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Hockey, Wine, and Ice Cream

June 13, 2013Burt Likko 9 Comments

I had two grueling depositions today. In between I made some of that microwave soup as a quick meal and managed to pour boiling water all over my left hand. I said a very bad word and did the second… Continue Reading →

Sports, The Wife, TV Hockey, ice cream, wine

Chess

May 29, 2013Burt Likko 14 Comments

I’ve always been a little bit intimidated by chess. People assume that I’m good at it and I’m not. I suck. So I downloaded a chess game for my kindle tablet and I’ve been diving in. I figure, if I… Continue Reading →

Generalized Gripe, Sports Chess, games, things I suck at

Ask Burt Likko Anything, 2.3

May 28, 2013Burt Likko 11 Comments

Mike Schilling asks: “What’s wrong with the Dodgers?” Which I’ve been steaming about for a while. There’s only one possible answer at this point. It isn’t lack of talent. The Dodgers have the second-highest payroll in Major League Baseball, given healthy… Continue Reading →

Sports Dodgers, Don Mattingly, intangibles, one-run games

An Analogy May Help

May 17, 2013Burt Likko 5 Comments

Let’s say the New York Yankees lost the World Series at Yankee Stadium to the New York Mets, in the tenth inning, after having led from the second though a tying run scored in the ninth, and after Derek Jeter got… Continue Reading →

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Fills The Biggest Need This Year

April 27, 2013Burt Likko 6 Comments

Second round seems about right for a player like him. And he fills a pressing need for his new team, one best filled by a strong, confident, and most of all young man. Welcome to Green Bay, Eddie Lacy; may… Continue Reading →

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The End of Realignment

April 26, 2013Will Truman 6 Comments

The ACC has announced a Grant of Rights deal for conference-members to 2027. What this technically means is that any team that leaves the ACC between now and then does not retain the TV rights to their home games. What… Continue Reading →

Sports

The American Athletic Conference

April 4, 2013Will Truman 2 Comments

The Conference soon-to-be-formerly-known as the Big East Conference has decided on its new name: The American Athletic Conference. Or “The American” for short. They had previously considered The Metro and The United. They made the wrong choice, in my view.… Continue Reading →

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Serious Baseball Geekery

February 9, 2011Burt Likko

Now it can be told: the actual Cubs game Ferris Bueller attended on his day off.

Movies, Sports

Peter King Still Made A Good Pick

February 7, 2011Burt Likko

Sports fans on the Intertubes are by now all familiar with ESPN’s Peter King having predicted the outcome of the Super Bowl as Steelers 33, Packers 27. What’s eerie about it is he did it on September 6, 2010. Simply… Continue Reading →

Sports, Uncategorized

Today’s NFC Championship Game

January 23, 2011Burt Likko

My next-door neighbor is a big Bears fan. This brings a fine bit of midwestern rivalry out to sunny, warm California: This was to have been a music video for the popular Wisconsin pub song “The Bears Still Suck” but… Continue Reading →

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