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  • Let's Get This Over With

    Due to the holiday, we’ll get Prediction Thursday over with today. The New York Post puts SMU -17.5 over Tulane this morning. Last year, Tulane was an 18.5 point fave (Tulane did not cover, but did win 34-27)- an astonishing 35.5 point swing you can lay at the door of [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 7:00am EST
    by Frank

  • BlogPoll

    Some quick thoughts on the BlogPoll:RankTeamDelta1Florida 2Alabama 3Texas 4Boise State 5TCU 6Georgia Tech 7Cincinnati 8Ohio State 2 9Oklahoma State 2 10Oregon 2 11Pittsburgh 2 12LSU 4 13Brigham Young 14Iowa 15Penn State 16Houston 5 17Utah 1 18Clemson 19Miami (Florida) 1 20Southern Cal 2 21Oregon State 4 22Virginia Tech 23Temple 24Navy 25Central [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 6:16pm EST
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  • Disgrace

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    This is embarrassing- this display in Florida. I’ve never been ashamed of Tulane- but this effort today... it is hard not to be furious.I remember those Toledo-nauts belittling the doubters- “Coach Toledo is teaching Tulane how to win”. Remember that ‘nauts!? Well, he sure as heck taught them to quit. [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 4:35pm EST
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  • Bring On LaSalle

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    Moving to Tulane basketball, that was a nice winning effort versus the Penn State Nittany Lions yesterday. In hindsight, the openers versus Georgetown and Miami helped. Tulane looked ready for the size they saw- looked a little more "developmentally ahead" than they normally do this early in the season.My father [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 5:22am EST
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  • A Second Game Versus Knights

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    Well, the Rice Owls stung Frank Helps You Think It All Out- using a semi-garbage time score to cost us our backdoor cover. This drops the blog to 7-3 ATS (straight up versus McNeese State)- and I’ll look to get the game back looking at Tulane +22 over UCF.UCF? I [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 10:51am EST
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  • Rice Is Now 1-9

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    The less written directly about Tulane's brutal 28-20 loss to Rice the better.Still, the Green Wave must move on. It always a fine line about when you start looking toward next year- particularly with the allocation of playing time. In college football, you owe your seniors every shot to get [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 8:07pm EST
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  • Andre Anderson

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    In my Prediction Thursday post I called out Andre Anderson a little- and last year's breakout Green Wave player is definitely struggling this year.Folks on another site have pointed out the indifferent offensive line and quarterback play as an excuse- but I am not sold. I’m agnostic as to whether [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 5:16pm EST
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  • Owl Bet

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    The New York Post delivers the Green Wave as an underdog- getting three points in this tilt with winless Rice. A brisk slap in the face of the joy of Tulane’s surprise upset win over pretty okay UTEP.The 0-9 mark that Rice sports is not deceptive- they’re pretty bad, in [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 9:13am EST
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  • Tulane Plays Best Game of Season

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    One of my favorite bloggers is Dr. Saturday. Today, his blog devolved a series of light chastisements (perhaps like a father) to a series of other blogs wrestling with their teams machinations within the BCS. As I read the gentle corrections, I was struck how utterly ungrateful they all are. [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 6:36pm EST
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  • Let's All Try For A Degree Of Relevance

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    The New York Post puts the UTEP -7 over Tulane- so for the first time since Marshall, the Wave figures to be in a contest it could win without shocking everyone involved.On paper, UTEP is pretty easy to figure- outside of the Houston shocker anyway. Like most okay C-USA teams [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 5:14pm EST
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  • Bleah

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    As I type, the ninth inning of the 2009 World Series is lurching to its unsatisfying conclusion on my television. Listening to Manhattan cheerily celebrate around me is a lonely feeling. 28th and Third Avenue is surely Yankee country.Here at the end, I’m satisfied the Yankees are better. Frankly, it [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 12:20am EST
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  • Sackcloth and Ashes

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    Watching A-Rod's line drive sail down the left field line last night, I was hit with a feeling of resignation so complete, so thorough, that I slept surprisingly soundly. Rather than aggressively searching for solutions to chronic club issues, the Phillies have been "satisfied". All season, the Phillies have been [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 8:15am EST
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  • Report From New York City

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    I live in Kips Bay- an area of Manhattan blessed with a fair degree of thirtysomething nightlife- exciting bars/restaurants such as McCormick’s and Coppola’s. Man, was the crowd stumbling out of such joints a little worse for wear last night. Walking around, you could almost drink the frustration. Smelled not [...]
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    Posted: October 29, 2009, 1:42pm EDT
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  • An Unsatisifying Appetizer

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    In a frankly boring exhibition, the Eagles routed the hapless Redskins last night 27-17- a thoroughly unsatisifying World Series appetizer. Yes, one can’t go too crazy on a football team after the total domination a division opponent on the road- leading by seventeen the entire second half until garbage time. [...]
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    Posted: October 27, 2009, 10:00am EDT
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  • Sort of Stopping Southern Miss

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    The New York Post takes a minute from breathlessly anticipating a Phillies-Yankees series to put up Southern Mississippi -21.5 over the Tulane Green Wave. And we are off to a great 5-1 ATS start here- bowl eligible with a win against the number this week.Naturally, the number grows bigger each [...]
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    Posted: October 23, 2009, 9:30am EDT
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  • The Pennant! Redux!

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    There is an old baseball saying that “pitching and defense win championships”. Well, the Philadelphia Phillies managed to prove that hitting an absolute ton also works too.Every time you looked up the Phillies weren’t flirting with “crooked numbers” per inning- but rather threatening to score double digits through six, seven [...]
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    Posted: October 22, 2009, 3:14pm EDT
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  • The Phillies Win The Pennant! Again!

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    The Phillies Win The Pennant! Again!Praise God- and not our strength for it. [...]
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    Posted: October 21, 2009, 10:51pm EDT
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  • The Blog Is Closed

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    Frank Helps You Think It All Out is closed- as I am off to Mexico for a few days of sun. Remain on constant vigil- the Phillies need all of us! [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2009, 11:22pm EDT
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  • Big Trouble

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    It isn’t so much the New York Post puts the surprising #23 Houston Cougars -19 over Tulane. It is just we’ve seen this movie a lot at Tulane the past two years.UTEP proved a semi-bad can play and beat these Cougars if the offense comes to play. But one absolute [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2009, 3:42pm EDT
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  • Rocktober is Over

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    I’ve seen that look before- the one covering the Rockies fans’ faces after the Philadelphia Phillies rallied for three runs in the ninth inning, ending their season. Maybe it was the 2002 NFC Championship Game versus Tampa Bay. Maybe Dale Hunter ending the 1998 Flyers season. To be alive entering [...]
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    Posted: October 13, 2009, 4:48am EDT
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  • The Sporting Life Is Worthwhile

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    Sunday was obviously one of those days that really makes me glad I give so much time and effort following professional sport. Gosh, was I ever rewarded as yesterday? Is there anything more wholesome than being parked with your youngest brother, on the third floor of the ancestral family home, [...]
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    Posted: October 12, 2009, 2:40pm EDT
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  • NLDS Woes

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    The most frustrating thing about the Phillies 5-4 loss to Colorado in Game 2 was the way every potentially suspect part of the Phillies was magnified in one shot: Howard’s throwing, Charlie’s in game managing, the bullpen.Charlie’s decision to have both suspected Game 3 starters pitch out of the bullpen [...]
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    Posted: October 09, 2009, 11:23am EDT
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  • Three Wins In A Row?

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    The dead-even Tulane Green Wave finds itself a three point home ‘dog this weekend to Marshall.And I feel almost a little panicked. Up from a potential rock bottom, the Wave is now coming off two straight emotional “had to have them” wins. They seem pretty healthy (unfortunately, so is the [...]
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    Posted: October 08, 2009, 9:09am EDT
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  • On How To Handle Prosperity

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    Well, I guess rain makes it look like football. Gumbo in the rain, along the Hudson River, is very restorative. And speaking or restoratives going down easy, the Tulane Green Wave will now face a new challenge: handling prosperity. Their 17-16 win over Army at West Point makes it two [...]
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    Posted: October 05, 2009, 1:49pm EDT
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  • Did Army Score 50 Last Year?

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    The New York Post puts Army -6.5 over Tulane for Saturday’s tilt up at West Point. Perhaps it is the ongoing glow, a sort recurrent optimism, emanating from the Phillies third straight NL East crown, but I like Tulane here on Prediction Thursday. Not an easy pick, mind you. Under [...]
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    Posted: October 01, 2009, 1:09pm EDT
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  • The East Falls!

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    The East Falls! Again! And again! Prepare the William Penn jersey.Praise God- and not our strength for it. [...]
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    Posted: October 01, 2009, 8:24am EDT
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  • A Sigh of Relief

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    If you want to, you could look down your nose and mock Tulane’s 42-32 win over I-AA McNeese State. Certainly, a huge sigh of relief swept certain quarters of New Orleans when the result when final.But, not here at Frank Helps You Think It All Out. If it would have [...]
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    Posted: September 29, 2009, 5:58am EDT
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  • The Chiefs Stink

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    Okay, the Chiefs stink. I wrote last week’s game had an exhibition feel to it, as the Eagles spent the whole second half working on things. This game felt the same way. With Kansas City down multiple scores in the second half, the Chiefs eschewed trying to win for trying [...]
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    Posted: September 28, 2009, 2:01pm EDT
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  • PRAYdiction Thursday

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    A wag over on the nola.com forums is calling this “PRAYdiction Thursday”- as a very shaky Tulane Green Wave stares a solid I-AA program in the eye. In the typical ennui that surrounds Tulane, McNeese State comes into the Louisiana Superdome as the road team, despite a real probability the [...]
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    Posted: September 24, 2009, 8:34am EDT
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  • BlogPoll: Ranking the SEC

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    Time for this week's CBS Sports BlogPoll, where I finally allow my deep seated biases shine through like a lighthouse on Christmas.Frankly, after having my poll torn apart by losses by non-cotton state powers USC and Oklahoma, I'm letting go and stocking my poll with the one League I know' [...]
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    Posted: September 23, 2009, 8:36am EDT
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  • Oh When the Saints.... Score and Score and Score

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    At least it was a nice day.It was a hypnagogic day at the Linc- a vexing vibe. On the surface, it was a tale of two halves. How many times have the Eagles gotten blown out, yet exited the field at the half to a rousing ovation? The young back-up [...]
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    Posted: September 21, 2009, 2:27am EDT
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  • Cheap Toledo Tricks

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    What to make of this:"Tulane football coach Bob Toledo kicked his team out of practice Wednesday because he was displeased with its performance.Tulane football coach Bob Toledo is doing about everything he can to get the attention of his under-performing team and its 0-2 season start. The latest -- just" [...]
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    Posted: September 17, 2009, 5:15am EDT
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  • Week 2 BlogPoll

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    Well, I am back down out of the White Mountain National Forest- just in time to cast this week's vote for the BlogPoll:RankTeamDelta1Florida 2Alabama 1 3Texas 1 4Southern Cal 5Mississippi 6Brigham Young 7Penn State 8Boise State 9Miami (Florida) 10LSU 1 11Utah 1 12California 4 13Houston 14Georgia 15Ohio State 16North Carolina [...]
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    Posted: September 14, 2009, 3:58pm EDT
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  • 2009 Eagles Preview

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    Currently, I am unavailable- camping in the mountains of New Hampshire. So, if you are reading this, I have properly utilized the scheduling option and consequently, here is my prediction for the Philadelphia Eagles!I was watching ESPN last weekend- where they had a series of talking heads come on and [...]
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    Posted: September 08, 2009, 5:06pm EDT
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  • Needs Improvement

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    Well, I don’t exactly know what to make of that 37-13 loss versus Tulsa- other than curious, forced throw by Banks got me my cover. Tulane never was in the game (bad)- but had some chances to get into said game (good)- but never did (bad). But the Wave was [...]
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    Posted: September 05, 2009, 5:39am EDT
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  • Brace Youself For A Golden Hurricane

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    Time to kick-off the seventh year of Prediction Thursday! ATS record: 42-20 (plus one push and one scratch). For our first Prediction Thursday of the year, the New York Post puts our Green Wave +13.5 over Tulsa- suggesting an improved Wave! I’m sympathetic to that. Like just about everyone, I [...]
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    Posted: September 03, 2009, 11:13am EDT
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  • The Great White Whale

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    Coach Rich Rodriguez will always be the great white whale to a generation of Tulane fans- sitting in the lobby in his green blazer, unaware that his then dream job was being handed to Chris Scelfo. This wiki entry will let you know how that turned out.But as the Free [...]
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    Posted: September 01, 2009, 1:00am EDT
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  • Get A Bat

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    I must admit I don’t really understand the current rankings of Phillies’ concerns. The closer is a problem- but:1. The Phillies have internal options- some of which are better than the external, need to get through waiver options: Ryan Madson, Brett Myers, playing the hot hand in committee: Chan Ho [...]
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    Posted: August 31, 2009, 12:43am EDT
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  • Closing In On Mediocrity

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    I spent a good deal of the off-season cautiously optimistic about Tulane’s potential for on-field improvement. Obviously, for me, the ship has sort of sailed on Coach Toledo. But if I used to bleat that Scelfo proved, prior to Katrina and the review, that an average coach doing an average [...]
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    Posted: August 27, 2009, 11:41am EDT
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  • Lidge Must Keep Closing

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    Not since the days of Randy “Boom Boom” Lerch have Philadelphia Phillies’ fans been forced to endure a sustained look at a pitcher so obviously failing as the erstwhile closer Brad Lidge.Lidge has been terrible from the get go, terrible consistently, terrible month to month- almost Jimmy Rollins’ terrible.But I’m [...]
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    Posted: August 26, 2009, 1:32pm EDT
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  • Goin' To Bristol

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    Folks, Frank Helps You Think It All Out is going on vacation for a bit. It is time for my annual trek to Bristol Motor Speedway for the Food City 500 and to see Miss Food City, Lindsey Blevins , in person.Next week I’ll be back with the 2009 Tulane [...]
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    Posted: August 20, 2009, 1:40pm EDT
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  • I Vote Florida

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    The BlogPoll is back. Frank Helps You Think It All Out proudly represents Tulane in CBS Sports College Football Poll. The poll is NOT out yet- but ballots are due and below is my submission:RankTeam1Florida 2Texas 3Alabama 4Southern Cal 5Mississippi 6Penn State 7Oklahoma 8Boise State 9LSU 10Georgia 11Utah 12Miami (Florida) [...]
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    Posted: August 18, 2009, 1:59pm EDT
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  • Attention Philadelphia: Hide All Dogs

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    Thursday, I was at the Linc as news of the Eagles’ signing of Michael Vick began to percolate through the building. I have always been struck at how fast news and the resultant organized response flies around the ring concourse. At halftime, bands of fans were loitering on the concourse [...]
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    Posted: August 15, 2009, 4:50am EDT
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  • Only Two Touchdowns?

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    Most of the official lines for the first week of college football came out yesterday. I must admit I was more than a little surprised to find Tulsa a mere -14 over Tulane in New Orleans.Last year the Golden Hurricane smoked the Wave- handily covering a -28.5. Tulsa got and [...]
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    Posted: August 11, 2009, 2:34pm EDT
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  • Makin' Sure The Lifeboats Are Ready

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    In professional baseball, the beauty of a seven game lead in August is that the calendar very quickly begins to work in your favor. With a seven game lead, a .500 mark over 50 games equates to a 33-17 mark to catch you- a winning percentage that currently no one [...]
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    Posted: August 10, 2009, 10:02am EDT
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  • Save Jamie Moyer Part 2

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    First and foremost, I would not fret too much over the Phillies seemingly surplus rotation options. Yes, trying to sort between Happ, Moyer and Pedro for the two back end spots is currently trying. Yet, we also collectively agonized over how to get Happ into the rotation back in April [...]
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    Posted: August 06, 2009, 1:23am EDT
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  • We Need More People To Tackle

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    Leaks from the Philadelphia Eagles were brutal yesterday- with all signs pointing to the fact that MLB Stewart Bradley is out for the season with a torn ACL.The Eagles’ turnaround last year in the final third of the season from disheartening .500 mob to in the mix NFL contender was [...]
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    Posted: August 04, 2009, 3:07am EDT
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  • I Love A Parade

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    This site- which links to the City of Philadelphia’s application for a parade permit- might be very useful very soon!Certainly, Bill Conlin seems pleased in the PDN: I don't know if there is an all-points bulletin out for Ruben Amaro in Ohio, but there should be. Grand Theft. Really grand.Everyone' [...]
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    Posted: July 30, 2009, 5:51am EDT
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  • Scheduling Woes

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    Along with other outlets, WDSU is reporting that the 2010 home game between Tulane and LSU will be replaced with North Carolina playing LSU in Atlanta.It might be much ado about nothing- but many Tulane people are agog. Frankly, a year is an eternity in football terms. LSU has three [...]
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    Posted: July 25, 2009, 6:58am EDT
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  • Dealing With Underachievement

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    I am not a fan of Marty Biron. I’m not exactly a detractor either; Marty is a journeyman player. He isn’t bad. Marty is simply average- and that is not a guy you can build a serious Stanley Cup run around. So the news is not exactly surprising: Biron, who [...]
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    Posted: July 23, 2009, 3:03am EDT
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  • Get A Job

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    JP got a job!They're being snarky. JP Losman was always a hard guy to embrace- but he played at Tulane with verve. Plus, he wore the jersey, won some big games (Hawai'i Bowl!). I think this move is the best of limited moves available to him. If JP is ever [...]
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    Posted: July 22, 2009, 12:34pm EDT
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  • Vote For Pedro

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    The Philadelphia press reaction to the Phillies’ signing of Pedro Martinez has been muted. Not here at Frank Helps You Think It All Out- the vote here is a resounding “yes”.Sam Donnellon argument is probably best summed up here: "I want to get between the white lines and see what" [...]
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    Posted: July 16, 2009, 9:16am EDT
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  • Awarding Grades

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    One thing I’ve always loved about the All-Star break is when local newspapers give mid-season letter “grades” to the players. Mind you, I’ve never been into grades- a checkered academic career has been my oeuvre (starting with a well deserved "D" in high school physics). But I think I could [...]
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    Posted: July 13, 2009, 9:41am EDT
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  • Back To The Soft NL East

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    Here at Frank Helps You Think It All Out, I did a pretty good job holding it together this past month. Yes, the Phillies certainly played a quality of baseball that was hard to internalize. Near the beginning of June, pointing out the Phillies suspect rotation, their .500-ish record ex-Nats [...]
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    Posted: July 07, 2009, 11:58am EDT
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  • Get Rollins Out Of There

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    David Murphy makes me a little nuts in today’s PDN: It was difficult not to look at the box score and see the top of the Phillies' lineup, particularly the very top, where Jimmy Rollins ended a four-game benching with an 0-for-5 night that included two strikeouts, two groundouts and' [...]
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    Posted: July 01, 2009, 9:30am EDT
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  • Consensus

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    I always find this site sort of fun- a compilation of the major preview guides in one place. A lot of love for Ole Miss. Tulane about what is expected. What is the real difference between fourth and sixth in C-USA West anyway? A road win over UAB?I sort of [...]
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    Posted: June 30, 2009, 10:49am EDT
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  • A Modest Proposal for $10 Million

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    I honestly do not know what to make of this: Eyewitness Sports has learned that UNO athletics could be saved and those of Tulane and LSU enhanced after the estate of a solitary, somewhat eccentric, sports-loving oil man is settled.Logan Wickliffe Cary, Jr., known primarily as "Wick" has left an [...]
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    Posted: June 26, 2009, 10:24am EDT
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  • Tulane Has Some Work to Do

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    I follow the Philadelphia Phillies closely, but I don’t know much about college baseball. But I kinda keep in touch with the Wave- and I have watched a lot of the CWS this year- including all of the entertaining, albeit not exactly crisp, LSU-Texas game last night (Phillies were off).But [...]
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    Posted: June 23, 2009, 8:56am EDT
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  • Streets of Tehran

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    It is hard to say what is worse or more confusing right now: the Phillies bullpen or the streets of Tehran. Like Iran, the situation has spiraled absolutely out of control this week- and tonight’s Ryan Madson horror is front and center in the Philadelphia angst machine.The Phillies have taken [...]
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    Posted: June 21, 2009, 12:30am EDT
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  • Fifth Best in American League East

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    Yesterday, I was at the Phillies game- and thus had a first hand look at this ongoing wreck of a homestand. The Phillies 1-5 mark this week is only salved by the Mets corresponding lackluster 2-4. The Phillies sharp 7-3 road trip has been largely erased (they are still up [...]
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    Posted: June 19, 2009, 9:13am EDT
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  • Who Pitches Game 2?

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    A three game series is a small microcosm of the full 162 game season- so normally one must be guarded, unwilling to pull out lessons based on a single weekend of games. Sure, those games were versus the Red Sox, and as Philadelphia and Boston are a not altogether crazy [...]
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    Posted: June 15, 2009, 7:24am EDT
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  • Great Trip

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    First and foremost, the Phillies had a great trip- which coupled with the Met’s struggles last week and subsequent head-to-head Phillies series win- extends the Phillies lead from one to four games. On a trip featuring a swing out west to play the best team in baseball and then your [...]
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    Posted: June 12, 2009, 8:27am EDT
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  • Death By Situational Left-Handers

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    Last night featured a disappointing loss for the Phillies. They hit four dingers off the Mets’ ace Johan Santana, got a free run and a big out from the home plate umpire, then turn a lead over to the ‘pen- and lose. Just brutal. Tonight is not a must win [...]
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    Posted: June 10, 2009, 8:06am EDT

  • Marooned on Ceti Alpha Five

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    You are not going to get me to complain, right? I thought the Phillies would do well to play .500 on this trip to San Diego, Los Angeles and New York. The Mets portion is still to come- but the Phillies did a nice job through the west coast portion. [...]
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    Posted: June 07, 2009, 11:51pm EDT

  • Now what?

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    Well, how about a round of applause for the Philadelphia Phillies? Riding their outstanding core group of players and an MVP season from the big off-season pick-up, the defending world champions boast the second fewest losses in baseball. Only Los Angeles has got them beat in the loss column. Project [...]
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    Posted: June 01, 2009, 11:30am EDT
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  • Come Back Shooter

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    I don’t know too much about college baseball- so forgive me if I decline to opine on the merits of the inclusion of Tulane versus Baylor in the NCAA Tournament.But I do know something about the nature and purpose of Division I sports. And Tulane’s failure to make this tournament [...]
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    Posted: May 26, 2009, 2:02pm EDT

  • Vacation

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    Frank Helps You Think It All Out is going on vacation- off to Hilton Head for a week. Thus, this blog will be closed through Memorial Day when we will begin wailing on the Phillies in earnest.Being Memorial Day, we will take a quick moment to throw out this story [...]
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    Posted: May 16, 2009, 1:03am EDT

  • Figuring Out Girls

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    Sad Note: After I posted today's post, I heard the sad news that Joe Kennedy died suddenly in his sleep. He was just 25 years old.Joe helped run "The Wave Report"- a good site devoted to Tulane athletics. I enjoyed his work- and Tulane will miss him.---------------------------------------------------------------Frank Helps You Think [...]
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    Posted: May 15, 2009, 10:33am EDT

  • Save Jamie Moyer

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    Frank Helps You Think It All Out is an unapologetic Jamie Moyer fan. Watching the old man get cuffed around recently is painful. He has been plenty bad.The cries for Jamie to be replaced are certain to grow. Part and parcel of this is the Phillies have a replacement on [...]
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    Posted: May 14, 2009, 10:42am EDT

  • Danny Ozark

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    If you were to list most underappreciated Philadelphia sports figure, Danny Ozark would have to be at the top of the list. Ozark passed away yesterday- yet another Phillies icon that managed to hang on long enough to see the Phillies grasp the brass ring.I was thinking about that as [...]
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    Posted: May 08, 2009, 5:38am EDT

  • Tyson

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    Last night I wandered down to Union Square to see the new documentary “Tyson”. Perhaps it was the light rain or the growing darkness, but my mood was perfect for a dark biographical piece- and I recommend it.For those of us who were college students twenty years or so ago, [...]
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    Posted: May 06, 2009, 1:59pm EDT

  • Desert Party

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    Real Clear Sports celebrates thoroughbred racing greatest day- the Kentucky Derby- with a series of trashy attacks and barely disguised contempt for the modern landed gentry. Rhoden can barely hide his contempt for us owners of CHDN (chart here). However, since I aspire mightily to be landed gentry, you’ll find [...]
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    Posted: May 01, 2009, 10:12am EDT

  • David Poole Knew Talladega

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    After a crazy week at Talladega, perhaps we will will extra miss a man who could have helped us sort it all out. Charlotte Observer columnist David Poole, cited on this blog and one of my favorites, passed on. Lars Anderson of Sports Illustrated writes: The news hit Jimmie Johnson [...]
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    Posted: April 29, 2009, 1:17am EDT
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  • Somewhat More Sanguine

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    My how the accolades roll in!NFL report card by Paul DomowitchEagles: Swung two separate trades that got them a Pro Bowl left tackle (Jason Peters) and a 4-year starting cornerback (Ellis Hobbs). Got one of the draft's top two wide receivers (Jeremy Maclin) in the first round and some much-needed [...]
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    Posted: April 27, 2009, 6:55am EDT
    by Frank

  • Wrong or Stupid?

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    Well, like clockwork, within one measely day of my categorical statement the Flyers cannot steal a road game with this defense and goaltender, they promptly go into Pittsburgh and shut out the Penguins.Sure, it would be churlish to point out this is Biron’s first play-off shut-out in twenty starts (a [...]
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    Posted: April 24, 2009, 12:08am EDT
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  • Where Are You Luca Sbisa?

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    Frankly, I wasn’t at all optimistic about the Flyers in their series with the Penguins- picking them to be excused in five. I got a lot of chances to watch them this weekend at the sports book in the Bellgio. They’ve actually played better than I thought- only the first [...]
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    Posted: April 22, 2009, 2:54pm EDT

  • Byron Parker Gets To Stay In A Fetching Green

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    I was knocked over to see the Philadelphia Eagles added a member of the Tulane Green Wave to their roster: safety Byron Parker.Even with the Eagles obvious need at safety, this is a real stunner. This guy left Tulane 2003 where he was first and foremost basketball player. He was [...]
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    Posted: April 15, 2009, 1:34am EDT

  • Rest Easy Harry

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    You were the best. Godspeed. [...]
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    Posted: April 13, 2009, 2:27pm EDT

  • Promptly Excused In Five

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    After the Flyers’ dropped a depressing game to end their regular season on the most blah note possible, I browsed through this post from last year and was struck how the Flyers really failed to address any of their deficiencies from last year. They are still a very good offense, [...]
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    Posted: April 13, 2009, 10:37am EDT

  • We Are Amused

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    Thomas Boswell raises the roof today in the Washington Post. The Washington Nationals team president did a very public kowtow to the fans of Philadelphia- and Boswell characterized it as such: Here's what you can't say if you're the president of a Washington pro sports franchise: Please, pretty please, Philadelphia [...]
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    Posted: April 09, 2009, 1:40am EDT

  • Someone Has To Be Kevin Gross

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    Do you ever get the feeling that Brett Myers is the Kevin Gross of this generation?Like Gross, Myers has a plethora of major league pitches- but somehow the sum is less than the whole. Consequently, he is sort of sentenced to kick around .500- with some upside as an innings [...]
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    Posted: April 06, 2009, 7:51am EDT
    by Frank

  • Tulane 8, LSU 7

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    More than a little ornery juice flowing from the Tulane community this morning- as the Tulane Green Wave began an attempt to right their season by defeating #2 LSU last night by an 8-7 mark.Look, it never gets boring to take the Tigers down a peg- particularly when you get [...]
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    Posted: April 02, 2009, 1:00pm EDT

  • Alysheba

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    Frank Helps You Think It All Out cherishes its champions of the racetrack. Thus, we would be remiss not to note the passing of Alysheba- winner of the 1987 Kentucky Derby and Preakness. Alysheba was 25.As the two big wins above attest, Alysheba was obviously talented as a three old. [...]
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    Posted: April 01, 2009, 4:49pm EDT

  • The Title Defense Commences

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    At the conclusion of the 2008 baseball campaign, I don’t think there was a serious case to be made that the Phillies were a fluke. They breezed through the play-offs with a team designed for post-season success in the bullpen era. Said ‘pen was lights-out. The top post-season starting pitcher, [...]
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    Posted: March 30, 2009, 2:12am EDT

  • Nagging Doubts

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    I’ve spent a good portion of the last two days watching the Flyers complete an impressive sweep: at Pittsburgh, home for the Devils. That being said, I’m up in the air about just how good this team is, how ready it is to make a play-off run.The mystery stems from [...]
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    Posted: March 24, 2009, 11:39am EDT

  • Being Thwarted

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    I am a Philadelphia sports fan. I follow all four of the major pro-sports.A piece of news recently jarred me to think which athlete in an opposing uniform I wish had spent a decade in Philadelphia rather than killing us night after night.Almost by definition that player has to be [...]
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    Posted: March 19, 2009, 11:42am EDT

  • Looking at Loyola of New Orleans

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    In his column today, Kevin Blackstone takes on the NCAA Tournament “bias” toward major BCS conferences. That's because the NCAA tournament selection process is increasingly biased nowadays. It favors the haves and discriminates against the have-littles. It is turning the college basketball championship into just another weekend of games on [...]
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    Posted: March 17, 2009, 1:09pm EDT

  • The Blind Side

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    In The Blind Side, Michael Lewis sorts through the numbers to inform us that left tackle is probably the second most important position in the NFL offense- at least as measured by pay check, and to the extent pay measures simple capacity and not scarcity.This probably explains why the Eagles- [...]
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    Posted: March 11, 2009, 12:19pm EDT

  • Bring Back TO!

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    I find myself- probably the only person in America- agreeing with Kirk Bohls today. I’ve always had a soft spot for Terrell Owens- and if you have a strong locker room culture, and your quarterback is not emotionally needy, I would not hesitate to bring him in.He plays hurt. He [...]
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    Posted: March 06, 2009, 12:21pm EST

  • Brain Dawkins

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    Les Bowen labels those of us who have little problem- from a football standpoint- waving good-bye to Brain Dawkins as “front office apologists” and then throws in a cheap taunt:But never fear. I'm sure that even as you read this, the Eagles are assembling polling data that show I am' [...]
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    Posted: March 02, 2009, 11:54am EST

  • A Tepid Endorsement of the Status Quo

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    If one can believe the papers, the Tulane Green Wave basketball team played its best game this year and crushed Southern Mississippi far away from the Mardi Gras.It is clear that Tulane is going to take a hard look at this program in the off-season. The product isn’t good or [...]
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    Posted: February 25, 2009, 9:13am EST

  • Stop Crashing Into Each Other

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    The reigning Miss Food City is Lindsey Blevins. And even her kindly heart would be down on Dale Jr after the Daytona 500- joining the rest of the national racing press.Junior had a very bad day. But he isn’t a “dirty” driver. He made a bad mistake at a track [...]
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    Posted: February 20, 2009, 1:49pm EST

  • Don't Rain On My Parade

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    Let’s face it, the Daytona 500 was sleep inducing. All the worst parts of NASCAR’s modern era were on display.There were way too many cautions- including for debris and for “competition reasons”. Frankly, if NASCAR is worried about some competition issue- code for “tires”- have Morgan Sheppard go out and [...]
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    Posted: February 18, 2009, 10:38am EST

  • Spicy

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    I love Tony and I love NASCAR. Let's go racing! [...]
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    Posted: February 13, 2009, 10:01am EST

  • The Running of the Urinals

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    Frank Helps You Think It All Out loves horse racing- and that includes the Preakness Stakes in Baltimore.The Preakness is the only race of the Triple Crown I have not seen. And alas, it appears too late to see the “true” festival- as the Maryland Jockey Club will now ban [...]
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    Posted: February 11, 2009, 11:48am EST

  • Snowflake!

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    I found this on Shutdown Corner- some photos of team mascots from the 1995 Pro Bowl- including Blitz the Eagle. It made me laugh- particularly the Dolphin. [...]
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    Posted: February 09, 2009, 3:11pm EST

  • Welcome to Tulane

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    Today is National Letter of Intent day! A day where young men around the country- quick-of-foot, with marvelous size, and capable of a violent mentality for three hours- commit to play football in the nation’s spectator palaces.For the most part. The next group, the not-so-quick, the bulky rather than massive... [...]
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    Posted: February 04, 2009, 9:49am EST

  • Enigmatic Professionalism and Consistency

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    Perhaps the Eagles are prone to overanalysis. So first pricipals: for the umpteenth year in a row, they’ve ridden the enigmatic professionalism and consistency that permeates the organization to a nice finish. The same existing powers for the last decade will now commence an off-season of the same enigmatic professionalism [...]
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    Posted: February 03, 2009, 11:33am EST

  • Rice Owl Ejected

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    Our Tulane Green Wave played… well, I dunno… an interesting game with Rice Wednesday night? The Wave promptly fell down by 19 to an awful Rice outfit, the Rice Owl mascot was ejected for headbutting the referee, Rice doesn’t make a shot for the last ten minutes, Tulane doesn’t make [...]
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    Posted: January 30, 2009, 9:34am EST

  • Things That Go Boom!

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    With football season drawing to close- and baseball and NASCAR yet to get up and running- one struggles to find material for Frank Helps You Think It All Out.So I am presenting a hand grenade video! It is perhaps not work safe due to soldier language. While funny on many [...]
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    Posted: January 27, 2009, 10:34am EST
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