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Category: SPORTS

  • Ranking College Football Bowl Games by Sponsor Sketch Level

    Ranking College Football Bowl Games by Sponsor Sketch Level

    Bowl season is full of festive excitement. The teams get to travel to exotic and distant locales like Frisco, TX or Annapolis, MD to put on an exhibition game, all in the name of charity and giving, and the holiday spirit. Corporate sponsorships abound, with ad money flowing as freely as the booze on the […]

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  • Gookin’s Gambling Trends: Week 12

    Gookin’s Gambling Trends: Week 12

    Here’s a quick list of betting trends I’ve compiled for this weekend’s slate of games. As always, this is not betting advice, but they certainly are trends. Arizona and Washington State have hit the over in their last 5 consecutive meetings. Memphis has covered the spread in the last 6 meetings against Houston. San Diego […]

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  • Gookin’s Gambling Trends: Week 11

    Gookin’s Gambling Trends: Week 11

    Here’s a quick list of betting trends I’ve compiled for this weekend’s slate of games. This is not betting advice, but they certainly are trends. The over has hit in the last 4-straight and 6 of the last 7 in the UNC-Pitt game. South Florida has covered the spread in the last 6-straight games against […]

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  • Always A Cyclone: Your Guide to Former ISU Players in the NCAA

    Always A Cyclone: Your Guide to Former ISU Players in the NCAA

    When Fred Hoiberg was hired at Iowa State in 2010, the practice of players transferring schools in college athletics was fairly rare and heavily stigmatized. It wasn’t easy to do—there were plenty of hoops to jump through and the player was almost never immediately eligible to play at the new school, and players asking for […]

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  • Gookin’s Gambling Trends

    Gookin’s Gambling Trends

    Here’s a quick list of betting trends I’ve compiled for this weekend’s slate of games. This is not betting advice, but they certainly are trends. Utah has covered the spread and the point total has hit the under in 4 of the last 5 games against Stanford. The last 7 games between Army and Air […]

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  • N-O V-A-X

    N-O V-A-X

    When word reached the NFL channel of the TGS Slack on Wednesday that Aaron Rodgers had tested positive for COVID-19, I was frustrated. The Green Bay Packers have been besieged by virus issues lately, losing Davante Adams to a positive test and Allen Lazard as an unvaccinated close contact for the game last week against […]

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  • Longhorns face long climb after off-field monkey business

    Longhorns face long climb after off-field monkey business

    If Ames isn’t full of banana pudding shots and students in monkey masks this weekend, what is even the point? CFB fans have ✨expectations✨ now, after Monday evening’s shenanigans. Quick recap: Jeff Banks, the special teams coach of Texas, had trick or treaters around his home on Halloween night. A middle-school-age kid was bitten (not […]

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  • Gookin’s Gambling Trends

    Gookin’s Gambling Trends

    Here’s a quick list of betting trends I’ve compiled for this weekend’s slate of games. This is not betting advice, but they certainly are trends. Buffalo has covered in 6 of the last 7 matchups against Bowling Green. Bowling Green covered last year’s +31.5 spread, which was the largest spread in the series since at […]

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  • How To Not Be Romantic About Baseball

    How To Not Be Romantic About Baseball

    The Braves and the Astros are in my ear, and I should be feeling the pull of nostalgia hearing Joe Buck’s voice between the sounds of the game. It is October and the World Series has started and here is my childhood favorite team back for the first time since 1999 and yet I feel […]

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  • Getting Over: The AEW Weekly Stock Report

    Getting Over: The AEW Weekly Stock Report

    There’s no better feeling than waking up on Wednesday morning and knowing that you have an AEW Dynamite to look forward to that night. Unfortunately, the last few weeks, we’ve been missing that feeling, with Dynamite relegated to Saturdays, lending a disjointed feel to AEW’s weekly shows. Thankfully, AEW is back in its rightful slot, […]

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