Tag Archives: NCAA

Thursday Pickin Season II, Week 4

Posted on September 24, 2009 by travellinbaen

Quote of the Day: “I need to get married.” –King of the non-sequitur and blank stare creating Hall of Famer, Sweet Last week was one of the best ever here at Pickin for POTW’s with 14 coming in victorious against … Continue reading →

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100 Reasons Why College Football Rules (100-81)

Posted on September 23, 2009 by travellinbaen

Quote of the Day: “Sam Cunningham did more to integrate Alabama in 60 minutes than Martin Luther King did in twenty years.” –Jerry Claiborne, Alabama assistant in 1970, Kentucky Head Coach 1980’s 100.  The midnight Hawaii game 99.     … Continue reading →

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Thursday Pickin–Season Two, vol 1, (jackson 5, nikki 6)

Posted on September 3, 2009 by travellinbaen

Quote of the Day: “I ain’t here to give my opinion because I think I’m smarter than anybody else. I’m here to give my opinion because it rhymes.” –Todd Snider Before we start with the 2009 college football season, let’s … Continue reading →

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Football Season At Last

Posted on September 2, 2009 by travellinbaen

Quote of the Day: “Time, as we age, is often damaging. But this was one of the Lord’s good days, resting for me forever in a kind of somnolent tenderness. I was thirteen and it was a golden, luminous November’s … Continue reading →

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F.O.M.

Posted on August 11, 2009 by travellinbaen

Oh, ye spinsters of fate, I beseech you, make the thread of the SI cover jinx long and strong in 2009. Congrats to the Rebels and their fans here in the TB universe. Now I need to go puke. I … Continue reading →

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Football in Julypalooza III (sponsored by Q and Z)

Posted on July 24, 2009 by travellinbaen

Quote of the Day: “We are inclined to believe if we have watched a football game or a baseball game, we have taken part in it.” John F. Kennedy TB is eagerly anticipating the return of Thursday Pickin. This year … Continue reading →

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Football in Julypalooza (sponsored by Q and Z)

Posted on July 17, 2009 by travellinbaen

Quote of the Day: “In the East, college football is a cultural exercise. On the West Coast, it is a tourist attraction. In the Midwest it is cannibalism. But in the South it is religion. And Saturday is the holy … Continue reading →

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The First Annual Q and Z July Football Extravaganza Post

Posted on July 8, 2009 by travellinbaen

Quotes of the Day: “uggggggghhhhhh”     —Quail “Blank Stare” –Zeek –board/bored comments from sports fans and longtime friends of the blog on July 1, 2009 Did anybody besides TB find last week’s poll results interesting? Discounting the anomaly that … Continue reading →

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The Uniforms List

Posted on June 8, 2009 by travellinbaen

Quote of the Day:     “I love doubleheaders. That way I get to keep my uniform on longer.”     –Tommy Lasorda TB’s got a couple of ideas floating around the noggin for essays this week, but being that its Monday … Continue reading →

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Thursday Pickin Strikes Back

Posted on March 18, 2009 by travellinbaen

Quote of the Day:     “It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.”     –John Wooden It’s time for a special edition of Thursday Pickin, the first round of the NCAA Basketball tournament. I’ll open a new … Continue reading →

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