Week 18 Power Rankings, Bears Edition
Here are the week 18 Bears power rankings from various sites around the web: ESPN.com: #6 (Last week: #6) Analysis, “The Bears better hope “Bad Jay Cutler” doesn’t show up for the playoffs.” SI.com: #7 (Last week: #6) Analysis, “I’ll grant you that a No. 7 ranking is fairly low for a No. 2 seed, [...]
Annual UmpBump Hall of Fame Balloting: 2011 Edition
In what has become an annual tradition, we here at UmpBump cast our ballots for the Hall of Fame on the eve of the announcements of the voting for the real Hall of Fame. Voters can vote for anyone ever who has been retired from baseball for at least five years and is not already [...]
What Makes a Successful NFL Season? (AFC Edition)
Playoff time has arrived in the NFL and that means different things for different teams. In the NFL of decades past, the top seeds were overwhelming favorites and it would have been a shock if the top two seeds did not end up in their conferences championship games. Now in the NFL, the teams are [...]
What I’ve Learned: Ohio State Sugar Bowl Edition
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