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Borussia Dortmund over Real Madrid 4-1 in their 1st Leg of UEFA Champions League Semi-Final Games

2013-04-25T20:45:00.003+02:00

Sid Lowe has the story for The Guardian at Borussia Dortmund 4-1 Real Madrid | Champions League semi-final first leg match report. Robert Lewandowski scored all four of the Dortmund goals in matching the Bayern Munich 4-goal output in their 1st leg semifinal game against FC Barcelona.

B1G East as Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Penn State, Rutgers - B1G West as Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern, Purdue, Wisconsin

2013-04-24T22:31:00.001+02:00

Patrick Runge has the story of the rumored B1G conference lineups at Bleacher Report in Nebraska Football: The Pros and Cons for the Huskers of the New B1G Divisions. Thankfully, the ill-chosen labels of Leaders and Legends will be gone, to be replaced by the more understandable EAST and WEST Divisions. Definitely, a great improvement all around.

Bayern Munich 4:0 over FC Barcelona in 1st Leg of Champions League Semifinal

2013-04-24T19:35:00.002+02:00

Bayern Munich scored a sensationally decisive 4:0 win over FC Barcelona in the 1st leg of the Champions League semifinal, leaving Barcelona little chance via the 2nd leg of making it into the May 25 final at Wembley Stadium in London, though the 2nd game must still be played on the field, so no one should get overconfident. The winner here will meet the winner of the semifinal matches between

College Football Playoff Name

2013-04-24T18:47:00.001+02:00

Barrett Sallee has the story at Bleacher Report in Why 'College Football Playoff'? You Didn't Want 'Legends and Leaders,' Did You?

Location Tracking and Law Enforcement: The GPS Act Reintroduced in Congress

2013-03-25T16:21:00.001+01:00

Oops. This should have been posted to LawPundit. On the other hand, when I think about it, geocaching is a sport. Sandra Fulton, ACLU Washington Legislative Office, has an article titled Congress Must Act to Stop Unwarranted Tracking by Law Enforcement. GPS location tracking is a difficult legal issue, because there is no doubt that uncontrolled GPS location tracing by law enforcement can be

2013 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament: President Obama's Bracket Selections

2013-03-25T16:14:00.001+01:00

We are down to the Sweet Sixteen. Go to this link for President Obama's Bracket for the 2013 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. Even Barack missed some of the real bracket busters in a year marked by upsets, but his championship choice, Indiana, is still in the running for the title, while he has retained a chance of having his full selection of four in the Final Four.

He Predicted the Winner in 2012, Now See President Obama's 2013 NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament Bracket

2013-03-25T16:06:00.001+01:00

Sports at the White House Blog? How about President Obama's 2013 NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament Bracket. He predicted the winner in 2012. Let's see how he fares this year. The first round has now been played. See the NCAA bracket here.

Successful College Football Recruiting As a Clear Predictor of Future Team Success

2013-02-04T23:02:00.001+01:00

You've got, who you've got. Matt Hinton, Dr. Saturday at Yahoo! Sports hits the nail on the head when he writes about college football player recruitment in "Star Power: Be they ever so humble, recruiting rankings still do the job". Compare the 2013 recruiting commits for top SEC, Pac 12 and Big Ten schools, plus Notre Dame, just using the recruits in the "Top 100" at Scout.com: Alabama - 10

Super Bowl 47 a Harbaugh Family Affair Between the San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens

2013-01-22T13:14:00.001+01:00

No one will forget this Super Bowl because of the obvious alternative names: Bros Bowl, Harbowl, SuperBaugh, and surely more to come. See Super Bowl 47 at NFL.com

Final College Football Rankings and Ratings FBS 2012-2013 Post-Bowl by SportPundit

2013-01-08T17:09:00.001+01:00

Final College Football Rankings and Ratings 2012-2013 FBS Post-Bowl by SportPundit & YPPSYS, Yards Per Play System Six SEC teams are in the top 10. That pretty much sums up this season. Teams below are color-coded by conference -- the selected color was random. The color-coding of the rankings shows quickly that teams from the same conference tend to "clump" together, thus making the

Bowl Game Prediction RESULTS for 2012-2013 by SportPundit and YPPSYS for FBS & BCS College Football Bowls

2013-01-08T11:11:00.000+01:00

Update: The initial good news is that we picked Alabama as the national champion in our preseason rankings and that is how the season actually turned out. The bad news is that we had a disappointing bowl season of game predictions, as we were only 19-17 in predicting the game winner, and went 12-22-2 against the line and 13-22-1 against the average CFPT spread, as underdogs won more games

Should Husker Nation Be Even More Patient Than It Has Been? It All Depends on What You Want

2012-12-21T14:26:00.000+01:00

Tom Shatel at the Omaha World-Herald asks: Will Husker Nation be patient? Will Pelini? We have some thoughts about that as a Nebraska alumnus. Urban Meyer was undefeated at Ohio State in his first year as head coach with the Buckeyes, continuing a record of quick successes stretching clear back to Meyer's Bowling Green, Utah and Florida days, so it can't just be the football talent available

Top 20 Most Valuable College Football Teams in Terms of Dollars are Led by Texas, Michigan, and Notre Dame

2012-12-20T22:49:00.000+01:00

College football is a big dollar business, and Chris Smith at Forbes has a list of the top 20 teams in terms of dollar value at The Business Of College Football. As a matter of law and taxes, however, it is just all a part of college education.

Former Husker Head Coach Tom Osborne Says There is Less Patience with Coaches Today

2012-12-20T15:43:00.001+01:00

The coaching carousel in college football is in full swing with coaches shifting their allegiances to the highest bidder in a highly compensated profession in which winning is everything and losing is all but not tolerated. Former Cornhusker head coach Tom Osborne was interviewed by Steven M. Sipple of the Lincoln Journal Star and his article headline speaks volumes: Osborne Says Society's

Bowl Game Predictions 2012-2013 by SportPundit and YPPSYS for FBS & BCS College Football Bowls

2012-12-04T00:39:00.001+01:00

Update: line and CFPT average computer spread updates as well as some prediction changes for the reasons given there are found at the next posting on predictions and results at http://sportpundit.blogspot.com/2012/12/bowl-game-prediction-results-for-2012.html __________ Bowl Game Predictions 2012-2013 by SportPundit and YPPSYS for FBS College Football Bowls Our predictions this week rely on

Final College Football Rankings 2012 FBS at Regular Season End but Pre-Bowl

2012-12-03T20:30:00.001+01:00

Final College Football Rankings 2012 FBS at the End of Regular Season Play but Pre-Bowl by SportPundit & YPPSYS, Yards Per Play System Teams below are color-coded by conference -- the selected color was random. The color-coding of the rankings shows quickly that teams from the same conference tend to "clump" together, thus making the general strength (or weakness) of the conference more

SportPundit YPPSYS College Football Game Prediction RESULTS for Week 14 (Fourteen)

2012-12-02T22:20:00.000+01:00

SportPundit YPPSYS College Football Game Prediction RESULTS for Week 14 (Fourteen) of the FBS college football 2012 regular season. The regular and conference championship game season is all over but the shouting, with BCS and bowl games soon to be announced and upcoming. UPDATE: In week 14, here is how our predictions fared: We were 16-3 in calling the winner and 12-6 against the line. We

College Football Game Predictions for Week 14 (Fourteen) of the FBS College Football 2012 Season

2012-11-27T16:14:00.000+01:00

SportPundit YPPSYS College Football Game Predictions for Week 14 (Fourteen) of the FBS college football 2012 regular season. Our predictions this week rely on our 2012 College Football Rankings FBS After Week 12 of Play. We are making no new rankings this week after the 13th week of play because it is almost all over but the shouting this season, so let the remaining games decide who has the

College Football Game Prediction RESULTS for Week 13 of the FBS College Football 2012 Regular Season.

2012-11-25T08:06:00.000+01:00

SportPundit YPPSYS College Football Game Prediction RESULTS for Week 13 (Thirteen) of the FBS college football 2012 regular season. Sunday Update: We lost prediction call after prediction call this week against the line and the CFPT because the winning team almost always beat the spread, so we are going to recalculate next week how many points we give for each rating point in our system, since

Sports Law: Lions Robbed by Idiotic NFL Rule in Game Against Houston

2012-11-23T11:58:00.001+01:00

We do not rant and rave at LawPundit for nothing about the sheer idiocy of some of the legal landscape, and this includes sports law. Hear, hear, sponsors. We turned the TV off after the ruling in the Lions-Houston game that awarded an 81-yard touchdown to a run by Justin Forsett that was clearly not one, as Forsett's knee and elbow were both clearly down after about 5 yards. Scoring plays are

Jack Taylor of Grinnell College Makes 138 Points in NCAA Basketball Game, Breaking 58-Year-Old College Record of Clarence "Bevo" Francis of University of Rio Grande

2012-11-21T23:28:00.000+01:00

138 points by one player in an NCAA basketball game? As reported by Luke Meredith of the AP in How Grinnell College player set NCAA scoring record, 138 points in a game (+video), Jack Taylor of Grinnell College did it by putting up 108 attempts, or one shot every 20 seconds. See also Jeff Eisenberg | The Dagger at Yahoo Sports for the wider story in Jack Taylor’s 138-point game was bittersweet

College Football Game Predictions Week 13 of 2012 by SportPundit Using the Yards Per Play System YPPSYS

2012-11-21T17:36:00.000+01:00

SportPundit YPPSYS College Football Game Predictions for Week 13 (Thirteen) of the FBS college football 2012 regular season. Updated Wednesday for the previously missing line for UNLV at Hawaii. Sorry, there was a glitch and it reverted to draft for a few seconds. A host of great games are scheduled this week. We also use Kambour's stats on home field advantage more again than previously since

College Football Rankings 2012 FBS After Week 12 of Play by SportPundit Using YPPSYS, The Yards Per Play System

2012-11-19T00:02:00.000+01:00

College Football Rankings 2012 FBS After Week 12 of Play by SportPundit Using YPPSYS, the Yards Per Play System Teams below are color-coded by conference -- the selected color was random. The color-coding of the rankings shows quickly that teams from the same conference tend to "clump" together, thus making the general strength (or weakness) of the conference more visible. These ratings

College Football Prediction RESULTS for Week 12 2012 by SportPundit and the Yards Per Play System YPPSYS

2012-11-18T09:52:00.000+01:00

SportPundit Prediction RESULTS for Week 12 (Twelve) of the FBS college football 2012 regular season are found below in this posting. See predictions here. Update: What a game week this was, with upsets of the two top-ranked teams in the polls and the BCS. All of the schools at which we have alumni in the family also won: Stanford, Michigan, Nebraska and Syracuse. Outstanding! We also had a

College Football Predictions for Week 12 2012 by SportPundit and the Yards Per Play System YPPSYS

2012-11-17T09:12:00.000+01:00

Below are the SportPundit College Football Game Predictions for Week 12 (Twelve) of the FBS college football 2012 regular season. Update 1: Change of UTEP vs. Southern Miss prediction. Update 2: Insertion of the spread for 4 games previously missing from the line. _________ In making the predictions we use the YPPSYS yards per play system in which 1 rating point on our 2012 College Football