The Gift Of MGoBlog
As the year winds down slowly and we take stock of the progress all of us have made in the past year, I look back on the year that we’ve had on the blog and like to think that we actually grew a little...
View ArticleGiving MGoThanks 2017
Even though we still have the Ohio State game to go, we are already sitting wherever we are and taking stock of 2017 and needless to say, there is measurable frustration. I definitely understand it,...
View ArticleA Brief Look Back On 2016
As 2016 comes to a close on MGoBlog, we find ourselves deep into bowl season, watching unlikely matchups produce unlikely outcomes before tens of people in most cases. Indeed, as I post this, we are...
View ArticleThe Gift Of MGoBlog
Let me first start by saying that just a couple days ago, I “celebrated” the first anniversary of what has been fortunately my only health scare which required hospitalization. Since that time, I’ve...
View ArticleThe State Of Our Open Threads: After Ohio State
Well, fuck.That's how I feel this morning, which is not too different from how I felt last night.All the same, we do have some data to go over for the aftermath of the Ohio State game.Let's start with...
View ArticleGiving MGoThanks 2016
As we slide into another holiday season here at MGoBlog and, perhaps more importantly to many of us, the most meaningful iteration of The Game that we’ve witnessed in a decade, I think we should take...
View ArticleThe State Of Our Open Threads: After Indiana
The tenor of this game in terms of how we felt about it can be summed up in the following factoid - there was all of one "awesome" used in the game thread last night, and it was used in a manner which...
View ArticleThe State Of Our Open Threads: After Iowa
NOTE: I will add charts later perhaps - having trouble with my Photobucket account, probably because it is far too unwieldly at this point. Well, the one thing that we were hoping not to dissect and...
View ArticleThe State Of Our Open Threads: After Maryland
One of the great things about continuing this feature through the Harbaugh years is that it can be somewhat repurposed to indicate just how much fun we're having, and nowhere is that more evident than...
View ArticleThe State Of Our Open Threads: After Michigan State
Well, we managed to get over the MSU hump this year and now sit rather pretty, if you will, at 8-0 and definitely in control of our own destiny in the Big Ten East at this point in the season.We didn't...
View ArticleThe State Of Our Open Threads: After Illinois
Although yesterday was a relatively breezy day - sometimes literally, if you spent any of yesterday outside - we do have some things to run through in the aftermath of the game thread from just about...
View ArticleThe State Of Our Open Threads: After Rutgers
Last night's game proved to be one of those times where the MGoBlog open thread for the game became something of a repository for the swearing that occurs when you are enjoying yourself and the pain...
View ArticleThe State Of Our Open Threads: After Wisconsin
We saw a little glimmer of how the blog handles its adversity during the first half of the Colorado game when things did not go all that well, needless to say, but yesterday in a game against a...
View ArticleThe State Of Our Open Threads: After Penn State
MOD EDIT - Moving to diaries - LSAWell, one of my biggest fears after this game was that we really wouldn't have too much to discuss given how well the game went, but as it turns out, there are a few...
View ArticleThe State Of Our Open Threads: A Little History With A Hint Of Statistics
In the latest installment of “The State Of Our Open Threads”, someone had asked for some historical perspective on some of the data, and I decided that it would be a good idea to go back through the...
View ArticleThe State Of Our Open Threads: After Colorado
MOD EDIT - Moving to diaries. Good idea. - LSAWell, let it never be said about this place that we don't handle adversity creatively because that's something that I would expect from MGoBlog. The first...
View ArticleRegarding The Forthcoming Near Total Cessation Of Certain Threads: Your Guide
So you are aware, the OT Season officially comes to an end at midnight on the 27th of August, or one week before the first game as per tradition. There will be some cleanup of a preliminary nature...
View ArticleMETA: "Songs From Bolivia", Volume 1
I've sat here pondering this particular OT season for sometime now and struggling to come up with an occasional feature that isn't too hard for me to find time to do, and then seeing the last couple...
View ArticleOT Diary: Looking Back On My "Episode"
LOOKING BACK ON MY “EPISODE”This is not a sports-related diary per se, but I am posting this because it was a sports blog that helped me get through what might be termed my first official “health...
View ArticleRandom Musings About NCAA Tournament Seeding
FREQUENCY OF SEEDS AND PERFORMANCEIt occurred to me that it might be interesting to do a high-level survey of the seeding of both the Final Four as well as the tournament champions and then look at...
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