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  • Vindy's Picks Week 13-2009

    NFL ANTI-NAVAL

    NEW YORK, New York (UPI)...After banning the Captain Morgan pose recently, it turns out the National Football League is not anti-alcohol, but anti-maritime. The discovery of a secret rule book at NFL headquarters has led to revelations about the league’s objections to all references to sea-faring things. [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 10:33pm EST
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  • Vindy's Picks Week 12-2009

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    POETIC JUSTICE FOR MADOFF VICTIMS

    MANHATTAN, New York (ITAR-Tass)....As Bernie Madoff’s estate continues to get sold off this month, noted items up for bid include a boogie board bearing the disgraced investor’s name, a baseball mitt, a Wayne Gretsky action figure and....copies of Vindy’s Picks! In a twist of [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 10:47pm EST
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  • Vindy's Picks Week 11-2009

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    PHILLY SAYS “THANKS” TO CLINTON

    PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (MSNBC)....A week after being honored with his own 10-foot statue in Kosovo for military actions he took as Commander-in-Chief ten years ago, Bill Clinton was on-hand in the City of Brotherly Love to see yet-another larger-than-life bronze likeness of himself supplant the [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 2:17pm EST
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  • Vindy's Picks Week 10 Part II: The Forecaster Strikes Back

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    #13 Houston over TULSA taking 1: This has shifted 4 points in favor of the home team. Okay...we appreciate the Golden Hurricane’s effort against Boise State and yes, this could have the makings of another UTEP-Houston game in which the Coogs lost badly, but UH QB Case Keenum is healthy [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 9:41pm EST
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  • Vindy's Picks Week 10: The Prequel

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    BRITS, BUCS IN NAVAL BATTLE

    LONDON, England (CNN)....After losing 35-7 in London to the Patriots last weekend and being told by Commissioner Roger Goodell their poor showing only hurts efforts to expand the league’s play into Europe, several members of the Tampa Buccaneers hopped their pirate ship and defeated [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 8:49pm EST
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  • Vindy's Picks Week 9-2009

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    PICKS AT CENTER OF PLANE MISHAP

    MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (UPI)....For the second week in a row the Vegas Vindicator inadvertently had his hand in riling up both the FAA and the Air National Guard. Amidst speculation that the pilots who flew Northwest Flight 188 approximately 150 miles past its intended [...]
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    Posted: October 28, 2009, 10:30pm EDT
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  • Vindy's Picks Week 8-2009 The Sequel

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    Air Force over #19 UTAH taking 9 ½: Now that the UNLV game is over, we expect Utes’ offense to return to its prior plodding, pedestrian status. Both should play to their strengths...running and defense, which will again favor quick, low-scoring game. Pilots haven’t lost by more than 7...Utah 20 [...]
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    Posted: October 23, 2009, 5:24pm EDT
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  • Vindy's Picks Week 8-2009 Part I

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    CHARGES DROPPED IN “BALLOON-BOY” INCIDENT

    FT. COLLINS, Colorado (BBC)....Local authorities elected not to take legal action after it was determined a pre-planned hoax became a real-deal rescue mission when an act of desperation led the Vegas Vindicator to leap inside a runaway home-made balloon from atop a moving commuter [...]
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    Posted: October 22, 2009, 9:41pm EDT
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  • Vindy's Picks Week 7-2009

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    PREZ GRABS HEISMAN AFTER ATTENDING COLLEGE GAME

    MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, New York (CNN)....Mere days after shocking the world by unexpectedly receiving a Nobel Peace Prize, the Commander-in-Chief was in the Big Apple to accept the Heisman Trophy. Obama drew the attention of voters by showing up for Maryland’s game [...]
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    Posted: October 14, 2009, 8:20pm EDT
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  • Vindy's Picks Week 7-2009 Early Edition

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    Since we have a ranked team playing tomorrow night, we'll offer a few early thoughts on that game and return tomorrow night with our regularly-scheduled programming....

    WED. OCT. 14
    TULSA over #5 Boise State taking 10: A big non-conference tilt for both sides. If the Broncos are going to' [...]
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    Posted: October 13, 2009, 10:17pm EDT
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  • Vindy's Picks Week 6-2009

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    JUSTICE, PIGSKIN PROPHET SHARE COMMON TV MUSE

    WASHINGTON, District of Columbia (AP)...Rookie Justice Sonia Sotomayor re-entered the spotlight this week as an unknown quantity or an X-factor as the Supreme Court convened again on Monday for its next term. The Vegas Vindicator, who was in the nation’s capitol interested [...]
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    Posted: October 07, 2009, 9:45pm EDT
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  • Vindy's Picks Week 5-2009

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    SPORTS LURE EASTERN BLOC NAVY PERSONNEL OUT OF HIDING

    BRIGANTINE INLET, New Jersey (Reuters)....Russian subs were recently spotted again off the East coast, as they were this past August, and were escorted to the Jersey shore by U.S. Coast Guard vessels. The Soviet sailors initially told officials they were [...]
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    Posted: October 01, 2009, 1:53am EDT
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  • Vindy's Picks Week 4-2009

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    INSPECTORS LOWER THE BOOM DURING TOUGH WEEK FOR VINDY’S RESTAURANT

    LAS VEGAS, Nevada (UPI)...Just two weeks into its existence, Vindy’s B&B was caught“behind the line of sausage” (which is about to be added to the menu in the form of several foot-long pork links on an elongated plate) [...]
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    Posted: September 23, 2009, 1:06pm EDT
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  • Vindy's Picks Week 3-2009

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    PREZ COMMENT LEADS TO ANOTHER “BEER SUMMIT”

    WASHINGTON, District of Columbia (ITAR-Tass)...Apparently forgetting the fallout from his previous utterance of the phrase, President Obama let it be known he thought the Weber Kid “acted stupidly” selecting Oklahoma State, not only laying 15 ½ points, but also as his “lock [...]
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    Posted: September 16, 2009, 10:02pm EDT
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  • Vindy's Picks Week 2-2009

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    NFL SEASON STARTS AMIDST WEBER EATERY GRAND OPENING

    LAS VEGAS, Nevada (BBC)...As professional football players start to take the field in earnest and fans enter stadiums around the country to watch games that count in the standings this week, a sign on the door of a small, local shop [...]
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    Posted: September 09, 2009, 10:40pm EDT
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  • Vindy's Picks Week 1-2009

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    SPORTS NOT FORGOTTEN IN “FIRST 100 DAYS”

    WASHINGTON, District of Columbia (MSNBC).... Throughout his first hundred days, in fact, more than seven months in, the new president’s actions on such things as the economy, healthcare, the war and foreign policy have gotten all the ink, but the early achievements [...]
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    Posted: August 31, 2009, 9:15pm EDT
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  • Vindy's 2008-09 Bowl Recap

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    BCS TITLE, TROPHY TO DIFFERENT TEAMS

    CHAMPAIGN, Illinois (AP)....Florida and Oklahoma slugged it out on the field Thursday night to win the Bowl Championship Series Sears Trophy. The highly-coveted crystal hardware was presented in Miami to the Gators, but the actual title of BCS National Champion, vacated by the [...]
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    Posted: January 10, 2009, 7:32pm EST

  • Vindy's 2008-09 Bowl Picks- Part Deux

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    DEC. 28
    INDEPENDENCE:
    Northern Illinois over Louisiana Tech giving 1 ½ (47): LOCK OF DA’ BOWLS. Rookie NIU head coach Jerry Kill inherited 20 returning starters and took advantage of that to increase the Huskies points-scored by 6 per game (to average of 25), while lowering points-against by nearly two [...]
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    Posted: December 19, 2008, 11:18pm EST

  • Vindy's 2008-09 Bowl Predictions- Early Games

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    FOOTBALL SEASON CURSE ATTEMPT BACKFIRES

    LAS VEGAS, Nevada (ITAR-Tass)...Way back in April, construction workers dug up a Red Sox jersey from a new Yankee Stadium service corridor. Buried there as a curse by a Red Sox fan, the David Ortiz uniform top “worked” ...the Bronx Bombers did not even [...]
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    Posted: December 18, 2008, 11:30pm EST

  • Vindy's 2008 Championship Week Picks

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    DNA TESTS REVEAL CHILDHOOD SPORTS APTITUDE

    BOULDER, Colorado (Reuters)...”Those who can, play. Those who can’t, coach. Those who can’t coach, predict.” So goes the old adage. And for less than $150, parents can find out where their child falls in the spectrum. That’s the premise of a new DNA [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2008, 11:26pm EST
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  • Vindy's Picks Week 14-2008 Regular Edition

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    CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD-QUARTER KIND

    DEVILS TOWER, Wyoming (BBC)....The contents of a toolbag thought to be long gone following a spacewalk mishap led to an historic meeting between extraterrestrials and mankind at this northwestern landmark last week. Apparently, grease guns weren’t the only items in the bag that [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2008, 9:58pm EST

  • Vindy's Picks Week 13-2008 Early Edition

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    With yet another Tuesday night game interrupting Vindicator's usual forecast workflow, we're announcing our early-week selection....

    TUES. NOV. 25
    Western Michigan over #15 BALL STATE taking 11: What is it with these early-week MAC games?! Are conference teams allergic to Thursdays and weekends or what??!!! With Utah now firmly-entrenched [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2008, 10:02pm EST

  • Vindy's Picks Week 13-2008

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    STATION PULLS “TREK” ON EVE OF RIVALRY WEEKEND

    LAS VEGAS, Nevada (AP)...Local Sin City TV station KVBC will yank classic Star Trek episode “The Trouble With Tribbles” to spite the Vegas Vindicator just a day before the college football season’s “rivalry weekend” commences. Local bookies want to give no [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2008, 11:48pm EST

  • Vindy's Picks week 12-2008 Regular Edition

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    CAPITOL SWAP-OUT TO IMPACT COLLEGE SPORTS

    WASHINGTON, District of Columbia (AP)....A White House transition meeting this week between outbound President Bush and President-Elect Barack Obama will include discussion of resolution of the failing U.S. economy, withdrawal of American troops from Iraq and implementation of a college football playoff for [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2008, 8:20pm EST

  • Vindy's Picks Week 12-2008 Special Edition

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    With A Tuesday night game on tap and unlikely to get the whole enchilada done in time, we offer our thoughts on tonight's match...

    TUES. NOV. 11
    #14 Ball State over MIAMI-OHIO giving 17 1/2: Vindy’s still picking pieces of his Michael Jordan-autographed Haynes out of a deep, dark' [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2008, 1:41pm EST

  • Vindy's Picks Week 11-2008

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    DEMS OFFER BOXING VIDEO TO BOLSTER CANDIDATE

    PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (CNN)....The Obama camp released an eleventh-hour video...Baracky IV, featuring its presidential contender sporting boxing gloves and trunks while reprising the Sylvester Stallone role against Red Army pugilist Ivan Drago as a way of improving Obama’s image on foreign policy, particularly [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2008, 9:50pm EST

  • Vindy's Picks 10-2008

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    GOP CANDIDATE RACKING UP ICE TIME AS ELECTION NEARS

    ST. LOUIS, Missouri (UPI)....What was supposed to be nothing more than a non-partisan, friendly ceremony this past Friday turned out to be yet-another Palin public appearance gone horribly wrong. As part of the ESPN travel series, called “50 Pucks in [...]
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    Posted: October 29, 2008, 10:52pm EDT

  • Vindy's Picks Week 9-2008

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    U.S. MEETS JOE PA...THE PLUMBER????

    STATE COLLEGE, Pennsylvania (REUTERS)....Previously living in relative obscurity outside the world of college football, JoePa the Plumber, whose real name is Joe Paterno, hit the national political radar in a big way after having his name uttered a collective 26 times during the third [...]
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    Posted: October 22, 2008, 11:34pm EDT

  • Vindy's Picks Week 8-2008

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    RECLUSIVE FOREIGN LEADER FINALLY SEEN...AT COLLEGE GAME

    MADISON, Wisconsin (BBC)....Well-hidden from public view for the past few months and amidst rumors of poor-health and speculation his rogue nation had acquired Romulan cloaking-device technology, North Korean president Kim Il Jong II was spotted taking in the Badgers-Buckeyes game two Saturdays [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2008, 10:24pm EDT

  • Vindy's Picks Week 7-2008

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    POWER PLAY PROPELS BIDEN TO DEBATE WIN

    ST. LOUIS, Missouri (CNN)....Tied, but tiring in the final twenty minutes of last week’s closely-fought Vice Presidential debate on national television with her opponent trying to play up-tempo, “America’s most-famous hockey mom” threw a vicious check, out of frustration, that sent Joe [...]
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    Posted: October 08, 2008, 10:54pm EDT

  • Vindy's Picks Week 6-2008

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    FAVRE TIES JOE, TAKES ON COMMERCIAL REDUX

    EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey (ITAR-Tass)....Shortly after tossing six touchdown passes, tying a Jets’ record set by Joe Namath over three decades ago, in a wild victory over the Arizona Cardinals, Bret Favre reneged on an earlier August statement in which he was [...]
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    Posted: September 30, 2008, 10:55pm EDT

  • Vindy's Picks Week 5-2008

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    PIGSKIN KEY TO NEW TV SEASON

    HOLLYWOOD, California (MSNBC)....In the aftermath of the writers’ strike earlier this year and as networks pin their hopes for high ratings on returning series and new shows making debuts this week, one thing was clear.... football will be an integral part of this [...]
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    Posted: September 24, 2008, 11:26pm EDT

  • Vindy's Picks Week 4-2008

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    “LIPSTICK” GAFFE LEADS TO ENDORSEMENT DEAL

    FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas (AP)....Doing some damage control this week and potentially at the loss of support from the traditionally-Democratic local city, the Obama camp put out word that the Illinois senator’s comment about putting “lipstick on a pig” was actually an inadvertent reference to [...]
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    Posted: September 17, 2008, 10:45pm EDT

  • Vindy's Picks Week 3-2008

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    PATS LOSE BRADY, EYE FAVRE ET AL

    FOXBORO, Massachusetts (UPI)....In an instant, the 2008 NFL season was rocked. A year-ending knee injury to New England quarterback Tom Brady, followed by a mere seven-point victory over the Kansas City Chiefs led by back-up QB Matt Cassell left the Patriots fans, [...]
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    Posted: September 10, 2008, 10:16pm EDT

  • Vindy's Picks Week 2-2008

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    GOP RUNNING MATE’S PAST COULD BE KEY TO FUTURE

    ST. PAUL, Minnesota (CNN)....Presumed Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin is no stranger to the sports world and her experience might just impact the remainder of her career. The one-time-Sarah Heath played point guard for her high school’s girls basketball team. [...]
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    Posted: September 04, 2008, 12:33am EDT

  • Vindy's Picks Week 1-2008

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    TV GIG LANDS VINDY IN DOGHOUSE FOR OPENER

    LAS VEGAS, Nevada (like there’s another one?) (CNN)....The Vegas Vindicator missed forecasting minicamp to shoot episodes of Lap-Dancing with the Stars. In fact, Vindy and his partner Iffia Rilliwaahmi garnered a 5th place finish (just missing the Olympic medal round!)! But [...]
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    Posted: August 27, 2008, 9:12pm EDT

  • Vindy's 2007-08 Bowl Recap

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    FORECAST CAUSES AIR TRAVEL DELAY DOWN UNDER; BIG APPLE HELPS COUNTRY SHED 2007 SEASON
    SYDNEY, Australia (CNN)....Six-inch barber shears? Check. Twelve ounces of mouthwash? Knock yourself out. A box of matches? Please. Vindy’s picks on the laptop?! Holy crap! Hold da’ phone! Do not pass GO, do not collect $200! [...]
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    Posted: January 10, 2008, 1:03am EST

  • Post-2007 Records of 3rd Year Coaches

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    A bit later than promised, but here we are again, checking the results (post-bowls) forged by coaches in their third year with their respective teams....

    ‘07 3rd Year Coach ‘06 SU/ATS record ‘07 SU/ATS record (Comments)

    Les Miles, LSU 11-2/6-7 12-2/5-9 (Nat’l Title win)

    Ed Orgeron, Ol [...]
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    Posted: January 10, 2008, 12:36am EST

  • Vindy's 2007-08 Bowl Predictions

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    PONIES TAKE YOUTH LITERACY PROGRAM NATIONWIDE
    DALLAS, Texas (MSNBC)...American youths are once again behind as many as 10 other industrialized nations throughout the world in reading test scores (though three of said "countries" were actually the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbia and Ontario. Based on the exchange rate, that’s [...]
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    Posted: December 19, 2007, 10:39pm EST

  • Post-Season Picks Not Quite Done Yet

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    Unforeseen events have temporarily delayed publication of Vindy's 2007-08 Bowl Predictions, but keep checkin' back! Hope to have them up early this week! [...]
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    Posted: December 16, 2007, 1:29pm EST

  • Vindy's 2007 Championship Week Picks

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    FORECASTER ASKS TO HAVE 2007 RECORD EXPUNGED
    MONTE CARLO, Monaco (CNN)....Facing a permanent transcript of the worst preferred-picks record of his career, the Vegas Vindicator this week did what any reasonable forecaster in his (or her) position would do... throw a deposed track-and-field legend under the bus. Citing a regular-season [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2007, 9:43pm EST

  • Vindy's Picks Week 13-2007

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    FEMA DROPS (FOOT)BALL AGAIN
    NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (ITAR-Tass)....The saga continues for the embattled Federal Emergency Management Agency. In the wake of long-standing rumors that fraudulently-spent disaster-relief dollars have paid for everything from imported Barbie dolls from China to 50-yard-line Super Bowl tickets, FEMA is once again under fire for backing [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2007, 12:27am EST

  • Vindy's Picks Week 12-2007

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    PROGNOSTICATOR’S PLANTS DRAW DEM FIRE
    DES MOINES, Iowa (UPI)....The Vegas Vindicator took a little heat from John Edwards this week over fielding preset questions about his picks from "plants" among the audience while attending preliminary gatherings in preparation for January’s Democratic caucus. The embarrassed oracle came clean and fessed up [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2007, 11:11pm EST

  • Vindy's Picks Week 11-2007

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    ESPN, LATE NIGHT TURN TO FORECASTER
    NEW YORK, New York (BBC)....With Writers Guild members leaving their respective buildings to strike this week, nightly talk shows such as Leno and Conan, as well as the "world-wide leader" ESPN, have made pitches to the Vegas Vindicator to provide material for monologues and [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2007, 10:30pm EST

  • Vindy's Picks Week 10-2007

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    2007 COLLEGE SEASON JUST BIG HOAX
    LAS VEGAS, Nevada (REUTERS)....For a few fleeting, glorious moments this year, there was hope...hope of good things on the field in Tampa, Florida; Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts; Lawrence, Kansas and even in Durham, North Carolina. But on the brink of All Hallow’s Eve, the 2007 [...]
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    Posted: October 31, 2007, 11:42pm EDT

  • Vindy's Picks Week 9-2007

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    AIRMEN CANNED OVER PICKS MISHAP
    WASHINGTON, District of Columbia (UPI)....The U. S. Air Force gave the boot to seventy servicemen and servicewomen this past weekend in the wake of a recent, highly-publicized mishandling of Vindy’s Picks. Several weeks worth of the Weber Kid’s live forecasts were flown the width [...]
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    Posted: October 24, 2007, 9:50pm EDT

  • Vindy's Picks Week 8-2007

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    PRESSURE MOUNTS TO END PICKS
    INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana (BBC)....The Vegas Vindicator launched into rhetoric about "acts of aggression by the NCAA" this week after getting diplomatic heat from the governing body of college sports to "cease and desist" on production of his weekly forecast. A defiant Weber Kid said he wouldn’t [...]
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    Posted: October 17, 2007, 10:47pm EDT

  • Vindy's Picks Week 7-2007

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    BOOSTERS HORN IN ON NOBEL SECRETS
    COLLEGE STATION, Texas (CNN)....Discovery of secret e-mails this week from an unidentified source in Stockholm, Sweden revealed that local Texas A&M boosters were not only paying to get the first look at previously-unreleased injury information each week for the hometown Aggies football team from [...]
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    Posted: October 10, 2007, 9:47pm EDT

  • Vindy's Picks Week 6-2007

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    REVISED CITIZENSHIP TEST INCLUDES FOOTBALL
    WASHINGTON, District of Columbia (Reuters)....Want to be part of "We, the People...", then "know the pigskin" say administrators of the latest U.S. citizenship exam. Under fire for test questions that are reportedly "too easy" or "irrelevant", the Department of Homeland Security altered the exam [...]
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    Posted: October 03, 2007, 9:45pm EDT

  • Vindy's Picks Week 5-2007

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    RUSSIANS UNCONTESTED OVER INDY AIRSPACE
    QUANTICO, Virginia (AP)....Military officials here anxiously watched their radar screens as sorties from the former Soviet Union flew unescorted in the skies over Notre Dame during training exercises this past week. The Russians have fired up their air force lately in an effort to resurrect [...]
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    Posted: September 26, 2007, 10:34pm EDT

  • Vindy's Picks Week 4-2007

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    TEAMS BONING UP ON ANTI-SPY METHODS
    FT. HUACHUCA, Arizona (CNN)...Teams, both pro and college, are lining up to schedule training here at the U.S. Army’s military intelligence school in the wake of the NFL’s latest scandal involving spying on the opposition. An anonymous "spook" talking from behind a curtain and [...]
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    Posted: September 19, 2007, 10:17pm EDT

  • Vindy's Picks Week 3-2007

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    NASA BACK IN REPAIR BIZ?
    HOUSTON, Texas (ITAR-Tass)...The Vegas Vindicator was in town this week at the Johnson Space Center to talk with NASA engineers about options for repairing a sizable gouge in his Week Two forecast. Scientists suspect the damage was first done during launch of Vindy’s Picks on [...]
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    Posted: September 12, 2007, 9:48pm EDT

  • Vindy's Picks Week 2-2007

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    RETURN TO SENDER
    Pro Team-Wear Flops On Dark Continent
    SIERRA LEONE, Africa (BBC)....An annual act of kindness blew up in the collective face of the NFL recently when it received an unexpectedly returned shipment of preseason shirts and caps bearing the emblems of the Oakland Raiders and Detroit Lions following [...]
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    Posted: September 05, 2007, 9:16pm EDT

  • Vindy's Picks Week 1-2007

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    NCAA ADOPTS NASA RULE
    INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana (REUTERS)...Inebriated astronauts at lift-off?! Yep. NASA thought common sense would apply to pre-flight substance consumption, then had to explicitly bring that concept to the forefront. Why then couldn’t there feasibly be coked-up coordinators, looped linebackers or soused safeties come game time? The NCAA has [...]
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    Posted: August 28, 2007, 11:44pm EDT

  • Third Year Coaches for 2007

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    Professional handicapper Phil Steele has often extolled the value of having a coach in his third year with a team as a positive. Among the rationale offered is that players have had a couple of seasons to play within the new coach’s system and the coach has more of his [...]
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    Posted: August 26, 2007, 6:18pm EDT

  • Comparison of 2007-08 Preseason Bowl Projections

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    A COMPARISON OF PRESEASON PROJECTED 2007-08 BOWL MATCH-UPS
    Vindy offers a comparison of projected bowl selections from a multitude of sites/forecasters, including our humble host Vegas Vindicator, College Football News, Phil Steele, CBS Sportsline, College Sports Television, a couple of writers from ESPN (Ivan Maisel and Paul Schlabach) and [...]
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    Posted: August 18, 2007, 9:06pm EDT

  • Preseason Projected 2007-08 Bowl Match-Ups

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    Yeah, yeah...we’ve read all the blog comments about the absurdity of forecasting bowl match-ups out this far. Let’s face it..."expert" projections are made based on number of returning starters, coaching turnovers, expected decline/improvement of teams based on experience or lack thereof, players coming back from prior season injuries, increase/decrease in [...]
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    Posted: August 13, 2007, 7:32pm EDT

  • Vindy's '06-'07 Bowl Recap

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    MAG NAMES ENTIRE DIVISION NATIONAL CHAMPS; EAGLES, CROCS BRING VIN CAREER POST-SEASON BEST
    Thousands Garner Coveted Hardware; Vindy Snags 19 Bowl Wins
    NEW YORK, New York (CNN)...BCS, Schmee-C-S....It didn’t take long for Time Magazine to apply the same logic to collegiate pigskin that it did to its annual "Person [...]
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    Posted: January 10, 2007, 11:21pm EST

  • Vindy's 2006-2007 Bowl Picks

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    SAPP ALLEGES INTENTIONAL FOOD POISONING
    Lineman Reports Illicit Attempts to Keep Him Sidelined
    OAKLAND, California (Reuters)...Raiders defensive tackle Warren Sapp told media he doesn’t eat out anymore when playing games away from home, citing deliberate efforts to keep him out of games by tampering with his meals. Sapp pointed [...]
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    Posted: December 15, 2006, 9:36pm EST

  • Vindy's Picks 2006 Conference Championships

    GIBSON ARRESTED AGAIN, REMARKS INSULT COLLEGE PIGSKIN VOTERS

    MALIBU, California (AP)...Mad Max was at it again following an alcohol-fueled Thanksgiving dinner that saw the actor-producer shouting obscenities at a TV during the Boston College-Miami game and led to a second arrest for DUI. Mel Gibson became verbally aggressive with [...]
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    Posted: November 29, 2006, 9:51pm EST

  • Vindy's Picks Week 13-2006


    TEAM TIMEPIECE TOPS FIRST LADY’S WISH LIST
    LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (UPI)... Friends close to Janet Huckabee, wife of the outbound Republican state governor, revealed to reporters that she wants the highly-coveted Razorbacks wall-clock that sounds the soooooeeeey-pig call on the hour as part of a "housewarming" gift upon moving [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2006, 3:25pm EST

  • Vindy's Picks Week 12-2006

    FORECASTERS FIGURE WAXED AT MUSEUM

    LAS VEGAS, Nevada (CNN)...A wax figure of Sin Citys own college football forecaster, the Vegas Vindicator, was attacked and damaged by an unidentified patron at Madame Tussauds Wax Museum yesterday. Video cameras captured the surprising assault on the figure and show the man charging [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2006, 12:02am EST

  • Vindy's Picks Week 11-2006


    FOUL MOUTH SENDS LEPRECHAUNS COACH INTO "ORBIT"
    SOUTH BEND, Indiana (BBC)...A recently-aired "60 Minutes" interview that included reference to the vocabulary of Charlie Weis during profanity-laden sideline tirades has landed the Frightenin Irish coach a spot in a 30-second ad for Orbit gum. The coachs language has not only [...]
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    Posted: November 08, 2006, 10:02pm EST

  • Vindy's Picks Week 10-2006


    COACHES TRADING "ELMO" FOR VOTES
    NEW YORK, New York (Reuters)..."Sold out" signs confront average consumers across the nation as coaches, from Berkeley to Boston and Ann Arbor to Austin, vying desperately to get their teams to the big money bowls have raided toy stores and bought up dozens of [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2006, 10:56pm EST

  • Vindy's Picks Week 10-2006 Wednesday Nighter

    WED. NOV. 1
    Fresno State over #14 BOISE STATE taking 26 1/2: Broncos are 3-1 ATS in their last 4 and have revenge factor for 05 27-7 loss to the Bulldogs. Dont know what happened this season to "anybody, anywhere, anytime", but theyre lookin more like Team "Henny Youngman". If [...]
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    Posted: October 31, 2006, 11:17pm EST

  • Vindy's Picks Week 9-2006

    DUCKS INSPIRE WAL-MART TO LOSE THE "BLUES"
    EUGENE, Oregon (MSNBC)...Discount retail giant Wal-Mart announced this week it was putting its traditional blue vests in mothballs and its employees will now be sporting any of a number of combinations of green polo shirts and khaki pants. Consulting the local university sports [...]
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    Posted: October 26, 2006, 12:22am EDT

  • Vindy's Picks Week 8-2006


    COLLEGE PIGSKIN GETS TEACHER TOSSED
    FRISCO, Texas (ITAR-Tass)...A fifth-grade teacher was benched for the rest of the academic year here by the local school district recently over a art museum field trip gone awry. Sydney McGee got the boot because her students were exposed to nude portraits while visiting [...]
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    Posted: October 18, 2006, 10:06pm EDT

  • Vindy's Picks Week 7-2006


    SCANDALS IMPACT RANKINGS
    Buckeyes, Gators Title Game Hopes in Deep Kimchee
    GAINESVILLE, Florida (UPI)...Recently-revealed political indiscretions seem to have bled over into the world of college football. A poll conducted this week by AP-Ipsos indicates BCS voters are allowing party issues to affect their ballots for the NCAA Top [...]
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    Posted: October 11, 2006, 10:42pm EDT

  • Vindy's Picks Week 6-2006

    In light of looming mid-term elections and being creatively uninspired by recent news events, Vindicator elects to reach into the archives to reprint one of his favorite lead stories from the 2003 season......

    PIGSKIN PART OF ARNOLDS 100-DAY PLAN
    SACRAMENTO, California (CNN)...With the final tallies in and his transition [...]
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    Posted: October 04, 2006, 10:35pm EDT

  • Vindy's Picks Week 5-2006


    GOODMAN TAGGING PUNISHMENT PLAN BACKFIRES
    LAS VEGAS, Nevada (MSNBC)...No longer threatening to lop off thumbs, Sin City mayor Oscar Goodman went from mob to medieval this summer, implementing a face-painting penalty for people caught "tagging" in Las Vegas. Under the new plan, taggers are placed in public stockades and [...]
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    Posted: September 27, 2006, 8:58pm EDT
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