college football starts-big whoop

so at the moment i couldn't care less about football, sports, anything for that matter. being back in morgantown has only exaggerated my depression, this being where most of the great tragedies of my life have occurred, and i ain't talking bout some girl leaving me, most of them eneded up with the few people i held dare in my life laid out cold on the slab. in keeping with my manson-family outlook, here your 2012 wvu predictions.
vs.marshall  54-07 w
    vs jmu      55-07w
 vs MD   28-14w
 vs baylor 28-23 w
vs texas 24-35 L
vs. Texas Tech 21-07 L
vs kansas  45-35 w
vs. tcu 21-24L
vs osu 35-28 L
vs ok 45-28L
vs iowa st 42-10 w
vs kansas 70-28 w
final record 7-5 invitation to the tidy toilet bowl

Summer Olympics: U.S. Men's Basketball Playing Against 1992 Team, Not the World.

As the 2012 Summer Olympics continue to unfold, the only excitment in men's basketball is the on-going fued between the current U.S. team and the historic 1992, "DreamTeam." I gave little to no attention to sidebar argument that was brought up U.S. player, Kobe Bryant, when he stated that the 2012 team could beat the original dreamteam from 1992. To be fair Kobe didn't go out and limb and just blurt out one day, "Yea, we'll mop the floor with Jordan, Magic, Bird, and company." The media, doing what the media does, which is to make stories from nothing, provoked the response by asking stupid questions. In response to the reporters Kobe simply stated that if the two teams played (x) number of times, the 2012 team could win at least once. Of course the headline the next day was, "Kobe says 2012 dream team would destroy 92' team." The debate was refuled this week when the team set a U.S. Olympic record by defeating Nigera by 83 points. The talking heads immeadiately jumped back on the who's better, the 2012 or 1992, team dialouge again. There is no fair way to make a comparrison based on margin of victory against current international teams. That won't stop the press from trying. The rhetoric that's been thrown around sounds a lot like the smack talking that preceeds a heavywieght boxing title match produced by Don King. The response from Jordan after hearing Kobe's qoute that, "It would be a tough one, but I think we'd pull it out," was this. "I absoloutely laughed." " No comparrison." "For him to compare those two teams was not the smartes thing  he ever could have done." Charles Barkley, never at a loss for words stated, “Oh yeah, that’s no disrespect," “I ain’t got to badmouth them. But like “How old is Kobe Bryant? He’s 34? And he’s calling us old? At the time, we were only like 28, 29. Michael Jordan and me were the same age. We were both 29. … Other than Kobe, LeBron (James) and Kevin Durant, I don’t think anybody else on that team makes our team.“I said, their point guards weren’t going to beat us. That’s a no-brainer.” It would be the greatest pay-per-views ever if we could get these teams to play a best of 7 series. Don't misunderstand me, I'm not talking about some hypothetical games where the 1992 team in thier prime play the 2012 team, I'm mean the players as they are right now. I know what your thinking. "Oh, there's no way it would be fair. Jordan, Barkley, Robinson are too old. They'd get their ass handed to them!" I think otherwise. I truly believe, if you gave Jordan and co. 6 months to train, they would win at least 1 game. Now I know that's dosen't sound like a glowing endorsement, but for a team of guy's pushing thier fifties, to win one game against the current best in the NBA would be an accomplishment. I know it'll never happen so all we have left to decide the fight is statistical analysis. David Berri, Ph.D professor of economics at Southern Utah University. “We can use the numbers to get into what would probably have happened had these two teams met. This is not purely a matter of opinion.” Now Mr.Berry apparenlty has a lot of free time. Dr. Berry devised a complex formula to produce a stat he calls, "WP," wins produced. Dr. Berry applied his formula to every player on both teams. The end result was what you would expect. The 1992 dreamteam would be favored to win. I can't even begin to explain the exact nature of his formula so here's the link to numbers. www.slamonline.com/.../lebron-james-also-said-2012-team-us... My hope is that somewhere out there Don King and Vince McMahon are combing thier forces, like a group of super-villians, and plotting to make the real game happen.

Dog Daze of August: So Much to Write, So Little Inspiration.

There is a lot going on in the world of sports. The summer Olympics, NFL camp has opened, college football camp is in, PSU, Tebow, you name it, theres a lotta stories going on. The WVSI however is running on fumes. However, I wanted to check in and give my two cents, mabey 1 cent.
PSU- Do not be suprised if Penn State hasn't been hurt so bad they won't be competitive for the next 4 years, cause they will. Take it to the bank, PSU will not post a losing record during the sanction years. Everything coach Bill O'brian is saying is true. Every PSU home game will continue to sell-out 108,000 seats. Losing 10 scholarships isn't going to be as detrimental to  this team because coach O'brian is used to dealing with a smaller roster. He did come from the Patriots, one of the most successfull teams in the NFL. The games are still going to be televised, and the ratings will probably be better. People will be tuning in record numbers to see if they'll lose. The old addage, "no press is bad press," is absoloutley true. The kids that go to Penn State want to make the pro's and tv exposure is exactly what will get them there. Mark my words, PSU is going to have a good year.
Olympics- China is cheating as usual. Update on Mary Lou's Corvette, she has it. I've been told by good authourity she has it in storage. Michael Phelps has broken the record for cumulative medals-no suprise.
Tebow- Mark sanchez has to hate this guy. Tebow is the back up and anything he does becomes front page news. NEWSFLASH... Tebow ate a salad. Tebow took a dump. Tebow likes cheese. ESPN must have stock in Tebow, I swear it's sick.
WVU football. Early prediction for the year, 8-4, 3rd place finish in the Big 12. Plus, don't overlook Marshall in the opener. Marshall has never beaten their in-state big brother and this is their last shot for quite a while. Right now Marshall is preparing for this game like it's thier bowl game. I wouldn't be suprised at all if they pull it out. If there was ever a, "trap," game this is it.
NFL- Look out for the Steeler's. With a new offensive coordinator look for the boy's from the burgh to be hard to handle for the opposing defenses. Rothlesburger and Wallace are in the prime of thier carrers and could re-write some records this year. Mike Tomlin just got a 5 year exstension and he will show why!
To be continued......