Epic failure has a new home.
Posted in Arizona Sports, NBA, NCAA Basketball, NFL, NHL, Sports on Jan 4th, 2010
Frankly the Cardinals, Suns, Coyotes, and ASU basketball deserve their own posts for their respective weekend performances but since I’m busy and you have the attention span of a gnat I’ll just put everything right here in a nice little ball for you to play with.
A Brutal Weekend for Phoenix (area) Sports
Posted in Arizona Sports, NCAA Football, NFL, SoD Cup, Sports on Oct 8th, 2009
We’re coming at you a day early due to the fact that Missouri and Nebraska are playing tonight and we don’t want you to think that the SoD Football Pick ‘Em is anything less that completely legit. A few other housekeeping notes:
I’m ordering the picks by where we are in the standings this week. I’ll [...]
Posted in Arizona Sports, NCAA Football, Sports on Sep 8th, 2009
In case you missed ASU’s 50-3 “win” over Idaho State, and based upon the anemic attendance figures you likely did, SoD has decided to show the only thing worth watching:
Burfict just became academically eligible last week. Vontaze wasted no time in putting the ohmygodithinkhejustkilledthequarterbacknoireallythinkheisdead in student athlete. Welcome to ASU, Vontaze. We look forward to watching [...]
Posted in Law, NCAA Football, Video Games on May 7th, 2009
Per AZCentral (our new twitter friend), via the USA Today – former ASU QB and cup-throwing distance champion Sam Keller is suing the NCAA and EA Sports. In his suit, Keller claims that EA Sports video games go too far in how they represent college player likenesses.
Apparently being the third-string quarterback for a team [...]
Posted in Arizona Sports, NCAA Football, NFL on Apr 29th, 2009
No, not the lovable, hardworking, better-known-as-a-sidekick-hobbit Rudy. This letter goes out to one much closer to our black, black hearts here at Seasons of Discontent.
Mr. Carpenter:
We all want to cheer for the hometown team. You know, be true to your school and all. So you avoided the open hostility of at least [...]
Posted in Arizona Sports, NCAA Football on Apr 29th, 2009
Michigan sophomore quarterback Steven Threet has announced he will transfer to ASU in the fall. Under NCAA rules he must sit out the 2009 season before competing for the starting job in the 2010 . ASU fans welcome this news following the departures of Jack Elway and Chasen Stangel from the team, but [...]
Posted in Arizona Sports, NCAA Football on Apr 27th, 2009
On Saturday 95,722 convicts Ohio State Buckeye Fans paid $5 a piece to watch Terrelle Pryor’s two touchdown performance in the spring game. This set the all time record, topping the 92,138 inbred redneck Alabama fans that turned out to see their 2007 spring game. ASU couldn’t draw that many fans to a regular season [...]
Posted in Arizona Sports, MLB, NBA, NCAA Football, NFL on Apr 23rd, 2009
One of the wonderful things about YouTube is the ability to pull up clips of some of your favorite sports moments with the click of a button. On
the other hand, if you’re having a shitty day and are filled with self-loathing (as Sgt. Zim typically is), you can pull up some pretty dark memories. Thus, [...]
Posted in Golf on Apr 22nd, 2009
Two weeks ago at the Champions Dinner prior to the Masters, former Arizona State Sun Devil golfer Phil Mickelson was reportedly overheard having the following exchange with Nick Faldo (as cribbed by Dogs that Chase Cars via The Scotsman):
Mickelson (loud enough for everyone to hear): “Gee Nick, I didn’t realize that you are such a [...]
