You gotta love the snark of fans in cities where their team can never seem to get on track. Enter the 2011 Detroit Lions. The last time the Lions went undefeated in the preseason, they went winless in the regular season. Now sitting atop a 4-0 preseason, you can understand the jitters of a fan [...]
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Join college football pick-em
Longtime Outsporter Layne (aka Mariner Duck Guy) has put together a college football pick-em, and he wants you to join! Many other Outsporters are playing, and we’d love to see you be a part of it! It’s the closest thing to a gay BCS championship we have! We’ll have ocassional updates on the pick-em standings [...]
Cyd’s Sexy Spreads: Conference Championships
Note: Every week, I pick games against the spread on the Michael Irvin Show on ESPN Radio, and I’m putting them on our blog. What a contrast in styles between these two games this weekend. In the desert will be a cordial game between a couple teams that many expected to be watching this game [...]
Who to hate more?
Every story deserves a good villain. Alien had an 8-foot tall monster with acid for blood… The Dark Knight had a psychotic guy with a Glasgow Smile and who dressed like a clown… Titanic had Kate Winslet who wouldn’t move on that fucking door to let Leo DiCaprio on so he wouldn’t freeze to death. [...]
Cyd’s Sexy Spreads: Divisional Round
Note: Every week, I pick games against the spread on the Michael Irvin Show on ESPN Radio, and I’m putting them on our blog. It certainly looks like I’m hedging my bets, I know. But when it comes to the playoffs, I have a mathematical system that has been very successful in recent years. Last [...]
Cyd’s Sexy Spreads: Week 16
Note: Every week, I pick games against the spread on the Michael Irvin Show on ESPN Radio, and I’m putting them on our blog. In these last couple weeks of the season, as some teams start packing it in and others aim for the playoffs, it can get a little tricky to pick games. All [...]
Cyd’s Sexy Spreads: Week 15
Note: Every week, I pick games against the spread on the Michael Irvin Show on ESPN Radio, and I’m putting them on our blog. Years ago I heard an old rule of betting: If the spread is over 12.5, take the dog. I don’t know if there’s any statistical truth to that, but this week [...]
Cyd’s Sexy Spreads: Week 14
Note: Every week, I pick games against the spread on the Michael Irvin Show on ESPN Radio, and I’m putting them on our blog. Sometimes things just don’t go your way. It seems every season I have one week that I just get utterly, horribly wrong. That was last week, when I went 0-5 in [...]
Cyd’s Sexy Spreads Week 13
Note: Every week, I pick games against the spread on the Michael Irvin Show on ESPN Radio, and I’m putting them on our blog. After getting the Raiders right last week, I’m a little emboldened with picking big underdogs this week, so take my Thanksgiving-day picks with a grain of salt. Here’s hoping for a [...]
Cyd’s Sexy Spreads: Week 12
Note: Every week, I pick games against the spread on the Michael Irvin Show on ESPN Radio, and I’m putting them on our blog. This may be moot by the time you read it, but has anyone else noticed that the NFL Network’s Thursday night games so far this season have been great, and both [...]
Cyd’s Sexy Spreads: Week 11
Note: Every week, I pick games against the spread on the Michael Irvin Show on ESPN Radio, and I’m putting them on our blog. It’s the week of must-win games like not before this season. And it starts Thursday night; the Loser of the AFC East pole position has a steep hill to climb to [...]
Cyd’s Sexy Spreads: Week 10
Note: Every week, I pick games against the spread on the Michael Irvin Show on ESPN Radio, and I’m putting them on our blog. One of the most important things in picking games against the spread isn’t just making the right choices with the spread, but rather picking which games you’re actually right on. Every [...]
Cyd’s Sexy Spreads: Week 9
Note: Every week, I pick games against the spread on the Michael Irvin Show on ESPN Radio, and I’m putting them on our blog. This week is the midway point for the season, and it’s time to start taking stock. Some teams that were out of it three weeks ago (the Browns) are suddenly back [...]
Cyd’s Sexy Spreads: Week 8
Note: Every week, I pick games against the spread on the Michael Irvin Show on ESPN Radio, and I’m putting them on our blog. I have generally found success predicting the NFL when I focus on picking underdogs to win games or cover. But this week is the week I think some clarity comes to [...]
Cyd’s Sexy Spreads: Week 7
Note: Every week, I pick games against the spread on the Michael Irvin Show on ESPN Radio, and I’m putting them on our blog. This week the game I’m most up-in-the-air about is my first pick, the Dallas-St. Louis game. St. Louis won last week, but their offense still doesn’t look good. And will Romo [...]