EDSBS LIVE: RETURN OF THE FOUR QUESTIONS

You want a rematch, you’ve got it, GAYtors!!!1 lulz

Actually, Giggitards is pretty original. I like it.

1) Hockey.
2) Florida has never accomplished an undefeated season, even in 1996. While I realize this is extremely presumptuous, that’s why they play the game, blah, blah, blah, you have to wonder if the 103st team in school history can fight the title complacency syndrome and make a serious run at being considered unquestionably as the best Gators team ever…
3) “Snoop” by Sam Gosling. The way you choose to order your physical environment really does say something about you. And your porn collection also tells me you’re one sick puppy.
4) Stanford beats USC this year, and nobody thinks it will be a big deal because USC will drop at least three game this season.

Let me be the second, or third, to say that I’d love to have a rematch with Florida next year, because I’m assuming you’ve already clinched the East.

Plus, if it happens, you’ll have the entire “lunatic fringe” from Fayatteville showing up in force, wearing bedpans on their heads, doing the Chomp.

1. Baseball – playing not watching
2. How badly will UF beat Tennessee, and how late into the Q4 will Tebow play.
3. Lane Kiffin’s NCAA recruiting rulebook, obviously he hasn’t read it…Revolutionary Road
4. North Carolina wins the ACC.

1) Baseball. College and MLB.
2) Is Ryan Mallet good enough to become all the things Mitch Mustain could have become (had Giggity not run him off in typical Giggity fashion)?
3) “The Celestine Prophecy” by James Redfield. It’s sorta, kinda along the same lines as “Snoop,” but not really.
4) Arkansas will score wins at home vs Georgia and @ Ole Miss. GIGGITAH!!!

1. Golf.
2. Will we have a real offense in Starksville next year?
3. “My Favorite Smoothie Recipies” by Pete Carroll
4. GIGGETY!!! dies of spontaneous combustion at halftime of the LSU game.

1. English Premier League Soccer (and Chelsea F.C. in particular)
2. Can we replace Smith and Caldwell on the offensive line? (Most would be worried about the quarterback situation, bur, noet me)
3. The last book I read was “A Salty Piece of Land” by Jimmy Buffett – don’t know if that would work for most.
4. Alabama will not go undefeated in the regular season again, but will win the West.

1. Alex Ovechkin’s Wang. CAPITALS for Heisman
2. What role will Russell Shepard play for LSU?
3. “EWE’ve Got to be Kidding Me -The Life and Times of RAM GOD” or The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
4. UNC = ACC Champions.

1) Soccer. Less a mistress and more of a sister-wife.

2) Will Corp or Mustain start at QB, can the defense cope with replacing the graduating linebackers, and will Taylor Mays figure out how to tackle shorter RBs – well anyone really – without risking a helmet – to – helmet personal foul.

3) “Can We Have Our Balls Back Please? How the British Invented Sport,” by Julian Norridge. This is noteworthy for college football fans in two ways: 1) the proposition that sport rules were laid down to make gambling consistent and to make the world safe for muscular Christian amateur athletes, and 2) showing the SEC that they have a long way to go in the area of insular self-regard by comparison to the English.

4) Michigan will sue Stanford for Jim Harbaugh’s shameless copyright infringement of Schembechler-ian humorless, run first football. Cal fans will then wear sweatervests to the big game, and the Stanford band will be disbanded for re-enacting the Fire on the Cuyahoga with kerosene and flares. On their own field.

1. College baseball — helps that LSU is pretty good in it.
2. Where will Russell Shepard fit in LSU’s offense? I’m thinking Tebow as a frosh, but with less Rhino and more Mongoose.
3. Boys Will be Boys by Jeff Pearlman. Barry Switzer’s liver and Charles Haley’s penis call it a fun-filled romp for the entire family.
4. SEC West will be a 4-team race in November between LSU, Ole Miss, Bama and Arkansas.

1. Baseball. Go Cards.
2. Pretty simple: Will Charles win enough games to keep his job or not?
3. “Nobody Poops but You: A Book for Children”
4. What Urban will do to Kiffykins will not be appropriate viewing material for anyone under 17 years of age.

1. college basketball
2. Will Slick Rick go bald gracefully or will he cling to the remaining scraps of a once proud civilization of hair?
3. Fooled by Randomness (why all the metrics for measuring which team is “better/best” are really random guesswork. CAUTION: contains no actual football.)
4. Kevin Craft will not start for UCLA next year (please footballjesus!)

1. Baseball
2. Will Blaine Gabbert live up to his Godzilla villain name?
3. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman
4. Mizzou will easily win the Big 12 North and continue to be dominated by superior programs in the South.

1. Hockey—because I want to see if Bettman finally succeeds in running the NHL into the ground.
2. Can complacency, in fact, be overcome? Does Tebow have a “post-Ole MIss-esque” speech for the off-season? Or will we see ‘fat and happy’ offseason chickens come home to roost this fall?
3. Skinny Legs and All. It’s that good. I’m not even trying to be funny here.
4. Kiffikins will cost UT a game by doing something inexcusably stupid (even for him), either with play-calling or clock management, at the end of the 2nd quarter of an SEC game—in Knoxville.

1) College basketball – then the long slog from April to August. (with only spring football to temporarily satisfy). This is when ESPN Classic and CBS College Sports network should be showing nonstop college futbawl!
2) Along the lines you chose – will DT’s Torrey Davis and John Brown be able to get on the field this year (will Brown even be on the team)? Will Antwine recover from his second horrific injury? DT is the most important position on any defense, and depth is key.
3) Read Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road” before the movie comes out and spoils it. Read the Watchmen graphic novel before seeing the movie as well.
4) Ellis Hugh will not be dramatically improved this year. Questions at QB will keep them around 4 losses for the year. Arky makes the jump in year 2 as long as Petrino is paid like a day-laborer (cash only and with promises to pick him up in front of the quickstop the next day at 7 AM)

1. EPL Soccer, baseball
2. Willie Martinez – so many aspects to the issue
3. Re-reading the Cold 6,000 and American Tabloid in preparation for the new Ellroy book
4. The NCAA will see the light and get rid of instant replay

1. English Premier League and/or NHL
2. Will Russell Sheppard be Pat White at LSU or a glorified Guido Merkins/Jim Jensen jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none?
3. Islamic Imperialism by Efraim Karsh, Catastrophe by David Keys
4. Bama without an experienced QB finishes 3rd in the West behind LSU & Ole Miss

1. Golf
2. Will Terrelle Pryor become the complete QB this offseason to slay Southern Cal, Penn State and take us to a title game vs. Florida or Texas.
3. The Winners Manual by Jim Tressel I really should reread The Five Fundamentals of Golf by Ben Hogan and get my short game in order.
4. There will be 3 undefeated BCS teams in 2009 and cries for a playoff will be renewed again.

1. Golf, college basketball, MLB and poker (fuck you, it’s a sport to me). Not necessarily in that order.
2. Where will Tebow go during his spring break, and will circumcisions be involved again?
3. Every Hand Revealed, by Gus Hansen.
4. Miami and FSU play for the ACC title. It’s gotta happen eventually. That’s why they set all that shit up, right?

Kerwin4Two – don’t bother with the Watchmen. I read it at the request of a friend and it was interesting for about 10 pages. I’m favorably inclined to the genre, but I suspect that if you’re over the age of 25 for your first reading it’s going to SUCK.

1. @11 indeed, but please try to sign Manny to a one year deal.
2. Will WR Allen Muse be able well to play this year after having heart surgery last year?
3. Boys Will Be Boys by Jeff Perlman (believe me, this one ain’t for the kiddies)
4. ASU will win the Sun Belt and knock off either Iowa or Nebraska on the road (Prediction may or may not be influenced by Natty Light, also realizes probably the only Ark. St. fan on this site)

1. College basketball. I grew up in Oklahoma. What else am I going to watch? The OKC Thunder?
2. Will Ryan Reynolds play more than four games before a knee injury ends his season? (I’m going to pencil in “no” on that one.)
3. Red Harvest. If you have the old-school detective bug, there are none better than Dashiell Hammett.
4. The Big 12 changes its tiebreaker rules to use the BCS standings to eliminate one team in a 3-way tiebreaker and then revert to head-to-head record. The South again ends in a three-way tie, resulting in OSU being eliminated and OU claiming the division crown by virtue of a head-to-head win in October despite a lower BCS standing than Texas. I laugh heartily as Mack Brown declares this system to be unfair.

1. EPL Soccer, St. Louis Cardinals Baseball
2. Star Jackson vs. Greg McElroy
3. The Godfather ( I realize most of us have seen the movie, but the book is actually better.
4. Alabama will lose for a second year in a row to Florida in SEC Championship game

1. Soccer
2. Was the Peach Bowl just an aberration or the first step towards bringing Tech back to a harsh reality?
3. Haven’t read anything good recently
4. Ohio State fails to make a BCS bowl for only the second time since 2002

ps, watch USA – Mexico tomorrow night: it is your semi-ironic patriotic duty to take satisfaction at the failed petulance of the Mexican players

1. EPL, baseball, hockey
2. We’ll score against Iowa this year, right?
3. The Great Gatsby. Again.
4. I’ll get sunburnt in a new stadium.

1. LOST – seriously, Olympic sports suck.
2. Will Dan Mullen find enough WR’s on campus to run an adequate Spring practice?
3. “Eat the Rich” by P.J. O’Rourke. – it seems appropriate these days.
4. Mississippi State’s offense will break the top 100 for once in 5 years.

1. College basketball, though it’s a sad, rushed handjob compared to the tantric , pupil-dilating glory of CFB.

2. The battle for PT at the safety positions at Florida—embarrassment of riches and all that.

3. The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson. It’s about cryptology, and alchemy, and money, and whores, and pirates.

4. Georgia sub-.500 in SEC play.

my book suggestion would have to be Global Capitalism by Jeffery A. Frieden. as the talking heads and panjandrums scry over the economic tea leaves and beat their breasts about the vagaries of various stimulus packages and the dour fate of the financial system it’s worth taking the time to look back at the historical economic path that got us here.

it’s a well-written book that doesn’t get so bogged down in jargon that it becomes and unreadable reminder of that macroeconomics class you used for your mid-afternoon napping during your sophmore year. even better, frieden doesn’t seem to have a political or ideological axe to grind so you aren’t slogging through the rice paddies of dogma the whole way either.

essentially, if you read the economist magazine with any regularity, here is the background they assume you already know.

1. Golf, but only if Hal Sutton’s sweaty man boobs are somehow involved.
2. Is it an NCAA infraction to have Greg Hardy design my business cards?
3. Outliers by Gladwell, but just because I like to network vicariously through stories about other people.
4. Jevan Snead’s good play will result in several white kids being named Jevan for the first time in Mississippi’s proud history

1. Eh…I suppose the Braves and the rest of the craptacular ’roid circus.

2. Trent Richardson. Man or OMFG DID YOU SEE THAT?

3. The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb…in case we need more reasons to dislike bankers.

4. If you want a year two phenomenon, here it is: Georgia Tech. Fear the bone. I like them for the one spot in the BCS championship game.

1. It’s always CFB season on my Xbox 360.

2. Will GT have any stopping power on defense after losing 3 out of 4 starting defensive linemen?

3. “Bobby Dodd on Football” (Copyright 1954, Prentice-Hall, Inc.) It’s a textbook of sorts that was written when the game ran at a different, but intriguing pace.

4. There will be no BCS contraversy at all….Period….absolutely none.

1. Watching college hoops, participating in fishing. I also watch le tour every summer.

2. Who will emerge for the Gators at the “Percy” postion? I think Debose will takeover the short routes, Thompson the deep and Chris Rainey will take the majority of the carries.

3. Currently reading Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen, great novel if you are into Florida history. Before that Panic by Michael Lewis.

4. Kiffykins will be gone by the end of the season. Anything with this much drama always ends badly. See: several ex-girlfriends.

1. Cycling, lots of backstabbing and bitching going on here, its like hanging out with alot of chicks or the Dallas Cowboys.

2. Brandon Spikes actually decapitating a motherfucker.

3. You Gotta Play Hurt, main character is a sports writer, and not the Mitch Albom I have a vagina variety.

4. OSU still sucks next year, yet gets plenty of coverage and claims greatness due to winning The Mediocre Televen.

1. Getting ready for Brewers baseball. Sabathia and Sheets replaced with Braden Looper and Chase Wright……your 2009 Brewers

2. Will the ND o-line woes be improved with a new line coach, or is the problem deeper than that?

3. Atlas Shrugged. Kinda creepy reading it and articles about the stimulus in the same evening. Plus its really long and should hold you over until Phil Steele Day

4. If #2 gets answered, Michael Floyd, Kyle Rudolph/Ragone, and Golden Tate are going to be the headliners in the “Return to Glory” articles sure to be popping up late September. They really could be tough to stop (please hold all “sure, whatever we’ve heard that before” ND junk.

1. Any and all rugby, college baseball, New Orleans Hornets
2. Can LSU’s defense reprise the roles it’s played in the past with these new coaches? OR How many ways can i persuade myself how awesome the defense can be?
3. Huey Long biography, 1776, more Bradbury
4. Since everyone already knows Ole Miss wins everything (except the West) and Bama sucks without a qb and SC will lose early but still pout about being left out later, for premature, i will say I will not be alone in betting money I neither have nor could pay back in the UF/Kiffykins game, no matter the line.

1. Soccer..counting down the days until Jozy Altidore replaces Landon the Sissy Donovan as the face of the American version
2. Will Mark Whipple mold Jacory Harris into the long awaited savior of the Miami football program
3. Stalingrad, by Antony Beethov
4. Lil Wayne will be a part of an ESPN broadcasting team at least once this season, Im thinking on the sideline or maybe on Gameday.

1) March Madness followed by some fleeting sobriety which always seems to lead to weight loss. Then I pack it all back on during tailgating season. Ciiiiircle of liiiiife…

2) Who wil replace Rudy Carpenter under center for ASU? There’s literally 5 guys that all have a legit shot right now.

3) Phil Steele, natch. Last book I read was Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser. Interesting read if you like the nuts and bolts of big business.

4) ASU loses at home to ULM because we just didn’t fucking learn after the UNLV debacle. “Bring on Georgia” indeed.

1. Golf. Three birdies last Sunday!

2. Four 6’2" plus WR’s for UGA.

3. BIGOLESLABSAHGREEZYMEAT. Da coach O cookbook. Seriously, rereading some old Leon Uris novels.

4. A non-BCS team will play for it all next January. Thanks, Bama.

1. Soccer, come on you Spurs!
2. How are the Gators going to replace both offensive tackles…
3. “The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody” – Will Cuppy
4. What Urban will do to Hello Kiffin on Sept. 19th will make the Japanese weep.

CKGator @ 14:

You’re right, Skinny Legs and All is a brilliant book. Looks like the hope of Middle East peace rests on a talking stick and a talking can of beans so I guess peace will never happen.

1. EPL Soccer (esp. ManUtd).

2. What will the fickle hands of fate do this year to keep Texas out of the MNC game? How is the defense going to cope with Orakpo gone?

3. “American Theocracy” by Kevin Philips. That and my stack of Sandman trade paperbacks.

4. Pirate Leach doesn’t sign a new contract and takes his plundering elsewhere after this upcoming season.

1. College hoops, which segues nicely into Detroit Tigers baseball (which will, undoubtedly, take more years off my life this season since the bullpen still sucks).

2. Is Mike Haywood’s newly assembled staff in Oxford, Ohio “experienced” or gunning for a remake of “Space Cowboys”?

3. Tom Friedman’s “Hot, Flat, and Crowded.” It reads like an over-written op-ed piece (which it is), but there are some good insights for policy wonks and the rest of us too.

4. Giggitards penalized for too many men on the first play of the season, after Reverend Giggety sends 15 onto the field, figuring that only 11 will get lined up on time.

1. Tennis — The Australian open starts shortly after football season and the US Open usually finishes right before (or on, but in that case skip the women’s final and watch the men’s final on Sunday) opening weekend. It’s the perfect sport to last the whole offseason.

2. Will Michigan’s offensive line learn how to block?

3. Unconventional Success — People who haven’t lost their jobs and aren’t retiring in the next two years should not be too worried about the stock market ups and downs. (Other aspects of the bad economy can be worrisome, but stock market prices should not be)

4. Notre dame loses to 2-10 Washington State in San Antonio.

By the way, westbrooke@21 had an awesome prediction. I hope so much that it comes true.
“4. The Big 12 changes its tiebreaker rules to use the BCS standings to eliminate one team in a 3-way tiebreaker and then revert to head-to-head record. The South again ends in a three-way tie, resulting in OSU being eliminated and OU claiming the division crown by virtue of a head-to-head win in October despite a lower BCS standing than Texas. I laugh heartily as Mack Brown declares this system to be unfair.”

1. I’ll float in and out of other people’s sports, with a little of whatever two-year-old NCAA game I can get for ten bucks or so.

2. A justification of the romantic elements of college football using Vogler’s hero structure (I’m an English major).

3. List a mile long, yo. “Absalom, Absalom!” (I have a plane ride to England), three Dick Francis novels, then “Freakonomics”.

4. Duke stays in the Russian-roulette-on-acid ACC Coastal race until Halloween.

1. Spring Practice. That’s the ONLY correct answer here. Baseball? Lawya’ please…

2. After David Oku chooses Auburn over Tennessee (Hello Kiffy!) and Syracuse, its all about whether Gus Malzahn can find a way to get all his new freshman skill players involved in the offense right off the bat.

Oh, and I’ll still ponder whether Nick Saban is mad because he’s short, or short because he’s mad.

3. Book? You ever hear of those Auburn “independent study” courses? Book, WTF?

4. SEC West > Big 12 South for best conference division. Don’t be surprised to five SEC West teams go to bowl games next year… even Mississippi State!

Just to be clear—this blog and some commentators claim neither Greg McElroy or Star Jackson will be as good as John Parker Wilson.

OK, then.

1. Golf. You can drink.Alot.

2. Can Alabama stop a Urban Meyer run,or inspired version, of the Spread? Also, can we move the ball on offense while breaking in both- new O- line/QB?

3. North Dallas Forty by Peter Gent- really good , still revelant to professional sports, even though it was written over 30 yrs ago. Answers why players do PED, recreational drugs and many owners look the other way on bad behavior—-for the money, makes you realize the Bengals should have played back then, and would have been considered underachievers by riff-raff standards.

4. Predition: Alabama goes 9-3, losses to an upstart LSU, Ole Miss, and a random WTF loss that Nick Saban is historically good for each season..Insert here_______________(See Utah, ULM,UAB, VT,Iowa, and the Houston Texans)

1 – College Basketball until April, Baseball the rest of the way.

2 – With Percy and Louis Murphy gone, will anyone be able to run a really effective deep route?

3 – Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O’Brian. There are 20 of them, so you won’t run out of material. I’m on book 18 now—the last 12 or so have essentially been one giant 3500 page novel. Also I need to finally get around to Asimov’s Empire series.

4 – In my heart of hearts I think UF will probably lose a game, but here goes anyway: UF is one of three undefeated teams, with by far the weakest schedule of the three. The voters succumb to the “still the champs till they’re beat” argument and vote UF landslide #1, just overcoming their #3 spot in the computers and—again—controversially putting UF in the title game.

“a random WTF loss that Nick Saban is historically good for each season”

someone’s learning….

1. Auto Racing – IRL, F1, NASCAR, and LeMans.

2. How many of the LSU Recruiting Class will actually start or see significant playing time next season? Ramgod says Randle will, but what about the others? Follow-up: How many plays will Russell Shepard get at QB, if he doesn’t Redshirt?

3. Peter Bean has another book coming out, doesn’t he? And this time, I can haz the personally-autographed version? Also Phil Steele’s annual and thorough brain-fuck known as his College Football Preview.

4. Colorado go to a bowl game. That’s about as premature as you can get in CFB.

@ESM,jr.

1. should be a prediction.

Not your drooling fantasy: “Georgia sub-500 in SEC play.”

as desperate as i was to hear and chat about college football, the suck of talkshoe simply made it impossible. good christ, i didn’t think it was possible to make nowlive look efficiently run but damned if they didn’t do it.

Nothing would make me happier than to win 10 games, give Tebow a rematch in Atlanta, lose, and go to the Sugar Bowl while the Gators go for their 2nd BCSC in a row. The Rebels have yet to win the West since the conference was split into divisions in ‘92. So, let’s just say we’d have the “It’s an honor just to be nominated” attitude if we were to finally reach that painfully elusive Georgia Dome.

1) GAA Gaelic Football. Soccer crossed with rugby crossed with a parking-lot bar fight. Plus it’s an excuse to be down at the pub pounding Guinness at 5 AM on Sunday morning.

2) WIth almost everyone of consequence returning (ave atque vale, DJ Moore), plus Kentucky and both Miss. schools at home, not to mention the likes of Army and Rice as non-cons, is it possible to actually discuss the possibility of Vanderbilt having back-to-back winning seasons without immediately getting chucked into rehab?

3) “At Day’s Close: Night in Times Past,” by Roger Ekrich. Hokie professor writes an accessible and fascinating account of the evolution of the role of nighttime in Western culture.

4) Lane Kiffin goes one-and-done after posting the SEC’s first-ever 0-12 record. Hey, if anybody could do it…

1) I’ll watch the first month and a half of baseball then shut it down when the Reds transition into “rebuilding/we’ll get ’em next year” mode
2) How much does Pryor improve, specifically this mechanics and accuracy? Can Boom Herron be a 20-25 carries-a-game RB or does the running game look to an incoming frosh?
3) Gostin’s Public Health Law 2nd edition
4) RichRod’s seat becomes increasingly warm and UM limps to 5 wins top.

Almost forgot to answer the 4 questions.

1. College Baseball (specifically Ole Miss Baseball). Lots of beautiful spring afternoons in LF drinking lots of ice cold beer watching lots of Ole Miss coeds walk around in short shorts and occasionally looking up to check the score.

2. How will Houston Nutt manage to turn a recruiting class of half a hundred into the less giggity number of 25 by August?

3. North Toward Home

4. SEC West will finish as follows:
Ole Miss
LSU
Bama
Arkansas
MSU
Auburn

SEC East:
UF
UGA
UK
USC
Vandy
Kiffegeron

1.) Cal men’s basketball, but not professional basketball because ye Gods the Kings suck.
2.) Oh man there are a million of these. Can Cal replace Alex Mack, Will Ta’ufo’ou, and Jim Michalczik in the run game? Will Riley settle down and play up to the promise he showed before he got stuck on the quarterback carousel? Was Tedford crazy to only recruit only one receiver this year? Can Jahvid Best stay healthy through a full season of football?
3.) Taras Bulba by Nikolai Gogol.
4.) Cal finally makes it back to the Rose Bowl.

1. Oh shit…does “American Idol” count? No? Not even for the trainwreck factor? Okay then, March Madness will do…along with the ongoing Andy Kennedy saga.

2. What I wonder about every year…who will do the Jumbotron “Hotty Toddy?” But more seriously, will Bobby Massie be able to fill Michael Oher’s shoes?

3. Dixie Lullaby by Mark Kemp; how the civil rights movement led to the evolution of Southern Rock in the 1970’s.

4. Damn, you took my prediction (Ole Miss wins the SECW)…I’ll raise you one and say we win the whole ball of wax. Hey when you said premature I assumed you simultaneously meant insane (I still hear Kiffykins in my head…“GET OUT OF MY HEAD KIFFYKINS!”)

1. Your offseason proxy sport.

None. I go surfing. Baseball is gay. Basketball doesn’t really interest me except for the NCAA version, and the basketball Ducks are beyond terrible. I do love me some Fulmer Cup action, though.

2. Entertaining question for your team that will keep your brain occupied sufficiently for the next 2-3 months.

Oregon has 1 4-star JC WR commit that hasn’t made it into school yet (Tyrece Gaines); and we are supposedly the leader for Bryce Brown’s services as of an audio interview with Bryce Brown today. So, recruiting isn’t over yet.

3. Book we need to all read (since we have time.)

Not Tuesdays With Morrie. Most of what I read is very boring non-fiction, so I won’t bother you with it

4. One extremely premature prediction for 2009 (football-wise.)

Arizona State will be better. Oregon State will be worse. Oregon may compete with USC for the Pac-10 crown. Arizona will suck ass.

1) College hoops, then hockey (mostly NHL, but that’s only because it’s impossible to find college hockey in Illinois).

2) Who’s going to replace Ringer? And is our dislike of Hoyer (mostly for his occasional passes that could only be caught with Inspector Gadget arms, and the debacle in the Champs Sports Bowl in ‘07) about to become a case of “be careful what you wish for” now that he’s gone?

3) Oh, man. If you’re into sci-fi/fantasy, I could probably recommend enough to get you through the next decade. Fantasy recommendations: right now I’m plowing through Terry Goodkind’s Sword of Truth series (finished the first four, seven to go); the Shannara series by Terry Brooks (20 books at the moment) and the Song of Ice and Fire series (four books out, three more planned) by George R. R. Martin are also excellent. For sci-fi, I would go with a couple of Heinlein’s works (Stranger in a Strange Land, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress) or the Foundation series by Asimov. A couple of series that might appeal if you’re a fan of Monty Python-style humor: the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy quintet (Douglas Adams) and Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series.

4) MSU finishes second in the Big Ten and wins their second straight over Michigan.

1. tie—college baseball and hoops—the bob knight to uga rumors are the only exciting thing about the program, so i’ll watch other teams chase glory. with baseball, uga actually has a shot at being special.

2. does willie martinez finally implement this wildly newfangled scheme called the “blitz?”

3. a heartbreaking work of staggering genius by dave eggers. a post-modern classic if ever there was one.

4. usc’s reign atop the pac-10 finally ends…at the hands of whom, i cannot say.

1) uhh…temp jobs? I would like to say soccer, but all I have to watch is MLS and whatever comes on ESPN. Really, where are you people getting this EPL coverage? I have tried the p2p thing, and it’s pretty unreliable.

2)Will this finally be the year that ’bama ends the streak of only beating 36-0?

3)“Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies” by Jared Diamond. Well written book detailing the environmental determinism theory for how eurasian societies came to dominate the world.

4)Nobody reads the aforementioned book, and Aubie learns to fellate himself.

2) “…only beating auburn 36-0?”

3) Jared Diamond is not a typo or a joke, it’s the guys real name.

1. Getting drunk and heckling the visitors at Ole Miss baseball games.

2. Did hosting a Presidential Debate truly break the Ole Miss curse? (It happened the Friday before the Florida game. Solid weekend.)

3. Run With The Horsemen by Ferrol Sams.

4. Tebow Crying At The Postgame Press Conference 2.0 will be caused by Lane Kiffin beating Florida in The Swamp.

re: where to get foreign soccer:
1. Fox Soccer Channel/Setanta
2. the ‘right’ streamers (justin.tv, myp2p.eu, livefooty), at times it does take a little bit of trial and error to find a good stream
3. espn360 for non-English soccer + Champions League when it’s back on

1. Hockey, baby
2. Will DJ Fluker be game ready at LT by the start of the season, and who will he be blocking for in the starting Alabama backfield?
3. Seriously, O, Ironfire by David Ball. Haunting.
4. UF doesn’t break a sweat as it repeats for SEC-E and SECCG champions.

1. College Hoops… but only because it’s what’s on this time of year. Seriously, I try real hard to care. Oklahoma is having it’s best season in school history and I’ve only seen a grand total of 2 games on tv. The interest always gets ratchet’d up for tournament season though.
2. How much of OUs offensive success in 2008 was due to Sam Bradford and how much was due to a talented and experienced O-line?
3. I’ve never actually got around to reading and Harry Potter books. Completely normal people who you would never guess are into that kind of stuff have recommended them to me. I’ll give the first two a whirl, but if I’m not impressed, then Im out.
4. USCs strangle-hold on the Pac10 comes to an end… or at least takes a year off. Oregon goes to the Rose Bowl.

1. NASCAR

2. How many points will Florida own UT by at home this year for Hello Kitty running his mouth???

3.Penthouse – Letters. None of them are real, but a fun read with a cold beer!

4. Gator RULE, UGAy SUCKS

1) Golf- playing- you gotta make the most of the three months of bad sledding in the north.
2) Please, Jeebus, can Michigan have a QB?
3) “Twenty Thousand Roads”- a biography of Gram Parsons. If you like that sort of music, at all, READ THIS BOOK. NOW.
4) OSU fails to make a BCS bowl game.

1) NCAA 09 Football on XBox 360. The methadone to my college football addiction. My girlfriend of 7 months wondered aloud the other night if I had always played this much. RB: “Only until spring practice, honey” GF:“Oh, you watch spring practice on TV?” RB:“Of course.” GF:“Isn’t that a bit weird?” Yankee girlfriends never get it.

2) Why does Lane Kiffin bother me? Is it the fact he’s an ass clown or (even worse) I secretly fear him?

3) Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street by Michael Davis. Fascinating book about a cultural touchstone in all of our lives.

4) Miami finally rises to the top of the ACC. But Tebow and Urban still steal their thunder.

O,

How can I download EDSBS Live if I can’t listen to it when the show is live? I miss my iTunes download.

Thanks,
RanchyBalls

1. Hockey playoffs, then as many Rays games as a stubborn bastard in Texas who won’t pay for Extra Innings can find.

2. Will there be a horror movie released to theaters in the next 12 months that is based on the Kiffykins song?

3. “The Evolution of Cooperation” by Robert Axelrod has been sitting on my bookshelf waiting for me to read it for several years. Is this the year? No. Probably not.

4. USF will beat either Florida State or Miami. This year.

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You didn’t find that book a little repetitive? The guy assumed people had specific preconceptions and stressed the same four points over and over and over again. Maybe it was just me, but I really can’t seem to agree with the well written part about the book. Anyway, my answers:

1) Cricket, fantastic once you know it

2) Are we UT 1998? (UGA) … (Please)

3) David Sedaris, pretty much anything he’s written

4) MNC game has an SEC and PAC 10 team this season

1. Clemson Hoops, Golf, and uh, the Spring Game Ticket Prices Price-Is-Right
2. What the heck do we have in Dabo? Could it really work?
3. They Call Me Assassin by Jack Tatum and America’s Game : The Epic Story of How Pro Football Captured a Nation by Michael MacCambridge
4. Alabama will lose 4 or more, Virginia will not be good, and Georgia Tech will make a serious run at a ’91-like slip into a national title.

Woo-hoo! Chiming in a cool 2+ months behind the play!

1. Your offseason proxy sport.

College Baseball.

2. Entertaining question for your team that will keep your brain occupied sufficiently for the next 2-3 months.

Can the defense make the stellar leap necessary for Georgia to compete?

3. Book we need to all read (since we have time.)

I’m almost done with Ferrol Sams “Run with the Horsemen” recommended above and can second it. If you haven’t hit the Ian Fleming James Bond novels, that’s cool manly brain candy right there. I’ve got three to go and I will have read ’em all. Best so far: “Casino Royal”, “Thunderball” and “Diamonds are Forever”.

But you said need to read, so, given this crowd I’ll go with The Holy Bible.

4. One extremely premature prediction for 2009 (football-wise.)

Georgia beats Oklahoma State opening w/e.