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		<title>NCAA Basketball Tournament: My Thoughts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year, it seems, we go through some of the same issues&#8230;  Better NFL overtime rules.  Issues with 1-and-dones in the NCAA going to the NBA.  NASCAR not being a sport.  Cheerleaders and mascots.  Bruce Pearl&#8217;s orange suit.  And, of course, expanding the NCAA tournament. Let&#8217;s face it, any sports fan will tell you that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordstoplayby.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6572827&amp;post=658&amp;subd=wordstoplayby&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>52 Free-Agent Pick-up!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:49:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic Lake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey again, sports fans. Sorry it&#8217;s taken me so long to get rolling again over here. Life&#8217;s been pretty hectic, but I think I&#8217;ve finally managed to get things under control to some degree, so&#8230; I&#8217;m back. And first up on the docket&#8230; the 2010 NBA Free Agency fiasco. As you&#8217;ve probably heard, there are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordstoplayby.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6572827&amp;post=653&amp;subd=wordstoplayby&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Big Ten Expansion</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic Lake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Right now, there is all this talk about the Big Ten expanding to 12 schools.  The primary reason for this was made very apparent this football season, that being that football doesn&#8217;t have a playoff, and therefore our quality teams (Ohio State, Iowa, and Penn State) suffer from inactivity.  2 questions need to be tackled [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordstoplayby.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6572827&amp;post=600&amp;subd=wordstoplayby&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The BCS Got It Right&#8230; Or Did They?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:53:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic Lake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BCS sucks.  It really does.  In theory, you&#8217;d think that this idea would be great, and would really assist all of us fans in getting to see the top two teams in the nation play each other.  That&#8217;s what we want after all, right? Yeah, that plan nearly failed this year. We were witness [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordstoplayby.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6572827&amp;post=586&amp;subd=wordstoplayby&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dying In This Fantasy World</title>
		<link>http://wordstoplayby.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/dying-in-this-fantasy-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic Lake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is why I hate fantasy football. Apparently, the stats aren&#8217;t &#8220;official&#8221; for a day or two afterwards.  Also apparently, the Saints did something to warrant them losing 1 point in the score column.  More than likely, they didn&#8217;t get as many return yards as originally thought.  Long story short&#8230; instead of a 1 point [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordstoplayby.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6572827&amp;post=552&amp;subd=wordstoplayby&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Living In This Fantasy World</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic Lake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight was why I love fantasy football.  Probably the most intense thing that I can participate in with this disgusting cough. Going into tonights game, I was trailing by 5 points.  Our league is a little bit crazy, giving out massive amounts of points for all kinds of things.  Needless to say, when I saw [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordstoplayby.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6572827&amp;post=543&amp;subd=wordstoplayby&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What A Thriller&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:04:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic Lake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I want to tell you a little game about a football game. Today, I had excellent seats for the Iowa/Indiana football game at Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City.  And by excellent&#8230; well, 8 rows up, on the 46 yard line behind the Iowa bench.  Yeah, they&#8217;re good.  8-0 Iowa was taking on 4-4 Indiana, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordstoplayby.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6572827&amp;post=533&amp;subd=wordstoplayby&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Blowing The Whistle&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://wordstoplayby.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/blowing-the-whistle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:07:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic Lake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So tonight, I decided that I wanted to write a nice little article about the NBA.  I figured I&#8217;d talk about who I thought had the best chances to win (I&#8217;m guessing Spurs/Lakers in the West, and Cavs/Celtics in the East&#8230; but don&#8217;t count out the Magic, or even the Nuggets this season), how I&#8217;m [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordstoplayby.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6572827&amp;post=522&amp;subd=wordstoplayby&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pick&#8217;em</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic Lake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve noticed something over the past few weeks&#8230; placing Pick&#8217;em&#8217;s here in the main page has made me extremely lazy.  No new posts, things like that. So&#8230; if you take a look up at the top of the page, you will see 2 new links&#8230; NFL Pick&#8217;em, and NCAA Pick&#8217;em.  If you&#8217;re curious about checking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordstoplayby.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6572827&amp;post=513&amp;subd=wordstoplayby&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Time To Go Zebra Hunting&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic Lake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to be really honest with you all today&#8230; I&#8217;m getting really annoyed with officials in all leagues. You look at today&#8217;s Vikings/Steelers game.  Vikings were driving, inside the 10, and got called for a tripping call on a TD pass.  There was absolutely no trip on the play.  The Vikings lineman got flattened, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordstoplayby.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6572827&amp;post=502&amp;subd=wordstoplayby&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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