GenXXLSports for the Real World Athlete (and Weekend Warrior)
NBA Nothing But Ten
The General’s NBA Nothing But Ten is a place where I will rank the Top 10 teams in the NBA in my not so humble opinion. No I don’t use a formula, I just call it like I see it. If you like formulas you can explain to me how one pundit’s formula has [...]
3 Reasons For Tim Tebow To Be Happy in 2010
The Allstate Sugar Bowl transpired on New Year’s Day without anything surprising happening, but I think in the blowout of Cincinnati the Gators hid a little treasure for all of us to enjoy and speculate on for months to come (until April to be precise.) Urban Meyer was coaching his last game before a leave [...]
What Do Players Mean When They Say They Need To “Play Within Themselves”? (Plus, the final week of regular seaosn picks)
In throwing this idea out to one of my superiors here at genxxl.com I said “And I’ve got this great idea for a column on players playing within themselves” and his response was simply “LMAO”. Honestly, I didn’t really that sounded as bad as it did when it wasn’t being said by a professional athlete [...]
‘You Play to Win the Game’ by Steve Porter
You Play to Win the Game
“You Play to Win the Game” is fun to watch NFL coaches sing to the hip beat of Steve Porter. I tried to embedded the video in full, but had technical difficulties, but you can click on the link above and get a much better version with an awesome introduction from Inside the NFL. [...]
Let’s Review the Week That Was in the NFL
Because I don’t normally go this route I think it good to make a slight change and review the NFL weekend because we had tons of things happen this weekend that simply did not meet with my expectations (not because I expect everything to go MY way, but I honestly think it I’m right most [...]
Joy (and Why The Colts Will Go 16-0) + Urban Meyer Resigns at Florida
I have only one theory as to why I think the Colts will go 16-0 (and subsequently 19-0) and complete a season that the New England Patriots could not complete the 19-0 season in 2007.
Joy!
The Patriots don’t seem to take any joy in anything. I mean, I’ve watched ALOT of ESPNEWS and seen plenty of [...]
Tiger, Tiger, Tiger…(and My Week 16 NFL picks)
So, now we’ve got this whole thing swirling around Tiger about whether he should take this indefinite leave or not and now we’ve got everyone on earth weighing and plastering him with self-serving commentary about how he should do this or do that. Let me say what I would do, and hope that this [...]
What Was Up With The NFL Last Weekend?
Well, the NFL flew in and out like a lark and we’re left with a ton of clinched playoff spots, some confusion, and this weird feeling about the 14-0 Colts. Let’s start with the obvious…
The Colts are now 14-0 after outlasting the Jags on Thursday night. Unfortunately, most of the country didn’t see [...]
The Home-Stretch is Here!
Alright, we’re in the homestretch…3 weeks to go and TONS of teams need miracles, solid wins, losses from other teams, miracles, (to keep losing), to rest players, an easier schedule, to not be pushed so hard, to find their offense, to find their defense, to find both, to stop vicious cycles, to show us what [...]
Hot Stove, Hot Stove, Hot Stove, Hot Stove, Hot Stove, Hot Stove
The Hot Stove FINALLY got hot today with all the movement in Baseball that actually involved many of the game’s best players. We’ve got American League teams trying to reload and a certain National League getting better than 2 straight World Series appearances. Now that’s pretty good!
The Phillies made a pretty shrewd deal in a [...]
Heisman 2009 Live (Well, as I write it…)
Ok, this is a live writing of my thoughts on sports as the 2009 Heisman Trophy is presented. Currently it’s 5:40 p.m. EST and we’ve got about 2 hours and 20 minutes until the broadcast begins (and those bastards make us wait about 45 minutes after that to see who the winner is.) We aren’t [...]
The General’s Smorgasbord Part 2
With the College Football season on “Pause” until January what are we going to do? I mean, there’s plenty of stuff to talk about in College Football and now they’re going to make us wait until January to get another fix? What’s up with that?! Well, I’m going to talk about it anyways…so HA!
We’re all [...]
Records that Stand the test of time
In sports, everything pertaining to performance can be measured by statistics. The success of every player and team can be broken down into columns of numbers denoted just by a few letters, allowing a hardcore statistical enthusiast to crunch numbers with the best minds pro sports has to offer. Was Dennis Rodman as good a [...]
Who Would Win In A Fight Between…?
Who WOULD win in a fight between the Saints and Colts? I don’t mean to discount other teams that are playing very well (namely the Bengals and the Vikings) but all indications would point to a New Orleans/Indy Super Bowl that will be played outside in sunny South Florida (on my birthday no less.) Just [...]
The Good, Bad and Pathetic
EliticismAs the NFL continues its search for qualified NFL Hall of Fame Semi-Finalists….there are quite a few NFL head coaches who are on the final stretch in their NFL coaching positions. Eric Mangini of the Cleveland Browns, Raheem Morris of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Wade Phillips of the Dallas Cowboys are all in [...]
Someone made a savvy decision (and ALL the picks…)
Today, Georgia fired it’s Defensive Coordinator (Willie Martinez) and 2 other defensive assistants and I have to say I’m surprised. I just went off on Monday about how UGA wasn’t going to win anything coming out of their defeat of Georgia Tech because they would bide their time with the Assistants they had instead of [...]
I can’t believe they actually fired him! (a.k.a. – what I learned this weekend)
Well, I run off to work today and in the quagmire that is my day job I didn’t hear about Charlie Weis getting fired immediately. However, I did get in the car and hear about it within 5 seconds of having the radio on sports talk (I listen to 790 down here…mainly because they aren’t [...]
Rivalry Weekend is Here!
Ahhhh, it’s Rivalry Weekend and we can finally get to spoiling and making seasons with games that we all want to call before they’ve begun and yet they never turn out the way we thought. They just never do. I suppose you could say that Rivalry Weekend is a form
of a playoff because many of [...]
Football is Making Me Pick Early!
If you follow me on Twitter (genxxlgeneral) then thank you! You also read one of my tweets yesterday that came right after I read the following headline on the ESPNews ticker “Bills contact Bill Cowher and he declines.” The Tweet said something like “The Bills are so far beneath Bill Cowher that the 9th level [...]
Nothing Makes Me Crazier Than…
The Chiefs beating the Steelers after I said “the Chiefs are worthless”. Nothing is more irritating than a pathetic and worthless team beating a perfectly legitimate team for absolutely no reason. If Matt Cassel is going to be a failure he needs to stay that way so I can keep my bearings in the NFL. [...]
