Hijinks Inc.

Category: Sports

  • The MMA Minute – UFC 116: Lesnar vs. Carwin

    Even though this card features a title unification bout, I’m not particularly worked up about the card this weekend at UFC 116, but that’s hardly the UFC’s fault. They originally had big names like Wanderlei Silva, Nate Marquardt, and the Ultimate Fighter 10 winner Roy Nelson, but a variety of things went wrong and they had to be replaced or moved to later events. Perhaps some of the biggest news regarding this event is Chris Leben filling in for the injured Wanderlei Silva and fighting on two weeks notice, after winning Knockout of the Night at the Ultimate Fighter 11 Finale on June 19.

    As the event stands now, we’ve got 5 match-ups on the pay per view main card and 2 preliminary fights to be aired live on Spike TV, check your local listings for time and channel information. Here’s the lineup per Wikipedia:

    Main card

    After a pedestrian 2-2 on my picks last week at Strikeforce, I hope to fare a little better this time around, although I’m going with quite a few underdogs. I’m picking Carwin over Lesnar, Leben over Akiyama, Brown over Lytle, Soszynski over Bonnar, and Sotiropoulos over Pelligrino.

  • This Week In Sports Tomfoolery: It’s sports, with a T.W.I.S.T.! (June 20-26)

    Welcome to TWIST! The first of, hopefully, many weekly updates regarding the wide world of sports. You read that right:

    tomfoolery
    Main Entry: tom·fool·ery
    1. Foolish behavior.
    2. Something trivial or foolish; utter nonsense; rubbish

    You’ve come to a blog called Hijinks Inc, you can’t really be surprised that I worked a word like tomfoolery into the title of a recurring post. Besides, if you know me at all, you know that this fits me, and most of the stuff I come up with, quite well. Alright, now that I’ve got the introductions out of the way…

    This was a pretty crazy week in the wide world of sports. One of the most dominant athletes in any sport lost for the ‘first’ time, the longest tennis match in the history of the universe was played and the favorites were knocked out of both the World Cup and the College World Series. Here’s some quick hits:

    MMA

    NBA

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  • The MMA Minute – Strikeforce: Fedor vs Werdum

    Not sure if we have any fight fans out there, but then again, nobody is twisting your arm to read this either. Haha, that’d be funny to you if you were a fight fan… but I digress.

    This Saturday night we are treated to an event that features the widely regarded best male and female fighters in the world. Fedor on the men’s side and ‘Cyborg’ Santos to represent the women. Admittedly, I follow the UFC a bit closer, but I’ve been doing my best to watch the recent Strikeforce cards, ever since they absorbed most of EliteXC. Here’s the main card, per Wikipedia:

    Main Card

    And for my quick picks? Fedor over Werdum, ‘Cyborg’ over Finney, Smith over Le, and Thomson over Healy. Regardless, here’s hoping for some good fights.

  • And… all is right with the (sports) world.

    What better time to write up a post than during a prep session for our latest podcast? I’ve been keeping an eye on the NBA playoffs, and was intrigued with all the struggles the Boston Celtics have had throughout the post season. Let me give you a quick breakdown:

    They were the best team in the league record-wise to end the season. They had the best road record, and the best defense, two priorities if you intend to be a legitimate threat through the playoffs. They came bursting into the playoffs against a #8 team in Atlanta, a team they should’ve had absolutely zero trouble sending into their offseason. They proceeded to bludgeon the Hawks for the first two games in their home arena, then they went to Atlanta, and got destroyed. This trend proceeded through the entire first round, with the home team winning each game decisively and the Celtics advancing in 7 games.

    Advancing to the 2nd round brought Lebron James and the Cavs to town. Boston completely owned King James for games 1 and 2… in their home arena… and then got used when the Cavs played at home. Again, this whole series went along those lines with the home team winning each game, and Boston advanced in 7 games to play Detroit.

    Never before has a team been so dominating in the regular season, and had a situation like this happen in the playoffs. They look like an unstoppable force at home, and they don’t look like they belong in the playoffs on the road. But, and I only say this to bring this post back full circle, they have advanced to the conference finals, as was predicted, and at least for now, all is right with the sports world!

  • Goal Line Blitz

    Before I begin, let me take a moment for a self indulgent plug. If you click this link and go sign up, I get free points. Go, do it now! Fred signed up for me and all he did was log in a couple time in the following two or 3 days and that’s all that I needed to get the points. Easy right? So why haven’t you done it yet? 🙂

    Alright, now that that’s over, I wanted to take a moment to talk about my latest football addiction, Goal Line Blitz. It’s an american fooball mmorpg. The idea is that you sign up (it’s free!) and you get 400 Flex Points. With these flex points, you can create players. QB, RB, and WR cost 300 points each, TE, FB, and Defensive players cost 200 points each, and Offensive linemen, K, and P cost 100 points each.

    After using these points, you allocate skill points to create the player in the way you see fit. At the end of the creation process, you get offered a couple contracts by cpu controlled teams so that you can get into the action right off the bat. That’s a great idea, but the problem is, they got too big too fast, and all the teams have been purchased by human players, so until they expand (which they are working on as we speak) you have to keep posting on the forums in order to get a team to give you a shot, which can be kinda boring and drawn out.

    More after the jump

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