GrandmasterB is used to having Mrs. GMB beat him down, but after this weeks action…I received a beatdown from another woman. This week Apryl from Women Like Sports tallied up an impressive 14-2 record and took the weekly prize in the Pigskin Picks contest. What surprises me the most is she was 14-1 after the Sunday games, and the one game she missed was the Tennessee Titans v. Jacksonville Jags game.

While I contemplated picking the Jags over the Titans, I thought twice about it and went with the Titans. Once again the Denver Broncos managed to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. That’s the second week in a row that I’ve picked against them and they won. I’m going to pick them this week over the Raiders; they better not let the Raiders win. If they do…Mike Shanahan is going to get a visit from GrandmasterB and it won’t be pretty. I know where your team practices Mike…BEWARE OF MY WRATH.

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It’s been quite awhile since I wrote up a week in review, so what better time to get back in the saddle than now? As many of you know, I struggled last month to get anything of substantial value posted up on the site and it was very frustrating. If anyone thinks that running a blog is an easy task; they’re mistaken. Finding new content that will drive readers to the site is a pain, and it only gets harder as you go. Last week I hit stride with a few quick hits and tested my hosting on Tuesday gathering up a record 315 simultaneous users online.

I’m still going through my Alexa Rank experiment that I eluded to in the August Month in Review. I think it’s working out, but the widget I installed in the sidebar is a little bit flaky. Somtimes the number fluctuates back and forth and makes me wonder just how accurate it is. (more…)

Well that was an interesting first week of football hey? Teams that everyone had winning, lost. The league MVP goes down for the year and finally we have some results to check out.

Before getting to the standings and records there are a few administrative things to take care of. We lost two blogs before this whole thing started. Banned in Hollywood and The Sports Dungeon dropped out so there are 23 blogs fighting it out. We will toss in the extra $20 to make it still the same prize money. Thanks everyone for getting picks in on time, it went smooth, so keep it up.

Okay here are the results.

1. Zoner Sports 13-3
2. The Sports Dollar 11-5
3. Don Chavez 11-5
3. NESW Sports 11-5
5. Inside Plays 11-5
6. The Chocolate Dog Blog 11-5
7. The Blue Workhorse 11-5
8. Juiced Sports 10-6
9. Machochip 10-6
10. Tailgating Ideas 10-6
11. My Sports Rumors 10-6
12. Buzz Pirates 10-6
13. Brahsome 10-6
14. Busted Coverage 10-6
15. Sports Opinion 9-7
16. The Sports Lounge 9-7
17. Mac Gs World 9-7
18. NE Patriots Draft 8-8
19. Yep Yep 8-8
20. Waiting for Next Year 8-8
21. GrandmasterB 8-8
22. CoverTwo 6-10
23. Women Like Sports 5-11

Congrats to Zoner

Sports for grabbing the early lead. Looks like GrandmasterB has some ground to gain. 8-8! Man I suck!

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.

…keep reading, trust me!

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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