<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:blogger="http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45309973114660291</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2024 18:52:57 +0000</lastBuildDate><category>Baseball</category><category>Coaches</category><category>Critical Sports Blog</category><category>MLB</category><category>NCAA Football</category><category>Weblog</category><title>Sportpinion</title><description>Wherein we opine on sports as if it were a serious subject. Further we believe that grown men do cry especially when Lucy Liu is nearby or Dennis Green is coaching.</description><link>http://sportpinion.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Irish)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>4</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45309973114660291.post-28623458343174398</guid><pubDate>Sun, 22 Oct 2006 14:36:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2006-10-22T10:36:53.755-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Critical Sports Blog</category><title>Critical Sports Blog</title><description>Moving to merge with another guy to form the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.criticalsports.typepad.com/&quot;&gt;Critical Sports Blog&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://sportpinion.blogspot.com/2006/10/critical-sports-blog.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Irish)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45309973114660291.post-7018188255697804913</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2006 11:04:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2006-10-20T09:09:23.276-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Baseball</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">MLB</category><title>St. Louis Wins NLCS and Celebrates at Applebee&#39;s</title><description>The New York &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-error&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_0&quot; onclick=&quot;BLOG_clickHandler(this)&quot;&gt;Mets&lt;/span&gt; are now the National League Yankees &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.suntimes.com/sports/baseball/104770,101906cards.article&amp;sa=X&amp;amp;oi=news&amp;ct=result&amp;amp;cd=3&amp;amp;sig=__R-W4WpqTdpjmkQXkVBQ6yz5rvxk=&quot;&gt;after losing to the St. Louis Cardinals &lt;/a&gt;in game seven of the &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-error&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_1&quot; onclick=&quot;BLOG_clickHandler(this)&quot;&gt;NLCS&lt;/span&gt;. Whilst the Cardinals are a talented team with a &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-error&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_2&quot; onclick=&quot;BLOG_clickHandler(this)&quot;&gt;saavy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-corrected&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_3&quot;&gt;manager&lt;/span&gt; the &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-error&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_4&quot; onclick=&quot;BLOG_clickHandler(this)&quot;&gt;Mets&lt;/span&gt; were built to win. That didn&#39;t occur and the chances of them returning next year look bleak. In fact &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-error&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_5&quot; onclick=&quot;BLOG_clickHandler(this)&quot;&gt;Barbaro&lt;/span&gt; may win another horse race before the &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-error&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_6&quot; onclick=&quot;BLOG_clickHandler(this)&quot;&gt;Mets&lt;/span&gt; put together another year like &#39;06.</description><link>http://sportpinion.blogspot.com/2006/10/st-louis-wins-nlcs-and-celebrates-at.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Irish)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45309973114660291.post-4863485251460679426</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2006 21:57:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2006-10-20T09:13:27.368-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Coaches</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">NCAA Football</category><title>Arkansas Needs to Hire Some Hogs</title><description>If Houston Nutt fails to deliver a conference champion I&#39;d like to offer up these three gentleman to coach the &#39;Hogs:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1475/5531002577473/1600/mangino.0.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1475/5531002577473/320/mangino.0.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Head Coach: Mark Mangino&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1475/5531002577473/1600/a_friedgen_i.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1475/5531002577473/320/a_friedgen_i.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Offensive Coordinator: Ralph Friedgin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1475/5531002577473/1600/s-amstutz.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1475/5531002577473/320/s-amstutz.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Defensive Coordinator: Toledo Tom&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They could rename the field where Arkansas plays &quot;Buffet Field.&quot; The marketing would rival Microsoft except that this product might work.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://sportpinion.blogspot.com/2006/10/arkansas-needs-to-bust-nutt-and-hire.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Irish)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45309973114660291.post-9099790161011340097</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:55:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2006-10-19T14:12:49.309-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Weblog</category><title>Why a Sports Blog?</title><description>This question comes often when I tell someone that I&#39;d like to write about sports. It&#39;s accompanied by a look that would send shivers down the spine of Robert Mugabe (He didn&#39;t play at Miami). My response takes two forms:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Punching the person.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Explaining that sports is a passion and finding humor in it is akin to performing brain surgery-without the schooling.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;So here, for your edification, is yet another sports blog. &lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://sportpinion.blogspot.com/2006/10/why-sports-blog.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Irish)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item></channel></rss>