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Give me driving rainstorms and ground-bound back-up quarterbacks all season long!

Posted by Deuce Geary on October 25th, 2009

That combination seems to be Navy’s lucky charm! Starting their back-up quarterback Kriss Proctor in a driving rainstorm in Annapolis yesterday, Navy improved its record to 6-2 by beating Wake Forest 13-10 without throwing a single pass.

“Deuce,” you say, “that’s a fluke!”
Oh, really?
This is the second year in a row Navy has won a game [...]

Aaaauuuggghhhh!

Posted by Deuce Geary on September 5th, 2009

Ohio State 31
Navy 27
An 99-yard interception return on Navy’s 2-point conversion attempt in the final minutes is the difference.
That was one of the most exciting second halves I’ve ever seen. I’ll be hoarse the rest of the day.
Navy has a habit of scaring the hell out of ranked teams (OSU was #6 going into this [...]

A classy move by the Buckeyes

Posted by Deuce Geary on September 3rd, 2009

Some boat school classmates sent me this good news related to this weekend’s Ohio State – Naval Academy football match-up:

Ohio State’s athletic department is circulating an online video encouraging Buckeyes’ fans to welcome the Midshipmen on Sept. 5 like no other OSU opponent has every been welcomed.
The idea is for the 105,000 fans inside Ohio [...]

Open season on a black quarterback

Posted by Deuce Geary on August 14th, 2009

Maybe.

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Rule 5 Monday: Wimbledon Edition

Posted by Deuce Geary on June 29th, 2009

Want to play at Wimbledon’s Centre Court? Forget the tennis training and work on your make-up.
When it comes to choosing which women play on Centre Court, good looks count for more than big shots.
While a succession of easy-on-the-eye unknowns have appeared in Wimbledon’s prime arena, the top women’s seeds have been relegated to lesser courts.
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Hey, Lakers Fans! Your team just won the NBA championship! What are you going to do now?

Posted by Deuce Geary on June 15th, 2009

Why, they’re going to Disneyland, of course! If, that is, by “going to Disneyland,” you actually mean that a mob is going to run wild outside the Staples Center, set fires, attack vehicles, pelt the police with rocks and bottles, and trash businesses. Which I guess, for some of the “fans,” is a Disneyland of [...]

Either this guy has balls the size of Pittsburgh, or this is a fake.

Posted by Deuce Geary on June 1st, 2009

I can’t make up my mind. I have several dozen skydives under my belt (gave it up when I got married — it’s not an easy sport to justify to your spouse). So, I’m familiar with the aerodynamics, and I know this is theoretically possible given the right slope . . . but this looks [...]

Execution at the Olympics

Posted by Deuce Geary on August 20th, 2008

So I’m watching the gymnastics competition and I notice that there are numbers for “Difficulty” and “Execution” for each performance. And I gotta say, I get a little nervous when I see that word “execution” under the name of a Chinese athlete that had a slip-up. I mean, when that happens, I’m looking [...]

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