Hey there everyone! This is starting to become habit. For the second time in less than a month my week in review post has run late into the week. I apologize for the delay in getting new content on the site, but you know how life goes…sometimes it just takes over. This has been a busy week for GrandmasterB, as I am putting the finishing touches on a custom theme for a vBulletin forum for work. I’ve been working pretty much non-stop for the past week trying to get all of the bells and whistles installed and working before the big day on Saturday.

FOOTBALL SEASON IS COMING

What big day you ask? Well, this Saturday is the kickoff to the Mountain West Conference football season! While I’m not the biggest college football fan; I am a fan of the network being broadcast nationwide on DirecTV and being the first network dedicated to a single college sports conference to go into nationwide coverage…pretty damn cool. The new forum isn’t quite live yet, but will be launching on Saturday morning for fans of the conference to jump on board and chat it up about their favorite Mountain West Conference teams.

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It’s almost that time of year again! Can you feel it football fans? I’ve been gearing up for the kickoff of the 2008-09 season for the past month at work and one week after our college season is off, it will be time for the big boys to hit the field. To celebrate this joyous occasion the proprietor of Cuzoogle.com (Cuzzy) has decided to hold a little friendly competition between bloggers…aptly named Cuzoogle’s Pigskin Picks.

Each week a group of twenty-five bloggers will put together their picks to win. Whoever should happen to win for that week will have their 125×125 advertisement posted on Cuzoogle.com, and this will continue throughout the season. At the end of the season the overall winner will get a cash prize and their 125×125 ad placed on the front page for the duration of the NFL postseason.

Yours truly GrandmasterB has entered and has every intention of taking home the big prize. I plan on fielding some great picks each week and personally cannot wait to show off my skills in this pick ‘em challenge. I personally don’t think Cuzzy (he’s entered under ChocolateDogBlog) has a chance, since his forté is basketball. Y’all will be seeing a lot of this image throughout the season…

Here are the blogs we are competing against…doesn’t appear to be too much competition.

Yep Yep
The Sports Dungeon
Waiting for Next Year
The Sports Lounge
Tailgating Ideas
NESW Sports
The Blue Workhorse
My Sports Rumors
Inside Plays
Juiced Sports Blog
Buzz Pirates
Busted Coverage
The Chocolate Dog Blog
NE Patriots Draft
The Sports Dollar
Brahsome
Women Like Sports
Don Chavez
Banned in Hollywood
Mac Gs World
Macho Chip
Zoner Sports
CoverTwo
Sports Opinion

In the honor of good sportsmanship, I would like to wish everyone involved “good luck” during this season…you’re going to need it.

~ GrandmasterB

The guys at StoreStacker have teamed up with JohnCow.com to giveaway some fantastic prizes. The grand prize includes a new XBOX 360, but I think I’d rather have the second place prize which is either an iPod Touch or 3G iPhone…I don’t know which is the better prize. If you’re interested in entering the contest they have many different levels of commitment for entries.

• Subscribe to the RSS Feed for John Cow and StoreStacker: 1 Entry (mandatory)
• Twitter or Pownce the link regarding the contest: 3 Entries
• Vote Up and Comment on Squidoo Page: 5 Entries
• Write a Post about the Contest: 15 Entries

For more details check out the WIN Big Time with StoreStacker Contest Page.

~ GrandmasterB

I skipped the Q&A last week in order to get some good questions rolling in the door and to find a good day of the week to commit to the feature post. I’ve settled on Thursdays for the Q&A with GrandmasterB feature; since it allows me to get things caught up over the weekend and more time to put together a clear and concise answer. Don’t forget to send me your questions and if your question is published you’ll get a free linkback from GrandmasterB and 100 EntreCard credits for your bankroll. Now onto the question for this week.

My boy Cuzzy (Cuzoogle.com) wrote me an email the other day asking me the following question:

I have recently started a new blog and want to set up a google site map. I downloaded the plugin and activated it but I am still having trouble getting my site map to work. It says I need to make sure the file is writeable and this was where I got lost. Can you help?

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