January 2010
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Silence at the 50
Part of everyone’s ideal college experience probably, at some point, contains taking some food off the grill, washing it down with beer from a red Solo cup, and going in to watch the football team play a big game with high stakes. Being someone who loves football, the second week of school some of my fellow freshmen and I wandered over to the stadium to watch my alma mater play an Atlantic...
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Movie Review: Big Fan
After making the rounds at various film festivals and receiving positive reviews, Big Fan has finally been released on DVD. I’ve been pretty anxious to see this movie for a while because, as most sports movies focus primarily on the athletes or teams, this one, as the title suggests, examines the psyche of the hardcore fan. Patton Oswalt plays Paul Auflero, a 35-year-old man who still...
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Explaining My Fandom
This is a topic that comes up pretty frequently among my friends. Fellow There’s No “I” in Blog writer Ian once asked me, “You don’t really have an NFL team, do you?” As recently as this weekend, I had to explain why I like the Colts now that I am living in Boston and am frequently faced with fervent Patriots fans. Also, I recently took a nice West Coast...
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Guest Post: Joe Kulesza on the Seattle Mariners
In the wake of the Felix Hernandez extension (hooray!), I thought it fitting to finally finish a post I started a week ago. This past Saturday—January 9, 2009—marked the seventh annual U.S.S. Mariner/Lookout Landing Q&A sessions with the Seattle Mariners front office. More than 540 fans gave up three hours of their spring-like January afternoon to hear their questions and concerns...
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NFL Playoff Picks: End-of-Season Update (Plus...
The holidays have come and gone, and so has 2009. That means your friends here at There’s No “I” in Blog are back from vacation and ready commence a new year of sports coverage. The NFL regular season is also over, which means it’s once again time to check up on our preseason picks and see just how wrong we were. (Here’s a link to our mid-season update.) Patrick: In...