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    Brien (31-38-1)
    I think going 3-2 last week was my first winning weekend in a couple months.

    KANSAS CITY (-1.5) over Cleveland - I normally hate picking these bottom-barrel games, but [...]
    Posted: December 18, 2009, 9:50am EST
  • Tiger Woods Scandal Good for PGA Tour

    While everyone is wondering how the PGA Tour can survive the absence of Tiger Woods during his indefinite leave, the underlying truth is that this scandal could be the biggest windfall for professional golf ever.

    Tiger's newly famous "trangressions" have thrust him on the national media stage in a [...]
    Posted: December 15, 2009, 12:07pm EST
  • NFL Picks Week 14

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    So by Week 14 we at ECB have proven that you should probably always bet against our picks. The magic Eight Ball may well claim victory this year with a sub-.500 season. Ouch.

    Brien (28-36-1)[...]
    Posted: December 10, 2009, 8:20pm EST
  • Mtn West, WAC Screwed by Fiesta Bowl

    This weekend, the Fiesta Bowl selected TCU and Boise St to play each other in this year's edition of the BCS bowl. This is a significant first that two non-automatic qualifier (AQ) schools made the BCS, but it really would have been inexcusable to skip over Boise in favor of [...]
    Posted: December 07, 2009, 10:54pm EST
  • Heisman Picks

    2009 will be a fascinating year for the Heisman voters to attempt to dissect. Many of the early favorites were injured or played below expectations (Tebow, McCoy, Bradford), leaving the door open for a variety of other candidates. Mark Ingram represents the "best player on the best team," but I [...]
    Posted: December 07, 2009, 12:27pm EST
  • EJ Henderson Breaks Leg


    EJ was the best player on the best Maryland teams of the last 25 years, and those teams happened while all of us at ECB were attending Maryland, cheering him on. And so, it touched us a little more than most to see his leg [...]
    Posted: December 07, 2009, 12:16pm EST
  • Mike & Ikes, Steelers Edition

    Hmmm, the Mikes taste okay, but the Ikes taste slightly burned. [...]
    Posted: December 06, 2009, 4:45pm EST
  • College Football Picks - Championship Week

    Better than late than never, here are my picks for this week's huge games, sure to be wrong:

    Cincinnati (-2) over PITTSBURGH - I'm expecting a close game, but I've had the Bearcats as my Big East Champs since the start of the season, and there's no reason to [...]
    Posted: December 05, 2009, 11:19am EST
  • NFL Picks - Week 13

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    Alright, a tough week for most of us last week. But seriously, not too many football fans (aside from degenerate gamblers) are caring about the lines of this week's games... damn near [...]
    Posted: December 04, 2009, 12:33pm EST
  • Yet Another Reason why Soccer will Never Succeed in the States


    Most Americans won't recognize this image. Nearly all Europeans will instantly recognize this image. This picture was snapped of French national team member Thierry Henry taking part in the ultimate transgression - a handball to maintain possession of the ball. Henry then passed the ball' [...]
    Posted: December 02, 2009, 1:20pm EST
  • Terps Basketball – What We Know Now

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    We’re at the point in the basketball season where we start to have an idea of how good teams are.  Before now, it’s all conjecture, but now that the pre-season tournaments are over, we can take stock.

    So how good are the Terps this [...]

    Posted: December 02, 2009, 8:15am EST
  • Tiger Woods Accident - Possible Explanations

    Most reasonable people have rejected the official explanation of Tiger Woods' accident at 2:25 a.m. on Friday morning. The idea that he left his home, alone and sober, at that hour and hit a fire hydrant and tree outside his own driveway just doesn't sit with most people. The reported [...]
    Posted: November 29, 2009, 2:25pm EST
  • A Version of Tiger Woods Accident that Makes More Sense

    Based on preliminary reports, here is the official story of Tiger Woods' solo car accident early on Friday morning.
    Tiger left his suburban Orlando home around 2:30 a.m. by himself in his Cadillac SUV. He struck a fire hydrant and a tree, though police say alcohol was not a factor.' [...]
    Posted: November 28, 2009, 8:03pm EST
  • NFL Week 12 Picks

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    Happy Thanksgiving to all of our readers! Stuff yourselves on Turducken and hope that you have the NFL Network so that you can watch the only halfway decent game on Thanksgiving Day.

    Brien (25-29-1)
    My [...]
    Posted: November 26, 2009, 1:59pm EST
  • Abe Pollin, RIP

    There are a lot of RIP blog posts and columns this sad evening in the Nation's Capital regarding the passing of a great owner, the man who brought hockey and basketball to Washington and put us on the national sports map, and the man who singlehandedly [...]
    Posted: November 24, 2009, 7:43pm EST
  • Notre Dame - Not the Dream Job it Used to Be

    So we all know by now that Notre Dame lost to UConn yesterday, likely sealing the fate of Charlie Weis, who will join Bob Davie and Ty Willingham as the most recent Notre Dame coaching casualties. If you scan the message boards and some of the ESPN articles addressing the [...]
    Posted: November 22, 2009, 11:26am EST
  • College Football Picks - Week 12

    Another relatively boring week of a college football season that has seemed lacking in excitement through most of the meat of the schedule. Most of the big games happened a month ago, and most conferences are just waiting for the championship week. There just aren't that many consistently good teams' [...]
    Posted: November 21, 2009, 11:12am EST
  • NFL Picks - Week 11

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    Back to a full slate of games this week after the bye weeks end. By this point in the season, we feel like we know just enough about all the teams so that we get ourselves [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:22pm EST
  • Classic Postgame Presser

    This care of ECB reader Jim, a loyal reader since Day 1 of ECB, a law school buddy of mine, a long-suffering St. Louis Cardinals (football) and Rams fan, and an alum of Miami University...

    We have an early candidate for postgame presser of the year folks! Take a [...]
    Posted: November 18, 2009, 2:04pm EST
  • “Sportsmanship”

    About ten thousand times during the last Maryland basketball game, Comcast SportsNet played a commercial about sportsmanship sponsored by the “Foundation for a Better Life.”

    You can watch the video above, but the gist of it is that a basketball player tips a ball as it goes out of [...]

    Posted: November 17, 2009, 4:31pm EST
  • Belichick Pays Manning Enormous Compliment

    With 2:08 remaining in the 4th quarter, up 6, 34-28, Bill Belichick decided to go for it on 4th and 2. Thanks to a bobble, Kevin Faulk's reception was spotted short of the marker. Without any time outs, New England could not challenge and Peyton Manning was a mere 30' [...]
    Posted: November 15, 2009, 11:53pm EST
  • NFL's Most Annoying Fans - NFC North

    This is the fifth in a running feature at ECB. We'll be rating NFL Fanbases by annoyingness and picking a winner for each division. After that, we'll select wild card teams, and have ourselves a little playoff. If you have suggestions for upcoming divisions or wildcard selections, send them to [...]
    Posted: November 15, 2009, 11:40am EST
  • College Football Picks - Week 11

    This week is all about the best teams surviving against lesser opposition.

    CINCINNATI (-9) over West Virginia - The Bearcats won't have a late meltdown this week, after letting UConn back in the game. Let's remember what the score was in the 3rd quarter of that game.

    Iowa [...]
    Posted: November 13, 2009, 6:07pm EST
  • NFL Picks - Week 10

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    Everyone got torn apart pretty good last week with their picks (the Magic 8 Ball was the league leader last week) - the only news to come out of [...]
    Posted: November 13, 2009, 8:46am EST
  • NFL's Most Annoying Fans - AFC North

    This is the fifth in a running feature at ECB. We'll be rating NFL Fanbases by annoyingness and picking a winner for each division. After that, we'll select wild card teams, and have ourselves a little playoff. If you have suggestions for upcoming divisions or wildcard selections, send them to [...]
    Posted: November 08, 2009, 2:41pm EST
  • NFL Picks - Week 9

    We have a new sponsor for the weekly picks post, Sportsbetting.com. They offer great odds and prop bets for all your online sports betting needs.

    A big bye week around the NFL leads to havoc for fantasy football owners and less games [...]
    Posted: November 06, 2009, 8:16pm EST
  • College Football Picks - Week 10

    I feel the need to take this opportunity to gripe about this week's schedule. The Thursday night games are N Illinois vs directional Michigan, Temple and Miami OH, and VT at ECU. Did MLB bribe ESPN to show crappy games during Game 7 of the World Series because MLB needs' [...]
    Posted: November 04, 2009, 7:22pm EST
  • NFL's Most Annoying Fans - NFC South

    This is the third in a running feature at ECB. We'll be rating NFL Fanbases by annoyingness and picking a winner for each division. After that, we'll select wild card teams, and have ourselves a little playoff. If you have suggestions for upcoming divisions or wildcard selections, send them to [...]
    Posted: October 31, 2009, 1:18pm EDT
  • NFL Picks - Week 8

    Before we get to our normal picks post, we'd like to give a huge MAZEL TOV (well, at least that comes from Jeremy, the resident member of the Tribe), to Brien, whose wife gave birth to son #2 on Wednesday, October 28. We do note with sadness that Brien did' [...]
    Posted: October 30, 2009, 3:31pm EDT
  • College Football Picks - Week 9

    Last week, I guess I was just hoping for excitement and picked a bunch of underdogs to keep things close or give us some upsets. Instead, I got a 1-6 week for my trouble. So I'm back to .500, and refocusing for better results. Too bad the slate of games' [...]
    Posted: October 28, 2009, 9:10pm EDT
  • Redskins Head Coach Zorn Is Demoralized and Must Be Fired

    I don't think Jim Zorn reacted the way Vinny Cerrato, Danny Snyder and the Redskins had hoped. The team said all the right things after Zorn was named the "head coach for this year, maybe longer", but his demeanor reveals that his reprieve is not appreciated.
    In' [...]
    Posted: October 26, 2009, 11:10pm EDT
  • Redskins' Coach Zorn, GM Cerrato Go All In to Save Their Jobs

    There is almost never anything positive to say about the Redskins' management the past decade, but this week Danny Snyder toadie Vinny Cerrato actually did something right. By giving head coach Jim Zorn the season-long vote of confidence, Cerrato and Snyder sent a clear message to the players to stop' [...]
    Posted: October 24, 2009, 7:00pm EDT
  • Paul Tagliabue was Wrong About Jacksonville

    jacksonville empty stadium

    One of the greatest pleasures in life is saying “I told you so,” even if it’s 16 years later and the target is retired.  So here goes: Paul Tagliabue, you were wrong about Jacksonville, and I told you so.

    In 1993, when the [...]

    Posted: October 24, 2009, 8:33am EDT
  • NFL Picks - Week 7

    A tough week for most of us last week - some very unexpected results on the field. About the only pick we all got right was the Chiefs getting points against the Redskins. Vegas probably lost a lot of money on that one. On to the picks...

    Odds from [...]
    Posted: October 23, 2009, 11:54pm EDT
  • College Football Picks - Week 8

    Kind of a quiet week in college football, but those are the ones that sneak up on you and ruin your season. So the good teams need to stay focused against lesser opposition.

    VIRGINIA (+5) over Georgia Tech - Tech is 0-8 since 1990 at Charlottesville, and UVA will [...]
    Posted: October 23, 2009, 11:29pm EDT
  • Maryland's Vasquez Named Most Entertaining in Hoops

    At least Maryland again tops one list...
    See the list, and 2 through 16, here. [...]
    Posted: October 23, 2009, 9:38pm EDT
  • Ben Roethlisberger Sexual Assault Victim Survives Summary Judgment

    The story on ESPN.

    "I'm here to fix deine cable. Ich bin expert."

    "You can imagine where it goes from here."

    "She fixes the cable?"

    This morning a Nevada judge ruled against Ben Roethlisberger in his efforts to have the claims that' [...]
    Posted: October 23, 2009, 8:33am EDT
  • NFL’s Most Annoying Fans – AFC South

    This is the third in a running feature at ECB. We'll be rating NFL Fanbases by annoyingness and picking a winner for each division. After that, we'll select wild card teams, and have ourselves a little playoff. If you have suggestions for upcoming divisions or wildcard selections, send them to [...]

    Posted: October 23, 2009, 8:14am EDT
  • Steve Phillips - New Meaning to "Slumpbuster"

    So by now we've all heard the allegations of Steve Phillips having had an affair with a 22-year-old production assistant and that said production assistant went all fatal attraction on his family, friending his son on Facebook and sending his wife letters describing birthmarks on his nether regions. If you' [...]
    Posted: October 21, 2009, 12:07pm EDT
  • Splashing Cold Water on 'Skins Fans

    A popular sentiment amongst Redskins fans all day long on sports talk radio has been that somehow if we can force Dan Snyder to sell the team, things will get better. After all, people reason, he must be in reasonably dire financial straits given how he's been hemorrhaging money with' [...]
    Posted: October 19, 2009, 3:55pm EDT
  • How the Mighty (Terps) Have Fallen

    Less than a decade ago, Maryland was representing the ACC in the Orange Bowl against Spurrier's Gators. There were 3 straight 10-win seasons, and bowl destructions of Tennessee and West Virginia.

    This year, the Maryland football program has reached a new low in the Friedgen era. We are 6' [...]
    Posted: October 19, 2009, 12:30pm EDT
  • The Most Wonderful Weekend of the Year

    Halloween is quite possibly my second-favorite holiday all year. You can gorge yourself (relatively) guilt free into a diabetic coma, girls dress in provocative (read - slutty) costumes because it is socially acceptable, and it's just all around a good time. This year Halloween is on the weekend, which makes' [...]
    Posted: October 19, 2009, 8:55am EDT
  • Brad Childress is a Headset Hottie

    This offseason, Brad Childress earned widespread praise for converting the creepy moustache into a respectable beard.  Seemingly determined to remain the subject of ridicule, even at the helm of an undefeated team, Childress has insisted on wearing a special headset instead of the standard-issue Motorola model.

    brad childress[...]

    Posted: October 18, 2009, 9:41pm EDT
  • Incredible Redskins and Panthers Futility Stats

    All six teams the Redskins have played this year were winless coming into the game (NYG 0-0, STL 0-1, DET 0-2, TB 0-3, CAR 0-3, KC 0-5). That means four teams got their first win of the season against Washington.

    Also, the two teams the Redskins beat (TB and [...]
    Posted: October 18, 2009, 7:12pm EDT
  • Maryland to the Big East? An Examination.

    Over the summer, there was some idle chatter about the possibility of Maryland moving to the Big East. Such a move couldn't take place until 2015, at the earliest.

    As a lifelong Marylander and proud Terp, my initial reaction to this was shock and horror. Maryland is a charter' [...]
    Posted: October 17, 2009, 5:46pm EDT
  • NFL Week 6 Picks

    Wow, aside from maybe two games on the schedule, Week 6 brutalizes us with some horrible football games.  The only thing that could make it palatable for 90% of NFL fans is playing fantasy or having money on the game.  Which is where we come in...

    Brien (14-11-0)
    With that slow start [...]
    Posted: October 16, 2009, 8:17am EDT
  • An Instant "Fix" for the Ravens at Cornerback

    The Ravens remain solid in the front seven, even if the defense is getting accustomed to new defensive coordinator Greg Mattison. Both safeties are strong too, with All-Pro Ed Reed supported by Dawan Landry. The corners though....oh the corners.
    The Ravens rely on Dominique Foxworth and Fabian Washington (formerly of [...]
    Posted: October 15, 2009, 8:13pm EDT
  • NFL's Most Annoying Fans - NFC West

    This is the second in a running feature at ECB. We'll be rating NFL Fanbases by annoyingness and picking a winner for each division. After that, we'll select wild card teams, and have ourselves a little playoff. If you have suggestions for upcoming divisions or wildcard selections, send them to [...]
    Posted: October 14, 2009, 1:50pm EDT
  • College Football Picks - Week 7

    More on time this week, the Red River rivalry, Touchdown Jesus vs. the Spoiled Children, and the battle of the Techs highlight the schedule.

    Cincinnati (-2.5) over SOUTH FLORIDA - USF's best two victories are over FSU and Syracuse. While the Noles used to be good, they're not what' [...]
    Posted: October 14, 2009, 12:28pm EDT
  • Throwing a Flag on Excessive Celebration



    Much has been made in recent weeks about stupid penalties for excessive celebration in college football that have had a direct impact on the games.

    You want to talk about truly excessive celebration? Well, I ask you, what [...]
    Posted: October 12, 2009, 2:01pm EDT

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