Midwest…Romance Fans?

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Credit for this find goes to the wonderful Amanda Lawson, who posted this link on Facebook just a few moments ago.

Before you look below, if I asked you to start listing out romantic cities in the U.S., how long would it take you to get to the Midwest? I imagine most people without really thinking about it would say New York City, maybe Miami (if you’ve never lived there…), and possibly Chicago would come up, along with a number of other big cities.

But would you ever get to La Crosse, Wisconsin?

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College Football TV Schedule and Point Spreads for Week 14 – Conference Championship Game Week

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The second to last of college football is upon us. It’s a short list of games, but there are big bowl game stakes at hand. A loss this late could ruin a team’s whole season or propel it into a dream destination like the BCS.

So settle down, relax, and get ready for another great weekend of college football.

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College Football TV Schedule and Point Spreads for Thanksgiving Weekend – Saturday, November 26th

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Week 13 of the college football season is upon us, and we’re at the home stretch. The turkey and stuffing and his been eaten, bowl games are just around the corner, and the final full week of regular season games still what should be very entertaining games for our viewing pleasure.

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This Week’s College Football TV Schedule and Point Spreads: Michigan State-Wisconsin, LSU-Auburn, USC-Notre Dame, more

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Week 8 of college football is here will hopefully deliver another exciting week. Last week we saw South Carolina barely etch out a win over Mississippi State, LSU continue their dominance, Illinois lose to Ohio State, and Oklahoma State beat Texas.

So settle down, relax, and get ready for another great weekend of college football. As always, here are some of the marquee games to pay attention to this week and then the entire college football TV schedule for Week 8, plus a link below to another fantasy college football freeroll tournament from our friends at Daily Joust.

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This Week’s College Football Point Spreads and TV Schedule for Week 5 – Saturday, October 1st

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Week five of college football in 2011 is upon us.

Last week we saw Oklahoma State narrowly beat Texas A&M, Clemson pull an upset over Florida State, Illinois escape an upset, and LSU take the No. 1 ranking away from Oklahoma. This week more exciting and entertaining college football games are on their way, so settle down, relax, and enjoy your weekend.

Here are some of the marquee games to pay attention to this week (with additional spreads and picks here), then the entire college football TV schedule for week 5.

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QB-turned-baseball-player-turned-QB-again Russell Wilson could provide boon to the Badgers

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Russell Wilson has decided to return to college football after leaving North Carolina State to pursue a career in Major League Baseball.

He was a three-year starting quarterback at North Carolina State before being drafted by the Colorado Rockies in the fourth round of the MLB amateur draft in 2010.  Now that he has decided to play football again he has become the most sought after transfer in college football.

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Comparing the Basketball Recruiting Budgets of Wisconsin, Ohio State, and Kentucky: Mind = Blown

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Wow. I don’t know if this is going to catch you as much by surprise as it did me, but…wow.

Not 10 minutes after I wrapped up my post on how the severe underrating of Derrick Williams as a prospect was a good reminder of how inexact a science recruiting can be, did I find the video below (h/t @thebiglead). It is a report by Bloomberg Sports that shows the annual recruiting budgets of Wisconsin, Ohio State, and Kentucky.

As the title says: mind = blown.

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March Madness 2011: TV Schedule, Announcers, and Viewing Gameplan for Saturday Third Round Games

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In this post, we break down the TV schedule for the first Saturday of action in March Madness 2011. Get the start times for each contest, which network it is one, and which announcers will be calling the game.

And then I’ll let you know what I’m most looking forward to on Saturday.

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March Madness 2011: Four Upset Picks That Could Bust Brackets

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Selection Sunday has come and gone, and the madness is about ready to begin.

The brackets were revealed with an interesting panel that included the constantly smiling Seth Davis and the always honest Charles Barkley, and while watching the selection show, I saw four games that I believe can really shake up the brackets.

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Unlike Football, Loss to Wisconsin Does Not Hurt Ohio State’s Title Hopes

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The Ohio State Buckeyes lost their first game of the season yesterday, and it came against the Wisconsin Badgers. The same thing happened this past season to the OSU football team, who received their first loss against Wisconsin. I was reminded of this fact at least five times by ESPN during the telecast of the game.

ESPN made a huge deal of the fact that the Badgers ended the perfect seasons of both the Ohio State football and basketball teams. One key side-note is that both losses came in Wisconsin. Also, both Wisconsin teams were ranked and among the top teams in the nation, so it’s not like OSU had lost to a Western Kentucky-caliber team.

Luckily for the Buckeyes basketball team, unlike the football team, one loss will not at all hurt their chances for a national championship.

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Excuse me, but what’s a CUCKSOCKER?

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One of the best parts about being on college campuses are the creativity of the students. Rarely is this creativity made more profanely apparent than at college football games (especially when jugs of Carlo Rossi Sangria) are involved.

Case in point, this ostensibly correct t-shirt photographed in Madison, Wisconsin on Saturday:

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#1 Ohio State at #18 Wisconsin Preview and Prediction

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The Ohio State University is 53-17-5 all-time versus the Wisconsin Badgers. With Ohio State’s lack of schedule strength getting press this week with a 5th place BCS projection, that all changes this weekend.

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Big Ten Tournament Preview: Tickets, TV Schedule, Bracket, and History

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Update 3/13/10: This post was originally published on February 28th, 2010. The table below has been updated with all results leading up to Sunday’s title game between #1 Ohio State and #6 Minnesota.

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LOTD: Clothing the Homeless – How Midwesterners Dish Out Revenge

4 The Poor Brett Favre Jersey Drive by 1670 WTDY - The Wisconsin Guys Dan and KurtSo, you know all of those Green Bay Packers fans whose closets are lined with Brett Favre gear and who splurged on Favre Jets jerseys the minute he announced his unretirement last season? (I know at least one such family…but I will not call them out by name because I don’t want my supply of the world’s best meatloaf to be cut off.)

Well, what are these folks to do now that their beloved is playing for a different team and *gasp* one that is in the Packers’ very own division? (If it’s the family I know, more Favre fans than Packer fans, it’s head over to NFLshop.com and get Favre Vikings jerseys, of course!)

The good folks at 1670 WTDY in Madison, Wisconsin — namely, “The Wisconsin Guys”, Dan and Kurt — have an idea: donate all of your old Brett Favre clothes to the homeless! It’s called the “4 The Poor Jersey Drive.”

Today’s link of the day, from TheWisconsinGuys.com (via Sports By Brooks):

So, how do you get rid of that old Brett Favre jersey, hat, sweatshirt, etc…?

There is no need to blow it up, light it on fire, run it over, shred it, or any of the other pretty good ideas you may have. If you give it to us, we’ll put your name in a drawing to win tix to see Benedict Favre take on the Packers at Lambeau Field on Sunday, November 1st.

We will be taking those used but now useless clothing items to Minneapolis just prior to the Green Bay/Vikings Monday Night Football game on October 5th and we’ll be giving them to a Twin Cities homeless shelter. See, they don’t have to go to waste!

That, ladies and gentleman, is a constructive way to deal with feelings of anger, betrayal, and revenge…and could only come from the good folks who inhabit the glorious Midwest.  Think Philly fans would be clothing the homeless with old Mike Schmidt jerseys if he had unretired to play for the Yankees?  Shoot, they might not even give a homeless guy an old McNabb jersey and he’s still their QB!

(Philly fans, feel free to email me to express disgust that I just perpetuated the old stereotypes again…you were the first fan base that came to my mind…I’m sorry!)

And here you go, some other solid links from around the web today.

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Big Ten Preseason Poll Released | Purdue First, Indiana Last

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big tenThe sixth-annual Unauthorized Big Ten Basketball Writers Preview Poll was released over the weekend.

Purdue was picked to finish first and the recently punched-in-the-balls by Kelvin Sampson IU program was selected to finish dead last in the Big Ten.

Here are the results (first place votes are in parenthesis):

1. Purdue (10)

2. Michigan State (5)

3. Wisconsin

4. Ohio State

5. Minnesota

6. Illinois

7. Penn State

8. Michigan

T9. Iowa

T9. Northwestern

11. Indiana

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