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How Lucky Some Of Us Are

We are all fans. We all have our allegiances. We show our colors not just on game day, but at every chance we get. Even in the off season. In fact, there is no off season. How we came to the decision to dawn our colors may be very different. But at the “end” of [...]

Meet the Broad St. Bombers.

I sit here embarrassed that it has taken the World Series to inspire some baseball talk here at Taking The Over. The defending champion Philadelphia Phillies won their second straight National League pennant and await the best the American League has to offer.

The Philadelphia 40 man roster has some great stories. I guess you could [...]

HUGE Day for Old Dominion Football.

Bobby Wilder’s Monarchs are slowly but surely gaining some respect among the FCS football voters. 4 weeks ago Old Dominion earned its first votes in the FCS top 25 poll, receiving 5 votes. This week the ODU Football Monarchs claim 16 votes. They received one less vote than the Hofstra Pride team that sits at [...]

Week 6

My upset of the week is going to the Baltimore Ravens beating the Minnesota Vikings in the Metrodome. Lets look at the facts here, the Vikings have beat the Browns, Lions and Rams convincingly but just squeaked away with victories hosting the 49ers and Packers. They’ve played a very soft schedule and should be sitting [...]

Week 5

So looking over the schedule there are some potentially really bad games out there. I’m talking blow outs in half of them. Vegas seems to agree with me. 6 out of 14 games have a spread greater than a touchdown. There are, however, a couple games that I feel will be worth paying attention to, [...]

NO GOOD!

How can this happen? NFL officiating blows yet another game on what seems like an easy call to anyone with two eyeballs. How do you call a kick that sails wide right good? I don’t know either but it happened last week in Cleveland. The Cleveland Browns are not catching a break from anyone, not [...]