Scoreboard, brought to you by Hugh Grant and Divine Brown

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O’NEALS

  1. L. Ron’s Diabetics 97
  2. Young, Old, and Restless 93
  3. We Got Nothin’ 90
  4. Smiley’s People 69
  5. Swampass 66

BARDS

  1. Sofa Kingdom 114
  2. Big Brownouts 108
  3. Narcotyzing Dysfunktion 97
  4. Hurtin Bombs 92
  5. Bea Arthur’s Alabama Hot Pocket 9

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LOCUST RENDEZVOUS

  1. But My Mom Says I’m Cool…and Lambda 107
  2. Jams 106
  3. Trust Us We Know 101
  4. 1022 84
  5. Corn Speckled Mud Snakes 76

BLACK SHEEP

  1. In Pursuit of Ale 106
  2. Duane’s World 105
  3. Duffy’s Weapons of Ass Destruction 98
  4. ADHD 92
  5. 30 Year Old Virgin 89

GOOD DOG

  1. Obviously You’re Not a Golfer 95 (won in OT)
  2. Penn 15 Club 95
  3. Poppin the Quizzo Cherry 77
  4. In the Way 74
  5. Obamas Baby Mamas 69

BARDS

  1. Hurtin Bombs 108
  2. I lIke Birds 87
  3. Suck It Trebeck 85
  4. Rick Santorum 82
  5. Deez Nuts 75

Week in Review

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First of all, like whoa, where did everyone come from? One week after I actually had to cancel a quizzo, I bet we had the most players we’ve had in 6 months. Just about every quizzo was packed to capacity, and we actually had to turn people away at Bards last night. Anyways, the action was just as crazy, as The Jams finally fell to But My Mom Thinks I’m Cool W/ Lambda after a 6 week ride, and the Girls of IPA pulled off a huge upset at the Black Sheep, holding off a mad run by Duane’s World in the final round. A perfect round in Round Four would have meant perfection by the Sofa Kingdom on Tuesday, but a multiple choice question about Kombucha denied their dreams of destiny. A controversial decision at the Good Dog, as JGT, after conferring with the Good Dog staff, gave half credit for Man Full of Anger instead of Man Full of Trouble, allowing Obviously You’re Not a Golfer to earn a tie with the Penn 15 Club. The Golfers then took the win in OT. The week was bookended by a thrilling, 97-93 win by L. Ron Hubbard’s Diabetics over the Young, the Old, and the Restless and the only blowout of the week, the Hurtin Bombs 108-87 victory over I Like Birds at the Bards on Thursday. A pretty thrilling week, as 4 of the 6 matches were determined by 4 points or less.

Ripped off

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Am I the only one who finds the Tim Donaghy case a lot more compelling than either Spygate or the steroid scandal in baseball? For one thing, that Game 6 of the Western Conference Finals was perhaps the worst robbery I have ever seen in a sporting event as the referees were all but visibly rooting for the Lakers in the 4th quarter. At one point, a foul was called on Mike Bibby for being elbowed in the head by Kobe. I remember being furious after that game (and I’m not even a Kings fan), and so, to be honest, I am glad to see the NBA get its comeuppance. I have thought for years that the NBA was not on the up and up, and I am obviously not alone. A recent poll on ESPN.com showed that 76% of over 80,000 in the poll thought that two refs conspired to fix Game 6 of the 2002 Western Conference Final. 1 in 4 people think that the NBA is on the up and up! I bet 1 in 4 people believe that Pro Wrestling is on the up and up!

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My Sequel to Bad Sequels

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Last year I did a column on Bad Sequels. This week, I decided to do a sequel to that column. Of course, the column last year inspired a contest ultimately won by Steve-O‘s Lambada 2: The Dance That’s Been Legal Since 2006. And here is Entertainment Weekly’s list of the 25 worst actual sequels ever. So what do you think is the actual worst sequel ever? I gotta go with Big Top Pee-Wee. But of course, I had impossibly high expectations for the film.

Toughest questions from last week

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  1. What game show host provided the voice of Gizmo in Gremlins?
  2. This author wrote the Death of Ivan Ilych and the Kreutzer Sonata in the 1880s.
  3. What actor played a teenage Indiana Jones in The Last Crusade?
  4. Only 3 players active in baseball today have career averages of .330 or higher. All 3 of them have spent their whole careers with the same team. Who are they?
  5. What three #1 albums did Madonna release in the 1980s?
  6. Journalistic legend H.L. Mencken was born in, died in, and did almost of all of his writing in what East Coast city?
  7. The colon is part of this canal, which is from the Latin for “To Nourish”.
  8. Yves. St. Laurent worked for this French fashion legend who gave us “The New Look”.
  9. You’ll find the Gates of Hell in Philadelphia. What artist gave us the Gates of Hell?
  10. Marky Mark’s first album had the word “Music” in it. What was it called?

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