The Blog of Revelation - by Jim Jividen

1st and Ten - The Weekly Tendown November 15-21 2009

2009-11-22T15:32:00.009-05:00

This is episode two of our new weekly feature here at TBOR - The Tendown! Last week, you read about Mad Men, strawberry pancakes, my selection of Jon Stewart as Entertainer of the Decade, the best North American wrestling match of 2009, and many, many more. So - what's the best thing that happened this week... First: If Only There Were a Horrible Name That I Could Call You That Would Make

The Weekly 10 - Week 12 College Football Picks

2009-11-20T00:29:00.003-05:00

Overall: 66-43-1 Locks: 8-3 Nebraska -16.5 KSt (loss) TCU -31 Wyoming (win) New Mex St. +30 Nevada (loss) New Mex St. v. Nevada under 60 (loss) Oregon St. -31.5 Wash St. (win) Memphis v. Houston under 75 (win) UCLA -4.5 Ariz St. (win) Tennessee -17 Vandy (loss) Baylor v. Texas A&M under 61.5 (win) Lock: Iowa -10 Minnesota (win) 6-4 72-47-1 9-3

My Ballots - 2009 Cy Young/MVP AL/NL

2009-11-19T19:24:00.000-05:00

Congratulations to Tim Lincecum. I'll have more about that this weekend on the Tendown. NL MVP 1. Albert Pujols 2. Adrian Gonzalez 3. Dan Haren NL Cy Young 1. Dan Haren 2. Javier Vazquez 3. Ubaldo Jimenez AL MVP 1. Zach Greinke 2. Joe Mauer 3. Roy Halladay AL Cy 1. Zach Greinke 2. Roy Halladay 3. Mariano Rivera

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2009-11-19T00:00:00-08:00

Survivor Series Preview - 2009/Best ever Survivor Series Mat
Survivor Series Preview

Survivor Series Preview - 2009/Best ever Survivor Series Matches

2009-11-19T01:25:00.002-05:00

Survivor Series is Sunday from...little help...where is Survivor Series...Los Cruces? Red Rocks? Where the hell is Survivor Series? DC. Boom. For those of you unaware, I've been doing previews/reviews of WWF/E PPVs for my long time occasional writing partner Kirk Hiner since right after WM XII. Kirk and I are both 39 and have been wrestling fans our entire lives, so we span the full

I Pick Every NFL Game - Week 11

2009-11-18T00:27:00.003-05:00

67-75-2 Why did Brian Westbrook play last week? Westbrook was knocked out two weeks prior; this comes on the heels of multiple studies detailing the impact of concussions on retired NFL players - and those studies come as part of a larger movement to more clearly recognize what role it is that concussions have played regarding extreme depression in retired athletes. Malcolm Gladwell recently

1st and Ten - The Weekly Tendown!: Nov 8-14 2009

2009-11-15T15:13:00.002-05:00

Welcome to the first ever TenDown, my countdown of the ten best things that happened this week. Actually, it's a countdown of the best thing that happened this week - followed by the next ten runners-up. Sure, some of this may actually have happened prior to this week - but if it didn't happen to me until this week, it didn't happen. We live in a DVR world of time shifting and whatnot, I do

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2009-11-16T00:00:00-08:00

Survivor Series - 2008
The neverending story continues
1st and Ten - The Weekly Tendown!: Nov 8-14 2009
What were the ten best things that happened last week?

The Weekly 10 - Week 11 College Football Picks

2009-11-13T11:26:00.004-05:00

60-39-1 Locks: 8-2 Cincinnati -9.5 WVA (loss) Clemson -8 NC St (loss) Northwestern -5 Illinois (win) Houston -4.5 UCF (loss) Iowa +16.5 Ohio St. (win) N Texas v. FIU under 64 (win) La-La v. Mid Tenn under 53 (win) UAB v. Memphis under 63 (win) ECarolina +5 Tulsa (win) Lock: Arizona +3 Cal (loss) 66-43-1 8-3

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2009-11-13T00:00:00-08:00

Ft. Hood and Donald Sterling
What does the decrepit owner of the LA Clippers have to do with the Ft Hood massacre?

Ft. Hood and Donald Sterling

2009-11-12T22:18:00.003-05:00

I overheard a couple of students this week talking about the Ft Hood killings, attributing them to Muslim extremism, calling those killings "terrorist" as opposed to criminal in nature - and saying that it was evidence of Muslim hatred of Christians, that you won't hear the truth about Muslim hatred of Christians anywhere but Fox News, but it's just so obvious. Here's O'Reilly "You can't kill

I Pick Every NFL Game - Week 10

2009-11-11T12:20:00.004-05:00

Record: 60-67-2 Hey, coming Sunday is my new feature here at TBOR - 1st And 10: The Weekly TenDown where I countdown the very best things of the week. These picks are unlikely to be considered. Niners -3 Bears (win) Jets -7 Jags (loss) Broncos -3.5 Skins (loss) Bengals +7 Steelers (win) Bills +6.5 Titans (loss) Vikes -16.5 Lions (win) Saints -13.5 Rams (loss) Falcons -2 Panthers (loss) Miami -

Kansas

2009-11-09T22:44:00.001-05:00

Last year, I was able to begin the college basketball season with my preseason top 25 (national title pick - Carolina) and my player of the year pick (Blake Griffin). This year, all I can do is this: I'll take Kansas. Rock Chalk Whatnot. The other thing to report is a new feature here at the Blog of Revelation - a Sunday (I think, I've had this idea all of 2 hours) look at my Top 10 of

Match of the Decade: The 50 Best Professional Wrestling Matches of the 1st Decade of the Millennium

2009-11-07T12:43:00.005-05:00

This isn't in order (I mean it is, it's in chronological order, which is, contrary to popular opinion, an order) but not in qualitative order, which is implied by it being an end of decade list. It is the end of the decade, incidentally. Stephen Jay Gould wrote about this ten years ago, although not in the context of professional wrestling, curiously enough, that the cultural context in which

The Weekly Ten - Week 10 College Football Picks

2009-11-05T20:01:00.003-05:00

Overall: 57-32-1 Locks: 8-1 Iowa -16 Northwestern (loss) Pitt -20.5 Syracuse (win) Rice v. SMU under 57 (loss) FIU v. Mid Tenn St. under 54 (loss) Houston -1.5 Tulsa (loss) Houston v. Tulsa under 67.5 (loss) Minnesota -7 Illinois (loss) Air Force -16.5 Army (win) Alabama -7 LSU (win) Lock: San Jose St. +14 Nevada (loss) 3-7. Wow. 60-39-1 Locks 8-2 For those of you who invested with me over

I Pick Every NFL Game - Week 9

2009-11-04T09:11:00.004-05:00

57-58-1 My long, slow march to losing the vig continues. Jags -6.5 Chiefs (argh - look, I would have told you a week ago that Jags +3 Titans was my favorite NFL line of the year, and that went against me by 4 scores, so laying this much wood seems like error, but there you go) (loss) Ravens -3 Bengals (loss) Indy -9 Tex (loss) Redskins +10 Falcons (loss) GBay -10 TB (loss) Arizona +3 Bears (

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2009-11-08T00:00:00-08:00

Match of the Decade: The 50 Best Professional Wrestling Matc
I heart graps.

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2009-11-03T00:00:00-08:00

AFraud - The Choking Dog/Why Boo Brett?
Arod, Favre - all the things you want to talk about today.

AFraud - The Choking Dog/Why Boo Brett?

2009-11-02T15:30:00.001-05:00

Alex Rodriguez you may have read somewhere is the 27th greatest regular season performer in the history of major league baseball. Probably, you've also spent years reading about how he suffered from some fatal spasm of self doubt during pressure situations that made him not as valuable a post season performer as the guy who plays next to him (the guy that carves the gravestones was more right

Current Match of the Year Candidates

2009-11-01T17:17:00.004-05:00

So, where are we in consideration of professional wrestling's best match for 2009? I've seen everything from WWE and TNA through October, the first DGUSA PPV, and the occasional wayward match or even card from the second half of the year for other organizations. Beyond that - I'm through June; I've got all the first half of 2009 watched that I'm likely to watch. It is possible a significant

Your Athlete of the Month - October, 2009

2009-11-01T09:02:00.000-05:00

Cliff Lee. Runners Up - Jared Allen, Andre Eithier, Alex Rodriguez. Lee joins previous months' winners Fitzgerald, Holmes, Moore, James, Messi, Federer, Buehrle, Bolt, Brees in the race for Athlete of the Year for 2009. That winner will join the decade's previous athlete of the year winners: Woods, Bonds, Armstrong, P. Manning, Bush, Federer, Brady, and Bolt - one of which will be named

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2009-11-01T00:00:00-07:00

In Praise of Mike Singletary
And not so much for Brian Sabean.

In Praise of Mike Singletary

2009-10-31T09:44:00.006-04:00

I'm an unhinged Bay Area sports fan; Brian Sabean would lump me into a group he, without a hint of affection, once referred to as the "lunatic fringe". I believe the issue at that point was signing Vlad Guerrero. The lunatics wanted Vlad; Sabean wisely realized that JT Snow and a half dozen guys named Vizcaino was a more appealing package. I do not care for much of the way in which my chosen

The Weekly 10 - Week 9 College Football Picks

2009-10-30T10:50:00.001-04:00

Overall: 52-27-1 Locks: 8-0 UConn -7.5 Rutgers (loss) Cincinnati -15.5 Syracuse (win) Iowa -17.5 Indiana (win) Iowa St. +6 Texas A&M (loss) SMU +16.5 Tulsa (win) Michigan -7 Illinois (loss) Houston -6.5 So. Miss (win) FIU -5 La-La (loss) Wisconsin -7 Purdue (win) Lock: Miami -7 Wake Forest (loss) Overall: 57-32-1 Locks: 8-1

I Pick Every NFL Game - Week 8.

2009-10-29T19:57:00.003-04:00

Overall: 51-51-1. Ravens -3 Broncos (win) Bears -13 Browns (win) Texans -3.5 Bills (win) Pack -3 Vikes (loss) Colts -13 Niners (loss) Dolphins +3.5 Jets (win) Lions -4 Rams (loss) Seattle +9.5 Cowboys (loss) Raiders +16.5 Chargers (win) Jags +3 Titans (I do not understand this line) (but obviously I should have, loss) Cards -10 Panthers (loss) Eagles +1 Giants (win) Saints -10 Falcons (loss) 6-

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2009-10-30T00:00:00-07:00

What if Steamboat beat Hogan?: Road to Survivor Series 2008
I tell a very long story. I'm the new Guiding Light.

Matt Stairs

2009-10-29T00:04:00.000-04:00

A thought struck me as I watched game one tonight (unsurprising result, thinking that Lee would win game one is why I liked Yanks in 7 instead of 6. Burnett wins game 2, Phils take 2 of 3 at home, and then the Yanks take the last two for the chip) I wondered if this was the first ever Series where I was older than every member of both active rosters. That's sort of a thing, right? The first

Yanks in 7

2009-10-28T14:29:00.002-04:00

What? You want reasons? I don't in any sense of the word have time for that. But Yanks in 7. Friday I'll get the weekly picks out. By end of tomorrow, I hopefully will have the Survivor Series 2k8 build finished at the other place. Yanks in 7 (but they might lose tonight). Go, be in peace. (as I sort of anticipated in a couple of posts, the Yanks lost the first game; the only surprise for

50 Best Players in the NBA 2009-2010

2009-10-25T15:04:00.002-04:00

What did we ever do on Sundays before NFL RedZone? Okay, so, recently, I offered the following picks for the upcoming NBA season; as part of that preparation (and preparation for my upcoming fantasy seasons; last year I won 2 titles in my 3 leagues; I'm only playing 2 leagues this year, we'll see how it goes) I've compiled this list - the 50 best players in the NBA. Right Now! Or rather, I'm

The Weekly 10 - Week 8 College Football Picks

2009-10-23T09:32:00.003-04:00

Overall: 47-23 Locks: 7-0 Lines are tight this week; last week I mentioned I was picking nearly 20 games despite only releasing the 10 for the blog (went fine, thanks). I indicated I might enlarge this from ten to a higher number, but that will not happen with these lines. This is one of those weeks where if I can go 5-5 and win my lock, I'll feel successful. Northern Illinois -11 Miami (loss

I Pick Every NFL Game - Week 7 (and World Series Pick)

2009-10-22T10:29:00.004-04:00

Overall: 44-46 I'm going to split the championship series', just like last year I apparently underestimate the Phils - I had the Dodgers winning the NL last season and blew it again this year. The Yanks have been head and shoulders baseball's best team this year; ARod has (like Kobe earlier in the year) changed the Sports Media Complex narrative from "his inner most being won't let him be a

Do You Hear What I Am Saying?: 2009-10 NBA Predictions (w/ win totals)

2009-10-18T14:26:00.002-04:00

Last year, I gave you Lakers/Cavs in my pre-season picks for the NBA finals. I'm doing it again this year. And I'll take King James to win the chip. But I like Magic/Spurs as an alternate universe matchup; if you'll give me those 4 teams as your next NBA Champ I'll give you the field. In the parentheticals are the Vegas win totals next to my projections, do with them as you will. I think