won a World Series since
1918 and after the 1986 season the Red Sox wouldn’t return to the World Series
again until 2004. The Red Sox broke their long World Series title drought in
2004 and have gone on to win the World Series twice more since, in 2007 and
2013.
The Red Sox are back in the World Series again this year and
they’re facing one of the most storied franchises in baseball history, the Los
Angeles Dodgers. The first two games of the World Series were scheduled to be
played on Tuesday and Wednesday night at Fenway Park in Boston with the
best-of-seven series to resume tomorrow (Friday) and Saturday night at Dodger
Stadium in L.A. If necessary, the series could continue on this coming Sunday,
Tuesday and Wednesday.
Many sports fans in the audience will know that the Dodgers
haven’t won a World Series since 1988, but they made it to the series last
season only to lose to the Houston Astros. I’ve never been a big Dodgers fan,
but I’ve always sort of pulled for the Red Sox, so I guess I’ll be pulling for
them again this year. For many years, they were world class underdogs and it
was hard not to pull for them.
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