Archive for October, 2011

The Gap Widens: Duke and North Carolina Continue to Separate Themselves from the Rest of the ACC

The Gap Widens: Duke and North Carolina Continue to Separate Themselves from the Rest of the ACC

ACC Preview by Gus Elvin Last season the ACC only received 4 bids to the NCAA Tournament and this year don’t expect a dramatic increase as once again there is a huge drop-off after North Carolina and Duke. In the offseason the ACC expanded adding Syracuse and Pittsburgh for the future but for now the [...]

NFL Week 6 Breakdown

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Apparently the players are getting too much attention for their actions on the field and the coaches are now doing their best to steal the spotlight. In the early game we had Jim Schwartz squaring up to Jim Harbaugh after an overzealous handshake. Frankly I can see why Schwartz was annoyed, he’d just lost at [...]

Week 6 NFL Review

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I had a complete sense of relief today while doing my thing and watching the NFL.  Maybe it has something to do with the fact I was able to spend 5 straight days at home with my family, since my #1 son is in school and I work evenings my interaction time with him has [...]

Mid Season Recap part 4: The ACC and the SEC

What your interests are, who you be with, TSHQ nation? It’s K.M. Venne back at you with your mid-season review of the best conference in all the land, the SEC, and the conference of my alma mater and my favorite team, the ACC (please note: Alma mater and favorite team are NOT the same. Not [...]

Boston, Keep Your Trash

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There are ways to show your displeasure with the refs or your team and there are ways you don’t.  Tonight in Boston, after what the Bruins fans and Jack Edwards thought were some bad calls against them, a bottle was thrown onto the ice (Edwards thinks every call against the Bruins is a bad one).  [...]

Mid-Season Re-cap Part 3: PAC-12 and Big 10

The PAC-12 and Big 10 seasons thus far have been interesting to say the least. With the sanctions to USC and the coaching change, suspensions and NCAA cloud that is hanging over Ohio State, you have 2 traditional conference powers that are down and are relegated to a spoiler role for at least this season. [...]

End of the Road – The World Series Preview

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What a bore. 96 national analysts hit the nail on the head before Spring Training had even started. The two clearcut best teams in all of the majors will meet in the World Series. The Red Sox will travel to Phila- wait, what? The Sox didn’t even make the playoffs and are crumbling from the [...]

Manchester’s World: Manchester City Finally Getting it Right

Russell Schilt About a fifth of the season is in the books, and one thing is abundantly clear, Manchester is the football capital of England.  In the opening weeks, City and United have bullied and bruised their way to a tie at the top of the table. United with an impressive 24 goals already, City [...]

TSHQ’s SSR Poll For Week 7…The Top 15 Teams in America

It’s Week 7 in the books which means yet another week for K.M and I to inform you of the best teams in America. With the top 10 killing teams this week, there won’t be much change in the poll. But we’re not surprised. Why? Because we’re always ahead of the curve. While you’re pointing [...]

Mid-Season Recap Part 2: The Big East and Big 12

With the conclusion of Week 7, we’ve hit the midway point of the season in college football and we’ll spend a few pieces this week looking back at the first half of the season and seeing what we learned, what we already knew and what we can expect as we head towards the second half [...]

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